Why did you push soybeans in Guanzhong in the first place? On the one hand, in terms of maturity and cold tolerance, there is no better crop except soybeans! On the other hand, planting soybeans, Wang Hou didn't even think about eating them! Right and left are right in front of you!

A large pot of beans was steamed, and under the fierce cautery of the coal fire under the stove, it was steamed for more than ten minutes, steamed until it was seven or eight medium cooked, and it was served down by these workers in the hot steam, and then replaced with a pot.

In this effort, Wang Hou and the others also finished the lunch of inspecting the grain depot, from the old liar Lun Zhi of the long envoy to Deng Ai, a young staff officer who had just joined the work, all of them were curious to poke out their heads, and stupidly watched Wang Hou grinning under the command, those tenants who came out of the conscription grinned and stirred up a few pots of steamed beans, and then put them in an iron circle, used all the strength of milk, and finally pressed out a large lump of bean minc.

The pressed beans were black, yellow, and black, like a lump of fermented fertilizer, and under Wang Hou's command, these tenants were like big tongues, wrapping the round beans with fine straw to make them look like huge coins.

Finally came the most important step, squeezing! Before harvesting beans, Wang Hou had already made it ready, and he chose a relatively sturdy house in the library of Weiyang Palace, and reinforced two girders on the house, and then hung a large log weighing more than a ton on the wall of the reinforced girder, which looked like a scale pole.

In the part of the weighing stone, a large turntable with wood gears is also installed on the beam, and the giant tree hanging in the bend is lifted by connecting the chain, and the heavy giant tree can be lifted by stepping on the turntable under the feet.

Several workers put the bean cake that was encircled by the iron grate, compacted in rows on one side of the giant wooden crane weighing pan, and the bottom is also above the grooved oil pool made of wood, and covered a round pig iron lump on the soybean meal and compacted, the first few workers stepped on the rocker arm, and the long end of the giant tree was raised, and under the principle of leverage, the other end of the giant wood pressed down was extremely heavy.

This is according to Wang Hou's memory, the ancient oil press in the north that he saw when he traveled, but ! The rapeseed oil pressed by others, the soybean oil he pressed, the method is not universal, and I really have no bottom in my heart! Just as Wang Houqiang was holding his face, and the staff officer was staring at him, the giant wooden scale was raised higher and higher, and its own gravity coupled with the downforce brought by the bending, the stack of soybean cakes pressed made a creaking sound, and finally, the first wisp of golden soybean oil flowed out along the turbid straw bales at the bottom, and Wang Hou finally felt relieved.

It's done!

What is the true meaning of profiteers, sell expensive and buy cheaply! Now the soybean market in the Han Dynasty is such an excellent trick suitable for profiteers to manipulate, the price ratio of soybeans and corn has reached 1 to 5, and the price of rice and wheat has also reached 1 to 4, but the cheap beans are sold to the general price of the main rice, or even a lot more expensive, and some technology and means are needed.

This technical means is the oil extraction technology that is being manipulated in front of you!

In later generations, the oil yield of soybeans was between 16 and 20 percent, but the soil method of pressing can also produce 10 percent, one stone and 1,000 kilograms of soybeans, about 100 kilograms of soybean oil, almost two jars.

However, just these two jars of soybean oil are enough to exchange for two stones of wheat!

Before the Song Dynasty, when the iron pot appeared and Chinese cuisine suddenly flourished, there was actually a shortage of cooking oil for Chinese, and vegetable oil was almost none! Basically, the animal oil used, and thanks to Bowanghou Zhang Qian, his old man, he brought back sesame seeds, and the oil yield of this thing reached 50 percent, which did improve the oil level of the Han Dynasty, but the sesame oil in later generations was dead and expensive, not to mention now, it is also a loser like Wang Hou can eat, and the general poor people have to weigh and weigh it with some sesame oil and a courgette. China

The rest is made of animal fat, just like Liaodong, which can be eaten in a big pot of stir-fried vegetables, because Wang Houqin raises pigs, Liaodong is still a vast land, and the agricultural by-products such as wheat bran and chaff are enough, and the oil that everyone eats is pig meat oil, but the price is not cheap.

When you arrive in the grassland of Liaodong, when you stir-fry vegetables, you will eat mutton fat, which is not cheap to pull to the Central Plains.

It is estimated that after Wang Hou squeezed oil in Guanzhong on a large scale, the price of soybean oil should also fall to the level of the Song Dynasty, but before that, he can make a lot of money.

And planting soybean oil to squeeze soybean oil, there are two benefits, one is that there are soybean tumors in the roots, which can absorb free nitrogen in the air, planting a season of soybeans is equivalent to applying nitrogen fertilizer to the soil, and the soybean meal after squeezing soybean oil is not directly thrown away, after this thing is slightly fermented, all of them are nutritious bacteria, and it is easier to absorb a lot of nutrients than directly feeding with soybeans.

"It's really oily, this oil is so fragrant!"

In the air, the smell of vegetable oil permeated the air, causing the old immortal Lunzhi to sniffle heavily, watching the straw filtered, the golden soybean oil was poured into the oil trough, Wang Hou's eyes were also shining, but a few tenant workers in charge of oil extraction were sad and envious.

No wonder General Wang is so generous in exchanging refined grain for their coarse grain! Sure enough, it's always the essence that is bought but not sold! With this shiny soybean oil, they can't make this fortune!

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Wang Hou, this traitor! It was originally a chicken shaved tofu of Northeast cuisine, braised tofu pickled, but now it has become an authentic Shaanxi dish! After Chang'an City had the specialty of soybean oil, the Kanto and Kansai, which were not very interactive, became warm again, and the nearest merchants and some Guandong gate lords who wanted to find out the news sent caravans into the customs to traffic this batch of soybean oil, and by the way, they listened to Wang Hou's reality to see if there was any cheap to take advantage of.

Then walk to Tongguan, there are two caravans of money in the pocket, and gradually form a new food culture, a string of copper coins to the restaurant in Tongguan town to shoot, a bowl of soybean oil fried chicken shaved tofu, and then a soybean oil fried out of the Weihe River carp, especially under the wine to relieve fatigue.

With the caravan pouring into Chang'an, the originally lifeless Chang'an City, the market finally has some vitality, just a while ago the demolition of the house climax cleared out of the flat land was Wang Hou assigned to Chengdong City, merchants from the Kanto gathered here, here to trade a large amount of soybean oil, that side to the garrison of Chang'an to sell some knick-knacks from the Kanto, straw mats, straw sandals, cloth and even sugar and wine from Qingzhou, lacquer tea from Jingzhou and the like.

This lively trading scene can be regarded as a beginning of the revival of Chang'an, looking at the surging East Market under his feet, Wang Hou's eyes can't help but aim at the northwest.

Not only for him, but also for the Qingzhou Liaodong merchant clan who supported him, as well as the Xianbei people on the prairie, they can't wait to reopen the Silk Road in the Western Regions! Wang Hou, who was stimulated by the East Market under his feet, was ambitious and particularly eager to revive the image of the Orchid Liquor Restaurant in the East and West Markets during the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the crowd was buzzing.

Right under the feet of his current Weiyang Palace!