A Luoyang city, in the eyes of revolutionaries, every brick and stone is the wealth of the people, but in the eyes of critics, it is the smell of wine and meat everywhere, and there are frozen bones on the road. In Li Mengxi's eyes, it is not only the wealth of the people, but also the wealth and bones of the rich.

Opposite is a place where Chinese culture and technology gather.

On his third day in Luoyang City, Li Mengxi visited hardware workshops. In later generations, hardware stores were places that sold small things such as faucets, screwdrivers, and wrenches. Ancient hardware refers to the five materials of copper, iron, tin, lead, and zinc.

Copper and iron are not scarce materials. Julu has a huge amount of copper and iron. Considering that most of the copper in Julu is copper coins and there is less pure copper material, I bought some pure copper.

Tin, lead and zinc have few uses and few minerals. They may not be available elsewhere. Luoyang has enough stocks. Taking this opportunity, Li Mengxi bought all the lead and zinc cores he could find.

After leaving, in one day, the price of hardware in Luoyang city skyrocketed. In addition to hardware materials, Li Mengxi recruited many hardware craftsmen as a talent reserve.

On the fourth day of collecting mercury in Luoyang City, Li Mengxi went to various drug stores and workshops to clean up the mercury, and got more than two thousand kilograms of mercury.

On the fifth day, the person responsible for inquiring came to report that he had found a place selling green vitriol oil.

The one selling green vitriol oil turned out to be a jewelry workshop, not a medicine shop or a blacksmith's shop as Li Mengxi thought.

When Li Mengxi found a place, he still used money to find a way. He first bought a bunch of jewelry, and after building a closer relationship with the store, he then asked insinuatingly about the use of green vitriol oil.

The craftsman showed Li Mengxi how to use green vitriol oil. The craftsman brought a vat of green vitriol oil with many copper bars soaked in it. According to the craftsman himself, when the copper bars are soaked in green vitriol oil, they will gradually grow.

Fine copper, scraped off the fine copper, can be used for decoration.

Li Mengxi was confused by this. He knew that green vitriol oil was sulfuric acid, and he also knew that copper would react with sulfuric acid. However, why would refined copper grow on the copper strips? Li Mengxi intuitively felt that the craftsman had made a mistake somewhere.

Although I can't understand the craftsman's method, I successfully found the green vitriol oil. My guess is correct. There was hydrometallurgy technology and sulfuric acid production technology in the Han Dynasty.

Li Mengxi proposed to buy green vitriol oil, and buy as much as he could. Green vitriol oil was of little use on weekdays, but someone would buy it at a high price, and the shopkeeper was quite surprised.

The shopkeeper searched all the green vitriol oil in the store and finally found less than half a barrel.

"It's too little, is there any more?" Li Mengxi couldn't help but ask.

"How much do you want, sir?"

"A few thousand kilograms, the more the better. I want as much as I want."

The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment. Seeing that Li Mengxi really wanted it, he cupped his hand towards Li Mengxi and said, "If the guest is not in a hurry, can I help you find it?"

Li Mengxi smiled and said, "Thank you so much, shopkeeper."

"Come here, bring me the money." Li Mengxi shouted.

The entourage immediately pulled a cart of money over. Li Mengxi pointed to the cart and said, "Shopkeeper, this cart's money is considered as a deposit, thank you!"

After speaking, Li Mengxi and others left.

After Li Mengxi left, the shopkeeper climbed into the car and took a look. It was really a car full of money. The shopkeeper was extremely surprised.

After he called the clerks to unload the money, the shopkeeper looked at the few customers in the shop. The shopkeeper no longer cared about doing business, and ordered the shopkeepers to take care of the shop, while he hurried out.

The saying that wealth can communicate with the gods has been fulfilled again. If Li Mengxi only opened his mouth and said one sentence, the shopkeeper would at most take it to heart. The shopkeeper would be busy taking care of the shop and would only go out for a walk when he was free.

If Li Mengxi pays the deposit, it is a matter of loyalty to the shopkeeper, and he will help move around after closing the shop in the evening.

Li Mengxi paid a deposit for a whole car and lost a huge fortune. The shopkeeper paid no more attention to it and even ignored the business and hurried to Luo.

The source of the green vitriol oil in the jewelry workshop is that the shopkeeper has a friend who is good at alchemy. The green vitriol oil was obtained from that friend, and even the method of refining copper with green vitriol oil was also obtained from that friend.

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The shopkeeper left the city and hired a carriage to rush to his friend's house. When he arrived, his friend's house was empty and grass had grown in the yard.

At this time, the cart of huge wealth that Li Mengxi left behind once again came into play. If Li Mengxi only paid a deposit of three to five hundred, then when the shopkeeper came over and saw that there was no one at home, the three to five hundred deposit was not enough to drive the next step.

action.

However, a deposit for a car means that if the business is completed, it will be worth half a year of doing business by myself, and my friends will also make a lot of money.

The benefits are so great that they must promote this business no matter what, which drives the shopkeeper to find friends no matter what.

The shopkeeper went to ask the neighbors, but they all said they didn't know.

The shopkeeper took out the money and went around to ask people. After taking out the money, the neighbors became more concerned. One neighbor thought about it seriously for a while and said that he saw their family leaving last month and heard that they went to see a doctor.

The clues were interrupted at this point. The profit drove the shopkeeper to refuse to give up easily. With the last glimmer of hope, the shopkeeper continued to look for people to inquire. Finally, he met the insider at the entrance of the village. The insider told the whereabouts of his friend, but the shopkeeper in the mentioned place

have no idea.

As a last resort, the shopkeeper took a lot of money and hired someone to lead the way.

Half a day later, I arrived at the place and asked the old doctor. The old doctor said that not long ago, a man came here who was suffering from erysipelas. He was not cured and he went to see a doctor elsewhere.

The shopkeeper had no choice but to look elsewhere.

In three days, the shopkeeper searched seven or eight places and finally found his friend.

When I found my friend, he was very sick, his face was frighteningly white, his eye circles were black and blue, and he lay on the bed unable to move.

Finally found the person, the shopkeeper was overjoyed. He came up and slapped his friend on the thigh, "I have found you. It will be easier for me to find you now!"

My friend who was dying of illness was slapped so hard that he coughed and his face turned even paler.

My friend sat up with support, pointed his trembling fingers at the shopkeeper's, and opened his mouth tremblingly for a long time to say something, but only a hoarse whine came out of his throat.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The shopkeeper did not see his friend looking like he was about to die. He asked excitedly, "How did you get the green vitriol oil? Can you still get it? Someone came to buy it.

, I gave you a lot of money!"

What the shopkeeper did behind the scenes was unkind. He ignored the objections of his friend's family, randomly put on his friend's clothes, and then left behind his back.

It's so heartless to torment a person who is about to die. The whole family chased the shopkeeper and yelled at him.

The shopkeeper took his friend back to Luoyang City. Along the way, the shopkeeper kept asking how to get green vitriol oil. The friend was dumb and couldn't say anything.

When passing by a pharmacy, my friend weakly hit the shopkeeper on the shoulder.

"What's wrong?" the shopkeeper turned around and asked.

My friend pointed at the pharmacy with a shaky hand.

The shopkeeper thought thoughtfully and said, "You mean, let's go buy medicine?"

The shopkeeper and his friend hurriedly entered the pharmacy. The pharmacy clerk came over and asked whether he wanted to see a doctor or get medicine. The friend asked for a pen and wrote the three words "chicken excrement vitriol" in his hand tremblingly.

The shopkeeper quickly took the money and bought as much medicine as chicken manure vitriol.

Successfully, alum oil or sulfuric acid was obtained.

On the day the sulfuric acid was produced, the shopkeeper hurried to Julu Commercial Store and reported the alum oil incident.

The guys at the store went to find Li Mengxi, and Li Mengxi hurried to the jewelry shop. In the shop, he not only saw green vitriol oil, but also the production process of green vitriol oil. He also saw a man who was seriously poisoned and was about to die.

Alchemy talent.

The process of making green vitriol oil is to put a green stone in a bowl and burn it.

The alchemist who was about to die from poisoning ate the elixir he made and was poisoned.

Li Mengxi was kind-hearted. He gave the shopkeeper a large amount of money and asked the shopkeeper to find someone to look at it quickly.

The shopkeeper took the money and thanked him profusely. He asked the clerk to bring a big bag. When he opened the bag, he found that it was full of green stones. The shopkeeper asked carefully, "Sir, do you want this alumite?"

"Yes! Of course! How many do you have?"

The shopkeeper couldn't help but laugh.

The shopkeeper was very smart. After he knew that vitriol could be used to refine vitriol oil, he took the opportunity to buy all the vitriol from all the drug stores in the city. This move really made him a lot of money.

Li Mengxi got more than 2,300 kilograms of vitriol from the shopkeeper.

The stone is very heavy, and I don't know how much sulfuric acid can be refined into it. Two or three thousand kilograms of alum stone is still too little.

Now that he knew that the alumite was obtained from a drug store, Li Mengxi immediately went to various drugstores and made deposits. He asked the drugstores to keep an eye on it and buy it at a high price if there was any alumite.

Two days ago, Li Mengxi just paid a large deposit to buy medicinal seeds. Now he has paid another batch of deposits. Li Mengxi has become the God of Wealth in various drug stores in Luoyang.

In the next three to five days, Li Mengxi almost transferred all the craftsmanship. He recruited porcelain craftsmen. Fearing that porcelain clay and glaze clay would be difficult to find, he sent people to other people's kilns to buy thousands of porcelain clay at the price of grain.

Jin, glazed clay is also bought bag by bag.

Others, such as lacquerware craftsmen, gold and silver craftsmen, and various craftsmen were recruited.

As mentioned, Luoyang is the place where Chinese culture and technology gather. In the corner of the huge city of Luoyang, there is a technology hidden somewhere that cannot be found elsewhere.

In an era before paper was widely used, when craftsmanship was not valued and could not be recorded in classics, the carrier of technology was only people.

Therefore, if you remove the people, you will also remove the technology.
Chapter completed!