"Master, the advertising revenue from our hosting of this Oiran Competition totals 177,500 taels of silver."
After Shishi calculated it in her mind, she reported a number that shocked her.
She was also an insider who had participated in the Oiran Competition, but she had never thought that the Oiran Competition could earn so much money.
"Advertising fees are small amounts of money."
Jiang Yifeng did not take the money seriously, and instead said: "The most profitable part is the ranking part and the sales part. If these two parts are done well, each part may be higher than the advertising revenue."
"The slave family understands."
Shishi nodded repeatedly, "We have arranged a lot of trustees. They will take action during the rankings to deliberately stimulate supporters of both parties to vote."
"Um!"
Jiang Yifeng nodded and asked, "What about the delivery process? Have you contacted a good merchant?"
Shishi replied hesitantly: "I have contacted you, but many merchants feel that this method of selling goods has never been seen before, and they are not willing to risk spending so much money."
"Understandable."
Jiang Yifeng thought for a while and continued: "Go and tell those merchants that we don't want to charge for seats, but we have to make commissions based on sales. Let's finalize the nine merchants in the preliminary round first."
"What about the semi-finals and finals? Why don't you take the opportunity to finalize the business?"
"Not finalized."
Jiang Yifeng said: "This is just like when you first started selling advertising. The preliminary round is used as a case study. As long as the sales effect in the preliminary round is good, there will be no shortage of merchants in the semi-finals and finals, and slot fees can be collected at that time."
"The slave family understands."
Shishi kept Jiang Yifeng's words in mind.
"Okay, if there's nothing else, you can go back."
After Jiang Yifeng finished saying everything he wanted to say, he issued an order to expel the guests.
"oh!"
Shishi responded, and when she walked to the door, she suddenly asked: "Master, when will you return to Su's house?"
Jiang Yifeng was slightly startled and asked curiously: "Why do you care about this?"
"nothing."
Shishi smiled sweetly, "When you go back, I would like to treat you and Miss Su to a meal to thank you for taking care of me."
After saying this, Shishi opened the door and left.
"Eat? What do you mean?"
Jiang Yifeng looked at Shishi leaving with question marks on his face.
…
When Shishi left, Gongsuchang did not follow him. Like Jiang Yifeng, he stayed in Mei Village.
However, his situation is different from Jiang Yifeng.
Jiang Yifeng wanted to leave, but Yao Chen and Master Guishou refused to let him go, while Gong Shuchang didn't want to leave at all.
no way.
After Gong Shuchang saw the miraculous tricks of Master Guishou, the two became friends and secretly competed with each other, studying firearms together all day long.
One can imagine what terrifying ideas the most powerful craftsmen and mechanical masters in the Great Zhou Dynasty will come up with when they come together.
It only took them more than ten days to advance the development of firearms for hundreds of years, skipping the matchlock gun directly and entering the flintlock gun.
As for the structure of the flintlock gun, the two people easily produced several drawings. The efficiency was so terrifying that Jiang Yifeng almost made Jiang Yifeng wonder if they were also time travellers.
However, he felt relieved when he thought of Momen's exquisite mechanism skills and Gongshujia's skillful craftsmanship.
Because the structure of the firearm is not even as complex as the Heavy Rain Pear Blossom Needle, it is naturally not difficult for the two masters.
The only pity is that there are too many limitations in materials. As a result, even if the drawings are made, the firearm has never been manufactured.
Not just flintlock muskets, but the same was true for steam engines.
The two people revised the steam engine drawings over and over again. It was almost exactly the same as the steam engine in Jiang Yifeng's previous life, but the materials were not up to standard.
Desperate, Jiang Yifeng found a blacksmith from Coal Village and tried to smelt steel.
It's a pity that he has too little knowledge in this area. He spent several days just to increase the strength of the iron a little, but still failed to meet the requirements.
certainly……
Something good also happened, that is, the sugar cane purchased by Jiang Yifeng finally arrived in Suzhou City.
For Jiang Yifeng, the money spent was a trivial matter, but the main reason was that it took too long, nearly two months.
After the sugar cane was transported to Coal Village, Jiang Yifeng began to make sugar.
First, the juice from the sugar cane is squeezed out.
This process was not difficult and it only took a few days to complete this step.
Secondly, boil the sugar cane juice into brown sugar.
This is not difficult at all. We can just find hundreds of villagers and boil the juice into brown sugar on the same day.
Finally, turn the brown sugar into white sugar.
Compared with the previous two steps, this step is more difficult. Anyway, Jiang Yifeng has no good solution.
Bang...
While Jiang Yifeng was thinking, Zhao Toutou was eating lumps of brown sugar next to him, making a harsh sound.
"Eat less. This brown sugar is used to make white sugar."
Jiang Yifeng frowned dissatisfied.
It wasn't that he was stingy, it was just too difficult to transport a batch of sugar cane from the south to the north. He didn't want the brown sugar to be eaten by Zhao Toutou before the white sugar was produced.
"How stingy."
Zhao Toutou curled his lips, secretly took away a few pieces of brown sugar, and shared them with other children.
"Mr. Jiang, don't be as knowledgeable as Junior Sister Zhao, she is like this."
Yun Xishan saw that Jiang Yifeng was getting angry and quickly tried to persuade him.
Yun Xishan is one of the four senior brothers of Zhao Toutou, and he is also the strongest one, ranking third among the Momen disciples.
Strictly speaking, he is also one of the candidates for the Momen giant.
What left Jiang Yifeng speechless was that none of the Mo sect disciples had much interest in the position of master, unlike other sects who fought fiercely for the position of master.
Therefore, Jiang Yifeng also specifically asked Yunxi Mountain.
Yun Xishan's explanation is: "The Momen tycoon must find ways to make money and run the entire Momen sect, but I can't make money. I may not be able to eat enough alone outside. If I were to be the Momen tycoon, everyone would Drink the northwest wind."
Of course, this is just the reason given by Yun Xishan, others have different reasons.
Tou Tou Zhao's reason is: "Being a rich man means that you can't leave the Momen at will, and you can't do chivalry. The most important reason is that you don't have the opportunity to go out to eat delicious food."
Zhong Bugui's reason is: "My goal is to implement the concept of 'eliminating the harm to the world and bringing benefit to the world', but I don't have the ability, so I plan to assist others."
Assist others?
You, a great disciple of Mo Sect, don’t want to be a giant of Mo Sect, so who else would be willing to be your giant?
Jiang Yifeng couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this. He especially wanted to know which unlucky guy was targeted by Zhong Bugui.
"When can Wang Mao bring Huang Ni?"
After Jiang Yifeng observed three seconds of silence for the unlucky guy, he looked at Yunxi Mountain and asked.
Wang Mao is also one of the four Momen disciples. He is slightly stronger than Zhao Toutou and ranks very low among the Momen disciples.
"It should be soon."
After Yun Xishan finished speaking, he looked at the lumps of brown sugar and asked, "Mr. Jiang, can brown sugar really be turned into white with yellow mud?"
Jiang Yifeng smiled confidently, "This method is called the yellow mud water method. Using this method, brown sugar can be turned into white sugar. As for the principle... I don't know why?"
The yellow mud water-drench sugar method is the method recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu".
The ancients have recorded this method, so there should be no problem in thinking, but Jiang Yifeng doesn't know much about the reason behind it.
Could it be that the yellow mud water has filtered out the pigment in the brown sugar?
"Mr. Jiang, Huang Ni has been brought."
At this moment, Wang Mao came in with a bag of yellow mud.
Jiang Yifeng looked at Huang Ni, blinked a few times, and fell into thinking.
Although he knew how to drizzle sugar with yellow mud water, he didn't know how to do it in detail. You couldn't just pour yellow mud water on the brown sugar, right?
really……
Theory is theory, application is application.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yifeng looked at Yunxi Mountain, "Go and bring some water, soak the yellow mud in it, and get yellow mud water."
After saying that, he looked at Wang Mao again and said, "Go and smash the brown sugar. It will be useful later."
"oh!"
The two of them responded and got busy.
Taking advantage of this time, Jiang Yifeng tried hard to recall the detailed operation methods of the yellow mud water drenching method. Even if he could recall a little bit, it would be good.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't remember it at all.
It's not that his memory is too bad, it's mainly because he never thought that he would travel through time, and sugar in his previous life was not expensive, so he only looked at the name and did not read the detailed content.
"Mr. Jiang, it's ready."
Yun Xishan and Wang Mao completed the tasks assigned by Jiang Yifeng.
Jiang Yifeng looked at the yellow mud water and brown sugar, gritted his teeth, "Slowly pour the yellow mud water on top of the brown sugar."
"yes!"
Yunxi Mountain found a water ladle, scooped up a ladle of yellow muddy water and poured it on top of the brown sugar.
once!
twice!
…
repeatedly!
As the yellow mud water is poured over the brown sugar over and over again, the color of the brown sugar changes slightly and the volume continues to shrink.
However, the brown sugar did not turn into white sugar, at most it just became lighter in color.
However, the color of brown sugar only became lighter and did not turn into white sugar.
"Master Jiang..."
Yun Xishan and Wang Mao looked at Jiang Yifeng at the same time.
"Don't worry, keep going."
Jiang Yifeng calmly said something casually, then walked out of the room and spat hard, "Made, as expected, everything in the novel is a lie. The method of drenching sugar with yellow mud and water does not work at all, or it is difficult to make white sugar. "
"How to do it?"
Jiang Yifeng frowned slightly and said to himself: "Compared with white sugar, brown sugar should only have more pigments and impurities. As long as these pigments and impurities are removed, brown sugar can become white sugar. The problem is that I don't know what can It has a filtering effect!”
Wait a moment……
filter!
It seems that activated carbon is used to filter pigments and impurities.
The main function of those gas masks is activated carbon.
It's just...activated carbon seems to be a little different from charcoal. Can charcoal play a filtering role?
After thinking for a while, Jiang Yifeng said: "Never mind it, try it with charcoal first. If the charcoal doesn't work, then find a way to make activated charcoal. You can't embarrass yourself in front of them."
Thinking of this, Jiang Yifeng walked back and saw Yun Xishan and Wang Mao still pouring yellow mud water on the brown sugar.
"okay!"
Jiang Yifeng pretended to be nonchalant, "The first step has been completed. Now you can prepare and start the second step."
Yun Xishan asked: "Master Jiang, what should we do in the second step?"
"Burning charcoal."
Jiang Yifeng paused here, looked at the two of them and said: "Crush the cooked charcoal, the more crushed it is, the better, then crush the brown sugar, the more crushed it is, the better, and then mix the two together... "
Jiang Yifeng didn't care whether he could succeed or not, he expressed all his thoughts at once.
After finishing speaking, he looked at the two of them and said, "I have taught you the method. You can't let me down and work hard to make white sugar."
After hearing this, Yun Xishan quickly asked: "Master Jiang, aren't you watching us on the spot?"
"Does this simple work require me to watch on the spot?" Jiang Yifeng glanced at the two of them coldly, "You young people, don't always think about letting your elders watch from the side, you must learn to explore on your own, do you understand? ?”
"understood!"
Yun Xishan and Wang Mao nodded repeatedly.
"Good job!"
Jiang Yifeng encouraged the two of them and left.
When Jiang Yifeng left, Wang Mao curled his lips and complained: "Third senior brother, he is so embarrassed to call himself our elder. In terms of age, I am older than him."
Snapped!
Yun Xishan slapped Wang Maohou on the forehead and reprimanded: "Master Jiang and Uncle Yao Shi are sworn brothers. He is indeed our elder. Besides, what if we are older than him? Master Jiang will Do the two of us know how to do those things? Didn’t you see that Uncle Medicine Master and Uncle Ghost Hands were both polite to him?"
"Third Senior Brother, I was wrong."
Wang Mao lowered his head to apologize, glanced at the direction Jiang Yifeng left, and said with envy: "If you don't consider his age, he is indeed very powerful. I really don't know why he knows so much?"
After hearing this, Yun Xishan was silent for a while and said, "I suddenly feel that what Senior Brother Zhong said makes sense."
Wang Mao looked at Yunxi Mountain, "That sentence?"
Yun Xishan lowered his voice, "Senior Brother Zhong said that Mr. Jiang may be the reincarnation of his ancestor."
…
The reason why Jiang Yifeng did not watch at the scene was because he wanted to leave a way out for himself.
If Yun Xishan and Wang Mao failed to produce sugar, he could still get another chance by using the excuse that they were too stupid.
Leaving the sugar making place, Jiang Yifeng came to another laboratory.
In this laboratory, two people were busy. When they saw Jiang Yifeng arriving, they stopped what they were doing and called Mr. Jiang respectfully.
These two people were none other than the other two of the four disciples, namely Yin Wu and Zhang Litang.
Zhang Litang ranked fifth among this generation of Momen disciples, while Yin Wu ranked just like Zhao Toutou and Wang Mao, ranking very low.
This is the rule of Momen's team formation. A higher-ranked disciple leads a lower-ranked disciple.
Zhong Bugui and Zhao Toutou were in a group, Zhang Litang and Yin Wu were in a group, and Yun Xishan and Wang Mao were in a group.
"Is the thing made?"
Jiang Yifeng nodded towards the two of them and looked at what they were making.
"Not yet, almost."
Zhang Litang shook his head and asked hesitantly: "Mr. Jiang, do you think this thing can really fly?"
"have no idea."
Jiang Yifeng shrugged and continued: "Anyway, I'm not testing it myself. If I fall to death, I'll have to pay some money."
