Chapter 111 How to eat
The endless vegetable fields are blooming with countless flowers, dyeing a piece of green green with golden yellow. It looks very beautiful from a distance. Among the flowers, Yuwen Wen jogged slowly, and the other end of the long thin line in his hand was a centipede flying high in the sky.
It was a centipede-shaped kite, with a length of more than five meters, well-made and lifelike.
The spring breeze blows, and the centipede flies higher and higher, just like a monster who has successfully overcome the tribulation, about to ascend to heaven.
There were also some huge swallows and goshawks following closely around the centipede, as if they were to peck this monster that was ignorant of the sky, or fly to the nine heavens with the other party.
Amid the laughter, Yuwen Wen and his family flew kites together. Because many little guys were weak, they were their mothers serving each other. In this sea of flowers, concubines in colorful dresses were walking around, like dancing butterflies, adding a beautiful embellishment to the land blowing by the spring breeze.
Yuwen Wen, who had been parading here, went out for a spring outing with his family while handling affairs, flew kites in this rapeseed field, which was right at the right time, and enjoyed the beautiful scenery of rapeseed flowers.
It is better to have good flowers and good scenery. If possible, Yuwen Wen really wants to use a camera to save this wonderful moment as a wonderful memory for a lifetime.
However, this is just a luxury. He has no ability to "invent" the camera. If he relies on sketching, he cannot "freeze" this situation in time, so he can only rely on his eyes to preserve the happy time...
He handed the kite string in his hand to the eunuch Li Sanjiu, and asked the other party to continue flying the kite. He stopped, put his hands on his hips, and watched his wife and children play on the path between the flowers, wanting to imprint this scene in his mind.
Women in this era dressed in the shape of shirts (clothes, skirts), generally with large-sleeved long skirts, or narrow-sleeved shirts with crotch and long skirts. Then they were combed in various buns and covered with silk (long streamers) on their shoulders, which looked pleasing to the eye.
The problem is that the belt of the long skirt is usually raised to the chest and tied to the armpits. The dress (with chest level) reminds Yuwen Wen to a scene.
Lift the belt to your chest...
Whenever he thought of this, Yuwen Wen always felt uncomfortable, so he had requirements for his woman's outfit. The first thing he had is not to lift his belt to his chest!
However, this requirement is too unique. If it is implemented in this way, his women will become "demonic concubines of the country" with strange clothes and are criticized for no reason. So Yuwen Wen compromised after a while and chose to let his women dress according to traditional clothes.
Traditional clothing is of course Hanfu, deep clothes, jackets, curved skirts, straight skirts, which are the styles of the Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin Dynasties, and Yuwen Wen's improved clothing is in the style of the Ming style, such as half-armed wool.
Of course, the specific style is "restored" by Yang Ji.
Just as this era has deviated from the original historical trajectory, women's clothing in this era gradually deviated due to Yuwen Wen's intervention and the "setting by example" of the queen and concubines.
The "Sui and Tang style" breast-length women's clothing still exists, but new styles of women's clothing have gradually increased, forming a new "big Zhou style".
Of course, the women's clothing that best suits Yuwen Wen's aesthetics is the clothing of "modern" women, but that is impossible to promote, so Yuwen Wen can only have a "private customization" to let the concubines wear it when they are alone with him.
Seeing Yuchi Mingyue flying a kite pass by, Yuwen Wen was stunned. The beauty who had successfully lost weight had a sharp temptation, which reminded him of the other party's long hair shawl, white shirt, short skirt, stockings, and high heels, and he was a little dazed for a moment.
Various wonderful clothing gave his women a richer "eating method", and the consequence was that they were "pressed". Yuwen Wen is okay to deal with "Second Level 6" now, but he was a little worried.
I was worried that after I got older, I could not resist the harem that was as good as a wolf or a tiger.
Seeing his children around him, he quickly retracted his thoughts, looked at the rapeseed flowers beside him, and couldn't help but reach out to pick one.
Rapeseed has a very nice name "Brassica", which has been around since ancient times, but the original way to eat leaves was to eat cabbage, just like the way to eat cabbage (荐).
When eating Brassica as cabbage, Yuwen Wen believes that some people buy kids and get the beans, so Brassica must be "restored" its original identity.
Brassica seeds are used to press oil, that is, vegetable oil. Only by increasing the content of vegetable oil can we effectively promote the development of Central Plains cooking technology and local cuisines. At the same time, we can improve people's lives and create new agricultural economic growth points.
This is Yuwen Wen's plan. After years of development, the large-scale commercial cultivation of Brassica has finally been achieved, turning Brassica from edible vegetables into oil-pressed plant "rapeseed", giving farmers whose income has sharply decreased due to low grain prices the choice to make a fortune.
It also makes cooking oil gradually popular.
Edible oil is divided into animal oil and vegetable oil. The common animal oil is lard, and the common vegetable oil is sesame oil. However, for many ordinary people in this era, edible oil is a luxury product, and the price is too high to afford it.
Animal oil is easier to obtain than vegetable oil. After all, poultry and livestock have some fat on them and can be used to make oil. But even so, many people still don’t eat much oil throughout the year.
If the intake of oil is insufficient, the physical fitness will not work. Whether it is war or farm work, the efficiency will not be improved. Yuwen Wen decided to improve the physical fitness of the people, so he should make a fuss about cooking oil.
Large-scale pig farming is one of the things that reduces the price of edible oil, but pig farming has many limitations. Therefore, it is a good thing to grow rapeseed on a large scale to reduce the price of vegetable oil.
Large-scale rapeseed, combined with hydraulic oil presses, has given edible oil a new and reliable source. Just as the sharp increase in farmland in the Hanjin area led to a decline in grain prices, large-scale rapeseed cultivation has caused the oil price of edible oil to plummet.
Looking at the rape flowers in his hand, Yuwen Wen was full of confidence. He had already launched a war where he could not see the smoke of gunpowder. In this war, those stubborn enemies would inevitably end up being "defeated and killed."
Who is the enemy? From aristocratic families to aristocratic families, to the surname Qiangzong who had arbitrary township.
The economic foundation of the aristocratic families (gentry) is the self-sufficient manor economy. Those born with noble breeds live a carefree life relying on the food, fruits and vegetables, silk and hemp (cloth) on the land.
Food and cloth have been hard currency for thousands of years. The families of all families rely on their huge farms to raise countless private soldiers and divisions, turning a large number of farmers into tenants under their names and forming a solid personal dependence relationship.
The aristocratic families with thousands of hectares of fertile land and countless child servants, the strong clans have strong economic strength, but they do not need to pay land rent to the court, transfer households and be mediocre.
As land annexation becomes increasingly serious, the consequence is that the country's tax revenue is sharply reduced, and a series of problems arise. However, when a dynasty falls, a new dynasty is established, and the emperor changes people, and the aristocratic families are still those aristocratic families.
Such a situation must be changed, but it is difficult to change.
For Yuwen Wen, there are many "eating methods" of the family clans, but they are basically unreliable and take a long time.
By relying on the imperial examination, we can never dig the roots of aristocratic families, because the children of aristocratic families are not afraid of exams at all. By relying on force, even if the old aristocratic families disappear, new aristocratic families will still appear.
Therefore, only by letting the other party's economic foundation collapse can we fundamentally solve the stubborn problems of aristocratic families since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, because it is precisely because of the economic development and the emergence of the manor economy since the Eastern Han Dynasty that the family members have grown and expanded space.
Nowadays, to solve the root cause, we have to start from the economic foundation. Only by bankrupting the manor economy can aristocratic families leave the political stage.
This is Yuwen Wen's conclusion, so even if he has to work hard for decades, he still has to do it.
Now it seems that everything is going well.
The price of grain and cloth has been declining year by year. Compared to being "cut in half" ten years ago, the war has begun. Even if those who are immersed in the dream of the manor economy find that something is wrong, it is too late.
"Ah, what are you laughing at?"
A sudden sound rang out. Yuwen Wen turned his head and saw that it was a white parrot "a tuft of hair" falling on his shoulder and talking.
"Go, go play on your own."
"Bye-Bye!"
A troubling of hair flew away, Yuwen Wen looked at the bird's figure, then looked at the rape flowers in his hand, and smiled.
Do you want to transform into rapeseed and make a profit? Haha, you have to have a way to sell the squeezed rapeseed oil without losing money!
Chapter completed!