Li Zhi talked and said: "Look, Cui He, in today's world, the people are very poor, with no clothes to cover their bodies and no food to eat. It's because there are three enemies that are constantly destroying the essence and blood of the people in the world!"
Cui He asked curiously: "Who are the three major enemies?"
Li Zhi talked about it: "The first big enemy is the bandits in the northwest. These bandits don't do anything in production. They rob and seriously damage local production every time they pass by. They regard human life as nothing and drive away the defenseless poor people.
Charge into battle for them and wreak havoc for thousands of miles."
Cui He nodded and said: "I heard from my father that those bandits were really abominable. They killed countless gentry and common people. Fortunately, Tianjin is not in the northwest, so they can't kill them."
After a pause, Li Zhi continued: "The second big enemy is the Jianzhou Tatars in the northeast. These Tatars cross the Great Wall to plunder the hinterland at every turn, plundering wealth and population. When they attack the city, they encounter fierce resistance and even massacre the city in revenge.
In the second year of Chongzhen's reign, he entered the capital from Xifengkou and killed countless people! In the future, these Tatars will come again, which is most hateful!"
Hearing Li Zhi's words, Cui He's face darkened and he murmured: "The Tatars are very scary. I don't know how they were born. There are so many officers and soldiers who can't defeat them. My cousin in Zunhua is only four years old."
He was killed by the Tatars before!"
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that Cui He's relatives had been killed by the Tatars. He didn't know what to say and fell silent.
Cui He asked curiously: "What about the third enemy?"
Li Zhi took a breath and then said: "The third enemy, and the biggest enemy, is corrupt officials. Now the officials in the world are rotten, like a cancer in the empire. If they don't talk about right and wrong, they will just suck like crazy.
The world is prosperous. Large households and royal relatives who have land bribe officials not to pay land taxes. However, poor farmers with little land and little production have to bear all the taxes. The taxes collected by the court are used by local officials, often levying ten
A hundred times more, the common people are left without food and clothing, and they have no choice but to flee everywhere or even join the bandits!"
Cui He didn't know what Li Zhi meant by cancer. He thought about it and asked, "Li Zhi, what are you telling me about these three enemies?"
In front of the beauty, Li Zhihao was so proud that he waved his hand and said: "I will destroy these three enemies for the people of the world in the future!"
Cui He said "Ah?" and asked secretly: "Li Zhi, are you so capable?"
Li Zhi nodded, looked at Cui He and said, "I will use the power of technology to destroy these three enemies."
Cui He asked blankly: "What is technology?"
Li Zhi said loudly: "Is my soap easy to use? Technology is new technology, the thing that brings us soap. Technology can continuously provide new power to civilization, make the weak stronger, and allow civilization to defeat barbarism."
Cui He listened to Li Zhi's words without saying a word, as if he still didn't believe Li Zhi's bold words.
Li Zhi took a breath and said calmly: "It's not that I'm arrogant, but if I don't stand up and use the power of science and technology to destroy these three enemies, the Han people's world will perish."
Seeing Li Zhi speaking so emotionally, Cui He blinked and looked at Li Zhi, a little afraid to speak.
Li Zhi smiled and then said, "Is the soap I gave you good to use?"
Only then did Cui He laugh and said loudly: "It's easy to use. Not only is it clean, but it also makes you feel good after washing."
Li Zhi said: "When you finish using it, I will give you a few more pieces!"
"Okay, okay!"
Li Zhi stopped bragging with Cui He, waved his hand and walked to the street, wandering around.
In mid-February, Li Zhi made the soap for Cui Wending that month and delivered it smoothly. Cui Wending paid the full payment and gave Li Zhi more than two hundred taels of silver. Cui Wending's payment plus the profit from the soap sales in Li Zhi's store, Li Zhi
I already have nearly one thousand taels of silver on hand.
When Cui Wending got half of the soap, he had already shipped it to the capital for sale. He also learned from Li Zhi and cut the soap into small strips as gifts. After the benefits of soap had spread, he sold the whole soap.
By the time the second batch of 25,000 pieces of soap arrived in the capital, Cui Wending's sales in the capital were already very popular, and the first batch of soap had already been sold out.
When the second batch of soap arrived, women in the capital got wind of it and rushed to buy it. More and more people know the benefits of soap.
Even the eunuchs who purchased the items in the palace also bought some for use back in the palace.
Soap can cleanse away sweat stains, which is far more effective than saponin paste. This made soap very popular in the palace.
Wang Cheng'en, the eunuch of the Bureau of Ceremony, Bingbi, is a close confidant of Emperor Chongzhen. A few days ago, he heard from the eunuch who was buying from outside the palace that there are now merchants in the capital transporting something called soap from Tianjin. This soap can be used to wash clothes and remove stains.
It is extremely powerful, saving clothes from the torture of being beaten with a laundry stick and protecting the clothes. Moreover, this soap can also be used for bathing, and can clean away sweat, dirt and stains.
Wang Chengen didn't believe it at first: How could such a good thing suddenly appear in this chaotic world? But after he personally took a piece of soap from the little eunuch who bought it and tried it, he was completely convinced by this thing.
Use this soap to clean the emperor's dragon robe. The oil stains that are usually difficult to wash off will be gone after a few rubs in the soap foam. The dragon robe will be washed out after being put into the laundry department a few times.
, but when washed with this soap, the clothes will not be damaged, and the clothes will still be new after washing.
Wang Chengen personally tried taking a bath with this soap. Before taking a bath, Wang Chengen had to rub himself in the tub for two quarters of an hour. But with this soap, it only takes a quarter of an hour to wash his body clean, without any sweat stains.
Don't keep it. Looking at it horizontally and vertically, this thing that sells for twenty-five cents a piece is definitely a treasure.
Wang Chengen did not dare to keep such a good thing privately, so he immediately dedicated it to the emperor.
Haishi, Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City.
The stove was burning, and the spices from Southeast Asia were burning. It was not cold at all in the Qianqing Palace. The 24-year-old Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian was dictating the imperial edict, and Wang Chengen was in charge of the imperial edict in the memorial. He read the memorial all night.
, Zhu Youjian was a little tired. He rubbed his eyes, stood up from the throne, and walked around the study.
Seeing this, Wang Chengen quickly walked up and said: "Your Majesty, the night is already deep. Your Majesty, please rest early. No matter how serious the state affairs are, you must pay attention to the health of the dragon's body!"
Zhu Youjian pointed to the memorials stacked high on the imperial case and said: "There are still so many unapproved, how can I sleep?"
Wang Chengen speculated on the emperor's thoughts, raised his head and said: "If the emperor can trust his ministers, why would he have to do everything personally? I've read the important details, but for the unimportant ones, I can just make a copy based on the votes of the ministers."
Zhu Youjian turned his back to Wang Chengen, was silent for a moment, and then said: "Wen Yuanfu is alone and not a party, so he is worthy of my trust. Forget it! I saw this tonight, and the rest of the memorial will be copied according to the vote.
