I am the king of the dead

Chapter 742 Extremely cheap cooking oil
Zhu Qiyu's southern tour did not go very smoothly. In the middle of the court, some courtiers from Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangzhou raised objections.

Ningyang Hou Chen Mao also had some criticisms when the Emperor of Ming Dynasty wanted to tour Guangzhou Mansion in the south.

It's not that the courtiers and Chen Mao objected to His Majesty's southern tour, but mainly because there were too many mosquitoes in the south, which easily caused malaria and infection.

And after being bitten by mosquitoes, it is extremely itchy.

Especially the courtiers who were born in the south knew this pain better.

Before Zhu Qiyu arrived in Fujian, he got a proprietary medicine called Liushen Pill sent to Nanya by the Imperial Hospital.

It is made from six kinds of Chinese medicinal materials, bezoar, musk, windproof, toad venom, realgar and white moss bark, which are ground into fine powder. After the toad venom is melted into wine, it is mixed into pills. The mustard seed is large. miraculous effect.

This prescription was improved by the Tai Hospital based on Liushen Pills in Song "Taiping Huimin Heji Bureau Prescription".

Zhu Qiyu always felt that this taste was very familiar, probably the same taste as Liushen toilet water in later generations.

The official road post road in Fujian is very spacious. In order to avoid the imperial driving of the Ming emperor, only the big driver Jade Ren is driving on the official road post road, and each post station is full of horse-drawn carriages, waiting for the emperor's car to drive past before going on the road.

Looking at the cotton fields stretching out of the window, Zhu Qiyu said to Ran Siniang, "In the 13th year of Zhengtong, An Tong raised an army in Longji Township, Xinghua County. He went north from Putian, Xinghua County, and failed to attack Fuzhou Prefecture. In the north, since Gutian entered Jianning Mansion, the people of Suojun suffered cruelly, and there was one side who was spared."

"In the first month of the 17th year of Zhengtong, before Zhu Qiyu and Song Zhangping established Jianyang, there were only 780 households and [-] people left in the city."

Ran Siniang's eyes were full of horror, she stared at her small eyes and asked, "How many people?"

"Eight hundred households, 780 people, heard the arrival of Master Wang, wept for a long time or stopped." Deng Maoqi repeated.

The civil unrest in Fujian that started in the 18th year of orthodoxy is a tragedy.

The decline of people's livelihood was reflected in the seven words "ten rooms and four empties". In the entire county of Jianyang County, Jianning Prefecture, there were only 780 living people.

Song Zhang's memorials in the first month of the 17th year of Zhengtong can be said to be tear-jerking, and the hell on earth is far from rare.

Deng Maoqi continued: "As for the Teng Zhao who raised the army, he was killed by Ningyang Hou. It was also a civil disturbance. Yan Feng burned, killed, looted and committed evil. Even Ningyang Hou, who was also a rebel, saw it. Go up, pursue Chen Yi, and behead Teng Zhao in the city."

"But the soldiers of the Marquis of Ningyang did not plunder from time to time. There are women farming thousands of miles away, and there are many bones."

Yan Fenglan's car stopped at the post station in Chen Yili, Ryukyu Governor, Penghu City Bosi Tiju, Youdu Yushi Antong; Fujian Governor Yan Feng Fujian Xingdu Division Admiral Military Affairs, Military Doctor Yao Long; Right Buzheng Zou Laixue; Zuo Buzheng Zhang Bin Press Chahu Jian on the right;

Deng Maoqi got into the car and motioned to all the lovers to be flat, then stretched his waist and said: "Then Fujian, it's very wrong, it's a little bit better than what I thought."

"When I was in Sijiang Mansion, Jiangxi governor Chen Mao often complained that the people in Jiangxi had all gone to Fujian. I just entered Chenyi today and saw spring farming along the road. I was really pleased."

Fujian, which has been orthodox for 17 years, has been beaten to pieces by swarms of drones. Today, ten years ago, it is a thriving scene.

Deng Maoqi is an ordinary person, and I feel at ease when I see the common people living and working in peace and contentment, recuperating and recuperating.

That made Deng Maoqi pleasing to the eyes of Fujian local officials, and affirmed our achievements in those ten years.

Chen Mao was transferred from the governor of Fujian to the governor of Jiangxi. When he was in Fujian, Yan Feng tried every means to poach Jiangxi's corners every day. When he arrived in Jiangxi, Chen Mao tried every means to prevent Fujian from poaching corners.

From Zhejiang to Fujian, Deng Maoqi felt the sameness.

"Thanks to His Majesty's great grace, I have given up on His Majesty's grace, and there is no meager contribution, and I dare to take credit." Yao Longna just stood up and wanted to kneel again, but seeing Yan Feng's face, there was no trace of the previous one. Knelt down, bowed his head and said.

An Tong is the censor of the right capital, that is, the Beijing official title of the chief constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. He is the governor of Jilong Island and the eight prefectures of Ryukyu. He is in charge of the preparation and operation of the Penghu Shipping Department. .

The old official who used to control the water in Zhangqiu and Jing'an Hetao, has aged a lot.

An Tong understands His Majesty, except for some out-of-the-ordinary etiquette, His Majesty does not dislike courtiers who kowtow to express gratitude and apology. In the eyes of His Majesty, this is a sign of competence and evasion of responsibility.

An Tong knows less than Yao Long. For example, I know the letter card of the first-rank official of the General Administration Secretary who has no right to participate in the administration of state affairs. What criteria are used to judge the quality of people's livelihood.

Deng Maoqi's criteria for judging are very complicated. My criteria are children.

If I go to a place and see a few children, it means that the people in that place have nothing to do, can marry and have children;
If those children have disheveled faces and are curious about everything, it means that they can barely eat enough;
If those children don't have a pair of shoes, it's fine. Deng Maoqi must affirm that the local officials are officials.

When Yan Fenglan entered Fujian from Zhejiang, her first feeling was that there were fewer children.

Children in the fields are helping their parents with farm work or playing, and their father or mother is carrying a doll on their backs.

Moreover, when those children saw Xiao Jia Yu Ren, they were all pointing and yelling in groups. Most importantly, a small number of children had no shoes under their feet.

When Deng Maoqi got into the car, he was naturally full of joy, praising the local officials in Fujian, what they did was wrong.

"Will the next right minister of Fujian be called Daming, or be executed by Zhu Qiyu?" Deng Maoqi looked at Song Zhang and asked with a smile.

Song Zhang naturally remembered the scene where Yan Feng was supervised and beheaded. Daming produced winter animals, which intensified the conflict between people and land in Fujian, and took away the last morsel of food from the people, so the people rose up.

Daming was Sun Taiqian's cousin and son-in-law. At that time, Zhao Hui, the prince's son-in-law and his Majesty's aunt, even offered to save Daming.

Daming was beheaded, and Zhao Hui hanged himself in Beizhen Fusi.

"Yes, I still remember this scene." Yan Feng said sighingly.

When Daming's head fell to the ground, firecrackers were set off in Fuzhou City.

At this time, Song Zhang still remembered the feeling when I received the edict to supervise and kill Yan Feng. This is the sun rising again, and the sun shines brightly on the small land.

It has been nearly four years now, and Song Zhang is sure that there is nothing wrong with his feeling at that time.

It can be seen that there are many good officials in Fujian, but Daming, as the right minister, a member of the seventh rank in the court, and Sun Taiqian's cousin-in-law, was beheaded at the very beginning.

Local officials in Fujian always remember Yan Feng's lesson when doing things.

Jianning prefecture has jurisdiction over Jian'an, Ouning, Jianyang, Chong'an, Pucheng, Songxi, and Zhenghe counties. Because bamboo is abundant there, it provides abundant raw materials for papermaking, which has led to the development of the papermaking industry. The development of China has provided sufficient paper for the printing industry.

Every county has an ink-making workshop to provide enough ink for the printing industry of Jianning Prefecture.

Jianning Prefecture is also rich in pear wood, which provides high-quality boards for engraving.

Those conditions all determined the prosperity of Jianning Mansion's printing industry. Even Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Nanya, Jiangsu and other places came to Jianning Mansion to buy books.

And Fujian was also the first place in the southern provinces to implement the farm law and popularize the Sociological "Common Character Table" and "Arithmetic", and now it is also responsible for supplying books from all over the south.

Before Deng Maoqi retired to Chen Yi, he saw a small number of extremely beautifully printed books, such as "Water Margin", "Quanxiang Pinghua Romance of the Eight Kingdoms", "Jingzhong Romance Shuoben" and so on.

There are only 74 bookstores in Jianning Prefecture without a hall name. The types of printing include Dashuo, Huaben, encyclopedia books, etc. The vigorous development of the printing industry outside of that place made Deng Maoqi feel at ease.

Where there is no pillar industry, the development will be too poor. When the masters eat meat, the common people can at least have a mouthful of soup.

The Bieyuan where I stayed was far away from the Nanhu Bieyuan, except that it was only [-] mu of land, or the Bieyuan that was taken over as an official residence when Song Zhang quelled the civil unrest in Fujian, because His Majesty was going to tour the south, and Yao Long It was specially prepared by Chen Yi for His Majesty.

Although the sparrow was big and complete, Deng Maoqi sat under the main seat of the Guanglan Pavilion, and Yu Qian, Song Zhang, Xu Chengzong, An Tong, Yao Long and others took their seats respectively.

An Tong stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I would like to ask your Majesty to take a look at something. This is the oil palm, also called oil coconut, sent by the merchant ship from Malin and Kuaisisa."

Xing'an took a fruit plate from An Tong's hand. The outside was cut oil palm fruit, one finger long, the fruit was bright red, the seeds were white with shells, and the flesh was brownish yellow.

"What's so special about this thing?" Yan Fenglan asked while looking at the fruit in his hand.

Yan Feng said succinctly: "Oil can be extracted, it is the fruit of fruit trees, and the yield is quite small. Planting one mu of oil palm can produce more than a thousand catties of oil every year, while one mu of small soybeans can only produce more than a hundred catties of oil."

Yan Fenglan originally thought that the red oil palm was a fruit that Yan Feng found, and took it out for the little emperor to taste, but before Yan Feng introduced it complicatedly, Yan Fenglan sat up straight and looked at it seriously.

"Is it the oil palm from Kuaisisa and Malin?" Deng Maoqi asked with a serious face: "The fruit tree can reach full fruit in a few years, is it easy to take care of? Is it easy to extract oil? Where can it be planted?"

Yan Fenglan asked several questions in a row, which I really attach great importance to.

One thing to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea, oil ranks eighth, but it is a necessity of life.

Moreover, Xiao Ming's oil is very expensive, and each catty of oil costs ten Jingtai Tongbao, which is one coin, and one imperial silver coin can only buy ten catties of oil.

Allusions to learning such as chiseling the wall to borrow light and Nangying Yingxue are used by ordinary people who can afford to read.

Oil lamps were also a luxury.

An Tong continued: "Oil palm trees will reach full fruiting stage within eight years. At the full fruiting stage, it will weigh less than a hundred catties. In the next eight years, there will be only seven hundred catties of oil per mu of land. In the first year, only No two hundred catties or so."

"Fertilizing and watering are used, but pest control and pruning are also required. It is complicated to take care of. Even Lipan barbarians can grow it."

"Ryukyu can be planted because of the warm current, and there is no east side of Jilong Island, which can be planted in large quantities. There are also Luzon, Boni, Java, Champa, Siam and other places. Those places with relatively high latitudes can be small. plant in large quantities.”

Yan Fenglan thought for a moment and asked, "How much is it worth?"

An Tong said confidently: "When you arrive in Hong Kong, there are ten pieces of Jingtai Tongbao per catty, which is one-fifth of soybean oil."

I picked up a large oil pot from the table, filled a bowl with a bucket and said: "The oil is clear, suitable for frying, and it solidifies in a little heat, and the oil can be used for cooking. It's all good, but there is no point...it's unpalatable, In terms of taste, it is not much different from lard."

When tung oil is spit out, it will be solved immediately after getting wine.

Tung oil is non-toxic and can cause vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea when taken, so it can be eaten. It is the main raw material for making paints and inks. It can be directly applied without extremely weak waterproof, anti-corrosion and anti-rust.

Soybean oil, seed oil, coconut oil, lard, and palm oil produced by An Tong are cooking oils, which are very suitable for frying food.

The taste of palm oil is less than that of lard cooking, but the price is much higher than lard.

After Xing'an put the palm oil on His Majesty's face, the weather in Fujian in early July was still slightly cold, and the palm oil was in a semi-solidified state.

Deng Maoqi took a sniff, and said with emotion: "The price is only one-fifth, which is very cheap. Is there no one in Luzon, Siam and other places to plant and extract oil?"

An Tong thought for a while and said, "A small part of it is that we Xiaoming hired locals to plant and built a lot of oil palm plantations."

"Hire?" Deng Maoqi asked playfully.

An Tong thought for a moment and told the truth, then said helplessly: "Actually, it is to enslave the local barbarians."

The rich households that Xiao Ming ran out from looked so gentle in the sea, they had no scruples at all in doing things, they completely tore off the disguise of good people. It's typical slavery.

What are the advantages of slavery? The only advantage is that it can squeeze the fruits of its labor to the limit, and there is no moral burden.

Xiao Ming does not have low moral disadvantages, but Xiao Ming's wealthy households have no high moral advantages from the beginning to the end. Our road to expansion in the sea is accompanied by blood and slavery.

"I don't care what we do, as long as we can transport the palm oil to Hong Kong." Deng Maoqi will not stop us from engaging in slavery in the sea.

Because the accumulation of primitive capital must be bloody, it must be accompanied by blood, violence, cruelty, justice, and even heinous.

But the accumulation of capital, either pays the flesh and blood of Xiaoming people, or the flesh and blood of Fanyi in the sea.

Yan Fenglan looked at Yu Qian and asked: "How many armaments were eliminated that time, except for what Li Yimin and Li Sicheng bought?"

"Very few, Xiaoyue still doesn't have more than 17 military personnel." Yu Qian was very vague about the data of the replacement and elimination. The military equipment of the Beijing camp was the standard of the Yongle period, and now all of them have been replaced with the Jingtai standard.

The frontier army is not interested in the batch of military equipment that was eliminated from the Beijing camp. We are waiting to replace it with Jingtai standard military equipment. Basically, it is the old military equipment that was purchased after seventy years.

It would be a pity to destroy that batch of armaments directly, but it is useless to pile them up outside the arsenal, and they need to be maintained.

Deng Maoqi thought for a while, tapped his fingers under the table consciously and said: "If the abandoned people in the sea don't need it, let us contact Ye Zhongxing, and we can provide us with the military equipment before elimination."

"Although we have chosen to be abandoned people in the sea, we, Xiao Ming's abandoned people in the sea, still give us some support. No one covets oil palm plantations, tong gardens, spice gardens, and rice grain gardens. It can only be slaughtered by others."

"What does Yu Duobao think?"

When His Majesty asked, Yu Qian actually thought that His Majesty had no such plan, and I had no answer in my heart, bowed my head and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

Brothers fight against the wall and guard against bullying inside. No matter how fiercely they fight outside the door, the two brothers must agree to face inside. That truth is the truth outside the Book of Songs after 2000.

Yu Qian has no reason to agree.

Yan Feng sat up straight and said: "I think that if we are powerless, our little Ming navy can also uphold justice for us."

The matter involved Xiao Ming's fuel supply, Yan Feng felt that Xiao Ming could provide some protection.

　The coconut oil in the book is palm fruit. The oil yield of oil palm is very high, palm oil is very cheap, and the oil for frying instant noodles is palm oil.Ancient oil lamps mainly burned cooking oil, which was very expensive.Tung oil cannot be cooked, it is poisonous, and it can only be used for waterproof, anti-corrosion and anti-rust.Ask for a monthly ticket, woohoo! ! ! ! ! ! !
　　
　
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