Since he couldn't go to school, Zhao Ping decided to just set up a small school in his study room and Zhao Ping could study by himself at home.
What made my mother happy was that Zhao Ping, who was accepted as a disciple by the gods, not only held the book by himself, read and wrote at the same time, but even taught the two young men and three young ladies to read together when he had time, and actually became their wife. .
While teaching them, Zhao Ping occasionally mixed in private information, such as how to use Pinyin to read Chinese characters instead of Chinese characters, and what to use Arabic numerals instead of Chinese capital letters.
Zhao Ping found that Cuizhu came to study after finishing her work most conscientiously and was most sensitive to arithmetic. She has now learned to memorize the multiplication table and is learning addition and subtraction. Zhao Ping plans to let her learn multiplication and division next. is a quadratic equation of one variable.
Lan'er may be too young. After being slapped in the palm by Zhao Ping, her eyesight is watery and she can barely recite numbers between one and a hundred, but she likes poetry; the four Zhao brothers and sisters are somewhere in between.
At this time, Zhao Ping was writing seriously in the bookstore with Cuizhu and two Xiaolangs, when Laner jumped in. This maid is the most impatient. She only has time for one stick of incense each time she studies, and she has to run out to play. She came in panting and said, "Zhao Wengweng and the others are back."
Before Zhao Ping reached the hall, the sound of Zhao Jie laughing could already be heard, as well as the clear laughter of his three sons, his wife, and his wife.
Seeing Zhao Ping come in, Zhao Jie's loud voice echoed in the hall: "Mother, young man, the fairy soap in our Zhaojiazhuang is so popular. All the 200 yuan I brought this time have been sold out. Some people saw Seeing that they had finished selling, they were disappointed and asked when they could supply the goods. The old slave promised to deliver the goods tomorrow, and they became happy. "
At this point, he paused, and then continued: "Nowadays, it's mainly the ladies and sisters-in-law, the women from the brothels, and a small number of businessmen. Especially the women from the brothels, they especially like fairy soap, and they buy it according to the husband's instructions. Ten for one, they bought thirty pieces of fairy soap in one go.”
Later, there was the sound of shoes hitting the ground, and my mother's voice also came: "It seems that fairy soap has gradually been accepted by the world. The reason why women in brothels particularly like fairy soap may be related to their origins. Fairy soap may have given them A feeling of freshness and purity.”
Zhao Ping stared at his mother, wondering why her mother, a literary young woman, had suddenly turned into a secular businessman.
Seeing everyone's doubtful looks, especially Xizi's, my mother smiled calmly, glanced at everyone, and then said: "Ping'er, now I'm finally relieved. I'll give you twenty taels of silver, that's it. With a kind of concern, I took a gamble to see if it could succeed. Fortunately, Immortal Soap succeeded. It seems that the Immortal Charcoal and Immortal Furnace should not be a big problem."
Zhao Ping felt very heavy in his heart. His impulse put heavy pressure on his mother. Fortunately, Xian Zao seemed to have seen the light of day.
Thinking of this, Zhao Ping nodded and said: "Now we can safely and boldly produce fairy soap, and strive to achieve a daily output of more than a thousand yuan."
Zhao Jie became anxious, raised his hands straight, and said: "Lang Jun, the servants try their best, but the maximum output per day is only about two hundred yuan, so it is difficult to complete this."
Zhao Ping thought for a while and then said: "For the sake of production, we have to hire people."
"No, absolutely not. This is the secret recipe of the Immortal family. How can outsiders learn it?" Everyone, including my mother, spat at Zhao Ping.
Zhao Ping walked a few steps back and forth in the room, pondered for a while, and then said: "Of course I have a way to do this, which is to use an assembly line recipe to make it."
Seeing everyone looking at him blankly, Zhao Ping could only explain: "The assembly line divides the production method into several steps. Each batch of people is only responsible for their own link. It not only speeds up the process, but also makes it safer and more confidential. … ..In this way, people are separated from each other, the production links are also completely separated, and things are separated from things. They only know the process of their own link, but not other links. Of course, the formula and time process are controlled by themselves."
Seeing everyone's thinking, Zhao Ping continued: "In order to be further safe, the character's entrance can be made tortuous, so that they don't know where and what link they have reached."
Zhao Jie suddenly mentioned a question that everyone was thinking about: "If they work together, they will be able to figure out the production process sooner or later. Maybe the quality of their fairy soap is not as good as ours, but after all, they can still produce it."
Zhao Ping thought for a while and then said: "This is indeed a problem. We might as well add some irrelevant links, or even add opposite links, such as adding a vinegar workshop next to it, so that we can not only produce vinegar, but also Confusing their minds. By the way, we can even build a soy sauce workshop at the same time. But this will increase the cost." At this point, Zhao Ping looked back at his mother.
The mother thought for a while, then gritted her teeth and said, "In that case, then put all the copper coins and silver into it. By the way, you mentioned soy sauce, but is it the soy sauce that is said to be only found in the palace?"
Zhao Ping nodded and said: "It is indeed soy sauce, not the sauce on the market. It has an extremely delicious taste and a moderate saltiness."
Zhao Jie took out pen, ink, paper and inkstone one after another.
Zhao Ping said: "The soybeans are cooked, then fermented, dried, and filtered. The filtrate is soy sauce. Although the principle is simple, the process is not easy to master. The key control points are fermentation, yeast production, and dried embryos. Sun-drying only takes a long time. That’s it. It usually takes a year to be exposed in the open air, and the temperature is higher and higher. The fermentation requires yeast, and this yeast is not easy to make.”
Hearing this, everyone looked disappointed, and Zhao Di even blurted out: "What should we do? Could it be that the workshop can't continue?" After saying this, he regretted it and immediately covered his lips with his hands.
Zhao Ping took a sip of tea and continued: "The fermentation of steamed buns uses the principle of yeast. Yeast is a tiny worm that is invisible to the naked eye. How to make yeast? It uses honey, flour, and urine as raw materials."
When Zhao Ping said this, his mother frowned and stopped talking: "Ping'er, this is okay, the smell of urine is too strong, which is unacceptable." As she spoke, she slapped her tall nose with her hand, as if she was right in front of her eyes. It smells like urine.
Zhao Ping glanced at everyone and saw everyone's suspicious eyes. He nodded and said, "Mom, it's reasonable to worry. My formula is for outsiders to see. There is a way to remove the smell of urine. That is Mix ground urine and charcoal powder together, stir for half an hour, and then filter with white cloth. After two to three times of mixing, stirring and filtering with fine charcoal powder, the smell of urine has been basically removed, and the substance in urine is what we call urea. Any faint smell of urine that is left has been completely eaten away by the little bugs like yeast.”
My mother asked in confusion: "Yeast also eats urine?"
