Villager of Daming

Chapter 904: Forced Arrival to Ask for Rice

The horses and mules recovered, leaving behind piles of sorghum popcorn and popcorn sticks, and amid the farewells of the people, the team continued its rapid march.

In the evening, we finally finished the journey we were going to take today. The boats in front arrived first at the tents that had been set up and smoke was rising from the cooking pots.

"The animals are no longer good. Walking two hundred miles a day is really tiring."

Zhu Xi dismounted and rubbed his legs. He had taken a ride before, but found that the speed was slow, the car had been damped, the horse was still bumpy when running, and the road was not good.

The current location is Henan next to Hejin County. If you don't go to Hejin County, you need to cross the river.

The road over there is not good. There is Gushe Mountain, a very large mountain range, plus Jiuyuan Mountain, Sandeng Mountain, Luoyun Mountain and other mountains. Go hiking in the north of Fenshui River!

There are many rivers south of Fenshui, and one needs to cross one river after another. In comparison, south of Fenshui is better, and then there is east of Fenshui.

"Take a shower, eat, go to bed early, get up early tomorrow, and keep running."

Zhu Fan was the least afraid of hardship. He was anxious and wanted to get to the fiefdom as soon as possible.

Everyone didn't talk much, and each went into the tent to take a shower. The first person to arrive fed the animals, and they had to add more food in the middle of the night.

In this way, everyone marched for four days and successfully arrived in Yangqu County, Taiyuan Prefecture. Just as Zhu Wentian said, the wheat has not been harvested yet!

"It's better to stay in the tents. Our palace is ready early! Don't worry, let's use the craftsmen in useful ways first, building roads and bridges and so on."

Zhu Fan didn't take everyone to his Prince Jin's Mansion. The construction site there was stopped and he stopped it.

In normal history, his Jin Prince's Palace could be repaired later. He thought it was a waste of money and people, so he didn't establish the vassal immediately and waited until he had enough money to repair it.

The craftsmen and people who built the Jin Palace were assigned to build bridges and roads. They had to complete the infrastructure first, and then built his palace when the economy improved.

Not only him, Zhu Chong's Prince Qin's Palace and Zhu Di's Prince Yan's Palace are both repairing slowly, and they will repair it when they have time.

They discovered that infrastructure construction was too important. Fengyang Mansion was stopped and only the Imperial City of Nanjing was built. A large number of craftsmen were manufacturing in the industrial zone.

The steel plant in Ma'anshan also works day and night, with coal and coke constantly being transported from various places. The iron mine works four shifts a day, just to have the strength to mine more.

Only King Wu Zhuji didn't think about anything. He had always planned to change his fiefdom. Otherwise, who would live in Fengyang Palace after it was built? Become your own Prince Wu’s Mansion?

When I got to the place, I refused to let the officials from Taiyuan Prefecture come over. I will talk about it tomorrow. I am tired today and have no energy. I will drink mutton soup and then go to bed. I will sleep until noon tomorrow.

There are many sheep in Taiyuan Prefecture, or in other words, there are many sheep in Shanxi and Shaanxi. The poorer the land, the more people like to raise goats. The more goats are raised, the poorer the land.

The people had no choice. If goats could not survive by digging grass roots and eating, others would starve to death.

Sheep give birth to goats and drink their milk. Sheep are often raised for the purpose of marrying a wife and having children so that the children can survive.

Taiyuan Prefecture is relatively good. The places where you can build a mansion usually have water. It is rich in water resources and easy to farm. But the places without water are all loess plateaus. Occasionally, some weeds grow, but they are also withered and yellow. Or sea buckthorn.

The locals eat haggis, which is available now, but only haggis, not mutton.

Before the Yuan Dynasty, they were nomadic people on the grasslands. They killed sheep without eating their internal organs, and they had special techniques to kill sheep without bleeding.

When there is no river nearby, this method of killing sheep eliminates the trouble of cleaning. Of course, if the internal organs are not cleaned, they cannot be eaten.

If the sheepskin is peeled, the mutton is suitable for roasting or boiling. If the haggis is buried in a hole, it cannot be thrown directly into the wild, as it will be eaten by wolves.

If you have a dog, give it to the dog.

The Yuan Dynasty defeated the Northern Song Dynasty and lived here, herding cattle and contacting the Han people.

The Mongols are naturally superior to others, they are rulers!

They were used to eating sheep but not haggis. When the Han people saw that they were throwing haggis away, they thought it was nonsense, so they picked it up and cooked it themselves. There was no shortage of water.

Therefore, there is no mutton in real haggis, only sheep offal, and no sheep bones. Don't think you're throwing a sheep into the water, but the sheep bones will eat the marrow. If you raise a dog, give the bones to the dog after eating the marrow.

Haggis offal is the same as haggis soup. It is not mutton soup. There is meat in the mutton soup. In some places, when it is said that mutton soup is full of mutton, there is no haggis.

"Everything is possible, Your Highness can rest assured."

The commander was equally tired from the forced march and was not in the mood to talk at all on the way. Now that he was relaxing, he felt sore all over.

Zhu Wentian had nothing to do. He was grilling mutton skewers, his friends fried some mutton dishes, and everyone drank medicinal wine together.

"The farther north you go, the later the wheat harvest occurs. The soybeans and sorghum grown in the wheat fields in Xiaqiu Village have already grown very tall, right?"

Zhu Di thought of so many fields in Xiaqiu Village, where wheat seeds were sent to the north, and then the wheat picked from the north was sent to the village as seeds.

Also sent is soil, which needs to be compared to see if the wheat in one place is not suitable for other places.

The work done in Xiaqiu Village belongs to Sinong Temple. He is responsible for selecting good seeds, cultivating new seeds, and helping others analyze the soil structure.

Zhu Fan stretched out his hand and said, "Hanhan, those skewers are ready. I'll eat one. The skills in our village cannot be learned by others. It's too difficult."

"Okay, cooked, eat, give! Hmm! Hey hey hey..."

Zhu Wentian has been talking a lot these days and has fun at every scene he sees.

"It's also good to grill the lamb face! This dish takes the longest time."

The little girl puts on the sheep's face. It's best to do this for sheep's face.

There are already other dishes made in other ways, such as lamb stir-fried with green onions, stir-fried tripe with water, lamb liver in sauce, and cold lamb tendons.

When it was the sheep's turn, there was only one left, so I did it.

Zhu Fan took a bite of meat skewers and said, "There are a lot of sheep here. Will I be able to get rich by raising sheep in the future?"

“Not only sheep, this place is also a livestock transit breeding ground. Small grains are grown, and silage is specially grown, so the breeding industry can be vigorously developed.

Tomorrow we will have a day off, and then we will walk around here and go to Jinci to see how the local rice cultivation is going. Rice will be grown there in the next few days.

The rice there is advertised so that it can be sold at a good price, such as being turned into tribute.

The entire area is covered with wheat, sorghum and other small grains, and only rice is grown there.

As for the sheep, they are brought from the grassland, so we raise them, especially the sheep, and slowly adjust them to see if we can breed new breeds. "

After the chief said that, he picked up the wine cup and drank a cup. The two-cent cup is indeed a mouthful, and two mouthfuls are fine.

Wheat is grown in all other places in Taiyuan Prefecture, but rice is grown in Jinci Town. It was planted many years ago. God knows why they planted this.

And the sales volume in the local area is relatively good. Rice from other places is too far away, so it is only available in this place, and people buy it to eat.

The officials who governed here in previous dynasties were even more hungry, especially those transferred from other places, from the south, who relied on local rice to survive! I can't stand eating noodles.

Zhu Fan stopped eating the last bite of meat on the skewer: "Send the rice to Nanjing for our father? The rice here is the best in the world?"

"His Highness said it is the best in the world, so it is the best in the world, but the rice from Dingliao Duwei is actually..."

The chief didn't finish his words, but he meant, there are better ones, they have all been eaten, and they are specially shipped to Nanjing from there. Steamed rice is the most delicious. You don't need to eat vegetables, just eat.

　No more, always distracted.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)