Chapter 114: The Food Economy
It's really funny, when Li Qi first came here, he was ready to use food and food as the driving force to promote the development of civilization, but after seeing the old turtle, he was eager to become strong, so he was ready to develop weapons, and used violence to reach the bottom of the house, and when he saw the royal family, he felt that the research and development of bows and arrows or something was purely a game of housekeeping, entertaining himself, and there was no point, he went around in a big circle, and finally returned to his old profession.
But this is different from his previous thoughts, which he wanted to use food to promote the development of civilization, such as making food, you must make containers, chopsticks, stoves, and so on.
He thinks this because he found that food is a driving force, but now that he has returned to his old profession, in fact, two different things, he has developed food this time, completely for trade.
Since it is sold to others, it cannot be used as a fool, it must be presentable.
An open-air kitchen is definitely not a no!
Early the next morning!
"Huh? Where are they going? Training? But the training ground isn't there! ”
Nong watched Lie and them walk in the direction of the Black Stone Valley with stone axes in hand, and couldn't help but ask Li Qi.
"Cut down trees!"
"Cutting down trees?"
"Hmm!"
Li Qi nodded and said, "We need to build bigger houses, and bigger rafts." ”
From the beginning to the end, Richie had not yet started large-scale construction, and had not cut down many trees, but now he could not do so, and he had to cut them down to produce houses, boats, and wine barrels.
Although there is too much wood here to use up, Li Qi is not just cutting it casually, it is still very planned, he chooses to cut it all the way from the Wild Lake Department to the Blackstone Valley, ready to get the road out, and at the same time can get dirt, and he is not allowed to cut fruit trees.
Richie said to Taba again, "Let's start too!" ”
I saw Li Qi and Taba come to the cave, and many people stood in line in front of the cave.
From today onwards, Li Qi began to work on the roster of the Huaxia Alliance, which is really important for the development of economic law.
"What's it called?"
"My name is Han!"
A young girl tilted her head and pouted.
A little tsundere!
"Which tribe?"
"Green Lake!"
Li Qi nodded, first used his pen to find the column of Qinghu Department on a blank piece of paper, and then wrote the word "contain" underneath.
None of them are traditional characters, but directly simplified characters.
And according to the previous tribe division, this is mainly for mating and avoiding blood relations that are too close.
Taba asked, "Why is Han written like that?" ”
"This is the name symbol of our tribe."
"Oh!"
Taba nodded thoughtfully.
Although Li Qi began to use simplified characters, Li Qi still did not plan to popularize his writing, because they could not learn it for the time being, and the text created by Taba was more suitable for them, and Taba their writing was a kind of ideogram, which evolved from a pattern, and the word "fish" he invented was actually a drawing of a fish, of course, it was actually very similar to the word "fish", this kind of ideogram, they could easily remember, and when they saw that it looked like a fish, it must be a fish.
Simplified characters have evolved over many years, and they can't understand them, and Li Qi hopes that they can quickly grasp the words, so promoting simplified or traditional Chinese will only backfire.
But their names come from a variety of reasons, many of which are meaningless, and ideograms are not suitable for names, because Taba imagined words from their names, and Li Qi decided to come up with simplified Chinese characters and use them specifically for names.
So, after he finished writing on a blank piece of paper, he took a charcoal pen and wrote this word on a piece of wood, handed it to Han, and said, "This word represents your name, you must remember it, and learn to write." ”
"Oh!"
Han took the piece of wood, looked at it carefully, and walked towards the lake, only to see a lot of people squatting there, writing on the grass with branches.
"Yes! Which you get the name? ”
"Hmm."
"Huh? Why are you all so hard to write! ”
"Is it hard to write?"
"Hmm. Look at me, how simple it is, I'll remember it at once! ”
"Yes! Your name is so simple! What is it called? ”
"One!"
In fact, Li Qi has more important things to do, which is to make wine, but this work must be done by him, so he has already ordered the task to go down and let everyone make preparations well.
Therefore, when he was busy, no one in the entire Huaxia tribe was idle.
Raven Ministry!
"This won't work, Li Qi said, want the best fruit, that, that."
"Is this it?"
"Hmm."
......
The pickers stationed in the Crow Department all entered the fruit forest today to pick.
"Enough! That's enough! ”
"Is that enough?"
"I don't know, but Richie said that there are only so many of each fruit, but every kind of fruit."
"Oh."
......
Deadwood Department!
"Wow! I didn't know how thick the dead leaves were! ”
"Yes! We've been digging for a long time, but we haven't bottomed out yet. ”
"Why does Richie want so many dead leaves? What is the use of this dead leaf besides preserving fire? ”
"I don't know."
......
After the roster was made, the materials for sake brewing were sent to Nokobu.
Now that the cave has become Richie's research room, he strictly forbids everyone to continue sleeping in the cave, and must all sleep in a thatched hut.
"What is this?"
Li Qi took a string of "golden twist flowers" with a loofah length and asked Nong.
"This was just sent from the Raven Ministry, and it's very similar to your request."
"What I asked for was soft, lots of juice."
"That's it!"
"Really?"
Li Qi pinched the lower end and squeezed it hard, and suddenly the juice splashed, but he saw that the flesh of this "golden twist" was tender and tender, like jelly, and there were some strip-shaped seeds in it.
Li Qi was stunned for a while, tasted it again, only to feel that it was sweet and delicious, with a hint of special sourness, and couldn't help but say excitedly: "Twist-shaped grapes, this is really ...... It's so exciting. Remember, this fruit will be called the Golden Grape from now on. ”
He has to name all kinds of fruits, there is no way, now he expects them to get rich, he doesn't give people names, where is it embarrassing, and besides, without names, it is quite troublesome to operate.
As he spoke, he removed the stems and crushed the golden grapes, eliminating the middle sugaring step, the reason is very simple, because there is no sugar, but the sugar is added for better fermentation, and Richie's purpose now is to see if this fruit can ferment, because he has no yeast, and he can't get enough yeast in a short time, he hopes to know that like grapes, fruits with natural yeast are okay without sugar, and the most result is that the fermentation is incomplete, and it can be operated at that time, and pour the golden grapes into a small fermentation urn, He called the farmer over and told him how to stir and how to press the top skin to the bottom so that the golden grapes could ferment better.
In terms of eating, Nong Ke learned very seriously, and while learning to stir, he asked, "Is this making juice?" ”
Li Qi smiled: "It tastes better than fruit." ”
Nongden was overjoyed.
Richie began to taste the newly-grown fruit.
Of course, what he wants to make is fruit wine, and he doesn't plan to make baijiu for the time being, first of all, he doesn't have enough grain, and the planting side has just finished experimenting, so he doesn't have time to wait until he has enough grain to make wine. Secondly, the other races were accustomed to fruit juice, and Richie thought that fruit wine was more suitable for them.
It's just that the fruits of this year are all very super, and the shape or something, which is completely different from the later generations, and he has to try the same.
.....
"I want fruit, not roots, who sent the roots."
Li Qi grabbed a handful of densely intertwined roots and looked at the farmer with a puzzled expression.
Nong sighed: "This is not a tree root, it is a fungus sent by the pincer insect department." ”
"Fungi?"
Li Qi's eyes widened and said, "You said this is a fungus?" ”
Nong nodded and said, "This kind of fungus grows in the soil, you said you want to find very, very sweet fruits, and the pincer insect department said that there is a fungus on their side that is very sweet, sweeter than fruits, so I asked them to send some." ”
Li Qi blinked, looked at it carefully, there was really no root bark, the appearance was quite smooth, but the shape was very similar to the roots, densely packed with a handful, and asked, "This is not... It's not poisonous, right? ”
Nong said: "I tried it, it is not poisonous, but it is too sweet and not very delicious." ”
"Really?"
Li Qi tore off one and tasted it, only to feel that this thing was a little bitter, "This is really too sweet." ”
Nongdao: "Don't you want the sweetest?" ”
"I didn't say anything bad!"
Li Qi smiled happily, looked at the dense roots, and said secretly, but how can this thing be squeezed? Anyway, let's see if this thing can squeeze out the sugar. Suddenly, he shouted outside, "Go and call Rong here, oh, let him wash his hands before coming in." ”
As he spoke, he set aside the roots and tasted the other fruits, and after tasting them one by one, he chose six fruits to ferment.
At this time, Rong walked in and said, "Li Qi, you're looking for me!" ”
Li Qi nodded, picked up two plastic bags from the side and handed them to him.
Melt your mind and put on the plastic bag immediately.
Li Qi grabbed the handful of mushrooms again and handed it to Rong, saying, "Squeeze it into this bowl." ”
Rong grabbed the large handful of mushrooms with both hands, just like twisting clothes, twisted hard, and the juice dripped into the bowl like water droplets from the clothes, and then melted and rubbed with both hands.
No, the fungus becomes like dead grass!
Li Qi couldn't help but think to himself that if everyone was like Rong, mankind might not have been able to invent the steam engine.
After taking the juice, Li Qi directly took it and boiled it, as for what to add lime to purify, he omitted these steps for the time being, because he was looking for raw materials that could produce wine and sugar, and the juice had to be able to crystallize into sugar before he could consider other steps.
However, Li Qi believes that there must be a suitable one, because the fruit here is so abundant that it is impossible to find even a fruit for winemaking.
Because he still had to wait for some genius to see the results, Li Qi took the time to go back to Blackstone Valley!
He and Chi rode the deer beast to go, day and night, and the speed was very fast, and they returned to the Black Rock Valley in three days.
This is also the first time that Li Qi has returned to Blackstone Valley since he went out.
When Po Yi saw Li Qi coming, the tears came out, Po Yi never left the Black Rock Valley, although Li Qi kept asking people to tell her everything that happened here, but she still couldn't understand what was going on!
Li Qi will come back and tell Po Yi what happened to the whole thing, as well as everything he did, as it was, of course, only on the surface, and he didn't say anything about the deeper intentions.
This made Po Yi feel at ease, but Po Yi still didn't want to go out of the valley, and Li Qi didn't force her, and Li Qi came back mainly for two things, the first thing is to produce wine barrels, for fruit wine, wooden wine barrels are the best, but wooden wine barrels need some technology, and the speed is also slow, which does not meet Li Qi's requirements, Li Qi still plans to use a large number of pottery wine barrels, because after these days of development, the pottery process has been very mature, after all, it is taught by Li Qi, not to explore by himself, There are a lot of detours in the middle, and there is enough production equipment.
Secondly, it is to plant ginkgo seeds on a large scale and use ginkgo seeds to make salt.
To develop a diet, sugar and salt are essential.
You must know that the royal family does not have sugar and salt, they just use pure sauce, which hinders the birth of deliciousness.
To this end, Li Qi also sent additional men to Blackstone Valley.
Now that you have a precise goal, it's much easier to plan.