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Chapter 1430 Makeup
The grand occasion of Daming Building attracted everyone's attention.

In order to find a better sponsor for himself, Cervantes, a veteran who left the army, was unable to get a promotion because of financial constraints and a disability of his left hand. He changed the original title of the novel from "The Striped Cotton" to "Dark Silk". dawn.

Li Dan didn't read that book, what difference does it make if he doesn't read it?The status of literati in this land is too low, as long as you spend a few and a half taels, you can support a literati, why not do it?
In "Dark Pattern Silk", there is such a sentence 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 lot of poisonous lead powder and used the three white method Pearl powder and hosta powder on the face, what a wonderful name!
Pearl powder is not made of pearls. The raw material is the black fruit of a plant called Mirabilis. The white pollen in the fruit has a whitening effect. The processed powder is mixed with ghee and starch when used to make the skin more shiny and moist.

Hosta powder is not grinding jade, it is a makeup powder made of the flower kernel of hosta flower and Hu powder.

Perhaps just as the soldiers of the Ming army and the soldiers of the Western army sat together with a feeling of resentment, Daming and Spanish women also had the same opinion when they sat together. For example, they both like to make others look noble.

"These two powders are also particular. Sisters should not mix them. Pearl powder is good in quality and easy to dry, so in autumn and winter, it is necessary to replace it with more nourishing and moist hosta powder."

In the beginning, Die Niang did it herself to teach women from Western countries how to dress up, but with the arrival of the goods this time, she no longer has to do it herself. up.

The task of teaching women how to apply makeup fell to others, these people are more professional talents, Su Sanniang and her girls from Yanguifang.

In the past, they were famous prostitutes on the Qijiangkou, but that industry is for real young fans. Even if they are famous for a while, they will retreat when they are old people. It may not be wronged.

More people tend not to get married, maybe a concubine creates his own brothel based on his reputation in the industry, and some people go back to the mountains and forests, looking for a nunnery, where the ancient Buddha with blue lanterns is still alive.

Die Niang gave them a new opportunity. Relying on her sophisticated industry skills and relying on the military force of the Ming army as the backing, she settled in this Daming Building and charged a lot of money to teach the noble women of Xiyi what beauty is.

People can influence the world. Chen Mu, Bai Yuanjie, Chen Lin and others are all great generals going out of Guangcheng. Earn a lot of money.

In the hands of Su Sanniang, Su Sanniang did a lot of good deeds for the elders of Guangcheng. The original Louze Garden, Nursing Home, and Huimin Pharmacy in Guangcheng were all bought by Yan Guifang from the government at the end of the game. Repair a new one, and allocate money and food every month as usual.

The generals who were born in Nanyangwei did not buy less land in the early years. Later, Chen Mu began to sell the family's fields, and their family members also kept some of them to sell the fields, and some of them were donated to Louze Garden and Yangzi Garden. almshouse.

A part of the land has become a cemetery built for the poor, homeless, widowed and lonely.

The other part of the land became the fields of the nursing home, and the orphans were taught to farm by the old people taken in. Even the homeless people in the surrounding towns also joined the nursing home.

By the 11th year of Wanli, the Guangcheng Nursing Home had accommodated more than [-] widowed, widowed, orphaned, lonely, and disabled people. It set up free warehouses and free schools, hired free teachers to teach children literacy, arithmetic, and medicine, and set up military training in accordance with the above decree. .

Many young people who grew up in nursing homes joined the Nanyang Army or served in Guangcheng, and some of them turned to Guangcheng Huimin Pharmacy as doctors.

Those young people who joined the Nanyang military government often asked the army to send their military salary directly back to the nursing home to help orphans like themselves. The annual income of the nursing home can be more than 3000 taels.

When everything is on the right track, Su Sanniang has no other wish, but she is worried about the girls she watched growing up who have nowhere to go, so she spends money to build Yangui Nunnery on the mountain, so as to call the sisters There will be a place to go when the time comes.

Yangui Nunnery has been repaired, but a letter from Die Niang interrupts Su Sanniang's plan.

The letter said that Spanish noblewomen had money in their hands, and they used mercury and lead powder to smear their faces vigorously, and put sulfur on their hair at every turn. Almost all cosmetics were highly poisonous.

At the same time, Die Niang also mentioned the title that the King of the West conferred on her. In the letter, this woman who was born in a pirate den referred to Spain as a land of peach blossoms, and her energy was almost similar to the mental state of the Spaniards after they conquered the New World.

Although the road is far away, it's like Li Dan dared to pick up his mother generously. There is nothing to be afraid of on the route.

There are almost no people in the world who dare to stop the bright ships, and even if there are, there is no one who can successfully snatch them under the escort of the Liujia ships.

In order to receive Su Sanniang and the others and the goods, Li Dan directly ordered his two six-armed warships to be sent to Arish in Ottoman... His caution was completely unnecessary.

Ottoman Sotan reached an agreement with Qi Jimei of the Western Military Government. The Ming people can use the land route connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea at any time in exchange for the prosperity of the commercial route and military support when necessary.

Apart from not allowing the Ming army to enter the range of Junbao and any attempt to build the Suez Canal, their alliance is unbreakable.

After all, once the canal is completed, although Sutan can collect considerable tolls from the Ming merchant ships, they will lose the trade market in the Mediterranean Sea. This is a suggestion that Osman can never accept.

Needless to say, during the months when Li Dan's two Liujia ships docked in Arish, Osman was worried. The Hippasi cavalry alone sent [-] to Arish.

"Don't use Venetian lead white in the future, it will make your face red and swollen if you use it too much."

Most of the women had been with Die Niang for a long time before they met Su Sanniang, and they could understand most of the Chinese language, while some who couldn’t understand could only nod at Su Sanniang with a silly smile. Neither look like a bad thing.

When Su Sanniang taught customers how to use foundation, her apprentice Jiner Yuer would take the other guests to bathe and massage in two batches. Of course, they did not serve them. They had their own servants who just taught them how to bathe, how to massage, How to wash your hair.

Jin'er Yu'er used to serve Chen Mu as a maidservant in the era of thousands of families in Xiangshan, and now the two have also become women in Yanguifang looking for a way out, so they followed Su Sanniang to Spain.

The matter of bathing is only related to concepts. In fact, since Li Dan arrived in Spain, this concept has been gradually broken.

If taking a bath is really related to life and death, the people of Ming Dynasty who take a bath every day would have died a long time ago, so why ask others to occupy the port?

Especially women, when they saw Die Niang and Su Sanniang smelling good all over their bodies, and their complexion was rosy, they fell into madness for a long time... These people knew that the cosmetics they used were highly poisonous, but they still flocked to touch their bodies, and even put them on their ears every now and then. Leeches to whiten themselves.

As long as you let them know that taking a bath is good and can make people smell and look beautiful, no one hesitates at all.

(End of this chapter)