"Tell me about your experience on this voyage, as well as the supplies you carried on board."

The sailors and soldiers of the two lucky ships were considered to have escaped death this time, and the Shouhan naturally could not be that ruthless person, and on the dock, he loudly announced that the sailors and helmsmen of the two ships would be given ten days off to reunite with their families.

In addition, the pensions given to the families of each family before will not be recovered, which can be regarded as a shock for everyone. As soon as these words came out, the dock immediately burst into thunder.

Xu Huanshan, Zuo Tianpeng and other officers of the naval division, with the captains of the two lucky boats, returned to the general's mansion proudly.

The captains of the two sentinel rank looked at each other, and the older Ren Zhiye began to report as a representative.

"After arriving in the Ryukyus, our brothers discussed together, and we all agreed that it was the westerly wind in the summer and the typhoon that interacted and sent us all the way east to the Ryukyus."

"At first, the Ryukyu natives came to disturb us, and were routed by our brothers with the guns of the ships and the swords and spears in their hands, killing more than 100 of them, and alarming the king of the Ryukyus."

"We said that we are the official army of the Ming Dynasty, and we are here for trade. Actually, it was all nonsense to say this at the time, but you can't say that we were blown by the wind, right? ”

"When the ministers of the Ryukyu king Sho saw that our ships were in heavy draft, they asked us what kind of cargo we were carrying. We told the truth that there were more than 3,700 stones on board. ”

"I didn't want this man to be a greedy official, and Ryukyu rice was expensive, so he immediately asked us to sell him all the rice on the ship. Later, it was almost a combination of begging and threatening. ”

"Later, we learned that although Ryukyu is a subject country of our Ming Dynasty, it is also Qin to descend to Qin, and Chu to descend to Chu. Many years ago, the Shimazu family of the Wa Kingdom was ordered by the Wa King to conquer and make a forced landing. The Shimazu family forced the people of the 36 islands of the Ryukyus to plant sugar cane, otherwise there would be no forgiveness! ”

"That's why Ryukyu rice is expensive!"

"The local official saw that he had no choice but to enter the city to show the king of the Ryukyus. The Ryukyu royal family and ministers have also been abused by the Japanese for a long time, and they are all hungry and unbearable. The king invited me into the city to negotiate with us to buy all the grain on our ship. ”

While gnawing on the sugarcane, guarding the Han while letting Zhiye put the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Yan Mei'er on the side made a glass of sugar water for each person with a smile on her face, Ren Zhiye and Huang Qiming looked at the sugar water, grinned at the corners of their mouths, did not speak, just quietly put it on the coffee table on the side.

"How much did you end up trading?"

"My lord, there are more than 2,000 stones of brown sugar in his treasury, and he wants to exchange one stone for one stone with us, but we refuse."

"You guys really don't have a black heart!" When Shouhan heard this, he sincerely admired his two captains, but when he turned his head and thought about it again, it was much fairer and more reasonable than the Western colonizers replacing Manhattan with glass beads!

"In the end, we traded for 3,000 stone of grain at the price of one stone of grain for one stone and two buckets of sugar. The shortfall in his treasury was offset by this year's sugar cane. When we loaded the ship, we estimated that we could squeeze about 3,000 koku of sugar juice. ”

After the camp office recorded the merits of this time, and after another reward, Shouhan couldn't hold back the desire to laugh in his heart, picked up Yan Mei'er, hugged him in his arms, turned around and kicked the door shut, the door was still colliding back and forth, and Yan Mei'er's exclamation was already heard in the room. "You enemy, monkey anxious, in broad daylight! Oh! Yes! ”

"This is my territory, my mansion, I'm afraid of a bird!" Shouhan shouted excitedly.

The guards in the courtyard consciously moved their posts to the gate of the courtyard.

"Kill!"

Seeing that the sturdy Tusi official village in front of him was ignited with bursts of explosions, Liang Kuan, under the leadership of Lu Yunsheng, the chief of the armor, shouted in unison with his comrades, and rushed to the solid wall built with a huge stone as the foundation and the three-way soil and glutinous rice slurry.

This is the last Tusi stockade in Li Shouhan's territory. Unlike many consolation envoys on the Indochina Peninsula, this is a toast in the true sense of the word, and it has not been canonized by any political power!

However, he was on the flank of Shouhan's southward territory, and repeatedly sent troops to harass the immigrants of Shouhan, looting property, killing people, burning villages, and destroying green seedlings. Is it tolerable or unbearable?!

However, the successive owners of the village in front of him were cruel and tyrannical, greedy for money and easy to kill, but also knew the truth of building a high wall, and did not hesitate to build this village comparable to Li Shouhan's garrison official village.

However, in the face of the newly developed rockets of Shouhan, this stockade, which has repeatedly made the Phoenix and Qilin battalions that came to crusade return with feathers, has become like a ripe fruit on a tree, and it is easy to obtain.

After a round of shooting, the rocket either landed on the wall, and the defending native soldiers who were about to use their bows and crossbows and stones to warmly welcome Liang Kuan and Lu Yunsheng on the wall were blown up to the ground, and the screams continued. Some of the rockets that were out of the predetermined trajectory crossed the wide walled wall crookedly, and flew straight into the wall, and after a burst of explosions, Lu Yunsheng saw black smoke rising outside the wall.

With shouts of killing, people climbed the wall.

Soon, at the commanding heights of the wall, on the huge city tower, the originally majestic Tusi Banner was kicked down by Liang Kuan, and the Li character Phoenix Flag was inserted in the firelight and smoke.

Such a scene appeared more or less in November of the 48th year, and the independent or semi-independent stockades were vulnerable to the suppressive fire of the troops defending the Han Dynasty with rockets.

Looking at the map that was originally marked with all kinds of flags, they have replaced them with red pennants representing themselves, "The adult's tactics are unexpectedly clever, so that each battalion draws out two sentinels and horses, and uses the sentry as a unit, equipped with hundreds or thousands of strong men to go out to clear and suppress, in this way, not only temper those Ding Zhuang who have received basic training, but also train soldiers for the future expansion of the army, and also wipe out the dissident forces in the territory." Chen Tianhua, who managed the camp office, looked at the map with admiration.

"There is another thing you didn't think of, that is, the population, property, fields, mountains and forests of these villages are all owned by me." Fu Bo, who was sitting on the side smoking a cigarette pouch, lowered his head and fiddled with the jade pendant that Shou Han Xin gave him on the cigarette stick.

Shouhan couldn't hear the praise of these subordinates behind their backs. He's busy with another of his plans to make a fortune.

A new waterwheel on the river's edge creaks and turns under the action of the current, transmitting a series of components such as a long wooden shaft to the thatched hut by the river.

Inside, three large steel rollers replace the traditional wooden rollers and are used to juice the sugar cane. Three thousand-pound steel (actually ductile iron) reels are lined up, and the sugarcane exchanged for grain from the Ryukyus is sent to the reels, and the three ductile iron reels are passed in turn, and the sugarcane makes a sound when the squeezing rollers wrapped in tinplate are extracted. This sound, to Shouhan's ears, is tantamount to a pleasant sound of silver. After three rollers, the syrup flows slowly along the pre-set groove to the juice collection bucket, ready to be used to make white sugar.

"Wait!"

There was a diligent worker with a broom who was about to sweep aside the sugarcane bagasse and other wastes after being pressed, but Shouhan shouted at him.

"In the future, the bagasse after the sugar is squeezed will be put away, and this thing can be used to ferment and make wine. After making wine, it can also be used to fertilize the fields or as fodder for cattle and horses," Shouhan explained to the workers the value of sugarcane bagasse.

Listening to the several stewards of the Han Yuan firm who were present, they couldn't tell what they were feeling in their hearts. "Our owner, if you are generous, like a loser, others use wood to squeeze sugar, he has to use this good steel to make squeezing reels, if you use wood squeezing, you can process 4,000 catties of sugarcane a day and night, although this steel reel is very fast, but if you want to come a day and night, it is only 5,000 catties, plus the waterwheel outside, this cost is far greater than using wood squeezing and buffalo!"

"But on the one hand, we are lavishly pressing with steel, and on the other hand, we don't even let go of bagasse, our owner, is it a loser or a miser? It's really incomprehensible! ”

Just in the heart of several stewards muttering to themselves, the squeezed out of the sugar juice has been filtered three times, the whole thatched house is filled with a rich sweet fragrance, in the bursts of intoxicating sweet fragrance, someone picked up the bagasse, the cane has become pieces, the skin and flesh are off, hold it in the hand, gently pinch it, wet fingers do not drip juice. In the past, sugarcane, which needed to be processed several times by a mill, completed its own juice process in front of these three steel rollers, and the next thing was to make wine according to Shouhan.

"It seems that the owner's statement about using steel is still reasonable. This approach saves trouble and effort. ”

The sweet smell is getting stronger and stronger, even a few buffaloes outside the thatched hut as auxiliary power can't stop fanning their huge nostrils, greedily absorbing this lovely sweetness, the cowherd on the side, cherish these partners of their own, reach out and hand over a few cane tails, let these powerful guys chew beautifully, outside the thatched hut, more and more children are sucking their fingers, eager eyes staring at the source of the sweet flavor.

The sugar juice boiling in the pot became thicker and thicker, and the master in charge of the sugar boil scooped up a spoonful with a long iron scoop and looked at it, under the action of white ash, the sugar became clear and yellow, soft, and sweet.

"Alright, let's start sugaring!" At the behest of the sugar boiling master. The fire of boiling sugar turned into a slow fire, and then the master put two fingers into the cold water, and suddenly into the hot ding, and then hurriedly into the cold water - with a "snort", the syrup stuck to the fingers hardened when it was cold, and when he shook it, there was a crisp sound.

Dozens of sturdy women quickly scooped the syrup into the sugar trough, and the official slave in charge of beating the sugar stirred back and forth with a shovel, and the sugar slowly began to shrink and condense, and gathered into a pile; Then with a shovel, wisps of hot air emanated from the sugar pile; In this way, repeat multiple times. Then use a wooden stick to grind back and forth, and the brown sugar with the color of "cauliflower yellow" is processed.

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