But Wang Shi couldn't figure it out, his adoptive father was born in Jiangmen, he had lived in Kaifeng since he was a child, and he was also a concubine, how could he know so much about so many crops?

Watermelons, white stacked flowers, rice sac flowers, and rape flowers have been cultivated in the Great Song Dynasty for a long time, but they were either used as ornamental flowers or as dishes, and it was not until the adoptive father that their true uses were discovered and promoted.

In addition to the rice sac flower, several other things are all big killers to make money. If the promotion society did not have these fist products to support, let alone the Huangzhou Society, even if the new army held a musket, it would still not be able to make the people of the Great Song Dynasty go to cultivate willingly.

By the way, there's sugarcane and alfalfa, two crops that are even more powerful. From Guangnan East Road to Fujian Road, planting sugarcane and squeezing sugar is no less profitable than going to the sea to do business. Even if you can't make snow-white frosted sugar, the income from selling the red brown sugar to a large-scale sugar factory with technology is very considerable.

Alfalfa is even more amazing, the herdsmen only know that the livestock love to eat it, or know where the weeds are abundant, but they never want to be planted by humans. In Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Yinglicheng, and Yinzhou, the adoptive father formulated policies to encourage pioneers to grow cotton and alfalfa.

Over the past few years, the local animal husbandry has been revitalized by weeds. Whether it is a sheep or a camel, the fat is faster than in other regions, and even the fur is obviously superior.

Although planting alfalfa is not as profitable as cotton, it is not easy to plant and serve. A family of three or four people can take care of hundreds of acres, harvest a stubble and grow a stubble, which is not less than the income of cotton, and is most suitable for families with less labor.

Sugarcane in the south, alfalfa in the north, and cotton in the middle, this is the agricultural development plan of the Great Song Dynasty. In addition to the traditional wheat, rice, and mulberry trees, large sorghum, millet, flax, and barley have been replaced with sugar cane, alfalfa, and cotton. They were then used to make cotton cloth, raise livestock, and make sugar, which were loaded onto ships by the sea and shipped to the countries of the South Seas in exchange for spices, gold and silver, precious stones, medicinal herbs, and boatloads of rice.

Transporting this rice to areas with relatively low grain production will not only stabilize local grain prices, but also make it more cost-effective for the people to grow their own grain. Wang Shi never understood this account, anyway, the result is in front of him, and he can't do it if he doesn't believe it.

In the final analysis, these crops are the killer feature and source of motivation to promote the new deal, and even if you can't convince others immediately, you will be seen full of benefits after two years, and then rush to it.

If you think about it this way, the Huangzhou Society's approach is indeed a bit opportunistic. It was originally a good thing, but it turned out that they made it a bad thing full of public resentment, and they should be killed!

"Talk to the dart master, stop and rest." In fact, Wang Shi still didn't let his thoughts fly, whether it was cotton, alfalfa, sugarcane, or rape flowers, they played a role far more than just on the surface that could be seen and touched, and the resulting in-depth impact was more.

Rape flowers, for example, are grown and harvested like traditional crops, but the yield is much higher than that of sesame seeds. The traditional oil extraction method will definitely not be able to meet the market demand, and the rapeseed will not be squeezed even if it is rotten.

What to do, reality forces people to use their brains to think of more efficient and advanced methods of oil extraction. Since the day of evolution, this human thing has been inferior to animals in any parameter of its body, except for a big head that is very obstructive. If you want to live, you have to force yourself to find a way to overcome difficulties, as long as you have a strong desire, there is nothing that you can't overcome.

Oil extraction, the traditional way does not work, then switch to waterwheel livestock as the power. The wooden oil press is still not good, so I simply learn from the cotton mill to make metal.

Is it all over just squeezing oil? No, as long as oil extraction becomes a business, mixed with money, people began to think about how to squeeze every drop of oil in rapeseed, so they began to work hard to improve the efficiency of the oil press, and summed up the whole set of technology.

It only took four or five years for all this to take shape, and the traditional oil mills in Huangzhou have long been lost, but have become two huge oil mills. The rapeseed harvested in various places is purchased by merchants and sent to oil mills, where they are then bought by merchants and sold in township shops. Whoever wants to eat stir-fried vegetables and light a lamp can buy it with money.

The concentration of production methods and the improvement of efficiency are the improvement of productivity. Increased productivity means that farm work that would have taken each person ten hours to complete is now seven hours, and the remaining three hours are discretionary. It can be produced more, or it can be used to bask in the sun, travel, drink, and make villains......

No matter what you choose, you are contributing to society. From an individual point of view, it is only a small change in life, but for society, it is a big progress. The resulting social changes were enormous and radical, and the smallholder economy was moving towards commoditization.

The place where Hong Tao chose to park is an oil mill, standing next to a small stream, not too large but very good. Some of the rapeseed harvested by the people was used for farming, some of it was exchanged for money, and some of it was kept for their own food.

Who doesn't have a family or friend to walk around, it is too face-saving to serve a few plates of stir-fried vegetables, which is a dish only available in big restaurants in the city. If you want to stir-fry, you have to have oil, and it is convenient to take your home-grown rapeseed to a nearby oil mill to change some vegetable oil.

"Eldest sister, how much oil does a pound of oilseeds change?" There were four farmers lined up at the entrance of the oil mill, both men and women. With Hong Tao's urine sex, the youngest woman must be rushed first. This time she was a peasant woman in her thirties or forties, and her appearance could not be more ordinary, but she was very clean, and she looked like a good housekeeper.

“…… If you don't return the goods, what will you do in the oil mill! The woman opened her mouth, and Hong Tao felt that she had to add another characteristic, which was spicy.

"I have a cotton field at home, and I want to grow some rape, but I don't know if it's worth it."

On pretending to be his grandson Hong Tao is also one of the best existences in the Great Song Dynasty, at this time, he has no tiger eyes, standing in the wind, majestic and extraordinary, and he can't feel the slightest feeling of being a superior. It can't be said that the whole body is obscene, but the smile, cheeks, words and deeds are extremely similar to the market vendors, but the accent is more unique.

"Naturally, it is planted, and a pound of seeds can produce three taels of oil. It's just that the oil mill is very greedy, and the oil residue has to be detained. If you have an oil mill, it's best to use oil residue to grow your land. ”

The woman opened her mouth again, and Hong Tao felt that she had to add another trait, enthusiasm. Looking at the meaning of the eldest sister, as long as she shows interest, this conversation has to continue. So he didn't answer, just smiled at the woman and thanked her, and walked towards the oil mill with his hands behind his back.

A pound of seeds produces three taels of oil, which sounds quite high, but in fact, this is not the case at all. The traditional one song jin is equal to 16 taels, and the decimal system is only popular in a few traditional special zones and coastal cities, and it cannot be popularized at present.

According to the calculation of 16 taels per catty, the oil yield is less than 20 percent. This figure is nearly six or seven percentage points lower than that of Huangzhou, which is not less. Hong Tao feels that if it is not the quality of rapeseed itself, it is a problem with the way of oil extraction.

Of course, it may also be that the local oil mill owner has a dark heart. However, this possibility is not high, they are all villagers, the ancients attached great importance to reputation, and they will not take risks easily.

Does Hong Tao know how to squeeze oil? How to say it, I really don't understand the details, but he is a jack-of-all-trades, as long as he doesn't move his hands and mouth, he can basically say anything, and he has quite an opinion. Now he has to go into the oil mill to see if there is a mistake in the operation, or if the boss is black.

There are only three people working in the oil mill, and the oil press equipment here is very new, and it must be said that it is very advanced at the moment, it is a group of twin-screw oil presses produced in the Daimyo Mansion. There are two machines, one large and one small, the small one is used as virgin, and when the temperature of the oil cake drops, it is heated and sent to the large refinery again.

With the current technical ability, oil extraction can only go to this point, and if you want to pressurize it alone, you can't do it by screws alone, I'm afraid you have to use water pressure or hydraulic devices. Unless it is a large-scale oil mill, the average person really can't play with this kind of large-scale equipment.

"Brother, do you want to have half a tael of oil per catty of oilseeds?" Hong Tao watched the three links of virginization, refining and frying for more than half an hour with his hands behind his back, and he had some experience. The three craftsmen in the oil mill did not speak ill of each other, and let him, an outsider, watch casually, which made him feel very good, and he was ready to send some warmth in return.