'Pa~~Pa~~' The sergeants who had eaten took their guns and went hunting in the mountains. They would help kill any prey that was difficult for the hunter to handle.
Wild boars, wolves, bears, and badgers were beaten when they encountered them, and after they were beaten, they were used to boil oil for the people.
The craftsmen also took action, took their tools and went to the other side of the mountain, and started working on part of the work today.
Some people were sick and had just finished taking medicine and could not drink mutton soup, so people from Guanglu Temple made extra meals.
Children with angular stomatitis don't care about mouth pain at all, and they seem to feel comfortable all over after drinking mutton soup.
People in other counties had smiles on their faces and chatted with each other.
They were all talking about His Highness the King of Qin. They were happiest today because they not only had a meal of mutton soup, but the things behind it were important.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness King Qin are so young, they are not on guard against us!"
"Do we still dare to assassinate him? His Highness King Qin will come up with a way for us to make money."
"Last time, Merchant Du asked us to try soap. If we didn't have money to buy it, King Qin would just give it to us."
"I also gave you two pieces of soap. You can wash yourself with the soap during the New Year and the holidays. It will smell good on you."
"At first we thought that King Qin would ask for money from us. This is his fief. We never thought that he would give us things."
"The alkaline flour, salt, and sweet oil given this time will return the land tax we paid."
"Let's pick more plums next year, grind them into powder and sell them for takeout. How will we sell them?"
"His Royal Highness the King of Qin is selling it, and we will just do it. Did you see? His Highness the King of Qin is a very powerful person, and he is better at asking people to do things than his elders."
"I heard that the person who accompanied the Crown Prince and King Qin was also the head of the village. He was from Xiaqiu Village. The older children who looked at our children's mouths were from that village."
"Why is he so rich? He wears beautiful clothes and a bunch of glass jewelry. I'm afraid those jewelry are not worth a few brick houses!"
"It's okay to be the mayor of another village! Do you think it's the mayor of our village..."
"Uh-huh!" Someone coughed not far away: "Drink the soup when it's time to drink it, or else throw it away when it gets cold? There is salt and pepper in it that we can't afford!"
"I know what's going on." Several people responded together, turned their heads, looked at each other, and laughed again.
Obviously everyone sits according to the village, and the village chief will sit in the middle of the people in his own village to make arrangements.
The local chiefs have heard that the person accompanying the Prince and King Qin is a person with the same 'official position' as them.
When they were curious, they were not too far away and heard part of what the village chief said. Is that what the village chief could say?
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“People have always grown walnuts here, but eating too much of them makes you uncomfortable, and the oil is bitter when pressed, just like tea seed oil.
It is a technical issue. As long as everyone grows it, we will have a way to make the oil squeezed neither bitter nor astringent.
I was told last time that they collected tea seeds, but I don’t know if they collected them or not. They would transport them to Xiaqiu Village and squeeze out the oil.
If people still feel bitter after squeezing out the oil from walnuts, it’s a good idea to feed it to chickens.
Like other vegetable oil residues, it has a wide range of uses and can even be fermented in advance to become a good fertilizer. "
Where Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi were eating, Zhu Xi asked about walnuts, and Hanhan mentioned that walnut trees do grow locally.
The head of the village followed all the way and was responsible for answering questions. First, he had to tell Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi why the people were unwilling to squeeze walnut oil and eat it, just like tea seeds.
After eating a few walnuts, they feel fragrant. If you eat too many, you will feel tired and have a bitter taste in your mouth. You may even vomit.
In fact, everyone knows how to use honey and sugar to make walnut preserves, but honey and sugar are lacking.
In addition, ordinary people usually squeeze walnut oil for lighting. This requires finding an oil mill to squeeze it. Ordinary villages do not have the conditions for oil extraction.
"Can we harvest a lot of tea seeds this year and sell them in Jubiqi?"
Zhu Xi did not forget this, and the court ordered them to be harvested. Tea seeds were not a good thing, so they paid a daily wage and someone would pick them.
The rest is transportation costs, just these two costs, and then there is pressing and subsequent processing.
Anyway, the tea seed oil provided by Xiaqiu Village is quite delicious. The oil consumed in the village is exchanged back and forth, and soybean oil is rarely used.
Either perilla oil or hemp seed oil, as well as rapeseed oil, tea seed oil, and recently I’m working on buckwheat oil.
In the current team, I change the oil I eat every day, and sometimes I also eat lard.
“The people of the Ming Dynasty should be taught the refining method, so that tea can be processed on the spot wherever there is tea.
In addition, even if people don't eat it, it is still good for us to make soap. The reason why Xiaqiu Village is not willing to work hard to make soap and toilet soap is that it consumes fuel.
If Xiaqiu Village was just a businessman, things would be simple. It would be cost-effective to use cheap oil to make expensive soaps and soaps.
As for the extra payment that people who eat oil in Ming Dynasty have to bear, it has nothing to do with Xiaqiu Village. "
"Should we sell it or not?" Zhu Xi nodded repeatedly and continued to ask the previous question.
"Selling it, the price is higher than normal oil. When people ask, they just tell me how good this oil is.
Then selling methods of treating oil, and even the equipment we built, merchants discovered that tea seed oil is more expensive than other oils.
After thinking about it again, many places where tea is grown throw away the seeds, which is free of charge.
Then you will be tempted to buy technology and equipment, and then press the oil. The oil residue can be sold and make money! "
I came up with the idea that there is no point in collecting tea seeds by yourself. You can eat enough for yourself and give them to the merchants if you want to sell them.
Zhu Biao nodded: "It's a good idea to let the businessmen do something.
No matter who does it, no matter how the oil is sold in the end, it must be within the Ming Dynasty.
We just need to continue building soap factories and toilet soap factories and collect oil. "
"Brother, if that's the case, why not build an oil pressing plant to provide oil for the soap factory?" Zhu Xi felt that costs should be saved.
"Second brother, you have an oil pressing factory. Jubiqi sells firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. Where did you get the oil?"
Zhu Biao reminded his brother, you have your own business, why should you open an additional factory?
"Ah! Yes, we have an oil pressing factory, and we also have a feed factory and a fertilizer factory!" Zhu Xi remembered.
He turned his head and smiled: "Okay, let's let the local people plant walnuts, plum trees, and hawthorn trees. Others cannot be used as firewood, ah! Walnut trees can be used as firewood."
Other trees that are of no use should be dug up and burned as firewood. There are many hills and few basins and plains. Economic trees should be planted on the hills.
Breeding cannot be lost. If it really doesn’t work, let’s build a small oil pressing factory here. People in a county can bring things to press oil.
If we take the oil residue back to them for breeding, how much processing fee should we charge? One-thirtieth? "
Zhu Xi thought of the processing fee as he said it. One-thirtieth is the normal commercial tax and the normal land tax ratio.
"If you set up a factory in the name of His Highness, you can't take money from the people, and you have to process it for free." The head of the village did not laugh at Zhu Xi for thinking so far.
"How about that? I don't care about giving it for free. I just add money to it. Don't I need to use other money to subsidize this place?"
In fact, Zhu Xi just wanted to preserve his capital, as long as he didn't pay for the 1/30th of the money, equipment depreciation, etc.
"Second brother, ask the chief!" Zhu Biao reminded his younger brother, as experts are most familiar with this aspect.
(End of chapter)
