Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

Before Jiang Tuan could wait for Ning Ling's answer, he heard Jiang Qi's voice from behind him.

He turned around and saw Jiang Qi coming over with a group of people.

Jiang Tuan was a little confused. It wasn't that he didn't expect Jiang Qi to come. The entire Great Xia Kingdom belonged to him. He could go wherever he wanted without having to consider other people's feelings.

Besides, he wanted to create something that the Great Xia Dynasty did not have. Any emperor who was curious and cared about the country would definitely come to see it. There should be nothing surprising about it.

In fact, he was confused not about why Jiang Qi came, but how to greet him.

The first two times Jiang Tuan met Jiang Qi, he came too suddenly. The second time, he was so focused on whether the other party would believe him that he didn't even think about greeting. When they met for the third time, he still didn't greet him.

He knew that the Great Xia Dynasty was an ancient country where the emperor was supreme, and he would not use the modern idea of ​​equality for all to fight against the local system.

The reason why he didn't salute was not because he couldn't kneel down, but because he really didn't know how to salute.

Just like now, Ning Ling, who was following him, bowed, while the other eunuchs knelt. So should he bow or kneel? This is a question.

However, in line with the principle of asking questions when one does not understand, he directly asked his confusion: "Your Majesty, I don't know how to salute you."

Jiang Qi had talked to Jiang Tuan and knew the other party's situation, but others didn't know, so he immediately had many thoughts in his mind.

Why don't they know how to perform the salute? Is it because the way of performing the salute is different from the way they perform the salute here, or is it because they don't perform the salute at all there?

If it was the latter, they didn't understand why they didn't greet each other. In the other person's world, don't people of lower status have to greet people of higher status?

Although everyone had various questions in their minds, they all had a feeling that this was not an issue they should delve into.

"No need to be polite, just remain the same as you were before."

Even though Jiang Qi said so, Jiang Tuan still decided to ask Ning Ling about etiquette in private. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Since he came to Daxia, it would be best for him to abide by some of the rules here.

It is definitely not a good thing to be too unique in a place you are not familiar with.

This thought flashed through his mind, and Jiang Tuan smiled and asked Jiang Qi why he came here.

"Your Majesty, are you here to see the making of tofu and pure salt?"

"Yes, I heard that everything is ready, so I came to see how it goes."

Jiang Tuan pointed to the half-filled bucket of soy milk and the salt water that was about to crystallize, and said, "Your Majesty, look, it's already started. In a little while, we can move on to the next step."

"Okay, let's continue!"

At the emperor's words, the eunuchs stood up and continued their work.

Jiang Qi was curious about the stone mill and the stone roller. He walked closer to take a look and was very happy: "I didn't expect that beans soaked in water could be ground into pulp by grinding them with this stone mill."

"Yes, this stone mill is amazing. It can not only grind tofu but also wheat and rice. It is very convenient.

This one next to it is called a stone mill, which can be used to peel the grains.”

As he spoke, Jiang Tuan asked the eunuch to get a bag of unhusked millet and demonstrated it to everyone.

At this point, I have to talk about Jiang Tuan’s surprise when he saw millet in shells for the first time.

On the one hand, he had never seen millet with shells, and on the other hand, he had never seen millet that was so small.

The millet that Jiang Tuan had seen was either sent to their family by their grandmother from their hometown or bought from the supermarket.

No matter which one, the grains were full, but what about the one from the Great Xia Dynasty? It was shrunken and small, not like millet at all, but just like a kind of grass seed he had seen when he was a child.

When he first saw it, he asked Ning Ling in disbelief, saying that this was really millet and not grass seeds that were taken by mistake.

Ning Ling told him that this was He. Oh, by the way, in the Great Xia Dynasty, millet was called He.

Holding the incredibly small rice, Jiang Tuan developed a deeper respect for agronomists.

In the world he lived in before, the ancient wheat must have been the same as that in the Great Xia Dynasty, small and shriveled. It took the efforts of generations of agronomists to develop the later varieties that were round, plump and high-yielding.

Having seen the poor little He, Jiang Tuan was no longer so disappointed when he saw the Shu that Ning Ling mentioned, which was soybeans.

It doesn’t matter if it’s smaller or uglier, as long as it’s edible.

Prime Minister Wei Chuo was born into an aristocratic family and grew up in a wealthy family. Now he has become a powerful prime minister. He doesn't know much about farm work, but he understands criminal law and knows that there is a punishment called "Chong".

Pounding is usually used to punish women who have committed crimes. Since it can be used as a punishment, it is conceivable that pounding is definitely not an easy task.

People were required to put the millet in a rice pounding bucket and use a rice pounding pestle to pound out the husks. The rice pounding pestle was heavy and it was very tiring to work for a while, and my arms and waist were almost broken from the fatigue.

Even if it was not used as a punishment, ordinary people still needed to pound rice at home, which would consume a lot of time and labor.

With this stone mill, pounding rice will no longer be a particularly hard task, and it can greatly reduce the burden on the people.

And the stone mill. The wheat flour they ate required slaves to work very hard to make it. Ordinary people didn't have time to do it, so they would just steam the wheat in a pot and eat wheat rice.

Of course, even wheat rice, which tastes relatively rough, is not available at all times. Many people eat bean rice made from various beans.

When there was a shortage of food and no beans or rice, it was a good thing to be able to find some wild vegetables to eat and not starve to death.

After Wei Chuo expressed his idea, Jiang Qi paid more attention to the stone mill and stone roller, and looked at these two things for a long time.

After seeing enough, he asked Jiang Tuan: "This stone mill and stone roller should be made bigger, right? Wouldn't it be more convenient to use it then?"

Jiang Tuan thought about the video he had watched before and said, "Yes, it can be made bigger and have more things.

And if conditions permit, we can replace human labor with animals, which is more labor-saving. If there is water, we can also build water wheels to convert water power into power, so that stone mills and stone rollers can continue to work. "

"What is a waterwheel? A wheel pulled by water? Doesn't a wheel need oxen and horses to pull it? How does water pull it?"

When asked by Jiang Qi, Jiang Tuan found that he was too excited and accidentally said something that was not here.

But he has said it anyway. He is here to help Da Xia. If he tells them more things, maybe Da Xia can develop better and the system can collect more energy.

"The principle of the waterwheel is not complicated, but it requires a professional carpenter to do it, and it also requires finding a suitable location to put it, which is much more difficult than making tofu."

"The craftsman is not a problem. I will arrange for someone to come and learn how to make it from you in a moment."