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Chapter 214 Sweet Potato Flour Workshop

"Emperor penguin, so scary."

Li Chaosheng introduced the experience of the emperor penguin to Guzi. The more he talked about it, the more terrifying Li Chaosheng felt. Such an emperor penguin, with traffic and cash flow in his hands, is always beneficial.

Gu Zi also widened his eyes, obviously shocked.

The two strolled forward, and soon came to the front, where there were more food and drink sellers, and a few people had a meal.

Guzi couldn't help feeling: "A year ago, I thought that the prosperity of Xi'an City was irreplaceable. Now our Lantian is second only to Xi'an City in terms of prosperity. I'm afraid we won't lose to Xi'an in a few years. These are all thanks to you, Brigadier. .”

This sentence is not a compliment, but an outpouring of true feelings, and the guards behind them all agreed. This year was completely under the wise management of Li Chaosheng, and the transformation from the famine year to the current prosperous age was completed. .

Everyone has a steelyard, who doesn't know the depth of it.

A group of people walked forward, many, many acquaintances saluted Li Chaosheng, and Li Chaosheng responded one by one, especially the many gray two-story buildings newly built on the street, these are the properties of local wealthy households.

It can be regarded as a kind of interest exchange for Li Chaosheng. Li Chaosheng needs their land and needs them to reduce the land rent from the previous [-]% to the current [-]%. It was what Li Chaosheng wanted.

As rich households, they have no land income, so Li Chaosheng changed the law to let them do business, so that their money can circulate and drive the economic development of the entire Lantian.

After all, if silver is not in circulation, it is just a pile of metal. Only when it flows can it reflect its currency attributes and drive the productivity of the people. How is wealth born? Wealth is created by the people's struggle.

And money is the catalyst that can mobilize the enthusiasm of the people. If the struggle of the people is lost, then money is meaningless.

Li Chaosheng has been in this world for several years, and he understands a truth that doing things must be appropriate to the place, and you can't do things that are too transcendent. The proletariat, the transformation that Li Chaosheng wants to complete, but Li Chaosheng finds it difficult in this world.

There is no soil for success, and besides, landlords are not human beings. Except for a few who are too ruthless to exploit, the rest should be reformed as much as possible. Only by using them can they improve their strength the fastest.

The current model in Lantian County is good. The landlords give up their interests in the land, and Li Chaosheng gives them commercial support. Earn the money back, and at the same time, Li Chaosheng can collect commercial taxes from the landlords.

What?Emperor Chongzhen did not allow commercial taxation.

Oh, that's okay, what we collect is not commercial tax, what we collect is city entry tax, shop management fee, urban road cleaning fee, it's not easy to collect a tax with a clever name.

As for the commercial tax, we didn't mention a word, in response to the imperial court's call, we will never collect commercial tax.

Is there anything wrong with that?
Commercial tax, I have to say that if a country does not collect commercial tax, it is purely brain-damaged. Lantian County’s business has just started, but the commercial tax collected has already accounted for one-third of the county’s total tax revenue. If this is fully developed Speaking of it, it is absolutely no problem to be equal to the agricultural tax, and it can even far exceed the agricultural tax.

In the end, if the economy really develops to that point, the agricultural tax may not even be collected. For example, in the real world, the agricultural tax was officially abolished on January 2006, [-].

This is a sign of a highly developed society, and it is also the goal that Li Chaosheng yearns for.

In this way, Lantian County was revived by Li Chaosheng. Nuoda’s Lantian County opened its own business era, but among many businesses, Li Chaosheng controlled the most critical points. Needless to say, salt and iron, the state stipulated that the court Second, Li Chaosheng controls the grain, and now the largest grain store in Lantian is owned by Li Chaosheng.

In addition, Li Chaosheng established the Grain Bureau, which is mainly responsible for distributing food stamps, and at the same time, distributing grain to all private grain stores in the county with unified prices.

It can be roughly regarded as that all the grain stores in the county are branches of the Grain Bureau. Li Chaosheng's Lantian grain stores are direct-operated stores, while other grain stores are franchise stores, but the goods are delivered by the main store.

Commercial development, folks, continue to build canals, grow food, and now half of the land in Lantian is planted with corn and potatoes. The high yield of these two kinds of food has made people in the county have a high awareness.

As for these two crops, after searching for a long time, Li Chaosheng found the original corn species without genetic modification in the real world.

The advantage of this kind of corn seed is that you can keep your own seeds and do not need to rely on imported corn seeds. The disadvantages are also obvious, and the yield is much worse than that of imported corn seeds.

But it doesn't matter, even if the yield of these corn seeds that can be planted is slightly lower, the yield is considered high in this late Ming world.

This corn seed was planted by Li Chaosheng on his own land in Tanggou Town, in order to save the seed.

It’s impossible not to keep the seeds. In the future, the land will be large, and there will be more corns. All kinds of high-yield corn seeds will exhaust themselves to death just by transporting the seeds in the future.

And these high-yielding corn species are all castrated. The first generation has big cobs and many corn kernels, but the second and third generations have really impressive yields.

There are more than [-] corn kernels growing on a big corn cob, how miserable it is.

So Li Chaosheng found the original corn seeds. In the future, this kind of corn seeds can be unified, so that there is no need to toss and turn the corn seeds. But now this corn is only sown in the corn field of Li Chaosheng Tanggou Town.

And Li Jinli looked at that piece of land a few times, with a look of displeasure. The corn cobs were too small, only two-thirds the size of other people's houses, and the yield was too low.

As for potatoes, sweet potatoes can be kept as seeds, but the storage time of these two things is not long. Compared with corn, the storage conditions are somewhat harsh.

Therefore, it can only be used as a staple food for a few months.

But recently there has been a vermicelli shop in Lantian County. This is a new industry, and it is said that it was opened by the county magistrate.

Lantian Fenfang!

Li Chaosheng saw the house with a big signboard in front of him, and walked in. As soon as he entered the house, the clerk in the house greeted him, and said to Li Chaosheng: "The county lord, you are here."

Li Chaosheng waved his hands and said, "Are you busy?"

After hearing this, the waiter said, "I just received an order from Yuxianlou for [-] catties of sweet potato vermicelli and [-] catties of potato vermicelli. We are working overtime to make them."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "By the way, how is business doing recently?"

The guy said: "It's okay, but there are not many people, basically those rich families come to try something new, and the poor families don't come."

Li Chaosheng didn't think there was any problem when he heard it. After all, making vermicelli was a waste of sweet potatoes. Although Lantian had some surplus food, it was not so rich.

Generally, wealthy households come to try something new, but Yuxianlou uses the most. The sweet potato vermicelli tastes very good. It tastes like meat when you put it in meat, and it tastes like vegetables when you put it in vegetables.

Whether it is stewed chicken or boiled cabbage, there is an extra taste in it, and this thing is very fresh. When it was first taken out, many wealthy households who had money and seen the world thought it was bird's nest.

Therefore, some people also call this fan Sai Bird's Nest.

Li Chaosheng asked the clerk, at this time someone came in with a pocket on his back, the clerk glanced at Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "Pick up the guests first."

After hearing this, the man stepped forward and looked at the old man carrying a sack in front of him.

"Master, what are you doing here?"

Hearing this, the old man was taken aback, looked at the waiter and said, "You guys are making bird's nests, right?"

The guy was stunned for a moment, not knowing what the old man was listening to and said with a smile: "Yes, but that thing is not called Saiyan's nest, but sweet potato flour, sir, would you like to make some?"

The old man nodded when he heard this, and reluctantly took off his back pocket and said, "I have twenty catties of sweet potatoes here, see how much you can make."

After hearing this, the man looked at the old man and said, "Master, we are average, seven catties of sweet potatoes and one catty of vermicelli."

"Ah, seven catties of sweet potatoes, this, this is too expensive."

After hearing this, the old man protected the sweet potato in his hand, looked at the waiter and said, "Can it be cheaper."

The man shrugged his shoulders and said, "I really can't save this."

Hearing this, the old man was a little disappointed and mentioned sweet potatoes to leave, but he turned around and looked at the waiter after he had just gone a dozen steps, and said, "I did it."

The clerk looked at the uncle's appearance, turned his head to look at Li Chaosheng and said, "Sure, sir, I'll give you three catties of powder for your twenty catties of sweet potatoes."

After hearing this, the uncle smiled a little more on his unhappy face and said, "Thank you then."

The clerk nodded, and turned around to take the sweet potato to the scale. At this time, Li Chaosheng looked at the old man with a smile and said, "Master, where is the family?"

"Blue Pass Town."

The old man said, Li Chaosheng smiled after hearing this, "Languan Town has a good harvest this year."

The old man's face cracked when he heard this, and he laughed out loud: "Thanks to the county lord, it's better than in previous years."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "That's good. If it wasn't for the harvest year, you would make three catties of vermicelli from twenty catties of sweet potatoes, which would be a bit..."

The old man sighed and said, "Isn't it a prodigal?"

Li Chaosheng smiled: "No, I'm just curious. Your old man likes vermicelli very much?"

The old man shook his head: "I haven't eaten."

"Oh, you haven't eaten it, so you want to make three catties of vermicelli?"

Hearing this, the old man smiled and said: "Hey, this year is good, and the family has a lot of food. A few days ago, there was a big girl who fled in our village. We exchanged [-] catties of corn for our daughter-in-law." .”

"I thought about how hard it was for our grandson's family to marry a daughter-in-law, so I bought ten catties of meat. I heard that this bird's nest stew was the best, so I thought about making some. I also have a sign when I go home. Isn't it face?"

Li Chaosheng laughed when he heard this, "This is the truth, haha..."

Li Chaosheng chatted with Lao Suntou for a few words, at this time the assistant took out the vermicelli and weighed it face to face, it was three catties high.

The old grandson went home cheerfully with the vermicelli. The vermicelli was made in advance by the workshop. It is so convenient and cannot be made now. It is too troublesome to make it now. It takes several days to ship it. Who can wait for you for several days.

At this time, Li Chaosheng went to the back workshop with his hands behind his back to inspect. When he arrived, there were several workers washing sweet potatoes. After washing the sweet potatoes, they cut them into pieces and put them in the stone mill for grinding.

After the sweet potatoes are ground, put the sweet potato powder and sweet potato water into a large basin. The big basin is full of water. When the sweet potato powder falls into the water, the decomposed starch is insoluble in water and sinks directly to the bottom of the basin. Pour it out, and what remains on the bottom of the basin is the primary starch.

That is, the sweet potato starch that big guys usually use for cooking.

The sweet potato starch precipitated, followed by wrapping the starch with a tofu bag, hanging it on the rack to drain the water, and drying it.

After it becomes dry starch, it is time to enter the process of making vermicelli. The starch is made into a paste with water, then the pot is boiled, water is boiled in the pot, and a shelf is placed on the pot for steaming.

Take a large ceramic plate and coat the inside with a layer of oil. At this time, pour some starch paste into the plate, and then steam it in the pan for 3 minutes. Open it to see that the sweet potato starch becomes transparent. A layer of sweet potato starch is glued on top of this transparent sweet potato flour cube.

Put it on the pot and steam for another 3 minutes, repeat this process, and finally you can get a large sweet potato vermicelli. At this time, use a knife to cut on the vermicelli, and cut it into strips to become vermicelli.

This is the most primitive method of making sweet potato flour. Machines are used in modern times, and the vermicelli pressed out by the machine are round, which cannot be made by ancient techniques.

Li Chaosheng browsed around and felt quite satisfied. Of course, this is judged according to the eyes of this era. If you use modern eyes, it is unqualified.

The reason is also very simple, the sanitary conditions are not good, the donkeys pulled by the mill, the donkey dung and eggs fell all over the floor, and the sweet potatoes were not washed very clean, but this is not important. In this era, it is good to have food. Hygienic conditions.

Li Chaosheng inspected a circle and was very satisfied with this. He encouraged the person in charge of the workshop and gave advice. After making sweet potato vermicelli, don't throw away the remaining residue, which can be used to raise pigs.

At this time, the person in charge of the workshop said with some embarrassment: "Xianzun, this sweet potato residue has been taken away, someone mixed some cornmeal with this sweet potato residue to make a kind of pancake, it tastes very good, and it is sold out gone."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng was taken aback, and then laughed. People can't eat enough these days, and pigs can eat some grass. Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng shook his head, turned and left.

At this time, it is the last stop of this trip, the new firearm camp.

The new firearm battalion is Li Chaosheng's painstaking effort in the past year. A battalion of 400 people is equipped with flintlock guns made by Laosuntou's artisan department. This is Li Chaosheng's trump card. It belongs to the battalion directly under the brigade. Gun, using quantitative bullets, leader Shi Xiaolei.

This army is a model team that Li Chaosheng will promote in the future, but the production ability of Laosuntou's artisan department cannot be improved, otherwise Li Chaosheng wants to arm the entire brigade to complete the firearms army.

But now with the strength of a battalion, Li Chaosheng also felt that he was formidably strong. At least facing the Tartars, Li Chaosheng felt that he could win.

(End of this chapter)