Two years later, in the autumn of the seventh year of Emperor Yuan of Jin's reign, the Peach Blossom Spring Grand Canyon once again presented a scene of abundant harvest.
Over the past seven years, the dry land in Taohuayuan Grand Canyon has grown to several acres.
These dry lands are mainly used for growing wheat, but also for growing corn, millet, and sorghum.
There are also more than 3,000 mu but less than 4,000 mu of sandy slope land.
The soil here is particularly suitable for growing sweet potatoes and potatoes.
The sweet potatoes and potatoes grown twice a year are all supplied to the vermicelli factory as raw materials.
Li Lanzhen also paid attention to improving the soil on these 3,000 mu of land.
The humus soil brought back from the mountains and the manure from the livestock farm were fermented and then used to fertilize the fields.
Therefore, the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes per mu of more than 3,000 mu has been increasing year by year.
The Taohuayuan paddy fields cover less than 10,000 mu (approximately 667 hectares). In the entire Taohuayuan Grand Canyon, apart from the courtyards of residences, there is no vacant land.
During these seven years, the Le Dynasty enjoyed favorable weather and abundant harvests, and the grain yield per mu in Taohuayuan also increased year by year.
Li Lanzhen kept expanding her grain shop in Youzhou City.
Now, in the grain shops, there is a special area dedicated to selling grain and vegetable seeds from Peach Blossom Spring.
When customers come to buy sweet potatoes, potatoes, and other vegetables, Li Lanzhen specifically trains her shop assistants to explain the planting process to them.
Sometimes I would even tell them how to cook these grains and vegetables to make them taste better.
In the second year, eleven large circular granaries were built in Taohuayuan Grand Canyon.
There are now twenty large, round granaries.
Every year before the new grain is harvested, any leftover old grain is transported to grain shops in Youzhou City and sold as old grain, which sells very well.
Because all the grains in the Peach Blossom Spring Grain Shop are clean and free of any sand or stones.
It's a reliable grain store.
At the foot of the northernmost mountain in Taohuayuan Grand Canyon, a courtyard covering about five acres has been built.
This is the residence, or "temporary palace," built for the current emperor and empress.
At first, Xuan Shen told me that it was to be built with blue bricks and tiles, but I don't know why it was changed later.
The courtyard and houses that have been renovated now are exactly the same as the ones they used to live in.
However, their courtyard wall was even higher than theirs.
The courtyard wall was made of rammed earth, and the walls inside the house were also made of rammed earth.
The courtyard and rooms were all paved with blue bricks, making them look clean and tidy.
The bedroom was also filled with heated brick beds.
However, the outside of the kang (heated brick bed) was entirely covered with blue bricks.
After the courtyard was built, Xuan Shen brought her to see it once. Li Lanzhen asked Xuan Shen if the emperor and empress could adapt to such a construction.
In particular, whether they can get used to sleeping on a kang (heated brick bed).
Xuan Shen nodded and said that this was the choice made by the Emperor and Empress themselves.
They said it would be fine if it were just like the courtyards and houses here.
Li Lanzhen stopped talking and decided to stay wherever she wanted, as long as she was happy.
She always harbored resentment towards the Emperor and Empress for wanting to live in Peach Blossom Spring after they retired.
But all I can do is mutter a few complaints to myself.
The grain from Peach Blossom Spring was no longer transported to grain shops in the capital.
The grain grown on the land in the large estate and small manor in the capital city could basically supply the grain shops.
Xue Laohu also contacted several villages around the capital and went there every autumn to purchase grain. The grain shops in the capital and Youzhou City all used the name "Peach Blossom Spring".
Food prices have remained very stable.
Thanks to the widespread availability of sweet potatoes and potatoes, people in all regions of the Le Dynasty are now able to have enough to eat.
In areas with poor soil, sweet potatoes and potatoes are the main crops.
Other fertile areas have successively used grain seeds produced in Peach Blossom Spring, resulting in increased grain yields.
After learning about these circumstances, Li Lanzhen accelerated the grain reprocessing process.
The first step was to expand the vermicelli processing industry. The vermicelli processing technology had already been given to the imperial court free of charge by Xuan Shen.
The imperial court ordered the prefecture to send people to the capital to learn vermicelli processing techniques. Upon their return, the prefecture organized the counties and towns under its jurisdiction to learn the techniques again.
For every vermicelli processing plant established, 10% of its net profit must be handed over to the national treasury.
The national treasury gradually became full.
Secondly, Li Lanzhen developed noodle processing technology and set up a noodle processing workshop in Taohuayuan to start producing various noodle products.
The first discovery by Scrophularia ningpoensis was that noodles were perfect for eating while traveling.
Those who study Scrophularia ningpoensis always focus on its ability to make it a convenient food for garrison troops during marches and battles.
Later, Lanzhen simply added instant noodle production to her business.
She told Xuan Shen that instant noodles are the best food for traveling!
Due to limited materials, Li Lanzhen only made instant noodle blocks.
I also made a batch of dried vegetable flakes, which I then mixed with mushroom sauce, meat sauce, and soybean paste. I boiled them in water and added them to the flatbread. You can then eat it by adding these ingredients according to your own taste.
Of course, you can also add boiled eggs or poached eggs to elevate the instant noodles to a whole new level.
Later, Li Lanzhen also handed over the instant noodle processing technology to the imperial court free of charge.
The instant noodles produced by the imperial court were mainly used in military food products.
Although the vermicelli processing technology and instant noodle making technology were handed over to the imperial court.
Li Lanzhen eventually obtained a special permit from the imperial court to sell instant noodles and vermicelli in Youzhou City.
The entire area within Youzhou City falls under Li Lanzhen's sales scope.
Other businesses are not allowed to arbitrarily interfere with their business here.
Because soybeans and other legumes are intercropped in cornfields, the yield of legumes per acre is also very high.
Therefore, Li Lanzhen developed soybean product processing.
They produce traditional soy products such as tofu, soy milk, bean curd sheets, fried bean curd sheets, dried bean curd sticks, smoked dried bean curd, fermented bean curd, and stinky tofu.
Currently, bean products suitable for long-distance transportation are being sold to various prefectures and counties of the Le Dynasty.
All bean products sold in the general stores in Youzhou City were very popular.
We have to ship two batches of goods there almost every day.
In order to enable all bean products to be sold in the capital.
Li Lanzhen went to the brokerage and bought a family of five, then taught them how to make all kinds of bean products.
Then Han Minghai escorted them to the large estate in the capital.
Han Ming also built a bean product workshop in the large manor.
Within a month of the bean products being sold in Beijing, many large hotels came to place orders.
Han Minghai also found ten merchants who picked up goods from the workshop and sold bean products in or around the capital.
In this way, the bean product workshops in the large manor in the capital only needed to produce the products and did not need to sell them outside the capital.
The vegetables in Peach Blossom Spring grow all year round.
Li Lanzhen then established a pickle factory.
We produce various flavors of bean paste, mushroom sauce, meat sauce, and a variety of pickled side dishes.
Li Lanzhen frequently took out various vegetables from her spatial dimension and mixed them with vegetables from Peach Blossom Spring for pickling.
Moreover, each vat of pickled vegetables is infused with spring water, giving these sauces a unique flavor and resulting in excellent sales.
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