The next day, Yang Sichen brought the purple handkerchief to Xu Ji's brown sugar workshop. Steward Zhao, who was freshly baked, received the two of them and led them directly to the river.
According to Steward Zhao, the workshop had recruited three more workers to be responsible for boiling sugar. The water juicer consumed as much as 2,100 catties of sugar cane 24 hours a day. The sugar water that was squeezed out was ten times that of the past. One stove could not boil it all. Even if they used coal fired water blast stoves, they would need three.
The charcoal that Steward Zhao was talking about was coal to Yang Sichen. The water-driven coal stove seemed to be able to boil a lot more sugar, but in fact, its thermal efficiency was very low. However, Yang Sichen wasn't in the mood to care. After all, there wasn't any Kyoto protocol at the moment.
According to Yang Sichen's instructions, they would only produce 30 catties of white sugar a day and only provide 50 cans to the Yang family's shop. The rest would be saved for emergencies.
In fact, considering the situation in Songjiang Prefecture, the locals could only eat 30 cans a day (ordinary people could not afford it), and the remaining 20 cans were sold by merchants to other places.
Yang Sichen was optimistic about this. After all, Songjiang Prefecture was incomparable to the entire Ming Empire.
The two of them walked around for a while before returning to the city. The two of them went to Jixiang Street for more than an hour and had lunch at the Yin An Restaurant in the city before returning to the residence.
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As soon as he entered the Yang Residence, Xia Zhong came up to him and said to Yang Sichen,""Old Master just received a letter from Old Master. Old Master said in the letter that he would return to Song Jiang in a month.”
Yang Sichen was taken aback. It was only then that he realized that his deadbeat father was coming back. "Did Grandfather tell you about Father's schedule for this month?"”
Xia Zhong hesitated for a moment before saying,""Master's letter was written in the capital. He said that he would go to Ying Tian Mansion to discuss business before returning to Song Jiang.”
"Then will mother and sister go together?" Yang Sichen asked.
" Madam and the two young ladies will return to Songjiang Prefecture directly," Xia Zhong replied immediately." They will arrive on the eighth of November."”
It would be easier to deal with them if they didn't come back together. Yang Sichen heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the news and went back to his room to rest with Zi Juan.
Mrs. Yang's maiden name was Zheng, and she was a family name bestowed by Emperor Chengzu himself. She had lived in Datong for generations. However, when Mrs. Yang's great-grandfather came to the family, because Mrs. Yang's great-grandfather was the son of a concubine, he moved south to live in Yangzhou. Later, because Mrs. Yang's father passed the imperial examination and became a medium-sized official, the family began to prosper.
Mrs. Yang was the daughter of a concubine, and her status in the family was not high. Old Mrs. Zheng only married her daughter to the Yang family because of the 33,000 taels of silver that Old Mrs. Yang gave her son when she went to propose marriage.
Rongguang had told him before that the Zheng family's maiden name was Ruo Zhu. Before she got married, she had traveled to the north with Nun Huitong of the Southern Shaolin Temple for more than a year. She was very straightforward and had good martial arts skills, but she had a little temper. Old Master Yang also fell in love with her at first sight, causing the entire residence to be turned upside down. He had a posture that he would not marry anyone other than a Qing, and took out the story between Old Master Yang and Old Madam Yang as an example. Old Madam Yang was helpless and could only lower her face to ask for marriage. After Madam Zheng entered the house, Old Madam Yang couldn't swallow this anger. When she was alive, she had made things difficult for this daughter-in-law. However, every time Old Master Yang protected Madam Zheng, Old Madam Yang was so angry that she scolded him for giving birth to an ingrate.
When Zheng gave birth to Yang Sichen, she was already nineteen years old. She had a difficult labor and hurt her body. From then on, she had no more children. Because of this, Zheng shi felt very guilty and took the initiative to help Master Yang take a concubine. Master Yang felt very awkward in his heart, but etiquette could not be violated, so he could only pinch his nose and accept it. However, he was always lukewarm to that concubine. Old Madam Yang could not find any fault with Madam Zheng and could only turn a blind eye.
One of the two concubines was five years old, and the other was less than three years old. She heard from Old Master Yang that Old Master Yang had handed them over to Zheng Shi to raise, as a way to make up for Zheng Shi's regret of not being able to give birth again.
As for the concubine, she could only squat in the corner and draw circles with a resentful look on her face. There was no other way. It was better for a concubine to be favored in a family in this era. If she was not favored, her status would only be a little higher than an ordinary servant girl. After a concubine gave birth to her husband's child, she could be considered half a master. In the future, the children of concubines could only address their biological mother as YiNiang and the wife of the main wife as Mother according to the rules. Moreover, after the wife of the first wife passed away, the husband could not directly support the concubine as the first wife. Otherwise, it would be illegal. The husband would be exiled for 3,000 miles, and the concubine would be sold as a slave.
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In the afternoon, Xia Zhong came to the Blue Wave Courtyard to teach Yang Sichen about the inner force cultivation method. Yang Sichen had never come into contact with the theory of meridians in Chinese medicine in his later life, so he was confused and confused.
Xia Zhong had no choice but to sit cross-legged across from him, his palms facing Yang Sichen's. He guided the zhenqi in Yang Sichen's body and explained to him as he guided it.
The true qi first goes up into the Lung Meridian of Hand-Taiyin, then goes along the arm to the finger and into the Large Intestine Meridian of Hand-Yangming, then goes through the arm, the head and face, then into the Stomach Meridian of Foot-Yangming, then goes down to the feet, turns into the Spleen Meridian of Foot-Taiyin, then goes up to the chest and enters the sandalwood. From here, the true qi goes through the Heart Meridian of Hand-Shaoyin, then goes to the finger and enters the Small Intestine Meridian of Hand-Taiyang, then goes through the Small Intestine Meridian to enter the Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang, then to the Kidney Meridian of Foot-Shaoyin, then connects with the Pericdium Meridian of Hand-Shaoyin, then to the Sanjiao Meridian of Hand-Shaoyang, and then to the Gallbladder Meridian of Foot-Shaoyang. Finally, it entered the liver meridian of foot jueyin, and then the true qi returned to the dantian.
By the time his zhenqi had completed one circulation, more than an hour had passed. Xia Zhong retracted his palms and said," Young Master, from now on, practice it once every morning and once every afternoon. Each time, it will run for two hours. It will only take effect after a month." Your Taiji Fist Technique is very effective.”
Yang Sichen nodded and tried to operate it again before Xia Zhong left the Jade Wave Courtyard with a peace of mind.
When Yang Sichen stood up, he realized that his limbs and bones felt warm as if they had just been massaged. He tried practicing Taiji Fist again and found that there was a breath in his meridians that was gathering in his dantian. His entire body was filled with strength.
At night, Yang Sichen started to read the Nine Yang Scripture with the help of the purple handkerchief (mainly because he couldn't read). He found that the thoughts in it were the same as the Tao Te Ching. Only then did he understand why Old Master Yang suddenly wanted him to study Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi's philosophy.
Over the next few days, Yang Sichen focused on practicing his inner force and Taiji Fist. Zi Juan would occasionally give him some pointers. Coupled with the daily nourishment of ginseng, wolfberries, and Angelica, Yang Sichen's inner force began to increase bit by bit.
Yang Sichen also understood the meaning of " a poor scholar is rich in martial arts ". Putting everything else aside, the daily ginseng soup cost five taels of silver, which was equivalent to two months of rice for an ordinary family of four. Ordinary people could not afford to waste time.
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