Daqin: Compared with his sons, Ying Zheng is jealous

【After confirming that wool can really be spun into yarn, and successfully securing 10% of the profits from the wool,】

【Prince Fusu, King Qin Ying Zheng and others also continued to head towards the last of the six departments of the Ministry of Agriculture, which was the Herb Department.】

【"This is the Baicao Division, which is mainly responsible for studying the five staple foods of rice, millet, foxtail millet, wheat, and beans, as well as the five vegetables of sunflower, radish, shallot, onion, and leek."】

【"Besides the five staple foods of rice, millet, foxtail millet, wheat and beans and the five vegetables of sunflower, radish, shallot, onion and leek, what else can be promoted for large-scale planting and consumption?"】

【Xu Zi stood in front and introduced Prince Fusu, King Qin Ying Zheng and others.】

【Prince Fusu, King Ying Zheng of Qin and others also looked around. Compared with the previous five departments, the Herb Department was a completely different scene.】

【If the Agricultural Department is specialized in researching how to improve farming efficiency and per-acre yield, the Forestry Department is specialized in researching how to plant various fruit trees.】

���The Animal Husbandry Department is specialized in studying how to raise various livestock, the River Department is specialized in studying how to raise various river fish, and the Textile Department is specialized in studying how to improve textile efficiency.】

【Baicaosi is a professional organization that studies how to eat various things and finds out what else can be eaten!】

【So Baicaosi looks like a huge comprehensive kitchen, with dozens of stoves, hundreds of fire pits, grills, and countless pots, bowls, ladles, basins and other kitchen utensils.】

【The peasants of the Herb Department brought five staple foods: rice, millet, sorghum, wheat, and beans; five vegetables: sunflower, radish, shallot, onion, and leek; and other things that even the Crown Prince Fusu and others could not recognize at first.】

【Then, according to your own ideas, you can either roast it on the fire, or boil it in a clay pot, and then add all kinds of seasonings.】

【Finally, a bunch of colorful and indescribable things were cooked.】

【Then, these farm children would give the"delicacies" they made to the death row prisoners or serious prisoners who were tied up beside them for tasting.】

【These prisoners on death row or in prison also ate the food with their eyes closed, looking determined to die.】

【Some death row inmates or serious prisoners just took the first bite and then vomited it out because it was too unpalatable.】

【After eating, some death row prisoners or serious prisoners immediately foamed at the mouth and fell backwards.

177 [The imperial physician who was specially transferred to the Herb Department to be ready to save people at any time also began to save people with extraordinary skill.】

【Some death row prisoners or serious prisoners started to have diarrhea not long after trying the food.】

【The various strange phenomena made the visitors, including Prince Fusu and Qin King Ying Zheng, look strange.】

【This made Xu Zi, who was standing by, feel a little embarrassed.】

【If at the beginning the peasants were more careful about what they cooked because they tasted hundreds of herbs themselves, and did not dare to mess around, fearing that they would lose their lives by accident, then】

【Then, after listening to the explanation given by Prince Fusu, they realized that they could use death row prisoners or serious prisoners in Xianyang City to taste the food on their behalf, and Prince Fusu also specially found death row prisoners or serious prisoners to be responsible for tasting the food for them.】

【Then the peasants of the Herb Department gradually began to let themselves go, eating anything that looked edible but might not actually be edible.】

【Or maybe something that looks inedible but is actually edible, all of them were found by the farm boys of the Herb Department, and then they were destroyed according to their own ideas.】

【To be frank, the peasants of the Herb Department even cooked the weeds growing on the roadside.】

【Of course, the taste and texture of the cooked weeds were similar to what they expected. They were not delicious and could even be said to be difficult to swallow.】

【From this perspective, it was somewhat difficult for the death row prisoners or serious prisoners who were forced to eat grass at that time.】

【However, Xu Zi felt that the reputation of the farmers still had to be maintained. He couldn't let the farmers from the Baicao Division ruin the good image that the farmers from the first five divisions had established in front of Prince Fusu and King Qin Ying Zheng.】

【"Ahem, Zhonglichun, come here for a moment."】

【Xu Zi coughed twice and waved his hand to Zhong Lichun, the steward of the Herb Department, to come over.】

【Zhong Lichun, who was busy cooking"delicious food", heard someone calling him, looked up and saw Xu Zi and Crown Prince Fusu standing not far away.】

【Zhongli Chun immediately put down what he was holding, and hurriedly walked to the front of Prince Fusu and King Ying Zheng of Qin, bowing and saying,"Your Majesty, Your Highness, and all the gentlemen, I am Zhongli Chun, the Secretary of the Herb Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture."】

【Zhongli Chun had never met Qin King Ying Zheng before, but he had met Crown Prince Fusu.】

【After Xu Zi selected him as the secretary of the Herb Bureau, Xu Zi also took the secretaries of the six departments of the Ministry of Agriculture to personally meet with Prince Fusu.】

【In addition, there were two subsequent meetings of the six ministries convened by Crown Prince Fusu himself, and the six ministers and their respective autonomous departments also participated.】

【So although Zhongli Chun did not meet Prince Fusu many times, he still remembered what he looked like.】

【He came with Prince Fusu, and was able to have Prince Fusu stand behind him. At the same time, his age was about the same as the King of Qin he knew.】

【The most important thing is that the majestic, noble, indifferent and cold temperament is so unique】

【Therefore, Zhongli Chun was sure that the person standing in front of Prince Fusu was most likely the King of Qin, Ying Zheng.】

【King Qin Ying Zheng nodded slightly and said,"No need to be polite."】

【Then Xu Zi also spoke up and reminded:"Didn't you say before that your Baicao Division has developed some new food?"】

【"Have you tried all these foods?"】

【"If the test confirms that it is harmless to the body, then I will present it to you while your Majesty and your Highness are here."】

【After hearing his teacher's words, Zhongli Chun instantly realized that his teacher was taking this opportunity to take credit for him!】

【Zhong Lichun immediately said excitedly:"It has been tested and confirmed to be edible and has no harmful effects on the body!"】

【"I'll serve it up right away. I just made some today."】

【After saying that, Zhongli Chun turned around and walked towards the kitchen at the back, while Crown Prince Fusu, King Qin Ying Zheng and others also showed a hint of expectation.】

【After all, the five departments of the Ministry of Agriculture had given them some surprises to varying degrees, so they were also looking forward to whether the Herb Department would give them some unexpected surprises.】

【In less than a moment, Zhongli Chun came over quickly with a pottery bowl in both hands.】

【When Zhongli Chun came to the front of the crowd with the pottery bowl in hand, Prince Fusu, King Ying Zheng of Qin and others saw a white jade-like cube in the pottery bowl that they had never seen before, which swayed as they walked.】

【"What is this?"】

【King Ying Zheng of Qin looked at the white jade-like cube in the pottery bowl and asked with a little curiosity:】

【Zhong Lichun shook his head and said,"This thing has not yet had an official name, so we will temporarily call it white bean block."】

【Then, Zhongli Chun further explained the origin of this thing:"Because before, His Highness asked us to work hard to study more and better ways to eat rice, millet, sorghum, wheat, beans, etc."】

【"Therefore, after receiving the order, our peasants from the Herb Department also conducted various researches on rice, millet, sorghum, wheat, and beans."】

【"One of the studies is about how to use less food to feed more people."】

【"Then we thought that if the same amount of food is cooked into a soup, it will obviously be more than the dry food that is not cooked into a soup."】

【"The reason is that the soup contains a lot of water."】

【"What if we add more water to the soup?"】

【"Can you get more food?"】

【"However, if too much water is added to the soup, the original soup will be greatly diluted, making the soup no longer a soup."】

【"Unless we add more food into the soup, it will be possible to turn it back into soup."】

【"But this goes against our initial research on how to use less food to feed more people."】

【"So we came up with another idea. Since there is less food, we can grind it into smaller pieces so that it will look more like there is more food."】

【"Then we boil these crushed grains with a lot of water. Will the amount of the final soup be a little larger?"】

【"So we started to practice, grinding rice, millet, sorghum, wheat and beans into powder."】

【"Then we added water to each of them and boiled them. While boiling, we were worried that the soup would taste bland, so we added some pickled vegetable juice to it."】

【"Unexpectedly, when the pickled cabbage water was poured into the boiled bean paste, the bean paste gradually became clear, and bean milk like white jade condensed around it."】

【"The condensed bean curd is so tender and smooth, it is simply the most delicious thing in the world!"】

【"Take a bite, the tender taste and rich juice drip from the corners of our mouths"】

【"Then we thought, what would it look like if we removed the water from the condensed bean curd?"】

【"Will it become more delicious?"】

【"Or will it become something else that we don't know?"】

【"So we scooped the condensed bean curd into a wooden box, wrapped it with a layer of cloth to prevent dust from falling, and then closed the box."】

【"Finally, put a basin of water or a heavy object such as a stone on the lid to press it down."】

【"We immediately saw some milk dripping out of the milk box. When there was no more milk dripping out, we opened the lid."】

【"Finally, we got the solidified white bean block in front of us."】

【"It tastes just as tender and smooth, and even chewier than bean curd."】

【"Moreover, it can be eaten with various other foods. Not only will it not affect the taste of other foods, but it will even be permeated with the flavor of other foods, making them more delicious!"】

【The development process of white bean blocks is naturally not as simple as Zhong Lichun said.】

【In fact, Zhong Lichun and other farmers from the Baicao Division discovered bean milk and developed the shaped white bean block.】

【The entire development process took several months and hundreds of failed experiments before the white bean block was successfully developed.】

【It's just that when Zhongli Chun was telling the story, he omitted the failed experiments, so it sounded very simple.】

【Prince Fusu, who was listening to Zhongli Chun's story, swallowed his saliva quietly. After hearing what Zhongli Chun said, the white bean cubes seemed to be delicious.】

【I feel like eating!】

【"How is this white bean block made specifically? Could you please make it for me now?"】

【"In addition, how do you usually taste this white bean cube?"】

【"Do you have any extra white bean pieces? I want to taste some too."】

【Prince Fusu looked at Zhongli Chun and said excitedly】

【Not only Prince Fusu was interested, but others present, such as King Qin Ying Zheng, were also somewhat interested.】

【Zhong Lichun nodded and said with a smile:"Of course, Your Majesty, Your Highness and the others please wait for a moment."

【Zhongli Chun then gave some instructions to the farmer's son from the Herb Department beside him. Not long after, several farmers came out with beans and various utensils and began to show the process of making white bean blocks to Prince Fusu, King Qin Ying Zheng and others.】

【Zhong Lichun stood aside and explained to everyone:"After repeated research and improvement, we have summarized the steps of making white bean blocks into five steps."】

【"Step 1: Soaking beans"】

【"Put the beans into a pot filled with water and let them fully absorb the water."】

【"The second step is grinding"】

【After about an hour, take out the beans that have absorbed all the water and put them in a pottery jar with a hole at the bottom for pounding, or on a stone mill. In short, as long as the beans that have absorbed all the water can be ground into bean paste, it will be fine."】

【"By the way, after squeezing out the bean pulp, you can filter it with a layer of gauze, so that the later ones will be more tender and smooth."】

【"As for the bean residue that has been filtered out, it can also be used to cook the soup again, so that it will not be wasted."】

【"Step 3: Boil the pulp"】

【"The crushed bean pulp is stored and then boiled directly"】

【"Step 4: Add pulp"】

【"After repeated verification and research, we found that after the bean paste is boiled, pickle juice, brine, or the pulp water obtained from making white bean blocks last time can be added to the bean paste, so that the bean paste will slowly solidify and take shape."】

【"Step 5: Press the bean curd"】

【"Scoop the initially shaped bean curd into the cloth, then put it into a press box, cover the box, and then put a basin of water or a stone on it to slowly press out the water from the bean curd."】

【"After about two to three quarters of an hour, the bean curd will be pressed into white bean blocks."】

【"By the way, if you wrap the bean curd with a few more layers of cloth and then squeeze out the moisture inside,"】

【"The dried bean curd is squeezed out like this, which has a different flavor and taste compared to the white bean curd block."】......

PS1: My friend had an accident today, so I didn't update in time, sorry.