Chapter 228 Either Lighter than a Feather or Heavier than Mount Tai
What Liu Jingye brought back was the method of making refined salt from rice and coarse salt. Later, this thing was proved to be true and effective.
This also allowed Liu Jingye to make great contributions.
Liu Jingye, who received a generous salary, returned to his home. When he saw his family, he felt a myriad of emotions in his heart.
Then, he locked himself in a room and stayed alone for a day.
This is similar to self-healing after an injury.
Because he was injured and no one else could help him, he had to lock himself up and heal himself.
The next day, Liu Jingye returned to normal and could live his life as usual.
But in fact, what outsiders don't know is that Liu Jingye has been different for a long time. It's like he has never told outsiders that someone has been watching him behind his back.
This is not some paranoia.
It is real, yes, it is real.
What will people become in the face of interests?
Selfish? Unscrupulous?
A person who is greedy for profit is selfish and unscrupulous.
Obviously, Liu Shiren is such a person.
And similarly, the nobles behind him are also such people.
They have rice and coarse salt. When they have a way to make refined salt and obtain greater benefits, they are naturally greedy for profit.
What made them really tempted to do this was what happened in Huzhuang.
The rice and coarse salt purchased through Min County Commercial Bank were finally transported to Huzhuangli.
Today's Huzhuang is the place that attracts the most attention in the entire Min County. There are always people paying attention to Huzhuang's every move.
Whatever happens in Huzhuang will reach the ears of caring people.
On this day, Huzhuang opened up an open space in the mountains.
A few days later, bags of rice were transported from the village, and the rice was finally transported to the open space in the mountains.
That day, thick smoke floated up from the mountains, indicating that something was burning.
On the last day, I transported something from the mountains back to Huzhuang.
Although it was packed in a bag, ashes were still scattered outside.
Some things cannot be hidden.
It's like plant ash.
Even if the plant ash is put into a bag, what should leak out still leaks out.
And all these things have reached the ears of caring people.
But when the people who cared about it were the Liu family and the nobles behind it, they had only one idea, which was to burn rice in order to turn coarse salt into refined salt.
Subsequently, Huzhuang's salt production accelerated, which confirmed this.
This gives people an idea.
Huzhuang has already done this kind of thing and made money from it, so why can't he do it himself?
In this way, the process of making refined salt from rice and coarse salt began.
However, the actual situation is.
When the rice and coarse salt were transported to Huzhuang, Pei Yun was organizing people to do certain things.
Mo Dachuan and Xiao Lunzi were called over.
The two of them were both carpenters, so I called them over because the next thing to do was related to the carpenter.
Pei Yun handed them three pre-drawn drawings.
After receiving the three drawings, they were fascinated by them.
Pei Yun said from the side: "I need you to make these three things. One of these three things is called a plow, one is a pestle, and one is called a windmill."
"The function of these three things is to remove the husk of rice."
"Next, I will make these three things with you. There is nothing complicated in it. After you learn it, you can do it yourself. These are practical things. In the future, you can be responsible for promoting them.
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Then there was a detailed explanation of the windshield, the windmill, and the windmill.
If you want to make something, you must understand its function and its ingenuity.
Muzi.
It is composed of tree heads, bamboo strips, yellow mud and other materials.
About one meter high and round.
Divided into upper and lower parts.
There are wooden gullets between the upper bottom and the lower top.
The rice will be crushed through wooden troughs.
The bottom layer is filled with yellow mud to make it stand firm.
There are two wooden handles on the edge.
When in use, manpower pushes the rod, and the upper part of the rod rotates, but the lower part does not move.
The principle is to make the wooden tooth grooves rub together to destroy the outer shell of the rice.
This is me.
To make a pot, first make a nest.
This is not difficult, just surround it with bricks and cement.
Choose hard wood.
When using the pestle, place the ground rice into the nest, step on the tail of the pestle hard, and use the principle of leverage to lift the mouth of the pestle.
Under the action of gravity, it hits the rice in the nest. Repeatedly, the rice shells can be completely separated.
It is the easiest and least technical among the three things.
Blower engines are complex.
First of all, there are multiple parts, namely the bellows, the hand shaker, the grain funnel, and the air outlet.
The principle is.
Use wind force to separate different objects.
The light ones fly out, the heavy ones fall down.
The same principle is used to separate rice shells.
when used.
Fill the grain hopper with processed rice.
Shake the windmill and shake your hand to let the wind blow out first, and then lower the shelf covering the grain hopper.
The rice fell from the hopper and was blown by the wind.
The wind will sift the rice.
Light grass clippings drifted out from the air outlet.
The heavy rice grains fell vertically and rolled out of the gap.
After listening to Pei Yun's explanation.
Mo Dachuan and Xiao Lunzi were very excited.
There is such a delicate thing.
Three things turn rice into polished rice.
And you need to know that right now, if you want to turn rice into polished rice, you have to grind it with a stone mill, and then there is tedious manual work.
Not all rice that is milled is polished rice, but more is brown rice that has not been hulled cleanly.
This also results in the price of polished rice being much higher than that of brown rice.
Polished rice is sold to the rich and powerful, while brown rice is kept by the common people for their own consumption.
There are many disadvantages to eating brown rice, such as being difficult to swallow and difficult to digest...
now.
The three things Pei Yun wants to make can completely turn rice into polished rice, and the process is even simpler.
It is conceivable that with these three things, there will be no distinction between polished rice and brown rice in the future.
These three things benefit the people.
Pei Yun also said that after Mo Dachuan and Xiao Lunzi learned it, they would be responsible for promoting it.
There are no conditions involved here.
In other words, it should be given to the people free of charge.
In addition to being excited about the three items themselves, what made Mo Dachuan and Xiao Lunzi even more excited was.
I will become a promoter, so when I talk about these three things in the future, people will also remember me.
For this reason, Mo Dachuan and Xiao Lunzi told themselves in their hearts that no matter what, they must learn these three things.
Life in this world may be lighter than a feather or heavier than Mount Tai.
A person who is originally lighter than a feather will grab it no matter what when it becomes heavier than Mount Tai.