Chapter 865 Pu Shan

Allah has said that some people are proud of what they have done and love to be praised for things they have not done. You must not think that they will be exempted from punishment. In fact, they will suffer painful punishment.

Pu Shan felt that accepting the free breakfast provided by the station without making any contribution was an act that should be ashamed and punished.

But the breakfast was so delicious that Pu Shan still couldn't resist the temptation.

The clerks at the post house have already started writing the prices of Cochin's main commodities with chalk on the big blackboard outside the post house.

This is called a "water sign". Each product will be marked with a reference price in chalk on the water sign every day.

Even merchants who come to Yunzhou Port for the first time can know what they are doing and will not be deceived too much.

If you live in a post house built by Sitong, you can enjoy extremely comfortable personal services. From the moment you open your eyes in the morning, you will have an exquisite free breakfast, neatly pressed newspapers, and carriages and horses for rent when you go out...

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We can also help you organize banquets and auctions, and help customers contact businesses...

If you apply for an annual card, or have important financial transactions with Sitong, the service can be upgraded, and you can even get crazy rebates such as shipping, cars, and houses.

Pu Shan's fellow villager is a wealthy businessman, who looks very much like Sharon Bass in the later Monopoly game. When the two of them were eating together, the fellow villager asked Pu Shan to inquire about the prices of the small white buildings in the surrounding area. The climate and scenery here are beautiful.

Yiren, he wants to buy a property as a place to stay when traveling to and from the South China Sea in the future.

After the two had breakfast, Pu Shan saw her fellow villager out and saw the elegant carriage of Sitong Trading Company waiting in front of the post house. The young man driving the carriage was diligently wiping the shiny carriage.

The envoys Srivijaya and Jamabha also came out. The two looked at each other angrily, then snorted and ignored each other.

When they boarded the car, the envoys and merchants from the two countries were in different cars. In the end, my fellow countryman and the envoy from Zapo got into the same car. Pu Shan saw that the car visibly sank.

The fellow turned around and threw a silver coin and a small bag of copper coins to Pu Shan: "Pu Shan, remember to ask about the house."

After seeing off her fellow villagers, Pu Shan walked along the beautiful path to the Shibo branch.

The road is paved with bluestone, with ditches on both sides, and in the middle is a beautiful mat-patterned street paved with strips of bluestone.

It is said that the direction of the mat pattern also marks the direction of the carriage. There are strict rules here, and all carriages, horses and pedestrians must keep to the right.

There are beautiful little white houses on both sides of the road. There is a small garden in front of each house, and there are palm trees on the roadside between the houses.

Next to the Shibo Branch is the Sitong Chamber of Commerce. The chamber of commerce is a purely Chinese-style guild hall building. Under the big plaque that reads "We feel at home" at the door, a neatly dressed young man saw Pu Shan and looked at the scholar-looking men on the bench next to him.

The person shouted something.

After looking at Pu Shan's clothes, one of the scholars stood up and came over. He raised his hands and asked Pu Shan in Dashi dialect, "Does this official need an interpreter?"

Pu Shan wanted to say no, but the language barrier was indeed a problem, so she still asked: "How much?"

The scholar said: "Two hundred coins a day."

The fellow villagers gave him only one hundred cents a day, so Pu Shan felt that she should learn the Song Dynasty dialect as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the situation today was special, so the fellow villagers gave him more rewards. Pu Shan gritted her teeth and counted twenty coins as five copper coins for the scholar, and said: "There is half left, I will give it to you after the work is done."

Having a scholar is a good thing. After knowing that Pu Shan came to inquire about the house, he led him to a luxurious reception room, where a middle-aged Song Dynasty man received him.

The next step was easy. After negotiation, Pu Shan knew that in addition to buying the houses, they could also be rented for a long time, and they also included many services.

For example, the house maintenance, cleaning, garden construction and maintenance when the owner is away, and even subletting and monopoly sales for the owner, are really considerate and considerate.

According to the Song people, Pu Shan was the first merchant to inquire about the house. As a publicity effect, Sitong Company could also give Pu Shan a discount. Now Yunzhou real estate must be in a low-value market. Housing prices have not yet risen.

A small building only requires 800 guan.

Of course, 800 Guan is just a simple decoration. If you want to enjoy the hot water faucet, ceramic toilet and bathtub bathroom, solid wood floor wardrobe, silk curtains, and crystal windows like the inn, it is a sky-high price.

However, Sitong Company can also undertake such renovation projects.

Pu Shan was dumbfounded when she heard this, so she had no choice but to confess that she came to inquire on behalf of her fellow villagers, and could only faithfully convey her opinions back.

The Song people were not angry, and explained the policy clearly to him with a smile, and even grabbed a few wax paper-wrapped objects from the glass vat in front of the desk and gave them to him.

Pu Shan bowed respectfully and came out, secretly opening one. Wrapped inside the wax paper, it was the kind of magical glass-like candy that the young custodian broke last night, but the color was as bright as a gem.

Pu Shan put an orange one into her mouth, and a wonderful smell of orange and sweet taste immediately filled her entire mouth.

The sour taste in fruit candies is actually a by-product of molasses.

Tianshifu's research and extraction of fermentation strains now has a family of bacteria, one of which is called black mold.

Add the mixture of molasses and paste to black mold for fermentation, and you will get a clear bacterial liquid with a very sour taste.

The sour taste of this bacterial liquid is very similar to citrus acid, so Xiao Tianshi calls it tangerine acid.

Filter the bacterial solution and add milk of lime to it to obtain a mixed precipitate consisting of calcium carbonate and calcium citrate, which can be filtered and separated again.

Add sulfuric acid to the precipitate, and the calcium carbonate and calcium citrate will turn into calcium sulfate and gypsum precipitate. The carbon dioxide will escape and what is left will be the tangerine acid solution.

Filter again, add baking soda to the tangerine acid solution, and extract it through evaporation and crystallization, and you will get a substance that is very convenient to store and use - tangerine acid salt.

This thing was used by the Cheng family to tan leather, and was used by the Shi family to mix it with ammonia to clean metal. It was effective on copper and iron, highlighting the pattern of flower steel and making it more delicate.

The Su family's weaving and dyeing was used as a dye-fixing agent, and in the hands of foodies like Su You, it turned into fruit candies and orange wine.

Therefore, orange-flavored fruit candies and fruit wine have almost nothing to do with oranges. Su You found someone to mix them with sucrose, sake, citrate, and orange essence. Even the colors are made from red yeast and gardenia yellow.

Colored orange.

Likewise, there are mint candies and mint juleps.

Of course, Pu Shan would not understand the methods of making these things. He just felt that the East was so magical and the people of Song Dynasty were so happy. They must have received God's gift from heaven.

The people in the Chamber of Commerce are very efficient. After leaving the Chamber of Commerce, in just half a day, the scholar earned a hundred coins, which made Pu Shan a little envious.

The two of them were about to say goodbye when they saw a large car parked at the door. The car was filled with thin-necked and pot-bellied pottery pots with thick glaze, each with a capacity of about ten kilograms.

Pu Shan sniffed and was keenly aware that it was the condiment that she smelled at yesterday's banquet, so she asked the interpreter: "What is this condiment called? How much does a jar cost?"

When the interpreter was about to step forward to ask, the two young men who got out of the car turned their heads after hearing the greeting. A young man who looked like a scribe said: "This is a new product, ready to be shipped to Bianjing City. It is not a commodity, and there is no set price."

Pu Shan was overjoyed: "You can speak the language of food? That's great. If I want to sell this kind of goods on behalf of others, can Mr. Lang introduce me to a proprietor?"

"Oh?" Another young man dressed as a samurai smiled: "You like this too?"

Pu Shan said: "With it, the food will become much more delicious. I just don't know the price. If it's too expensive, I definitely can't afford it. But if the price is right, I would be willing to try it."

The young man who looked like a scribe nodded: "It's rare that there is a bearded man who likes this, so you can come with us."

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In the capital hall of the Shibo Branch, there is an extremely long and gorgeous square table in the middle hall.

Envoys from various countries were dressed in various costumes and sat around a large ornate table. Behind them were the big businessmen of their respective countries, making a lot of noise there.

Su You spread his hands in the middle with a helpless expression, which looked a bit like the famous oil painting of later generations - "The Last Supper".

Li Shunju couldn't stand the smell of copper in this hall, and the eunuchs were so corrupt and mean. However, Li Shunju always felt that he was an exception and did not bother to be in the same room with these fat-bellied merchants.
Chapter completed!