"Cangjie coined the word here, the source of Luoshui, the mountain of irrigation, and the outlet of Luoshui. It is now called Zhongling Mountain."
Two days later, the team arrived at Luonan. The people of Luonan, led by officials, were waiting by the roadside. After the village chief introduced Zhu Biao and Zhu Ping, the people already knelt down and worshiped.
As soon as Zhu Biao signaled, Zhu Feng immediately asked the people to get up. This place belonged to his fiefdom, and he felt sorry for his people.
The people stood up one after another and looked curiously at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness King Qin who seemed not to be worried about their safety.
The officials in the county didn't know whether to look at the prince or the King of Qin. The prince was the most important, but the King of Qin was in charge.
Zhu Xi walked slowly, frowning. The appearance of the people was much worse than that of Yingtian Mansion.
"Li Zhang, how could this be?" Zhu Ping saw that the child was also dirty and not cute at all.
“Luonan County has many mountains and hills, and only the basins and plains between the mountains can grow wheat and soybeans.
At the same time, droughts, floods, hailstorms, and late spring colds often occur, making it difficult to guarantee the harvest of crops.
At present, Luonan County is under the jurisdiction of Huazhou. The road to the west is blocked by Zhongling Mountain, and the road to the north to Huayin of Huazhou is blocked by Shaohua Mountain and Huashan Mountain.
There is only one way to the east, Luoshui is the best channel out of the county, but there is a lack of boats, not to mention that it is easy to go by water but difficult to come back. "
"And there are a lot of local resources?" Zhu Ping knew that transportation was inconvenient, so the people could only rely on the weather to make ends meet.
"There are many mountains in Luonan, including whitebark pine from the Qinling Mountains and Huashan pine from Huashan, both of which produce pine nuts.
In addition, during the Tang Dynasty, walnuts and chestnuts were grown for eating, but if they were sold... they couldn't be sold.
There are just as many wild hawthorns, but they can’t make them into cans. Even if they cut them into dried hawthorns, who would buy them?
There are countless wild fruits on the mountain, as well as medicinal herbs, mushrooms, fungus and other fungi.
There is no need to consider metal mines for the time being. There are many stone mines, and His Highness is well aware of other stones.
However, there is medical stone in the local area, also called horse tooth stone. It is a medicinal material and can be soaked in water to drink.
If crushed and added to the ground as fertilizer, it can improve soil conditions and make crops grow better. "
The head of the village told Zhu Xi about the general situation in the area while following him.
The county officials, like officials from other places, looked at the chief with surprise.
"According to this, the local people will make money by transporting the things out? The imperial doctor came over to take a look. This child has angular stomatitis. He picked up the scab and there was so much blood."
As Zhu Xi spoke, he saw blood coming from the corners of the mouth of a seven or eight-year-old child next to him. The child wiped it with the back of his hand from time to time.
Those are the extra scabs that appear after angular stomatitis breaks apart. If they get in the way of the mouth, the child will pick them off, exposing the flesh inside.
"Your Highness, we should let everyone line up to see a doctor and stand here waiting for us to leave. It will waste time for both parties." The head of the hospital suggested.
"Oops! I forgot, come on! You all go to the doctor, Ling'er, help make popcorn sticks. Jiang Zhixian, come here."
Zhu Fang asked the people of Luonan to line up to see the imperial doctor. He nodded to the magistrate who was not far away.
County Magistrate Jiang Gu came up with an uneasy feeling and forced out a smile: "His Royal Highness King Qin!"
"Come here too! I can't remember your names." Zhu Xi waved to the county magistrate, chief registrar and others.
All the government officials in the county are here, so they don't have to guard the government offices. The sergeants in the team have an eye on the position of the entire county.
"Where were you talking about just now?" Seeing the officials approaching, Zhu Feng turned to look at the chief.
"They say you can make money by transporting things. But that's not true. There are many places along the way with the same things.
Even medical stones are not lacking in Henan, and the quality is better. As for hawthorns, walnuts, and chestnuts, His Highness has eaten them on the way.
The stones are shipped out, not to mention, who buys them for what? The stone mills and houses were built using local materials.
Local products are not competitive and cannot find sales. Transportation costs plus labor costs require a profit. "
There is a lot of stuff in there, but I can't sell it.
Zhu Xi: "..."
"It's annoying! In that case, what's the use of talking so much?" Zhu Ming lowered his mouth.
"You asked, I'll tell you." Li Chang curled his lips.
"Then let's ask you now, can you make money?" Zhu Ming turned his head in anger.
"Yes!" the chief replied.
Well, Zhu Xiang's head turned back and he smiled: "We knew it, tell them quickly, and then tell them to do it. Listen, we never expected you to give good ideas."
What Zhu Ping said next was to the local officials. It was impossible for the officials to follow the prince, not to mention that Zhu Biao did not leave.
"Your Highness, there are many plums in the mountains here, so sour plum drink has always existed. You boil water with fresh plums and drink it.
Then it is not possible to transport fresh plums. We can process them into powder together with hawthorns.
Then add sugar, some licorice, or orange peel to make sour plum powder. "
The director began to talk about the deep processing of local resources.
"But there are plums elsewhere! There are a lot of them in Yingtian Mansion. Where to sell them?" Zhu Xi felt that these were the same as stones.
"Sell it to the Yi people and let them sell it in Luzon and other places. The weather there is hot and drinking a sour plum soup will be very comfortable.
Tell them that drinking this can cure diseases on ships at sea.
He had bleeding from various places, had no strength, felt sleepy, didn't like to eat, had diarrhea, and finally died.
This sour plum powder can be used for treatment. We can’t tell them the principle, otherwise they won’t buy it. "
The head of the village never thought of selling it to the people of Ming Dynasty. Who would buy sour plum powder for what? They don't go on long sea voyages.
"Really? Oh! There are plums and hawthorns elsewhere, they can sell them too! We are far away from the sea." Zhu Xi believed it, but felt that distance was a problem.
"Yes! We are far away from the seaside, and there is no way to make money yet. I finally came up with one, and I have to give it to the seaside people first..."
"No, no, no, let's do it ourselves and don't tell the seaside places, especially those in Suzhou and Zhejiang, where they have a lot of plums.
Yes, we have finally found a way to help people make more money. How can we give it to other places?
At least we have to make a lot of money first. When they learn it, we won’t lose.
It’s a pity that it’s past the plum harvesting season and there are only hawthorns. What to do with the hawthorns? Is it okay to only sell hawthorn powder? "
Zhu Fang thought about it. He was trying to find a way out for the people in his territory. Why did he care about other people's affairs?
"Sending hawthorn powder over, the Yi people will know as soon as they taste it, can we still sell it?
We have to add a bunch of things to our sour plum powder so that they can’t taste it, but they still drink it sweet and sour.
Add medicinal materials to it and drink it without killing people, or we can make it into big honey pills and water honey pills and sell them to them.
Let’s sell sour plum powder! The output is high, and a lot of honey is needed to make large honey pills.
Ask people if they have any dried plums at home? If there is any, collect it, add hawthorn and other things, and let's try it first. "
The manager did not forget to keep it secret. Who wouldn’t be able to taste the hawthorn powder alone? People bought them at the price they paid for hawthorns.
(End of chapter)
