In April and May 1279, there was a bumper harvest of winter wheat in Shandong, with an average yield of 500 catties per mu, far exceeding some state capitals of the Great Song Dynasty.

The reason is very simple, horse farming technology is widely used in Shandong, and it is the place where organic fertilizers and organic pesticides such as struvite and stone sulfur are applied the most in addition to Liuqiu Island.

Of course, no matter how high the yield of winter wheat is, it is not as good as corn and rice, and it can only be regarded as a grain product that improves the comprehensive use of land.

The owner of Zhang Island immediately ordered 50 percent of the production to be made into dried noodles on the spot, and then sealed in bamboo tubes or wooden boxes with lime bags and stored in the grain depot.

In fact, the history of somen technology is relatively long, but it is all processed by hand.

Zhang Daozhu easily took out the flour grinding machine and dough pounding machine, dough press and strip cutting machine, medium temperature dryer and other equipment, the output of dried noodles is far better than the quality of manual processing, high output, and the most important thing is that its storage time can be up to two years without adding preservatives, of course, as long as you pay a little attention to the dryness of the storage conditions.

The owner of Zhang Island had a somen processing factory set up in the port area of Maduri in the southwest of Tianzhu, where the wheat harvest time was almost non-stop, frantically processing the product, and then sending it back to Liuqiu Island in a steady stream.

The black soil of Tianzhu Continent is extremely fertile, which makes Zhang Daoist always red------ but he can't spare manpower and energy to specialize there, so he has to treat it according to the market economy, which is purely an ordinary business behavior.

Transporting dried noodle products back from the Tianzhu area is a kind of unprofitable behavior in the eyes of other maritime merchants, and it is better to load more spices with that cabin, even if you pull a few more laborers, you can have a great profit.

Of course, these people will not understand the hard work of the owner of the island------ they only know that it is enough to make a lot of money, in addition to making a lot of money and making money from the rich, he also has to take into account the lives of ordinary people.

Reducing the cost of living for ordinary people is the best way to maintain stability in the world.

The Lu military group secretly sent an important member to Liuqiu Island to meet the owner of Zhang.

To be honest, Zhang Daozhu is more annoyed by the style of the Great Song people, who always mystify their ordinary interactions, giving people a sneaky feeling.

This is not as good as Tianxiang's person, people generously resigned from the official position, casually came to Liuqiu Island to see the owner of Zhang, taught in the school in a big way, and went shopping in Badaohe freely.

The important member of the Lu family first said the good news, saying that it is expected that the cotton yarn they will provide this autumn can be 30% more than last year!

This is good news------ Zhang Island Master smiled and said, "Your Lu family has got a lot of cotton fields in the north, right?" ”

The important member shook his head and said, "Not as much as I thought before!" Those magnates are too good at grabbing land, otherwise my family's cotton production will double! ”

After the Great Song Dynasty government spent money to buy back the lost land, it watered the fields for the sake of those so-called dry fields, and there were too many dirty transactions that took place!

The lord of Zhang Island despised those magnates, and their eyes could see that the Shaanxi region, the Xinjiang region, and the Central Asian region that had crossed the Yellow River ------ that were the treasure land for growing cotton!

If you only dare to rob your own people's land, what can you do?!

That important member immediately put forward the second point, the Lu military group actually gave Zhang Dao the main oil distillation technology and equipment!

Ah, the owner of Zhang Island immediately understood, they may have found oil in the Yanchang region of Shaanxi!

The important member ordered someone to bring a jar of oil, and the owner of Zhang opened it and looked, well, a typical medium oil, blacker than the one produced in the Wenlai estuary and Bahrain.

The important member nervously asked, "Does Master Zhang see if this thing can be used?" Is there kerosene, diesel, and gasoline? ”

Well, the current merchants of the Great Song Dynasty are not easy to deceive, they don't know where to find out more and more news------ know that kerosene does not come from coal, diesel does not come from firewood, and gasoline does not come from gas.

Zhang didn't want to deceive him, so he said directly: "It is completely possible to refine kerosene from it, but it is technically more difficult and the sulfur content is higher." ”

His mood was a little depressed, he didn't expect that the business sense of the Great Song people was so strong, and he would soon not be able to enjoy the dividends of monopoly------ which was full of emotion.

In fact, the earliest account of oil and oil exploitation comes from Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Writings" in the Great Song Dynasty.

At that time, it was still 1080, and at the age of 50, Shen Kuo served as the governor of Yan'an, Shaanxi, and fought on the northwest front against the invasion of the powerful enemy Western Xia.

In his intense military life, he still did not forget to investigate the process of private oil exploitation, and in "Mengxi Writings" he recorded the existence and exploitation process of oil:

"There is a kind of oil in Yanzhou and Yanzhou, which is the grease water of Gaonu County in the past, and the grease water is oil.

Oil is produced at the water's edge, mixed with sand and springs, and flows out intermittently.

Local residents use pheasant tail feathers to dip it up and collect it into clay pots.

The oil was very much like varnish, and it burned like a torch, and it emitted a very thick smoke, and the tent turned black with the smoke.

I guessed that this smoke could be used, so I tried to sweep its bituminous coal and use it to make ink, which was as lustrous as black lacquer, and even pine ink could not compare to it. So they made it in large quantities and marked it with the words 'Yanchuan Stone Liquid'. This kind of ink will definitely be widely popular in the world in the future, but I just started making it. ”

He made ink from the smoke and dust produced after the combustion of oil, and he also wrote a poem "Yanzhou Poem", describing the grand scene of smoke and dust billowing from oil extraction in Yanzhou:

"It's snowing in Erlang Mountain, and Xuanzhuo Qionglu is learning from the people. The plain clothes are not old in winter, and the stone smoke is like Luoyang dust. ”

The Yanzhou oil he wrote about was the famous Changqing Oilfield in later generations, with an annual output of 20 million tons------

After hearing this, the important member was overjoyed and said, "My Lu family's hard work in investigating has not been in vain! ”

Zhang Daozhu asked quietly: "The whole of Yan'an Mansion in Shaanxi is in the hands of the Tatar bandit group, how can your Lu family develop oil wells there?" What's more, you're still thousands of miles away? ”

In that year, after the Tatar bandit group exterminated the Western Xia, Yan'an Prefecture in Shaanxi, which was originally an important area to defend against the Western Xia, naturally fell into their hands------ so how could the Lu family, who was far away in the Xiangfan area of Jinghu, go there to develop oil wells!

It's incredible!

The important member of the Lu family arched his hand and said: "It's not a secret------ there are no Tatar bandits there at all, but there are still a few local officials who are struggling to survive------ the rest, there is no need to say more." ”

I see!

Driven by interests, let them dare to take bold risks for the benefit and development of their own families, I really can't imagine that after solving the security problem, a little-known Lu military group would have such a vision and dare to cooperate with the enemy!

"What if you get big about developing oil wells and the Tatar robbers come back?!"

The important member of the Lu family's face suddenly became fierce, and said: "Of course my Lu family will not come out openly, there will be a Red Eyebrow army operating there------ if the Tatar robbers do not allow them to develop oil wells, they will definitely fight with each other to the end!" ”

Island Master Zhang was speechless for a while, for the sake of oil, they would definitely be able to fight to the death------ after Island Master Zhang withdrew from the Green Forest Army, the power of their Lu family's Red Eyebrow Army still existed, and it was also used to develop oil wells!

Things are getting more and more interesting.

PS: Thank you for the tips of book friend Tiz and book friend 1398.