Seeing the shopkeeper boasting there, before Qingji could speak, Zheng Dan, who was sitting on the side, couldn't help but cover his mouth and chuckled: "Shopkeeper, isn't this pheasant soup pheasant soup?" What's so strange? ”

"It's not like I haven't drunk it. Ordinary people can drink it! ”

"Hey!"

The shopkeeper looked unconvinced, and said, "This little woman, if you say this, you don't dare to agree!" ”

Seeing the clothes on Qingji, Xi Shi, and Zheng Dan, as well as the temperament exuded by their bodies, the store knew that the three of them were either rich or expensive, and they had great backgrounds.

However, on the issue of "pheasant soup", the store owner is still stubborn and decided to argue one or two.

"How can ordinary pheasant soup be compared to the 'pheasant soup' in our shop?"

The shopkeeper snorted and said, "This contemptible pheasant soup is an exclusive recipe, and the taste is authentic, but it was created by Hou Keng more than a thousand years ago!" ”

"Gentleman, you are a blessed man. In the past, the pheasant soup created by Hou Keng himself was dedicated to Emperor Yao, and even cured Emperor Yao's serious illness, and was rewarded by Emperor Yao to build a country in Xuzhou! ”

"How can it not be a great origin?"

As soon as they heard that this "pheasant soup" was related to Emperor Yao and Peng Zu, Xi Shi and Zheng Dan couldn't help but be interested, and their eyes lit up.

Hou Keng, that is, Peng Zu.

Legend has it that Peng Zu is the great-great-grandson of Emperor Zhuan, who is good at cultivating qi and can adjust the tripod, and is the ancestor of Chinese cooking.

He used the delicious pheasant soup he personally concocted, that is, pheasant soup, to give to Emperor Yao to eat, cured his disease, and Emperor Yao gave him Pengcheng, so later generations called him Peng Zu......

Pheasant soup is an ancient culinary food, made by stewing pheasant and millet rice (later changed to barley).

Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong passed through Xuzhou on his southern tour, tasted pheasant soup, and felt that the taste was incomparably delicious, so he gave the name "the first soup in the world".

When the store came up with a pot of pheasant soup, Qingji tasted it, and it was really delicious.

Is there any special left-hand material?

Few.

But since this is someone's unique formula, Qingji is not easy to ask.

"King, the taste of this pheasant soup is really good, no worse than the dishes in the palace, or even slightly better."

Zheng Dan quietly leaned into Qingji's ear and said, "Why don't you summon this cook into the palace and serve as the imperial chef?" ”

"Not impossible."

Qingji bowed slightly.

He himself is not a typical foodie, but if he can eat and drink spicy food, why not?

"Shopkeeper, listen to your accent, are you from the Central Plains?"

After drinking a bowl of pheasant soup, Qingji asked with interest.

Hearing this, the shopkeeper nodded and replied, "The gentleman is really well-informed. ”

"The contemptible people turned out to be the people of the Weiguo Dynasty, but two years ago, because of the war, the family moved to the Wu country, and now they are Wu people!"

"I see."

Chaoge can be said to be the main fierce battle area of the Central Plains War.

The Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan were besieged by the Jin army in Chaoge, and the armies of Qi, Weilu and other countries were also eyeing the front line of Chaoge.

Don't say it's a song of the court, but now the land of the Central Plains is not very peaceful.

Therefore, in addition to taking this opportunity to make a lot of war money, Wu Guo can also rely on a variety of policies to benefit the people and recruit a large number of displaced people from the Central Plains countries.

"Is life in Jinling okay?"

"Very good."

The shopkeeper looked embarrassed and said: "Gentleman, I can't hide it, I have heard about it in my early years, and the Wu State opened the territory to seal the territory and give preferential treatment to foreign Li Shu." ”

"I thought it was just hearsay, not enough to be believed. However, the war caused the contemptible family to have to relocate, and it was the relatives who came to Jinling to join their relatives......"

"For a businessman like the contemptible people, the government of the Wu State will not give arable land, farm tools, and houses free of charge, but it also solves the housing problem for the contemptible people."

"At the beginning of coming to Jinling, there were more than a dozen people in the contemptible family, so they would not live on the streets."

After a pause, the shopkeeper said: "Relying on the craftsmanship of the contemptible people and the unique formula of this pheasant soup, the contemptible people were able to gain a firm foothold in Jinling and settle down." ”

"The government treats businessmen like contemptible people, and there is also a policy of lending, and it will be repaid without interest for three years. Alas, that's a ......."

Thinking of the past, and then thinking of his current life, the store sighed for a while.

This is also something that Qingji needs to know.

Shinong industry and commerce, four people's business.

However, Qingji treats these "four people" equally.

The businessmen of this era are still moral, and they will not excessively squeeze ordinary Li Shu and take "ill-gotten gains".

……

After returning to the palace of King Wu, Qingji began to tinker with the invention of perfumes, soaps and soaps.

It is a woman's nature to love beauty.

Throughout the ages, there has been no one more willing to spend money on themselves than women.

Therefore, Qingji had a flash of inspiration in his mind and already had a plan.

He can't do anything about cosmetics, and it is difficult to develop them, but ordinary perfumes, soaps, soaps, etc., Qingji can be developed completely.

Just do it!

Qingji immediately instructed Jiao Hua and other temple people and palace ladies to collect a large number of spices, as well as petals of gardenias, osmanthus, peonies, rhododendrons, roses and other flowers, and then took some alcohol with a high number, and began to tinker with it by himself.

It is worth mentioning that Qingji needs to improve the technology of distilled spirits a lot first.

After further distillation, Qingji can extract the ethanol needed to make perfumes.

The specific raw materials, Qingji has ordered people to prepare enough, and the rest is how to mix it into perfume.

Because the manufacture of perfume is relatively simple, it is enough to mix the blended fragrance with ethanol in a certain proportion so that the flavor is evenly dissolved in ethanol.

However, since no solvent is usually used, and the flavor is only dissolved in ethanol, the amount of ethanol to be used should be determined after fully considering the solubility of the fragrance.

Qingji vaguely remembered that if you want to mix perfumes, the concentration of ethanol varies from 75% to 95% according to the preparation requirements of various perfumes, and the larger the amount of flavor, the higher the concentration of ethanol.

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Therefore, this needs to be repeatedly experimented with by Qingji before it can finally be blended!

Thanks to the flourishing of various agricultural and mulberry industries in Wu today, the planting of flower beds has also been widely promoted in Wudi.

Qingji is not without shortage of raw materials.

What is missing is the purification process for distilled spirits!

Distilled spirits are fermented alcoholic solutions, and the boiling point of alcohol (78.5C) and water (100C) are different, and the original fermentation broth is heated between the boiling points of the two to collect a high concentration of alcohol and aromatic components.

The manufacturing process of distilled spirits generally includes four processes: crushing, fermentation, distillation and aging of raw materials......

Let Qingji experiment alone, the progress will obviously be extremely slow, but fortunately, Wu Liquor is now famous all over the world, and Qingji is not impossible to let a professional master distiller master refine the distilled liquor technology for himself.