Toranosuke and Gakujiro were the main forces, Yongmin and Takanaga's younger brother Kishijiro helped, and the old man Ryuemon led the onlookers and installed the stone mill a long time ago.

A group of people, led by Toranosuke and Gakujiro, began to make Satsuma taro noodles.

One step to make sweet potato flour is:

Peel the Satsuma taro after washing, pound it into a paste with a wooden stick after cutting it, then put the paste in a wooden basin and add water to knead the starch out by hand, you can also use a wooden stick to stir constantly, keep changing the water until the water is not muddy, and the starchy water that is replaced is filtered through cheesecloth and put into a wooden barrel or wooden plate, and let it stand for half a day or a day, after which the starch precipitates, the upper layer is the underwater layer is starch, take it out and dry it, it can be dried in one day in summer, and it can be heated and dried in winter, crushed and grinded, and it is made into Satsuma taro powder.

This time, there was not enough time, so I used a streamlined step, and the paste of the satsuma taro was simply strained and used directly to spread the pancakes. Fuso doesn't have a pancake pan now, so when he bought a stone mill in the morning, Murata asked a blacksmith to make a piece of iron sheet and a carpenter to make a rake from two pieces of bamboo.

The paste spread out on the iron sheet, the eggs (eggs) are beaten later, and then a little miso is added with a wooden spoon, and the bamboo rake is spread evenly, and the bonito and green onion are put on it. Because it's not a batter made of sweet potato flour, it doesn't look good, but everyone hasn't eaten pancakes, so there's no way to compare.

The children held the plate in one hand and the pancakes in the other, and their eyebrows fluttered.

Mrs. Saigo handed over the child to the maid and took over the pancake making. Toranosuke and Gakujiro took Yongmin and the manservant Kumayoshi to start making Spring Rain (fans).

Speaking of which, because of poverty, under the education of Naoxiu, Toranosuke and Gakujiro did not have the frame of a samurai child at all, and there was poetry and writing in the belly, and the attitude towards doing these things was natural, and the Saigo family was not usually rich, and a large family did not reject doing it themselves.

Vermicelli and vermicelli are Chinese foods, and in ancient times they were called vermicelli and thread noodles, and it is said that they were once called "noodles" (in ancient times, noodles were called soup cakes, butao, water induction, cold tao, etc.). Vermicelli was introduced to Goryeo during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and became known as Tang noodles.

Vermicelli was introduced to Fuso during the Kamakura period (1185-1333) as part of Zen saiba, and mung beans were used as a raw material. Probably because it is more troublesome to make, it has not been introduced to the people.

It wasn't until the early Meiji period that Fuso reintroduced the method of making vermicelli from China, the leaky scoop process, also known as the "drop-down method", in which the stirred paste was lowered through a thin hole by pressure, and fell into a hot pan like white thread to turn into pale yellow vermicelli or vermicelli (depending on the size and shape of the hole), and then cooled down in cold water to be scooped up, smoothed, cooled, and dried.

Because the mung bean vermicelli is white and translucent in color, and when it falls, it resembles a gentle spring rain, so the vermicelli is called "spring rain" in Fuso.

Normally, sweet potato flour should be used to make paste, but this time it is directly made with sweet potato paste, so the quality of the vermicelli produced is not good, but the other ingredients are good, and the children still eat "Taiping Yan" with a smile.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a chef in Pucheng County, Fujian Province invented the famous snack "Flat Meat Swallow", because the Flat Meat Swallow is often eaten together with boiled duck eggs, and the duck eggs in Fuzhou dialect are homophonic with "pressing chaos" and "pressing waves", meaning "Taiping", at that time, people called "Taiping Swallow" in order to please auspiciousness, because "Yan" and "banquet" have the same sound, so it is also called "Taiping Banquet".

The Taihei swallow was introduced to Fuso during the Meiji period and was first spread in the Nagasaki, Fukuoka, and Kumamoto areas.

The Chinese Taiping Swallow is similar to meatball soup with boiled eggs, the Taiping Swallow of Fuso was changed into a flavored soup powder with boiled eggs, and the high-grade Fuso Taiping Swallow is cabbage, carrots, pork slices, flower branches, shrimp, fish plates, broth, vermicelli and boiled eggs, and the low-grade Fuso Taiping Swallow is vegetable soup powder with boiled eggs.

The essence of the Chinese Taiping Swallow is the meat swallow, but it was canceled by the Demon Reform in Fusang.

The bird's skin of the meat swallow is made of pork hind leg meat to remove the meat tendons and periosteum, cut into thin strips, pounded into meat puree, add sweet potato powder and water, carefully make thin slices, and then apply a thin layer of sweet potato powder. Slightly dry for fresh bird's nest skin, continue to dry for dry bird's nest skin. The meat filling is made of fine pork, dried shrimp, seaweed, etc., chopped into meat sauce, and a little soy sauce and green onion white are added to taste. Before stuffing, use a knife to cut the bird's nest skin into small pieces, and take the bird's nest skin to wrap the meat filling into a pomegranate shape, and the finished product is called meat bird's nest.

This time, Toranosuke and Gakujiro made seafood soup powder with boiled eggs, and the children ate it for the first time, and it was very delicious.

Now, the rules in the Fuso samurai family are very heavy, for example, the main family members can only start eating with chopsticks before they can eat, but the head of the Saigo family, Yoshibei Fenggong, went to the office, and the old man Ryūemon is soft-hearted and dotes on children, so when Naohide and Ichizo come over, I only saw a circle of people eating with high sexual joy, if it weren't for Ichizo's sister and still thinking about her brother, Naohide and Ichizo couldn't even drink the soup.

After the excitement passed, Ichizo no longer looked cold to Naohide at first, and he told Naohide that he would visit Mr. Ito with Takanaga when he returned in the afternoon.

After eating and drinking, everyone went home to rest, Ji Erlang and Koto were reluctant, and Naohide said that in the afternoon, we would be fans together before Chunyu got out.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, Takanaga and Ichizo visited Mr. Ito together, and with Mr. Ito's consent, Naohide went to apologize again, and the matter was perfectly resolved. Takanaga felt that he had returned Naohide's favor, but Ichizo said that Naohide might have other plans, but Naohide never asked about the privacy of the Satsuma Domain, and he also said what Naohide's plans were.

In the next few days, Naoxiu pulled Takyong and Yizang to talk about Lanxue every afternoon, Murata Yongmin sat with him, and the other two students took turns to take the children to make soybean milk, tofu, and dried bean skin with stone grinding, and also bought wheat to make flour.

Fuso's tofu was also introduced from Chugoku, and it is said that it was introduced during the Nara period (710-794) and during the Kamakura period (1185-1333). In addition, the price of flour is also very high, and the price of sugar is also very high, resulting in a very high price of Japanese fruit and Tang fruit.

Especially Naoxiu personally made the famous mapo tofu in the future, and everyone almost didn't bite off their tongues while being happy. At this time, the production of pepper in Fuso was very small, and it was used as a medicinal material, and it was rarely eaten by the people. Spicy I don't know if I don't try it, but I want it when I try it.

Although Takanaga and Ichizo are young, they are also young and mature characters, and Naohide is interested in taking care of the Saigo family, and Takanaga feels a little uneasy.

Although Yoshibei is the head of the family, his personality is a little cowardly, and the major decisions of the family after Takanaga Yuanfu are decided after consultation between Mrs. Saigo and Takanaga. Long Yong finally couldn't hold back a few days later, and asked Zhixiu in public, "Zhixiu-kun is too expensive, Longyong deserves it, I don't know how to repay it?" ”

Naohide took a sip of tea, and saw that Ichizo was silent but his eyes were shining, Murata Yongmin was as steady as Mount Tai, it didn't matter if he repaid him, Naohide's two students were playing with the children in the yard, and the whole family of Saigo was in the yard, and there were only Naohide and the four of them in the house.

Zi said: The beneficiary is three friends, and the loser is three friends. Friendship is straight, friendship is forgiving, friends are more heard, and it is beneficial. Friends are friendly, friendly and soft, friends are good, and they are damaged. The road knows the horsepower, and the people will see it for a long time. Naoxiu didn't answer directly, but said, "Confucius said that there are good friends and bad friends, and after a long time, you will know which one I am." ”

Naoxiu didn't dare to tease Longyong too much, because Longyong was the beneficiary, and he was afraid that he would be too sensitive, and it would be bad if he was self-defeating, so he quickly explained:

"When I came out of my study tour in Edo, I was amazed by what I saw: the peasants were pale and skinny, and the samurai were dressed in shabby clothes. It's been four years since the Tianbao murder, and I think it's not just the problem of the Tianbao murder, it's that there was a problem that everyone didn't find out about before, and now it's erupting in a concentrated way. ”

Naohide explained to Takanaga in detail, "We have discussed the Wealth of Nations and the Population Theory in the past few days, and the population of Fuso has not grown since 60 or 70 years ago, and I see that all the feudal domains are developing domestic production, hoping to revitalize the economy of the feudal domain through commerce, but Fuso is so big, if there are more other crops, the grain production will be less, and I am afraid that there will be chaos in the event of a natural disaster." However, what should we do in such a situation where the economies of each feudal domain cannot get out of the predicament without developing domestic production? ”

Takanaga and Ichizo glanced at each other, and Ichizo asked Naohide back, "What do you think should be done?"

Naohide said, I only know three ways now:

The first method is that if each clan develops a feudal clan that cannot occupy grain arable land and the arable land conditions are not good, the shogunate will coordinate the import of rice from the foreign feudal domain. At the same time, as I have done here, the grains are processed into delicious food, and the overall grain production is expanded, for example, the satsuma taro is made into spring rain, and the miscellaneous grains are ground into various flours, so that the samurai and the common people also love to eat, and the different planting environments are suitable for growing suitable crops, for example, the land of Kagoshima is suitable for dry land farming, so don't be reluctant to grow rice, I think the local area should be a variety of satsuma taro, a variety of wheat, and then make vermicelli, vermicelli, and flour, and exchange rice with foreign feudal clans. As for the economy of each feudal domain, it can only be slowly eased by developing domestic production.

The second method: each family will let go of domestic production, and if there is more domestic production, the price will naturally fall, and the price of grain will naturally rise, and everyone will go back to growing food, but this premise is that the decree issued by the shogunate will not change this year.

This year, the shogunate issued a decree dissolving the privileged guild "Zhu Nakama", and the goods shipped to Osaka and Edo by the feudal states did not have to go through the privileged merchants. At the same time, rural merchants and peasants were allowed to buy and sell their own property without being restricted by privileged merchants.

The Tokugawa shogunate had asked the princes to emulate the laws of the shogunate in governing the feudal domains, but at that time, they were talking about political laws and regulations, and there were no rigid requirements for economic laws, so the feudal lords had a great deal of economic autonomy within the domain.

At present, the economy of each feudal domain is not good, and the system of monopoly of commodities is generally practiced in the foreign countries, and some feudal domains monopolize all kinds of commodities, while others monopolize bulk commodities, but basically all feudal domains monopolize commodities that make a lot of money.

The privileged merchants of each feudal clan were not necessarily directly affiliated with a particular domain, but they may also be merchants living in Osaka, Edo, and Kyoto of the shogunate, and they may have purchased monopoly rights for goods in each domain, and some of the large merchants received both the shogunate privilege and the feudal privilege license for certain goods.

In the past, the monopoly merchants of each domain could only sell their goods to the monopoly merchants of the shogunate, and then the monopoly merchants of the shogunate sold to the merchants of each domain who needed them, and the merchants of each domain were not allowed to trade directly, and the privileged merchants of the shogunate often used their privileges to buy low and sell high. But this year, the shogunate opened up the opening.

In the future in the 4th year of Kaei (1851), the shogunate ordered the restoration of the privileged guild "Zhu Nakama".

Third, other methods.

In fact, it was the founding of the country, the development of trade with foreign countries, and the import of a large amount of grain. But the shogunate is now a closed country policy, and Naohide does not dare to say it.

Takanaga's eyes lit up, because Kagoshima and Nagasaki were both on the island of Kyushu, so he also thought of the third point that was the opening of the country's trade.

Later studies have shown that Fuso is located in the Pacific Rim Volcanic Seismic Zone, where 90% of the earth's earthquakes and 81% of the most intense earthquakes occur. Earthquakes in Fuso are commonplace, and there are small earthquakes that shake houses almost every day (not every day in the entire Fuso area, not in one place), and the average number of large earthquakes occurs once every three years. Natural disasters such as earthquakes and typhoons account for 20% of the world's total, and major natural disasters account for about 16% of the world's total.

The Tokugawa shogunate's policy of locking down the country may have been a cause at the time, but from a historical point of view, Fuso's grain will always be dependent on imports in the future, and it is not feasible to lock the country for a long time.

Ryūnaga wanted to say something, but Naohide raised his hand to stop it, because the founding of the country was not something they were qualified to discuss now.

"In the past two days, I also introduced the two of them to "Hori-style Farming", "Hori-style Rice Field Carp", and the rice country-style windmill, among which the Fuso version of the book I sent in the following year, and asked the two to promote it in Kagoshima, not for a while, but for a lifetime", Naohide gave a deep salute, Takanaga and Ichizo solemnly returned the salute, and from this time on, the grievances of the three people were entangled for a lifetime.