The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 193 Harvest in sight
In fact, Zhang Fengyi saw the scene of sister-in-law and Huang Han embracing each other from a distance, and she didn't know what kind of soup Huang Han had poured into Qin Yuyi?
Who cares?As long as my sister-in-law is happy!
The contrast between Qin Yuyi and Huang Han was so great, and Qin Liangyu also noticed the clue. She knew that her daughter's personality should not be too harsh, so she decided to wait and see.

This era is completely different from the later generations, and there is no possibility of marriage with a child.

If the daughter of any family dares to have sex before marriage, the aristocratic family would rather kill the daughter than be beautiful as an adult.

Huang Han could only go the right way and try to get the emperor to grant him a marriage. In fact, he still has another way to go, which is to win a title. If he becomes the county king of Ming Dynasty like Zheng Chenggong, then he can grandly own the princess and several side concubines.

But that was too far away, Ming was so stingy with titles, there were only a few kings with different surnames at the founding of the country, and it was not until after the subjugation of the kingdom that Nanming, who continued to be a dog, had such unknown princes as Zheng Chenggong, Li Dingguo and so on.

The scorching summer is gradually going away, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching. For three months, Huang Han, Xu Guangqi and the "Red Banner Army" are all busy. Production self-rescue, resettlement of victims, infrastructure construction, military expansion, and strengthening training have been going on. middle.

Today's "Red Banner Army" has an orderly sphere of influence. Although the common people have not reached the point where they have enough food and clothing, they are basically free from hunger.

Xu Guangqi could not celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with Huang Han in Kaiping, because he had to return to Beijing immediately after receiving the imperial decree from the Minister of Rites of Gao Sheng.

The scientist worked in Yongping for three months, and got along with Huang Han. He confided to his subordinates many times, saying that he wasted most of his life, and only the tens of thousands of people in the disaster relief felt meaningful.

Xu Guangqi left, taking only two bookboys with him, and left the servants and officials who followed him with agricultural skills to Huang Han. Xu Guangqi ordered them to cultivate farming experts who could replace them before they could go back.

Seeing that sweet potatoes and potatoes will be harvested, these two things are relatively easy to store in the north.

Because almost every household in Yongping has a cellar, and the cellar with a constant temperature of about four degrees is used to store sweet potatoes and potatoes. As long as you often go in and pick them, it is not a problem to store them for more than a year.

These two crops are not well known in Daming, how to open up the market is the big problem facing Huang Han, after all, he gave a deposit to sell sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Huang Han was making plans in advance again. He paid out money to make stoves for roasting sweet potatoes, and immediately assigned a thousand manufacturing tasks.

Daming was facing a food crisis, and too many people were hungry, so the cost of winemaking was relatively high. Potatoes and sweet potatoes have high nitrogen content, which is conducive to the growth of yeast, and can be used as food for winemaking.

Although the wine yield of fresh potatoes and sweet potatoes is lower than that of grains, the yield per mu of these two things is five or six times that of grains, and the cost is diluted. The cost of producing liquor and alcohol is only [-]% of that of grain wine.

A large amount of distiller's grains produced during the brewing process are good fodder for pigs, cattle, horses, donkeys, and mules.

Sweet potatoes are actually the sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes of later generations. It is not complicated to make alcohol and brew liquor. The process is nothing more than making koji, making distiller's mother, cooking and gelatinizing, saccharifying and fermenting, and the last step is the key to increasing the alcohol content—distillation .

There were countless baijiu workshops in the Ming Dynasty, and there were too many masters with wine-making skills. The reason why the baijiu they brewed was not high was because the number of distillations was not enough.

Huang Han asked the master brewer to increase the number of distillations as needed to obtain high-grade liquor and alcohol with not the highest purity.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes are also raw materials for processing vermicelli and vermicelli. The shelf life of vermicelli and vermicelli at room temperature is better than that of rice, and they will not deteriorate even after several years of storage.

In the later generations, no one would rest assured to eat vermicelli with a shelf life of more than one year, but in Daming where hunger was everywhere, even Guanyin soil that could not be pulled out after eating became food.

It is a kind of happiness to be able to have fans with a shelf life of more than one year. Who cares if there is a risk of cancer?Moreover, in this era, people still don't know what cancer is.

The process of making vermicelli vermicelli is very simple. In fact, in this era, there is already a process of producing vermicelli from mung beans.Chop the potatoes or sweet potatoes, grind them, and precipitate them to extract the starch, then add alum ingredients to beat them, and boil them to drain them.

Boiling water leakage is to cause the raw materials to leak into the boiling water pot through a container with many fine holes, and fish out while leaking. The water in the pot is always kept at the water level when the strips are produced for the first time, and the water in the pot is controlled at a slightly open level.

Huang Han has found a craftsman who can process vermicelli from mung beans, and he is already buying the necessary equipment and cauldrons. When the potatoes and sweet potatoes are harvested, it will be at full capacity.

All the workshops invested so far need a lot of coal without exception. The steelmaking kiln is a large coal user, and the brewing and vermicelli production are always carried out in the process of continuous cooking, and the coal consumption is also considerable.

Kaiping Town has unique coal resources, and Huang Han only needs to pay labor costs to obtain these high-quality coals. How low will the price cost of the products be in the future, and how high will the profits be?

There is an industry that can earn high profits, and basic farmland to provide food resources. As long as it develops for a few years, the "Red Banner Army" with money, food, and new firearms can't kill those Tungus savages?
A few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the two main generals of the "Red Banner Army", Hanzi and Song Pengfei, finally got married, and Huang Yong also made a marriage. The woman is a branch of the Gao family in Luanzhou, and Gao Youmou is a matchmaker for a distant cousin of his. Marry with the Huang family.

Huang Yong's wedding date is scheduled for mid-December. The two sons of the Huang family will marry their wives this year, and the marriage of the two daughters should be a joyous occasion.

Not only the Huang family was happy, but the soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" also had good news. Too many soldiers who lost their families reorganized their families, and too many bachelors married Meijiao Niang.

Not only are the soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" living a good life, but the nearly 30 ordinary people in the system also feel happy when they see the crops in the fields that are in sight. .

Looking at the joy of the robes, some of them felt sad. Of course, they were more than a hundred disabled soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" who had recovered from their injuries but could not return to the team. They could only choose to retire.

Huang Han was not short of money. He not only gave 30 taels of resettlement silver to the disabled soldiers, gave them decent management work within their capabilities, but also gave each veteran [-] acres of farmland.

There is no tax on the [-] acres of land, and the apportionment and exorbitant taxes of the imperial court are all borne by the collective "Red Banner Army".

(End of this chapter)