The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 23 Deep Cultivation in Fuling County

Chapter 23 Deep Cultivation in Fuling County ([-])

Although I fought many times with my daughter-in-law last night, I also chatted for a long time.But Guan Yi still woke up on time at the beginning of Chenshi.

After washing up, I practiced Guan Dao for a while in the small yard in the backyard of the prefect's mansion.At this time Qiao Qiang also got up.The husband and wife have used Chaoshi.Then Qiao Qiang went to see her little tiger, while Guan Yi asked Guan Xiaoqi and a dozen other servants who grew up together to walk up the mountainside behind the prefect's mansion.

"I haven't been home for ten days. Is there anything wrong with the field?"

"Patriarch, don't worry, brothers are on duty these days. There are people crouching in the middle of the night. Except for the birds in the sky, no one can get close."

"Well, the things buried in this piece of soil are enough to change the food predicament of the Han Dynasty for thousands of years. You can't be too careful."

The two were chatting, but a figure hurriedly ran up the mountainside, and when they got closer, Guan Yi recognized him, this was another child of his Guan family, Guan Datou.

Everyone could see that Guan Datou's huge head was covered with sweat, and the expression on his face was extremely frightened.Guan Yi and Guan Xiaoqi couldn't help feeling tense: "What's going on?"

"Seventh Housekeeper, oh, the Patriarch is here too. Patriarch, the green grass in your test field... When we got up this morning, we found a lot of white flowers..."

"Okay! It's blooming! Hahahahaha, big head, don't be nervous. This is a good thing!"

When she came to the experimental field and looked at the white flowers all over the ground, Guan Yi felt extremely relieved.He counted one by one, um, 120 five potato seedlings, all of which are growing well.More than 70 of them bloomed.

"Good! Good! It will take another month at most before we can harvest! If we can do it faster this year, we may still be able to sow for another season!"

Potatoes enter the rapid tuberization period after the aboveground plants have flowered.Generally lasts for 30 days.But the premise is that the soil temperature cannot exceed 25 degrees.Otherwise, the underground potato cubes will stop developing.Benefited from the advantage that Fuling County is full of high mountains, many of which are above 1000 meters above sea level.Potatoes grown here generally last a long time.Therefore, the potatoes produced here have very large tubers.In fact, even in later generations, although the most famous potatoes in China are produced in Gansu, the entire mountainous area in the southwest of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing is an extensive potato growing area.

"Very good! Big head, you take good care of these potato seedlings! Xiaoqi, give them an extra hundred dollars each!"

"Thank you, Patriarch!"

"Well, the next month is the key! Everyone has to work hard. Apply farmyard manure every five days and keep the soil moist and airy at all times... If there is a bumper harvest in one month, I will not be stingy with rewards!"

"Follow the order of the Patriarch!"

After stroking every potato seedling with nostalgia and satisfaction, Guan Yi said to Guan Xiaoqi, "Go to the oil workshop."

The rapeseed plant is native to Western Europe, and there is no such plant in Shuhan today.The oil workshop Guan Yi mentioned does not produce rapeseed oil for consumption.Rather, it is tung oil used in industrial production.

Speaking of which, the largest tung oil producing area in China in later generations is Xiushan County in Chongqing City.It happened to be in the current Fuling County.In fact, soon after Guan Yi arrived in Fuling County, he discovered that there were a lot of tung oil trees here.

Unfortunately, limited by the time limit.People in this era have not yet fully understood the role of the tung oil tree. For those who have not met their food and clothing, whether a thing is of great value, the first thing to ask is whether this thing can be eaten?Although the tung oil tree will bear fruit, the fruit is very toxic and cannot be eaten at all.Therefore, although there are tung oil trees all over the mountains and plains in Fuling County, the local people have not used them effectively at all: taking them back and using them as firewood is too smoky!
When she came to the oil workshop and smelled the unique smell of tung oil, Guan Yi's eyes were filled with golden light: This is all money!
"Approximately how much can be produced in a month now?" The head of the newly established Fuling County Oil Factory is also a servant of the Guan family, and he is called Guan Xiaoji.

"Report to the owner. The production of this oil requires a lot of manpower. There are only about [-] people in the oil workshop, so the output is not much. It will only be about ten stones in a month. If there are enough people, the slaves will Guaranteed to produce at least a hundred stones per month."

"How many people do you expect to need to achieve this output?"

"Uh, Patriarch, about 200 people are needed for picking and transporting. There are two shifts for crushing oil, and each shift needs 50 people. Filtration requires 50 people. So at least 350 people are needed."

"Your calculation is wrong. You should know that if the scale is enlarged, the nearby tung trees will not be able to supply it at all. Then you need to go farther to collect oil fruits. The distance and time of transportation will be longer. Manpower will insufficient."

"The Patriarch sees that the teaching is right. The servants are not thinking about it."

"Well, I will solve the problem of manpower for you sooner or later. How about the finished product? You must know that I have to sell it to have money to increase manpower for you."

"Patriarch, when it comes to this servant, you have to talk about it." Guan Xiaoji put on an excited expression: "This thing is very magical. Brush it on a wooden board and it will dry quickly. After it dries, this The wooden boards are impervious to water and reflect light. The smell will disappear quickly. Just in this regard, it is much better than lacquer. If this thing can be sold, sooner or later my big man's lacquer will be used. The goods are crowded and there is no market!"

"In addition to water resistance, there is also the maintenance of the weapon that the owner said. After we made the first batch of tung oil two months ago, we used it to brush a batch of gun heads. Then we buried them in the soil together with the same number of gun heads that were not brushed with oil. A few days ago, I took it out and saw that the tip of the gun that was not oiled was already rusty, but the tip of the gun that was oiled was not rusty at all!"

As an industrial raw material, tung oil has a wide range of applications.It's a pity that Guan Yi is just an agricultural student: he only knows how to plant and produce, but he is not very clear about how to process and use tung oil after it is produced.Even so, just substituting paint to brush furniture and substituting animal fat as lubricating oil preservative is enough to generate considerable profits.

The last stop is the pig house.

In such an era when people can’t get enough to eat, except for the northern grasslands, animal husbandry is not very popular in most parts of China—let’s raise livestock, this is not an endless grassland, but a place with high mountains and dense forests. In the Wuling Mountains, it takes a lot of manpower to take care of the grazing livestock—otherwise the grazing livestock will either be eaten by ferocious beasts or run away by themselves.You say no stocking, let’s practice captive breeding, or the same sentence, people can’t have enough to eat, and they are busy finding food for themselves every day.How can there be time and energy to find food for livestock.

In fact, captive wild boars in China started very early.At least in the oracle bone inscriptions, there is a clear record that piglets must be eunuched first.So when Guan Yi came to Fuling County and saw wild boars running all over the mountains, she was very puzzled: Why don't you catch piglets and put them into captivity after castration.

As a result, when Guan Yi asked this question, Ma Guo and all the subordinates of the prefect's mansion were stunned: Why should they be castrated and then raised in captivity?

Well, although Ma Guo has a prominent background, because of Ma Di, his life is actually very hard.Such a down-and-out young man who is full of fireworks in the world doesn't even bother to learn about agriculture.Can you expect Pang Hong, who has completely inherited Pang Tong's arrogance, to know these "last-learned tricks"?
When Guan Yi captured a lot of piglets, except for a few that looked stronger as breeding pigs, all the other piglets were castrated and put into captivity.Ma Guo actually expressed his objection: people can't eat enough, and they still want to raise pigs?
So this is a question of perception.Pigs are all treasures.Pork and offal are edible.It can provide people with more energy than rice and wheat.

Bristle is the main raw material of all brushes.In the age of gunpowder, bristles were a strategic material.

Pork bones can effectively improve the symptoms of bone calcification deficiency common in this era, making children grow taller and stronger.

As for lard, it is a big killer for all traversers with a little knowledge of chemistry: soap, candles, glycerin, all have to find a way from lard!
I saw the castrated piglets eating or sleeping in the pigsty.Guan Yi only felt that these barrows were more cute than ever before.Fat pork, a lot of money and food in exchange for soap and candles...

"Patriarch, the brothers at the foot of the mountain came to report that the Patriarch of the Mi family has arrived."

"Well, bring me some tung oil, pig bristles, etc., and go down the mountain!"

(End of this chapter)

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