"Hanhan, there is no shortage of fish on the Yangtze River, but there is a lack of good seasonings for making fish, otherwise it will be fishy. Many times people cook fish in clay pots, and that's what Mr. Tie is like.
The navy currently has a small ship and a lot of manpower, but it cannot go out to the sea and can only wander around. This year, a minister, Yang Zai, went to Ryukyu.
I still don’t know if this trip is going well. He has been to Japan twice, but the results were not very good. Japan doesn’t care about Japanese pirates! They fought back and forth among themselves. "
Zhu Pang took Hanhan away, chatting while walking, introducing how people eat fish, and the Ming Dynasty's overseas missions, and told Hanhan about the war in Japan.
Zhu Wentian was responsible for listening. He knew everything, and he knew more than Zhu Cang.
Ryukyu now is Okinawa in the future. The Yuan Dynasty once sent people there, but they didn't give face.
But this time when Daming left, the local people gave him face and sent people over at the same time.
This has been true in history, and it is no problem now, because some of the things Daming sells for takeout are sold there. If there are good things, the other party is of course willing to have good contact with Daming.
Zhu Xi didn't know this, so he continued: "Since the beach salt method was promoted, the price of salt has been half of the original price, and the merchants can get twice as much salt from the salt.
Salt is cheaper, and the price of salted fish is even lower. I don’t know who came up with the idea, saying that Nanjing has a large population and it would be easier to sell it here.
As a result, they sent over 100,000 kilograms of dried salted fish, but they couldn't sell it, which made them worried.
We are the princes of the Ming Dynasty, so we will think of a way to let people in the store think that they have someone who proposes to make fish sauce.
Sometimes when your village has beef and lean pork, it is made into meat sauce, which is very delicious.
After research, we bought all the dried salted fish and made meat sauce, and the people were very willing to buy it and eat it as vegetables, especially after the beginning of spring..."
Zhu Xiang was very honest and learned the way of making other meat sauces in Xiaqiu Village, and made dried salted fish into fish meat sauce.
This one lasts a long time and is salty enough.
Now when eating, use chopsticks to dip a little bit into your mouth and use it as a dish. When the vegetables come down, you can use the meat sauce as a dipping sauce.
"Okay, reward! Uh-huh!" Zhu Wentian said.
"I rewarded him with ten coins, but he was so happy that the others beat their chests and beat their chests. Obviously they didn't take my king's words seriously.
Ten guan is almost their salary for a year. Under the heavy reward, there must be brave men. Let's see who among them will not be dedicated in the future. "
Zhu Xi already knows how to use money to motivate employees, giving them ten coins at a time.
The two of them said that they entered through the small door next to them. There was still a queue at the door, buying various things. Many people at the sauce window were shouting to buy fish sauce.
Sign up, write your address, pay the money, turn around and leave, waiting for the store to send someone to deliver it.
There were also businessmen who came with their men and bought dozens of jars of fish paste at a time and gave away the money for the jars.
"Hanhan, look at the merchant, our jars are three cents more expensive than the same jars outside. Why don't you think he bought empty jars and filled them?"
Zhu Fang saw a merchant buying fish sauce and asked Hanhan.
Zhu Wentian: "..."
"Buy it, it's expensive, huh huh!" Zhu Wentian said this, but he was secretly helpless. Do you really think you are a fool? The jars bought from outside are not clean. If you rinse them with water, other things will remain. When the sauce is poured into them, they will spoil in a short time.
Jubiqi's jar is steamed in a large pot, and then filled with sauce and pickles. The extra salmon is the cost.
"Moving this, there are fifty kilograms of fish paste in it, and the jar is too heavy. I'm afraid it will fall when I move it. I told you, I bought the jar from outside..."
Zhu Xi pointed to a jar and told the reason that Zhu Wentian thought of.
Zhu Wentian pretended to listen carefully, picked up the jar easily, and held the bottom of the jar with one hand: "Let's go!"
"Hanhan, you are so strong. Now we are short of soybeans. We have harvested soybeans from the wheat harvest in Xiaqiu Village this year. After exchanging seeds with others, sell them to the store!"
The grain that my brother took from Xiaqiu Village was sent to drought-prone areas. This year there is a drought in Shandong. They have prepared in advance, so they don’t need to send more grain, right?
If I want to give it away, I’m going to give it to wheat that has been replaced with seeds. What’s there to give away soybeans? Do you think that’s right? "
Zhu Xiang came up with the idea of grain from the fields of Xiaqiu Village. In the past, Xiaqiu Village gave the grain to the prince, and the prince gave it to the people.
The price of seeds is different from that of ordinary grain. In the end, it is the people who benefit, and the government is only responsible for transportation.
However, transportation is transportation, and people are required to make up for the losses on the road when they take grain seeds.
"Sell! Beans! Hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian promised that 20,000 acres of soybeans could make a lot of sauce.
"This way we can ask for more dried salted fish and sell it to merchants who go elsewhere. It looks like we only earn a small amount per pound, but the quantity is huge!
When I go to the fiefdom in the future, I will build a Xiaqiu Village next to the palace, just like the one outside Chaoyang Gate. You guys can come and play.
Let's do big business, and no one will care about me then. Besides my elder brother, I am the oldest, and I want to set an example for my younger brothers. "
Zhu Xi said, and the two entered the lunch box restaurant, and the children helped with the dry vegetables.
When the vegetables come out this year, the two thousand dried vegetables bought last year have been basically used up, and more pickles are used.
This year we can continue to collect dried vegetables and increase the amount to 6,000 guan, because the department stores have already laid out the stores, and only those who failed the imperial examination are needed to enter the stores.
Every department store sells Jubilee items, plus other groceries.
Once he got here, Zhu Peng stopped being silly and went to learn and communicate with the children.
Zhu Wentian put the jar down, scooped some into a bowl, picked up a pair of chopsticks, and took a look at it. Yes, there were no tiny fish bones. He thought he had already cleaned the fish bones when he came to the beach to handle them.
Sip it into your mouth and taste it. It's salty, but you can taste the taste of fish. It's fresh and salty.
He put down his chopsticks and went into the house. The chef picked it up without dissatisfaction, took a sip, and followed Hanhan into the house.
"Hanhan, that fish sauce tastes really good, not fishy at all." The manager commented.
"After buying it, chop it into small pieces, steam it in a pot, put it in the sauce, and marinate it for more than half a month. The fish will have its current texture and taste. If you don't steam it once, the sauce will be spoiled."
Zhu Wentian knew the craftsmanship after just one taste. Now Jubiqi's sauce-making technicians are very good.
I don’t know what kind of contract they signed, but they can’t let it go easily.
Even though there is just one more step of steaming, many people who make sauce don't know it.
Especially when I buy the same doenjang paste, I always dilute it with salt water. Some people's sauce is fragrant, while others are smelly.
The fragrant one probably knows how to scald the jar with boiling water, and the smelly one can be washed with cold water.
There is also salt water, one boils the salt water, and the other puts the salt in the water and stirs it.
Zhu Wentian said as he took out the Four Treasures of the Study and started drawing.
"What else do you want to do?" the director asked naturally.
"His Royal Highness the King of Qin said that ordinary people eat fishy fish and cook it in a clay pot. The cooking temperature is obviously not as high as steaming it. At the same time, when the fish is steamed, the fishy smell is brought to the pot instead of the plate.
I make something simple and put it in a clay pot that can hold up a plate to steam the fish. Adding a little salt, ginger, and green onions makes it taste better than boiling it directly. "
Zhu Wentian was talking and drawing at the same time. It was a very simple thing that could be made from bamboo. It was placed in a clay pot, with a plate on top, then covered with a clay pot and then steamed. It was wrapped around with a drawer cloth several times to seal it. The temperature can be higher.
This is similar to the different brackets placed inside the iron pots of large earthen stoves, but ordinary people would not consider making them themselves.
(End of chapter)
