"Emperor penguins, terrifying."

Li Chaosheng introduced the experience of emperor penguins to Guzi, and the more he said this, the more terrible Li Chaosheng felt, what an emperor penguin, with flow and cash flow, invincible.

Gu Zi's eyes widened, obviously shocked.

The two of them walked forward, and soon came to the front, where they sold food and drank more, and several people ate and drank.

Gu Zi couldn't help but sigh: "A year ago, I thought that the prosperity of Xi'an City was irreplaceable, and now the prosperity of our Lantian is second only to Xi'an City, and I am afraid that in a few years it will not lose Xi'an, these are the merits of the brigade commander." ”

This sentence is not a compliment, but a true outflow, and several guards behind him also agreed, this year was completely under the wise dispatch of Li Chaosheng, and the transformation from the year of famine to the current prosperity was completed.

Every human heart has a scale, who doesn't know the depth of it.

The group went all the way forward, and many people who knew him saluted Li Chaosheng, and Li Chaosheng responded one by one, especially the many gray two-story buildings newly built on the street, which were the property of local wealthy families.

It can also be regarded as a kind of exchange of interests for Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng needs their land, and they need to reduce all the land rent from 50% in the past to 30% of the current land rent, and in the future, Li Chaosheng still hopes to reduce it by 10%, and 20% of the land rent is what Li Chaosheng wants.

As wealthy households, they had no land income, so Li Chaosheng changed the law to let them do business, so that their money could be circulated and drive the economic development of the entire Lantian economy.

After all, silver is not in circulation, it is a pile of metal, only when it flows can it reflect its monetary attributes, in order to drive the productivity of the people, how wealth is born, wealth is the struggle of the people.

And money is the catalyst that can mobilize the enthusiasm of the people, if you lose the struggle of the people, then money is meaningless.

Li Chaosheng has been in this world for several years, and he understands a truth, things must be done according to the place, and things that cannot be too leapfrogged, the proletariat, the transformation that Li Chaosheng wants to complete, but Li Chaosheng finds it difficult in this world.

There is no soil for success, and the landlord is not a human being, except for a few who are too ruthlessly exploited, and the rest can be reformed as much as possible, and they can be used to improve their strength as soon as possible.

Lantian County is now a good model, the landlord gave up the interests of the land, Li Chaosheng gave them commercial support, the interests of the land were given to the people, the people had surplus money in their hands, they had purchasing power, at this time the landlord could earn the money back, and at the same time Li Chaosheng could collect commercial tax from the landlord.

What? Emperor Chongzhen did not allow the collection of commercial taxes.

Oh, that's okay, what we collect is not called commercial tax, what we collect is the city tax, shop management fees, urban road finishing fees, and it is not easy to collect individual taxes.

As for the commercial tax, we will not mention it at all, and in response to the call of the imperial court, we will never collect commercial tax.

That's fine, right?

Commercial tax, I have to say, a country does not collect commercial tax, that is pure brain damage, Lantian County is now just starting business, but the commercial tax has been collected up by one-third of the county's total tax revenue, if it is thoroughly developed, it is absolutely no problem to be on par with agricultural tax, and even far exceed agricultural tax.

Eventually, if the economy really grows to that point, it can even be exempted from the agricultural tax, as in the real world, which was officially abolished on January 1, 2006.

This is a sign of a highly developed society, and it is also the goal that Li Chaosheng aspires to.

Lantian County was revitalized by Li Chaosheng in this way, and Nuoda's Lantian County opened its own commercial era, but among the many businesses, Li Chaosheng controlled the most critical points, salt and iron, needless to say, the state stipulates that the imperial court monopolizes, and secondly, Li Chaosheng controls the grain, and now the largest grain store in Lantian is Li Chaosheng's.

In addition, Li Chaosheng set up a grain bureau, which was mainly responsible for distributing grain stamps, and at the same time distributing grain to all private grain stores in the county, with a unified price.

It can be roughly seen that all the grain stores in the county are branches of the Grain Bureau, and all the Lantian grain stores owned by Li Chaosheng are directly operated stores, while other grain stores belong to franchise stores, but the goods are distributed by the head office.

Commercial development, people, continue to build canals, grow grain, now half of the land in Lantian is planted with corn and potatoes, the high yield of these two kinds of food, so that the people in the county have a high understanding.

For these two crops, Li Chaosheng searched for a long time before he found the original corn seed without genetically modified in the real world.

The advantage of this corn seed is that it can keep its own seeds, and it does not need to rely on imported corn seeds, and the disadvantages are also obvious, and the yield is much worse than that of imported corn seeds.

But it doesn't matter, even if the yield of these corn seeds that can be left is slightly lower, but this yield is still high in this late Ming world.

This corn seed was planted by Li Chaosheng on his own land in Tanggou Town, in order to keep the seed.

This is not okay if you don't leave seeds, this future territory is bigger, there are more corns, all kinds of high-yield corn seeds, and in the future, you will be tired to death just by transporting seeds.

And these high-yielding corn seeds are castrated, the first generation grows with big cobs and many corn kernels, but the second generation, the third generation, that is really impressive.

On a big corn cob, there are more than 20 corn kernels, how can one be miserable.

So Li Chaosheng found the original corn seeds, and in the future, he can plant this kind of corn seeds uniformly, so that he doesn't have to pour corn seeds back and forth, but now this corn is only sown in the corn field in Li Chaosheng's Tanggou Town.

And Li Jinli looked at that piece of land a few times, and his face was unhappy, this corn cob grew too small, only two-thirds the size of other people's houses, and the yield was too inferior.

As for potatoes, sweet potatoes can be saved, but the storage time of these two things is not long, and the storage conditions are a bit harsh compared to corn.

Therefore, it can only be used as a staple food for a few months.

However, recently there is a vermicelli shop in Lantian County, which is a new industry, and it is said that it was opened by the county master.

Lantian Flour Mill!

Li Chaosheng saw the house with a big signboard in front of him, walked in, and as soon as he entered the house, the guys in the house greeted him and said to Li Chaosheng: "The county respects you." ”

Li Chaosheng waved his hand and said, "The big guy is busy?" ”

Hearing this, the guy said: "I just received an order for 300 catties of sweet potato vermicelli and 200 catties of potato vermicelli from Yuxian Building, and we are working overtime to make it." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "By the way, how is the business lately?" ”

The guy said: "It's okay, but there are not many people, basically those rich families come to try it, and the poor families don't come." ”

Li Chaosheng didn't think there was anything wrong with it, after all, it costs a lot of sweet potatoes to make vermicelli, although Lantian has a little surplus grain now, but he is not rich enough to this extent.

Generally, it is the rich to try it, but the largest amount is Yuxian Lou, this sweet potato vermicelli tastes very good, it tastes like meat when you put it in the meat, and it tastes like a vegetable when you put it in the dish.

Whether it's a stewed chicken or a boiled cabbage, there is one more flavor in it, and this thing is very fresh, and when it starts to be taken out, many rich people who have seen the world still think it is bird's nest.

Therefore, some people also call this vermicelli bird's nest.

Li Chaosheng asked the guy, and then someone suddenly came in with a pocket at the door, the guy glanced at Li Chaosheng, and Li Chaosheng smiled: "Pick up the guests first." ”

Hearing this, the man stepped forward and looked at the old man with a sack on his back in front of him.

"Uncle, what are you doing here?"

Hearing this, the old man was stunned, looked at the guy and said, "You guys are making bird's nests." ”

The guy was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know what the old man was listening to and smiled: "Yes, but that thing is not called bird's nest, it's called sweet potato flour, uncle, do you want to make some?" ”

The old man nodded when he heard this, and reluctantly took down the pocket behind him and said, "I have twenty catties of sweet potatoes here, you can see how much you can make." ”

When the guy heard this, he looked at the old man and said, "Uncle, we are average, seven catties of sweet potatoes and one catty of vermicelli." ”

"Ah, seven catties of sweet potatoes, this, this is too expensive."

When the old man heard this, he protected the sweet potato in his hand, looked at the guy and said, "Can it be cheaper." ”

The guy shrugged his shoulders and said, "I can't save this." ”

When the old man heard this, he was a little disappointed and mentioned that the sweet potato was about to leave, but as soon as he went out a dozen steps, he turned around and came back to look at the guy and said, "I did it." ”

The guy looked at the uncle, turned his head to look at Li Chaosheng and said, "Cheng, uncle, I will give you three catties of flour for your twenty catties of sweet potatoes." ”

When the uncle heard this, his unhappy face smiled a little more and said, "Thank you then." ”

The guy nodded, turned around and took the sweet potato to the weighing pole, and then Li Chaosheng looked at the old man with a smile and said, "Uncle, where is it at home?" ”

"Languan Town."

The old man said, and after hearing this, Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "Languan Town has a good harvest this year." ”

When the old man heard this, his face cracked, and he laughed: "Thanks to the blessing of the county lord, it is better than in previous years." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "That's good, if it weren't for a bumper harvest year, your twenty catties of sweet potatoes would make three catties of vermicelli, which is a bit ......."

The old man sighed and said, "Loser, right?" ”

Li Chaosheng smiled: "No, I'm just curious, your old man likes to eat vermicelli?" ”

The old man shook his head: "I haven't eaten it." ”

"Oh, you haven't eaten it, you're going to make three catties of vermicelli?"

Hearing this, the old man smiled and said: "Hehe, this year is good, the family has rich food, a few days ago there was a big girl in our village who fled, and our family exchanged fifty catties of corn for being a daughter-in-law." ”

"I thought about our old grandson's family and finally married a daughter-in-law, so I bought ten catties of meat, I heard that this bird's nest stew is the best, I think about it, and I have a card when I go home, isn't it?"

Li Chaosheng laughed when he heard this: "This is the truth, haha......"

Li Chaosheng chatted with Lao Sun Tou for a few words, and then the guy took out the vermicelli and weighed it in front of him, three catties high.

The old grandson took the vermicelli and went home happily, this vermicelli is made in advance by the workshop, so convenient, it can't be made fresh, it's too troublesome to make it, it can be shipped for several days, who can wait for you for several days.

At this time, Li Chaosheng went to the back workshop to inspect it, and when he arrived at the back, several workers were washing sweet potatoes, and after the sweet potatoes were washed, they were directly cut into pieces and put into the stone mill to grind.

After the sweet potato is ground, the sweet potato powder and sweet potato water are put into a large basin, the big pot is very large, and it is full of water, and the sweet potato powder falls into the water, and the decomposed starch is insoluble in water, and sinks directly to the bottom of the basin, and then the water is poured out, and what is left at the bottom of the basin is the primary starch.

That is, the sweet potato starch that big guys usually use to cook.

The sweet potato starch settles out, then wraps the starch in a tofu bun, hangs it on a shelf to drain the water, and dries it.

After the dry starch is formed, it enters the process of making vermicelli, mixes the starch into a paste with water, and then boils the pot, boils water in the pot, and puts a shelf on the top of the pot to prepare for steaming.

Take a large ceramic plate, coat it with a layer of oil, pour some starch paste into the plate, then steam it in the pot for three minutes, open it to see the sweet potato starch become transparent, this is done, at this time, pour a layer of sweet potato starch paste on top of this transparent sweet potato powder block.

Then steam in the pot for three minutes, and so on, and finally you can get a large sweet potato flour cube, then use a knife to cut the flour cube, cut into strips to make vermicelli.

This is the most primitive method of making sweet potato flour, which is used by machines in modern times, and the vermicelli pressed by the machine is round, which cannot be made by ancient processes.

Li Chaosheng looked around and felt quite satisfied, of course, this is judged according to the vision of this era, if you use the ancient vision, it is unqualified.

The reason is also very simple, the sanitary conditions are not good, the donkey grinding, the donkey dung and eggs fell to the ground, and the sweet potatoes are not very clean, but this is not important, it is good to have food in this era, who still picks the sanitary conditions.

Li Chaosheng inspected the circle, was very satisfied with this, and encouraged the person in charge of the workshop, and put forward opinions, after making sweet potato vermicelli, the remaining residue should not be thrown away, and it can be used for pig raising.

The person in charge of the workshop said with some embarrassment at this time: "County Zun, this sweet potato dregs have been taken away, and some people have mixed some cornmeal with this sweet potato dregs to make a kind of cake, which tastes very good and is sold out." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, people can't eat enough these days, and pigs can eat some grass, thinking about Li Chaosheng shook his head and turned to leave.

At this time, to the last stop of this trip, the new firearms battalion.

The new firearms battalion is Li Chaosheng's painstaking efforts in the past year, a battalion of 400 people, all equipped with flintlock pistols made by the Lao Sun Tou craftsman department, this is a trump card of Li Chaosheng, belonging to the battalion directly under the brigade, all flintlock pistols, using quantitative bullets, and the leader Shi Xiaolei.

This unit is a model team that Li Chaosheng will promote in the future, but the production capacity of the old Sun Tou craftsman department cannot be improved, otherwise Li Chaosheng wants the whole brigade to be armed into a firearms unit.

However, now that there is a battalion of troops, Li Chaosheng also feels that he is terrifyingly strong, at least in the face of the Tartars, Li Chaosheng feels that he can win.