Villager of Daming

Chapter 1021 Transportation is the most important resource hidden
"Doo La Duo, Duo La Duo, Duo La Duo, Duo La Duo... Your Highness, would you like some more soup?"

Songs and dances were going on, and the palace maids and eunuchs continued to perform at noon. It was the laughter of Hongchen that they had learned.

The palace maid who was pushing the cart and refilling the soup hummed the musical notation and asked questions one by one with a smile.

"No, let's drink beer! It's too hot to drink liquor." Zhu Xi waved his hand.

When he drinks mutton soup, he just pours a little bit of soup, not a full bowl, just to cover the haggis and mutton. He drinks it with a spoon and takes two sips to save on seasonings.

When you want to drink more, add half a bowl of soup. This will bring out the taste of mutton and haggis.

Add one bowl of soup at a time. Unless you fill more than half the bowl with dry food, it will be full of seasoning and mutton soup flavor.

People who don't have money will have to add soup again and again when they have a meal of haggis soup. Anyway, the soup doesn't cost anything, unlike the soup that will cost money later.

When the sergeants have cakes, they don't make the dough. They use cold water to knead the dough. When baking, they don't add oil. They put some oil in the first pan of cakes to moisten the pan, otherwise it won't stick to the pan.

Soak the baked cakes in mutton soup and tear them into small pieces. Yes, they are mutton steamed buns.

The history of mutton steamed buns is very vague. Yokan is not mutton steamed buns. It should be suitable for noodle soup. If there are steamed buns, you must mention the word steamed buns, or boil the flour with mutton, add salt, coriander, chopped green onion and so on.

Just like repairing a wooden boat, when repairing it, you don't remove the original wood, but add a new layer of wood. After repairing a few layers, the boat must be eliminated, so start the fire! Even if you want to change it into a boat, you can't change it. The wood is patched and rotten, and it's eaten by insects and rats...

The same goes for roads. If they are not dug out, they will be filled up if they sink, and then flattened. However, the road surface cannot be higher than the level of the surrounding houses and yards.

Therefore, grinding is very important, just like today's craftsmen work hard to use stones to make upper and lower grinding discs of different sizes.

There is no shortage of stones. They are transported here. The craftsmen observe the texture of some stones and then use electric equipment to buzz, click, click, click, click, click…

Soon the upper and lower grinding discs of a stone grinder will be ready, and then use an electric drill to drill large and small holes.

There are limitations, that is, whether ordinary people can afford it, and ordinary people cannot afford to drink mutton soup. People who buy mutton give sheep to the water, just like buying pork, and the bones are even more casual.

The smaller ones that cannot be pounded can be handled as you like. These will be picked up in soil baskets on poles and placed on the roadside.

The common people had to do the most basic work and move the cut off scraps aside. They could not throw them away. The craftsmen would then use power tools to make the pound.

The main road in the county is a gravel road. It is not muddy when it rains. Sometimes it sinks when it rains, so gravel is directly paved on it to repair it.

Not to mention the apprentices. These apprentices are all the children of good craftsmen, and they have been beaten and starved since childhood.

The local people wanted to help, but were refused. The people were in a mess, disorganized, and delayed in their work.

According to the technical level of wheat flour grinding, all that is ground is whole wheat flour, with only the wheat bran removed.

They don't eat, they are anxious, they work more while it's daylight, they drink mung bean water when they're hungry, and they light a lamp after dark. The light is not natural enough, unless they use the kind of lighting layout in the delivery room.

The royal palace's sergeants set aside some to provide assistance. In this industry, when lifting a big stone, the sergeants know how to cooperate with each other.

Whether the wheat grains without wheat bran are ground or pounded, the whole wheat must be turned into powder, and it is impossible to beat it down layer by layer.

Craftsmen originally have this kind of spirit. They don't know how to be hungry when they work, and they are very serious.

If you don’t have time to grind flour, for example, if you don’t have a grinder and you don’t want to pound or grind it with a crucible, you can eat steamed or boiled wheat.

In order to prevent water accumulation, open ditches are left on both sides, and culverts are basically not needed. Dead cats and dogs cannot be found in culverts. If you open them after they stink, you will get sick.

The common people themselves will clean the open ditches, rake out the leaves, straw sticks and other things from the ditches at the door, and pile them at the door of their courtyards. When they are dry, they will take them home to fertilize the land.

"Ling'er." Zhu Xi picked up a piece of green onion from the fried mutton. He looked at the dishes on the small plate on the table and found that there was no fried mutton liver. "What are you doing?" Ling'er took Xie Qiaoer and her maid to eat the best mutton tripe and stuff it with water.

"Where's the lamb's liver? It's not in the soup, and it's not in the vegetables yet." Zhu Xi looked around, but there was none in the others either.

"It's for pregnant women and postpartum women. It's braised. It's not very salty, but it's delicious. What's the matter?" Ling'er swallowed her saliva and asked.

"It's okay, just ask, not bad!"

Zhu Xi had nothing to say. He couldn't compete with pregnant women and mothers for food.

"Isn't there sheep blood?" Ling'er added.

Zhu Xi nodded: "Yes, sheep blood is also very fragrant."

"There is still a shortage of supplies, food and land to grow grass. It is worth spending more money to build a road from the grassland to here."

When Zhu Fan was talking, he looked north. There was grassland there. There was no shortage of cultivated land in the grassland, and there was more grass.

Whether transporting livestock or fodder is a problem. Grass basically cannot be transported, and the local area needs to plant things on the dry yellow land.

"Li Zhang, between those ravines..." Zhu Fan turned to look at the Li Zhang.

"Your Highness, first use the good land and technology we have to solve the problem of food and clothing. Don't waste a lot of manpower and material resources planting trees and grass in far away places."

The director knows what the other person wants to ask and dispels the other person's wrong ideas.

So many places need to take their time. There is no economic benefit now. People don't want to go green, they just want to have enough to eat.

Zhu Di stood up and looked north, but couldn't see anything. He sat down again and said, "First send people to blow up, level and repair the road to Peiping. From now on, we need to do more trade with Third Brother's place."

"His Royal Highness King Yan is right, he will send out the manpower soon to speed up our journey.

After the road is built, you can collect some tolls from the merchants who use that road, and then use the tolls to build the road.

Bridges were built where bridges needed to be built, so that ordinary people... would not be able to come over, unless roads were opened to lure away relatives, and the number was too small.

As long as the land route is easier than the water route for normal ships, and the merchants are willing to pay the toll, it shouldn't be too expensive.

If the two places develop well, or if we stabilize Dingliao Duwei, it will be worthwhile to build a railway from Taiyuan Prefecture to Peiping.

Although Dingliao Duwei has resources, we cannot directly give them to the Jurchens, and we cannot tell them the location of the mine.

Once they lost their sense of dependence on Ming Dynasty, Ming Dynasty had to take action against them in advance. What could have been gentleness turned into force in the end. "

The district chief agreed that roads were indeed needed, and railways must be built.

The Dingliao Guardsmen themselves are rich in resources and have whatever they want. The actual controlling force is the Jurchens. Tell them and teach them techniques and that's it!

They would rather transport things from various parts of the Ming Dynasty and exchange them with the other party, while expanding the actual control area, rather than directly utilize mineral resources locally.

Unless the minerals are within the control of Ming Dynasty, if you have oil, I will tell you that you don’t have it. You must buy it from me. I won’t teach you the oil refining technology yet. You can buy refined oil!

Can you light the lamp with paraffin? Sold to you cheaply, half cheaper than butter wax.

The leader will sell you kerosene lamps and kerosene by the way. This is brighter than a candle, right? It's expensive for a reason.

(End of this chapter)