Chapter 193: A bumper harvest is in sight
Zhang Fengyi actually saw the scene of her sister-in-law and Huang Han hugging each other from a distance, and she didn't know what kind of soup Huang Han poured into Qin Yanyi?
Who cares? As long as the sister-in-law is happy!
Qin Yanyi saw Huang Han's side after the contrast was so great, Qin Liangyu also noticed the clue, she knew that her daughter's personality didn't want to be too strict, and decided to wait and see.
This era is completely different from later generations, and there is not a trace of the possibility of marriage with a child.
If the daughter of any family dares to have a relationship before marriage, the family would rather kill the daughter than become an adult.
Huang Han can only take the right path to get the emperor to marry, he actually has a way to go, that is, to strive for the knighthood, if he becomes the county king of the Ming Dynasty like Zheng Chenggong, then he can have the princess and several princesses.
But that's too far away, how stingy the Ming Dynasty is, in addition to the founding of the country, there are a few kings with different surnames, and then it was not until after the death of the country that the Nanming Dynasty had such as Zheng Chenggong, Li Dingguo, etc., these don't know the so-called kings.
In the past three months, Huang Han, Xu Guangqi, and the "Red Flag Army" have all been busy, and production and self-help, resettlement of disaster victims, infrastructure construction, army expansion, and strengthening training have been in progress.
Today, the sphere of influence of the "Red Banner Army" is in good order, and although the common people have not reached the point of having enough food and clothing, they have basically escaped from hunger.
Xu Guangqi could not celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with Huang Han in Kaiping, because he received a decree from the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and Rites that he must return to Beijing on the same day.
The scientist worked in Yongping for three months and got along with Huang Han, and he confided in his subordinates many times, saying that he had spent most of his life, and only the relief of tens of thousands of people felt meaningful.
Xu Guangqi left, taking only two scholars with him, and leaving the servants and officials with agricultural skills with him to Huang Han, who ordered them to train farmers who could replace them before they could return.
Sweet potatoes and potatoes will be harvested, and these two things are relatively simple to store in the north.
Because almost every household in Yongping has a cellar, the constant temperature cellar of about four degrees is used to store sweet potatoes and potatoes, as long as you often go in to turn and pick, it is not a problem to keep it for more than a year.
These two crops are not well known in the Ming Dynasty, and how to open up sales channels is a big problem for Huang Han, after all, he gave a deposit to underwrite sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Huang Han was laying out in advance, he spent money to make a stove for roasting sweet potatoes, and issued a thousand manufacturing tasks at once.
Daming is facing a food crisis, too many people are hungry, so the cost of brewing is too much higher, potatoes and sweet potatoes have high nitrogen content, which is conducive to the growth of yeast, and can be used as food for brewing.
Although the yield of fresh potatoes and sweet potatoes is lower than that of cereals, the yield per mu of these two things is five or six times that of cereals, and the cost of producing liquor and alcohol is only 30% of that of cereal grain wine.
The large amount of distiller's grains produced during the brewing process is a good feed for pigs, cattle, horses, donkeys, and mules.
Sweet potato is actually the sweet potato and sweet potato of later generations, and it is not complicated to make liquor from alcohol, and the process is nothing more than koji-making, wine-making, cooking and gelatinization, saccharification and fermentation, and the last step is the key to improving the alcohol content - distillation.
There were countless liquor workshops in the Ming Dynasty, and there were too many masters with wine-making technology, and the reason why the liquor they brewed was not high was because the number of distillations was not enough.
Huang Han asked the brewer to increase the number of distillations as needed to obtain a high degree of liquor and alcohol of not the highest purity.
Potatoes and sweet potatoes are also raw materials for processing vermicelli and vermicelli, which have a better shelf life than rice at room temperature, and will not spoil even after being stored for several years.
In later generations, no one would be relieved to eat vermicelli with a shelf life of more than a year, but there was hunger everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, and even the Guanyin soil that could not be pulled out after eating it became food.
It's a blessing to have fans who have a shelf life of more than a year, and who cares if there's a risk of cancer? Moreover, in this day and age, people still don't know what cancer is.
The process of making vermicelli noodles is very simple, in fact, in this era, there is already a process of producing vermicelli with mung beans. Chop the potatoes or sweet potatoes, grind the slurry, precipitate the starch, extract the starch, and then add alum ingredients to thicken and boil the water drains.
The boiling water leakage strip is to cause the raw materials to leak into the boiling water pot through a container with many fine holes, and the water volume in the pot is always kept at the water level when the first strip is produced, and the pot water is controlled at the degree of slight opening.
Huang Han has found a craftsman who can process vermicelli with mung beans, and is now in the process of purchasing the equipment and cauldrons he needs, and by the time the potatoes and sweet potatoes are harvested, it will be at full capacity.
At present, all the workshops invested in need of a large amount of coal, and the steelmaking kiln is a large user of coal, and the brewing and production of vermicelli are always carried out in continuous cooking, and the amount of coal used is also considerable.
Kaiping Town is blessed with unique coal resources, and Huang Han only needs to pay the cost of labor to get these high-quality coals, how low will the price cost of the products be in the future, and how high should the profit be?
There are industries that can earn high profits, and there are basic farmland to provide food resources, and as long as they develop for a few years, will the "Red Banner Army" with money, grain, and new firearms still be able to kill those Tunguska savages?
A few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the two main generals of the "Red Flag Army", Hanzi and Song Pengfei, finally got married, and Huang Yong also set a family affair.
Huang Yong's wedding date is scheduled for mid-December, the Huang family's two sons marry daughters-in-law this year, and the marriage of the two daughters should be four joys.
Not only the Huang family is overjoyed, but the soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" are also full of good news, too many soldiers who have lost their families have reformed families, and too many bachelors have married beautiful girls.
Not only did the soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" live a prosperous life, but the nearly 300,000 people in the system also felt a sense of happiness when they looked at the crops in the fields, and everyone believed that the most difficult situation would be gone, and a thriving new life beckoned.
Looking at the joys of the robes, some of them were saddened, of course they were more than 100 disabled soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" who had recovered from their injuries but could not return to the team, and they could only choose to retire.
Huang Han was not short of money, not only gave the disabled soldiers 30 taels of resettlement silver, gave them decent management work, but also gave each veteran 30 acres of Rongyang land.
There were no taxes on these 30 acres of land, and the apportionment of the imperial court and the exorbitant taxes were borne by the collective of the "Red Banner Army".