Chapter 1929： Covered with treasure

Right now, there is no professional decontamination soap in the Ming Dynasty. Ordinary people generally use soap corners. The rich people mainly use swine pancreas soap made from swine pancreas. The effect is ok, but not as strong as soap. Moreover, pig pancreatic soap is not cheap, one requires more than a dozen articles.

This is also impossible. In the Ming Dynasty, pork was not a bargain. Put aside to later generations, it is equivalent to 20 yuan a catty, more expensive than beef and mutton.

Of course, this is in the north. Because there are many cattle and sheep in the north, and the border troops secretly smuggle beef and mutton from the grasslands, the beef and mutton are much cheaper. In the south, lamb is still relatively expensive. As for beef, it is basically not found. After all, the Ming government was not allowed to commit suicide without permission. But the old beef, the sick and the dead cow, the basic meat quality is not good, and can not keep up with the delicious pork.

The most important thing is-pork has oil and water! Ancient people's craving for oil and water is incomprehensible to modern people. Because of the lack of vegetable oil in ancient times, oil and water can often only be obtained from meat. Pork is obviously the fattest one, and it is the most popular product for people to consume fat. Therefore, in ancient times, the fat of pigs was people's favorite. Therefore, the ancients called the tempting thing "big fat" rather than big lean meat. Even in the last century, Huaxia people were short of oil and water. Many elderly people also have the habit of eating fatty meat. Just like Marin's grandparents in his last life, he always likes to eat fatty meat when he eats meat, and give lean meat to Marin. At first, Marin thought that they completely lied to themselves and said, "They like to eat fatty meat." As a result, they really didn't deceive themselves completely ...

After this era, not only the ancient Chinese people like fatty meat, but the Europeans too. Especially those poor people can see their fat eyes when they see fat.

For example, the braised meat supplied by the army, the first to be robbed, is often fat. Only aristocratic children who are tired of eating fatty meat often like to eat lean meat. Or, fat and thin. Only those who pass through such as Marin, and the members of the royal family, the nobles and the like, who eat meat can spit, will like to eat lean meat. Many little nobles prefer to eat fatty meat a little.

Of course, this has changed since Marin introduced soybeans. Marin uses a spiral oil press to extract soybean oil produced in North America. Today, the noble class in the North Sea, including many families of low-ranking officers, has begun to consume soybean oil generally. Therefore, the dependence on fat is greatly reduced. After all, cooking with soybean oil also has a lot of oil and water.

Just like future generations lose weight, you say you eat vegetables, why does Nima put so many vegetable oils to cook? Is vegetable oil not oil? Eating such oily vegetables has hair loss effect? People who are really cruel eat boiled water. That taste, I want to vomit after eating it a few times ... Therefore, generally, only the ruthless can accomplish the feat of losing weight.

So, in ancient times, the biggest problem in making soap was not caustic soda, but grease!

In his last life, Marin saw that some people said that sesame oil was used to make soap, and he still yearned for a while. But when he came to this era and learned about prices, he knew how nonsensical that was. Why? Because sesame oil is more expensive than pork!

People like to eat pork, but they like the fat inside. The sesame oil is all oil! Through Kong Tai's understanding of Daming, Marin learned that sesame oil was not a necessity for ordinary people in ancient times.

Especially poor people often only cook porridge, which is hard to eat sesame oil. Only during the Chinese New Year will you get some oil and cut some pork. This is still not very poor, really poor, and there is no oil and water during the holidays.

I am afraid that sesame oil can only be eaten every day by the landlord. In addition, the monks of the temple can also be mixed. So, don't look at the monks being vegetarian, they put more sesame oil in their vegetarian dishes. I have eaten too much of this kind of food. I meditate like an otaku every day. It is strange that the monk is not fat.

According to the data given by Kong Tai, in the area of ​​Quanzhou in the Ming dynasty, pork cost 24 jin per pound. The sesame oil, actually reached 45 liters a catty, almost twice as much as pork!

At such an expensive price, does Nima Traverser use sesame oil to make soap? I ’m afraid I ’m going to lose my pants, right? After all, there are more than a dozen articles of pig pancreas soap. Do you try soap with sesame oil? The cost will be more than a dozen words, but also earn an egg?

It ’s okay to make soap for one or two pieces of silver, but do n’t do it for the popular ones. If you dare to sell it more expensively than pig pancreas soap, Daming people will certainly not buy it. For people in poor times, quality is not what they value, price is!

Therefore, the elderly who came from the poor years will only sell bargains, and will queue up when they hear the discount. Only modern young people who have not suffered hardship will pay attention to quality and brand.

If you use the ideas of modern prostitutes to do business for ordinary people in Ming Dynasty, you will definitely go bankrupt and jump off the building. In ancient times, only the ideas of rich children could be more consistent with those of modern youth. Strictly speaking, the young people in modern society live the lives of the children of the ancient rich families, and the poor do not dare to think about it.

Therefore, if you want to make the soap business bigger in Daming, you must emphasize the cost issue. Only if the cost is low enough and the price is low enough can we occupy the market. Otherwise, you can only do high-end soap. The market is also large, but it is absolutely difficult to achieve a large amount. At least, it is difficult to make up for the huge trade deficit of Beihai against Daming.

And whale oil happens to be the lowest cost grease! Whale oil cannot be eaten, so its price cannot be sold, it can only be cheap industrial grade oil.

In addition, whale oil is not a dry oil, and the quality of the oil paper made is not as good as the oil paper made from tung oil. The only thing stronger than tung oil is that it is not as slightly toxic as tung oil. Therefore, tung oil paper is not suitable for food wrapping paper. But whale oil paper, it is possible. Because whale oil is not toxic. Its iodine value, between 110 and 135, is a semi-dry oil.

Therefore, whale oil can be used to make oil paper like dry tung oil (only a little poorer in quality), it can also be used as a lubricant like dry oil (the same quality is slightly worse), and can also be used to make soap.

In short, in the industrial field, whale oil is widely used. In addition to being used to make candles, soap, and oil paper, whale oil can also serve as a general-quality lubricant, and it can also be used in the dairy refueling process of the tanning process.

This process can make the leather softer, at the same time, the toughness and strength are improved, and the water resistance is also improved. In later generations, whale oil is also a very high-grade leather oil.

As it happens, Marin's people went to the Northeast to acquire mink and needed post-processing. And whale oil is a good raw material for fine processing mink.

Moreover, the cost of whale oil is very low! Because, in this era, whales are everywhere in the ocean. They are giants in the sea, and the shark is also a little brother in front of them. It can be said that there are no natural enemies. Therefore, this thing is easy to obtain this year. The premise is that you have a whaling cannon that can kill them efficiently.

As long as you have a whaling gun that can kill whales efficiently and quickly, whaling in the sea of ​​this era is almost at your fingertips. Just see the water column sprayed by the whale, the ship leans over, the whaling gun is aimed and fired, and a tens of tons of whale will be planted ...

According to estimates of later generations, the amount of oil contained in a whale is equivalent to that of 1700 pigs or 8000 sheep. In addition, if you have sharp knives and skilled masters, you can also pull a big piece of whale skin from the whale.

The whale skin is a very soft and thick leather, which is not easy to crack. Later generation data show that the whale skin that a whale can peel off is equivalent to 80 to 100 pieces of cowhide ...

Because of its softness, whale skin is not very suitable for armor. However, it can't be better for making daily necessities.

Because of its softness and comfort, whale skin can be processed into soft and comfortable high-end leather clothing, and can also be made into leather bags. In addition, personal clothing such as umbrella faces and female lunar hoods can also be made. Of course, you can also make leather cushions for sofas, just like elephant skins.

Because the characteristics are similar to elephant skin, and it has a softer feel, whale skin can also be made into a sofa leather cushion like elephant skin, and can also be used as a apron leather cushion for the machine to prevent air leakage.

Then, smearing the whale oil also produced from the whale as a lubricating oil, the effect on the machine is naturally excellent. Marin had people try it with whale skin, and it was no worse than elephant skin.

But whale skin is not as pleated as elephant skin and looks ugly. Because they are aquatic animals, in order to reduce the resistance of water, whale skin is often smoother and more suitable for making clothes. Therefore, Marin finally decided-whale skin is more used to make leather clothes and other people wear things, and elephant skin is more applied to the machine. Anyway, if the elephant skin is not good-looking, it is used in durable applications.

And whale skin, because it is smooth, can not only make comfortable clothes. Moreover, whale skin clothes can also prevent rain. After all, the whale can rely on this whale skin to be able to wave in the sea. Among them, anti-seawater penetration is the minimum requirement ...

From the cost point of view, whale oil and whale skin are much cheaper than animal fats and leather on land ...

For example, a whale can get fat equivalent to 1700 pigs or 8000 sheep. Raising 1,700 pigs not only consumes a lot of labor, but also costs a lot of food. Regardless of what the bran is, it is to fight hogweed. It takes a lot of labor to cut hogweed every day.

And for 8000 sheep, it is necessary to get 8000 lambs first ~ www.novelhall.com ~ and then it takes a lot of energy to raise them for more than a year before it can be raised, which is very troublesome.

But whale oil is different. As long as the whaling artillery comes out, and several large ships come together to divide and process it, you can get so much whale oil. The cost is more than ten times lower than lard and goat oil.

Ma Lin has calculated that even if the labor is calculated at the highest cost, and the soap is made from whale oil, the cost is according to the Ming dynasty, and the maximum cost is two or three. This is also the reason for the higher labor wages in Europe. In the Ming Dynasty, the cost of a piece of soap was definitely lower than two penny. When the time comes, Marin sells it with dozens of articles like swine pancreatic soap, which will surely grab the market. Moreover, the soap does not have the weird smell on the pig pancreas soap.

The same is true for leather, the skin peeled off by a whale is equivalent to 80 to 100 pieces of cowhide. The price of cowhide in Daming is as high as four or five hundred, which is mainly rare.

But the whale skin is different. There are whales everywhere on the sea. You do n’t need to feed at a cost. If you catch a whaling gun, you can get 80 to 100 pieces of high-quality leather. It ’s not too cool ... its cost is estimated. Not even one tenth of the cowhide ...

In short, the whale is a treasure, and if you do n’t kill, you will lose a lot ...