397 Fried Tofu with Golden Brown on Both Sides (For Book Friends 22/10)
"This is called 'vegetarian meat'."
As the "regent" of Cai Guo, the seventy-six-year-old Dr. Shang Cai held a banquet to celebrate and entertain all Cai Guo's colleagues no matter how reluctant he was.
The nobles of Cai State, who have been eating fish like crazy recently, finally mixed up a meal of "Shuan Xin Version" dishes.
Finally, there was meat to eat.
There are venison, mutton, and pork. The venison was brought from Huaixia Luyi. There were more than two hundred deer, fifty of them were killed, and the rest were raised in "Yunzhenyi" outside Xincai City.
, this is a newly established village.
Although it was officially called "Yun Zhen Yi", due to deer raising, there was another deer town in the world.
In addition to meat, another important protagonist at the banquet is soy products.
Tofu, tofu, dried tofu...even tofu puffs were all served on the table.
The tofu is sweet, mixed with honey, and specially cooled in a deep well. It has a smooth texture. It is rare for a bunch of dog nobles to have a sweet taste in their mouths. In this summer, it is natural to treat themselves as a dessert and a cold drink.
Moreover, Dr. Cai, the "regent", was very easy to talk to. Seeing that the sweet tofu nao was well received, colleagues attending the meeting were able to take some home for their children to try.
After thanking the "regent" one by one, I made a mental note to eat all the food on the way and leave some for my children. Is this enough?
Rather than letting the children compete with each other and causing unhappiness, it is better to eat it yourself to avoid conflicts.
In addition to the sweet tofu, the tofu is quite eye-catching.
Pickled vegetable and tofu soup is a very common thing, but the unique texture of the tofu still makes many elderly people happy.
Even among the nobility, there are not many elderly people with good teeth. Being able to eat unique and delicious dishes is a blessing in itself.
"'Vegetarian meat' is very good, very good."
"Where did you find this thing?"
"I didn't look for it, it was given to me by Jiang Yinzi."
Dr. Cai brushed his beard and said with a smile, "This item is of low value. If it is a happy occasion for your two or three sons, you can go to the Jiangyin Guild Hall to buy it."
"good."
"Great good."
The young people don't think it's a big deal, but the older people are all happy.
It is really not easy for someone who stutters and still eats deliciously.
In addition, the tofu is browned on both sides, thickened with starch, and sprinkled with a large amount of chopped green onion. The aroma of the green onion is charred on the outside and tender on the inside. It is also really pleasant.
New ingredients, new flavors, and new cooking methods all make the nobles extremely novel.
At the banquet, Cai Mei tactfully revealed that as long as she is friendly with Jiangyinzi Li Jie, all these "vegetarian meats" can be taken care of, and even the production methods can be taught, and even the cooking utensils needed for cooking can be provided.
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There are all kinds of things. In one sentence, if you want to enjoy it, you can do it. There is only one condition, go with Jiangyinzi Li Jie.
Eating seems to be a very simple thing.
But in fact, eating is not just about eating, it also involves increasing the value of bulk materials.
Wheat is originally very cheap, but when you turn wheat into flour, wheat is no longer a cheap grain or a miscellaneous grain.
Similarly, beans were originally just a supplement to cereals. In terms of taxes, they were often levied less or not at all. But if beans can add value, then the upper-class rulers these days also have the concept of "additional tax value-added tax"
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Those who can attend Dr. Cai Cai’s banquet, either they have matured or are in the process of becoming refined. Naturally, they cannot think that eating a piece of “vegetarian meat” and then say that Wu Guoli Jie is good and praise him, Dr. Cai will believe him.
Their nonsense.
If there is no interest tied up, Dr. Cai will probably treat his good words as nonsense.
When the banquet was over and the guests went home with their sweet tofu and sugary wine, the nobles of the Cai Kingdom, who had grown old and matured, stayed to chat with the "regent".
“Grow beans and wheat extensively, then sell them to China, and divide the profits among them.”
"good."
Cai Mei's method is not difficult. The land still needs to be divided, but the grain fields must be controlled by Li Jie.
As for the cash crops, beans, wheat, hemp, mulberry, sugarcane, etc., they are managed by the "Yijun" and the "Huaishang Yicong", and the nobles of the Cai Kingdom participate in the shares.
There are many forms. One is that each family has its own land, and then arranges its own manpower to organize planting, and then the "rebels" purchase it as a whole, process it for secondary processing, or sell it to China.
Another way is to invest money. Of course, the form of "money" is not fixed. It can be cash, your ass, land or population.
The "Rebels" sell highly processed agricultural and sideline products in various countries through the "Jiangyin Guild Hall", and then distribute dividends based on Cai Guo's output.
As for the other forms, they are similar, but there is only one rule of heaven, and those who leave with Li Jie will have meat to eat.
The nobles also first learned something about the situation, that is, Li Jie mastered a method that could turn extremely unpalatable wheat rice into "loose" white-flour steamed buns, or of course, not-so-white white-flour steamed buns.
Li Jie also mastered another method that can turn beans into "vegetarian meat" that has a unique taste and is easy to process and cook.
No matter which method is used, the nobles of Cai Guo believe that this will definitely make huge profits in China.
Cooking methods can also make huge profits. It is not just a matter of new cooking utensils. For example, the development of seasonings. Even if it is just knotted kelp and thrown into the soup, its freshness effect is enough to make the nobles pay for it.
As for items such as iron pots, which will definitely become a hard demand, the scale of the industry extended behind them is enough for nobles like Xincai, who were originally wavering, to choose to cooperate without hesitation.
Coal, iron ore, smelting... This is a huge property that can package all kinds of nobles, big and small, together. The most basic cast iron metallurgy is just to make agricultural tools. Even if its profits fall every year, it is still much higher than agricultural output.
Wanting to eat a piece of tofu that is fried until golden on both sides and then thickened with starch is definitely not an easy task in this era.
It involves fuel, mining, metallurgy, casting, forging, crushing... There may be twenty or thirty industries in various large and small categories. Taking any one out is more than enough to buy off the unlucky Cai Guo who has lost power.
What Dr. Cai Mei did was to make the bribery process more beautiful, like embroidery or poetry, unhurried and leisurely...
I had a private night talk with the patriarchs of several old families in Cai State. I went to Dr. Cai and took out the "Dragon Son" luminous pearl presented by Li Jie. The light was not good at night, so I lit dozens of candles, but it was obviously still not bright enough.
, so it is normal and logical to take out a luminous pearl to supplement the light.
Seeing "Dragon Son" Ye Mingzhu, those old and down-to-earth families made up their minds at that time, no matter what the "regent" old master's request was, they could not be treated as human beings.
Li Jie, who was heading to Huaizhong City from Xincai, originally wanted Panyu in the evening, but Chen Guoqing Snake Spirit complained to Li Jie in distress that he might have gained weight recently and felt like vomiting from time to time.
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So Commissioner Li had no choice but to give up and first persuaded Qing Snake Jing not to lose weight. This was a normal process of raising jade. He would be even heavier next month, which made "Xiao Qing" very unhappy.
Fortunately, Commissioner Li quickly chatted with "Xiao Qing" about national affairs, such as how to bribe the Xincai nobles, and this diverted "Xiao Qing's" attention.
Looking at the little green snake's belly that was getting bigger, Commissioner Li thought that the saying "a gentleman is like jade" needs to be improved and strengthened so that the green snake spirit has a clear understanding that raw jade comes from other stones.