Dinner is far away, lunch is close at hand.

There is still a little more than an hour, Li Yi asked, eat chicken stewed mushrooms at noon today.

Mushrooms are real mushrooms, and chicks are real chicks, little roosters.

It's like giving birth to a boy or a girl, and there aren't a lot of cocks.

Some time before Li Yi was at that time, some people were carrying baskets to sell chicken chicks and duck chicks.

One by one they are cute, but most of them are roosters and ducks.

As for why it's not all male, it's because some chicks don't look obvious.

In a situation where a flock does not need so many roosters, the roosters that have hatched must also be raised and then killed.

Now the stewed mushrooms are eaten as a six-month-old rooster, and the meat is tender.

"Uncle, this mushroom is the best, huh? It's more refreshing than a monkey's head. "The queen finally had lunch, and praised the mushrooms for being delicious.

She ate too many lion's mane mushrooms so that she didn't feel precious. ，

Now the stewed baby rooster is the pine mushroom bought from the northern part of Hebei Province, which is theoretically more expensive than the cultivated lion's mane mushroom.

Pine mushrooms cannot be cultivated artificially, at most semi-artificially.

Li Longji ate a few bites of mushrooms and said to Li Yi: "I exchanged a large number of frogs from the Khitan from the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and exchanged them for mushrooms, which cost a lot. ”

"With more exchanges, it is good to know the specific situation over there, the Khitan is attached to the Turks, and we have given up the place of Silla, so we can't leave it alone."

Li Yi said the reason, it was theoretically owned by Datang, but it was all private trade.

Many Siberian tiger skins, mink skins, bear skins, sika deer skins and other things in the Northeast have gone elsewhere in Datang.

The current Khitan is not strong, and later fought again and again, surrendered, was killed, fled, and made a comeback, establishing the Liao State.

Oh, these minorities are very tenacious.

"Nomads must be dealt with, otherwise there will be too many dead." Li Yi thought about the change of dynasties and wasted too much time for development.

"How to solve it? We can't muster troops. "The Queen knows what's going on over there.

The Anton Metropolitan Protectorate said that it was Anton, but it was all moved away last year, and the strategy was contracted.

After the contraction, there will be no wartime, everyone is waiting, it is peaceful.

Li Yi took a sip of soup and said: "Now they have little grain, and the yield per mu in a few small places where they grow grain cannot go up at all, so they cultivate extensively. ”

"yes, they're stupid." The queen found something to be happy about.

"So let them learn to farm, deal with the big things this year, see if they can get in touch with them in the spring, exchange local products with them, and exchange them for seeds."

Li Yi said what he was going to do.

"They have food and it's time for them to raise their troops." Li Longji frowned.

The Khitan and Turks came to fight when they had something to eat, and they also came to fight when they didn't have anything to eat.

If there is military rations, they naturally have to grab the place and the population, and in order not to starve to death, they come to grab food.

"Third brother, in fact, after planting the fields, their soldier training will be less, and a large part of them will be turned into farmers.

And I taught them to grow soybeans, and Datang needs soybean oil. Soybeans can't be their staple food, and then we will trade wheat for beans with them. ”

Li Yi told Li Longji what crops the Khitans planted, soybeans.

Soybeans can be planted by the river, and after planting soybeans on the cultivated land, if the soybean seedlings are turned into the ground, the field can be fertilized.

"What if they don't change it?" Li Longji asked the key question, you can change it if you want to? You let them plant and they plant?

"Mirrors, toilet water, soap, as long as soybeans, nothing else will be exchanged." Li Yi proposed luxury.

He believed that the tribal leaders would like it, and they flocked to it.

Li Longji groaned slightly: "I told my eldest brother, you take out some mirrors first, our imperial relatives should contribute to the Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Longji is ready to try it to see if those people have a great need for mirrors.

That's all for the time being, depending on the situation in the future.

A group of people continued to eat, and Queen Wang was the first to put down her chopsticks with the idea of eating a few more bites.

She was only half-full, and then she took the spoon and drank the soup, and she had to drink another three-point full soup, which was fine.

"Let's see if they're gone? The smell of the Western Turks is big, and I am annoyed. "The queen found a reason for the eunuch to see.

Ziyu ran out and came back a moment later.

"When they eat, they are too good to eat, and they have to take a bath after eating." Purple Jade Report.

"Uncle, you are familiar with Wang Xing, why don't you go to the Huangzhuang above for a while." Queen Wang, who didn't want to be recognized, made another excuse.

"Okay." Li Yi is indispensable, he has been to Huangzhuang twice, but he has never walked in it.

After eating, everyone went directly to Huangzhuang from here, and Huangzhuang and Li Yi Zhuangzi originally had a ditch.

In the summer, there is too much water to accumulate and the ditch becomes foul.

Now it has been filled in, and four roads from Zhuangzi to Huangzhuang have been built.

A large number of fungus and lion's mane mushrooms were sent over for storage, and Wang Xing made false accounts according to Li Yi's suggestion.

A large part of the things were placed in Li Yi Zhuangzi, and a small part was sent up.

This part of the things was sold to heaven and earth, and then Li Longji rewarded people for use.

You can't buy it outside at all, and only wild ones picked by others will appear in the East Market.

When the group passed, the Zhuang of Huangzhuang saw it, they didn't know Li Longji and Queen Wang, and they greeted Li Yi when they saw it.

After saying hello, they turned their heads and went back to busy.

There is a big shed, someone is boiling water and you, wrapped in duck eggs with plant ashes, and then put them into jars.

Li Longji had never seen such a method of preserving duck eggs, and turned his head to look at Li Yi.

"Quicklime, a boiled liquid with a large amount of plant ash, with plant ash and mud and chaff, put salt and mud with a little wine.

At a certain temperature, the egg whites in the eggs will harden and at the same time change somewhat.

To make the process faster and more stable, you need to add fried lead powder, or something made by mixing bile alum distillate with copper.

But I didn't want to use these two things, so I put some wine, and the coagulation effect was not very good, but it could still be made.

Eggs have a unique taste and last longer than salted eggs, especially in jars. ”

What Li Yi said was a Songhua egg, which did not add metal ions to follow the reaction, which had a poor taste and unstable molding time.

Copper sulfate is much better than lead, but sulfuric acid and copper, neither of which is cheap, sulfuric acid can do a lot of things.

Soda ash Li Yi didn't put it either, it's not easy to get some soda ash by yourself, and I'm reluctant.

Anyway, the Tang people have never eaten authentic Songhua eggs, and what they make by themselves is the best.

"How else do you keep your eggs?" Queen Wang asked with a wink, she really didn't understand.

"Put it in rice husks and chaff, or in grain, sand and plant ash."

Li Yi knows this very well, there are many eggs on Zhuangzi, and he can't think of a way to put them down.

The price of tea eggs has fallen, and it is a little more expensive than the price of eggs, and merchants will buy them in large quantities and then sell them.

Other pickled salted eggs, hatched poultry, and Zhuangzi eat their own.

Li Yishun took out the Songhua egg method, and this thing actually still contains lead.

With it, he has not eaten Songhua eggs made with yellow pill powder.