"It seems to be called tofu...... It's also a franchise in the city, and the new army in the barracks has tasted it, and I haven't eaten it, Ji Xia said that it may have to wait until next year's soybean harvest to give it to us to eat, and today is to try it. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The coachman licked his lips, he had already eaten a piece before he came, it was very tender, but each person got very little, so he could only taste it.

The eyes of everyone in the fish village also turned to the clay pots on the car, looking at the white squares curiously, in addition to curiosity and eagerness, the things that Jian Chen made have always been delicious.

"Tell me what's going on for us? We won't forget Ji Xia's kindness, if it weren't for him, we would still be paying tribute to the Meteorite Clan...... Needless to say, I don't need to say that. ”

Ji Yun smiled and said: "There are a lot of things, two hundred catties of wheat flour, one sheep, five rolling pins, let you eat mutton dumplings tomorrow for the holiday." Thirty clay pots ......"

"Clay pots? Is it the black pottery of Echeng? ”

Someone asked, and the angry catfish almost rushed over to cover the mouth of the clansman. Ji Yun is the half-brother of Chengyi Taoguan Acorn, isn't it uncomfortable to ask this sentence?

Ji Yun shook his head a little embarrassed and said, "No, but it's better than before, my brother burned a lot better this time than before." ”

Catfish hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, the black pottery in Echeng is so thin, just like an eggshell, it is easy to break, don't do it, it's better to use our clay pots, it's not easy to break, and it's not the same to eat and hold water." ”

As soon as the catfish said this, Ji Yun was suddenly deflated, muttered a few words without mentioning those common things, and pointed to the pot of white flowers and said, "This is also what Ji Xia gave you, tofu." ”

A few people ran over, curiously poked the cube of the white flower soaked in the water with their hands, scratched their heads, and said, "How do you eat this thing?" What is it made of? ”

Xia Cheng's word-making and grammar are simple, Ji Yun said confidently and told everyone that this must be made of soybeans, because Xiacheng's word-making method is different from that of the Red Fish tribe, and you can guess it by listening to the name.

But Ji Yun's understanding ended there, he didn't know exactly how to do it or how to eat it. He has been outside the city for more than ten days to collect taxes, and who knows what happened to the city.

His guess was correct, this thing was indeed made of beans, and in Jian Chen's opinion, a city with beans and no tofu was intolerable, in addition to the lack of this excellent plant protein, there would also be a lot of familiar afterword phrases and stories.

When the beans were harvested, he had already asked the stonemason to make two small mills, and began to grind blindfolded the donkey in exchange.

The pre-technology of tofu requires spinning and weaving, boiling salt and brine, sawing wood boards, bean planting and stone grinding, and all the preconditions have been fully met.

At the beginning of the appearance of tofu in the previous life, because of the lack of a process, the taste was not good, so it took many years to become a popular delicacy.

The missing process is actually very simple, that is, to cook the soy milk...... If you order tofu directly with brine without cooking, it will have a strong beany smell.

The smell of beans is very bad, as the saying goes, chickens don't eat beans, nephews don't scold uncles, even chickens dislike raw beans, and it is generally difficult for people to adapt to that taste.

Thinking about making tofu to eat is not a whim for Chen Jian, but for the training of the new army to have enough nutrition.

The dodoer birds and geese he domesticated so far still only lay a few eggs a year, and there is still a long way to go before there are eggs to eat every day, and there is no way to force them to lay more eggs. Pig and sheep breeding has just formed a scale, and now every time you eat one more, you will eat two or three less next year, and you will occasionally open meat; Hunting is a waste of time, and it is far better to plow the ground than to have this time.

Beans are rich in protein, you can cook and eat directly, but if you eat too much, your stomach will be bloated, and after eating some beans a while ago, there will be one sound after another in the room of the entire barracks even sleeping at night, and the door will not be closed at night when it is so cold.

There are not many soya beans harvested now, and Chen Jian can only try his best to ensure that the new army eats them, or tell his sister who is far away in Echeng how to make them, so as to add some flavor to her liquor shop in exchange for more soya beans.

The place where the tofu is made is in the handicraft district in the city, and he is not afraid that someone will steal it, because he hides the brine of the tofu, and the people will only be curious about how the soybean milk of Baihuahua is turned into tofu. Now he is exploiting his own cities by all means, increasing hidden taxes, expanding public property, accumulating grain for large-scale construction, so even tofu has to be monopolized.

A small tofu factory was quietly established, and all the property was two donkeys, two stone mills, and a large room, which required a total of eight people and could produce four hundred catties of tofu per day.

Two of the eight people were trained for Echeng, and in the future, they would take four newcomers to Echeng to open a store, so they chose all trusted clansmen.

The soaked beans are crushed by two little donkeys pulling a stone mill in a circle, wrapped in cloth and squeezed out of soy milk, and then added water and squeezed once to leave a pile of tofu residue, which can be fed to the cows.

The soy milk is boiled over a fire, and some waste brine from Yancun is poured on, and the bitter source of the brine, magnesium chloride, will cause the protein to denature and coagulate, turning into tofu flowers and separated tofu water.

Pour the water and tofu flowers into a wooden trough prepared in advance, cover it with a layer of cloth, press a certain weight of stones to condense those tofu flowers into pieces, fish intestines and sword everything, and the tofu is ready.

Because it avoids the mistakes made when the tofu was born in the previous life, it does not smell beany and tastes quite good.

The unsqueezed tofu flowers were made a little more tender, and a pot of salty toppings with fern root powder, dried daylily gourd shredded meat foam, or maple sugar was poured directly, and after tasting it, the people in the city broke out in the first salty and sweet dispute in the history of the world, and this time the salty party had the upper hand.

After trying the new ones that can be eaten, they will no longer be served to the city, and this rule will not be changed until the next harvest of beans.

The new army in the barracks eats every day, and the quota is half a catty of tofu per day, and at the end of the decade, two tofu can be given as a ten-year military salary, so that the new army can go to Fang City to exchange with the clansmen, which is also a kind of welfare...... It's just a little chilly.

This time making tofu also completely cut off Chen Jian's dream of looking for saltpeter mines, so he had to honestly recruit people to dig saltpeter fields.

During the investigation and research in Yancun, in addition to bringing back a large amount of brine, I also looked for suitable minerals in the valley.

There are two kinds of saltpeter in the previous life, one is miscanthus and the other is fire nitrate. The two are about the same length, and it is basically impossible to distinguish from the appearance, and most of the saltpeter mines coexist with the two.

Miscanthus nitrate is sodium sulfate, can it participate in chemical reactions to make gunpowder Chen Jian pondered for a long time The chemical formula is unlikely, and this thing is easy to carry crystal water, so it is easy to get wet when mixed into the nitrate, and it is something that must be removed from the nitrate.

Pyrocine is extremely soluble in water, and it is difficult to exist in non-arid areas, only in the desert there will be large-scale mines.

The environment in the valley is somewhat strange, it may have dried up tens of millions of years ago in the saltwater lake, there may be this ore, and it is easy to distinguish two kinds of saltpeter with the experience of previous lives.

I turned around with the mentality of trying to find a treasure, and found a lot of white powder and crystals.

After taking it back, I burned it with fire, but I didn't find a single purple flame, which was basically a yellow flame. Potassium purple sodium yellow calcium brick red, magnesium aluminum flameless color, Chen Jian was desperate after reading it, this salt pan is basically unlikely to have potassium salt.

After two days of stupidity, he left with a batch of brine left by the solubility of the temperature difference, leaving behind infinite regrets, until he left, everyone in Yancun didn't know what he was looking for.

The only source of potash in the city is ash potassium carbonate, and struvite on Luodao is the best phosphate and nitrogen fertilizer, but unfortunately it does not contain much potassium.

Jian Chen has always felt that he is lucky, if there is a large amount of potassium nitrate deposits in that salt field, it will not only solve the problem of gunpowder, but also increase the grain production of the city a lot, but unfortunately it is about the end of luck, this time it is not as good as he thought.

It was this trip to find brine for tofu that made him give up his illusions and decide to send conscription to dig the nitrate pond to prepare for next year's gunpowder.

Since there were no mines, the dream of the gunpowder age could only be built on toilets. (To be continued.) )