Villager of Daming

Chapter 926: Only shallow but not deep Hawthorn News

The people in Qingyuan County could not get close enough to eat together with the craftsmen and guards on the outside.

It doesn't matter if it's old tofu, no matter how expensive it is, can it still be comparable to tofu? People love to eat braised food, which contains a lot of dry ingredients.

There is no shortage of mushrooms and fungus in the local area. They can be found in the mountains, and there are even matsutake mushrooms!

It’s just that people are reluctant to eat it, so they either try to sell it or keep it to entertain guests.

Not to mention fried dough sticks, people would rather steam steamed buns than fry fried dough sticks. To fry a pound of fried dough sticks, it takes three and a half liang of oil, sixteen liang to a pound.

A pound of fried dough sticks can be eaten by one person according to the current normal meal. The noodles are not included, and the oil is only about two and a half...

There are no restrictions today, you can eat whatever you want. The guards reminded you to eat slowly and be careful not to break your mouth. The people responded and speeded up.

For those who are old and have weak teeth, if they eat hard ones they touch their gums, and if they eat soft ones they can’t hold, someone will help cut the fried dough sticks into small pieces and soak them in tofu.

More than thirty meters away from His Highnesses, there was an old civil servant from Qingyuan County. He used chopsticks to pick up the cut fried dough sticks and soaked them there.

Others had fried dough sticks on their chopsticks or hands, but that person was special. Zhu Zhu, the fifth child, had sharp eyes: "He doesn't eat fried dough sticks?"

"Back to Your Highness, Lao Qi, oh, Qi has bad teeth and teeth. He likes to eat noodles, preferably thin noodles that have been soaked for a long time."

Guo Lingzhong, the magistrate of Qingyuan County, replied with a sad look in his eyes and shook his head.

"It's just one tooth, how about that? Oops! Third brother, you haven't left any bite marks on the people since you came here, so bite it!"

Zhu Rui was not sad at all, he didn’t have dental braces! Choose the cheapest one. Porcelain with silver or gold is not included. Pure zirconium dioxide is said to be easily broken and is generally not set.

"Yes, there are teething marks elsewhere. Master Wang, please trouble you."

Zhu Fan slapped his forehead and said yes! I always feel like I've forgotten something.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, the grassroots will make arrangements!"

Wang Yiqian did not leave, but stayed next to the chief.

Until now, he doesn't have an official position, but his son does. He has no official position but has real power. Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately arranged this. The old and hard-working people in Xiaqiu Village must be the same as Xiaqiu Village!

The dental impression is easy to bite, no elastic impression material is needed, plaster is applied directly, it is cheap, plaster is produced in Taiyuan Prefecture, and the quantity is large.

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The common people finished eating first and were anxious to see how the wheat harvest was going. They followed the machines to pick up the ears of wheat, but they were reluctant to throw them away.

The common people who did not take turns to harvest wheat went to pick fruits. As expected, the local apricots were edible. They were not all red and were a little soft when pinched. This was good, otherwise the hard ones would also be eaten.

The same unripe peaches were brought and given to the prince's party.

The four highnesses were busy helping the children make popcorn sticks and popcorn. They did not forget this and provided puffed food to the people whenever they stopped at a place.

"The apricots are really good, they are big." Li Chang ate an apricot and thought it was not sweet enough and not ripe enough, but he thought it was valuable.

The apricots that Hanhan specially mentioned are two circles larger than ordinary apricots.

Seeing the four highnesses looking over, the chief mentioned that local fruit tree planting requires a large number of apricot trees, which will bring benefits to Qingyuan County and allow grafting from other places.

By the way, he presented the mine drawings. They were all shallow and easy to mine. If they were too deep, he would not tell others. If some people wanted to mine secretly to make money, serious consequences would occur.

Deep wells need to be drilled all the way in. The well frame is a skill. If it is not drilled well, it will collapse.

It was obviously impossible for the people to spend so much money, so they probably resorted to robbing holes. During the tomb robbing, people got in and found the iron ore.

The digging got bigger and bigger at that location, and finally people were digging inside and tying ropes to baskets outside to drag them around.

A dozen meters deep is fine, but that is a shallow layer, and there is no need for ordinary people to dig it secretly. For the authorities, a few tens of meters is also a shallow layer. When the people find that a place has been marked, they will be lucky and think that there is no need to dig so deep. Did the person who drew the map see it? Believe it or not.

Then dig it! It's easier to give up if you can't dig, but you're afraid of a loud bang while digging...

The length of the tunnel is not marked at all. In the future, when technology improves, other shallow excavations will be almost done. If we provide deeper ones, it will probably take many years to dig almost open-air excavations.

The four of them, Zhu Feng, have become accustomed to the Xiaqiu Village style of making plans and drawings.

"Second brother's coal mine supplies Xi'an Prefecture, right? It just so happens that the coal from Taiyuan Prefecture is transported downstream.

By the way, we provide steel to the people along the coast. Since the transportation distance is short and it goes down the river at the same time, it is guaranteed to be cheaper than the steel in Ma'anshan.

We decided to pay taxes on the products sold outside, and the taxes in our mansion will belong to us. When will our Jin Prince’s Palace be built?

First help the people build infrastructure, alas! I really want to live here and personally...let the headmaster give me guidance. "

After reading the drawings, Zhu Fan plans to export them, but the factory hasn’t seen them yet!

He wanted to say that he would stay, but after thinking about it, he found that it was useless. He only knew a little bit about it.

Zhu Xi shook his head and didn't want to talk. There were indeed few coal mines and iron mines in the immediate area around him, but there were more in the farther places.

The things you have there must be used on the people of the fief first and cannot be sold outside.

And the third brother said that the team from Xiaqiu Village should be left behind... just dream! There is everything in the dream.

While everyone was looking for work, Wang Shitong, the magistrate of Taiyuan County, approached the mayor and whispered: "Chief Zhu, there is such a thing..."

"Are you a thief?" Zhu Di got close and glared.

"Your Highness, forgive me. That's what happened. People in other villages said that there are too many hawthorns in Taiyuan County, so we can't eat them now. When the hawthorns are ripe after autumn, we can eat some. No one will care about the rest."

Wang Zhixian raised his voice, and the first question raised by everyone after the meeting was: What should we do if we have hawthorn and there is no market for it? It would be a pity to leave it there.

Guo Lingzhong, the magistrate of Qingyuan County, looked puzzled. Didn't His Highnesses just come from Jinci Town in Taiyuan County? Why did their colleagues catch up and talk about Hawthorn?

There are also hawthorns in this county. They are wild in the mountains. People will dry some dried hawthorns after picking them. When there is no fruit, they can chew them, sour ones, or boil water to drink.

It’s not worth it. Where can you get so much sugar to make candied haws on a stick? You can only eat it when it is fresh, and eat it dry at other times. Dried food can easily attract insects.

It doesn't last long at all. Fresh hawthorns will be rotten or shriveled within half a month.

"Why do you need to ask the head of the village for such matters? I will teach you. You lead the people to make sour plum powder. Our second brother's Luonan County and Shangzhou will make large quantities of sour plum powder for takeout. They are all exported, uh... sold It was given to the Yi people, and it was very expensive.

You can do it too, and I will teach you the recipe later. Follow it, and the Yi people will not accept it and sell it to other places. In the summer, you can drink sour plum soup to relieve the heat.

The weather is very hot now, so the team has brought sour plum powder, and I will make a few buckets of it for everyone to try later. "

Zhu Fan took the conversation and told Wang Zhixian how to deal with hawthorn in a very casual manner.

Wang Shitong, the county magistrate, smiled happily: "Your Highness is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and I admire him endlessly!"

Others followed suit and said good things.

As a result, he turned around and the village chief who raised the matter asked, "Your Highness, can so many hawthorns be used to make sour plum powder easily sold?"

"Uh..." Zhu Fan began to ponder and suddenly looked at Li Chang.

"Your Highness, I wonder if there is a way to do it?" The commander understood that he was responsible for answering the question.

(End of this chapter)