"Brother, the people I have brought to you are absolutely reliable brothers. They are all poor children with physical disabilities. You can rest assured that no matter what you ask them to do, I guarantee that they will never frown. Just tell me.

, who to kill."

In Liu Dapao's house, Meng Yi and eight disabled teenagers lined up in a row, murderous but restrained, with their heads lowered. They looked like they were really ready to die.

tragic.

"Brother, whether you want me to kill someone or take the blame, it doesn't matter if we die, but if you want to give us a life-and-death job, can you please take us to eat some delicious meals and play some games?

beautiful girl."

When Meng Yi heard this, he kicked the kid on the butt who was talking too much and cursed: "Who allowed you to speak? How can Mr. Xiong treat you badly? Just stand still!"

When Liu Dapao saw this, he couldn't help but feel waves of pain in his head.

Who are these people!

There is no doubt that few of Meng Yi and his gang of young men are mentally healthy anymore.

Hey~

There is a feudal dynasty this week, where can I find a psychiatrist for them?

He frowned and said: "Xiao Meng, I remember I repeatedly emphasized to you that the world is not about fighting and killing, it is about human relationships and sophistication. The way you look now, you look more and more like a dragon crossing the river."

Meng Yi couldn't help being stunned when he heard this.

For a moment, I couldn't help but have complicated thoughts.

"In fact, normally speaking, we rarely kill people. You are all still young. Even if you are physically disabled, as long as you are determined, you can still live a normal, peaceful and happy life."

"I'm not asking you to come here to fight and kill. I, the black-hearted bear, haven't reduced myself to the point of using children to kill people for myself. Come on, come with me. I just want you to help me make something.

It’s just that this thing needs to be kept secret, that’s all.”

"Come and help me, I will pay you two hundred cash every day, which is quite a lot of money. As far as I know, ordinary porters in Yangzhou City work half to death every day, and they don't necessarily earn more than you do, and I

We can also provide you with food and accommodation.”

"There is no danger, and I don't need you to fight for me. I just need you to keep it secret. I am the only one in the world who knows how to do this, but I definitely don't have time to do it myself. If

One day the secret recipe was leaked, and I was the first to say something ugly. If you eat the whole thing, don't blame me for being rude."

When Meng Yi heard this, he immediately slapped his chest: "Brother, don't worry, if any of them dares to eat them inside and outside, I will cut them all up and feed them to the dogs."

Hearing this, Liu Dapao opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but finally closed his mouth again.

"Brother, what on earth do you want them to create? It's so mysterious? Do I need to avoid it?"

"No, just come and take a look. This thing is called glycerin, and it is used to make wine."

………………

The so-called glycerin is not a complicated thing. Of course, it has many uses, including wine making. It can be used as an additive to replace distiller's yeast and filled in fruit wine.

In fact, most of the wines that can be seen on the market in the Five Dynasties are grain wines based on rice wine. There are very few fruit wines. The wine made from fruits tastes bitter and astringent, and looks particularly turbid. There are a few

With spare money, no one will drink fruit wine unless they are crazy greedy. Naturally, no one knows how to make fruit wine.

Unless there is a big harvest of fruits that cannot be sold, it is better to brew them than let them rot.

This is because there is a substance called tannin in fruits, which is also the source of bitterness and astringency in fruits. No matter what kind of fruit, tannins cannot be decomposed after fermentation, and these tannins will naturally destroy the taste of the wine.

.

But actually it’s quite simple to remove tannins, just add a little glycerin.

Even because glycerin itself has a slightly sweet taste, adding it to the fruit wine will complement the taste of the fruit wine itself, which can greatly enhance the taste of the fruit wine.

This, of course, is Liu Dapao’s exclusive recipe for selling wine.

And if you use this method to brew fruit wine, you don’t need to buy distiller’s yeast.

These days, distiller's yeast is a monopoly of the imperial court and has always been heavily taxed. Even if Liu Dapao obtained the liquor license, the cost of distiller's yeast is still frighteningly high. And if distiller's yeast is not used to make wine, the profit of this drink will increase.

More than several times?

This is equivalent to those who sell tobacco not paying tobacco tax and making a lot of money.

What's more, if the court reacted slower, he could actually sell glycerin as a substitute for distiller's yeast. Even if he only stole one percent of the court's liquor tax, that would be

It’s all a huge amount of wealth!

The extraction of glycerin is very simple and not difficult to learn. It just uses animal and vegetable oils. Of course, in the Zhou Dynasty, lard and chicken fat were the main ones. They were saponified with alkaline substances and then saponified.

The oil is distilled and all the water in it is evaporated, and you can obtain a portion of glycerol that is not too pure.

By the way, you can also make some soap as a by-product, and add a little aromatic substances to it to make soap, which is also a product that can make a lot of money.

"Xiao Meng, I heard that you reopened your store and took on all the debts your father had incurred during his lifetime. How is your business now? Have you found suitable products to sell?"

Meng Yi smiled bitterly when he heard this, "Except for Meng Zhong, the remaining thirteen of the fourteen men in the family have all dispersed. I went to find them, but they wanted to avoid me and no one would come back to help.

Whether it is the source of goods or sales, I have to look for it again. I used to be a young master at home and I was not sensible. I never got involved in the family business. I don’t know anything and I don’t know where to look. So far, whether it is the source of goods or the sales channels, I have to look for them all over again.

The channels are all owed money by our family, and it is impossible to continue to do my family’s business until the money is repaid.”

"How about you sell this thing?"

"This is?"

"This is called soap. It can also be further processed into soap. It is a by-product of my brewing. It is used to cleanse the face. Rich people would not like it (facial cleansers existed in the Tang Dynasty), but ordinary people can use it. And

It is also better than soap locust for washing clothes. Add aromatherapy to make soap, and middle-class families will definitely flock to it."

Meng Yi is a child of a businessman. Even if he didn't learn it specifically, he was still influenced by it. Just by listening to it, he got a taste of it: "This...is this also your exclusive secret?"

"It still is, but saponification is not a very advanced technology. Within three years, there will definitely be smart people on the market who will develop and imitate it."

"Three years, three years have already developed! This is made from the most common lard. If this thing is really better than soap locust, it can be sold at a much higher price than soap locust. Even if it is

If you sell it to ordinary people, you can sell it for a hundred cents a piece. Even if the wholesale price is 30% off, it is still seventy cents. How much is lard worth? This thing is worth several times the profit?!"

"Yes, this thing can bring you multiple benefits. This business can be left to you. The formula is provided by me, so I will lick my face and penetrate your ass. Thirty percent of the ten percent profit will go to the door, and thirty percent will be returned to the door."

Give it to me, you earn only 40% of your hard-earned money, what are you doing?"

Meng Yi smiled and said: "Fourty percent is already a lot. In this monopoly business, I know you are taking advantage of me. In fact, even if you give me 20%, I will still make a profit."

"Hey~, I leave this business to you, and I also hope that you can make money as soon as possible, and lead your little brothers to live a normal life. You are still young. As time goes by, you will know that money on the edge of a knife

It’s not easy to make money.”

"Let's put it this way, Xiao Meng, I actually have no shortage of subordinates who can fight and kill. In comparison, people like Lao San are more helpful to me. I have great expectations for you. The only way to take the right path is to take the right path."

Only when you are righteous can you go far."

Hey~

So soft-hearted~

"I understand, brother, I will remember all the good things you did to me. To me, you are like my father."

The black-hearted bear smiled bitterly when he heard this. If you were really my son, I would have to worry about you.

"Brother, the most important raw materials for this thing are quicklime and grease. As you said, the manufacturing process of this thing is not complicated. If we want to buy a large amount of grease and lime, we can't hide it from outsiders.

If you use these two things to try it, it will be easy to make a trial production, so you see, should we cover up the grease and lime when we buy it?"

"Then how are you going to cover it up?"

"I think...can we ask the villagers in Wangjia Village to help purchase this product? In fact, we can open a slaughterhouse in their village or carry out certain breeding."

Liu Dapao laughed when he heard this: "The fact that you can think of this shows that you are indeed quite talented in business, but do you think that if you simply use meat oil to make soap, even if it is a pig that produces the most oil?

That’s twenty or thirty pounds of lard, how many pigs can you raise before it’s enough?”

"What I want is glycerin. Glycerin is used to make wine. Because of the wine tax, it can only be used as a noble business. What is sold is the price. It is enough to sell 1,800 kilograms of meat oil a year. You sell soap and make it."

It's a middle-class business, or even a common people's business. How many kilograms of meat oil do you think you need to consume? How many pigs do you need to raise?"

Hearing this, Meng Yi scratched his head in embarrassment and said: "In that case, this meat oil should be mainly purchased from my store. The so-called secret formula is probably nonsense, and... I'm afraid there is no

It’s so easy to harvest. If this thing were to be made on a large scale, I’m afraid it would consume more meat and oil than the entire city of Yangzhou uses for cooking, which would only further push up the cost of meat and oil.”

Thinking about it this way, although this soap is magical, it seems that the profit is only so much.

No wonder I have to leave it to myself. Essentially, this thing can only be a by-product of brewing glycerin. If it is sold, it is better than nothing.

Rolling his eyes, Meng Yi pretended to sigh in frustration: "Hey~, I thought I could use this to win over Wangjiacun and the others again, hey~."

Liu Dapao was stunned when he heard this and asked: "Did something happen over there in Wangjiacun?"

"Oh, nothing happened, but the gluten business is indeed a bit difficult to do now. It is far less prosperous than before. There is not much gluten sold, so there is no need for everyone to cleanse themselves from gluten. In terms of income,

, and a lot less.”

"what happened?"

"In the final analysis, gluten is too simple to make. Nowadays, people in Yangzhou City have learned the method of making gluten one after another, and are selling it after imitating Wangjiacun's gluten. Although Wangjiacun's gluten is more famous,

The location is also better, but it can’t stand up to the cheap prices others offer.”

"Is there someone else who can make gluten so soon? Then...the price of gluten has dropped?"

"Not yet, but it may be soon. Currently, there are only three large-scale gluten-selling companies in Yangzhou city. I have talked with the leaders of these three companies, and they promised me that they will not sell gluten at a lower price than Wangjia Village.

They sell it at a lower price, but I know they still sell it secretly behind my back."

"How did you talk to them?"

"Hmm...for example, Bai Village also sells gluten, and they are the most brutal. I went to talk to them, but not only did they not talk, they even said they wouldn't even give you your face, so I ordered someone to sneak into their village chief's house.

At home, I killed their sheep, cut off its head, and secretly threw it on their bed while it was sleeping."

"…………"

"Brother, you told me that when you go out to hang out, you should be friendly and make money. If you can solve the problem without killing people, try not to kill people. But after I killed the sheep, they immediately came to talk to me. I mentioned it.

They agreed to all conditions."

"…………"

There is a feeling that I want to say something, but I really have no position to say.

Finally, after thinking about it for a long time, I could only advise: "You can't do business or do things without these miscellaneous methods. You will be bullied. But soldiers are ominous, so you should use them with caution. You stand up for Wangjiacun. It's important."

It's a good thing that love matters more than justice, but by using such drastic measures, didn't you ever think of making enemies of them? After all, they are all orphans and widowed mothers."

"Furthermore, the gluten business is originally about making some quick money in the short term. The further you go, the closer it is to hard-earned money. The technical threshold for this thing is too low. This is the general trend, let alone you.

, even I can’t stop you. It’s not that I won’t let you become enemies, the key is whether it’s worth it or not.”

"Well, since you care about them so much, it means that you really regard them as relatives. This is also a good thing. If people lose their relatives, they will not be far away from losing their humanity. Xiao Meng, I feel guilty for you, and you feel guilty for me.

Thanks again, you are still young and there is still a long way to go in the future. I really don’t want to see you go down an evil path and end up like a dragon crossing the river, becoming what you hate the most.”

"In a moment, I will teach you a method of oil extraction. You can squeeze soybeans and rapeseeds into vegetable oil. Open an oil mill in Wangjiacun. In this way, your store can be responsible for purchasing the oil and hand it over to them for oil extraction.
Chapter completed!