Chapter 932: Old State

Seeing Dong Fei, Su You always felt that this obscene businessman had great luck.

Isn't it, since he started to defend Weizhou, this person will do a good job every time.

first sold pirated Wuliangye and was caught by himself, and then inexplicably became a big wine merchant in Shaanxi, and because of the wine opening up business hoarding, he saved a lot of grain, and as a result, the price of grain soared in the war, and he made a lot of money.

After Shaanxi settled down, the government bought back Tuntian, which was simply a pillow for him and made another profit.

When he returned to his hometown to transport grain, he had just arrived in Bianjing, and encountered a disaster in Hebei.

In response to the call of the imperial court, he transported grain to Hebei, made a lot of money, not to mention, and got 5,000 pieces of glazed ware.

Transporting glazed ware to Zhejiang for sale, it turned out to be just in time for Su You to form a maritime trade fleet, and 5,000 pieces of glazed ware were pulled to the West for him, which really made a lot of money.

When he came back, Jiaozhi County was in ruins, and the city was seriously short of people, so he was left behind by Li Shunju and forced to make a fortune.

Now not only are assets and fame rising, but even military merits are available!

There was a joke in later generations, saying that luck is also a kind of ability, and every time Su You saw Dong Fei, he had to doubt the correctness of this sentence.

To make a fortune by yourself, you have to plan and arrange your business everywhere, take one step and see three steps, but you don't need it at all, it's enough to take a hitchhike all the way.

People with great luck should be respected, Su You gave his hand: "Dong Daguan, you have worked." ”

Dong Fei immediately ran out of hands and feet: "Ouch, don't make such jokes, the villain can afford it." ”

"I can afford it." Su You said with a smile: "With the restored Qingzi warehouse, as well as the wealth of the Champa royal family in the five major warehouses, you can afford to be a big official of Dong." I heard that the white elephant of Khali is also here? ”

Dong Fei said: "Oh, this is unfortunate, together with that elephant boy Xiaosha grain, I just sent it away yesterday, Li Du heard about the miracle of the white elephant, and specially explained that he wanted to send it to Bianjing." ”

Su You nodded: "Let's go into the city to talk, it's not a problem to block the city gate." ”

Dong Fei nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, Shaobao, please get on the horse, and I will lead the horse for you." ”

Su You also let him, got on the horse and rode with Shi Wei.

The crowds on both sides of the street cheered, they poured incense directly on the ground, and then frantically threw flower petals.

Su You arched his hand as he walked forward, and whispered to Shi Wei: "Wei'er, the last time I was in such a situation, I was still in Tanhua, and the time I played on the street, ouch......"

But he was hit by a sachet thrown by a girl.

Seeing Shi Wei's smiling expression, Su You couldn't help complaining: "Wei'er, you just did it on purpose, what about protecting your husband from the attack of bad guys?" ”

Shi Wei rode the horse with a smile, but her eyes scanned the happy crowd: "The girl throws a sachet at you, she is not a bad person, I dare not stop it." Now it's rumored that I'm jealous. ”

Su You had no choice but to raise his sleeves to cover his face: "Wei'er, don't make trouble, it's better to throw the sachet now, and throw a bird over in a while, that can really make a big bag......"

Fortunately, the girls in Jiuzhou were not as ruthless as the old women of Zhongmu to smash Pan An, and they did not use heavy weapons such as poultry, citrus or even pineapple jackfruit, and the group arrived at the mansion safely.

This time, Su You accompanied him, as well as a set of teams led by Zhang Qi and Su Hui, when they arrived in Jiuzhou, they naturally had to start taking over the land household registration books, and at the same time, they also had to issue seals to Wang Zhen, the envoy of Jiedu, and his son Wang De, Zhizhou Huang Yong and others.

After the formalities were completed, Wang Zhen set up a banquet in the government to entertain Su You and his party, knowing that Su Youzui was tricky, only providing ingredients, and Zhou Xiaochu, who accompanied him, was responsible for the cooking.

There is a lot of seafood in Jiuzhou, and Wang Zhen also specially prepared a fat buffalo.

This made Su You's hands itch, and he found that the people of Champa were acidophilic, so they must have liked a dish - Huaxi beef noodles in later generations.

The soul of Huaxi beef noodles is the siloon broth and sauerkraut, the soup stock is similar to the soup stock of the beef with the feet, and the beef is of two kinds, one is marinated and sliced. One is braised and diced.

Sour cabbage is not available here, but Sour Green Cabbage Zhou Xiaochu is always available.

Put the rice noodles into a pot of boiling water and blanch thoroughly, put them into a bowl, then put the cut beef slices and stewed diced beef, sauerkraut, coriander, and chopped green onion on the powder, and scoop in the original muscular and bone broth, butter, pepper powder, and pepper.

This dish pays attention to eating a fragrant and original taste, avoid soy sauce, and only put salt.

But he couldn't stand the fact that Zhanren had a special preference for fish sauce, and Su You also conformed to the crowd, so Zhou Xiaochu put some fish sauce to take care of Zhanren's taste, so Huaxi beef noodles were not authentic and became Jiuzhou beef noodles.

Since they have become nondescript, Su You simply added a shrimp to each bowl.

One is enough, the prawns here are as big as half a catty, and a scalded shrimp is the size of a child's fist, and Su You has been hungry for a long time.

In addition, Zhou Xiaochu also performed a dish of roasted beef.

Pepper is the main contributor to this dish, and the old state is the largest pepper producing area on the peninsula.

Seeing that Wang Zhen and others were so fond of fish sauce, Su You told him about the production method of fish sauce, and then let him have time to go to Meizhou to learn from it.

Condiments, which seem to be inconspicuous, are actually a large industry with extremely high profits.

For example, pepper, although it is not as expensive as gold in the Han and Tang Dynasties, has also begun to be planted in Fujian Road, but the production in the mainland is still not as good as the authentic land in the old state, and the price is still in three pounds.

A small family's savings for a year can't afford a pound of pepper.

As soon as he talked about this, Su You knew that the kind of small shrub he saw on the road turned out to be pepper.

So after eating, Su You asked Wang Zhen to take him to investigate.

Black and white pepper are actually the same fruit, but the method of preparation is different.

June is the pepper harvest season, and under the introduction of the farmers, Su You learned that the pepper fruits that have just begun to turn red are harvested, and they are dried directly without peeling, and what they get is black pepper.

The whole red fruit is harvested, soaked in water, peeled, and then dried, and the white pepper is obtained.

The taste of black pepper is much stronger than that of white pepper, while white pepper is blistered and peeled, the taste is softer, more fragrant, and the fragrance is more stable and not easy to lose.

However, the spicy taste of white pepper is more obvious, so the cold effect is better, and the taste is more spicy.

The higher the temperature, the stronger the flavor of black pepper, so it is most suitable for making sizzling dishes, as well as stewed meat, cooking game, making hot pot, cooking fish, braised dishes, etc.

Shi Wei prescribed a medicinal diet recipe for Wang Zhen's stomach disease, stewed pork belly with white pepper, and let him eat it once a month, which has the effect of dissipating cold and strengthening the stomach.

Pepper is afraid of stagnant water, it is best to plant it on sloping land, do not occupy the rice field, the income is much higher than the rice field, the pepper planted by the previous farmers have been cruelly plundered by the Ha Li, and the powerful and powerful help to abuse, so that the farmers guard the golden seeds and suffer poverty.

This kind of phenomenon is absolutely not allowed to happen in Su You, and the powerful can make a fortune, but they can't use the way of plundering to organize their own forces to open up pepper gardens.

If we rely on what the Cham people are doing now, sowing seeds and harvesting seedlings, the seedling emergence rate is low, the growth period is long, and it will take four to five years to enter the stable harvest period.

However, any agriculture has advanced technology, and Su You has successfully allowed old farmers in Shuzhong to experiment with pepper cuttings propagation method in Jiaozhi County.

Cuttings are cut from old pepper trees for propagation, which are fast-growing, high-yielding, long-lived, and can be harvested every other year.

In addition to pruning and dwarfing techniques, the difficulty of planting and harvesting is suddenly reduced to the same as that of rice planting, and it is conducive to large-scale promotion.

One pound and three runs, in the eyes of Su You, is still an amazing profiteering, and this is still in the Great Song Dynasty.

As for the farther West, whether it was before or after Su You's era, the war caused by pepper was not one or two.

Six hundred years ago, the Italians spent 3,000 pounds of pepper to redeem the city of Rome from the Visigoths.

And when the Crusades were about to begin, the robbers openly declared: "The East is so rich, gold, spices, and pepper are everywhere, why should we sit here and wait for death?" ”

In those countries, the price of pepper was about the same as in the Han and Tang dynasties of China, and equivalent to gold.

Therefore, this time, Su Hui came to share this huge market with high profits with advanced planting technology and the heroes of Jinou Road and Rinan Road.

The Haoqiang are happy about this, which can be seen from Wang Zhen's attitude towards Su You.

Over the next few days, Su You began to inspect the government affairs of the old state and the business situation of Hoi An City.

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