The "Dabie Mountains Treaty" took only ten days from drafting to formal signing. By the time Xiao Xiaji from Liaocheng started crying with a big belly, broad beans were on the market.
Then Huaizhong City regarded the newly launched broad beans as an important reward for the signing of the "Dabie Mountain Treaty".
This is a very standard winter food. Like taro, it is a very powerful supplement to the staple food.
"Can each person over sixty years old receive fifty catties?"
"Fifty pounds."
"I heard that these broad beans are a specialty of Qin. It's good to cook them with salt water."
"The soybean meal farm is good for making flour, and it's a little better to eat if you have soybean flour."
“Can broad beans also be powdered?”
"If soybeans can be beaten, so can broad beans."
The residents of Huaizhong City now have a rich dining table culture, especially the variety of food. Unless they are big nobles or even kings of various countries, the ordinary small and medium-sized nobles are really not as good as the ordinary residents of Huaizhong City.
Even in the countryside of Huaizhong City, due to the heavy consumption in Huaizhong City, vegetable cultivation has to be diversified. The richness of catering culture has also greatly improved the ability to resist risks.
"This year the wild rice and water chestnuts are much easier to sell."
"The shogunate will reward various counties and cities this year with wild rice noodles."
"Speaking of which...does the shogunate have food that cannot be made into powder?"
"Meat?"
"Pork floss?"
"..."
Because of the update of textile technology, President Li has a stronger ability to screen starch, so some ingredients that cannot be made into powder can naturally be processed and ground into powder after various pre-processing.
In addition to legume crops, aquatic crops are also a top priority in the Jianghuai region.
Not counting the water chestnuts and water chestnuts, but only the water chestnuts, the newly opened ponds have a yield of 1,300 kilograms per mu, and the planting and management are quite scientific.
The types of water chestnuts are also divided into six types. Those with high sweetness and high starch are further screened and the planting area is wider.
For example, there are a large number of saline-alkali lands in the north of the Yangtze River. After digging trenches, the land needs to be washed twice.
After washing the land, the output of the land was still limited. The yield of rice was about 80 kilograms per mu. Seeing this, Li Jie thought that he might as well plant water chestnuts, water chestnuts, wild rice, taro, soybeans and other crops.
By planting aquatic crops extensively, firstly, the land can be washed naturally and slowly; secondly, after proper management, the yield per mu can be more than ten times that of rice.
In the past, the reason why the Jianghuai countries were unwilling to do this was that aquatic crops could not be preserved after being produced. However, under Li Jie's rule, the yield of oil and salt was extremely high, and at the same time there was "advanced technology" for starch extraction. So by mixing oil and salt and cooking it, through wood
By making a mold and pressing it, you can get very good shelf-stable cooked food.
After being dehydrated and powdered, even if it is high-sugar water chestnuts, the total amount of starch produced per mu far exceeds the staple food grown in Jiangbei.
Combined with a large amount of pickled and dehydrated products, the winter rations are distributed according to head count, which is basically close to the rural class, and even far exceeds the protein intake rate.
At least after winter, soy products that are unavailable to other countries were not a problem under Li Jie's rule. Tofu was used as meat every day on the construction site.
"Once the "Dabie Mountains Treaty" is signed, there will be no Hengshan Mountains of Chu State, only Dabie Mountains."
Li Jie shook the black and white paper. With this piece of junk, everyone except the Chu State would have to recognize that the area east of the Dabie Mountains was the territory of the Wu State.
The kind of people who are serious about it. From now on, they will criticize each other and write in black and white.
I think he is also the fierce man Jiang Yinzi who was named king by King Wu Wei, and he was also named Huai Shuibo. If the Wu Kingdom is completely in trouble, he is such a loyal minister, and with this little piece of paper, he dare not say anything else.
Jiangbei and Huainan belong to him.
The treaty was signed without the Chu State, and if the Chu State does not recognize it, it doesn't matter. As long as the Chu State is gone, isn't there no problem at all?
In another 56,789 years, no one will know what Hengshan is. The Chu people are afraid that if they open their mouths, they will also know who is the Dabie Mountain.
The Dou clan of Baiju in Hengshan then became the Dou clan of Dabie Mountain. The former "Arrow-bearing Scholar" also wasted his life.
"My lord, if you are over sixty years old, you will be rewarded with fifty kilograms of broad beans... Do you want a share for the old and new?"
"No need."
Li Jie chuckled, "This is called buying people's hearts, you know?"
"Buy people's hearts?"
When he heard that this word was so touching, his uncle Shang Wuji quickly took out a small notebook. He might use it when compiling the "Dictionary" in the future.
"In addition to fifty catties of broad beans, I think we can also reward twenty catties of fresh water chestnuts and one hundred catties of wild rice."
The yield of water chestnuts and wild rice seeds this year is extremely high, which is probably related to the floods last year. This year, ditches and canals were dug, and the newly built ponds are also quite good. Coupled with the natural water area, not only water chestnuts and wild wild rice seeds are produced,
The newly launched "Four-Jiaoed Water chestnut", also known as the Four-Jiaoed black water chestnut, harvested more than 1,600 kilograms from one acre of paddy field.
The same is true for the four-cornered water chestnuts, and the flour extraction rate of the four-cornered black water chestnuts is much higher than that of the red-skinned and purple-skinned four-cornered water chestnuts. The latter two are mainly high in sugar, have a relatively high sweetness, and taste crisp and refreshing like sugar cane.
For the elderly, it is obviously better to cook the four-cornered black water chestnut with a pinkish texture.
"There are also water chestnuts. The earliest one this month is the four-cornered water chestnut, which weighs a hundred pounds per person."
"Lord, is it too much?"
"So many farts, so many water chestnuts, no time to process them, so I might as well give them as a favor."
Cooked water chestnuts are also relatively durable in storage. Even in summer, they can be stored for ten days and a half, and there won’t be much of a problem.
It's just that in the past, this kind of thing was just an add-on like water shield, and could not be used as a staple food.
Li Jie's current form of extracting crude starch can be said to have greatly improved the utilization rate, and the original leftover ingredients have also been put to use.
You must know that the military ration of most countries these days is just taro.
"All I took out were miscellaneous grains. It was a benefit at no cost. We all agreed that this autumn, wouldn't it be much easier to collect the grain tax? Let's help each other."
"..."
My uncle, Shang Wuji, settled the accounts. It seems that this routine is okay? All the rewards he took out were really grains.
Things like water chestnuts are basically eaten as snacks or sweet treats in Gusu, Yanling and other places. Who cares as food?
As for the wild rice, no one will really take care of it, because it takes up a lot of water, and harvesting is extremely troublesome. When digging, it is all mud. If you harvest too little, you won’t be able to eat it. It’s not worth it. If you harvest too much, it’s not easy to preserve.
ah.
That is to say, President Li’s place is extremely rich in animal and vegetable oils. The wild rice is cooked, dried and crushed, then mixed with oil and fried and compacted. One pound of demoulding is enough. During the second battle of forced Yang, "Yi"
The high-end food of Danying is these special military rations that are high in salt and fat.
To this day, this kind of military ration is still considered a "luxury product" among the classes in most areas.
Li Jie said that he spent a sum of miscellaneous food, but it was used to "buy people's hearts." For people of this era, it is definitely more than enough and very conscientious.
"My lord, in Huainan, among the Ying clan, the Chu people call them 'Yuzhang'. Do the people of Yuzhang also want to be bribed?"
"One sheep is being herded, and two sheep are being driven. Since this year's summer grain has been saved, and there is a bumper harvest of miscellaneous grains, it is a matter of raising a few more mouths. For example, the Yihu people have hundreds of thousands of mouths. As long as they all rely on us for food in the end,
Who has the final say over the Taotao Huai River?"
After taking two steps with his hands on his hips, Li Jie threw an account book on the table over, "Besides, the harvest of miscellaneous grains is really huge, and it can't be processed. Counting Jiangyin, the workshops of Jiangyang base camp, Huaizhong
The processing factories in the city are still very inefficient and the workers are still very unskilled. It is better to boil the water chestnuts, dry them in the sun, and then transport them to the Central Plains for further processing."
"It's half-sold, half-given. It's better to do some favors. Cai Weili used strict rules in Cai State before, and I will not lend someone else's head. Last year, whether Cai Nan was forced or voluntary, his contribution was placed on
There, things come and go."
My eldest uncle, Shang Wuji, nodded repeatedly after hearing this, brushing his beard and smiling: "Cai cannot do it himself, but he is afraid that the master will borrow someone else's head for his own use."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Li Jie laughed loudly, picked up the teapot from the table, and took a sip. Then he walked with the teapot and said, "Cai Xi is a great talent, but he is too superior. As soon as he follows the rules,
Only serve me, is this a dog born or something?"
It is a very strange behavioral logic. Cai Xi, as the secretariat of Cai State, is not unsuccessful in judicial construction. However, this kind of success has only one purpose, and that is to serve the de facto "monarch", that is, Li Jie.
The rest of the simple patriotic sentiments of the nobles of Cai State are not at all, and as for the humble sympathy and compassion, they are not at all.
The logic of all the actions of Cai Xi, the "big" Sikou of Cai State, is to make Li Jie the most comfortable, freest and happiest supreme monarch in Cai State.
That is to say, he wholeheartedly implements the concept of the supremacy of the monarch, and even if one of his "dog lives" is taken away, and it is still taken away by his own king, he is willing to do so, and it can even be said to be a joy.
President Li thought it was a joke, but obviously Cai Xi was not like this.
"Cai Xi's study has 'fa' as its essence and 'superior' as its foundation." After thinking about it, his uncle Shang Wuji gave a brief summary, "In this way, Cai Xi's study should be a unique one, based on law."
Only the best."
“The law is the expression of the will of the ruling class?”
"Um?"
Shang Wuji was stunned. He felt that he understood what his brother-in-law said, but at the same time he felt that he didn't.
However, after Li Jie said it to himself, he suddenly slapped his head: "This is what he means by striving to be a tool?!"
Suddenly, Li Jie somewhat understood the logic of Cai Xi's behavior.
"..."
My eldest uncle, Shang Wuji, had no idea what was wrong with Li Jie. He couldn't understand it anyway, so he simply stopped listening.
"My lord, all the countries on the Huaihe River have exchanged their credentials. In this way, the land that my lord governs is vaster than the five lakes. Now that the shogunate is full of talents, it is better to establish it early."
Shang Wuji reminded Li Jie, "We can imitate the Jiangbei system and set up counties and cities first to appease the Yihu and Jingman."
The meaning of counties and cities here is more subtle, because Li Jie is not independent from the State of Wu, so although the unit "county" has administrative functions, its main direction is military.
On the contrary, it is the unit of "city", such as "Donglu City", that basically conforms to Li Jie's concept of local governance.
Because "Donglu City" is different from the city market of Wu State, it was originally the power projected by Yinxiang to the Jiangbei area in order to facilitate the management of Huaiyi and Shaye who obeyed Yinxiang.
The gap in status made the "city", which was originally a very ordinary and grassroots city, have a prestige of "city command" far exceeding that of the leaders of the local Huaiyi tribe and Shaye villages.
Looking at it from another perspective, the "center" of Yinxiang can interfere and govern the land belonging to distant places simply by virtue of its "authority".
My eldest uncle, Shang Wuji, is familiar with the differences between the Wu State system and Li Jie's internal management. Similar to the current high level of organization in Huaizhong City, the cost is too high and it is not possible to completely move down to the Huainan area.
So I settled for the next best thing and used the method I used in Jiangbei, which was actually quite good.
In particular, Shaha and Yun Zhenlu made great achievements in wiping out the barbarian tigers in the Huainan area. Coupled with the subsequent behemoth governor who knows how to come up with it, the remnants of many forces in Huainan are simply unable to compete. So with the original Pheasant City and Donglu City
The management model is a matter of course.
Moreover, there can be a time difference. The psychology before the autumn harvest is very subtle. Once the remaining forces in Huainan have food in their hands, adventurers will emerge in endlessly.
Similar to the Yihu people's foolhardy, it is nothing more than not reaching a desperate situation, getting some international assistance, and thinking about fighting on their own homeland, with the favorable location, people and people, but they never expected that the Wu people would be dealing with swamps and lakes since they were born.
, coupled with the generation difference in weapons and equipment, the Yihu people numbering hundreds of thousands were easily defeated by Shah.
Therefore, from the perspective of suppression efficiency, a thunder strike has the best effect at this time.
Whether it is Jing Man, the remnants of the Chu Kingdom, or the nobles of the Six Nations who have come back to their senses, their physical strength and psychology are at their lowest point.
The most important point is that in the previous discussion between Shang Wuji and Li Jie, Li Jie talked about "bribing people's hearts." At this moment, the people's hearts in Huai Shui Bo Mansion are probably at their strongest.
Sending out pounds of food is far more convincing than any kind of talk.
At the same time, Cai Guo, one of the major forces in the Jianghuai region, and top tool men like the "big" Sikou Cai Xi were waving flags and shouting, so those small and medium-sized forces could only follow suit.
Without a strong person to take the lead, the remaining "stragglers", even if their ancestors are glorious, will in reality be like the Yihu people, scattered in a pile of sand, and then be defeated one by one by Huai Shui Bo Mansion.
"Um...Wuji, when do you think it's a good time to bring it up?"
Li Jie didn't talk nonsense about whether the time was ripe or not. The "Treaty of Dabie Mountains" and other things that everyone wanted to do together to get rid of Chu State have been done. If there is anything left to do, in fact, the weak in Huaishang will not mind.
Moreover, Li Jie also believed in Shang Wuji's judgment. Huai Shui Bo's momentum at this time was indeed a very subtle and intense state.
"When the shogunate rewards the elders under the rule, it is better to take this as an opportunity to host a banquet for all parties. Sixty is the age of sixty, and the elders of the age of sixty have gray beards and hair, so it can be called the 'Feast of Sixty Years'."
"Sixties? Are there any oysters? Add more minced garlic."
"..."
"Just kidding, liven up the atmosphere."
Li Jie saw that his uncle looked like a dog, and immediately smiled, and then rubbed his chin, "It is indeed a good idea. When the elders from all over the country arrive, I propose to change the system. Who dares to fart? Who dares to fart?
Dare you say half a word? It’s not what I say. Don’t write it in black and white. As long as no one objects to it while the atmosphere is good, then everyone who comes will support the shogunate’s implementation of the ‘county and city’ system... Wuji, you are very sinister.
ah."
"..."
Taking a deep breath, Shang Wuji tried his best to calm down, thinking that his brother-in-law and the boss were just farting.