Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

Soap-making, iron-making, and glass-burning, are they three businesses that must be done?

It was nearly two years after Cui Xie passed through the Ming Dynasty that he finally decided to embark on the path that a normal traverser should take. After Cui Qi packed up his drawings and returned to his room, he took a piece of new draft paper, studied pen and ink, sat at the table, closed his eyes and opened the ancient chemistry that he had left out for some days.

Soap is nothing more than fat and caustic soda. After the saponification reaction, it should be stored for a while, and there should be no difficulty. A group of people on the Internet made some essential oil soaps and goat milk soaps in their previous lives. His family could steam hydrosols, buy cow goat milk, and sell them as high-end skin care products.

He rummaged through the catalog for a long time, but found a few recipes for washing his face: there are coumadin noodles, scented round soap and pancreas, but there is no modern caustic soda soap making method.

He is a modern literature major. Although he occasionally sees soap-making in the novels, he doesn't care about it when he reads it. The author's writing is not as detailed as the experimental design. It's been two more years, and I endorse questions every day, and I almost forgot what I learned before. Looking back now, I can't even remember how much the vegetable oil is heated to or what concentration of caustic soda. Recover on your own...

He opened his eyes and saw that he was full of thin cocoons, like an ancient hand, and sighed helplessly.

He still takes a small step forward and restores the "flavored soap" recipe that Cixi used.

This recipe is just a combination of various spices, plus soap noodles and saponii noodles, mixed with honey, and it is very restorative. The soap recipes sold outside contain slightly less spices and use flour to bond them. Their high-end products do not add flour, and then engrave a few fancy molds to print the round soap **** on the market into modern soaps. If the strips are closed, they can be sold as high-end products.

In addition to soap, you can also make pancreas seeds.

In the Ming Dynasty, the use of pig pancreas was very popular. Ten pairs of pig pancreas were sold for a cent, which was a very common industrial product. Not only can it be used as a soap for hand washing, but it can also be used as a body lotion-now called glutinous rice, which is made from a mixture of pork pancreas, spices and wine. Xie Qianhu just gave him his steamed distilled wine. With this, he can steam the cheapest thin brew into a clear shochu. Wouldn't this reduce the cost?

However, it is written again in the book that in summer, retting is not light enough. Women use pancreas mixed with goose oil for skin care, which can wash the face and protect the skin. Soda ash is stored in the ancient method of Yizi. The Cui family had a Zhuangzi in Qian'an, and the Zhuangzi can produce alkali on its own. Since ancient times, Hebei has been a lot of saline-alkali land, called Zhuangzi to collect some soil alkali, and filter it into a relatively clean and white sodium carbonate. Just pick up the alkali-tolerant plants such as ash and ash in the mountains, burn it into plant ash, and filter it out with flour Potassium carbonate is also available.

There is not much difference between hand washing and clothes washing between the two, except that the alkali refined from the plant ash can not make the noodles, only the noodles can be made alkaline water noodles.

The village of Qian'an is dry land. Although it is also facing water, the entire soil base is estimated to have saline and alkali, which is still far worse than that of the village with paddy fields and cotton in the suburbs of Beijing. If you can develop a tertiary industry for soda production, produce and sell it yourself, and save wood, you can also make the villagers live better.

In the back, there are some cosmeceuticals for anti-wrinkle, whitening, and freckle removal, and prescriptions for refined lead powder, rouge, sesame oil, and mouth grease. He copied a few sheets of paper, and thought about how to interfere with these women’s things. striking.

When he went to eat in the room the next morning, Sister Yun, the second lady, accidentally ran into his eyes.

He couldn't help looking at Sister Yun and the makeup on her face. She was shy and embarrassed when she saw her. Then he looked away and said to the old lady: "We Sister Yun are also big, and we should be able to do it in a few years. Now, even though she can't be taken to socialize with the family members of those high-ranking families, she should also add some powder money to make her dress more delicately."

The old lady looked at Sister Yun's delicate face and smiled and said, "What a silly boy, Sister Yun has already been dressed up, how else to dress up?"

Sister Yun lowered her head shyly, avoiding her brother's sight. Her biological mother was fidgeting beside her, and she glanced at Cui Xie for fear that he would not give more money to her daughter.

Although Cui Xie is a straight man, he is also a straight man who crossed over more than 500 years later. He just can't see the light makeup of modern girls, just the ancient white and pink makeup, the painting method of crying and tearing down, who can see Can't come out?

He smiled and said, “I’m the elder brother, and I didn’t care enough about my sister before, so I can add more to her in the future. Sister Yun uses things from the store at home, or buys it from outside? Which one is best to use. I asked someone to buy some for you?"

Sister Yun lowered her head and kept silent. Her aunt gave her a hateful glance and took the initiative to say to Cui Xie over her, "Sister Yun is not the kind of girl who chooses three and four. What she usually uses is the powder in our shop. Face medicine. But the really good things in our family can’t be used by her as a concubine. If you want a lot of things, you ask the young man outside to buy it. The eldest brother wants to praise her, you don’t have to choose Wanrongtang or Qianjintang. The powder, as long as we send some good ones from the store."

Cui Xie smiled and looked at Sister Yun and asked, "Which one do you want? You are a girl. You should dress well when you are old. No matter how bad your family is, no one can lose you."

Don’t the Internet say that girls should be rich and boys should be poor. When the powder shop has made money, I should give my sister some top jewelry and make some fashionable clothes later.

When he was about to go to school, he told Cui Liangdong: “Bring me the best powder in our shop and the top products sold in other people’s homes. There are also perfumed soap and pancreas. The stuff is thick enough, don’t you feel bored if you don’t wash it well."

Cui Liangdong nodded again and again: "Don't worry, son, I will ask Cui Ting to take it to you in person at night."

The Imperial College happened to have repeated lectures in these two days, and it was not the instructor's lecture, so there was less memorization. He was able to do almost his homework in Guoxue, and he returned home at night to study how to transform the Yinzhi shop.

When he arrived home, Cui Ting had already been waiting in the small hall of the courtyard, holding a bag of cosmetics in his hand: there were perfumed soaps and pancreas that he called for, and there were dark green and black Luozidai, dripping into small wotou. Lead-like powder, peach pollen mixed with vermilion, dried rouge made of cinnabar, soft rouge made with red and blue flower juice, white wax rouge for lips, jasmine head oil for squeezing hair, moisturizing for soft face and bare hands...

Cui Xie looked at them one by one, and the more they looked at them, the more they were moved by the magic of ancient cosmetics.

In ancient times when the chemical industry was so underdeveloped, they could actually make this bunch of cosmetics and skin care products. Except for the lack of eyeliner and eye shadow, is this not the same as modern cosmetics?

Cui Ting looked at him with a slightly astonishing expression, and was a little proud in his heart, and went up to introduce him: "This is the Lihan red powder of Wanrongtang, a time-honored Chengnan brand. This is our home from Guilin. ..."

Cui Xie nodded while listening, saying "Thanks for your hard work", and put these two things aside, and asked him, "Is there any purple jasmine powder?"

Cui Ting was boasting about the goods, making him startled to ask: "What jasmine powder?"

Is there no jasmine powder in Chenghua? It is written in the book that Empress Zhang of Mingxi Zong brought this fan into the palace. Either the fan has not been invented yet, or it is only popular in the south.

This is a good opportunity to launch exclusive products. Didn’t the Dream of Red Mansions say that jasmine powder has a light white and red fragrance, and is better than lead powder? When they come back, they can also study and study the use of carmine juice to color jasmine powder without adding lead powder or cinnabar, and make a gimmick of ancient health cosmetics.

Cui Xie pointed to the two extremely toxic heavy metal cosmetics and said: "The skin will turn blue after the lead powder is rubbed for a long time. Sister Yun is still young, don't use this for her. First bring some British powder in, and then you will go to the south. When buying makeup powder, take a few buckets of jasmine seeds on the boat, peel off the white ren'er inside and dry it, and crush it to be used as makeup powder. Looking back, we also opened a small yard on the Zhuangzi in Changping to grow some white jasmine. , Mirabilis and so on, make some makeup for yourself."

Cui Ting said embarrassedly: "This is not easy to do. Our family always buys things from the outside. No craftsman at home can do this."

Cui Xie looked down and thought for a while: "When the time comes, please ask a gardener to help us watch. Chuangzi cuts a few sweet-scented osmanthus flowers without any effort? There is no skill for milling pollen, just be careful. Try to plant some roses. , Rose, in the future we will steam the flower dew and sell it for a bottle of eight taels of silver. Do you think there is a profit?"

That's too profitable!

Rose dew sells so expensively, because those merchants are making money in the middle. They buy it at a price of 80 taels. If you don't increase it, you will lose money. If you increase it, it will not sell better than those big stores. If it is your own flower, you can also steam the flower dew, wouldn't it be doubled to make money?

He suddenly remembered something, his five fingers clenched unknowingly, and grabbed the hem of his clothes and asked: "The son said it is really flower lotion, not oil-soaked sesame oil? That's not worth the money."

Cui Xie almost rolled his eyes: "You put a bottle of scalp oil here, can I still not tell the difference between sesame oil and perfume? You find a clever and handy man, I took it at Jinyiwei Xie Qianhu's house A steamer comes, and I have seen how they use it, so I will personally train them for you."

What Cui Xie said was that the person who wanted to uphold him should point him to run the shop!

The satin shop sold out the expensive materials that could not be sold by the son of the prince; the satin shop was pointed by the son, and the worthless old goods in the shop were also replaced with silver, and also earned the county honor. The master has a plaque; if he is a powder shop, he can also make him feel good...

Cui Ting’s teeth were all exposed, and he nodded and said, “The little one is going to prepare. As for that guy—the little one has a sixteen-year-old girl who is also born with a certain color. Don’t lose to the little girl from outside. The son taught her the best art, and later accepted her as a concubine. The craftsmanship is not afraid of spreading, it also means a small piece of filial piety..."

Cui Xie was very unaccustomed to the Ming Dynasty's problem of consigning his daughter at every turn, frowned and said, "What nonsense! Your biological daughter, who didn't arrange her dowry to marry a young and gentle husband, wanted her to be a concubine? Don’t have this kind of thinking anymore, or you, the shopkeeper, don’t do it too! Send a man in and choose a good wife for your girl!"

Cui Ting frightened him by the sudden anger, and stammered: "The father and son are unwilling, but the younger one dare not mention it again! The younger one will go back, and tomorrow he will ask his son to come in and learn from the son. "

It's not that he doesn't care for his daughter, he wants to offer her to come in just to curry favor with the Lord. Isn't this the thought of seeing the young son of their family who are young and promising, and handsome and gentle? If a daughter marries in, even if she can only be a concubine, according to the treatment of those aunts in the backyard, isn't it much better than a man who marries a small household outside?

It's a pity that this young man also has too high a vision, so he won't even want a concubine who can help the family's business. I don't know if he wants to marry a fairy and go home in the future!

Cui Ting's eyebrows drooped, wishing to leave immediately. Cui Xie took the piece of scented soap and sniffed it, and said, "This thing sold outside doesn’t smell very good, and it’s mixed with white flour. The water is slippery when washing, and the makeup powder can’t be washed off. Call your son in. When I brought me some spices, I went back to add and subtract them, and asked him to try out something that smells better."

Yesterday, he wrote what to use, but instead of taking it out, he took a new piece of paper and wrote the names of various spices while thinking. You need more spices than you actually use, and you don’t write the weight. You need two or two for each, plus a pound of saponaria powder. After you’ve sent it in, you can test it a few times before you get the right proportion.

After Cui Ting left, he asked Xiaosi Songyan to send all the cosmetics that he could use to Sister Yun, and asked him to explain for himself why she didn't ask her to use lead powder and silver vermilion.

Sister Yun had long been looking forward to switching to cinnamon powder to make her complexion white and tender. It was a bit regretful to see that it was not delivered, but her biological mother Dong said joyfully: "My silly girl, the eldest brother who just saw you value you Well. I don’t really love you, this girl, just ask people to send something indiscriminately to wipe your face, who cares if you wipe your face for a long time?"

Although there is no lead powder, the muzi, rouge, and snail on this table are all real good things. Sister Yun took a tube of La Rouge and looked at it, lowered her head and said, "I don't have anything to give back to the elder brother, or I can make a purse for my brother."

Aunt Dong smiled and said, "Sister Yun's needlework is good, and everything looks good in embroidering. The eldest brother is a scholar, and the things he wears should be elegant, and it would be better to put some spices in it."

Sister Yun is only twelve years old, and her skills are actually limited. Aunt Dong helped her embroider most of the purse, embroidering cranes and turquoise all over the floor. The mothers changed their appearance a few times, and it took two days to get them. After finishing the embroidery, they hurriedly took them out at breakfast and gave them to Cui Xie.

Cui Xie had to paint again these two nights, and he had to instruct people to make soap and pancreas. He was too busy to look up, and he didn't even think of this sister. Suddenly receiving the purse from her, it was embroidered so exquisitely, and it was a little surprised. He put the purse on her waist on the spot and thanked her.

Sister Yun nodded sheepishly: "My eldest brother gave me so many things, but I only have this purse. Where can I be my elder brother to thank you."

When she raised her head, Cui Xie realized that she had changed her makeup. Her small face was painted white, her cheeks were flushed with rouge and half of her cheeks were flushed, and her eyebrows were slightly raised upwards, making her look more mature and charming, a bit more adult-like.

Cui Xie said politely: "My sister has changed her makeup to look more magnificent. I don't know who painted it for you, but the eyebrows are very beautiful."

Sister Yun said, "I painted it myself. I was at the house of my neighbor Xu Zhubu, and saw his eldest sister paint like this. She said it was called Shang Xiangmei, which is fashionable now."

Shang Xiangmei... Did Diao Chanmei and Er Qiaomei have been used before?

Cui Xie grinned, remembering the red-robed Mrs. Sun painted on his illustration.

Unexpectedly, he, a pure single dog who never reads fashion magazines and videos, has become the leader of Daming female makeup style? !

The author has something to say: the knowledge of ancient cosmetics in this chapter is referenced from Meng Hui's "The Royal Concubine's Red Sweat"