No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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Since ancient times, there has been a saying that there is Suhang in the heavens, and there are beautiful, prosperous and prosperous areas in Suhang and Hangzhou. The developed water network terrain makes the transportation of commodities very convenient and the transportation cost is relatively low, which has created a developed business here, and in all areas where the business is developed, people’s lives will be more prosperous.

Regardless of the climate, fields, transportation, resources, and other perspectives, the Suhang area is dominated, so if it is not paradise, where can it be called paradise?

The 100 old people living in Suhang are happy, not only because of the pleasant climate here, but also the chance of famine is very low here. Unlike Guanzhong and Central Plains, drought and locust disasters happen all the time The weather is relatively smooth and the chance of natural disasters is very low. The output of grain has always been higher than its own consumption. Therefore, since ancient times, Jiangsu and Hangzhou have to use their own grain to supplement the northern capital. Most of the grain in Beijing is Jiangnan Su Hangzhou area added.

Great Tang has a lot of granaries. The most important thing that Imperial Court cares about is the granaries on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the area of ​​Suhang. Once a rebellion occurs or is occupied by hostile forces, it is a very important crisis for any dynasty. Any dynasty must control the area around Jiangsu, Jiangsu and Hangzhou, otherwise, its own financial and food resources will be very limited, which is very unfavorable for the ruling class to rule the country.

The area around Suhang is a granary and a good place for pension and leisure, but it is not the administrative center of the empire, nor the most developed commercial center, and if you want to make more money and have better development, you must Going to Jingcheng to gain a foothold, Jingcheng has the most population and administrative resources. Going to Jingdian to open a store is definitely better than doing business in Suhang.

Therefore, this Su family, which has been operating in Suzhou for several hundred years, opened its business to Beijing before several decades ago. In recent years, the population of Beijing has skyrocketed and the business has been extremely prosperous. So, they seized the opportunity and directly moved part of the granary Arrived in Beijing, and got a rice hulling workshop near the granary in Beijing. In the past, their granary and rice hulling workshop were both in Suzhou. After the rice was processed in Suzhou, they were shipped to Beijing. It is sold, and the rice is also sold directly to Beijing, and it is not responsible for processing in Beijing.

It is the continued prosperity of the capital that stimulated the Su family and allowed them to see the opportunity of the capital. Therefore, the warehouse was placed in the capital, so that the business will be more flexible. After all, if you still use the previous method, you will miss a lot of money. Chances are that if you ship more, you may worry that you will not be able to sell it for a short period of time without storing it out, or even destroy the rice worms. If the transportation is too little, it will cause the rice to be sold out quickly, and the store will be empty and worn out. The continuous transportation of grain and rice, the cost of transportation in batches is obviously higher. In the rainy season, the loss of transportation is not small. If it is a heavy storm or rainy weather, it will be even worse. It may cause the disaster of ship overturning Only by putting the warehouse directly in the capital can these bad results be avoided. Compared with this, the expert in capital seems to be somewhat not worth mentioning. Of course, if you can use the machine to peel the rice, then More cost-effective.

“There are many people working in this workshop!”

Li An glanced and said.

The little housekeeper of the Su family already knows the identity of Li An, and quickly said: “Minister Li, our workshop, a total of 150 people, 100 20 donkeys, 100 turntable mills, a maximum of 500 deniers of rice a day, this is in Beijing Not second to none, but the top 1 is certain. “

“Well, 500 denier, yes, this output is pretty good.”

Li An admired it, but in fact he was not so artificial. This workshop used 150 people, and there were 100 to 20 donkeys. It is not enough to produce such a little rice a day. If you use a machine, the amount of processing will be Far more than these.

The main reason why Li An praised them is that they have adopted the best method. In this place where water power cannot be applied, the combination of livestock and manpower for shelling the rice is already the best method. This is The best and best way they can think of.

In this workshop, 150 people are busy all the time, 100 grinding discs are all rotating, there are only 100 20 donkeys, and some of them rest and eat grass in the shed. These donkeys are substitutes and need to be rotated. Otherwise, the donkey will be exhausted. After all, the donkey is the power source that drives the grinding disc to rotate. It is also the hardest. The artificial work is relatively light work. They have to bow their heads from time to time to clean the crushed rice bran. He also whipped the donkeys away from time to time, and even took the donkeys away for a rested donkey to continue working.

A working person corresponds to a donkey and a grinding disc. As for the 50 extra people, they are also busy. Some of them are adding grass and water to the donkey shed, and some are pushing the trolley to the rice warehouse to get the rice. Some are transporting the freshly processed rice to the place where the rice is stored, and others are cleaning the rice bran and stacking the rice to a fixed location in the yard. These rice bran are also useful. Special staff will come to buy it. The price is naturally It’s very cheap, basically it can’t be sold for any money, but it is an income, anyway, better than nothing.

For these 150 workers, the daily wage It shouldn’t be a small amount, and the consumption of 100 20 donkeys is not small, but it can process 500 denier rice every day, which is still a burden compared to the profit of selling rice The reason is that profits are greatly reduced that’s all, if you use a machine, you can really save a lot of money.

Li An walked in step by step. Although the smell inside was not good, it was still tolerable. In order to prevent the food from staining, all the donkeys were fitted with a cloth pocket on their rear buttocks. At that time, it can be directly dropped into the cloth pocket, so as not to fall into the shelled rice to ensure the quality of the rice.

Donkeys like to flick their tails habitually, so Li An must be a little farther away from the donkey, otherwise it will be easy to flick yourself, the horse’s tail is very dirty, and it should be washed after a flick.

These donkeys walked slowly under the artificial drive. They seem to have fully understood what is the best speed, so they are not fast or slow, and they always maintain a relatively fixed speed. 100 donkeys walk The speed is almost the same. If you pull these donkeys to the military parade, you can walk neatly after a little training.

The weight of the stone mill is at least 100 kg, and it is relatively wide. The weight is large and the squeezing force is large. The width below is for the average pressure distribution. If it is very narrow, it is not to thresh the rice, but to The rice is directly crushed into powder, so there is no rice, but only rice bran.

The weight of these stone mills, the contact area between the bottom of the stone mill and the groove, the thickness of the connecting wooden stick, the thickness of the central axis wooden stick, these all are determined after repeated tests, not only to take into account the rice skin The crushing resistance of the rice, the crushing ability of the rice inside the rice, and the bearing capacity of the wood, the continuous pulling force of the donkey, and how to achieve the maximum processing volume are all aspects. After balancing all factors, the final The result is also the best result.

These little stone mills are really magical. They can actually process rice with shells into rice. The most important thing is not to damage the rice. The rice after the shell is broken is still intact rice. This is very commendable and it is also very hard. It is better to master, too light to crush the rice hulls, too heavy to crush the rice inside, just not too light but not heavy.

A working worker squatted down gently, quickly chopped the rice bran out of the groove, grabbed a handful of rice, and carefully observed for a moment. Then, he dragged the reins to stop the donkey.

Seeing that the donkey stopped, another person immediately pushed the car. This small car was not big. It was a unicycle. It was very dexterous. The load was estimated to be at most 2 denier. After the car stopped, the two of them Start using the most primitive gadgets, put the rice that has been crushed in the groove into a small wheelbarrow, and after loading, transport the rice to the outside, and then inside the big transport truck, the transport volume of that big transport truck is sufficient At 2 denier, the transportation capacity is ten times that of the small wheelbarrow. It is mainly responsible for transporting full rice to the rice warehouse.

“Have all the rice been shelled? How effective is the shelling?”

Li An asked.

Because this kind of gravity crushing is impossible to crush every rice into rice without error, there will always be more or less some of them that have not been completely crushed, and some of them have been removed part of the rice husk, and still exist. Some rice husks stick to the rice, of course, some are broken rice, that is, crushed rice.

There are corresponding standards for the quality of rice processing. The purer the rice, the less the rice bran is mixed, and the less the broken rice, the better the quality of the rice. If the rice bran is doped too much and the broken rice is a lot, then It belongs to poor quality rice, and the selling price is definitely different.

Rice hulling workshops not only pursue high quality, but also high efficiency, and high quality and high efficiency are contradictory in many cases. For example, if you work faster, the rice may be processed unclean, rice It will be mixed with more rice bran and broken rice, and if you want to ensure the quality and make the rice bran and broken rice less, you must increase the rolling time, and the efficiency of processing rice is reduced invisibly. There is a The best balance point, and this balance point needs to be explored and tried. It is very difficult to grasp. It also needs to be adjusted according to market conditions. For example, good quality rice has a higher price difference than poor quality rice, then the corresponding The reduction of efficiency guarantees quality. If the price of high-quality and low-quality rice is not much different, then efficiency must be the first priority, so as to ensure that the greatest benefits can be obtained.

“Back to Minister Li, there will still be some rice bran and broken rice. When it is shipped to the rice shop for sale, someone will use a sieve to clean up the small broken rice. If there is time, the rice bran will also be cleaned. The cleaned ones are sold as high-quality rice, and the ones that are not cleaned are lowered by one grade, and broken rice is cheaper. “

The little housekeeper of the Su family said.

“Well, let me see.”

Li An said that he walked to the side of a small cart, reached in and grabbed a handful of rice, and after a closer look, the effect of shelling was not bad. There were only 3 or 5 clean and broken pieces of rice in a large batch. The proportion of rice is also very small, basically does not affect anything, this is considered better shelling.

In Li An’s impression, some rice bran will appear from time to time when he was a child in his previous life, but the proportion is not large. Sometimes he also eats hard foreign objects such as big sand grains and mung bean grains. Inadvertently hurt your teeth, which is enough to show that during the process of rice hulling, there will always be some accidents, the rice will not be so clean, until it grows up, with the advancement of the processing machine A lot of it, there is no more rice bran, big sand grains, mung bean grains and other debris in the rice, even the broken rice can hardly be seen, every rice is so smooth and complete, look after steaming rice The appetite is very appetizing.

“Good, good, very clean, haha!”

Li An laughed, continue to shuttle among the working crowd, watching these working people.

Because the work that consumes the most energy is replaced by donkeys, these working people are not too tired, and the weather is relatively cold, so people who are sweating are not visible, but there are still many people who are sweating Yes, even if the weather is cold, if you do some work, your body will sweat a little, which is inevitable.

“Huh, isn’t this the twin’s father, why did you do this, didn’t you plant trees for people?”

Li An went around and saw an acquaintance who was also the father of the younger young lady Shuang’er who had contacted some time ago. The stupid man who was cheated by the foreman and helped the foreman count the money. Didn’t expect to see him for many days. I went to work at the Rice Hulling Workshop.

The man was very excited when he saw Li An, and he did n’t know what to say. He smirked for a long time and said happily: “The foreman is gone, and the people who planted the trees are scattered. Anything else, recruit people here, I will come, and getting money on a monthly basis is not a lie. “

“Well, work hard, work hard, haha!”

Li An responded with a smile, and proudly saw Su Xiao ’s butler in the face. Their processing workshop never bullied people who work. As long as they work well, the wages will be a penny. They will do big business. Don’t care about these little money.