"This thing...... Could it be bean curd? ”

Lu Su flicked the pen barrel and said thoughtfully.

Seeing that the others cast curious eyes on him, Lu Su explained:

"I have seen a thing called Douhua in Jiangdong, which is said to have been accidentally obtained by the King of Huainan when he asked for Jindan."

"This thing looks like a yellow flocculent lump, the taste is sour and fishy, and the production is more complicated, and it is mostly a thing for children to eat."

This statement is completely consistent with what the light curtain said, listen to the bean curd described by Lu Su, and then look at the tofu displayed in the later generations on this light curtain.

Its shape is like jade and especially tender and smooth, the color is like clotted fat without feeling greasy, no wonder it is said that the literati love it very much!

Pang Tong also sighed and said:

"It's obviously food, but it's in the name of rot, no wonder it's said that this thing is difficult to get into the hall of elegance."

The name alone is not quite appropriate.

Fa Zheng agreed, and tried to say to Pang Tong what name this thing is more suitable for.

Liu Bei looked at the title of the book written by the people who died in the Northern Song Dynasty, and felt a little sad in his heart.

Although the ancestor continued the Han Zuo capital Luoyang, he still respected Chang'an, Kyoto, the former Han Dynasty.

Therefore, since then, everyone has said that Luoyang is Tokyo, and Chang'an is Xijing.

When I was a teenager in Tokyo, I studied in Tokyo, and I was fighting horses and dogs and competing for clothes, and now I am in Xijing to govern the people, I don't know how many people are still in Tokyo that was burned by Dong Zhuo?

Therefore, looking at the "Tokyo Menghualu" and "Menglianglu" written by Qimin after the death of the two Song Dynasty, Liu Bei was also a little more embarrassed, and he also resonated with his author:

If he could, why didn't he Liu Bei want to spend his life in Tokyo and not worry about the might of heaven and earth?

If there weren't so many disasters, then now in Tokyo, Meng De would still be chasing and beating by people by picking up the beautiful woman's wall, Yuan Benchu would have laughed loudly but would eventually pull it up.

Gongsun Bogui should return to Youzhou to lead the white horse to the border after he has completed his studies, and he Liu Bei will stay in Tokyo until he is tired, maybe he will also lead the second and third brothers to Youzhou to expand the border......

Liu Bei was a little stupid for a while.

Kong Ming didn't speak, but he didn't stop at all, and the four steps of making tofu that were said by his juniors were neatly listed on paper.

And behind each operation step, Kong Ming is also trying to disassemble more simpler and more feasible steps from the simple four words.

Just like the simplest bean grinding slurry, are dry beans or wet beans poured into the grinding disc? How long do wet beans need to be soaked in water, etc.

Younger generations say that depending on the choice of slurry, the resulting tofu will be very different.

However, according to Kong Ming's experience, these steps are also in line with the saying that "the difference between the slightest mistake is a thousand miles", and the difference in the first step alone may make the finished thing completely different.

Therefore, Kong Ming also pondered in his heart for the first time, who should be handed over to this tofu making matter?

……

"Bianliang is really embarrassed."

Zhao Kuangyin's dark face also showed an obvious look of tiredness.

There is no clue between the excesses and miscellaneous taxes and military expenses mentioned by the previous generations, and here we see the demise of the two Song Dynasty, and the literati reminiscing about the old capital.

Judging from its title, although there was a premonition earlier that the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty was mostly involved in moving the capital, but at this moment, seeing the Dingdu Lin'an City with his own eyes, he still felt extremely unacceptable.

He is no stranger to this place, after all, the person who controls Wu Yue is the Lin'an Qian family.

Qian Biao was the Tang Dynasty's envoy to the town and navy, but he successively called himself a minister to the Later Liang, the Later Tang, the Later Jin, the Later Han, etc., he had also laughed at his generation when he was ambitious before, and he only knew that he was a concubine in a corner of peace, but he didn't expect it......

Zhao Kuangyin suddenly felt hot on his face, and until this time, when he recalled the sighs of the Southern Song literati who learned in the light curtain, he also felt a little more enlightened in his heart, and his mood was extremely complicated:

"It's... Giving birth to a son should be like Sun Zhongmou......"

After all, the emperor of Wu successively set the capital of Jianye and Wuchang, both of which are cities near the river and water, and still have the meaning of going north.

And this Lin'an, it still takes 500 miles to cross the river in the north, and this kind of heart is far from Sun Quan.

When it came to moving the capital, Zhao Guangyi automatically stopped and looked at the light curtain as if he was fully engaged.

Zhao Pu stood up and comforted softly:

"In this way, although it seems that although the country is in trouble, the people also think of the rule of the official family and the blessing of my Song."

"There are many sins in heaven, and it is beyond the power of man."

Although the scourge of Jiaozi and the crime of the faint monarch have been mentioned, at this time, Zhao Kuangyin can only temporarily let himself believe this statement.

As for this tofu......

Zhao Kuangyin raised his finger and pointed, and casually instructed a waiter:

"The preparation method is copied to the imperial dining room, and you can find one or two skilled hands of grinding tofu from the people to improve it to add New Year's Day dishes."

Although I haven't eaten it, I think that since this "Menglianglu" can describe tofu, there should be no shortage of practices among the people, so that it should not be difficult to see the relevant records and reform, right?

[From another point of view, in addition to the time factor, the Ming Dynasty was able to improve the technology tree of tofu because the farming technology studied from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period reached a preliminary perfection in the Ming Dynasty.

In soybean cultivation, the Qin and Han dynasties recognized the importance of fertilization.

During the two Jin and Northern Dynasties, the invention of the iron-toothed harrow made it easier for the people to level the land, and the technology of crop mixing also began to appear during this period.

In the Tang and Song dynasties, the rotation of water and drought in the south and the deep and fine plough and harrow in the north had their own characteristics, which effectively increased the yield per mu of fields.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the ancestors first recognized the importance of moisture conservation and began to learn to use the means of leveling the land to make the upper layer of the soil dense to lock in the water and nutrients of the lower layer.

In addition, although the ancients could not see or know the role of soybean rhizobia, they also found that soybean cultivation can ensure the survival of nutrients in the soil.

Increasing the fertility of the land and improving the crop rotation system can be seen clearly without a microscope, and the improvement of soybean planting technology has led to the expansion of soybean cultivation area in the future.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the soybean planting area has exceeded 20 million mu, with an annual output of more than 3 million tons, reaching a historical peak.

The yield of soybeans per mu has increased rapidly, and the tofu production technology using soybeans as raw materials has also been improved.

And soybean meal, the remnants of tofu, led the Ming Dynasty to a new peak of a traditional feudal empire.

Just as the Song Dynasty inherited the papermaking technology of the Tang Dynasty and carried it forward, the people of the Tang and Song dynasties have discovered that they can use soybeans to extract oil, and whether it is oil extraction or soybean meal and bean dregs left in the process of making tofu, they are extremely high-quality livestock feed.

For Daming, who is not short of soybeans at all, the biggest significance of this thing is to make it easier for people to raise horses.

Compared with the Han and Tang dynasties, the horse politics of the Ming Dynasty did not have much novelty, but relying on the extremely cheap but nutritious soybean meal, the number of horses in the country in the middle of the Ming Dynasty far exceeded that of the Han and Tang dynasties.

Although there are still two theories about how many qualified war horses there are, for the Ming Dynasty, the rapid rise in soybean production has indeed lowered the difficulty threshold for raising horses. 】

(End of chapter)