Villager of Daming

Chapter 151 Dishes in Gorgeous County (Part [-])
"It's such a bother." Song Zhifu put down his chopsticks and clasped his fists, and continued to eat, staring at the egg stuffed meatballs, he had never eaten them.

"Yichang, this dish is..." Ask if you don't know.

"Eggs stuffed with meatballs. After the eggs are cooked and peeled, fry them in oil until they are browned. Cut the egg yolks in half, stuff them with meat stuffing, and steam them in a pan. After steaming, pour them with seasoning gravy. Serve. If the egg yolks If there is no place to put it, just cover the stuffing with meat."

There are two sentences in it to tell the cooking process of the dish, which is simple.

"So cumbersome? Why didn't you see the egg yolk?" Song Zhifu found that the meatball was big, but the egg yolk was missing.

"I don't even like to eat it. I use it to make medicine, boil egg butter, also known as chicken oil, phoenix oil, and cure all fire poisons, such as children's mouth sores and minor burns."

The head of the village also introduced that there is no shortage of eggs in the village, and people don't like to eat boiled egg yolks very much. Salted eggs are fine, and they are delicious when they are oily.

Fortunately, there is Hanhan, who boils egg yolks into medicine, and feeds the leftover dregs to livestock.

The family of the daughter-in-law married in the village all sent chicken oil, and they used it in case of fire poisoning.

"So that's how it is." Song Zhifu knew that the village was too rich, so would there be egg yolks that he didn't like?

He picked one up, took a bite, and found that adding egg yolk really affected the taste.

The taste of the fried egg white is much different from that of the direct egg white, and the sauce is the finishing touch.

Who figured out the dish?How free are you?Boiled eggs, fried eggs, steamed with minced meat, poured with soup and gravy.

After eating meatballs stuffed with eggs, he looked at another dish, which he hadn't seen before, and asked, "Yichang, this..."

"Meicai braised pork, choose such a large piece of pork belly with skin, put it in the pot to cook first, remove it and soak it in cold water, fry it in oil pan, turn it over and slice it, don't cut off the skin.

In addition, stir-fry moldy dried vegetables, first stir-fry until fragrant and then stir-fry. After frying, put the previous meat in a bowl with the skin down, put the preserved vegetables on it, put it on a plate, and steam it in a pot.

After steaming, turn the plate and bowl over so that the plate is on the bottom and the bowl is on top, remove the bowl, and it’s done. "

The head of the village introduced again, look, how simple it is, just a few steps and it's done.

Song Zhifu and other officials: "..."

You Xiaqiu Village can't cook normally?Stir-fried shredded pork with cowpea is good and simple.

Li Zhixian looked at the fish: "How did you get this fish? It's so weird?"

"Oh, this one is also simple, squirrel mandarin fish, it..." The chief explained again, this is a test of knife skill and oil temperature control.

After listening to it, everyone has no other thoughts except sighing, Xiaqiu Village really knows how to eat.

"This must be smoked chicken. I ate it last time. It seems a little different?"

Guan Xiancheng looked at the chicken, compared it with the smoked chicken he had eaten in the village, and found that it was slightly different.

"It's not smoked chicken, it's five-spice grilled chicken, it's..." the chief continued. This grilled chicken is also cumbersome and requires many kinds of medicinal materials as seasoning.

The officials feel that they are lucky to have this meal!Today is not in vain.

Mr. Zheng took a bite of the cold plate of crystal knuckles: "Yichang, if you open a restaurant here, you will definitely make a lot of money...Forget it, just eat it yourself."

He wanted to say that he could make a lot of money, but he suddenly realized that this is Xiaqiu Village, there is no shortage of money at all, and money is always available whenever he wants it.

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, so you are showing off your skills, right?Thanks to us, otherwise, next time it would not be these dishes, it would be mutton soup or something.

"Is this a cold cut dessert? Such a white dough?" Li Zhixian's boss changed the subject.

"Oh! It's simple, snowy bean paste, that's how it is..." The head of the village introduced again, this is a dish that makes the chef frown.

The operation is too detailed, the key is that it can't sell much, and the effort to make this dish is not worth it.

Next, everyone doesn’t ask any more questions, just eat. I feel sad after asking. There are twelve dishes on the table, and none of them seem to be easy to cook.

The villagers are not in a hurry to finish eating today, they chat with each other, and those who don't drink will also drink some wine.

After eating, the children ran to see if the glazed lanterns were wiped clean, and where the lanterns used to put them up at night were not arranged properly, and then came back to continue eating.

After eating for an hour, the villagers withdrew. The children were taken to bed by Brother Hanhan, and they got up again at night. Today's dinner will be very late, and they will eat it under the lamp.

After another half an hour, the village chief finished eating, and everyone wandered around the village.

Officials are willing to inspect Xiaqiu Village, and everything they see is pleasing to the eye, and it is worrying to change to a poor village!The key is there is no good way.

"Before I walked around the villages, they bought large animals. The villages with the most bought [-] head, and the villages with the fewest bought [-] head. It was a fight."

Li Zhixian and the head of the village talked about the situation in other villages. Xihe Village only bought fifty large animals, and the villagers couldn't sell enough of what they harvested.

When buying livestock, people in Xiaqiu Village were asked to help, and the pawned jewelry was redeemed during the autumn harvest.

Now I sell things to Xiaqiu Village, including medicinal materials and dried vegetables nearby. If there is not enough food in winter, I have already said hello. Xiaqiu Village will borrow grain and return it when wheat, rapeseed, and ramie are harvested.

As for why not just borrow money to buy?Because there are things that can be pawned, so why borrow them until the end of the world?
The head of the village nodded: "Just another year."

"Now they can also eat meat. It's because I, the county magistrate, didn't do a good job. It's too late." Li Zhixian glanced at Song Zhifu as he said.

Song Zhifu: "..."

There are six counties in Ningguo Prefecture, Xuancheng County is the government seat, and there are Nanling County, Jing County, Ningguo County, Jingde County, and Taiping County.

Now that 22 villages in Xuancheng County are getting rich together, other counties are under great pressure.

As the magistrate, he has even more headaches. In two years, the income of the people in Xuancheng County exceeds the sum of other counties. Doesn't it seem that he is incompetent?

There is Xiaqiu Village in Xuancheng County running desperately with them, and other counties won't learn from it?What does the magistrate do?

I have already invited officials from the other five counties to come to a meeting. The officials from the five counties complained that they did not have a large livestock loan, let alone afford one.

"Hey!" Song Zhifu sighed: "Yichang, you said that if your village doesn't have rock sugar making and other ways to make a lot of money, how can you grow a crop of land?"

"The magistrate refers to a county, right? My village first rented it, and rented it from other villages. If a county is moved, there will be no rent, otherwise?"

Now that the head of the village is studying with Hanhan, he already has a big picture, and Hanhan knows too much.

"Yes!" Prefect Song admitted, that's what it meant.

"Take care of the rent for selling animals! I have no money to buy animals, so I grit my teeth, can't afford to rent animals?
Even the Ningguo Mansion can rent out the money for livestock, such as renting now, to open up wasteland, and plant wheat after late autumn.

When the wheat was harvested, they returned the money to the Ningguo Mansion with interest. Even if they returned it out of the blue, there would still be a lot of money left after harvesting the wheat, and they could rent animals by themselves. "

The head of the village naturally said the solution, the people have no money, and the government will help.

When Song Zhifu heard this, he nodded again and again: "It's a good idea, you don't need to return it once in a while, and if you lend money or pawn property privately, the monthly interest should not exceed three cents.

Three cents per month, [-] cents for six months, the wheat harvest is more than that.The government can reduce it to one point per month. "

"What the magistrate said is very true. When people have money, they buy more things. If they sell more things, they pay more taxes. Every time they buy and sell, they get more tax."

From the perspective of the relationship between the local economy and taxation, the chief of the village said, the simplest one, the complicated one... I understand it.

(End of this chapter)