Chapter 248 Selling New Food
Wang Quan brought flour, tea, salt, cotton cloth, small stove, iron pot, wooden bowl and plate, as well as freshly launched new-style food, sweet potato vermicelli, cornmeal and other products, and embarked on the road to Guihua City.
The Shabeigou City was very close to Naturalization. After five days of walking, the caravan came outside of Naturalization.
The Guihua City, which was burned into ruins by the Jurchens, has not been fully restored. However, because the bandits from Shanxi and Shaanxi were surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others were forced to rush out of Shanxi and enter Henan. Some refugees who failed to follow the bandits to Henan left the barrier and defected to the Tumote tribe, which made the Tumote tribe have more than 10,000 Han shepherd slaves. Under the hard work of the Han shepherd slaves, Guihua City regained its vitality.
Looking at the hard-working Han people, Wang Quan turned to Zhang Shiwen and said, "Look, those who built the city are us Han people. They defected to the Mongolians. The Mongolians gave them a bite of food and they could work hard. As long as we Han people are not unable to survive, who would be willing to rebel at the risk of beheading?"
"The boss is right. During the Tianqi period, when I was in Henan, I had not suffered any disasters. Although the people were not doing well, they would not starve to death. A horse thief came to encourage the people to rebel, but not only did no one responded, but he sued the officials. Who wouldn't want to live a stable and stable life? But now, the court is incompetent, and the people are almost unable to even afford grassroots. If they don't rebel, are they waiting to starve to death?" Zhang Shiwen sighed.
When the Ming envoy Yang Xiong in the caravan heard this, he blushed. He sighed: "My lord's father, Mr. Yang Xiuling, understands the people's sentiments, sympathizes with the local gangs, and advocates the main focus on recruiting and pacifying. It's a pity that the thief surrenders and rebels, and rebels, and rebels the master to be imprisoned."
"The court has no money to comfort me. If the refugees do not rebel, wouldn't they be waiting to starve to death?" Zhang Shiwen snorted coldly.
The bandits in Shanxi were surrounded and suppressed by the official army. Except for Gao Yingxiang and other bandit leaders who led more than 100,000 refugees into Henan, more than 100,000 refugees failed to keep up with the bandits and entered Henan. Except for more than 30,000 who died in the chaos, more than 20,000 people fled into the mountains and forests, and the remaining more than 50,000 fell into Hong Chengchou's hands.
Hong Chengchou dealt with the refugees by killing thousands of thieves mixed with the refugees, and the rest of the refugees were disbanded on the spot and asked them to go home to farm.
But Hong Chengchou never thought about how these refugees could survive after returning home? Only a small number of the dismissed refugees went home. Some went to Henan to find the bandit army, and some went to join Zhang Wei, who was left in Shanxi. There were more than 20,000 people in this group, and more than 20,000 people went out to join the Tumote tribe. More than 7,000 of them were intercepted by Li Guodong and sent to the two cities of Shabeigou and Dadongyugou. The remaining more than 10,000 people successfully went out to the frontier and fled to naturalization.
"A Chinese caravan is coming again." Someone had already reported to Tumot Khan Omubu.
Seeing the Mongolians come out to greet them, Wang Quan, who has always been cautious, explained to Yang Xiong: "Enter Yang, don't expose it in front of the Mongolians first. I suspect that there is a Jiannu spy in the Tumote tribe. When the mission to Mobei is successful, we will see Tumote Khan again."
Wang Quan led the caravan into Guihua City. It had been five months since the caravan arrived. After Tumote's troops collected more than 10,000 Han people, the food was tight. At this time, a Han caravan came, which was a timely help.
"Brother Wang Quan, you are here! Why haven't you seen you for several years?" A Mongolian girl with round face and big eyes stopped in front of Wang Quan, looked at her for a long time before speaking.
The Mongolian girl was named Wurina. In the early years, when Wang Quan took the Dadewang caravan in and out of the naturalization, he met this Mongolian girl. When he saw her for the last time, she was thirteen years old and now she is sixteen years old.
"There are some things at home, so I haven't come for a few years. But Zhao Feng, who has been here before, is my younger brother. If he comes in the future, you can find him the same way." Wang Quan said with a smile.
At this moment, two Mongolian soldiers walked up to Wang Quan and saluted him: "It's the shopkeeper Wang! We are welcome to the knight."
Wang Quan followed the Mongolian soldiers into the newly restored royal palace. When Omubuhan saw him, he stood up from the throne happily, walked down the steps in person, walked to Wang Quan, opened his arms, and hugged him: "Wang Quanan replied, I haven't seen you for many years! I'm so happy to see you today!"
"Khan, I had something to do at home a few years ago, so I couldn't come. But Zhao Feng, who came before, was my younger brother."
"Please sit down!" Omubu asked someone to give him a seat, "Ben Khan knew that he was from your great devil, but he had never seen him before. After all, we are old friends and have friendship, which is different."
Wang Quan sat down, thanked Omubu, and then said, "Shan, this time I brought a new kind of food, which tastes very good, so that you can taste the taste first."
"What kind of food?" Omubu asked anxiously.
Wang Quanren took out the sweet potato vermicelli: "Sweat, this is the way to make noodles. The method is very simple. Give it a mutton soup or beef soup, put the vermicelli in a pot of boiling water, then put it in the soup, sprinkle some chopped green onion or coriander on it."
Ombu asked the chef to take down the sweet potato vermicelli and cook it. After a while, two large bowls of steaming sweet potato cakes were served. Ombu tasted it and praised it: "The taste is really good, it is better than noodles. But most of our herdsmen do not have iron pots to boil water, so the flour is better sold."
Wang Quan asked someone to take out corn flour and sweet potato starch: "This kind of floured cake tastes no worse than flour, and the price of this flour is much cheaper than flour. When pancakes, use three portions of this flour and one portion of flour, and one portion of starch to knead it into dough, and then bake it into a cake. You can try it."
The chef took the corn flour, flour and sweet potato flour and took the pancakes according to the method taught by Wang Quan. Soon, a few golden pancakes were served and Ombu tasted it and found that the taste was good.
This cornmeal is refined flour, and some of the coarse flour was kept by Li Guodong himself, and the residue was fed to pigs. In fact, the same is true for sweet potato vermicelli. After making it into powder, although it is made from coarse grains, it is refined from coarse grains and its taste is no worse than fine grains.
Wang Quan taught the chef another way to make corn cakes: mix corn flour, bean powder, milk and brown sugar together to make sweet corn cakes, and mix the milk aroma with corn aroma, which is amazing.
The price of cornmeal is much cheaper than flour and is very popular among the Tumote people. The 500-stone cornmeal provided by Wang Quan to the Tumote tribe was soon sold out, and the flour, sweet potato flour, salt, small stove, iron pot, cotton cloth and other products were also sold out.
"Are there any corn flour and vermicelli?" A Mongolian asked about the goods.
Wang Quan said regretfully: "There is no goods this time, I will provide you with goods next time."
"Han people, don't your caravan have half of the goods?"
"That was the goods sent to Mobei. We have promised them and cannot break our promise. We have sold them all to you. What should I do if Mobei Mongolian?"
Before leaving Naturalization, Wang Quan suggested to Omubu: "Since Naturalization City has been restored, the caravan can transport more goods to you Naturalization next time. Khan, you can also open a business in Naturalization, so that we don't have to go to Mobei by ourselves, and let the people of Mobei come to naturalize and buy it by themselves."
"This is a good idea! We can make money, too." Omubu nodded.
Wang Quan took the caravan to leave Naturalization and disappeared on the endless grassland. Because Li Guodong reminded him that there were spies from the Later Jin among the Tumotes, the identity of the Ming envoy cannot be revealed now. After the Mongolian envoy from Mobei came to Naturalization, he would let him show his identity as the envoy of the Ming envoy, and then the Mongolian envoy of the Mobei and the Ming envoy sat down with Omubu to discuss things together.
Zhangba Grassland, the Jinyuetuo camp after the Jurchens.
A Mongolian walked into the camp and two white-armored soldiers came up to stop him.
"I was sent by Guluge, tell Mr. Beile quickly! There is an emergency report!" the man said.
Yue Tuo heard from the guards that it was Guluge who sent someone, so he immediately asked the guards to welcome the man into the central army's tent.
"Belle! A Han caravan went to Mobei Mongolia and even slandered the Khan, saying that the Khan would open a business in Guihua City and let the Mongols of Mobei come to naturalize and trade. It is estimated that the Mongols of Mobei will send envoys to naturalize soon."
"It seems that there is something wrong with this caravan! I suspect that a Ming envoy has been mixed into the caravan!" Yue Tuo's smile slowly calmed down, and his keen sense of smell told him that someone wanted to be unfavorable to Dajin, "You Dajin also have a problem! He also wants to unite with the Mongolian in the northern desert to deal with our Dajin!"
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