Villager of Daming

Chapter 943: This is the key point of peppercorns

The social aspects are pretty good, and I always made people feel comfortable.

The person who spoke was most afraid of being left in the cold and seemed very embarrassed. No one would cooperate. He just said something by himself. It felt so sad.

We followed him to the ice and snow world in a very cold place. One person was waiting to get upset and wanted to find someone to chat with, so he said, 'It's so cold! '

No one around him looked at him, let alone answered the phone, because it is normal for the weather to be cold. How can you not be cold when you come here in winter?

So this person became depressed. Fortunately, he had a strong psychological quality and didn't care. He stopped talking and never talked again.

Normally, there are locals who won't do it. The locals guarantee that it will be warmer than the day before yesterday. It started yesterday... Oh my God! If you stay outside for a while, your ears will freeze. '

Now the person who spoke before was happy, responded, and chatted happily. Please eat kebabs. The locals provided the location, which was cheap and delicious.

This is aimed at ordinary people. King Qin is still a child and the head of the village must take care of him. In fact, several of Zhu Wentian's friends have just spoken out to praise him.

It's like cross talk, where there's fun, there's praise.

Zhu Di was indeed in a good mood and continued to explain to the officials: "When fried river shrimps are coated with a layer of starch and flour, they taste better and look more abundant."

"Then why didn't they put them in?" Magistrate Guo watched as he put some salt and peppercorns on the shrimps, then poured them into the oil pan and fried them.

"When eating oil, flour and starch are added, which requires more oil. There is less local oil. If the local peppercorns are not grown, not even the peppercorns will be added."

The fifth child, Zhu Xi, took over. The reason was simple. The people were poor. Before doing anything, you must consider whether the people can afford it, otherwise you will do bad things with good intentions.

"We will build more mechanical wells for our area later. Teams are drilling them right now! Wherever there is abundant groundwater, there must be wells to facilitate people's lives.

If you need to plant Chinese prickly ash, just plant it. It’s easy to grow. You can plant it by spreading seeds. It’s no problem to plant a branch and insert it into the soil, just like a willow tree.

Now that we are planting them in large quantities, there will be a lot of pepper produced and sold when the king takes over the vassal state.

We sell Sichuan peppercorns, and then department stores everywhere will make them into Sichuan peppercorn noodles. Without pepper, Sichuan peppercorns are quite delicious. "

Zhu Fan made a request to encourage local people to use land where it is difficult to grow food to grow pepper. Zanthoxylum bungeanum can be sown with seeds or cuttings.

Just don't plant or insert it in a low-lying area, otherwise the roots can't stand the water and will rot.

The Loess Plateau in Shanxi does not have that much water. For example, in some plateaus, there is no water to grow things on, so you can only grow vitex and other drought-tolerant crops.

Drilling a well there and planting paddy fields will definitely not work. If you use the well water to irrigate the fields after planting, you will be exhausted to death.

At this time, it is no problem to switch to Zanthoxylum bungeanum. They only need a little water. People can take water from the well and pour some water on each plant, or make a furrow and flush it once, and they can last for a long time.

After two years, they will begin to bear fruit, and in the following years they will grow more and more year by year. When it is time to harvest, they will be picked and dried, and then sold to department stores. The income will be real.

In a plain location with good land, growing peppercorns is a waste. Everyone has to rely on grain to have enough to eat, and cash crops are not available.

Officials quickly promised to plant, when should they be planted?

Everyone was at a loss for a while. They had never planted it before. It seemed that local people grew their own pepper, usually by throwing some seeds or inserting branches near the Yellow River.

When the harvest comes, people pick them and sell them in the market. What is the process?

"Alas~!" Seeing the official's promise and the look on his face, Zhu Fan sighed: "We will plant the pepper after we harvest it, or we will plant it next spring when the weather warms up.

Zanthoxylum bungeanum planted in autumn generally matures earlier than other types. In this way, the earliest ripening ones are selected every year to create special early-maturing varieties.

Early maturing varieties do not mean they are good. For example, star anise, which is an aniseed, is picked in summer or in autumn. The summer ones are called Xia Jiao, and they have thinner walls than Qiu Jiao. When boiled in a pot, Xia Jiao loses its flavor after cooking it twice, while Qiu Jiao can still be cooked after four or five times.

Or grind it into powder. The flavor of autumn horn is strong and that of summer horn is light. It is normal that autumn horn is more expensive than summer horn.

If you switch to Chinese prickly ash, the early-maturing varieties will bear fruit at the same time, so their growth cycle will be short, and they will not taste as good as those with a long growth cycle.

When there are few peppercorns, whoever can mature them in advance will be able to sell them at a good price.

When more peppers are grown in Ming Dynasty, early-maturing ones will be distinguished from those with good taste, and the price of late-maturing ones will not be bad. "

This time officials understood. It turns out that peppercorns can be planted in autumn, unlike rice, which is harvested once a year and planted again next year.

Everyone continued to look at the small river shrimp. Perhaps they had not encountered a shrimp cage for a long time. The small river shrimp were less vigilant and would get into the cage when they encountered something delicious.

Each cage has a lot of harvest. The fishermen are grinning, and the common people are asking about the price. They are also very happy when they know that the price when they are concentrated and then sold is cheaper than making it themselves.

What they value most is stuffing. There are leeks, and they can still grow after being cut in the ground.

It's delicious if you add river prawns, and one duck or goose egg is enough. It won't be as fishy when it's cooked.

Every family has flour, so dumplings don’t require oil. When you look at the fried ones, you feel like the oil has gone down a layer and got into the shrimp, which is expensive.

Taking this opportunity, the chief took out a stack of paper from his arms, which contained information about Pistacia chinensis planting and oil extraction.

It turns out that no one would have thought that without looking at the actual place, some situations would always be ignored and all normal food crops and oil crops would be considered.

Wheat, rice, small grains, and soybeans, this is normal.

Economic crops are priority given to fruit trees, tea trees and medicinal materials.

If I hadn’t seen Pistacia chinensis, where would I want to go?

Taking it out at this moment, the four princes took turns to read it quickly, and Zhu Han's eyes widened with a smile.

"Let's just say it! You can't just follow what's in the book. There's nothing like this in the book."

What he meant was why he asked the team from Xiaqiu Village to accompany him in the first place. It was because Xiaqiu Village could actually come up with ideas.

The other three princes nodded in support, this is the right thing! Look at it place by place and then tailor it.

"Let me show you, we need to plant many kinds of Pistacia chinensis in dry places that are not suitable for growing food crops and oil crops. We use the oil from the Pistacia chinensis fruit to make soap.

There are also tea trees. We will plant them in the mountains and wait for the tea leaves to be harvested and sell them to department stores together so that we can drink the good ones.

When tea tree seeds come out in autumn, we don’t refine them, but just use them to make soap directly.

Our Taiyuan Prefecture wants to become a major place for soap production. Look at Datong Prefecture and other surrounding prefectures and see if they can grow it.

We are not afraid of others saying that we are lenient in our management and just lead the people to make money. We do not want the land and taxes of the people in other places. "

Zhu Fan handed over a stack of paper. Since no one had ever grown Pistacia chinensis professionally, Zhu Wentian wrote down all the possible problems.

Pistacia chinensis was always wild in the past and had strong vitality. In autumn, birds could eat the seeds and carry them to other places.

Professional planting can make it grow better, especially with more fruit.

(End of this chapter)