
In Dachu today, even if they use their own fatty meat to cook oil, it costs 60 cents to make oil starch, he said, and meat oil on the market is more expensive than homemade meat oil. It sold for seventy coins . The meat oil jar that their family gave to the Gu family last time was only five catties, plus the money for the urn, it cost three hundred and eighty Wen.
Pine oil has to go to the mountains to harvest its resin, then purify it, so it is not at all cheaper than meat oil, and also sells for 70 yuan per catties.
Not to mention the candles which were precious items.
A pair of candles could be sold for two hundred Wen, which could be used by wealthy households except nobles and nobles. Farmers used to buy only two pieces when celebrating the new year or when they were married or worshipping ancestors.
In this way, the price of soybean oil is much cheaper than they are.
Shang Xiucai was even more excited after finishing the calculations, and asked Gu Jinli: "Is this soybean oil turning on the lights? Does this consume a lot of fuel?" Gu Jinli's
nodding: "Of course it's possible."
After listening, Shang Xiucai took out his own teacup, poured the tea in one gulp, placed the teacup on the table, and said to Gu Jinli, "Little fish, you know, you're going to have a drink on the table, pour soybean oil out of a wooden bowl." Ah Jiu took the jar
soybean oil into the kitchen for cooking, but Gu Jinli still held it.There was a wooden bowl filled with soybean oil, and after hearing this, he poured soybean oil from the bowl into the tea cup.
He also took out a piece of burlap half a finger wide, squeezed it into a wick, put it in a teacup, waited until the wick was saturated with soybean oil, took out a torch, and lit the wick.
The wicks burn quickly and burn slowly.
Shang Xiucai looked at the burning flame and waited silently, after waiting for more than a quarter of an hour, the flame was still burning, and there seemed to be a lot of soybean oil inside the tea cup.
"Truely, this soybean oil is like meat oil. Can be used for cooking and lighting the lamp." Shang Xiucai was very pleased. In this way, the value of soybean oil will be even higher.
While talking, Ah Jiu had already entered with the storage box: "Master, the plate is ready."
Ah Jiu opened the box, placed a plate of fried meat, a plate of fried bean sprouts, fried eggs, and fried meatballs on the table in the main room, and placed five pairs of bowls and chopsticks.
"All of these dishes are made with soybean oil carried by the little fish girl. Mister, try. "
After Shang Xiucai listened, he greeted third grandfather and the others, and impatiently picked up the chopsticks and tasted the dishes on the table. .
"...Although not as good as meat oil, it tastes good and can be used for cooking." Shang Xiucai ate four dishes on the table. The more he eats, the more satisfied he is, and the more optimistic he is about soybean oil.
People in Dachu are poor, and farmers in many places can only eat boiled vegetables, so they buy a little meat during the Lunar New Year, in order to stain the meat.
With this soybean oil, it's hard to say that people all over Dachu can eat foods made with the oil every day, at least the farmers in Jianghuai prefecture no longer needed to eat boiled vegetables.
Shang Xiucai put down his chopsticks, sipped his tea, looked at the third grandfather and the others, and asked, "Uncle Gu, brother Gu, what are your plans for this soybean oil?" Although the third grandfather and the family of Gu Dashan
near , but anyway It wasn't Gu Jinli's own grandfather, so he didn't rely on the old one to sell the old one, but said: "Let Dashan and Xiaoyu be his masters." Gu Dashan was a little confused when he heard
this .Look, I know the value of this soybean oil very well.
After thinking for a moment, he looked at Gu Jinli and said, "Xiaoyu, you made this soybean oil, you can make a decision." After fleeing from hunger all the way, Gu Dashan felt in his heart that his daughter was better than his daughter
. he, as long as he makes it the decision is generally in their favor.
Gu Jinli was impolite or procrastinating, and immediately said to Shang Xiucai: "Uncle Shang, what about our Gu, Shang, and Jiang families who are working together to make soybean oil?
Shang Xiucai was shocked when he heard this: "Little Fish, do you know how much profit this soybean oil can make for your family? Are you really willing to work with all three companies and share the profits?
" made, nothing will happen to the oil plant in the future.
Gu Jinli smiled: "Uncle Shang, if you have money, you should spend your life."
His family were ordinary farmers, and he didn't even have a backstage. If he wanted to do this soybean oil business, he had to find someone to cooperate Good partners were the Shang family and the Jiang family.
The Jiang family had a county lieutenant, who was considered a local snake in Tianfu County, only by tying a local snake to his ship could he keep his family safe.
Shang Xiucai did not expect Gu Jinli to say such blunt words, but he was right. Money is important, but life is more important. If handing over some money can bring the safety of family and property, why not do it.
But Shang Xiucai did not directly agree, but said: "I have to ask the Jiang family about this before I can answer you."
He wanted to help the Gu family, and he also wanted to make soybean oil to benefit the community. Dachu, but he still doesn't know what his father-in-law is thinking, and he has to talk about it.
Gu Jinli knew there was no need to rush over the matter, so he said, "OK, we'll wait for Uncle Shang's answer."
After talking about soybean oil, Tao Zi came and said that Madam Jiang and Yuan Yuan wanted to see Gu Jinli.
Gu Jinli followed Tao Zi into the backyard of the Shang House, met Jiang Shi and Yuan Yuan, talked to Jiang Shi for a while, played with Yuan Yuan for a while, then left.
The third grandfather went to the city to sell tofu, Gu Jinli and Gu Dashan returned to Dafeng Village, and Gu Jinan stayed at Shang's house to study with Shang Xiucai.
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Dafeng Village.
Gu Dashan and Gu Jinli had just arrived at the end of the village when they saw a group of people surrounding their house.
Master Qin, Qin Sanlang, Luo's father and son, and Gu Dafu blocked the group from entering Gu Jinli's house.
A group of people were very anxious, and they kept saying: "Brother, we are not bad people, we are from a nearby neighboring village. We knew that knowing the Gu family was delicious, so we came here and wanted to meet the head of the Gu family. Talk about tofu trading."
There were a few of them, more than a dozen, and they were all adult men, but the Gu Jinli family only had women and children. Father Luo and the others were unwilling to let them in. They simply said: "If the family is not here, we won't I don't know you, so let's go. "
This group of people had deliberately come to Gu's house, and they had not entered door , so how could they leave?
When Gu Dashan saw this group of people surrounding his house, he was terrified. He rushed over, stopped the group of people with Father Luo and the others, and asked, "Who are you? What are you doing around my house?
" dagger, he ran over and looked at the group of people with unfriendly eyes.
When the dozen people heard Gu Dashan's words, they knew that he was the one in charge of the Gu family, and immediately smiled and said, "Brother, I, you are the head of the stall to know the Gu family, right? Don't be afraid, we're not here to make trouble, we want to come to you Let's buy tofu at home, and let's talk about making a living by tofu.” The speaker was a middle-aged man wearing a rough jacket with patches of ash-cloth
ash on the arms and legs of the pants, and when she said this, she had a flattered smile on her face. .