Shoufu's favored wife is sweet and sassy

Chapter 444, rice millet

How can people in the village not know this thing? It is so tall and strong, and someone has eaten it long ago, and finally came to such a conclusion.

"Yes, this kind of seed can't be eaten. The pole can be used to light fire, feed livestock, and make curtains, but it's not a good thing. It can be found everywhere. If you go to any village, you can find a few pieces of rice. The thing has grown for a long time, and it still hurts the ground, and no grass grows, so no one touches this thing, and the seeds are still running around."

"Then, if you are asked to grow this thing, will you grow it or not?"

"Why do you grow this thing? Are you crazy? Isn't there everything for pigs to eat on the mountain?"

"Lizheng, I'll start harvesting this millet from today onwards. Unhulled ones cost one cent and five catties. It's still the old rule. You want as much as you want, do you think so?"

Sun Ming was smoking a pipe, with a relaxed expression on his face, this girl is making trouble again, anyway, she is not a fool, she will accept it as she says.

"What's wrong with that? The money is in your pocket, and I can still control you? But tell everyone, why are you accepting this thing?"

"I must say it, not only that, I have to let people in every village know about it.

It’s true that this thing is called rice millet, and it’s indeed unpalatable. It’s not easy to shell, and it’s easy for birds to peck at it. But this kind of thing doesn’t take up any land, and it can grow in any corner, just on the field, behind the yard. , on the half-hillside, you can live with just a few seeds, and the yield per mu is not lower than that of soybeans and corn. "

"Miss Qing, we know this, but what is the purpose of planting this thing?"

"If it catches up with the disaster year, it can also fill the stomach, but it takes more effort to remove the inner skin. After the skin is removed, it can be made into rice or ground. If you don't want to eat it as food, there is another one. The biggest use is to make wine."

"Brewing?!"

"You said this hogweed can make wine?"

There was a moment of silence in the room.

Rao knew that Xiaoqing had always been a thief, and Lao Lizheng was also coughing due to the smoke.

"Qing'er, my aunt said, don't you remember wrongly?"

Aunt Zhang was cautious, speaking softly, for fear that the noise would wake her up from the dream.

"You said this pig... No, what kind of millet can make wine? It's the kind of wine that sells for one or two silver a catty outside?"

"That's right, the kind mixed with water, two cents of silver can make a small pot, and we sell them in our town."

A meat bun costs two renminbi, a catty of white noodles five renminbi, a catty of pork six renminbi, and a catty of wine mixed with water costs two hundred renminbi!
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a money grab.

The one-two-one-jin one is Sanda wine not mixed with water in the city. If there is better one in Dongxing Building, a pot of wine can be sold for three taels of silver!

If a table of rice can eat more than a dozen taels of silver or more, it is all spent on wine.

So since ancient times, literati like to taste wine and recite poems, which is the most expensive thing, why?
Pen and ink are expensive, wine is expensive.

"Girl, this thing can really make wine, why did no one know it before? Could it be written in a book again?"

"Yes, of course it's written in the book, otherwise how would I know?"

Xiaoqing asked back with a smile, Lao Li was silent, anyway, no matter how he knew, if it is true...

This is no better than that mountain product.

It takes a lot of effort to pick mountain products, clean them up, and dry them in the sun. They can be found everywhere in the fields. If they are so easy to grow, they can be grown without growing food in the fields. Wine making... This is incredible.

If you want to talk about why the wine is sold so expensive, it depends on the court.

Wine needs grain, three catties of grain and one catty of wine, but nowadays, there is not enough grain to eat, how can you make wine on a large scale?
Therefore, the imperial court prohibited the private brewing of wine, and directly assigned this matter to the imperial court.

However, because of the high profits, the folks have repeatedly banned it, and there are still many sneaky brewers.

(End of this chapter)