Great Qin Shi Empress

==·Points·==

Yes, this master of cultivating immortals likes to retreat and go out to practice, otherwise even if Lin Qian does not contact him, this film and television drama obsessed patient will find Lin Qian after watching the film and television drama in his hand to download more movies and dramas to watch of--

Just like the steam engine and other things that the master of cultivating immortals has been studying for a long time has not been able to produce results, his junior sister still has not produced better quality works after several years of self-exploration.

The reason is also simple, just like the master of cultivating immortals, his junior sister also often retreats.

But what can be done?For these immortal cultivators, anything that meets their own cultivation must stand aside.

Lin Qian waited for a while, and then prepared to close the plane trader directly.

but……

Lin Qian looked at another host with less frequent contact, and simply clicked on the other party's dialogue page.

"It's been a few years, how are you?"

Because he hadn't contacted him for several years, Lin Qian almost thought that this ancient host was gone, and that he would contact him this time because he just saw it and poked it by the way.

Unexpectedly, the ancient host replied to Lin Qian immediately——

"I'm very good."

"I found a big man before, and I originally wanted to join him, but I didn't expect that the other party had already gotten involved with my enemy. I almost lost my life. If it wasn't for this noodle trader who saved my life in time, I..."

The other party smiled: "But it's all right now. After I escaped, I went directly to the capital to sue the Imperial Court incognito. Now not only have my revenge been avenged, but I have also been named a national teacher by His Majesty. I don't have to worry about being punished if I trade any good things in the future." People covet it to bring disaster."

Lin Qian: "National teacher?"

The ancient host nodded: "In order to increase the bargaining chip when I sued the imperial court, although I never exposed the plane trader, I told some lies."

As for the lies...

Looking at the position of the national teacher, it is clear.

Lin Qian didn't pursue the question, but asked another question: "You said you were in danger, but what does it mean that you were saved thanks to the Plane Trader?"

The ancient host explained: "At that time, I was injured, the wound festered, and it seemed to be getting worse. Then the customer service of the plane trader saw this and opened the second world for me in advance, and used my points to trade with the other party. , bought a bottle of life-saving medicine."

Lin Qian was stunned: "Can points be traded?"

The ancient host affirmed her question: "It is indeed possible to trade, but it must be agreed by both parties, and when trading points, the plane trader will draw a [-]% commission from it."

ten percent?It's too dark too!

But thinking of the number of points that he is far away from the next level, Lin Qian couldn't help but use his brain——

Forget about the rest, this cultivating host is so incompatible with other worlds, the points obtained from the transaction are useless, maybe you can persuade the other party to use the points to trade with you?

Of course, this has to be discussed after the master of cultivating immortals wakes up.

Lin Qian talked to the ancient host for a while, then traded some books with chili seeds, and then closed the plane trader.

Just at this time, the carriage had arrived at Xianyang Palace.

Lin Qian and Ying Zheng got off the carriage one after another, and then walked into the palace where they lived.

After entering the main hall, Lin Qian first contacted the customer service of the plane trader to confirm the feasibility of point trading——

It is indeed possible, but the official does not recommend trading with points.

Therefore, the Plane Trader will directly draw [-]% of the handling fee, the purpose is to let the holders of these Plane Traders focus more on the development of unique products in their respective worlds.

Because this is what the Plane Trader wants.

but……

Lin Qian told Ying Zheng about his conversation with the ancient host: "I was puzzled before, so this noodle trader goes to the back, and the more points are needed to upgrade the level, F to E only needs [-] points , basically as long as there are so many unique animals and plants in the local world, people can upgrade; the points required for E to D grades are directly doubled by ten times, and it takes [-] points to upgrade; after that, it is even more exaggerated, [-] points , millions of points, or even tens of millions of points to upgrade.”

Lin Qian fought his life to upgrade his plane trader to D-level. If he could only trade items, [-] points would be an impossible task, not to mention the millions and tens of millions of points later. up.

But if the points can also be traded, it will be easier to upgrade.

At least like the world of cultivating immortals, although there are countless unique commodities, Lin Qian can't use them at all, and naturally he can't trade them, so there is a need for them to exist.

Ying Zheng nodded: "You are right, you can let the master of cultivating immortals use points to trade with us."

After all, judging from the first contact with the cultivating host, the temptation of upgrading and other worlds to him is almost equal to nothing.

Naturally, the points are of no use to him.

Lin Qian opened the plane trader and saw that there were only about [-] points (half of the points will be deducted for each upgrade), and his mood improved a lot.

The only problem is that I can't get in touch at the moment, and I don't know when I will be able to get in touch with the cultivator host.

……

A few days later, Juzi of the Mo family personally sent the "projector" made by Mo Shu and the oil press that Lin Qian asked him to make to Xianyang Palace.

Lin Qian saw the "projector" at once, but quickly looked away and landed on the oil press.

After talking to Ying Zheng, she asked someone to move him to the kitchen.

The people in the kitchen heard that this machine can extract oil from soybeans, and they crowded around curiously. After the handymen brought the fried soybeans, their eyes seemed to be glued to the oil press. Can't move it at all.

Oil presses are divided into hot pressing and cold pressing. The main step of the former is to fry the seeds of plants that need to be oiled, such as soybeans, sesame, rapeseed, etc., in a pot, and then put them into the machine to extract oil; It is necessary to fry the plant seeds and then directly extract the oil.

However, the machines for extracting oil from the latter are relatively high-tech, and the current technology cannot produce them.

Therefore, the oil extraction machines that appear in the kitchen naturally use hot pressing.

However, the soybeans have already been fried, so there is no need to wait for a while, and they can be directly poured into the oil press machine.

So soon, everyone saw that after the fried soybeans were poured into the machine, a crust-like solid slipped out of a hole and fell into the bamboo basket that had been placed earlier. Before everyone wondered, They saw a dark, buttery bright liquid trickle out from the oil outlet at the other end of the hole and fall into the barrel.

Someone couldn't help shrugging their noses: "This smells delicious..."

Not only has the aroma of soybeans, but also has a burnt smell that makes people mouth-watering. The taste is not strong, but it urges people to swallow.

This is a completely different taste from animal fat.

Everyone looked at Lin Qian in unison, their eyes full of eagerness and anticipation.

Lin Qian looked at them amusedly: "This oil is the same as lard, it is used to make food. It's useless for me to keep it. You can handle the oil you squeeze out."

The steward thanked him again and again, and then asked, "What about this oil press?"

Lin Qian laughed: "Of course I keep it."

The kitchen suddenly burst into cheers.

Lin Qian reminded: "The yield of this vegetable oil is not comparable to that of lard, you..."

The steward quickly waved his hand: "The fat and suet on the pig's body produce a lot of oil, but it takes a year and a half from raising a piglet to the time the fat pig is slaughtered. It takes such a long time to raise the fat pig. You only need dozens of catties of lard, and the price is not cheap."

"On the contrary, every household has soybeans. Even if the oil output is low, it is cheaper and more cost-effective than animal oil."

Lin Qian was helpless: "I just want to remind you, don't throw away the waste from oil extraction, it is also a very good feed to feed pigs."

If you are in charge, you will apologize immediately.

Lin Qian waved his hand: "What's the matter?"

After telling the kitchen about the oil press and how to use it, Lin Qian went straight back to the main hall.

Ying Zheng was talking to Zhi Su Nei Shi, when he saw Lin Qian coming in, he called her in directly.

Lin Qian greeted Sun Neishi, and then heard Ying Zheng say, "This oil press can not only extract oil from soybeans, but also extract oil from sesame, rapeseed and peanuts. People can't eat it." If you can afford lard, you can always afford vegetable oil.”

Sun Neishi nodded: "I understand."

The two talked again, and Sun Neishi took his leave and left.

Lin Qian didn't ask any more questions.

Sun Neishi was the former Sun Taicang. When he was a colleague with Lin Qian, Sun Neishi was responsible for the promotion and planting of many crops. Afterwards, Sun Neishi was also responsible for the sugar cane extraction, and successfully promoted it. All over the country, there are still all kinds of candies for sale in shops in major counties and counties.

So seeing that Ying Zheng handed over the matter to Sun Neishi, Lin Qian was very relieved.

And there are ordinary people who have the same idea as Lin Qian.

Compared with Lin Qian, ordinary people even trusted Sun Neishi more, especially after hearing that the oil press was brought out by Marquis Gu Feng, the people's trust in Sun Neishi doubled directly.

Sun Neishi had just opened an oil press shop in Xianyang City, and just found Zhang Liang to publish an advertisement in the newspaper. After that, Sun Neishi didn't need to do anything more, and there was a long queue outside the door——

The common people obediently brought their own soybeans and came to line up with friends and companions. Everyone was smiling, their eyes were full of curiosity about the oil press, but their mouths were talking about their yearning and expectation for the upcoming changes in their lives. .

This oil extraction is charged according to the weight, and the price is quite cheap for a hundred catties of crops.

But this price is for the crops after frying——

In order to reduce the queuing time, Sun Neishi had someone post a notice at the gate before the opening, and asked all the people to fry the crops before sending them to the oil mill.

Soon, a mouth-watering aroma spread from the oil shop. ,

The fragrance attracted more people, and soon the line became longer.

Sun Neishi was worried that people would wait a day for nothing, so he calculated how long it would take to extract oil from ten catties of plant seeds, and after calculating how much weight of plant seeds could be squeezed in a day, he personally took people, took notebooks and pens and ink, and specially Those who weigh crops are registered with the people.

Just register them one by one, and when he found that the weight of the seeds had reached or even exceeded the standard, Sun Neishi immediately explained the reason to the people behind that person, and then returned to the oil mill.

Seeing this, the common people trusted Sun Neishi more and more.

……

Not long after Ah Chun got married, she and her husband gave birth to a child.

However, the court was short of people, and her husband, a soldier, was soon called up to fight on the front lines.Although she encountered danger several times and suffered a lot of injuries, her husband was lucky and applied medicine in time every time, and finally returned to Xianyang successfully.

He came back with meritorious service and title, and the life of the family naturally got better.

But no matter how good the conditions are, they are limited. They can't open up to eat meat, and they can't open up the cooking oil.

After all, Ah Chun had another one in his stomach.

For the sake of the children, not only the husband and wife, but even the elders of the two families did not dare to eat and drink openly, they all wanted to accumulate some wealth for the children.

But even so, it can't make pregnant women suffer, right?

So after Ah Chun became pregnant, the two families changed their thrifty style of painting before, let Ah Chun eat meat, at least two eggs a day——

They are all hens raised by the family for laying eggs, and the two families support a pregnant woman, so the problem is not too big.

But I eat eggs every day, and there are always times when I get tired of eating.

Ah Chun didn't say anything, but her husband could tell from Ah Chun's eating speed and frequency.

Then, Ah Chun ate a meal of meat.

But meat can't be eaten all at once. Although his family's conditions are good among the people, they haven't reached the point where they often eat meat.

If there is no meat, then eat lard.

But people these days use lard for cooking, unlike modern times, they just dig a lump and put it in the pot to melt: when people use lard to cook, most of them only heat up a little bit to let the food inside A little more oil is enough. Although the taste is better than no oil, but how delicious it is...

Anyway, Ah Chun didn't like it.

If you don't like the food, your appetite will be bad, and you will inevitably become thinner.

Ah Chun's husband was so anxious that he finally decided to hide it from Ah Chun and use the money he saved to buy meat and oil——

Even if he would be blamed by Ah Chun for this, he would admit it.

But before he came to the place where the butcher was selling pork, he saw someone running in a certain direction with a bag of things.

He stopped him, and after asking, he found out that there was an oil press in the city.

Oil mill?

He quickly ran over with the people, and then learned the news of soybean oil extraction from the mouth of the oil mill guy.

As long as there are several acres of land in the family, who will not have some soybeans?

With a better choice, he immediately ran home with his savings and told his parents and wife the news. Then he fried a pot of soybeans at home, loaded them and rushed towards the oil mill.

It was also because of his luck that it took a lot of time to run back and forth, but when Sun Neishi registered the number of soybeans, he squeezed into the last few places and was not directly persuaded by Sun Neishi to go back.

Although queuing was troublesome, it was as if a fire was burning in his heart, warm and scalding.

It wasn't until the evening of that day that it was Achun's husband's turn to extract the oil.

While handing the soybeans to the little official in charge, he handed over money to another little official, and then he heard the sound of the oil press running, and the oil squeezed out of the soybeans quickly filled the wooden barrel.

Ah Chun's husband cheerfully took a bucket of oil and a bag of waste from oil extraction and walked home.

With these oils, Ah Chun will definitely be able to eat well.

……

People's lives have changed a lot because of the appearance of the oil press——

It's not just the problem of cooking oil, and it's not just the problem of grilling skewers at roadside stalls that made Lin Qian think of vegetable oil. For the common people, the biggest change is that the output is too low and the taste is not good. The number of soybean seeds that were phased out has increased again.

Food has always been the foundation of the country, so any slight changes will be recorded and checked by the internal history of the government. If there are any problems, they will be directly reported to Yingzheng, and even taken to the court to discuss with civil and military officials.

Naturally, it was impossible for Sun Neishi to turn a blind eye to such an obvious change as the sudden increase in the number of soybeans planted.

After the investigation found out the reason, Sun Neishi also directly wrote to Ying Zheng to explain the reason.

After reading it, Ying Zheng told Lin Qian as an anecdote.

Lin Qian was stunned: "Did common people seldom grow soybeans before?"

Ying Zheng was more puzzled than Lin Qian, but seeing that her expression did not seem to be fake, he immediately laughed and said, "Isn't this a matter of course? The fields in the hands of the people are limited, so in order to fill their stomachs, they can't grow food in full accordance with the law. According to my own mind, the food and vegetables planted in the ground must be carefully considered before planting, and everything must be based on the premise of being full."

"So after the emergence of high-yield crops such as corn and potatoes, it is not a matter of course that the planting area and quantity of soybeans and other grains have decreased?"

"Because of the various pastries you asked the kitchen to make before, the planting area of ​​wheat has not decreased too much, but soybeans, as a food, taste very bad, and there are no other crops that can be used except for some pickles. Intercropping corn to increase the grain yield of corn, I am afraid that no one will plant it at all.”

Lin Qian was dumbfounded: "Is that so?"

Ying Zheng was helpless: "The widow thought you knew."

Lin Qian looked at Ying Zheng: "I know that the acreage of other crops has decreased, and I expected this, but the acreage of soybeans has fallen to such a low level... I never thought about it."

Yingzheng looked at her suspiciously: "Soybeans are useless, and the taste is not good. Why do you think that the people will not reduce, or will not reduce too much planting area?"

Lin Qian laughed helplessly: "Probably because soybeans are actually very useful?"

Soy useful?

Ying Zheng looked at Lin Qian: "What can soybeans do?"

Lin Qian said without hesitation: "Tofu. In my era, tofu has already been integrated into the lives of ordinary people, becoming a part of Chinese culture, and even a signboard of China."

"Especially mapo tofu, which is world famous."

"In addition to tofu, there are also bean curd, bean curd and tofu brain derived from tofu..." Lin Qian talked about more than a dozen tofu derivatives in one breath, "If there is no tofu, the number of Chinese delicacies will be huge. discount."

Ying Zheng was curious: "Since tofu is so important, why didn't you mention it before?"

Lin Qian's eyes were dazed: "I didn't mention it?"

Ying Zheng nodded.

Lin Qian frowned: "How is it possible? I remember that among the recipes I gave to the kitchen, there were many dishes that used tofu as the raw material."

She remembered it so well that she must have written it.

Seeing that she was swearing in her words, Ying Zheng asked someone to call the kitchen steward over.

The steward looked at Ying Zheng, then at Lin Qian, and then whispered, "However, there are many things in the recipes given by Gu Fenghou that you have never heard of, not only the ingredients such as tofu that appear frequently, but also There are condiments such as soy sauce, vinegar, oyster sauce, and monosodium glutamate.”

Lin Qian was stunned: "Then why don't you ask me?"

Seeing that the two didn't mean to blame, the steward scratched his head embarrassingly: "Because your majesty and madam are busy with important affairs, we want to study it by ourselves...don't worry, your majesty and madam, we will use the taste mentioned in the recipe, The color and other details have been studied with vinegar and soy sauce."

Lin Qian paused: By the way, this soy sauce is also made from soybeans.

She was a little helpless: "Then you can't make tofu?"

The steward nodded, with an extremely frustrated expression: "Through everyone's hard work, we have found or made many seasonings and raw materials. Only tofu, we have exhausted all methods, but there is no way to make the... white squares described in the recipe. "

Yep, they still can't even turn soybeans into white squares.

Lin Qian was helpless: "There is no other way..."

[After all, this tofu can almost be called the world's first molecular cuisine. 】