The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

The slave stood up straight until he heard an impatient urging from the Huns, and then spoke the long-lost Chinese in a dry voice.

Li Guang didn't get close, and kept a good distance from each other. After he declared his family name, he was not surprised that the Xiongnu only sent one householder.

The subordinate started to breathe heavily because of his negligence and unfriendly attitude, but Li Guang sank.

A few steps behind him, there is a person, that is Han Tuidang, who is proficient in the language of the Huns, and this Gong Gaohou came to Dai County to help.

Wei Shang of Yanmen County has been the prefect for many years. In addition to defending against the Huns, he also wanted to settle down many families in the county. In the eyes of everyone, Li Guang was still a novice in this field. I'm afraid he won't choose the opening point of the market this time.

But Emperor Jing was not at ease, so he sent the latest upstart of the court——Han Duidang.Han Tuidang's grandson, Han Yan, is in Zhongshan, so he would not dare to give up if he thought about it.

At the same time, in Emperor Jing's eyes, Han Tui was experienced, old, treacherous and cunning, with him, Li Guang would not be at a disadvantage.

Facing the attitude of doubting rather than asking questions from the Huns, Li Guang sent someone to bring a piece of parchment, and then tied the parchment on the arrow himself.

At this time, the Huns and the Han army were at an extremely safe distance from each other. This safety meant that they were not within the reach of each other's bows and arrows, that is, "the place where one shot".

But in fact, because the Huns have eagle shooters, and the big men also have sharpshooters, they have tacitly kept a distance between two shots and three shots.

The Huns had good eyesight, and when they saw Li Guang starting to nock his arrows from a distance, they started talking in a low voice, and a small part of them started to commotion when they saw him pulling the bowstring.

On the one hand, they didn't believe that Li Guang could hit them, but on the other hand, they were unavoidably worried.

After all, Li Guang looked like the opponent's coach. If he dared to bend his bow and shoot an arrow without any skill at this time, then this coach would be too bold.

"Don't guess," a Hun snorted, "maybe this man just shot the arrow on the way, and then he will find an excuse to say that it is for us to pick it up."

It seems reasonable.

A few young Huns were suddenly stunned, and then they began to struggle with the follow-up question-if the general really shot the arrow halfway, would they pick it up?If you pick it up, you lose face, if you don't pick it up, it seems a little passive.

After all, the Han people are right behind them, not to mention the disadvantages they have come from afar, maybe they will go to the royal court and say that the trade failed due to their lack of cooperation from the left.

Tsk, cunning Han people.

In fact, there is no need for this little brother among the few Huns whose brains are faster than their muscles to come up with a [-], because Li Guang has shot an arrow.

Li Guang's family has been martial arts for generations. He himself practiced arrows when he was young, and bows and arrows were his second hands.

At this time, there was nothing in front of him, there was no obstacle, and the wind was very warm. This was the perfect time to shoot the arrow.

Speaking of which, when his eldest son was born, he had just beheaded a Hun Danghu, so he named his eldest son Li Danghu.

Tsk, in this way, he and the householder are also quite predestined.

Li Guang's eyes reluctantly moved away from the Huns' throat, and set the arrow's landing point at a distance of one step before the Huns took over.

This location is just right, but one step away.

He licked his chapped lips, then fired the arrow.

The arrow carried the parchment pierced the sky like a white rainbow piercing the sun.Li Guang's arrow was very fast, and the Huns knew that something was wrong when they saw his arrow's speed and direction. He tightened his hand holding the rein suddenly, trying to control the horse to retreat, but before he could Some action, the arrow has fallen.

The arrow tied with parchment stabbed firmly one step above the horse's hoof, a position that the Huns could get by bending down a little.

The ground was pierced very deeply, and the slight end of the arrow trembled slightly due to the owner's remaining strength.

The Xiongnu was expressionless. He knew that just now he was really on the verge of death, and the Han on the opposite side would be able to control the distance to such an extent that he would undoubtedly be able to send an arrow between his eyebrows.

The Xiongnu mission was completely silent, and no one knew what to do about it.

This kind of "home delivery" is simply a warning to them: Do you think you are safe enough?No, we can kill you anytime.

The Huns in charge laughed at this moment, holding a whip in his hand, he actually bowed his hands at Li Guang using Han etiquette. "You are a hero!" he said loudly in the Hun dialect, "We Huns admire heroes."

After all, he got off his horse and pulled out the arrow, and put the bow and arrow used by Li Guang into his quiver with a very generous gesture.

After the person unrolled the scroll and scanned it up and down, he handed the scroll to the person behind him, then turned on his horse and clamped his horse's belly, and actually led a large army of Huns to approach Li Guang.

When reining in the horse again, Li Guang and the householder could see each other's subtle expressions.The Xiongnu flicked his horsewhip, and said in a barely friendly tone: "You are good at archery. You can also rank among us Huns."

Li Guang also boasted in a friendly tone: "You are also very courageous, and you are also among the best among us big men."

After listening to the interpreter's translation, both sides had a thought in their hearts at the same time—is this attitude really friendly?

At this time, when the whole country was paying attention to the situation of the two trade points of Han and Hungary, the nearest county, Zhongshan, was extremely heartless.

Xia Anran knew very well that there would be no fight this time, even in history, this time it was even more impossible to fight after the Han Empire showed such sincerity.Therefore, he naturally wouldn't pay too much attention to this. After sending off the caravan, he began to be busy with the overall planning after the autumn harvest.

A brand-new storage method has been popularized among counties and townships in Zhongshan——digging cellars.

It is said that this was proposed by the little king, and it was a method that he saw in a very precious ancient book.Shh, don't tell it, it's a secret.

This kind of propaganda method of "Thanks to you being my so-and-so, otherwise I won't tell you" is very appetizing to the big Han people, especially after the little king was helplessly and frustrated to make this method public because the secret was revealed in the end, he is willing to try more people.

This is why all the young people who have just turned [-] are taken away by Cheng Bushi. The remaining elders need to work on the land, and if conditions permit, they also need to dig cellars.

In the beginning, the cellar was not a big project, but it was not a small project. It was not carried out in units of "houses". Most of them tended to share one with each township or village.

After all, there is not much food that everyone needs to store, and it is not certain whether this thing is good or not.If it is really useful, it will not be too late to dig again next year.

Of course, there is another important factor causing this situation, that is, insufficient tools.The popularity rate of iron farm tools is still not high. In this regard, it is impossible for the government to subsidize endlessly. In fact, the iron farm tools sold in Zhongshan Country are now almost at cost price.

Because of this price, iron products must also be registered with the blacksmith at the time of purchase to prevent reselling.

Even so, for farmers, this is a "luxury" that needs to be saved for a period of time before they can buy it.

After the autumn harvest, the people began to prepare for cat winter. The farmers who planted Shu this year have one more task, which is to scatter the wheat seeds in the fields.

Continuous planting of soybeans and wheat was a good practice method that was agreed at the time, and because other farmers hardly needed to re-row the fields after the autumn harvest, the price of renting farm tools was naturally very cheap.

Although these people feel a little headache looking at the beans piled up in the warehouse, they are still very satisfied because they are paid by government subsidies and promotional benefits.

"It's just a grievance that our baby has to eat bean rice before it's born." Li Dalang said to his daughter-in-law who was wearing a straw hat and sowing seeds beside her while working the ground.He and his wife got married in the late spring of this year, and they are in good health and have a better relationship. In autumn, Li Dalang not only harvested several shrubs, but also a cub.

My daughter-in-law, Liu Xiaomei, smiled shyly, "What are you talking about, there is no grievance or grievance. Shu rice is also very good, as long as you can eat enough."

"Besides, didn't the county say that if your wheat can be planted alive, you can harvest it next summer? We don't have to pay taxes here, no matter how much we can live, it's free income."

Li Dalang took off his hat and wiped his face with a sweat towel. He took a breath and said with a smile: "That's right, if our wheat can really live, then it should be sold at a good price. Ours Most of the Zhongshan country grows rice. This year His Highness bought a lot of wheat. We were still wondering why His Highness likes to eat wheat rice, which consumes your throat. I didn’t think that after the wheat was dried, it would be ground and then mixed with water to make pancakes. The taste is not bad."

"Nowadays there are a lot of people who are curious about this. It is okay to buy it from other places, but it is more expensive than what we grow ourselves, and I am thinking that if this wheat can really ripen one season early, our price will have to be doubled at least. Thirty percent."

"Don't think about it," Liu Xiaomei spat, "Your Highness just said that the price will be increased by [-]% at most."

"Twenty percent is fine. That wheat is very expensive now. No one wanted to eat it before. Now the price is almost as high as that of rice."

Li Dalang touched the wheat in his hand, then drilled the soil with his feet, and said to his wife, "You also know that I am a person who likes to ponder, so I just wondered why the boss asked us to plant wheat and bean together. , after all, wouldn’t it be more profitable to plant wheat directly during spring plowing at that time.”

"Then what did you figure out?" Liu Xiaomei glanced at his face, saw several black marks on the face of this stiff-looking man, she pursed her lips in joy, took out her own towel and wiped it clean , Li Dalang, who was touched by his wife's face, suddenly burst into joy, and after a long time, he was urged by his wife to make a conclusion, "Daughter-in-law, look at the color of this place."

Liu Xiaomei glanced at him, and looked at him again in confusion. Li Dalang chuckled and said in a low voice, "You don't see anything wrong with it, right? But don't forget, this is a wasteland."

Oh yes!

Liu Xiaomei was startled suddenly, and when she looked down at the dirt on the ground, her expression was a little different, and when she thought about the bean that was full of barn, she just thought it was very cute, "Yes, it is bean?"

"It's not just the bean," Li Dalang pulled her forward, "and the manure, we've collected all the land here, so no one wants the things in the manure pit? I dug it into the ground half a decade ago. Sprinkle some."

Hearing this, Liu Xiaomei's feet stopped, and her expression became a little tangled. Li Dalang hurriedly pulled her, "It's okay, they are all underground, there is no place for you to step on."

"And this thing doesn't smell bad, in fact, it doesn't smell much anymore." Of course, the reason for this is not clear at the moment, so the standard of use from the top to the bottom is when the smell of the cesspit is weak, and when it can be used.

After a summer of exposure and fermentation, what Li Dalang buried in the ground is all real farmyard manure.In addition to manure, he also rubbed a lot of fertilizer made of straw.

There is no way, at this time, there are basically few farmers who are still cultivating land, and occasionally some just hurry up to plant the last season's vegetables to store up food.

Vegetables have a short growth cycle, and the fertility of the rice field itself is sufficient.

The demand for fat by the village leaders is short, so it is not cheap for Li Dalang's family.

He was not the only one who got the same cheap price. Every county and township in Zhongshan had similar experimenters, and the benefits of staggered peak planting were revealed at this time.

When autumn comes, there are really not many farmers who are still working in the fields, because everyone is busy picking up rice stalks and lacquer fruits.

The lacquer tree begins to bear fruit in summer, and the tree is full of fruit by now. Some people who can't wait want to pick the fruit during the slack time.What Zhongshan State collects is indeed dried fruit, so it’s fine to dry it in the sun, and the price can be even better if you sell it now.

As for the negative effects of picking lacquer fruit in autumn, everyone doesn't care, it's just a little itchy and swollen, it's a big deal.

But there is another point that people can't help but care about, the sumac tree is tall.

In the winter, there is snow piled up and you wear thick clothes. If you fall down, you will be stunned. There are very few accidents, but it is different in autumn. People have to suffer from allergies when climbing. Isn't it torture to think about tickling while crawling?

The chiefs of the village chiefs and alleys of all villages have mobilized, and hope that everyone will not do such dangerous things.

"Now is not the same as before, we don't need to earn this terrible money!" However, the village chief's dissuasion made the actions of the harvesters turn dark, which is even more dangerous.

In the end, this matter was reported to the workshop, and the workshop directly put up a sign saying that all purchases in any season were at the same price, and these people counted it as a let-down.

In order to prevent the Chinese people from going into space and wanting to do some dangerous work, Xia Anran simply spread the recipe on how to pickle carrots.

Pickled cabbage is sauerkraut, and pickled sauerkraut has a long history in the north, but it is still a niche hobby in Zhongshan.Nowadays, the circulation of information is inconvenient, and this kind of tricky technique is basically taken away by women as a secret when they get married, which is commonly known as "maternal food", which is passed on from female to male.

In addition to announcing the method, Little King also started selling sauerkraut jars.

There is basically no difficulty in making this thing. Go to the old gang with the cabbage, spread out the yard to fill the entire tank, then fill it with cold boiled water, sprinkle some salt, and press the cabbage with boiled stones to ensure that they are not exposed to oxygen under the water surface, and then The cylinder can be sealed.

The little king repeatedly told him that it must be stored for more than [-] days before it can be eaten, and it is absolutely not allowed to open the tank early.

The water inside is preferably mountain spring water, and boiling is necessary.

People from all over the country responded with "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"Of course, one of the most exciting points is - eat more of this, it is not easy to be constipated in winter, cough, this problem has troubled northerners for a long time!

Then everyone quickly discovered a problem, there was no raw material!Where is the cabbage?

The little king said "Hey, I really can't do anything with you", and then the counties and towns started the seed exchange.The cabbage seeds were purchased by the little king from a seed merchant in his county, along with cauliflower seeds.

The cabbage can be planted now, the cabbage is frost-resistant, and it doesn’t matter if it is harvested after snowfall.But broccoli is a bit strange. The little king said that it should be planted after the snow thaws when the land is thawed. The young leaves can be used as vegetables, and the poles can be used to feed livestock. When preparing to plant rice, all you need to do is dump the last bit of dregs into the ground. up.

This is the result of farm research!Produced by the farm, the quality is guaranteed!

Because it is to promote planting, buy five baht of cabbage seeds and get one baht of golden cauliflower seeds.Just this year, next year there won't be any!

In fact, people generally keep seeds such as fruits and vegetables for themselves. If it is really necessary, they can exchange them with relatives.So there are not many people who change species, but everyone quickly discovered a problem.

This time, in the column of barter and barter, the exchange of bean as currency has been added, and the price is still very good.

This made many people in the village who joined in the fun and planted Shu this year immediately excited, and they ran over with their own Shu grains to see if there was anything they could exchange for.

But there are also sensitive people who wonder what is wrong. Shu is a relatively unpopular food, just like millet and wheat. It can be grown and lived anywhere, so it is not too difficult to grow, but everyone don't like to eat.

At the same time, because its growth environment does not require much, barley has become a product that judges the worst living environment in the local area. For example, when the Qin court minister Zhang Yi described South Korea as dangerous, he said that they are "born of five grains, not the bean." And wheat", which shows how low the status of wheat and beans is when the common grain is millet.

Their existence basically delineates the minimum threshold of a country's grain harvest.

Moreover, Zhongshan is the main producing area of ​​rice. Rice is the plant with the highest yield among all cereal crops, and it is also a crop that is officially encouraged to be cultivated.Although people here grow rice, they also harvest rice.But in real life, they will choose to sell the expensive rice, and then use the money to exchange for cheap millet.

In this way, it can basically guarantee that the output of one season can last for a whole year, and there will be savings after meeting the demand for rations.As for rice, although there is some left in the house, it is mostly used during festivals.

Looking at the price of this bean, it is not too low compared to the exchange price of rice and millet, which is somewhat surprising to everyone.

What's more, what's the use of the little king taking this up?Could this be everyone's rations when they go into service next year?This idea made people panic at the moment, and the people thought about it in conjunction with last year's events, and came to a conclusion - His Highness really didn't have any food in stock, so they collected even the beans.

But before the news reached the little king's ears, a new shop suddenly opened on the main street of Lunu County.

The shop sells a kind of food called tofu. It has milky yellow water and is piled up in lumps. The price is also very cheap. There is a big pot behind the shop with bean juice rolling in it. What is it selling? ?

"Hey, lady, come and take a look," the young man in the shop waved to the crowd, "This is tofu, and it's the only one for the big men, and only we in Zhongshan can eat it. It's easy to serve, you Buy it back, cut it into pieces and put it in the soup, it’s very filling.”

"If you're not happy to stew the soup, you can put it in the pot and fry it with lacquer oil. If you're not happy, you can eat it directly. After chopping up some shallots and adding some sauce, we can eat this wheat rice Three big bowls!"

"Bragging!" a woman snorted, "It's hard to eat wheat rice. Your food looks tasteless. How can you eat it?"

"Miss, we can't say that," Xiaolang's mouth fluttered up and down extremely flexibly, "Is it delicious? Now that we've made it, you'll know if you try it. If you don't feel good after eating it, don't worry about keeping it." You want money."

Is there such a thing as free eating without giving money?

While Xiao Lang was lighting the fire pot, people from Lunu County who were wandering all over the street gathered here.

It was meal time, and there was a group of people in the Zhongshan King's Palace not far away watching this stuff called tofu.

Tofu, as a rare vegetarian food whose protein content is almost equal to that of meat, its significance is not only that it can turn unpalatable beans into an extremely easy-to-cook and tasty ingredient, but more importantly, , which makes the protein in soybeans absorbable by humans.

In this process, gypsum and bittern played an absolute role.

Zhongshan is located in the hinterland, so it is inconvenient to transport brine, Xia Anran uses gypsum.

Moreover, gypsum tofu is relatively less difficult than salted bittern, and gypsum tofu is extremely tender and smooth, with high water content, even if the gypsum is wrong, it will have no taste.

Bitter is not the same, bittern has mixed flavor.

Liu Zhi is particularly interested in this miraculous change. The process of coagulation of soybean juice is particularly interesting to any layman.

Boiling soybean milk presents a mixed state between solution, suspension, and emulsion, and the gypsum will cause the protein in the gypsum to condense and sink again and separate the water after it is poured.

During this process, the rich trypsin inhibitors in soybeans are decomposed. Soybean, a product that is easy to bloat and difficult to digest when eaten directly, becomes extremely soft after being turned into tofu.

At the same time, during the entire production process, extremely rich derivative products will also be produced.

For example, a few sheets of bean curds that have been drying aside.

"Brother! It's knotted!" Liu Zhi's eyes were sharp, and he kept staring at the little king's hand pouring plaster liquid into it. He witnessed with his own eyes that the bean milk changed from a liquid state to a semi-solid state, and his whole face had a "so amazing" expression. Is it?" expression.

Xia Anran hesitated and stopped, asked the waiter to stir it a few times before stopping, and then the two brothers stared at the cauldron for a long time.After a while, Liu Zhi asked, "Brother, what should we do next?"

In fact, the little king, who had never operated before, couldn't tell when the tofu's reaction was over. He coughed, supported his elder brother's face, and then steadily lifted the spoon to move the tofu cubes into a box made of wood and gauze. into the mold.During this period, the tofu cubes will be shaped and pressed again, but how to filter water is also a science.

The inexperienced little king and the enthusiastic little prince who rolled up his sleeves jointly contributed a piece of tofu product between dried tofu and old tofu.

Xia Anran pursed her lips, looked at her younger brother with a look of disappointment and guilt, and waved her big hand to say that brother, you have done a very good job, this is what brother wants!

Then he immediately asked someone to bring the iron pot, put the lacquer oil into it and heated it on a low heat, Xia Anran overturned the original plan of making tofu soup.

This kind of dry old tofu is more sticky than soft tofu. Xia Anran used the back of a knife to pat the tofu into balls, then added mung bean starch and egg whites to it, then sprinkled salt and stirred it into sticky tofu balls.

The spoon is a shaping tool that is picked up at hand. Use a pointed spoon to pick up the dumpling, smooth and compact it beyond the plane. After the copper spoon is put into the oil pan, it will not take long for the tofu block to slide down.

At this time, the oil temperature was not high, and the reaction was not intense. Under Liu Zhi's strong request, Xia Anran put on a small apron for his younger brother, rolled up his small sleeves, and then moved him a small bench for him to step on.

Liu Zhi's job is to use chopsticks to turn over the tofu cubes in the oil pan.

Liu Xiaozhu had a serious face, not to mention how cautious he was holding the chopsticks, and the other children immediately showed envy when they saw him so.

Children are always eager to try this kind of thing, Xia Anran didn't pay attention for a while, and when she looked back, she saw the expectant eyes of a few little Doudings.

The little king was silent for a while, looking at their brocade robes, the unavoidably dirty kitchen, and various utensils full of dangerous possibilities.

Don't look at Liu Xiaoshen raising his big chopsticks in a chic way, but there is a palace servant standing behind him for full security, Xia Anran is relieved to entrust the task to him, as for these little bean dings...

"Cough..." Xia Anran showed an anxious expression as if suddenly remembering something, and said in a particularly exaggerated tone, "Oh, this king actually forgot to prepare the chicken, Ayan, Aqian, you two go catch a chicken. "

The author has something to say:

Xia Miao: Heh, catching chickens is not me bragging, the last man who caught chickens for me was also greedy like you...

Gong: Huh?

Xia Miao (from the heart): What a man!

It’s not a good time travel text if you don’t write tofu in time travel text (although I haven’t written it before, cough)

Soy milk can actually peel off the bean skin unlimitedly, but the soy milk will not taste good if the bean skin is exposed too much!

The ancient grains are different from the modern grains.

According to the difficulty of planting, millet and wheat are the most drought-tolerant, especially millet, which has the lowest water requirement among almost all food crops, but its yield is also very low. Unlike modern millet, a single plant in ancient times was also There are a little more grains than foxtail grass, and what we eat in modern times is already genetically modified.

But at the same time, because it is resistant to drought and barrenness (after all, it is a weed), it can be planted anywhere, especially during times of war. People have no time to care about it, and it can grow a small piece by itself.

Yields, however, were low.

I won’t mention wheat. Before the Western Han Dynasty, it was eaten directly, and wheat was cooked and eaten like rice. Similarly, soybeans were also boiled and eaten directly.

Let’s not talk about what it tastes like and what it will be like at night... Cough, although the protein in a whole soybean is very high, its absorbability is actually not as high as eating soy products directly.

The biggest advantage of soybean planting is that it is resistant to barrenness and can grow on basically any land. Therefore, when millet is the national unified grain unit, Shumai is the minimum standard.

Another advantage of millet as a grain standard is that it is very durable.

Rice can be stored for three years at most, five years at most, but millet can be stored for five to nine years.

As the country's grain stockpile has its absolute advantage.

The rice exchange in the article is true.

Generally speaking, people in major rice-producing areas will exchange their surplus rice for millet and wheat, not for changing the taste, but because the price of rice is higher than that of millet and wheat, so that they can have more grain in storage.

Speaking of this, I have to mention that in the Qing Dynasty, there was a very famous rice called Bigen rice, which was also produced in Hebei. It was only a small area, which was used by the royal family of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, for the local farmers, the local so-and-so was selected It is not a good thing to make a tribute, especially rice grains.

The crop rotation technology in the Qing Dynasty was very mature. Bigen rice is a late-maturing rice, so it is actually a variety of crop rotation.But in order to ensure its quality, this type of rotation cultivation has become sole cultivation.

And there are regulations on how much rice they can grow in order to avoid fluctuations in rice production (such as farmers secretly planting land).

Of course, as a tribute, the above is also bought with money, and when it reaches the hands of the farmers, it will make up the difference.But the most embarrassing thing is...they can eat Bijou rice by themselves (this is the grace given by the emperor) but they can't sell it...

This is what I heard from our teacher. When I was talking about the Red Mansion, it made me greedy. (cough)

There are also advantages. They are generally strictly protected here. In any case, the top should pay more attention than the bottom. The safety of life and property are still guaranteed. But generally speaking, the common people are not very happy to grow tribute rice, but they will manage it later. It doesn't matter if you loosen it!

Therefore, there is a saying among ancient farmers: plant rice but not eat rice