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Chapter 9 Begins with a single step

People are woolly, while Li Feng is squeezing pig bristles. These broken scissors are not easy to use, they look completely different from the later generations. Instead, they are similar to the use of tweezers, and they are actually pinched to cut them. It seems that next time you go to the blacksmith shop, you have to make two pairs of scissors.

Li Feng is not going to hide these little things in life. There are no patents in this era, and you can't keep some things secret even if you want to keep them secret. Don't think that the ancients didn't know how to copy them.

As for some important things, that is, things that can make a lot of money, Li Feng is not planning to do it yet. If he takes them out rashly and sees profitable, Li Feng will definitely be swallowed up by someone, and he will never know how to die.

When he got home, Li Feng began to assign:

"Rakshasa, clean these bristles."

"Yasha, light the fire and help me boil the glue."

"Erhu, repair the wooden handle. What kind of wooden stick you made such a thick one, the pig's mouth can't be stuffed in!"

As for the most exquisite work, it is to drill a few rows of small holes at one end of the wooden handle of the toothbrush. Li Feng is ready to do it himself.

"Big brother, big brother, what are Nunu doing?" The little girl was anxious, grabbed Li Feng's clothes and shook it back and forth.

Of course, people are so active, of course they can't dispel their enthusiasm. Li Feng thought about it: "Nu Nu is the most capable. Come on, my eldest brother's palm is worn out by awls, so you can give it to my eldest brother."

Well, this slave is the best. He held Li Feng's palm, pouted his mouth, and whistled gently. If you want to say that Li Feng's body is quite useless, with a delicate skin and tender flesh. After turning it for a while, the palm was worn out by the wooden handle.

Looking at the pair of children, a rare smile appeared on the grandmother's face: That is, after Feng'er came here, she seemed to be able to make trouble and no longer study. Forget it, peace is a blessing. If you don't read it, don't read it. The emperor said that he would never hire it. This life is a great career...

After everything was ready, Li Feng began to make a toothbrush, stuffed a small cube of pig hair into the hole drilled on the wooden handle, and lit some skin glue. After it solidified, it became firm.

These rubber particles were bought yesterday and came in handy today. I don’t know which animal skin is made of, and it has good stickiness.

When the two rows of small round holes were inserted into pig hair, they were repairing the pig hair neatly with scissors, and a simple toothbrush was ready. Li Feng, a child from the rural area, had good hands-on skills. After all, the toys he used to make by himself when he was a child.

I tried it by stuffing the toothbrush into my mouth. Well, the hair is a little hard, but it is still within a range that can be tolerated. Not bad.

As soon as he took out the toothbrush, Erhu snatched it over with rushing, then he happily stuffed it into his mouth, brushed it back and forth a few times, and said vaguely: "Dalang, it turns out that this thing is used to brush teeth. Well, it's so easy to use. A scholar like Dalang is amazing!"

Looking at the toothbrush handed back, there was a layer of yellow tartar stain on it, Li Feng waved his hand quickly: "I'll give it to you this one."

"Thank you, Dalang, I'll go home for the empress!" Erhu was so happy that he picked up a gold ingot.

Of course Li Feng knew that in this era, the Empress was not a special name for the royal family, but a child used it to call her mother. However, he still wanted to remind him: "Erhu, this thing will be called a toothbrush in the future. I will use my own. I will make a few more pieces later and I will have a share."

In fact, after watching Rakshasa and Yasha for a while, they all learned to make toothbrushes. They made more than a dozen pieces in the morning, and each person in the family divided one.

Looking at the small toothbrush, Li Feng still felt very accomplished: although the toothbrush is small, it is the first cross-age product he made. It starts with this small toothbrush and changes the world.

The rest was taken away by the old housekeeper Li Zhong, saying that he wanted to take it to the city to sell: this thing doesn’t cost at all, and it’s a big profit for just one penny.

Li Feng couldn't help but have an idea: "Grandpa Zhong, it's better for us to mobilize the villagers and use our spare time to make a batch and then sell it together so that we can avoid being copied. In this way, before others imitate it, we can also sell more and help our family."

"It's still Dalang's thoughtfulness." Li Zhong's eyes lit up and he nodded quickly to agree. In his opinion, the little master was originally a nerd, and he was devoted to reading the books of sages. After encountering changes, he became a person. He was not only familiar with affairs, but also much smarter. He could figure out exquisite objects such as toothbrushes.

However, this opportunity to make money cannot be just a waste of money from the villagers. The profits they get can only be the owner of the family to take up the majority.

This kind of thing was arranged by the old housekeeper Li Zhong. With a toothbrush, he also needed matching toothpaste, so Li Feng then moved on to new research.

In this era, people who are more particular about the treatment can use green salt to cleanse their mouths. However, Li Feng felt that this was too single. Before he studied traditional Chinese medicine with his grandfather, he also remembered many ancient prescriptions. Most of them were in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the development of medicine was much more mature than that in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

There is one of the prescriptions, which is the "toothpaste" prepared by the ancients. It is called toothpaste, but it should actually be called tooth powder. It contains mint, asarum, borneol, green salt, etc., which can clean the mouth and protect the teeth.

But Li Feng really couldn't remember the specific combination. It was easy to deal with. I contacted Xiao Ai in the evening and quickly got the prescription.

He did it as soon as he said, the next day, he went to Daxing City again. This time he drove a ox cart and brought back a large cart of medicinal materials. The old housekeeper followed Li Feng's butt and said, "Dalang, there is really no spare money at home-"

"It's okay, this toothbrush and tooth powder should make a small profit." Li Feng plunged into the room and began to match the tooth powder. Finally, he had to grind it into powder carefully.

This project was not something that Li Feng could do independently, so it was left to Li Hou to do. The people of Zhuangliu grind the stone mill for grinding rice and flour every year, which is just right for grinding teeth powder.

The villagers of the entire Longquan Village, whether they are the servants who belong to the Li family or the self-cultivated farmers, are busy. They can get started with simple crafts such as making toothbrushes after reading them twice.

Everyone is so motivated, mainly because the old housekeeper of the Li family said: I will give you a penny to make two such toothbrushes. Be good, isn’t this the same as picking up money for nothing!

The power of the masses was indeed strong. In a few days, all the pigs in Longquan Village became bare and could not find a single hair on their bodies.

Without raw materials, everyone was anxious, so they all came to find the old housekeeper, and finally reported it to Li Feng.

"What, the pig's hair is gone!" Li Feng was also very surprised. People's ability to pull pig's hair is not bad at this time.

If you don’t have pig hair, you can use a ponytail. As a result, Li Feng found out after asking: There is not a single horse in Longquan Village.

In this era, horses are not something that ordinary people can afford. They are roughly equivalent to the later generations when Li Feng was young, and who had a car in the village?

It seems that the ponytail can’t be counted on. In the end, Li Hou came up with a good idea: to ask for pig hair and find a butcher!

After Li Hou went out for a day and came back with a big basket of pig hair, the village's family handicraft workshop was able to continue opening.

After working for more than ten days, more than 10,000 toothbrushes were made. The tooth powder made by Li Feng had been put into small white cloth bags. The conditions were limited, so women from each family could only make some extremely small cloth bags to serve as tooth powder bags.

According to Li Feng, he was going to take action himself. However, he was stopped by the old housekeeper. Although scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were more concerned about commerce and businessmen, starting from Emperor Wen, and their status as merchants has improved a lot, they are still despised.

There was no way, Li Feng could only send Rakshasa and Erhu to follow him. In addition, there were Li Hou and a few idle men in the village. After all, it was better to be careful when it came to money.
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