"Now, in front of so many people?" Liang Chuan said with a bitter look on his face.
"Is it difficult for you to sing now? When you sang last time, there were more people watching. There were many more masters than there are working now. Are you shy?" Zheng Ruoying tilted her head and looked at Liang Chuan with a smile, "You are so Being talented and showing your talents in public is a glorious and brilliant thing, why do you still think it is a burden?"
Zheng Ruoying had a playful look on her face, and Liang Chuan blushed and said, "I am tone-deaf and will only embarrass myself in public. How can I stand out?"
Zheng Ruoying had personally seen the affection and sincerity of Liang Chuan's performance. This was not an affectation or an innocent moan. Furthermore, being able to moan like this without any illness was a very powerful skill. In Liang Chuan's own opinion, he actually felt that showing off his abilities was a loss of points. Is it true that people with stronger abilities are more low-key?
"Otherwise, are you willing to sing to me in private?" Zheng Ruoying clasped her hands behind her back, tilted her head and looked at Liang Chuan with a smile, looking forward to his answer.
Liang Chuan thought to himself, you can fuck me, you are such a generous young lady. As expected, women in every era are more confident and have less restraints. They all dare to love and hate without being pretentious. If you dare to make an appointment to sing a ditty in private, don't worry, uncle, I'll have sex after singing the ditty. Can you do some other tricks?
Liang Chuan said: "Ms. Zheng, my wife is in the room. Wouldn't it be too abrupt for you to invite me to sing like this? It's useless for me to be stupid, but I'm afraid that the girl's reputation will be ruined by me. Is that bad for you?"
Zheng Ruoying smiled crookedly and said: "This won't work, that won't work either, so how are you going to sing that song again?"
Liang Chuan asked: "Do you think the lyrics are better, or the music?"
“I think both are great!”
Liang Chuan said: "Well, let me read the words to you first. You copy them back. I will sing to you next time I have a chance. Now in front of so many people, singing also requires an occasion, not just anyone. If you can only sell songs in one place, it will be very disappointing."
Zheng Ruoying was overjoyed and said happily: "That's okay, but let's make an agreement. You can't regret it in the future!"
Regret later? How can I be willing to go back on my word in the future?
Liang Chuan said: "Then it's settled, will the thatched houses of these Luocheng masters still have to be demolished...?"
Zheng Ruoying said angrily: "You really think I'm so unreasonable? The last time I asked you for a song, you asked me for 5,000 Wen. How can it be so easy to make money? You really think it's other people's money." Did it fall from the sky? This time I finally seized this good opportunity and repaid you with your own methods. I took the opportunity to trick you! How could I embarrass these hard-working Luocheng masters? Besides, these lands have been abandoned for many years, and every year The government pays a lot of tax money, and the grain grown is not enough to pay the tax. My father wants to sell the land, but where can I find someone to take over it?"
In ancient times, the heaviest burden on farmers was taxes and labor. If the land could not grow food, farmers would eventually have no choice.
Zhang looked at these lands, which were vast in area, but only scattered pieces of land were planted with some vegetables, and the rest were almost abandoned, which was really a pity. Hearing Zheng Ruoying say that they all use this land to grow food, Liang Chuan was very confused and asked weakly: "If this land can't grow food, can't it grow something else?"
"Huh?" Zheng Ruoying didn't expect Liang Chuan to ask this, and said: "If you don't grow food, you can only grow some home-cooked vegetables. If you pick them from the ground and sell them in the market, they can only be sold for a few days. Please ask for vegetables." Fresh vegetables are not easy to store if they are not sold within a few days. The cost of selling vegetables to other places is high, and the vegetables will probably rot on the way. Our Fengshan is not as big as Xinghua Qingyuan and other places where we eat vegetables. There are not many people, and every household grows some vegetables for their own use. As a result, the sales of vegetables are extremely limited, and you can’t make much money from growing vegetables. Naturally, people are not very motivated to grow vegetables.”
Liang Chuan said: "Our climate in Xinghua is warm in winter and hot in summer. There is plenty of sunshine all year round and abundant rainfall in summer. Although this dry land is not as fertile as paddy fields, it is not very barren. This condition is most suitable for planting. Sugar cane, if you modify it a little bit, I believe the harvest from growing sugar cane will be quite impressive!”
Why do you think of growing sugar cane? Because Xinghua later had the second largest sugar factory in China, and the raw material for sugar production was sugar cane. In the early days of Xinghua, this sugar factory was built to feed countless working people. Unfortunately, after Liangchuan arrived in Fengshan, these glory no longer existed, and can only be vaguely captured in the memories of the older generation.
"Growing sugar cane?" Zheng Ruoying never had such an idea. How much money can he make from growing this thing? Sugar cane is on the market in winter. Yes, sugar cane is very sweet and quenches thirst. It is liked by men, women and children, but it is not a hard currency like rice and wheat. Occasionally nibbling a few sugar cane can satisfy the craving. After all, you cannot eat dry sugar cane, so naturally You can’t plant sugar cane on a large scale like rice! Zheng Ruoying felt that Liang Chuan didn't understand farming at all so he said such a thing, and said with a smile: "Zhang Daguan, you must rarely go to Fengshan Market on weekdays, otherwise you would not want to grow sugar cane!"
Liang Chuan said: "I usually have too many things at home, so I really don't have much chance to go out for a walk on the street. Otherwise, the world is so big, and I would go and see it no matter what."
"It's such a big world, I have to go and see it. Zhang Daguan is so heroic! It's a pity that I'm just a girl, otherwise..." Zheng Ruoying's eyes suddenly showed a hint of loneliness. Liang Chuan also knew that in this era, After all, he doesn’t have much tolerance for women. Zheng Ruoying continued: "This sugarcane farmer carries a load of sugarcane to sell on the streets every day. At most, he can only make a living. Sugarcane is like the jujube cake on the street. He eats it occasionally. It’s not bad to eat, but it’s simply wishful thinking for ordinary people to eat sugar cane every day, so I say the idea of growing sugar cane is unrealistic.”
It turns out that Zheng Ruoying mistakenly thought that she just wanted to grow sugar cane to sell. Haha, trading raw materials alone is the most primitive and backward method. The more processing procedures the product has, the more added value the product will have. Planting sugar cane and taking to the streets Sell it, isn’t it just after you’ve eaten enough?
"Do you know about sucrose?" Liang Chuan asked Zheng Ruoying.
"Sucrose? Are you talking about the kind of condiment that is more expensive than silver and rivals gold?" Zheng Ruoying exclaimed.
"Yes, I'm talking about the kind that tastes sweet, but I don't see it very often on weekdays. I looked in several kitchens, and no one seems to use this thing? Most of our landforms are Danxia landforms, dry land The soil here is also mainly red soil. This kind of soil is not good for other crops, so it is the most suitable for growing sugar cane!"
Zheng Ruoying was so shocked when she heard Liang Chuan talk about this precious gold object that it tasted like ordinary oil and salt, as if it had been used before. Not to mention the people in your village, even I can’t find a few kilograms of this kind of good stuff in my home. Do you know how to make such rare things?"
Liang Chuan raised the corner of his mouth, but did not laugh out loud. Silence was better than sound at this time. Sometimes strength does not have to be proved with words. Silence can explain many problems better. But at this time, Liang Chuan's approach to this problem made Zheng Ruoying even more... It's elusive.
When Zheng Ruoying saw Liang Chuan's confident look, she was even more certain that Liang Chuan must know the recipe for making cane sugar. There were many tenant farmers in his house, and everyone was proficient in farming, but they had never come here. No one has ever mentioned growing sugar cane. It's not because they don't know how to grow sugar cane, it's just because no one knows how to make cane sugar.
Sugar was still a very valuable thing until the Yuan Dynasty, let alone the Song Dynasty. Although there are many records about cane sugar juice in the history of our country, there is no actual production method. In order to make sucrose available to the people, Emperor Taizong of the previous dynasty specially ordered people to go to "Moji other countries" to learn how to boil sucrose. From then on, sucrose began to spread among the people. Even so, to this day, sucrose is not something that ordinary people can enjoy.
Things are rare and valuable! Although Zheng Ruoying is a daughter, she has been helping her father take care of various businesses at home. As soon as she heard Liang Chuan's idea, she immediately thought that this was a road to wealth!
If cane sugar could be sold, many wealthy families in Bianliang, Tokyo, would be eager for this rare thing. Once this business path is opened, why worry about the family's business not being prosperous? My father has always lamented that he is a girl and cannot help him share the family's financial burden. When it comes to business, it’s always not good for your daughter’s family to be exposed!
If I can complete my career independently and succeed in this cane sugar business, I can also bring glory to my father’s face! Who will say that women are inferior to men anymore?
But how could Liang Chuan tell him this way of making money so easily? . Anyone who knows this kind of wonderful recipe wishes they would never reveal it. They only keep this method of making money. How could anyone be so generous and willing to share it with them? That's it, I was too young, and I was almost deceived by this boy again. In the next moment, Zheng Ruoying had already turned it around in her mind several times, and said suddenly: "You have to ask me for five thousand yuan for a song and lyrics." Wen Qian, how could you be so generous today and come up with this sugar recipe that is hard to buy for a thousand dollars?"
Liang Chuan chuckled and said: "Girl, you are thinking too much. Who said I would give you this sugar recipe? How can anything in the world be so cheap!" Zheng Ruoying pursed her lips and said, "I knew it. There is no such thing as a good thing! Liar!"
What a liar!
Liang Chuan said: "Can you please let me tell you the truth? If you like lyrics and music, I have hundreds and thousands of them here. You want this method of making sugar. This is just a small trick, but I won't give you the method, but We can cooperate, right? You plant sugar cane, I produce cane sugar, and we split the accounts afterwards, wouldn’t it be wonderful?”
