When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 400 The floods subsided in the summer and June of the fourth year of Qu, and the whole sea and rivers

"Run! Xin's flag soldiers are coming!"

Someone screamed and dispersed.

It was half an hour before fifty people under one flag arrived at the tribe.

The leader, Xin Luo, bared his teeth and watched as the tribe abandoned the old and the weak and took the young and strong men and women to flee south.

"How did they predict our arrival in advance?"

"Someone must be causing trouble!" Beside Xin Luo, a young man rubbed his face and said while holding a map.

"Ji's family?"

"Who else can be there besides them?" The young man sighed, "Ji's family will set up hidden sentries in some strategic places... Forget it, what will happen to these old people and children?"

"Take them away." Xin Luo glanced at the surviving elderly and children, who stared at them nervously and warily, "They are also laborers. Anyway, we have more than [-] acres of taro, which can feed them."

"Yeah." The young man didn't say anything, and brought other swamp people interpreters to communicate with them.

"Can we not go?" these swamp people asked nervously.

"No, you live in the south where I have the Xin family, and the water here is the source of the plague. If you flee because of the plague, the damage to us will only be greater.

So, listen, as long as you are willing to accept our mission, we will keep you and your children safe.

Give you clean water and food, and allow you to buy clothes by advance work points.

At the same time, we will give you the status and treatment as a naturalized person.

If you resist, you are slaves. "

The translator translated Xin's words: "From now on, in the Haihe River Basin, I own Xin's territory. All tribes must accept restraint, otherwise they will be destroyed!"

After all, they had become familiar with Xin's tribe in the past few years. They knew very well that slaves and naturalized people of Xin's tribe had different treatment in life, so when they saw that they were desperate, they chose to join.

Therefore, the banner army took in fifty old and weak soldiers and immediately retreated.

A large number of people are gathering in Langfang.

The slopes here were originally controlled by the Ji clan, but after the Xin clan arrived, the Ji clan, who was trapped with almost no food, chose to surrender.

The more than [-] people of the Ji tribe have become the core construction force of the entire Langfang.

Under the scorching summer sun, people arriving here one after another eat dried taro, pickles and millet porridge to nourish their stomachs.

The stems of taro leaves can be used to pickle pickles.

This time, Xinqu picked the young leaves from the taro fields near Shunyi and salted them immediately, then packed them into jars and jars and transported them to Langfang by water.

In this way, it can be regarded as saving a lot of salt transportation.

After all, there are swamps everywhere nowadays. If the salt transport rolls over, the salt will be easily lost. Of course, it may also be hidden and sold.

Therefore, simply put, there are so many taro stalks, and they can be directly made into pickles, which can also increase the richness of Xin's food and reduce the consumption of more cereals.

Moreover, the construction of cities and water conservancy are all strenuous physical work, which requires sweating profusely, so salt replenishment is especially important.

Pickles, perfectly meet labor needs.

Xinluo brought back the old and the weak, and then handed over the households and populations divided on the road to the Yamen officials in Langfang City, who arranged the divisions.

Some were transported by ship to Tongyi, Daxing and Guangyang.

Some were transported by ship to Changping and then transferred to Yanqing.

Yanqing also recruited more than [-] people to come in to assist.

More than half of the Xin family's manpower was mobilized, and there was a busy scene everywhere. They began to carry boundary markers to the southern section to establish the boundary.

In the summer and June of the fourth year of Qu, the entire Haihe River area was owned by the Xin family.

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In mid-June, Shunyi, a plank road.

Xinqu had just approved the departure of a ship with taro stems and pickles, and Gulu Xiaogui came to find you: "I have found you. I got you the water raft you asked for."

Xin Qu nodded slightly when he heard the words: "Let's go to a place with me."

Xin Qu took Gulu Xiaogui and the drainage parts to a river bend in the southeast of Shunyi.

Then he pointed to the position that had been laid and said: "Just set it up here, wait for the water drainage to be arranged, adjust the water volume, and wait for the subsequent growth. In about half a month, the first batch of taro will be ready." reward.

Then here, add a mill, and we need to prepare taro vermicelli, starch, etc. to preserve the taro as long as possible. "

"Okay." Gulu Xiaogui asked the slaves to work.

After assembly and debugging, as well as the subsequent arrival of the stone mill, the first batch of small taros was shipped seven days later.

Xinqu baked one and ate it, it was very tender.

Have someone wash the rest, peel it, and cut it into small pieces.

Steam for twenty minutes, take it out and put it in a wooden barrel.

Then connect the gear of the water drain, fix the iron mixing head on the transmission rod with tenon and tenon joints, then lower it and start it. The water drain will fall into the water and rotate. The person holds the wooden bucket and stops after watching the taro being beaten into mud. .

Then, the mixed water is poured into the hole of the millstone and ground into a slurry.

The grinding disc also relies on water drainage to provide power, which greatly improves grinding efficiency.

After grinding it into a slurry, filter it through fine gauze and let it settle.

Repeat twice, pour off the upper layer of water, then put the taro powder into a clay pot and put it into the drying room to dry. Finally, put it into the jar, get a small bag, fill it with hydrated lime, and hang it on the inner wall of the jar to become a desiccant.

Preserving in this way can greatly extend the storage time of taro powder.

"Do you want to buy it?" Xin Qu asked with a half-smile as he looked at the little piggy touching the taro powder.

"Cough...this is..."

Xian Yu Xiaozhu laughed dryly and loosened his fingers: "I didn't expect that taro could actually do this."

"This is just the beginning." Xin Qu said lightly, "A follow-up workshop is being built over there, which can be used as a vermicelli workshop later.

Taro vermicelli does not require so many steps.

These are used to prepare for shortages. "

Xin Qu went to great lengths to develop dried taro starch in order to prepare for famine and disasters and extend the shelf life of taro.

But in fact, making vermicelli does not require so many steps. You only need to repeat the previous steps until it is pureed, then add rice milk and stir until it is semi-fluid. Use a sieve to let the taro vermicelli fall into the boiling water pot.

After heating and setting in the pot, remove it and place it in the sun to dry.

When eating, boil water, add some soup, and you can eat it.

And it can also save more than half of the losses.

It should be noted that taro starch is truly pure starch, contains almost no water and other impurities, and can be stored for a long time.

But taro vermicelli is different. There are still long fibers in it, and because the rice milk increases the viscosity, it is more chewy after being dried and then soaked in water.

These are all ways to increase the shelf life of food processing.

Otherwise, after just three months of digging out taro, the starch content will decrease, and the part that can really provide energy to people will be wasted. That would be the biggest loss.

However, Xin's processing still made Xianyu Xiaozhu feel shocked.

"Clan leader, the vermicelli is ready."

"Let's go." Xin Qu heard someone shouting and called the fresh-coated piggy to eat taro vermicelli.

On the dinner table, the soup made from fish, pork, and mutton is mixed, and the vermicelli is in the bowl, sprinkled with a little wild onion and ginger. When you bite it, the fragrance is overflowing. The little pig with chopsticks doesn't care. Hot, pour it into your mouth.

Xin Qu saw that he was eating so happily: "If you think it's good, I can process it for you in the future. You bring a hundred kilograms of taro, and I'll give you ten kilograms of vermicelli. In this way, you don't have to worry about the taro turning bad after being stored for a long time. It’s too hard to eat.”

"Really? But won't you lose money?" Putting down the bowl, Xian Yu Xiaozhu looked at Xin Qu warily.

How could I, my uncle, give me such a good profit for nothing?
  "Didn't you also watch the process? You also know that one hundred pounds of vermicelli can produce vermicelli. I just earn some labor wages. But the vermicelli should be kept well and can be stored for more than a year. It is only used for crossing the wilderness, even if it really needs to be relocated. Loading sacks and lifting one sack is convenient for the transportation industry, right?

Of course, I will add a vermicelli shop in Zhuolu in the future. You can just transport it directly from Sanggan River to Zhuolu. "

"Okay." Xianyu Xiaozhu thought about it and thought it was okay.

Taro is good to grow, and many tribes grow it, but it is true that taro cannot be stored well. If it is stored for three months, it will become unpalatable and harden.

It would also be good if it could be processed into vermicelli.

However, Xin Qu also processed it for no reason. What he wanted was to increase the dependence of the fresh Yu piglets on Xin's family.

After all, a few hundred kilograms of taro per acre of land is more than enough. The closer to the water, such as Xin's taro field, the estimated yield per mu is between [-] and [-] kilograms.

Discounting losses, the portion that can be used for food and processing is at least [-] million kilograms, enough to feed [-] people for a year!

The Xin family has a population of just over [-]! This year he made a huge gamble and had too much food to eat, so Xinqu considered preservation issues and kept more in the storehouse, preparing to exchange taro vermicelli for the corn in the hands of his tribe.

The shelf life of corn will be longer than that of taro vermicelli, and it is also more durable in storage.

Of course, taro fans can also exchange their millet with Xian Yu Xiaozhu.

With so many taro planted, the price of excess corn is low, and I can take advantage of the opportunity to collect it at a low price.

It’s all about the economy!
  Of course, the fertile soil here is fertile, and production only occurs in the past two years. If taro is planted again next year, the yield will definitely drop to [-] kilograms per acre, and we have to worry about diseases.

Therefore, it will be impossible to plant taro next year, and we will have to find supplements from other places, which can be used by Xianyu Piggy to provide taro, and even encourage various tribes in Shanxi to diversify taro.

In this way, cheap handicraft products can be exchanged for taro, and the vermicelli made into vermicelli can be stored for one more year.

In this way, with Xin's steady expansion, even if they do not farm and allocate all manpower to water conservancy construction, it will be guaranteed.

But, this is also gambling.

But Xinqu knew that he had to gamble, just like Qin Shihuang, who knew that Zheng Guoqu had problems, but still had to devote all his country's efforts to gambling.

If the bet is won, Guanzhong will be fertile and wild, and the country will become a king.

The same goes for myself!
  Must bet! His helplessness and passivity in dealing with the changes in floods and droughts in Beiping in recent years have made him feel very uncomfortable.

No wonder Youzhou was synonymous with bitter cold until the Tang Dynasty!

It's because the water here is difficult to drain and drain.

But we can't stay so helpless forever.

The most critical water conservancy problem in farming has been solved. The waterway from Tongzhou to Tianjin has been opened. The Wuding River can become the Yongding River and then connect to Baiyangdian for drainage.

There is an opportunity to turn the Yellow River channel on the Hebei Plain into a canal.

After doing this, not only did he grow a taro field of about [-] acres in Beipingwei, just like this time.

You can also get a complete transportation line and use ships to transport supplies southward to various places in Hebei. You can even enter the big river and go straight to the heart of Heluo.

No matter what changes happen in the south later, he can adapt to the changes!
  So he has to take a gamble!
  Regardless of success or failure, five years or ten years, you must take this gamble!
  (End of this chapter)