1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 224 Death ([-])

"The population of cattle and horses needs to be further expanded." Qi Tian looked at the vast meadow outside Heishan City, where hundreds of cattle, horses and sheep were grazing leisurely. Seven or eight pasture herdsmen rode horses and brought dogs, Calling all around to drive away the animals that ran away.

Most of the cattle and buffaloes were distributed to various townships to help farmers cultivate the fields.Some of the cows and horses in the ranch are young cubs, and some belong to beef cows, dairy cows, and goats. They will provide meat and high-protein nutrition for the people of Hanzhou.

"Don't worry, Chief Manager, the pasture here is rich and there are no large aggressive animals, so it is very convenient to raise." A civil official in charge of animal husbandry said: "In a few years, Hanzhou will no longer have to import cattle and horses from outside. Last year alone, Hanzhou gave birth to more than 60 foals, in addition to more than 90 cattle, and more than [-] sheep. By this year, it is estimated that more cattle, horses and sheep will be born.”

"The large-scale introduction of livestock can be stopped. However, some excellent cattle, horses and sheep populations outside have to be introduced sporadically to ensure that the scale and types of livestock populations in our Hanzhou are more abundant and more diverse." Qi Tian nodded in affirmation The fruits of pastoral work.Reducing the introduction of some large livestock can free up more places for immigrant transport ships and attract more immigrants.

"What are they eating?" Qi Tian saw several herdsmen grab something from the forage and chew it in their mouths.

"Oh, those are bagasse materials transported from the sugar factory in Jianye City. They took the bagasse materials to eat out of greed." A civil official quickly explained that if the chief executive misunderstood that they withheld the herdsmen's rations , that would be bad.

"Sugarcane bagasse?" Qi Tian couldn't help looking at the piles of bagasse mixed with grass fodder, "Does the sugar workshop bring in a lot every day?"

"Several large trucks come here almost every day." The civil official said with a smile: "In the past, they were just discarded in the farmland as field nourishment. Later, the pig farm over there picked them up and chopped them up to feed the pigs. It’s very tasty to eat. Therefore, the ranch here also tried to pull it to feed the cows and horses, mixed some forage, chopped it, and it was really more durable.”

"What a waste!" Qi Tian muttered softly.

He suddenly remembered that sugarcane bagasse can be used to make wine, and it is also a more famous wine in later generations, rum.This wine, with its high alcohol content and strong aroma, is easy to obtain and extremely cheap (using sugar cane sugar residue and its by-products, molasses and syrup).

More importantly, this kind of wine can be put on sea ships as a clean "water source", which can be mixed with drinking water for drinking.

Once the sugarcane juice is squeezed from the cane during the sugar refining process, the stalks of the cane are turned into a useless waste residue containing only a small amount of sugar.In the process of pouring the obtained sugarcane juice into a copper pot for heating, boiling, filtering and evaporating, in addition to producing sucrose crystals, two by-products called molasses and syrup will be produced, both of which contain a large amount of untreated sugar. Crystallized sugar and other impurities.

Sugar cane residue, molasses and molasses can be boiled with water and fermented by yeast to produce alcohol, and then the obtained liquid can be refined and distilled and blended with other alcoholic beverages to become a new type of spirit - rum.

Hanzhou brewed some sorghum wine in October last year, but when it was sold in Batavia, the effect was mediocre.Mainly in the tropics, the natives and western colonists could not accept this high-alcohol and spicy liquor.This shocked Qi Tian quite a bit. It turned out that not all ancients liked baijiu.The only option is to sell sorghum wine to northern Daming, Mongolia, or Houjin in the future.

Since rum was so popular in the West after the late 17th century, why didn't we in Hanzhou brew it first?So much bagasse is actually used as feed for cattle, horses, pigs and sheep. It is indeed too wasteful.

"General Manager, Commander Yu has called you to return to Jianye City immediately!" A cavalryman from the township barracks rushed to the pasture.

"What's the matter? What happened?" Qi Tian's heart trembled, maybe another ship sank, or someone came to beat us again!

"The commander-in-chief is back!" The cavalryman said excitedly: "A lot of immigrants have been brought back!"

Qi Tian was stunned, Cao Xiong is back!He finally came back safely!
"Give me the horse!" After the cavalryman jumped off the horse, Qi Tian jumped up, knocked his feet, and beat the horse towards Jianye City.Several guards who followed hurriedly mounted their horses and quickly followed.

"I'm back!" Cao Xiong looked at the excited Hanzhou left-behind officials, and his heart was agitated.Following the Dutch attack to Luzon, after more than three months, after several battles, they heard that seven Dutch warships were wiped out. Then, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Spanish navy's main force, they resolutely decided to raid Cavite and finally plundered hundreds of warships. The boatman returned to Hanzhou.

Breaking through three town strongholds in Spain, looting a large amount of gold and silver property, capturing nearly [-] Ming servants, and handing over two Spanish merchant ships.But their biggest gain this time is all the shipbuilders and ship design materials in Cavite.In the future, Hanzhou can build big ships and warships by himself!

"Although we have gained a lot, we have also lost a lot." Cao Xiong sighed.During the three-month campaign, 250 sailors and marines of the Hanzhou Navy were killed and 46 were injured, which was the biggest loss in the Hanzhou military operations in the past two years.

"Hold a grand public burial for all the officers and soldiers who died in battle, and build a martyr's shrine to be enshrined and memorialized by the people of Hanzhou for generations." Qi Tian suggested.

Pan Qifeng and other civil government officials were taken aback when they heard this.

"Okay! It should be so." Cao Xiong's eyes lit up, and he said loudly: "They are all good men of my Hanzhou, fighting to the death for the interests of Hanzhou, and deserve this treatment!"

Many Hanzhou Navy sailors and Marine Corps officers sitting here looked at Cao Xiong and Qi Tian eagerly.A man is not afraid of dying on the battlefield, but what he fears is that no one will recognize and pay homage to him after he dies.As suggested by Qi Tian, ​​after the death of the soldiers of Hanzhou, they should enter the Hall of Martyrs and be enshrined by the people for generations. Wouldn't it be that future generations will know the names of our soldiers and why they died! ——
Tan Zhongfu walked to the gate of his small courtyard excitedly with his backpack on his back.

"Ah Fu, you're back!" The neighbor shouted in surprise.

"Well, I'm back!" Tan Zhongfu took a deep breath and said, "I'm back alive!"

"Ah Fu, did you get rich!" Another neighbor asked over with his head.Since the Marine Corps fought in Aceh last year, the people of Hanzhou know that the Marine Corps has made a lot of money and property on the battlefield, which is very enviable.

"Huh?" Tan Zhongfu glanced at the neighbor, but he didn't show any joy because of the captured battlefield in the backpack behind him, "Get rich? Heh..., it's rich. That's what our marines sacrificed their lives for!" Said After finishing, Leng Lian walked into his small courtyard.

"Ah!" At the door of the house, Tan Zhongfu's Persian wife rushed over in surprise when she saw her husband in a blue and black military uniform come home.

In the past, Tan Zhongfu would definitely have pushed his Persian wife away in broad daylight, which would hinder publicity.But at this moment, he hugged his wife tightly, and immediately, his nose was sour, and tears flowed out.

Seeing this scene, the neighbors outside the yard opened their mouths in surprise at first, as if they wanted to say something, but the next moment, they seemed to feel some emotion, shook their heads, and went to work.

"Wow wow wow..." A child's cry suddenly came from inside the room.

"Baby, wake up." The Persian wife broke away from Tan Zhongfu's embrace, smiled, and said in simple Chinese.

Upon hearing this, Tan Zhongfu immediately walked into the house with his wife in his arms.On a big bed, a six-month-old baby was crying loudly with his hands waving.

Tan Zhongfu gently held his daughter in his arms, shaking it from side to side, humming softly, trying to coax the baby to stop crying.

But the toddler was lying in a strange embrace, crying even louder, kicking his calf vigorously.

"Haha..." The Persian wife laughed, walked over to hold the baby in her arms, and said to Tan Zhongfu, "Baby, I'm hungry."

Tan Zhongfu watched his wife feed the young daughter with milk, and sat on the side of the bed foolishly, watching all the time.
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Tian Wu (Sanada Taketa)'s Aceh wife accepted a jar of ashes from a marine soldier with a dull face.She knew that her former heroic husband had turned into this small jar of ashes, and she lost her family again.

The first time was in Jishuiwan City, Aceh, where she was forcibly dragged away from her home by these soldiers in black military uniforms, and then she was loaded on a boat to this Hanzhou, which she had never heard of.

Not long after, as a kidnapped woman, she was assigned to the man who always behaved like a soldier and became his wife.After living peacefully and comfortably for a year, after she gave birth to a baby boy for him, everything was resigned to fate.It's actually quite good to live in this peaceful place with my husband.

However, last September, her husband left in a mighty military uniform.He said that he will come back soon and bring back many gifts for himself and his children.

Yes, he's back, turned into a jar of ashes, back.

"You can mention any conditions and difficulties you have, and we will do our best to help you complete it." A Marine Corps officer stepped forward and said sadly.

"I... want him." Tian Wu's Aceh wife murmured, "I want him...to live."

The Marine Corps officer had a sore nose and bowed his head silently.Today, he has delivered ashes to the families of five or six Marine Corps officers and soldiers who died in battle. Some cried bitterly, some shouted frantically, and some wept silently.

Of the more than 200 officers and soldiers killed in battle, except for a few dozen who had no relatives, all of them lost sons, husbands, or fathers.

(End of this chapter)