Soon, the maid Xiaoyun came in with a bunch of materials, and Pando's tobacco almost covered her small body.

Seeing this, Xu Chuan hurriedly got up and took the tobacco leaves from the panting little girl.

"Why are there so many, didn't you say that buying a little is enough?"

Xiao Yun said with a flushed face: "I didn't spend any money, young master, these are all sent by those villagers." ”

"Sent?" Xu Chuan asked in surprise.

"Well, except for some spices, the others are all sent, there are the Lin family, there are the Zhao family, they heard that it is the young master who wants to buy Baku, no matter what you say, they don't charge money."

The little girl nodded vigorously, and took out the unused broken silver and returned it to him.

Xu Chuan smiled, didn't accept the broken silver, and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Xiao Yun, I'll ask you for help later." ”

Xiao Yun put the broken silver on the stone table, looked at a large pile of withered leaves curiously, and asked, "Young Master, do you want to smoke this too?" ”

"No, I'm going to process this, and then use it to sell it for money, believe it or not, I can sell these things for at least ten taels of silver." Xu Chuan replied with a smile, leaned over and began to sort out the tobacco leaves.

Although he didn't know the specific processing method of tobacco, he had never seen a pig run or eaten pork.

Many things are open and transparent in modern times, although the details are not known, but some of the general processes are still a little impressive.

Of course, Xu Chuan didn't know much, he only remembered that tobacco processing seemed to need to be dried, baked, and fermented.

As for the specifics, he didn't know.

However, this is enough, compared with the people in the three areas who directly dried the tobacco leaves and rolled them together and smoked them, the taste of the tobacco that has been dried, roasted and fermented will definitely be completely different.

Not to mention that it can be compared to modern smoke, but it is definitely more mellow than the smoke of this era, and it will not be so spicy.

On the side, the maid Xiaoyun watched curiously as Xu Chuan handled the tobacco, not knowing how to deal with these things in order to sell them for a sky-high price of ten taels of silver.

That's a year's living expenses for ordinary people.

After looking at it for a while, she reacted in a daze and came over to help.

"Less.... Master, how to deal with this? ”

Xiao Yun took a piece of dried leaves and asked nervously, these things can be sold for ten taels of silver in the young master's mouth, in her opinion, they are unthinkable, if they are not dealt with properly, they will be destroyed and it will be over.

"Just snap those petioles off."

Xu Chuan held a tobacco leaf and demonstrated how to break off the petiole of the tobacco leaf and throw it aside.

He remembered that the tobacco seemed to be made by shredding tobacco leaves, so the petiole should be useless, and the petiole shredding was also very thick, and adding it would affect the taste.

"Oh, is that so?" The little girl looked at it once, then pinched off the petiole according to the scoop, and then handed it to Xu Chuan.

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Yes, wash these leaves after pinching, and then dry them in the shade." ”

Xu Chuan didn't know whether the tobacco leaves needed to be washed in the modern tobacco industry, but he had to wash the tobacco leaves at the moment.

If you don't wash it, you can't do it, it's covered with dust, fine gravel and the like, if you don't wash it, you can cut it directly, and the knife edge will collapse for you.

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The two of them worked, and it was still very fast to deal with.

In a few moments, a large pile of tobacco leaves on the ground was processed.

Washed and dried, the tobacco leaves are placed in different barrels and fermented in different rooms.

Some rooms will open doors and windows for ventilation, some will close doors and windows, and some will put two basins of water inside to maintain a certain humidity.

Xu Chuan also didn't know the conditions and days of fermentation of tobacco leaves, so he could only use the classification and comparison method in chemistry to do experiments, so that he could find out the one with the best taste, and then he could record it for mass production.

After handing over the production record data of tobacco leaves to the maid Xiaoyun, Xu Chuan came to the barracks again.

Under Ji Liang's arrangement, the captives had already begun to work.

The captives and the guards worked together to flatten and fill in the uneven areas of the barracks, and both sides were in full swing, but one was willing and the other was wearing anklets.

Xu Chuan took a look and found that in addition to the town guards, there were many other residents who were also helping to build the barracks.

The news of the first victory of the town guards has spread, and many people in Sanzhi Town who have completed the sowing of late rice have taken the initiative to come over to help after hearing that the military camp is going to be built, and the progress has been accelerated a lot.

Because they see hope, the hope that the grain they grow in the future will not be robbed, and the day when they will no longer be harmed by bandits.

It has only been a little over a day, and the site of the barracks is full of various materials such as wood, loess, and mortar.

Xu Chuan smiled, found Ji Liang, who was also working, pulled him out, and the two sat together in a shady place.

Ji Liang wiped a handful of sweat droplets from his head, and asked with a smile, "Nephew Chuan, is there something wrong?" ”

Xu Chuan glanced at the hot barracks and said some of the methods he had thought about in the past two nights about the training of the town guards.

There are 50,000 or 60,000 people in the Sanzhi area, but there are only more than 2,000 town guards, and the number of large bandit forces entrenched in various places is often three or four thousand, and even the bandits of a smaller force have a large number of several thousand, which is extremely unfavorable for the town guards.

Xu Chuan referred to the concept of special forces in later generations, and proposed to Ji Liang that a part of the people come out to form a special team.

The main role of this special team is to be responsible for reconnaissance and monitoring, always pay attention to the movements of nearby bandits, report in time if there are signs of large-scale invasion of bandits, and think of all means to hinder the progress and attack of bandits.

For example, digging traps, guerrillas, using poison, fire, water, and so on, as long as they can be used, they can delay the progress of the bandits and give the large army time to react.

He demanded that the special forces abandon all morals and ethics of this time and achieve the best results with the least strength and losses.

Hearing these new concepts, Ji Liang was stunned, although he led the guards to fight all year round, he never thought that there was such a means to be used.

However, Xu Chuan's ideas and theories also made his eyes shine and suddenly brightened.

"The key now is, who will lead this special squad?" Xu Chuan casually picked up a small stone from the stone on the ground and threw it out, then continued.

"The tasks and training of the special squad will be much harder and heavier than the normal town guards, and the people who lead this squad must be familiar with the nearby terrain and mountains and forests, and even have a certain understanding of the distribution of bandits."

When Ji Liang heard this, he thought about it and said, "I have a good candidate." ”

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