In the morning, add pickled pickled cabbage to the sesame oil residue base, plus millet and red rice, etc. to make a pot of sesame soup rice, which is salty and sour, and sour and sweet.
“I didn’t know that this oil residue base could be made into such an appetizing snack.”
Cheng Chumo filled a large bowl. The sesame rice soup that had just come out of the pot was a bit hot. He swung the bowl around and ate it with gusto.
It was already winter in the blink of an eye, and Cheng Chumo lost weight, but became stronger.
"Eat quickly. After you finish eating, go freeze the mutton."
Wu Huaiyu was also carrying a bowl of sesame soup rice, but his bowl was much smaller than Cheng Chumo's, and his was a basin.
When the weather gets cold and there is less grass along the road, it becomes more difficult to drive live sheep to Guanzhong. At this time, trafficking in frozen mutton becomes the main method.
A large number of sheep were trafficked from the grassland to Yulinbian City in Xiazhou. Apart from the ones that have been transported away, a large number of sheep have also been accumulated. When there is a snowstorm, the sheep will lose fat and must be slaughtered as soon as possible.
Now Yulin Border Market is also known as the Sheep Market. Sheep slaughter begins every day at dawn, and a large number of people from nearby areas are recruited to slaughter the sheep and cut them up.
After finishing the appetizing sesame soup rice, the two of them wiped their mouths and went to the sheep market.
The market is very busy.
The sheep kept bleating.
One after another, the sheep were caught and slaughtered, then skinned, the heads and hooves removed, and the internal organs removed. In the end, only two slabs of meat were left. The bones were removed and rolled into meat rolls. At night, the meat was placed on a mat.
, after freezing overnight, put the meat in the ice house.
This kind of ice house is built with wooden boards on all sides and on the roof. Cold water is poured on the ground inside the house and ice cubes are put on it. When it is time to transport and sell it, it is taken out of the ice house and wrapped to prevent ventilation, so that the mutton can be kept delicious. Then vehicles, camels and
Waiting for shipment to Chang'an, Guanzhong and other places for sale.
Nowadays, a large number of slaughterhouses on the market have set up assembly line operations, including slaughtering, skinning, removing heads, removing hoofs, removing internal organs, deboning, and rolling meat...
A live sheep soon turned into two meat rolls in the ice room.
Each sheep leaves a large amount of haggis.
These things must not be wasted.
First, the sheep tripe is cleaned and processed, and then the minced meat removed from the mutton rolls is wrapped in it, added with a little salt, tied up with thread, and then placed in an ice house overnight before being shipped and sold.
"Why are they all wrapped in minced meat and some broken bones?" Cheng Chumo looked at the skillful operation of a group of women and was a little surprised by the small belly meat.
One large one per pound, medium one half a pound, and smaller ones four per pound.
But without exception, they were all stuffed with minced meat and some bones.
"All the good meat is made into mutton rolls," Wu Huaiyu pointed to the baskets of minced meat, "Actually, these meats are still good meat, they are just removed during deboning.
The purpose of wrapping sheep tripe with meat is to get rid of these minced meat.
Of course, lamb tripe and meat are actually a good combination.
In fact, herdsmen sometimes make tripe meat, but usually they don't make such a small one. They just make the whole sheep tripe, wrap a lot of meat and bones, add salt, and then tie it tightly with red willow branches and insert it.
Use a reed pipe to vent air, and then you can cook it.
There are many women in the workshop, and they are as busy as the men.
Men do the heavy work of butchering, cutting, and transporting, while women are responsible for deboning, segmenting, packaging, etc.
In these simple workshops, there are even many half-grown children and some elderly people working.
These people are not slaves, but local people nearby.
Huaiyu's Xiazhou Dudu Prefecture, Yulin Bian City, was responsible for recruiting people from the surrounding areas to work, transporting them back and forth, paying wages, providing food and accommodation, etc., and at the same time, signing employment contracts with all workshops in the border city that needed workers, and providing labor dispatch.
This model of labor transportation is more efficient than border market merchants recruiting workers themselves, and secondly, it can better protect the rights and interests of the people.
After all, the border market has been established in a short time. Many workshops and businesses are newly built, and many of them are intensively employing people. It is not easy to recruit enough people at a time. The government's intervention is faster and more efficient, and it can also play a better guarantee role.
Although there are now nine major guilds such as Yangliangbucha and others in the border market, the guilds only belong to chambers of commerce and are definitely not as good as the official ones in some aspects.
"How much do they get paid?"
Cheng Chumo watched these women working very hard, their hands were cracked by the cold weather and their faces were cracked, but they didn't stop for a moment.
"It's not bad. They are working here now, which is a bit hard and tiring, but after working this season, their income is comparable to that of women who grow mulberry and raise silkworms at home in Guan Nei in one year."
In fact, this income is still not high, but in the eyes of these working women, the wages are high enough, especially for people like them in the Shuofang border area, who have just experienced more than ten years of hard life and experienced dynasty changes.
Many people are having their toughest days.
Now I can make money, even a decent salary, and I don’t have to worry about hardships or tiring.
Cheng Chumo asked some women, and their answers were all quite satisfactory, especially because they were organized by the government. Their wages were paid by the workshop to the government, and the government paid them back, so the workshop did not care about the money they owed and paid it every ten days.
The salary is something that no one could believe when they came here.
The salary was half food and half money, and everyone was very satisfied.
Everyone is not afraid of hardship or tiredness, but they are afraid of hardship, tiredness and no reward. They even hope to continue doing such a good job as they are doing now.
noon.
Wu Huaiyu took Cheng Chumo and others to have dinner at a slaughterhouse of the Wu family.
It is also simple to eat. Fresh lamb meat is chopped into small pieces with the bones in it, wrapped in a complete sheep's belly, added with a little green salt, moistened with local Yulin River water, sealed with red willow branches, and inserted into the hollow.
The reed rod exhausts the gas to prevent the lamb tripe from exploding when heated.
Then spread the burned charcoal evenly in the yellow sand, and then completely bury the belly bun meat in the hot yellow sand, leaving only the reed stems exposed for exhaust. It will be baked in about an hour and a half.
This kind of roasted belly pork is more delicious and less troublesome than cooking the belly pork directly in the pot.
When the tripe meat is dug out of the sand and the lamb tripe is opened, the aroma immediately fills the inside.
The mutton and mutton bones are extremely tender, juicy and tender, without any hint of woodiness.
The fragrance is extremely strong.
Cheng Chumo kept sucking his fingers while waiting to eat.
In addition, I also made some small tripe pork belly sold domestically, and cooked it in two ways, one was directly stewing in a clay pot, and the other was slowly simmering over charcoal fire in an earthen pot.
Both are also very good.
The ones that weigh four per pound, each weighing just four taels, Cheng Chumo took a big bite of each one, and the bites were so juicy.
There are not too many seasonings, the ingredients are simple, the ingredients are fresh and clean, and the simple method can make it delicious.
"This thing looks like just scraps of meat. I didn't expect that a pack of lamb tripe would be so delicious. It feels like it's all meat when you bite it. You can't tell it's minced meat or bones."
"It goes without saying that the minced meat removed is quite small."
Cheng Chumo was very satisfied with the bite-sized lamb tripe wrapped in meat. The sheep business in the border market has also become more promising. Originally, he thought that the weather was cold and sheep could not be sold, so he changed it to selling frozen mutton after slaughtering. This business is not expected to be successful.
If it is not done well, border markets will be affected.
But after a few days, I discovered that Wu Huaiyu still has so many things, including mutton rolls, mutton tripe buns, mutton dumplings, frozen haggis, etc. The large amount of hot sheep accumulated in Yulin in the early stage quickly turned into frozen sheep and was shipped to Guanzhong.
Chang'an is faster.
Who would have thought that after the sheep trafficked by the Turks were slaughtered in Yulin, even the sheep's water was not wasted in the end, and they could still be transported to Chang'an?
The aristocrats naturally don't disdain to eat sheep's water, but for many ordinary people in Chang'an, and for those traffickers and lackeys, this is a good thing in the winter.
After a large number of sheep were slaughtered, a large number of sheep skins were accumulated here, which spawned a large number of new sheep skin processing workshops. Lamb wine was even brewed here.
Not to mention wool textiles, handmade wool carpets, etc.
The prosperity of one industry will lead to the prosperity of all industries.
Cheng Chumo, the governor of Yinzhou, followed Wu Huaiyu, the governor, every day, and now admired Wu Huaiyu, his former younger brother. When they went to Longyou together, although he didn't put on airs, he didn't think Wu Huaiyu had such
General ability.
Even in the battle of Longxi City, when Wu Huaiyu risked his life to save him, he just thought this guy was very good, but now, he felt that there was really a gap between him and Wu Huaiyu.
The gap is still quite big.
No matter where he goes, he can quickly get something done, whether it's inspecting schools and hospitals, leading troops to fight, or managing the local area.
Even things like economic and people's livelihood.
Very thoughtful and well done.
Of course, another aspect of Wu Huaiyu that he particularly admired was that this guy never neglected both public and private affairs. Just like here, not only did he have impressive political achievements, but he also did a lot to benefit the Wu family.
Not to mention the forty manors that have been set up, there are also the slave catching team, the sheep trading team, and even the trading camel team heading north to the Turks, as well as the slaughtering workshops, leather workshops, and even salt farms, copper mines, and iron mines built here.
, coal mines, stone fat mines, halite mines, etc. are all involved.
His father, Lao Cheng, would probably have to give in to his ability to make money both publicly and privately.
Fortunately, Wu Huaiyu is still very loyal as before. After he came, anyone who was willing to participate was dragged along with him.
"Recently, the Turks have been busy trading with us, and there is no threat of harassment. When will we leave for Beijing to assemble?" Cheng Chumo asked.
"Let's go on the second day of November. We'll leave later on the scheduled date. It's winter this year, so we'll try our best to make arrangements before we leave."
The Turkic Jieli Khan has not yet recovered from last year's White Disaster. In particular, the Mobei Tiele people, led by the ambitious Yi Nan, the leader of the Xueyantuo tribe who moved eastward, rebelled with great momentum. They were canonized by the Emperor of Tang.
This time the tribes were very united and showed no fear.
The Turkic Khanate set up two enfeoffment garrison offices in Yugu and Tuo in Mobei. As a result, they were unable to suppress the Tiele people for a long time. Instead, they suffered several defeats, and Jieli had to send troops to reinforce his two nephews.
However, Tuli Khan, who commanded Xi Qi and others in the eastern part of the Khanate, Yu Sheshe Mo Mo in Hetao, and Tunisi, a large feudal lord in Shabo She in the northwest of Hetao, also played tricks with Jie Li.
If you don't listen to Xuan's plan, you have a close relationship with the Tang Dynasty. The border trade is booming, but you make money but refuse to turn it over to the Khan's court.
Although Jieli was extremely dissatisfied with many of Tang's actions, he couldn't care less about it for the time being.
On the whole, the current border situation is still very good for the Tang Dynasty. Yuan Junzhang, who represented Northern Datong, led his troops to surrender, and the Tang Dynasty has restored Yunzhou. Then Wu Huaiyu and the others destroyed Shuofang and Liang Division and restored Xia Sui Yinzhou.
Shaboshe, Yusheshe, and Tuli Khan, who were close to the Tang Dynasty, are all now in harmony with Tang Dynasty.
As the governor of the border area, Wu Huaiyu could safely go to Beijing to attend the meeting.
"Well, then I'll quickly prepare more mutton-stuffed pork belly and bring it back to Beijing together." Cheng Chumo couldn't forget about the mutton-stuffed pork tripe.
"You should bring more mutton rolls back. Then I will give you a few copper hot pots and teach you how to cook mutton. Bao Zhen will never forget it."
"Don't wait until next time. How about we cook the mutton in a hot pot tonight? I've heard that you made some kind of copper hot pot, but I haven't tried it yet."
