Chapter 84: Pancreas, Yang Chun Noodles

The reason why it is named Wuchuan Town is also to hope that it can become an important market town of "Wuyun Prosperity and Prosperity of the Sea and Hundred Rivers" in the future.

Since there are tens of thousands of displaced people, Ling Hao can naturally find a way to attract more people to settle in Wuchuan Town, consume them, and then use them for his own use, and gradually train these unorganized and undisciplined scattered wanderers into his own spear and shield.

For example, now, with Wang Meng's order, everyone dispersed and returned to their respective stalls to run their own small business.

"Hey, take a look, good pancreas. ”

"Fresh cabbage, half a pound a penny. ”

"Freshly baked fried buns, come and eat if you want to!"

"Yangchun noodles just out of the pot, don't want money if they don't taste good!"

Wang Meng took Xu Rong and Lu Yi to patrol around Wuchuan Town, looking at the scene of people in the market town, and felt very gratified.

It seems that he has done a good job, and if Childe can see this scene, he will definitely praise it, right?

"By the way, sir, what the hell is this pancreas? it works so well......" Koji Yi scratched his head.

"You don't understand this, this pancreas is our son's idea, even if it is a person who hasn't bathed for a few months, if he uses this pancreas, he can wash it cleanly. Xu Rong said with a smile.

Pancreas is actually a compound cleaning product invented in ancient times that contains pig pancreas and plant ash. Before modern times, people used to call soap pancreas, which means soap. For example, Shaanxi Guanzhong, Tianjin, Qingdao, Northeast and other places all call soap like this. It also refers to the pancreas of pigs, sheep, etc.

Legend has it that the ancients used honey locust to wash clothes in the Yellow River Valley, and then there was no honey locust tree in the Yangtze River Basin, so they found that there was another kind of tree, whose fruit has the same performance as honey locust, and can wash clothes, but it is more fat and plump than honey locust, so she was named soapseed, also called soap fruit.

During the Wei and Jin dynasties, there was a kind of detergent called "bath beans", which was recorded in Sun Simiao's "Qianjin Yao Fang" and "Qianjin Yifang" in the Tang Dynasty, washing the dirty blood of the pig's pancreas, tearing off the fat and grinding it into a paste, and then adding soybean flour, spices, etc., mixing evenly, and then becoming a bath bean that can be used for washing after natural drying. Who first thought of using pig pancreas to remove dirt. No one knows yet, but he must have been an extremely smart man. In the process of making bath beans, the pig pancreas is ground to enhance the exudation of digestive enzymes contained in the pancreas, and the mixed soybean powder contains saponins and lecithin, the latter has the effect of enhancing foaming power and emulsifying power, which not only strengthens the washing ability, but also moisturizes the skin, so it is a relatively high-quality detergent at that time. However, due to the difficulty of obtaining the raw material of pig pancreas in large quantities, bath beans were not widely used and were only used by a few upper-class nobles.

Later, people improved the production process of bath beans, they added sugar when grinding pig pancreas, and replaced soybean flour with sodium carbonate (soda) or plant ash (the main ingredient is potassium carbonate), and added molten pig fat, mixed evenly, pressed into balls or blocks, this is "pancreas". The lard melts at 40 °C, and the pig pancreas plays a role in the decomposition of lipase at this time, decomposing the lard into higher fatty acids, which are saponified with the subsequent addition of plant ash alkali to produce fatty acid soap...... This is the main chemical composition of modern soaps.

The chemical composition of pancreas was very similar to that of today's soaps. Moreover, the types of products with various floral fragrances are even more diverse, such as osmanthus pancreas and rose pancreas...... It is quite similar to today's various soaps with different scents.

In addition, due to the presence of lipase and protease in the pancreas, it also has the effect of compound decomposition of dirt, which is very similar to the effect of modern enzyme laundry detergent, which can be called the ancient enzyme low-foam multi-functional detergent.

Since there are not so many chemical raw materials in this world to make modern soap, Ling Hao can only settle for the next best thing, let the pancreas come out first, and see what the market demand is.

Wang Meng is naturally indispensable, and quickly let people make samples, and after Ling Hao is satisfied, he will slowly put them into the market to see how many people will invest in them......

As he was talking, he happened to pass by this "Yang Ji Yangchun Noodle Restaurant", and Wang Meng smiled and said: "This shop is newly opened in our Wuchuan Town, let's go in and try it to see if it is really as bad as the store shouts and doesn't need money." ”520

"That's why we were busy from morning to noon, and in the morning we ate a few fritters and drank a bowl of porridge, and now we are hungry. ”

"So, can I treat you today?" Wang Meng said.

"It's not easy to get Mr. Wang to invite a guest. Xu Rong and Liyi rubbed their hands when they heard this, but they were not polite at all, and directly stepped into this Yangchun noodle restaurant, only to see more than ten people sitting inside, it seems that the business of this noodle restaurant is not bad.

"Eh, three guest officers, please inside, please inside. The little guy who ran the hall immediately stepped forward, greeted him with a smile, and nodded his head.

"Three bowls of Yangchun noodles, and another plate of boiled dumplings. Wang Meng said.

"Okay, the three guest officers, please wait a while, and the noodles and dumplings will come later. The runaway got the order and left quickly.

"I heard that this Yangchun noodle is cheap and affordable, and the secret is in the sauce of this noodle...... Xu Rong said.

"Yes, it uses a sauce called [soy sauce], which is not made from fish, meat and vegetables, but with beans as the main ingredient...... Wang Meng nodded.

Soy sauce is the most traditional condiment in China, which is a liquid condiment brewed from beans, wheat and bran, with a reddish-brown color, a unique sauce aroma, and a delicious taste, which helps to promote appetite.

Soy sauce is evolved from sauce, as early as more than 3,000 years ago in the Zhou Dynasty has been recorded in the production of sauce, and the ancient working people of Shenzhou invented the brewing of soy sauce is purely by chance, the condiments used by ancient Chinese emperors, the earliest soy sauce is made of fresh meat, similar to today's fish sauce manufacturing process, because the flavor is excellent and gradually spread to the people, and later found that soybeans are made of similar flavor and cheap, so it is widely spread and eaten, and in the early days, with the spread of Buddhist monks, all over the world, such as Japan, South Korea, In Southeast Asia, the manufacture of soy sauce in China was a family art and secret in the early days, and its brewing was mostly controlled by a certain master, and its technology was often passed down from generation to generation or passed on by a master of a school to form a certain way of brewing.

Yangchun noodles are a kind of Suzhou-style noodle soup, also known as smooth noodles, clear soup noodles or clear soup noodles, the soup is clear and fresh, light and refreshing. It is a famous traditional noodle snack in the south of the Yangtze River, and is a major feature of Gaoyou, Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Yangzhou, Huai'an and other places.

Yangchun noodles can be regarded as a major feature of Yangzhou. Folk habits call the lunar calendar October as a small spring, and the Shanghai Jingyin language takes ten as a spring.

Legend has it that Qin Shi Huang unified weights and measures, as well as the calendar. October of the summer calendar is the first month. This month is called Xiaoyangchun, and at that time, each bowl of noodles sold for ten copper coins.

Later, this concept was introduced into the incision of Suzhou, and Yangchun is "ten". Another saying comes from "Spring and White Snow", and there is nothing on the face. This snow white white is also nothing, so it became famous.

In the past, this noodle was sold for ten yuan per bowl, so it was called Yangchun noodles. Kai onion oil noodles are also known as sea rice scallion oil noodles. Boiled scallion oil and boiled sea rice (known as Kaiyang in Shanghainese) are mixed with cooked noodles. The noodles are tough and smooth, the sea rice is soft and delicious, and the scallion oil is fragrant. After 1945, there was a stall surnamed Chen in Chenghuang Temple who used the daily method of boiling scallion oil in his hometown in Suzhong to mix noodles. The rich and distinctive green onion is very popular and has been passed down to this day......

Famous ones include Shanghai Yangchun noodles, Gaoyou soy sauce noodles (also known as Gaoyou Yangchun noodles), Yangzhou Yangchun noodles and so on.

Legend has it that in the 27th year of Qianlong, in March of Yangchun, Emperor Qianlong toured south to Huai'an, he avoided the civil and military officials, took Wang Tingzhen around the city, came to a noodle stall and sat down, to get something to eat, for a while I saw a bowl of noodles on the second end of the stall, the roots were sharp and refreshing, the light sauce-colored noodle soup was crystal clear, and the soup floated with large and small golden oil flowers and emerald green crushed garlic flowers, and the fragrance came to the nose. After Qianlong ate two bowls in a row, he suddenly asked what was the name of this noodle? Tan Xiaoer said: "Tell Liujiao (Chuzhou dialect, meaning "Your Excellency"), we didn't name it. Qianlong pondered for a moment and said: "Huai'an is an important place for Caoyun, and it pays a lot of taxes to the imperial court every year, and it makes a great contribution. It means that Huai'an's payment of taxes to the imperial court is like the growth of all things in spring, full of vitality, and like this noodle, continuous. After hearing this, Wang Tingzhen hurriedly asked someone to bring pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and asked Qianlong to give the name "Yangchun Noodles" to the imperial pen......

As a characteristic of Suzhou in later generations, Yangchun noodles are closely related to the lives of Suzhou people, just like the four King Kong of flatbread, fried dough sticks, soybean milk, and rice rice.

As the cheapest glossy surface, it still maintains the Suzhou-style style, that is, the golden mean, which is not to leave, and is impartial......

Of course, Koji Yi Xu Rong didn't think about this, they just wanted to have a full meal quickly, and by the way, see if the price was stable.