Infrastructure masters in the red building

Jia Fang inspected various industries and infrastructure in Taoyuan Village, and then came the two Shengli New Villages.

Previously, the literary and artistic work of Shengli New Village was very colorful, and heroes of the Cuju League emerged, but at its root, the task of the two Shengli New Villages was to farm the fields.

The first village of Shengli was allocated paddy fields. According to Lao Shao’s instructions, the paddy fields reclaimed had three rice crops before they came up. In the first year, they tried two rice crops and also raised rice flower fish.In addition to paddy fields, Shengli No. [-] Village also planted a large area of ​​oil crops, mainly soybeans.When the soybeans are harvested, Yicun cleans up and prepares for oil extraction.

The second village is dominated by dry land, and the main crops are sweet potatoes and cotton.The local people in Cotton have seen it, and the people in "Jinhua" are secretly happy, thinking that after this, they will finally have local raw materials.

Sweet potatoes are the first time everyone grows.Neither the villagers of Taoyuan Village nor the villagers of Shengli Second Village have ever planted it.Even the most well-informed Lao Shao had never planted this kind of thing himself.

But since it was Jia Fang who spoke, everyone ignored Sanqi 21 and planted all the seedlings according to Lao Shao's "theory"—the first batch of seedlings was harvested very quickly, and the harvest was less than two months .

When harvesting, the villagers looked dumbfounded at the tubers dug out of the soil:

It's just a few seedlings, how come so many harvested?

However, there have always been rumors in Taoyuan Village that the seedlings sent by Mr. Jia will grow very fast in the first crop.Everyone was dubious about the results of the "sweet potato" planting. After re-cultivating the second batch of seedlings, they were planted on all the reclaimed dry land.

This time the planting cycle was extended a bit, but the sweet potatoes dug out of the ground still frightened all the villagers - among the officers, soldiers and the transformation subjects, there were farmers who had planted the fields for several years, and they were familiar with all the crops in this area.The rice yield per mu of those paddy fields in Taoyuan Village is scary enough, and the sweet potatoes dug out from the ground almost crushed the donkey carts and mule carts that came to harvest.

But this sweet potato, how to eat it?

The villagers in Taoyuan Village have always had experience in trying food.Soon, they tried various methods of steaming, boiling, stewing, and frying, and found that the sweet potato can be made in a variety of ways, and the taste is always sweet and delicious.

However, Jia Fang gave Shengli Ercun a way to make "sweet potato starch".

When the villagers in the second village were trying to produce sweet potato starch, they happened to catch up with Jia Fang who came to inspect, and immediately showed their results to Jia Fang.

After the villagers harvested the sweet potatoes from the field, they first soaked the sweet potatoes in a large basin to wash away all impurities such as soil and residual leaves, and then sent the sweet potatoes to be crushed.

The crushing of sweet potatoes is done by animal power. Two mules circle around a shredder similar to a stone mill, but this shredder is equipped with multiple teeth in advance to crush the washed sweet potatoes into slag. .

The sweet potato dregs are sent to continue soaking. After soaking for a period of time, they are filtered. The thick white juice that soaks out is the starch puree, and the filtered sweet potato dregs.

At present, the sweet potato dregs produced in Ercun are usually sent to the biogas tank for biogas retting, but Jia Fang knows that these sweet potato dregs can actually be fermented to make wine, and the fermented waste dregs can be sent to pigs.It's just that he still needs to study and study the process of fermenting and brewing wine.

After the starch puree produced is precipitated, dried and dehydrated, it is sweet potato starch.Seeing that the sweet potato starch produced here is not pure white, but slightly yellowish, Jia Fang felt rather satisfied.

After all, the sweet potato starch produced in his time and space is all snow white, but it is hard to say whether it is the addition of bleach or the quality of the sweet potato starch itself is so good.

"Master Jia, what can you do with this sweet potato flour?" The villagers in the second village asked Jia Fang in unison.

"Have you tried it?" Jia Fang has always encouraged the villagers of Shengli New Village to explore by themselves, and usually does not give answers directly.

A group of villagers looked at each other: "I tried it! I came to ask you because it didn't work."

"We add water to the sweet potato flour and heat it up. The sweet potato flour will automatically become mushy. It can't be shaped, and it can't be eaten. It feels like a soft ball, not chewy at all..."

Jia thought at ease: Of course there is no "gluten", because it is all starch.

"Have you eaten the Furong chicken slices fried in the cafeteria today?" Jia Fang asked everyone. "Sweet potato flour is used there."

The samples of sweet potato flour have been sent to the cafeteria dedicated to Shengli New Village. The chicken slices in the cafeteria are specially added with sweet potato starch to thicken it. The fried chicken slices are extra smooth and tender. It tastes different from the past .

"Really?" the villagers scratched their heads and asked Jia Fang, "It seems that today's chicken slices are indeed... pretty good."

For these rough guys, someone else delivered the extremely delicious delicacies to them. I am afraid that these people will chew on it without taste. While chewing, they wondered: Why did Master Jia ask us to make this sweet potato starch?

"Okay, besides adding a little bit of it when cooking, this sweet potato starch can be used for other things." Jia Fang finally saw through their rough nature and planned to show them the real "sweet potato flour". So I asked a woman from the Sancun canteen to show them the operation.

I saw that the woman was extremely dexterous, first measured some sweet potato flour, added a small handful of flour brought from the north, and then stirred it with boiling water to form a thin white gravy.These sauces are then added to the remaining sweet potato flour, and all the flour is kneaded into a large dough.

The dough ball scalded with boiling water was steaming, but the woman’s hands seemed to be completely unafraid of being scalded. She stewed the dough ball in the steamer for a while, then took it out, and stuffed it into a bamboo tube coated with oil. In the bamboo tube, one end of the bamboo tube is pressed with a bamboo pestle, and the other end of the pre-drilled hole is immediately pressed out countless translucent vermicelli.

Another woman quickly helped wrap these long vermicelli around bamboo poles and set them up to dry.When the vermicelli is slightly dry, take it off and cut it into sections, throw it in the pot and scald it, then take it out. In addition, put the sour soup boiled with tomatoes in advance, add a spoonful of spicy pepper and a small spoonful of minced meat , Passed to the villagers who lined up to stream Halazi.

"This is hot and sour noodles!" Jia Fang also got a bowl, and explained to others while eating.

"This kind of powder is dried and stored in a dry and cool place. It can be stored for a long time. When cooking, soak it in water and cook it in the pot. It can be used with sour soup, red soup, and clear soup. You can add spicy or not. , can be served with chicken, fish, meat, and vegetables, in a word - 'all-match'."

Having said that, Jia Fang still has some regrets. After all, the hot and sour noodles are not made from sour bamboo shoots, and he didn't add snails to it when cooking. Otherwise, wouldn't he even make snail noodles?

The most important thing in making this sweet potato flour is to make the flour a little "gluten", otherwise the flour will be as soft as the villagers said earlier.

One way to make gluten in the noodles is to add alum, but alum is an unhealthy additive known to Jia Fang, so it was rejected.In the end, the sweet potato flour was added with flour transported thousands of miles from the north, and the cost was quite high. Fortunately, the portion needed was not much, and there was not much money spread on each bowl of sweet potato flour.

Jia Fang thought: In the future, when he solves the transportation problem between the north and the south, the problem of sweet potato flour will be solved naturally.

Shengli Xincun produced sweet potato flour, and Taoyuanzhai also produced rice flour. The production method is quite similar to sweet potato flour.

Jia Fang thought while rambling about the powder: the product is manufactured, but the proportion of labor is still relatively high, the main driving force is animal power and manpower, which is still far from the large-scale automated flour milling process he imagined.It's just that such a goal can't be achieved until he gets enough steel, makes a boiler, and makes temperature control equipment.

At this time, the sound of horseshoes suddenly sounded in the distance.The sound of hooves was like torrential rain, at first it was far away, but in a blink of an eye it came to him.Jia Fang held the bowl and looked up, seeing a group of cavalry reining in front of him.

The eldest prince jumped off his horse and asked, "Why are you eating every time I see you?"

Jia Fang: ...is there any?

He hurriedly ordered: "Give Your Highness a bowl too! Add more spicy peppers."

Only then did the eldest prince smile contentedly, threw the whip to his subordinates, sat beside Jia Fang himself, patted his brother on the shoulder, and said, "You finally came back safe and sound."

Jia Fang heard His Majesty mentioned his elder brother's behavior after hearing that he was attacked, he was grateful, nodded and said: "I'm fine, thank you Your Highness for your concern."

The eldest prince's dustpan-like fist lightly beat Jia Fang's shoulder, and said: "You and Xiao Shui had an accident in Beijing that day, did you encounter the same firearm as the second child? What's the specific situation?"

Jia Fang had no choice but to explain what happened to him in Beijing, as if he had explained it to Jia Amnesty, and then disappeared into the water Xianyuan.

The eldest prince frowned more and more as he listened, finally sighed, and said: "I hope it is indeed as you said, there are only two such firearms—"

He pointed with his fingers: "Lianzhu arrows, magic arm bows, thunderbolts, whirlwind cannons... These are enough for people, now there is another firecracker that spews fire at every turn—"

When the first prince said this, he stopped suddenly and said, "Second brother, second child..."

When it comes to the prince, both of them are not in a good mood.Jia Fang didn't say much.But luckily the first prince's bowl of noodles was ready, and it was handed over to the first prince with a delicious smell, and the sour smell penetrated into his nostrils.Physiology immediately prevailed over psychology, the eldest prince took the fan, and immediately started chatting about the fan just like Jia Fang did earlier.

After eating a bowl of noodles, the eldest prince felt that he should put aside the past and look forward.He immediately asked Jia Fang: "You met the emperor before you left Beijing? Did you know that I came to Pingnan camp for training?"

Jia Fang nodded.

This has always been doubts in Jia Xin's mind, so he asked quietly: "Could there be war in the south? So Your Majesty asked you to come to the south to train soldiers in the Pingnan Camp?"

The eldest prince nodded slightly: "After many years of management by the emperor, Rong Guogong and I, the western army has become like an iron plate, and no one can shake it. But the south is different..."

Jia Fang asked, "Does it have anything to do with King Nan'an?"

The eldest prince smiled slightly: "It's hard to say."

Jia Fang understood immediately.The eldest prince finished his powder, sat comfortably, and asked Jia Fang honestly and bluntly: "The [-] footballs I asked you to make last time, have you made it?"

Jia Fang: "Almost."

Now that I have mastered the processing method of natural rubber, football is not a problem.Jia Fang said that he could also give the eldest prince a natural rubber pillow.

"Very good. I want to ask you for someone else, will you give it?" The eldest prince asked, "I want to ask you for Nanyongqian. The main reason is that before leaving Beijing, the emperor called me to give orders, saying that you were here The south has done a lot of work, let me learn more from you. Not only do you want to organize the training and farming of the Pingnan Camp, but you also need to get rid of the Zhangtian in the nearby counties... Yes, it is you The set that was tossed last year."

Jia Fang thought, but Nan Yongqian wasn't the main force for what he did last year?It's just that Nan Yongqian and the First Prince should have stayed in the same trench before and got to know each other better, so the First Prince had no choice but to beg Nan Yongqian.

"Of course there is no problem. If His Highness needs it, you can invite Mr. Zheng." Jia Fang thought for a while and said.

The eldest prince immediately breathed a sigh of relief, with a happy expression on his face, he stretched out his hand and patted Jia Fang's shoulder heavily: "My dear brother, I accept your favor—that's it, Zheng Nan, I want both!"

Jia Fang smiled wryly: This is indeed an adult and does not do multiple-choice questions.However, he really doesn't have any urgent matters that need the help of Zheng Nan and the two of them. Letting the two of them go to Pingnan Camp to take care of it will also allow Wu Yuan to have more contact with Pingnan Camp.

Both Zheng Boyi's government affairs and Nanyongqian's military affairs are well handled.

The two brothers finished their business discussions, and sat side by side stupidly, looking at the green hill opposite the second village.The mountain looked very close to him, but in fact, at the speed of the First Prince running a horse, he would have to run for at least half an hour to reach the foot of the mountain.

The eldest prince's subordinates had already taken his horse away. The famous horse under his seat was extremely delicate and must be taken good care of.

But the eldest prince squinted his eyes and remembered something, and asked: "Lao Liu, there is one thing I don't understand all the time."

"You said that your riding skills are not as good as mine. I also asked Nan Yong before, and he said that your riding skills are really not good."

Jia Xinxin gave Nan Yongqian a compliment: a good subordinate who dares to tell the truth.

"But why did you return to Beijing before me that time? Faster than me?" The eldest prince was puzzled.

Jia thought at ease: Because he cheated.

So he deliberately kept things a little secret: "His Royal Highness, can you promise to keep it absolutely secret and never tell this matter?"

The eldest prince slapped Jia Fang on the back, and said angrily, "What's the point? You don't know how I am?"

Jia Fang guessed that this person would have such a reaction, so he leaned in and whispered something in the other person's ear.

The eldest prince was surprised and uncertain: "You mean, you mean—"

Jia Fang nodded: "Indeed."

The eldest prince immediately beamed with joy: "So it's not that I can't ride well!"

Jia Fang: ...Of course not.

The eldest prince asked, "Does the emperor know about this?"

Jia Fang continued to nod: "I know. This time, after meeting His Majesty in Beijing, His Majesty once mentioned you, so I dared to tell you that I knew about it."

The eldest prince pondered for a moment, then turned his face and looked at Jia Fang with a smile: "Well, you Jia Fang, you actually kept it from me for so long."

"However, you don't have the permission of the emperor, so you don't dare to talk nonsense. Come on," the eldest prince patted Jia Fang on the shoulder, "this time you have intentions. I will stay near Wuyuan for a day or two, so naturally Come with you to see and see, that magical ancestral hall..."

The reason why Jia Fang wanted to tell the eldest prince the secret of "shrinking the ground whip" was because this secret had already been spread in Taoyuan Village, and many people knew about it.Looking back, the First Prince heard about it from others, and I'm afraid there will be some grudges in his heart.

Ever since he knew that Shuixian's industrial base was capable of producing all kinds of rails and copper and iron products, the person Jia Fang most wanted to win over was the First Prince.Looking at the center, the eldest prince is the most enthusiastic about the track, and also one of the people who is most worried about the appearance of firearms.

In the future, if transportation channels are to be established on this vast southern land, the military can definitely become an important customer for him.

In addition, protective equipment used against firearms, such as body armor, is also time to start thinking about it.

On another day, Jia Fang took the eldest prince and quietly went back and forth between Taoyuan Village and Beijing.When the eldest prince felt the hot and dry weather in central Beijing in Daoxiang Village, which was very different from that in the south, he was so surprised that his eyes widened.

"Lao Liu, if you can use this as a channel to use troops, wouldn't my cavalry in the south become a cavalry that can enter Beijing at any time?" The eldest prince sighed.

"Not exactly," Jia Fang pointed to himself, "The main thing is, this passage must require me to be there, otherwise, if someone else comes, it is absolutely impossible to cross three thousand miles in an instant."

The eldest prince looked at Jia Fang, knowing what kind of role this youngest brother had made up his mind to become - without Jia Fang's consent, even a single soldier would not be able to enter Beijing through this passage.So the eldest prince nodded proudly, and said: "There's nothing much to do in Beijing, Lao Liu quickly take me back to the south."

"For some reason, I want to spoil a bowl of noodles again." In front of Jia Fang, the eldest prince took the lead on the road back to Taoyuan Village.