I farmed and raised cubs in ancient times

Chapter 93 Paying back the money, sugarcane juice
The process is fairly smooth. Although the power can only be replaced by manpower, it saves a lot of effort compared to purely manual juicing.

Although the ancients did not form a complete set of theories in mechanics, they were very good at using ingenuity, which is a way to save effort.

Jiang Zhi made use of the principle of stone mill to make the juicer, which can be said to have mastered the skill to the extreme.

"Sister-in-law, the juicer is ready." Ye Erlang added a few sections of sugarcane that had been cut into small pieces into the groove, and then pushed the graphite to drive the spherical stone below. The sugarcane was crushed under the action of pressure and friction. Squeeze out the juice.

Sugar cane juice flows down the groove and into the wooden barrel next to it.

"Erlang's skills are more exquisite than last time." Jiang Zhi praised Ye Erlang.

"Hey." Ye Erlang rubbed the back of his head and smiled embarrassedly.

"With this, several thousand catties of sugarcane in our two acres of land can be converted into sugarcane juice, which can then be boiled into sugar."

The time for the sugarcane to mature was getting closer and closer, so Jiang Zhi went to the town and heard from An's that Jiang Yu would be back in three days.The Jiang family has more than ten acres of sugar cane, and at least two juicers are needed, so Ye Erlang was left in the town by Jiang Zhi.

Although Yong'an Town is called a town, it is actually just a big village that looks a little richer. Before leaving the town, you can see a large area of ​​farmland.

More than half of the Jiang family's field is planted with sugar cane, and the rest is planted with grain.

During the time of the locust plague, Jiang Yu was out of town, and it would take him 20 days to rush back when he received the news.

So now Jiang Yu is still on the road.

After talking with An's for a while, Jiang Zhi got up to look for Jiang Ling'an.His private school takes an hour's break at noon every day, and he usually goes home to rest for a while.

"My son, why didn't you tell Dad in advance when you came?" Jiang Ling'an pulled out the book pinned to his waist, and then let Jiang Zhi into the room to talk, and the two sat at the low table outside the main room.

Jiang Zhi took out two taels of gold ingots from her cloth pocket and pushed them in front of Jiang Ling'an, saying, "Father, you sent ten taels of silver over on the seventh day of Dalang's first seven days, and then my elder brother gave me another twenty taels of silver. Here is Two taels of gold, now that the family is doing well, this money has to be returned to Father and Big Brother."

"This... oops! My money is for you, not lent to you. You child and your father are polite! And your elder brother, do you think he looks like someone who is short of money?" Jiang Ling'an Almost rolled my eyes.

This child has not grown up with him since he was a child. He has developed a strong character in his grandfather's house. He is most afraid of contaminating others and taking advantage of petty advantages. The same is true when facing a large family of blood relatives.

No wonder the eldest daughter-in-law asked him to pretend to be a good person to give money last time.If the child knew that it was her sister-in-law's money, he would not be able to return it on the spot.

"I understand what daddy means, but now our two families are working together to do something, and some things need to be clarified. I don't treat you as outsiders, but I treat the money as a loan from the very beginning. If If I don’t pay back now that I’m rich, and I’m down and out in the future, don’t you want to lick my bottomless pit?” Jiang Zhi said.

Jiang Ling'an's expression changed: "What kind of nonsense is this?"

"Where does it become unreasonable?" Jiang Zhi couldn't help saying, and stuffed the gold ingot into Jiang Ling'an's arms.

Although the gold was rewarded, it did not bear official traces. It should be paid by Li Jintian's local government.

Under normal circumstances, gold and silver would not be used when traveling in rivers and lakes, unless copper coins were not exchanged.It will be very troublesome to find change with gold and silver, not only to be weighed, but also to be cut.When encountering raw ones, cut out a lot of fine pieces and stick them together with wax.

When the wax block has accumulated too much, the wax will be melted and evaporated, and the whole block of gold and silver will be burned out again.

Therefore, the general currency in Daning is copper coins, in addition to paper notes-commonly known as Jiaozi.In fact, Jiang Zhi prefers to call it a check, or a bank note.

You can go to the bank with the ticket to exchange for the money on the silver ticket.

Of course, these are just heard but not seen.

Her current assets cannot reach the level of using paper money.

Jiang Ling'an was helpless, but when he thought that Jiang Zhi was also a person who had been rewarded by the government, he couldn't help but feel a little bit happier.

The son in the family is not up-to-date, but the married daughter is up-to-date, and the grandson in the future will certainly be no bad.

Hahahaha, his Jiang family will still be saved in the future!
As for why not put hope in the belly of the daughter-in-law, Jiang Ling'an said that the daughter-in-law looks gentle and gentle on the surface, but she is actually a tigress.

Manage the house tightly so that not a drop of water can leak out.

Still his little padded jacket is very comfortable.

Ye Heng didn't come with her today, Jiang Zhi had dinner at her mother's house, so she ordered six large water tanks from a shop selling water tanks in the town, and then entrusted someone in the town who could help with errands to buy them for the county. Three cauldrons.Running errands naturally requires a fee for running errands, twenty cents for the round trip.

On the way back, Jiang Zhi once regretted that she shouldn't have gone out, and would have to spend money if she went out.

Three days later, Jiang Yu saw the prototype of the juicer made by Ye Erlang in his backyard, and felt miraculous.

Before he could sit on the bench, he rode his horse to the countryside to look for Jiang Zhi.

Jiang Zhi is guarding her family's two acres of sugarcane, which is approaching maturity. If it is not guarded properly, many people in the village will take the sheep by hand.Those people would lose a sugar cane for one of them, and she was waiting, waiting for Jiang Yu to bring back the news.

What is the market for sugarcane in other places? You can buy one for a few pennies.

In this way, she can put up a signboard in the village to sell it.

"Little sister, I just heard sister Xiaozheng say that you are here, and you are indeed here." Jiang Yu ran to the bottom of the soil bag in twos and twos, and sat on the steps with Jiang Zhi.

"I couldn't come back during the locust plague. Fortunately, God blessed me, and the birds came out to deal with the mess." Jiang Yu was still afraid for a while when he thought about it now. Without those birds, his family's fields might not be able to keep all the food.

And the sugarcane he and his younger sister had been looking forward to for a whole year, if they were all destroyed by the locusts, I don't know how sad it would be.

"Yeah, I was scared to death at that time." Jiang Zhi also had lingering fears.

"Brother, did you find out clearly? How much is this sugar cane per catty? How much is the syrup sold?" Jiang Zhi asked again.

Jiang Yudao: "One is less than ten coins, six coins of ordinary quality, eight coins of slightly better quality, green syrup color, so much in a honeypot, it is worth two pennies."

That is worthless.

Syrup sugar is a kind of sugar between white sugar and granulated sugar. Daning’s white sugar technology has not yet reached the level of producing granulated sugar. The syrup produced is a kind of syrup that can separate out granulated sugar, and there are many impurities in it. It's also not as transparent.

To achieve this step is already the highest sugar-making technology in Daning.

The only difference is that the water inside is thrown off by centrifugal force, so that you can get granulated sugar, but it is not white.

(End of this chapter)