Chapter 228

Suellen didn't care much about the spread of sugar beet seeds. Even if they obtained sugar beet seeds and successfully planted sugar beets, they still got bitter brown sugar by pressing sugar beet juice.

The raw material of Southern white sugar is sugar cane, a plant very similar to sugarcane in previous generations. Those people think that Zhenbei city can produce white sugar in large quantities because the raw materials used are different, so they attach great importance to sugar beet and even send many people to steal planting technology.

What they don't know is that the planting technology here in Zhenbei city is based on the strong influence of the harvest altar. If they plant beets according to the practice of Zhenbei City, the effect will not be very good. Moreover, the maturity period of sugar beet is much longer than that of sugar cane. Planting sugar beet in the South has no advantage.

When those who grow sugar beets find that they can not produce white sugar, and the maturity of sugar beets is more than half a year later than that of sugar cane, they will not plant this kind of thing.

Suellen and Frodo exchanged some spice seeds, and then divided about ten mu of land in the farmland for planting. It's not that Suellen doesn't want to plant a lot of spices, but that Frodo has only so many spice seeds.

Some of them are not suitable for the climate in the north. Sulun planted pepper, fennel, pepper, cumin and other commonly used, such as star anise cinnamon and pepper, which can only be purchased from the south. It is said that the Red Dragon Queen of the South Islands controls more than 80% of the spice trade. It is rumored that there are several small islands in the South Islands full of spices, which is called Spice Island.

The profits made by the spice trade every year make several countries around jealous and want to take a share. However, these countries are afraid of the strong strength of the Red Dragon Queen and her legion, a red dragon with at least the strength of ancient dragons, and she is also proficient in various spells. She can hang a team of legendary wizards alone.

Even the paladin who has always advertised that he is at odds with evil will automatically ignore the existence of the Red Dragon Queen. In the main material world, an ancient red dragon proficient in magic is basically the ceiling of the upper limit of strength. Even if it is the avatar of God and Saint, the winner is not certain.

Su Lun is also envious of the Red Dragon Queen. He occupies an important hub of marine trade and controls the spice trade. His strength is amazing. He is simply a winner in life. No, he is a winner in dragon life.

The spices planted last year are growing very well now, of which the peppers have turned red and can be picked in half a month at most. As for the remaining cumin, they are also growing well. Pepper is still a small sapling. If you want results, you must wait until next year at least.

Other spices are also growing well. As long as we wait for a year or two, some spices will be produced here in the north city of Zhenbei, although it is not comparable to the Spice Island of the Red Dragon Queen after all, although its climate and geographical location are too good.

When Su Lun was exploring territory, he thought about going south. After all, there are many islands in the Southern Ocean. It is said that there is also a treasure island. Just because the slightly better islands in the South have been occupied and there is a big boss like the Red Dragon Queen on his head, Su Lun feels very insecure. Maybe with the help of the system, he will eventually catch up with the Red Dragon Queen, but how long will it take.

In order to protect these spices from being stolen and damaged, sulun specially built a farm here, divided the spices and the surrounding 1000 mu of land into the farm, and built a fence to enclose this area. At the same time, soldiers were arranged to guard.

Spices are still very expensive. Although they are not exaggerated to sell by grain, they are no cheaper than white sugar. The most expensive ones are pepper and cinnamon. For example, the price of spices planted in sulun is lower than them except cumin.

Sulun plans to continue to expand the planting area of spices, and at least plant all the 1000 mu manor.

A lot of wheat is also planted in the farmland in the north of the town. These wheat are mainly supplied to sulun, and other surplus wheat will be sold. After all, there are many caravans here. They are rich people. Naturally, they will not eat potatoes, and refined flour is the best choice.

The rest of the land is planted with barley, oats, soybeans and some other food, some of which are used to make wine and some to feed livestock. Of course, some are used to extract oil. There are not many kinds of vegetable oil in the world. The most widely used is olive oil. However, the quantity of olive oil is too small and the price is not cheap, so sulun found a substitute, soybeans. He is going to plant soybeans for oil extraction.

Besides squeezing oil and feeding livestock, soybeans can also be used to make tofu. Although he has forgotten the specific method of making tofu, he can study it slowly. Maybe he can drink the tofu brain of his previous life again. He hasn't tasted the smooth, tender and refreshing taste for a long time. At that time, he will drink a bowl of sweet, a bowl of salty, and pour a bowl of it.

The farmland in Zhenbei city is increasing every day. Food has always been very important in both previous lives and the world. In particular, Zhenbei city has been a large number of immigrants and needs a lot of food to feed these people.

After touring the farmland, sulent decided to visit the college he set up. Now the college is very different from the beginning. At first, these scholars stayed here because of sullen's threat. Later, after a period of life, these scholars found that in addition to the restriction of personal freedom, Other aspects are much better than their treatment in the northern provinces.

The most important thing is that Su Lun gives too much money. A scholar has an average of 150 ginals a year. Plus their welfare, including white sugar, rum, refined flour, tea and so on, it can't stop at 300 ginals a year.

Such a good treatment has completely subverted the understanding of scholars who originally thought that this place was just a bitter and cold place and were ready to get a vote and run away. We should know that in the past, although they were aristocrats in the northern provinces, they often ate mixed meals.

So after adapting here, in addition to teaching literacy and arithmetic, these scholars began to take some other courses. Of course, the vast majority of grass-roots officials who came to study left only after learning basic courses, and some people will take time to study.

After looking at the school, although teaching basic knowledge has been very good, Su Lun still faces the problem of insufficient teachers. Su Lun plans to continue to entrust those caravans to hire scholars at a high price. He doesn't care how those caravans deceive scholars, but as long as they come, they won't leave without teaching courses for a few years. Of course, Suellen will certainly pay them a high salary.

In addition to the shortage of staff, another problem of the college is that the number of books is too small. It can only rely on the books brought by scholars themselves. For these, sulun has also asked Jean's caravan to buy them. It is estimated that they will be solved when they come back.

Another problem is paper. There is no cheap paper in the college. Parchment is too expensive. The price of a piece of parchment is much more expensive than a piece of parchment. These students still use sand tables and wooden slips to learn to write. The paper workshop in Beicheng town has been experimenting with making a kind of strong, cheap and fluent paper.

Su Lun heard them report that they had some eyebrows. The paper made from the paper materials used before was too soft and absorbent to write at all. After following Su Lun's instructions, these craftsmen successively used several trees to make paper.

After coming out of the college, he went directly to the paper workshop. Since the paper workshop produced paper, paper has become very popular. After all, not all the nobles like to share a thick hemp rope or the same stick.

Once the paper was introduced, it was widely praised by the aristocracy.

Since Su Lun built the paper workshop last time and produced a batch of paper, after this period of production, the paper workshop has expanded a lot, and the number of craftsmen in it has doubled. Half of the craftsmen are producing toilet paper, and the remaining workers are testing new materials.

The raw materials for papermaking have been changed from wood to bark, and many other materials have been added, such as linen. After this period of exploration, the workers have divided the papermaking process into several steps.

The first step is cooking. Cook the raw materials into a paste in this way. The second step is beating. Beat the cooked raw materials repeatedly to get the pulp. Then, soak the pulp into slurry and fish it out layer by layer. At this time, the paper has been formed. As long as it is dried and removed, it is paper.

Although the process looks simple, it is not easy to obtain a piece of paper.

After dozens or even hundreds of experiments and replacing the bark of various trees and plants on the northern wasteland, the paper mill finally produced a kind of barely usable paper.

This paper uses the bark of a common tree on the wasteland as raw material, which is made by adding several materials such as linen. Finally, the paper is not white, but yellowing.

In previous lives, this kind of paper was basically unwanted. The color was yellow, the paper was rough, and the paper was a little thick. Although there are many disadvantages, the price of this paper is relatively low, and there is no big problem in writing. It can be used completely.

Just after the paper mill successfully produced this kind of paper, Su Lun also heard a systematic prompt sound.

"Congratulations on the successful breakthrough of papermaking technology and the improvement of papermaking technology."

[papermaking technology: use bark, linen, fishing nets and other materials to make paper that can be used for writing after cooking, beating, copying and drying. Territory civilization process + 10, territory culture + 10 and learning ability + 5.]