[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

The chef has no intention of cherishing his own broom at all, and even warmly invites the soldiers to study together when they gather around to watch the fun, and even allows everyone to teach their production techniques to others at will.

Driven by the cook's bold behavior, the scene was extremely lively for a while.

But at that time, neither the learners nor the teachers thought about it. The military and military career was very busy, boring and boring, and it was teaching. In fact, most of the people around here came to join in the fun. .After serving in the military and going back to each family, today's event is nothing more than a talk, and not many people will really regard it as a craft.

However, there was a soldier who was laughing and watching with his shoulders on his shoulders and did not return to the Central Plains. Like most of the soldiers here, he became the cornerstone of the Ming Dynasty stationed in Yunnan.

After frequent military transfers, he was assigned to a newly built official guard on Qujing Road.

At this time, he would never have thought that in the rest of his life, he would never return to his hometown until he died.

Perhaps to comfort his nostalgia, or to make a living for his family members who came with him, he wrote down the ham making method that remained in his mind, and made the first local ham .

And a miraculous scene happened. The pass where Xiaobing was stationed was like Jinhua thousands of miles away. I don’t know which god blessed it, but it also gave birth to a unique ham.

Maybe it's the breeze between the mountains, maybe the luscious spring water, maybe the seemingly ruthless winter snowflakes, or maybe the local specialty well salt... When these factors converge in this small Guancheng just right, this small city is born A special product that later became famous overseas-Xuanwei ham named after this pass.

"Xuanwei", this is a common pass established by the Ming army to conquer the Southern Army. With this piece of ham, it has become a noun that people in the country and even the world will remember.

It has also become a taste of hometown that all Yunnan people will never forget.

Of course, no one thought about the impact this small action would have in the future. Except for Mu Xiaobai, who was taking notes seriously because of his greed, the soldiers on the sidelines all looked relaxed.

As the saying goes, every line is like a mountain. If it is not a cook but a soldier and officer who is teaching skills here at this time, if what is taught is not how to make ham but [-] tricks to defeat the enemy, the atmosphere must be much more serious and enthusiastic.

In fact, now, everyone is more interested in watching the excitement than studying.

However, don't think that there is no price to pay for watching the excitement.

Just last year, Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty divided the household registration of the people under his rule into three categories: civilian, military, and craftsman according to occupation, and stipulated that once naturalized, it can be easily changed.

Different household registrations bear different responsibilities.Citizenship, as the largest constituent of the country, bears the main taxation, with the highest status, followed by military and craftsman registration.Among them, those who belong to the military must have one member of the family enlisted as a soldier. If a soldier is killed in battle, the family must send someone to take over.Craftsmanship is slightly less restrictive than that, but craftsmen belong to the government for life, and they have to serve the country without pay every year or every month depending on the situation.

The chef is quite special. He belongs to the army, but his status in the army is that of a craftsman. People like him are called military craftsmen.

After all, they are serving on the dangerous front line, and the treatment of people like them is higher than that of civilian craftsmen.Usually, military craftsmen do not need to participate in labor according to fixed service hours like civilian craftsmen. If there is no war, they can even stay at home all the time.

But in contrast, once there is a war, military craftsmen have no right to refuse, but they can receive payment like ordinary soldiers, which is better than civilian craftsmen who work without pay.

But they still have something in common, they all rely on one skill to get through the rivers and lakes.

The inheritance of craftsman's records is quite special. Generally, the family is the unit, and the father is passed on to the son, and the son is passed on to the grandson.In this era, a skill may be a chance to survive. It is conceivable that there are multiple master-inheritance relationships.

Although the chef initiated the teaching this time, everyone who attended the class had to reciprocate the gift after accepting it.

Is there anything better to represent their hearts than sending pork legs directly?

That must not be the case.

Mu Xiaobai looked at the family of wild boars that had been ransacked and wiped out and blinked, and very cleverly presented his thank you gift - a large bag of salt.

Compared with those military men who only think about fighting wild boars, Mu Xiaobai can be said to be very eye-catching.

Now, the weather is getting warmer and the department is heading south again. These prey must not be able to withstand storage, so the cook decided to test whether these cheap students listened carefully to the class. He asked the students to marinate pork on the spot, so that day, the smell of blood and The stench lingered in the camp of the Ming army for a long time.

Because of his young age and the fact that he was the most serious in his studies, Mu Xiaobai was exempted from the gold medal and was given the task of invigilating the exam.

Going around on the field for a long time, as a theoretical giant, Mu Bai not only taught many friends, but also succeeded in making himself greedy.

Meat, all meat, mountains of meat and seas of meat, will still be delicious ham in the future. The cook said that these hams will be supplied to military supplies in the future, so can you eat all you can eat ham?

They didn't know that the most beautiful flavor of ham actually came from the mountains and rivers of their hometown, and the meat that lost the environment could only be called bacon. The two brothers Mu Bai and Mu Wen looked at the meat hanging on the small wooden cart together. Pork drools.

In fact, apart from being greedy, Mu Bai also wanted to buy some ham from the cook so that he could bring it back for his husband and the village chief to taste.

But now Mu Bai has nothing but a small silver ingot that the village chief gave him before he left. He still wanted to take the small silver ingot back as intact as possible, so Mu Bai sold his labor again. .

For three catties of ham, Mu Bai had the cheek to follow the army's logistics troops all the way to Kunming.

In the end, before he could paint a self-portrait next to the Dianchi Lake in Kunming according to the chef's request, he was exploited miserably and was charged by Guo Dudu with "Don't you feel that you need to pay some travel expenses for the car you used as a bodyguard all the way?" For the reason, it was thrown to Daming's administrative agency in Kunming.

At present, Daming has not established its own administrative organization in Yunnan, and for the time being, the chief ministers of Guizhou and Sichuan are sent to help with general affairs.

When Mu Bai was brought over, all the staff inside were as white as paper, their feet were sloppy, and they looked extremely deficient. They showed Mu Bai the hard life of civil servants in Ming Dynasty with their own performance.

It is no exaggeration to say that this temporarily formed department was so short of people that even if it was a pig, as long as it could make calculations, it would be accepted. man of.

They didn't even care that Mu Bai was still a child. After being taught the basic skills of abacus and making sure that he had learned it, Mu Bai was put aside and raised by nature.

The unnamed official who taught him waved his hand, saying that practice is the best test of success.So, this unshaven middle-aged uncle who described himself as embarrassed brought two large baskets of documents to Mu Bai, patted him on the shoulder, and entrusted him solemnly: "Do the calculations carefully. After the calculations, the old man treats you to candy."

The corners of Mu Bai's mouth twitched when he was forced on the small bench, and he said with great backbone: "I don't want to eat candy!"

Mu Bai paused, and shyly said: "I heard that there is a thing called a milk fan here, which comes from Dali. It tastes delicious when dipped in rose sauce after roasting..."

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The dietary changes brought about by the Mongol occupation of Yunnan not only increased the ratio of beef and mutton, but also led to a significant increase in the amount of dairy products.

Regardless of the fact that most Mongolians make a living by grazing, the number of cattle and sheep is group after group. In fact, they rarely eat beef and mutton.

On the prairie, cattle and sheep are basically the entire living property of a family.Their biggest role is to sell them to the neighbors next door in exchange for necessities such as salt, pots, bowls, tea, etc., or give them to the tribe above as protection fees.

eat by yourself?That's too extravagant, unless there is an accidental death, or the most distinguished guests, under normal circumstances, nomads are not willing to eat their own small animals.

Except for the aristocratic lords of the tribe, the main food of most Mongolians is actually various dairy products. For them, cattle and sheep are like the principal, and the milk obtained during the breeding process is equivalent to interest. , Make milk into dairy products, that is compound interest!

Just like all people who need money will spend the interest and keep the principal as much as possible, nomads will also give priority to eating high-calorie dairy products, followed by grains and vegetables obtained from various sources , and finally meat products.

Of course, dairy products can become the staple food of nomads mainly because of their irreplaceable characteristics-portability, high heat and high protein.

For most of the herdsmen who live on the grass, they don’t have much time to sit down and have a peaceful meal. The weather on the grassland changes very fast, and they have to pack their equipment and evacuate at any time.

Therefore, whether it is in daily life or when you go to the big family next door to enjoy the autumn wind, the primary purpose of eating is not to enjoy the delicious food, but how to provide enough energy to the body in the shortest time.

High-protein and high-calorie dairy products meet this need.

Although the production process of milk tofu milk skin is a bit troublesome, it is very convenient to eat. You can chew it for a long time with just one bite in your mouth, and you will be very hungry.

However, with the further expansion of Kublai Khan's conquests, milk tofu, a food that requires low temperature preservation, could not adapt to the hot weather in the south and the west. Therefore, in order to adapt to the changing times, milk powder came into being as a substitute.

But a substitute is a substitute. When the Mongolian army arrived in Yunnan and settled down, the Mongolians found that the climate here was somewhat similar to that of their hometown, so they tried to restore the food of their hometown here. Their first choice was still milk tofu.

They did succeed, and they failed.

In the Dali area where the temperature is warm and livable, the shelf life of fermented dairy products is quite short, and the most important raw material for making milk tofu - the acid water made from whey is also easy to deteriorate, which invisibly increases the production cost.

The nobles don't care, but ordinary Mongols cannot afford these expenses.Fortunately, this is Dali. The local Bai people with extremely strong hands-on ability use milk tofu as a base to solve this problem with creativity.

The Bai people found that if freshly baked milk tofu is stretched several times before it condenses, its elasticity can be increased. Convenience is not easy to corrupt.

As long as it is not on a hot day, the shelf life can generally reach less than half a month.

They also cleverly found a vegetable acid that can replace whey acid water and also promote the separation and reassembly of milk protein. This effectively solves the problem that whey acid water is easy to deteriorate in hot weather.

However, milk tofu tastes dry and hard, so it must be processed again to make the taste better.Moreover, the appearance of them after being removed from the bamboo pole is completely out of the inherent appearance of milk tofu, because some of them resemble the surface of a round fan, so the locals call it "milk fan".

I don’t know who is the god who discovered that the roasted milk fan has an excellent compatibility with rose sauce. Anyway, this discovery has benefited the public. Since then, there has been another local specialty snack in the streets and alleys of Dali. Food is also gradually spread in Yunnan along with the actions of Yuan people.

Even Mu Bai, who was born on Mangbu Road, has long admired his name and coveted it for a long time.Unfortunately, although the shelf life of the milk fan is longer than that of milk tofu, it is not enough to support it from Dali in the southwest of Yunnan to cross half of the Yunnan province to Mangbu Road in the northeast.

Therefore, there are many legends about the special snack of milk fan, and Mubai could not really taste the taste of this delicacy until he came to Kunming, the political center of Yunnan.

As a qualified elder brother and good friend, after confirming that the bearded uncle doesn't mind him bringing his little friend, Mu Bai immediately brought his little friend Mu Chun and younger brother Mu Wen to eat the big family.

If it was a day ago, Mu Bai might still feel ashamed of his cheeky behavior, but after a whole day of torment today, he doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with his behavior at all.

Because just after he found out that he was quite useful as a child laborer, the unscrupulous bearded uncle immediately brought in more documents, and even took him to work as an interpreter under the pretext that he was a local who could understand the local language. His body and mind were squeezed. The so-so Mubai was exhausted physically and mentally.

polite?what is that?The fact that the labor fee is not doubled is due to the fact that the bearded uncle does not have a thick wallet!