Chapter 247 Makeup
The grand occasion of Daming Building attracted everyone's attention.
Cervantes, a veteran who was unable to get promoted due to financial difficulties and left hand disability, wanted to find a better sponsor for himself, changed the original draft name "Striped Cotton" to "Dark Silk" and found Li Dan.
Li Dan didn't read that book, what's the difference between reading it or not? The status of literati on this land is too low. Just spend a few and a half taels of coins to support a literati. Why not do it?
There is a sentence in "Dark Silk" to praise the Spanish beauty revolution that took place in the 12th year of Wanli. He said: Spanish women are undoubtedly happy. They threw away a large amount of poisonous lead powder and used the Three White Method to puff pearl powder and halo powder on their faces. What a wonderful name!
Pearl powder is not used for pearls. The raw material is a plant called jasmine that produces black fruits. The white pollen in the fruit has a whitening effect. The processed powder is stir-grinkle and starch when used to make the skin shiny and moisturize.
Jade hairpin powder is not a grinding jade, but a makeup powder made of the flower kernel of the Jade hairpin and Hu powder.
Perhaps just like the Ming army and Western soldiers sitting together, they feel that they meet too late, and the Ming and Spanish women also have the same views. For example, they all like to make others look noble in their own identities.
"These two powders are also particular. Sisters cannot mix them. The pearl powder is good and easy to dry, so you should change to more nourishing and moist hosta powder in autumn and winter."
At first, Die Niang started to do this by teaching the Western women, but with the arrival of the goods at the port, she no longer had to do it herself. She found a good place in the garden with a few female companions and enjoyed the snacks.
The mission of teaching women how to apply makeup fell on others. These people are more professional talents, including Su Sanniang and her girls from Yan Guifang.
In the past, they were famous prostitutes at Qijiangkou, but that industry was a real young meal. Even if they were famous for a while, they would have to retreat when they were close to each other. Some people might not be happy when they climbed to a high school, and some people would not be wronged if they were willing to tell the truth.
More people often don’t get married. Perhaps a mistress created his own flower boat and brothel with her reputation in the industry. Some people retire to the mountains and forests, looking for a nunnery, and the green lamps and ancient Buddhas have endured their lives.
Die Niang gave them a new opportunity. With their mature industry skills and the support of the Ming army, they settled in this Ming Building and received a large sum of money to teach the beautiful women of Western nobles.
People can influence the world. Chen Mu, Bai Yuanjie, Chen Lin and others are all generals who have gone out of Guangcheng. Yan Guifang has always been protected by officials in Guangcheng, and has become a famous building that is famous all over the world. He has earned a lot of money when welcoming and sending people.
This financial resources are done a lot of good deeds for the elders of Guangcheng in Su Sanniang. When the original Luze Garden, Yangjiyuan, and Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau of Guangcheng were all bought by Yan Guifang from the government office, repaired them, and allocated money and grain every month as usual.
Generals from the Nanyang Guard bought a lot of land in their early years. Later, Chen Mu started selling the land at home, and their families also left some of them to sell the land, part of which was given to Luozeyuan and Yangjiyuan.
Part of the land became a cemetery built by the Luze Garden for the poor, homeless, widowed, orphans.
Another part of the land became the land of the charity house, where the elderly who were sheltered taught orphan farming, and even the wanderers in the surrounding towns entered the charity house.
By the 11th year of Wanli, Guangcheng Yangjiyuan had accommodated more than 4,000 widows, widows, orphans, and were alone, and had more than 4,000 disabled people. They had Yicang and Yichuang, and they hired Yichuang to teach children to learn literacy, arithmetic, and medicine, and also held military training in accordance with the imperial edict.
Many young people who grew up in the Yangjianyuan, many of them joined the Nanyang Military Palace nearby or served in Guangcheng, while others turned to Guangcheng Huimin Pharmacy as doctors.
Those young people who joined the Nanyang Military Palace often ask the troops to send their military pay back to the Yangshiyuan to help orphans like themselves. The Yangshiyuan's income in this area can be more than 3,000 taels per year.
When everything was on track, Su Sanniang had no other wishes, but she was worried about the girls who were watched by her and had nowhere to go. So she used the money to build Yangui'an on the mountain, so that the sisters could have a place to go.
Yan Gui'an has repaired it, and Die Niang interrupted Su Sanniang's plan with a letter.
The letter said that the Spanish noble women had money in their hands, and they all applied mercury and lead powder to their faces, and they always applied sulfur to their hair. Almost all cosmetics were highly toxic.
At the same time, Die Niang also mentioned the title that the Western King had conferred her. In the letter, this woman from the Japanese pirates called Spain a peach blossom land, and her spirit was almost the same as the Spanish's mental state after conquering the New World.
Although the road is long, it is like Li Dan dared to bring his mother openly, and there is nothing to be afraid of on the route.
There are almost no people in the world who dare to stop Ming ships. Even if there are, there are no ones who can successfully rob them under the escort of the Rokko ship.
In order to pick up Su Sanniang and others and this batch of goods, Li Dan directly ordered people to drive the two Roche ships in his hand to the Arish of Ottoman... His caution was completely unnecessary.
Ottoman Sutan reached an agreement with Qi Jimei of the Western Military Office, and the Ming people could use the land route connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea at any time in exchange for the prosperity of the trade route and military support if necessary.
Apart from preventing the Ming army from entering the range of the Fort and any attempt to build the Suez Canal, their alliance was unbreakable.
After all, once the canal is built, although Sutan can charge a considerable toll from Ming merchant ships, they will lose the Mediterranean trade market, which is an advice that the Ottoman would never accept.
It’s true that Li Dan’s two Roche ships were docked in Arish for several months, which made Ottoman worried, and the Shipasi cavalry alone sent 1,500 to Arish.
"Don't use Venetian lead in the future. If you use too much, your face will be red and swollen."
Most women had dated Die Niang for a long time before they met Su Sanniang, and could understand most Chinese. Some people who couldn't understand could only smile and nod at Su Sanniang. No matter what they said, Su Sanniang's expression didn't look like a bad thing.
When Su Sanniang teaches customers to use foundation, her apprentice Jin'er Yu'er will take other guests to take baths and massage in two batches. Of course, they do not serve them. They have their own servants, but only teach how to take a bath, massage, and wash their hair.
Jin'er and Yu'er used to serve Chen Mu as maids in the Qianhu period of Xiangshan. Now they have become women looking for a way out in Yan Guifang, so they followed Su Sanniang to Spain.
The matter of taking a bath is only related to concepts. In fact, this concept has been gradually broken from Li Dan to Spain.
If taking a bath really affects people's life and death, the Ming people who take a bath every day will die long ago, and even if they ask them to occupy the port?
Especially for women, when they saw Butterfly Niang, Su Sanniang was fragrant all over, her skin was white and red, and she had already fallen into madness... These people knew that the cosmetics they used were poisonous, but they still flocked to them to touch them, and hung two leeches to their ears to whiten themselves.
As long as they know that taking a bath is good and can make people smell and beautify, no one hesitates at all.
Chapter completed!