Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 224 Black Whirlwind's Decision
Tie Niu went to his brother's kitchen and brought out a flower pot, in which were a few dry branches of honeysuckle, without leaves and lifeless.

Li Kui said: "Look, where there are leaves, how can the branches grow into trees."

Li Da ignored him and dug up the soil with a small shovel.

"It has grown roots. It really has roots." Li Da took out a honeysuckle branch and found that white tender roots had grown from the bottom.

Li Da's daughter-in-law was very happy and said, "That's great. I can just prune more branches to grow seedlings. It's easy to prune thousands of branches a day."

"No, you can't always do it yourself, you have to find someone to do it. The owner of Chai Zhuang has invested 50 taels of silver. We need to develop as soon as possible." Li Da said.

Li Da's wife said: "Yes, I will find some women in a while, and I have pruned [-] trees today. Raise seedlings and plant them on a large scale next year."

Li Kui scratched his head and said, "That's really simple. You can grow roots by inserting a sliver, which is very good. Just harvesting honeysuckle is not enough. When I was young, I picked a big bag of this thing and it couldn't be dried for a catty."

Li Da said: "You don't have to worry about it. There are also dozens of kinds of Yin Chen, Danshen, cicada slough, scorpion, wood turtle, Burnet, bellflower, etc. Mr. Chai will give you flowers before he sees you. I paid 40 taels of silver, let me tell you, don’t go all the way to Jiangzhou, forget about going to Cangzhou, not to mention being close to home, Mr. Chai is a good man, follow good people to learn good things, you can still be a fool daughter in law."

Li Kui said: "Succeed, although I, Tieniu, have a bad brain, I am not stupid either. Brother Dai Zong is very good at digging and searching. Hearing that I gave 40 taels of silver to the house, he transferred me to the quarry to guard the quarry. Such a brother doesn't want Forget it. After I help my mother build the house, I will go to Cangzhou."

Li Da said: "This house is very fast. It can be raised in seven or eight days at most. It's just that the compound soil is not so fast. The roof will be built in February. You can go when the wall is up. The plan for a year is in spring. Don't delay your journey."

Li Kui was overjoyed: "Okay, I, Tieniu, listen to my brother. I will go to Cangzhou in a few days when the brick wall rises, but I don't know if brother Chailin is willing to take me."

Li Da said: "For sure, I will go there when the medicinal materials purchasing station at home is built. Brother Chailin said that his village is going to be under construction. It's better than messing around at home."

Besides, Chailin, all the soldiers in the township barracks have finished their rotation and started to enter the formal training session. The various departments are closely cooperating, and Chailin is more at ease.

The development of Cangzhou has reached a bottleneck. Before the Spring Festival, Chai Lin promised Cheng Wanli, the magistrate of Dongping Prefecture, to go to Dongping Prefecture to open a workshop.On the fifth day of the first lunar month, people were sent over to prepare to see it.Now more than ten days have passed, and Chai Lin wants to go there by himself to see how the progress is. After all, Dongping Mansion is next to the Grand Canal, and the water and land transportation is too convenient. It is the throat of Shandong.There is another thing, then go to Hujiazhuang to see your fiancée.

This time I brought a lot of things, four pot machines and two grain grinders.A straw grinder and a straw powder refiner.There are four machines, eight vehicles, and Chailin, Dianzhennan, Jiebao and fifty personal soldiers escort them.Don't look at the potted machine as a very backward and bulky thing, but it belonged to the era of boasting at that time.

This journey was slow, and Chai Lin deeply realized that walking was not easy. Although all the staff rode horses and the eight carts were pulled by strong mules, the distance was only about a hundred miles a day.

There was no delay along the way, and it took five days to arrive at Hujiazhuang.

It's already the 20th of the first lunar month, and the weather is getting hotter. Many hardworking farmers in the farmland are already plowing in spring.

Hu Sanniang led thirty archers out to protect the field early this morning. Wild boars are rampant in spring, and one or two wild boars can destroy several acres of wheat. Farmers rely on farming, so they naturally regard wild boars as their natural enemies.The farmers in Hujiazhuang are still very happy to have a heroine like Hu Sanniang to protect the farmland from wild boars.

A Zhuang Ding flew over and said, "Miss, miss, here we come, here we come."

Hu Sanniang asked: "It's not easy to talk, what's coming, the wild boar is coming, or the wolf is coming."

Zhuang Ding said: "It's not a wild boar or a wolf. It's the owner of Chai Zhuang."

"Oh, okay, you guys continue to hunt wild boars. Chunxiang, follow me to meet Chai Zhuangzhu." Hu Sanniang was a little overjoyed, and she didn't know how many times she had said in her heart that her sweetheart finally came.

Chai Lin led a team of dozens of people and eight carts to Hujiazhuang.

At the gate of Hujiazhuang, Hu Cheng greeted him personally at the gate of the village.

Chai Lin felt very guilty and said: "I was too busy with things a year ago, and I fought several big and small battles, and I didn't come to see it. I hope Brother Cheng will not be offended."

Hu Cheng said: "Brother Yun Cong is polite, it's nothing, but San Niang is over 20." This is obvious, the implication is that it's time to get married, but the woman, after all, has to be more reserved.

Chai Lin said: "I will marry Sanniang this year, let's discuss the specific time."

When Hu Sanniang heard that Chai Lin said that he would marry Hu Sanniang this year, her face turned red and she quickly pretended not to hear.

"Brother, Brother Yuncong." Hu Sanniang came riding on a horse.

When Chailin saw Sanniang riding a horse with a bleeding little wild boar hanging on it, he knew that Sanniang was going to guard the farmland. It was a rule not to hunt in spring, but wild animals entered the farmland and destroyed the crops. Fields do not belong to the category of hunting.

Chai Lin smiled and said, "Sanniang knows I'm coming, so she's going to prepare some meat, haha."

"Quickly, don't be at Zhuangkou, go into the village." Hu Cheng invited the team into the village.

Hu Cheng said, "Yun Cong, what treasure are you pulling in these eight carts, and dozens of people escorted them."

Chai Lin said, "I'll explain it to Brother Cheng in detail in the yard."

The team entered Zhuangzi and entered the backyard of Hu's house through the back door.

Chai Lin turned on four of the machines and said, "I've come here this time to bring a new treasure to Hujiazhuang, a good treasure that makes money every day.

These two huge machines are called pot camel machines, which are responsible for providing power.This one is called a pulverizer, a machine that pulverizes wheat into flour.The one next to it is called a rice threshing machine, which is a machine for processing millet into millet. "

Hu Sanniang said: "Isn't this what stone mills and rollers do? It just doesn't look like it."

"Yes, what Sanniang said is right, the principle is the same as that of a stone mill, but this one is faster. If you use a mill to process millet, how much millet can you process in one hour?" Chailin asked.

Hu Cheng said: "One person and one donkey can process one hundred catties of millet in an hour, and any more will exhaust the donkey."

"The workload of this machine is equivalent to the efficiency of [-] donkeys, and it can thresh [-] catties of millet in one hour. The workers work in shifts, and this machine can work day and night," said Chailin.

Hu Cheng was very surprised, this is too powerful, and the same is true of the flour processing machine.

"Brother Yun Cong wants me to open a grain processing workshop?" Hu Cheng asked.

Chai Lin nodded: "That's the case. I opened a new one in the village, and there are only three machines. But the profit is very high, and the net profit can reach as much as [-]% without the leftovers."

Food is different from other commodities. It is a must for everyone. No matter how poor you are, you don't need to wear clothes, but you must eat food.Generally, the profits of grain workshops that use manpower and donkeys as processing methods are very good.

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