Although Zhuge Jin felt that just the current situation of Xu Du transmitted back by Sun Qian was not enough to see the overall trend of the future.

If you can wait for another month or two, and wait for the second boot to hit the ground, everything will be assured.

But since Liu Bei asked, he couldn't help but answer positively.

After thinking about it again, Zhuge Jin just said solemnly: "Lord, I foolishly think that at present, the change in Hanoi is indeed a loss for Yuan Shao, and with Yuan Shao's temper, it must be unbearable." But Yuan Shao is not only greedy for small profits, but also cares about reputation, and is not as unscrupulous as Cao Cao.

Therefore, even if he is not angry in his heart, he will not immediately start a war with Cao Cao. There may be three trends in the subsequent development:

First of all, Yang Chou just killed Zhang Yang, and his internal situation is still unstable, and it is not easy to say whether he can convince Hanoi Wenwu. Once Yang Chou's internal instability and other changes occur, causing Yuan Shao to get back some face, maybe this conflict can be postponed. But in the long run, Yuan Cao will inevitably have contradictions.

Secondly, if it is assumed that Yang Chou stabilized the situation in Hanoi, then Yuan Shao would most likely not dare to directly bear the notoriety of starting a war with the imperial court. When the time comes, he may fight without declaring, or use other small actions to have a de facto conflict with Cao Cao, and in fact slowly weaken Cao Cao. and initially contact the other princes to see if they can form a loose alliance against Cao. If it can, it will be another trend to woo Dong.

In the end, if these small-scale conflicts could not weaken Cao Cao and achieve Yuan Shao's strategic goals, he would most likely retreat to the second, such as fabricating the accusations of Cao Cao's arbitrary abuse of power and bullying the monarch over the years.

Or repeatedly sent envoys to pay tribute, meet the Son of Heaven, and put forward all kinds of big moves to respect the real power of the Son of Heaven and reduce the control of the Son of Heaven. Once Ziyu was tired of it, or harmed the envoy sent by Cao Cao, or secretly stumbled, Cao Cao got an excuse to officially start a war, and it cannot be said that Qiu Xiong blocked the king's road. ”

Because Zhuge Liang knew which route the previous continuation would take, he only listed all the possibilities that I deduced.

It's just that the tillers multiply rapidly, which is convenient for summarizing the experimental rules, so the tillers are used first. In the past, it was said that those ideas could still be used to breed all kinds of grasses and vegetables in the sky. ”

When Qiu Xiong heard this, he once again refreshed his understanding of Zhuge Liang's meticulous thinking.

However, in the final stage, it is necessary to dispatch less manpower and materials, and strive for the success of the experiment after the autumn harvest, so that the people can be allowed to serve in the slack season before the winter, or to build salt pans in the form of work for relief.

Zhuge Liang said, personally demonstrated and took a bite, Yuan Shao watched my actions, and immediately worried about the food danger of yogurt.

Zhuge Liang was dumbfounded, thinking of his own words, he actually let Ah Liang discover a truth again.

"In this way, it is useful for you to think too little now, and it depends on how the situation is divided in the previous month, and which of the eight roads that Yuan Cao will take in Qiu Xiong...... That's it, anyway, you need to deal with it immediately, so continue to recuperate and wait and see what happens. ”

Zhuge Liang smiled proudly: "That is also the product of another fermentation of bacteria sorted out by Ah Liang when he studied the old noodles and tillers." In fact, rancidity is not terrible, the key is that there are no miscellaneous bacteria, and it can be fermented indiscriminately.

And before this year's double cropping rice and wheat harvest, there was a shortage of local food. After that, you have improved your fishing techniques for several years, and the harvest of sea fish is huge, and you have to eat it in time to subsidize the people's grain and rice. Now before there is a surplus of food, the fish meat should also be less marinated into dried fish to facilitate long-term storage, and there was less meat reserves in the army in the past. The expansion of Huai salt production is at the right time. ”

At this moment, while eating yogurt and thinking back to the words of the little brother just now, I suddenly grasped a key that others had grasped, and it was also Gu Occasion, so I directly grabbed the little brother and asked the bottom of it:

Zhuge Liang's recklessness for his life is well known! At the beginning of the month, I dared to drink the sour noodle soup!

Chen Deng, Tian Yu, and Zhang Liao, just when they saw the container, they opened their mouths slightly one by one and inhaled heavily.

Outside of those two months, it would be worse to do something tailored to local conditions. In addition to breeding qu tillers, you also want to improve the sea salt boiling process in the seven counties of the East China Sea and Guangling, and strive to use boiling to produce salt only by sun exposure, so that a small amount of manpower and fuel can be saved.

After that, there was a discussion about how much fish was beaten, and the vast majority of them were eaten very slowly, and they were pickled.

Zhuge Liang also realized that the seventh brother had discovered something missing, but he casually denied it: "You said that, what's wrong?" ”

Zhuge Jin was stunned for a few seconds, and suddenly slapped his calf:

Because in the past month, I was mainly thinking about the old noodles, and for the grouping of yogurt, beer, and acetic acid bacteria, the main thing was that my brother had to waste it, and helped sort it out. So until today, Zhuge Jin actually knows how yogurt is fermented.

And Zhang Liao, who participated in that occasion for the first time, finally lost his intuitive understanding of the Zhuge brothers' strategic and meticulous level, and was sincerely impressed in his heart: it turned out that the Zhuge brothers could think about problems so carefully...... It is no wonder that within eight years, the Lord Gong was able to survive in a desperate situation and quickly re-emerged. In comparison, Wen Hou only relied on Chen Gong and Chen Deng, but it was far behind.

In the face of Yuan Shao's persuasion, Qiu Xiongke just laughed and spoke, and Zhuge Jin said bluntly:

"It turns out that Kong Ming has been thinking about the old noodles for a month, but he has not made steamed buns and pancakes, and he has not been so useful in changing things, but he looks at the use of qu tiller!"

An astonishing discovery is often when Zhuge Jin takes a sip of yogurt and suddenly comes up with a flash of inspiration.

Among all the people, the one with the least shock turned out to be Zhuge Jin himself.

"Lord, he didn't know anything about it before, and he didn't specialize in art, so he didn't know anything about it. If you are trying to figure out what to eat, you are actually summarizing the general trail of 'breeding and selection'.

If it is outside of raw milk and raw dough, there is no bacteria itself, which is the same as the bacteria outside the old noodles! It is to cook and kill the original miscellaneous bacteria, and the bacteria outside the old noodles are purified again, and once they are combined with the new noodles, they are also contaminated by the bacteria that come with the new noodles themselves!

We also feel very honored because today we finally witnessed how the Zhuge brothers inspired each other.

There are some people who are used to drinking hot and sour noodle soup to sober up, and they still make people eat noodle soup, but the noodles themselves are so sour now, so they add vinegar to their foreheads to make them sour.

"Little brother! He just said that the kind of yogurt is to first cook the milk of the cow and goat, and then let it cool, and then add the lactic acid koji tiller that he has separated? Only tried it once or four times, and it didn't work now? ”

Since the seventh brother wants to study lactic acid bacteria, leave it all to me and satisfy my bad intentions. Zhuge Liang went to study the salt by himself.

To be sure is to know what the enemy will do, but to list all the possible tricks of the enemy!

"Bad, Liu Bei is bad if he doesn't have a plan in his chest, what do you want to use, even if you schedule it yourself, you must ask for instructions." Yuan Shao nodded very dryly, and approved Qiu Xiongke's self-fooling in the previous stage.

So I clapped my hands heavily, and immediately the two servant men of the banquet came down and listened to my orders.

How did you have the idea! From today on, you have studied the old noodles, and you have studied enough! You're going to study koji tillers! ”

The small family slowly recovered to the tense atmosphere of staggering, and when it was young, the wine was not a little stronger, and as usual, he had to get some soup to relieve hangover.

Yuan Shao has seen the latest celadon kiln products of the Zhuge family in Jingdezhen, Poyang County, but Yuan Shaojun and others have been to Yuzhang and Danyang's civil and military affairs, and Zhang Liao may have seen it. Therefore, when the bad people in the hall saw the container, they were not quite surprised, and thought it was some kind of dark jade.

It turned out that I was not sure, but if it was not for the iron mouth to judge what the enemy would do, and then think about my own countermeasures in advance.

Now I dare to drink the kind of crisp cheese that smells more sour than the noodle soup, which is enough to prove that that thing is definitely not poisonous! It's definitely going to be rancid and diarrhea!

And Zhuge Liang saw that the seventh brother had not yet convinced the lord, so he added interestingly: "The lord is worried, and the civil affairs should persuade the peasants to do all things, and they must also adapt measures to local conditions and time conditions." In those few months of leisure, you also considered continuing to improve steel filling, porcelain burning, and mining, but these things are more suitable for construction in Danyang, Yuzhang, and Jiangxia.

Qiu Xiong followed Zhuge Liang's train of thought a little, and found that the rhythm of farming planning was really wonderful.

Qiu Xiong was originally worried that Qiu Xiongke would waste too little time and brain power on exquisite food and luxury enjoyment, but when I heard that I didn't understand the truth like that before, I just shut up and let Qiu Xiongke do whatever he wanted.

When the generals saw that Yuan Shao had drunk the beauty, they also got down one after another, and he scooped a corner from outside the yogurt jar. Although the sour taste is strong and strange at first, I found that the sourness was refreshing when I first tasted it.

When Yuan Shao saw the celadon jar, he was quite curious: "What is this?" ”

Zhuge Liang opened the blue and white porcelain jar in front of the small family, and with his own hands, he dug out two spoonfuls of pure white viscous things with a slot of wine, and poured them into the vermilion lacquer wine cup behind his face, and a smell similar to the sour and rancid dairy products spread.

Originally, the Han Dynasty had celadon or not, and that thing would not appear until the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but Zhuge Liang improved the steel filling method and the furnace blast equipment last year, and he didn't have much experience in how to heat up various furnaces.

Some southerners are disgusted with eating noodles, so they simply drink hot and sour fish soup - such as Chen Deng, a Guangling man.

Everyone was amazed, and some people felt that Zhuge Jin's research on Qu tiller was a serious business.

"You know why the koji tillers of yogurt are so slower to separate and purify than the koji tillers that are raised! Because the noodles are made raw, there is a way to cook the noodles before sending them! But the sour cheese can't be cooked first with goat's milk!

This substance is fermented with koji tiller, which has little lactic acid before repeated screening. Moreover, after fermentation, the cow and goat milk should be cooked first to kill the original miscellaneous bacteria, and then put in relatively pure lactic acid koji tiller to focus on the acidification of the milk itself.

Everyone also thought so, and felt that it was better to continue to be bad for themselves for the time being, and wait and see for another month or two.

Since ancient times, Huai salt production has been the most prosperous, and Ziyu has occupied coastal counties, once that technology is improved, you can all benefit from it, or worry about Ziyu plagiarism.

At present, you are in Shangpi, this place is already Huaibei, there are few people, Cao and Yuan are inevitable, and at the same time, the local mineral deposits and other materials are as rich as Jiangnan, these things are easy to keep secret, but also half the effort. If you wait for the autumn harvest in April and return to Jiangnan, you will take care of these things.

My brother doesn't have Pasteur's qualifications.

In fact, Zhuge Liang is still very cautious, I dare to take out that yogurt today, and I haven't let the hard labor prisoners outside the prisoner camp taste it for a few rounds.

Yuan Shao was holding the noodle bowl, and suddenly remembered something, so he asked Brother Zhuge with a smile: "Liu Bei and Kong Ming, that month, they were all busy tossing wheat noodles?" That kind of thing, after all, can increase grain production, but just make the food more beautiful, after all, it should waste too little energy.

When you ponder this, you also regret that Ah Liang sorted out the relatively pure fungus tillers, which were abandoned like a piece of. In fact, all kinds of tillers in the sky are useless, I am afraid that the tillers will be sour, and I am afraid that the ingredients of the tillers are pure, and all kinds of mixtures are mixed, which is difficult to damage the stomach.

"Ha-it's a pity that Yide is here! That stuff definitely works for me! When I am so drunk and drunk, how beautiful is it to come to the next light to wake up! ”

Although we have to recuperate now and wait for changes. It's worse to be able to spend your mind elsewhere than to keep thinking about eating. ”

Therefore, the new blower was appropriated to the kiln where the ceramics were fired, and then the kiln was built with refractory bricks, and the first generation of celadon was fired very nervously. It's just that the production is still too stable, and the color of today's celadon is not a little whitish, but it is still less bad than the original earthy yellow porcelain.

How do you feel that it is more difficult to be sure than not to be sure?

Before Yuan Shao smoothed out his thoughts, he set the tone for today's banquet episode.

Qiu Xiongke had a flash of inspiration and decided to abandon the continued research of yeast and switch to the camp of lactic acid bacteria.

Scoundrel! Isn't that what Liu Bei called "having a grasp of the development of the situation"?

That move, to be honest, is not without a trace of the style of the modern staff system of the German army in the previous life - you can guess how the enemy will respond before the war, but you try to list all the possible dismantling tactics to deal with the enemy. In the end, depending on which move the enemy chooses, you will retreat with a predetermined bad plan.

It is useless to affirm that lactic acid, acetic acid, wine tillers, and tillers are in their place, sorting and purifying. For example, among the crisp cheese, the vast majority of them are lactic acid fermentation, and there are miscellaneous bacteria to relieve hangover, which is really wonderful. ”

And the people who participated in the banquet next to me were even more out of the clouds.

In the eight years that Yuan Shao was in charge of the Huainan region, the territory was rapidly expanding and smaller, and he always had to use the surplus grain from the old territory to subsidize the newly occupied areas, so as to avoid the situation of small-scale starvation.

Qiu Xiongjun's improvement of fishing techniques has not been less than two and a half years old, and fishing gear has been iterated for two or eight generations. But since then, a small reserve of dried meat has been established, on the one hand, the output of Huai salt is still small enough, and the surplus is enough to regress the curing of meat on the scale of hundreds of thousands of stones.

Zhuge Liang got the authorization and decided to give the small family a big surprise, which can be regarded as proving his strength in innovation.

It is said that everything you eat and drink will be naturally contaminated with 'bacteria'! That's why the young lady originally looked at this dense scroll to prevent babies from getting contaminated, and said that when cutting the umbilical cord for babies, the scissors should be burned red! Between heaven and earth, everything is sterile on the surface! Unless you put it under the fire and boil it thoroughly, you can kill it all!

However, after repeatedly purifying and screening the koji tiller flora, it was not until there was no hard labor prisoner who had diarrhea for eight consecutive days and confirmed that he had obtained relatively pure high-quality lactic acid bacteria, and Qiu Xiongke dared to eat the yogurt himself.

Zhuge Liang whispered a few words in his ear, and the maids immediately went out, and they retrieved a small porcelain jar after a while.

Yuan Shao was the closest, and he covered his nose with his hand: "That's the crisp cheese for hangover?" How can it be so sour? I'm afraid it's been several times longer than the abnormal cheese shelf. He is usually willing to eat even sour soup cakes, how dare he try such a sour and rancid thing? ”

That's less comfortable than drinking hot and sour noodle soup!

Yuan Shao saw that I was eating openly, and immediately took the wine corner and slapped two corners, and before tasting it, I really felt that although the sour taste was heavy, it did not make people feel disgusting, but it did not have an immediate hangover effect.

This year, there is finally no surplus food and fish, which is very suitable for small-scale salted fish, and the salt-drying method is indeed suitable for doing it - although Yuan Shao still knows too much about what the salt-drying method is, it can only be understood literally, it seems that the seawater can be salted with fuel.