Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 106 Sugarcane Plantation

Li Shang was finally overwhelmed by his curiosity, and rode away with Ziying to the sugarcane plantation in the distance.

"This will be the place His Majesty said will make the Great Qin Wannian!"

Ziying opened his arms, embracing the entire stretch of hills.

Li Shang opened his mouth, but finally remained silent.

In his view, this is just a hill near the river. Not long ago, it was covered with towering trees, which is no different from the mountains and forests around Panyu.

At this moment, on this hill, the clanging sound of logging has disappeared, replaced by countless Yue people wielding iron tools and digging up tree roots.

The Yue ruler who had broken through the Ouyue camp with Li Shang before saw Ziying, and immediately went up to meet him.

Because of his meritorious service in leading the army to fight, Ren Xiao specially promoted him from the top rank to the hairpin.

So at the moment he is wearing a long jacket, a leather belt around his waist, shorts, and leg wraps. It's just that he has short hair, but he can't comb it into a flat bun in the shape of a shrunken board as stipulated in the Qin law.

Curly person, harness also.

According to the rules, people with a title of "hairpin" or above can ride a horse for daily transportation. Earlier, this title was also called "walking horse".

As for letting the ruler of the Yue people lead people to dig the roots, it is to set an example for the surrounding Yue people who have surrendered.

After all, for work other than servitude, each Vietnamese needs to be paid 15 yuan a day.

Although the Qin people around were very envious, they didn't complain.

One reason is that everyone is rushing to grow winter rapeseed, and there is no room for it. After all, the imperial court promised that after the harvest of rapeseed in the coming year, there will be unlimited purchases of rapeseed according to the current purchase price;
Secondly, the work of digging tree roots is really hard. Although there is 15 kuai a day, I don’t care about the food...

Therefore, digging roots is not as good as growing rapeseed at home!

"Young master, Colonel Li!" Yue Ren Junchang smiled obsequiously.

Sitting on the horseback, Ziying nodded to him, expressing his satisfaction with their work progress.

After the roots have been dug, the land can be leveled and ready to be planted with sugar cane.

The Thousand Guizhou Heads from Guanzhong have also arrived. In order to allow them to settle down in Lingnan, each sent two Yue girls as concubines...

Along with them, there were a lot of poor horses, but the poor adaptability of the poor horses, about [-]% of them died, and the rest got used to the humidity and heat of Nanhai County, and they were all in high spirits.

Now these naive horses are coming from all over the place, pulling carts of sugarcane.

Li Shang pulled out an emerald green sugarcane from the carriage and asked, "My lord, isn't it still ripe? Isn't the sugarcane all black?"

Ziying shook her head, expressing that she didn't understand either.

Tian Dian, who had experience in growing sugar cane, stepped forward and replied: "The captain doesn't know that there are two types of Zhe (sugar cane) grown in Nanhai County, and the one you hold in your hand is grown by the Qin people in Panyu to eat it. , the stems are crisp and juicy, although not very sweet, but better than nothing."

"The second type is the common black Zhuzhe. The skin is hard and rough. Although it is sweet, it is difficult to bite... Back then, it was mostly this kind that was offered to the King of Chu and His Majesty."

"Why not sweet?" Li Shang threw the sugar cane back into the carriage.

Not being a son of man... Ziying was silent for a while, then shook his head slightly and said, "Although it's not very sweet, it's enough to extract sugar!"

"Has all the sugar cane in Nanhai County been harvested?"

The first sentence was addressed to Li Shang, while the latter sentence was addressed to Tian Dian.

Tian Dian cupped his hands and said, "Master Hui, all the sugar cane in Nanhai County is here, totaling [-] jin."

Li Shang asked again: "Don't you need to save the seeds?"

Tian Tian replied: "No, the captain doesn't know that sugarcane is different from other crops. When harvesting, you only need to leave the roots in the soil. In the coming year, the roots will re-branch and grow stems. Usually, one sowing can continue to harvest. several years!"

"Oh, that's how it is..." Li Shang nodded with his eyes wide open.

Ziying thought in his mind that out of the [-] catties of sugarcane, [-] catties would be used for sugar extraction, and the rest would be used as seeds.

"My lord, are we going to crush all these canes into sugar?" Li Shang followed behind him and walked to the sugar mill built by the river in the distance.

"Of course, according to His Majesty's instructions, except for some thick and sweet sugar cane, all others will be squeezed!" Ziying walked forward on his own.

"Why don't you save some more seeds and expand the planting area, as His Majesty said before, geometric growth..."

"Li Shang, you don't understand His Majesty's difficulties!" Ziying sighed:
"The clans have invested millions of dollars and a lot of manpower in Nanhai County successively. We need to see the benefits!"

"The ministers said nothing about His Majesty's restoration of the old system and the re-granting of the barbarians as 'Subjects and Sovereigns' in Nanhai County, but it is self-evident what they think in their hearts."

"For both of these reasons, only when the squeezed cane sugar arrives in Xianyang can we solve your majesty's difficulties!"

Li Shang nodded heavily, with a serious expression on his face, thinking in his heart: what the young master and the elder brother said are almost the same, I didn't expect that Qin Ting is not what I thought...

The two remained silent and walked slowly into the sugar mill.

Gong Shigong Shupan rushed forward: "I pay my respects to the young master, and to the captain."

Ziying stepped forward to help him, and then asked with a smile, "Is your brother Shufei safe?"

The Gongshufei he was talking about was the former school order who went to Lingnan with him, the eldest son who was going to be the Shaofu Gongshu, and his Luban secret skills were not inferior to his father's. It was just a few days ago that he suddenly contracted a typhoid disease, and he is still alive today. Can't see things.

"Thank you, Young Master, for your concern. Elder brother is fine." Gong Shupan smiled awkwardly, and then thought in his heart, that guy with a brain like a worm really lost face to his family!
"It's fine..." Li Shang suppressed a smile, and then covered his mouth with his hands under Gong Shupan's glaring gaze.

Gong Shupan saluted Ziying again and said, "According to the young master's instructions, we have left enough seeds, can we start squeezing sugar?"

His words were actually spoken on behalf of Qianshou here.

After all, they came from afar, and even though they bought a house, there was almost no food in the house.

It is still very difficult to support myself, and there are two more Yue girls, which makes the family that is not rich even worse.

So they worked extraordinarily hard. Originally, it took half a month to set up the workshop, but it took ten days.

This is because Ziying promised before that after mastering the sugar extraction technology, the daily income can increase from 15 yuan to 20 yuan, and after mastering a full set of memory and passing the test, he can be awarded the title of engineer. From a citizen, he became a fighting food official!

Seeing their enthusiasm, Ziying thought of what Fusu said.

The world is all for profit.

If sugar extraction was the same as pounding rice, it would only be so efficient if you had to use a whip to conscript prisoners or corvee.

But this is also in Zhong Ziying's arms.

The harvested sugar cane needs to be squeezed to boil sugar immediately, otherwise the sugar cane will rot very easily.

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