74. Syrup with sorghum
Condolences to a circle of barracks.
Zhang Qi was very satisfied with the spirit of these servant troops under his hands.
After dozens of days of rigorous training, they are now bloody soldiers.
The subtext of loyalty in this day and age is food, money, power.
It just so happens that these Zhang Qi can satisfy them, and they can also give a set of particularities that others can't give.
'True' faith.
The monthly 'Advent Day' allowed Zhang Qi to completely implant the majesty of the gods in the hearts of all the people under his command.
Tangible miracles are more convincing than the ethereal legends of the past.
One hand of reward, the other hand of faith.
Under the double comfort of material and spirit, it is not difficult for Zhang Qi to imagine what kind of combat effectiveness these people will burst out in future battles.
Two or three days went on in a row.
The farmland in the 'Sotai Village' in the Riding and Chopping World has also matured twice.
Zhang Qi went in after the first sorghum ripened.
The sorghum field of Qi Rengao is very spectacular, and the average of 200 acres of field brings him 500 catties of sorghum ears.
The income from 200 mu is nearly 100,000 catties of sorghum rice.
Zhang Qi was shocked, this was almost close to the yield per mu of the era he lived in before, although the close value was very low, but it was far more than the yield per mu of all crops during the Han and Hungarian periods.
You must know that in this era, the output of one acre of land can reach 200 catties is fertile land, and those that can reach 300 catties are merciful by God.
And Zhang Qi's output of the world's 'Suotai Village' farmland has exceeded twice that of the outside world.
I just don't know if these sorghum rice can be grown in the outside world and can achieve such a high yield.
Zhang Qi didn't know, he had to wait until the beginning of spring to take a piece of his own land and then plant it.
If these sorghum can still achieve high output value in the outside world, let alone 500 catties, as long as one mu of land can produce more than 300 catties, he can laugh half to death.
Sottac's farmland has produced nearly 100,000 catties of sorghum rice, and the most important sorghum is not 'ears'.
It's the rod and the leaf!
Two hundred acres of land, the average one acre of stems and leaves more than 10,000 catties, and 200 acres of nearly 2 million catties!
This is a good source of green storage.
It was only at this moment that Zhang Qi clearly understood why sorghum could save a country in that special era.
Grow it, it's a good deal!
Unfortunately, the full maturity of the sorghum takes away most of the sugar in the sorghum stalks, and the sweet stalks at this time are not sweet at all, and even the water is not much left, so it can only be used as green storage.
But the two million catties of Qingchu, you let Zhang Qi take it out, it was a dream, and he didn't have so many dinars if he sold him.
I can only stay in the riding and chopping world, and see if the market collects it, if the market does not collect it, then these two million catties of stems and leaves can only be used as firewood.
Unfortunately, the market doesn't want these things that are worth more than the garbage on the robbers.
After harvesting the first batch of sorghum, Zhang Qi immediately planted the second batch.
If Zhang Qi still wants to know the yield of the first batch of sorghum, then he does not need to wait for the second batch of sorghum to mature.
He asked for a sweet rod.
It is used to make sugar and speed up the physical recuperation of those soldiers in the outside world.
Sweet rods are used for many purposes, whether they are used to make syrup or make wine, they can obtain a lot of yield, and even the residue after use can be used as raw materials for papermaking.
So after the twentieth time after the second batch of sorghum entered the farmland, Zhang Qi reappeared.
With wolf cubs and craftsmen, 1.8 million catties of sweet stalks and more than 200,000 catties of sorghum branches and leaves were harvested.
The sugar boiling began.
Zhang Qi had already asked those craftsmen who came to the world of riding and chopping to build pressing equipment, and they also built the juice press on the drawings drawn by Zhang Qi.
Two cylindrical iron columns are fixed to a single rack, and the linkage of gears and animal belts allows them to run in two different directions at the same time.
This is the simplest juice press, as long as you keep shaking the handle, this machine can keep rotating and squeezing the sweet rod.
With the equipment, Zhang Qi is non-stop leading people to squeeze juice in the world of riding and chopping.
After nearly two months of intermittent riding and chopping time, Zhang Qi and the others squeezed the sweet rod of more than 1.8 million catties into sugar water.
With a wooden barrel that can hold 200 kilograms, it filled more than 4,000 barrels.
Nearly 800,000 catties of sugar water, of course, the sweetness of this sugar water is not high, Zhang Qi has tasted it, there is only a trace of sweetness, just like boiled water mixed with white sugar.
It also needs to be processed and boiled to get syrup, and if 800,000 catties of sweet water can produce more than 100,000 catties of syrup, Zhang Qi will be very satisfied.
Syrup is not white sugar, it cannot be cured, it is just a viscous sugar solution.
Perhaps there was a process in Zhang Qi's era that could convert syrup into solid white sugar or brown sugar, but Zhang Qi was unable to do it at present.
After spending more than ten days riding and slashing the world, Zhang Qi looked at the viscous and ruddy slurry like honey in the pot and let out a sigh of relief.
During this time, he worked with several craftsmen to research, and finally found a set of processes that can be used to make sugar.
The conversion ratio of sweet water to syrup is almost twenty catties out of one catty, which is already the highest sugar ratio that Zhang Qi and the others have figured out.
When all the sweet water was boiled into syrup, more than 800,000 catties of sweet water brought Zhang Qi 40,000 catties of syrup.
Although it was far less than the expected 100,000 catties, Zhang Qi was also satisfied.
Because he found that the market for straw that can be used as green storage material is not collected, but the syrup is in the market, and it can be sold for 100 dinars per catty.
It seems that the NPCs in the world of riding and slashing also love candy.
In the yurt, Zhang Qi appeared in the outside world with five buckets of 1,000 catties of syrup.
More than five months in the world of riding and slashing, less than six days have passed in the outside world.
This thousand catties of syrup with the weight of the wooden barrel cost Zhang Qi more than 110,000 dinars.
Small money, not worth mentioning!
Now Zhang Qi has two profitable businesses in the world of riding and chopping.
Strike iron, boil sugar!
As this has been going on for nearly two years, Sogar's blueprints have been produced more and more, and a two-handed sword he has now built can sell for five or six thousand.
And the newly produced syrup can also be sold at a high price of 100 dinars per pound in the market.
Hachin's caravans are already busy, and there are traces of her caravans in all corners of the continent, and Zhang Qi can bring more than 100,000 dinars of income a day on average, deducting the salary of the troops, Zhang Qi is now riding and chopping the world with more than 130,000 dinars a day, nearly 2 million a month.
It's not that Zhang Qi's math score is poor, it's that Hachin also needs time to come back to replenish the stock, and by the way, it also takes some time to recover the funds from the towns of the world.