A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 342 Yulin
In the morning, pickled sour cabbage is added to the bottom of sesame oil residue, and millet and red rice are added to make a pot of sesame soup rice, which is salty and sour, and sour and sweet.

"I didn't know that this oil residue base could be made into such an appetizing snack."

Cheng Chu filled a big bowl silently, and the sesame soup rice just out of the pot was a bit hot, he turned the bowl and sucked it along the side, eating with relish.

At this time, it was already winter, and Cheng Chumo had lost a lot of weight, but he was a little stronger.

"Hurry up and eat the frozen mutton."

Wu Huaiyu was also carrying a bowl of sesame soup rice, but his bowl was much smaller than Cheng Chumo's, he was a bowl.

When the weather is cold and there is less grass along the road, it is more difficult to drive live sheep to Guanzhong. At this time, trafficking frozen mutton has become the main method.

Previously, a large number of sheep were transported from the grasslands to Yulin City, Xiazhou. Excluding those that had already been transported away, a large number of sheep were also accumulated. After a snowstorm, the fat of these sheep would not stop losing, and they had to be slaughtered as soon as possible.

Now Yulin Bianshi is also known as the Sheep Market, and sheep slaughter starts at dawn every day, and a large number of people are recruited from nearby to slaughter sheep and divide them.

After finishing the appetizing sesame soup rice, the two wiped their mouths and went to Yangshi.

The market is very busy.

The sheep bleat non-stop.

One sheep after another is caught and slaughtered, then skinned, head and hooves removed, and the five internal organs are removed. In the end, only two meat boards are left. The bones have to be removed, and then rolled into meat rolls. At night, the meat is placed on the mat. , After freezing overnight, put the meat in the freezer.

This kind of icehouse is built with wooden planks around the roof, pour cold water on the floor of the room, put ice cubes on it, take it out from the icehouse and wrap it up when it is transported and sold, and keep the mutton fresh without letting it ventilate. Waiting to be transported to Guanzhong Chang'an and other places for sale.

Now a large number of slaughterhouses in the market have already become an assembly line operation, slaughtering, skinning, head removal, hooves removal, internal organs removal, deboning, meat rolling...

A fresh lamb quickly turned into two meat rolls in the ice room.

Each sheep leaves a lot of haggis.

These things must not be wasted.

First, the lamb tripe is cleaned and processed, then the minced meat from the mutton roll is wrapped in it, a little salt is added, and then tied with a thread, it can be put in the ice room overnight, and then sold out.

"Why is it all wrapped in minced meat, and there are still some broken bones?" Cheng Chumo watched a group of women skillfully operate, and was a little surprised by the little belly meat.

One catty for the big one, one half catty for the medium one, and four for the smaller one.

But without exception, the package is all minced meat and some bones.

"All the good meat is made into mutton rolls," Wu Huaiyu pointed to the baskets of minced meat, "Actually, these meats are still good meat, they are just removed during deboning.

The meat with lamb belly was originally to get rid of these minced meat.

Of course, morel and meat are actually a good combination.

In fact, herdsmen sometimes make belly meat, but usually they don’t make such a small one. They just wrap a lot of meat and bones in the whole lamb belly, add salt, and then tie it tightly with red willow branches, and then plug it in. Root the reed pipe for exhaust, and it is ready to cook.

There are many women in the workshop, and they are as busy as the men.

Men do heavy work such as slaughtering, cutting, and transporting, while women are responsible for deboning, subdividing, and packaging.

In these crude workshops, there are even many half-grown children and some elderly people working.

These people are not slaves, but the people nearby.

Yulin Bianshi, Huaiyu's Xiazhou Governor's Mansion, is responsible for recruiting people from the surrounding area to work, round-trip transportation, payment of wages, providing board and lodging, etc. At the same time, it signs employment contracts with all workshops in the Bianshi that need to employ people, and provides labor dispatch.

This mode of labor delivery is more efficient than border market merchants recruiting people themselves, and secondly, it can better protect the rights and interests of the people.

After all, the border market was raised in a short period of time. Many workshops and businesses are newly built, and many of them are intensively employing people. It is not easy to recruit enough people at a time. It is faster and more efficient for the government to come forward, and it can also play a better role in guaranteeing.

Although there are nine major guilds such as sheep grain, cloth and tea in the border market, the guilds only belong to the chamber of commerce, and in some respects they are definitely not as good as the official ones.

"How are they paid?"

Cheng Chumo looked at these women very hard, their hands were cracked and their faces were cracked in the cold, but they didn't stop for a moment.

"It's okay. They are working here now. It's a little bit hard and tiring, but after this season, it can compare with the income of women who grow mulberry and silkworms at home in Shangguan for a year,"

This income is actually not high, but in the eyes of these working women, the wages are already high enough, especially for them, the people in the remote frontier, who have just experienced more than ten years of hard life and suffered a change of dynasty. Many people are having their toughest days.

Now I can come to make money, even earn not low wages, and I am not afraid of being a little bit tired.

Cheng Chumo asked some women, and their answers were quite satisfactory, especially because they were organized by the government, and the wages were paid to the government by the workshop, and then the government paid them, so the workshop did not care about the money owed, and paid it every ten days Salary, this is something that no one dared to believe when they came here.

This is half the salary and half the food, and everyone is very satisfied.

Everyone is not afraid of hardship or tiredness, but they are afraid that it will be hard and tiring without rewards. They even hope that they can continue to do such a good job like now.

noon.

Wu Huaiyu took Cheng Chumo and others to eat at a slaughterhouse of the Wu family.

The food is also simple. The fresh lamb meat is chopped into small pieces with the bones, wrapped in a complete lamb belly, added a little green salt, moistened with Yulin River water, sealed the lamb belly mouth with red willow branches, and then inserted the hollow The reed stalks are exhausted to prevent the tripe from bursting when heated.

Then spread the burnt charcoal evenly in the yellow sand, and then completely bury the belly meat in the roasted yellow sand, leaving only the reed stalks exposed for exhaust. It takes about an hour and a half to bake.

This kind of grilled belly meat is more delicious and troublesome than the belly meat cooked directly in the pot.

When the belly meat is dug out from the sand and cut open, the aroma inside immediately overflows.

The mutton and mutton bones are extremely fresh and tender, juicy and tender, without any firewood.

Very strong fragrance.

Cheng Chumo waited until he was eating and sucked his fingers.

In addition, I also made some small belly meat for domestic sale, which was cooked in two ways, one was directly stewed in a casserole, and the other was slowly simmered over a charcoal fire in a crock pot.

Both are also very good.

That kind of four per catty, one is just four taels, Cheng Chumo took a big mouthful of one, and the bite was bursting with juice.

There are not too many seasonings, and the ingredients are simple, but the ingredients are fresh and clean, and simple methods can also make delicious food.

"This stuff looks like scraps of meat, but I didn't expect it to be so delicious in a pack of lamb belly. It feels like meat when you bite into it, and it doesn't feel like it's broken meat and bones."

"Needless to say, the chopped meat is not small."

Cheng Chumo was very satisfied with the small mutton stuffed with meat one bite at a time. The sheep business in the border market has also become more optimistic. He thought it was cold and the sheep could not be sold. Instead, he sold frozen mutton after slaughtering. If it is not easy to do, the border market will be affected.

But in the past few days, I found out that Wu Huaiyu still has so many things, such as mutton rolls, lamb belly buns, mutton dumplings, frozen haggis, etc., a large number of hot sheep accumulated in Yulin in the early stage, quickly turned into frozen sheep, and shipped to Guanzhong Chang'an is even faster.

Who would have thought that the sheep sold by the Turks could be transported to Chang'an without even being wasted in the water after being slaughtered in Yulin?
Naturally, the aristocrats didn't bother to eat sheep's offal, but for many ordinary people in Chang'an, for those traffickers and pawns, it was a good thing in winter.

After a large number of sheep were slaughtered, a large amount of sheepskins were accumulated here, which gave birth to a large number of new sheepskin processing workshops, and lamb wine was even brewed here.

Not to mention wool textiles, handmade wool carpets, etc.

Prosperity of one industry leads to prosperity of all industries.

Cheng Chumo, the governor of Yinzhou, followed Wu Huaiyu, the governor, every day, and now he admired Wu Huaiyu, the former younger brother. When he went to Longyou together, although he didn't put on airs at that time, he didn't think Wu Huaiyu had such a thing. general skill.

Even in the Battle of Longxi City, Wu Huaiyu desperately saved him, but he just thought this guy was pretty good, but now, he felt that there was really a gap between him and Wu Huaiyu.

The gap is still not small.

Wherever they go, they can do something quickly, whether it's inspecting schools and medical affairs, leading troops to fight, or governing the local area.

Even engage in economic and people's livelihood.

Very thoughtful and well done.

Of course, he also admires another aspect of Wu Huaiyu, which is that this guy never delays both public and private affairs.Just like here, not only did he have impressive political achievements, but he also did little to benefit the Wu family.

Not to mention that forty manors have been set up, in addition, the slave hunting team, the sheep trading team, and even the trading camel team going north to the Turks, and the slaughtering workshops, leather workshops, and even saltworks, copper mines, and iron mines built here. , Carboniferous mines, stone resin mines, halite mines, etc. are all involved.

His father, Lao Cheng, probably has to bow down to the ability to make money while taking care of public and private interests.

Fortunately, Wu Huaiyu is still very loyal as before. After he came, as long as he was willing to participate, he was pulled along.

"Recently the Turkic people are busy trading with us, and there is no threat of harassment. When will we leave for Beijing Chaoji?" Cheng Chumo asked.

"It's the second day of November. Let's leave later on the scheduled day. This winter is going to be cold again. Let's try our best to make arrangements before we leave."

The Turkic Jieli Khan has not yet recovered from the white disaster last year, especially the Mobei Tiele people, led by the ambitious leader of the Xue Yantuo tribe who moved to the east, rebelled very strongly. They were canonized by the Emperor Tang, This time the ministries were very united, without any fear.

The Turkic Khanate's Yugushe and Tuoshi in Mobei were enfeoffed and guarded for a long time. As a result, they were unable to suppress the Tiele people for a long time.

However, Tuli Khan, who led Xiqi and others in the eastern part of the Khanate, and Yushe Shemomo in Hetao, and the Tunisian vassal in Shabo, northwest of Hetao, also played with Jieli. If you don't listen to Xuan's set, you're flirting with the Tang Dynasty. The border trade is booming, and you won't hand over the money you make to Khan Ting.

Although Xieli is extremely dissatisfied with Tang's many actions, he can't take care of it for the time being.

On the whole, the border situation is still very good for the Tang Dynasty. Yuan Junzhang, who was on behalf of the Northern Datong, led his troops to surrender. The Tang Dynasty has restored Yunzhou, and then Wu Huaiyu and the others destroyed Shuofang Liangshidu and restored Xiasui Yinzhou.

Sha Boshe, Yu Sheshe, and Tuli Khan who were next to the Tang Dynasty are now in harmony with Tang You.

As the governor of the frontier, Wu Huaiyu can enter the Beijing court with peace of mind.

"Well, then I'll hurry up and prepare more pork belly and bring them back to Beijing together." Cheng Chumo never forgot the pork belly.

"You should bring back more mutton rolls. Then I will give you a few copper hot pots and teach you how to cook mutton. I will never forget it."

"Don't do it next time, how about we cook lamb in hot pot at night? I've heard that you made a copper hot pot, but I haven't tried it yet."

(End of this chapter)