Hanbo

Chapter 26 Big Business

The port of the upper part is also sealed, and the top is fully open. There is a movable wooden block in the middle of the two parts, and some wooden chips are placed beside it. The round cake, the oil was successfully squeezed out.

Huo Shan nodded, it was exactly the same as his own painting, he was very satisfied, Huo Shan patted and asked the examination room order:

"Won't it crack?"

The examination room made his face turn red instantly, are you questioning my professionalism?
"I can assure you that there will be no problems within two years!"

The examination room raised his chest and looked confident. He thought for a while and added: "As long as you don't chop with an axe!"

Are you so confident?

Huo Shan nodded with a smile on his face:
"Well, that's good, good job!"

The resentment in the examination room disappeared in an instant, and he immediately smiled and saluted:
"Don't dare to be praised by the little prince, this is the job of the minister!"

The oil extraction officially started, and the oil outlet took a bucket to pick it up. Several servants put the flax-wrapped round cakes into the oil extraction tool one by one. Push the block forward, and then start adding wood chips to the upper half.

As time went by, the wood chip gradually couldn't be added, and the oil hadn't come out yet. One person took a big wooden hammer, and the other held the wood chip with a stick, and smashed it down with a hammer.

As time goes by, even if it is smashed, the wood chips can't be added, but there is still no oil. What is the reason?

Huo Shan also became a little nervous, muttering:

"It shouldn't be, Young Master You has something to say, you don't have any of this..."

He walked over to take a look, bent down and supported the shelf to take a look, and suddenly became very angry, you don't know how to remove the plug, how can the oil come out?

Huo Shan glared at the examination room order, why didn't you say there was a plug?

The examination room made an innocent face.

Huo Shan pulled out the plug above the oil outlet, and suddenly the light brown and reddish oil flowed out like someone in a well, and flowed into the big barrel below.

A scent of oil also permeated the air, and the crowd sniffed unconsciously, it smells so good.

Huo Shan looked at the reddish-brown flax oil with oil foam floating on it, which looked cloudy without precipitation, and was very excited.

Finally, there is oil, and I can eat vegetable oil for cooking, and I don’t need to steam and cook everything anymore.

Ah, the good life is coming!
As for the reddish-brown color of the oil, this is quite normal. The oil pressed from flax has this color in the sun. Even if it is not in the sun, it is much darker than other oils and not so clear.

And the taste is heavier than other oils. People who are used to eating it will find other oils tasteless and like to eat flax oil. People who are used to eating other oils will find flax oil bitter and very unpalatable.

Huo Shan glanced at the shocked and stupefied people, he smiled, turned around with his hands behind his back and walked towards the noodle mill next to him. When Huo Shan passed by, he found that they had stopped, and Zhong Gan was staring at a big wooden barrel in a daze.

Huo Shan turned his head and glanced at the oil press, he thought Zhong Gan was there too, but he didn't expect him to stay here, Huo Shan took a closer look and found that it was flour.

Huo Shan squatted down and reached out to grab the white flour in the bucket. Zhong Gan saw Huo Shan grabbing like that, felt a little distressed, raised his hand, moved his mouth, and was about to stop it, but he still didn't.

Huo Shan rubbed it with his hands, and it felt very fine. He was a little surprised, can a stone mill be so fine?
"Little Junhou, I let them grind it twice more!"

Huo Shan nodded, no wonder!
"How many catties did it weigh?"

When Huo Shan mentioned this question, Zhong Gan finally came to his senses, and immediately became a little excited:

"Back to Xiaojunhou, the powder is a stone, a jun and seventeen catties!"

Huo Shan did some calculations, 240 catties yielded 167 catties, converted into modern times, 60 kg yielded 41.75 kg, 70.00%, which is a bit low!

These are all good wheat. It is reasonable to say that more than 80.00% is normal. Is it a matter of variety?
Seeing that Huo Shan seemed a little dissatisfied, Zhong Gan became anxious immediately, and said again with an emphatic tone:
"Little Junhou, two stones of wheat are fully produced, one stone, one jun, and seventeen catties of fine powder, and the remaining wheat husks can be used as fine fodder for horses."

Huo Shan nodded, a little speechless:

"I heard it, you don't need to say it again, I think the proportion of followers is a bit low!"

"Is this still low?"

Zhong Gan was shocked, and his voice raised several levels unconsciously.

Huo Shan looked at him, at first he thought this person was quite serious, but now he looked a little bit impatient!
Zhong Gan's voice attracted the people on the oil press side. They thought that Zhong Gan's temper had clashed with Huo Shan, so they hurried over. After understanding and shocking, Shen Ning began to explain:
"Back to Xiao Junhou, Zhong Gan didn't make it clear, maybe Xiao Junhou didn't understand the meaning!"

"Tell me!"

Huo Shan crossed his arms and raised his chin.

"Back to the little prince, you can understand a few things if I tell you a few things!"

Huo Shan responded, looking forward to your performance!

"Since ancient times, common people have mainly grown grains from millet, rice, millet, wheat, and bean. The same is true for me, but basically millet is the main crop, because the yield of millet per mu is relatively moderate, but..."

He already understood the meaning of several people. At this time, the main food crops were millet, rice, wheat, barley, millet, sorghum, soybeans, etc., and people mainly ate millet, that is, millet.

Wheat, which is famous in later generations, is generally only used as food for disaster relief at this time. As long as the people have food to eat, they are generally unwilling to eat it!
Because although there was a stone mill at this time, the development time was too short, there was no suitable pattern, there were pits and hollows, and no flour could be ground, so it was usually eaten directly by cooking wheat and rice, which tasted very dry and irritated.

Therefore, although wheat has a higher yield than other grains, everyone is unwilling to grow it because no one likes to eat it!
"I know this, you pick the point!"

Huo Shan raised his hand to interrupt him, he wanted to hear something he didn't know!
"promise!"

Shen Ning pondered for a while, and was about to stop his words, but after thinking about it, he might as well just say:

"Back to Xiaojunhou, compared with millet, the yield per mu of wheat is higher than that of millet, but the people don't like to eat it, so they don't want to grow wheat, but if this method of grinding flour can be passed on, then my people will grow grain in the future. It will definitely be mainly wheat, and my big man is likely to have a large increase in food from now on, and even no shortage of food from now on."

Huo Shan didn't take it seriously, no more food shortages?It's impossible to rely on wheat alone.

You must know that at this time, it will take decades for even the primitive method of bickering in the eyes of later generations to appear, let alone other methods.

In this era, the most primitive slash-and-burn farming is still used. There are also farming tools, but they are basically pulled by people. There are also cattle and horses, but the common people cannot afford them.

No more food shortages, wait until the Quyuanli that can be pulled by a single person appears, and see if it can be realized, all of which require large-scale farming cattle!

"But this is a matter of the Da Nong Order, and has little to do with our Shaofu."

Huo Shan also nodded, his idea is to take care of his own affairs, don't interfere if you don't know how to do it, and even if the Shaofu really wants to take care of it, he can't do it!

This is actually a kind of temptation. If Huo Shan is a hot-blooded young man who wants to take care of everything, then they have to make some preparations. Seeing that Huo Shan is not angry, Shen Ning breathed a sigh of relief and continued:
"There are millions of shi of wheat stored in the treasury of the capital. The specific amount is the responsibility of the big farmers. I don't know for sure. As for my young mansion..."

Shen Ning glanced at Wang Wei.

"180 million shi, nearly 200 million shi."

"What about other food?"

Wang Wei thought about it carefully, and said while thinking:

"78 shi of millet, 31 shi of rice, 45 shi of bean, 24 shi of beam, 17 shi of hemp, and nearly 30 shi of other grains."

"Shaofu has so much grain? This is over 400 million shi!"

Everyone nodded as a matter of course.

To be honest, Huo Shan was a little shocked. He thought that the Shaofu was just rich in money and various resources, and two million shi would be enough for food. Unexpectedly, it was doubled!

"Xiaojunhou, the Shaofu's grain storage is maintained at 400 million shi all the year round. This is the new grain for the past three years. The Shaofu does not store old grain. After three years, the Shaofu will exchange the old grain with the treasury in the capital. They are new grains, but fine grains generally don’t have any old grains, they are all eaten up, and they are replaced with coarse grains such as wheat!”

Huo Shan nodded. It is understandable. People in the royal family have a tricky mouth and are not used to eating old food. If they want to eat, they can eat new food. However, some people don't even have to eat old food...

But this coarse grain millet turns into fine grain, and the fine grain wheat turns into coarse grain, it's really...

But when Huo Shan heard these words, he instantly understood what they were thinking. It was a bit of a plan!
"Want to exchange food?"

Everyone nodded, even Zhong Gan was no exception. He was not making money for himself, but for the Shaofu. Although he is a member of the Legalist family, this kind of thing should happen as often as possible!

The method that our young mansion came up with, we will naturally take the lead, even if your big farmer finds out in the future, there is nothing you can do about it, I’m afraid I’m going to be crazy if I exchange good grains for your coarse grains!

As for whether the emperor will let him change, he will definitely be willing to move from the state treasury to his own treasury. Which emperor would not?
"Then go change it, how much can you get?"

Shen Ning settled an account for everyone:

"Basically one catty of fine grain can be exchanged for three catties of coarse grain. The Shaofu can't keep nothing. The wheat doesn't move, and 20 stones of millet and rice are kept, and the rest can be exchanged."

"I can exchange for 300 million stones!"

When Huo Shan thought about it, it was reasonable. Except for the wheat, the rest were not only refined grains, but also some coarse grains. One hundred and fifty can be exchanged for three hundred, which is quite reasonable.

But although it was reasonable, Huo Shan was not very satisfied.

"If you can get 400 million stones in exchange, I will ask His Majesty for an edict!"

Shen Ning was overjoyed:
"If there is an edict, I don't even need to change it, I can empty the big farmers' wheat!"

When Huo Shan heard the word evacuation, he suddenly hesitated:
"Forget it, it's too offending. I'm not going to trade with big farmers. I'm going to trade with those big households. Then I can buy as much as I can. I'll ask His Majesty for an edict, and I'll give you a bargain."

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