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Hearing Guo Bin say that what he did was not Lin Yiguo's follow-up revenge, Wang Yue and Zhu Fu were both relieved. Guo Bin, who has the fastest update at the apex, has a high position, and his subordinates have soldiers and generals, and he is a general who is a serious and humble general, and he is even more prestigious in the court. If he really wants to get involved, then this matter can only be dominated by him, and then he will win, and Jiaozhou is afraid that he will only bear the damage of being reduced to the battlefield, and as for the benefits, there may not even be a little soup left.

Whether it is Zhu Fu or the Shi family, they need to expand their strength through this upcoming war. Watching the wealthy families and officials in Zhongyuan Prefecture and County gradually seize power, who can stand this temptation? Jiaozhou had not been affected by the Yellow Turban Rebellion, so it needed an excuse to expand its strength. Both of them, one wants to recruit the subordinates, so that their position in the history of assassination will be more stable and more dazzling; One wants to stuff people into the official army, and he must maximize his influence in the official army to increase his control over Jiaozhou. It can be said that the two sides, who originally had differences, reached an unprecedented consensus on this issue.

But Guo Bin said that he was no longer interested in the affairs of Lin Yiguo, which made everyone present breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, they also had a deep curiosity.

Zhu Fu said: "That being the case, what is the reason why Qianyang invited me to come tonight? ”

Guo Bin held the table with his hand, leaned forward, and said, "Bin belongs to the one who wants it, and the rod is also." ”

The pole is sugarcane, so the word "rod" is used to say that its stem is like a bamboo pole; The pronunciation of the word "Zhe" is the same as that of Cane, and "Lisao" and "Hanshu" are all used as Zhe characters, which is a fake word.

When Wang Yue heard this, he was puzzled: "This thing is extremely common in Lingnan, but I don't know what Qianyang wants it for?" ”

Guo Bin did not hide his intention at all, originally wanted to do this, to a large extent, he had to rely on the support of everyone present. Therefore, he said without concealment: "Sugarcane is produced in Lingnan, but there is little trace of it in the Central Plains. If this thing can be transported to Yingchuan and even Jingshi, it will make a great difference. ”

Shi Xie is well-informed, and he is the most wise and knowledgeable, and after listening to Guo Bin's words, he said: "What Qianyang thinks is to transport sugarcane to Yingchuan?" Then he nodded and said: "This pole is brittle and juicy, sweet and delicious, and its appearance is extremely bamboo-like, which can be described as a beautiful thing inside and outside." Moreover, its juice can eliminate phlegm and quench thirst, benefit the large and small intestines, and can remove heart and chest irritation, detoxify alcohol, if it is transported into the Central Plains, it is indeed a good thing. ”

Guo Bin didn't expect Shi Xie's brain to turn so fast, and he didn't expect him to know so much. In order to find Jiaozhou's special products, strengthen the economic ties between Yingchuan and it, and maintain the stability of the Lingnan region, Guo Bin racked his brains and finally found sugarcane, a cash crop that is widely distributed in the Lingnan region.

Sugarcane was a very delicious and inexpensive fruit in later generations, and it was very popular among people. However, Guo Bin wanted to transport sugarcane to Yingchuan, but not to be a fruit merchant in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and if he wanted to tie Jiaozhou and the Central Plains together economically with the current transportation capacity and preservation methods, it would be unrealistic to rely on the fruit alone.

The so-called "a ride on the red dust concubine smiles, no one knows that it is a lychee", if it is a fruit with a short shelf life like lychee, it will be transported from Jiaozhou to the Central Plains, which is obviously a joke at this time. Sugarcane, on the other hand, can be stored for a long time if it is bundled up and placed on a boat covered with wet soil, covered with fresh sugarcane leaves, and a layer of wet soil on top of the leaves.

And the route of transportation Guo Bin has already been thought of, so he loaded the ship from Panyu and went north along the coastline. From the mouth of the Huai River into the Huaishui, and then upstream, through Xuzhou and into Yuzhou, after the longevity of the spring into the Huaishui tributary Yingshui, and then against the current to Yingchuan, and Yangzhai County, in the upper reaches of Yingshui.

Walking along the coastline in this way, although it is indeed sailing in the sea, it is in the near sea, and it can be replenished at any time. Moreover, such a large number of materials are transported by ship, which can also greatly save transportation costs, after all, there are no large cargo trucks at this time! And it's easy to store and doesn't take too much effort.

However, this is not the most important reason, the most important reason why Guo Bin has to transport sugarcane thousands of miles to Yangzhai County is its added value. Guo Bin is not a fruit seller, he wants to use sugar cane to make cane sugar, but also to make wine from sugar cane, even if it is fully pressed, bagasse can also be used as a raw material for paper production.

According to the history of later generations, the method of making sucrose was transmitted to China from the Western Regions, and it was called purple sand sugar at that time. Li Shizhen said that it "came out of the Western Regions, and Tang Taizong began to send people to pass on his law into China." "The principle of making sucrose from sugar cane is very simple, just like boiling a very concentrated sugar water and gradually evaporating its water to become a crystalline sugar cube.

If you want to make cane sugar, you first have to press the sugar-rich cane juice, so if you want to form a large-scale production, the press is the key. Before Guo Bin went south, he instructed Ma Jun on this issue. In fact, it is not troublesome to build, as long as several sets of interconnected gears drive two iron rollers, it can be easily made. The small ones can be rotated by manpower, and the large ones can be rotated continuously with the help of water power. This is a small machine with a simple principle, and since it has been so long, it should be interesting to come to Ma Jun's research.

After juicing, the pressed cane juice needs to be cleaned. There is no technical difficulty, as long as a few layers of clean gauze are connected under the outlet of sugarcane juice, the dregs of sugarcane can be blocked by layers of gauze, so as to achieve the purpose of cleaning. At this time, the requirements for sucrose are not high, in a word, as long as it is sweet. As long as it is sweet, it can quickly replenish the body's energy, because it can quickly increase the blood sugar content in the human blood, and blood sugar can be directly decomposed into calories to supply the body's various vital functions.

Therefore, the so-called sulfurous acid method and lime method of cleaning sugarcane not only waste manpower and material resources, but also increase the cost, and Guo Bin did not understand the specific operation process at all, so he could only give up these bells and whistles. In this day and age, it is rare to create such a high-end luxury as cane sugar that can be stored for human consumption for a long time, so why ask for too much? We must first solve the problem of whether it is good or not, and then it is our turn to be good or not.

After cleaning, there are four processes: evaporation, crystallization, honey separation and drying, but Guo Bin's method is also simple and crude, and the method he adopts is boiling. The so-called boiling is to put the clean cane sugar juice into an iron pot, burn it with firewood, to boil it as dry as possible, and after leaving an extremely viscous slurry, pour it into a mold to set, and a piece of sucrose is considered to be made.

In addition to sugar production, Guo Bin also plans to use the juice of sugar cane to make wine. Guo Bin doesn't know how to make sugarcane juice either, but now that his family has a big business, he doesn't care about a little waste. His plan was to let the people below try the same brewing method as wine, and it was naturally best to make sugarcane wine, but if it couldn't, he could think of other ways. For example, if you add a little koji to the wine or increase the amount of caramel when making wine, you can try it at the same time, as long as you can make sake.

In his previous life, Guo Bin was not an alcoholic, nor had he ever tasted sugarcane wine, but he had heard that sugarcane could make wine. Since there is such a thing, it can be made with a lot of trying. However, although Fulong Villa is famous for winemaking, Guo Bin has no enthusiasm for grain wine.

Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the damage to the Central Plains has not only been casualties and destruction of the original system, but more important and fundamental is the destruction of production. Many people may not have noticed it at the beginning, but now it is time to realize the seriousness of the matter. The land of the Central Plains is barren, and when grain production misses the agricultural time, it is the crops that grow in the fields, and no one has time to clean them up.

The Yellow Turban Army opened the treasury and scattered grain; The remnants of the Yellow Turbans scattered all over the country are now also raiding the states and counties, attacking the local wealthy clans who are not well guarded. At the beginning, it was to obtain military funds and equipment to support the confrontation between Taiping Dao and the official army, but now it is to fill the stomach. Those displaced people who returned to their hometowns after the Yellow Turban Rebellion either rented the landlord's land, or borrowed seeds and rations from the landlord to redevelop the land that belonged to them, and worked diligently and conscientiously to restore the original stable and stable life.

However, those remnants of the Taiping Dao, with the common people who were originally good citizens, plundered everywhere under the guise of robbing the rich and helping the poor, so that after the peasants who had just settled down were robbed of even the last rations, it was impossible to raise the goods of the landlords who repaid the loans, so they had to join in and rob others together. The robbers relied on this method to coerce the people who returned to their hometowns, quickly increasing their strength, and their strength became bigger and bigger.

The consequence of this is that people who are honest farmers cannot even guarantee their lives, so no one wants to farm. If this situation continues, the whole world will probably become more and more chaotic, and the famine will be even more violent than when the Yellow Turban Rebellion first started. Because at this time, the relationship of trust between the landlord and the peasant society, the acquaintance society has collapsed, and the difficulty for the peasants to borrow start-up funds from the landlord for farming has also been greatly increased, and the common people's desire to live honestly on the land has become a luxury. From this point of view, the Eastern Han Dynasty has indeed fallen into turmoil.

In the face of a nationwide food crisis, Yingchuan County is in the midst of a big tide, and naturally it cannot be avoided. Guo Bin can make wine with grapes and sugar cane, but he will never support making wine from grain. When it comes to the critical moment, whether it is fine wine, five baht money, or vouchers, it is impossible to fill the stomach, and no one will reason with their hungry stomach.

Guo Bin and his think tanks had already anticipated the inevitable food crisis, and in order to ensure the stability of Yingchuan County, they also formulated corresponding measures. This measure is also simple to say, and it is mainly divided into several means.

First, we will make use of the strong tax collection power of Yeongcheon County and the strong financial resources of the local tycoons to purchase grain from all over the country as much as possible. Second, the construction of a large granary in Yingchuan County, which includes both above-ground and underground parts, is extremely large and advanced, and uses the movable pulley technology of the three cities outside the Saiwai, which greatly improves the work efficiency. Third, by taking advantage of the abundant human resources accumulated during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, large-scale reclamation of wasteland and semi-military management of tuntian fields were implemented to increase the grain output in Yingchuan County.

In this era, the population was very small compared to later generations, and there were also a lot of wastelands. However, due to the limited level of productivity, the scale of farmland that can be managed by one person is extremely limited, so even in Yeongcheon-gun, which has a relatively large population, the area of wasteland is staggeringly large, and there is no need to worry about running out of land in a short period of time.

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