Villager of Daming

Chapter 1327 Planting a Back Garden Outside (Thirteen Other Chapters)

"Okay, this is a great idea. Oh! Conch! I remember it comes from Fuzhou?"

Zhu Yuanzhang liked the dirty tricks given by Xiaqiu Village the most. These tricks harm others and benefit oneself, and benefiting oneself is the most important.

"There are many places of production, the closest one is near Fuzhou, where local people catch them on the beach by raking snails.

The navy's ship went over, loaded the mud and nursed it for a while, and when it came back it had just spit out all the mud.

A small portion is kept in the village, and the rest is sent to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, where it can be sold for a good price.

The best-looking one is the Babylonia square-spotted, which is large and beautiful, and is suitable as a decoration. "

Zhu Wentian said this, but did not mention why it was not sold in Nanjing. During the earthquake in the capital, no one had the leisure to eat seafood.

The earthquake delayed production and construction, impacted the economy, and more than a dozen state capitals came to a standstill for at least three days.

If it had not been prepared in advance, providing food and drink for the resettled personnel would have been a problem, not to mention finding a flat place to stay.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, "Alas! There is nothing we can do about it. At least we have made arrangements. Otherwise, there would be countless casualties.

In a few days, river crabs will be produced in large quantities. Now there are many sea crabs, and prosperous places like them.

People's lives have become better, and things that they once were reluctant to eat and thought should not be eaten are gradually becoming easier to sell.

Who would eat crabs if they are hungry? There is not much meat, not to mention oil.

They were so hungry that they kept crying out, "Where can I buy sesame oil, vinegar, soy sauce, and ginger oil? Oh! I can't even afford salt."

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed with emotion but his hands did not stop moving. He first served some blanched snails.

Continue forward, there is a big pot of spicy seafood in front, more than ten kinds of shelled seafood have been separated, you can choose the greasy ones yourself, this one is the best to go with wine.

Children also eat spicy food. Xiaqiu Village does not prohibit children from eating spicy food, unless they have gastrointestinal discomfort or oral ulcers, in which case they take medicine! In other words, they are restricted from eating spicy food.

But usually people with this kind of minor illness can recover in two days because there are medicines.

Like the flower snail, it is a medicinal herb itself. The fresh one is used to treat constipation, and the dried one is used to treat nosebleeds.

In many places, there is no condition to eat fresh fish, so other medicinal herbs can be used as a substitute. Dried fish are used when there is too much catch, such as when boats use bottom nets directly.

The bottom net can also be used to catch corals, especially the blood corals in the waters around Japan. People cannot go down to the water, so they can only use diving equipment to catch corals in shallow waters, but in deep waters, they can only use destructive fishing.

Zhu Yuanzhang served himself a pile of seafood and returned to his seat. Others also stared at the seafood. The main reason was that there were few non-seafood dishes today. If a boatload of seafood was not cooked, it would not be fresh if they did something else.

There were four large swimming crabs in front of Zhu Biao. He held a simple demolition tool and asked, "We seem to have seen the most swimming crabs?"

The head of the village was prying the crab shells off, and he stopped when he heard this: "Your Highness, we caught a lot, and we can't eat all of this. We can still have a meal tonight, but we can't eat them if they die.

Fortunately, we were well prepared. When we saw something about to die, we immediately put it into a jar and calcine it thoroughly. We then ground it into powder and stored it as medicine.

In fact, if you use the freezing method, you can keep it for three or four days if it’s dead, and you can keep it for another day if it’s cooked.

Keep these two claws, the children love to eat them, let them play with them in the afternoon."

The head of the village broke off the two big claws of the crab and said the meat inside was the easiest to pick out and had a simple flavor, a special kind of freshness and fragrance.

Children's mouths are always busy, and more importantly, their legs are always busy running around, which helps them digest food quickly and recover quickly.

After mealtime, we rely on snacks to get nutrients.

As for being picky about food, it’s actually because you haven’t done it well. If you have done it well, there won’t be any problem of being picky about food.

Some children don't like to eat cowpeas, garlic sprouts, and lentils.

If lentils are cooked normally, they will have a raw bean flavor and a numb texture. Cowpeas have a stronger raw bean flavor. Adults enjoy the crispness of garlic sprouts, but children still feel that they are not cooked through when they bite them.

If you use lentils as filling, you won’t be able to taste the original texture. If you fry the cowpeas and garlic sprouts and then put them back into the pot, adults will find that the crispy texture is gone and the raw bean flavor is gone, but children will eat it.

Some people like to eat crispy bamboo shoots, while others hate them. Children will not complain after eating them, but will just refuse to eat them again.

If you stew or boil bamboo shoots for a while longer, they will taste like potato chips, chewy and chewy.

Some children just want to eat something crispy, so they won’t eat stewed kidney beans. In that case, they can just cut them into shreds and stir-fry them, adding a little vinegar to make them less chewy.

People who don’t eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes can sometimes accept tomato and egg soup, which means they hate the sourness of tomatoes or the fishy smell of eggs.

The same goes for scrambled eggs with cucumber, especially those with dried shrimps. If you find the dried shrimps prickly, you can replace them with meaty shrimps.

Xiaqiu Village never forces anyone to like every dish; people will accept the same ingredients with different cooking methods.

If he doesn’t eat braised pork but only rice, try making him a roujiamo with braised pork. The prerequisite is that the braised pork must be well-made and not greasy.

People in Xiaqiu Village have personally experienced the effectiveness of this operation. Sometimes they even make up stories for children to get them to eat a certain ingredient.

"It will be fine in a few days." Empress Ma handed her granddaughter, who had finished her milk and was trying not to sleep, drooling when she saw others eating, to the Crown Princess. "It hasn't caused too much damage, and the people will soon return to their normal lives."

The Crown Princess gently kissed her daughter's face and said, "Sleep when you are full, eat when you wake up, and hum when you are happy, just like a little pig."

"My surname is Zhu." Concubine Sun smiled and came forward to take a look: "Did I have any trouble last year? Jiuyue has been sending people to watch me. I was so angry that I didn't dare to take medicine carelessly."

She had been holding back something to say, and she finally said it today. The earthquake was over and no one was staring at her anymore, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

Last September, Xiaqiu Village sent someone to look after her. Although no one said anything, she could feel it.

The strong women from Xiaqiu Village who had given birth to many children surrounded her, wearing things used by the village guards.

It was only when the village guard got married this year that he realized that Hanhan was the master.

Why did they do this for no reason? At that time, all the mats that Hanhan used to sleep on in the temple and the mountain temple were moved out.

Concubine Sun didn't say anything until the earthquake finally happened and she felt that everything was fine, so she asked.

Everyone immediately looked at Hanhan. Hanhan was amazing! He always made arrangements in advance, and the most obvious one was Wei Su.

The village head told His Majesty, who immediately sent someone over. By the time they arrived, Wei Su was almost dying.

Later on, every time someone would be mentioned first to come and see the doctor, such as Zeng Lu, the chief official of the provincial examinations in the capital, and the sweet dew falling on Zhongshan Mountain.

Wei Su and Zeng Lu were both alive and very pious to Xiaqiu Village. Whenever they knew they were coming, they would burn incense and take a bath.

"Don't worry, anything, and be at peace, eh! Hehehehehe..."

Zhu Wentian had to speak up. He arranged for people to watch over Concubine Sun. He was still outside at the time. He was worried that Concubine Sun did not die of illness, but was harmed by someone, so he asked the women in the village to look after her at all times.

There is no such thing as physical weakness, what if there is another accident? The historical records are not detailed.

Women who have given birth are generally strong and healthy, and dare to fight. Taking his things with them is a kind of psychological and spiritual support.

The mat he slept on was thick. He had low body fat and was heavy, so a thin mat would have been crushed. The thick mat was very useful in blocking weapons.

He also has a knife! The woman also carries a knife for killing livestock and poultry, not to ward off evil spirits, but to kill people at critical moments.

Upon hearing this, Concubine Sun had an expression that said, "Thank you, Hanhan. I really haven't lived enough. Now that life is good, we should enjoy it more."

"Who says it's not true? Live one more day, see one more day. Who would have thought life could be like this? Water, heating, lights, telephone, train.

Now we even have large air conditioners and cold storage, so there will definitely be a lot of good things in the future.

Oh! How is the sound coordination for that movie? I've seen pantomimes before, without sound, but I could understand them. "

Empress Ma also did not want to die early. A few years ago, she could never have imagined that there would be so many fun things, especially when going to the toilet. No matter how luxuriously it was decorated or what kind of incense was burned, she still had to use a clean bucket.

Now there are toilets and squat flush urinals, which are usually used by palace maids and eunuchs. They are kept very clean and are much better than before.

The twelve hours of boiling water for drinking and bathing saved the palace maids and eunuchs a lot of trouble, and they all looked pleasing to the eye.

Especially in winter, when the heating is on, sometimes you have to open the windows, otherwise it will be too hot and not so humid.

In summer, right now, turn on the air conditioner and cover yourself with a tussah silk quilt.

The entire imperial city was brightly lit, with no blind spots. The generators were always generating electricity, so it would be a waste if not used.

As for the cost, it’s nothing more than burning some coal, and there is so much coal that it’s not worth much.

Add transparent windows and use fish tanks to raise fish, how can life be like this?
Zhu Wentian didn't know that Empress Ma was always recalling the good times and comparing his technology with normal technology in history.

He was about to speak when the village head spoke first: "That's good. If it weren't for the earthquake, the arrangements for the Ghost Festival would be two days away, so we can't show movies. Mid-Autumn Festival..."

"Mid-Autumn Festival, watching a color movie with sound during Mid-Autumn Festival, this thing is amazing."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the head of the village and nodded slightly. It was indeed not suitable to watch a movie now. The earthquake had just ended and the people were still waiting to be arranged! There would be another earthquake on the third day of the twelfth lunar month. It would be enough to watch a movie on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month and then start to deal with the affairs of the twelfth lunar month.

……

In the blink of an eye, it was the Zhongyuan Festival. The imperial court took out firecrackers to celebrate in the areas affected by the earthquake. This earthquake that was prevented in advance was worth celebrating, and by the way, it was also a way to use fireworks to drive away evil spirits. The people believed in this.

The officials and their families have not returned home. Some people's houses were damaged by the earthquake and are currently being repaired. They will do some simple work and then tear down the houses and build new ones.

As data continued to arrive, people began to resume production, demolished their houses but did not build new ones, waiting for the next earthquake.

The biggest problem at the moment is winter heating. It’s the third day of the twelfth lunar month, which is January 2, 1376 in the Gregorian calendar, and it’s very cold!
"It's better than not knowing there will be another earthquake and rebuilding the house now. The house is being built again and again... Oh!

Therefore, don’t write any more letters saying that we should move Xiaqiu Village to a distant place. It would be better to kill us!

Move to a distant place and leave Xiaqiu Village for others to rebel? Come! Drink to win! "

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his glass and said something, telling the person who gave him bad advice to stop talking. He said this in front of Xiaqiu Village and his ministers.

As for whoever said he would not mention it, they have good intentions after all, maybe they do! Don't block the way for speech.

The ministers said: "May the heavens help you with virtue, and may the whole world be peaceful and prosperous. May your majesty be blessed forever."

Everyone was in sync and shouted out their congratulatory words, pretending they hadn't heard what His Majesty had said before.

Zhu Wentian naturally said: "Heaven hehehe, sea hehehe, saint hehehe."

As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, and many ministers who participated in the first audience with His Majesty from Xiaqiu Village were also stunned.

That’s what Hanhan shouted at that time, it seems like it was yesterday.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head and drank a glass of beer, and kept that posture: "Yichang, have you cried in the temple?"

"Ah?" The head of the village was stunned, then shook his head: "It's an earthquake! How could I have the leisure to do that? I just went over to burn incense and that was it. I didn't say a word, really didn't say a word!
After the third day of the twelfth lunar month has passed and the people have been settled, we will cry on the Little New Year or the 30th.

I have to write a script. It’s getting harder and harder to cry now! There’s too much content and life is too good. I can’t cry without brewing it for a while. Alas~!”

"Hahahaha..." The ministers burst into laughter. Everyone knew that the head of Xiaqiao Village would cry in the ancestral hall during festivals and show off his achievements to his ancestors.

Everyone felt that if it weren't for the protection of the village guards, the ancestors of Xiaqiu Village would definitely call the head of the village down and ask him to give a detailed report. It was so damn hateful!
"Speaking of which, another batch of ships are about to return, bringing back the coffee that Brother Hanhan mentioned, as well as Chat.

These things must be planted and produced according to the arrangements of Xiaqiu Village to avoid drug addiction.

This includes tobacco brought back from distant continents, which, like opium poppies, must be banned from daily use by the people.”

At this time, Zhu Biao suddenly talked about the team returning from "Africa".

The telegram has already said that there is a lot of gold, and according to the location given by Xiaqiu Village, there are also many beautiful diamonds.

How much gold is there? There is a river where you can scoop out irregularly shaped gold beans by using a net to scoop up the sand.

But Hanhan doesn't care about the gold and diamonds. Hanhan wants coffee and khat, saying that coffee, cocoa and tea will be the world's three major annual beverages in the future.

And khat is a medicine, and it provides another option compared to things that can be extracted from other medicinal herbs.

But the people were not allowed to eat anything, including cocoa, potatoes, and corn from the land, including tobacco.

Some things are strictly prohibited for civilian use and must only be used when there is an illness. Just tell the people.

The people were actually very obedient and said that arsenic was medicine. They also knew that arsenic could not be taken casually, so no one would buy that thing. The key point was that the pharmacy would not sell it.

Anyone who buys arsenic needs to register, and this has been the case since the Tang and Song dynasties.

Now that medicine is free, the requirements are stricter. It’s not just a problem of addiction, but a problem of the medical system.

No matter if it is a doctor, a physician, a doctor of medicine, or an imperial physician, if there is a problem, the person will be beheaded. If the problem is more serious, the entire nine generations of the family will be executed. The reward for reporting the problem is very high.

The key is to report it, allow fishing, and send people to fish for law enforcement. Needless to say, if anyone is fooled, the first step is to arrest them and confiscate all their property...

The people are greedy. When they see such a good thing, they will also go fishing. They don’t care how many people you have cured. Anyway, I will cheat you if I can make tens or hundreds of strings of cash.

Therefore, the people at Huimin Pharmacy and the Herbal Medicine Store were extremely cautious and would rather fail than make a mistake.

Privately-run pharmacies are even more frightening. They have to use whatever medicine is needed, and you have to see the patient and feed the medicine to the patient yourself.

Otherwise, no one wants to be cheated, their shoulders are too weak and the burden is too heavy.

“The oil palm there is good, but there are few places suitable for growing it in Ming Dynasty, mainly at the equator where the sun shines closest to the earth.

That's where the country of Srivijaya is located, and that's where we get oil palm, but it's too far away.

We should let Srivijaya plant it in places similar to the equator, and then we can buy it and exchange it first, until they recognize the treasure notes of the Ming Dynasty. "

When the village head heard about the situation in Africa, he remembered the oil palm crop that Hanhan mentioned.

In Guangzhou of the Ming Dynasty, there is also the colorful land in the south that can be planted, but the place is difficult to manage, the population is limited, and other things need to be planted.

The current oil crops in the Ming Dynasty are soybean oil, rapeseed oil, tea seed oil, cotton seed oil, sesame oil, and sesame oil. Some of them require special smelting processes, otherwise they will be poisonous.

Then there are corn oil, sunflower oil, peanut oil, and olive oil.

Oil crops need diversity. Hanhan said that yield is not important, but they cannot occupy good arable land.

Because from the perspective of the upper class, arable land is the foundation of people's livelihood, rather than just for cash crop use.

Then low-yield oil crops can be sold at high prices and find places to grow them.

So what if it's grown outside? You have to go through customs, no, the Maritime Customs Office to get in.

The oil you buy outside costs ten cents per pound, but after passing through the Maritime Customs, it costs one hundred coins per pound. It’s up to you to buy it or not, it’s a luxury item.

If the price is low, rich people will not buy it! They will buy it at a high price, and the price will be gradually increased and never reduced.

"Yes! Yes!" Zhu Wentian said, "Let them grow oil outside. They can produce a lot of oil in three years, which is much better than pine nuts, which take decades.

Guide them to plant, and we don't need to worry about them, the ordinary people. As long as their superiors are willing to exchange something for our good products, they will support planting.

It is hot in the equatorial region, and our cooling oil is hard currency. Wind oil is not available because of its high cost and difficulty in storage. It needs to be stored in porcelain bottles or glass bottles, which are currently not available to the general public.

If a bottle of Fengyoujing doesn't cost tens or hundreds of strings of coins, it can't reflect the sense of luxury, just like the orchid perfume in our village that uses ambergris as a fixative.

The trees in the equatorial region are growing in a mess now, so it is better to grow cash crops. We can buy the good woods such as native rosewood, ebony, and sumac at low prices.

No, I won’t buy it, I just say I’ll just use it as ballast wood. These hardwoods are very good for building houses and making furniture.”

Zhu Wentian introduced the things about the equatorial region close to the Ming Dynasty. There are also places in the equatorial region in Africa and South America.

But it’s too far away, not as good as Southeast Asia.

Nowadays, trees like huanghuali are not valuable, including real sandalwood and Brazilian iron trees. There are too many of them.

Since ancient times, the Chinese have liked to use hardwood to build houses and make Qiangong Babu beds. Hardwood is difficult to process, just like jadeite, so hardwood is expensive and jadeite is not popular. Jadeite, like jadeite, is too difficult to carve.

Now with new tools, these are no longer a problem.

Zhu Wentian actually wanted to learn from the later great powers in North America and turn Southeast Asia into a banana plantation.

This is the case in Central America. For example, if you go there to buy daily consumer goods such as bananas and coffee, they will beat you up if you are not satisfied.

This was the model of the British East India Company, and the United States naturally followed suit.

The current Ming Dynasty has no choice but to learn from this, because historical experience has told many people that if you are nice to others, they will take advantage of your kindness and turn against you at any time.

If you give a beggar ten yuan every day and then stop giving him one day, will the beggar understand you?
If you beat a beggar every day and then don't beat him one day, the beggar will be grateful to you.

It is not important for all nations to come to you to gain benefits, and you don’t need to have it, but all nations are afraid that you will attack them, and this must exist.

Accustomed to fighting, these countries not only do not feel resentment, but are also willing to bow down, especially their upper classes.

Then, if a country rises and wants to compete with you, you must defeat it to death and never let it rise.

Once the other side stands up, those other countries that have been obedient for a while will look for opportunities to re-align themselves, or even refute, resist, and oppose you.

This is the reality of the world. It is not that others will be nice to you just because you want to be nice to them.

This is true between individuals, let alone between countries.

(End of this chapter)