Lin Wanwan not only sells low-priced grain in her own clan, she also does not turn away the people from Lujiazhuang and Dafengzhuang who heard about it.
Compared to Linjiazhuang, which has various subsidies from Lin Wanwan, Dafengzhuang and Lujiazhuang in the same area have much more miserable winter storage conditions.
Now that Lin Wanwan has low-priced food, everyone is very excited, and at the same time they have a tacit agreement to remain silent and never let the news spread from them to the outside world.
Even the people who love gossiping about their families, when faced with the low-priced food "smuggled from the south", they all shut up and chose to make a fortune in silence.
Lin Wanwan's help to them was of course not only out of kindness, but also to win people's hearts.
She wanted to make her territory impregnable, and the first step was to conquer the families outside the Lin Mansion.
Lujiazhuang and Dafengzhuang, which are close to Linjiazhuang, can serve as her barriers.
Lin Wanwan's behavior would be very dangerous in Chang'an.
At the feet of the Emperor, why are you buying people's hearts?
But in a remote seaside village, she built and did whatever she wanted, and if the sky fell, Xiao Chong, a tall enough man, would hold it up.
The two of them did this together. Lin Wanwan just boldly let go and became the villain, and Xiao Chong filled in all the loopholes. It was so comfortable, and she felt like she could do whatever she wanted.
If she had known that Xiao Chong would be so cooperative after knowing the secret of the time and space gate, she should have told him earlier.
In addition to dumping grain, another new thing has happened in the market in Luan County recently - corn wine.
The county government sent people to the countryside to teach the method of using corn cobs to make wine, and some people successfully experimented and started selling it in the market.
This kind of rare self-brewing is not considered a business and can be included in agricultural and sideline products.
Because there is not enough food to eat, the winery's brewing capacity is strictly limited, but making wine using corn cobs is not subject to this restriction.
At present, corn only exists in two places, one is Chang'an and the other is Yuezhou.
Lin Wanwan in Chang'an had no time to learn this knowledge, so she naturally didn't teach them. But she was able to bring corn seeds to Chang'an and sow them, which was already a great contribution. After all, corn yields are high!
The slow rhythm and circulation speed of the Tang Dynasty, and the high-yielding grains produced by Lin Wanwan in Luan County, only potatoes were seen in Chang'an City, and the others were not spread at all.
Lin Wanwan went to Chang'an to speed up the process.
Talking about corn, after Xiao Chong got a few books sent by Lin Wanwan, he immediately picked out the content that would be most likely to improve the living conditions of the people, and then mobilized the "official civil servants" who were idle in the county government and distributed them one by one.
A piece of secret recipe paper, let them teach themselves and then go to the countryside to teach the common people.
Because we had the experience of teaching about manure and other things in the first half of the year, everyone was not in a hurry during this teaching activity.
However, it is not an easy task to go to the countryside to popularize science among the illiterate people, and it cannot be accomplished overnight.
Xiao Chong took three steps. First, he mentioned the potato detoxification promotion opportunity in passing, and then he personally led the "propaganda" to practice the secret recipe of corn cob wine.
After ensuring that all these "propagandaists" have understood it, we send people to the countryside again. The task this time is to ensure that in the villages with corncobs, at least one person in each village has learned this brewing method.
The more people learn it, the better. This is Xiao Chong’s KPI assessment for propagandists.
To make wine from corn cobs, according to the book, the corn cobs are first crushed, that is, the corn cobs are dried over low heat or in the sun, and then ground into fine powder with a grinder. The finer the better.
Then sift out the residue, spread the fine corn cob powder on the mat, add warm water, stir, and knead the dough with your hands to avoid lumps.
Then put the mixed corn cob fine powder ingredients into the steamer and cook for about two hours.
After steaming, spread it out to dry. When the temperature drops to about body temperature, mash it. You can use bran koji, stir it and then put it in the box for saccharification and fermentation.
Fermentation takes seven days in total. In order to ferment better, you can add some lees and koji after the saccharification is out of the box, and then ferment.
The end of fermentation is distillation, and you're done.
Although the program is simple, even Xiao Chong, a smart man, never succeeded in one attempt. He made seventeen or eighty copies at the same time, but in the end only one third was successful, and the other third was barely acceptable. The rest was him
Considered a failure.
When the people in Linjiazhuang followed suit, they would still come to ask Lin Wanwan if they could not learn, thinking that she could do anything.
But how could Lin Wanwan know? The "top wines" she plans to send to Chang'an every month are all purchased in modern times!
Jiannanchun, Maotai, Wuliangye, let her choose, as long as she can pour it, why bother herself? How can she have so much time to learn so many things.
Therefore, Lin Wanwan always declined requests for help from her tribe members on the grounds that she was too busy.
She quite admired Xiao Chong for immediately picking out this technology from two books as big as bricks, turning waste into treasure, and promoted it in Luan County, which immediately allowed the poor people to subsidize a lot of household income.
Firewood can be collected in the mountains. There is not much fertile farmland in Luan County and mountains are everywhere. Corn cobs that can be used to make wine cannot be wasted as firewood.
That day, Lin Mengbo's wife Qin next door finally succeeded in brewing corn wine, and she excitedly brought a bowl to Lin Wanwan to try.
Also coming in with her were people sent by Xiao Chong.
Mrs. Qin sent corn wine to Lin Wanwan, and Xiao Chong sent someone to send spring rolls and twists to Lin Wanwan!
This big foodie, after getting the book, felt that the first thing he studied was the food mentioned above.
From corn wine to spring rolls and twists now, it’s so down-to-earth.
Spring rolls and twists, for modern people, are difficult to prepare. For Xiao Chong of the Tang Dynasty, he had to start with baking powder and oil, which can be regarded as a very high-tech food.
It happened that Qin was there, so Lin Wanwan ordered some spring rolls and twists to be given to Qin as a gift in return for the corn wine.
Little Qingyu came running "Deng Deng Deng", and at first sight she took a fancy to the good-looking Mahua, which is what Yongcheng people call you Zanzi.
"Bang bang" I took a bite and said it was delicious.
Lin Wanwan also took one and ate it, and found that it tasted similar to the store where people queue up to sell it every day on Yongcheng Old Street.
Foodies are tricky, but they may not be able to do it. Xiao Chong can do it. Sure enough, smart people learn everything easier, faster, and better than ordinary people.
After eating two sticks, Lin Wanwan suddenly laughed. Little Qingyu raised her head and asked, "Mother, what are you laughing at?"
Lin Wanwan smiled and replied: "It's okay. Mom only smiled when she saw that you liked what you were eating. Is this Youzanzi delicious?"
"It's called Youzanzi? It's delicious!" Xiao Qingyu replied crisply.
Lin Wanwan smiled, not because she told Xiao Qingyu, but because she understood Xiao Chong's unfinished words.
The other party was asking her if she would mind if he revealed the secret recipe for baking powder.
After all, Linjiazhuang once made a lot of money selling noodles.