Since the death of Liu Wu, the king of Liang, the Han has fallen into peace.

Like a pool of water, even if someone throws a stone into the lake, it can only cause a ripple, and then it will soon be calm again.

This is the case with the advent of Zhuo's iron pot, and after several months of iron pot craze in Chang'an Sanfu, it disappeared without a trace from the conversation between the nobles and nobles, as if it had never been published, but people's habits have changed.

The iron pot replaced the pottery pot and the clay pot replaced the kettle, and became the main cooking utensils in the homes of each noble.

The market for Zhuo's iron pot in Xungui is gone, and Xungui may have prepared five or six iron pots because of the large number of people in his family, but it is impossible to prepare fifty or sixty iron pots.

According to Zhang Yuan's prediction, all parts of the Han Dynasty, at least in the north of the Yangtze River, there were traces of iron pots, many blacksmith shops were imitating this instrument, and the price was much cheaper than what Zhuo's sold.

Then the situation is not optimistic, iron will oxidize and rust without maintenance, especially if it is used on top of the fire, and the water is used to clean it, the sooner this reaction will occur.

The rust taste in a stir-fry dish is too strong, and it won't taste very good, which brings out the difference between Zhuo's iron pot and other utensils, and this pot has something wonderful.

No one knows how many iron pots Zhuo Wangsun sold for ten taels of gold, but now that he has become the richest man in the Han Dynasty, there may have been a few giant businessmen who could match him before, but now they have all been trampled under his feet.

The most typical example is the Cheng family, who are in Linqiong with the Zhuo family, and the Cheng family knows that there is no way to continue to compete with the Zhuo family in the smelting business, so they turn their direction to foreign trade.

That is, to set up a large number of caravans to go to the small countries in the southeast or the countries of the Western Regions, and exchange Shu brocade gold and silver for their local specialties.

After seeing these movements, Zhang Yuan couldn't help but think that in a few years, these huge riches would be gradually exploited by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty with decrees such as calculations and salt and iron orders because of their huge wealth.

"Ding, how is steel made, the task of steel and iron bones is completed, and a topographic map of the coal mine in Shu County is obtained."

Four days after the water row was made, Zhang Yuan was silently writing all kinds of knowledge in his mind on the bamboo slips in the room, and suddenly the voice of completing the task came, but he didn't have time to check the rewards and the next round of tasks.

The two brothers, Xiong Daxiong and Xiong, were already shouting outside.

"Childe, the dagger you want has been built."

"Just come in."

Zhang Yuan rolled up the bamboo slips, put the pen and the book knife on the pen stand, got up and walked towards Xiong Da Xiong Er.

"Childe, look at these three daggers."

Zhang Yuan picked up one by himself and pulled the dagger out of the scabbard, Xiong Da Xiong Er and they also followed Zhang Yuan's example and pulled out the dagger, the cold light was chilling, just looking at Zhang Yuan could feel the sharpness of these three daggers.

"In the iron-smelting workshop before, I asked the two of you to build farm tools all day long, and it seems that the head of the family has lost his eyes.

Not to mention the ordinary blacksmiths, even the blacksmiths who specialize in making swords are not as skilled as the two of you. ”

Zhang Yuan complimented Xiong Daxiong Er, which made the two of them laugh out loud.

"Go down and find Xiaoqing to get thirty taels of gold, and say what I said."

Although these daggers are far from intended to be sold, the reward that should be given still has to be given, Xiong Da Xiong Er has helped him so much, if he only builds carbon steel tools by himself, it will take twenty days, and they all have to be those axes and hoes that have no technical content, even if they can be sold for money, it is not as much as a thousand taels of gold.

Hearing that Zhang Yuan still wanted to reward himself, the two hurriedly shook their hands, and shouted no, no, no, no.

"Childe, we don't want to reward money, you gave each of us brothers thirty taels of gold before, which is enough for us to spend a lifetime."

Zhang Yuan thought about it carefully, each of these people in his family had gold on them, more like Xiong Daxiong 2 had 30 taels, and the few had 6 taels, which was very likely to be unfavorable to them if it was spread out.

Zhang Yuan still knows the truth that the husband is not guilty and is guilty.

"It's okay, don't go out to show off the gold you gave you, since you don't want a reward, I have to be free when I look back, and I'll see if I can tell you a family business."

This time, Zhang Yuan is talking about the hearts of the two, why do these craftsmen want so much money? There is no place to spend flowers, and the scope of activities all day long is only this house, and it is their greatest ideal to be able to use this money to please a daughter-in-law who is good to have.

Looking at the expression on Xiong Da Xiong Er's face, Zhang Yuan suddenly felt that this mansion had to be expanded tenfold in order for these craftsmen to ask for a daughter-in-law.

"Thank you, son, hehe."

"I'll keep this matter in mind, let's go down first."

"Whoa."

After Xiong Daxiong Er left, Zhang Yuan returned to his bed and lay down, closed his eyes and began to enter the interface of the system.

After the task of steel and iron bones was completed, the system gave Zhang Yuan a new task.

"How steel is madeThe iron tree blossoms: Thirty acres (zero of thirty tenths) of land are cultivated with a curved plough

Quest Complete Reward: Beet Seed. ”

Beet seeds, Zhang Yuan suddenly felt that the system had finally given him a chance to make a fortune without clash with others.

In the past few months, Zhang Yuan has also eaten sugar, which is called starch sugar and the same as maltose in later generations.

A kind of sugar made of rice and malt that has been saccharified and then boiled, although there should have been sucrose in this era, Zhang Yuan has never tasted it, because it is expensive and the taste is not good, it is better to eat sugar cane directly to ingest sugar.

Sugarcane is not suitable for cultivation in the north, and now the regions where sugarcane is produced are not under the control of the Han Dynasty, and the foreign trade of the Zhuo family Cheng family on weekdays includes exchanging cane sugar from Southeast Asia and those small countries in the south, and transporting it back to the Han Dynasty to trade.

If Zhang Yuan can grow sugar beets, it is equivalent to being able to make high-quality white sugar, which is much more cost-effective than boiling sugar with expensive grains.

From the time when the Qin State destroyed the Six Kingdoms to unify the world and then when Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, established the Great Han Dynasty, China's population dropped sharply from 40 million to more than 16 million, which directly led to the Gao, Hui, Wen, and Jing dynasties all practicing frugality and striving for purity.

No one farmed, grain production was not high enough, and the population did not recover to the level when Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms by the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

If there is a large amount of cheap white sugar, it can supplement the necessary nutrition of the people, and the nobles do not need to occupy a lot of food to make caramel, although it may only change the lives of the people a little, Zhang Yuan is enough to be satisfied.

Iron striking can strengthen the army, and farming can enrich the country.