Villager of Daming

Chapter 986: Transformation and Adjustment Important News

"Your Highness, is it easy to learn these skills? I... know nothing."

After a few breaths, Xie Qiaoer spoke out with a sad look on her face. She was still thinking about going into Prince Jin's Mansion to help her husband do things, but she found that the gap was too big.

"Eager to learn, you will be able to do it naturally if you have more exposure. I will teach you from now on and leave you a few books when I leave. You can read them slowly. You won't be able to... Write a letter to ask, but a telegram will not work. There are too many words, unless the content is small. Let’s go see the venue this afternoon.”

Zhu Fan said as he served the wine. Today he would drink ice-cold wine. There are grapes locally and Xie Cheng’s house can make wine.

The taste of beer is generally difficult for people to adapt to when they are new to it. Rice wine is not as sweet as wine, and its taste is similar to that of dry red, a bit astringent.

It is better to drink wine directly, which has been filtered over and over again to filter out all the dregs inside. It tastes sweet, but no sugar is added when making it.

Sugar is expensive, and wine has always been made without sugar. It has been brewed directly since the Tang Dynasty, and the brewing process was passed down along with the grapes.

However, Zhu Fan provided a separate recipe, that is, the wine we drank today was made last winter. The grapes were not picked in the autumn. They waited until the frost had passed and the weather became cold again before making wine, which would make it sweeter.

"Thank you sister, let's try some snacks tonight and see which ones are suitable for use in Taiyuan Prefecture. In summer, it's good to make gluten and dough. Mix it with vinegar sauce and eat it cool and delicious..."

At this time, Ling'er started talking about food, changing the subject, and then talking about administration, economy and other aspects. Xie Qiao'er obviously couldn't keep up.

Since it is a wheat-producing place, it must mainly be made from flour, such as maltose, which is a good thing in the north in winter, especially the sesame candy with sesame seeds stuck on the outside, which is crunchy to eat.

For dough that can be eaten as a staple food, the flour is washed around, the starch is washed out, and the remaining gluten is steamed together. The starch is steamed into the dough, and the gluten is still gluten, in a honeycomb shape.

When mixing, there are more seasonings, some with garlic juice, some with vinegar and sugar, some with sesame sauce, and some with aniseed boiled in water and a lot of sauce added to taste like cold noodles.

When making dough, you get the starch. With starch, other things are also available.

Steamed snacks and baked bread all require flour. Nowadays, there are no ovens elsewhere, so when something is baked, it is baked in the open, such as pancakes and so on.

However, Xie Cheng's house had an iron oven, and the drawings were sent to him. He asked a craftsman to make it and bake another kind of snack in it.

I also had steamed snow-skin mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year. The texture was somewhat similar to the sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

"I can make cream cakes now. I first beat the milk to make cream, then steam the cake. I need to add eggs. The flour needs to be finely ground layer by layer. Then put the cream on it and eat it together..."

When it comes to eating, Xie Qiaoer has something to talk about. She usually has nothing to do but read, practice calligraphy, embroidery, cook, learn various hairstyles, and learn etiquette.

Zhu Fan gave her a food book with photos taken in Xiaqiu Village. He told her what it looked like and described the texture and taste, so she followed it.

Don’t be afraid if it doesn’t taste good, and don’t worry if it tastes bad. Someone will eat it anyway.

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"Construction has begun on the place in front of you, and a convenience store has been placed here. Not far away, there are widows and widows waiting for marriage. You can help find them homes and act as matchmakers."

There were people working on construction not far away. The wind direction changed and blew this way. Everyone changed places to eat.

Zhu Fan told what had been discussed before. There was a large group of women where things were done, and there were businessmen and people looking for work at the convenience store on the other side.

You can observe people working in the local area, businessmen... Generally they are looking for concubines. After introducing them, if they are unhappy in the future and are abandoned, they should complain and try to avoid it.

A local businessman who has lost his wife and wants to remarry, is he someone he can consider?

As for other things, betrothal gifts and dowry should not be an obstacle to the population growth of Taiyuan Prefecture. Whoever wants to get married should have the betrothal gift provided by Prince Jin's Mansion, and the dowry should be provided by the place where Princess Jin is responsible. Anyway, that money will eventually circulate, hiding wealth among the people.

"We have thought about it, but it just doesn't work! We will give a house to whoever gets married. We can sell it to them at a low price and pay it back in ten years, or we can use work as compensation and deduct part of the wages of both parties every month."

Zhu Fan knew that the Ming Dynasty was short of people, and Taiyuan Prefecture would still be short of people in the future. Even though the available arable land was small and the population was large, it was actually not the case and there was no planning.

Once you follow the planned route, you will find that there is a shortage of people, a serious shortage of people. If you transfer some people to Datong Prefecture and Grassland, how many people are left in your Taiyuan Prefecture?

"Hmm~hmm~hmm..." Xie Qiaoer only responded. This was the first time she had heard about people getting married to help build a house.

She only knows that people with families usually want to get married, and everyone helps, such as those who live in cave dwellings.

Getting married requires a new cave dwelling. As the children grow up, the elders in the family start digging.

I was busy with other things. When I was about to get married, the cave dwelling was not yet built. People around me joined in the battle. A new cave dwelling appeared and the couple had a house.

This is the most basic requirement, otherwise there will be no place to live, and it will be okay in the summer, but not in the winter.

The government will give you a house under special circumstances, if you win the first prize in the exam, or if you have made a great contribution.

"Your Highness, how much does the house cost?" Ling'er asked from the sidelines, asking for others, but she knew it herself.

"The cost is a brick house with a fire pit inside, a chimney outside, and space for windows, just like the people who live in cave dwellings.

Those who live in cave dwellings will exchange cave dwellings for brick houses, and we will grow mushrooms in them. Those who do not live in cave dwellings will buy them directly and pay them in installments. There is no rush, and we will arrange the work first.

In addition, we do not buy the medicinal materials from Huimin Pharmacy and Herbal Medicine Library from other places. We let the people collect them locally and exchange them with other places. "

Seeing Xie Qiaoer's expectant look, Zhu Fan told him what he had said to the head of Qingyuan County before.

Some of the cave dwellings were expropriated to provide good houses to the people. Some of the cave dwellings always collapsed, and living in them was actually not as comfortable as brick houses. The advantage was that it saved money, and the cost was only the labor cost of the people themselves.

"Your Highness, do you buy the bricks and then calculate the money?"

Xie Qiaoer didn't know much about costs. She thought the cost was how much money it would take to build a house.

“It’s not completely built, but the cost of firing the bricks and tiles is calculated directly, plus a little labor cost, and nothing else is needed.

If they work in a brick kiln, they can make it themselves, and they will burn part of it to build a house without paying any wages.

Building a house requires labor. This cannot be all help, as it is not conducive to the local economy. It is the amount that should be paid, and we will help advance the payment.

The labor cost of building a type of house in large quantities is cheap, so they always have work to do, and the more they build, the more skilled they become.

Building just one house is expensive, but building a thousand or ten thousand houses will inevitably cost less. "

Zhu Fan also talked about the cost of the house.

　No more today. Farmers go to bed early and get up in the middle of the night to take medicine.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)