Chapter 154 Mutual Benefit and Common Prosperity
"Others definitely don't have it. Since Ah Ying asked for it, we in Jinfeng Village must have it!" the leader teased.
Everyone in the village knows how to make vermicelli. Even poisonous things like konjac can be made into non-toxic food. Now the villagers can have enough food to eat and make money.
Ah Hei and his friends were learning how to make lime in Qingshi Mountain. They also needed to fertilize the fields in the village behind and rotate crops to grow two seasons of rice.
Even beekeeping, which doesn't require much effort, has become a practice in the village.
I never thought that life could be so good, and this is all thanks to the girl in front of me.
There is a lot of sugarcane. Although it can be made into sugar paste and sold for money, the production is complicated and the waste is high. Since they are people brought by Su Ying, the leader is willing to give Su Ying face and sell them to Hu Erlang and Fu Zhong.
"Thank you so much, Grandpa!" Su Ying hurriedly expressed her gratitude.
Aniu, Diexiu and other villagers cut some sugarcane for the guests to taste.
It was the first time for Fuzhong and Fuwang to eat fresh sugarcane, and they felt a little helpless when holding the sugarcane.
Su Ying, on the other hand, picked it up and started eating it without any manners.
The red-skinned sugarcane covered with a layer of white frost is very fresh. You can bite open the skin with a little force. The sugarcane inside is sweet and juicy. After chewing it, you can spit out the residue.
Su Ying ate happily. Hu Erlang and Fu Zhong, father and son, were very polite at first, but they relaxed later on.
Hu Erlang is not so bad, as local people can eat it more or less every year.
It was the first time for Fuzhong and Fuwang to eat it. They were almost crying with excitement. This was a treatment that no noble in the palace had ever enjoyed!
Even the Khan and the Queen had never tasted such fresh and sweet sugarcane!
"Grandpa! Next year, if you plant sugarcane using the method I told you, it will not only grow taller, but also have longer joints, and will taste more delicious." Su Ying boasted to the leader.
This sugarcane is almost wild, with short distances between nodes. You can't eat much before the nodes become hard, which is very tiring for your cheeks and tongue. A lot of sugarcane is wasted, and your tongue will get blisters after eating it for a while.
"Listen to Aying, listen to Aying!" said the leader happily.
The village is already busy. The villagers bundle up their dried vermicelli and hand them over to the headman for weighing. Everyone has a happy face.
"Grandpa, has your big iron pot arrived?" Su Ying asked.
"We're here!" The leader pointed to a shed not far away. "We just arrived two days ago. Ah Ying, would you like to take a look?"
"No need, grandpa, how about I make a deal with you?" Su Ying looked at the leader.
"Oh, what deal? Tell me about it!" The leader saw Su Ying smiling like a rat stealing oil.
"I will teach you a new way to make sugar. The sugar you make is something no one else has.
You from Jinfeng Village sent some sugarcane to our Huanggou Village, and we will plant it next year.
"How about you give priority to selling this candy to Hu Erlangjun?" Su Ying asked with a smile, having thought of it on the spur of the moment.
Before this, no one used iron pots to boil brown sugar. They all used clay pots, which was troublesome and difficult to make, so the finished product was a sugar paste, which was rare and precious.
Now that she had an iron pot, Aying thought of making solid brown sugar, and she could make a lot in one pot.
Hu Erlang is going to Jiangnan with Fu Zhong, so this solid brown sugar is absolutely top quality.
"Really?" The leader stood up suddenly.
"Making sugar?" Hu Erlang and Fu Zhong exclaimed.
The sugar paste alone is amazing, it is more precious than honey. This trip is worth it.
"Yes, the sugar made using this method is better than sugar paste. It is solid, easy to preserve and transport, and can be stored for a long time." Su Ying said.
"Okay, okay! Let's go now!" The leader pulled Su Ying out.
In the sugarcane field, Diexiu and his team are selecting thick and good-looking sugarcane for cutting.
"All the sugarcane in this field has been cut down!" Su Ying said, pointing to the remaining sugarcane.
"Ah? Sister, you want this too?" Diexiu was surprised.
"It's useful and a good thing!" Su Ying smiled.
"Okay, okay!" Diexiu knew that Su Ying would not lie, so she swung her sickle and chopped it off.
When cutting sugarcane, Diexiu and the others habitually cut off the pointed part with their knives, and a lot of it piled up in the field.
Su Ying picked it up. The tip was mostly leaves, and inside was a foot or two long piece of tender sugarcane.
"This piece is not tasty and not sweet!" The leader thought Su Ying was distressed.
"Give them all to me! I can use them to plant them." Su Ying said shockingly.
"Can this be planted?" The leader found it mysterious.
"Of course you can! This isn't waste. As long as it has nodes, it has buds. Dig a hole in the ground, plant it diagonally, don't cover it too deep with soil, and water it. It won't take long for it to sprout.
, cover these with soil, and they will sprout soon!
The sugarcane in the middle can be cut into sections, and after deep plowing the land, long trenches with regular spacing can be dug. The sugarcane can be placed horizontally in the trenches with the buds facing upwards, buried, and watered.
Su Ying told the leader how to plant sugarcane artificially.
"Is this really possible?" The leader felt that he had lived his life in vain and missed a lot.
The Li people have always allowed the sugarcane to grow freely in the fields. After harvesting it every year, the sugarcane would grow again the next year, but it would get smaller and smaller, and the yield would decrease.
They also apply fertilizer and take care of the sugarcane, but unlike the Han people, they are not good at farming and are reluctant to occupy arable land, so the sugarcane is no different from the wild ones.
"If you want sugarcane to grow well and in large quantities, you must plow the land deeply. People cultivate the land, and the land cultivates its belly. No matter what, if you want a high yield, intensive cultivation is essential.
This sugarcane field cannot be planted endlessly. It needs to be rotated with rice and wheat fields every two or three years. This way, the soil fertility will not be exhausted and the output of rice and wheat, the staple food, will not be affected.
Besides, whether you sell sugarcane as a snack or make sugar, it's very profitable. It's a gold nugget for you Li people!"
Su Ying explained the planting of sugarcane and its rotation with staple food crops.
The chief stood there in a daze. How could he plant crops like this? He could save the staple food and sugarcane!
If someone had told them earlier, they wouldn't have wasted so many years!
Alas! The chief looked at the densely packed sugarcane fields, his heart bleeding!
Hu Erlang and Fu Zhong were even more silent. There was such a good thing!
"Girl, does this method really work?" Hu Erlang felt that every time he was with Su Ying, his cognition would always be infinitely improved.
“Of course, you can tell the county magistrate to encourage the people to plant it in front of and behind their houses.
For poor land, the production of sugarcane and grain can be greatly increased by using crop rotation.
It won't take up any extra fertile farmland. After large-scale planting, sugarcane and brown sugar will become new specialties in Wu County!" Su Ying suggested.
"This method is good, but there are not enough seeds..." Hu Erlang pondered.
"Mr. Hu, if the county magistrate can really allow sugarcane to be planted on a large scale in Wu County, I can discuss with the leaders of each village and provide seeds!" The leader was infected by Su Ying and took the initiative to propose.
If the entire Wu County can really develop to a certain scale and produce large quantities of sugarcane and brown sugar, not only Jinfengzhai and the Li people will benefit, but the entire Wu County will benefit.
"That's great!" Hu Erlang bowed to the leader, "Thank you so much, Grandpa!"
"You're welcome, you're welcome. I learned this from Aying! What do you call this..." The leader patted his head, thinking about the new and strange word.
"This is called mutual benefit and common prosperity!" Su Ying said with a smile.
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