This land was contracted by me [farming]

Winter went to spring, and as soon as the weather warmed up, Fang Zhongyuan set off for the Mutual Market Supervisor.

Zhao Keran stopped after sending him outside the city, Fang Zhongyuan touched his tears, feeling very reluctant in his heart.

"Go, Mr. Xiancheng. You need to recruit more businessmen from the west for us in Jingyang, so that I can also make some achievements, so that I can get promoted and make a fortune!"

Zhao Keran's words were playful, his brows and eyes were crooked, and he was beyond handsome.Washed away a lot of melancholy when parting.

Huo Yuan stared at it for a long time, until Zhao Keran withdrew all his thoughts from Fang Zhongyuan, then he hurriedly looked away and looked straight ahead.It was as if they had never seen each other before.

After Fang Zhongyuan left, the magistrate of Jing'an personally sent someone to deliver the letter of appointment.

Jingyang is coming to the new county magistrate.

It was Tanhualang in the first year of Ding'an, who had been banned from using him because he had offended the family.

Emperor Ding'an didn't want to annoy the aristocratic family, but also didn't want to regret a Tanhualang in vain.

In the end, Jingyang's vacant post of county magistrate solved Chu Wenjue's dilemma.

As soon as the issue of Tanhualang's fate was resolved, a guard reported that something was wrong with Zhao's residence recently.

"When the tender bamboo just grew, the Zhao family began to buy a large number of them. In addition, there are various barks, and they need to be named."

Chu Wenjue paused, wondering why the Zhao family acted so strangely.But he still waved his hand to signal him to back down, without explaining anything else, "I got it."

The Zhao Mansion is very large, Zhao Wenyu and his son picked a yard that was not very used and modified it for papermaking.

According to the papermaking method provided by Zhao Keran, it is divided into bamboo paper and leather paper.

Bamboo paper is made of bamboo, and skin paper is made of bark.

To make bamboo paper, you need to use young bamboo and soak it for more than a hundred days.

Take it out and beat it and finish it. The shape after finishing is similar to that of ramie.Then make an emulsion with lime, pour it into the green bamboo scorpion, and cook for eight days and nights.

When cooking, seal the edge of the pot with clay and lime.After cooking for eight days, take it out after stopping for one day, and rinse it in water.

The rinsing pool must not be dirty. After washing, pour it into the plant ash water to soak, and then spread the remaining inch of plant ash.

After repeated boiling for more than ten days, it can be mashed into mud and poured into the papermaking tank.

The water in the paper tank is three inches higher than the bamboo pulp, and the paper potion juice made from peach and bamboo leaves can be added to make the paper white and flawless.

The paper-making curtain can control the thickness of the paper when making paper.If it is light, it will be thin, and if it is heavy, it will be thick.

When the paper is stacked with tens of millions of sheets, a wooden board is pressed on it.Tie the rope and squeeze the water tightly with wooden sticks.

Then lift the paper one by one with tweezers.Placed on two walls made of adobe bricks.

There is a fire channel in the middle of the wall, and the hot air can dry the wet bamboo paper when it is heated, and the finished product is peeled off after drying.

This is fine paper.

If it is rough, you don't need to consider whether the rinse tank is clean or not, and you don't need to add paper syrup.Just press it dry and put it in the sun to dry. This kind of paper can be used as fire paper instead of burning silk for ancestor worship.

Bamboo hemp can also be added with straw to make wrapping paper, but this paper is extremely rough, but it can be produced in large quantities.

If the paper is to be used for calligraphy and painting, it must be soaked with alum first, so that the paper will not fluff.

After soaking alum and adding flower juice of different colors, paper of different colors can also be made.It can also be called Huajian.

Vellum paper is made from tree bark, and the process is the same as that of bamboo paper except that the raw materials are different.

Vellum can be selected from mulberry bark, wood hibiscus, and mulberry bark.

The characteristic of leather paper is that it is strong and difficult to tear.Among them, the hibiscus flower juice is added after the hibiscus is made, which is colored.

Vellum paper can be made faster than bamboo paper. After Xu Wenwu learned that what Zhao Keran gave was the method of making paper, he was so shocked that he didn't fall asleep.

In the head of this little county magistrate, how many ways are hard to find in the world!

Although it is said that the gun hits the head, but now only the emperor can hit the Zhao family.

However, the emperor would not reject "paper". In order to let the common people know that the Zhao family made paper, Zhao Yunhe also spent a lot of thought.

He used colored flower paper as letter paper, and some of them added petals of the same color, which looked very pretty.

During the papermaking process, as Zhao Keran said, some papers that are soft and unsuitable for writing are produced.These paper manufacturing processes are simple and require little effort, and the output is considerable.

According to Zhao Keran's secret letter, it is called toilet paper.Used to replace toilet chips.

After making a batch, he thought about it.I still contacted Xu Wenwu and asked him to sell them in Zhenbao Pavilion.By the way, I helped to promote it, saying that the Zhao family made paper.

We must let Fengyang, everyone knows that he wants the emperor to come to him to ask for these papers.

...

While waiting for the new county magistrate in Jingyang, Zhao Keran first waited for the seed hunting caravan he sent out years ago.

The caravan brought back a lot of seeds, some of which Zhao Keran had never seen before, and only belonged to Dayuan's crops.

The leaders all said that going out this time was an eye-opener. It turns out that there are so many things that have never been seen in the world.

Zhao Keran nodded with a smile, and asked them to transport a large amount of seeds to the warehouse he had specially set up for storing seeds.

After unloading the goods, Zhao Keran asked someone to lead a team to Zuixianlou to eat hot pot and relax.

He closed the warehouse door and worked inside alone.A lot of tomato and other vegetable crops were replaced.

When exchanging goods, Zhao Keran even found cumin.He originally wanted to ask the leader of the caravan where he bought the cumin.

In the end, he shook his head with a smile, and couldn't ask even if he wanted to ask.

In the caravan, he was only allocated a treasurer who could calculate some basic money, and he didn't know a few big characters.So there is no person who records the goods, so it is convenient for him to add things to it later.

After working for a long time, Zhao Keran wiped the sweat from his forehead. He looked at the full warehouse and nodded with satisfaction.

After opening the door, he found that Huo Yuan was about to turn around with a bowl in his hand.

Zhao Keran stopped the other party and asked him, "Brother Yuan, you don't eat in the cafeteria, why are you wandering around with a bowl of glutinous rice porridge?"

Huo Yuan exerted a little force on the hand holding the porridge, but he was afraid of breaking the bowl, so he let go of his strength as if discouraged.

"Seeing that you have been in the warehouse, neither letting anyone in nor coming out to eat."

Huo Yuan's words came to an end, Zhao Keran looked at the glutinous rice porridge that was fragrant with rice that night, and his thoughts drifted away.

Rice is very expensive in Jingyang, and glutinous rice is even more expensive.

If it wasn't for making maltose, the county government would hardly buy glutinous rice to eat.

Now white sugar has been sold on the market. Although it is not cheap, it is very popular among the people.

Compared with maltose, they are more willing to spend a few dollars more to buy some white sugar and go back to the family to eat slowly.

Maltose has now slowly withdrawn from the market, and the amount produced this year is far less than last year.

A breeze blew by, and Zhao Keran's wandering thoughts were drawn back by the aroma of glutinous rice porridge.He stared at the bowl of white and sticky porridge, and Fulin felt concerned, "Is this specially for me?"

Huo Yuan didn't speak, just stuffed the glutinous rice porridge into Zhao Keran's hands, then turned and left, leaving Zhao Keran with a broad and straight back.

Zhao Keran looked at the porridge, then at Huo Yuan's back.

After a year, Brother Yuan seems to be a lot gentler, and everyone knows to bring him food.

...

When Mr. Hong came to the county government office, he had a happy expression on his face, and when he saw Zhao Keran, he kept thanking him for the cotton-padded clothes he sent in winter and the paid vacation.

Zhao Keran patiently waited for the old man to finish thanking him, and then began to talk about business.

He took out the seeds of tomatoes and other crops, and explained to Mr. Hong how to plant them one by one.

It also explained the approximate planting time of each crop, neither too early nor too late.

Mr. Hong has been with the three for a lifetime, even if he is a little older, he can still remember clearly what Zhao Keran said.

After explaining this, Zhao Keran asked the caravan who went out to search for seeds to take the vegetable crops that can be grown now and cumin seeds to the vegetable planting base in Hongjia Village.

So far, the vegetable planting base is finally full of vegetables!

Thinking about the upcoming trade with the west, Zhao Keran was gearing up.He didn't believe that these things in Jingyang County couldn't impress those businessmen from the western ethnic group to pay for them obediently!

Then he remembered the large bags of cumin piled up in the warehouse and touched his chin.There is also a food street, if you can't keep people, you must at least keep their stomachs!

Let them eat this meal and want to have another meal!

Zhao Keran clapped his hands and decided to hurry up.He called Sun Ying and asked him how the little piggy bought it.

Sun Ying said that he had already bought quite a few, and he also fed them with powder from dried sweet potato seedlings mixed with some sugar leftovers from beetroot heads.

Those little pigs ate one more than the other.

Zhao Keran nodded in satisfaction, and explained to him that the water fed to the farm should preferably be drawn from the well in the county government.

"You should also pay extra attention to the chicken pen, don't let the balls peck again. Last time I went to see it, the hair on its head was bald."

Sun Ying nodded, "That's right, my lord. Last time you asked me if there was anyone who could make pigs, a butcher Zhang said he could. He also told me that he has experience, and some people like to buy some supplements from him. He cut it many times."

After finishing speaking, Sun Ying subconsciously clamped his legs.

Zhao Keran thought for a while and said: "Let him practice hard, I'll go and see in a few days, and if he passes the test, I'll let him do the work."

Sun Ying looked at Zhao Keran in horror, the magistrate is indeed the magistrate.

Things that hurt even when he thinks about them, people are not only not afraid but also watch them live.

"Yes."

After leaving the study, Sun Ying met Huo Yuan head-on.To be honest, Sun Ying was a little afraid of Huo Yuan.

It was the "fear" of the general as a soldier. Sun Ying didn't quite understand why he felt this way.

He is neither a soldier now, nor is Huo Yuan a general.

When Sun Ying walked past Huo Yuan, Huo Yuan looked at the closed study door and asked, "Has he eaten?"

After reacting for a while, it occurred to Huo Yuan that the "he" in Huo Yuan's mouth should refer to the county magistrate.

"My lord didn't eat when I went in." Sun Ying recalled Zhao Keran's open but untouched food box and replied.

Upon hearing this, Huo Yuan turned around and walked towards the cafeteria, "Got it."

Sun Ying was at a loss, and he didn't have time to think about other things. He had to hurry up and inform Butcher Zhang to make preparations.

Knowing that he might work for the yamen, Zhang Tuhu was overjoyed, and told everyone he met that he was appreciated by the county magistrate and that he was going to work for the yamen.

Most of the people who came to buy meat were servants, maids or mothers from aristocratic families.

They don't believe Zhang Butcher's words.

"Butcher Zhang, are you crazy about selling pork? You work for the Yamen? Then I will work for the emperor!"

"Don't say that your mother-in-law makes bean products for Huimin Supermarket, just say that she works for the yamen. Then according to you, the uncle of the son of my third aunt's brother and the nephew of the son of his Yue's family are also errands for the yamen. of!"

Seeing that these people didn't believe him, Zhang Tuhu was furious.

The meat was not sold the next day, and I practiced hard with the door closed.He was afraid that he would not do well in front of the county magistrate, and if he failed to pass the test, he would really be laughed at.

At the moment, the county magistrate himself is being pressed on the head by a cold-faced evil spirit to eat.

"Sister Chunhua's cooking skills have dropped a bit today, and even the porridge tastes a little burnt. This is not good, the academy is about to start, and she has to cook nutritious meals for the students." Zhao Keran was drinking the porridge slowly, without the slightest thought. He didn't notice Huo Yuan's darkening face.

"Don't drink it if it doesn't taste good." Huo Yuan stepped forward, wanting to take the bowl.

Zhao Keran reached out subconsciously, and Huo Yuan's hand pressed Zhao Keran's.

Immediately, Huo Yuan quickly withdrew his hand as if he had been scalded, leaving Zhao Keran with a handsome back with wide shoulders and narrow waist again.

Thinking about Huo Yuan's reaction, Zhao Keran touched his hands and murmured softly, "I haven't disliked your calloused palms, which are terribly rough. You look like you've been pricked by needles..." He rubbed his hands back and forth, sighing: " It's so nice to touch... so tender."

After going out, Huo Yuan's ears were already red.

The author has something to say: Regarding papermaking, refer to "Tiangong Kaiwu"