In Xiaqiu Village, when the fourth new well was laid, the time entered the wax moon.

Everyone wears thick clothes, and at the moment the night sometimes drops to zero degrees Celsius, and the day is only about 10 degrees Celsius.

The fish were gone, the loaches were gone, and the villagers were flushed.

The remaining pigs are reluctant to be killed, and they want to raise them until the New Year to eat the New Year pigs.

Zhu Wentian saw that the fat and protein were gone, this is not good, the weather is cold and does not carry the cold.

"Selling rock candy?" Zhu Wentian thought of a way.

Today's local sugar in Daming is mostly brown sugar, and white sugar is called foreign sugar, which is now imported through the city of the Yangtze River estuary, called tribute.

The official buys and sells with foreigners, and ordinary people will not be allowed to wait for next year.

Then he said that the city was too close to the capital, so he moved it to Zhejiang.

The foreigners who came to trade were bad, and they didn't give Daming the technology of how to get white sugar and rock sugar.

After a few decades, Daming himself developed the sugar decolorization technology, began to grow sugarcane frantically, and became a white sugar export powerhouse.

Anyway, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't see that day in history, it was too far away.

Zhu Wentian thought about it, and began to worry about how to sell sugar, Xuancheng's brown sugar, that is, brown sugar 22 wen a catty, rock sugar 390 wen a catty.

The little girl only bought a few small pieces, otherwise why would she be angry and cry after knowing how to make rock candy?

She regretted that she had spent more money and was ignorant.

Thinking of the little girl crying miserably at that time, Zhu Wentian laughed heartlessly.

Turning his head, he went to find the lieutenant chief, but he couldn't help it, so he asked others.

Along the way, I met the chief at the craftsman's house, and the chief led a group of people to make buckets out of bamboo and buckets for carrying water.

In preparation for the next year's drought, there are places where water cannot be directly flushed, so you have to carry water, or oxen help carry it to the side.

"Hanhan is here, wait, I'll cook you an egg to eat." When the mother-in-law of the craftsman's family saw Hanhan, she got up to cook eggs.

"No, don't eat, hehe!" Zhu Wentian waved his hand and shook his head.

The other party ignored it and continued to cook.

Zhu Wentian squatted beside the chief: "Sugar, sell, eat meat, hehehe!" ”

The lieutenant looked at him and frowned: "Rock sugar!" This one...... How to sell it? ”

The lieutenant chief was also worried, first bought a lot of brown sugar, went back to the village and turned it into rock candy, what excuse did he use to take it out?

The commercial tax is nothing, thirty taxes and one can be paid as usual.

The people who made the bucket together looked over one after another, and they all knew that the price difference between brown sugar and rock sugar was more than ten times.

It means that there are countless people who are thinking about it, and they all want to know the way.

If you hand it over, the people in your own village will be reluctant, and if you don't pay it......

"Captain." One of the villagers who helped suddenly spoke up: "Let's buy brown sugar in Xuancheng and sell it in Taiping Mansion, just say that we came from the sea along the Yangtze River and bought it from the city." ”

"Yes, Captain, let's sell it once." Another followed.

Li Chang patted his thigh: "Okay! The family took out the money, plus the money of the village minister, and did it once. ”

"Uh-huh! Hey, hey, hey! Zhu Wentian expressed his support, more than ten times the price!

Under the order of the chief, the villagers took out the money one after another, took as much as they wanted, wrote it down, and when the sugar was sold, they would pay the minister fifty-five cents according to the previous method.

Someone handed over the heirloom jewelry, went to the Xuancheng pawnshop to work, and redeemed it after earning the money.

The next day, four cars were sent out of the village, and most of them were protected by manpower.

The oxen should also pull the cart and walk slowly, without running wildly.

The jewelry was taken first, and with the money he scraped together, the chief had 55,200 wen in his hand, negotiated the price with others, and bought 2,600 catties of brown sugar.

This is the hope of the whole village, and with a little money left, Zhu Wentian asked him to buy alum.

There is a loss of brown sugar turning into rock sugar, make a little less and eat it yourself, without adding alum, and it is difficult to bear the loss if you do too much.

It's not good to eat too much alum, but Zhu Wentian doesn't worry about others eating hard, it's money.

In the past, I used to use fried fritters, but later I said that the ban was not completely banned.

The people cheered up and hurried home.

It wasn't until the second quarter of the first month that they arrived at the village, and all the people in the village ran out to help carry it.

The people who went went to bed quickly, and there were people who stood guard at night, but they couldn't be gone, and the whole village was counting on the sugar to live.

The next morning, everyone had a full meal and began to work according to Hanhan's command.

Nine days were spent in a tense atmosphere, and 2,000 catties of rock candy and some remnants were produced.

"Li Chang, the block of rock candy is bigger than that sold in Xuancheng, and those rock candy have no line."

There were villagers who went to Xuancheng to deliberately look at rock candy and found a problem, and their eyes brightened.

Zhu Wentian didn't say anything, God knows how people make rock candy now.

It is recorded in "Heavenly Creations" that bamboo pieces are put in to help crystallize.

The rock sugar that comes out is divided into five grades, which are: stone mountain, group branch, urn jian, small pieces, and sand foot.

These five grades are from good to secondary, just look at the name, the bigger the better.

"We have to pay for the rock candy in our village." The eldest son thinks that it is not cost-effective to sell it at the same price as Xuancheng.

"Go to the place to see the local rock sugar situation and price, sleep today, and get up early tomorrow to hurry." Lieutenant took a deep breath.

When Zhu Wentian saw it, he hurriedly spoke: "Many, many, many, shovels, shovels, sacks, uh-huh!" ”

"There are cattle in the village, but there are no cars, so I didn't have time to build them, so I had to borrow an empty car, so I sent the leftover things from boiling sugar to other villages, and drove the cattle to the local cart and came back."

The lieutenant continued to believe in the village guards, and Han Han asked him to bring a lot of carts, shovels, and sacks.

The villagers took the cattle and scattered them to borrow a car, which did not require money, and it was not a cattle rental.

***

On November 22, there will be eight more days into the wax moon.

Twenty vehicles were dispatched from Xiaqiu Village, and one hundred people set off with tools and headed north.

It was supposed to go west, directly to Wuhu.

If there is a boat, the transportation volume is greater by boat on the Huangchi River.

Just go to the west, close to the village, afraid that others will know, go to the north and turn west, is Dangtu County, the seat of Taiping Mansion.

Now there are many cars, and the cars are just loaded with everyone's food and drink, and forage for mules and cows.

After rushing for an hour and a half, Zhu Wentian shouted: "Ah! This, stop, uh-huh! ”

"What's wrong with Hanhan?" The lieutenant turned his head to look at it.

Zhu Wentian jumped out of the car with a shovel, dug and dug on the ground, dug a few times and squatted to grab a handful to see, and sniffed: "Hey, hey, hey!" Earth. ”

He smiled happily and finally found it.

At his time, this place was called Zang Han Village, a small village.

He asked to bring a cart and a shovel sack over for the sake of the present soil, which is called peat and peat.

Peat can be burned, he is not ready to burn, another use is to grow seedlings, rich in nutrients.

He wanted to use the peat to cultivate seedlings, and this time he came over to pull some first, to see that the distance was not very far, and then sent more cars to load it.

The lieutenant chief followed to the side, squatted down and grabbed a handful: "The soil is good!" We can't find it in our village, so let's go first and come back. ”

"Hmmm! Okay, hey, hey, hey! "Zhu Wentian is already used to role-playing, and he is becoming more and more proficient.

The others followed and looked, confirmed, good soil.

The team re-embarked on the road and arrived at Dangtu County, the seat of the Taiping Mansion, at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Everyone didn't care about eating, they were worried about rock candy in their hearts, and they went to ask the price.

When they came back to look at each other, someone whispered: "Four hundred and twenty wen is a catty, and the big one is four hundred and fifty wen, and the largest one is not as big as ours." ”