After the new rain in the empty mountains, autumn comes late.

The bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear spring flows up the stones.

The bamboo is noisy and the washing girl is washing her hair, and the lotus moves down the fishing boat.

The spring flowers are at will, and the princes can stay.

The Miaojia Village in the early morning is undoubtedly a place that best interprets the poem "Autumn Day in the Mountain" by Wang Wei!

Walking out of the door and standing on the slightly slippery bamboo building, Xiao Han looked at the quiet and peaceful village in front of him and slowly stretched his waist. The golden sunlight shone through the gaps in the woods, making his whole body warm and comfortable.

"Half Xiao woke up?"

The commander of the Miao village, Gapu, came from the distance of the village. He was slightly stunned when he saw Xiao Han, and then greeted him with a strange face.

"Haha, the commander is early!" Xiao Han grinned and took back his hand and bowed to Gapu. He seemed to have found nothing wrong.

"Are early, early!" Gapu's smile was a little reluctant. He stepped forward a few steps again and came downstairs to the bamboo building. Then he looked up at Xiao Han with a complicated expression and said, "Haha, Mr. Xiao is indeed a very natural method! I admire him! I wonder if Mr. Xiao still wants to teach us the sugar-making technique today?"

"Hmm?" Xiao Han frowned slightly when he heard this.

No matter how slow he reacted at this time, he felt something was wrong with Gepu, but he couldn't say why it was wrong. Could it be that it was because the rain was too heavy last night and this guy's mind was flooded?

"Hahaha, this is natural! A real man spits and a nail, how can he regret it if he has agreed?"

I really don't understand why Gepu looks like this morning, but Xiao Han was not a person who likes to dig in the bottom of the matter, so he just thought about it for a while in his heart, then simply gave up, laughed and walked down the bamboo building, hugged Gepu's shoulder and walked forward.

"Let's go! Let's start now while the weather is good! I just don't know what I want, all the things I want?"

Japu was warmly held by Xiao Han, and his brows frowned slightly, as if he was not used to it, but in the end, he still endured it.

"Those things are ready-made. If Xiao Hou wants them, I will let them get them right away!"

"Well! OK! Don't forget to let them get a grouse and a pot. If there are fresh mushrooms, you can also get some!"

"Oh? Why is this? Could it be that these things are also used for sugar making?"

"Ahem, this is not used to make sugar, it is used to treat our hunger! Remember, mushrooms must not be poisonous! If you accidentally poison me, you will never think of making one or two sugars in your life..."

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As the saying goes, only when you have enough food can you have the energy to work! Xiao Han agrees deeply! The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, let alone the nobles who come to lead you to a well-off life. Eating your mushrooms and chicken is nothing, right?

So, a strange scene appeared in the Miao village.

In the middle of the village, Xiao Han and Liu Hongji were holding a pot and eating, and their mouths were filled with oil. While eating, they did not forget to wave their chopsticks and directed the Miao men to work hard!

"Who! Oh! What can such a small broken stone mill do? Is there a bigger one? Is it gone? I won't find a stonemason to do it now!

If you want to do things well, you must first sharpen your tools or not? Don’t understand? If you don’t understand, ask your leader!”

"Who! Put the pot up! Hurry up! By the way, remember not to light the fire first! The pot will leak out later. Let's see if your commander is going to smoke you!"

"Also, these mushrooms are very fresh. Are there any more? He will have ten or eight pounds! What? I can't eat them? I can't pack them if I can't eat them!"

"Sister Chu, look at him!"

Not far away, Xun'er stared at the middle of the village and shouted and shouted, Xiao Han was so angry that he gritted his teeth! He almost rushed up and pinched the hot pot on his head!

"Oh..." Looking at Xun'er beside me, Miss Chu had to sigh helplessly.

In fact, even she didn't know why, overnight, Xiao Han suddenly became a guest of Gepu, and made the entire Miao village obey him! If this continues, her original idea will immediately turn into a ridiculous joke.

You know, she originally brought Xiao Han here, just to take him to see the Miao forces! But unexpectedly, the forces did not see them, but they were all lost together!

This is just like the agents in later generations. After working hard for so long, the deal was over. As a result, the customer and the buyer both jumped to orders, bypassed her, and hooked up directly! How could this prevent her from being angry!

Of course, in addition to being angry, Miss Chu felt more deeply saddened.

Now, the imperial palace is incompetent and the government is incompetent!

If she even lost the good card of Miao family, she really didn't know what value she had to Xiao Han!

Perhaps, in the end, her only value is this beautiful body.

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Behind, two women were either angry or sad, while in front, countless young Miao people were busy, piles of sugarcane were tied with ropes, and they didn't even need animals, and they were dragged back directly.

As for the stone mill? It is definitely too late to make that thing now. Xiao Han could only use the smaller stone mill as a demonstration, preparing to make changes in the future after making the charter.

Making sugar

This is a very ancient craft. Thanks to humans' innate love for sweets, sugar making appeared in history books early on.

As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were records about malt sugar. The Book of Songs: Daya wrote: "Zhou Yuan's squid, villustum is like malt sugar", which means that Zhou's land is rich and fertile, and even wild vegetables such as villustum and chicod are as sweet as malt sugar.

In "The Literature of Zhou·Tianguan·Disease Medicine", "Sweet honey is sweet" is listed as the representative of "sweet" among the five flavors.

However, the sugar mentioned at this time is all malt sugar, which is made from cereal malt.

You should know that during this period, most people can’t even afford to eat. Every year, because of insufficient food, many people will starve to death, let alone sugar making, so it can be seen that sugar is precious!

Later, in the Warring States Period, "Chu Ci: The Soul of the Soul" wrote: "There are some turtles and cannons, and some jujubes."

The "Zhe" mentioned here is sugarcane, and "Zhejiu" is sugarcane juice. This record shows that during the Warring States Period, China could already process sugarcane in primitive processing and boil it into a thick slurry to increase sweetness, but people at that time did not know how to process it into sugar.

The sugar mentioned at this time is still in the form of a thick syrup. Whether it is taste, storage or transportation, it is not easy.
Chapter completed!