When Kan Pingtian heard this, he smiled bitterly and said, "This is too troublesome, I don't know how to calculate it after listening to it!" ”

Yang Zilu said with a smile: "Actually, I don't need to calculate it now, these are all slowly groped out!" Besides, it's impossible to tell what the situation is now! ”

After talking about military matters, Yang Zilu suddenly remembered that he hadn't asked Kan Pingtian a thing. "Old Kan, have you ever seen sugar cane? That stuff is as sweet as bamboo! Can be made into candy. ”

Kan Pingtian frowned and said, "I only know two kinds of sugar, caramel and sugar!" ”

"Caramel sugar?" Yang Zilu thought about it, shook his head and said, "I seem to have heard of this kind of sugar!" ”

"Well, I remember that it was like putting malt and millet into a clay urn with water, letting them sprout, and when they grew to a certain extent, they would take them out and chop them, mix them with glutinous rice and boil them, and then you could boil out sticky sugar water, put them in a container, and after a while they solidified and they would be caramel." Kan Pingtian frowned and thought bitterly.

When Yang Zilu heard it, isn't this almost the same as making maltose in later generations? Shaking his head, he said, "This caramel can't do it!" Rice is grown in the south, and wheat is grown in the north. ”

"Rice? Oh! I've heard of this owner, but there is also a small area of cultivation in the Yellow River! But the production is not large, slightly less than the millet! Kan Pingtian said.

Yang Zilu couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded when he heard this, but immediately remembered that the Ming Dynasty fell because of the Xiaoice River period, and now it is the Spring and Autumn Era, and the weather is very mild. It is not surprising that the Yellow River is able to grow rice. During the Tang Dynasty, rice could be planted on a large scale in Northeast China, not to mention the warmer climate along the Yellow River.

"Where's the candy?" Yang Zilu diverted the topic and asked.

"That's from the Chu State! The dark yellow color is a bit like amber, but the sweetness has a bitterness and is not as delicious as caramel candy! However, it is said that in the Chu State, the price of Zhetang is a few points cheaper than that of the sugar, and the ordinary rich families in the Chu State prefer to use the sugar. Kan Pingtian said.

"This candy was taken out of the canteen, right? How does this look like! Yang Zilu asked anxiously.

"What's this? I don't know about this, oh! No! I remembered, according to the merchant, that it was like a bamboo, but it was not hollow inside, and there was not a single leaf on its body, only the long hair that looked like a human being on the top, and it grew to the sky! ”

Yang Zilu's eyes lit up and said, "This is cane!" But this Zhe sounds about the same as the cane! ”

When Kan Pingtian heard this, he wrote a word on the ground and said, "But this? ”

"That's not right!" Yang Zilu wrote the word cane on the ground, and drew a picture of cane. However, Yang Zilu remembered that the cane characters were not simplified, but why didn't these two words have anything to figure out?

Because Yang Zilu was standing under the gate of the village to discuss things, at this time, a soldier timidly said: "Chief, captain, I remember where I saw the cane you just said!" Their men chopped them off with knives and axes, and then cut off the outer crust with knives, and ate them with their teeth. But he didn't eat meat, he just ate juice, and after squeezing the juice out with his teeth, he vomited the meat! It is said to be very sweet! The little one also accompanied his father to the servant department to buy and sell, and he has only seen this thing! ”

When Yang Zilu heard this, his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "After laying down the servant sentence, you must keep coming over these!" If it is really sugarcane, there will be no need to save this money in the future! ”

Kan Pingtian couldn't help but be even more strange, and asked, "Chief, what's the use of this candy?" Although the price is not cheap, it is only purchased in small quantities by some nobles! ”

Yang Zilu naturally doesn't think Kan Pingtian is stupid, but he is limited to the limitations of this era. Anyone who knows about the Age of Discovery knows how profitable sugar is.

What's more, the only specialties of the Jiukui tribe now are furs and wild yams, but this feature is that a large number of mountains and forests are used as habitats for wild beasts and yams. In the short term, it is fine, but in the long term, it is a serious limitation on the development of the Nine Kui Division. After the Nine Kui Division, a large number of people and fields will definitely need to be changed to agriculture, and a large number of people and fields will naturally need to occupy a large amount of land, and the production of furs will inevitably decrease in the future. But sugar cane is different, it can be produced in large quantities, and it has become the second largest specialty of the Jiukui tribe after fur.

Yang Zilu didn't say this to Kan Pingtian, and some things were already ingrained in their minds. Yang Zilu is more inclined to use facts to break their narrow concepts, just like Shang Ying, a person like him who is as wise as him, also values agriculture over business, and ignores the value of businessmen's existence.

Next, Yang Zilu asked Kan Pingtian about the situation today, and as Yang Zilu expected, the servant was furious after being refused. However, it has just passed winter, and there is a shortage of food. The art of war is well-said, the three armies go first before moving grain and grass, even if there is an army of 11 million in the servant department, and there is not a single rice belly, it will not be able to send troops. The Servant Sentence Department just kept sending people to attack the soldiers stationed in the old village of the Haiyan Department on a small scale.

However, Kan Pingtian was not a vegetarian, so he saw the opportunity and set up an ambush and killed a full thirty-four servants in one fell swoop. It was so frightened that the people in the Servant Sentence Department didn't dare to play a sneak attack, but they only sent a few people by boat every two or three days to reconnoitre.

Seeing such a situation, Yang Zilu naturally did not stay in the Haiyan Department for long, stayed for three days, and left.

After returning to the Jiukui Department, Yang Zilu immediately went to find Gong Ion. Gong Ion was very comfortable walking on the recliner designed by Yang Zilu, and the chair shook and shook slightly, feeling the majesty of spring. Looking at his expression, it was as comfortable as if he had won a million lottery.

As for the few apprentices of Gong Ion, they worked the stove on the side. Looking like that, Gong Ion looks like Huang Shiren, a rich man, and a group of apprentices are simply tenants who have been severely exploited by him. Seeing this, Yang Zilu couldn't help but be angry, walked over with an arrow, and kicked on Gong Ion's recliner.

The recliner swayed sharply and almost turned over, startling Gong Ion and hurriedly stood up. Gong Ion exclaimed, "Who! ”

"Gong ion, ya!" Yang Zilu was angry and scolded.

But then Yang Zilu became embarrassed, Gong Ion's right wrist was wrapped in a layer of white cloth, obviously Gong Ion's hand was injured, so he didn't go to the iron, but Yang Zilu didn't notice this just now because of the problem of the angle of vision.

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