Pang Tong, this body is on the other side. If Pang Tong doesn’t like to eat it, it would be really fake. Therefore, when Fei Qian presented the latest ingredients, Pang Tong couldn’t help but swallowed.

Eating is always the first requirement for the development of human productivity.

The first ones served were bean cakes and rice cakes. The Han Dynasty had many names for rice cakes, such as "rice cakes", "bait", "glutinous rice", and even had the title of "cake". However, before, due to the grinding technology, the raw powder of rice cakes was coarse, so it should be more like "rice cakes", rather than the more delicate pastries commonly found in later generations.

Thanks to the further improvement of water mill technology, a large number of hydraulic mills built in Jingshui can grind rice flour day and night, and Fei Qian's memory of some pastries in later generations, and mix legacy grains such as beans, rice, and corn in proportion, and make several kinds...

"Hand washed? Well, look, this is mung bean cake..." Fei Qian handed a small bean plate containing mung bean cake to Pang Tong.

Mung beans were discovered in China before the Han Dynasty and became a daily food, and even had certain medical effects on traditional Chinese medicine. However, this is the first time Pang Tong has eaten mung bean cakes made by Fei Qian.

Pang Tong held the bean plate and smelled it.

Something faint fragrance.

Mung bean cake is the type that smells a bit ordinary at first, but the more you smell it, the more you feel it smells, the more fragrant it feels. It is not strong or strong, just like a gentle young lady, soft and sweet, and will never snatch the protagonist's position, but it will not be ignored.

Pang Tong claimed the crime, but without using chopsticks, he took a piece of it in his hand and put it in his mouth, "Hmm..."

There is no need to force, just a light bite, and a piece of soft and sweet mung bean cake will be bitten off. The delicate and dense taste instantly fills up, bringing a slight feeling of sand. The fragrance of mung beans and the faint smell of wheat linger in one place, fresh and natural, and some oily fragrance...

Glutinous and sweet, with a mellow and natural taste, sweet but not greasy, fragrant but not gorgeous. Pang Tong ate the first piece and his eyes lit up. Before he could swallow it completely, he took the second piece, "Good times...good times...good times...good times...

The bean plate is not big, with six or seven small pieces stacked on it. Pang Tong took half of it in a blink of an eye, and then he slowed down because he was a little dry. He picked up the tea and took a sip of it to moisten it.

"The mouth is sweet and smooth, warm and palatable, very good! Very good!" Pang Tong gave a relatively high evaluation, "And... it seems to have some grease added here?"

Fei Qian laughed, nodded, and then took another red bean cake and black bean cake. "These two bean cakes are also similar, just try it..."

Although Fei Qian asked Pang Tong to taste it, for Pang Tong, he ate three or four more pieces of the two...

『Also, this is the rice cake...』 Fei Qian also brought the white rice cake over and placed it on Pang Tong's table, then took another bean plate, 『Look at this...』

Pang Tongyi looked at it and clicked on the bean plate on the table, "Is this... the five elements?"

Although mung bean cake has a word "green", the color made is not green, but yellow-green, and to some extent it is even more yellow-colored. Therefore, Fei Qian used the latest pastry to replace the green in the five elements, which is "tea cake".

"This..." Pang Tong was holding the bean plate with tea crisps and was a little surprised, "It's like a green leaf, how can I do it..."

Of course, the pastries of Dahan are not as particular as those of later generations. Not only is the simpler composition ratio, but also the same in molds. It would be nice to have a square wood mold, but a mold like Fei Qian, which is specially made like a tea leaf, is almost the only one in the Dahan.

It is said that it is tea crisp, of course not all of them are made of tea, but the juice of another vegetable is added. Yes, it is spinach. The authentic spinach was introduced to China, probably during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

It was about the time of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty and was presented by Persia.

Later, Su Shi's poem in the Song Dynasty said, "The bitter and cold north is not yet over, and the pineapple edges at the bottom of the snow are like iron armor. Who knows that my Shu is rich in winter vegetables, and the frost leaves are even colder than the buds." From the poem, we can see that spinach was widely planted in Shu at that time, and it was able to produce it in open fields overwintering, which proves that spinach had been planted in China for a long time before the Song Dynasty, and even became a wintering vegetable.

However, because Fei Qian once again opened up the Western Regions and during the entire conquest process, he specifically explained to pay attention to these plant and animal species that were not found in China, so the prickly spinach entered China three or four hundred years ahead of schedule.

Of course, if you use the Matcha technology, you can also use tea powder, but if you use too much Matcha powder, it will be a little bitter, unlike spinach juice that is not overwhelming. Moreover, Matcha Pastry Fei Qian also wants to develop another series, so this ordinary dyeing task will naturally be left to spinach to handle.

Pang Tong ate the tea cake and shook his head. "These five elements cakes are all the best products, and they are sold in a set, so it must be...hehe..."

Fei Qian nodded slightly.

In addition to tea cakes, Feiqian will also develop different molds for this set of five elements, and then corresponding to the five elements, and will eventually be divided into two modes for sale. One is a simple four-sided pastry, aimed at ordinary middle-level children, and the other is a new mold pastry, aimed at the upper level.

So, is this price...

Of course it's just hehehe.

Pang Tong picked up another piece of pastry and frowned, "But the pastry is fragile and inconvenient to travel far..."

Fei Qian smiled and said, "If you use a bamboo tube and lined with thatched bamboo strips, it will be far away..."

Packaging is also a part of the price. In later generations, packaging can be sold more valuable than the goods inside. The most typical one is this type of pastry, such as moon cakes, which are discardable cakes and food boxes.

Unexpectedly, Pang Tong raised an objection: "This matter...is something wrong."

Fei Qian followed Pang Tong's gaze and looked at him

Bamboo tube?

Oh. I understand.

Fei Qian shook his head and smiled and said, "No need to do this, even if this thing is not used... it cannot be secret..."

Fei Qian knew what Pang Tong meant. After all, using bamboo tubes to seal dry food storage as a configuration for long-distance marching is also an innovation, and to some extent it can be said to be a secret, but this kind of secret is not the kind that is difficult to crack and cannot be copied.

『Since Guo Fengxiao returned to Xu County, Cao's army has changed the cloth bag to bamboo tubes to store military rations...』 Fei Qian said lightly, 『Therefore, it is okay to use it...』

Pang Tong was stunned for a moment, then slapped his face, "This Guo Fengxiao!"

Fei Qian waved his hand and said with a smile: "Even if there is no Guo Fengxiao, this daily relationship cannot be hidden. It's just a matter of time, so don't mind it!"

After hearing this, Pang Tong thought about it, nodded, but shook his head again, smacked his lips, and suddenly pondered. His eyes rolled around several times, and then he laughed, "Wonderful! The lord's move is amazing! Where is bamboo in China? Hahaha, if Cao Mengde made this move, or if he was a mistake in agriculture and sericulture, or to promote labor, it would be half the result with twice the effort, and it would be rare to get it! It's amazing!"

Fei Qian listened and blinked, and could only respond with a smile.

If you think about it carefully, what Pang Tong said seems to be the same. Although there is a lot of bamboo produced in China, the distribution is not even in various places. Due to the habits of bamboo, the relatively cheap materials for Feiqian may not be necessary for Cao Cao.

There are relatively few bamboo forests in the north, and they are also small. To the north of the Yellow River, except for some bamboo forests in Chang'an and Longxi, there are only large bamboo forests in Qingzhou. To the south of the Yellow River, in the area controlled by Cao Cao, there are bamboo forests in Jingzhou, and most of them are in Jiangling.

Southern bamboo forest Feiqian occupies Sichuan, Sichuan and Yunnan. There are many bamboo forests in both scattered and clustered. The other southern bamboo forest is in the area of ​​Sunquan Jiangdong. These two huge bamboo forest systems also do not belong to Cao Cao.

Of course, there are some bamboo forests that have not been developed at this stage, such as Jiaozhi and Lingnan. However, no matter how these are developed, at this stage, or even for a long time, they have nothing to do with Cao Cao. Therefore, in Feiqian, bamboo tubes made of bamboo are cheap and can be continuously produced, but when they reach Cao Cao's side, they may evolve into unsustainable production or even expensive items.

Therefore, even if Cao Cao wants to pirate the paper, it is still not as convenient as it was later generations. With the large population base, Cao Cao has a large population advantage, although the population is large, if you are not careful, a very small thing will become a very troublesome event after adding the population expansion effect.

"This is..." Pang Tong asked staring at the food in another bowl. Although he had eaten a lot of pastries, he still contained deep enthusiasm for the new ingredients.

Fei Qian signaled that Pang Tong could use his chopsticks, "This is rice noodles..."

Rice noodles and rice noodles were originally stupid and didn’t quite understand. Later, I just used the simplest method to divide them. The thin ones were called threads, and the thick ones were called flour. The thick ones were not thick or thin ones, so they were called rice demons.

The history of rice noodles is earlier, while the history of rice noodles is earlier than that of rice noodles.

However, both rice peels and rice noodles require good rice fresh rice, but rice noodles can be used with chen rice. Of course, it is not a lot of rice with abalone, and that type of chen rice cannot be made of anything.

When Fei Qian ate rice skin for the first time in the Han Dynasty, he was also a little surprised because he ate peppers in the later generations, but there were no peppers in the Han Dynasty. Because Fei Qian did not eat spicy food at that time, he said he would not add peppers and was despised by the boss who sold rice skins. "How to eat this crumbled baby's spicy food?"

Rice peel is probably a product of the Qin Dynasty. It was originally made of barnyard or unfull millet, so it is not seen in the scriptures. Instead, rice noodles are called "can" or "spicy rice" by the most classical method. Because it flows out and cooks, it is messy like threads and tangles, which are also called "random accumulation".

Therefore, the price of rice noodles is relatively expensive, while the rice noodles are relatively cheap...

Some foods, some convenient methods in later generations, may not be good, just like rice noodles and rice peels. In later generations, they are basically polished directly with machines, and the efficiency is naturally improved. However, after high-speed friction of metal, not only will the rice noodles be more burnt, but the fine metal particles will also cause the taste to be a little impure. Not to mention adding various chemical products to the materials for the so-called "Q bullet"...

The rice peels in the Han Dynasty were all made of stone mills. Because they were ground slowly, it was impossible to have the burnt taste from high temperature rubbing. Using bamboo strips, although the delicateness is definitely not as good as that of later generations, the taste is a bit more innocent than later generations.

The same is true for rice noodles.

In history, rice noodles were probably born after the Southern and Northern Dynasties, so it is not difficult to make them now. And this is also a new application of grain. On the one hand, it increases the value of the grain itself, and on the other hand, it also gives some old grains more places to go.

Compared with the drier pastries that can be transported for long distances, rice noodles are more unbearable to storage and are made and eaten immediately...

Pang Tong ate a bowl of mutton pasta, because the amount was not very large, so he finished it in just a few seconds. Then he drank the soup and finally put the soup bowl down with some satisfaction.

"How?" Fei Qian asked.

Pang Tong nodded and said, "No, refreshing and pleasant, and a great food."

Fei Qian smiled, "Is there any shortcomings?"

"I'm afraid..." Pang Tong looked at the rice cake, then looked at the rice noodles bowl, pointed out the rice noodles bowl, and said, "This thing is probably difficult to be prosperous... Besides, there is already food for soup cakes... Could it be that the lord wants to replace him?"

Fei Qian laughed and said, "No, it's...

Food is the most important thing for the people, but it is not only China that focuses on food, but everyone is the same. However, ordinary foreigners are relatively weak at this time and cannot express it in relatively short terms, which means "food is the most important thing for the people".

For example, there is a saying in the Bible that "five breads and two fishes" is true. Regardless of whether it conforms to the law of conservation of energy, just saying this shows that even if Jesus wants someone to listen to his sermon, he must let people eat their fill first...

The Chinese people not only need to eat enough, but also pay attention to the form of food, the beauty of food, the meaning of food, and the form and connotation of culture as part of the entire lifestyle. In the long process of social development, the Chinese people have formed common dietary etiquette, dietary taboos, diet styles, and dietary production methods, that is, they have formed a rich and colorful dietary culture.

From this perspective, China's food culture has surpassed the "food" itself and has gained a deeper social significance.

Under Fei Qian's rule, there were the teachings of God from the five directions. In the simple religious system and the relatively simple world of studying things, Yin and Yang and the Five Elements are undoubtedly the most important foundation of China, but for a long time, the sacrificial activities of the five directions and five elements have been relatively chaotic...

Now that the pastries with five elements and five colors appear, they will subtly form a religious sacrifice item, which may also lead more people among the gentry to worship the Five Emperors.

Of course, the most important thing is that Feiqian can explore new ways to make money. After all, everyone knows that the catering industry is making hard money, and it is really hard. But if Feiqian has a lot of people under his command, then the hard work can be done by others...

Therefore, Fei Qian's goal is to have five-color and five-element pastries, mainly corresponding religions and sell them to the children of the gentry. The rice noodles made by Chen Mi are faced with ordinary income craftsmen, and even ordinary civilians around the town...

『It is difficult for the people to find exquisite food...』 Fei Qian said slowly, 『If you only increase the fee, you can get a good meal... Just one furnace, one pot and one utensil can cook in the gathering, in the countryside, or in the village...』

The biggest problem of the small peasant economy is self-sufficiency, and there are many factors that produce self-sufficiency. However, one of the links is that the small peasant economy needs everything in the entire consumption process, and the excess produced ones are not effectively traded.

Simply put, when the farmers and women planted vegetables in front of and behind their own houses, they would pull two of them when they were eaten, and when they were not eaten, they would let them grow at will. They would not care whether these vegetables were elders, whether they were eaten by insects, and whether they were planted too much and rotten in the fields. Anyway, as long as they were enough, the farmers and women would not have too much intention to collect and deal with them.

On the one hand, it is because dealing with these things may take up more farming time, and on the other hand, it cannot sell for the price, so a lot of them are directly wasted.

Although aged grains can be used to make wine and vinegar, this brewing technology is not as common as in later generations. Even at some point, the court prohibited the private brewing of the people, or the rural wealthy people were not allowed to make wine and vinegar in order to make money...

So in the small peasant economy, there is a big problem among things like their own vegetables, rice, and various excess crops, which is that they are all very cheap without any processing.

To break through this closed loop, the West completed the transformation of this model after the Industrial Revolution by using sheep to eat people, and Feiqian did not need such a fierce change, so we considered adopting the current more gentle method to slowly penetrate and reverse it with the diversification of food.

The development of the food processing industry will require the consumption of more grain raw materials. On the one hand, it can stimulate the production of raw materials, and on the other hand, it can also increase employment. In the production, transportation, production, sales and other aspects, some agricultural populations can be transformed into handicraftsmen or commercial personnel.

Just like in the initial stage of reform and opening up in later generations, the first thing that flourished among all industries was not the first and second industries, but the tertiary industries. Among all the commodities, it is undoubtedly the most likely thing on the "eating" line to form an industrial chain and it is easy to form automatic and spontaneous promotion.

Why is the small peasant economy focusing only on Zhuanghe? That's because no one lets them see the distance. Once the genes of the foodie empire are awakened, they will be difficult to suppress, and the subsequent changes will naturally be like water flowing and water will come naturally.

Just as Fei Qian promoted the transformation of pasta, from hard dead noodles to more popular pancakes and steamed buns, perhaps the new uses of these old grains can flow faster and become more active earlier.
Chapter completed!