Chapter 377: Saving Angel (please follow up)
After Joseph briefly introduced the properties of benzene to Lavoisier, he immediately turned to Mirabeau and said: "I'm afraid you will be very busy during the next period of time.
"First of all, you must cooperate with Mr. Lavoisier to build a soda ash production plant as soon as possible. Oh, I will ask the French Reserve Bank to give you a special grant for this matter.
"At the same time, you have to build two casein gum factories. One in Paris is smaller, with a monthly production of about 50,000 kilograms. The other is in Brittany, with a monthly production of 500,000 kilograms.
"Then we will build a beverage factory in Paris, Nancy, Bordeaux, Lyon, and Marseille. We will fill the beverages in glass bottles and sell them. I will send the specific formula directly to the factory."
On the carriage just now, Lavoisier mentioned that baking soda would be produced during the alkali production process, which reminded Joseph.
Adding baking soda to lemon or vinegar will produce a large amount of carbon dioxide. Isn't this the carbonated drink of the 18th century?
In the past, baking soda was expensive and no one could afford it, but after industrial production was achieved, it became possible to use it to make high-end drinks.
Take a bottle of water, add a few grams of baking soda, and mix it with some sugar and juice. This extremely novel effervescent drink can relieve heat and quench thirst. As long as it is properly promoted, it can even sell for more than high-end wine. It’s simply a money printing machine!
Joseph continued: "The most important thing is to prepare two furniture factories, one in Paris and the other in Brittany. The scale is first designed to produce more than 10,000 sets of wardrobes, tables and chairs per month."
The writing pen flying in Mirabeau's hand suddenly stopped, and he looked at the Crown Prince in surprise:
"Your Highness, are you saying that you want to build a factory to produce furniture? With all due respect, I'm afraid this will cause losses..."
No wonder he would question that furniture in this era is basically a carpenter's "personal art", and people who need furniture go to carpenters to customize it. The carpenter then started by processing wooden boards and spent several months making a set of furniture for them.
What is the use of building a factory under this production model? And it also needs to produce 10,000 sets of furniture per month.
Paris has a total population of more than 600,000, which is equivalent to 5 people who need to replace their furniture every year!
According to current French habits, a set of furniture can be passed down to eighteen generations, and usually newlyweds will customize some new furniture. It is impossible to sell 10,000 sets of furniture per month.
Joseph smiled slightly: "Please believe me. Ten thousand sets of furniture per month is just the beginning, and the scale will expand tenfold in the future. Not only France, I will let the entire Europe, even the Far East and America, bring their The furniture will be replaced. Oh, as for the specific requirements of the furniture factory, I will leave it to you later."
He had no intention of building furniture the way a carpenter would build a work of art. With synthetic boards with standardized shapes, only a small number of designers need to be recruited to design the shape of the furniture. The remaining work is to cut the boards and nail them according to the drawings.
This kind of work can be done by just recruiting workers who don't know how to do carpentry. After two or three months of training, they can be competent and can be mass-produced.
After that, Joseph gave Mirabeau and Lavoisier instructions on the details of building the factory, and soon the sky darkened.
After the two left, Joseph sent someone to inform Brent, the general manager of Paris Angel Company, to come to his office early tomorrow morning.
You know, baking soda can not only be used as a drink, it is also a very good deodorant!
Mix baking soda and talcum powder and apply it on areas prone to odor such as armpits and crotch to effectively deodorize.
The reason why France's perfume industry is so developed is largely because people don't like to take baths, which leads to heavy body odor and the need to cover it with perfume. It was common for a French aristocrat to spend hundreds of livres on perfume each year.
And if Paris Angel can produce a cosmetic that reduces body odor from the source, it will definitely become a strong competitor to perfume.
In addition, baking soda can also reduce bad breath when used as a mouthwash.
It is conceivable that in the future, when nobles attend formal occasions or go on dates, they will rinse with Paris Angel's mouthwash before going out. Otherwise, it will be disrespectful to others.
According to Joseph's plan, Paris Angel Company will also join the chemical industry chain and set off the next wave of sales boom.
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Reims, a city in north-central France.
In the open space outside a rural church in the outskirts of Reims, a very handsome long-haired young man wearing a black short coat, white tight trousers, and a simple white scarf around his neck was standing on a broken ox cart. On the street, he gave an impassioned speech to the dozens of farmers in front of him:
"That's right! The government deceived us!
"In order for everyone to continue to endure high taxes and the exploitation of nobles and officials, they use lies to stabilize you.
"They talk about abolishing the privileges of the nobles. In fact, only the small amounts of money such as mill taxes and hunting taxes have disappeared, but the most important annual tribute and tithes still exist!
" The man sitting in the Palace of Versailles, The king, who spends his days extravagantly and doing nothing, tells you that he will give you the land. But I must tell you the truth, the king and his bureaucrats have decided to make you pay for the redemption of the land's output for 30 years, plus 30 years of annual tribute and tithes, until you have been worked hard The land is so devastated that you can’t walk, your eyes are cloudy, and your teeth have fallen out. The land you have cultivated for decades still does not belong to you! "
The farmers immediately looked at each other and burst into dissatisfied discussions.
For a moment, a farmer with thick hands and feet said loudly to the young man on the bullock cart: "This distinguished master, what's the use of saying this? Whether it is 20 years or 30 years, we can only Just accept your fate and pay.”
"No, you are wrong!" The young man waved his hand vigorously, "In addition to accepting our fate, we can also resist!" "As long as we unite as one and let those bureaucrats see the anger of you, they will tremble with fear. Group, take back that shameless redemption plan!
"We have contacted people from dozens of parishes. We will gather in front of Reims City Hall in five days and use stones, sticks and even muskets to teach the shameless officials there!"
His inflammatory tone made the farmers' blood surge, and they immediately shook their fists in excitement: "Teach them a lesson!"
"We don't want to pay for another 30 years!"
"Follow this master and resist!"
After the farmers dispersed angrily, a middle-aged man walked out from behind a haystack not far away, handed a glass of water to the young man who was speaking, and said in an exaggerated tone: "Shengju Mr. Ste, you are so good! These farmers will definitely join the revolution led by you! Do you think we are going to Zesfield Village today?"
Saint-Just drank a few sips of water, wiped the sweat from his head, and said loudly: "Of course, there are hundreds of French people there waiting for us to save!"
(End of chapter)