Alien landlady

Chapter 75
With the materials in hand and the attic laboratory set up, Bai Tongtong began to experiment with dyes that only she knew how to do.

But during the day, she still attends classes with the teachers as usual, and goes to see Master Jules when she is free, and spends an hour or two in the library after dinner.

The students all said that gifted students also have to study hard.

Ani and the others can only see her in the dining room at breakfast time, and sometimes see her nibbling a few breads for lunch and dinner, and the well-equipped kitchen is not used for the right purpose once, and it has become only for boiling water tool.

Bai Tongtong took advantage of this opportunity to find out the ingredients of the dye to do a lot of experiments. Every Sunday, he must go to the capital to visit the Sunday market. There are several squares that sell all kinds of magic and chemical materials. Have you ever seen it? I have seen that as long as the intuition may be useful, I bought a little and tossed it over and over again. As a result, I really made a lot of new reagents and new discoveries.

Because of the frequent experiments, the soil department students all know that if they see Bai Tongtong in their soil department laboratory, it is best to choose another laboratory platform, because sometimes the experiments on her side will produce weird smells.

Carljado wanted to know the current progress of Bai Tongtong's experiment, but seeing that she was so busy that she forgot to buy firewood for the winter, he didn't dare to ask.

The principal and the teachers knew a little bit about why Bai Tongtong suddenly studied so frantically. They were all moved by the remuneration conditions given by Duke Kalljadha, and they had also heard about the fake silver fox fur. After all, they bought it every winter. A few woolen furs are already a living habit, if Bai Tongtong really finds a new way to identify the real and fake silver fox fur, it will be beneficial to everyone.

Two months passed leisurely, and in the blink of an eye, it was late October, and the silver fox fur, a specialty of the Principality of Tamir, was about to hit the market. Bai Tongtong suddenly found Carjado and asked him to let her find several genuine and fake silver fox furs for her.

"Three or four pieces are the best, one or two pieces is a little less, and the material should be as large as possible."

"Genuine leather is easy to deal with. Last time I gave you all the stock of fake leather at home. It is a bit difficult to find new ones. Those profiteers are mixed in when the real leather is on the market."

"Try to find it. It's not easy to do the last step of the experiment without fake leather. I don't know if the quality of the reagent is stable."

"Reagent?! Did you really get the reagent? Can you let me see it?"

Bai Tongtong took out the few pieces of fox fur that had become unsightly due to the experiment from the ring, and most of the silver dye on the surface fell off, revealing the real fur color underneath.

"My God!!!" Carjado howled in amazement, and his servants and knights were also very excited and surprised.

"And this." Bai Tongtong then took out the real silver fox fur and a dark brown bottle for comparison experiments, "If my reagent is correct, it can not only wash off the dye, but also won't damage the hair quality. It can be used as a curing agent for wool. Is this much better than using fire to tell the truth?"

Carljado grabbed the labeled reagent bottle and carefully read the usage and storage instructions on it, "How about I send all of these home and let them do this last step of the experiment for you?"

"It's also okay. If you find that there is a problem with the leather after use, you must give me the leather in time. It may be that the reagent formula is wrong, or the reagent is used and stored improperly."

"Okay! I'll send it back myself this weekend."

"Bring me some of your Tamir pinnacle when you come back, so I won't have to go to the street to buy it."

"That is usually the raw material for painting, writing ink, and printing and dyeing. What do you want that for?"

"It's a new idea, just bring me a box."

"Oh, okay."

"Why don't Miss Tongtong go to Tamir with us for a few days during the school holiday next month? I believe the Grand Duke and Madam will welcome you very much." Su Di suddenly suggested.

"That's right! Tongtong will come home with me?! Tamir with a piece of white snow is so much fun."

"No, I sold it to Master Jules three days ago. He has helped a lot with this reagent. If he hadn't provided various magic circles, I wouldn't have gotten the reagent so quickly."

"Oh, well, I will find a chance to thank Master Jules in the future. Then, come to play during the winter vacation?"

"I still have to find profiteers during the winter vacation. When the reagents come out, they will definitely think of countermeasures. This is the time to expose themselves. So you should try to keep it secret. Even if it is about to be leaked, don't say that the reagents are finished products, just say they are semi-finished products. The effect is still satisfactory, but there is still room for improvement.”

"Understood." Carjado gave the things to Sudi to take and pack.

Having solved a major matter and relieved the pressure in her heart, Bai Tongtong, who hadn't had a good rest every day for the past two months, couldn't stop the overwhelming tiredness, pinched the young master's face as a sweet treat, and went back to the dormitory to sleep up.

Probably because she got used to being nervous in the past two months, Bai Tongtong found that she was not used to the days of relaxation, so after ensuring that she had enough sleep at night, the rest of her time was still dedicated to study and various experiments.She bought so many experimental raw materials, and she hasn't used up all of them yet.

Originally, she wanted to make pencils after buying graphite bars, but she couldn't find suitable clay and wood for pen holders, so she shelved the matter.Unexpectedly, after Master Jules came to be the senior teacher, Bai Tongtong had the opportunity to wander around the senior laboratory and found that the gray master was a big formaldehyde user, and the red master got coke oil from the coke factory and was busy researching new dyes.

Not to mention whether this new type of dye can be researched or not, in Bai Tongtong's eyes, formaldehyde and coke oil are the raw materials she can use, and coke oil can be used to obtain phenol, but it takes a few experiments to know the reaction between phenol and formaldehyde in this world. Finally, whether the phenolic resin can be obtained.If the experiment is successful, she will not need to make wooden pencils, but can directly make mechanical pencils, and even ballpoint pens, fountain pens and fountain pens have pen barrel materials, and there are more than a thousand new uses.

Master Jules didn't know what Bai Tongtong wanted formaldehyde and coke oil for, but he still asked his colleagues for some for her, and waited for her finished product with anticipation.

Caljado ran home after class on Saturday, and after returning to school on Sunday afternoon, he asked the servant to call Bai Tongtong, and besides the blue paint she asked for, he brought her half of the reagent fee and a Fox fur vest, as long as the family members find a new piece of fake silver fox fur and experiment with it by themselves and see the effect, they will pay the other half immediately.

Bai Tongtong accepted the reward and things, let Carjado take a rest, and went to her dormitory for dinner in the evening. She made steamed big lion head today.After finishing speaking, she put on the waistcoat directly over the robe, and went back to her dormitory quite ostentatiously to make the rest of the preparations.

It was rare that the bright white kitchen had a serious purpose again. The three young masters and young ladies ate very happily. At the warm dining table with two candlesticks lit, all kinds of laughter flowed outside from the half-opened window along with the candlelight.

The November school holiday seems to be here in the blink of an eye, and all the students who can go home have gone home. Bai Tongtong followed Master Jules as his experimental assistant for three days, and designed several experimental topics for senior students. He joked that if he didn't have time, Bai Tongtong would be qualified to lead the students to do experiments.

On the last day of the holiday, Carljado came back from home and brought Bai Tongtong a bag of money, which was the final payment for the reagent, and another money bag to buy her the formula of the reagent, and taught the only one in the family how to make it. Master Trim of Magic is just fine, and the lifetime discount on half-price raw materials takes effect immediately.

"It's only been a few days, and you found fakes at home?"

"I asked my relatives to get a few fox fur coats I bought last year, but only one is genuine."

"Your relatives buy fur from others?"

"It was a gift from someone else, and our relatives and friends bought it directly from us, so we don't know if the gift from others is real or not."

"I haven't confirmed whether the reagent is really harmless to fur. I'm just talking about the curing agent."

"I can't control that much anymore. Those who can afford fur don't care about buying new ones every year, but if fakes damage the reputation of genuine ones, it's all over."

Looking at the two bulging money bags on the table, Bai Tongtong accepted with a wave of his left hand, "Okay, I'll write you a list of ingredients in a few days."

A few days later, Trim took the list and went to the street to buy all the raw materials, and went to Bai Tongtong's dormitory every night to learn how to make it. The attic laboratory completely shocked the young master, and even thought it was better than the school laboratory, because there Many experimental materials are currently out of reach of Carjado, who is in the third grade.

The students in the aristocratic dormitory area somehow learned about the test reagents. Except for those who have nobility titles but are poor, as long as the income is acceptable, they basically have at least one piece of silver fox fur. Find Trim or Bai Tongtong for the fur, wanting to check the authenticity, they all know about the flood of fakes, which makes them reluctant to accept the silver fox fur presented by others now.

Under the guidance of Bai Tongtong, Trim finally made the first bottle of reagents, openly looking for mice who are willing to use his own fur for experiments. As a result, some people were happy and some were angry. At the same time, the orders for reagents soared. The rich and ordinary students asked for a bottle to take home for use.

The teachers are not left behind either, and the masters are also the main consumers of high-end fur. Even if the men don't care about fur, the women in the family are a force that cannot be underestimated. The purchasing power of the wives is quite amazing.

No one is disgusted with fur products made of ordinary fox fur. What is disgusting is that ordinary fox fur is pretended to be high-grade silver fox fur, and it is sold at the same price as the genuine product. This kind of cheating feeling is what makes people angry.

Bai Tongtong reminded Trim to pay attention to the news spread among the students. To find the profiteers who made fakes, it is better to start with those students who have fake silver fox fur. As long as you know the source of their fur, you can trace it back to the source.

In Bai Tongtong's view, it's not necessarily that the raw material fox fur dealer did the fake thing, it may also be done by some unscrupulous businessman in one of the intermediate fur processors, wholesalers, and distributors, and it should be People who have a lot of ordinary fox fur in their hands have this driving force for profit, because the cost of dyeing agent is too high.

Trim spent a few days collecting information among his classmates, and only after doing it did he realize that it was not easy. Those who bought fakes themselves were very happy to tell the source of their purchases, but those who were given as gifts were difficult to deal with. If it is tantamount to exposing one's own social circle, who knows if an obscure name is related to someone else.

So in the end, Bai Tongtong only got information on a piece of paper, on which there were only a few names of shops and shop owners located in different streets in different cities.

Fortunately, there are smart people among the classmates, who guessed that Bai Tongtong must be coming up with ideas behind Trim, and there are some things that are not easy for the Kalyad family to know, but there is no need to worry about telling Bai Tongtong directly.

As a result, Bai Tongtong had a few more names of fur wholesalers who lived and worked in different cities, and she decided to start with these fur merchants to see where their purchase channels were, and they must have something in common.

Silver fox fur in the Principality of Tamir accounts for [-]% of the sales volume in the domestic market. The Carjado family makes part of the fur themselves, and sells most of the raw fur to familiar raw material wholesalers, and then distributes it to the following raw material processors, Fur wholesalers, retailers, and finally reach customers.

Bai Tongtong felt that Dagong’s business strategy was not very good. He knew that the proliferation of counterfeit goods would harm his own interests, but he never thought about opening directly-operated stores in major cities, reducing intermediate distribution links, and being a manufacturer and seller by himself. Tamir Silver Fox, a product with geographical indication characteristics, has become a well-known brand-name product.

Only by selling a large amount of raw leather can make a little money, and the production and sales can be fully controlled by yourself to ensure the maximum profit. Otherwise, you will only make a small profit, and let others earn the bulk. Duke Kallya has sufficient capital With strong financial resources, he is fully capable of doing it without being burdened by profiteers.

The more Bai Tongtong thought about it, the more he felt that this was a good idea. He took Trim to his dormitory and gave some pointers. If you don't have a good cooperative partner, if you abandon them and go it alone, the processors below will have nothing to eat.

If it weren't for the fear that he would be accused of attacking nobles by civilians, Bai Tongtong really wanted to hit Trim's head a few times. Why is he so stiff? Why can't he put his cronies in the factory of the processor in the name of cooperation and make commissions? On behalf of the processing, the finished product will be repurchased once it is ready, and then quickly and conveniently sent to the directly-operated stores in each city through the transmission array of the Magician's Guild.

Only then did Trim understand, and he was about to write a letter home with joy.

Of course, Bai Tongtong did not come up with this idea purely for the prosperity of the Kalyado family's fox fur business. The Grand Duke generously gave her a half-price discount for life, but she couldn't go to the Principality of Tamir or buy it through Trim every time. It is convenient for me to shop in the future, let their family open a direct store specializing in Tamil specialties, benefiting others and benefiting the public.

While Trim was happily discussing the new business model with his family, Bai Tongtong went to the mercenary guild to spend money to buy information, wanting to know in detail the sources of the fur wholesalers he owns, as well as the sources of the fur wholesalers from his previous family. Home, it is best to be able to trace back to the source of raw materials.

When it is not convenient for you to run errands to investigate in person, you must know how to spend a little money to find convenience for yourself.

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