Win the Ding 1617

() "Tell me about your experience of going to sea this time, and the supplies on board."

The sailors and guard soldiers of the two lucky boats had narrowly escaped death this time. Naturally, the guard could not be that heartless person. On the pier, he announced loudly that the sailors, helmsmen and soldiers of the two ships would all be given ten-day leave. , to reunite with family members.

In addition, the pensions given to the family members in the past will not be recovered, which can be regarded as a shock to everyone.As soon as these words came out, there were thunderous cheers on the pier.

Xu Huanshan, Zuo Tianpeng and other naval officers returned to the General's Mansion with the captains of the two blessing boats.

The two captains with the rank of sentinel looked at each other, and the older Ren Zhiye began to report as a representative.

"After we arrived in Ryukyu, we brothers discussed together, and everyone believed that the westerly wind in summer and this typhoon interacted and sent us all the way east to Ryukyu."

"At first, the Ryukyu natives came to harass us, but they were defeated by the brothers with the cannons on the boat and the swords and spears in their hands. They killed more than a hundred of them and alarmed the Ryukyu king."

"We said that we were the Ming Dynasty's army, and that we came here for trade. In fact, it was all nonsense to say that at the time, but we can't say that we were blown here by the wind?"

"The ministers of Ryukyu Wang Shang's family saw that our ship had a heavy draft, so they asked us what kind of cargo we were carrying. We told the truth that there were more than [-] stones on board."

"Unexpectedly, this person is also a profit-greedy official, Ryukyu Migui. He immediately asked us to sell all the rice on the ship to him. Later, he almost begged and threatened at the same time."

"It was only later that we found out that although Ryukyu is a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty, Qin came to surrender to Qin, and Chu came to surrender to Chu. Many years ago, the Shimadzu family of the Japanese kingdom was ordered by the Japanese king to conquer and landed. The Shimadzu family forced Ryukyu 36 People on the island must grow sugarcane, otherwise they will be killed without mercy!"

"This is why Ryukyu rice is expensive!"

"The native official saw that he had no choice but to go to the city to report to the Ryukyu king. The Ryukyu royal family and ministers had also been tortured by the Japanese pirates for a long time, and they were all hungry. The king invited me to the city to negotiate and buy all the food on our ship. "

While gnawing sugar cane, Shou Han let Ren Zhiye display the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Yan Meier on the side made a cup of sugar water for everyone with a smile on her face. Ren Zhiye and Huang Qiming looked at the sugar water, grinned at the corners of their mouths, did not speak, and just quietly put it on the coffee table aside.

"How much did you trade in the end?"

"My lord, he has more than two thousand stones of brown sugar in his treasury. He wanted to exchange one stone with us, but we refused."

"You really are not dark-hearted!" Hearing this, Shou Han sincerely admired his two captains. However, when he turned his head and thought about it, it was more fair than Western colonists replacing Manhattan with glass beads. Much more reasonable!

"In the end, we exchanged one stone of grain for one stone and two buckets of sugar and sold three thousand stones of grain. The shortfall in his treasury was made up with this year's sugarcane. When we shipped the ship, we roughly estimated that it could be squeezed out." About three thousand stones of sugar juice will come out."

Good words and encouragement, the camp office recorded the credit this time, and after another reward, Shouhan couldn't hold back the wild laughter and desire in his heart, picked up Yanmei'er, hugged her in his arms, turned around and kicked Kicking the door closed, the door leaves were still bumping back and forth, Yan Meier's exclamation could already be heard in the room. "You enemy, you look anxious, it's broad daylight! Oh! Ah!"

"This is my territory, my mansion, I'm afraid of birds!" Shou Han shouted excitedly.

The guards in the courtyard consciously moved their posts to the gate of the courtyard.

"kill!"

Seeing the strong chieftain's official village in front of him bursting into flames following bursts of explosions, Liang Kuan, led by Jiachang Lu Yunsheng, shouted in unison with his fellow robes, and rushed up to the huge rock formation. As the foundation, a solid wall is built with triadic soil and glutinous rice slurry.

This is the last chieftain's village in Li Shouhan's territory.Unlike many consolation envoys on the Indochina Peninsula, this is a true chieftain, and has not been conferred by any government!

However, he stood on the flank of the territory where the Shou Han went south, and sent troops to harass the Shou Han immigrants many times, robbing property, killing people, burning villages, and destroying young crops.Is it tolerable or unbearable? !

However, the previous owners of the stockade in front of us were cruel and tyrannical, greedy for money and willing to kill, and they also knew the truth of building high walls. They spared no expense to build this stockade, which is comparable to Li Shouhan's garrison official stockade. Nothing less than that.

However, in front of the rocket newly developed by Shou Han, this stockade, which has made the phoenixes and unicorns who came to crusade many times, return home with feathers, becomes like a ripe fruit on a tree, easily available.

After a round of shooting, the rocket landed on the wall of the village, blowing up the defenders on the wall who were about to warmly welcome Liang Kuan and Lu Yunsheng with their crossbows and stones in their hands. Flying horizontally, the screams continued.Some of the rockets that deviated from the planned trajectory crossed the wide wall of the village crookedly and flew straight to the inside of the village. After bursts of explosions, Lu Yunsheng and the others saw black smoke curling up on fire outside the wall. rising.

Accompanied by shouts of killing, people boarded the wall of the village.

Soon, on the commanding height of the wall, on the huge city tower, Liang Kuan kicked down the majestic chieftain flag, and planted the Phoenix flag with the word Li in the flames and smoke.

Such scenes appeared more or less around the Shouhan area in November of 48. Du li or semi-du li villages were vulnerable to the suppressing firepower of the Shouhan troops using rockets.

Looking at the various flags on the map, they changed into red pennant flags representing themselves, "Your Excellency's tactics are unexpectedly clever, so that each battalion draws out two sentry men and horses, and uses the sentry as the basis for the battle." Units are equipped with hundreds or thousands of strong men to go out to suppress them. In this way, those young men who have received basic training have been trained, and they have been trained for the expansion of the army in the future, and the dissident forces in the territory have been wiped out." Management Battalion Chen Tianhua from the affairs office looked at the map with admiration and said.

"There is one more thing you haven't thought of, that is, the population, property, fields, mountains and forests of these villages are all mine." Fu Bo, who was sitting beside him smoking a pipe, lowered his head and fiddled with the emerald that was newly rewarded to him by Shou Han on the pipe. pendant.

Shou Han couldn't hear the compliments from these subordinates behind their backs.He's busy with another of his big fortunes.

A newly built waterwheel by the river creaked and rotated under the action of the water flow, and transmitted the power to the thatched hut by the river through a long wooden shaft and a series of components.

Inside, three giant steel reels replace the traditional wooden ones used to juice the cane.Three heavy steel (actually nodular cast iron) pressing reels lined up in a row. The sugar cane exchanged for grain from Ryukyu was sent under the pressing reels, passed through these three nodular cast iron reels in turn, and was wrapped in tinplate. The sugar cane made a burst of sound when the pressing reel was squeezed.This sound, to Shou Han's ears, is no different from the pleasant sound of silver.After being squeezed by three squeezing reels, the sugar juice flows slowly along the pre-reserved grooves to the juice collection barrel, ready to be used to make white sugar.

"Wait!"

There was an industrious worker holding a broom to sweep away the crushed sugar cane bagasse and other waste, but the guard stopped him loudly.

"In the future, the bagasse after sugar extraction will be collected. This thing can be used to ferment and make wine. After brewing, it can also be used to fertilize the fields or as fodder for cattle and horses," Shou Han explained the utilization value of bagasse to the workers there. .

The several stewards of the Hanyuan firm who were present couldn't tell what it was like in their hearts. "Our boss, if he is generous, he will be like a prodigal. Others use a wooden press to squeeze sugar, but he insists on using this high-quality steel to make a reel. If a wooden press is used, it can process 4000 catties of sugarcane in a day and night. Just now Although this steel press reel is very fast, it only weighs 5000 catties for a whole day and night, plus the water wheel outside, the cost is far greater than the wooden press and buffaloes!"

"However, on the one hand, it is lavishly using steel to press, and on the other hand, it does not spare even the bagasse. Is our boss a prodigal or a miser? It's really hard to see through!"

Just as the stewards were muttering to themselves, the squeezed sugar juice had been filtered three times, and the whole thatched cottage was filled with a strong sweet smell. In the bursts of intoxicating sweet smell, someone picked it up Bagasse, the sugar cane has been broken into pieces, the skin and flesh are peeled off, hold it in your hand, squeeze it gently, and the wet fingers will not drip juice.In the past, the sugarcane, which had to be processed several times with rollers, was completed in one pass in front of these three steel rollers, and the next step was to make wine according to what Shou Han said.

"It seems that what the owner said about using a steel press is still reasonable. This way saves trouble and labor."

The sweet smell became more and more intense, and even the few buffaloes outside the hut that acted as auxiliary power kept flapping their huge nostrils, greedily absorbing the lovely sweet smell, and the cowherd beside him, cherishing these partners of his, stretched out his hand Hand over a few cane tails, let these hard-working guys chew beautifully, outside the hut, more and more children are sucking their fingers, staring longingly at the source of the sweet smell.

The sugar juice boiled in the pot became thicker and thicker. The sugar cooker in charge scooped up a spoonful with a long iron ladle and looked at it. Under the action of white ash, the sugar became clear yellow, soft and sweet. The taste is getting stronger.

"Okay, start to beat the sugar!" Under the instructions of the sugar cooker.The fire that boiled the sugar turned into a slow fire, and immediately after, the master put his two fingers into the cold water, then into the hot cauldron, and then quickly into the cold water—with a sound of "chick", the sticky fingers The syrup hardens when it is cold, and when you hold it in your hand, it will make a crisp sound.

Dozens of strong women quickly scooped the syrup into the sugar trough, and the official slave in charge of the sugar beating used a shovel to stir it back and forth, and the sugar slowly began to shrink and condense, and gathered into piles; Spread out from the sugar pile; this way, repeat as many times as you like.Then grind it back and forth with a wooden stick, and the "cauliflower yellow" brown sugar is processed.

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