Lychees, a lot of lychees, truckloads of lychees with branches and leaves, in the courtyard of the back house of Fufu Mansion in Yidu Town, almost piled up into a hill.

The various varieties of red, green, yellow and white are so-called meat color such as clotted fat, fat and crisp, taste like agar syrup, sweet and palatable. It makes my whole family, young and old, eat all day long.

Even the cat Schrödinger nibbled three or four decently, and then happily jumped up and down in the lychee bushes, getting in and out of the fun.

Among them, there are not only the "water branches" that are suitable for cultivation at the water's edge, but also the "mountain branches" cultivated in the mountains, and the varieties are also distributed from the two Zhejiang and Fujian to the east and west rivers outside the mountains, such as hanging green, horsebell, spring li, water float, dew, Xiaohua Mountain, green Luoyi, Shang Shuhuai, Gongling Sun, Ya Bun, General Li, Zhuangyuanhong and so on.

According to the appearance, there are tiger skin, ox heart, tortoiseshell, sulfur, persimmon, peach, cockle shell, dragon tooth, water lychee, honey lychee, clove lychee, big lilac, hammerhead, pearl, eighteen niang, general, pink, Zhongyuan red, volcano and green purse and so on.

Of course, the real background of all this is that from the southeast coast to the outside of the mountains, the orchard growers in the corresponding lychee producing areas have gone bankrupt, and these fresh and good fruits that have crossed the sea have become cheap in the production areas.

Therefore, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of catties that have arrived in Huaidong one after another, they are more like other seasonal melons and fruits that have been sold cheaply, and are used as raw materials for the processing of dried fruit candied fruits and canned food, and are transferred to other places for digestion and disposal.

So wait until next year, maybe there will be no such good thing. Of course, the benefits of the increasingly busy sea routes are not worth it.

As the sea routes became more and more open and frequent, news finally came back from Hu Jingshui, who I sent to the southern part of Dazaifu in Kyushu, Fuso Domain.

Although there were some twists and turns on the sea route, and they made a slight detour to avoid the wind and waves, they still arrived at the so-called expected destination along the traditional shipping route, the so-called Osumi Province or the land of Suzushu.

It's just that before the local capital Kagoshima Oko landed for supplies, it was by mistake that he fought a war with a foreign force.

The other party claimed to be the commander of the navy, one of the so-called king's seven sea warriors, and the navy army composed of dozens of large and small ships and small haya boats was attacking the port city of Kagoshima, and the local area was being defeated one after another.

After seeing the foreign ship group, the first reaction was to divide the troops to intercept and besiege it.

It's just that these boats made of light bamboo planks and still use oars as the main power are just a group of rotten fish and stinky shrimp in front of more than a dozen Huaidong boat groups with more than 1,000 standard materials.

Although they bravely swarmed up and tried to use ant tactics to seize the armed merchant ships in Huaidong by jumping boats, they were soon not broken and overturned on the spot by the larger and stronger Huaidong ships; It was sunk and killed on the spot by the firecrackers and several cannons fired from the ship's side.

The so-called naval general's ship, in the process of trying to ram the first ship of Huaidong, was preset by the ship's preset turning guns and scattered small cannons, which made a broken sieve with air leakage on all sides, and in the process of the ship's disintegration and sinking, almost no one was able to jump into the sea to escape.

Under the roar of artillery, those sailors who were far away or confined to the harbor area to rob were even more frightened and rushed to flee, and even squeezed each other and sank a lot in the process.

As a powerful deterrent to unexpected participation in the war and overwhelming foreign aid, the local officials in Kagoshima also seemed to have a certain misunderstanding, and regarded this limited group of ships as an existence similar to that of the naval division of the Southern Dynasty, and they were cautious and extremely courteous.

As a temporary general, Hu Jingshui will also take care of the plan, and with this as the backing, with his incorruptible tongue, he actually directly fooled the local acting officials and heads, and greatly contributed a reward and tribute, promising to be stationed near the almost uninhabited Kirishima volcano and stationed in a sheltered place;

He also took the opportunity to extort more than 1,000 untouchables of both men and women who were "filthy" from the local area, and used them as local drives along the way.

Then we easily arrived at the southern peninsula of Suzushu, where the Kirishima volcano, which can be seen with the naked eye from the sea, and spent several days in the barren grass more than two miles offshore, along the geothermal steam and hot spring runoff, and found an open-air natural sulfur pit.

After excavation and cleaning to remove the silt and weeds from the surface, it is exposed as a large area of coarse sulfur crystals called stone pavilion grin or yellow sand sand.

In addition, due to volcanic activity, it seems that the purity is quite high, and after grinding into powder, it can be directly combined with saltpeter charcoal, which can be used as crude powder.

Then it was a matter of putting down the men and men on the ship, first rushing to build a simple road to the sea, and then choosing a suitable location to build a rudimentary anchorage and trestle.

The remaining costs are just to feed and drive a few local fishermen's villages, as well as the daily needs of more than 1,000 untouchables. This is something they can do by fishing with a large net on a temporary part-time fishing boat in the area, and by importing some simple daily necessities from Tanegashima Minato City.

Because these Japanese slaves are so easy to feed, and the standard of living is also very low, salted stinky fish and rotten shrimp with a little sweet potato taro staple food, can make most people satisfied; The excavated sulphur is almost net in value when it is brought back.

Moreover, the sulfur that was brought back is now not only used to make gunpowder, but also has more and more extensive uses. For example, sulfur plays a significant role in everyday life and industrial sulfur production:

Although sulfur is mainly used to make sulfuric acid to meet the needs of acid-consuming industrial products such as fluorine chemical industry, salt chemical industry, bleaching and dyeing, it can also be made into the most primitive phosphate fertilizer products, and become a plus factor for agricultural production.

In addition, ancient people realized that sulfur has insecticidal, acaricidal and bactericidal effects very early. Therefore, the extracted sulfur solution can be used as a protective fungicide for fungal diseases in agricultural production.

Even in the primary food industry, it can also be used as antiseptic, insecticide, bleaching and other fumigation, the ancients of this era are not as precious as the later generations, and they have to identify what is natural pollution-free pure green or something strict standards.

As long as agricultural and other crops that should have been moldy and rotten can be preserved longer and more shelf-stable, it also means that more people can be saved in a year of famine, and more materials can be saved.

This is really important for Huaidong, which is always affected by the outside world. However, the application of this aspect was only after I experienced the sulfur supply crisis, and I suddenly expanded my thinking and remembered it.

However, it is a misunderstanding of typical modern talents.

After all, in the era I lived in in another time and space, sulfur-smoked preservative food was already a stinky street; Therefore, in related thinking, I will inevitably instinctively avoid this kind of "harmful" technology tree direction in the standards of later generations.

In addition, the boat that reported the news on the way back also brought some local specialties, such as brown sugar, citrus, dried bonito, and radish for whatevers. There was even a huge sailfish that was buried in a salt pile as a personal gift to me.

It can be regarded as an unexpected addition that is better than nothing, but it also allows me to make a move, or it can be used as a cover for the name, and let Hu Jingshui operate and maintain this line for a long time.

In addition to that, there is another thing to watch internally in the near future; Some time ago, the social investigation arrested a group of suspicious elements who were active in Huaidong and among the remnants of Dengzhou;

Among them, there is actually a person with great background, that is, the second person in the former Dengzhou Town, Liu Minyou, who once received the title of political envoy and was captured by the Northern Dynasty to Luodu to be captured, however, he now appears under the rule of Huaidong.

After this period of interrogation and torture, some things were finally determined, such as Liu Minyou, a former political envoy from Dengzhou Town, who knew a lot of things;

For example, the historical record of Dengzhou Town's long-term dealings with the Donghai Society, and the origin of the negotiations with the major forces of the three feudal clans in the East China Sea; even includes the deeply hidden Boluo Society, as well as the so-called "Gongsun Family" related matters that have never been seen.

In addition, during his disguised detention in Luodu, he also grasped and witnessed a lot of inside information and the current situation from a corresponding perspective and vision, but it is also what I need now.

It's just that no matter how he was tried and persecuted, he always insisted on one condition and did not let go, that is, he hoped to get a chance to do things under the rule of Huaidong, even if he didn't want to be treated on the face, and he would be subject to others for the rest of his life or accept disguised imprisonment.

I only hope to be able to contribute to some things, which can be regarded as compensation and atonement for the remnants of Dengzhou who have been ruined and even displaced because of his own thoughts or selfishness.