Chapter 41 Fine salt was discovered by Li Xin
When Wang Xuan brought the little maid outside the door, Wang Xuan asked the little maid to put it down and let her go back first, while Wang Xuan himself sat on the stone steps again.
When Cheng Chong and others saw Wang Xuan like this, they still didn't know what Wang Xuan was going to do, so they looked at Wang Xuan there.
In this way, Wang Xuan and the guards of the Jinwu Guard and Princess Li Xin's mansion stared at each other for more than ten minutes until the water in the big tank boiled, Wang Xuan stood up.
He directed the guards to kill all the dozen chickens one by one, scalding the hair with boiling water, and pulling out all the chicken feathers.
After the chickens were killed, Wang Xuan took a chicken and chopped it up on the chopping board. After chopping one, Wang Xuan cut half of it. The half was chopped. Wang Xuan put it in a big bowl and looked at it. He felt it was enough to eat, so he shouted at Cheng Chong, "Captain Cheng, all the remaining chickens were chopped into the water tank and cooked, and the size was as big as me."
After saying that, he didn't wait for Cheng Chong to respond and went back with the chicken nuggets he had chopped himself.
"Brothers, let's see. The prince consort has an order. Let's cut it down." Cheng Chong looked at Wang Xuan's back as he left, and when he saw the soldiers under him, he shouted helplessly at them.
Hearing Cheng Chong's shouts, although the soldiers had some thoughts, they still did as Wang Xuan ordered.
Wang Xuan, who would come to the home, came to the kitchen and washed the chicken in his hand first, then brought it from Shujun with green onion, ginger water, soy sauce, salt, and he marinated the chicken with tapioca flour made from tapioca.
After marinating the chicken, Wang Xuan held a large water tank and asked a maid to wait for a large wooden basin and a big wooden spoon.
Looking at Wang Xuan's back as he went out, Li Xin, who was shocked by the salt that Wang Xuan put when Wang Xuan was putting out, came to her senses. She picked up the fine salt that Wang Xuan had placed casually in the jar and tasted it, and then chased Wang Xuan.
"Wang Xuan, Wang Xuan, wait." After seeing Wang Xuan, Li Xin shouted Wang Xuan's name loudly.
Hearing Li Xin's shouting and thinking something was wrong, Wang Xuan put the large water tank he wanted to take out directly on the ground and looked at Li Xin panting.
"I said, "Sister, you didn't see me moving heavy objects! You called me so hard that I didn't have the strength to move. Ruping, please go outside and ask two soldiers to move the water tank out." Before Wang Xuan could speak in front of him, he complained to her first, and then pointed at the little maid named Ruping and went outside to call someone.
"What else do you have to do with a water tank? I'll ask you if this is salt?" Li Xin ignored Wang Xuan's complaints and spread out the fine salt that was holding his palm and asked Wang Xuan.
"I said, sister, you're just doing this! It's salt, and I extracted it from the salt rock myself. I know that the Tang Dynasty lacks salt, so I can give you the method of making salt, but you have to think clearly that you are my wife now and my Wang family. If you keep this method of making salt, it will make your descendants rich for life. So what to do? You think about it yourself, should we keep it yourself, or hand it over to your brother, or change it to some benefits. After thinking about it, I'll go outside and take a look." After saying that, Wang Xuan didn't care about Li Xin's shocked appearance and walked out the door.
When he came outside, Wang Xuan saw that the chicken soup in the water tank had already rolled up. He picked up a large wooden spoon and quickly beat off the floating foam floating on it. After he beat the floating foam, he stirred it with a large wooden spoon and found that it had not stuck to the bottom.
I took a piece of gauze, put grass fruit, star anise, and some peppercorns in it, wrapped them in the gauze, threw them directly into the chicken soup, then put a handful of green onions and a few large pieces of peeled ginger in it, and put a little vinegar in it.
After everything was finished, I put some salt in it. After tasting the salty taste, I felt it was OK, so I handed a large wooden spoon to a soldier.
Actually, this salt should be added at the end, but Wang Xuan couldn't wait, so he added it to them first.
"After a while, you look at this pot of chicken soup and see that there is foam. I just scooped it out and poured it out. When the scooped it out, it means that the chicken soup has no impurities. This way the chicken soup will taste good. Remember to stir it from time to time, don't let the chicken underneath stick to the pan. At the same time, remember to be gentle and don't break the water tank. If it is broken, the chicken soup and the chicken inside will be gone. Be careful that you brothers will beat you to death, do you understand?" After Wang Xuan told the soldier what he should have told, patted him on the shoulder and asked him.
"Mr. Prince Concubine, what did you say just now? This chicken soup and chicken are for our brothers." After hearing Wang Xuan's words, the soldier asked Wang Xuan with a look of at a loss.
"Nonsense, it's not for you to eat, it's rare for me to eat. Of course, I won't eat meat. Keep some cooked chicken soup for me, don't drink all of it. Cheng Chong, don't be stunned. Didn't you say you can knead noodles? I'll bring this wooden bowl and a water tank for cooking noodles, as well as vinegar and soy sauce wine for eating noodles. Get moving quickly. Don't get hot later. The meat is there, but there is no cooked noodles. Be careful that your brothers under you beat you up. As for the bowls and chopsticks, you can find a way for yourself, but you are not allowed to force yourself, otherwise I will let the princess cure you." After saying that, Wang Xuan didn't care about this group of soldiers who had already been stunned and took Ruping back.
After Wang Xuan left, the soldiers realized that they never expected that these chickens were for them. They knelt down and shouted to the mansion, "We, thank you for the reward of the prince consort."
Wang Xuan, who had already entered the mansion but had not walked away, heard the soldiers' shouts, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but he didn't care about them.
"I said, "Sister, why are you still standing here? Don't stand, walk around, isn't it just salt? Is it necessary to think about it for a long time? Baiyan hasn't seen you like this before. If you are really confused, just hand over the salt method to your brother." Wang Xuan took a few steps and came to the yard of the front yard to find that Li Xin was still in a daze, so he walked over and pulled Li Xin and said to her.
"Wang Xuan, are you really willing to hand over the salt making method? And why have you been saying that you are handed over to my second brother? You must know that my second brother is just the prince, and if you want to hand over it, it is also handed over to my father?" Li Xin heard Wang Xuan's words and grabbed Wang Xuan. He waved his hand to Ruping first, and after Ruping stepped down, he asked Wang Xuan with confusion.
"That's it! Isn't this easy to explain? This salt! It can be said to be the lifeblood of a country. After all, if this person doesn't eat salt for a long time, he will be weak all over. That kind of land is definitely not possible, and it is not possible to fight wars. That is definitely not possible. But now, many of the salts in the Tang Dynasty are poisonous rock salt. Although green salt is good, because of the intricacies of the production process and the difficulty of transportation, it has always been too much, and it cannot meet the needs of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Chapter completed!