Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

Pressing soybean oil also needs to design a special oil press, and it can only be done later.

Most of the tools for making tofu are ready-made, and I asked the carpenter in the town to make a few tofu boxes.

The most tiring job of making tofu is to grind the beans. The soaked beans must be ground into a pulp in a stone mill.

Now all this tiring work is handed over to the zombies, and they are doing it very happily, the kind that doesn't complain of being tired.

With the diligence of these zombies, it is no problem for a dozen mills to grind a thousand catties of beans a day.

When making tofu for the first time, Zhang He only soaked 50 catties of dry beans. The raw soy milk was filtered to remove residue, then boiled, mixed with gypsum or brine, mixed well while it was hot, and left to let the protein coagulate. It became white and tender tofu brain.

Zhang He used gypsum to make some tofu, and it was very successful the first time he made it. A small bamboo stick was inserted into the bean curd, and the stick stood firmly, neither old nor tender.

He asked Wei Peng to bring out two large buckets of tofu nao, and gave each of the guards and all the employees of the Zhang family a bowl to try something new.

At this time, there is no sugar and no salt in eating tofu nao, so there is no need to worry about the dispute between sweet and salty.

The main ingredient of tofu nao is water. It needs to be put into a specially made tofu box, and the water in it needs to be squeezed out to become tofu.

The dozen boxes of tender tofu made on the first day were sold by Zhang He on the streets of Heishui Town.

You can buy it with money, a small piece of five renminbi, about a catty, or you can exchange a catty of corn or beans for a piece of tofu.

Some tenants who went to the market saw that the price was not too expensive, so they directly exchanged it with grain.

Now that the summer grain harvest is bumper, the price of food in various places is plummeting rapidly, from more than 30 yuan to 5 yuan a catty.

In short, even if the tenants have a good harvest, they don't want to take too much advantage from it.

Zhang He doesn't want to do this, but the overall situation is like this, and there are various nobles behind the scenes to manipulate the price.

His financial resources alone cannot change the status quo, let alone make the price of food in Heishui Town significantly higher than other places.

More than half of the dozens of boxes of tofu were sold in a day, and a hundred catties of grain were recovered. So the profit of making tofu should be four or five times that of the tofu.

For the remaining tofu, Zhang He asked two hired workers to cut it into small pieces and dry it first. It can also be smoked into dried tofu, which can be stored for a long time.

There is also a large pile of tofu dregs, some of which are sold at the market today, and the rest are also useful.

Zhang He instructed several hired workers to put the bean curd dregs in a pot to simmer to dry up part of the water, then form them into fist-sized balls and wait for fermentation.

After fermentation, the bean curd residue needs to be dried again, and the final product is called moldy bean curd residue, which is very delicious and has a special fragrance.

In short, the most difficult work of making tofu has been taken over by zombies, and the rest of the work is not tiring, the profit is still high, and almost no materials are wasted.

In the future, the dried tofu and moldy bean curd can be sold in Dehua City.

It took Zhang He another period of time to successfully create a simple oil press.

Extracting oil requires some ingenuity, and the zombie coolies are currently unable to do it, which makes Zhang He feel a little regretful.

However, the fried beans also need to be ground before pressing the oil. This work can be handed over to zombies.

"My God, it turns out that the beans can really squeeze out oil!"

Old man Zhang was lying on the side of the large tank full of soybean oil, looking at the somewhat cloudy, slightly golden soybean oil, bursts of fragrance came into the nostrils.

"Smells good!"

Fat Tiger couldn't help dipping some of it into his mouth with his hands, and the aroma of fried beans spread in his mouth.

The Zhou Dynasty lacked oil crops, and cooking oil had always been a luxury item. Old man Zhang had been a landlord for more than half a year, and he only used a piece of lard to rub the pot once for cooking.

Have everyone present seen such a large tank of oil?

"Son, how much should we sell these oils for a catty?"

Zhang He thought for a while,

Taking lard as an example, the price of pork in the Zhou Dynasty fluctuated between 30 and 60 or 70.

Even if you buy a catty of pork, you won't get much oil, especially when you get caught by a profiteer and buy it home only to find that a large piece of pork is all lean meat. Many people are so angry that they scold their mothers.

However, although soybeans have high oil content, the oil in them is not as easy to squeeze out as he imagined. Ten catties of beans can only produce one catty of oil.

At present, manpower can only do this step, unless a better way can be found in the future.

"Let's just sell it for 50 Wen a catty."

The price isn't particularly cheap, but it's definitely not expensive either.

Ten catties of beans cost 50 Wen, which is equivalent to not making any money, but he still has eight or nine catties of bean cakes left.

These bean cakes can still be sold at the price of grain. If he hoards them up and sells them after the price of grain rises in winter, the price will definitely exceed five yuan.

In this way, he can still make money.

Since then, there have been two more profitable industries in Heishui Town.

Every once in a while, the guards would send a batch of goods to Dehua City and hand them over to Wen Sheng for sale.

The sales of dried tofu can only be regarded as average. After all, there are several tofu workshops in the city, competing with each other, and no one can make too much profit from it.

But soybean oil is a new thing, and it is the only one. Once it was launched, it was welcomed by the residents of Dehua City.

Even some ordinary people occasionally buy a few or two to taste.

After the two major industries of making tofu and extracting soybean oil are established, in addition to making money, they can also provide some additional job opportunities for tenants.

Zhang He wanted to build his small piece of land into a paradise of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Economic development was the first step that must be taken. What a paradise if you can't even eat enough!

Now it can only be regarded as an insignificant small step for economic development.

And money can support the army and provide military protection for the territory.

Even if Baron Zhiyuan, the lord of Dehua City, has a foundation-building practice, he also needs to search for tenants, earn money to support several troops to maintain daily order, and exchange for himself training resources.

As a minor qi practitioner, Zhang He couldn't treat money like dirt.

After Zhang He established these two major industries, he became a hands-off shopkeeper and left them to old man Zhang and Wei Peng to take care of them.

He is still concentrating on practicing every day, and he has practiced the two martial arts skills to the extreme. The only problem is that there are no more exquisite skills for him to practice, which is a waste of his great talent.

After this period of training, he felt that he was not far from the fourth level of Qi training.

It's just that the Peiyuan Dan he bought last time has already been used up, and he plans to buy some more.

Moreover, the production of spiritual spring water in the space is getting less and less, and the concentration of spiritual energy is also decreasing. Now there is an urgent need for a spirit stone to replenish the spiritual energy in the space.

On this day, Zhang He rushed to the outside of Zhaoling City, found a deserted place, put the horse into the space, and changed into a pink dress for himself.

Putting a human skin mask on her face, she instantly transformed into a charming and enchanting Peach Blossom Fairy.

Zhang He squeezed his chest a few times, um, it feels very real.

The volume of transactions required to return to Fangshi this time is relatively large, so Fairy Peach Blossom can only be blamed for it.