In these days, with the arrival of Le Tai and other rulers, Li Xuan sent his personal guards to deliver sea fish to them several times.
Coupled with the personal guards of the Jin Prince's Mansion and the thousands of soldiers from Qingzhou Zhechong Mansion, only a few of the thousand-stone big fish caught last time were eaten.
A few days ago, Li Xuan, Li Chengqian and others went out to sea again to catch fish.
Therefore, when Li Xiaogong came to the boat harbor, he saw a net full of sea fish, black and thick, propped up on the fishing net and jumping alive.
"At the end of the day, General Cheng Duanbo meets His Royal Highness the King of Jin, and His Royal Highness the Prince of Hejian County!"
Cheng Duanbo had already been at the boat port, waiting for Li Xuan, Li Xiaogong and others.
"Captain Cheng, send someone to fish out all these fish and clean them up!"
Li Xuan gave the order directly.
"Fetch it out?"
Cheng Duanbo looked startled.
"Exactly, the King of Hejian County has brought a thousand dan of coarse salt on His Majesty's order to assist me in drying these big fish into dried fish!"
Li Xuan explained in passing.
Although he was the King of Jin and was once famous, facing these officials, it was much easier to command them with the help of Li Shimin's name.
"The fifty carriages?"
Hearing this, Cheng Duanbo couldn't help but subconsciously look at the neatly arranged carriages on the side.
"A carriage contains two stones of coarse salt. Do you want Captain Cheng to inspect it?"
Seeing that Cheng Duanbo was still in a daze, Li Xiaogong's face darkened and he said coldly.
"Your Highness, please forgive me. This is the first time I heard that so much coarse salt is used to dry fish. I was shocked for a moment, so I sent people to fish for the fish!"
After speaking, Cheng Duanbo quickly gave orders to the soldiers.
Soldiers who have grown up by the sea since childhood are very familiar with cleaning up sea fish.
In addition, drying the dried fish is also very simple.
Therefore, hundreds of soldiers spent one day hoisting strings of sea fish on the harbor.
On the second day, after the fishing net was empty, Li Xuan took Cheng Duanbo, Li Chengqian, Li Xiaogong and others out to sea again.
The fishing this time was still very smooth.
In less than an hour, with a shocked look on Li Xiaogong's face, he returned home with a thousand-stone fish in his net.
Immediately, a group of soldiers were asked to catch fish, clean the sea fish, pickle them with coarse salt, hang them into a string on the newly built rope, and start to dry them.
One pound of coarse salt can marinate three to four pounds of large fish.
Each of these sea fish basically weighs more than ten kilograms. To pickle a sea fish, you need three to four kilograms of coarse salt.
It took four days to marinate all the thousand stones of coarse salt.
The beach at the harbor was already densely covered with strings of big fish.
After three or four days of drying, these sea fish will completely turn into dried sea fish.
Li Xuan took a few pieces at will, and under the expectant looks of Li Yuan, Li Xiaogong and others, he asked the cook to steam one of these dried fish, boil one, fry one...
Then, pour a small dish of vinegar.
Pick up a small piece of steamed dried fish, dip it in some vinegar, and put it in your mouth. Immediately, a strong fish aroma will overflow.
"It's so delicious?"
"Is it appropriate that such delicious dried fish should be used as military rations?"
As soon as Li Baoding finished speaking, Li Xiaogong and Li Yuan stared at him directly.
"Why is it inappropriate?"
"Your Majesty and Prince, don't be impatient!"
Li Baoding laughed sarcastically and hurriedly explained: "Military rations are used by soldiers to satisfy their hunger, but if such delicious dried fish are used to feed the soldiers, I am afraid that the appetite of the soldiers will be tripled.
In this way, a soldier who usually only needs two kilograms of food to be full will need to eat four kilograms a day. In this way, the military rations will be even more insufficient!"
After hearing this, both Li Xiaogong and Li Yuan could not help but frown. This matter was indeed a big problem.
"This is easy!"
Li Xuan chuckled and said, "Dried fish can be used as dishes for the soldiers to eat with steamed buns and flatbreads.
Moreover, if such delicious dried fish is transported to Chang'an City, countless wealthy people from aristocratic families will definitely want to eat it.
In this way, a pound of dried fish is sold for one hundred coins, but the money is not sold directly, but the wealthy people are asked to exchange it with grain. Fifteen pounds of grain can be exchanged for one pound of dried fish!"
"This is a great plan!"
After hearing this, Li Xiaogong couldn't help but look overjoyed.
"In this way, these fifteen hundred shi of dried fish can be exchanged for more than 22,000 shi of grain!"
"Um!"
Li Xuan nodded lightly, "Based on the number of wealthy merchants in Chang'an City, this fifteen hundred kilograms of dried fish can be eaten."
"Please rest assured, the Supreme Emperor and His Highness the King of Jin. When I return to Chang'an City with these dried fish and let Your Majesty see the benefits of the dried fish, I will definitely ask Your Majesty to send 10,000 shi of coarse salt. Please give more to Your Highness the King of Jin."
Help, dry the fish!"
Li Xiaogong said quickly.
Hearing this, Li Xuan chuckled lightly, "The matter of drying fish has always been done by Cheng Duanbo and the soldiers of Zhechong Mansion. As long as His Majesty issues the edict and Cheng Duanbo agrees, it doesn't matter whether I am the king or not!"
Li Xiaogong's expression froze.
"Your Highness, this is serious. Cheng Duanbo is just a mere captain of the Zhechong Prefecture. How dare you disobey your Majesty!"
"hehe……"
Li Xuan chuckled lightly, "What would happen if all the captains of Zhechong Prefecture in the Tang Dynasty listened to my king's words?"
"Forehead!"
Li Xiaogong laughed and said nothing.
Immediately, after loading the fifteen hundred stones of dried fish into the carriage, Li Xiaogong quickly took the fifty carriages and rushed to Chang'an City.
In Qingzhou City, Li Xuan led Cheng Duanbo and a group of people from Zhechong Mansion to dry fish on such a large scale that it had already been discovered by a group of Qingzhou aristocratic families.
Therefore, before Li Xiaogong walked for two days, there was an inexplicable trend of drying fish for drying in and around Qingzhou City.
Cheng Chusi, Li Chengqian and others looked at this with displeasure on their faces.
"You don't need to do this. When drying fish, the most important thing is coarse salt. But, do these aristocratic families have so much coarse salt?
Moreover, even if their families are rich and can use a large amount of coarse salt to pickle dried fish, in the end they will not be able to compete with us. Those salt fields are all controlled by the imperial court!"
In this regard, Li Xuan still looked calm. How could his skills be so easy to steal?
"Hey, my master is wise!"
After thinking about it, Li Chengqian, Cheng Chusi and others couldn't help but beam with joy.
In the next few days, Li Xuan and others were free and had nothing to do.
Until Li Xuan finally remembered that the Le Tai and other Mohists who had come all the way from Lijiazhuang to Qingzhou had already arrived, so he took Li Chengqian, Li Yuan and others to the shipyard once a day.
Li Xuan had many solutions in his mind to solve the power problem of the giant steel ship.
However, they were all from Mohu, and he only knew a rough idea.
However, for Le Tai and others, it was an inspiration that was like the beginning of the world.
So, after many days of testing, the power direction of the Canghuo giant ship was finally determined!
Steam turbine!
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at the same time.
Li Xiaogong returned to Chang'an City with the fifteen hundred kilograms of dried fish.
Likewise, three dried fish.
One steamed, one boiled, one fried...
Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling each had a small plate of balsamic vinegar in front of them. They ate a piece and dipped it in. It was fragrant and crispy.
“Amazing taste in the world!”
After there was not a single piece of the three fish left, Li Shimin sighed with satisfaction.
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ps: I extracted another wisdom tooth buried in the flesh this morning. It was three times the size of my front teeth. The dentist took a full hour to extract it!
There is a feeling of going directly to immortality......
I probably won’t be able to finish three chapters today, please forgive me!