Chapter 049: The Value of Syrup

The Wu Dynasty established the country by force, and in the three hundred years since the founding of the country, the military system has long been detailed.

The battalion and the guard are independent, the difference is that the battalion belongs to the royal family, and the guard belongs to the martial arts.

The specific level is divided by the number of prefix words, the single word is the highest, the double word is second, the place name, the race is the first again, and the miscellaneous number is lower.

Under the camp and guard, there are thousands of households under the single word, and only 100 households are set up under the double word, and the rest is the flag arrangement.

Long Wuwei belongs to the miscellaneous guards, this kind of guards can govern up to nine hundred households, and the regular soldiers shall not exceed 950 people, counting the auxiliary soldiers and logistics, the total number of people cannot exceed 1,300 people.

The Kulun camp is the same as that of Long Wuwei, except that the inner library of the Kulun camp is enshrined.

"Cullen, Xibe, is the only alien race that has been independently established at present!" Li Yanting couldn't see the equation's face, but looking at the silence of the equation, he couldn't help but explain.

"Independent?"

The equation still had something related to the birch tree in his mind, but he asked in his mouth.

"Independent camp, is the highest reward of the Wu Dynasty to the alien race, after the battalion owner takes office, generally add the title of the third earl, the clansmen enjoy the same treatment as the warriors"

"Now there are more than four million foreign races in the active Wu Dynasty, divided into three, six and nine classes, the first class is only Kulun and Xibe, one duke of each of the two clans, three marquis of the lineage, and the second class is the birth of Jurchen, Sark, Wuheng Xianbei, but the number of these three clans accounts for half of the alien races, and the rest belong to the third class!" Li Yanting explained.

"The Anshi Rebellion broke out because of foreign races, and all dynasties were prepared for this, but this dynasty is superior to military merits, and it is still used for prevention!" Xiaohu added.

"The Jurchen can only be regarded as second-class?"

I don't understand the equation, I don't understand it very much, although history has changed, but the general development process of the Jurchen has not changed, if he remembers correctly, in history, Kulun was a Jurchen subordinate, and was screamed by the Jurchen wow wow wow wo

"Military merit is real, but if you want to be knighted, you have to rely on luck, if you are not lucky, what is the use of being strong?"

Perhaps the explanation was not intuitive enough, Xiaohu sighed, "The problem of Li Guang's difficulty is not only in the Wu Dynasty, but also in all countries!" ”

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Also, after all, the war is still a "blind war", and the battle weight is far higher than the cold weapon era of strategy, and if you are not lucky, let alone a Li Guang, Li Guang may not be able to get the opportunity to be knighted.

"Don't mention these, how Kulen is already in the past, these birch trees they planted are the future!"

"Birch? What does this mean? ”

Li Yanting was puzzled.

Birch trees, which the Cullens planted wherever they went, were larger than the birch trees on both sides of the road, near the homes where the Cullens lived for a long time.

If the birch represents the future, why hasn't anyone discovered it before?

"Let's go to the camp first, and I'll tell you the answer later!"

The equation stopped talking, bowed his head and continued on his way.

Compared to what he had already thought of, he had to verify that as an otaku who had to rely on the wilderness to sleep before going to bed, the birch tree removed the role of wood, and he had another value, the supplement of wilderness sugar.

Birch syrup is a slight natural sugar found in nature.

The history of Kyushu is different from that of China, but the productivity has not changed much, which is equivalent to the Southern Song Dynasty, during which the price of sugar fell due to shipping, and now the price of sugar fell due to the development of Jiaozhi.

But no matter how the price of sugar falls, it will not be beneficial to ordinary people after all.

The rice of the Wu Dynasty, because the Song people had a plan to maintain it all year round at the average of eight wen money per bucket of rice and seventy wen for one stone, but the Song people did not let go of the sugar, one hundred and forty wen for gray sugar, and eighty wen for starch sugar.

Caramel can be extracted from rice flour, but because it is a Chinese medicinal material, although the price is low, no one wants to buy it.

Ordinary people want to taste the sweetness on weekdays, so they wipe their mouths with caramel sugar, but who is willing to buy gray sugar during the New Year's Festival?

One pound of gray sugar, two stone rice!

I feel distressed when I eat the equation, let alone others.

But the appearance of the birch tree, if used well, will completely solve the problem of sugar shortage in the Wu Dynasty, sweet eating is the essence of human beings, the price is expensive and you can't afford to eat, but this is also relative.

If the Wu Dynasty can borrow birch syrup to lower the existing sugar price by one percent, the Song people will forever lose control of the Wu Dynasty sugar market, and the market north of the Yellow River will all fall into the hands of the Wu Dynasty.

And what needs to be done now is to clarify the acceptance of sweetness by martial artists.

The sugar content of birch sap is too low, only a few percent, and the sweetness is only the kind that is tasted.

In the previous life, there were two ways to increase sweetness, slow evaporation, or supplemented with industrial sugars such as glucose.

The latter doesn't have to think about it, if you can really get glucose, you can just sell glucose directly, why bother selling birch syrup, so it can only be through evaporation, and the extent of evaporation has become the key.

Sixty catties of raw juice can be steamed out of a catty of high-sweetness syrup, but this ratio is not good, how to really do it, the output is small and the price must be high.

Sugar is still a luxury, turning birch syrup into a more luxurious commodity, who are you going to sell?

Only high-quality and inexpensive dimensionality reduction strikes are in line with the interests of the equation.

Therefore, the evaporation ratio must be found, in terms of the equation, this ratio is best controlled within ten to one, but can the sweetness of ten to one meet the martial arts?

If you're not sure, try it!

After the trial, the equation still needs to be investigated, the scale of birch planting in the territory of the Wu Dynasty, so as to form a complete set of things.

Compared with other benefits that are given up by the equation, the benefits of birch syrup, the equation also accounts for one percent!

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If you think about it, the cold is not so intuitive.

Follow the large army all the way into the Longwuwei camp area.

The camp was silent and cold, completely different from the lively scene imagined, a tent like a yurt was set up on the ground, and it was difficult to see anyone outside the large army except for a few guards.

"We're late, Long Wuwei's main force should have all entered the mountain, I'll go through the formalities, Yanting, you take Mr. to move your body first, and I'll be fine right away!"

It was dark and the camp was sheltered from the wind, but the winter chill could not stop it, so it was necessary to get into the tent as soon as possible and light the campfire for the night.

"Xiaohu, you can distinguish the birch tree, then do you know how to get the birch sap?"

Jumping off the horse with support, the equation asked while moving his whole body.

"Sir, do you want to drink birch sap?"

"Don't drink it, but I need the amount, a lot of juice!"

The Kulen people, who are also very old fishing and hunting people in history, live further north and have a very normal habit of drinking birch sap.

But the way to drink directly from a high fire is really unacceptable.

Xiaohu thought for a while and proposed, "This is a bit difficult, birch sap is generally in late spring and early summer, and it doesn't mean that there is no winter to get it, but it takes time and experience, and it definitely can't be done today, so it's better to wait until you get to Emerald Lake?" ”