Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 391
According to the formula submitted by Feng Daiwen, Li Shimin asked the scientific research institute to conduct an experiment. After frying the wheat flour, add frosting sugar, goat milk powder, and lard to make it look like a lump. When necessary, brew it with boiling water for a while. Eating it, although the taste is not very good, a little weird, but it does not weaken the body.Whether it is used as military rations or food, it is excellent.

Dried noodles are directly fried and cooked, and simple instant noodles come out. They are also brewed in boiling water and added with salt. It is a cooked food, and the most important thing is that it is easy to store and transport.

Prepared food is at least better than delivering wheat directly.

After deliberation, Li Shimin decreed to establish an instant noodle workshop in Xianglin County (Linyi), and at the same time increase the transportation to Tianzhu in exchange for Tianzhu's grain, gold and silver.

Supply points have been established in the South China Sea, making travel very convenient.

Now Lingnan is already a very rich place, especially Jiaozhou and Guangzhou. Jiaozhou is the largest population concentration place, and it is also the largest production base of grain and canned fruits. The largest and most numerous salt farms are also here. In shipyards, although steam ships have appeared, wooden ships have not stopped making.

At present, there are more than [-] large ships from Lingnan to Nanyang, Linyi, Jiangnan, Chang'an, Liaoxi, and Wodao Road. It can be said that there are ships coming and going every day.

Guangzhou is the port established from this, and it is also one of the two frost sugar production bases, the other is in the south of the Yangtze River.

There are already more than 1000 large fish-fighting boats made by Lingnan. Now it can be said that people who can ride the boat without getting dizzy are all recruited by the fleet. Navy sailors, transport sailors, and fish-fighting sailors all need to recruit a lot of people. .

Now the fish caught by Bohai Bay, Lingnan, and South China Sea in western Liaoning every year is comparable to the food output of a state road, which enriches the lives of the common people, so that the common people who have spare money can still eat some seafood.

Lingnan artificially cultivated pearls and kelp technology are very mature, but the output is not large, which is also a feature of Lingnan and has not been announced to the public. This is also because of the output.

The output is not high, and it is better to plant the land if it is announced to the people. If the quantity is too large, the price will not be able to sell. This is common sense. Now, as a Lingnan specialty, it is slightly more expensive, which everyone can accept, and it also gives the local people an extra income. .

Jiangnan has finally demonstrated its potential. The three-season rice is fully rolled out, and every household has surplus food, fruits, vegetables, and seeds provided by the government. The front and back of the house are full of plants, and poultry is raised, especially chickens, ducks, and geese. There are many.

Professional farmers were also born from this. A small landlord originally only had a few tens of acres of land and a few tenants. After planting three crops of rice, fruits, and vegetables a year, I found that there is too much food. After paying the tax, there is still a lot of surplus, which is enough for the whole family to eat for two or three years, and it will increase next year. I can't help but Happiness troubles arise.

Originally, I wanted to sell the excess grain for money, but due to the bumper harvest, the price of grain in the market has dropped significantly, and it hurts to sell it.

Maybe you will say that the price is lower, why not sell it, the government has been buying it, this is also because the people are poor and afraid, and finally have surplus grain, where they are willing to sell it, pay taxes, and save the surplus.

Of course, they will not be buying. Although the government is buying, the price is compared with the market price, and the inspection is strict.

As for the merchants, although they are also buying, but of course the harvest will lower the price now, and now the merchants prefer to buy other valuable items. As for food, the price is not high, and the transportation is troublesome. Few people buy , because now Datang does not allow grain to be sold domestically, which is stricter than iron control.

So this little landlord named Zhu Youcai had an idea and started to raise a large number of poultry. After hearing that there was a mountain villa in Chang'an for interplanting, he spent half a year studying there. After returning, he hired a few Turkic people.

Taking advantage of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, he diverted a small river along his land for a length of three miles. All of them were raised with fish, lotus roots, ducks and geese.

After three years of development, now there are tens of thousands of ducks and thousands of geese, and the number is still increasing every year. It has already become a well-known large breeder.

Under his leadership, several nearby villages followed suit. Now, Zhu Youcai has also established a workshop to make duck eggs and goose eggs into preserved eggs, and the meat into bacon, which are exported to Southeast Asia. Foreign businessmen come to buy duck feathers and goose feathers, which are excellent materials for making down jackets.

Now in winter, the imperial family and nobles don’t like to wear cotton-padded clothes. Underwear made of cashmere, down jackets made of duck down, and coats made of high-quality fur are the symbols of status.

Wool sweaters and cotton-padded clothes are the favorites of ordinary people. As for poor-quality cotton-padded clothes, they are all worn by captives.

The structure in western Liaoning is relatively simple, with fisheries at the port, coal mines, and iron mines, plus the agricultural seed cultivation base that has now spread to Youzhou.

Liaoxi grain, unless it is a new variety, is exchanged at a ratio of one to two. Every year, all old varieties are exchanged at a ratio of one to ten. One catty of grain is exchanged for ten catties of refined grain. Not everyone can get it, almost They are all exclusive to aristocratic families, and the common people use the seeds left over from the first year.

After more than four years of continuous cultivation, perhaps because of the extremely cold climate in western Liaoning, Cui Ping and his colleagues have actually produced cold-resistant winter wheat.It is planted before winter in the first year, and it will mature at the end of May of the second year.

Although the growth cycle has become longer, more of the vacant land in winter is used. After harvesting, one season of beans can still be planted.

Not only will beans not rob the land, but it will help to fertilize the land. The most important thing is that the yield of winter wheat has not decreased, and the taste is slightly better and stronger.

After Ma Zhou wrote a letter to Li Shimin, Cui Ping became the first person to be conferred the title of Marquis because of agriculture. The title—Nonghou, it can be said that a simple title can make him famous in history.

After Datang occupied the new city, they only strengthened their defenses and did not attack Goguryeo because of this, but they still made Goguryeo choke, feeling uncomfortable, and did not dare to take the initiative to attack, for fear of arousing Datang's anger. In the next attack, they could only comfort themselves. Datang's occupation of Xincheng was just revenge, so there was no increase in troops, only 3 to [-] people guarded.

Yuan Taejo finally listened to Eulji Moondeok's suggestion and asked Yang Wanchun to preside over the first-line defense of Liaodong City, while Yuan Gai Suwen retreated to Anshi City as the second line of defense, and at the same time it was convenient to support the front and contact the rear.

(End of this chapter)