Traitor Summoning System [Infrastructure]

After the heavy rainy season, there is not much rain, the sky is clear, but the temperature is getting lower every day.

The heating system will come in handy soon, Leonard thought when he got into the comfortable wool quilt at night.

After the heating equipment was completed, Cai Lun didn't have much time to rest, because Leonard immediately gave him the next task - brewing soy sauce.

Soy sauce is developed from soy sauce. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, more than 3000 years ago, there was a record of soy sauce.The brewing of soy sauce is also full of accidents, just like Zhu Yuanzhang's desperation to invent various delicacies (...).

However, at the beginning, soy sauce was marinated with fresh meat, and later spread to the people, and beans began to be used.

The process of making soy sauce is very long, but like Leonard said, if you don't do it, you will never have it.

Leonard wanted to make soy sauce a long time ago, but he didn't know how to do it. He only watched some videos before and didn't remember it.

The brewing of soy sauce is still very particular. If you accidentally mix other things in it, the brewing may fail. But soy sauce is indispensable for Chinese cuisine, so Leonard has been waiting for Cai Lun to finish the necessary work. Finally, he handed over the work of brewing soy sauce to Cai Lun.

Leonard did it with Cai Lun, learning by the way.

Cai Lun uses soybeans.

The first process is to select soybeans. The soybeans must be large and full without damage.This step is a test of eyesight. Leonard transferred the slave in charge of bean sprouts to pick soybeans.These slaves are used to picking beans on weekdays, so they work well and quickly.

Wash the selected soybeans with clean water and soak them until the soybeans swell and become larger.The first process is over.

Then comes the second process, steaming in a steamer.

Cai Lun specially asked the slaves to build some steamers. These steamers can not only steam soybeans, but also steam steamed buns.Now that the dough has been made, it is no problem to make big white steamed buns.Leonard felt that he was more used to eating white and fat steamed buns than that kind of bread.This is off topic.

Steam the soybeans on a steamer over low heat, not over high heat, as it is easy to be steamed.Once the soybeans are steamed to the point where they can be rubbed easily with hands, that’s enough. All of this is based on experience. In ancient times, there were no sophisticated instruments like modern ones. Cai Lun’s head is simply a priceless treasure, Leonard thought.

Spread the steamed soybeans carefully to cool down, then mix with wheat flour and stir well.

This year's harvest is very good, so it's no problem to take out such a small amount of wheat flour.

If there is soy sauce Qujing here, it will be much more convenient. Just mix soy sauce Qujing and flour together with soybeans, so the error rate is not high, and the fermentation speed is also fast, but there is no such thing now, so we can only use natural bacteria. take your time.

Cai Lun used bricks to build a house specially for brewing soy sauce. It was clean and ventilated. He put the soybeans there to ferment, and just waited.

Leonard went to see the soybeans every day. At first, there was no change in the soybeans. Suddenly, one day, yellow-green hairs appeared on the surface of the soybeans. He hurried to tell Cai Lun.

Cai Lun said: "The fungus has appeared, so it should be done."

"That's great." Leonard was delighted, he leaned over and smelled it... well... the smell is not good.

Soak the soybeans with fungus koji in salt water, and then start to dry them every day. After turning over, Cai Lun asked the slaves in charge of bean sprouts to also bear the responsibility of brewing soy sauce.

After drying for one month, put it in the tank, and continue to dry after sealing.

The last step is to boil and sterilize, but that will be a few months later.

Cai Lun spent half a month preparing to brew soy sauce, and then it was time to dry it repeatedly.

Because of the heating, the low temperature in winter will not have any effect on soy sauce.

Probably next summer, Leonard will be able to eat soy sauce, and he is very much looking forward to it.

He plans to brew a second batch of soy sauce after the winter, of course, the more the better.

Leonard still wants to open a Chinese restaurant in the territory, so soy sauce is naturally indispensable.

On this day, Leonard came out of the small house for brewing soy sauce—that house will be specially used for brewing soy sauce in the future. The servant Cronin came over excitedly and reported: "My lord, the sea-chasing team found a large area on the beach. Clam Farm."

Clam farm?

Leonard's eyes lit up, "Take me to have a look."

There are two reasons for Leonard's excitement. One is that the natural clam farm can be used and cultivated artificially; the other is that during this time Leonard is busy doing various things in the castle every day, even if he is free The time is spent at most walking and chatting with people in the castle, and I feel a little panicked, so I am very excited to have a serious opportunity to go out.

Leave as soon as you say, Leonard is the person with the highest status in this territory, and he doesn't need to report to anyone.

He rode on the fine horse his elder brother had given him, and galloped along with his two attendants, and the hounds followed them, barking as they ran.

The horseshoe mud splashed, and the dark green cloak flew behind him like a sweeping ocean wave.

The wind whistled in his ears, his body heaved up and down with the horse, and the sound of his hound was next to his ears, Leonard couldn't help but let out a hearty laugh.

This feeling is really good.

They reached the beach in less than four and 10 minutes, and Leonard felt pain in his butt.

Well, just ran too fast and bumped his ass.

Design a softer saddle another day... Leonard thought.

The members of the sea-chasing team immediately stepped forward: "Good day, my lord."

Leonard whistled and let the hounds go hunting in the forest by themselves, and then he said, "Where is the clam field, take me there."

"Follow your orders, my lord."

The crew members were found on a clam farm a few kilometers from the house.

This clam farm was bigger than Leonard had imagined. The beach was covered with countless shells, and a bunch of greedy birds hovered in the sky.

Leonard laughed: "These clams started to reproduce after they were one year old, and they continued to reproduce. It seems that we have a steady stream of clams to eat in the future."

Clams have a long lifespan. Clams are hermaphroditic. They are male at the beginning, and become female after a certain age (usually 30 years old).

During mating season, the seawater floats the sperm and eggs of millions of clams.

Well this, um, is pretty spectacular, right, cough.

The eyes of the knights lit up, and a member of the sea-chasing team said, "Then we should keep an eye on this piece of clams, my lord."

"Yes, they need to be fenced, and seabirds and other marine life must be prevented from stealing." Leonard announced: "Everything in this territory belongs to me, including this piece of clams. So they cannot be eaten by other creatures."

"Okay, my lord." The members of the sea-chasing team said in unison.

"Then we should send someone to take charge of this clam farm," Leonard said to himself.

Clams are an important economic species for tidal flat farming. They are delicious and nutritious.

But that nutrient richness is calculated according to the unit weight. There is too little meat in the shell of a clam, and this wild clam has less meat and a thicker shell. They are different from captive-bred clams, and they need thicker shells. to protect yourself. ——So you have to eat a lot to satisfy this nutrient-rich feature.

Leonard knew that a purse seine had to be set up around the clam farm, and some sea creatures that ate clams had to be stopped. Crabs, sea urchins, and starfish all ate clams.But he had no idea how to do it, so he thought about going back and asking Cai Lun.

Cai Lun is really useful... Leonard thought.

Leonard praised the team members who discovered the clam field, and gave them a silver coin as a reward. As for how to divide it, it was their own business.

Returning to Little Thorn Castle, Leonard and Cai Lun described his needs, and Cai Lun said regretfully, "In that case, bricks can't be used..."

Leonard Khan: "It won't work, I guess it needs to be made of wood."

Cai Lun really wants to use bricks for everything now haha.

"Then nail the wooden stakes into the tidal flats, and then wrap the fishing nets on the wooden stakes to enclose the whole clam farm. That's it." Cai Lun said without thinking.

"Uh, it does seem to be like this..." Leonard recalled some information pictures he had seen before, and felt that the clam farm looked like this. "But here, uh, there are no fishing nets here, so we have to make fishing nets first." Lun Nader said.

Cai Lun couldn't help recalling the pain when he first started farming.

Every time I want to do a new thing, and then find that, oh, there is no tool.Stop and do tools.On to the next job, oh no tools.So I stopped and continued to make the second wave of tools.

"Speaking of which, I hope the lord can summon someone who is proficient in water," Cai Lun said. "Now resources such as oceans and lakes are very important to the lord. General Lu and I are not very good at this."

"Well... I'll try my best." Leonard said.

This is not something he can summon whatever he wants.he thought.

In fact, it is enough to use these people in such a large territory at present. It just so happens that everyone's functions are not repeated.

It would be a waste if people with repeated functions were summoned in the future, after all, the fate points would only increase as the time went by.

Cai Lun took his slaves to the clam farm, and the main food that night was all kinds of seafood and fish.

There are not many fish harvested from the sea, and most of them are shellfish.

Leonard thought that if he could summon someone who was proficient in water, he would be able to organize a fishing team.

Not to mention the ocean, there are still some large lakes in his territory, which are rich in fish resources.

Leonard made fish jelly, which is a good accompaniment to wine.

It's a pity that the wine here is terrible, but it's okay, the hops have been bought back, and Cai Lun can brew delicious beer later.

The method of making fish jelly is very simple, but it still needs some skills to make it delicious.

First cut the fish meat into pieces and marinate, and of course keep the fish skin. The fish skin is the essence of fish jelly. In many places, fish skin is directly used to make fish jelly.

Take out the fish skin and fish bones separately, and fry them in oil such as onion, ginger, garlic, and pepper. When frying, add oyster sauce and wine. After frying until the fish bones are crispy, you can also put the fish meat in, and then add water to stew the soup. up.

The purpose of this is to make the fish bones soft. When eating fish jelly, you can eat the soft and delicious fish bones together. The taste is awesome.

After the soup is almost cooked, pour it out, find a container and cover it, let it cool, and then put it in a cool and dry place to wait for the collagen to solidify.

This method is a bit like jelly, but the principle is actually similar.

The fish jelly looks crystal clear, and tastes unique to fish, full of flavor. The collagen contained in it can also dispel rheumatism and dredge meridians.Really delicious and healthy.Because of "Late Night Cafeteria", the fish jelly became popular back then, and it was at that time that Leonard learned how to make fish jelly.

The shiny fish jelly is sprinkled on the big white steamed buns. The unique fresh fragrance of sea fish explodes in the mouth.

Leonard feels that his body is getting better and better. In addition to daily exercise, it also has a lot to do with eating these natural health foods.

In addition, of course, there is grilled fish, which is Leonard's favorite.

Salt, ginger, oyster sauce, etc. are made into a sauce, and the fish is marinated inside and out for an hour, so that the sauce is fully flavored.Then fill the belly of the fish with herbs such as thyme and basil, and then roast it on the fire grill, and apply olive oil while roasting. The smell spreads quickly and is extremely fragrant.

Those spicy flavors seep into the crispy surface, the whole fish looks oily, golden in color, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, with a tangy aroma.Take a bite, it is delicious, plump, and the taste is not too good.

The soup is a relatively refreshing clam soup with some kelp and enoki mushrooms added to it.Fresh and delicious, the snow-white clam soup is steaming hot, take a sip, it is fragrant, and it is quite greasy.

This clam farm is enough for the entire Little Thorn Castle to eat, but Leonard is not satisfied, he still wants to open another clam farm in the spring of next year.It is quite simple to cultivate clams artificially. He needs to raise more. After all, he is planning to open Chinese restaurants in Wanzhong Town and Chaos Market.

……

Compared with before, there are more free traders in Evening Bell Town and Chaos Bazaar.

Leonard established a market inside Little Thorn Castle, which is a benefit for employees (?) inside Little Thorn Castle.

There are all kinds of daily necessities, food, and clothes in the internal market, and slaves can buy these at relatively low prices.

At the same time, Leonard canceled some of the benefits that were previously given to slaves for free, and changed them to this kind of fee.

There are no extra meals from time to time, and now the slaves are basically all black bread + big pot rice.After all, there is not much leavened dough yet, and all bread cannot be made into fermented bread.However, slaves could get extra meals for a small amount of copper coins.

This means that the actual treatment of slaves has not become lower, but the treatment of hardworking slaves has improved.

The purpose of changing free to charge is to motivate slaves to work harder.Let them know that they work hard, not only to report to the lord, but also to make their lives better.

So in the end, Leonard's actual investment did not increase, and the copper coins were exchanged back and forth between the slaves and Leonard, and the slaves worked more slaves than before.They know that if they do more, they can really get more.

Another great advantage of this is that slaves can be integrated into the group more quickly.

After all, it is easier to motivate newcomers by the benefits they see than to influence each other and say that they want to work for the lord.

The slaves were fresh again.

It can be said that the slaves of Little Thorn Castle are the best-lived slaves among all the slaves in this world, and they are also the hardest-working slaves.

"Winter is the cheapest time for slaves," said Maester Rutherford.

Because many slaves have no work in winter, they are easy to freeze to death, and have to be fed, so many nobles or slave owners want to take advantage of them and sell their slaves at this time.

"En. I'll ask Butler Conrad to buy another batch," Leonard said.

Different from Little Thorn Castle, Little Thorn Castle also has a lot of work to do in winter, and now Leonard does not lack that little food.

There are more and more jobs in Little Thorn Castle, and there is always a shortage of labor.Next year, Cai Lun plans to reclaim a large amount of wasteland, and more slaves will be needed by then.

Maester Rutherford knew this too.

Under Leonard's order, Steward Conrad took the knights out to buy slaves. The slaves in Sunlun City have been bought by Steward Conrad. This time Steward Conrad is going to a further place to buy slaves .

"It's best to buy all the slaves in the east," Leonard said.

"This is probably impossible." Bachelor Rutherford shook his head. "The population of Sunlun City is small, and there has been no war in recent years, so there are few slaves. There are still many slaves in other places."

"So..." Leonard nodded.

The Emerson caravan completed the first jelly trade. He brought back some hops for brewing beer, some cows, and 130 gold coins.

Just took out some gold coins to buy slaves.

It's raining again.

It was drizzling when Emerson's caravan came back, and Emerson came to report the situation to Leonard.

There is a special fresh smell in the air.

Leonard said casually, "Do you know what this smells like?"

Emerson replied, "It's the smell of earth when it rains."

"No." Leonard said, "This is actually the smell of dead plants and animals. When it rains, dead animals and plants decompose and enter the air, and adhere to the surface of the soil with the wind, mixing with other things, forming this smell. Smell." It's actually ozone, but the person who said ozone must not understand.

The first time Leonard knew this, he felt that his childhood had been destroyed. For the same reason, there was also the smell of sunshine on the quilt.I used to say it was the smell of mite corpses, but later I learned that it was some other microorganisms, such as bacteria, germs, fungi, etc., mixed with ozone, and of course there were mites.

Oh yes, sunlight doesn't kill many mites, so you still have millions of them on your comforter.

……Vomited.It is better not to know.

Emerson was stunned for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "Lord, do you mean to hide the terrible reality under the beautiful appearance? Are you saying that you poisoned the jelly? Are we going to take the opportunity to capture these territories? Or do you mean that I should hide deeper..."

Leonard: "..."

Well... Dorothea is quite right, this Emerson does have a lot of ideas.

But the people here seem to be prone to overthinking, such as Mayor Parker.

"Hey, you can forget about this for now," Leonard said.

"Okay, my lord." Emerson showed a respectful expression.

Leonard is a little bit pained.

After saying goodbye to the lord, Emerson stood in the courtyard, thinking.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Conrad the butler asked after passing by.

Emerson said thoughtfully: "I'm smelling this rotten world full of corpses."

Butler Conrad: "..."

emmmmm... this young man seems to be... well... quite individual.

By the way, is it okay to let such a person be a caravan captain?

So, what does it take for a bad businessman to become an exporter of quotations from the second disease?

One, a brain that is always thinking about many things.

Two, a lord who speaks (only looks) meaningful.

……

The weather is getting cold.

When the knight was hunting, he found a large beehive and came back to report it to Leonard. Leonard enthusiastically asked Cai Lun to draw a picture of a beehive, and then asked a carpenter to build it.Then he led the knight to the big beehive. He wanted to see if he could bring it back to the castle and raise bees artificially.

Bees are the main source of sweetness in this era.

The knights have gone deep into the Darkmoon Forest now. The soil in the depths of the forest is thick with humus, so soft that a horse's hoof can almost sink into it. The soil is also very fertile, which is suitable for digging back to make fertilizer, or to use it It is also good to plant flowers and plants.Leonard thought.

"Wait a minute," Lu Bu said, jumping off his horse, and said, "There is this here." His tone was filled with joy.

"What is this?" Leonard looked over curiously, only to see a large patch of densely-grown grass, nothing special, could it be edible?Leonard thought wildly. ,

Well, his first thought was to eat.

"The locals call this..." Lu Bu said something Leonard didn't understand, and continued, "It can be used as an insole."

"Oh, Ulagrass." As soon as the insole was mentioned, Leonard knew it.Northeast three treasures, ginseng, deer antler and mink, these are the later Northeast three treasures, the former Northeast three treasures are ginseng, mink Uralia, and the Ulacao in it refers to this Ulacao.

Ulagrass is very good for making insoles. It is a fungal root that can inhibit the reproduction of bacteria. It can be made into insoles after being beaten and softened, stuffed into cold-proof shoes, or made into straw mats.In addition to antibacterial, it is also very good at keeping warm.Long-term use can also cure athlete's foot. Leonard feels that many nobles need this.

Freemen and slaves rarely have beriberi, because they don't wear shoes much.

Even in modern times, there are special Ulagrass insoles for beriberi on sale, and the price is quite expensive, because Ulagrass cannot be propagated artificially at present.

According to scientific data, Ulagrass is one of the only plants known in the world that can resist fungal erosion and parasitic ability for life①, so the preciousness of this plant can be imagined.

Leonard immediately ordered the knights to harvest this clump of Uralia grass, and get a batch back first, so that the slaves can remember the appearance, and then come to the Darkmoon Forest to look for more Ulagrass.People in Little Thorn Fort can have new insoles, and there will be an extra insole in the inner market of Little Thorn Castle.

Speaking of which, Leonard had the impression that Wulacao could make paper, and Cai Lun could let him make paper when he was done with the important things at hand.Leonard thought.

It has been two seasons since Cai Lun was called out, and Cai Lun has been busy as a result.Leonard suddenly felt a little guilty, how about giving them a rest?Cai Lun is really busy.

Originally, I came out to find the honeycomb, but I also got this unexpected surprise.

The search for the hive went smoothly, and the knights marked the way.

The honeycomb has shrunk a lot, and it looks wilted.Leonard took the honeycomb back to Little Thorn Castle, and put the honeycomb into the pre-built beehive. Leonard looked outside and felt that the bees inside were not energetic.

He had no choice but to go to Cai Lun. After Cai Lun came over and looked at it, he asked Leonard about the back and forth, and then laughed: "It doesn't need to be so troublesome."

"Huh?" Leonard was at a loss.

Cai Lun said: "Take your finished beehive directly to the place where there are honeycombs, coat it with honey or sprinkle sugar, and bees will come over."

Leonard: "Don't you have to have a queen bee?" Leonard still knows something.

"This season is the wild bee separation season, and the hive will divide into other bee colonies." Cai Lun said, "You put a hive next to it, and the queen bee thinks it saves time and effort, so she takes the bees under her hand to live in it. When the time comes, you can just hug them back, and you don’t need to mess with these remaining half-dead bees.”

"I see." Leonard said, "Then I don't know if these can survive..."

"You should have asked me directly," Cai Lun said.

"I thought you were busy..." Leonard scratched his head, "I thought I'd try it myself first."

Cai Lun laughed and shook his head, "As a subordinate, it is only natural to do things for the lord."

Cai Lun took the time to build a new hive with the carpenter, and then, as he said, smeared honey and put it in the forest. Two days later, two healthy bee colonies were harvested.Leonard couldn't help but ask for the hive to be brought back and placed in a new house specially.Of course, it was a house of bricks again.

Then let the two slaves take care of and raise the bees. Naturally, Cai Lun will teach them how to raise them.

……

In winter, the first snow fell.

The soft snowflakes floating in the sky are like a shower of rain, and they melt immediately when they are close to the face, bringing moist kisses.

The heating was turned on, and the bees lived comfortably and thoroughly.

The work of the slaves was also relaxed, and Leonard allowed them to move around, so they exaggerated the heating in the castle and publicized it, making everyone in Evening Bell Town and Chaos Bazaar yearn for it.

But this winter they don't have to suffer from the cold, because Leonard sold them coke at a low price.

After the first snow fell, Leonard began to open the gate of the castle to bards in this boring season of winter like every nobleman did.

The bard entered Little Thorn Castle and felt like he was in heaven.

It's a very warm and cozy place with tons of clean and delicious food.

They write what they see and hear into songs with gorgeous rhetoric and dreamy decoration.

They left Little Thorn and sang these songs.

"It may cause other people to peep." Maester Rutherford warned.

Leonard stood on the castle terrace, watching Lu Bu, who was exercisingly practicing the army in the square, caught a snowflake with his hand, and smiled: "Do you think I don't know?"