Chapter 120: Eat Pigs with You!
Recently, Bai Tu finally pointed out the "gelding" - a bit unprofessional, mainly because the technology related to the "positive industry" is a bit of labor and money, although the return is huge, but before the drought is over, Bai Tu just wants to play soy sauce.
Speaking of soy sauce, "sauce" has appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty, but it is something that can be enjoyed by fermenting meat, and only the nobility can enjoy it, and the Han Dynasty already has the technology of fermenting soybeans, so it can also be seen in the folk, called "soybean sauce clear", similar to soy sauce.
It's just the taste......
In order to experiment with pork, Bai Tu specially asked the Lu family, the Zhang family, and the Yu family for some cooks with ancestral skills, and the taste of those sauces ...... It's complicated!
Especially the chef of the Lu family, which is known as the craft handed down from the pre-Qin Dynasty - fermenting the puree of beef and then adding ox blood...... It simply changed Bai Tu's opinion on soy sauce.
And with soy sauce, there is naturally "braised pork", but now it is not called by that name.
In the early days of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the practice of braised pork was clearly recorded, and the current farming technology is as heroic, a pig, cut into four large pieces and boiled in a pot, after boiling the bloody water, take it out and cut it into small pieces, change the water and cook it again - cycle several times, and finally add the sauce and cook it to amber, even if it is done.
When there is no gelding technology, this should be regarded as the meat that ordinary people can eat on a good day when the year is good.
Not to mention the wealthy family, even the children of the poor family will not eat in the open, whether it is the official reward or the prestigious family that is now full of prestige, they will not use pork as a gift - Hanqi.
Bai Tu specially went to visit Gan Ning, and when there were no outsiders, Gan Ning did not hide his temper at all...... In fact, when there are outsiders, it is only a little disguised.
For example, no matter how big the meeting is, Gan Ning dares to walk barefoot into the central hall of the state governor's mansion - according to the etiquette at this time, it is necessary to enter the house and take off your shoes, but can't you wear socks once?
And the jingling bells on his body are never picked, as the big sacrificial wine of the Ministry of Rites, before in the state pastoral mansion, Hua Xin specially criticized him before the meeting, but Gan Ning raised his buttocks, made a posture of cutting the mat with his fingers on the cushion, and squeezed his eyebrows and said: "Doesn't Hua Lao like to watch the excitement?" Ning's bell isn't lively enough? ”
was so angry that Hua Xin almost ran away......
At this time, Bai Tu looked at Gan Ning and glanced at himself unhappily, without greeting the "lord", Bai Tu enlightened and said: "Xingba is happier, and he will come to the Zhou Mu Mansion to eat meat at night!" ”
When Gan Ning heard this, he was even more angry: "I'll tell you!" I, Gan Ning, will starve to death, die in Jinling, jump from the city tower, and will not eat cheap meat! ”
Regarding Bai Tu's behavior of inviting everyone to eat pork banquet on the fifteenth day of the first month, Gan Ning is not the only one who secretly feels uncomfortable, but not only Yu Fu and Zhang Zhao, but even the old man Lu Kang can understand this as "Bai Gong wants to show off and have fun with the people".
On this basis, they can overcome their discomfort, put on a show of prestige, grit their teeth and pass!
However, Gan Ning is different, although he is also from a family, but ...... Gan Ning's emotionality made the old men of the Gan family in Shu County have a headache to scratch their livers, and for Gan Ning, the meaning of life is to make a bag, to pretend to be "beep", and let him eat "cheap meat", he is really willing to die unyieldingly!
"Let's not talk about pork for now, let's get down to business." Bai Tu feels that pork is also a serious matter, but it has little to do with Gan Ning, he is responsible for eating, and what he wants to talk to him now is what he needs to do.
Gan Ning heard that there was something serious, and his attitude was a little better......
"I don't plan to hand over the Shu brocade craft to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so I'll give it to you as a family business." Bai Tu said.
This Shu brocade process is the "reward" that Gan Ning needs, but the reward that Bai Tu initially promised him is that Gan Ning will always enjoy the latest technology of Shu brocade, and any new Shu brocade technology, the first batch of Shu brocade produced, must be his Gan Ning's.
Bai Tu also considered at the beginning that the government-run "Jiangdong Jin" would raise funds, and although the craft was handed over to Gan Ning, it was to cooperate with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Gan Ning to build an industrial chain in the south of Huiji and Wu County.
But then I realized that I had too much to raise......
Therefore, as the "patriarch" who initially followed him, Bai Tu decided to gradually hand over this skill that was enough to pass on to Gan Ning as the foundation of Gan's future career.
When Gan Ning heard this, he looked at Bai Tu in surprise, how much profit this concession was, Gan Ning knew very well - the others may be slower than Gan Ning, but his family is involved in the business of Shu brocade in Shu County, and it is the kind of Gu Rong!
The craftsmanship handed over to him by Bai Tu is a skill of the Tang Dynasty, which is to take into account the gradual growth of craftsmen, otherwise the span is too large, and it is easy to go astray.
The blessed and graceful Tang Dynasty is the next great development of luxury goods such as Shu brocade......
"It's not completely for nothing, this is the new commercial tax standard proposed by the state pastoral government, and it may be revised in the future, but the general framework is definitely like this...... In addition, I am giving you this process, not for you Gan, if Gan wants to settle in Jiangdong, I welcome it, but this business cannot enter Shu earlier than me. Bai Tu said.
In other words, this process Baitu was given to Gan Ning, and there will even be an upgrade process in the future, but this tax must be produced in Jiangdong - or it must be produced in Baitu's governance.
Shu County is a silk producing area, and Jiangdong is also the same!
It's just that the silk weaving industry in Jiangdong developed on a large scale after the Eastern Jin Dynasty moved the capital to Jiankang, which is now Jinling.
However, in terms of climate, Jiangdong also has the foundation for the development of silk weaving industry, and the textile of Jiangdong in later generations is its strength, and silk quilts are mostly produced here.
At the same time, after the new business tax comes out, it is inevitable that there will be a run-in period, and Gan Ning must charge forward on another battlefield and stand on the side of the state pastor with a clear banner!
This decision was the result of careful consideration by Bai Tu......
There are too many things that can make money in Bai Tu's hands, and it is not realistic to pinch everything in his own hands, so it is better to transfer the part that is not core to someone he trusts, or even a family.
Not only can they collect taxes and even buy shares, but they can also play the role of "glue".
For example, Lu's, Yu's, Zhang's...... Bai Tu is also observing what kind of technology they are suitable for.
Of course, there is a difference between "trust" and "trust".
Shu brocade not to mention, shipbuilding technology is basically a reference to the level of the middle and late Soochow period, don't look at the leading year is not very high, but you must know that in the Soochow period, Jiangdong's ships, navigation technology, is a period of rapid development.
As for more advanced shipbuilding technology, although Baitu is not nothing, it is necessary to consider the shipwrights and shipwrights, who cannot adapt to too large a technical span, and secondly, the sea ships with real modern technology also need more supporting technology, which is not something that can be gathered in a short time.
The skills of the middle and late Eastern Wu period alone were enough to support Bai Tu to find Yizhou and go north to Liaodong by sea.
Being able to hand over the matter of building a sea ship to Gan Ning is also out of trust.
After Gan Ning heard that Bai Tu gave him the Shu brocade craft as the foundation of his career, his face quickly turned pale, and finally said, "Tonight...... I'll eat pigs with you! ”