God don't even try to stop me from doing infrastructure!

Yunze didn't know that he had become the first choice of someone else's son-in-law. He had just received a huge surprise gift when he returned home - the first piece of cotton cloth had already been woven.

Typical plain weave cloth, because the cotton thread is uniform in thickness, and the weaving women are very careful, the woven cotton cloth is flat, thick and soft, and it feels better than linen, and it is more suitable for autumn and winter clothing.

"The first piece of cotton cloth, use it to make clothes for Menis." Yunze unfolded the cotton cloth and spread it on Menis's shoulders. The linen cloth is fairer, which complements Menis's complexion like jade.

As an heir to the temple with full-level political talent, Menis should tell Yunze at this moment that the first piece of cotton cloth is always special, and should be kept for himself or given to the king.But Yunze was so happy to give him the first piece of cloth to make clothes, the joy that secretly rose in his heart made him unable to refuse.

Yunze gestured up and down with the cloth, thinking about what style would look good.

Meinis stood there with his arms outstretched, letting Yunze make gestures there, he was already thinking about how to appease his teacher and the always rogue king, whether it was a slight flaw, or whether he just tested it first Woolen cloth?

In fact, there is no need for Menis to worry. Yunze is not really stupid and sweet. Two new cotton cloths were released the next day. There are also many cottonseeds that have been peeled off.

If cotton grows well on this land, it may be possible to make cotton one of Taixi's top products.Cotton cloth can eliminate the linen cloth that occupied the mainstream position at the beginning because it has advantages that linen cloth does not have.Moreover, cotton has a strong ability to keep warm and can be stuffed into quilts and winter clothes, which can just reduce the death rate caused by the drop in winter temperature.

After that, the pasture donated by the fourth prince sent a lot of cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese to Yunze, in addition to a lot of cheese and poultry eggs.Because of insufficient fodder, a group of old livestock had to be slaughtered years ago and made into bacon as a supplement to winter meat.

He found that this batch of cheese was very good, roughly divided into goat cheese and cow's milk cheese by different types, and he could make pizza in the future.

Some of the eggs sent are taken out and made into salted eggs and preserved eggs.

Yunze had a lot of things to prepare, and the miserable experience of eating bacon and bread for dozens of days last winter still made him uncomfortable, and his mouth felt dry when he thought about it.

There are basically no vegetables in winter, so he replanted a lot of Chinese cabbage in early autumn.His yard has become a huge vegetable garden. In addition to Chinese cabbage, there are also vegetables that can grow in autumn such as white radish, cowpea, spinach, coriander, and lettuce.

Some vegetables harvested before were made into pickles, sauerkraut, kimchi and dried vegetables.

He also prepared a lot of oranges, lemons and pomegranates. Oranges, lemons and pomegranates are local fruits. If they are stored properly, they can be stored for a long time, allowing him to get some vitamins in winter, so as not to cause gum congestion due to vitamin deficiency.

He kept two-thirds of the livestock he sent, and then slaughtered one-third, made bacon according to local customs, made bacon according to his own preferences, and made some of them into bacon according to Yunze's requirements. Sausage, add a little wine to remove fishy smell, add salt and other spices.

When it was ready he tasted some of it himself, which was a bit odd, but the others liked it.

Menis especially liked it. He didn't really like smoked meat, but he liked this kind of sweet meat with wine, especially the wine-flavored beef.Yunze couldn't understand, he couldn't accept the taste of wine stewed beef.

Animals have thick suet, which can be preserved for a long time if it is picked off and boiled. Sprinkle a little salt on the fat.There are also some oils that come from internal organs or other parts. This kind of oil Yunze does not eat. Yunze said that when he collects enough plant ash, he will use it to make soap, but no one knows what soap is ( He has yet to discover that the white powder in the kitchen that helps leaven is natural baking soda).

In addition, there are still a lot of casings left, Yunze remembered to make fish intestines.

He offered fresh fish to the Kuri people at a three-for-one ratio, three catties of fish for a catty of couscous, or three catties of fish for two catties of beans.The fish must be more than one catty, and small fish will not be accepted.

In the Currido River, fish is one of the daily foods of the Curridor people.But the fish is not easy to preserve, unless it is wiped with salt and made into salted fish, but for the common people in Curry, salt is also precious.So when Yunze said that three catties of fish would be exchanged for one catty of ground semolina or two catties of sun-dried beans, everyone was moved.

Yunze went to visit quietly one day, the fish exchange scene was very lively, some people stood on the boat, some stood on the shore, all gathered around the fish exchange manager, holding the fish in one hand, and the empty jar for food in the other.

"Hey, brother, why didn't His Royal Highness come to have a look?" A healthy and strong young woman lifted a bucket of fish with both hands, and smiled while catching fish, "If His Royal Highness came, I would rather give him this fish for nothing."

When she said that, the people around her laughed, but she didn't take it seriously: "Why are you laughing? If you were me, and seeing that he is so young, beautiful, good-natured, and has no sweetheart, how can you not love him?"

Beside her was a middle-aged man, who laughed and said, "I can't, I don't deserve it. But if I become a young and beautiful girl like you, I can give it a try, even as a maid?" Just followed and laughed.

The people of Curry loved him and didn't alienate him, sometimes talking about it like that cute kid next door who wants to marry a girl and make a family.

They made jokes about Yunze, and the steward and the others would not find it offensive—you only want to sleep if you like it, and you want to sleep all the time if you like it.

Yunze came to watch the excitement, but he was very embarrassed to see his own excitement.Biansheng Menis was still staring at him carefully, and said while looking at him: "Our Highness is indeed good-looking and attractive. They don't know yet, His Highness smiles like honey in his mouth. If you know, you must to like it more."

Although Menis said this in a serious manner, Yunze still felt that the other party was just making fun of him, watching his excitement.So Yunze couldn't help but ask back: "You like it too?"

"Of course I like it." Menis said seriously.

People in this era talk about their feelings and fall in love with each other every day. Yunze guessed that this liking is the degree of appreciation, so he also replied: "I like you too."

Menis looked at his crooked eyebrows and eyes when he smiled, and the corners of his mouth curled up, revealing two jars of sweet honey.

"They don't know that when you look at a person smiling, you see that person in your eyes, and the air turns sweet. They don't know that you call a person's name in a soft voice, like a little girl. The lamb is gently snuggling beside him." Menis thought with a smile, "It's great, they don't even know."

In the few days when the fish was exchanged, it was like a small busy market. People either caught fish or fished, and then picked out the small ones, kept the medium and large ones for their own food, and exchanged the large ones for wheat flour and beans.

But Yunze only needed three thousand catties of fish, so the activity lasted for three days.

"Will there be more next year?" Curry people are looking forward to it, especially those who don't have much food at home.

"Also, what Your Highness said."

The steward took three carts of semolina and dried beans with wheat bran, and exchanged for three thousand catties of local river fish. After removing the fish bones and viscera, the rest was more than 1000 catties of fish meat.

Yunze smashed the fish meat, mixed it with a certain proportion of egg white, fine flour, and the tender corn kernels harvested at that time, added seasoning, poured the lemon juice to remove the fishy smell, stirred it into a puree, put it in the casing, and made it Corn fish sausage.

Cheese can also be added to make cheese fish sausage.

It is definitely not the same as the fish intestines eaten in modern times, but the taste is still very good, and the fish meat is very tender.

Inspired by this, he used fresh meat, flour, and spices to make another sausage with a different flavor.This kind of sausage is more suitable for Yunze's stomach than the one with wine added before - the taste of ham sausage, the taste of supper - he used to add ham sausage and an egg to his instant noodles.

While the winter food was being prepared, Yunze had already finished planting winter wheat.In fact, after the autumn harvest sacrifice, winter wheat is planted.Most of the winter wheat is grown in the south, which was planted in the village where he lived before.

Planting wheat before winter?Those who received the order found it difficult to understand, but since it was an order, no matter whether they understood it or not, they had to follow it.

About half of Yunze's wheat field has been planted with wheat, and the remaining half will be reserved for planting cotton and sugar beets next spring.

The day Yunze held the banquet was a certain day before winter, the weather had already started to become very cold, the leaves were withered and yellow, and it was difficult to find food outside.The nobles in Curry put on clothing made of wool, and the commoners in Curry stopped going out frequently. They began to prepare firewood and food for Wodong.

Yunze started preparing for the banquet the day before.He wanted to take this opportunity to get to know the bigwigs in Curry, and now that he's decided to put down roots here, it wouldn't hurt to get to know more people.By the way, you can also develop your customer base.

Yes, that's right, Yunze is ready to do business.

He was going to put some regular medicines and balms in the temple for consignment after the spring.After realizing that he was a bit extravagant, Yunze felt that it was impossible and had to increase income and reduce expenditure.

He has a lot of land under his name, and even a city's taxes to support him, but it's not very useful.

The city magistrate of this city has converted the tax revenue into other materials and sent them over, which is really a lot.But Yunze didn't have the nerve to accept it all.

In line with the simple idea of ​​"taking from the people and using it for the people", he sent some of them back and asked the city magistrate to recruit the poor, repair the road, and pave it with gravel to make it easier for everyone to walk.Provide enough two meals during the period, and give enough food as wages in return.

The standard established by Yunze allows people who work continuously for [-] days to get enough food to survive the winter.

Another part is distributed to the poor in the city who have no labor force.He also asked the temple priest of that city to supervise this matter.

Although the situation there is unclear, the policy of 'if you want to get rich, build roads first' should be right.It can also provide a little job opportunity for the poor, and the food obtained can also help them survive the coldest time of winter.

Yunze sent a batch of corn over there as seeds for next spring planting.As the nominal owner of this city, that city has a large piece of arable land and pastures belonging to him, and part of the things sent this year are the output of this land.

Yunze asked everyone to plant corn next year on the land where beans were originally planted. Residents in the city can exchange beans for corn as seeds.

There is a lot of corn harvested this year, except for a part of the corn, the rest can be eaten for at least a few months.

Some early-harvested tender corn is stored in a cool place with the outer three layers of green skin. Because of the temperature problem, it cannot be stored for a long time, but it is ok for a month or two.Some of the old corn has been dried and some of it is ground into cornmeal.

The harvested corn stalks are broken into cattle feed, and the corncobs are also broken, but put into the fermentation tank to ferment into fertilizer.

Wheat also becomes wheat flour, which is divided into three grades according to the degree of fine grinding.Although it is a corn feast, it is impossible to eat only corn. Everyone is still used to eating bread, so there must be no less flour.

Of course, it is the finest flour that has been milled three times.

Many fruits harvested before, such as oranges, can be stored for a period of time, apples and cherries can be made into wine, apricots can be made into dried apricots, and blueberries can be made into blueberry jam with the little sugar left. Yunze is already thinking about next year It's about growing beets.

Pomegranates, tangerines, lemons, and figs are the four major local fruits. Figs are made and dried. They also know how to preserve fresh pomegranates, citruses, and lemons for up to three months, stored in crock pots, and stored with straw... Yunze has already stored a lot, and if there is more, it will make wine.

People in Taixi love to drink, and Yunze has also prepared wine. In addition to traditional wine, ale, and pomegranate wine, he also has cider, milk wine, and honey wine.

On the day of preparing for the banquet, the courtyard was tidied up, the roads were re-paved with flat stones, and many fruit trees transplanted by Yunze were planted on both sides, as well as local fruit trees that already existed.Almost all the fruits on the tree have been picked, leaving only a little for the winter birds.

The vegetables planted in autumn have been harvested and stored, and fresh vegetables can be counted on in the future.

Curry's winter is one of those wet, wet, cold winters.And there is a big temperature difference between day and night.During the day, Yunze went out for a walk, and at night he lit the stove.

The sun hasn't come out yet, so it's a bit cold.Yunze stood in the yard, looking at the dawning sky.The courtyard was quiet, but the air was already filled with the aroma of food.

"Your Highness." The housekeeper Wusu trotted up, "Food, clean cloths, tableware, turpentine torches, incense, wool blankets... are all ready." They have prepared for this day for a long time, whether it is household utensils or In addition, a lot of materials and energy are spent.

"Open the main door, there will be many guests today."

"Yes."