Madam, She Has a Tender Heart

Su Qingyu got the eggs and immediately transferred people from Xingengzhai. read

In the personnel file, I found a person named Tong who had raised silkworms before. Let her take her daughter to worry about this matter in Xingengzhai and Baijiazhai.

Mother and daughter Tong fled all the way, and she was the only one left in the family.

Arriving in this mountain, I had no sense of presence. I was suddenly entrusted with an important task by Su Qingyu, and I was flattered.

"Master, I have never raised this white wax insect before?" He was frightened.

Mrs. Tong was very afraid. If something went wrong, would mother and daughter be driven out of the mountain?

The mother and daughter had nowhere to go, so they only had enough to eat in the mountains.

I don’t want to be homeless anymore.

"Don't worry, I haven't raised them before, and this is my first time. You can raise them just like silkworms, but one should be raised in the silkworm room and the other on the tree. You just need to be more careful in normal times, and this year you will be more careful. Give it a try.”

Su Qingyu comforted her.

Having said that, how could Tong's mother and daughter dare to neglect.

After accepting the assignment, I focused entirely on raising white wax insects.

Although Su Qingyu said it was a pilot project in the first year, she did not dare to ignore it at all.

No one in the mountains knows yet that the white stuff attached to the ash trees is actually the secretion of ash insects.

No one knows what this white secretion is for.

All the people who cut down trees to build houses avoided the ash tree, thinking it was dirty.

But the dirtier it was, the happier Su Qingyu was.

It means that the white waxworm secretes a lot.

The more she got, the happier she was.

How to make it more abundant is to catch more eggs and put them there, let them grow, multiply, and then secrete more substances.

After being fried in boiling water, this white substance will turn into white wax, one of the two most commonly used waxes in ancient times!

After Su Qingyu came to Shuo Dynasty, she discovered that the main lighting tools for ordinary people now are oil lamps.

Candles only appear in high-ranking families and the aristocratic class of the palace.

During the Han Dynasty, candles became a tribute treasure due to their scarce output.

Although the Shuo Dynasty candles did not become tribute treasures, they were still expensive and could not be used by ordinary people.

Nowadays, the waxes used by wealthy households are mainly yellow wax and white wax. Most of them are yellow wax.

There is a record of yellow wax in "Compendium of Materia Medica Volume 39 Chongbu Honey Wax" written by Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty: "The honey is taken, refined, filtered into water, and left to condense. If the color is yellow, the common name is yellow wax."

The more expensive ash is made from a substance secreted by the ash tree's parasite, the ash worm, during its growth.

Su Qingyao remembered that the story of Shi Chong and Wang Kai's fight for wealth in the Western Jin Dynasty was recorded in Shishuoxinyu.

The original text is: "Wang Junfu cooked the pot with rice cakes, and Shi Jilun used candles to cook."

That is to say, the two rich men at that time were competing for wealth. Wang Kai said that his family used sugar water to cook pots, but Wang Chong was not to be outdone and said that his family used candles as firewood.

This shows how precious candles are.

As for candles, by the Jin Dynasty, most of them were yellow wax. This yellow wax has a high price due to its low production volume.

The lower yield and less common white wax is more expensive than yellow wax.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, as the national power of the Central Plains region increased significantly, the people's demand for pewter wax increased day by day. As a result, ash trees, as the most common host of ash bugs, began to be widely planted.

Especially in the southwest and other regions, large-scale ash tree planting and ash insect breeding began to appear.

Su Qingyu remembered that it was recorded in "Guixin Miscellaneous Knowledge" that in the society at that time, the benefits of raising white waxworms were similar to raising silkworms.

The income from raising silkworms per acre far exceeds the income from planting one acre of land.

Therefore, this white wax is Su Qingrui's next goal of getting rich.

And stocking white waxworms is the key among the keys.

Su Qingyu told Tong and her daughter some things to pay attention to.

The mother and daughter didn't know how to read, so they captured Gu Siming, the grandson of Gu Hongde from the village, to help record the records. They also found a few women from the Xingeng Village, and they started to fumble around.

Su Qingnao followed them for a few days and saw that they were very busy, so she put the matter aside and concentrated on spring plowing.

To get rich, you have to fill your stomach first.

The market town was completed before the busy spring plowing, so Su Qingyu took Siyuan there to inspect and accept it.

The main project in the market town has been completed, leaving some finishing work.

Most of the workers have gone back to their respective villages to prepare for spring plowing, and there are only a few left who are busy finishing the work.

Su Qingyu stood on the mountainside and looked down at the market town in the mountain col.

I just feel that a surge of pride arises spontaneously.

She wanted to shout, this is my kingdom!

There was an unspeakable excitement and pride in my chest.

Seeing that the mountain col that was originally overgrown with trees and weeds slowly turned into the market town she wanted, she wanted to look up to the sky and roar.

Ahem, keep a low profile.

He endured the excitement and walked to the market town.

Although the size of the market town in the mountain col cannot be compared with that of Fengting Town, it is because the flat land and gentle slopes in the mountains are limited and the layout is not wide.

But it serves no fewer people than Maple Pavilion.

There are twenty-eight villages, and the number of people is a few thousand. And there will only be more and not less in the future.

She believes that there will be a second and third phase of the project in the future.

Now refugees from all over the country are running into the mountains. As long as she completes the defense fortifications and solves the food problem, these mountains will be a paradise in troubled times.

Su Qingyu turned around and was very satisfied.

I saw some carpenters and their apprentices making shelves for various shops, and they even came up to encourage everyone.

I think it will be open to the public soon after the busy spring plowing for half a month and after Master Pei has been invited to see it.

After visiting the market town, Su Qing'an went to each village to inspect the spring plowing.

The spring plowing work in each village was in full swing.

They had little experience in other things, but everyone knew how to farm.

They had never done much before and didn't know how to start.

Moreover, there were many mountain products in the mountains, including wild vegetables, mushrooms, and meat.

The yield of grain in the mountains was low, and everyone didn't know how to increase the yield, so they just planted it wherever they could, and reclaimed one or two acres of the gentle slopes in front of and behind the house, as long as the whole family was not hungry.

There was no such thing as scale or not.

But Su Qing'an wanted thousands of hectares of terraced fields, rolling rice waves, and full warehouses of grain.

Being hungry was too uncomfortable.

Because there was no food to eat, leaving home and fleeing was simply hell on earth.

If we have the conditions, we should work hard to grow crops. If we don't have the conditions, we should create them and work hard to reclaim wasteland and grow crops.

Zhaizhu Zhong and Su Qing'an stood on the terraces of Baijia Village, looking at the crowded terraces, and were so excited that they burst into tears.

"If our village had been like this before, my son wouldn't have to leave the village to make a living."

"You have a son?"

Zhaizhu Zhong stopped crying and rolled his eyes at her.

"I don't have a son, so how did Xiu'er come out?"

Well...

Okay, she said the wrong thing.

Who told her that when she met him and Xiu'er, there were only the grandfather and grandson in the family.

"No news?"

Zhaizhu Zhong shook his head: "I don't know if he is alive or dead."

Su Qing'an glanced at him and comforted the old man: "Maybe he is a high-ranking official in another place, with many wives and concubines and children around him."

"It would be great if he had that ability. I'm afraid he would have gone to see his unlucky mother early."

Okay, it's all sad.

Let's talk about food.

"If there is a good harvest in autumn, there will be no place to store food, right?"

Zhaizhu Zhong rolled his eyes at her again: "It's a good harvest, are you still worried about no place to store food? There are so many caves, warm in winter and cool in summer, which one can't be stored?"

Yeah, it seems so. She doesn't have to worry about building a warehouse.

But is it reliable?