Kyojuro, the life of a Hokage since the age of one

The unknown object turned out to be a walnut.

The people in the yard fell silent.

Walnut...

What else can you do besides eating?

The Sixth Elder was almost laughing, "What can walnuts do?"

"It can be used to extract oil!"

He didn't care about the walnut skin and the walnut tree. The important thing was

This is a walnut! ! !

"With this thing, we can directly get through the way to communicate with the nobles!"

The Sixth Elder took the slender Senbon and took out the walnut kernels bit by bit. He held the walnut kernels and estimated the weight.

"One kernel weighs 35 kilograms, and you can get about 21 kilograms of oil."

"How many of these walnuts can Kyojuro summon?"

Kyojuro estimated, "If you don't summon other plants, you can summon 12 per month."

"Enough! Let's go test it now!"

The Sixth Elder put down the walnut kernels in his arms, and directly held Kyojuro and started to circle around the yard.

Big baby! Uchiha's big baby!

Whatever you think comes true!

It just so happens that they lack a product that can deal with nobles!

Mrs. Senbiru's words are more effective than the witches in the Land of Demons!

Kyojuro is the gold nugget of Uchiha!

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With the Sixth Elder's motivation, they simply started to figure out how to extract walnut oil on the spot.

"First, follow the extraction process of white basil oil."

The Third Elder and Koichi immediately changed from weapon forgers to carpenters, and started to make oil tanks according to the drawings given by the Sixth Elder.

Tajima and Madara and Izuna, who had just returned home, were assigned to smash walnuts.

"The finer the smash, the higher the oil yield. You are the most critical step."

"Okay..."

With the joint efforts of the three people, the first piece of walnut kernel was quickly smashed. After the Sixth Elder checked it, he started the second step - steaming the walnut kernel.

Put the finely crushed walnut kernels in the steamer, with firewood underneath, and a small bundle of straw at the bottom of the steamer vertically, so that the "fruit puree" can be steamed faster. Accompanied by the sound of firewood "bang bang bang" bursting, the whole room was filled with the mellow smell of walnuts.

It was the first time that Kyojuro saw the oil pressing technology. He looked at the Sixth Elder with admiration, "Grandpa Boyan, are all oils pressed this way?"

The Sixth Elder used chopsticks to test the doneness of the walnut kernels in the pot, and said casually, "Most oils extracted from plant seeds can be pressed this way. Hazelnuts, pine nuts, white perilla oil, and sesame oil are all similar methods."

"But except for special oil mills, ordinary people who want to get oil either have to buy it or take it directly from animals or fish."

"Even if they take it, it is mostly used as lamp oil for lighting. Except for the nobles, basically no one can eat dishes cooked with oil."

It was the first time that Kyojuro heard the story of oil in this era. In the previous life, due to the arrival of Western technology, affordable oil was already sold on the market, and fried things could be seen from time to time in daily diet.

He followed the words of the Sixth Elder and thought, "So this time the oil is to be sold to the nobles?"

The Sixth Elder touched Kyojuro's head and thought, "Oh, so smart."

"No, it should be said that it is not at the moment."

"Who should it be sold to?"

"Koizumi, what do you think?"

The Sixth Elder had a little bit of a testing mind and threw the question to Izuna, who was adding firewood to the stove one by one.

For this kind of question, Izuna, who has been in the intelligence department for a year, has roughly guessed the way the clan will deal with it.

"It should be given directly to the daimyo, either in the hometown or here. A free gift is exchanged for the name of tribute. Those nobles who claim to be elegant will definitely follow the steps of the upper class and want to buy it. When there is no market for it, we will start selling it."

"Absolutely correct, but it's still a little short."

The Sixth Elder applauded and once again sighed at Tajima's good luck. Look at these two sons of his family, one has full talent for martial arts and the other has full talent for intelligence.

Hearing the evaluation that it was still a little short, Quan Nai asked a little unyieldingly, "What's the shortcoming?"

"Well, let's talk about this later. Let's move on to the next step first."

The Sixth Elder directly changed the topic. After all, some plans would be boring if they were said in advance.

The third step is to wrap the walnut cake.

Spread a bunch of straw evenly on the winnowing basket, and put a wide leaf of appropriate size on the straw as a base. Ban scooped the steamed nuts onto the leaves by a spoonful, pressed them with his hands while scooping, and then folded the remaining straw to press the cake firmly.

The wooden oil tank on the Third Elder's side was almost done. They put the oil cake into the oil tank made of tree stumps, put two thick wooden boards on both sides of the oil cake, and then put a large piece of wood to fill the tank. Wooden wedges were also put in the empty space. The wooden wedges were divided into two rows. Wooden wedges needed to be added in time during the oil pressing process to squeeze out more oil.

The last step was for the Third Elder, who was best at using hammers, to hold a large wooden hammer and hit the wooden wedges accurately.

As the wedge was driven into the trough, the wooden block placed horizontally in the oil trough squeezed the walnut cake, forcing the oil to seep out.

The bright yellow, mellow walnut oil dripped out from the bottom of the wooden trough, and the strong aroma of oil filled the entire courtyard.

The Sixth Elder dipped a little walnut oil with his fingers and put it in his mouth to taste it carefully.

"The taste is light, accompanied by the rich aroma of walnuts and a hint of sweetness."

"Top quality!"

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After the walnut cake in the oil tank could no longer squeeze out a drop of oil, the Sixth Elder put away the oil container with satisfaction.

"It's about the same as I thought, 20 kilograms."

"The remaining walnut meal can probably be made into something to eat. You guys try it. I'm going to find Mrs. Senhiru."

The third elder was obviously more interested in the hard shell than the edible walnut meal.

Carrying the shell in one hand and the sledgehammer in the other, he called Uchiha Koichi to go to the forging room with him.

In an instant, the two elders left. Tajima stood there and rubbed his face, which was stained with ashes and sweat. He then looked at his two sons who were equally ashen-faced and Anjuro, who was dry and dry.

"Xingshou Lang, let's take a bath first. You ask Maomao to find Ah Jin's mother and ask her to come over."

Maomao, who was picked up by several little guys, can now accurately identify the residences of the little Uchihas who have been playing with it.

Xingshoulang nodded, turned around and went into the room to take out a pen and paper and wrote a note, then tied it to Mao Mao's paw.

Maomao flew away.

Anjuro looked at the deserted and quiet courtyard and murmured to himself,

"Doing business...should be safer than going on a mission..."

"It would be great if there really was a peaceful place..."

Anjuro once again thought of the conversation between Uchiha Madara and him that night.

Influence…

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After Mikiko received the message, she immediately threw her son to her husband excitedly and rushed to the patriarch's house.

She wasn't good at anything, but she was very good at cooking. After the last pea incident, she had been looking forward to finding some fresh ingredients that she could think about again.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw the oil tank in the center of the yard and the walnut meal in it.

After all, the special aroma of walnuts in the yard is too obvious.

"Walnuts...walnut cakes, no, walnut candy packets, you can consider..."

Tajima, who had washed himself clean again, also expressed his request.

"It's best to make it into something that can be put in our high-end teahouse and restaurant."

"If it doesn't work, then consider putting it in a street restaurant."

Mikiko pinched a little walnut meal, spread it on the palm of her hand, looked at it, tasted it again, and said

"I don't recommend placing them in high-end teahouses. After the walnut oil is squeezed out, the aroma of the walnuts itself is much reduced, and the steamed and squeezed walnuts have a bad taste. If you want to enter a high-end teahouse, you need to add a lot of extra sugar. It’s not worth the loss if you use it with oil.”

"I'll try to grind it a little more and make it into walnut paste or walnut stewed eggs. This kind of thing should be able to be put in restaurants in the city."

While talking, Mikiko suddenly had an inspiration.

"By the way, this stuff can be made into military food pills for our ninjas!"

"Bingliang pills themselves are made of various grains ground into powder to form a ball shape, and then add physical strength-enhancing herbs, and then use a little honey to adjust the taste. Oil extraction cannot completely squeeze out all the oil in the walnuts. There are also other ingredients in the walnut meal. Some fat remains, so adding walnut meal to Bingliang Pills is like adding a little fat in disguise, and the taste and aroma can be greatly improved. "

"Leave this matter to me!"

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Half a month later.

In the palace of the Kingdom of Thunder, the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Thunder looked at the newly served meal, sniffed it gently, and asked the waiter beside him,

"Today's meal smells quite different."

The waiter half-knelt in front of him, "It was Chieri-sama's idea. All the meals this time will be cooked with walnut oil provided by the Uchiha tribe."

The dark-skinned Daimyo of the Land of Thunder was watching the palace people try the dishes for him. Hearing this, he raised his eyebrows lightly and said, "Didn't those Uchiha guys already go to the Land of Fire? What, they want to come back again?"

Faced with a question that could be fatal no matter how he answered it, the waiter maintained a respectful attitude and did not answer.

The Daimyo of the Kingdom of Thunder didn't want any answers. After all, Uchiha ran away and there was nothing they could do to stop him. Who wouldn't be afraid of a crazy Uchiha?

You can find more useful subordinates, but the time bomb named Uchiha should be given to the Land of Fire.

After confirming that the food was non-toxic, he picked up a piece of meat and chewed it carefully.

"It tastes good too. Let's continue talking about why Uchiha sent us something."

Don't tell me, it's really delicious.

If Uchiha can continue to be like this in the future, leaving the risks to the Fire Country and giving him good things to the Thunder Country, it would not be bad.

He had to keep an eye on the remaining Uchiha ethnic groups who stayed in his Land of Thunder.

It was said that the family was divided, but the bones were broken and the tendons were connected. There were several shops selling pea flour in the Kingdom of Thunder. Who didn't know that Uchiha was selling goods here from the south.

"It was sent by the Uchiha who were left in the Kingdom of Thunder. It was said that the Uchiha from the Country of Fire were grateful to the Country of Thunder for taking care of them for so many years."

"Care... is a good word to use,"

The Daimyo of the Kingdom of Thunder suddenly thought of the recent uproar, regarding the counterattack of those grain merchants in the Kingdom of Fire who had been forcibly taken away a large portion of their profits by Uchiha. It happened that he also saw that these grain merchants were flooding the sky with the Kingdom of Thunder's need for food. The grain merchants who asked for the price were unhappy and didn't mind causing some trouble for them.

"I see, this good thing should be tasted by the guy from the Country of Fire."

The Daimyo of the Kingdom of Thunder drank the wine in his glass in one gulp, "Go and inform those red-eyed rabbits that if they can provide enough food, whether it is pea flour or something else, I don't mind letting Uchiha become a food merchant recognized by the royal family. "

It would be better if we could take the opportunity to order out all the grain merchants of the Kingdom of Fire, the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Thunder was thinking, after all, the business tax paid by Uchiha was given to him, the master of the Kingdom of Thunder.

A grain merchant from the Fire Nation, huh.

After paying a tariff, I made a lot of money, and then went back to pay taxes to the Country of Fire.

Hell he can't even raise tariffs! Except for the Kingdom of Fire and the Kingdom of Water, there is a shortage of food everywhere! ! If he raises tariffs, those locusts will dare to leave with the food!

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What did the Uchiha who made walnut oil do?

Nothing was done.

They just gave a bottle to the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Thunder and the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Fire.

On the grounds that Uchiha living in your land should send you tribute.

It's just that from the Land of Thunder, they were sent to the Daimyo via Qian Eri's route.

As for the Fire Country, they were sent to the Imperial Palace Province controlled by the Fire Country people.

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The Daimyo of the Kingdom of Thunder took some time to get together with the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Fire in the Country of Tang. The reason was, of course, that he, as an older brother, missed his sister.

In fact, he didn't really want to. After all, the Fire Country was rich in products, and his sister seemed to be well-raised. She also wrote letters from time to time to ridicule his brother for being the one who took advantage of her every day.

As usual, the two countries chatted about trade. The Daimyo of the Fire Country was still wondering why this black man was in such a good mood today. In the past, every time the issue of tariffs and food was brought up, he would always be glaring.

At the later banquet, the Daimyo of the Country of Thunder, with a subtle sense of pride, invited the Daimyo of the Country of Fire to taste the good things he had recently acquired.

The Daimyo of the Land of Fire, who felt that he had taken advantage of the situation, was naturally praised by the public and said,

"Although this dish uses ordinary ingredients, it tastes like a faint fragrance. I guess I got a new and capable cook. I wonder if I want to give it up? Hahaha."

The Daimyo of the Kingdom of Thunder waved his hand, and the waiter who had been serving him knowingly took out a small bottle of walnut oil and showed it to the two Daimyos.

"The color is golden, and it's rare to see it so clear."

The Daimyo of the Country of Fire thought it was a good thing, but it was nothing more than oil. Only an unsophisticated guy like the Country of Thunder could treat it like a treasure and show off in front of him.

The Daimyo of the Kingdom of Thunder slowly introduced, "This is a tribute from the Uchiha clan."

The face of the Fire Country's Daimyo was distorted at that time. The Thunder Country's Daimyo also pretended to be inferior and added, "Forget, forget, Uchiha has moved to the Fire Country now. You must have eaten this oil a long time ago. Come on."

The Daimyo of the Country of Fire suppressed the anger in his heart and finished the meal. He didn't care about the Daimyo's sister of the Country of Thunder that he brought with him, and returned directly to the Country of Fire with his people.

The younger sister of the Daimyo of the Land of Thunder and the favorite concubine of the Daimyo of the Fire Country rolled her eyes in boredom. The doggy man left just in time, so as not to disturb her bathing in the hot spring.

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After returning to the Fire Country, the first thing the Fire Country Daimyo did was to call over the chief minister in charge of the Imperial Household Affairs Bureau, Imperial Palace Minister Yamazawa.

Before Shanze could kneel down and salute, the Fire Country Daimyo kicked him directly.

"Where's the Uchiha tribute! Go get it for me!"

The Daimyo of the Land of Fire had been holding this breath in his heart, and only let it out freely when he reached his own realm.

"How dare that bastard show off in front of me! Who the heck is he? He demands good food from me! Today he dared to ridicule me in front of me with just a bottle of oil!"

The waiter held the walnut oil that he had just brought out from the warehouse and quickly handed it over. The Daimyo's face of the Land of Fire barely improved.

But when he opened the lid and took a whiff, his eyes instantly darkened, and he actually laughed out loud.

"Okay, okay, it seems like someone dared to do something under my nose."

Don't say that Uchiha deliberately treated the two daimyo differently. The Uchiha lived in the country of fire. They didn't dare. Even if they treated them differently, they were giving a poor grade to the country of thunder. How could they give a bad grade to themselves?

Do you think life in the Land of Fire is too stable?

Since it wasn't Uchiha, then someone else had touched the tribute that only he could enjoy.

The Daimyo of the Fire Country looked at Shanze who was kneeling and shivering in the hall with a pleasant look, and said in a low voice,

"If you can find out, your life and your position can be saved. If you can't find out, I don't think there is any need for the surname Shanze to appear in the Land of Fire."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Yamazawa Naoto hit his head heavily on the cedar floor of the hall.