The Wu Dynasty used force to establish the country. In the three hundred years since its founding, the military system has been well-established.
The camp and the guard are independent. The difference is that the camp belongs to the royal family, and the guard belongs to the martial arts. The former has money from the internal treasury to train troops, and the latter has payment from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The specific levels are divided by the number of prefix characters, single characters are the highest, double characters are the second, place names and races are the third, and miscellaneous characters are the lower.
Under the camp and guard is the place, with a single word for "thousand households", a double word for "hundred households", and the rest is the banner.
Longwu Guard is a miscellaneous guard station. This kind of guard station has jurisdiction over up to nine hundred households. The number of regular soldiers cannot exceed 950. Including auxiliary soldiers and logistics, the total number of people cannot exceed 1,300. .
The establishment of the Kulun camp is the same as that of the Longwuwei, except that the food of the Kulun camp is enshrined in the inner treasury.
"Kulun and Xibo are the only two foreigners who have formed an independent camp at present!" Li Yanting couldn't see Fang Fang's face, but looking at Fang Fang's silence, he couldn't help but explain.
"Independent camp?"
Fang Fang was still thinking about birch-related things, but he followed the words and asked.
"The establishment of an independent camp was the highest award given to foreign tribes by the Wu Dynasty. After each camp leader took office, he was generally awarded the title of third earl, and the tribesmen enjoyed the same treatment as the warriors."
"There are currently more than four million active foreign races in the Wu Dynasty, divided into three, six, and nine grades. The first grade is only Kulun and Xibo. There is one third-generation duke from each tribe, three marquises who have been handed down from generation to generation, and the second-grade is Jurchen, Sak, and Wu. Heng Xianbei, but these three tribes account for half of the foreign tribes, and the rest belong to the third class!" Li Yanting explained.
"The Anshi Rebellion broke out because of alien tribes. Every dynasty was prepared for it, but this dynasty uses military merit to judge the superiority. Defense is a defense, and it is still useful!" Xiaohu added.
"Jurchens can only be considered second-class?"
I don’t understand the equation, I really don’t understand it. Although history has changed, the general development process of giving birth to a Jurchen has not changed. If he remembers correctly, in history, Cullen was an affiliate of the Jurchen. He was yelled at by the Jurchen. How did he end up in another world? Cullen Did you go to the head of the real girl?
"Military merit is real, but if you want to be knighted, you have to rely on luck. If you don't have luck, what's the use of being strong?"
Perhaps the explanation was not intuitive enough, Xiaohu said with a sigh on his face, "The problem that Li Guang has difficulty sealing is not just in the Wu Dynasty, it is the same in all countries!"
"..."
Yes, after all, the current war is still a "blind war", and the weight of battle is much higher than that of strategy. In the era of cold weapons, if you are not lucky, let alone Li Guang, even if Li Guang reincarnates ten times, he may not be able to get the chance to be knighted.
"Not to mention these things, what happened to Cullen is already in the past, and these birch trees they planted are the future!"
"Birch tree? Does this have any meaning?"
Li Yanting was puzzled.
Birch trees are planted wherever the Kulun people go. Compared with the birch trees on both sides of the road, the ones near the homes where the Kulun people live are even larger.
If birches represent the future, why has no one discovered it before?
"We'll talk about it first when we get to the camp, and I'll tell you the answer later!"
Fang Fang stopped talking, lowered his head and continued on his way.
Compared with what he had already thought of, he had to verify that as an otaku who relies on wilderness construction to fall asleep before going to bed, birch trees have another value besides the role of wood, which is the supplement of wilderness sugar.
Birch syrup is a natural sugar found in nature.
Kyushu's history is different from that of China, but its productivity has not changed much. It is equivalent to the Southern Song Dynasty. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the price of sugar fell due to shipping. Today, the price of sugar has dropped due to the development of Jiaozhi.
But no matter how sugar prices fall, it will never benefit ordinary people.
The rice of the Wu Dynasty was kept around the average of eight cents per bushel of rice and seventy cents per stone because of the Song people's plan. However, the Song people did not let go of the sugar, which cost one hundred and forty cents for gray sugar and eighty cents for caramel sugar. .
Malt sugar can be extracted from rice noodles, but because it is a Chinese medicinal material, no one is willing to buy it even though the price is low. Just take a look at it if it costs 70 yuan.
Ordinary people who want a taste of sweetness will smear their mouths with caramel. Who would be willing to buy gray sugar during the New Year or the holidays?
One pound of gray sugar, two stones of rice!
Even eating the equation makes me feel distressed, let alone others.
But the emergence of birch trees, if used properly, will completely solve the problem of sugar shortage in the Wu Dynasty. Sweet-eating is the nature of human beings. It doesn’t matter if it is expensive and cannot be eaten, but the price is relative.
If the Wu Dynasty could borrow birch syrup to cut down the existing sugar price by 10%, the Song people would forever lose control of the Wu Dynasty's sugar market and capture 20% of the market. North Korea will redefine the Kyushu sugar market. If it reaches 40%, it will be even more powerful.
What needs to be done now is to clarify Wu Ren's acceptance of sweetness.
The sugar content of birch sap is too low, only a few percent, and the sweetness is barely tasteable.
In the past life, there were two ways to increase the sweetness, evaporation over slow fire, or supplemented with industrial sugars such as glucose.
There is no need to think about the latter. If you can really get glucose, just sell it directly. Why sell birch syrup? So it can only be done through evaporation. The extent of evaporation becomes the key.
Sixty pounds of raw juice can be used to steam out one pound of high-sweetness syrup, but this ratio is not good. How can the output be small and the price must be high at the same time?
Sugar is still a luxury product. If you turn birch syrup into a more luxurious product, who will you sell it to?
Only cost-effective dimensionality reduction strikes are in the interest of the equation.
Therefore, the evaporation ratio must be found. From the perspective of the equation, it is best to control this ratio within ten to one. But can the sweetness of ten to one satisfy a warrior?
If you’re not sure, try it!
After the test is completed, the equation still needs to be examined to see the scale of birch planting in the Wu Dynasty, so that a complete set of things can be formed.
Compared with other interests given up by Equation, Equation will account for 10% of the benefits of birch syrup!
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If you think about it, the cold will not be so intuitive.
Follow the large army and enter the Longwuwei camp.
The camp was quiet and cold, completely different from the lively scene as imagined. A tent like a yurt was pitched on the ground. Except for a few guards, it was difficult to see anyone other than the large army.
"We are late. The main force of Longwuwei should have all entered the mountain. I will go through the formalities. Yanting, please take your husband to exercise first. I will be here soon!"
It was getting dark, and the camp was sheltered from the wind, but the winter chill could not be stopped at all. We had to get into the tent as soon as possible and light the campfire for the night.
"Xiaohu, if you can identify birch trees, do you know how to make birch sap?"
With help, Fang Fang jumped off the horse and asked while moving his whole body.
"Sir, do you want to drink birch sap?"
"Not drinking, but I need to measure, a lot of juice!"
The Kurun people are also a very ancient fishing and hunting people in history. They live further north. It is very normal to have the habit of drinking birch sugar juice.
But the drinking method of boiling it over high fire and drinking it directly is really unacceptable.
Xiaohu thought for a while and suggested, "This is a bit difficult to do. Birch sap is usually available in late spring and early summer. It doesn't mean it doesn't exist in winter, but it requires time and experience. I definitely can't get it today. It's better to wait until we get to Emerald Lake." ?”
