After the opening of the "Mizuki Shojuku", there was a school owner, three students, and one student, Naohide was the school owner, Murata Agatoshi, Nakamura Gakujiro, and Takemae Toranosuke were teachers, and the only student was Sakamoto Ryoma. In later generations, you can call yourself elite education, but at this time there is no such good rhetoric, you can only say that there are three or two miserable big cats and kittens - of course, in Fusang, this is called "claw dirt" and "finch tears", which means that the number is too small.

In any case, Naohide and his party have an official base in Tosa Kochi, and although the climate is cold, the house is almost dry, and the night is freezing, they can still come down with a brazier and a thick quilt. Kochi is close to the sea, and winter temperatures can reach minus a few degrees Celsius, but they are generally in the midteens during the day, unlike the northern mountains of Tosa Province, where it is very cold.

In order to thank Naohide, the Sakamoto family rented to Naohide was in good condition, and was equipped with simple cooking utensils, furniture and bedding, and the rent was very low.

After Gakujiro sent Sakamoto father and son home, Yongmin and Toranosuke sat in the living room and stared at Naohide, why? Because the salary is paid on the 25th of each month, the two students of Zhixiu have one gold per month, and Yongmin has one gold per month plus three copper coins, and after the salary is paid this month, everyone has less than 40 small judgments in their hands, and the travel expenses are enough, but the year-end bonus is hanging.

If you want to make money, the students Naohide accepts are children, and now the average annual income of the teachers in Fuso Temple is five taels of gold, which is distributed among the heads of four people, okay, the annual salary is 1,500 Wen, if Naohide and they really have no money, it will take four years to save enough money for a ticket back to Edo without food or clothing. Besides, it's almost wax moon, where can Zhixiu find students in a short period of time?

There was no choice but to hold the sheep of the Sakamoto family and continue to pick hair.

After the future Restoration, Tosa Province was renamed Kochi Prefecture, and the prefecture has a forest coverage rate of 84%, ranking first in the prefecture. Kochi Prefecture accounts for about 12.8% of its economic output in the primary industry, 22.3% in the secondary industry, and 64.3% in the tertiary industry. The only bright spot is that the aquatic products are good, and the mountain products such as shiitake mushrooms, charcoal, and bamboo are very famous. Traditional industries are dominated by basic material-based industries such as ceramics and soil and stone industries.

Before Naohide came to Tosa, he thought about what he should develop if he engaged in the economy, and he thought about it a lot.

The transportation is inconvenient, Tosa is remote, and engaging in tourism is a fantasy at this time; At present, there is no artificial refrigeration technology, and there are bottlenecks in the fishing industry; As for agriculture, it still makes sense to increase yields, but the total area of arable land is not large; Forestry development is quite promising; Industry, it's a little early to talk about this, and Naohide is preparing to build Tosa into a center for precision machining.

Shaking his head, Naohide pulled his mind back to the question of what to exchange for money from Caitaniya.

Saiyaya's most important business is the production and wholesale of sake, and Naohide knows a little bit about how to make sake.

"Sake is a gift from the gods", sake is very popular in Fuso, and in addition to the Tosa folk style of good sake, samurai and commoners like to drink two sips of nothing, so the sake business of Shoya is very good, and he also has his own sake house (sake brewery).

The name sake is to distinguish it from "cloudy sake". Cloudy sake was the earliest chewing rice wine in Fuso, and it was still used to worship the gods at many shrines in remote areas in later generations - chewing sake is a mixture of rice wine and sake lees, and it is simply a mouthful full of crumbs.

Because the taste was so poor, ancient sake brewers added lime to the sake, and after the dregs settled, only the upper layer of the liquor was taken, and in order to distinguish it from the cloudy sake, it was named "sake". However, after adding lime precipitation and filtration, the dregs are gone, but the taste is still not good - because the lime is astringent.

During the Heian period (794-1192), the koji method, a method of brewing Chinese rice wine, was introduced to Fuso, and people fermented koji to make sake, and the raw material was changed from coarse rice to white rice, and the sake was not only clear and transparent, but also rich in rice aroma, and since then sake has become popular among the people.

Although sake is a white wine, it has a degree of only 14-16 degrees, which is similar to wine. In later movies and television, sake was often drunk after it was hot, but this was a mistake caused by the way shochu was drunk, and it was not recommended to heat up the best sake.

Sake is graded from high to low into five grades: Daiginjo, Ginjo, Junmai Sake, Honjo, and Ordinary Sake, and it is advisable to drink sake with a temperature of minus 2 degrees Celsius or higher.

In 1740, sake brewers in the "Nada" area of Kobe made rice polished with a water wheel, increasing the production of sake.

In 1848, brewers in the Nada area shortened the fermentation time while mass-producing high-quality sake.

In 1908, Fuso developed the first vertical rice milling machine.

In 1909, the Brewing Laboratory of the Ministry of Finance developed the "Yama Dump" production method based on the production process "Yama Dump" that promotes the production of yeast.

In 1910, the "quick brewing method" was introduced, and it quickly became popular among brewers. The sake with a fruity aroma of high polished rice is made using the rapid brewing method, and is called "ginjo-shu". It greatly enriches the flavor of sake.

Although some processes cannot be done now, there are still some processes that can be developed in advance, such as vertical steamers, addition of alcohol at the end of fermentation, raw brewing method, mountain unloading and abolition, and rapid brewing method.

The only question is whether the Sakamoto family will be able to accept the new process. Today's craftsmen "craftsmen" take a very conservative attitude towards the process, unless it is a master craftsman, the average person who proposes to improve the process will only receive a scolding of the head and face, so if Naoxiu directly proposes it, it is estimated that he will receive a few "hehe".

Of course, he also prepared other big moves "jam", "gummies" and "jelly".

JAM, AS THE NAME SUGGESTS, IS A JAM MADE FROM FRUITS, AND THE WESTERN NAME OF JAM IS "JAM", WHICH ORIGINATED FROM THE WORD "CHAM" IN THE ANCIENT English dialect, which means "chewing with a cuckoo".

Since ancient times, people have used sugar to preserve fruits, and the fruits of the East are preserved fruits and preserves, and the fruits of the West are "jams".

In the late 5th century to the mid-15th century AD, the "jam" of Europa refers to sweetened desserts, delicatessen, honey, candy, preserves, etc., and the real modern meaning of jam originated in the 14th century, when the European court aristocracy began to sweeten almost all kinds of flowers and fruits into jam, but many of them were just candies.

In the 18th century, the English citrus jam "Marmalade" started the history of modern jam, and then quickly became popular in Europa, and the word "JAM", derived from the English dialect "CHAM", became the official name of jam.

The date of its introduction to Fuso is unknown, but the widespread popularity began in 1925, when the Kewpie Company began to manufacture jam in large quantities.

As for gummies, they appeared relatively early all over the world. Francian fruit gummies are a traditional French confectionery that has a fairly long history, appearing as early as the 10th century. The representative of Chinese delight is Ma Tuan Candy, which appeared in Changzhou as early as the Tang Dynasty (618-907).

"Sugus", the ancestor of modern gummies, was born in Switzerland in 1929.

As for Fuso gummies, they originated from yokan. In ancient China, yokan was the product of mutton soup cooling and condensation, but after it was introduced to Fusang in the Tang Dynasty, it was changed by monks, and the production materials became flour, arrowroot powder, soybean flour and other materials, which belonged to the gummy of starch colloids. In the 17th year of Tensho (1589), Yoshiyuki Okamoto, the owner of the Suruga store that opened in Wakayama, replaced the starch colloid with agar made of stone cauliflower, and made the shape rectangular. As for whether yokan is considered a gummy, it should be considered a gummy in terms of material and form, but some people insist that yokan should be classified as Wagashi.

Jelly is also a type of gummies.

As for the place where jelly was invented, there is quite a dispute between England, France and the United States. The English people say that the English traditional food pudding is the ancestor of jelly, and Hartley's began to produce and sell jelly in 1874, but the Francis say that the English pudding was originally a mixture of fruit and oatmeal, and in the 18th century, the raw materials of English pudding were eggs, milk and flour, and the earliest jelly should have been invented by the Frankish carpenter Pearle Wait in his hometown of Leroy in 1897; The official formation of Jelly was the work of the Genesee Pure Food Company in 1902, and the "Jell-O" jelly produced by the rice people was sold all over the world.

In this regard, Naohide smiled slightly, don't fight, what is there to fight, anyway, this year 1844 jelly has appeared in Fuso Tosa.

It's the frost moon (November), and the harvested fruits have begun to dry up, but Naohide doesn't care, it's just for seasoning anyway.

The famous large citrus Tosa Buntan has not yet been cultivated, but Iyokan is widely cultivated throughout Shikoku. Naohide made jam, gummies, and jelly with agar, black sugar, and white vinegar, which are the raw materials of Iyo mandarin and yokan, and went to Sakamoto's house early the next morning with the finished product to ask for money.

Sakamoto Naozu and Ryoma saw the teacher coming, and hurriedly welcomed them - too polite, this is to go to school right away.

"Thank you for taking care of your feet, and the next group is ready to leave temporarily, a small gift, not a tribute", Naoxiu took out three bean bags and jam and other souvenirs.

"Don't be depressed, with Mr.'s talents, the prosperity of the private school is just around the corner", Zhizu was stunned at the time, and then reacted, this cheap teacher sees that the situation is not good and wants to run, although four teachers accompany a student to study a little miserable, but you can't run away the next day, this is too - too forgivable.

Ryoma has a good relationship with Naohide and others, and when he hears that the teacher is going home, his mouth is flattened, and it starts to rain.

Naohide took the opportunity to open the gift box and poured Ryoma a mouthful of delicious food. Ryoma is the youngest son in the family, as the saying goes, the youngest son and the eldest grandson are very favored, and the head of the family is not outside, so he hurriedly accompanies and coaxes. Ryoma ate for a while and it became cloudy and clear, delicious, I haven't eaten it, I have to let my sister taste it, and he pulled his sister Otome to eat it too. Otome is a little chubby girl, quite greedy, and after a while, the three bean buns will be eaten by the two children, and Naohide is in a hurry on the side, so he quickly guides Ryoma to eat a little bit for Naozuki.

Naozu was still pondering on the side, isn't Naohide, an Edo guy, running out of money, isn't he going to open a private school to make money, why did he suddenly come to the door to say goodbye, what does this mean. As a result, he ate a few bites, and his attention shifted, to be honest, the valley house is quite rich, and Naozu has also eaten and seen it, so he won't make a fuss easily, but Naohide took it out and he really hasn't seen it, and it's quite interesting to eat.

Jelly is a big risk to children, so Naohide asks the two students to pay attention to the two children, and then continues to turn around and fight with Naoto. Naoxiu said, "The weather is also cold, and the New Year is coming, we have to hurry home for the New Year, don't worry, we will come back after the New Year."

Straight enough to be angry.,I'll find a big house for you to do a private school.,And give you all the furniture.,Is it easy for me to clean it up.,Hmm~,It's very easy.,It's all the work of servants.,But it's too much to say that you opened the day before you opened and ran away the next day.。

Two tanuki, one big and one small, began to fight - there were no foxes on Shikoku Island, and it was said that they were beaten away by the local yokai legion. After a long time, Naoxiu insisted on leaving, and Zhizu couldn't help it, and then let people take out five small judgments for travel expenses, which is said to be quite generous, and the gift money is equivalent to the income of an ordinary temple house teacher for a year.

Naohide accepted it unceremoniously, and asked Naozu to take good care of the house, "I'll come back next year", which made the big boss of the valley house half angry.

"Sir, when are you leaving", Ryoma didn't know where to find the Japanese sweets, and he was happy to eat them with jam, and he asked quickly when he heard that the teacher was going back to his hometown.

"Early the next morning. The teacher is not there, and the little dragon horse has to obediently listen to his father. ”

"Don't forget to pick me up when you leave tomorrow."

Hearing this, Naoxiu laughed, the teacher didn't hurt you in vain; Zhizu's face turned blue, okay, my son is going to run away with my husband, what is this.

Otome also assisted on the side, "Brother, when you come back, bring back more of these sweet and delicious foods."

Naohide saw that the heat was almost over, and he began to hook up with Naozuki, who said that these snacks were commissioned by Edo Joy Juya to develop them, and the recipe was kept secret, so he had to wait for him to come back.

Seeing that his daughter and son liked these snacks so much, the nature of a businessman finally came into play. He tasted it carefully again, and felt that there might be commercial prospects, after all, brown sugar is quite expensive, but snacks after adding black sugar are more profitable, and he still understands this truth.

Oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea, or tobacco, alcohol, sugar tea, these are all bulk commodities, and his own Caiya monopolizes the sake business in Tosa, of course he knows that the benefits of groceries are not small, although the price of snacks is high, there may be fewer people to buy them, but there are many rich people.

Zhizu hopes to buy the formula - there is no patent right at this time, it all depends on each family to strictly guard against it, if the trade secret is leaked, then ~, then it can only be accepted, and there is no other trick. Naohide grinded with him for a while, and insisted that he could not break his promise, but he could be authorized to operate on Shikoku Island, and as for other places, Taniya could discuss it with Edo Shigeya at that time.

At this time, as long as you don't die by yourself, the reputation of the wealthy businessman is excellent, after having a preliminary intention, Zhixiu roughly introduced the production process and raw material ratio, these are quite simple, Zhixiu also said that if the price of agar is expensive, you can also use soybean flour to make gummies and jams, as for jelly, this thing is better to make agar.

Naozu is more worried about the problem of long-term preservation, Naohide has no choice but to give away the practice of simple canned food, the clay pot is heated and wax sealed, Naozu's eyes are bright, but the pretending to be casual is vague. The final result was that Naohide granted Caiya the monopoly rights to the jams, gummies, and jellies on Shikoku Island for a small sum of 100 yuan, and paid in two installments, fifty taels in cash, and another fifty taels at the end of the following year if the business was good.

When Ryoma heard that his family could also cook these delicious foods, he stopped clamoring to follow Naohide back to Edo.

Zhizu hurriedly sent Zhixiu and his party away, and when he turned around, he organized the shop to start production.