After traveling through time, I led the whole village to become rich!

While drying the lotus root powder, Zhang Hulan made wine yeast with Polygonum multiflorum flowers.

It is very simple to make wine yeast with hot polygonum flower. Just crush the hot polygonum flower, mix the juice with glutinous rice flour, knead into a dough and ferment it. It takes about half a month.

After the starch was dried, Zhang Hulan began to teach the villagers how to make vermicelli.

First, mix some starch with water, then thicken it with boiling water.

When adding boiling water, use a wooden stick to stir it quickly into a paste, then start adding dry starch. Don't add too much at a time. Continue stirring while adding the starch. This is the most tiring time.

Ma said, "It's just like kneading dough."

Zhang Hulan nodded. "It's the same as kneading dough, but a bit more tiring."

Zhang Hulan continued, "If it feels dry, add warm water. The dough shouldn't be too dry or too watery."

When the dough was almost ready, Zhang Hulan took a piece of dough and put it in the colander to test it.

"Look, just put the dough in there, and the dough will slowly flow down and stay there."

Then he placed the colander over a large pot of boiling water.

Hang one end of the colander with a rope to save effort.

Zhang Hulan asked Zhang Hujun to hold the colander steady with one hand and hit the dough in the colander with a wooden hammer with the other hand.

The vermicelli fell into the boiling water from the bottom of the colander. Zhang Hulan used a stick to scoop the vermicelli out of the pot and put it into a wooden barrel filled with cold water next to it.

Rinse the vermicelli, then hang it up with thin bamboo sticks and dry it on the rack.

It’s not difficult to make, the main thing is to mix the dough.

Zhou asked, "Hu Lan, is that all?"

Zhang Hulan nodded. "Okay, we can sell it after it's dried."

Seeing Zhang Hulan's skillful movements, some villagers became eager and wanted to try their hand as well.

Ma rolled up her sleeves and said, "Hu Lan, let me try. You just watch from the side."

Zhang Hulan smiled and nodded, "Okay, you give it a try."

Ma was about to start eating, but Zhang Hulan hurriedly said, "Wash your hands! If you don't wash them, how am I supposed to eat?"

Ma smiled awkwardly and hurried to wash her hands. Then Zhang Hulan taught her step by step.

The villagers who wanted to give it a try washed their hands and did it themselves. Zhang Hulan only had dozens of kilograms of flour and finished it in a short time.

Seeing so many people gathered, Ma immediately went to get her own noodles and continued making them.

She said to everyone, "Come on, my fans, if you want to practice, you can come, it's okay if you waste it."

Zhang Hulan found it funny. This Ma was really cunning. She asked the villagers to work for her for free.

There is no waste when making vermicelli. Just keep the smaller pieces for yourself.

Last year, not many people planted lotus roots, and the first batch of vermicelli produced was not much. In two days, all the families who planted lotus roots made a batch of vermicelli.

After that, we made them in batches every day, with each family making about 100 kilograms. This way it was not tiring and every family could get a place in the queue.

Zhang Hulan stared at Zhao Guoliang. "Uncle Head, the pulverizer must be cleaned after each use. And when the water truck is not in use at night, the water must be turned off. Otherwise, if it keeps running all day long, its useful life will be greatly reduced. Also, in the summer, don't expose the water truck and pulverizer to direct sunlight."

Zhao Guoliang said, "I'll have everyone build a shed here to cover the powder mill and the water truck."

Zhang Hulan nodded, and then said, "I only made this one. In the future, when more people in the village grow lotus roots, this powdering machine will definitely not be enough.

When the time comes, you can ask everyone to pool their money and ask the county's carpenters and blacksmiths to build a few more frames based on this one.

With the physical object, they can also create it.

If you want to install it, just scroll down and select the location."

Zhao Guoliang nodded continuously, "Okay, I'll make arrangements then."

Zhang Hulan thought for a moment, then called Zhao Guoliang aside and said, "Uncle Village Head, you can ask Brother Zhao Cheng to collect vermicelli from the villagers and sell it in the city.

The villagers are basically illiterate and don't know how to do business. When the quantity is small, they can take it to the market and the city to sell it themselves.

But when the quantity increases, the vermicelli in the village has to be sold to other places.

At that time, I will ask Brother Zhao Cheng to buy it at a cheaper price of one or two cents per pound, and then take it to other counties or the provincial capital to sell it.

"Brother Zhao Cheng can earn quite a bit of money by pulling hundreds or thousands of kilograms at a time."

Zhao Guoliang's eyes flashed. This was indeed a good business.

But then Zhao Guoliang frowned and said, "Isn't it a bad idea to make money from big guys like this?"

Zhang Hulan said, "Uncle Village Head, if the villagers go to sell the goods themselves, they will be easily cheated and it will also waste their time. It's only natural that Brother Zhao Cheng earns less per pound. We can't work in vain, right?

In the future, there will definitely be merchants coming to the village to buy vermicelli. We’ll see what price they offer, and then Brother Zhao Cheng will say he’s here to buy it. That way, the villagers won’t have anything to say.”

Zhao Guoliang asked, "Hu Lan, you're going to make vermicelli too, right? Isn't it the same if everyone sells it to you?"

"Uncle Lizheng, I don't want to make vermicelli. I want to use my lotus roots to make wine."

Zhao Guoliang was surprised. "You can also make wine? Or are you smart, Hulan? You can do everything."

Zhao Guoliang didn't say anything more. He thought it would be great if Zhao Cheng could buy the villagers' vermicelli and sell it in the city. It would provide him with a stable income. Combined with the lotus roots he grew, the family could surely earn dozens of taels of silver every year.

Zhao Guoliang finally said to Zhang Hulan, "Hulan, you still have some time before you go to the capital. Once my family sells the vermicelli, I'll find someone to collect the money and return the remaining money to you first."

Zhao Cheng had already paid back some of it last year, but he still had over ten taels of silver to pay. Even after selling the vermicelli, he probably still needed a few more taels of silver.

"There's no rush. Wait until your family has the money, and then you can ask Brother Zhao Cheng to give the money to my parents."

Thinking that Zhang Hulan was about to leave, Zhao Guoliang felt reluctant to let her go.

"Alas, I don't know how many times I can see you again in the future."

He is not young anymore. As he gets older, he might leave at any time.

Zhang Hulan smiled and said, "Uncle Village Chief, I won't be in the capital for long. I guess it will only be three to five years. I might just come back to the village."

Zhao Guoliang asked in confusion: "Why?"

Zhao Guoliang was really confused. Being an official in the capital was so good, why did he have to come back to the village?

Zhang Hulan knew exactly how much she was capable of. Once she had developed hybrid rice, she would ask Emperor Yongxing to resign and return home.

Emperor Yongxing let her be an official because she was useful to him and the Yongning Kingdom.

She knew that the officialdom was very corrupt and full of scheming and scheming people.

Now she is not worried that anyone will target her, because she is useful to the emperor and the emperor will definitely protect her.

When she has no value, it is hard to say...