Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 463 Taking advantage of the loophole

The quantity of this distillation equipment I need is quite a bit, and I have to go through the approval process of various departments. Even if the emperor grants permission to jump the queue, it will take at least half a month.

There are also staff who need to be re-deployed and taught the key points. You know, distilling alcohol is also a technical job, and there are many points to pay attention to. The Imperial Hospital always teaches these people in advance, and only after they have taught them can they start.

This lady Hua is also impatient. She just knew about alcohol yesterday, but today she sent so much alcohol here. To put it nicely, it means to closely cooperate with the needs of the Imperial Hospital.

In fact, he just wanted to sell more wine to the Imperial Hospital. This Master Hua is really smart. No wonder he can earn so much money.

It turned out that after Dean Gu and the others left, Hua Lei carefully looked at the wine-making order and found that the order stated that there was a range of values ​​for the amount of sweet potato wine supplied to the Imperial Medical Service each year.

And the range is quite large, so I can take advantage of this loophole. If I supply sweet potato wine at the maximum every year, wouldn't I be able to make a lot more money? After all, the tax rate is only 30%.

So the next day, they couldn't wait to send the inventory to the Imperial Hospital. Looking at the somewhat empty warehouse, Hua Lei ordered the staff of the winery to go all out and work overtime to make sweet potato wine.

You know, Lord Pei also needs a batch, Liang Xiangyi also needs a batch, and Zhou Ziren's uncle, Boss Yu, has also reserved a batch.

By the way, I have to instruct the farm to plant more sweet potatoes, otherwise, in the next five years, if there are not enough sweet potatoes, it will not work. Although glutinous rice, corn, and wheat can be used to make wine.

However, in the Great Sheng Dynasty, Hualei had already made a careful comparison. Not to mention the price of corn, which is still very expensive now, the price per unit is out of reach, and sweet potatoes can't compare. Even the price per unit of glutinous rice and wheat is also incomparable to sweet potatoes.

Therefore, the cost of making wine with sweet potatoes is the lowest, and the yield per mu is relatively high. Taking all factors into consideration, the profit margin of making wine with sweet potatoes is the largest.

Therefore, even if other grains can be used to make wine, Hualei is not going to change. Then he can only plant more on his own farm. Fortunately, he has bought several large farms in recent years. He can plant a lot of sweet potatoes, and Hualei is secretly happy.

So, sometimes Hualei was very busy with a series of arrangements and transfers. I don't know if it was because she was tired or the weather was too hot, but Hualei, who had always been in good health, had a cough, a sore throat, and sores in her mouth.

So, Aunt Song hurried to the farm to pick some loofah flowers, boiled them in water, mixed them with honey, and gave them to the flower buds to drink.

Recently, Auntie Song's medicinal diet has been getting better and better. She said this is also one of the medicinal diets. Hualei flipped through the book next to Auntie Song.

I saw in the booklet that loofah flowers are cold in nature and sweet in taste, and have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. It seems to be consistent with my symptoms.

So I drank the loofah flower water while it was still warm. After drinking it three or four times, my cough was much better and the sores in my mouth were also healed.

It seems that the loofah flower is quite effective. So I carefully read Auntie Song's booklet. I unexpectedly discovered that the loofah can also be drained to make loofah hydrosol.

It is said that loofah essence is also called "beauty water". It has the effects of whitening, moisturizing, anti-wrinkle, anti-inflammatory and calming when used externally. It can also dredge meridians and promote blood circulation when taken internally. Many people like to regard it as "magic water".

Hualei was a little surprised by this discovery. The lotus pure water in Yinghua Pavilion was out of stock. It would be great if the water from the loofah could really be used to make pure water.

So, we asked Uncle Fu to go to the farm and pick some thicker varieties of loofahs. Then we used a bamboo that was half the length of the loofah to poke through the bamboo joints and insert it vertically through the loofah stem.

Then put the loofah diagonally on the charcoal pot and roast it, and put a pottery pot under the bamboo tube. After a while, water began to drip from under the bamboo tube.

Hua Lei washed her face herself and carefully applied the loofah liquid on her face. It really tasted very much like pure dew and was easily absorbed.

The skin feels refreshed after absorption, and there is a slight stretching feeling when making facial expressions. It should be because the loofah essence makes the skin firmer.

My skin has been feeling a little dry recently because of the hot weather and I haven't paid enough attention to skin care. After using the loofah liquid, it really feels refreshed and moisturized.

It has the same effect as lotus hydrosol, but loofah liquid is colorless and odorless, and compared with lotus hydrosol, it lacks a little elegance.

But it doesn’t matter, I can set a lower price myself. Besides, this loofah essence is much easier to obtain than lotus pure water.

Even a loofah the length of an arm can filter out a bowl of water. Now, I am going to be rich. Hualei, who was originally unwilling to accept the alcohol issue, was delighted and immediately found someone to start making this loofah hydrosol.

Moreover, they did not leave them on the farm, but took them directly back to Hua's house and asked Qingying to bring the maids and old women to work on them. It was very convenient, and the goods could be delivered quickly.

Soon, the colorless and odorless loofah hydrosol was on the market. However, the flower buds of Guijing were not directly called loofah hydrosol, but were given a high-sounding name, "magic water."

On the one hand, it is for the sake of confidentiality to prevent others from imitating you, and on the other hand, a good name can greatly affect product sales.

Fairy Water, the water used by fairies, which can keep your face forever like fairies, what a good name, what a suitable name. Moreover, the price is not cheap.

Perhaps because they needed to find compensation and balance in some aspects, the same amount of loofah hydrosol and flower buds were priced at one or two taels of silver.

To put it in perspective, one loofah can earn you more than ten or twenty taels of silver. If the loofah is bigger, you can earn even more silver.

This is a huge profit, a complete profit. A pound of loofah outside only costs a few cents. No wonder people in the past said that skin care products are a highly profitable industry. It turns out to be true.

Hualei's heart slowly began to darken. Anyway, these young ladies from wealthy families had plenty of money, and they didn't care about a few taels of silver.

Since I didn't make any money from the steamed bun exchange business, I just considered it as "robbing the rich to help the poor". Hualei secretly made excuses for her evil heart.

Tian Changshui on the farm didn't know Hualei's intention at first. When he saw Uncle Fu picking large baskets of well-grown loofahs every day, he felt that they could not be eaten so much and it was a waste, so he felt a little distressed.

Later, Uncle Fu told him about it quietly. He was stunned, but immediately became more energetic and helped Uncle Fu to pick the loofahs, and also stopped supplying loofahs to the restaurant and the Imperial College.

I also took better care of the loofah field, watering and fertilizing it, and looking after it three times a day.