On the 24th day of the third lunar month, Shengyuanzhuang.

Wang Rui was sorting out some text materials in the room.

More than ten days have passed since the Beggars' Gang's incident, and Ma Sheng has not come to find him, which means he has already taken the letter of war and is waiting for him to come to fight next month.

There is still more than half a month left. Wang Rui's energy over the past period has been put in Zhuangzi except practicing.

The first thing Wang Rui did was to carry out new life and hygiene transformation in the village.

Everyone can only drink boiled water, wash their hands frequently, bathe frequently, and love hygiene. The roads in the village must be kept clean at all times, the debris should be stored next to the house and not placed randomly, livestock manure should be cleaned immediately, and donkeys should be hung with feces on the tails, etc.

For this reason, Wang Rui also built a simple open-air toilet and a public bathhouse in the village. Everyone cannot excrete it anywhere, so they must go to the toilet.

To achieve these requirements, they must be based on the premise of large amounts of water.

The water sources used in Zhuangzi are all from the original wells in Zhuangzi. The efficiency of lifting water with wheels and poles is too low, so Wang Rui improved the water lifting tools into common water pressing wells in rural areas in the original world.

The structure of the pressurized well is very simple, and all third-grade primary school students can understand it. Wang Rui drew a picture and found a copper smith in the town to cast the shell directly. The parts inside were made and assembled after returning.

The reason why I don’t use iron casting is naturally because I don’t want rust to pollute the water source, so I would rather spend more money on copper casting.

The pipe extending below the well, Wang Rui chose to use the opened bamboo, which is clean and convenient to replace.

After returning, poured a pot of water into the water-filled water well, and Wang Rui asked the merchants to come over and press the wooden handles connected behind them. The water-filled water-filled water flowed out of the surprise eyes and sounds of the whole village.

In the end, all the six wells in the village were replaced by Wang Rui to lift water.

Although this efficiency cannot be compared with a water pump, it is much more than ten times higher than the efficiency of lifting water with a bucket.

With a convenient way to get water, Wang Rui's hygiene exercise has a basis for comprehensive promotion. Everyone, whether they are willing or not, can only abide by the rules set by Wang Rui and maintain basic hygiene habits.

Wang Rui asked the team leaders to find someone to stare at him. If a man violates Wang Rui's request, he will run ten miles on the spot, and the food will be reduced by half that day. Although women and children do not need to run away, the food will be reduced by half.

In this way, when there is a possibility of going hungry, no one dares to violate Wang Rui's requirements. Although they don't quite understand why Wang Rui's rules are so many and so weird, in order to have three meals a day, they must fulfill their requirements.

After cleaning up the sanitation in the village, Wang Rui began to carry out construction.

The original house was renovated and used as a residence for the farmers to temporarily solve the accommodation problem, Wang Rui began to organize people to make soap.

All the houses in the village were lived in by ordinary people, and there was no one of them of the right size. Helplessly, Wang Rui had to contribute the only house in the village with a wing room and a courtyard, and demolished the things in the wing room and transformed them into a temporary workshop for making soap.

The method of making soap is very simple. You only need to saponify sodium hydroxide and oil, and then salt it out. If alcohol is added, the reaction speed can be accelerated.

Alcohol is not available now, and even if there are conditions, the cost is too high in the current crop industry and cannot be used for the time being. The salt-deficient salt can be replaced by soda ash.

Two groups of farmers who were well-behaved, twelve of them were transferred to workshops at the request of Wang Rui, and were arranged to carry out work on various processes in the assembly line.

All the processes in the process have been completed after Wang Rui's multiple experiments.

With the ability to observe and be able to observe as an observation tool, Wang Rui accurately mastered the various chemical reaction results data in the experiment, so he quickly found a process that is the best solution under current conditions.

The workshop workers were subdivided into several groups, and two of them invested a quantitative amount of quicklime and soda ash to make a hydroxide solution, that is, pyrosine.

Two other people mixed the regular amount of soybean oil with the prepared sodium hydroxide solution, heated it in a large iron pot and stirred it to form a fate reaction. This step lasts the longest and takes several hours, so several people need to stir it in turn.

After the saponification reaction is completed, salting is also required, filtering, shaping with a mold, and drying.

After the soap was made, the first batch of users were the merchants in the farm, and everyone loved this efficient cleaning product.

After all, even if you use soapcorns to wash clothes, you have to use a washing rod to beat them. Clothing without polyester fiber is easily damaged during the cleaning process.

As the workshop continues to work, a large amount of soap is made.

Because the raw materials are large and the price is discounted, and the workshop has no salary for the time being, Wang Rui put the cost of soap at about three cents per piece, and Wang Rui handed over the purchase price of twenty cents per piece to Tong Xiangyu for sale, with a price of 25 cents.

This price is slightly more expensive than soap, but it is much cheaper than pancreatic sap, and ordinary people can afford it. After all, a piece of soap made by Wang Rui is as big as a fist, so it can be used for a long time if you save it.

A piece of soap costs 25 cents, and the price of less than a chicken, can make clothes easy to clean and not easily damaged. This is also a good deal for most people. After all, no one likes to wear patched clothes to go out.

At first, everyone didn't care much, and people who met me just thought that soap was similar to soap.

Everyone still used to buy soapberry powder. Later, Wang Rui came up with an idea for Tong Xiangyu, and made an advertisement, and compared soapberry laundry on the street to let everyone know the beauty of soap and open up sales.

Now after more than ten days of fermentation, soap has begun to be in short supply in nearby prefectures and counties. Qixia Town, Zuojiazhuang, Shibalipu, and even Shangzhou merchants have begun to come and inquire about the soap business.

Tong Xiangyu urged Wang Rui to increase the supply, but Shengyuan Village only had so many people. Wang Rui also invested two groups of people into the workshop and it was not enough. Wang Rui had to continue to ask someone to recruit refugees on the official road.

In the past ten days, 221 young refugees with family members have been recruited. After simple training and discipline, 60 of them were screened out and put into the workshop for production. In addition, the original soap workshop currently has 84 people.

Although the manpower has been put in, because they are not skilled workers, and many people are even unwilling to operate according to the simple production standards promulgated by Wang Rui. In order to save trouble, the process is secretly reduced, which leads to delayed working hours and losses, and a few people have to recuperate after being fire-reduced and burn-in.

Therefore, the production capacity of soap workshops is not stable now and has not reached the highest level. They can only produce 20,000 yuan of soap per day. However, in real time, the gross profit of one month is almost more than 10,000 taels of silver.

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Chapter completed!