According to the duty, the fried noodles as military food should be reported by the Jingyuan Road transfer envoy, naturally there is no need to worry about Lotte, and there is an idea of making matches in his heart, Lotte took Shakuchi to the state mansion, thinking about the preparation method of matches while walking.

"Suji, Suji, red and big Suji......"

"Peaches, big, red, sweet autumn peaches......"

"Pears, crisp and sweet pears......"

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After leaving Jingyuan Road to appease the envoy, Lotte returned to the state mansion, thinking about making matches, and couldn't hear all kinds of shouting in his ears.

At this time, Shakuchi, who was following behind Lotte, said: "The officials are going to go out with the army in a few days, and the march on the road must be hard, so it is better to bring some fruits that can be stored, such as vegetarians, pears, and hawthorns!" ”

"Uh-huh!" Lotte just hummed lightly, his mind completely focused on making firewood, and he didn't pay attention to what Shakuseven was talking about.

In the eyes of later generations, matches are extremely simple, and they are not high-tech, where is it so difficult to make. In fact, this simplest match is not simple, if it is so easy to do, in the later generations when China is the weakest, it will not be called foreign fire, let alone in the Great Song Dynasty, which is equivalent to the Western Middle Ages.

In the era of the Great Song Dynasty, there was no technology to refine phosphorus, and without phosphorus, it was impossible to make matches that were easy to catch fire, and there was no way to make matches, which really hurt Lotte a lot of brains.

"Official, look, this Su Qi is red and big, very fresh, only five pennies a catty, as long as it is well preserved, it is estimated that it can be put in the end of October to November!" Shakuchi ran over with a basket and showed it to Lotte, and then said helplessly: "It's just that after entering the winter solstice, there is no fresh fruit to eat!" ”

Su Zhu, that is, the common apple of later generations, and even the "purple admonish" eaten by Dayu in some ancient books, is the red apple of later generations, which shows that the history of apples in China has been very long. It was only in the last years of the Braided Dynasty that Western varieties of better quality apples were introduced, and the original domestic fruit varieties gradually disappeared.

Apples, in the north of the Great Song Dynasty is naturally a common thing, Lotte is naturally no stranger, and even just crossed over, curious to taste the apples of the Song Dynasty, obviously the apples of the Song Dynasty can not be compared with the apples of later generations, unripe to eat and eat cotton wool is no different, overripe sandy and rotten tasteless.

Then Shakuchi said to the side: "Official, it's better to buy more fruits, go back and cut them into pieces to dry, and then soak them in honey for a few days to make preserved fruit and bring them with the officials, so that you don't have to worry about having no fresh fruits to eat in winter......"

"There is no fresh fruit to eat in winter, so you can eat canned food!" Lotte was still thinking about making matches, and he didn't care about what Shakuchi was babbling next to him, but he only heard a sentence that there was no fruit to eat in winter, so he subconsciously said.

"Canned?" Shakushichi set his eyes on Lotte and asked curiously, "Official, what is the can?" ”

Just subconsciously replied to the shakuchi, which made Lotte wake up from thinking about the method of making matches, and realized that he had come up with something that did not exist in this era, and couldn't help laughing: "Canned food...... Canned food is a good thing to keep and seal things in the fall, keep them in the winter or even the following winter, and eat things that you can't eat in other seasons. ”

"Really?" Shakuchi became curious, and then asked, "Isn't it made like candied fruit?" ”

"Canned food and candied fruit are two completely different preparation methods, how can they be confused!" Lotte shook his head, and then instructed Wu Song, who was guarding beside him, to say, "Wu Song, you go to the tavern to find some small jars that can only hold two or three catties of wine, and then go buy some brown sugar." ”

Taking the shakuchi's basket, Wu Song replied: "Weizhou City is a border pass where the people are fierce, and the Xia and Liao people have done a lot of work, and it is important for the subordinates to protect the safety of the officials by their side, and the matter of buying the jar is still up to the shakuchi!" ”

Shakuchi and Tu Si are just Lotte's long-term followers, but Wu Song is Lotte's escort with the official position of military general, and Shakuchi naturally obeys the arrangement.

In the Song Dynasty, there was naturally no white sugar, and Lotte naturally had to use all the brown sugar in this era to make canned food.

White granulated sugar is the product of the industrialization of later generations, and it has to be mentioned that the red granulated sugar of later generations, that is, the "brown sugar" in the mouth of the common people, is not the same thing as the ancient brown sugar, and the red granulated sugar of later generations is the tailing material of industrialized white granulated sugar, which cannot be whitened by scientific technology, so it has to be sold as traditional brown sugar, squeezing out the original brown sugar due position.

Wu Song and Shakuchi are rough-handed, so naturally they can't do such technical work, so Lotte called Shakuchi to call the kitchen in the state mansion to help.

The ancients had a saying: A gentleman cooks far away. The kitchen can't even enter the lower nine streams in the three sects and nine streams, and a four-grade court member of Le Heaven Hall actually wants to make food himself, which immediately attracts the curiosity of many people in the state mansion, and these miscellaneous officials are also rushing over out of the mentality of watching the excitement, but they were coaxed out by the shakuqiqi, and they are not allowed to approach the kitchen.

The process of making canned food is very simple, but the fruit is cleaned first, peeled and cored and cut into pieces, cold water is injected into the ceramic pot, the amount of water is just over the fruit, put in the red grain and boil over high heat, and then use a spoon to skim off the foam on the water surface, cook until the fruit has just become soft, and then you can leave the fire.

The jar for the pulp is boiled over a hot fire in advance to sterilize the water and dry the water, and as for the sealed lid, Lotte also used some brains to cut the cork into a stopper as big as the mouth of the clay pot, which is also sterilized by putting it in boiling water.

At Lotte's command, the boiled fruit was placed in a clay pot and the cork was plugged while it was hot, and an ancient can with posterity was a complete success.

The reason why it is instructed to plug the clay pot tightly with the cork stopper while it is hot, Lotte also has its own plan, plug the cork tightly while it is hot, and after the can cools, due to the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction, the wooden stopper will tightly plug the clay pot to achieve the purpose of sealing, and it can make the canned food last longer.

How could Wu Song and Shakuchi do these things, at most they washed and washed the fruits and peeled them and removed the cores, and the operation was completed by a few cooks in the mansion.

"Sir, how long can you store this can you tell the little one to make?" According to Lotte's instructions, the cook completed all the procedures and asked curiously after giving a salute to Lotte.

Lotte said, "Until the peaches come down tomorrow spring, there should be no problem!" ”

"Really?" The cook didn't seem convinced.

Hearing that the cook was suspicious of Lotte's words, Shakuchi glanced sideways very unabashedly: "My family official is a dignified four-grade master......

"The little ones don't believe in the adults!" The cook was terrified.

Waving his hand to signal the cook not to be polite, Lotte said: "You are a cook, naturally you know that red sugar water can be preserved, in addition to preventing the temperature from freezing too low, it is okay in late autumn, in addition to preventing the temperature from freezing and cracking the clay pot at too low a temperature in winter, you don't need to pay attention to anything!" ”

Speaking of this, Lotte smiled at the cook and said, "Speaking of which, you want to invite the official to eat and drink!" ”

"Eat and drink?" The cook didn't know why he wanted to stay there, and he invited a fourth-grade master in the court, how could he dare to think of a miscellaneous person.

Standing there in confusion, Lotte smiled and said, "Didn't you find a business opportunity?" Today, you have learned how to make canned food, and he will make a fortune by making canned food instead of being a cook, so that others can eat fruits that cannot be eaten in winter? ”

"Thank you, sir, for mentioning!" The cook wanted to continue the salute.

"Don't always salute!" blocked the long hand of the cook, only to hear Lotte smile and ask: "As the saying goes, three years of apprenticeship and four years of help, you can't be a chef for seven years, what the official said is right?" ”

"That's what the old man said!" Of course, the cook knew the rules of the craft.

Lotte said with a smile: "But don't want to make this fortune this year, you have learned the craft of the official, so naturally you have to help the official do this autumn, otherwise the official will not drive those people away before!" ”

"It should be, it should be!" The chef obviously knew the meaning and value of these canned fruits, and just like the out-of-season vegetables in later generations, they could definitely be sold for a lot of money in winter and spring.

Looking at the cook, Lotte continued to ask: "This official wants to build a canning workshop in Weizhou City, with Shakuchi in charge, and you in charge, and then recruit some miscellaneous servants for military use, are you willing?" ”

"The little one is willing, ...... is willing to be able to get in touch with a four-grade master, which is a good thing that others can't ask for when they burn high incense.

The quality of food affects the morale of an army, and Lotte not only wants to make the army of the Great Song Dynasty eat well but also eat well, just imagine what kind of incentive the morale of the soldiers can eat canned fruit in the ice and snow of the Hetao Plain.

Then Lotte instructed: "Shakuchi, you have been with me for a long time, what to do about this canning workshop, you know it in your own heart!" ”

"The little ones know!" Shakuchi hurriedly answered. When Lotte does errands, shakuchi follows Lotte to do chores, and follows Lotte all the way, shakuchi is naturally clever, and Lotte only needs to arrange a rough plan, and it can be done to make Lingtian satisfied.

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After the canned food was made, Lotte began to speculate about the production method of matches, the principle of making matches is very simple, but the raw materials required are not available in the era of the Great Song Dynasty, and one of the most important raw materials, phosphorus, is indispensable.

As the saying goes, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, without phosphorus, and the theory that Lotte has a lot of matches made is useless, so Lotte began to focus on the flammable elements that can replace phosphorus in its dome.

There are only a few flammable things, nothing more than gunpowder, sulfur and the like, but these things have too high ignition points to obviously ignite by friction and heat like phosphorus.

Suddenly, Lotte remembered the friction and heat, and instructed Wu Song: "Wu Song, go to the street and buy some pine oil, gunpowder, sulfur, and some flammable wood!" ”

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