To the west of Longtou Mountain, large areas of rice waves fluctuate with the wind like golden lakes. Huangzhou General Manager, Wang Yuwen Wen of Xiyang, stood on the Yangtze River embankment on the south side and enjoyed the beautiful scenery in front of him.

The vast rice fields in front of me were originally just deserted beaches by the river, and were hit by floods. They were full of snails. They were paddy fields that Yu Wen Wen had tried every means to reclaim.

The Yangtze River embankment and the Santai River embankment are also provided. These paddy fields reclaimed from wasteland have been cultivated for several years, and various fermented pig manure, chicken manure and duck manure are composted, which has created the current scenery.

Yuwen Wen took back Qianlijing and asked, "As autumn is coming, how much is the per mu production capacity here?"

The governor of Huang Zhuang, Shi Hao Wu Bo, replied: "My king, based on the slightly increased output last year, it can reach about half of the production of mature fields."

"It's finally halfway, it's really a big effort." Yu Wen Wen was very satisfied with the result. "This year, the paddy fields in this area will have to pay the land rent. Is the granary ready?"

"It's ready, absolutely no problem."

Yuwen Wen led the officials to talk while walking. The autumn harvest was about to come, and he went out to inspect the farmland. All he wanted was to know was that, and the large area of ​​farmland surrounded by the river embankment on the west side of Longtou Mountain was the top priority.

After the river embankment was repaired, the snails were wiped out, and the accumulated water was discharged, part of these original wastelands were distributed to soldiers who had made military achievements, and the other part was distributed to the people who settled in Huangzhou.

In order to help open up land, the government also rented agricultural tools and seeds, organized everyone to build ditches, educated seedlings step by step, and transported fermented fertilizer from the city to uniformly apply them.

The newly reclaimed farmland is a farmland, and the harvest in the first year is better than nothing. Considering that it takes a long time to reclaim land to ensure that the land has a desirable output, so as of this year, these lands were rent-free.

During the period of rent-free period, the amount of grain collected by the land shall be yours, and the rent shall be collected after the deadline is up. The more grain left after paying the rent, the more you will get, so everyone is very motivated to farm.

This year, the weather is good, so it can be predicted that autumn will inevitably be a bumper harvest. The land rent paid for these newly reclaimed farmlands this year will bring a lot of food to Huangzhou Prefecture Depot.

Only with sufficient food can more soldiers be raised, and the food and grass can last for a few more months when using foreign troops. This is the issue that Yuwen Wen is most concerned about.

Sooner or later, the imperial court will take action against the Chen State in Jiangnan. No matter which year the war begins, it is absolutely right to stock up on good food. Before the troops move, food and grass will go first. Therefore, Yuwen Wen has been farming while training troops.

It was noon halfway through the inspection. Yuwen and his party did not go to the village to open fire and eat, but instead dealt with it on the spot next to a beacon tower on the river embankment.

The official chef of the state yamen has prepared some cooked cakes and boiled cold water. If the air is still very hot today, it is easy to eat cooked cakes with cold water.

Of course, Yuwen Wen would not miss the opportunity to sell products, and signaled his followers to come out with soda to share with everyone. He had prepared a lot of preparations on the "logistics carriage" he was traveling.

Seeing Shangguan treating guests, the officials naturally felt respectful and obedient. The reputation of soda is now very popular in Xiyang City. Many of them have visited them to consume them. The refreshing feeling is indeed good.

However, it is a bit expensive, and many people have to rely on official salary to support a family, so they cannot spend as much as possible. They can only benefit from it when a relative or friend is present.

"It's lunch time now, and it's not in the government office. Don't be restrained. If you drink soda, you will hiccup. Then just be casual and don't be afraid of being rude."

Yuwen Wen set a downward order first. Since he had already expressed his attitude, his subordinates naturally dared to let go. The garrison soldiers at this beacon tower also benefited from it, and each bottle of iced soda was boiling.

People who have drunk soda know that they should not be anxious. However, those who drink the first time are not very deep. Not long after drinking it like drinking water, they involuntarily burp and then are very surprised by the effect of this drink.

As the behind-the-scenes promoter of soda, Yuwen Wen naturally has no shortage of soda, so the amount of soda brought this trip was a lot. Seeing everyone happy to drink, he was also generous and asked his followers to move all the soda in the car down to treat him.

As long as it does not involve matters of principle, Yuwen Wen has always been very good at treating his subordinates, so it is not surprising that the officials saw Yuwen Wen so generous. The atmosphere became more relaxed while drinking soda.

Seeing that soda was so popular, Yuwen Wen was very satisfied. He was afraid that this kind of drink would be more popular after it was launched, so the research expenses he spent would be wasted.

In eight years, the War of Resistance Against Japan is about to be won!

The principle of soda is very simple. It allows a large amount of carbon dioxide gas to dissolve into the water. After such water is drunk, the carbon dioxide gas escapes, causing the drinker to hiccup. When the gas leaves the human body, it will take away the heat, so it can make the drinker feel cool.

However, the simple principle does not mean that it is simple to implement. There are two ways to dissolve carbon dioxide into water. Yuwen Wen took the physical route first: pressurization.

Since he can make a pneumatic continuous bead gun, he can also pressurize the beverages contained in the container, but this method cannot be used to push the soda to the market.

The compressed air technology tree that was pointed out at a huge amount of money is an important secret for Yuwen Wen, so he does not intend to share it with others, but he also wants to make money with soda, so he has to choose another way, that is, chemistry.

Later generations can make homemade soda, which requires baking soda, that is, sodium bicarbonate. As long as you add this thing to the water, add some fruit acid and seal the container, the carbon dioxide generated by the chemical reaction will naturally dissolve in the water.

So you only need baking soda to make large quantities of soda, but this baking soda is the biggest problem.

Baking soda can be prepared from natural alkali, so it is necessary to find natural alkali ore. The Nanyang Basin, which later called the Nanyang Basin, is now the territory of the Jingzhou General Administration, has a very high content alkali ore, which can be used as the source of raw materials.

But I don’t know where those ores are distributed. The people sent by Yuwen Wen searched for several years and went through a lot of hardships to find the alkaline ore.

With alkaline ore, you can proceed to the next step: make and purify baking soda, the premise is to make sure that what you made is sodium bicarbonate. Yu Wenwen doesn’t know how to determine it, what should I do?

Then just rely on me.

Baking soda can be used for noodles and is an essential additive for making steamed buns and fried dough sticks in later generations, so this has become a breakthrough for Yuwen Wen's "Meng".

Use the exhaustive method to use the "suspected baking soda" refined from alkali ore to use the noodles. See if it is real baking soda, and then select the noodles and continue to try it. After confirming that the noodles can be effective, use this pasta for human experiments.

Of course, the experiment was used for death row prisoners. I don’t know how many death row prisoners died of food poisoning and finally tried it out. Then they thought about the purification process and finally obtained baking soda that “can’t eat people”.

With things in hand, how to market is the key. Of course, Yuwen Wen has to rely on soda money, so he claims that the raw materials for making soda are "Huangzhou specialties", and uses the practice of tribute emperors to improve their quality, and then launches it to the market to make money.

With baking soda, he can not only make simple versions of soda, but also make pasta. The noodle recipe containing baking soda has been recovered through "bidding" and the cost and interest. When he thought of drinking soda every day in the future, he was happy.

Hao Wu Bo, who was standing aside, sighed at the soda. He thought this drink was really good, so he admired Yuwen Wen's wonderful ideas. Seeing this person in a good mood, he made a suggestion: "King, although the name of soda is straightforward, it is too ordinary. I wonder if it has a nickname?"

"Single name? Hao Changshi's suggestions are good." Yuwen Wen nodded. He brought out Hao Wu's business acumen. Of course, soda must have a good name, the kind that can be catchy and easy to remember.
Chapter completed!