Three Kingdoms: From Yinlin to Great Wei Xiongzhu

Chapter 131 Fried bacon with chives, it's time to show the real technique

Yanzhou, Chenliu County, the backyard of Cai Mansion.

"Bang, kuang, kuang..."

There were constant sounds of hammering iron. Since the first piece of steel was successfully forged by Dian Wei, three more furnaces were added here. The forging base, which originally occupied only one courtyard, was expanded into three courtyards.

This was all ordered by Lu Yu, and he spared no effort in supporting Forged Steel...

In addition, many new craftsmen have been assigned to the forged steel experimental base, all of whom are the most outstanding blacksmiths in the Longxiao camp...

The entire backyard has increased from the original five or six craftsmen to twenty or thirty craftsmen.

Because the skill of forging steel is still immature, and the success rate is only about 30.00%, therefore, Lu Yu has not yet started large-scale steelmaking in the forge in Longxiao Camp.

This is also to try not to waste those fine irons as much as possible.

According to Xun Yu, Cao Ying's reserves of iron and iron have bottomed out.

Logically speaking, this forged steel should be the work of a group of rough men, but in this backyard, almost every day at dawn, there will be a generous, confident and pretty girl coming here... she will not leave until dusk. go.

Because of the four furnaces, the temperature in the backyard was extremely hot.

In it, every day the girl's clothes were almost completely soaked in sweat, and the dust here also dyed her fair cheeks... gray, like a country girl.

All the craftsmen here know that she is Cao Gong's eldest daughter and Miss Cai Yan's female disciple——Cao Mu!
Because of Lu Yu...she was determined to learn forging.

How could Lu Yu stop the eldest lady of the Cao Mansion, so he simply asked her to go to the backyard to learn from these craftsmen...

To Lu Yu's surprise, this girl was quite resourceful, so she asked Dian Wei to teach her in person.

However, with her slender arms and legs, let alone forged steel, she couldn't even move a piece of iron.

Originally thought... this girl retreated when she was too excited.

But I never thought that she seemed to be determined after eating the weight, and she would never give up if she didn't understand the subject of "Hundred Crafts·Forging".

"Master Dian? Is the temperature of the flame controlled to be blue and white this time?"

While observing the iron in the furnace, Cao Mu asked Dian Wei...

"Yes, it's blue and white. The bellows are increasing the temperature to turn it into pure white." Dian Wei answered patiently.

Speaking of which, this ancient evil who has always been carefree is rarely very patient when facing Cao Mu. As for the reason, when Cao Mu comes here every day, he can always steal some high-quality dog ​​meat from Cao's mansion.

And Dian Wei's favorite food is dog meat...

After coming and going, it is natural to become one with this little girl.

"Then this forging is the same temperature as the 140th steel forging. It also changed from blue-white to pure white... That forging steel was a success." Cao Mu recorded these contents in his hand as he spoke. On the bamboo slips he is holding.

Just because she can't move iron or forge steel doesn't mean she can't learn forging...

Dian Wei forged with experience, and she recorded every detail of Dian Wei’s forging, when and how much temperature was used, the rate of wind direction to increase temperature, and the corresponding changes in the iron in the furnace, everything is fine... Record them one by one, and then slowly summarize them when you go back.

It turns out that such an approach is of great benefit to forged steel.

Why was this forging successful?Why did the forging fail this time?What is the same reaction between the flame and the iron in the two failures?What are the similarities among the successful examples!
Because of Cao Mu's meticulous summary, today's forged steel has avoided at least [-] mistakes, and the success rate has increased from a little over [-]% to [-]%.

Of course, in this era, there is no way to measure the temperature specifically, even... the outside temperature, wind direction, rain and snow will all have an impact on the fire temperature in the furnace.

But... as we all know, flames have eight colors—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, white, and purple!

If it is further extended, in physics, the flame is the atom of matter, the frequency of impacting the magnetic field is different, and the light waves produced are different;

The ability to convert external energy per unit time is different, and a total of eight colors will be produced;
The arcs of electron orbits between different atoms are different, and the reflected light is also different, so we will see different colors.

Of course... Dian Wei and Cao Mu couldn't understand these physics knowledge.

They only know that the different colors of the flames in the furnace correspond to different states and temperatures, and this is very helpful for Cao Mu's records.

Her set of "fire control techniques" has recorded more than 70 bamboo slips, and this number is still increasing.

at this time…

"what…"

Dian Wei raised his head abruptly, his nose visibly moved.

Cao Mu was a little surprised. You must know that when Dian Wei was forging steel, he was almost engrossed. He seemed to be unable to hear the loudest sound from the outside world, but this smell...

Cao Mu's little nose also moved. It smells so good... This kind of fragrance is different from incense and sachets. stand up.

"This is…"

Before Cao Mu came back to his senses, he could only hear the sound of "tattling" footsteps coming from all directions outside the courtyard, as if...they were rushing to the next courtyard...

The Cai Mansion is very large, with eight or nine courtyards in the front yard and backyard, and Cao Mu's impression...

It seems that except for the main hall, Lu Yu's bedroom, Master Cai Yan's bedroom, and the courtyard dedicated to servants, the rest of the courtyard is basically empty...

And the room next door is also empty...

Still thinking, the voice outside is getting louder.

"Why are you still standing there? Go and look... Mr. Lu Yu is extracting oil, he said it's pure natural vegetable oil... Oh, it's delicious!"

"Go, go... I can smell this scent from a long distance, I really want to taste it!"

"Young Master Lu said, today the guards, maids, and handymen of the mansion will each send a small bucket..."

"Oh, having said that, what else can this thing do besides smell good?"

A sentence of discussion came out...

Lu Yu was pressing oil in the courtyard next door.

On this side, the two courtyards were opened up to become a forged steel experiment base, and the courtyard next door was idle, so Lu Yu simply changed it into an oil workshop...trying to extract oil.

In fact, it is not difficult to extract oil...

For example, pressing sesame oil, which is the so-called "flaxseed" oil in this era, can use the method in "Qi Min Yao Shu" - "fry sesame oil, the water vapor is completely smokeless, and it is still cold when it does not boil. But stir it with your hands It means that if you get water, the flame will rise, and the scattered soldiers will not be extinguished."

In human terms - just one word: fried...

This is quite similar to the refining method of animal oil, which is a piece of cake for the cooks hired by Lu Yu.

But...they were surprised, besides animals?This flax can actually produce oil?so amazing…

Of course, the magic is yet to come...

According to the literature records in "Nongshu" and "Tiangong Kaiwu", Lu Yu simply drew a set of wooden pressing equipment.

It is handed over to craftsmen to extract oil from "rape seeds", "tea seeds" and "red dates". The principle is actually to use the huge pressure generated by wooden wedges to squeeze out the oil!
In the Han Dynasty, fried animal oil has already appeared, but squeezed vegetable oil is still very rare, and the earliest squeezed vegetable oil will go back to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Normally, flax can get 27 catties of oil per stone, rapeseed can get [-] catties of oil per stone, and "tea seeds" and "red dates" are slightly less, with more than ten catties.

But... because of his lack of experience, Lu Yu's fuel consumption basically had to be discounted at this time.

"smell good…"

Dian Wei's nose is particularly sharp, and the smell is more delicious than dog meat, which is really unbearable.

Cao Mu muttered something in a low voice. "This Lu Yu... what tricks is he doing?"

Looking at the courtyard next door, Cao Mu just shook her head. She is a girl who has a beginning and an end in her work. Since she decided to learn forging, she must make the forging steel to the extreme...

Immediately she withdrew her mind. "Master Dian, the wind direction has not moved for a long time, and the reaction of the iron in the furnace seems to be a bit wrong..."

This sentence directly took Dian Wei back, including the thoughts of a group of craftsmen...

Only then did everyone realize that they were still making steel.

"Master Dian, masters, most of you also know that this high-quality iron is expensive and rare. We smelt one piece and one piece is missing, so...we still have to cherish it."

Uh…

This is undoubtedly a reminder to everyone.

No matter how fragrant the next door is, it has nothing to do with steelmaking. The waste of such an expensive iron material is wasteful.

"Miss Cao is talking about..." An old craftsman squatted down, withdrew his mind and once again devoted himself to observing the iron.

The others, including Dian Wei, also quickly returned to their posts.

"There is a white flame in the furnace, the iron is red in color, and some iron sheets are falling off... The pig iron is melting with the wrought iron and reacting."

A craftsman yelled, and after Cao Mu observed carefully, he picked up a pen and recorded them one by one.

Thanks to her being a woman, she is careful, what the craftsmen said was simple, but what she recorded was quite detailed——

——"Liquid wrought iron and pig iron melt, and the skin of the pig iron begins to fall off from the outside to the inside, producing white gas, and the temperature and state of the flame are milky white..."

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It is said that the aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, but the aroma of the pressed oil is no less than the aroma of wine.

"Kong Ming, did you see it? This is oil extraction!"

Lu Yu pointed to those... dripping oil that was being squeezed out of the wooden utensils, and reminded Zhuge Jun.

Zhuge Jun was stunned. He had only heard of boiling fish oil and frying oil over high fire...but it was the first time he had seen rapeseed oil squeezed with wooden equipment.

certainly…

In this pavilion, Zhuge Jun was not the only one who saw the extraction of vegetable oil for the first time.

But in one morning, the whole courtyard was full of people...

In addition to the servants of the Cai Mansion, Cai Zhaoji had also rushed here long ago, staring dumbfounded at the scented unknown liquid, besides Cai Zhaoji, there were also Xun Yu, Xiahou Dun, Cao Chun...they all came here after smelling the fragrance.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the entire east city of Chenliu County can smell the fragrance here. Out of curiosity, who would not want to come and see what Lu Gongcao is up to?
It's just that those who can enter Cai's mansion are very few after all!

"What are you doing? It smells so good?" Xiahou Dun, who came in a hurry, couldn't stand the smell, and asked hastily...

"Okay!" Lu Yu replied truthfully, as if feeling that the force was not enough, so he added another sentence. "The flax cake is like Kyoto, and the noodles are crispy and fragrant."

Huo... fuel tank?out?

Xiahou Dun scratched his head, wondering if he could speak human words.

Xun Yu on the side had a beard, and asked curiously, "This oil? What else can it do besides its fragrance?"

Xun Yu is very sensitive to scents. The so-called Xun Ling Liu Xiang, there are more than 30 kinds of spices in the sachet he carries...

But it seems that there is no one that can match the fragrance of this oil, especially the sesame oil... the fragrance is simply compelling!

Speaking of which, Xun Yu was going back to Juan City early this morning, but because of the scent, he came to Cai Mansion specially to take a peek.

Well this...

Lu Yu paused slightly, and blurted out subconsciously. "It can be eaten... fried vegetables, fried fish, fried meat!"

eat?Isn't it drinking?

In this era, there is no concept of frying, deep-frying, or pan-frying. Xun Yu subconsciously thinks that this thing is a liquid. How can it be described as "eating"?Should be like water to drink, to drink, right?
Before Xun Yu could continue speaking, Lu Yu's voice had already been heard.

"It's rare for you to come to me today, how about this, I'll show you off!"

Don't think that Lu Yu is extracting oil now, but in fact, he is preparing for the fried grasshoppers in the future. Of course... Besides, Lu Yu has another idea.

The so-called oil extraction, is the oil extracted by people with low EQ?A person with a high EQ extracts the sophistication of the world!

Lu Yu had an idea. He wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of frying grasshoppers to monopolize Lao Cao's oil workshop, and let everyone know that oil can fry grasshoppers, and grasshoppers can feed their stomachs!

If this step can be achieved, it will be easy to mobilize the army and civilians of the entire Yanzhou to catch locusts for the whole people.

Lu Yu has always been thinking about the so-called "June, seven states locust!"

You must know that the harm of locusts is very great, and the severe drought is approaching, unless they can be killed when they are still in the larvae stage, otherwise the number of locusts will be astonishing, and a hundred thousand ducks will be helpless.

Moreover, once the grown-up locusts gather, they will release the volatile compound "phenylacetonitrile" in their bodies, and the locusts will immediately convert "phenylacetonitrile" into the highly toxic compound "hydrocyanic acid" when they are attacked.

It can be said that when these locusts grow up and become a disaster, you don't want to eat them... It is also extremely difficult to drive them away.

The only way is to catch them while they are larvae or in their developmental stage, and fry them in one pot. Of course... if one pot can't fit them, then use two pots.

It's just that this matter... Lu Yu couldn't do it alone.

There must be some partners, and Xun Yu, Xiahou Dun, and Cao Chun, some of them have soldiers in their hands, and some have power in their hands, and the size and length are just right.

Speaking of which, as for the construction of the oil workshop and the sophistication of the world, Lu Yu is not short of the capital, mainly because he wants to use this opportunity to let Xiahoudun, Xun Yu, and Cao Chun also make a fortune...

There is a saying in the officialdom - you have what I have, and we can be friends. Without the bondage of interests, how... can we make the relationship between each other go further?

As for giving away some money, Lu Yu really didn't care, it was drizzle.

As long as everyone can work together to survive the locust plague, and even turn everyone into grasshoppers tied to the same boat, then everything will not be a problem.

It seems... Because of Lu Yu's words, the big guys are still a little surprised?
Show off?What is Lu Yishou?
What does Lu Yu want to show off?

Without waiting for them to think about it, Zhuge Jun directly handed Lu Yu a large iron pot...

That's right, it's a big iron pot!

According to historical records, there were no large iron pots in the Han Dynasty at all. The pots in these days are called "wok" or "kettle", which are used for steaming vegetables and cooking rice, and there is no concept of frying at all!
This big iron pot was forged by Lu Yu specially asked Dian Wei to help him a few days ago.

Of course, when the big iron pot came out, everyone present was taken aback.

"What is this?" Xiahoudun asked curiously. At first impression, he felt that the big iron pot was a shield.

Cough cough... Lu Yu knocked on the back of the lower iron pot, then grinned. "This thing is called a pot, and it's specially used for cooking. You'll know later what this thing can do!"

While talking, Lu Yu greeted Zhuge Jun, "Kong Ming, go and get the bacon and leeks I prepared."

Leek originated in Great China. "Shan Hai Jing" contains: There are many leeks in the mountains of Hebei and Shaanxi!
It can be seen that there have been leeks since a very early period, and bacon was all the rage during the Zhou Dynasty...

Today, in order to show the magical effect of this vegetable oil, I pulled these leeks...ah no, it is to pull these civil and military people into the pit, Lu Yu must show his cooking skills-stir-fried bacon with leeks!

Time to perform real techniques.

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　Today is Chapter 2, there are two more chapters to follow, although it is late, it will definitely arrive.

　　
　
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