"Since you can finish today, then don't worry, you take over the work at hand and leave tomorrow." Li Wenyuan also counted the days with his fingers.

"Okay." Qiu Niang heard that Li Wenyuan still had something to deal with in person, so she was no longer ambiguous at the moment, and nodded directly and agreed.

In the blink of an eye, the next day, Li Wenyuan was woken up by Qiu Niang again, this is a matter of course, under the close protection of Li Wenyuan's most heartfelt dead man, except for Qiu Niang, who was authorized by Li Wenyuan, not even a bird could fly in. After being woken up by Qiu Niang's pinching of his nose, Li Wenyuan reluctantly washed and changed his clothes under Qiu Niang's service, and began to eat breakfast.

Qiu Niang took a sip of the milk tea in front of her, and asked Li Wenyuan with a satisfied face: "It's a shame that you can think of using goat's milk to make milk tea, it tastes pretty good." ”

"In life, it is natural to enjoy it as much as possible. These goat's milk is the sheep that we have bought and robbed from the Turks in recent years, except for a part of it left in the Shandan Horse Farm for our own use, and the rest was distributed to those who are not suitable for working in the fields, so that they can live a better life. No, the one you drink is from the people. Li Wenyuan said with a smile.

"Have you ever thought about extending this kind of thing to the grasslands?" Qiu Niang said: "The grassland people eat most of the meat all year round, but they don't like the taste of bitter tea to get rid of greasy, if you compromise with this kind of prepared milk tea should be able to match their taste." ”

"I've thought about this too, but since I want to promote it, I have to find a way to maximize the benefits. This kind of thing has not yet become popular in the grassland, so even if we promote this method, because everyone's craftsmanship is different, the taste will be much worse, if there is any way for us to produce it and only sell the finished product to the outside, and we can make it ourselves. Li Wenyuan said intently.

"It's not like there's no way." Qiu Niang suddenly smiled and said.

This sentence shocked Li Wenyuan's heart, and he hurriedly asked Qiu Niang: "Qiu Niang, do you have a way?" ”

"Canned food." Qiu Niang said disapprehantly.

"I've thought about this for a long time, but I've never been in contact with it, so how can I make canned food." When Li Wenyuan heard Qiu Niang's words, the confidence he had just mustered collapsed again.

"I know a thing or two about this." Qiu Niang drank the last sip of milk tea and said.

"You know? You speak, I'll listen. Li Wenyuan stuffed the last bite of white bun into his mouth with beef and muttered.

"We have a kind of oak tree with dark gray-brown bark, slightly smooth, some curved, some inclined downwind, and generally a blackened trunk, which is distributed in the mountains near Guazhou, and the thicker part of this tree can be processed into cork material for sealing canned food. And in addition to these, this tree can also cultivate a variety of edible mushrooms such as fungus shiitake mushrooms, and it is not only used to make cork. Qiu Niang said.

"As for the jars, the most ordinary clay pots can be made in large quantities by craftsmen and made into narrow-mouth bottles, which can not only save the materials of the cork, but also make it easy to drink, after all, the grassland people hate complicated things the most."

"So how can it be aseptic? We don't have any UV sterilization lamps or anything like that. ”

"Boss, you're a good person, it's just that it's too easy to get into the horns of the bull on some issues, although there is no such advanced thing, but we also have a very effective local method."

"Tufazi?"

"Yes, we can use high-temperature steam sterilization. With a structure similar to a steamer, where the water is placed at the bottom, the milk tea in the jar can be heated through the crockpot water bath, and the cork is placed in the basket drawer of the steamer, using high-temperature steam to create a sterile environment, and then inserting the cork into the mouth of the bottle while it is hot, and waiting for it to cool. Under thermal expansion and contraction, a low-pressure environment will be formed inside the clay pot to suck the cork tightly and achieve the sealing condition. In this way, the sealing and sterility are guaranteed, and there is no problem with long-term storage. ”

"Is that true? Really? Li Wenyuan looked at Qiu Niang's eyes with bright eyes.

"As the head of the Western Regions, you are powerful, if you don't believe it, you can try it in small batches first, I also learned about this by chance." Qiu Niang put on an innocent expression.

At noon on the same day, Li Wenyuan found a local potter in Guazhou and gave him a map, asking him to fire a few pieces of pottery according to the drawings depicted, and after the firing was completed, he could pay the local yamen to receive wages. Then Li Wenyuan came to the oak forest under the guidance of Qiu Niang, and gently cut off a piece of bark, which is indeed as Qiu Niang said, the material is really extremely suitable for cork, and there is a layer of bark in this tree.

Qiu Niang explained on the side: "This kind of oak tree has two layers of bark, after a certain year, the outer layer of bark will fall off, and a layer of bark will be regenerated in the inner bark, so as long as this kind of tree does not pick two layers of bark in a row, it can be recycled and inexhaustible." ”

Li Wenyuan nodded, and said to the people on the side: "Let the people from the Guazhou Yamen come to collect this oak forest, it is best to figure out how long it will take to produce a second layer of bark, and carry out the next collection, and mark and register after each collection, so as not to collect the same tree repeatedly and cause the death of this tree." ”

The person on the side nodded, recorded Li Wenyuan's words with the charcoal pen he carried, and handed them to the herald on the side, who rode directly to Guazhou to convey the news after the herald was collected. Li Wenyuan left the oak forest with a large group of men and horses and went to Dunhuang County. On the horse, Qiu Niang asked Li Wenyuan: "The manager said that there are some things that I want to deal with with you in Dunhuang County, what is the specific matter?" ”

"Qiu Niang, how is the power of your night owls in Dunhuang County?" Li Wenyuan said suddenly.

"It can be said that it is all over the county, and even if the chief wants to know who the county guard is sleeping with, we night owls can inform the chief manager of the news before dawn." Qiu Niang said proudly, after all, the night owl was brought out by her from scratch, and it was difficult at the beginning, and she didn't even have the manpower to maintain a county, but now it has basically penetrated into the major county governments of the country It has to be said that it is a miracle, although there is Li Wenyuan's support regardless of the cost, but Qiu Niang's own wrist is also a key that cannot be ignored.

"Then how could you not know the key to me letting you come?" Li Wenyuan said with a smile.

Qiu Niang tilted her head and frowned for a while, and then said in a lost voice: "It's the Western Turks?!" ”

(End of chapter)