Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 777: Finding a Way Out for the State Government

After all, the sales area of ​​lychees has expanded from the local area of ​​ten miles to the entire territory of the Dasheng Dynasty because of the addition of the Fairy Bowl, so there is no need to worry about selling.

Chang Lanzhou grows sorghum, which can be exchanged with Peng Dong’s winery, and the income will not be small. Moreover, the local people will not lack opportunities to do things, so their future life will not be difficult.

In addition, the scale of the liquor factory is not small, and a lot of sorghum is needed. Therefore, Hualei, who lives in Changyouzhou next to Changlanzhou, has decided to let the local people grow sorghum together.

Moreover, he had already stepped forward to help broker a connection between Changyouzhou and the liquor shop's Mr. Peng to sign a supply replacement agreement. From now on, the local people would be able to increase their income, and their food and clothing problems would definitely be solved.

In Changhe Prefecture, because there is abundant lophatherum in the area, with Liang Xiangyi's textile workshop and her own dye workshop, Hua Lei feels that the people have no shortage of opportunities to work and should be able to get by.

The people of Changtong Prefecture began to grow sugarcane, making cane sugar and snowflake sugar, and also obtained an agreement from the Imperial Court Purchasing Department, so subsequent income was not a problem.

However, the sugarcane industry can be further explored to see if it can boost the local economy. Hualei wrote this down in her notebook.

This year, Changwu Prefecture also started to grow watermelons. Although the production and sales volume are unknown, since Changwu Prefecture has a border market, as long as watermelons are grown, sales should not be a problem.

However, the sales capacity of this border market is still limited, and the storage time of watermelons is relatively short. Once they are unsalable, it will cause losses to the people and affect subsequent watermelon planting.

Moreover, Hualei also planned that once there are enough watermelon seeds for seeds, he would let Changhui Prefecture, which is next to Changwu Prefecture, follow Changwu Prefecture's footsteps and grow watermelons together. Therefore, it is still necessary to expand the sales channels of watermelons.

If the local Huimin Pharmacy in Changwu Prefecture were allowed to purchase watermelons from the people when they were on the market in large quantities and try to make some watermelon frost, the sales of watermelons would be much greater.

I just don't know if Huimin Pharmacy will work? In the Dasheng Dynasty, there were Huimin Pharmacy set up by the court in various places. They were branches of the Imperial Hospital in various places.

There are many Chinese medicinal materials on hand, and some local finished or semi-finished medicinal materials are collected and sent to the Imperial Medical Service.

Watermelon frost, also known as watermelon saltpeter or watermelon green coat, is a layer of white frost-like powder on the outermost thin skin of watermelon.

It is a white powdery granular crystal made from a mixture of watermelon rind and Glauber's salt, shaped like coarse salt. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and has very good medicinal value.

It is not difficult to make. The traditional way of collecting frost is to hollow out the top of a ripe watermelon, dig out the flesh, add Glauber's salt, and place the watermelon in a large earthenware jar.

After being stored in a cool and ventilated place for several months, floc-like white crystals will appear on the watermelon rind, which is commonly known as watermelon frost.

However, during the Great Sheng Dynasty, Glauber's salt was considered a precious commodity and was not easily available to the common people. I wonder if the local public pharmacy has it?

Hualei had heard about the making of watermelon frost from her acquaintance, Dr. Li, when she was in Mobei. Generally, the ladies in the harem were more precious, and in the hot summer, when they had mouth sores, they would use watermelon frost.

Among the common people, only the wealthy merchants were willing to use it. If the Huimin Pharmacy in Changwu Prefecture could produce watermelon frost, then Changwu Prefecture's watermelons would have a very good outlet. Moreover, the follow-up supply would be endless.

Thinking of this, Hua Lei found Wan Tongpan from the government office and asked him to pass a message to the medical officer of Huimin Pharmacy in Changwu Prefecture, asking him to come to the government office in Xichang to discuss the matter.

Each Huimin Pharmacy has a medical officer, who is a sixth-rank official of the imperial court and is responsible for all matters of the local pharmacy. Hualei wants to ask, can the Huimin Pharmacy in Changwu Prefecture make watermelon frost?

Ten days later, Doctor Liu from the Huimin Pharmacy in Changwu Prefecture came to the government office with the detailed account books of the pharmacy's medicinal materials and met Hua Lei. Doctor Liu came with Yu Zhizhou, who had met Hua Lei not long ago.

Seeing Yu Zhizhou, Hua Lei was a little surprised. She had only gone to see Doctor Liu, so why was Yu Zhizhou here too? However, it was good that he was here. If Huimin Pharmacy really wanted to make watermelon frost, it would indeed have to go through Yu Zhizhou's hands.

So, several people sat down and discussed the matter carefully. When Yu Zhizhou heard Hua Lei said that he wanted to ask Doctor Liu to make watermelon frost with watermelon, he secretly admired her and was also secretly glad that he was here.

He admired Hualei's long-term vision. He always thought three steps ahead before doing anything. Now that the watermelon seeds had just been planted, Hualei had already thought about making watermelon frost. He did not have this foresight.

Fortunately, if the Huimin Pharmacy in Changwu Prefecture uses local watermelons to make watermelon frost, it will also be a political achievement for local officials.

You know, watermelon frost is a precious thing, only the emperor and the empresses in the palace can use it. If by then, the Huimin Pharmacy in Changwu Prefecture really made watermelon frost and supplied it to the Imperial Hospital.

That would be like Zhao Zhizhou of the neighboring Changtong Prefecture, who had delivered his goods to Emperor Shengwu. This kind of honor was something that ordinary local officials could not even dream of.

So, he looked at Doctor Liu eagerly, hoping that he could give a positive answer. However, as a doctor, Doctor Liu was still relatively rational.

He carefully told Hua Lei about the medicinal material reserves of the Huimin Pharmacy in Changwu Prefecture and the possibility of the pharmacy making watermelon frost.

As for how to make watermelon frost, the pharmacy has information to check, and even if it doesn't have it, you can ask the Imperial Hospital for it. So if you have the raw materials, making watermelon frost will not be a problem.

However, the Imperial Medical Service was limited in the amount of various medicinal materials it provided to the Huimin Pharmacies set up in various places. There was Glauber's salt, but in small quantities.

If you really want to make a large amount of watermelon frost, the sodium sulfate stored in the Huimin Pharmacy of a state is not enough. So, if you want to solve this problem, there are several ways.

The first method was to sell watermelons to the Huimin Pharmacy in the neighboring prefecture, and everyone would make watermelon frost. In this way, the people of Changwu Prefecture could get some income from selling watermelons.

However, from the perspective of Huimin Pharmacy, the production of watermelon frost can only be done on its own and cannot be brought together.

When he heard that he had to sell watermelons to Huimin Pharmacy in the neighboring prefecture and make watermelon frost on his own, Yu Zhizhou was a little unhappy. As the top leader of Changwu Prefecture, he really wanted to keep the watermelon frost business within his own Changwu Prefecture.