Why did you promote soybeans in Guanzhong? On the one hand, in terms of maturity and cold tolerance, there are no better crops besides soybeans! On the other hand, Wang Hou didn't think about eating soybeans! The left and right are right in front of him!

A large pot of beans was steamed with air. Under the violent burning of coal fire under the stove, it steamed for more than ten minutes, and it was 70% or 80% cooked. When it was hot, it was taken down by these workers and then replaced with a pot.

During this time, Wang Hou and his wife also finished the lunch inspecting the grain warehouse. From the old liar Lunzhi, who was a lie who was just starting to work, to Deng Ai, the young staff officer who had just started working, they all looked over curiously and looked at Wang Hou's grinning command. Under the command of Wang Hou, the tenants who were in labor service grinned their teeth and stirred up several pots of steamed beans, and then put them in an iron circle. They used all the energy to eat, and finally pressed out a large piece of bean paste.

The pressed bean paste was black and yellow, like a piece of fermented fertilizer. Under Wang Hou's command, these tenants clanged their tongues and wrapped the round bean paste with fine straw, making them look like huge coins.

Finally, we reached the most important step, pressing! Wang Hou had already made this thing before collecting beans. He chose a fairly solid house in the Weiyang Palace treasury, and reinforced two beams on the house. Then, a large wood weighing more than one ton was hung on the reinforced beam wall, which looked like a scale rod.

The weight is also equipped with a large turntable with wooden gears on the beam, connecting the chain to lift the hanging giant wood. By stepping on the turntable under your feet, you can lift the heavy giant wood.

Several workers placed the compacted bean cakes surrounded by iron grates in rows on one side of the giant wood hanging weighing plate. Below it was also above the grooved oil pool made of wood, and then covered the soybean meal with a round cast iron lump and compacted it. Several workers stepped on their rocking arms and raised the end of the giant wood long. Under the principle of leverage, the other end of the giant wood pressed down was particularly heavy and pressed down.

This was restored from the ancient northern oil press that Wang Hou had seen during his travels, but! The rapeseed oil he pressed and the soybean oil he pressed were not suitable for the method, and he really felt unsure! Just as Wang Hou was holding his face and the staff were gaze, the giant wood weight was rising higher and higher. The gravity of its own, coupled with the downward pressure caused by bending, the stack of bean cakes made a creaking sound. Finally, the first golden soybean oil flowed out along the straw bales at the bottom, making Wang Hou finally feel relieved.

It's done!

What is the true meaning of a profitable businessman? It is expensive to sell and buy at a low price! Now the soybean market in the Han Dynasty is such an excellent skill suitable for the manipulation of a profitable businessman. The price ratio of soybeans and corn reaches 1 to 5, and the rice and wheat also reaches 1 to 4. However, selling cheap beans to the average price of the main rice, or even a lot more expensive, requires some technology and means.

This technical method is the oil pressing technology that is controlled in front of you!

In later generations, the oil yield rate of soybeans was between 16 and 20%, but the local pressing method could produce 10% good. One thousand kilograms of soybeans can produce about 100 kilograms of soybean oil, about two jars.

But just these two jars of soybean oil are enough to exchange for two stones of wheat!

Before the Song Dynasty, when iron pots appeared and Chinese cuisine suddenly flourished, the oils cooked by the Chinese were actually very lacking, and there was almost no vegetable oil! Basically, the animal oil used was used, and he had to thank the old man Bowang Hou Zhang Qian, who brought back sesame seeds. The oil yield rate of this thing reached 50%, which indeed improved the oil level used in the Han Dynasty. However, sesame sesame oil was extremely expensive in later generations, let alone now, only prodigal sons like Wang Hou could afford it. Generally, poor gentry had to consider using some sesame oil and a cold cucumber.

The rest is made of animal fat, just like in Liaodong, which can be eaten with big pots. Because Wang Houqin raises pigs, Liaodong still has a large area of ​​land and sparse wheat bran and husks, and the oil everyone eats is pork meat oil, but the price is not cheap.

When I arrived at the Liaodong grassland, I started to stir-fry the dishes and mutton oil. This thing is not cheap to get to the Central Plains.

It is estimated that after Wang Hou pressed oil in Guanzhong on a large scale, the price of soybean oil should also drop to the level of the Song Dynasty, but before that, he could make a lot of money.

Moreover, there are two benefits to planting soybean pressed soybean oil. One is that there are soybean bacteria at the roots, which can absorb free nitrogen in the air. Planting soybeans for one season is equivalent to applying nitrogen fertilizer to the soil once. Moreover, the soybean meal from soybean oil is not thrown away directly. After this thing is slightly fermented, it is full of nutritious bacteria. It is much more nutritious than feeding it directly with soybeans. At that time, Wang Hou can raise it in large quantities and eat it and attract the second senior brother.

"It actually produces oil. This oil is so fragrant!"

The smell of vegetable oil permeated in the air, causing the immortal Lunzhi to sniff heavily. After the straw was filtered, the golden soybean oil was poured into the oil tank, and Wang Hou's eyes were also shining, but a few tenant workers in charge of oil pressing were tragic and envious.

No wonder General Wang was so generous to exchange the fine grain for their coarse grains! Sure enough, they would never buy the fine grains that were sold! They would not be able to make money with this shiny soybean oil!

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This traitor Wang Hou! The chicken tofu that was originally a Northeast dish, braised tofu soaked, has now become authentic Shaanxi cuisine! After the specialty of soybean oil in Chang'an City, the Guandong Guanxi, which was not very close, became warm again. The closest Sili merchants and some Guandong clans who wanted to inquire about the news sent caravans to traffic in this batch of soybean oil, and by the way, they found out whether there was any advantage to take.

Then he walked to Tongguan, and there was a caravan with two money in his pocket, which gradually formed a new food culture. A string of copper coins was taken to the restaurant in Tongguan Town, and a bowl of chicken fried with soybean oil, and a big Wei River carp fried with soybean oil, which was particularly wine to relieve fatigue.

As caravans poured into Chang'an, the city of Chang'an, which was originally lifeless, finally had some vitality on the market. The flat ground cleared from the climax of demolishing the house a while ago was classified as the East City by Wang Hou. The merchants from Guandong gathered here, trading bulk soybean oil, and on the other hand, they sold some small things from Guandong to the garrison in Chang'an, such as straw mats, straw sandals, cloth, and even sugar wine from Qingzhou, paint tea from Jingzhou, etc.

This lively trading scene is the beginning of the revival of Chang'an. Looking at the East City with the crowds under your feet, Wang Hou couldn't help but aim at the northwest again.

Not only for him, but also for the commercial gentry in Qingzhou and Liaodong who supported him, but also for the Xianbei people on the grassland, they could not wait to reopen the Silk Road in the Western Regions again! The East City under his feet was ambitious and was particularly eager to revive the image of the Hu Ji Restaurant in the East and West City during the Han and Tang Dynasties and the buzzing international metropolis.

Just under his current Weiyang Palace!
Chapter completed!