"Yes, please rest assured, Master."
Yuan Wu waited until the team had gone far away before he mounted his horse and returned to the villa.
Su Qiao dug up all the bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest as quickly as possible, and then hurried back home carrying the peeled bamboo shoots.
There are still a lot of things to do. I have to make bags and shoes and socks, make molds for movable type printing, teach my second uncle how to make straw paper and rice paper, and prepare to build a house.
To build a house, first of all you need bricks, cement, and tiles. She plans to ask her second and third uncles who have no skills, as well as several cousins from her second and third uncles' families to do these.
If all goes well, they can then build a small cement plant, a brick and tile factory, a lime factory, and set up a construction team that specializes in building houses for people.
But before that, she had to try it out on herself first.
It is very simple to calcine lime. To make bricks and tiles, you just need to find some sticky soil, make a mold, and then build a kiln to burn them. As for cement, there are also alternative recipes in the encyclopedia I read last time.
Lime, clay, slag ash, mixed with a small amount of sand and gypsum.
Limestone is calcined at high temperature to become quicklime, and then water is added to it to become slaked lime. Clay can be found easily, sand can be fished out from the river, and gypsum can be obtained by simply finding gypsum stone and heating it to refine it.
The slag ash here refers to the slag ash left after coal is burned, which can be replaced by volcanic ash. Ordinary people do not have it at home, but with Yuan Wu around, it is very easy to find the unwanted slag ash transported from the imperial iron smelting stone.
After having a rough plan in mind, Su Qiao devoted herself to making bags, shoes and socks with everyone else.
Finally, on the morning of the fourth day, they had collected another 700 pairs of shoes and socks and 500 bags.
In the middle, because I didn’t have enough ingredients, I went to the town to buy more.
The troops were still divided into two groups. The second uncle and second aunt sold in the town, while Su Qiaogang took her mother, accompanied by Yuan Wu, to the county town.
To Su Qiao's surprise, the sales went very smoothly and there was no problem of sales problems.
She felt puzzled and walked around the downtown area of the county town, but she did not see any embroidery or garment shop selling these things.
Later, I returned to the town and walked around again, but still didn't find anything. Only occasionally a few families went back and learned how to make shoes, socks and bags on their own.
At this point, Su Qiao was very confident that Feng Han was behind the scenes doing something, such as secretly warning those embroidery and garment stores.
The second time the amount was not as much as the first time, but he still made more than four hundred taels of silver.
After saying hello to the old man, Su Qiao spent 22 taels to buy the shop in the town that was being sold.
The shop is quite nice. The front part is two-storey and the inner yard has three entrances, which can be used for living. There is also enough space to convert it into a small workshop.
Su Qiao was very satisfied.
What she wanted to open was not a grocery store, but a department store, with the first floor selling common daily necessities such as shoes, bags, soap, matches, pens, rice paper, straw paper, toothbrushes, tooth powder, etc.
The second floor specializes in selling women's personal care products, such as socks, menstrual belts modified into the shape of underwear, belly bands modified according to modern underwear, as well as some rouge and powder, facial masks and whitening creams, etc.
Su Qiao was busy preparing to open the store, while directing several uncles and cousins to lay the foundation and build the house.
On the other side, Feng Han, who had already arrived in the capital, was also very busy.
As soon as he returned to the capital, the entire city was in a panic. Some people in the court were suddenly listed with dozens of crimes and were dismissed from office and thrown into prison. Some people were directly had their property confiscated and their families exterminated.