No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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The data mentioned by Su Xiao ’s housekeeper is similar to what Li An guessed. The rice that can be processed in one day by this rice hulling workshop can feed 50000 to 100000 people, while there are several 1000000 people in Beijing, at least 50 of them are needed. Large processing workshops can meet the needs of the capital. Obviously, most processing workshops not at all Sujia ’s processing workshops are large in scale and naturally have a larger number. One Hundred Schools of Thought rice hulling workshop is still available. It is even possible to approach 2 Hundred Schools of Thought.

As for how many rice shelling workshops there are in Beijing, this only needs to be cleared by asking the relevant government offices. They should have statistics, but it doesn’t seem to make much sense, as long as you know the approximate number.

Research & Development and production machines will inevitably require a lot of manpower, but after the successful Research & Development of the machine, it can save a lot of manpower, so that this part of the released manpower can enter the new workshop, thereby alleviating the shortage of human resources in Beijing The situation, therefore, more machines in Research & Development will never be wrong, and the benefits will always outweigh the disadvantages.

There are now 2 Hundred Schools of Thought rice hulling workshops in Beijing. Such a large scale has solved the employment of more than 10000 people. It has contributed greatly to the prosperity of Beijing. In addition to rice hulling workshops, there are corn The shelling workshops for other crops are much smaller than the Ruyu Rice Peeling Workshop, and they are also not small in size, and the employed population may not be lower than that of rice.

Corn is a new crop planted in Great Tang only in recent years. It is passed from America and is one of the most affordable food crops brought to Great Tang after Li An opened up a new continent.

Sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, these crops are very popular in Great Tang, because they are all high-yield crops, and the requirements for land fertility are low, and the drought tolerance is also very good, compared with many local crops in Great Tang. It’s better.

The storage of sweet potatoes is mainly in the cellar, or sliced ​​and dried, and the preservation of corn is directly dried. However, corn has two kinds of preservation methods: corn kernels and corn on the cob. Corn on the cob is harvested, while corn The grain is the product after the corn cob is processed.

Compared with the storage of corn kernels, corn cobs are naturally better than corn kernels. After all, the grain silo also has a volume. If corn kernels are stored, they can be stored more, and storing corn cobs will take up too much warehouse volume. As a result, the number of corn kernels stored in limited warehouses is small.

The 100 surnames in Jingcheng at this time, because of their busy work, did not have much time to peel corn kernels, so they were more willing to buy corn kernels, even corn flour or corn kernels after processing.

When cooking rice, the corn kernels are not easy to rot, so it is better to sell after chopping, and after being converted into corn flour, it can be used to burn corn porridge. In short, the old 100 people like to buy ready-made Products, rather than buying corn on the cob, this requires that merchants and large grain farmers first process the harvested corn kernels into products that can be directly cooked, and then have better sales.

It is enough to grind corn flour with stone grinding, but the efficiency is relatively low, which is far inferior to the speed of the machine, and the corn cobs are turned into corn kernels, which are also manually rubbed off, which is very labor-intensive, of course, compared to rice. For small-grain crops, the yield of corn peeling is naturally higher.

However, the processing of corn kernels cannot rely on the power of livestock. It can only be peeled manually, which consumes a lot of physical energy. It is more tiring to do this work, especially the 2 hands are the most tired. It is really tired and painful. People with delicate skin will peel the corn kernels, and the palms will be worn out soon.

In addition to the palm, the second is the arm, because when the palm is rubbed hard, the strength of the arm is the largest. It will naturally make the arm sour after rubbing for a long time. The palm is sore and the arm is sour. These are the two that must be faced when peeling corn kernels. The biggest problem, if you do n’t work long, you ca n’t stand it.

As for how the labor of peeling corn in Beijing works, you can only know it by going to such a workshop in person, and Li An would like to take a look to see how hard it is to peel the corn kernels.

“Su little housekeeper, does your Su family have any food besides rice and rice?”

Li An asked.

Su Xiao, the butler, shook the head and said, “Back to Minister Li, our Su family specializes in rice and rice, and the other food is not a question.”

Li An nodded, stepping forward and continuing to move forward, he thought that if the Su family manages corn, it is enough to go directly to see it, but think carefully, the probability of the Su family’s corn is too small, Jiangnan is a water network terrain, very It is suitable for the growth of aquatic plants such as rice. It is too wasteful to plant corn in Jiangnan, because corn is very resistant to drought. In areas where the water network is vertical and horizontal, the advantages of corn cannot be reflected, and the price of rice is higher than that of corn It’s a lot more expensive. It must be a disadvantage to grow corn.

But Guanzhong is different. The Water Element here is far less developed than in the south of the Yangtze River. The dry land resources that lack water are very rich. It is impossible to grow rice on this dry land, and it is very suitable to plant corn, a very drought-tolerant plant. Maximize the use of the dry land resources in Guanzhong to increase the food production of the Great Tang Empire.

In today ’s world, many regions are short of food, but the Great Tang not only lacks food, but also has a large surplus. With sufficient storage, many Great Tang merchants have set their sights on the distant Western market, and Western The reason why the Region is short of food is the most important reason. It is caused by continuous conflicts. In the western region of the Great Tang Western Regions, due to the strong interference of the Great Tang Empire, this region has always maintained a relatively loose and balanced state. In the future, there is no possibility of reunification in this region, and a unified Great Empire cannot be formed. Although these small forces can basically maintain peace on the surface, there are inevitably some contradictions and frictions in so many small countries, especially in the territory Struggle, conflict of interests, and this kind of battle is easy to cause armed conflict, that is, wars will occur frequently.

Because their respective strengths are relatively limited, they do not want to lose their old capital, and the Great Tang Empire mediates and maintains them. Therefore, these wars are relatively short-term, and will not last too long. When the moon was not up, they withdrew their troops under the mediation of Great Tang officials.

Although armed conflicts will always be suppressed quickly, short-term wars can occur frequently, and the consumption of national power will not be small. Moreover, since each Great Tang can be mediated from it, would n’t it be a benefit fee, and this benefit fee is It ’s also a loss for the national strength of these small countries, and once the battle is fought, the production of the 2 people will definitely be affected. For example, in a conflict, a kingdom has set off a fire and the hostile forces have just matured. All the food that has to be harvested in the future will be burned. This loss can be imagined. If there is no Great Tang resident official to send this news back to Beijing to let the merchants in Beijing transport the food to sell, it is estimated that most of this small country has more than 100 people Starved to death.

Of course, merchants can transport food to small western countries for sale, but also benefit from the convenience of railway transportation. If there is no railway line, merchants are absolutely not willing to transport food to such far places. After all, the freight cost of ordinary transportation is too Expensive, even if you sell ten times the price, you can’t recover the cost, and by rail transportation, it is enough to sell 3 times the price, as long as you can sell 5 times the price, it is considered a big profit, and in the food crisis In the region, even if it sells for ten times the price, it will be a thriving business. For the 100 old people, there is nothing more important than filling the stomach. Only by filling the stomach can people survive.

Since the Su family does not operate corn, Li An can only ask the local officials: “Where is the corn threshing workshop?”

The little man said, “When I go back to Minister Li, I have it nearby, only 2 miles away, but the scale is not large, only 30-50 people.”

“Okay, just go there.”

Li An left the Sujia Rice Hulling Workshop and went to the nearby corn threshing workshop.

2 The ground is too close, and almost arrived just after getting on the car. This workshop is obviously much smaller, and there are fewer people working inside. There are only a few donkeys for livestock, not for processing, but for If you pull the cart, these donkeys will pull away the cart full of corn kernels and pull them to the shops that sell corn kernels.

“Minister Li, here is the corn threshing workshop. Zhao Xiao ’s housekeeper is at the door. This workshop is owned by Zhao Family in Guanzhong. Zhao Family is in Xianyang, not far from the capital. There are 10000 mu of dry land in the house. In addition to selling corn produced by their own families, they will also buy grain from ordinary small farmers at a low price to earn a little difference. “

The little official said.

Li An nodded, said: “Zhao Family’s, Xianyang is indeed not far away, 10000 acres of dry land, the corn harvested in a year must also be at least 50000 denier, maybe more than 100000 denier.”

The little man quickly explained: “Minister Li, Zhao Family’s son and I are close friends, and the officials in their family know that only 10000% of the 30 acres of dry land is corn land, and so many corn kernels cannot be collected.”

“Oh, what else do they grow?”

Li An asked.

The official said: “In addition to corn, 30% of their family has grown sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes are only 1000 acres, there are fewer grains left, but there are many varieties, and there are 1000 acres of vegetable land, planted There are at least dozens of various green vegetables. “

“Oh, this Zhao Family is interesting! Actually, I planted so many kinds of food, enough!”

Li An said with a smile

After getting off the train, the little housekeeper of Zhao Family quickly greeted him, and when he heard of Li An’s identity, he knelt down in fright.

“This Official is just to come and take a look at the corn kernels processed here.”

Li An said with a smile.

Zhao Xiao, the housekeeper hearing this, quickly led the way ahead.

“Where are the people working? How are 5 6 people?”

Li An saw that only 5 6 people were busy in the workshop and asked.

Butler Zhao Xiaoli replied: “Minister Li, the working people are all above this room and need to go up the stairs.”

Li An hearing this, when I walked into the house that Zhao Xiaojia said, I suddenly saw a scene that I couldn’t see outside, and at the same time I understood why the working people were on it.

In this room, there are a lot of sacks, and 5-6 people are busy, they work together to place the sacks under the roof hole, and from the roof hole there is a thick flexible pipe, this pipe It can accommodate the corn kernels to slide down from above. Just plug the other end of the pipe into the sack, the corn kernels can be smoothly dropped into the sack, and then the mouth can be replaced with a sack, this work is more relaxed and efficient , Basically a bag for a while.

Why, you are worried that when the sack is changed, there will be corn kernels falling to the ground at the mouth of the pipe, then there is some worry about excess. This pipe is flexible, just need to fold it gently, the pipe will be temporarily blocked, a corn kernel It will not fall on the ground.

If this method is not used, the corn kernels need manual little by little loading and unloading, which is a big trouble. Not only is the efficiency not high, but it is also a great test for human physical strength.

Seeing the situation in the room, what kind of scene is the above, Li An has been able to guess, but since everyone is here, it is good to take a look.

Zhao Family, the little housekeeper, led the way ahead. Li An and several followers stepped along along and quickly came to the room on the upper floor.

There are about 30 people in this room, they are divided into 2 circles, and each circle is about 5 or 1 people. Most of them sit on the stool and peel corn by hand, while the remaining few people go to take a short distance. Corn is placed in front of these corn peelers, so that these corn peelers will not be nested. In the middle of a circle of more than a dozen people, there is naturally a hole, and the corn kernels they peeled off will fall directly. At the entrance and around the entrance, it only takes a few pushes by the person next to it, and oh la la falls, and there are naturally sacks waiting below.

Although peeling the corn is done by hand, it is not completely using your fingers to buckle the corn kernels, which is too tired, and the efficiency is not guaranteed at all, and the people who work are soon found a very clever way, that is It is more efficient to use discarded corn cobs to rub the corn kernels. The most difficult thing is to rub the corn cobs at the beginning, because all the corn kernels are well distributed, it is difficult to shake when rubbing, and as long as It is relatively easy to rub off the first point, and all the corn kernels can be rubbed off quickly.

In the Great Tang era when pesticides were not yet popular, any crops would produce insects, and corn was no exception. The corn kernels of insects were not sold, and they had to be removed before they were sold, but, This is a hawker’s business. They are in a hurry to work. There is really not much effort to clean up a small amount of bad corn kernels.

In addition to the bad corn kernels damaged by harmful insects, there are some small corn kernels that are not fully developed, which will also affect the sale. These can be screened out with a sieve to ensure the purity of the corn and allow the corn kernels to be sold at a higher price .