Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

The old palace was bulldozed overnight, and people in Minzhou were spreading rumors that a new king was sent from above, and that Nanyue was about to change hands.

"The new king is coming, I'm afraid our food tax will not be reduced or exempted?"

"It goes without saying that in the past, General Kou saw the sufferings of the people and reduced or exempted the grain tax every year so that everyone could have a meal. This prince came from the capital, and he was raised by a golden nest and a silver nest since he was a child. Experience the hardships of the people, besides, he still has to rely on South Vietnam's taxes to live, and it will cost a lot of money just to build this palace."

"Hey, the good times of the common people are coming to an end. I heard that King Shun used to be the prince, but he was relegated to South Vietnam because of rebellion. It's no wonder that such a villain without a king and father can treat the common people well."

"Shut up, it sounds like you are living a good life, and you dare to say such things, don't die."

"What are you afraid of? I heard that King Shun only brought a few servants here, and he even borrowed them from General Kou's mansion. If you want me to tell you, General Kou should just lock him up in the mansion and give him food and clothing. Just don’t come out and harm the people.”

"This is a good idea. Anyway, he is an unfavored prince. As long as he is left alive, the superiors will not care about it. I don't know if General Kou will dare to do it."

Li Xu took Liu Shu to sit at the next table to eat, and while eating, he listened to everyone's bad words about him, but he didn't feel angry in his heart.

But he was not angry, but Liu Shu was very angry. He wanted to lift a chair to hit people several times, but was persuaded by Li Xu, "Don't be angry, this is what they really think. If it were you and me, it would come suddenly." A king with an unstable temper will definitely not be happy."

"They are too presumptuous. Despising the royal family is a serious crime, and it is not an exaggeration to ransack the family and exterminate the family."

"Come on, there are only so many people in Nanyue, and if you kill them here and there, who will do things for me to make money." Li Xu is really not afraid of being said, he airborne to this poor place, because of his noble status, he is destined to be divided. Taking a piece of South Vietnam's pie, if it is a cruel and fatuous king, who regards human life as worthless, bullies men and women, and imposes taxes and corvees, the lives of the people will be difficult, so it is no wonder that they will use the greatest to speculate on him.

"Hmph, if people like this don't make money for them, they'll starve to death."

"Don't be narrow-minded. When your highness leads them to make a fortune, they will want to confess me."

Li Xu comforted the annoyed little assistant, and said to him: "Go and call that Guo Fu over, I have something to tell you."

"The slave has gone, you are not safe here alone."

Li Xu pinched his face, "It sounds like you can protect me, do it quickly, He Zun is nearby."

Not long after Liu Shu left, he came back, followed by a thick-headed young man, who should be Kou Xiao's Deputy General Guo. He heard that he was Kou Xiao's confidant, but he was willing to lend it to Li Xu.

However, based on Li Xu's villainous heart, Kou Xiao probably wanted Guo Fu to monitor him, lest he cause trouble in South Vietnam.

"See my son, you have something to do with a humble job." In the chilly spring weather, Guo Fu was wearing only a single cotton shirt, and he looked like a young man full of firepower.

Li Xu nodded secretly, this young man knew that he couldn't reveal his identity outside, so he seemed quite clever.

"I'd like to ask Deputy General Guo for help with a little matter." Li Xu asked Liu Shu to pay the bill, led Guo Fu out of the restaurant, and asked as he walked, "Does Xiao Guo know where I can order stone mills?"

Guo Fu tried his best to adapt to the rustic title of "Xiao Guo", and then looked at King Shun, who was younger than himself, but he didn't dare to correct him. He asked, "What kind of stone mill does the young master want to grind chaff the kind?"

Guo Fu had seen someone grind the husks from the husk into powder, which can be used as food when there is a shortage of food. Although it is rough and unpalatable, it is better than starving.

Li Xu had never seen a stone mill here, so he asked him to take him to see it. After seeing it, he was a little surprised. This kind of stone mill can already be used to grind soybean milk to make tofu. With a little modification, it should also be used to squeeze sugarcane juice.

Li Xu asked Guo Fu to find a craftsman to order ten large stone mills. Each stone mill should be about one meter in diameter. When it is placed in the juice extraction workshop, a lot of sugarcane juice can be squeezed out in a day.

Guo Fu was very puzzled by his behavior. He felt that King Shun had strange ideas, strange behaviors, and strange words, which could not be understood by people like him.

The strangest thing is that the palace he built doesn't look like a place for human beings to live in at all. There are big empty rooms with light from all sides, and there is no bed or wardrobe. They are nothing to look at except for shelter from the wind and rain.

Fortunately, he doesn't need to understand Li Xu's thoughts, as long as he completes the things he explained within his ability, and the simpler the task, the more time and effort he saves. The most important thing is to save money. General Kou has repeatedly explained that if there is any He must agree to a large expenditure.

However, it is not difficult to make a stone mill. There are quarries in the suburbs, and the stone and wood are free. As long as the craftsman carefully grinds it into a disc, and then the carpenter makes the tray and axle, it will be completed quickly and will not cost a lot of money.

Guo Fu readily paid the deposit and told them the delivery address. Seeing that Li Xu had nothing else to do, he diverted to the military camp.

As soon as he entered the barracks, soldiers surrounded him to inquire about King Shun. After all, he was the master of Nanyue, and everyone was really curious about him.

Guo Fu ignored him and went straight to report to Kou Xiao. Hearing that Li Xu was going to make ten large stone mills, the other party couldn't figure out his intention, so he muttered, "What are you doing?"

On the other hand, Lei Yang has already purchased a warehouse full of sugar cane these days, and spent only a small amount of capital. The busy farming has not yet started. Everyone heard that someone bought sugar cane, and the whole family went to cut sugar cane to sell, and then they took it Just a few villages filled a warehouse.

Li Xu went over to check it out, picked out some unusable bad sugar cane, and asked Lei Yang to continue to buy them, but the quality should not be too bad, otherwise it would not be worthwhile for a bad sugar cane to stink a pot of sucrose.

On the day the stone mill moved into the palace, Li Xu couldn't wait to go over and try it out. He asked someone to pull a cart full of sugarcane, peeled off the skins one by one, and put them into the holes of the stone mill, and asked a strong man to pull the stone mill. As soon as the work started, Li Xu knew that the stone mill he made was not suitable for squeezing juice.

In the absence of machines, sugarcane can only be squeezed into juice, and this kind of stone mill that moves up and down is obviously not very easy to use.

Li Xu took a pen and paper, drew a simple drawing, and changed the stone mills to be placed in parallel on the left and right. When the left stone mill moves, it will drive the right stone mill to form pressure, and press the sugarcane in the middle to squeeze out the juice. Come.

Lei Yang couldn't understand his drawings, so he cautiously suggested: "My lord, do you want to press out the sugarcane juice?"

"Correct."

"There is a sugarcane bed in a certain family that you can try. The women in the family like to drink sweet juice on weekdays, so the craftsman built a sugarcane bed out of it."

Li Xu said with interest: "Go and try it." He believes that the wisdom of the ancients is just a simple juicer, and it will definitely not trouble them.

After the sugarcane bed was moved in, Li Xu tried it himself. The whole wooden sugarcane bed was shaped like a bench. The sugarcane was squeezed out of the juice through the principle of levers. The effect was good, but the efficiency was too slow, and he was so tired. Khan only squeezed out a bowl of sugarcane juice.

Li Xu asked Guo Fu to find a craftsman to redo the juicer according to his drawings, "Tell them, if they can make one within three days, I will give them a hundred dollars."

Guo Fu glanced at the blueprint, the structure is very simple, and the craftsman must be able to understand it, but he looked at Li Xu hesitantly, and wanted to ask if you still have money to reward?After thinking about it again, it was only a few hundred dollars, King Shun should not be so poor.

Seeing the ten large stone mills lined up in the room, Guo Fu asked heartbrokenly: "My lord, are these ten stone mills not usable? Do you want someone to carry them out and throw them away?" It cost more than one tael of silver to build them. Big guy, it took a lot of effort just to carry it in.

Li Xu rolled his eyes at him, "What are you throwing away, such a good thing is very useful for me to keep."

"Where is the newly made stone mill?"

"Isn't there a big room vacant up ahead, let's go to that room."

Guo Fu really couldn't understand the purpose of placing these things in the house. A home is not like a home, and a workshop is not like a workshop. It's weird.

Li Xu circled the stone mill, called Lei Yang over and asked, "Brother Lei, do you have beans at home?"

Lei Yang was asked unclearly, "Yes, yes, the lord wants to eat beans?"

"Bring as much as you have, and I will cook something delicious for you to taste."

Lei Yang dubiously asked people to go home to fetch the beans. During the waiting time, he specially reminded Li Xu: "My lord, I feel bloated after eating too many beans, and my stomach feels uncomfortable. You..."

"Don't worry, wait for the things to be finished." Li Xu saw that he couldn't do anything for a while, so he took people to visit the palace. This palace was remodeled according to the factory's specifications. There are workshops, warehouses, and employees The cafeteria and office, from the outside, look like big, boxy rooms.

No one would believe that it was the palace. There are spacious empty rooms, some with utensils that they don't understand, and some with more than a dozen large pots and stoves buried, which is very strange.

"This is the workshop for making brown sugar. It is very simple to make sugar from sugarcane. The squeezed juice is boiled continuously to remove water, then filtered, and finally boiled into a thick syrup, and then shaped with a model. The brown sugar is made. .”

This method sounds very simple, anyone can do it, Lei Yang can't wait to verify it immediately.

"However, today we will use it to make tofu first. After a few days, the sugarcane juice will be squeezed out before cooking brown sugar." Li Xu is already eager to try it. He wants to eat tofu nao, mapo tofu, and stewed tofu.

Half an hour later, servants from Lei's family brought over a hundred catties of beans. Li Xu arranged for someone to clean the beans and soak them in a large wooden barrel. "The beans need to be soaked for several hours before they are ready for grinding."

Lei Yang asked puzzledly: "Why do you need to soak water when beans are ground into noodles? After soaking in water, what will be ground?" He used his imagination and asked uncertainly: "Is it soybean milk?"

Li Xu nodded, "That's true, but to make the delicacies that the king wants, you need to prepare other things." Because he didn't want to make tofu immediately, Li Xu didn't prepare the ingredients, and now the beans are soaked. The things that should be prepared should also be prepared.

In addition to the dozens of cauldrons, Li Xu also asked people to buy a few bolts of fine gauze, and then the most important gypsum. He was going to make water tofu, which had a high success rate and was tender and smooth. It should be popular with the public.

In modern times, some people like soft tofu and some like hard tofu. It’s hard to say what everyone likes. Li Xu has preferred soft tofu since he was a child, especially freshly cooked tofu nao, and it must be salty tofu nao with sauce added.

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small theater:

General Kou: "I worry every day that the prince will ruin his family."

Li Xu: "Every day is a day of hard work and hard work."

Guo Fu: "My lord, do you have money?"

Li Xu: "Get out!"