Chapter 200 Harvesting Potatoes
Summer is getting hotter and hotter, and people in the manor have also become idle, getting an extra two hours of lunch break every day.
From 11:30 noon to 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the slaves could lie down and sleep under the shed or in the shade of the trees, or they could go downstream to bathe and catch fish.
At around one o'clock in the afternoon, Salil changed into the cool long dress she wore during her lunch break.
When she took the goat milk from the kitchen and went upstairs to drink it, Salil saw Lawrence sitting by the window in the corridor on the second floor, blowing the air.
"Lawrence, what are you doing?"
Lawrence took a hair brush and wrote small words on the board. He raised his head and continued to look outside and said, "I'm improving the manor law." "
Oh." Salil quickly went back to the room. Yes, no specific questions were asked.
Lawrence continued to lower his head and perfect his own manorial law.
A person who has no future worries must have immediate worries. Lawrence also found that he had given too many welfare benefits to many slaves and captives in the manor.
There will definitely be more people joining the manor in the future. In order to better set the levels, a strict set of manor laws is needed.
For example, how long does it take for a slave to become free and how long does it take to become a serf.
What kind of contribution does each person need to make, and what kind of reward can he get.
The consequence of setting rewards haphazardly is that you don’t know how to reward them in the end.
Now the people under his command are also different. For example, the Seravan who followed first are different from the Pumixiu who joined recently, and they are also different from the Western slaves who were exchanged as slaves.
Freedom shouldn't be so cheap, these people need to pay some price for freedom.
The contribution made by cultivating the fields should not be greater than the contribution made by those who fought through life and death against the invaders.
Unrestricted tolerance will not make the manor develop rapidly. Most people actually don't want to work. This is natural.
Lawrence lowered his head to divide several classes, and then used line segments to divide several grades, thinking about the contribution required for each class promotion.
In the future, serfs will not be promoted just because they keep farming. The promised conditions will give them freedom when the time comes.
What can we do if we have freedom? When I leave here and return to my hometown, I am no longer free.
If you want to stay at that time, it depends on whether you are willing to give them a chance.
How to obtain their own land and houses depends on the rules of the manor.
A clear and clear promotion system written in the manor law will make other people understand their own situation better and know that they have to work hard to get what they want, instead of just dealing with it all day long.
After going down and resting on the sofa for more than half an hour, Lawrence woke up and went to the bulletin board to write down his plans for the coming week.
June 1st: Cutting trees, washing clothes, drying clothes and bedding, clearing farmland, and making large wooden basins.
June 2nd: Cutting wood, watering, building warehouse
June 3rd: Cutting wood, building warehouse, cleaning barrels.
June 4th: Cutting wood, harvesting potatoes, bathing.
June 5th: Cutting wood, processing potatoes, building cellars.
June 6: Cutting wood, processing potatoes, building cellars.
June 7: Cutting wood and praying in church in the morning, resting for half a day in the afternoon.
Today is the last day of May and the first potatoes will ripen in four or five days. In addition to those harvested for food, out of the fifteen acres of potatoes, there will be ten acres of potatoes that need to be processed into potato starch.
To process potatoes into starch, you need manpower and tools. The first is a machine to crush potatoes.
You can build a rectangular pool with bricks, and then set up a high stone trough on one side of the pool. Put the potatoes in and beat them manually. The starch water will flow from the trough below to the pool.
However, this efficiency is too slow. It would be much easier if water power was used.
The pool does not require Delen's witchcraft. The people in the manor can use bricks and sand to build a very useful reservoir.
The main problem is the mixer.
Lawrence was stuck on this step for a long time, and could never think of a suitable processing method.
Early on the morning of June 1st, while Lawrence was watching the slave girls chopping vegetables in the kitchen, he suddenly had an idea and came up with a good idea!
"I'm so stupid! Even if you don't have a mixer, it's fine. You can grind the potatoes manually!" "I
fell into a misunderstanding before. I always thought that you need to use a water mill or a stone mill to crush the potatoes. In fact, you don't need to." "
Just use it . Use iron sheets and wood to make a peeler. Rub the potatoes on it for a few times and process it into minced potatoes. Then put it in a basin and slowly settle it for processing!" There are many kinds of peelers, and the one used to make shredded potatoes is just one of them
. First, if you punch a lot of raised iron holes in the iron sheet, you can use a grinder to grind the potatoes into a more crumbly foam.
Potato starch is the same as sweet potato flour. It is flour that has been precipitated over and over again, rather than the residue left at the end.
Most potatoes are still boiled and eaten. They are processed into starch for easy storage, while the leaves are used to feed pigs, sheep and chickens.
Potato flour is only made to feed a few people, so there is nothing wrong with processing it slowly. It is best to hide most potatoes in the cellar, so that they can be stored for two or three months without going bad.
After having a rough plan, Lawrence did not go to the blacksmith to make a grinder, but took Delen and Salil to find Lathander.
Lathander can control the flames of magma and is much better than the blacksmith in making iron tools.
After stating her request and sending a jar of honey, Luosander happily made five all-copper grinders out of copper sheets.
Each grinder is thirty centimeters long, twenty centimeters wide, and one centimeter thick. It is shaped like a copper plate similar to a washboard with many round holes protruding from it. The edges of the round holes are used to grind potatoes into potato pulp.
On the way back, Delen said: "I have been away for three or four months, and the tribe is still the same."
Lawrence said: "Most of the time it is like this, and it is a good thing that there is no change."
Delen does not think this is a good thing. I used to feel that the tribe needed me, but it wasn't until I saw real life with Lawrence that I realized how lazy my group of people were.
The potatoes in the farmland have begun to be harvested, and seventeen acres of potatoes will gradually mature. These potatoes will become the staple food for a long time in the future.
Lawrence planned potatoes as a staple food and potatoes for potato flour.
Potato flour can not only be used to make fried chicken, but also potato vermicelli.
The current conditions are almost enough to make pork stewed vermicelli.
Although it's not authentic potato vermicelli, it's nice to have a copycat product in a troubled place like this.
Lawrence was thinking about pork stewed with vermicelli, so naturally he would not let go of the other chicken stewed with mushrooms.
The output of potatoes has alleviated the food crisis. Whether it is wheat harvested in a while or wheat exchanged before, you can use it as much as you like.
After eating bread for so many years, it’s time to change my taste and eat some pasta!
(End of chapter)