While Luo Yong and the others were selling oil-paper umbrellas of the same style as Du Gou's, thousands of miles away in Chang'an City, the gentry's children there were still playing with soap.
It is now August of the ninth year of Zhenguan, more than two months since Luo Sanlang presented the soap recipe.
Presumably in a month or two, those civil servants and military officials who were sent to the grasslands to spread the method of soap making will also come back.
If they fail to return before the snowfall, the journey will become very difficult.
In the past two months, every family with some connections in Chang'an City has also obtained the soap-making recipe.
The methods of making lard soap and suet soap are very simple.
The rich people in Chang'an City will naturally not be satisfied with such a simple and rough soap making method.
It is like cooking tea and fragrant.
There are many talents for this soap making.
A space for beauties to DIY.
In the recent city of Chang'an, you can often hear about which family makes what kind of soap, which young gentleman is unique, which young lady is the best at making soap, and so on.
Many people use precious medicinal materials or spices to make soap.
Ginseng soap and agarwood soap are not uncommon, and there are countless people who use flowers to make soap.
Generally popular on the market, in addition to mugwort soap and mulberry soap launched by Luo Sanlang and imitated by various companies, there is also a kind of bamboo leaf soap.
The method of making that kind of bamboo leaf soap is not difficult, it mainly depends on who makes it.
The soap is the greenest in color and the most fragrant.
A Zhi is also a careful worker and willing to think about things.
The bamboo leaf soap she makes is very good.
She makes some bamboo leaf soap every day and sells it, which can also earn some money.
This bamboo leaf soap is very popular among scholars, and the price is not too expensive.
Most well-off families can still afford it, so there is quite a market for it.
The price A Zhi charges is not high, and he can make as much as he wants every day.
If the neighbors get a share, basically there won’t be much left.
They have now moved to the small courtyard in Luoyong.
Compared with their previous courtyard, the house in Luoyong's courtyard is newer and the place is more spacious.
Of course, the most important thing is the geographical location and surrounding environment.
Hou Lin and Qiao Junlin both have their own social activities.
In this case, living in a high-end community is naturally more decent than living in a village in the city.
Hou Lin was not such a hard thinker.
Since Luo Yong had already said that and left the key with A Zhi, he thought about it and finally decided to move here.
After moving here, A-Zhi quit his previous job because it was too far away.
Soon after, various soaps became popular in Chang'an City, and A-Zhi began to sell soap.
Luo Yongyong had already told her about the method of making soap when he came back to Chang'an, but he also reminded A Zhi that given the current situation of the three of them in Chang'an City, it would be better not to do anything too conspicuous, especially It's such a small business.
If word gets out, Qiao Junlin and Hou Lin will be ridiculed by their classmates and colleagues.
A Zhi naturally knew this truth.
At this time, the upper class was most concerned about nobility.
In the eyes of many people, being from a humble background was like being born with a deficiency.
In their eyes, small business people were even more humble.
It is precisely because of this that A-Zhi would rather sell the soap he makes every day to neighbors at a lower price than retail it on the street.
Their neighbors couldn't bear to part with this cheap and high-quality soap.
In addition to using it at home and giving it away, most of them resold it to relatives and friends.
Even if they didn't make money, it was good to earn some favors.
Uncles and nephews Hou Lin and Qiao Junlin would also help make soap when they had free time.
A Zhi knew that they were under great pressure and was not very willing to let them help.
Hou Lin won't say anything else.
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Qiao Junlin is only sixteen years old this year.
In addition to studying, practicing martial arts, and socializing, he occasionally helps her, and then eats and sleeps.
Day after day, he has never slacked off.
Du Xi, who has been very close to Qiao Junlin recently, also said this to him: "You are like this every day, but you have never had a leisure time."
"What's the use of leisure?"
Qiao Junlin was picking up some ground tea leaves with a spoon and putting them into the pottery pot.
Tea at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty was not the clear tea of later generations, but a drink made with many ingredients, also known as buttermilk.
This method of making tea is also a required course for almost all scholars, but Du Xi himself is not good at it.
He said that he asked Qiao Junlin to come over and learn how to make tea from him.
In fact, it was just to show outsiders that he and Qiao Junlin had a good relationship.
It's just that he is very close.
Since he has promised Luo Yong to take Qiao Junlin with him, he will naturally not break his promise.
"Isn't it boring to just bury your head in the road all day long and miss all the beautiful scenery?"
Du Xi said lazily, leaning on the cave.
"I just watched the scenery all day long, and it wasn't until the sun went down that I realized that I had only walked half a mile.
Wouldn't it be stupid?"
Qiao Junlin curled his lips and smiled.
The young man's overly upright appearance, overly straight back, and overly sharp eyes that were too determined all revealed the stubbornness and even paranoia in his bones.
"If you walk too fast, you will have no friends."
Du Xi still smiled, as if he had not lost his fun because of Qiao Junlin's excessive seriousness and sharpness.
"" Qiao Junlin didn't say anything else this time, he just lowered his eyes and smiled softly.
What's the use of having friends who can't go with him.
Du Xi just curled his lips, as if he didn't agree with Qiao Junlin's argument, and he didn't regard this young boy as a dish at all.
However, after Qiao Junlin left, this guy took a sword and went to the yard to practice martial arts.
The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the waves in front die on the beach.
At this time, Du Qilang had not heard of this sentence, but he had indeed felt such a crisis.
On the other side, Qiao Junlin came out of Du Mansion, walked through the streets and alleys, and walked on the sandy roads of Chang'an City.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, several streets in Chang'an City were paved with river sand.
This kind of road was better than dirt roads.
It would not see a little water but was full of mud, but it still couldn't withstand those ox-carts and horse-drawn carriages.
There will inevitably be some potholes on the road due to the heavy traffic.
If it rains, coupled with the mud brought from elsewhere by pedestrians, livestock and vehicles, the road condition will also be worrying.
Fortunately, it was a sunny day.
When we entered the courtyard where their small courtyard was located, the streets and alleys were filled with people carrying burdens and strolling around.
Everything seemed very lively.
Qiao Junlin saw a farmer carrying a load selling paper, so he went over to take a look.
Seeing that his linen paper was well made, he took out a few copper coins from his body and bought a pile.
If you go to a scholar's shop, people may not even like to look at these few pennies.
In the past, Hou Lin took Qiao Junlin to buy paper.
If he bought a knife at a time, it would easily cost hundreds of pennies.
Even their uncle The two nephews save time and time again when using paper.
But you can buy two large pieces of hemp paper on the street for just one penny.
Qiao Junlin spent five pennies, and the other party also gave him a piece with slightly damaged corners.
He got eleven pieces in total.
These papers Cut it open and it will be enough for him to practice calligraphy for a long time.
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In recent times, you can often see this kind of paper sellers in Chang'an City.
According to legend, Luo Sanlang of Lishi County failed to make paper, but instead made a kind of toilet paper.
Later, his papermaking recipe spread, and many people followed his example to make straw paper and sell it.
Others followed that recipe and used other materials instead of straw to make paper.
After a short time, this kind of paper appeared on the market.
Grow hemp paper.
Although this hemp paper is not as good as the high-end paper sold in stores, it can also be used for writing.
Its appearance is simply good news for many students whose families are not wealthy enough.
Among the four majors alone, there are many students with similar financial conditions to Qiao Junlin, and some are even more miserable than him.
Their father or grandfather is a minor official, and with the monthly salary, they have to support their family and earn money.
To deal with all kinds of social activities and favors, if you are a member of a well-established family, you will have to spend money from home.
If you don't have much wealth, you will have to live on a tight budget.
In addition to the four subjects, there are also calligraphy and arithmetic.
Those two schools have more students and are more overcrowded, and most of the students have relatively average family backgrounds.
Now that there is a lot of money left on paper, few people would choose to make a fool of themselves, so this kind of hemp paper quickly opened up a market in Chang'an City.
However, for those families that rely on papermaking to make profits, this is simply like cutting meat from them.
When Qiao Junlin went out for activities with Du Xi recently, he heard some bad words about Luo Yong.
He felt the malice of those people towards Luo Yong, and was worried that some people would be unable to restrain themselves and be unfavorable to him.
But he also knew very well that Luo Yong himself could not be unaware of this and did it knowingly that he couldn't do it.
That guy's courage was not that great.
But, if one day it really happens, what can I do for him?
The young man returned to the courtyard with a heavy gaze, said hello to A-Zhi with a wide smile, and then locked himself in the room again.
The sunshine and breeze in this late summer season were all shut out by him.
The author has something to say: Regarding the price of paper, I just searched on Baidu.
It is said that the better Xuanzhou paper now costs more than 2,000 yuan per cut.
This is simply too cruel.
It is probably not cheap in the Tang Dynasty.
I think I think people at that time had very little financial income.
It was very normal for them to have money to buy paper and not be able to afford books or anything like that.
Then what, I stopped updating again in the past few days, I feel so shameless.
I coded half a chapter two days ago, but I wasn’t very satisfied with it, so I let it go for a while, and then several days passed in the blink of an eye.
Listening to music today, my mind seemed to finally be able to turn away again, so I started over.
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