The autumn breeze was already cool, but the sugar factory behind him was in full swing, but there were bursts of warmth.

Xia Changyan heard Lin Banxia's prevarication, and said disapprovingly: "Now the official Miss Lin is a countryman, and she is the owner of the sugar factory, brick kiln, and charcoal kiln.

Every morning and evening, people come to talk to you, is it possible that you have been in the courtyard in the winter? ”

What Xia Changyan thought in his heart was that every time I came, I didn't have a place to sit.

Lin Banxia said with a smile: "I arranged a reception room in the sugar factory. ”

Xia Changyan tilted his head, "You want to go to the sugar factory every day?" ”

Lin Banxia said naturally: "At first, I was going to go, and after everything went well, I didn't have to go very diligently." ”

Said and said half-jokingly: "Anyway, the sugar factory is also the first project that His Highness and I have collaborated on.

His Royal Highness has every opportunity, and he is the largest proprietor, and I, the second proprietor, am idle, and I should ask more. ”

"The first one?" Xia Changyan immediately grasped the point.

Lin Banxia laughed: "There is another idea, it is still an idea for the time being." ”

Xia Changyan stood still and turned to look at Lin Banxia.

Lin Banxia also stood down: "I heard the housekeeper say that this piece of land in the north is the fief of His Highness. ”

Xia Changyan nodded: "Yes, my father named me the king of Zhenbei, and the three northern counties are all fiefs for me." ”

Lin Banxia said: "Since Your Highness came to this fiefdom, how do you feel when you see the vast land in the north, Your Highness's subjects?" ”

The corners of Xia Changyan's eyes narrowed slightly, looking at Lin Banxia, and also seeing the mud house and thatched roof behind Lin Banxia, an idea that he felt ridiculous rose in his heart.

"The land in the north is vast, but there are four distinct seasons of the year, and only one crop is produced in the fields. And the winter is long, and the time when the land freezes is full of five to six months.

When the year is good, you can still have a full stomach, but if you encounter a natural disaster, the people will not be able to make a living. ”

Lin Banxia nodded: "Master also once told me that the Northland is rich in resources and has a large population, and the farmers are all hardworking and willing to work.

But what you pay in a year, after deducting taxes, you can only barely make ends meet. Once encountering natural and man-made disasters, they will go bankrupt and even sell their children and daughters.

Although the farmer is based on farming, he must not only rely on the output of the land, but also use this output. ”

Xia Changyan nodded slightly: "Therefore, another teacher invented tofu and also researched sorghum straw pressed sugar juice." ”

Lin Banxia said: "Yes, Master said that what he thinks and studies is the most basic, and it is less than one-ten-thousandth of what nature gives back."

And if all this is to be implemented, it needs to be leveraged. And this person who can borrow strength cannot only see wealth in his heart, but also have a heart and a valley, and can take the well-being of the people as his own responsibility.

Don't hide it from Your Highness, the straw squeezes the sugar juice, so that the sugar is refined, I have a lot of selfish desires in my heart, in exchange for money, if I can get the protection of His Royal Highness, let my father and mother live better.

However, His Royal Highness made tofu to the heavens, and spread the recipe for making tofu all over the world for free, so that all people's livelihoods could add a delicacy to the cold and cold in the future.

This open-mindedness for all the people in the world makes me admire. ”

Xia Changyan couldn't help but be embarrassed when he heard it.

He dedicated the tofu recipe to his father, where did Lin Banxia say it so beautifully.

But Lin Banxia is right about one thing, that is, he has never had the idea of keeping the tofu recipe for himself and using it to make money.

He will not take money from the mouths of the people.

"Therefore, the sugar factory is the first project to cooperate because it can turn sorghum straw into treasure. But this second one, I'm still hesitating. ”

Lin Banxia took a few steps forward, facing the vast farmland outside the village.

"Is it right to take food from the mouths of the people on the premise of being full?"

Xia Changyan's gaze moved with Lin Banxia's figure, and also followed his gaze to the vast farmland, and then fell back to Lin Banxia's body.

"Miss Lin, the people who take food from their mouths, can refer to ......"

Lin Banxia said: "Your Highness can know that soybeans can not only be made into tofu, but also can be refined from oil. ”

"Grease?" Xia Changyan was surprised.

"Yes." Lin Banxia turned around and looked at Xia Changyan, "I have already drawn the drawings, and there are still processes that I haven't figured out." Is Your Highness interested? ”

Lin Banxia went around in circles for a long time, and greeted Xia Changyan for a while, in fact, just for this sentence.

When the two returned to the courtyard of the Lin family, the Wang family had already prepared the meal, which was hot in the pot, and when they saw the two of them coming in, they were ready to put the meal on the table.

Lin Banxia said to wait for a while, then went into his room and picked up a stack of papers from the table.

I heard the mother outside busy making tea, and said: "Lord Wang, our family will be fifteen years old after this year." ”

Xia Changyan answered something, but she didn't hear clearly.

Wang laughed again: "In our village, fifteen is the eldest girl, or if you don't talk about your in-laws, you will be laughed at." ”

Lin Banxia shook his head and pushed open the door: "Mother." ”

Wang turned his head, then turned to Xia Changyan and said, "Lord Wang, look at it, don't let me mention it yet." ”

Lin Banxia walked over and put a stack of papers on the table: "Mother, Your Highness is busy, so you don't need to talk to Your Highness about these trivial things." ”

"How can it be a trivial matter, you kid ......" Wang looked at the stack of papers that Lin Banxia had brought over, and did not say any more.

Lin Banxia spread out the paper, pointed to the picture on it, and said: "The soybeans are crushed first, heated in steaming, pressed into soybean cakes, and then pressed, and then the oil can be produced." ”

Lin Banxia took another bean, smashed it flat with a small hammer, padd it with rice paper, smashed it a few more times, and then opened the rice paper:

"Look, it's not steamed, it's got an oil print. This proves that soybeans can be pressed to produce vegetable oil. ”

Xia Changyan stretched out his hand to take the rice paper, glanced at it through the sunlight, and sniffed at the end of his nose.

"I want to give it a try. It is not yet known how much oil soybeans can produce. The key is that the harvested soybeans can allow us to take out how much soybean oil can be pressed without affecting food and clothing. ”

Xia Changyan put down the rice paper, picked up a stack of paper drawn by Lin Banxia, and looked at it carefully.

The drawings are too simple, there are no renderings, and there are no annotations on the side.

I remembered that Lin Banxia had never entered the school, and he didn't know how to read, and although he gave the copy, he had no one to guide him.

In the past few days, I heard that I followed the charcoal kiln to guide the firing of the so-called activated carbon, and I also personally participated in the design of the sugar factory, and discussed with the potters what to go to the water.

But he said: "Soybeans are hard, and hardwood is not good, so I have to consult with a blacksmith." ”

I had an idea in my heart, "The village and the city are still far away, and it is not easy for craftsmen to come to ask for advice when they encounter problems in the production process." ”

He looked at the Wang family, "Aunt Lin, how about you accompany Lin Xiangjun into the city for a few days?" ”