The young general glanced at the chief and nodded. Along the way, he already knew the identity of the chief.
He was very grateful that the flintlocks, explosives, logistics supplies of meat floss, alcohol and other items in the team were all promoted by Xiaqiu Village.
Xiaqiu Village provides technology and helps the palace earn money, so that His Majesty can have money to make things for the soldiers in front.
The army was able to defeat the Yuan army and win, with very few people dying, and Xiaqiu Village took part of the credit.
"Can the chief tell me what it is?" the young general asked tentatively.
"The moment a life-saving device is taken out, the team will be at the end of its rope." Li Chang replied with a smile.
"You don't need to ask. If the commander doesn't say anything, we don't want him to take it out. The current situation is very good, all the way to He Lin. We don't want anyone to die in the team."
Zhu Fang knew that he couldn't ask, let alone forcefully remove it. Anyway, if he didn't take it out, it would prove that the team was fine.
After the meal, the tents were set up one by one. Everyone went to the river to get water and went back to the tent to wipe their bodies with towels as a bath.
Two steam engines hummed, supplying electricity to the prince, King Qin, and the camp in Xiaqiu Village, while making extruded feed from concentrate for horses and camels.
The feed will be sweet after being puffed. Horses and camels love to eat it and feel good after eating it.
When they hit the road again in the morning, the horses and camels cooperated very well. Apparently they also knew that the road ahead was flat, at least there was no shortage of grass.
This area belongs to the Hetao area and has always been a good place to raise livestock.
As the team advanced, they met local herdsmen. After giving the herdsmen some tea leaves and a few iron pots, the herdsmen became enthusiastic.
They were too far away from the Ming Dynasty's court, and they were unwilling to get close to Bei Yuan. They just wanted to survive. If they were not beaten during the war, they would continue to graze here.
So at noon, a few people including Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi ate pasta made with butter.
"Is the food they make clean?" Zhu Ping always has something to worry about. He is afraid that this kind of milk-based butter is not clean.
"It's not very clean. They beat it out bit by bit, and then put the butter into the basin with their hands, but we heated it."
The director admitted that others were not so particular when making this thing.
"There is one in the palace, but you didn't bring it with you? How did you make it?" Zhu Xi had many questions.
"Your Highness, you can ask them if they still have any milk to turn into butter. We can help. We can make it quickly and cleanly.
Why don't we make them a simple buttering tool so that they won't have so much trouble in the future.
They cannot do without ghee, and every time they make ghee, they will think of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the King of Qin. "
The village chief said that he wanted to help. The ghee was easy to extract, but the tools at Guanglu Temple were provided by the village. Otherwise, Guanglu Temple would have pumped and pressed it back and forth like everyone else.
"Is it easy to do?" Zhu Xi wanted to do the locals a favor.
“It’s simple, just use wood, a centrifugal device, hand-cranked, and then while the ghee is coming out, the rest will come out at the same time, and the rest can be made into cheese after fermentation.
After dinner, I went to draw a picture. There are some in the village and Guanglu Temple. In the future, we can make them and sell them to those who raise cattle and sheep. "
The chief nodded and started eating faster.
The drawings were good. The craftsmen took a look at them and immediately made ten of them out of wood. The remaining two were scattered and unassembled. In order to let the locals know what they looked like, they could make them if they had the time.
It happened that the local herders had saved some cow's milk and goat's milk to make ghee.
The tools were brought over and they were asked to pour the milk in. The two connecting basins were placed, and the craftsmen began to shake. After a while, butter began to come out on one side and the remaining milk on the other.
Herdsmen: "..."
They were shocked. They had always used wooden tubes and then used a wooden plug to press up and down, which was very tiring.
The key is that if you use too much force, the milk will easily spill out, so you need to control your strength.
What is this in front of me? Just shake it and separate it directly without having to take it out with your hands.
The craftsman assembled a set of parts and then took them apart for the herdsmen to see.
Zhu Biao and Zhu Ping came over and, on behalf of the court and their father, gave these hand-operated milk separators to the herdsmen, hoping that the herdsmen would help make them when they saw other herdsmen.
The herdsmen knelt down and kowtowed, saying that they would teach others and thank the Majesty, the Prince, and the King of Qin...
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"Is it that simple? It reminds us of a honey-shaking tool, pretty much the same thing."
When the team marched again, Zhu Ping thought that the milk separator had no technical content.
"His Royal Highness King Qin said it is simple. Once you know the formula, it is also very simple to bake colored glaze. The blast furnace for smelting iron is not difficult. The open furnace is just a pit!"
The director nodded in agreement, you are right, there is nothing wrong with it, it is very simple.
"In the future, the herdsmen will save trouble and eat mutton at night?" Zhu Xi changed the topic.
The herdsmen took the things and gave two sheep in return. In the eyes of the herdsmen, the hand-cranked equipment was valuable and solved a big problem. It will not be so laborious in the future.
Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi returned the favor and gave each other a few pieces of soap, dozens of pieces of soap, and twenty kitchen knives.
The other party wanted to continue sending sheep, and even prepared to kill cows, but he was stopped and couldn't send them back and forth like this. That was enough.
Soap, soap and kitchen knives are all good things for herdsmen. They are often exposed to grease, and the skin texture of their hands and the gaps between their nails are black, and they cannot be cleaned with normal water.
Rub it with soap, and the water that can be used as ink will flow down. The soap will smell good when bathing.
Kitchen knives are as practical as iron pots. Herdsmen don’t have iron, so they need to exchange it with others. Others don’t have much iron either, so they are all precious.
For example, the blacksmiths who made a living by making iron in the Ming Dynasty had rich families, and were richer and more respected than the pig butchers.
"Okay! I'll make sizzling mutton tonight, and I'll also have some dried vegetables. Let's soak them now."
There is nothing wrong with it. Let the children find dry vegetables and put them in a bucket to soak. Otherwise, eating only mutton will be too greasy.
In the evening, the sizzling mutton was served, and the other meat was given to the palace maids and the weak people in the team to supplement the meal.
People like the young general who had already walked to Yulin and then turned around and followed them back, they also need to make up for it.
"It's all sand there? How do the people from Beiyuan survive?"
Zhu Xi took a sip of hot white wine and felt less cold, and talked about the road ahead.
"Desert does not just mean desert, desert is also a desert. Deserts are located in deserts, Gobis, and barren lands where grass does not grow well.
The danger there is that you can't find water or food there, but there are some wild beasts and insects.
Our horses, for example, need the most care after we pass. This is a desert. It's winter again, and it's hard to grow some grass, so we can only eat grass roots.
Generally goats can survive there. They dig up grass roots to eat, but once their hooves are damaged, they are dead.
If it snows in other grassland areas in winter, goats or sheep will be most afraid of using their hooves to shave the ice. "
The chief explained the situation of the desert. It is not all desert, but there are other terrains!
(End of chapter)
