Chapter 22 Batch transfer, the birth of moon cakes
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That night, Wang Zhaoyuan asked people to go to the treasury of Chengdu Mansion to check the weapons, battle armor, etc., what made people feel that since the fire in the weapons prison, Wang Zhaoyuan asked people to check the remaining weapons in the treasury, so that after a little bit, in Chengdu Mansion, there are still 8,000 sets of weapons and armor left in several mansions, and the merchants of Wu Yue Kingdom only need 2,000 sets.
Wang Zhaoyuan stroked his beard and smiled, he thought that he could make the decision on this matter, if someone found out, he would just make a fake account. In recent years, he Wang Zhaoyuan has taken advantage of his position to secretly sell weapons and other things, and has made a lot of money, and he has done this, compared to Li Hao, these are just a drop in the bucket, Prime Minister Li Hao is in charge of financial power, and he has been greedy a lot in recent years.
In the next three days, Wang Zhaoyuan, just in case, asked people to take 2,000 sets of armor weapons out of the city in turn, and after the delivery was completed in the bamboo forest outside the city, Wang Zhaoyuan suddenly had more than 20,000 yuan in hand.
Wang Zhaoyuan took the money, and his heart blossomed, these weapons were not worth so much at all.
Zhang Junjun also got 2,000 sets of armor and weapons as promised, and he asked people to buy a lot of green salt, Sichuan pepper, Shu brocade and other materials from Shu, and loaded the goods at the Chengdu ferry, and then took the weapons out of Shu by small boats in batches, and then went east along the Yangtze River......
On this day, on the Chengdu Fu ferry.
After Zhang Yanjun handled these things, he gave full authority to his servants to act as agents, and the servants immediately changed clothes with Zhang Yanjun and said, "Zhang Tuanlian takes care of everything." β
"Yongming, don't you worry about me? How many times have I told you, call me Third Master Hou......"
The merchant Zhang Yingjun was actually Zhang Hui, the training envoy of the Fengzhou regiment, and at this time he instructed: "Now that it is still in Shu, you must remember that each boat must not carry more than five pairs of armor, so as not to be checked." β
"Yes."
"There are also these armor and weapons, etc., all of which are disembarked in Jiangling Mansion, and then transported to Jiangling Mansion and handed over to Sun Guangxian and Liang Yansi, and there is a letter to be handed over to them separately."
"The little one must do as the third master instructs." Du Yongming nodded and replied, and then asked people to carry green salt, Sichuan pepper, Shu brocade, etc. to the big ship and the small boat in turn, and then sandwiched the weapons and armor, and after all the batches were shipped, Du Yongming ordered the ships to go south.
The ship started, and after Du Yongming got on the boat, Zhang Hui stood on the pier and watched the ship leave, and when the ship could no longer be seen under the sky, it was almost dark at this moment.
Zhang Hui immediately got on a mule cart and rushed to the small Baihualou in the city.
Zhang Hui got off the mule cart, hurriedly walked into the restaurant, and immediately went to the secret room while there was no one around, and Qin Xi saw Zhang Hui coming, and also went to the secret room.
"Zhang Tuanlian, how are things going?" As soon as Qin Xi entered the secret room, he immediately closed the sliding door and hurriedly asked.
Zhang Hui sat on the stool, crossed his legs and said, "It's okay for the time being, I'll wait for all the goods to be on the ship today, and then I'll leave." β
"Well, that's good. Then we will wait for His Highness's next move. β
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After a while, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. At night, Kaifeng City is very prosperous, Tokyo Kaifeng Fuzhong, since the expansion of the city and the emperor ordered merchants to open restaurants and tea shops in the streets and alleys and other commercial activities, Kaifeng is no longer the previous Tang Dynasty when the situation of separation of the market.
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, all the shops on the streets of Kaifeng sell new wine, re-tie the faΓ§ade, and wrap the flower head on the color building, and insert the painting rod drunk fairy brocade sieve, etc. The people of the city compete for drink, and before noon, there is no wine in every house, and they drag down their sons. At that time, the crab was new, pomegranate, Libo, pear, jujube, chestnut, plum grape, and orange were all newly listed.
The business of Guangwei Restaurant and the restaurants under the Guangwei Group is extremely prosperous, and the daily customer flow has skyrocketed several times compared with ordinary days.
In the past few days, a new food has been introduced in Guangwei Restaurant, which is a round cake with various ingredients, including bean paste, red bean paste, rock sugar, chestnuts, sesame, meat floss, etc.
The restaurant also gives a name called "moon cake".
This is also what Zhao Dezhao just thought of a few days ago, and he suddenly remembered that this era seemed to lack some things in later generations, and the Song Dynasty just didn't have such a thing as moon cakes.
And the production of moon cakes is very simple, but it is also a technical job, Zhao Dezhao is making it, baking moon cakes is a technical job, and if you are not careful, the skin will be charred and tender.
The first thing is to get some flour on the spot, then stir the flour with water, wait until the dough is almost too soft, and then let the dough sit for half an hour.
After the dough is ready, the dough is divided one by one, and then the next step is to make the filling.
In order to make the surface of the moon cake look with different patterns, Zhao Dezhao specially asked craftsmen to make different pattern pressing abrasives, and after the mold was washed and dried before use, it was immediately coated with a layer of oil, and then blotted with paper.
The filling is then placed into the dough and then slapped into a grinding tool and pressed into shape.
Then each moon cake was brushed with egg white liquid in turn, and in addition, the blacksmith sent a hurried oven, and then Zhao Dezhao put the finished moon cakes into the oven in turn.
Zhao Dezhao was baking, paying special attention to the temperature and time in the oven, at the right time, Zhao Dezhao suddenly smelled a fragrance, the fragrance was fragrant, Zhao Dezhao ordered someone to turn off the oven, and it was baked after a while.
In less than half an hour, this batch of moon cakes was baked, Zhao Dezhao looked at these moon cakes, and then put them all on the counter for everyone in the restaurant to taste.
Jin Liufu took a bite and the sweet breath filled the entire lips and teeth, "Mmmm, it's delicious." Your Highness, what is this called? β
Zhao Dezhao pointed to the moon cakes piled up on the plate, he said: "Hahaha, this is called moon cakes, which are specially made for the Mid-Autumn Festival. β
"Your Highness, I didn't expect this mooncake to be so exquisite, I plan to give some to my family." Jin Liufu had just finished eating one in his mouth, looking at the large number of mooncakes on the plate, he said embarrassedly.
Zhao Dezhao asked people to bring all the moon cakes in the kitchen, and then said: "No problem, these moon cakes are for your family, Mashan is about to reach the Mid-Autumn Festival, and our restaurant will also launch a large number of moon cakes, so that everyone can taste the taste of reunion." β
"Thank you, Your Highness." Jin Liufu was moved.
Zhao Dezhao squinted his eyes and smiled, then asked someone to bring some paper, rolled two tubes of moon cakes and handed them to Jin Liufu.
Jin Liufu took the rolled two tubes of moon cakes and went back.
Zhao Dezhao asked everyone in the hotel to take two tubes of moon cakes back, and he packed the rest and took them back to the palace.
Zhao Dezhao went to several palaces in turn, distributed the moon cakes to his family, and introduced the meaning of the moon cakes, and several people felt warm in their hearts after hearing it.
Zhao Defang saw this cake and asked, "Brother, what is this?" β
"It's food, you don't look like the moon!" Zhao Dezhao picked up the moon cake and then looked at a full moon in the sky.
Zhao Defang clapped his hands happily, and then picked up other moon cakes and compared them to the full moon outside the window, "The moon is round and round." β
Zhao Dezhao told Zhao Defang some legends about the moon. The little guy said: "This Wu Gang felling Gui is too miserable, the Emperor of Heaven punished him to go to the Moon Palace to cut down the laurel tree, and the tree was cut down with it, it was really torturous." β
Zhao Dezhao touched Zhao Defang's head and said earnestly: "There are many people like Wu Gang in this world, so people have to struggle all their lives, if not, how can they cut down trees." β
Zhao Defang still didn't understand what his brother said, he nodded as if he didn't understand.
"Okay, brother will tell you another story."
Zhao Dezhao then told a story about Chang'e running to the moon, and the little guy slowly fell asleep after listening to it, and after Zhao Dezhao covered the quilt, he walked out of the dormitory.
Zhao Dezhao then went to the Funing Palace, Zhao Kuangyin saw that Zhao Dezhao sent these snacks, and praised it: "This moon cake is really delicious, and it is also very meaningful, why not make some more, and reward some ministers for the father." β
"Daddy, Zhao'er has this intention, tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the child plans to make more moon cakes, one batch for the ministers of the DPRK and the central government, and the other batch will be sold in the restaurant, so that everyone in Kaifeng City can eat the moon cakes I made."
"That's a good idea."
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The next day, the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhao Dezhao launched the moon cakes of the restaurant, the moon cakes have many flavors, all the food launched by the Guangwei restaurant, as long as it is delicious, it can cause a large number of people to rush to buy, but today Zhao Dezhao deliberately let everyone only buy a tube of moon cakes, even so, the moon cakes in the restaurant are in short supply, and there are many people in the kitchen who take turns to make and bake moon cakes.
And on this day, the noble family decorates the pavilion, and the people compete to occupy the restaurant to play the moon.
Zhao Kuangyin took advantage of the festival today to take everyone around him out of the palace for a night tour, and tonight, the royal party all changed into the clothes of ordinary rich and noble people, and then brought some guards and ministers with him.
Above the market, several people went south from the south gate of the imperial city, along the royal street, and finally went to the Guangwei restaurant near the Bianshui wharf, and in the restaurant, an elegant room had already been reserved in the Tianzi room.
The food and wine were ready, the family began to work up their appetite, Zhao Defang, who was sitting next to Zhao Dezhao, was the first time to go out of the palace with his family to play, and when he saw a table of delicious food, he didn't know what to eat.
I saw saliva on the corner of his mouth, and then looked at the dishes on the table, then picked up the chopsticks, picked up a chicken leg at once, and nibbled on the huge chicken leg.
"Eat slowly, foodie!" On the table, the two princesses and a prince kept staring at the youngest brother.
"Brothers and sisters, eat." Then Zhao Defang picked up the chopsticks and picked up the vegetables in their bowls one by one, "Grandparents, grandparents, fathers, mothers, you eat." β
"Brother Fang is so good." The family looked at the youngest child and was very relieved.
The day of the Mid-Autumn Festival is spent in joy.
On the Qiantang River in Wu Yueguo, Bai Gucheng was standing on the Qiantang River and watching the tide.
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Ps. Northern Song Dynasty, officially designated August 15 as the Mid-Autumn Festival.
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