Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 688
Why did you push soybeans in Guanzhong?On the one hand, in terms of maturity and cold resistance, there is no better crop except soybeans!On the other hand, Wang Hou didn't even think about growing soybeans to eat!The left and right are in front of you!
A large pot of beans was steamed, and under the fierce coal fire under the stove, it was steamed for more than ten minutes, until they were half cooked, and they were taken down by these workers while they were boiling hot, and then replaced. one pot.

At this time, Wang Hou and the others also finished the lunch of inspecting the grain depot, from the old liar Lun Zhi, who was the chief envoy, to Deng Ai, the young staff officer who had just joined the work, all of them poked their heads out of curiosity. Stupidly looking at Wang Hou's grinning command, those tenants out of corvée smashed several pots of steamed beans and put them in an iron circle. Come out with a large lump of bean curd.

The pressed bean curd is black and yellow, like a lump of fermented manure. Under Wang Hou's gesticulating command, these tenants clattered their big tongues and wrapped the round bean curd with fine straw Get up and make huge coins.

Finally came the most important step, squeezing!This thing was made by Wang Hou before the beans were harvested. He chose a fairly sturdy room in the warehouse of Weiyang Palace, and reinforced two girders on the room, and then hung it on the reinforced girder wall. A large piece of wood weighing more than one ton was planted, and it looked like a scale beam.

As for the weight, a large turntable with wooden gears is also installed on the beam, and it is connected with a chain to lift the hanging giant log, and the heavy giant log can be lifted up by stepping on the turntable under the feet.

Several workers placed the compacted bean cakes surrounded by iron grates on one side of the giant wooden crane weighing pan, and the bottom was also above the grooved oil pool made of wood, and a circular shape was built on the soybean meal. The pig iron lump was compacted, and the first few workers stepped on the rocker arm to lift the long end of the giant log up. Under the principle of leverage, the other end of the pressed giant log was pressed down especially heavily.

This is based on the restoration of the ancient oil press in the north that Wang Hou saw during his travels in his memory, but!The rapeseed oil squeezed by others, the soybean oil squeezed by him, whether the method will work or not, I really have no idea!Just as Wang Houqiang tried to protect his face, and the staff watched eagerly, the giant wooden weight was raised higher and higher. With its own gravity and the downward pressure brought by the bending, the stack of bean cakes made a creaking sound Finally, the first ray of golden soybean oil flowed out along the bottom of the straw bales along the turbid clatter, and Wang Hou was finally relieved to see it.

Become!

What is the true meaning of profiteers, sell expensive and buy cheap!Now the soybean market in the Han Dynasty is such an excellent method suitable for manipulation by profiteers. The price ratio of soybeans and corn has reached one to five, and the price of rice and wheat has also reached one to four. It is just that the cheap beans are sold to the main rice. The price, even a lot more expensive, requires some technology and means.

This technical means is the oil extraction technology manipulated in front of you!
The oil yield rate of soybeans in later generations is between [-] and [-], but the indigenous method can yield [-] percent. One stone of one thousand kilograms of soybeans can yield about [-] kilograms of soybean oil, which is about two jars.

But just these two jars of soybean oil are enough to exchange for two stones of wheat!
Before the Song Dynasty when iron pots appeared and Chinese cuisine suddenly flourished, there was actually a shortage of oil for Chinese cooking, and there was almost no vegetable oil!Basically, the animal oil used is thanks to the old man Bowanghou Zhangqian. He brought back sesame seeds. The oil yield rate of this stuff has reached 50.00%. It has indeed improved the level of oil used in the Han Dynasty. Expensive, not to mention nowadays, only a prodigal like Wang Hou can afford it, and ordinary poor gentry have to weigh it with some sesame oil cold salad.

The rest is animal fat, just like in Liaodong, it is affordable to cook in a large pot, because Wang Houqin raises pigs, and Liaodong still has enough agricultural by-products such as thin wheat bran and chaff, and the oil that everyone eats is lard. But that price is not cheap.

In the Liaodong Grassland, suet is the most popular dish for cooking, and it is not cheap to bring this stuff to the Central Plains.

It is estimated that after Wang Hou’s large-scale oil extraction in Guanzhong, the price of soybean oil should also drop, reaching the level of the Song Dynasty, but before that, he can make a lot of money.

Moreover, planting soybeans to extract soybean oil has two advantages. One is that there are soybean tumor bacteria in the roots of soybeans, which can absorb free nitrogen in the air. Planting soybeans for a season is equivalent to applying nitrogen fertilizer to the soil once, and the soybean meal after pressing soybean oil is not directly thrown away. If you don’t want it, after a little fermentation, it will be full of nutritious bacteria. Feeding it to livestock is much more nutritious and easier to absorb than feeding it directly with soybeans. At that time, Wang Hou will be able to raise a large amount of food and pull the second senior brother again. .

"It actually produces oil, this oil is really fragrant!"

In the air, the smell of vegetable oil permeated the air, causing the old and immortal Lun to sniff his nose heavily, watching the golden soybean oil being poured into the oil tank after the straw was filtered, Wang Hou's eyes gleamed, It's just that a few tenant workers in charge of oil extraction were twitching with sadness and envy.

No wonder General Wang is so generous in exchanging refined grains for their coarse grains!Sure enough, it is always the essence of buying but not selling!They won't be able to get rich with this shiny soybean oil!

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Wang Hou is a traitor!Chicken shaved tofu and braised tofu puffs, which were originally Northeast dishes, are now authentic Shaanxi dishes!After the special product of soybean oil became available in Chang'an City, the Kanto and Kansai areas, which were not very close to each other, became lively again. The nearest Sili merchants and some Kanto clans who wanted to inquire about the news sent caravans into the customs one after another. , to traffic this batch of soybean oil, by the way, find out about Wang Hou's reality, and see if there is any advantage to take advantage of.

Then walking to Tongguan, the caravan with two coins in their pockets gradually formed a new food culture. A bunch of copper coins went to a restaurant in Tongguan Town, and a bowl of chicken shaved tofu fried in soybean oil was served. The Weihe big carp fried in bean oil is especially good for drinking.

As the caravans poured into Chang'an, the once lifeless Chang'an City finally had some vitality in the market. It happened that the flat land cleared by the house demolition climax a while ago was classified as Chengdong City by Wang Hou. Merchants from the Kanto region gather here, trading large quantities of soybean oil on one side, and selling gadgets from the Kanto region on the other side, such as straw mats, straw sandals, cloth, and even sugar and wine from Qingzhou, lacquer tea from Jingzhou, etc., to the garrison in Chang’an .

This bustling trading scene can be regarded as the beginning of Chang'an's revival. Looking at the crowded East Market under his feet, Wang Hou couldn't help but look to the northwest again.

Not only for him, but also for the Qingzhou Liaodong commercial gentry who supported him, and the Xianbei people on the prairie, they can't wait to reopen the Silk Road in the Western Regions!Wang Hou, who is stimulated by the Dongshi under his feet, is ambitious, and he is particularly eager to revive the image of an international metropolis with a lot of people in Han and Tang Dynasties.

Right under his current Weiyang Palace!

(End of this chapter)