Chapter 145: Doing Things
Regarding the matter of the ticket number, Wang Zezhi just gave an outline, and the specific content needs to be supplemented by Wang Shan little by little.
However, this is not something that can be added in a short time.
At the moment, however, there is an urgent need to do it immediately.
It's mid-September, and the buckwheat needs to be harvested.
The fields he opened up must be planted entirely with wheat.
Buying seeds, plowing, fertilizing, and watering all require a lot of money, and he felt that it was perfect for this kind of thing to be handed over to Wang Shan.
In addition to wheat, potatoes are also planting season, and he plans to plant potatoes first.
Sweet potatoes and peppers are not needed yet, and they can only be placed in the camp before the planting season.
So he pulled out Wang Shan, who was immersed in sorting out the ticket number, and ordered him to do these two things first.
Fortunately, the finance and accounting department of Li Hua's organization has done most of the things, and Wang Shan is very handy in doing the follow-up things, and he plunged into it.
However, Wang Zezhi especially wanted to eat one thing, sweet potato flour with spicy seeds.
Wang Zezhi wanted to make sweet potato noodles, firstly because he was greedy, because in fact, he was originally from Fulan, and he loved both spicy and powder.
The second reason is that he intends to reserve sweet potato flour in large quantities, and sweet potato vermicelli can be stored for more than a year in dry conditions.
If he grows enough sweet potatoes, he can make a lot of sweet potato flour and store it, and when the famine comes, it will come in handy.
However, Wang Zezhi remembers that potatoes can also be made into vermicelli, and they can be stored for a long time in a dry environment.
So, he plans to try his hand first to see if this manual skill can make qualified sweet potato flour and potato flour.
If he can, he will have experience, and when there is a bumper harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes next year, he will be able to pass on this method.
Then the people will have one more kind of food, so that they will not go hungry.
Thinking of this, Wang Zezhi was a little impatient, but this thing can't be made all at once, it takes time.
He had to make the sweet potatoes into powder before he could start making vermicelli.
So in the following days, Wang Zeyi was busy making sweet potato flour and potato flour while dealing with the things in hand.
In late September, he finally made enough dry flour to start making vermicelli.
First of all, add water to the sun-dried powder and form a dough shape, like making steamed buns and noodles, add some edible alum, and then set up a large pot and boil the water to the brim, so that the preparation is done.
Then, Wang Zezhi brought a colander for the Foundry Bureau to build.
This colander is a cylinder, about twenty centimeters high.
Fill the dough in a colander and press it with a cylindrical piece of iron on top.
After the vermicelli from the colander falls into the pot, the boiling water will quickly blanch the vermicelli, and the vermicelli can be removed after turning dark and blanched.
After taking out the vermicelli, put it in clean water to cool, and then you can dry the vermicelli on a bamboo pole.
Don't think that just drying it will be fine, if you do it directly, it will be a dough instead of a vermicelli, because the vermicelli will stick to a piece again.
In late September, there is already some slight cold, with a slight frost at night.
As long as the vermicelli on the pole is frosted overnight, it will naturally disperse when exposed to the sun the next day, and the vermicelli will become strong and strong after frost, with good toughness and smooth taste.
After two or three days of drying, the handmade sweet potato vermicelli with yellow and bright color and thin strips is finished.
At the end of September, Wang Zezhi first made spicy noodles, and then grabbed a handful of vermicelli and cooked them.
Wait for the vermicelli to come out of the pot, and then add a large spoonful of steaming spicy seeds.
Wang Zemei sniffed it beautifully, and ate it with hula hula.
"The people take food as the sky, and the ancients did not deceive me." Wang Zezhi, who was full, touched his round belly and let out a sigh of emotion.
"Report, the materials in Beijing have been delivered, please receive them."
With the distance from the capital to Datong Mansion, it stands to reason that it is a slow walk, and the time of seven days has arrived.
However, the officials in the capital were procrastinating, which led to the arrival of the armor and firearms that Chongzhen promised him.
When Wang Zeyi heard that the armor and firearms had arrived, he immediately paid the account and prepared to receive it. Ranwen.com
When he arrived at Xuandongmen to check the armor and firearms, he found that he was accompanied by the eunuch of the Ministry of Ceremonies, Lu Si.
"Mr. Wang, let's meet again, a few days ago, our family said that we would have to bother the chief soldier to take care of one or two in the future, no, our family is here."
Wang Zezhi heard bad news from Lu Si's words, Chongzhen ascended to the throne, did not trust the minister of civil and military affairs, and made good use of eunuchs as supervisors.
Could it be that this Lu Si ran to his team to be a prisoner?
If that's the case, it's not good, and the people who are being imprisoned by the eunuchs don't end well, no, he can't let this happen.
"Hahaha... Lu Angel is really good at talking, Lu Angel is tired, and the last general has prepared wine and food in the city for the angel to pick up the wind and wash the dust, and ask the angel to move. ”
"Excellent, excellent."
Wang Zezhi made a look, and Ah Niu immediately trotted to arrange for someone to cook.
Li Hua led people to begin to count the armor and firearms that Lu Si had brought over.
"Mr. Wang, we should toast you and congratulate Mr. General on his promotion again." On the wine table, Lu Si took a glass of wine to Wang Zezhi.
Wang Zezhi responded to him and also took a drink.
After drinking, Lu Siyi beckoned, and the little eunuch behind him handed over a burden.
Inside are the documents of Wang Zezhi's promotion to the chief military officer of Shanxi Province, the seal, the official uniform, the tooth tag and other things.
Wang Zezhi took it and asked with a smile.
"The last general is presumptuous, I don't know what happened when Angel Lu came?"
Lu Si smiled and took out a secret letter from his sleeve.
Wang Zezhi unfolded it and looked at it, and sure enough, he came to be a prisoner.
Wang Zezhi was unhappy in his heart after reading the secret decree, and his mother didn't pay for it, and he sent a prison army over.
Do things.
Since you're going to do something, let's do something big.
Wang Zeyi remembered the days of being controlled by others in the capital, and a wave of anger rose instantly.
However, he didn't show it at all.
He got up and took out some paperwork and letters, all thanks to Bai Zhangtang.
The stealing team he led not only stole the acres of fish scales and land deeds in Haoqiang's hands, but also found out some other things.
"This is the letter of the squires and wealthy merchants in Datong Mansion who betrayed the country, as well as the evidence of the smuggling of grain to the Tatars on behalf of the king.
Wang Zezhi handed these letters to Lu Si.
After Lu Si took it and watched, his face turned pale with fright and trembled.
He wasn't angry with these people, but frightened.
Such an important thing was seen by him, and he was afraid that his life would not be long.
"Mr. Wang, this... How good is that? Lu Si was frightened, he knew in the palace that the more he knew about this kind of thing, the faster he would die.
"The last general thinks that the acting king, as the royal prince of the clan, has done such a great rebellion, and it should be handed over to the emperor for judgment."
"Yes, yes, what Mr. Wang said is true."
"It's not a secret, when the last general first arrived in Datong, the acting king sent someone to come to the banquet for the last general.
However, the last general was favored by the emperor, how could he be invited, so the last general sternly refused. ”
The reason why Wang Zezhi wanted to talk about this matter to come to the king of the black dynasty was mainly because, in the fish scale map of the acres of land stolen back, after statistics, he found that the tuntian occupied by the king of the dynasty reached five or six hundred hectares, not counting the land he was enclosed.
"What you said is true?" Lu Si trembled when he heard the news.
"Absolutely."
The vassal kings befriended the military generals, and since the Ming Dynasty became the ancestor Zhu Di, it was taboo by the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
The acting king not only befriended the generals, but also sold grain to the Tatars, is this a rebellion?
Lu Si couldn't sit still any longer, and he didn't want to delay returning to Beijing immediately with these letters.