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Chapter 239 This is the way out for the people of Aba!

Nanxuanzak Zhai Ah Wu's ideas are avant-garde among the barbarians, but this does not mean that the barbarians in other villages will not change.

Bai Zhiqing's trip to the eighteen villages planted a seed in the hearts of the barbarians, and with the hard work of the gardener, this seed will germinate and grow vigorously with the passage of time.

At this time, the villagers of Nanxuan Zake Village hadn't thought so much, and they hadn't noticed much change. They were still immersed in the joy of welcoming County Magistrate Bai and his party.

The hospitable villagers, led by Ah Wu and Zha Langfa, warmly entertained Bai Zhiqing and his party.

After a sumptuous dinner, Zhalanva brought people the after-dinner fruit, the freshly ripened sugarcane on the mountain.

The first crop of sugarcane each year is not the best, but even so, each sugarcane is as tall as a person.A sugarcane is divided into three sections, each section is about two feet long, and a section of sugarcane is as tall as Yaya and half a person.

The soil on the surface of the sugarcane has been scrubbed clean, exposing the purple-black glossy skin, and the bud rings on the cane nodes have also been cut off with knives for gnawing.

Zha Langfa picked up two sections of sugar cane, and enthusiastically handed one section to each of Bai Zhiqing and Yaya.

"Master Bai, little daughter, this is the first stubble of sugarcane cut this year in the village. It's so sweet, you can try it."

Bai Zhiqing took the sugar cane and looked carefully, isn't this purple bamboo?Sugar cane is another name for bamboo by barbarians?Can this be eaten?

In Bai Zhiqing's perception, bamboo seedlings, namely bamboo shoots, are extremely delicious, but the fibers of mature bamboo are so thick that they can't be chewed at all, so only the legendary iron-eating beasts with excellent teeth can eat them.

The barbarian's teeth are just average, how can they be so good?
Sugarcane is a specialty of Lizhou. There is no such plant in Daqing outside of Lizhou. Most of the people in Daqing have never even heard of sugarcane, let alone eaten it.

It is very normal for Bai Zhiqing who traveled from the interstellar world not to know Gan Cane.

He looked at the sugarcane in his hand, not knowing what to say, but Yaya beside him had happily gnawed on the sugarcane.

As soon as she got the sugarcane, Yaya's supernatural talent started to work automatically, and all the information about the sugarcane was transmitted to her mind from the sugarcane in her hand, making her understand that it can be eaten, and it is delicious.

Yaya opened her small mouth, tore off a piece of purple-black cane husk with her small silver teeth, and chewed a couple of bites in her mouth, a stream of refreshing and sweet juice burst out of the wall.

Her big eyes lit up instantly: Wow~ so sweet~ delicious~ so delicious~

There was little juice in the cane husk, and it was squeezed dry within two strokes, and Yaya spit out the sweet residue at will, and bit off another piece of cane husk to continue her great business of gnawing cane.

Yaya quickly gnawed off the cane husks, revealing the juicy, slightly yellowish white fibers inside, which are the essence of sugarcane.

"Wow~" Yaya cheered in a low voice, licked her lips, opened her small mouth, and bit down a small piece of sugarcane pulp with her little silver teeth. It was sweet and crisp, and the sweet juice burst out of her mouth. It slides down the throat, it's so delicious~

After chewing up the juice in the fiber, Yaya immediately spit out the residue and gnawed the sugar cane one after another, enjoying it very much.

Seeing Yaya gnawing so happily, Bai Zhiqing swallowed unconsciously. It seemed that this kind of sugarcane that looked like bamboo was really edible, and it should be very delicious, so he followed suit and took a bite of sugarcane. In an instant, his Eyes lit up.

Bai Zhiqing's foodie attributes are not inferior to Yaya's at all, and he ate up a section of sugarcane in a short time.

As an adult and a magistrate of a county, Bai Zhiqing was still very reserved outside, even though he still had a lot to say, he still restrained his appetite, and stopped talking after eating a piece of sugar cane.

But Yaya was different. She ate as much as she wanted. She ate six sections of sugarcane in a row, and she didn't stop until she couldn't eat anymore. Her stomach was bulging and full of sugarcane water.

After she decided to go back, she would also plant a lot of sugarcane in the county office, so that she could eat it every day!

Seeing that Yaya likes sugarcane, Ah Wu smiled kindly, and said, "Since the little daughter likes sugarcane, I will bring some back tomorrow."

Yaya responded with a grin, "That's great ~ thank you Wu~"

"You're welcome, little daughter. There are so many sugarcanes on this mountain that you can't finish them every year. However, sugarcane is indeed a good thing. If you can't eat it up, you can make it into sugar."

"Sugar?" Upon hearing Tang Yaya's interest again, she rolled her eyes and asked, "Ah Wu, is that red sugar made of sugar cane?"

Ah Wu nodded, "Yes, sucrose is made of sugarcane."

Yaya has decided that she will plant a lot of sugar cane, and she can make sugar if she can’t finish eating it. She will soak it in the sugar jar every day. It’s beautiful~

Listening to the chatter of the old and the young, a flash of inspiration flashed in Bai Zhiqing's mind.

Sugar!

Perhaps this is the way out for the people of Aba!
In the past two months, Bai Zhiqing walked through the eighteen villages, thinking every day how to improve the lives of the people in the eighteen villages.

Lizhou is mostly mountainous, and so is Aba.

The Eighteen Villages of Aba are all built in the valley. Apart from houses and fields, the limited land of the valley is bounded by mountains and forests. These mountains are not suitable for farming and rice cultivation, so the cultivated land in Aba is very limited.

Even if Yaya improves the grain seeds in the future and increases the yield per mu of rice, but with a fixed base, the overall increase in rice yield is very limited.

Only relying on improving grain varieties can at most make the people of Aba less hungry, and it is still far from getting rich.

Bai Zhiqing also thought about taking advantage of his wife and daughter's expertise in medicine to guide the barbarians to plant medicine on the mountain, and then concoct it and sell it to other states.

However, the precious medicinal materials are perennial herbs, and the investment time is too long, so they cannot be effective in a short period of time.

But sugarcane is different. It is an annual plant that grows every year. It does not occupy arable land and can be grown on mountains.

There are not many other things in Aba, but there are many mountains. If sugar cane can be planted in a large area, and these sugar canes can be made into sugar that is convenient for storage and transportation, benefits can be seen within a year.

Sugar is much more expensive than pork in Daqing. A catty of pork is only [-] yuan, while candied gourds coated with a thin layer of caramel can be sold for [-] yuan.

Although candied gourds not only contain sugar, but also hawthorn, but hawthorn is worthless, you can buy a catty for a penny, but the most expensive thing is sugar, and a catty of sugar can be sold for at least [-] pennies!

The reason why sugar is expensive is that the sugar eaten by the people in the twelve prefectures except Lizhou is caramel.

Caramel is made from grain, and only four or five catties of grain can make one catty of sugar.

Expensive reason.

I don't know how many catties of sugar cane are needed to boil a catty of sucrose, is the conversion rate high?
Bai Zhiqing joined the conversation of the elderly and the young, and asked, "Ah Wu, how many pieces of sugarcane can be boiled to make a catty of sucrose?"

This question stunned Ah Wu for a moment. Every year, they turn all the sugarcane that they can’t eat into candy. Count how many sugar canes are used.

"This... I've never calculated it before." Ah Wu was old and smart, knowing that Bai Zhiqing would not ask questions for no reason, so he asked, "What does Magistrate Bai mean by asking these things?"

(End of this chapter)