332 Qin's line, food.
Just when the Qin army was conducting a large-scale military operation against the Yue Clan. New changes also began to take place in Qin.
All these changes are seen by one person. This is Han Fei, who was the first to accept the idea of enlightenment.
The changes in the Qin state can almost reach the point of rapid change. These changes, even Han Fei himself can't explain what's going on. And what he did every day was to read books, accept the enlightenment ideas of those vernacular texts, and go out to see the changes that had taken place in the Qin State.
There were more and more chariots and horses in the Qin State. The Xianyang Order of the Qin State was deeply troubled by this. Even though a large number of officers are used as traffic police, this can only maintain basic traffic order. The traffic situation in the Qin State was still very heavy.
The first is the appearance of a large number of carriages and horses. There were a lot of chariots and horses in the city. This is the most complicated place for traffic, and a large number of people must be sent to maintain walking every day in Xianyang Ling.
In the face of the abundance of chariots and horses, a new means of transportation is becoming widely available to civilians. That's what bikes are. The advent of iron-framed bicycles makes people's travel more convenient.
People have found that bicycles are faster than walking, and they can carry a lot of weight. This is very practical for people. A lot of demand has given rise to a lot of bicycle shops. And Xi Lao is undoubtedly the leader of the bicycle. When others are vying to imitate it. His bicycle shop has set up a bicycle factory. This stems from the money Shang Wen lent to him.
With the funds, the bicycle factory invested a lot of new machinery and equipment. A large number of bicycle parts can be quickly mechanized. Xi Lao also takes his own "Xi" as his own brand. At this time, Xi brand bicycles sold well in Xianyang, and began to develop towards the surrounding reflection. And Xi Lao's previous order for a batch of 3,000 bicycles from the Qin Army was also completed ahead of schedule.
On the other hand. A large number of novelty pasta began to appear on Xianyang. These noodles are all from the vigorous promotion of Princess Wenyang and the operation of commodity futures. Large quantities of scattered wheat began to be concentrated in warehouses in Xianyang, and then delivery began according to the trading price formed on the last trading day.
Grind. In particular, the emergence of mechanical mills driven by steam engines began to make food more diverse. Wheat can be made into flour. Flour can be made into a variety of shapes. The ingenious woman began to ponder what the flour could do. So they began to make different patterns. The first thing that comes to mind is the noodles. Cooking is undoubtedly the thing that people want to know the most, they started by boiling it in a whole piece, and found that the effect was very bad, so they began to try to cook it in small pieces, and gradually began to change into the shape of noodles. Then the quadripartite neighbors began to spread the method. Some women who wanted to fill their families began to deal in this food, and noodles began to become a new food in Xianyang. However, condiments were still very limited during this period. The food didn't look good, so some people started thinking about making it look good.
The commoners of the Qin State began to use fatty oils because the Qin State had a large number of places to supply these things. So, people put the noodles in boiling fatty oil, then remove them, and pass them through the water, and they found that the noodles were very good in color and taste, and they were easy to preserve. As a result, this type of deep-fried noodles began to gain popularity. This noodle can be said to be an early instant noodle, but people prefer to call it fried noodles.
Noodles are just one aspect of the story. Princess Wenyang's cake became a luxury ornament in the food of the Qin Kingdom. Since the cake requires a lot of sweetness. And the general public simply cannot afford to provide it. So they began to think about a more popular food, and bread became the first food to be popularized. In the Qin Kingdom, cakes were made from mashed corn. It's very hard to swallow. And the appearance of the dough. Especially after adding a certain amount of salt and grilling it over a fire. The taste is very good. As a result, dough began to spread on a large scale.
However, the dough is still a little dry. People need a fluffy food, especially for the elderly. So people began to learn how to obtain the source of fluffy food, and they drew nutrients from Princess Wenyang's cake again. Ferment. They began to place the noodles around the fire specifically for fermentation. However, after fermentation, people found that the noodles were sour, and the food was very unpalatable. People had to explore again. This time they hit a bottleneck. Because alkaline noodles are very important military materials. They can't do it themselves. So some people started to give up. But some people are starting to try to extract the alkaline noodles themselves.
The popularity of pasta, especially the deliciousness of various foods, has led to a growing demand for wheat. Wheat stocks in various parts of the Qin State fell sharply. As a result, the Qin State began to import a large amount of wheat from the Six Kingdoms. Due to the technical blockade. The Six Kingdoms had no idea that the Qin State had begun a food innovation.
But imports still don't solve the problem. So people began to move on to food production for the coming year.
And on the land, the land system of the Qin State has undergone earth-shaking changes. First of all, a large number of peasants began to voluntarily abandon their land, or use the money earned from factory work to pay off their debts. Due to the successive promulgation of the Qin state, the new law stipulates that compound interest is not allowed to exist. As a result, the contracts of the usurious landlords began to lapse on a large scale, but in order to protect their interests, Shang Wen stipulated that they should quickly settle all their debts within a month, and that they could only collect the principal and part of the interest. If compound interest is found, calculated. Ten times, a hundred times the punishment, under the high efficiency of the government departments of the Qin State. Everyone begins to settle the debt. In this way, the burden on the peasants was suddenly lightened. Going to the city to become a worker became their first choice. The factory owners were very happy.
However, a large amount of land began to be barren, but some people saw the business opportunity and began to buy a large amount of land, in order to provide them with convenience, Yingyu's Wenyang Bank began to take the initiative to provide them with a large amount of funds to help them buy.
Gradually, the land began to concentrate on a small number of people. Qin's agricultural decree had not yet been repealed, and if the land was barren, then the owner of the land was guilty. In order not to leave the land barren, they began to use new ways of working. It is impossible to provide them with manpower in large quantities, and it is very difficult to hire those people. So they began to adopt a large number of livestock, but in this way the tools of labor had to be revolutionized on a large scale. So they began to invest in large-scale tooling to accommodate large areas of land, and at the same time what to plant, some of them began to shift their goals. They found that wheat became a sought-after commodity, and wheat began to enter the era of mass popularization.