"Let's eat cherry cakes! Let's eat cherry cakes!" The children in Zhuangzi shouted as they went to get cherry cakes.
Li Yi didn't plant any cherries in Zhuangzi. There were many in the Imperial Plantation in the north.
Wang Xing asked someone to pick them and send them to the Li Family Zhuangzi.
Li Yi asked someone to push the fruit out, and the remaining fruit juice was put into a box. After a while, it would become jelly.
The box was soaked in well water. It tasted sweet and sour.
Wang Xing followed and watched the children eat. He sighed, "Cherries ripen early in the north. It's a pity that they are hard to preserve."
"They can be made into preserved and dried fruits." Li Yi didn't want to eat cherries.
Cherries were small and couldn't be made into dried cherries. When he was young, he ate them with the pits.
Later on, there were big cherries. In order to make them look more noble, cherry sellers insisted on calling them cherries.
Just like the big red apples in California, apples weren't called apples, but snake fruits.
China's cherries were small and hard to eat.
"Move the cherry trees to the greenhouse. We might be able to eat cherries in the winter." Wang Xing thought of out of season vegetables.
"Yes, we need more light. We can use light bulbs, candles, or oil lamps. We need to ventilate the greenhouse."
Li Yi decided to use light bulbs this year. He didn't want to sell them to others. Glass was very expensive.
He sold a few previously, but they were burnt. Those people didn't bring them back to replace them. They only left a glass bulb.
"This year, we will plant cherries in the big greenhouse. The Imperial Plantation will also plant cherries. How many months will it take to transplant them?" Wang Xing decided to do something big.
"Spring is the best." Li Yi said and suddenly laughed.
"The Imperial Plantation has a lot of cherry trees. Can't you just put the greenhouse on top of them?"
Li Yi found that it was better to control the greenhouse than to transplant the cherries.
Wang Xing clapped his hands, "That's right. Build a greenhouse around the cherry trees. Then fertilize them and take care of them.
You give me the light bulbs. If they break, we can replace them. I will prepare the materials and manpower to generate electricity.
When there are cherries in the winter, I will give you some … some. The Imperial Plantation will give priority to the palace. "
"There's no shortage of cherry trees in the palace. You can also build a greenhouse. Give me the ones in the Imperial Plantation, and I'll provide the light bulbs in the palace." Li Yi changed his approach.
"Alright, I'll do it." Wang Xing thought it was feasible.
"This year, there will be twenty counties. In each county, I will erect five mu of greenhouses for the people to see.
Last year, only three places had greenhouses. The people did not see them with their own eyes, so they did not dare to invest money and manpower.
Give them an example. Only when they realize that they can make money will they be willing to follow suit. "
Li Yi talked about his arrangements. There were students in all twenty counties, so it would be easier to take care of them.
"Some rich families have already made preparations. The merchants are very daring. This year, when the lychees come down, you can eat dried lychees. "
When Wang Xing said that someone wanted to learn from him, he changed the topic and started to crave for lychees.
They had lychees now, but unfortunately, they couldn't deliver them.
"Looking back at Chang 'an, the embroidery piles are piled up, and the thousands of gates on the mountaintop open one after another. Riding in the red dust, the concubine smiles, no one knows it's Lychee. "Li Yi recited.
"Brother Yi, what are you talking about?" Wang Xing knew how to write lychees and deliver them to the Chang 'an Palace. Who is the concubine?
"Nothing. I suddenly remembered how to preserve the cherries and lychees. I want to make them into canned food."
Li Yi found a way to preserve them.
"Canned food?" Wang Xing repeated.
"Put the meat and flour, add salt and distilled yeast in a jar and seal it. Then, put it under the sun for fourteen days. When it comes out, it will be canned meat paste. It's written in the Qi Min Key Technique."
Li Yi said.
The Qi Min Key Technique also had a method to make Ao meat. Put the meat in a pot, add seasoning and water, and cover it.
Put it on the fire to cook. When the meat is cooked, the water will run out. It can be preserved for a while.
Wang Xing could only nod. He couldn't memorize the Qi Min Key Technique.
"I want to make porcelain. The mouth of the bottle should be small so that it can be used to plug the cork.
When it's done, put the cherries in, add sugar and water, and steam them in a pot. When it's almost done, immediately plug the cork.
Then, seal it with wax or oil paper and mud. It can be preserved for a long time. But the jar and cork have to be steamed first to sterilize it. "
Li Yi decided to make canned food. He didn't use glass bottles but porcelain.
He would sell it to Heavenly Earth and his Zhuangzi.
"Lychees and longan are also fine. Can this method be passed down? Collect the lychees locally. When the longan ripens, do the same. "
Wang Xing was still thinking about the lychees. Even if he couldn't eat the fresh ones, he could eat a canned one.
"But, if it's stored for a short period of time, eat it when it's sent from there. Use a bamboo container." Li Yi gave another idea.
The bamboo container wasn't sealed well enough. It would seep in slowly.
Li Yi wrote down the process and gave a copy to Wang Xing. He asked him to find the higher-ups.
He went to the workshop, the ceramic workshop, and gave the blueprint. The people in the workshop began to make blanks and prepare to burn porcelain.
Wang Xing hurried back to the palace. He didn't look for Gao Lishi, but Yang Sixu.
Yang Sixu didn't care about him. He avoided Yang Sixu because he wanted to create conflict between Yang Sixu and Gao Lishi.
Yang Sixu took the item and thought about it. He quickly sent it to Li Longji.
The three prime ministers were present. Yang Sixu glanced at Gao Lishi.
He passed the item to him. "The Li Family Zhuangzi came up with a new way to preserve steamed fruits."
After giving and speaking, he returned to his place.
Yao Chong and the other two looked at the item in Gao Lishi's hand at the same time. They also looked at Li Longji.
"Let's show it to you first." Li Longji wasn't in a hurry.
Gao Lishi sent it over. The three of them gathered together.
The steps were simple. Make a porcelain with a big belly and a small mouth, prepare the cork, and prepare the fruit to be put in.
Steam the porcelain and cork in a large pot. At the same time, deal with the fruit. Clean it and remove the core.
Then put the fruit in. It's best to add boiling water and sugar.
If there's no other sugar, the fruit sugar can be boiled and put in.
Continue to steam. After boiling, steam for another fifteen minutes. Then, open the lid and stuff the cork in as fast as possible. The outside is sealed again.
It was written: According to this method, the fruit can be preserved for at least six months, or at most a few years. The meat can also be made according to this method.
The three of them passed the paper to Li Longji. After Li Longji finished reading, Zhang Shuo said, "It can be given to the soldiers at the frontlines."
"Wouldn't it be better for the soldiers at the frontlines to send dried fruits?" Yao Chong, the Crape Myrtle Commandant and Minister of War, spoke up.
"Exactly." Lu Huaishen supported Yao Chong. "If Baggage can transport jars, why not send more food and dried meat?"
Li Longji thought for a moment. "It's to eat relatively fresh fruit. Brother Yi has a method to make dried meat.
Dried meat is a good thing. It's even better than dried meat. It can be preserved for a long time and is easy to eat.
It's easy to eat dried and chewed. It tastes good when cooked with rice. It can even be thrown into water to make soup.
At the border between Tubo and the Tujue, the main problem is transportation. How much food does one have to eat on the way over? "
Li Longji was worried about the consumption of food.
The soldiers there ate the food transported from Shu. If they wanted to transport the food here, they had to go through the Yangtze River to reach Shu.
Then, they had to transport by land from Shu. There were many mountains in Shu, so they had to eat a lot of food along the way.
"Ask Li Yi if there's any way to send food over in the blink of an eye." Yao Chong suddenly said.
Everyone looked at him together with a questioning look in their eyes.
"I'm just asking, just in case." Yao Chong was a little scared by the stares, so he explained in a low voice.
"Send Li Yi over. I believe he can solve a lot of problems." Zhang Shuo added.
"Everyone, please go back." Li Longji did not want to talk anymore.
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