GBP Chapter 198 Not only delicious, but also nourishing~
Chapter 198 Not only delicious, but also nourishing~
Chang Yuchun was very satisfied with the meal prepared by Magistrate Yang. He ate the whole, salted, fat chicken, and even gnawed on the meaty bones until his mouth was full of oil.
Eating manners?
nonexistent.
Leading troops to pursue the Tartar Prime Minister Yesu was no easy task; it was a time of great hardship, with little time for eating and sleeping. Upon returning with the troops, he had to maintain military discipline and couldn't indulge in unrestrained feasting. Now that he was finally able to have a big meal in Ningyang County, how could Chang Yuchun possibly be polite to Magistrate Yang?
Eat up! This bastard took half a pound of my little dragon balls. What's wrong with me eating a little of his food?
While Chang Yuchun was eating fatty chicken and big bones, Lame Wu was busy with his men at the pig farm.
As instructed by Magistrate Yang, all the twenty-odd large fat pigs recently collected from the pig farm were slaughtered and stewed with cabbage and vermicelli. In the chicken farm, apart from the breeding chickens and chicks that were kept to breed the next generation of broilers and laying hens, all the chickens that had grown to a certain size were also slaughtered and stewed with salt; nothing else was needed.
The women in the county town all got up and started borrowing flour from each household. They then steamed 10,000 buns and also picked all the scallions that had just sprouted in the greenhouse.
They also took out chicken eggs and duck eggs, some of which were boiled and fed to Chang Yuchun's five thousand cavalrymen, while others were added to the fodder of the warhorses.
forage?
All the residents of the sixteen neighborhoods in Ningyang County were sent out to find fresh tender grass, and some soybeans stored in the county government warehouse were also taken out, along with a few more soybean cakes to mix in.
It was agreed when they swore an oath in Ningyang County before setting off that they would return to Ningyang County in triumph, and Ningyang County would definitely treat them well. Now it is time for Magistrate Yang to fulfill his promise.
So when Chang Yuchun had eaten and drunk his fill and was about to lead his troops away from Ningyang County, what he saw were five thousand cavalrymen with greasy mouths.
According to the guards, this was the first time they had ever eaten with such a guilty conscience. Many of them were eating while recalling how many Tartars they had killed, whether they had lived up to the food in front of them, and whether they had lived up to the kindness of Magistrate Yang and the people of Ningyang County.
Then, Chang Yuchun couldn't help but feel a little guilty.
He had promised to kill ten Tartars for Yang Shaofeng, and he had indeed killed quite a few, certainly far more than ten.
However, the Tartars did not bring back their heads, or even their ears.
Chang Yuchun's dark face flushed slightly, and he snorted coldly, "Damn it! This time, I'm the one who owes him a favor!"
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After seeing Chang Yuchun off, Magistrate Yang stopped thinking about what Emperor Zhu Chongba was planning to do and instead focused all his attention on the various messy things happening in Ningyang County.
For example, that road in the south of the city.
Thanks to the continuous efforts of Liu Hongchang, Master Geng, and their relatives, the simple cement road connecting Ningyang County to Yanzhou Prefecture has been completed by about one-fifth. If more manpower is not sent, it is estimated that about one-fifth to two-fifths can be completed before winter.
In other words, without the five thousand scholars exiled by Emperor Zhu to Ningyang County, this road would have taken at least two or three more years to complete. With these five thousand scholars, the completion time could be brought forward to before winter.
As for whether these five thousand scholars would work diligently or run away... Magistrate Yang believed that Limpy Wu and the thousand-household garrison stationed near Ningyang County would be able to solve this problem perfectly.
Besides the cement road in the south of the city, another thing that Magistrate Yang was concerned about was mulberry planting and silkworm breeding.
Although Magistrate Yang knew nothing about planting seedlings, grafting, spring pruning, and summer pruning, nor did he know what kind of mulberry leaves to feed silkworms at what time, and had no interest in learning these things, he was very concerned about raising silkworms.
Especially the hatching and growth process of silkworms.
In order to observe how silkworms hatch, Magistrate Yang even went to Liu Thirty-Two's house to observe and learn.
When he watched Liu Sanshi's wife, Liu Zhaoshi, lift the damp cloth covering the silkworm paper and gently sweep the newly hatched silkworms, which were not even as big as ants, into a basket with a chicken feather, and then gently place chopped mulberry leaves next to the silkworms, Magistrate Yang inexplicably felt that the process was very stress-relieving.
The only regret is that the newly hatched "ant silkworms" are not as cute as crystal clear white jade; instead, they are black or brown, and have absolutely nothing to do with the word "cute."
After staring at the newly hatched silkworms for most of the day, until he felt a little hungry, Magistrate Yang looked at Liu Thirty-Two and asked, "Once these silkworms grow up, can we make silkworm paper ourselves?"
Liu Thirty-Two answered without hesitation: "Of course we can make silkworm paper. In fact, a few years ago when we could still raise silkworms, the people of Ningyang County also made their own silkworm paper. But later, things became more and more chaotic, and no one dared to raise silkworms at home anymore, so of course no one made silkworm paper."
After saying that, Liu Thirty-Two asked with some curiosity, "Does the lord intend for our county to make its own silkworm paper? I do know a man in the city named Dong Laowu. His family makes the best silkworm paper. In the past, the people in our county would buy silkworm paper from him."
Yang Shaofeng asked with considerable curiosity, "Don't all households make their own silkworm paper?"
Liu Thirty-Two paused for a moment, then smiled and shook his head, saying, "Sir, you may not know this, but a pair of moths can produce about four or five hundred silkworm eggs. If someone like Dong Laowu knows how to make silkworm paper, a single sheet can have thousands or tens of thousands of silkworm eggs. But if it's an ordinary family that doesn't know how to make it, a whole sheet of silkworm paper might only have a thousand or so silkworm eggs. So most people buy from Dong Laowu."
Dong Laowu?
Magistrate Yang noted down the name and then asked, "What about the silkworm moth? I remember that after silkworms spin cocoons, they become pupae, and after emerging from the cocoon, they become silkworm moths. What do you do with the silkworm moths after they lay their eggs?"
Liu Thirty-Two chuckled and said, “My lord, you may not know this, but if you don’t plan to make silkworm paper, you can boil the silk before the silkworm pupae emerge from their cocoons. If you do plan to make silkworm paper, and the previous year’s bean harvest was bountiful, then these silkworm moths are a rare delicacy. They are not only delicious when fried in oil, but they are also nutritious.”
At this point, Liu Thirty-Two even gave Magistrate Yang a knowing look.
Magistrate Yang did indeed understand the meaning in Liu Thirty-Two's eyes—silkworm moths are not only delicious, but also have certain nourishing effects!
But upon further reflection, Magistrate Yang felt somewhat helpless.
What's the point of nourishing yourself if you don't even have a wife?
No, this thing is useful, extremely useful!