Villager of Daming

Chapter 1279: Only for Exchange, No Land Occupation

The welcoming banquet will start in the evening. There is no need to go to Jinshui Bridge. It can be held directly in Xiaqiao Village. Officials of the fifth rank and above in the imperial city will participate.

The officials discovered a problem: the people of Xiaqiu Village were celebrating the festival and were in high spirits. They had previously gathered here for dinner and it felt normal, but they did not feel the same spiritual joy as they did at this moment.

Zhu Wentian continued to grill his skewers. He made a dish today, snow cotton with red bean paste. This dish was the children's favorite. It tasted like cotton candy and had red bean paste filling.

But chefs don’t like to make it very much because the price won’t go up, the process is complicated, and it tests basic oil control skills.

At that time, there were Northeastern restaurants everywhere, and you could tell whether they were authentic by ordering a few dishes.

One is sweet and sour sweet and sour pork, which is the original sweet and sour pork without ketchup.

Another is hodgepodge. If the store uses homemade braised pork, it is not authentic. The authentic one must be canned braised pork. This is a tradition, but fewer and fewer people understand it.

Pig-killing dishes may not be available everywhere, and we make a small amount of blood sausage, and it’s hard to buy, so there’s no need to order it.

However, every restaurant in Northeast China must have skin jelly, which is made by themselves. Both types of skin jelly are served in the same pot, without the skin, and with the skin.

Stir-fried sauerkraut with vermicelli is a dish from the Northeast, even though some people in the Northeast don’t like vermicelli.

Dried tofu with hot peppers. Dried tofu is called bean skin in many places, which is similar to thousand sheets in some areas.

Three fresh vegetables, potato, eggplant and green pepper. Some people from Northeast China don’t like the green pepper in this dish.

Potatoes stewed with eggplant and chopped green onions in sauce, and the staple food is boiled rice.

Then there is the snow-coated bean paste, also known as snow-coated bean paste. Looking at this is the best way to judge the craftsmanship of the so-called Northeastern chefs.

Zhu Wentian made a lot of them, but there was nothing he could do. When the children in the palace saw him, they all jumped around him, asking him to hug them and hold them high, and ardently demanded to eat the snow-white bean paste he made.

The emperor's grandson Zhu Xiongying even wrote a poem with a brush?

The snow-covered bean paste is plump and soft in the mouth. It is sweet and white, where can I find it? Uncle Hanhan has returned from a long journey.

A five-year-old child wrote this just for food. Is it okay not to do it?
Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to cook it himself, but unfortunately he didn't know how to do it.

Zhu Wentian was willing to cook for the children. He was in a particularly good mood today because he had brought back so many crops from America.

There is also Jerusalem artichoke, which is the most convenient for making pickles, also known as devil ginger. It was brought over from the Japanese pirates and is actually from America.

It is similar to the Chinese snail vegetable, but not as good-looking, but the yield is high.

Just plant ginger anywhere and don't worry about it, just don't plant it in the desert.

It grows by taking roots. If you plant one, you can dig up several kilograms next year. Don't dig up all of it and don't worry about whether it can survive the winter.

By the second year, you will find that the planting area has increased several times, and it will grow on its own without you having to take care of anything.

By the third year, the scale must be controlled, otherwise it will take up the space of other crops and the pickled vegetables will become like young ginger, which is very brittle.

There are several kinds of kidney beans, the best of which is rice bean, which has a high starch content and looks like a mask. It is delicious when stewed. In some places, the beans are peeled and steamed or boiled with rice.

Not to mention tomatoes, there are also several kinds of peppers. With peppers, there are hundreds or even thousands more cooking options.

Peanuts can be eaten in any way, even when pressed for oil. The residue after pressing the oil is not like bean cake. The peanut residue is delicious when eaten directly.

Sunflower is an oil crop and also a snack. This species is most suitable in Inner Mongolia, where the sunshine hours are long and new varieties can be cultivated slowly.

The price of sunflower seeds actually depends mainly on the oil content. The more oil they contain, the more expensive they are, because they contain sunflower oil!
Strawberries, this one is also a big piece. There are also a lot of tropical fruits such as passion fruit and guava.

This team actually found most of the edible crops, and most importantly, no one died. This shows how strong the individual combat skills of the people sent by Zhu Yuanzhang were.

"My Lords, this time we in the Ming Dynasty have something good. The team from Xiaqiu Village has returned..."

Zhu Yuanzhang made it clear to the officials in a speech that the Ming Dynasty would be better in the future, so you should find ways to be greedy. If you don’t know how, we will teach you.

“We won’t go into details about Xiaqiu Village. Everyone knows what’s going on. You can always come.

There are people over there. Thanks to us finding people with good language talent as the booklet says, they have almost learned it.

Across the sea, there are many minerals in a distant place, including a lot of gold mines. The drawings given by Xiaqiu Village..."

Zhu Yuanzhang brought back too many things to show off his achievements for Xiaqiu Village. He looked for them according to the map.

The officials already knew the situation, but no one dared to interrupt His Majesty. Let's show off our achievements! It's quite satisfying to hear.

In fact, the officials were very afraid of the expert in Xiaqiu Village. The expert was so powerful that he knew what was happening in a place thousands of miles away. He could even draw a picture of every stage of crop growth.

There are medicinal herbs in it, and the functions of the herbs are also written, including the preparation methods.

There are also some plants that are strictly prohibited from being brought back, and other plants that are brought in must be checked first, and the boats must be cleaned and disinfected.

Don't want insects, look for them carefully and kill them immediately when found. The same goes for insect eggs. This is how all ships will operate in the future.

The team that went there took photos of the people there. They looked similar to the people in the Ming Dynasty, except that their living conditions were poor, their clothes were not good, their weapons were even worse, and they ate with their hands.

The gold, copper and tin in the photo are all good, but there is less iron and silver is not used much. It is estimated that the mine has not been found. Xiaqiao Village drew a rough map of the mine, which is high-yield and easy to mine.

It was as if the expert had been there and lived there for a long time.

Forget it. I won’t think about what the master thinks. Anyway, I am living a good life in Ming Dynasty right now. My monthly salary, no, it’s a normal salary, but I get a lot of bonuses!

The other benefits are even better. A lot of things will be given during festivals and holidays. Normally, when His Majesty is happy, he will give a lot of food for you to take home.

"We have brought back the most rubber, and we have arranged for people to plant it. If we plant it well, we can tap it after five years. If we don't take good care of it, we can only tap it after ten or eight years.

Even so, we still have to plant it. The pine nuts of red pine are delicious. From now on, we are not allowed to cut down red pine trees there at will.

It takes 20 to 30 years for red pine to produce seeds, and how many 20 to 30 years do we have in a human life?

The pepper that Xiaqiu Village had strongly requested to plant has already produced a large amount of fruit. There is no need for the barbarians to sell it anymore, so the price will become cheaper.

Now we are just waiting for Xiaqiu Village to figure out how to make things out of rubber, and next year we will send the Ming navy there.

Our people have agreed with them that we will bring more iron they need. They know how to smelt it, but they just can't find good iron ore.

We told them that they helped collect rubber, gold, copper, and platinum, but we didn’t give them seeds, but cloth and silk first…”

Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned trade and thought it would be most convenient to bring some seeds over to plant, but he didn't want that because that would make the other party unwilling to collect more things.

Now he has no plan to find a place to occupy. Occupation requires manpower, and who would be willing to live outside for a long time?
Moreover, the expert from Xiaqiu Village said that there is a war over there, and if we go there to occupy the land, we will inevitably be affected. No matter how others fight, we will just exchange things.

(End of this chapter)