Chapter 253 The Road to Riches
Su Qingma got the insect eggs and immediately transferred people from Xingengzhai.
In the personnel file, I found someone who had raised silkworms before, named Tong, and asked her to take her daughter to worry about this matter in Xingengzhai and Baijiazhai.
The Tong family and her daughter fled all the way, leaving only her in the family.
When I arrived in this mountain, I had no sense of existence. Su Qingma was suddenly entrusted with important tasks and was flattered.
"Boss, I haven't raised this ashworm before?" I was frightened and terrified.
Tong was very afraid. If something went wrong, would she drive the mother and daughter out of the mountain?
The mother and daughter had nowhere to go, and they only had enough food to eat in the mountains.
Don't want to be displaced anymore.
"Don't worry, I haven't raised it either, it's the first time I've experienced it. Just take it as raising silkworms, but one is raised in the silkworm room and the other is released on the tree. Just be careful and try it this year."
Su Qingma comforted her.
That being said, the Tong family mother and daughter dare not neglect.
After receiving the appointment, he threw all his heart on the free-range ashworms.
Although Su Qingma was piloting for the first year, she did not dare to ignore it at all.
No one in the mountains knows that the white things attached to the ash trees are actually secretions of ashworms.
No one knows what this white secretion is for.
Everyone avoided the ash tree when cutting trees and building houses, thinking it was dirty.
But the dirtyer it was, the happier Su Qingma was.
It means that ash waxworms have a lot of secretions.
The more she is, the happier she is.
How to make it more is to catch more insect eggs and put them on, let them grow, reproduce, and then secrete more substances.
After this white substance is boiled in boiling water, it will become the white wax among the two most commonly used waxes in ancient times!
After Su Qingma came to Shuochao, she found that the lighting tools of the people are mainly oil lamps.
Candles only appear in the high-ranking families and nobles of the imperial palace.
In the Han Dynasty, candles were also rare in production, and they became treasures for tribute.
Although Shuochao candles have not become treasures for tribute, they are also expensive and cannot afford them for their families.
Nowadays, the wax used by large users of high-door doors is mainly yellow wax and white wax. Most of the yellow wax are used.
There is a record of yellow wax in "Compendium of Materia Medica. Volume 39. Insects. Honey Wax" by Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty: "After taking honey, refining it, filtering it into water, and then separating it, it will be yellow, commonly known as yellow wax."
The more expensive ash is the parasite ash tree ash tree, the substance secreted by the substances secreted during its growth process, and is boiled.
Su Qingma remembers that "New Words on the World" records the story of Shi Chong and Wang Kai fighting for wealth in the Western Jin Dynasty.
The original text is: "Wang Junfu uses candies to cook with candies, and Shi Jilun uses candles to cook."
That is to say, the two major tyrants at that time fought for wealth. Wang Kai said that his family used sugar water to rinse the pot, while Wang Chong was not willing to be outdone, saying that his family used candles as firewood.
It can be seen how precious the candle is.
In the Jin Dynasty, candles were mostly yellow wax. This yellow wax was also expensive because of its low yield.
The lower-yield and less common white wax is more expensive than yellow wax.
During the Tang and Song dynasties, due to the significant increase in national strength in the Central Plains, the demand for ash wax increased day by day. Therefore, ash trees, as the host of the most common ash waxworms, began to be widely planted.
Especially in the southwest and other areas, large-scale ash tree planting and ashworm breeding began to appear.
Su Qingma remembers that it is recorded in "Guixin Miscellaneous Knowledge" that in society at that time, the interests of stocking white wax insects were similar to those of raising silkworms.
The income from raising a mu of silkworms far exceeds the income from planting a mu of land.
Therefore, this white wax is Su Qing’s next goal to get rich.
And stocking ashworms is the key.
Su Qingxian told the Tong family mother and daughter what to pay attention to.
The mother and daughter didn't recognize words, so they captured Gu Hongde's grandson Gu Siming from the village to help record. They found a few women from Xingeng Village, and the few people started to fuck.
Su Qingniang followed up for a few days. Seeing that they were very busy, she ignored this matter and focused on spring farming.
To get rich or something, you have to fill your stomach first.
Before the spring plowing, the town was built, and Su Qingma took Siyuan there to inspect it.
The main project in the market town has been completed, and some detailed work remains.
Most of the workers returned to their villages to prepare for spring plowing, and some of the few left were busy finishing.
Su Qingniang stood halfway up the mountain and looked down at the market town in the valley.
I just feel a sense of pride arises from nature.
She wanted to yell, this is my country!
An unspeakable excitement and passion surged in his chest.
Seeing the originally mixed trees and weeds slowly becoming the town she wanted to think of, she wanted to roar to the sky.
Ahem, low-key.
I endured the excitement and walked towards the market town.
Although the size of the market town in the valley cannot be compared with Fengting Town, it is because the flat and gentle slopes in the mountains are limited and cannot be spread out.
But it serves no fewer people than Fengting Town.
Twenty-eight villages are also a few thousand people. And in the future, there will be more and less.
She believes that there will be phase 2 and phase 3 projects in the future.
Now refugees from all over the world are running into the mountains. As long as she does the defense fortifications and solves the food problem, these steep mountains are the peach blossom land in troubled times.
Su Qingma walked around and was very satisfied.
Seeing some carpenters taking their apprentices to make shelves of each shop, they even stepped forward to encourage everyone.
I believe that in a short while, after half a month of busy spring farming, I will be able to officially open for business to Master Pei.
After seeing the market town, Su Qingma went to various villages to check the spring farming incident.
The spring farming work in various villages is in full swing.
They have little knowledge, but they can’t farm.
I have never done it before and I don’t know how to start.
Moreover, there are many kinds of goods in the mountains, including wild vegetables, mushrooms, and meat.
The yield of grain growing in the mountains is low, and no one knows how to increase the yield, so they only find a small opportunity to plant. One or two acres of land are cultivated on the gentle slopes in front of the house and the back of the house. Just be fine if the whole family is not hungry.
There is no scale or size.
But what Su Qingma wanted was thousands of hectares of terraced fields, with rice waves rolling and grain piled up in the warehouse.
Hungry or something is so uncomfortable.
Because I have no food to eat, I have to leave my hometown and escape, etc., which is simply a practice of prison on earth.
If conditions permit, we must make great efforts to grow grain. If conditions are not available, we must make great efforts to cultivate wasteland and grow grain.
The leader of Zhongzhai and Su Qingye stood on the terraces of Baijiazhai, looking at the crowded appearance of the terraces, burst into tears with excitement.
"If our village had the current situation before, my son wouldn't have to leave the village to make a living."
"Do you have a son?"
The leader of Zhongzhai stopped crying and gave her a big roll of eyes.
"I don't have a son, how did Xiu'er come out?"
Um……
OK, she said the wrong thing.
When she knew him and Xiu'er, there were only two grandfathers and grandsons in this family?
"No news?"
The leader of Zhongzhai shook his head: "I don't know whether it's life or death."
Su Qingma glanced at him and comforted the old man: "Maybe the high-ranking officials in another place are strong? There are many wives and concubines, and their children are surrounded by their knees."
"It's good that he needs to have that ability. I'm afraid he will go to see his unlucky mother early."
Well, it's a sad thing after all.
Let's talk about food.
"If there is a bumper harvest in autumn, I'm afraid there is no place to store food, right?"
The head of Zhong village rolled her eyes again: "It's a bumper harvest, but I'm afraid there is no place to store grain? There are so many caves, warm in winter and cool in summer, which one can't store it?"
Well, it seems that too. She doesn't have to worry about building a warehouse.
Just reliable or not?
Chapter completed!