The four chimneys emitted billowing black smoke. As the boiler burned more and more vigorously, the thermal efficiency reached the highest level, and the four paddle wheels quickly rotated driven by the crankshaft.
The power gradually increased, and the paddle wheel raised a large amount of water. There was a mist behind it, and even a rainbow appeared. Yang Fan's disciples all ran to watch, and they all chirped excitedly to express their amazement.
Black smoke is emitted from the chimney, which is a manifestation of insufficient combustion. It can be seen that the combustion efficiency of the boiler is not very good. However, after all, this is an experimental product directly moved onto the ship, mainly to solve any problems. As for performance, that is
Things to pursue in the future.
As long as you can walk now, what kind of bicycle do you want? It will be good if it can be used. If it breaks down on the way, it is normal. Yang Fan brought the craftsman and parts with him.
Danshui has the same benefit. There is no shortage of water. You can fetch water from the river at any time to replenish the boiler. As long as you bring enough coal, you will be fine.
Yang Fan was very interested and personally picked up the shovel and added coal to the four boilers one by one.
Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru also became interested and came to add coal to the boiler. Mei Xiang saw that everyone was having fun and joined in the fun.
As a result, all four of them had big faces.
When the four of them had finished playing and came down from the boiler, Aunt Mei asked the maid to bring water, soap, and towels to help the four masters wash their faces.
Aunt Mei is thirty years old this year and has no interest in playing anymore. However, it was very novel and very fun to ride on such a steam-powered ship for the first time.
Maybe curiosity is a woman's nature and has nothing to do with age.
Yang Fan and others had enough fun and went to sit on the bow of the boat. Several mahogany chairs and small tables had been placed on the bow. The wind on the river was very cool in summer, and a pergola was set up on the bow of the boat, so the sun was not exposed to it, so it was comfortable.
Very.
Aunt Mei made Maofeng tea and served it.
Yang Fan used the lid of the bowl to skim the foam, and then took a sip.
Well, good tea, it leaves a fragrance on your lips and teeth.
What Yang Fan is most satisfied with is that after coming to Daming, all he drank was first-class tea.
The tea leaves of this era are not grafted, and there are no chemical fertilizers or pesticides. The yield is low, but the quality is absolutely guaranteed.
Since 2000, the quality of tea in later generations has deteriorated year by year. The price has been getting higher and higher, not to mention that it still doesn’t taste good.
I don’t know whether the quality of the tea tree has declined or whether the production has increased, resulting in a decline in quality. Many tea soups later become astringent as soon as they are taken in and turned around in the mouth a few times.
When the astringency is gone, there is still a spicy taste.
Daming tea is truly value for money, you get what you pay for. Even the worst grade is much better than the average tea in later generations.
Merchants in this era really pay attention to credibility. Time-honored brands are all golden signs, and there is absolutely no problem with quality.
Yang Tongzhi liked to drink tea, and as soon as the news spread, merchants who came to Zunhua to purchase goods brought good tea from various places to Yang Fan.
When Yang Fan worked on the construction site, the foreman was from Huangshan.
I heard from him that the locals drink Lao Maofeng. After the last picking, the weather got cold and there was frost, so it was possible to pick the old tea again.
This kind of tea is very cheap locally, but unlike the ordinary Maofeng tea, it has a very thick taste. It is very flavorful and delicious.
Yang Fan asked someone to get a lot of it, and he usually drinks it.
For many of Yang Fan's eccentricities, Xiaoniangpi and the others have long been accustomed to them.
However, the master's special hobbies may seem strange, such as drinking tea from the abandoned garden. But after entering the mouth, the effect is very good, the tea soup is clear and fragrant, and it is indeed good.
Let’s just say that this kind of Lao Maofeng does have a much thicker taste than the current Longjing, and it’s very delicious.
While sipping the tea, Yang Fan thought about it. Many teas had not become popular in the Ming Dynasty. You should be able to find mother tea trees here. Whether it is planted here, or through vegetative propagation, the trees can be tillered to be planted in modern times.
All are good and good deals.
"How many kinds of tea are there in our Ming Dynasty?" Yang Fan asked.
Xiao Niangpi put down the blue and white porcelain tureen in her hand. She tilted her head, thought for a moment, and said, "Sir, I haven't done any statistics. There are a lot of teas in the Ming Dynasty. There must be forty or fifty kinds."
Lin Yueru also put down the bowl and said: "I know about more than a dozen species. Mengding Stone Flower and Jade Leaf Changchun were produced in Jiannan (now Mengshan Mountain in Ya'an District, Sichuan). Guzhu Purple Bamboo Shoot was produced in Huzhou (now Changxing, Zhejiang).
.Bijian, Mingyue was produced in Xiazhou (now Yichang, Hubei)."
Yang Fan thought that now that many good teas have not become popular, it is better to send teams to various places to first encircle some tea producing areas and valuable wild tree species that have become famous in later generations.
Yang Fan had secretly taken some precious tea tree mother trees as his own before. After all, they had not been discovered at this time. Among them were the six Dahongpao mother trees on the cliff of Jiulong Nest in Fujian.
These trees only produce two to three kilograms a year. They are one of Yang Fan's treasures.
Slaves from five families and more than thirty people were specially sent to live there and guard it. This barren mountain was also bought.
In addition, more than a dozen families were sent to Hangzhou to find 18 mother tea trees in front of Hu Gong Temple at the foot of Shifeng Mountain. They spent a huge sum of money to buy them. After all, Longjing had become famous in the Yuan Dynasty.
Yang Fan originally planned to let students studying agriculture in the academy propagate these two tea gardens and open up tea gardens in Wuyi Mountain and Hangzhou.
Yang Fan did not plan to sell these teas in the Ming Dynasty because the production was too small. In addition to drinking them himself, they were mainly used as gifts for friends in various circles in modern times.
However, if various tea leaves from the Ming Dynasty can be purchased and transported to modern times, they can be sold as high-end tea. The tea industry is extremely profitable.
The scammers and the six girls from the Xinghe Group also followed suit. They were all given a pound of Longjing tea each as a year-end reward.
Especially Lin Miao, the eldest lady has really seen the market. She has probably tasted all kinds of good tea, but she is a person who knows the goods. The Longjing that Mr. Xiao Yang gave me, I couldn't stop after drinking it once.
Mr. Xiao Yang's good tea cannot be bought with money in modern times. It is difficult to find relationships, or even impossible at all.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! What Yang Fan got from him, according to modern standards, are all special or even top quality.
And the production process is all purely handmade.
Unlike modern tea leaves, which are all roasted by machine, the tea roasting machine is similar to a drum for frying melon seeds. It has long lost the charm and quality bonus brought by manual roasting.
In fact, they didn't know that the tea they were given was just mid-range tea from the Ming Dynasty. The real top-grade and top-grade teas were all kept by Yang Fan.
Lin Miao took the tea leaves home and brewed them. As a result, his father smelled the fragrance and brewed a cup too. Then without saying a word, he confiscated the rest. Lin Miao was so angry that she didn't talk to him for a month.
"What do you think about us starting a tea business?" Yang Fan asked.
"Master, tea is monopolized in various places. We don't have tea gardens where it is produced. The purchase price is not cheap and there is no profit." Xiao Niangpi persuaded.
Now that Xiao Niangpi is the head of the family, she has inquired about all kinds of businesses very clearly. Tea is a hugely profitable industry, so she naturally has to find out.
"I don't plan to sell tea in Daming. I just want to buy it by category, package it, and ship it overseas to sell."
"Okay, this can still be done. I will make statistics later to see how many kinds of tea there are in Daming. Later we will build a tea warehouse in the new city to purchase tea from various places. We can also let merchants from various places who come to sell steel use the tea.
Replacing steel, our open-hearth steel is now in short supply, and many people will be willing to do so."
Xiao Niangpi is now getting better and better at running her own business, and she has arranged this matter clearly in just a few words. As long as it is linked to steel, there is nothing to do, just build a warehouse and collect the goods.
Those merchants who come to buy steel are idle on the way here. In this case, they can sell tea when they come and sell steel when they go back. They can make money on both sides, and they will be willing to do so.
Yang Fan nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good, I'll do as you wish. I'll leave this matter to you. Let me know when it opens."
Tu Shanyue nodded. The master was too busy to pay attention to such things. After explaining, he naturally became the boss. She needed to arrange for people to implement these things.
Yang Fan closed his eyes with satisfaction and took a nap. The tea production in the Ming Dynasty was not very high. Even if he brought half of the production to modern times, he would not be able to reach 1% of the production of the modern tea market. Even the high-end market could not fill it.
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The tea business has great potential.
"We'll arrive in Jizhou later. What do you want to eat for lunch?" Yang Fan asked with his eyes closed.
He was half lying on the chair, enjoying the cool breeze blowing from the river, which was very comfortable.
"Master, I want to eat donkey meat pot stickers." Xiao Niangpi said. Mei Xiang also nodded and agreed.
Donkey meat steamed dumplings are a famous delicacy in Jizhou. They are called dragon meat in the sky and donkey meat in the ground. Donkey meat is so tender that after eating donkey meat, all other meats become unpalatable.
Yang Fan likes to fry steamed dumplings in plain oil until both sides are golden, called pot stickers.
The last time he had a teppanyaki barbecue at home, Yang Fan personally fried donkey meat steamed dumplings. This delicacy called pot stickers instantly conquered the little beauties.
When I go to Jizhou this time, I naturally want to try it.
"Okay, let's have donkey meat pot stickers for lunch. Then we can borrow a pot from the store and fry them ourselves."
