These days, I have been preoccupied with the new machine in the weaving workshop, and I would rush back home before get off work. The key is the adoption of new technology. The screw thread seems simple, but the principle of thread picking needs to be explained in detail to the carpenter, or else I have to The explosion is suppressed by the wood.

After a busy afternoon, I took Dalai all the way to the house and discussed the details of threading. It was successful. The effect of the machine cannot be said. Three people can operate it easily. It is not as fast as the six-person machine.

They are on par with each other, and three laborers can be liberated at once, which is invisible.

Lieutenant General doubled the efficiency. However, it was too difficult to make the sleeves. It took nearly ten failures in a row before a qualified finished product was achieved. The cost of the machine was too high. No matter how good the idea was, it would be difficult to widely implement it. All efforts were needed.

Think of a way to improve your success rate.

Just as he was passing by the semicolon in Nanjinchang, he saw a few people arguing on the bluestone steps. Four young men in Nanjinchang surrounded two people who looked like farmers and coaxed them to the table. Seeing that the two of them met, it didn't look like they were there.

They were farmers in the village, and they were arguing loudly with the workers, probably why they were not allowed to set up a stall at the gate of Nanjinchang.

Unlicensed vendor? Chao Dalai smiled. Since Nanjinchang settled in Wangjiazhuangzi, many farmers from other villages come to purchase goods every day. Farmers have limited spare money after all, so it is inevitable to bring some produce from the fields to the Yi Market.

Gradually, a small trading center was formed with Nan Jinchang as the center. Just like going to the market, there would be one small meeting every four days and one big meeting every seven days. During the gathering, people would come to occupy a small place before dawn. It was very lively from morning to noon.

Already.

But farmers also have a farmer's demeanor. They go to the market early rather than late, and disperse after noon. I have never seen people blocking people's doorsteps to buy goods. It's dinner time, and there are such indifferent people.

I came here to do some mischief, so I wanted to see the excitement.

There were two large bamboo baskets leaning against the red pillars at the gate of Nanjinchang. I looked around and saw that they were full of water chestnuts. I smiled. No wonder there were no rules. I saw that they were tenant farmers who came from Cheng Chu's new garden. Cheng Chu recruited them in order to rush the work.

Many of the laborers are not locals. They have just settled here not long ago. They don't know so many rules and they just run around and sell things.

I waved to the guys. It was a big deal after all. Don’t worry about it with the farmers. Seeing that it was dark and there were still two big baskets full of unsold goods, I must have been anxious. I thought it would be easier to sell the stall if it was placed higher. I knelt down and faced the bamboo basket.

After rummaging through the house, he asked two farmers: "How much does a pound of water chestnuts cost?"

"Liu Wen," the tenant farmer of the Cheng family saw the man asking for the price and had no intention of arguing with the waiter. He ran over diligently and turned over the water chestnuts in the basket.

The layer of mud hasn't dried yet! It's a rare fruit that no one in the capital has ever seen."

With this way of selling, even Guang Guang, who knows how fresh the fruit is, makes others frown when they see it. He dares to ask for six cents, which is more than a pound of fat. The farmers in Wangjiazhuangzi are now very visionary.

I'm afraid I won't be able to sell the statue for a penny.

"I'm so poor that I'm crazy. Don't worry about it, Mr. Marquis." The boy was kind-hearted and was afraid that the farmer from another village would make a basket of muddy eggs and make me angry, so he quickly came over to smooth things over and let these two people know about me.

Identity, don't cause unrelated troubles.

"Who said poverty is crazy?" The farmer didn't know good and bad, and glared at the man with a red face and thick neck. Seeing the disdainful looks in the eyes of the people in the circle, he got angry and grabbed one and bit it in half without even digging into the mud.

He pinched the heart of the earth and gestured towards me. The other one worked.

I woke up a lot, picked a fruit with less mud, wiped my sleeves with my hands and handed it over, "Look, it's really a good thing, it's not nonsense. There hasn't been such a sweet fruit in a year, and the one sold for six cents is just a rarity."

.It’s a pity that the outside world doesn’t like it. No one has paid attention to it all day.”

"Welcome," he ignored the two people. He pointed at the two baskets and nodded, "I want all the six coins. Come home as soon as it gets dark."

"The market is open!" The two farmers were overjoyed when they heard what I said. They stopped weighing them and weighed them a few times. "The two baskets must weigh more than eighty kilograms. If you count your fifty kilograms, you will have one customer per day."

I’ll spare you all!”

"How can you talk like this?" The boy from Nan Jinchang heard the vulgar words spoken by the two of them. He dared to kill the Marquis with such a tone.

I stood up and waved my hands with a smile. I didn't have anything to argue with the poor man. I took out two small silver pancakes and handed them to the waiter. "I went in and exchanged copper coins for them. It's calculated as eighty catties." The villagers watching the excitement saw this.

The two villagers were ignorant and looked at each other angrily.

Looking at it, it seemed that he wanted to wait for me to leave and tidy up the people. He waved to the people around him, "Come here, take a few for each family. The Wang family originally planned to take everyone to plant this thing. If the land is suitable, anyone who is willing to plant it can find the money.

The butler will tell you to wash it, peel it and eat it."

The two farmers from the Cheng family left happily, and the people in the Wang family village also opened it. Those who have tasted it know the taste, and those who have not tasted it also know that this thing can be sold for six cents per catty with mud, and it is still the last product in the afternoon.

If you arrange it cleanly and put up a good sale statue, you still don't have to go to Shiwen. This is much better than lotus root. I suddenly feel that it is endless fun to open up wasteland without mobilization. In the middle of the night, there are people who carry torches to dig up the land.

Ying Le was so upset that she stood by the lotus pond in the Yun family all day long and praised the beautiful lotus flowers and the lush lotus leaves. "It's a pity. This wasteland is limited. Lotus vegetables should be planted, and everything should be covered."

After leaving the Wang family, the Yun family even took the water chestnuts and had no place to plant them. Could it be that Girl Yun planted them in her manhole?"

"You can do it. If you don't see the little girl, she will stay away from you." I grabbed Ying and pulled her to walk on the field, trying not to meet the girl Yun.

Ying was so happy that she shook her silk scarf happily. "If you don't do it for money, just vent your anger. This girl is not old enough to play tricks yet!"

"I don't think I'm pitiful, but think about it instead." Chao Ying patted her on the back, "It's settled with the Yun family. From now on, if we have contact with our fellow villagers, the price will drop if we argue with each other."

Ying Shu nodded heartily, sat down on the grass slope, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you raise fish or shrimps, I have always left a way for the Yun family to survive. Otherwise, there would be no place for her to stand in this village. In the past,

There is still a boundary between the two families. Now in this royal family, we are the host and she is the guest. We must let her know that there is a difference between guest and host. Don't show any tricks to the host's house and teach her to behave."

"I'll pay off my share," I shook my head, lay down on the grass, and listened to the sound of clearing land in the distance. I was very motivated. The profits of the new crop were considerable in the early stage, but the good times were short-lived, and people followed suit.

More and more. Just like lotus seeds, which were delicate and expensive two years ago, now only have meager profits left. The prospects of water chestnuts are not much better than lotus seeds.

The Cheng family will have a thousand acres next year, and the Wang family will have a few hundred acres, which means they have monopolized Chang'an. It seems that reprocessing agricultural and sideline products to generate income is the way out. You can't be constrained by a few acres of thin farmland. One more link means one more

layer profits.

I have to make a preliminary proposal. It is not for the sake of the Wang family, but purely from my heart. The farmers who are working hard in Tianlong, starting from Guanzhong, have gradually expanded in a healthy way. The beneficiaries are not just a few people or a few interest groups, but a few people.

It is the entire Tang Empire. After all, I am also a subject of the Tang Empire. The country has never treated the Wang family badly. Although I often take advantage of the national government, from the bottom of my heart I still hope that the motherland will prosper and prosper for a long time.

There was a change, and I couldn't help laughing at myself. I actually gradually became nobler. It was an incredible chemical effect. People who grew up under the red flag returned to the backward era, but they felt that a noble sentiment was growing in their hearts, whether it was moral values ​​or moral values.

The world view gradually becomes clearer. Everything is organized and orderly.

It seems that simplicity is not necessarily wrong. Everyone hopes to get satisfactory returns for their efforts. The stronger and more prosperous the country is, the higher the returns will be, and the more satisfactory life will be. The sense of belonging to the country and the trust in the government will be

The stronger you become, the sense of pride from the inside out makes everything in front of you become cheerful.

This is a virtuous circle. You don’t have to live in such a low self-esteem that you are cynical. You have long forgotten that you once had Japanese goods in your hands and you were angrily boycotting Japanese goods. You don’t have to be on a sea ship because you were smuggled into a certain developed country because of what was shown on the news network.

How many citizens were muffled to death?

And sad; as for who bombed the Tang Empire's embassy, ​​there was no need for people to march. His Majesty Li Zhi, who was labeled as cowardly and incompetent in history, would politely cross the country off the map. In history,

Annihilation, the country and its people will cease to exist.

I have a very relaxed living environment, but now I realize the benefits that leaders who are lenient at home and strict at the outside can bring to the country. I used to be cautious in speaking. I was afraid of being confiscated and exterminated like in the TV series. This is all an illusion. In this era, you can do whatever you want.

Vent your dissatisfaction with the government on Zhuque Street. As long as what you say is reasonable, the local government will politely record your remarks in detail. Even if there is no improvement, you will feel comfortable. A relaxed public opinion environment will treat government officials

The supervisory role played cannot be ignored.

"Build a road?" After thinking about it, I felt that it was necessary to make some contribution to the country. When I had a whim, I was inevitably a little impulsive. I pointed to the potholed paths connecting the villages in the distance. "Build it to be spacious and easy for everyone to walk."

"

Ying looked at the direction I pointed in confusion, "It's not the boundary of our Zhuangzi. Where can we build it?"

"That's right over there. We, Zhuangzi, can't even take advantage of ourselves. We have to benefit everyone." It's so great. The tone of voice when saying this is different. I can't believe that this is my own awakening. I regret not having a tape recorder to record it.

.

"Oh," Ying stretched out her hand and probed my forehead, "You don't have a fever, why are you talking nonsense?"

"Look, occasionally I am enthusiastic but don't cooperate, which makes me feel less enthusiastic." He spread his hands and glanced dissatisfied at Ying, "Selfish."

Ying pursed her lips and smiled, "Cultivation, I didn't tell you not to do it. Have you asked the officials? You can practice whatever you want in your village, but if you want to practice, you have to get approval from the officials. If you don't tell me,

Third, the imperial court has no reason to put the highway into private hands, which is a serious crime."

"Forget it," it was too strict. I originally planned to form a small engineering team to undertake the projects for the imperial court, but it seemed that there was no hope. I stood up, patted my wife, and went back home with my wife.

Recently, water chestnuts have appeared, and the consumption of fungus at home has become quite large. Water chestnut and fungus slices have become a famous dish in the Wang family's menu. When you enter the door, you see the housekeeper and the accountant having a drink on the stone table in the small garden behind the screen wall. You don't have to walk in front.

I can smell it. I've been busy lately, so it's rare for the two of us to have a drink in the evening. Ying Xiaoxiao took me around the south corridor towards the back house, so as not to disturb the interest of the two old men.

"It's not easy to say," Ying stretched out her hand to pick a spring flower that stretched into the corridor. "It is a seasonal thing. It is difficult for ordinary people to get sweet things in their homes. It would be great if these water chestnuts could be harvested all year round.

.Sell in different seasons, so you don’t have to rush out of the market. The price is always good in all seasons.”

This is knowledge. With the current conditions, it cannot reach this level, but Ying's way of thinking is already very advanced. "Is there no way?"

"Where's the wine?" A servant happened to be carrying a jar of wine and passed by the corridor next to it. Ying pointed to that side, "Put the wine jar in and seal it tightly. Dirty things can't get in."

The sealing of wine is very particular, especially the process of sealing good wine is very cumbersome. A layer of thick yellow paper is wrapped around the mouth of the jar, and the entire wax that has turned into water is poured on top to form a thin wax film to wrap the mouth of the jar.

Then I used yellow mud paste with grass tendons. Now with lime, I put a thick layer of cooked lime paste on it.

I don’t know if there is any use in sealing water chestnuts in the same way. It would also be good to get a few jars of water and water chestnuts. Anyway, the Cheng family has a lot of land, so you can try it.

A large cart arrived. Wash them and peel them. Sprinkle a little salt in clean water and soak them for a day to get the flour. I specially select the big belly jars with glaze. Boil them in a big pot and disinfect several jars. Sprinkle a little white wine on them.

Wipe the mouth of the jar, then scoop the white water chestnuts into boiling water and place them in the jar. Then pour boiling water at a suitable temperature into the jar, arrange them according to the technique of sealing wine, and move them to the cellar for storage.

I remember that the shelf life of storage cans in later generations is generally twelve months, but these days there are no preservatives, and it is considered a success if it can last for half a year. I don’t dare to expect half a year. According to Lao Si, if it is not bad within three months,

Although it is not as valuable as fresh vegetables in winter. When delivered to a big restaurant, the price of fresh fruit is five times that of fresh fruits. Even if the water chestnuts are worthless in the future, the ones in the jar can be sold at a good price.

This is a method. If it works, fruits can also be made step by step. As for cans, these are high-end goods, and those that others have never seen are all high-end goods. It belongs to the deep processing of agricultural and sideline products.

The process must be recorded in detail, divided into time periods, and a jar opened at each period to check whether there is any change in the quality of the cans. It is a designated scientific research project of the Wang family. The fourth child is responsible for the entire process, and problems are discovered and solved in time.

I had better take advantage of my free time to quickly solve the problem of the thread pattern of the new textile machine.

The drawings were laid out on a whole case, and the idea of ​​using pure metal castings for the sleeves even came up. Since coal high-temperature metallurgy has been used, I don’t know if it is possible...but my family doesn’t have that condition.

"Why don't you give this drawing to Princess Lanling?" The second daughter came to my home and ran to the workshop. After asking the reason, she was very interested in a series of my inventions. The toilet water was jointly created with the two daughters.
To be continued...