Chapter 118
What is it like to wake up in a sauna without steam and just the right temperature, and wake up with a refreshing spirit overnight?
Only Li Boya, who showed up and said this can answer this question.
"Does it hurt?"
"I am already my husband's family, and I'm still talking about these things. Oh, it's dawn and I'm so embarrassed. Change my clothes quickly. I'll cook and prepare food for myself. What should I do if my maids see it?"
As soon as Cai Yan's slender ** hit the ground, a mixture of ischemia and pain that involved the wound came, causing her legs to become weak again and fell back into her husband's arms. The linen towel was almost scattered.
Li Su served her considerately and comforted her, "Why are you afraid of maids? They were still on duty outside in the middle of the night to burn fire, otherwise you and I would have been frozen long ago. Of course, they would have prepared Chaoshi."
"It's also a bride's tribute to brides with your own hands..." Cai Yan blushed and felt embarrassed for his dereliction of duty.
"I have no courtesy here, I only do it casually." Li Su washed and packed herself, and directly carried Cai Yan back to the restaurant domineeringly.
A few days ago, although the Cai family lived in Li Su's mansion, their diet was still separate. The Cai family lived in Wujun for ten years and was used to drinking some porridge and water. Li Su was not used to eating it at all, and it was not in line with his own nutritional management during the development period.
So, this was the first time Cai Yan followed Li Su to have breakfast. Looking at the fried shrimps, shredded beef noodles, fried eggs, decorated with tangerine leaves, chopped green onion and pickled kohlrabi (pickled cabbage), Cai Yan was also quite surprised.
Li Su needs to grow, of course, she has to eat beef that has been killed, and she also has to eat shrimp to supplement calcium. Although it is just a small noodles in Bajun, the shredded beef cover almost covered with the top layer of the noodle bowl, and two fried eggs were added.
If you don’t have a wok, you can fry it with a thick-walled iron pan. Every time you fry it, it will be fryed a lot, just like fried dough sticks and then pick it up. It can dehydrate and keep it fresh for many days.
Today happened to be the day when the Li Mansion started a large oil pan every five days. It was covered with freshly discharged, instead of being heated when the noodles were cooked and then heated again when they were cooked. The taste was particularly fresh.
While the couple was eating noodles, Cai Yan also saw Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and other servants from the mansion who came to Li's mansion to catch Qiufeng. Each of them carried dozens of kilograms of oil-burned beef shredded beef and oil-burned shrimp that had just passed the oil.
It turned out that since Li Su returned to Nanzheng and made up this habit of living, Liu Guanzhang also developed a piece of golden cake per month and went to Li's house to make a large oil pan.
In the era without thin iron pots, it is not easy to get a oil pan. It is difficult to cool down immediately after the oil is warmed up. Even if the firepower is removed, you can still fry a lot of things by relying on the residual heat of the pot. So the most cost-effective way is to start a large oil pan and fry it at a time, and get hundreds of pounds to everyone. Fry a pot of oil three times, and replace it in half a month. The replaced oil will be rewarded to maids and servants to cook.
Li Su also relied on the old noodles he invented in Liaodong two years ago to fry fried dough sticks with sour noodles, but he thought the dough sticks were unhealthy and rarely ate them. However, other friends who were taken by him liked it very much.
Cai Yan, who had just become a woman, ate the rich dough that his husband personally gave her, and her heart was so happy that she was bubbled.
She leaned into Li Su's ear and whispered: "Marry chickens and follow the chickens. I will not drink porridge after eating in the future. I will eat noodles with my husband. If I had known that when I was in the capital in summer, I would have been my husband's woman. I would have been so tired of it over the years."
In Shu, the cost of shipping is at least five or six times cheaper than flat land transportation and dozens of times cheaper than mountain land transportation.
So as long as the Jialing River can be navigated, even if you go from Jiameng County to Dianjiang, then to Jiangzhou, and then go up the Yangtze River to Chengdu, and go around such a big circle, the final total transportation cost is still many times cheaper than the land route from Jiange Road, Jiangyou Road, Mianzhu Pass, and Chengdu by land.
Although the total waterway range of the former is more than 1,500 miles, while the latter is only 500 miles by land transportation distance of the latter.
The cost advantage of waterways is so great that Liu Beijun cannot use it now. In history, Zhong Hui and Deng Ai cannot use it either. The only problem lies in the shipping conditions of the Jialing River.
The Jialing River flowing along Dajian Mountain to the Nanshan area was too turbulent. Before, Guan Yu went downstream when he fought quickly. Many ships had advances and no retreats. They could not return to the upstream without loading. They could only go with a "one wave of flow". If one wave could not take the enemy away, they would have to fight for a long time, and the second loading cost would be extremely high.
At first, Li Su also wanted to imitate Shangyong's side to solve the problem of swiming too fast in the Han River and not being able to return the ship if the ship is put down, and set up a ship lock, but later she found that the Jialing River had much more water than the Han River, and the engineering technology of this era could not create a ship lock at all.
Then, Lu Su combined Li Su's proposal and comprehensively examined the experience of locals in Shu and came up with a solution: set up immigration sites to farm in the most turbulent places in the Jialing River valleys to ensure that there are enough local laborers.
In this way, when the fleet reaches the dangerous gorge where the gap is too large, the civilians can organize their fibre to let the empty ship pass by.
Not to mention, this move is really the experience accumulated by the working people in Shu over thousands of years. Until the Republic of China, the Jinsha River above Laojun Beach was unable to be navigated on the Long March, and the people in Shu still pulled the cart through Pantan (unload the cargo in the boat, transported it with manpower or horses through the dangerous shoal section, and then pulled the empty ship with shallow drafts through the turbulent and dangerous shoals, and then loaded the cargo again. "Pantan" is a unique water transportation method in Shu, because the gap is too large).
However, in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the population of Shu was countless times denser than during the Han Dynasty. Many people were on the Yangtze River and commercial towns formed along the Jialing River. The people in the entire town might have been professional boatmen, helping merchant fleets to cross the dangerous shoals. Even during the War of Resistance Against Japan, factories in coastal provinces were moved to Shu, and they all relied on boatmen to pull thousands of tons of merchant ships across the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. Just look at the famous patriotic industrialist and the deeds of Lu Zuofu of the People's Livelihood Shipping (Lu Zuofu is a native of Diaoyu City, Jiangzhou).
After being reminded by Li Su, the ideas that Lu Su thought of were of course correct, at least more advanced than Zhuge Liang's ideas decades later in history.
Because Zhuge Liang was unable to understand the method of "transporting grain from Chengdu to Hanzhong by water" until the last Northern Expedition, he had to carry the logistics punishment of "transporting grain from Chengdu to Hanzhong with only one hu of grain left."
If the waterway can be opened, although the distance is three times longer, the cost will plummet, and four hu of grain can be transported to Hanzhong at least two and a half hu of grain, and the national and civilian mobilization effect of the Chengdu Plain will also increase by two or three times.
However, if you want to stay in dangerous shoals and valleys along the coast, which are not convenient for ships without external force, you must first open military farms in these places to ensure that the refugees moved there can support themselves.
For this specific plan, Lu Su, Guoyuan and Sun Gan also spent a lot of effort.
Chapter completed!