The whole family of villains criticized her wildly, but the princess treated her with medical treatm

Mu Tingxue did not ask about Cui Jiangjiang's marriage.

There is no need to gossip about who Cui Jiangjiang's sweetheart is.

To put it bluntly, even if she marries Yan Yang and becomes the mistress of the Yan family, she cannot stretch her hands too far and reach out to her eldest aunt's house to interfere with the Cui family's family affairs or interfere with Miss Cui's marriage. Point the country.

The world police are annoying no matter where they are in time and space.

The only thing Mu Tingxue can do is to teach Miss Cui how to make sweet wheat sauce, so that she can have a skill to light up the technology tree, so that she can quickly gain a foothold no matter what difficulties she encounters in the future.

As the old saying goes, the economic base determines the superstructure.

"Sweet wheat sauce is made from wheat and flour, which is made through koji making and fermentation."

"What song?"

Cui Jiangjiang has a strong thirst for knowledge. As a pickle master, she knows very well how important the koji-making process is.

Many sauces use different songs.

Even the Cui family's Youzhou wine shop has more than forty kinds of koji, which can be fermented to produce different types of wine.

Mu Tingxue replied: "Sweet wheat sauce uses Aspergillus oryzae koji made from cooked whole grain wheat, and is put into the cooked wheat for fermentation. Koji making and fermentation have temperature requirements, and spring and autumn are better. Now The temperature is a bit low in winter, so fermentation requires heating and heat preservation measures.”

Cui Jiangjiang listened very carefully.

Especially when listening to the eldest princess’s melody and fragmentary music craftsmanship, I developed a deep respect for her.

Is there anything in this world that the eldest princess cannot do?

"It would be more intuitive if you could explain it while practicing it." Mu Tingxue was struggling in her house and did not have the raw materials and equipment to make koji.

Taking theoretical classes in this way is too general and similar to talking on paper.

"Let's go to Xingyuan Sauce Shop in Yundu!"

Cui Jiangjiang excitedly held Mu Tingxue's hand, "There is everything there, soybeans, wheat, flour, low-temperature fermentation tanks for sauce making, fermentation tanks, ventilated koji-making tanks, and some sauce-making workers exposed to the sun and night dew. .”

Mu Tingxue had heard of Xingyuan.

It's not so much a shop that sells sauce, but more accurately, it's a workshop that makes sauce.

It is still a large chain of workshops across the country, mainly selling soybean paste.

Arriving half an hour later.

"Soy noodles?"

Mu Tingxue noticed that there were jars of soybean paste on the shelves in Xingyuan, and the labels on them read the word fermented noodles.

"It is another name for soybean paste. We insist on using mountain spring water to make the sauce to ensure the aroma of the sauce. We also insist on repeatedly cleaning the sauce jar with home-brewed liquor to ensure that the sauce jar is clean and retains the aroma of the wine." Cui Jiang was elated.

Mu Tingxue praised: "It's very smart. Use alcohol to disinfect the sauce jar to keep it hygienic."

The wisdom of the ancient working people was summed up in practice. They may not know the principle of alcohol sterilization, but they know that its effect is widely used in the sauce-making process.

After inspecting the food production environment, she was quite satisfied.

The Cui family indeed has two brushes.

"The first step in making sweet wheat sauce is to take a stone of wheat and soak it overnight, then steam the wheat and spread it out flat. It's best to steam it until it's broken."

"The soaked and steamed wheat are all ready! It's so steamed."

Cui Jiangjiang said that when making soybean paste, some wheat and flour must be added.

Everything was brought.

Mu Tingxue took matters into her own hands and sprinkled the white flour on it: "While it's hot, stir the white flour evenly and spread it on the Ruo leaves, about two fingers thick. Cover it with Xanthium leaves and let the Aspergillus fully ferment."

Cui Jiangjiang also followed suit and made Aspergillus oryzae Sanqu.

The two were busy for an hour.

"The fermentation time is a bit long, you have to wait about five days. Let me teach you the next steps first."

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

"Mix one stone and six measures of salt with three measures of salt, and boil the solution into a salty soup. After settling, take eight liters of the salt water and put it into an urn."

Salt is important.

Salt is essential in making sauce.

In the past, the salt in Yunhuang was very expensive, and the quality was very poor, with many impurities, bitter and astringent. After Mu Tingxue improved the method of making refined salt, the price of refined salt was partially reduced. Xingyuan Sauce Shop no longer used the unpalatable coarse salt, but instead used refined salt for pickling.

This undoubtedly greatly enhances the deliciousness of the sauce!

"My aunt's refined salt from the Imperial City Chamber of Commerce is very useful." Cui Jiangjiang was filled with emotion when he prepared the salt water according to the method. "And it's cheaper than before. One pound only costs 250 yuan. In the past, coarse salt cost 300 to 400 yuan." Woolen cloth."

Mu Tingxue thought.

Yes...the price of salt!

It seems that it can be lowered again.

The essence of high salt prices is to collect salt taxes. But since white sugar was produced and sold well in the country, a lot of the high taxes on luxury white sugar have been levied. The sources of tax revenue for the treasury have become more diversified, and the overall situation is no longer so dependent on salt taxes.

"Two hundred and fifty cents is still a bit expensive. Let's wait until a government decree is issued during the Chinese New Year to reduce it to two hundred cents."

"two hundred?!"

Cui Jiangjiang couldn't believe his ears and his jaw dropped. "This is too cheap. Yunhuang refined salt has never been so low."

She was happy in her heart.

Because a large amount of salt is used to make sauce, the price of salt keeps falling, which means that the cost of sauce falls again and again, and the profit margin becomes larger.

"It can get even lower in the future."

Mu Tingxue sealed the precipitated salt water into an urn.

"Aren't you afraid that taxes will become lower and it will be difficult to explain?" Cui Jiangjiang couldn't help but worry for her. "What is being harmed is the interests of the royal family and the court. Can those people agree?"

"The amount of Taicang silver in the Ministry of Revenue will only increase. In the future, it will also be able to collect alcohol taxes, luxury jewelry taxes, import and export trade taxes, and tobacco taxes."

Mu Tingxue was very calm.

The price of salt in China came down and became affordable for everyone. It started during the warlord period of the Republic of China when tobacco and alcohol were included in heavy taxes.

The ruler's great weapon.

"Liquor tax?"

Cui Jiangjiang lost his temper again, "This... I'm afraid this is not appropriate. There are countless people in Yunhuang who are addicted to alcohol. Every household drinks alcohol, which is very popular among the people. The nobles also drink wine as water. If heavy taxes are increased, it will attract complaints. "

Mu Tingxue understood that the white wine drank by the ancients had a low alcohol content and was similar to rice wine.

So what Cui Jiangjiang said is not an exaggeration. Almost everyone in Yunhuang drinks alcohol, and liquor drinks are also made into various grain and fruit flavors.

There are wine shops, taverns, and breweries everywhere on the streets. The Cui family's Youzhou wine shop is the industry leader.

"Chinese people are addicted to alcohol, which is not a good thing. Excessive drinking is harmful to health."

Mu Tingxue said sternly, "If the alcohol tax is increased, the retail price of alcohol will go up, and there will be fewer people who can afford it. There will also be fewer and fewer lazy people who drink for fun all day long and use alcohol to numb themselves."

Cui Jiangjiang tried to figure out the meaning of the eldest princess's words, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"I'm going too far. Now I'll teach you the last step of making wheat sauce - after the koji is fermented, put it into an urn, mix it with salt water evenly, and put it in the sun for ten days. When the sweet wheat sauce is cooked, you can eat it. "