Dinner was far away, but lunch was right in front of them.
There was still an hour left. Li Yi asked around and found out that they were having chicken stewed with mushrooms for lunch.
The mushrooms were real mushrooms, and the chicks were also real chicks and roosters.
This was just like giving birth to a boy or girl. There were quite a number of roosters.
Some time before Li Yi, there were people carrying baskets of chicks and ducks to sell.
They were very cute, but most of them were roosters and drakes.
As for why not all of them were male, it was because some of the chicks were not obvious.
When a flock of chickens did not need so many roosters, even if they hatched, they would have to raise them and then kill them.
Now, the mushroom stewed was a six-month-old rooster. The meat was tender.
"Uncle, this mushroom is the best? It tastes better than the monkey head. "Empress Wang finally had lunch and praised the mushroom.
She had eaten too many monkey head mushrooms, so she did not think it was precious.
Now, the chicken stewed was stewed with pine mushrooms bought from the north of Hebei Province. In theory, it was indeed more expensive than the artificially grown monkey head mushrooms.
Pine mushrooms could not be artificially grown. At most, they could only be artificially grown.
Li Longji ate a few mouthfuls of the mushroom and said to Li Yi, "We exchanged a large number of frogs and mushrooms from the Andong Protectorate. It cost a lot."
"It will be easier to know the specific situation over there with more communication. The Khitans have submitted to the Turks, and we have already given up the land of Xinluo. We can't just ignore it."
Li Yi explained the reason. In theory, that land belonged to the Tang dynasty, but it was all private trade.
Many of the Amur tiger, mink, bear, sika, and other things in the northeast were sold to other parts of the Tang dynasty.
The current Khitans were still not strong. After many battles, they surrendered, were killed, escaped, and made a comeback to establish the Liao Kingdom.
Aiya, these ethnic minorities were very tenacious.
"The nomads must be dealt with, otherwise too many people will die." Li Yi thought that the change of dynasty had wasted too much time.
"How to deal with it? We can't spare any troops. "Empress Wang knew about the situation over there.
The Andong Protectorate was said to be in Andong, but they moved away last year.
After the contraction, there was no more war. Everyone was waiting, and it was very peaceful.
Li Yi drank a mouthful of soup and said, "Now they don't have enough grain. The small areas where they grow grain can't even increase the yield per mu. They're using extensive farming."
"Yes, they're stupid." Empress Wang found something to be happy about.
"That's why I let them learn how to farm. After I'm done with the major matters this year, I'll see if I can get in touch with them in the spring to exchange local products and seeds with them."
Li Yi told him what he wanted to do.
"Now that they have rations, it's time for them to attack." Li Longji frowned.
The Khitans and Turks would fight when there was food, and they would also fight when there was nothing to eat.
Since they had rations, they naturally had to fight for land and population. In order to not starve to death, they came to fight for food.
"Third Brother, in fact, after they start farming, their soldier training will decrease. Most of them will have to become farmers.
Also, I taught them how to grow soybeans. The Tang dynasty needed soybean oil. Soybeans can't be their staple food. When the time comes, we'll use wheat to exchange for soybeans. "
Li Yi told Li Longji what crop to teach the Khitans to grow. Soybeans.
Soybeans could be grown by the river. After the soybeans were planted in the plowed land, the soybean seedlings could be planted in the ground to fertilize the land.
"What if they don't want to exchange?" Li Longji asked the key question. You want to exchange and they'll exchange? You want them to plant and they'll plant?
"Mirrors, toilet water, and soap. I only want soybeans. I won't exchange anything else." Li Yi proposed the luxury items.
He believed that the tribal leaders would like these things and scramble for them.
Li Longji pondered for a moment and said, "I'll tell Big Brother. You take out some mirrors first. We're relatives of the imperial family. We should contribute to the Tang dynasty."
Li Longji was going to give it a try to see if those people had a big demand for mirrors.
They stopped talking about the Khitans in the northeast for the time being. It would depend on the situation later.
The group continued to eat. Empress Wang was the first to resist the urge to eat a few more mouthfuls and put down her chopsticks.
She was only half full, so she picked up the spoon to drink the soup. She wanted to drink more soup to fill her stomach. This was fine.
"Go and see if they've left. The Western Turks have a strong smell. I'm annoyed. "Empress Wang found a reason to let the eunuch check.
The cub ran out and came back a moment later.
"They're eating. They eat too much. After eating, they even take a bath," the cub reported.
"Uncle, you're familiar with Wang Xing. Why don't you go to the Imperial Plantation later?" Empress Wang, who didn't want to be recognized, found another excuse.
"Okay." Li Yi didn't care. He had been to the Imperial Plantation twice and had never strolled inside.
After eating, everyone went directly to the Imperial Plantation. There was originally a ditch between the Imperial Plantation and Li Yi's Zhuangzi.
In summer, there was more water, and the ditch smelled.
Now, the ditch was filled in and four roads were built from Zhuangzi to the Imperial Plantation.
A large number of black fungus and Monkey's Head mushrooms were sent to be stored. Wang Xing falsified the accounts according to Li Yi's advice.
Most of the things were placed in Li Yi's Zhuangzi, and a small part was sent up.
This part was sold to Earthly Paradise, and then Li Longji gave it to people.
It couldn't be bought outside at all. Only the wild ones picked by others would appear in the East Market.
When the group of people went over, the villagers of the Imperial Plantation saw them. They didn't know Li Longji and Empress Wang, so they greeted Li Yi when they saw him.
After greeting, they turned around and went back to work.
There was a big shed, and someone was boiling water. They wrapped the duck eggs together with the ashes and put them into a jar.
Li Longji had never seen such a way to preserve duck eggs. He turned to look at Li Yi.
"Quick lime, a lot of boiling water with ashes, mixed with ashes and mud, chaff, salt, and a little wine when mixing with mud.
At a certain temperature, the egg white in the egg will harden and change at the same time.
To make this process faster and more stable, you need to add fried lead powder or something made by mixing the distilled gall alum and copper.
But I don't want to use these two things, so I added some wine. The solidification effect is not very good, but it can still be made.
The modified egg has a unique taste and can be preserved longer than the salted egg, especially in the jar. "
Li Yi said that the century eggs, which didn't react with metal ions, had poor taste and unstable molding time.
Copper sulfate was much better than lead, but sulfate and copper were not cheap. Sulfate could be used to make a lot of things.
Li Yi didn't add soda ash. It was not easy to get soda ash, so he didn't want to waste it.
Anyway, the people of the Tang dynasty had never eaten authentic century eggs. The ones he made were the best.
"Otherwise, how can the eggs be preserved?" Empress Wang blinked and asked. She really didn't know.
"Put it in rice husks, chaff, or grains. Sand and ashes are also fine."
Li Yi knew very well about this. Zhuangzi had a lot of eggs, so he couldn't keep them without thinking of a way.
The price of tea eggs had dropped. They were a little more expensive than regular eggs. Businessmen came over and bought them in large quantities before selling them.
As for the other pickled and salted eggs and hatched poultry, Zhuangzi ate them himself.
Li Yi took out the recipe for century eggs. This thing actually still contained lead.
So be it. He had eaten a lot of century eggs made with huangdan powder.
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