Chapter 40: Things to Do in Summer (3)
The son said on the river: "The deceased is like a husband, reluctant to give up day and night"
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And what Count Xiao Tang wants to do is just the beginning!
Land consolidation, land reclamation, and road construction, which of these are the top priorities, and there is no room for delay. Land consolidation is still being piloted, and it is good to say that the land is being cleared, and the left and right are only a small manor, with a scale of four or five hundred people, and the enthusiasm of the serfs is also worth looking forward to. But building roads, ramming, this is originally a labor-intensive work, a ramming often requires seven or eight people to throw together - this is equivalent to seven or eight laborers all at once!
And it is certainly impossible to build a road with only one rammer, and what kind of road can be built with a rammer! Hundreds, nearly a thousand, rammed together, and this was still small, plus the men who pushed the carts, the people who drove the ox carts, and the people who drove the carts, and the whole of Desmond - men and women, as long as they were able to work, had already gone to 'do the sacraments'βand the little Count Tang could not even have the slightest manpower in his hands!
This is not something to be surprised about, in the red era, when building infrastructure, it was common for 10,000 people to fight, and it was common for 100,000 people to fight, and the general mobilization of one million people at the provincial level may be surprising!
And Count Xiao Tang only has a population of 50,000 in his hands, and not all of these 50,000 can be taken out, not to mention anything else, children and old people, you can't let them do heavy physical work, right?
Besides, the number of 50,000 still has to be removed from the serfs.
It's not that Count Xiao Tang feels sorry for the serfs, or that these serfs have other things, but that Count Xiao Tang really doesn't dare.
These serfs, as we all know, were frail people, and their long-term eating of grass root bark caused serious damage to their bodies - including stunted growth and various kidney diseases.
People with kidney disease are not allowed to do heavy work, because when doing heavy work, the waist is an important focus point, which has to bear a lot of pressure, which is not conducive to the blood circulation of the kidneys, and will also affect kidney function, such as urine filtration.
That's why we often see in European movies that a serf is working, and while doing it, he clutches his waist and falls down in pain, and he can't stand up again.
However, after a while, after the harvest of the fields, these serfs will also have food and drink, and their lives will improve and their bodies will naturally become stronger - even if they are not strong, they can create a few strong children - children are human beings when they grow up, and they are quite precious resources in this era!
Since there is no labor force in his hands, Count Tang can only find another way and start from other aspects.
But fortunately, because of the extreme backwardness of technology in the Middle Ages, Count Tang was still able to dig up a few improvements after racking his brains.
For example, get some pasta out.
This is not a whim of Count Tang, or Count Tang finally can't stand the unlucky food of this unlucky era, but it has a very practical consideration.
First of all, pasta is easy to carry and easy to eat. When the volunteers entered the Korean War, it was 'a handful of fried noodles and a handful of snow', and fried noodles can be said to have made great contributions.
And now the situation here is similar, there are more than 10,000 people 'doing the sacrament' every day, and this bread to be steamed every day is several thousand! Once you steam bread, you need to burn five cedar trees at a time! Not to mention having to be sent over! And to steam bread, you have to make a lot of caves in advance, but below, on the spot, on the spot, on the spot, without transportation, a few big iron pots can be solved - no matter how little Count Tang has less iron, he can still produce a few iron pots.
And pasta can not only be made with wheat, it can also be made with barley, oats, wheat, and even old wheat that has been left for a few years, which is almost impossible to see after fermentation anyway - not to say that Count Don has no conscience, compared with those who add lime sand to bread, Count Don is simply full of discipline and moral model.
Of course, the most important thing is the last point, which is that pasta is nourishing for the stomach. Before, we said that most of the serfs had bad kidneys, so would the peasants' health be better?
Peasants, their life is indeed a little better than that of serfs, but how much better can this be? The serfs generally had kidney disease, but the peasants did not get much better from stomach problems.
Eating bread with sand and lime every day, my stomach can't get better!
Therefore, this stomach-nourishing pasta must be available, and after having pasta, these black-hearted bakers will try to add sand to the pasta? Without Count Don speaking, the angry peasants themselves could have lifted the bakers.
Therefore, Count Tang began to try to make noodles.
To make noodles, you must first have flour, this is no problem, no matter how stupid the Europa people are, a mill can still make it after all, the key is to wait for the wheat to be ground into flour and then processed.
One is to mix noodles, add water, add more and less water, and finally get the noodles are not the same, add 50~60% warm water, get dumpling noodles, add 35~40% warm water, and get rolling noodles, in addition to pancake noodles, steamed steamed noodles and so on......
But to be honest, there is no difference between any noodles, after all, there are no noodles in Europe at this time, and it will not appear in Italy until Marco Polo brings the noodles from the Yuan Dynasty.
Therefore, at this step, Count Xiao Tang is completely casual, adding as much as he wants, bringing a pot if he is happy today, and half a cup if he is unhappy tomorrow, it is no different from drinking.
Wait for the dough to be reconciled, then stir, then beat.
People don't make a vessel, the noodles don't beat without gluten, and the noodles are made so that the air can be fully integrated into the dough, so that the dough can be strong and tasteful when eaten. And since Count Tang wanted to make noodles instead of bread the daily food of the peasants, then this noodles must not be unpalatable, so he had to hammer the more vigorously the hammer was.
But this doesn't need to be done by Count Xiao Tang himself, after all, he is also an earl, how can he do this kind of inferior work himself? So the female students of the little Tang Count suffered, in addition to studying, they needed to hold a big stick to hammer the dough every day, and the average person had to hammer hundreds of catties a day - but compared to the previous difficult life, these female students still enjoyed it, after all, there is a sense of happiness only when there is comparison!
Once the noodles are ready, it's time for the most important step, fermentation.
The noodles we eat now come out of the factory, and there are yeasts specially used for fermentation in the factory, and the noodles are made quickly and well, but when we move this noodles to ancient times, fermentation is not so easy.
In ancient times, the dough was fermented in the air, and after a long time, it will naturally ferment, which is due to the fact that there are also yeasts in the air; This noodle is called old noodles, and the old noodles are used as bacteria and added to the new noodles to ferment. In fact, from the current point of view, this method is very unhygienic, everyone knows that there is not only yeast in the air, hehe...... Therefore, the old noodles should be alkalinized, because there are too many miscellaneous bacteria, which will produce acid during the fermentation process, and adding alkali is to neutralize the sourness.
However, Count Xiao Tang felt that he could not do this step of adding acid, sour, no matter what, it was a taste! In this era when the tongue can fade out of the bird, not to mention sour, even stinky, there are people who are willing to lick it.
The last thing is to make a dough sheeter, which is the best thing to do, in line with the profession of Earl Tang! The most important thing in the simple dough sheeter is the blade, which can be made by the blacksmith, and then the outer shell, this is made by the carpenter, no matter what, even if it is a temporary patchwork, as long as it can be used - their level can only do these, and if they want to do something more advanced, they have to be transferred to the carpenter emperor by Count Tang.
That's it, the simple dough, plus the simple dough sheeter, and finally the simple big iron pot, the simple Γ the simple Γ simple, and the little Count Tang finally didn't know what the last strip with a strange taste and a green color in white should be called - but as long as it doesn't eat the dead, so the little Count Tang was very bad and gave this strip to Philip Priest to experiment - if it really eats people to death, it is also Philip Priest' It is a good thing that he was called by the Lord to go to heaven and accompany God!
So Philip gave two thumbs up.
So all the peasants who were 'doing the sacraments' were also doing sacramental praise.
So the little Count Tang was relieved.
Until...... One day, Priest Philip invited him to dinner......
The staple food is noodles, which is normal, and now most people, whether knights, farmers, or merchants, have begun to eat noodles, but after Priest Philip ate it, because he is a resident of this world, and his taste is still different from that of Count Don, he feels that there is still room for improvement.
The Count of Don Jr. took a bite of joy and was moved to tears, claiming that in the house of Philip Priest, the stars and heaven could be seen during the day.
Of course, the noodles are filled with the best seasoning, honey, the best fat, and yogurt with a long green hair......
The honey fat yogurt noodles moved the young Count Don so much that he persisted in his fast for several days, and swore that he would never set foot in Philip's house again.
Food can purify the soul, and the enhanced version of the food of the other world can purify even the traveler.