Villager of Daming

Chapter 928: How is the history of the place of origin different now?

When Zhu Di said it, the other three princes and several officials in the palace looked reminiscing.

What the officials were thinking was: Yes, the vinegar used to eat dumplings last time was of that color, not white, yellow, or black. Isn’t that vinegar from somewhere else? It’s normal!

"Try this vinegar." Zhu Di asked the officials to use the current vinegar.

Officials don't care, it's not like they don't eat it normally, that's just the local jealousy.

After taking a bite with the dumplings, the six people looked at each other in confusion. The taste was different. How can I put it, in some places it tasted better than the vinegar that day, but in other places it was not as good as the vinegar that day.

"Jealous, black, okay, white, um! Hey hey hey hey..." Zhu Wentian finally couldn't help laughing there.

He found it interesting when he saw the expressions of the Taiyuan Prefecture officials. Nowadays, there are only three colors of vinegar. The normal one is white, and then there is the light yellow one. The light yellow one is obviously not good enough.

Next is the red one, which is made with red yeast rice and is rice vinegar.

Black vinegar is originally a product of Qingyuan County, and it was only available in the Qing Dynasty in history.

There have been some changes in the brewing method, especially in making fermented grains. In the past, it was all white fermented fermented grains, so the vinegar that comes out is naturally white.

Red yeast rice vinegar is made with red fermented fermented grains, and white fermented fermented grains are also involved. The final product is red vinegar.

The local Shanxi mature vinegar uses the fumigation process, just like red yeast vinegar. It is poured over a slow fire and smoked.

The finished vinegar is black. Due to the smoking process, the black taste is naturally different, just like smoked chicken or smoked sausage.

As for sun exposure and ice fishing during the three-day period, these are methods to control the bacterial flora. Only in extreme cold and hot conditions can the bacterial flora reproduce better.

Just as many crops taste good when grown in places with large temperature differences, rice is one of them.

I made this kind of craft myself in Xiaqiu Village, but without Sanjiu Ice, the ice at that temperature in the south of the Yangtze River is really pitiful. It is so thin that it disappears when the sun rises. Unless you find ice at a high altitude. Mountain processing vinegar.

Because the time is short, there is not so much time to settle. The oldest one is only more than three years old.

The vinegar sold by Jubiqi is not this black. It is aged vinegar purchased from other places, plus new vinegar. New vinegar is cheap but aged vinegar is expensive, including red yeast rice vinegar.

When I ate it, the local white vinegar was aged, which was better in some aspects. It didn’t have the smoked fermented taste and was a bit worse than the black one.

If the aged one is replaced by smoked fermented vinegar, it will be the authentic Shanxi mature vinegar.

Eating dumplings in Qingyuan County today was a deliberate arrangement. Since it is someone's jealousy, it should be returned to others, and there must be official involvement.

The government has a lot of money and can brew millions of kilograms of wine at a time, divert grain from other places, burn many large vinegar vats, and wait for several years before eating slowly.

The smoked fermented fermented vinegar is brewed in this way year after year. After five years, it will be five years old, eight years, ten years, fifteen years...

If you don’t brew it, there will be nothing. If you brew it, it won’t delay anything. By the time another child is born, the first batch of mature vinegar will be twenty years old.

Most people won't be able to detect the taste at that time. It seems to be no different from the one ten years ago.

In fact, it’s not jealousy anymore, it’s time, which means it’s more expensive than other vinegars with shorter years. I won’t accept any refutation.

Of course, there is a technology that can simulate the taste of aging. Through blending, part of it is old vinegar and part of it is blended vinegar with other things added.

If it is a little more ruthless, the technology will be more advanced, a little vinegar will not be added, and the mixture will be blended with glacial acetic acid. Wine can be blended with ethanol to give it an aged taste, but vinegar is no different.

When Zhu Wentian was thinking about it, the head of the village talked about this aspect. He only talked about the craftsmanship and did not mention the history. He didn't know.

"Yes, the black ones we eat are brought from Xiaqiu Village. How did we know that there is no black vinegar in the entire Ming Dynasty except Xiaqiu Village."

Zhu Fan realized, black is better, but if it is old, how much does it cost per pound?

Zhu Fan, who was so happy, suddenly paused: "Chief, now they are saying that we must protect the ownership of technology, our village's black and vinegar technology..."

"Your Highness, since it requires a large number of manpower to make vinegar, it is impossible to completely keep it secret unless it is sealed off.

Just eating something is not worth doing that, and if others learn from it and go to other places to do it, you can't go around arresting people.

Why not set a rule? If Xiaqiu Village has a technology, any place that uses this technology to brew vinegar in the future, the people of Xiaqiu Village were jealous in the past and were not allowed to collect money.

It refers to a brewery. It doesn’t mean that you go to someone else’s shop and take someone else’s vinegar without paying for it. That’s robbery. "

The head of the village waved his hand and said, "I don't want any money. I'll give it to you." Hanhan said, "This has nothing to do with the patent, it's related to people's livelihood. If I insist on it, the reputation that Xiaqiu Village has finally built up will be ruined."

In industry, only those technologies that can make a lot of money are charged. Small technologies that are easy to learn are difficult to control.

For example, a small technology was used in Shu. Someone saw it, passed the news back, sent people to check, and found that it was indeed the case, and then reported it to the local government official.

In the end, the lawsuit was won, and the little technician could only provide a living allowance for the craftsman, and even if he killed him, he wouldn't be able to get back the money he had spent on it.

Zhu Fan nodded vigorously: "Li Zhangyi, I will be jealous for free at any workshop that uses the same technology to brew mature vinegar. I will go back and ask my father to give the order."

He looked serious, but in fact he and his brother both knew that how could people from Xiaqiu Village go to other people's workshops and be jealous? Not in the village?

The key is that once it’s really over, others will be willing to give it without mentioning the technology. After giving it, it’s good publicity! The ancestor who brewed this vinegar is here, which means our vinegar is good.

"Your Highness, I appreciate it." The chief said, taking out a stack of paper from his arms, with the entire brewing process written on it.

Don't look at it in just one sentence, the brewed fermented grains brewed by smoked fermented grains will be black, and the steps are complicated!

Including temperature, concentration, sealing, etc.

Moreover, making vinegar is the same as making wine. If it is left normally, the degree will be higher as it ages. A lot of water will escape and microorganisms will continue to ferment.

The genuine Shanxi mature vinegar that has been produced for 20 years should be cherished when eating it. It will not be like the common people who are jealous when dipping dumplings into it and wish to drink it directly.

Zhu Fan took a pile of paper: "This..."

"Second brother, ask if there are any vinegar-making workshops in the local area. If so, tell them the cause and consequences. Then you can send someone to supervise the construction of a larger vinegar workshop.

After three years, it will be able to taste and taste like the one in Xiaqiu Village, and then it can be donated to our father. In this way, Taiyuan Prefecture will have another profitable business.

We also asked someone to make a copy and send it to Xi'an Prefecture, where they would brew it together. Different crops and different water would produce different vinegars. "

Zhu Xi gave the idea and followed it to get the benefits. In the future, a lot of vinegar would come out and they would make money together.

"Okay! Let's eat first. Bring some of our jealousy over and compare it."

Zhu Fan didn't refuse, since it wasn't his skill anyway.

(End of this chapter)