Chapter 250 The Khitan People Don’t Know How Fat They Are

Supper is far away, lunch is just around the corner.

There was still a little more than an hour left, and Li Yi asked, "Chicken stewed with mushrooms for lunch today."

The mushrooms are real mushrooms, and the chickens are also real chickens and roosters.

This thing is just like giving birth to a boy or a girl, there are not many cocks.

Some time before Li Yi's time, there were people selling chickens and ducks in baskets.

Each one is cute, but most of them are roosters and drakes.

As for why they are not all males, it is because some chicks are not obvious.

If a chicken flock does not need so many roosters, the roosters should be raised once hatched and then killed.

Now the mushroom stew is made from six-month-old roosters, the meat is tender.

"Uncle, this mushroom is the best, isn't it? It tastes better than Hericium's Head." Queen Wang finally had lunch and praised the mushrooms for their deliciousness.

She ate too much Hericium mushrooms, so she didn't think they were precious. ,

Now the rooster is stewed with pine mushrooms bought from the northern part of Hebei Province. Theoretically, it is indeed more expensive than artificially cultured Hericium erinaceus.

Pine mushrooms cannot be grown artificially, at most semi-artificially.

Li Longji took a few bites of mushrooms and said to Li Yi: "We exchanged a large number of frogs with the Khitan from the Anton Protectorate, and exchanged them for mushrooms, which cost a lot of money."

"With more exchanges, we can better understand the specific situation there. The Khitan surrendered to the Turks, and we have given up the Silla area. We can't just leave it alone."

Li Yi explained the reason. Theoretically, it belonged to the Tang Dynasty, but it was all private trade.

Many Siberian tiger skins, mink skins, bear skins, sika deer skins and other items from the Northeast went to other places in the Tang Dynasty.

The Khitan is not yet strong now. Later, they fought again and again, surrendered, were killed, escaped, and came back to establish the Liao Kingdom.

Gee, these minorities are very tenacious.

"The nomads must be dealt with, otherwise too many people will die." Li Yi wasted too much development time thinking about the change of dynasties.

"How to solve it? We can't mobilize our troops." Queen Wang knew what was going on there.

The Anton Protectorate said it was Anton, but they all moved away last year, shrinking their strategy.

After the contraction is over, there will be no wartime. Everyone is waiting and it will be peaceful.

Li Yi took a sip of the soup and said: "Now they have little food, and the yield per mu in the few small places where they grow food cannot increase at all, and they are farming extensively."

"Yes, they are stupid." Queen Wang found something to be happy about.

"So let them learn to farm. After finishing the big things this year, we will see if we can get in touch with them in the spring. We will exchange local products with them and give them seeds."

Li Yi said what he wanted to do.

"They have food and it's time to raise troops again." Li Longji frowned.

The Khitans and Turks came to fight when they had something to eat, and they also came to fight when they had nothing to eat.

If there is military ration, it is natural to rob the place and population. In order not to starve to death, they come here to rob food.

"Third brother, actually after they start farming, their soldiers have less training, and a large part of them have to become farmers.

And I taught them to grow soybeans. Datang needs soybean oil. Soybeans cannot become their staple food. Then we will trade wheat with them for beans. "

Li Yi told Li Longji to teach the Khitan people what crops to grow, soybeans.

Soybeans can be planted along the river. After the soybeans are planted on the plowed land, if the soybean stalks are turned into the ground, the fields can be fertilized.

"What if they don't change?" Li Longji asked the key question, "Can you change if you want?" If you ask them to plant it, they will plant it?

"Mirrors, toilet water, and soap are all just soybeans, and nothing else will be exchanged." Li Yi proposed luxury goods.

He believed that the tribal leaders would like them and flock to them.

Li Longji pondered for a moment: "I told my eldest brother that you should take out some mirrors first. We, the emperor's relatives, should contribute to the Tang Dynasty."

Li Longji was going to give it a try to see if those people had a big need for mirrors.

This is enough for the time being regarding the Khitan in Northeast China. It depends on what happens next.

The group of people continued to eat, and Queen Wang was the first to put down her chopsticks, resisting the thought of taking a few more bites.

She was only half full, and then she picked up a spoon to drink the soup. She wanted to drink another third of the soup, which was fine.

"Go and see if they have left? People from the Western Turks have a strong smell on their bodies, which bothers me." Queen Wang found a reason to let the eunuch take a look.

Ziyu ran out and came back after a while.

"They are eating. They all eat so much that they have to take a bath after eating." Ziyu reported.

"Uncle, you are familiar with Wang Xing, why don't you go to the Imperial Manor above to have a look." Queen Wang, who didn't want to be recognized, made another excuse.

"Okay." Li Yi was all right. He had only been to Huangzhuang twice and never walked around there.

After dinner, everyone went directly to Huangzhuang from here. Huangzhuang and Li Yizhuang originally had a ditch.

In summer, when there is too much water, the ditch becomes smelly.

Now it has been filled in and four roads have been built from Zhuangzi to Huangzhuang.

A large amount of fungus and Hericium were sent for storage, and Wang Xing made false accounts according to Li Yi's instructions.

A large part of the things were placed in Li Yizhuangzi, and a small part was sent up.

This part of the things was sold to heaven and earth, and then Li Longji rewarded people for use.

You can't buy it outside at all, only wild ones picked by others will appear in Dongshi.

When a group of people passed by, the dealers of Huangzhuang saw it. They didn't know Li Longji and Queen Wang, and they greeted Li Yi when they saw them.

After saying hello, they turned around and went back to their business.

There was a big shed, and someone was boiling water, mixing mud, wrapping the duck eggs together with plant ashes, and then putting them into jars.

Li Longji had never seen such a method of preserving duck eggs, and turned to look at Li Yi.

"Quicklime, boiling liquid of a large amount of plant ash, mix the plant ash with mud and bran, add salt, and add a little wine when mixing with the mud.

At a certain temperature, the egg white in the egg will harden and change at the same time.

To make the process faster and more stable, stir-fried lead powder, or something made from a distillate of gall vitriol mixed with copper, is added.

However, I didn’t want to use these two things, so I added some wine. The solidification effect was not very good, but it could still be made.

Changed eggs have a unique taste and can be stored longer than salted eggs, especially in jars. "

What Li Yi said was preserved egg. Without adding metal ions to follow the reaction, the taste is poor and the molding time is unstable.

Copper sulfate is much better than lead, but neither sulfuric acid nor copper is cheap. Sulfuric acid can do many things.

Li Yi didn't let go of the soda ash either. It was not easy to get some soda ash by himself, so he couldn't bear it.

Anyway, people in the Tang Dynasty have never eaten authentic preserved eggs, so what they make themselves is the best.

"How else would the eggs be preserved?" Queen Wang blinked and asked, she really didn't understand.

"Put it in rice husks and chaff, or in grain, sand or plant ashes."

Li Yi knew this very well. There were many eggs on Zhuangzi's plate, and he couldn't find a way to put them away.

The price of tea eggs has dropped. They are a little more expensive than eggs. Businessmen come over and buy them in large quantities and then sell them.

Other pickled salted eggs and hatched poultry were eaten by Zhuangzi himself.

Li Yi took out the preserved egg method and found that it actually contained lead.

Just hold it in your mouth, he has also eaten preserved eggs made with yellow dandelion powder.