"Reward, you must be rewarded, and you must be rewarded."

Emperor Li Zhi attaches great importance to the secret recipe for sugar decolorization, because the progress given to the emperor by Shaofu Temple is that this secret recipe has been verified, and it is indeed quite useful. In their professional words, with this secret recipe, Datang Royal Sugar Factory will continue to produce real frosted sugar in the future.

What's the point?

Significant enough.

Because this is related to the emperor's small treasury, ordinary people can't afford to eat frosting, so it's a luxury condiment like pepper.

It is precisely because of the importance of frosting that Emperor Taizong will send envoys to Tianzhu to seek the process of making frosting sugar, and since then he has continuously increased the reward to let the craftsmen further improve the process of sugar making.

Under the special care of Emperor Taizong, the Tang Dynasty's frosted sugar manufacturing level led the world for a while, surpassing the country of Mojida that transmitted technology. The frosted sugar produced in the Tang Dynasty has not only greatly increased its domestic sales, but has even become a hot-selling product for the Tang Dynasty's trade with neighboring countries, and has also become a good thing for the Tang Emperor to reward the surrounding feudal states.

And because the highest manufacturing process of frosted sugar is in the hands of the royal family, the emperor's inner treasury has been very rich in recent years. Usually reward a courtier, or build a palace by yourself, and pamper which concubine or prince you like, it can also be very convenient to be generous.

Frosting is a huge market, or a profiteering industry, the royal technology is not much ahead, and now Xue Rengui's decolorization secret recipe can be said to make the royal technology far ahead of other competitors, so that the emperor will have a steady stream of income in the small treasury for many years to come.

"I will give you two royal horses, ten slaves, 100 pieces of colored silk, 1,000 catties of frosted sugar, and a reward of 100,000 gold!"

Li Zhi is very generous, and he is even more generous to a fierce general like Xue Rengui who has already made a name for himself, and he said a long list of rewards in one breath.

"How can a minister be virtuous, how dare he accept such a generous reward."

"You will take what I reward you." Li Zhi rewarded Xue Rengui with so many things, of course, it was not all because he offered a secret recipe.

Xue Rengui is such a loyal and capable general, Li Zhi still values it very much.

"By the way, the villager who gave the party was also rewarded, and I couldn't ignore such a loyal people. By the way, what's that person's name? ”

The king of a country will not care about a small country people.

But since this rural man has offered such a precious secret recipe, and it was offered by Xue Rengui, a general, on his behalf, how can this person have something to do with Xue Rengui.

"Back to Your Majesty, this person's name is Li Xiao, the third in the family, a native of Lanxi Township, Lantian County, Guanzhong, the family has been kind for generations, and has a very good reputation in the local area.

Compassion, filial piety, loyalty, these words are already very high. Datang governs the country with filial piety and attaches great importance to filial piety. And Xue Rengui further explained that this Li Xiao was born from a good background, he was born as a landlord, and he was not a craftsman or businessman.

"How old are you?"

"Twenty-one this year!"

"I can't imagine that I am so young, and I will be rewarded with ten thousand gold and a hundred silks." Li Zhi listened very well to this villager named Li Xiao, and the reward came as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Since he is a landlord, then give him another hundred acres of Lanxi fertile land, well, reward him with a background, give him a military captain, and then give him a name in Shaofu Temple, and receive a monthly share in the future."

"The minister thanked His Majesty for his favor on behalf of Li Xiao." Xue Rengui felt that this reward was very rich.

One hundred acres of fertile land, this is a family business that can be passed down from generation to generation.

Ten thousand gold and one hundred silk is nothing, after all, ten thousand gold is only ten pieces of money, and a hundred silk horses are not worth much, but that military cavalry captain is not simple, this is a lord.

The commander is not an official, but only an additional officer, a title. Generally, it is a soldier who has made meritorious service in battle, and the highest is 12 turns. The lowest turn is the martial cavalry captain, who is regarded as the seventh grade and enjoys the treatment of the seventh grade.

But there is no ministry assignment, nor is it a formal rank.

But with this honor, it is equivalent to entering the official career with half a foot, or at least having an official identity, which is equivalent to having a background.

It's a very valuable thing.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Xun was not valuable, at that time, in order to win the world, the emperor rewarded a lot of knights, and even Emperor Gaozu once gave all the honors to thousands of people who passed by.

However, now that the Tang Dynasty has gone through the three emperors, Xun no longer rewards indiscriminately, and it has become valuable.

For example, under the Tang Dynasty Juntian Order, there is an upper limit on the amount of acres of land owned by ordinary people, and people who have no officials, no knights and no honors cannot own too much land, but if there are honors, they can increase a lot of upper limits.

Even ordinary people can't take concubines at will if they don't have children, but if they have honors, or officials and knights, they are naturally not subject to this limit.

Even in terms of taxation and servitude, honorable people are different from ordinary people.

Li Xiao has changed from an ordinary big-headed person to a person with status.

Xue Rengui was happy for him, his efforts were not without reward, and he said that he would help him with the secret recipe, and it did help him.

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Lijiazhuang.

Compound, kitchen.

The small stove has dried up, and Li Xiao set up the wok again today.

Today, to carry out the wok opening ceremony, a good wok, in order to use well, must go through some special treatment.

"San Lang, why do you still want to boil?" Why don't you ask.

Li Xiao took a knife to cut off a piece of big fat from a piece of pork belly, why should the new iron pot be boiled, of course, because there will be many impurities left on the surface of the pot when it is built, and this pot is generally not smooth.

If you take such a new pot to fry directly, it will be easy to stick to the pot and paste the pot in the future, so you must first open the pot, or call it refining the pot. The refined pot will burn well in the future, not easy to rust, and not easy to stick to the pot.

Boiling the pot is actually very simple, just get a piece of raw fatty meat.

The meat should be fatty, not lean.

The stove is on the fire, and the pot is on the water.

The stove burned quickly, and in a few moments, half a pot of water in the pot was already boiling.

"It's so fast, this stove!"

The onlookers were amazed by the speed of the stove, and even Lao He admired it and stopped talking, the speed of boiling water was more than twice as fast.

Li Xiao had already rolled up his sleeves, scrubbed the pot, poured out the water, and set up the pot again.

Wipe clean with water.

"Change the fire!"

After the pot dried, Li Xiao took the piece of fat meat as a brush and began to wipe the iron pot, from the inner ring to the outer ring in a spiral shape on the inner wall of the pot.

The fat on the fat kept overflowing due to the heat, and Li Xiao evenly rubbed the fat all over the pot surface.

The lard is getting darker and the fat is getting smaller.

Some people are swallowing saliva, and some people are sorry that the good fat is wasted like this.

Remove from the heat, pour out the blackened lard, wipe the pot with hot water, then put the stove on the stove again, pick up a piece of fat and continue to repeat the previous action.

After repeating this five or six times, the fat is no longer black.

"Okay, the pot has been refined."

In the future, this pot will become darker and brighter the more you use it, and it will not rust or stick to the pan, making it an excellent wok.

"Oh my God, I wasted six pieces of good fat, I have to have three or four pounds, it's a pity, it's all wiped out of the pot." Lao He said distressedly.

Li Xiao was speechless, a good wok, how can it be compared to a few catties of pork.

"Bring me my ground sesame oil, and then bring the wild garlic that I just picked today, and a few eggs, and today I will show you a stir-fried dish, wild garlic scrambled eggs, and voila!"