Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 121 Eat pigs with you!

Recently, Bai Tu finally pointed out the "gathering pig" - it is a bit unprofessional, mainly because the technologies related to "real industry" are a bit laborious and waste money. Although the rewards are huge, before the drought can be overcome, Bai Tu just wants to make soy sauce. .

Speaking of soy sauce, "jiang" has already appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty, but it was fermented from meat and was something only nobles could enjoy. The technology of fermenting soybeans was already available in the Han Dynasty, so it can also be seen among the people, called "doujiang". "Qing", similar to soy sauce.

just the smell...

There are all kinds of strange things, and the various recipes of "Doujiang Qing" are still kept secret. In order to test the pork, Bai Tu specially asked the Lu family, Zhang family, and Yu family for some cooks with ancestral skills. The taste of the sauce ……Very complicated!

Especially for the cook of the Lu family, the so-called craftsmanship passed down from the pre-Qin period - fermenting the beef mash and then adding cow blood... It really changed Baitu's view on soy sauce.

And if there is soy sauce, there will naturally be "braised pork", but it is not called this name now.

In the "Qi Min Yao Shu" in the early Southern and Northern Dynasties, the method of braised pork is clearly recorded. It is as heroic as the current farming technology. Cut a pig into four large pieces and boil it in a pot. After the blood is boiled, take it out and cut it into small pieces. Change the water and cook again - cycle several times, finally add the sauce, cook until it turns amber, and it's done.

Before the technology of grooming pigs existed, this should be regarded as the meat that ordinary people could eat during good times and big days.

Let alone a wealthy family, even the children of poor families would not eat it openly. No matter official rewards or prestigious families, they would not use pork as gifts - shabby.

Bai Tu made a special trip to visit Gan Ning. When no outsiders were around, Gan Ning didn't hide his temper at all... In fact, when outsiders were around, he only slightly hid it.

For example, no matter how big the meeting was, Gan Ning dared to walk barefoot into the central hall of the Prefecture Mufu. According to the etiquette at this time, it is necessary to take off your shoes when entering the house, but can't you wear socks once?

Moreover, he never picked up the jingling bells on his body. As the high ritual wine of the Ministry of Rites, Hua Xin had criticized him before the meeting in the Prefectural Mufu. As a result, Gan Ning raised his buttocks and did it with his fingers on the cushion. He made a gesture of cutting off the mat, and winked and said: "Don't Mr. Hua just like to watch the excitement? Ning's bell is not lively enough?"

Hua Xin was so angry that he almost ran away...

At this time, Bai Tu saw Gan Ning glance at him unhappily and showed no intention of greeting his "lord". Bai Tu enlightened him and said, "Xing Ba, be happy. We have to come to the Prefectural Mufu to eat meat in the evening!"

When Gan Ning heard this, he became even more angry: "I tell you! Even if I, Gan Ning, starve to death, die in Jinling, jump from the city tower, I will not eat cheap meat!"

Regarding Bai Tu's plan to treat everyone to a pork feast on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Gan Ning was not the only one who secretly felt uncomfortable. However, not only Yu Fan and Zhang Zhao, but even the old man Lu Kang could understand this. "Baigong wants to put on a show and enjoy the people together."

On this basis, they can overcome their discomfort, put on a show to earn their prestige, and just grit their teeth and pass it!

However, Gan Ning was different. Although he was also from a noble family, but... Gan Ning's emotional state gave the old men of the Gan family in Shu County headaches and scratches their hearts. In addition, for Gan Ning, life is the most important thing in life. The meaning is just to show off, to pretend to be "beep", and let him eat "cheap meat", he really would rather die than surrender!

"Let's not talk about pork for now, let's talk about business." Bai Tu felt that pork was business, but it had little to do with Gan Ning. He could just be responsible for eating it. What he wanted to talk to him now required him to do it. things.

When Gan Ning heard that something serious was going on, his attitude became a little better...

"I'm not going to give the Shu Brocade craftsmanship to you, but I'm going to give it to you as a family business," Bai Tu said.

This Shu brocade craft is the "reward" Gan Ning needs, but the reward Bai Tu originally promised him was Gan Ning's latest Shu brocade craft to enjoy forever. The first batch of Shu brocade produced by any new Shu brocade craft must be Gan Ning's. Ning's.

Bai Tu also considered at the beginning that the government-run "Jiangdong Brocade" would be used to raise funds. Although the craftsmanship was handed over to Gan Ning, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Gan Ning were required to cooperate to build an industrial chain in Kuaiji and southern Wu County.

But later I discovered that there were too many things that I could raise funds for...

Therefore, as the "veteran" who initially followed him, Bai Tu decided to gradually hand over this skill that could be passed down to his family to Gan Ning as the foundation for Gan's future career.

When Gan Ning heard this, he looked at Bai Tu in surprise. Gan Ning knew very well how much profit this concession would bring - Gan Ning might be slower in calculating others, but his family was involved in the Shu Brocade business in Shu County. , and it's the innocent kind!

The craftsmanship that Bai Tu gave him was from the Tang Dynasty. This was done to allow the craftsmen to gradually grow. Otherwise, the span would be too great and it would be easy to go astray.

The prosperous and graceful Tang Dynasty was the next major development of luxury goods such as Shu brocade...

"It's not completely free of charge. This is the new commercial tax standard formulated by the Prefectural Mufu Government. It may be revised in the future, but the general framework is definitely like this... In addition, I am giving this craft to you, not to you Gan family. If Gan family If you want to settle in Jiangdong, I welcome you, but this business cannot enter Shu earlier than me," Bai Tu said.

In other words, this craft Baitu gave to Gan Ning, and there may even be upgraded crafts in the future, but the tax must be produced in Jiangdong - or in other words, it must be produced within Baitu's territory.

Shu County is a silk producing area, and so is Jiangdong!
It's just that the silk weaving industry in Jiangdong developed on a large scale after the Eastern Jin Dynasty moved its capital to Jiankang, which is now Jinling.

However, in terms of climate, Jiangdong also had the foundation for the development of the silk weaving industry. In later generations, Jiangdong's textile industry was its strong point, and most silk quilts were produced here.

At the same time, after the new commercial tax comes out, it is inevitable that there will be a running-in period, and Gan Ning will have to charge on another battlefield at that time, standing clearly on the side of the State Shepherd's Mansion!
This decision is the result of Bai Tu's careful consideration...

There are too many things that can make money in Bai Tu's hands, and it is unrealistic to keep everything in his own hands. It is better to transfer some of them that are not core to people he trusts, or even to aristocratic families.

Not only can you collect taxes and even buy shares, but you can also act as a "glue".

For example, Lu family, Yu family, Zhang family... Bai Tu is also observing which technology they are suitable for.

Of course, there is a difference between "trust" and "trust".

Not to mention Shu brocade, shipbuilding technology basically refers to the level of the middle and late Soochow. Regardless of the current year, it is not very high, but you must know that during the Soochow period, Jiangdong's ships and navigation technology were developing rapidly.

As for more advanced shipbuilding technology, although Baitu is not without it, firstly, shipwrights and shipwrights must consider that they cannot adapt to a large technological span. Secondly, seagoing ships with truly modern craftsmanship also require more supporting technologies. This It cannot be gathered together in a short period of time.

The skills of the middle and late Eastern Wu Dynasty alone were enough to support Bai Tu to find Yizhou and travel north to Liaodong by sea.

It was also out of trust that Gan Ning was able to hand over the matter of building a sea-going ship to Gan Ning.

After Gan Ning heard that Bai Tu had given him the Shu brocade craftsmanship as the foundation of his career, his face immediately brightened, and he finally said: "Tonight... I will eat pig with you!"

(End of this chapter)