Early the next morning, before dawn, Miao Yuan got up, among all of them, he was the most excited, a big business that could change the fate of Miao Jiazhuang, maybe for Zhao Xin, to Wanguan is the starting point, for ordinary Zhuang households, dozens of dollars more, it is already a good thing for pie in the sky. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When I went out after dark, I touched the threshing floor, but the new steamer had not yet been put in place, and even the room specially built for steaming buns had not been built, so I had to choose the most spacious threshing floor in the village.

As early as yesterday afternoon, the steamers of each household have been concentrated in the barn field, different sizes, various forms, throughout the afternoon and evening, Miao Yuan is coordinating, so that the steamer is placed more reasonably, in addition to the 800 most important steamers, there are also cases, water tanks and other things, which are also the necessities of steaming steamed buns.

40 catties of soda ash powder, also according to Zhao Xin's requirements, is ready to be mixed into a large amount of water, part of which has been added to the dough yesterday, and the other part will be added in the process of kneading the dough today.

When Miao Yuan arrived at the barn, people came one after another, this is a scene that Miaojiazhuang has never experienced, I am afraid that there was only a wheat harvest before, the villagers were so active, but it would not be so early.

Miao Yuan was grateful to Zhao Xin from the bottom of his heart, since the fourth young master came, everything in Miao Jiazhuang has been better, he doesn't know what the longbow team has done, only he has to pay people, and he doesn't have to pay, every longbow team member has gained real benefits, why not?

Located at the junction of the Liao and Song dynasties, the Liao State has not invaded Baozhou for decades, and the people in the village who are a little older know that decades ago, when the Northern Song Dynasty was just established, how fierce the Liao people were, and the alliance of the Liao Yuan a few decades ago, but it started in Lanzhou, which has penetrated into the hinterland of Henan, and the entire Baozhou, Hebei, and even the Daimyo Mansion have fallen.

Since the beginning of the alliance between the Liao and Song dynasties, less sword soldiers does not mean that they will not move, a little more force, and there is a little more guarantee in the village, a small number of bandits, and even the infiltration of the grass valley of the Liao State is not a problem, and a little more regular army, sticking to Miaojiazhuang, is enough to resist more than 3 times the enemy.

The infiltration of the grass valley of the Liao State, it is impossible to send a large army, two or three hundred people is already the limit, even if this possibility is very small, and it is not the money of the flower Miao Jiazhuang, Miao Yuan has no clear support and opposition.

Compared with the incomprehensible longbow team, Zhao Xin gave a lot of benefits in order to organize this longbow team, which are real.

When he came, most of the military horses he brought, the 12 military horses left, and the rest were sold by Miao Yuan, and the money obtained was directly replaced by hundreds of large livestock, which were not all in place, but the improvement of Miaojiazhuang was quite obvious.

One livestock can replace two or three manpower, especially for land reclamation, if there is no livestock, there is no way to choose manpower to open up the land, and heavy labor, even if it is strong labor, may not be able to support it.

Miaojiazhuang is a well-known wealthy Zhuangzi, which is considered to have been reclaimed more, but most of them are concentrated near the water source, and other places that are a little farther away are not reclaimed.

It is conservatively estimated that the wasteland near Miaojiazhuang is at least about 30,000 mu, and just reclaiming these wastelands, even if the yield per mu is only about a few dozen catties, it is enough to make Miaojiazhuang richer.

For the Zhuang family, grain is fundamental, even if there is more grain, it is not too much, there is no reserve of harvest years, there is a famine year to spend, from ten years ago, the climate in the north has not become very good, Miaojiazhuang has two small rivers passing through, a little better, some places where there is a shortage of water, has begun to be harvested.

In fact, most of the families who have obtained cultivated cattle have already begun to open up the land, first of all, the nearest place near Miaojiazhuang, and then the border, which is expected to put in hundreds of large animals and at least 400 people, according to the figure of an average of 15 mu per manpower, it can increase by nearly 10,000 mu today.

If these are just the improvement of food and agriculture, now Zhao Xin's business is the root of changing Miaojiazhuang, farmers are not stupid, they can tell whether this steamed bread is selling well from the taste and size of this steamed bun, under this premise, they also took out all their strength to do this well.

After Miao Yuan got up, many people in the selected barn yesterday were gathered one after another, some of whom were not selected to be included in the steamed buns, and their hearts contained hope, which was an opportunity to make money and an opportunity to change their lives.

After Miao Qi saw that someone came, he found a few women who were most familiar with steamed buns, responsible for inspecting the noodles, all of them were good hands in the village, this time the process of making noodles took a lot of time, under Zhao Xin's suggestion, the hot water kettle was used to keep warm, the temperature of almost forty or fifty degrees promoted the fermentation of noodles, and now, they are all more excellent.

After checking one by one, it is the process of mixing noodles and making steamed buns, an average of only 50 per person, for skilled workers, this is not a problem, busy for more than an hour, all the steamers are basketed, the hot water is heated by firewood, and the smoke rises.

Such a lively scene, in Miaojiazhuang, is the first time,

Zhao Xin actually came, but he just watched from a distance and didn't come closer.

To be honest, he was not much shocked, the population of later generations is more, some people-oriented records, in foreign countries is extremely difficult to set, Chinese only want to, just find some organizers, can break in minutes, 10,000 dances, 10,000 Taiji, and even large-scale song and dance performances, Miaojiazhuang is only how many people, not so neat.

What Zhao Xin paid more attention to was actually what these people didn't notice, the main fuel of Miaojiazhuang was wood, part of which was some dead branches and fallen leaves, and the other part was developed firewood.

The use of firewood for fire, is from the earliest to the birth of the fire, began to use, everywhere trees, firewood is the easiest to get, so that there is too much waste, wood can do more important things, the appearance of the longbow, is destined to make the number of long arrows surge, different from the arrow and tail, the position of the arrow shaft is the least technical, most of the wood can be used, so calculated, wood is still applied to the most suitable place to do so.

China is a big coal-producing country, the history of coal utilization can be traced back to the bronze, and even earlier times, there are even coal mines near Baozhou, and it should be a good fuel to get honeycomb coal out, which is economical, high in calories, and not troublesome to manufacture.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xin couldn't help but shake his head self-deprecatingly, thinking about what to do so much, in the insight of the traverser, there are a lot of things that can be made, steamed bread is like this, soap is also like this, honeycomb coal is the same, no honeycomb coal, in terms of fuel, lump coal is better, under the premise of large-scale production of steamed buns, as long as the steamer is big enough, lump coal is more convenient.

Nearly an hour of steaming the steamed bun process, is a relatively long wait, but including the steamed buns, as well as the villagers who came to see the excitement, thousands of people are gathered in the barn, they are not saying that there is no communication, whispering this, but the focus of energy, are focused on the steamer, this is the steamer that pins hope on the future.

To tell the truth, even if it is 150 yuan a day, the average to each villager, will not exceed 50 Wen, but this is living money, a steady stream of living money, the Zhuang family is different from those who go out to work, eat their own, live their own, spend very little, hundreds of living money, can do a lot of things, as small as needles and threads, as large as clothes and households, all year round, it may be so much money.

Now, without leaving home, as long as you pay labor, you may be able to earn more than a dozen or even twenty or thirty wen a day, which is not a lot for urban workers or transported on the canal, and for the Zhuang family, this is a lot, of course, it is in full swing.

In the long wait, a pot of steamed buns is freshly out of the cage, Miao Qi with a few mothers-in-law, a pot of inspection, mainly quality, yesterday was only one or two thousand, today is more than 30,000, in case the quality is not well controlled, smash the pot, then it will be a big trouble.

Each pot randomly selects one or two to taste, one or two thousand steamed buns, and there are almost 1,000 people on the scene, which is regarded as a feast.

The result is satisfying, the quality of today's steamed bread seems to be better than last night, it seems to be sweeter, softer, and the steamed bread is bigger.

This is of course a thing, yesterday was used, just foaming liquid, Zhao Xin only estimated the concentration, today, the use of soda ash powder, accurate dosage, the amount of use per catty is slightly more than yesterday, more carbon dioxide, less acidic residue, will inevitably make the fluffiness and taste rise.

Everyone who eats steamed bread is the same excitement, they just tasted a small bite yesterday, and they didn't even feel anything, and they ate it, and now a whole steamed bun, they can taste it carefully, the hot steamed bread and flavor, so that they are full of confidence for today.

There were only seven or eight ox carts in Miaojiazhuang before, but now, if large livestock are concentrated, they have been changed to horse-drawn carts, 30,000 steamed buns, which is a lot, and seven or eight carts can barely accommodate it, but how to get to Baozhou.

Miaojiazhuang is far from Baozhou, there are more than 30 miles, the carriage may take half an hour to arrive, steamed bread is hot and delicious, especially these steamed bread, cold than the previous taste is better, but not so obvious, less than half an hour of time, these are estimated to be all cold, how to sell when the time comes?

It's not impossible, it is not impossible to rent a house in Baozhou, send the cold steamed buns to Baozhou, and then sell them after heating them through the steamer, which is equivalent to repeated labor, and even the manpower and material resources consumed, which is not small at all.

The problem of transportation, which has never been considered, has become a big trouble, Miao Yuan's face is a little strange, and he stood in front of the carriage in a daze, not knowing what to do.

Countless thoughts flashed in his heart, but without exception, all of them cost a lot, and the profit of the steamed bread itself is not low, but if these solutions are added, it may change from a cheap product to an expensive product, even if it can still be popular, but it can't reach the previous height.