After half a month of busyness, everything in Qinghe Town slowly stopped.

Under the raising and handling of Lord Xiao Lidian, Qinghe Town not only had an additional primary school and a mill, but also an additional pharmaceutical factory. The new blacksmith shop and carpenter shop have also been repaired, and several new tools have been created. Carpenters and blacksmiths are making high-legged seats and newly designed curved plows and rakes according to Lord Xiao Lidian's arrangements.

Of course, because Chen Xu only remembers the general appearance of the curved plow. After explaining the principle of deep plowing and turning over the soil, he could only let the carpenter and blacksmith cooperate with the research. For example, the plowshare and plowshare need to be repeatedly tested to achieve better results, and the cultivated land can be fast and labor-saving.

Chen Xu specifically asked for a high-legged chair. Sitting on the cold couch and on the ground made him feel very frustrated, especially after sitting for a long time, his legs were completely numb, and sitting on the ground for a long time would be bad for his health.

There is a huge stone mill and several stone mills in the mill. The stone mill was contracted to a farmer with mules. The income was half of each person. The processing of one stone grain was four cents, and it could also be replaced by twelve kilograms of grain. One stone grain was 120 kilograms (Note: The kilograms in the Qin Dynasty were not the kilograms of later generations, but only half of the later generations). It was calculated as one-tenth of the processing fee. This cost was quite high, but there were still many residents in the town who came to process it. Not only because the grains crushed by the stone mill were relatively fine, but also the molt was clean, which tasted much better.

As for the processing fee, the villagers in the town have made some money by digging medicinal materials recently. Moreover, the residents of the town are richer than the villages below. They can afford to eat 7 or 8 ounces of meat. Naturally, the processing fee is not too stingy. After all, you have to pound a stone of grain slowly at home with a stone mortar, which takes at least two or three days. When you go out to dig medicinal materials in two days, you have already earned it back. If you are lucky, you can dig some poria cocos or find a nest of bees, and you can get a few hundred dollars.

There is also the compound stone mill, which is a fresh thing. The wheat goes in and out and is fine flour. After sifting, it is as white as snow. The noodles dumplings made are simply delicious. The toothless old man and baby can also eat a big bowl. However, because it is all man-powered to grind, the processing fee is a bit expensive. Five kilograms of wheat are exchanged for three kilograms of flour. Although the processing fee is ridiculous, this new food has attracted the interest of all residents in the town. The summer grain harvest is good this year, and they all want to grind some flour to taste the freshness.

Therefore, the mill has been the busiest these days. Come and go, you will carry people carrying wheat in and out. The group of people in the mill are busy all the time, but everyone is smiling happily. Even if they are halfway with Chen Xu, they can earn 30 or 50 yuan a day. Over time, they will definitely accumulate a lot of wealth.

The mill is also the biggest investment place for Chen Xu. The stone mill costs more than 300 yuan per pair, and the third one is nearly 1,000 yuan. The stone mill costs a total of 2,000 yuan. These totally cost more than 3,000 yuan. No one can afford this investment in Qinghe Town. It is impossible for ordinary families to buy a stone mill like in the future. It is too expensive. Before the industry develops, the self-sufficiency small peasant economy cannot support this investment. The main goal of the people is to eat.

Then there is the pharmaceutical workshop, which is relatively cheap. The pergola and earthen stove basically don’t spend much money. The money is mainly spent on collecting medicinal materials, but medicinal materials are cheap. They can buy several kilograms per penny. A total of more than 1,000 yuan were spent to collect a lot of medicinal materials such as isatis root and licorice to treat the summer epidemic. Then two pavilions were asked to take a few soldiers from the town to the county town and sell it to Jiangbeiting.

The collection of medicinal materials was told by Jiang Beiting after returning from Wancheng last time that in order to prevent and treat road-building men and women who built roads, the county magistrate informed each county that they could use money, grain and taxes to deduct a batch of medicinal materials according to their own situation. The list of medicinal materials and treatment methods have been issued to each county. The summer epidemic is not only the civilians in Zhi County. The construction sites contracted by other counties have more or less summer epidemics, and the serious situation is much more chaotic than the situation in Zhi County.

Because Chi County was discovered early, Chen Xu also treated him in time, and only more than ten civilians died. Chen Xu could hear from Jiangbeiting that more than seventy civilians died in Wuyang County next door, and hundreds of civilians fled in fear and unknown whereabouts. According to Jiangbeiting's slightly frightened and gloating expression, the county magistrate probably had already finished it.

Because Chen Xu, in Chi County, only Chen Xu knew in advance that he wanted to dig medicinal materials, he started to do it quickly. He took two or three thousand kilograms of tax grain in about a week and transported it to the county town to get 100 stones of tax grain, worth more than 4,000 yuan. The grain belongs to him and is kept in the warehouse in the town. When the time comes, he can temporarily lend it to farmers to spend the famine.

During this period, Chen Xu did not slow down the purchase of medicinal materials, because according to the Youqian report who escorted medicinal materials back, the collection of medicinal materials in other counties was obviously slower because the supply of medicinal materials was insufficient, and there were still civilians who were constantly getting sick and dying. In addition, the supervisors supervising the construction of Shangluo to Nanyang Chidao also sent orders to Nanyang to provide a large amount of medicinal materials for treating summer plague and trauma. Therefore, Jiangbeiting asked Chen Xu to hand over a large amount of medicinal materials quickly.

In addition to these urgent medicinal materials that need to be handed over, Chen Xu also purchased a large number of high-end medicinal materials, such as licorice, yam, poria, honey, etc. He would use these to open a pharmaceutical workshop to make pills. At that time, he would go to Wancheng and let Shui Qingrou arrange to sell them to all parts of the country with the tea caravan.

Therefore, the pharmaceutical workshop was also very busy during this period. Every day, villagers came to sell medicinal materials in a constant stream, and honey pills were also being manufactured on a large scale. After school, students in primary schools all went to the pharmaceutical workshop to work as assistants to rub pills, but they had no wages.

There is a newly built small courtyard two hundred meters away from the pharmacy. It has not been completely repaired yet, and several civilians are stepping up construction.

The yard is built next to the river, with several stone mortars and a few pottery jars inside.

Soak some old hemp ropes in broken linen, some tree bark, bamboo shoot shells, hemp silk and some wild grasses with better toughness.

Because I have been soaking for several days, and the sun is strong and the temperature is high, I can smell a sour smell of rotten water as soon as I enter the yard.

Niu Dashi was leading two thirteen and fourteen-year-old boys to cover their faces with a piece of linen cloth and stirring them in the pottery jar with wooden sticks. The smell of the bubbles churning even worse.
Chapter completed!