Spring and Autumn I Am King

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However, although Zhao Guangde is greedy for taste and music, he is not lustful, and has self-knowledge: his cousin can take him into the backyard room and let the beautiful maids in the house come out to meet him, which is enough to show his trust and intimacy, so he immediately politely He looked away to save his cousin from misunderstanding.

At this time, another woman's angrily voice sounded in the kitchen: "Wei, come in and help quickly, so many beans have already been soaked, I really don't know what they're going to use... Oh, the gentleman is back... The concubine has seen the gentleman."

The maid Yuan also carried a pottery li out of the kitchen and hurriedly bowed when she saw a few people standing outside.

Zhao Guangde took a look and saw that this woman was plain-looking.

Zhao Wuxi asked the two daughters to spare the ceremony, and let Mu Xia go in to help take out the gu, gui, cans, etc. that contained the beans and water. He filled the entire yard with the large wooden barrels that had been prepared, and placed them on the stove. A large pottery cauldron.

At this time, he led Zhao Guangde and walked around the big stone tool in the yard twice.

"Cousin, what is this?"

"I call it a mill, a stone mill. It is a new tool that I have made, and it is specially used to process the beans. The food I am talking about is made from it."

After returning to this era, Zhao Wuyi learned that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the way to deal with grain was to put millet, wheat, and glutinous rice in a stone mortar and pound it with a wooden pestle and stone stick, which is called pounding.

"Book of Songs. Shengmin" has a saying: "How about my sacrifice at birth? It is either pounded or smashed, or tossed or smashed." It can be seen that it has a long history. In Jin's criminal law, there is another kind of torture called "Chengdan pounding", which is a punishment for forcing female criminals to pound rice.

The flour pounded in this way is also called "crumbs". Ten buckets of wheat can be pounded into three buckets of wheat crumbs, and the particles are large and rough. After the cake is made, it is difficult to swallow without water and soup. Wu Xie feels that it is no different from eating sand and soil, and there are very few pounding at a time, which is time-consuming and laborious.

The mills and mills commonly used in later generations have not yet appeared.

In the original history, the era of stone grinding appeared in China, probably decades later. It is said that it was invented by Gongshuban, a skilled craftsman from the state of Lu, but it will take hundreds of years to be widely used. At least in the Qin Dynasty, the pounding was still the main method. It was not until the Han Dynasty that, with the large-scale cultivation of wheat, this kind of equipment was widely spread in the north.

Come to think of it, Lu Ban should have been born almost. Wu Xie remembered that he seemed to be from the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period, one or two generations later than Confucius, and contemporary of Mozi.

Now, this achievement of Lu Ban is about to be preempted by Zhao Wuxi.

The stone mill in front of me is the smallest and most primitive hand-pushed mill, which can be often seen in the northern countryside in later generations. It is made of two flat and cylindrical stones with a certain thickness. A shaft is installed in the middle of the lower fan, and the middle of the upper fan is a corresponding empty sleeve. After the two fans are combined, the lower fan is fixed, and the upper fan can be rotated around the axis under the push of people or livestock.

After Wu Xie's explanation, Zhao Guangde's eyes suddenly brightened. He has a strong interest in cooking food. He is extremely bored when he is in the warm land, and even quietly learns to prepare soup with the cook. For this, he was reprimanded by his father, Doctor Wen Zhao Luo. . After arriving in Xinjiang, he lived in Xinjiang's Zhao Mansion. Due to his identity and the concept of "a gentleman is far away from the kitchen", he restrained a little.

Looking at the stone mill in front of him now, it must be used to make some kind of fine food, which makes Zhao Guangde think that Wu Xie is "my confidant".

However, Zhao Wuxi didn't know that this time he was hitting the right way. He had already closed the door of the yard tightly, and there was no boring person to disturb him to make the food, and he didn't do it himself. online.

Wu Xia asked Muchia to carry out the yellow bean sprouts in the sack and instruct him to grind the mill, while Wei and the two daughters of Yuan stood aside, adding sap beans and water to the mill.

Mucha was very strong, pushing the grinding wheel hard, and the second daughter also found it very interesting, and took it as a game giggling.

The upper fan plate of the stone mill has a grinding eye, and the beans are poured into the grinding chamber through the grinding eye and evenly distributed around. After being rinsed with water, it turned into thick bean juice, which flowed from the cracks to the grinding plate, and then flowed into the wooden barrel through the wooden funnel.

After a while, the two women already had sore hands and backaches, but Mucha didn't even sweat a single drop, and in the yard, there were also several buckets of tempting bean juice.

Wu Xia also told Mucha to pick up one of the buckets of soy juice, filter it on a finely washed kudzu cloth, and pour it into the pottery kettle. The shape of the kettle is very similar to that of the iron pots of later generations. In the folk, it has gradually begun to replace the tripod and li, and at the turn of the Warring States period, Qin and Han Dynasty, it became the standard cooking tool in the military, which is why Xiang Yu's move of "breaking the kettle and sinking the boat".

At this point, Zhao Guangde couldn't bear it anymore. Anyway, he was surrounded by his cousin's cronies and people in the house, so he no longer held his own identity. .

The filtered bean juice is poured into a pottery kettle, the dry wood in the stove is lit, and the fire is heated and boiled. After a while, the bubbles of soy milk on the kettle surface burst, and everyone hurriedly turned off the fire under the shouting without shirts, and they got the fragrant cooked soy milk.

Smelling the long-lost fragrance, Zhao Wuxian moved his index finger, and Zhao Guangde swallowed his saliva. He used a wooden spoon to gently skim off the foam floating on it. After repeating this several times, there was only a pot of milk left in the kettle. of soy milk. It was served in a wooden bowl, and some honey was added. The five people present made a bowl to satisfy their cravings.

"Good!" The corners of Zhao Guangde's mouth turned white, and he only uttered such a word. He didn't expect that ordinary bean sprouts would taste so sweet after such a treatment.

Wei and Yuan's two daughters narrowed their eyes so sweetly that Mu Xia drank four bowls without saying a word.

Zhao Wuxi was a little dissatisfied with his desires. Sweet soy milk, or sprinkled with white sugar, is the best way to go. These days, the caramel made from malt and sorghum is insoluble in water and cannot be used as a condiment, so honey can only be used instead.

He said, "Don't worry~www.wuxiaspot.com~ There will be something better in a while."

There are still several procedures to go through. In his previous life, he had an aunt who sold tofu. He was called to help, so he remembered the general approach.

First, let's order some pulp.

In later generations, gypsum was used to make the paste, and the tofu and bean brains that were made were white and flawless, and the color was bright. It is said that in the original history, the inventor of tofu, Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, also accidentally mixed soy juice and gypsum during alchemy, and only came across this food. Although this thing is naturally formed in the wild, but where can I find it for a while, so Wu Xie can only use salt brine to order it.

Salt brine is also called bitter brine, just like its name, it tastes bitter and slightly toxic. In this era, salt is a profitable business. If people do not eat salt, their limbs will be weak and unable to engage in productive labor. Soldiers will have little combat effectiveness if they do not eat salt.

In terms of quality and quantity, the sea salt of Qi State is the most important, known as the "Kingdom of the Sea", and the annual tax revenue of sea salt is immeasurable. Song Wei, Zheng Lu and other countries in the Central Plains all rely on Qi Yan, which is also an important factor in Guan Zhong's ability to help Duke Huan of Qi dominate the feudal lords.

Zhao Wuxi heard from Ji Qiao that in those days Guan Yiwu had a very good idea of ​​economic sanctions, but the other thing is to say that if the salt trade was cut off, these countries would have to kneel and lick them in minutes. noob.

It is said that the city wall checkpoints on the border between Qi and other countries were originally built to prevent private salt hawkers. After hearing about this, Zhao Wuxi was stunned for a while, and felt that Guan Yiwu and Qi Xiaobai had really worked hard enough to sell salt...

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