The first assistant girl has space

Chapter 74 074 Wheat
"Then you have to go to the fields with us to collect food." Jiang Wenzhu said.

"Well, I'll go with you and pick ears of wheat in the back." Jiang Wenyan nodded with a smile, "Fourth sister, the wheat we burned last time was delicious, can we still cook it this time?"

He remembered that the last time when the wheat was still green and not yet ripe, he burned it in the ground, and the taste was particularly mellow, with an indescribable fragrance.

Because of the deep impression, after such a long time, he still remembers that incident and thinks about the taste at that time.

It's a pity that he only ate it once, and he didn't have the chance to eat it again. He always thought about the taste, and if he harvested the wheat tomorrow, he had to come back and eat a good meal.

Jiang Wenzhu said: "Tomorrow is talking about cooked wheat, which is different from the wheat you ate that day. Let me tell you, if you harvest it when it is green wheat, the grain production will be reduced by one-third to two-thirds , If it wasn’t for the bad harvest and insufficient food, no one would do this. I gave you a try last time, and I can’t do it in the future.”

Jiang Wenbao said: "Yes, little girl, I know. At noon on the day of hoeing, the sweat drips down the soil, who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard-won. Every grain is hard-won, and it cannot be wasted. We can no longer Eat the wheat like last time."

Jiang Wenyan nodded to show that he was educated, and asked, "Is there a big difference in taste between green wheat and cooked wheat?"

Why doesn't he have the good taste of burnt green wheat when he usually eats wheat?
But maybe he remembered it wrong, because he didn't know which of the food he ate was wheat.

Lin said: "Of course, there is a big difference between raw and cooked, green and yellow. When the wheat is brought back tomorrow and fried for you, you will understand."

"Then let's not eat green wheat anymore."

Kid Jiang Wenyan felt that he seemed to have done something wrong. Judging by what everyone said was so serious, then eating green wheat is a very serious wasteful behavior. Judging from the education he received since he was a child, not to waste is a kind of behavior that is deeply rooted in his bones. It made him feel quite guilty in retrospect.

"It's okay, I eat it once in a while, it's nothing, and I don't eat it often. You know, the growth habits and special properties of wheat at different times are also very good." Jiang Wenzhu said, "Besides, the amount of wheat grown in our family Not much, it is mainly used to brew barley wine, we can try green wheat and ripe wheat to see what is the difference between the brewed wine."

In fact, Jiang Wenzhu knew that green wheat could not make wine, but seeing how guilty Jiang Wenyan was, she had no choice but to come out and say these words to comfort him.

She brought up this topic mainly because she wanted to let Jiang Wenyan develop the habit of not wasting through this matter, let him know what losses would be incurred if he harvested the green wheat in advance, and let him understand the habit of growing and harvesting wheat, instead of letting him do it for this reason. Anxiety, guilt and self-blame.

"Does Fourth Sister want to make wine?" Jiang Wenyan widened his eyes and looked at Zhang Wenzhu happily, "Sister, you didn't make beer before, why did you suddenly think of making beer this year?"

Jiang Wenzhu said with a smile: "I just want to try it. We have grown a lot of wheat this year. I want to try the difference between wheat wine and fruit wine."

After coming to Yangzhou, in addition to making pickles and selling them, their latest business expansion is wine making, and they use fruit wine.

Just that solitude is a luxury, because there was no good way to make wine in ancient times.Therefore, the general wine is made of the same grain, and most of the wine produced is some low-quality wine. To be precise, it is something similar to sweet wine.

People in the modern world know sweet wine, that is, after the grain is cooked, let it cool down, then add distiller's koji and stir it, and wait for a few days to make sweet wine.

The rum made by ancient people is basically not much different from the rum made today.However, the high-concentration wine brewed in ancient times is very different from the present.

Due to the different methods of making wine, generally speaking, good wine in ancient times was processed and filtered from sweet wine, and then brewed through a series of procedures.

The ones that are well made are sake, and the ones that are poorly made are that kind of turbid wine.

Most of them are not high in alcohol, and the taste is not as mellow as modern wines.

To obtain high-quality wine, whether it is good-tasting sake or spirits, it will cost a lot of manpower, material resources and food, and the output is still low.

When the grain output is extremely low and people can't even eat enough to eat, it is not cost-effective for the country to use a large amount of grain to brew such low-yield wine.

As the ruling group of the country, neither the imperial court nor the emperor would encourage the folks to make a large amount of wine. They must first ensure that people can eat enough, and then enjoy it.

Although as the ruling class, the aristocracy pursues pleasure, they don't care whether the life of the people at the bottom is difficult, and they will naturally pursue what they should enjoy, but they also understand the principle of not being cautious, and they cannot force the people to have nothing to eat And full.All the things are used to make wine for them, so there are strict regulations on the production of wine.

If you want to make wine and release it, you must report to the government, and the government will send people to conduct spot checks from time to time, and high taxes will be charged for every jar of wine sold.

Of course, although the final tax is high, the wool comes from the sheep, and the wine is also very expensive. Compared with the high tax charged by selling cigarettes in modern times, the ancient wine is only charged five times the cost price, which is still very expensive. Earn money.

Because he uses fruit wine at home, he can take advantage of some loopholes to collect less tax. According to the laws of Daqing, the tax paid to him is four times the cost price.

At present, Jiang Wenzhu grew up with her grandmother, who is an ingenious person. She lives in the countryside, and she can basically make everything that is needed at home.

From sauerkraut, pickles, tofu, liqueur, brewing, sugar, handmade soap... She can basically do all the necessities of life, she can even weave, make clothes, and make shoes.

Jiang Wenzhu grew up with her, and learned many things from her. Basically, she has seen a lot, and she is quick to learn. Some of them are good at doing things. meeting.

She inherited many of her grandmother's skills, such as wine making and cooking, but she did not inherit the skills of making clothes and shoes.

It can be said that she has no talent in anything related to embroidery needles.

Grandma felt sorry for this, but she didn't feel sorry for herself.

Jiang Wenzhu opened a wine shop before, and brewed a lot of fruit wine, but never used grain to make wine. It was not cost-effective. The money spent on buying grain was different from buying fruit, and the brewed wine had to pay such a high price. Taxes are not cost-effective at all, so she has no interest in fiddling with them.

(End of this chapter)