Chapter 513: method of making salt

Chapter 513: method of making salt

Datang plane.

The people near Chang'an have been really happy recently, because the government has announced the practice of tofu. It is indeed very tiring to make tofu, but what is not tiring for ordinary people?

It is already a very good thing to be able to make tofu from soybeans that are not very tasty. Tofu is used to stew fish, or stewed with green vegetables, it is very delicious.

In particular, you can drink soy milk. You can also add sugar if you have the conditions. You can drink it with a little salt if you don't have the conditions. I heard that soy milk is very nourishing. For poor people, it is already a good thing. Anything that can nourish the body is a good thing.

In addition to tofu, yuba, bean curd and other ingredients have appeared in several other places, and the prices are relatively cheap. Of course, there are bean sprouts, not only soybean sprouts, but also mung bean sprouts, black bean sprouts, and so on.

There are also pea sprouts, but more soy bean sprouts.

Soybeans can also be planted on fertile land, and soybeans do not pick the ground like other crops, so there are still quite a lot of soybeans.

Li Shimin set up an official organization to extract oil from soybeans. He also planted the peanuts and rapeseed seeds he bought before, and when he harvested the peanut oil and rapeseed oil later, this official organization also extracted the oil and sold it.

Because there are so many foods made of soybeans on the market now, there is a lot of excitement, and the dregs of tofu can also be used to make dregs cakes. As for the oil for frying the okara cake, I bought the soybean oil sold by the official organization.

"Aye, Aye—"

While Li Shimin and Li Chengqian were busy sorting out the books about clothing, food, housing and transportation that Li Chengqian had bought before, Li Tai, who was sorting out together, discovered a natural phenomenon about salt in the book.

"Aye, look, the salt mentioned in this book can be dried, and the salt is dried with sea water." Li Tai spread out the book and let Li Shimin read what it said, and said happily, "Aye, if the sea water is really If it can be dried into salt, then are we better off?"

Although Li Tai is only eight years old, it does not mean that he does not understand anything. Royal children have never been simple children. Although Li Tai is relatively rich in life, he still knows how rare things like salt are.

Unexpectedly, there is salt in the book, which really surprised Li Tai.

"What did you say? Salt drying?" Li Shimin was also very pleasantly surprised, and leaned over to look at the book about drying salt in Li Tai's hand.

This book on food not only talks about how sea salt should be dried, but also how to extract well salt, lake salt, and mineral salt.

The best quality of salt is probably green salt, but green salt is not ready-made salt, and the salt from Baihuahua is what Li Shimin likes.

Both Li Shimin and Li Chengqian have been to Xiayue grocery store, and they have both bought salt, so after seeing Baihuahua's salt, they like it very much, and they want to know how this salt comes from.

Unexpectedly, there are still various salt extractions in this book, not only ordinary salt, but also a pink rose salt introduced above.

The rose salt was in the Western Regions, which made Li Shimin very jealous, and wanted to rob the Rose Salt Mine in the Western Regions. But Li Shimin was just on impulse, and quickly calmed down.

Now is not a good time to fight. When he grows high-yield grains, the grain reserves are high, and his troops are strong, he can fight over it.

"This recipe for making salt is good." Li Shimin said happily, "Our blue sparrows are very capable, and it's very good to be able to find recipes about salt in so many books."

"Hehe..." Li Tai was very happy after receiving Li Shimin's compliment, and looked at Li Chengqian with pride.

Li Chengqian was too lazy to care about him, maybe he would have been jealous of his younger brother being more loved by his parents, but now Li Chengqian is still a little envious, but not so jealous.

What's more, he has too many younger brothers and sisters. If they are all jealous, can he be jealous? Even if he is the younger brother and sister of a compatriot, he is not the only one Li Tai, his mother still has another in her belly.

Li Chengqian seriously continued to organize other things. Empress Zhangsun and Li Lizhi and their mother and daughter read books on "clothing", which are the raw materials of cotton, cotton, wool, linen, etc., and the production of fabrics, etc. and so on.

"Auntie, these clothes look good." Li Lizhi looked at the pictures of the clothes in the book and said, it's no problem for girls to like beautiful clothes and jewelry, and Li Lizhi also likes them very much.

"It's really beautiful." Queen Changsun nodded. I didn't expect these fabrics to be able to do this? In this way, perhaps most ordinary people can afford to wear good clothes.

It turns out that linen can still do this, and dyeing and tailoring can still be done like this? Empress Zhangsun looked very fond of it and was very happy.

Empress Changsun's health was a little bad at first, but since she met Xia Yue grocery store and bought a lot of pills there, she even got a prescription for medicinal food from the boss. Empress Changsun's health has gotten better and better.

The medicated recipes that the boss Chen Xiayue sold to them are really very effective, not only Empress Changsun, who is not in good health, can eat it, but also Li Shimin, the emperor who fought all the year round.

And their children can also eat, and they can eat medicated diet to keep fit even if they are not sick. Originally, these medicinal diet recipes given by Chen Xiayue contained recipes for strengthening the body. After eating, the body could get better and better.

Empress Changsun's health is good, which means that she can live a long time and can bless her children. In addition, seeing so many things that are good for Datang, and also for her husband, she is even more happy.

"Erlang, there are too many of these things, and the fabrics alone require a lot of research." Empress Zhangsun looked at Li Shimin and said, "Why don't you let the sisters in the harem study together? There are quite a lot of people in the palace. , there should be a lot of capable people, for example, let's study these fabrics, dyeing and other things together?"

Empress Zhangsun really simply felt that the people in the harem were very idle. She, the queen, needed to handle palace affairs. After she became pregnant, she gave some palace affairs to concubines above the concubine rank. But more concubines in the harem have nothing to do, even if they need to take care of children, they don't need to do it themselves, so everyone is quite idle.

There is only one Li Shimin, and most of the time Li Shimin stays in the Lizheng Palace to accompany the Empress Changsun, and he spends more time dealing with government affairs. Among the concubines in the harem, not many people have the opportunity to meet Li Shimin.

Since they have nothing to do, why not make the most of them?

This is the idea that Queen Changsun has instilled in Chen Xiayue several times when she contacts Chen Xiayue. Women in the harem are too busy to have all kinds of conflicts. Even because Empress Changsun is capable, Li Shimin is also an emperor who respects the empress, so palace fights are not that powerful in Li Shimin's harem.

But Empress Changsun was still persuaded by what Chen Xiayue said. The emperor raised so many concubines but couldn't sleep, so find something else to do for them so that they can reflect their own value, otherwise they will spend money to support so many concubines in vain. Concubine, she was also very heartbroken when she looked at the accounts.