Datang Nongwang

Chapter 573 Is a Good Harvest or Not a Good Harvest

Li Chongzhen's final result can be imagined.

He came back a few days late, although Li Yuan didn't instruct the Jin servants to beat him up, but he became a coolie for transporting.

This is not.

As soon as Li Yuan spoke, Li Chongzhen became a porter helping to carry the sugar cane.

"Cousin, you don't even speak good words for me. It's not that I won't come back, it's just that my father has something to do these two days so he let me stay." Li Chongzhen didn't say a word to Li Chongyuan when he passed Li Chongyuan while resisting a few sugar canes. If you don't speak for him, you have a lot of opinions.

Li Chongyuan glanced at Li Yuan who was not far away, and said with a smile on his face: "Uncle didn't let the two apprentices of Jin Naishi beat you up, so you should burn incense. Blame me, what can I say, say your father, I Uncle made a fuss in the house because of his drinking, and then your father beat you up? Do you still want to be beaten up by your uncle?"

"No, forget it, I'm afraid of you guys. I don't want to be beaten, I can do my job." Li Chongzhen was scared.

He is afraid of being beaten.

In Chang'an, he was beaten by his father.

In Li Zhuang, he was beaten up by Li Yuan's servant Jin, and now it's even better, and he was beaten up by his two disciples again.

He can take a beating.

But after the beating, he still has to work, and when he does his morning exercises, he still has to be whipped.

In short, Li Chongzhen's life in Lizhuang is like suffering compared to Chang'an.

Does Li Yuan like to beat Li Chongzhen?
of course not.

Mainly because Li Chongzhen is too fat.

Li Yuan's original intention was also to let Li Chongzhen get rid of the fat on his body, and then practice some martial arts, maybe he could become a general in the future.

As for whether it will work or not.

Everything depends on Li Chongzhen.

after all.

What can Li Chongzhen do?

In a sentence, it's delicious and lazy, and it's easy to make trouble.

As for reading.

Forget it even more.

As far as Li Chongzhen is studying, it is estimated that he can vomit blood out of anger.

In the past, when he was studying with the crown prince in the Chongwen Museum, he often spent three days fishing and two days drying the net, always looking for various excuses to escape from the place of evil.

Work goes on.

Li Chongyuan also ignored him, staring at the sucrose in the ten cauldrons.

The scent is getting stronger and stronger.

The sucrose in the pot, under the blessing of a low fire, slowly began to bubble.

Wan'er, who was standing by the earthen stove, kept her eyes on the sucrose in the pot, swallowing her saliva all the time, looking forward to the deliciousness in the pot.

And the little lunatic is even more so, compared to Wan'er's small appearance, he is more earnest.

delicious.

And still sweet.

More than anything else, it was extremely alluring to his little lunatic.

Li Chongyuan was holding a piece of bamboo, and approached a pot, took the piece of bamboo and stretched out his hand to scoop it up, took a little off, blew it cold, and put it in his mouth, "It should be almost there, just need to boil it for another quarter of an hour , it can be made into brown sugar.”

"Fourth brother, fourth brother, give me a taste." Wan'er beside the earthen stove was very anxious when she saw that the first bite was eaten by Li Chongyuan.

original.

This girl has spoken.

She was the first to eat the refined sucrose, and even let go of her big talk, saying that she must do what Li Chongyuan once said, and be the first person to eat crabs.

There are no crabs, but there is plenty of sucrose.

Moreover, the first person to taste sucrose failed to do so, so the little girl couldn't wait to come to Li Chongyuan's side, looking eagerly at the bamboo piece in Li Chongyuan's hand.

Li Chongyuan got some and handed it to Wan'er, "Then you have a taste, and see how the sucrose I make tastes like fourth brother. However, if you want to eat brown sugar, you have to wait for the sugar paste to cool down before eating it." become brown sugar."

Without further ado, Wan'er took a small amount of sugar paste from Li Chongyuan and put it in her mouth.

"Wow, fourth brother, it's so sweet and fragrant. It also tastes like sugar cane. It's delicious. It's so delicious. Fourth brother, I want to eat it." After tasting the taste of massecuite, the little girl couldn't wait even more up.

Li Chongyuan knew.

Little baby, basically likes to eat sweet things.

Even if my little sister was born in a noble family, she still can't eat sweets every day.

In the past, the family was not rich, and lived entirely on the output of the field and rewards from the palace.

And now.

Over the past year or so, Li Chongyuan has pushed his family's economic level to the top, but the candy is still pitifully small.

I can't afford it.

But Chang'an rarely sells brown sugar, let alone sucrose like it is now.

Although caramel is delicious, compared with sucrose, it is extremely monotonous, and it also seems to make people feel tired after eating too much.

However, this is not the case with these sucrose.

At least.

As far as this clear fragrance and the taste of sugar cane are concerned, it is not comparable to caramel.

even.

You only need to put the massecuite in the pot into the prepared wooden box, and after cooling, it will become pieces of brown sugar.

What is brown sugar.

It is a high-end item that is rarely sold in the market, and its price has remained high, and it has even grown crazily, to the point where even the people of Chang'an daunted.

no way.

Yield is too low.

Moreover, it is controlled by some aristocratic families. If you want to buy brown sugar, you can only spend more money, not even much.

to this end.

The nobles of Chang'an City are also here only.

Li Chongyuan looked at the group of children with expectant eyes in front of him, and smiled knowingly: "Wait a while, I'll get you some sugar syrup. Don't eat it alone, your uncle hasn't tasted it yet." Woolen cloth."

As soon as Li Chongyuan finished speaking, he began to scoop out some sugar paste from the pot, and patted it into the wooden box.

After cooling down a bit, Li Chongyuan directly started to break.

As long as the temperature of the sugary paste is low, you can directly touch it with your hands, and you can rub it casually, and you can make her look like you want her to be.

That's it.

In his previous life, when making brown sugar in the village, Li Chongyuan did a lot of things like this.

Breaking off a piece of massecuite, Li Chongyuan came directly to Li Yuan, "Uncle, try it, this is freshly baked massecuite, as long as it cools down, it will be brown sugar. Uncle, please taste it first, let's see how my nephew and grandson can taste it." How does the brown sugar you make compare with the brown sugar you bring to the palace as a tribute."

"Uncle, I have never eaten this kind of brown sugar. But judging by your posture just now, you really know how to make sugar. Then uncle, let's try it first and see the difference." Li Yuan was not polite.

Li Yuan was not polite at all.

He has been waiting for the brown sugar, so how can there be any polite words.

original.

He thought Li Chongyuan didn't know how to make sugar.

But looking at this pass, it really looks good.

It's just that he has never seen this small piece of sugar paste in front of him, let alone tasted it.

Li Yuan's eyes lit up immediately after he took the confectionery and put it in his mouth.

After tasting it carefully, Li Yuan nodded again and again, "Not bad, it's really good. What Wan'er said is good, Yuan'er, the sugar you make really has a fresh fragrance, and it doesn't lose the taste of sugarcane."

"Hey, my nephew is also making sugar for the first time, and he is not yet proficient. After making a few pots, he will gradually be able to master the heat. By then, the brown sugar produced will be more pure." Li Chongyuan was treated like this by Li Yuan. Praise, my heart is also happy.

After Li Yuan ate, he praised again and again.

The children are looking forward to it even more.

If these adults weren't there, they probably would have done it long ago.

When Li Chongyuan turned around, he saw Wan'er, just like Li Chongyuan, directly grabbed her hands, tearing off small pieces of sugar paste and sending them to her mouth, she hurried over to grab them, and distributed them to everyone The children who were eagerly looking forward to it said to Wan'er: "I said you are really enough. You don't have lunch at noon. You have eaten too much sugar paste, and you are so tired. In the afternoon, the fourth brother will make brown sugar glutinous rice cakes for you to eat." , that tastes better than eating sugar paste alone."

Wan'er, who was stopped, saw her fourth brother distributing the sugar paste to the children, so she had some minor complaints.

But when I heard my fourth brother talk about making sugar pancakes in the afternoon, I immediately became happy again.

The little ones were given the sugar paste, and after tasting it, their eyes almost lost their souls, and they enjoyed it very much.

On the other hand, the little lunatic.

Holding the sugar paste in his hand, he lightly licked it, and the smile on his face almost overwhelmed him.

After a while.

According to Li Chongyuan's instructions, the servants began to scoop the sugar in the pot into the wooden box.

Each wooden box is placed in the cold wind to blow.

in the afternoon.

Li Chongyuan made sugar pancakes according to the memory of his previous life.

Qiao Hui has been learning how to make brown sugar glutinous rice cakes from Li Chongyuan. After Li Chongyuan finished making it once, Qiao Hui will be able to do it proficiently.

After Wan'er and Xiao Maniac had eaten brown sugar glutinous rice cakes.

The two called Li Chongyuan the God of Cooking.

Even Qiao Hui praised Li Chongyuan so much, which made Li Chongyuan's old face really have no place to put it.

In his previous life, he was from Gan Province.

It is estimated that glutinous rice cakes are the best.

After Li Chongyuan came to this era, he had never made Ciba. If it wasn't for making brown sugar this time, Li Chongyuan probably wouldn't even think of Ciba.

Brown sugar glutinous rice cake, in the hometown of Li Chongyuan in his previous life, if there is a happy event in the family, he will definitely make a brown sugar glutinous rice cake to entertain the guests, which is auspicious.

of course.

Especially when Tianding is imported at home, there is absolutely no shortage of brown sugar glutinous rice cakes.

However, due to the convenience of modern conditions and the improvement of living conditions, fewer and fewer people can make this brown sugar glutinous rice cake.

With brown sugar.

Li Chongyuan also specially made a stomach-nourishing brown sugar egg for the little old man Li Yuan, so that the little old man Li Yuan could also experience the confinement meal.

of course.

Brown sugar eggs are not only suitable for women during confinement, but also for the elderly, the infirm, or those recovering from a serious illness.

Brown sugar eggs can increase energy, activate qi and blood, accelerate blood circulation, and have the effect of promoting blood and nourishing blood.

And this dessert is the most suitable for Li Yuan.

even.

After Wan'er and the others ate the brown sugar eggs, they also fell in love with this dessert, and they wanted to prepare it and send it back to Chang'an for their mother to eat.

The old lady is willing to eat and give away.

It's just that for now, let's forget it for now, and it won't be too late to wait until some brown sugar is produced.

Sugar.

Sugar.

For several days, Li Chongyuan was busy making sugar.

In the past few days, the little baby in the village has never left.

The sugar factory is warm and there are sugar to eat, so they are not willing to leave.

down for a few days.

A large wooden box of brown sugar cubes was cut into small pieces by knives, stacked in boxes and stacked in the hall on the first floor of the big house.

down for a few days.

The sugar cane is almost cut.

Sugar cane has not been planted too much, and it will be about [-] acres.

Even though the sugarcane grows tall, there are many people working on it. After a few days, it is time to cut it down.

but.

The sugar cane is almost finished, but the finishing work still needs to be done.

The sugarcane tips and sugarcane heads have to be kept for seeding, and these can't be thrown away.

And the leaves have to be kept for silage storage and fed to the cattle. Naturally, these should not be wasted.

"Xiao Langjun, sugarcane is [-] mu, and the yield per mu is estimated to be less than [-] catties. With such a yield of sugarcane, why is the yield of sugar so low?" When the sugarcane was cut, Qiao Su came to follow him. Li Chongyuan reported.

In fact, Li Chongyuan already had a rough estimate in his heart.

One hundred and three mu of sugar cane, calculated on the basis of one hundred mu, and the sugar cane per mu is full of 40 catties, and a total of [-] catties was produced.

If calculated based on the sugar cane production in the previous life, this is really not a little bit worse.

In his previous life, Li Chongyuan remembered that under the condition of good management, sufficient fertilizer and sufficient water, the yield of black-skinned sugarcane would be at least [-] jin per mu.

But right now, green-skinned sugarcane is no match for black-skinned sugarcane, this is one of them.

Second, the current acre of land is not comparable to the one acre of land in the previous life.

One mu can produce nearly [-] catties, which is considered a bumper harvest.

However, the brown sugar production that Qiao Su mentioned made Li Chongyuan helpless.

The sugar content of green sugarcane planted at present is low, and the yield of brown sugar produced is naturally low.

Li Chongyuan made an estimate.

A thousand catties of sugarcane can produce about 65 catties of brown sugar. Currently, Li Chongyuan is unable to estimate the exact amount. Only after all the sugarcane is made into brown sugar can he have a specific value.

Li Chongyuan shook his head, "It's pretty good to be able to produce so much. We're only planting in the first year. If we plant again next year, it will probably be even better. The yield of brown sugar will probably be better than this year's." .”

In the previous life, the yield of brown sugar from a thousand catties of sugar cane was definitely greater than a hundred catties, generally around 120 catties, and even as high as 150 catties.

If it's based on money.

One mu of land can produce at least 4000 catties of sugar cane, and [-] catties of brown sugar. The wholesale price of a catty is three or four yuan, and the harvest of one mu of land will only cost three to four thousand yuan.

And this value can only be calculated upwards. After all, when the output of brown sugar is high, the price will be low. If the output is low, the price will be high, so the market is different every year.

If it is pure handmade or brown sugar made by ancient methods, its price will be relatively high.

As for the industrially produced brown sugar, the price is basically the same, and it may even be lower.

and so.

Sugarcane farmers are busy all year round, exhausted, that is, working for others.

But right now, the amount of brown sugar produced from the sugar cane planted by Li Chongyuan, the output of [-] jin of brown sugar, is really not low.

Anyway.

Li Chongyuan did not expect to have such an output.

(End of this chapter)