Villager of Daming

Chapter 489: Abundant Resources and Poverty (Part [-])
"Cangjie coined the word here, the source of Luoshui, the mountain of irrigation, and the outlet of Luoshui. It is now called Zhongling Mountain."

Two days later, the team arrived at Luonan. The people of Luonan, led by officials, were waiting by the roadside. After the village chief introduced Zhu Biao and Zhu Ping, the people already knelt down and worshiped.

As soon as Zhu Biao just signaled, Zhu Xi immediately asked the people to rise up. The local area belonged to his fief, and he felt sorry for his people.

The people stood up one after another and looked curiously at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness King Qin who seemed not to be worried about their safety.

The officials in the county didn't know whether to look at the prince or the King of Qin. The prince was the most important, but the King of Qin was in charge.

Zhu Xi walked slowly, frowning, the appearance of the common people was much worse than that of Ying Tianfu.

"Li Chang, how could this be?" Zhu Xi saw that the child was also dirty, not cute at all.

“Luonan County has many mountains and hills, and only the basins and plains between the mountains can grow wheat and soybeans.

At the same time, droughts, floods, hailstorms, and late springs often occur, making it difficult to guarantee harvests of crops.

At present, Luonan County is under the jurisdiction of Huazhou, the road to the west is blocked by Zhongling Mountain, and the road to Huayin in Huazhou to the north is blocked by Shaohua Mountain and Huashan Mountain.

There is only one way to the east. Luoshui is the best way out of the county, but there is a lack of boats, not to mention that it is easy to go by water and difficult to return. "

"And there are so many local resources?" Zhu Xi knew that the transportation was inconvenient, so the people could only watch the sky for food.

"Many, there are many mountains in Luonan, there are white-bark pine in Qinling Mountains, and Huashan pine in Huashan, all of which produce pine nuts.

In addition, during the Tang Dynasty, walnuts and chestnuts were grown for eating, but if they were sold... they could not be sold.

There are also wild hawthorns, but they can't make them into cans. Even if they are cut and made into dried hawthorns, who will buy them?

There are countless wild fruits on the mountain, as well as medicinal herbs, mushrooms, fungus and other fungi.

There is no need to consider metal mines for the time being. There are many stone mines, and His Royal Highness knows about other stone mines.

However, there are medical stones locally, also called horse tooth stones, which are medicinal materials and can be soaked in water for drinking.

If it is crushed and added to the ground as a chemical fertilizer, it can improve the soil condition and make the crops grow better. "

The head of the village followed Zhu Xi while talking about the general situation in the area.

The officials in the county, like officials in other places, looked at the chief in surprise.

"According to this, the local people will make money by transporting the things out? The imperial doctor came to show me that this child has angular cheilitis, and the scabs were picked off, and so much blood came out."

As Zhu Xi spoke, he saw blood coming from the corners of the mouth of a seven or eight-year-old child next to him. The child wiped it with the back of his hand from time to time.

It is the extra scab after the angular cheilitis cracks, and if it gets in the way around the mouth, the child will pick it off, exposing the flesh inside.

"Your Highness, let everyone line up to see a doctor and stand here waiting for us to leave. Both sides will waste time." The chief suggested.

"Oh! I forgot, come here! Let's go to the doctor, Ling'er, help me make popcorn sticks. Jiangzhi County, come here."

Zhu Xi asked the people in Luonan to line up to find the imperial doctor, and he nodded to the county magistrate who was not far away.

Jianggu Jiangzhi County approached with a feeling of apprehension, and squeezed out a smile: "His Royal Highness King Qin!"

"You guys come here too! I can't remember your names." Zhu Xi beckoned to the county magistrate, chief secretary and others.

All the government officials in the county are here, so they don't have to guard the government offices. The sergeants in the team have an eye on the position of the entire county.

"Where did you just say?" Seeing the officials approaching, Zhu Xi turned to look at the chief.

"It's said that you can make money by shipping things out. Actually, you can't. There are many places along the way with the same things.

Even medical stones are not lacking in Henan, and the quality is better. As for hawthorn, walnuts, and chestnuts, His Highness has eaten them on the way.

The stones are shipped out, not to mention, who buys them for what?The stone mills and houses were built using local materials.

Local products are not competitive and cannot find a market. The transportation cost plus labor cost needs to be profitable. "

There is a lot of hands, there are things, but they can't be sold.

Zhu Xi: "..."

"Troubleshooting! If that's the case, what's the use of Li Chang talking so much?" Zhu Xi pursed his mouth.

"You asked, and I'll tell you." Li Chang curled his lips.

"Then let's ask you now, can you make money?" Zhu Xi turned his head away angrily.

"Yes!" the chief replied.

Well, Zhu Xiang's head turned back and he smiled: "We knew it, tell them quickly, and then tell them to do it. Listen, we never expected you to give good ideas."

What Zhu Xi said next was to the local officials. It is impossible for the officials to follow the prince, let alone Zhu Biao did not leave.

"Your Highness, there are a lot of plums in our mountains, sour plum drink has always existed, boiled with fresh plums to drink.

Then it is not acceptable to transport fresh plums, we can process them into powder together with hawthorn.

Then add sugar, put some licorice, or orange peel or something to make sour plum powder. "

The director began to talk about the deep processing of local resources.

"But there are also plums elsewhere! Yingtian Mansion has a lot, where can I sell them?" Zhu Xi felt that these were the same as stones.

"Sell it to the barbarians, let them go to Luzon and other places to sell it, where the weather is hot, and drinking a sour plum soup will be very comfortable.

Tell them to drink this, and they can heal the sickness of the ship at sea.

He had bleeding from various places, had no strength, felt sleepy, didn't like to eat, had diarrhea, and finally died.

It can be cured with this sour plum powder. We can't tell them the reason, otherwise they won't buy it. "

The head of the village never thought of selling it to Daming people, who bought sour plum powder for what?They don't sail far away.

"Really? Oh! There are plums and hawthorns elsewhere, and they can make them and sell them! We are far away from the sea." Zhu Xi believed it, but felt that the distance was a problem.

"Yes! We are far away from the seaside, and there is no way to make money yet. I finally came up with one, and I have to give it to the seaside people first..."

"No, no, let's do it ourselves, and don't tell the seaside, especially those in Suzhou and Zhejiang, that they have a lot of plums.

Yes, we have finally found a way to help people make more money. How can we give it to other places?

At least we have to make a lot of money first, and when they learn it, we won't lose money.

It's a pity that the plum harvesting season is over now, and there are only hawthorns. What to do with the hawthorns?Is it okay to only sell hawthorn powder? "

Zhu Xi remembered that he was looking for a way out for the people in the territory, so what else did he care about?
"Send the hawthorn powder over, and the barbarians will know once they taste it, can we still sell it?

We need to add a lot of things to our sour plum powder, so that they can't taste it, anyway, it tastes sour and sweet.

Add medicinal materials to it, and drink it to kill people, or we can make it into big honeyed pills and water honeyed pills and sell them.

Let's sell sour plum powder!The yield is high, and a lot of honey is needed to make big honey pills.

Ask people if they have any dried plums at home?If there is any, just collect it, add hawthorn and other things, and let's try it first. "

The chief did not forget to keep it secret, who wouldn't be able to taste the hawthorn powder alone?People bought it at the price of hawthorn.

(End of this chapter)