The accompanying officials immediately patted their ass: "Good poetry, good poetry, the king is really talented!" ”

Zhao Junsheng looked like he was about to be constipated when he heard it, how could he remember that ambiguous word when he listened to it?

Ploughing the field with cattle seems simple, but in fact it is not so easy, Zhao Junsheng knew as soon as he got started, this is not a good job for everyone, at least the first time is definitely not easy to do well.

First of all, the ox is not so obedient, you have to figure out its temper, usually it does not walk fast, it is even slower when pulling the plow, you can't always whip it, if you beat it in a hurry, it will go crazy.

Secondly, it is necessary to master the speed of ploughing, the ox will be tired when it walks fast, and it will not take long to stop and rest, at an appropriate speed, the ox can pull the plough for a longer time, sometimes it will stop and rest for a while, at this time it can not be driven in a hurry, wait for it to rest for two or three minutes and then drive away.

The temper of the ox is very strong, if the people who plough the field also follow the strong, the field is ironclad and cannot be cultivated, and only by mastering its temper can it honestly pull the plough and plough the field.

It took Zhao Junsheng an hour to master the method of plowing the field, so that the ox was willing to pull the plough forward at a uniform speed.

After plowing for about two hours, Zhao Junsheng felt that the ploughing cattle were a little tired, so he stopped and asked someone to bring a basin of water and a bundle of grass, the cattle ate the grass, drank water, rested in the process of eating and river water, and regained their physical strength and spirit, and the speed of plowing the field was faster.

At the end of the day, Zhao Junsheng cultivated four acres of land, one acre more than the yellow tree.

When I returned to Huang Shu's house in the evening, Huang Shu's wife had already cooked the meal.

The accompanying officials and generals had their own places to eat, and Zhao Junsheng didn't care about them, and ate with Hua Mulan and his children with the Huang family.

Zhao Junsheng sat down at the table and saw a bowl of white flake soup among the dishes on the table, and some vegetable leaves in the soup, which looked like tofu, but was different from the tofu of later generations.

"What is this?"

Huang Li said: "This is tofu, presumably the king and princess have never eaten such food that only untouchables eat, right?" ”

It is said that tofu was invented by Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, and Zhao Junsheng has never eaten tofu since he came to this world for so long, after all, the tofu at this time was far inferior to later generations in terms of coagulation and taste, so it did not become the mainstream of cooking.

Zhao Junsheng picked up the bamboo chopsticks and put a piece in his mouth to eat, the taste is indeed relatively poor, no wonder the tofu at this time can still become the mainstream of cooking, he asked Mrs. Huang: "Old lady, your tofu is soaked in soybeans and ground into soybean juice, then wrapped in gauze to make soybean juice, pressed a heavy object to let the soy milk flow out, and then put salt brine in the soy milk, is this the practice?" ”

Mrs. Huang was surprised: "That's right, but I don't want the king to know how to make tofu!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a smile: "The old lady of Guchai definitely didn't heat the soy milk, but directly put salt brine in the cold soy milk, right?" ”

Mrs. Huang was puzzled: "Isn't this what tofu is all about?" Why do you need to heat it up? ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "You should still have soy milk here, right?" Why don't you heat the soy milk first, remove the suspended foam, and then try the salt brine! ”

Mrs. Huang didn't eat anymore, and walked to the stove house with a stomach full of doubts.

When Zhao Junsheng came to the stove house when he was eating, he saw that Mrs. Huang had already ordered the salt and brine, and hurriedly walked over and put down the dishes and chopsticks and said, "Old lady, come on, let the lonely come!" ”

He took the spatula and stirred it in the soy milk in the wooden barrel, and while stirring, the wooden barrel condensed into tofu flowers, and he immediately said, "Quickly bring a big wooden basin!" ”

After about a quarter of an hour after the tofu flower condensed, Zhao Junsheng spread a large piece of gauze on the large wooden basin, and called Huang Shu and Huang Li to pull up the four corners of the gauze.

Zhao Junsheng poured the tofu flower in the wooden barrel into the gauze, and then asked Huang Shu and Huang Li to wrap the gauze around the tofu flower, and asked his eldest son to find a door panel and spread it on the ground, put the gauze bag wrapped in the tofu flower on the door panel, and pressed it on the gauze bag with a wooden pot lid, and the gauze bag containing the tofu flower was flattened, and the water in the gauze bag kept overflowing.

After everyone finished eating, Huang Li cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and returned to the stove house to wash the dishes, and let out a scream, everyone thought that she was in the kitchen, and they all ran to the kitchen, only to find that Huang Li was squatting next to the door panel on the ground and looking at a tofu disc on it in a daze, white and tender, exuding an attractive bean fragrance, and there was hot air on it.

Zhao Junsheng took a kitchen knife, squatted down, cut a small slice, and served a bowl to Mulan: "You taste it!" ”

Hua Mulan took the bowl and took the chopsticks into her mouth, "Well, it's delicious, it's so tender!" ”

"Taste it, everybody!" Zhao Junsheng cut a small piece for everyone in the Huang Shu family for them to taste, and everyone said that it was good after eating, it was much more tender than the previous Huang Laozi, it solidified well, and the taste was much better.

"Oops, it turns out that as long as the soy milk is heated and boiled, the taste is completely different, and it looks good, the old woman is really eye-opening!" Mrs. Huang said in amazement.

At this time, Hua Mulan smiled and said: "Old lady, now you are the only one who knows the art of making tofu, and you can go into the city to open a tofu shop to sell tofu with this skill, and keep your family's children and grandchildren from food and clothing for generations!" ”

The Huang family was stunned and looked at Mrs. Huang, but Mrs. Huang looked at Zhao Junsheng and said hesitantly: "But this ······ If it weren't for the king's suggestion, how would the old woman know that boiling soy milk can make tofu so delicious? ”

Hua Mulan said: "Don't worry, don't worry, will the king still go to the street to open a tofu shop and rob you of business?" ”

"Hey, the king's grace, a great gift!" Mrs. Huang shouted, and immediately pulled her sons, grandchildren and daughter-in-law to kneel down, and kowtowed again and again to thank her.

"Get up!"

Zhao Junsheng asked everyone in the Huang family to get up, and said to them: "This soybean can not only be made into tofu, but also can be made into dried tofu. You can also use a special box-shaped mold to make the tofu square, which is both delicious and beautiful. Tofu can be boiled in soup, or fried in oil, fried until charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and there are many ways to do it! ”

Later, Mrs. Huang followed the method Zhao Junsheng said, and really made dried tofu, and then the Huang family really went to the city to open a tofu shop, and the business was so good that the Huang family carefully managed it, inherited it for more than 200 years, and became a well-known time-honored brand.

After dark, Zhao Junsheng saw Huang Shu's father and son taking advantage of the moonlight to harvest the dry soybean bellflower on the harvest field, walked over and asked: "Old Huang, how do you deal with these soybean stalks, are they all used as firewood?" ”

"yes, what else can you do if you don't burn firewood?" Huang Shu wondered.

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand and said, "No, no, no, it's too wasteful to be firewood!" In this way, I will teach you a way to make fertilizer from soybean stalks, dead leaves, cow dung, pig dung, and sheep dung! ”

Huang Shu was even more puzzled: "Livestock manure itself is fertilizer, how can it be made into fertilizer?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Livestock manure is indeed fertilizer, and it can also be directly fertilized in the field, but there are many pest eggs in livestock manure, if these larval eggs are not killed by treatment, when the flowers bloom in the next spring, the larval eggs will grow and harm the crops!" ”

Zhao Junsheng knows that the treatment of manure in the future is not only to kill the insect pests in the manure, the manure of livestock contains a large number of antibiotics, and the use of high-temperature composting technology can not only kill the larvae in the manure, but also destroy the molecular structure of the residual drug in the manure generated by the high temperature generated during the fermentation process. Of course, in this era, antibiotics were not used in large quantities to treat livestock diseases, and naturally there were no antibiotics in manure.

Huang Shu was stunned: "I said why there are always so many pests in the field every year, dare to love that there are larvae in the manure of livestock!" ”

"No, pest larvae are not only found in livestock manure, but also in large quantities in the soil, and even the wind can blow the pest, so this pest cannot be removed, but the treatment of livestock manure can reduce the number of pests, understand?"

"I understand, I also ask the king to give me a way to make fertilizer from livestock manure, soybean bellflowers, and dead leaves!" Huang Shu hurriedly said.

Zhao Junsheng instructed: "Your father and son should first find a vacant land outside the yard, which should be a little closer to the water source to facilitate the use of water, and a little farther away from the house, it will be very smelly." Build a square mound with dirt in an open space, and the size of the square mound depends on the amount of material you have! The ridge should be about a foot high to prevent water from running! ”

"Now a few long sticks are inserted into the square mound circle, and then a layer of straw and leaves, about a foot or a foot and a half thick, sprinkled with some urine, and then a layer of animal manure, and then a layer of straw and leaves, and then a layer of urine, and then a layer of animal manure, and so on. Straw and dead leaves must be drenched with water before they are paved, reach out and hold them to be able to pinch out the water, remember that each layer of straw or leaves must be drenched with human urine, horse urine, etc., as long as it is urine! ”

"After the pile, cover the straw and manure with thin mud and seal it with thin mud, just like you use thin mud to paste the wall, understand?"

"In about 10 days, you will see that the manure heap will start to sink, and the temperature inside the pile will drop, so you have to turn over the pile again, mix the straw and manure that are not rotting well at the edge with the middle, and reseal the pile. If you find white mycelium on the straw, add an appropriate amount of water and re-seal the pile! ”

"The manure heap will definitely shrink, and when the bellflower turns black-brown to dark brown, and the leached liquid is black-brown to light yellow, and it is fragile, it means that the fertilizer is rotten and can be taken out to fertilize the field!"

Huang Shu was shocked for a moment after hearing this, "Dare to use this method to make straw into fertilizer, according to the king, wheat straw and other straw can also be made into fertilizer?" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded and said, "Of course, you can also do it, but the wheat straw has to be fed to the livestock, as long as the straw that the livestock does not eat, it can be made into fertilizer in this way!" ”