The village guard dreamed about the mountain god again, and the mountain god asked the village guard to dig a well and clean up the river.
The villagers in Xiaqiu Village immediately followed the instructions and started working. The village guard would not be wrong.
Look at the seedlings in the field. You don’t need to worry about it anymore. You are guaranteed to have a harvest next year.
One extra charge of rapeseed and ramie is equivalent to Zhu Wentian's salary for one more year of work at that time, and there is no personal income tax.
Zhu Wentian, who is very strong, should obviously be the main force in digging wells, but he just doesn't have time.
He didn't do it, so he took his friends to dig in the mud. There was kaolin clay locally, which was very white. In some places, it was also called Guanyin clay.
Burning porcelain is the best. When you are hungry, eat a little, and you will not die. Eat too much and you will be finished!
Zhu Wentian didn't plan to make porcelain, so he had to build a kiln first. It was too laborious and not enough time.
After digging with my friends, I started boiling the brown sugar I bought earlier and adding kaolin clay to decolorize it.
When boiling seawater to make salt, yellow mud is used. The yellow mud has high viscosity and can be used as a decolorizing agent.
Then I got activated carbon, so I used activated carbon for decolorization.
The use of kaolin for decolorization is relatively rare, and kaolin is not available everywhere.
In some areas, the color of kaolin is not correct, and the kaolin needs to be decolorized before it can be used in other applications.
Kaolin clay decolorizes brown sugar and turns it into white sugar.
The white sugar is then processed and placed in a vat, followed by cotton ropes one by one to keep the temperature for a period of time. Then it crystallizes and becomes rock sugar, which is polycrystalline.
Guys, have you ever played such a good game? Pure handicraft class.
Half a month later, only one well was drilled, and a lot of rock candy appeared.
"Brother Hanhan, is this how rock candy is made? Last time I went to Xuancheng, it was so expensive. How dare they?"
The little girl went to Xuancheng many times, and she would occasionally bring back rock candy for her friends to eat.
Rock candy is so expensive! But it's very delicious, and I can hold it in my mouth for at least a quarter of an hour.
Now she discovered how to turn brown sugar into rock sugar. When she compared the prices, her eyes widened and she was very angry.
Bad people are all bad people, and none of the rock candy sellers are good.
It's so irritating, I made myself cry, how could you do this?
She only considers material costs, excluding labor costs, auxiliary material costs, process equipment costs, and technology costs.
Among them, the technical cost is the highest. Is Xuancheng’s rice paper manufacturing technology accessible to ordinary people?
"Don't cry, don't cry! Hey hey hey, smile, you look so pretty when you smile, hey hey!"
Zhu Wentian turned into a character again, wiped the little girl's tears, and cried in anger.
"Brother Hanhan, they bully people." The little girl threw herself into Zhu Wentian's arms and complained, so sad!
It was because she wanted to eat rock candy that she begged to buy it. Looking back now, it was so sad.
The other friends all shared the same hatred. The price difference between brown sugar and rock sugar was more than ten times. It turned out to be so simple.
After everyone took a piece of knocked-out rock candy, everyone smiled again. It was so sweet! Purely sweet.
When the villagers saw the rock candy, they felt happy and normal at the same time.
The village guardian he raised was recognized by the mountain god, and he taught himself to live a good life through the village guardian.
When worshiping ancestors and worshiping gods to ask for a village guard, one had to kneel down and kowtow.
Why don’t other villages have it? Because others are dishonest, we are our own village guardians.
The village chief held a meeting with a piece of rock candy in his mouth, and the villagers held a meeting: "Don't talk about silly things. What kind of ordinary people are you?"
"Everyone is not guilty, but he is guilty of the crime. Hehehe!" Zhu Wentian couldn't hold it back.
"Yes!" The head of the village agreed: "Our Hanhan is different now, so everyone must treat Hanhan the same way as before... yes, that's it."
Zhu Wentian: "..."
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Turning around, Zhu Wentian began to design the waterwheel.
There is no time to build the threshing machine this year. Next year there will be a summer drought, and the water tanker will be ready for use when the summer drought is over.
Plus some other equipment, all driven by water power, freeing up labor.
Zhu Wentian believed that "if you live high in a temple, you worry about its people; if you live far away from the rivers and lakes, you worry about your king." This is a realm with a big pattern.
It can also be said that Fan Zhongyan helped Teng Zijing clear his name. He had no control over issues left over from history.
At this moment, he only thought that he was the village guard of Xiaqiu Village. He grew up eating hundreds of meals, and now he had to repay the villagers.
The villagers are relatives and give themselves the best things.
The little girl's hair is already withered and yellow, but she still wants to stuff boiled eggs into her hands. Could it be that she doesn't want to eat them?
You can repay kindness with kindness! Take care of the village first, then talk about other things.
What temple? Let me worry about his king, does his king know me? Boiled eggs for me?
What is your surname? oh! The surname is Zhao, Zhao Qijun?
My surname is not Zhao, my surname is Zhu. If I insist on saying my surname is Zhao, I am guaranteed to get a big slap: Are you worthy of the surname Zhao?
After some mental construction, Zhu Wentian went to the village chief to talk about the water tanker.
"Dream! This." He handed over nine pieces of paper, an exploded view of the waterwheel, the kind with an external shaft.
In this way, when the waterwheel is erected, you can thresh the grains if you want, shell the shells if you want, and grind rice milk and soybean milk.
"There are other places, but no one in our Xiaqiu Village knows how to do it. Hanhan, you gave me the picture, and I'll find someone to make it." The village chief couldn't understand the picture either, so he needed to find a craftsman.
He took Zhu Wentian home and brought out a quilt and clothes.
"This is made for you this year. How about I build you a separate house for you to sleep in."
The head of the village considered the situation of Hanhan, who was about to turn sixteen. Sixteen was considered an adult, and it was not appropriate to live in someone else's house. He was called Cheng Ding.
"No! Temple, hehe!" Zhu Wentian refused. Why would he build another house by himself?
That mountain temple is good. He is not afraid, does not do evil things, and is not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door.
The village chief didn't say anything and led the villagers to build a house for Hanhan next to the main hall of the mountain temple.
When the house was designed, there was no stove. We thought that someone would look for it when eating, or bring delicious food there.
Zhu Wentian doesn’t agree! Can’t I cook for myself? It’s not like I don’t know how to cook a stove. Sometimes the food you cook doesn’t taste good, so I’ll cook it myself!
After some special exchanges, Zhu Wentian succeeded. He had his own fire stove outside the house and in the courtyard.
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As time goes by, the villagers have more loaches in their dishes, and their quality of life has improved significantly.
The silt accumulated, and when time was available, it was transported to the wasteland in the village. The purchased cattle cooperated to turn the silt into fertile land.
We started measuring the land when the Ming Dynasty was established last year. We will finish measuring the village in the beginning of this spring. We don’t have to worry about extra rents after turning wasteland into fertile farmland.
After the land tax was handed over, a large number of people from other villages took time off. They heard about farming and dredging in Xiaqiu Village, and occasionally came over to watch the excitement.
They mainly focus on rapeseed and ramie. The seedlings grow bigger and bigger, and they feel they can harvest them.
Then they were worried about their own land. The solution was a good one. How to plow the fields after harvesting the rice? The family does not have enough cattle.
Do you want to borrow it from Xiaqiu Village? Xiaqiu Village bought twenty-six cows this year.
It turns out that we are all poor together, how did you become rich?
