Now, the Chen clan, the secretary of the Qi state, controls the newly conquered land of Donglai Haidai, arbitrarily divides the benefits of fish and salt, and uses the merchants attached to their family to market the Zhuxia countries. Therefore, we can accumulate wealth and strength, buy the hearts of the people, and finally complete the cause of Daiqi.

The Jin Kingdom is not short of salt, so in the world of Qi Huan, only Jin Xiangong dared not to give Xiaobai face and not participate in the Qi Alliance. Because there is not only rock salt in the mountains such as Taihang and Zhongtiao, but also a hundred miles south of Xinjiang, there is a large county named Anyi, also known as the land of Xun (xun), which is the ruins of Daxia.

There is also a big salt pond there, which is called "solution pool" in later generations, and the solution pond is dozens of miles in radius, and can produce 1,000 catties of "salt of Daxia" every day. From three generations there are Chinese ancestors there to mine solidified salt mines, legend has it that Yu Shun once played the piano to praise the south wind blowing above the pond: "The south wind is three Xunxi, can relieve the warmth of our people!" When the south wind blows, you can fufu the wealth of our people! ”

So far, it is inexhaustible.

Anyi County is currently under the control of the Wei family, so the Wei family also arbitrarily decided the salt profits of the Jin Kingdom, and the vehicles transporting salt came and went between Xinjiang and Anyi, and the road was endless all year round.

The six secretaries of the Jin State, each with a vassal merchant hundred workers, with a single profit: Fan's pottery, lacquer, Zhao's car, horse, Bank of China's Dinu, leather, Wei's salt, Han's pearl jade, Zhi's dansha, lead and tin. While maintaining their own monopoly industries, they are also trying to constantly impact the fields controlled by other Qing clans to obtain greater benefits.

Therefore, in Wuxian's view, the battle of Liuqing is not only a political, diplomatic and military war, but also an economic war!

The salt produced by the salt pond of Anyi can be divided into several grades according to the different quality and color, and the high-quality green salt and white salt are made into special shapes, such as tiger shapes, for the princes and doctors to eat. Chinese people and savages can generally only eat inferior salt, that is, bitter brine with more impurities.

However, it is good to use salt brine as a coagulant for soy milk, because it has good solubility, reacts quickly with soy milk, and makes tofu with excellent flavor.

The four people in the courtyard, under the command of Wu Xian, slowly added salt brine to the clay kettle and stirred it with a wooden spoon.

What's to be done? Zhao Guangde just ate the marrow and knew the taste, and looked at the soy milk in the kettle with a curious face, the salt and marinade taste was bitter and astringent, adding it, wouldn't it ruin the deliciousness of this kettle?

But as the wooden spoon slowly stirred, the bean juice gradually solidified and scattered into white flowers, like clouds and wisps, and also divided into petals, and finally formed a tender and smooth lump.

"This is ......" Zhao Guangde was surprised by this miraculous reaction, and his mouth opened slightly, no different from the junior high school student who exclaimed because he observed the denaturation of proteins for the first time in chemistry class in later generations.

Zhao Wuxian said to the few people who were crowded by the kettle to watch: "This thing is called Douhua. ”

So far, Zhao Wuxian has never done it himself, and in the past six months, he has become accustomed to governing people and commanding remotely.

However, Zhao Guangdexiao personally went down with interest, and looked at his posture of concocting the taste, he actually looked good, no worse than Wei Heyuan, who had been cooking in the kitchen all year round.

A wooden bowl full of snow-white tofu flowers, finely chopped green onions and ginger from the vegetable garden, sprinkled with green salt, and a few drops of pickled 'sang' in the jar, that is, the black meat sauce that Wu Tsai felt was too heavy in taste. The color of the hot bean curd suddenly becomes extremely attractive and the aroma is tangy.

The two brothers, Wuxian and Zhao Guangde, sat on the seat, and after bowing through the case, they picked up the bean curd with a business dagger and handed it to their mouths, and closed their eyes in unison.

"Great goodness!" This time, the little fat man used two words to evaluate, this tofu flower is very tender and melts in the mouth. Coupled with the heaviness of the meat, the fragrance of the green onion leaves, and the spicy ginger of the shredded ginger, it is far stronger than the various foods commonly used to make soybean beans, and is almost comparable to the delicious fish in the world.

Zhao Wuxian just didn't say a word, smiled and closed his eyes to enjoy. In his previous life, he was a powerful existence of sweet and salty all-you-can-eat, but he didn't expect that in the spring and autumn period, he would be able to enjoy this simple, but not simple home-cooked food again.

Zhao Guangde didn't care about any etiquette, he drank a bowl of three times and divided five by two, licked his lips and praised: "I didn't expect my cousin to come up with such an exquisite production method, which is really comparable to Yi Ya." ”

When Zhao Wuxian heard this, he almost sprayed him with bean curd on his head and face, this little fat man, who is not good to compare, he has to compare with Yi Ya's guy!

Yi Ya is Qi Huangong's Xiaobai's cook, that is, a chef, he is good at seasoning and making food, so he is very loved by Qi Huangong. It is rumored in the world that "the seasoning of easy teeth is also, the sour is fertile with water, and the light is added to the success, and the phase of water and fire is easy, so there is no loss of saltiness and lightness."

Once Huan Gong said to Yi Ya: "The widow has tasted all the delicious food in the world, but he has not eaten human flesh, which is a pity." Huan Gong's words were unintentional, but Yi Ya kept these words in mind, and wanted to show off his cooking skills to win the favor of Huan Gong.

As a chef with exquisite cooking skills, Yi Ya knows the importance of choosing ingredients, and how noble the monarch is, how can he eat the meat of death row prisoners and civilians? So he was ruthless and chose his son, who was just a few months old and extremely pink.

At a swallow feast, Qi Huan Gong drank a broth that was extremely tender and had never been tasted, so he asked Yi Ya: "What kind of meat is this?" Yi Ya cried and said that it was his son's meat, and in order to pray for the king's health, he killed his son to sacrifice the king. After hearing this, Duke Huan actually thought that this was a sign of loyalty, and thought that Yi Ya loved him more than his own flesh and blood, and since then Duke Huan has been more fond of Yi Ya, and after Guan Zhong's death, he was entrusted with important tasks.

Perhaps it was cannibalism and he was cursed by the Emperor of Heaven, and the fate of Qi Huan Gong was very miserable. When he was seriously ill on the couch, his favored Yi Ya and other Yong people in the temple were exposed, colluding with the sons of Huan Gong to make a rebellion, and attacking each other in order to compete for the throne. The aging Duke of Qi Huan was thrown into the deep palace, and finally starved to death, after his death, because the Qi country was in chaos, his body was parked on the couch for sixty-seven days without retraction, and the corpses and insects in the room crawled out of the window.

It doesn't matter if Zhao Wuxian thinks about it, whether it is human flesh soup or the corpse insects that Bai Sensen crawls all over the eaves, it is an extremely disgusting picture, and his appetite is suddenly bad.

Zhao Guangde was still immersed in the touching brought by this food, and confided his heart to Wuxian.

"My cousin said to my brother outside the township temple, saying that it is better to be happy alone than to be happy with all, and I want to have fun with the Zhao family and the people of the Jin Kingdom; Brother Bucai, not so ambitious, but also ambitious! ”

Zhao Wuxian took the silk towel handed over by the maid Wei and wiped his mouth, sat upright, and listened carefully to Zhao Guangde's story.

"My cousin should know that Yin Zai Yiyin was originally a courtier of the Xin family, a cook, with a humble status, but he was good at cutting and cooking. He went to Yin Shang to say soup with taste, so Cheng Tang ordered him to be slaughtered, so that Dayi merchants were kingly! ”

"I know."

For so many days, the little fat man had a rare passion, he stood up and waved his hand, and said enthusiastically: "My brother's ambition is not to be the ruler of a country, but to become an excellent cook like Yi Yin, to boil the preserved food, and to reconcile the five flavors, which is enough!" ”

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