Chengdu in November is already colder.

Wuliangye and Jiangyang Laojiao were hidden by Liu Beixue again, and asked that they should not be taken out during the Chinese New Year this year and exposed their eyes. All products must be hidden in the cellar for disinfection of soldiers during the Northern Expedition in the future. If you want to drink it, you must also celebrate when the Northern Expedition is a little successful.

Liu Bei knew too much about the high incidence of liquor, and wasting more food. If it was not necessary to use it on the edge of the knife, the use of "disinfection and healing" that Li Su mentioned might not be the turn.

Without souvenir, this winter and the New Year are destined to be more dull. Even if you are as luxurious as Li Su, you can't make up many new things to improve your quality of life.

Calculate the time, don’t look at Zhao Yun and Lu Su, Fa has done so many things there. In Chengdu, it has only been more than a month since Li Su completed the thorough reform of the renting and mediocre businessmen and suppressed the unscrupulous businessmen.

The month after the unscrupulous businessmen were severely injured, Li Su was not idle either. He inspected the counties of Jianwei, accepted the completion of Leshanyan, accepted porcelain, soybean wine, coal iron smelting, and various small-scale farming results... When the information summary of Lusu's northern line was sent to Chengdu, Li Su Huanzhen had just returned to Chengdu and had not rested for a few days.

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On the ninth day of November, Pixian Hou Mansion.

Li Su, his wife and beautiful maids lived in the house two or three times, and they were roasted with silver frost and animal charcoal to keep warm, with silk and bamboo orchestras endlessly, and the delicacies and fairy drinks were arranged in four cases.

The house where the servants lived was only burning ordinary charcoal or even firewood for heating. Outside the house, some servants were cleaning the ice cellars in the cold and thoroughly cleaned all the cellars.

Li Su’s request is that those who clean the sanitation must first take a shower and change into clean clothes that have been cooked and dried. The mop used must be used for new purpose, boiled in boiling water, and then wipe every inch of the ice cellar. The container used to hold ice cubes must not be left behind.

While the cleaning is done in November, it is ventilated and cooler, and December is colder, Li Su will store the ice cubes for making ice cream next summer.

Although he may not be able to spend the hottest months in Chengdu next year, and maybe the war will go to Chang'an in advance if it goes well. However, it is not ruled out that when Liu Bei is not stable in Chang'an, Li Su will first be in charge to ensure the stability of his nest. Since this possibility is possible, he must prepare for the ice cream business.

You can't treat yourself badly no matter what job you do.

The sage said, "A gentleman is cautious in solitude." Li Su is so cautious in solitude. His extravagance is not pretending, but rather the same as the leader's presence or absence. He is so extravagant where Liu Bei can see, and he is still so extravagant where Liu Bei cannot see.

On the issue of being cautious in solitude, Li Su can be regarded as the legacy of a saint.

Of course, there are far more than this where Li Suxue learned very well. He never tires of food, never tires of fine meat, but only the wine is abundant, and the food is also color... He learned all of them very well.

The silver frost beast charcoal was burning strongly, and Li Suzheng hugged his wife and played the wine game of chanting poems. Because he was slightly drunk and creative inspiration burst out, he won several games in a row and forced Cai Yan to drink several more glasses.

Suddenly, the sound of Jinse's piano stopped. At that time, she was playing "Love the Country and Love the Beauty" composed by Li Su. The music ended abruptly. Li Su couldn't help but look up and found that it was Liu, Guan, Zhang and Zhao who came uninvited. He didn't ask for a notice and went straight in.

It's November now. Guan Yu supervised the work in Nan'an County, Jianwei County, and had finished his military training work. So when he returned to Chengdu, Zhao Yun had just returned from Jingnan not long ago. After arriving for less than two days, these people had to rest and prepare for the Northern Expedition at the beginning of next year.

Liu Bei was so rude that he always acted as an uninvited guest and refused to inform him.

Li Su still wanted to get up, but unfortunately she drank a little too much. She used a little force to support her body, but she found that her legs were numb by her wife, so she fell back to the couch.

Liu Bei walked over and pressed Li Su's shoulder without hesitation, then found an empty seat next to him and sat down: "No need to get up, I just come and take a look. Today I finally got Zijing's good news, and I explained the situation in Guanzhong in detail. I want to discuss it with my brother."

While saying that, Liu Bei poured and drank it on his own, and then he even grabbed a few pieces of meat and vegetables from the silver frost charcoal basin with his hands. Li Su didn't really want to eat barbecue, but he was a luxury and did not waste it. Generally, he liked to roast some meat when cooking charcoal basin for heating to avoid wasting fuel.

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun were a little more restrained, and each found a seat to sit down. The lower-class maid from the Marquis's mansion served them to pour wine and serve the dishes. The three of them were relatively unruly, and they grabbed the tableware like Liu Bei before they came up.

After Liu Bei grabbed a few pieces of barbecue, he felt a little easy to grab. He was about to take the opportunity to grab it all the way, but he was suddenly attracted by the few dishes next to him that looked shiny and glossy. The dishes looked greasy and sticky, and it seemed that they were not very good to grab with their hands, and would be stained with the sauce of the sauce. Then he thought of picking up the silver chopsticks that his maid had just sent.

"What is this? Why can food be so bright?" Liu Bei couldn't help but ask curiously before he ate it, and even Guan, Zhang and Zhao became curious.

People in the late Han Dynasty cooked dishes and even cooked less, so the process of using starch thickening is certainly less, so the effect of dishes with a little glossy sauce in their eyes is no less than that of those dishes in "The Leader of Chinese Primary School".

What's more, the new dishes in front of Li Su are not as simple as thickening with starch, but are shine created by another secret method.

Li Su was already a little drunk, so she showed off her low-key: "It's nothing, it's just an ordinary fried dish. I just added a special and rare seasoning. You ask Zilong, what he gave me yesterday. Look, there are nine jars in the yard that have not been removed."

There were ten jars in the yard, which were larger than wine jars and much smaller than pickled vegetables jars. Nine jars were sealed tightly and opened in one mouthful.

That was a situation where Zhao Kuangyin went to Zhao Pu's house and saw the famous scene of King Qian Chu of Wu Yue who gave "Ten Jars of Seafood in Zhoushan". However, Qian Chu's "Ten Jars of Seafood" were actually melon seeds, and Zhao Yun's "Ten Jars of Seafood" were real seafood, and there was no trick. Liu Bei didn't have the chance to say, "Those princes must think that the matter in the world is up to you civil officials."

Liu Bei immediately looked at Zhao Yun, as if he was just complaining, "Boya asked you to make good things, but you didn't even get more to everyone to deliver them. Are you abacus beads just to move them."

Zhao Yun quickly explained: "That... it's just the ones who took care of me when Boya left Changsha early, saying that if he could invade Jiaozhou and bring him some pickled Nanhai County sea food, he would deal with it like this. I remember that you guys don't always like to eat seafood, so they didn't do it. I know that sea food is perishable, and even if pickled, it may not last long. If you do it too much, you are afraid of being useless and in vain to hurt the people's money..."

Seeing that Zhao Yun couldn't explain clearly, Li Su took over the conversation: "Ordinary sea food is indeed pickled and perishable. No wonder Zilong, the thing I asked him to make is called 'oyster sauce'. It uses oysters, oysters, choose a large fresh clean meat, boil it in a secret method to concentrate, remove the meat residue, and only the ointment boiled from the bottom.

Add refined sea salt to pickle and preservative, and put it in a jar and seal it like brewing wine... This oil can be used to cook all kinds of dishes, both meat and vegetables, add it if you want, and water it a little before you finish the dish."

People in later centuries may not know how "true oyster sauce" was made, because Lee Kum Kee, who costs 20 yuan per bottle in the supermarket, must use less oysters than Master Kong's skin trauma beef cattle, otherwise he would not be able to lose his life.

The industry technical standards of later countries, whether oyster sauce is qualified is only identified from "whether it is really cost-effective" and "nitrogen concentration tests containing amino acids".

In other words, as long as there is one in a bucket of oyster sauce, it can be used to test the nitrogen content, so it is sold so cheaply. MSG is sodium glutamate, and glutamate is also a typical amino acid with a higher nitrogen content.

The truly traditional oyster sauce should be made from pure oyster meat, but the price is very expensive and not affordable for ordinary people. People who traveled to Macau before 2006 may have seen the "Rong Yan Oyster Sauce" in the hundreds of years old restaurant "Rong Yan Oyster Sauce" in Aojing Oysters, which is made from oysters. However, those who went to Hong Kong and Macau after 2006 were not qualified to see it because the cost was too high and went bankrupt.

Li Su had a few small money in his previous life. He had traveled before the classic oyster sauce in Macau went bankrupt, so he visited it. This also led to the time-travel plots that "invented MSG in ancient times and were shocked by the princes and nobles of the Song and Ming dynasties" in his previous life, he was too imaginative for the luxury of the ancients. The invention of MSG only made the emperor's seasoning enjoyment low cost and popularization, but it was impossible for the Ming emperor to surprise him and thought, "I have never eaten such delicious things in my life."

The value of technology is more about making the super enjoyment that has been wasted by huge costs, making it low-cost and affordable for civilians. Even if the emperors do not have technology, they can still be extravagant.

Louis XVI also had no refrigerators or greenhouse vegetables, but he had a kitchen team of 500 people who were responsible for helping him achieve the effect equivalent to refrigerators and greenhouses, but the poor couldn't afford it.

After the invention of refrigerators and greenhouses, the poor could use a few minus laborers to achieve the effect that Louis XVI could use 500 laborers, making the nobles and commoners more equal in enjoyment.

The same is true for Li Su at the moment. Isn’t it just that MSG has not invented chemical synthesis? What’s the relationship?

Pihou wanted to eat delicious food, and with a command, he asked Nanhai County Prefecture District Jing or Cangwu County Prefecture Wu Ju to send fishermen to catch 500 stone oysters, select the best and then peel them in the shell, leaving 70 to 80 stone pure meat, and then boil them into ten jars of oyster sauce. Then he traveled thousands of miles from Nanhai to Chengdu.

Li Su felt that he was at least more caring for the people than Yang Guifei. Yang Guifei had to keep fresh when eating lychees, so he had to take quick horses to relay. Li Su's oyster sauce is a pickled product, with a high salt content and a long shelf life. Even if there is no potassium sorbate as a preservative in the late Han Dynasty, as long as the jar is sealed intact, it will be fine if it takes more than half a year to eat it. It will be enough to be more polite to the people.

The ingredients of oyster sauce are the amino acids concentrated in oysters, and of course, they also include the glutamic acid, which accounts for the most. After marinating with salt, the effect of this part is completely equivalent to MSG. In addition, other umami amino acids other than glutamic acid, the umami flavor will only be richer than MSG, so what else is MSG?

Why can you afford pure natural foods and still take chemical synthesis?

Liu Bei didn't understand so many reasons. He just listened to Li Su's roughly explaining the method of cooking oyster sauce, and then went to taste the dishes with curiosity.

When Liu Bei was surprised when he ate the bright meat dishes that had thickened oyster sauce for the first bite, he at least hadn't jumped up yet. But when he ate a boiled soy dish similar to baby cabbage and finally shines with oyster sauce, his eyes instantly turned straight.

Meat dishes have the umami flavor of amino acids, and it will not be too amazing if they increase freshness. However, boiled vegetarian leafy vegetables can taste the ultimate umami flavor of seafood, and the contrast impact is simply too exaggerated.

Li Su originally wanted the chef to make oyster sauce lettuce, but the problem was that there was no lettuce in the existing vegetables, so she had to use ginger vegetables.

"Is this... what I eat is really a syrup? It's the poorest people who buy several dou syrups at a time?! All the syrups have become this taste?" Liu Bei immediately doubted his life.

Zhao Yun, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei couldn't help but eat, and the ugly appearance of eating increased from one to another.

Liu Bei wiped his mouth: "In a moment, I will send two jars to Gu Xinggong, and one jar on Yun Changyi Dezi's Dragon Mansion! Boya, you are not righteous, you have hidden ten jars yourself, can you finish eating? In this way, you have five jars left, and you can't eat that salty one year."

"..." Li Su sighed softly, "Master, you are here to talk about the military situation in Guanzhong today. Can we talk about the serious matter first? Don't think I have five jars left, I originally planned to leave one jar for Zijing and Ziyu's family."

"Then you're enough, there are three more cauldrons. Listen to Brother Yu's advice, eating a little lighter is good for your health." Liu Bei also knew that he couldn't make up any longer, so he quickly stopped, then took out the information, pretending to be very concerned about talking about the serious matters.

"Ahem, it's because Zijing reported that the number of soldiers and horses of Li Jue and Guo Si in Guanzhong has never been seen in the past two years. Last autumn, we annihilated the main forces of Dong Yue and Fan Chou. We thought that we had cut off one arm, and we swallowed up 30,000 to 40,000 veterans in one go.

Unexpectedly, Li Jue and Guo Si forced Latin to recruit more than 50,000 to 60,000 troops this year. Although the quality was poor, they made up all the people, and even slightly unnecessary.

The newly dependent Ma Chao and Ma Mengqi were in Huating, Qi County, and Mazhongshan, and had annihilated more than 10,000 enemies in several battles. Xiaozhi was also in Wuzhangyuan and Mei County, and had a total of 5,000 enemy troops to surrender and divide, and the killing and annihilation of enemies on the battlefield was no less than this, and the total was more than 10,000.

But in the decisive battle with Han Sui, Guo Si captured 40,000 years of rebels in Linwei County. Many of them were the old men who were following the thief when Han Sui attacked Dong Zhuo and Huangfu Song. After all, there were more than 230,000 soldiers to face next year's Northern Expedition. We worked so hard to weaken the enemy, and we actually fought more and more."

Li Su took a bite of oyster sauce and cleared her mouth and said with confidence: "Soldiers are expensive but not expensive. Although it is always more than 200,000 yuan, it is incomparable to the quality of two years ago.

The veterans of Dong Zhuo when he was a former general were elite. They were all trained and fought for more than five years. At the beginning, there were only 40,000 to 50,000 people, how many can they still be left now?

The army when Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an was said to be 200,000. If those people lived until now, they would have been in the army for three years, which was worse than the previous ones. The troops that were annihilated at Yangping Pass last year were all of this level, and they should not be underestimated.

As for the fish that had just been catching the strong men for a year, or the fish under Han Sui who were disciplined like the Yellow Turban, no matter how many of them were, they would not be afraid of it."
Chapter completed!