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Chapter 79 Bone Smelting Zhu Rongxue ([-])

Five days after the Mohists who went to the village left, the hut was filled with a rich, fried soybean aroma.

Creation, and the repetitive work after creation, sometimes the procedure is the same, but the spiritual satisfaction and exhaustion are completely different.

The former is the satisfaction of the soul, and the latter is the exhaustion of being helpless in order to survive.

Because of this difference, these ink practitioners who work in this cabin are full of smiles every day.

They feel that they can work together with the giants to create a new thing that is beneficial to the world.

This process of creation is voluntary, not that it is difficult to survive without it.

Although this kind of thing does not have an accurate name at this time, the enthusiasm for creating new things still fills the cabin with an air called joy.

The fried soybeans are put into the grooves made of stone and wood.

A disc-like mold is filled with those fried soybeans, sandwiched together, and then stuck in it with wooden wedges.Hit a wooden wedge with a huge stone or a ram, and squeeze the cooked soybeans until the most essential liquid flows out.

The sturdy man with his upper body bare and his muscles bulging vigorously pushed the battering hammer-like wooden stick made by Mozi and several carpenters, making a rumbling sound.

With every impact, the wooden wedges stuck in the cooked soybeans will forcefully squeeze in.

The sharp and firm wooden wedges propped up the space of those ripe soybeans, or were conversely squeezed by those densely packed beans, until they spilled out the essence contained in their bodies and declared their surrender.

Light yellow, with a faint fishy smell.

But once it is heated to a boil in a pottery pot, it will emit a strong aroma. If some chopped green onions are added in it, the taste will be even more delicious.

The Mohist who stayed behind and worked on the May [-]th Festival together with Shi, at first only knew that these things were indispensable to deceive those witches that he had "Zhu Rong's bloodline can not be afraid of boiling ointment".

Animal grease cannot melt and float without scalding people.

But on the third day, after squeezing out the first pot, Taoyi, which is suitable for heating, heated the light yellow liquid and fried some caught grasshoppers, frogs or bean bugs, and those left here, including Gongzaiye. After more than 30 Mohists had a meal together, everyone believed that this was a thing that could benefit the world no less than wheat flour.

These yellowish liquids are definitely called soybean oil.

But the ink practitioners present did not know this title, and it was difficult to accept this title.

The oil at this time does not have the meaning of oil in the word "grease".

At the beginning, oil was just an adjective and a special vocabulary for a certain river in Chudi, and then it gradually developed the meaning of smooth and supple.

For example, the song "Mai Xiu" composed by Jizi, who was entrusted to North Korea, when he passed the former capital of Yin and Shang during the tribute.The so-called wheat show is gradually coming, and the millet is oily.

At this time, animal oil in a broad sense is subdivided into two types: ointment and fat.Vegetable oils were not yet available.

The fat of animals with horns is called fat; the fat of animals without horns is called ointment.

That's why there is terminal illness, not fatal illness, because there are no horns on the head; the Mausoleum of the First Emperor recorded in "Historical Records" Qin Benji is also mermaid ointment instead of mermaid fat, for the same reason.

Conversely, it can only be used to make skin like cream, but not to make skin like cream, because pigs and dogs are cheap and cattle and sheep are expensive, so it doesn't sound good to say that cream.

Beef and suet, pig and dog ointment, these are absolutely unacceptable.

In addition to grease, the upper class also has a special subdivision of grease.For example, the word for fat, which is familiar to everyone, originally meant a separate word belonging to fat, meaning the fat on the loin of animals with horns...

If the word ointment is used incorrectly, it will be ridiculed by the upper class.

The lives of nobles above the real doctor level subdivide this distinction to the extreme: in spring, tender sheep and pigs should be cooked with butter, in summer, dried fish and poultry should be cooked with dog fat, and in autumn, calves should be cooked with chicken fat. And small animals, fresh fish and geese should be cooked with suet in winter.

The four characters of fishy smell and smell are all specific.Smell refers to dog oil, mutton refers to sheep oil, and incense refers to butter.

Birds seem to use fat instead of ointment, because birds have feathers and feathers belong to horns according to Lili, so it can only be fat and not ointment.

Zhongming Dingshi is not just a random sentence, it must have a series of noble etiquette and cultural connotations.

In short, this kind of oil that has flowed out at this time and has not yet been named soybean oil is definitely a cheap oil, and it is absolutely unacceptable.

It is different from wheat flour.Wheat is originally one of the five grains and is used as a staple food, so changing the way wheat is eaten does not prevent wheat flour from becoming a favorite food of the upper class.

But beans have changed from staple food to oil, but they don't meet the four characters of fishy smell, smelly smell, and smelly, so they are absolutely not qualified to enter the tripod.

Before peanuts and sunflower seeds were introduced in later generations, soybean oil, radish seed oil, cabbage seed oil, and sesame oil were all top-grade, and their taste was different from those of animal oil.

At this time, these cheap oils fried the filthy bean moths that had just woken up from the ground and had no food in their stomachs. They were filled with several large jars and placed in front of the Mohists.

A group of Mohists took the soybean meal left over from squeezing the soybean oil as their staple food, and ate the fried bean worms, feeling that if people in the world could eat soybean meal and bean cake every day, it would be a paradise on earth.

Shi Shi grabbed a few fried bean worms, gnawed on the steamed and softened bean cakes, and ate them with relish. Although it seemed to him that they were for feeding livestock, eating some at this time could be regarded as delicious.

On the side, Xiao Sheng and Zao Mi Qi Sui were arguing, feeling the lively and speculative atmosphere of the ink writer at this time, and felt more and more comfortable.

Zao Mi Qisui believes that this thing should be called soybean paste.The so-called fat ointment is made by ointment, which shows that the ointment is diluted after mixing. This thing is like running water, and what has been diluted cannot be diluted again, so it must be called soybean ointment.

Xiaosheng thought that this thing should be called soybean fat.It is well known that Shudou is hairy, and the so-called edamame pods are just like that.Since it is hairy, it can be considered as a bean feather.If there are feathers, it is considered to have horns, and horns are called fat, so this is soybean fat, not soybean paste.

One of the two talked like a river, and once he spoke, he couldn't stop; the other was distant and indifferent, like a rainbow that was difficult to see, but once he spoke, he often hit the nail on the head.

The debate between the two attracted some supporters, who applauded each other, and only let Qin Huali make the arbitration to decide who wins.

Mohists are always like this, even if the best debater Bian 54 went to Chu State, the atmosphere of the debates on weekdays is not a little bit less, but it becomes more and more lively because there is one less person who can calm everyone down.

During the day, everyone was sweating profusely during the oil extraction, and when it was time to eat, they regained their strength, and everyone was blushing.

Mozi ate a few fried bean worms, watched these disciples arguing with a smile, and thought about the several methods Shi proposed that sounded a little scary.

These bean pastes or bean fats are the so-called scams with the blood of Zhu Rong.

Ointment is light and water is heavy, the two are insoluble, and they are divided into upper and lower.Add vinegar and lime to the bottom, and when the two are mixed, bubbles will be produced. In fact, the temperature is extremely low, but the grease floating on it seems to be boiling.

The reason why animal fat is not used is that it is impossible for animal fat to melt at that temperature.

Mozi felt that he knew one more thing, that is, once a liquid like water boils, its temperature will no longer rise.But before boiling, the temperature will continue to increase.

This is something he didn't notice before, but when Jing Shi said this, he immediately knew that it was not a lie.

Regarding the matter of usurping Wu Zhu, Mozi originally thought that what he did was only for this purpose.

But when he saw the fat squeezed out of these soybeans, Mozi understood that this was another thing that benefited the world like wheat flour, and it was definitely not just to usurp the name of Wu Zhu.

At the very least, those few bean worms with a lingering fragrance proved that this thing can make people live a better life and eat better.

"After all, Shi is a person who always thinks about benefiting the world."

He evaluated silently like this, thinking of his unsophisticated evaluation under the juniper tree a year ago, he couldn't help laughing.

So he waved his hand and called Shi over, and asked, "What do you think should be called after listening to the debate between Xiaosheng and Qisui?"

Shi swallowed the bean cake and bean worm in his mouth, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter what you call it. It's just that I don't like to divide according to whether there are horns or no horns. This kind of division is unreasonable, but it is in line with the origin."

"I'm a person who talks about reason more than origin, so I don't like this kind of division. It's not wrong, but it's useless. It's like distinguishing nobles from common farmers and businessmen according to the order of blood and birth. This is a kind of However, some people don't like this kind of division based on bloodline, so why does it make sense?"

These words made Mo Zi even more relieved, these things were exactly what he had always thought about.

Speaking of it, the one who can really understand the truth in his heart, the most proud person is the original Gongshang Guo, but it is a pity that he died young.

Although Qin Huali is intelligent, he also has the heart of righteousness, and he has learned all the skills, but when it comes to the connection of minds, he is still not as good as the deceased Gong Shangguo after all.

Sometimes, all it takes is one sentence to create a sense of confidant that transcends age and status.

Mozi likes to define, and hopes to define the origin of everything in the world, just as he defined circle, force, motion, light propagation and mirror reflection theorem, volume and thickness, etc. These are concepts that did not exist originally.

If you stick to everything that already exists, I am afraid that many things are difficult to define.

So he just watched the debate between Qisui and Xiaosheng with a smile, and didn't support either side, because he also felt that this definition of ointment was meaningless, at least it was meaningless to most people in the world.

And he didn't expect that the words in his heart could be expressed completely.

It's not that the definition is wrong, but it's useless.

Just like the concept of graphics defined in Jiushu and the concept of circle and square defined by him are not defined according to a mechanism at all: there is nothing wrong with the previous division, but it is useless, and it is not beneficial to people. It can only make people feel The trouble is complicated.

For a long while, Mozi didn't ask Shi what the name of this thing should be, because it really doesn't matter, just like those names that Shi randomly picked up everywhere, when it needs to be important, it is naturally meaningful, and when it is not important, it is meaningless .

So he asked another question.

"You want to usurp the name of Wu Zhutong Tiandi Water and Fire, and say that you have Zhu Rong's blood. Is it because of these grease boiling methods?"

Shi shook his head and said: "No. Since it is Zhu Rong's blood, of course it can easily ignite firewood. This Zhu Rong's blood is smelted from white bones. Of course, I know it is not Zhu Rong's blood, it is just a thing, but since there was no However, there is nothing wrong with calling him Zhu Rongxue."

"There is no Zhu Rongxue in the world. If there are too many people calling for it, that thing is Zhu Rongxue. This is the difference between the origin and the name, and you should be able to distinguish it clearly. This is also the most important point in Mohist debate, and it can also be refuted based on this." The cornerstone of the doctrine of Tianxia."

"As my master always said, what is a horse? What is an ox? What is a circle? What is a moment? What is force? What is movement? What is stop? What is a big reason? What is a small reason..."

"After a few days, it will be made in grass and silk. Please sir, make sure to summarize the origin of these things and give it to future generations. If this can be done, the learning of Mohists will be spread all over the world."

　Maybe just one more today.Another: In the future, there will be no inventions and creations of different generations, and they will be summarized in a few sentences, so I will not write explanatory texts.There are many pearls and jades in front, so it is no longer necessary to write in such detail.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)