Building a sect from scratch

"Brother Gou, for such a serious occasion, why don't we arrange a 'rotating hot pot'? Is that appropriate?"

The Jade Emperor carried a large bucket of chopped green onions and put them into small plates one by one, saying worriedly.

He didn't have any objection to the rotating hot pot. The 30-yuan self-service rotating hot pot at the school gate was his must-have happy weekend food every week. But now this is a sect ceremony. You're doing this at a sect ceremony. No matter how you think about it, it feels a bit impolite!

"Your Majesty, you still need to read more books,"

Wang Ergou pretended to be profound and said, "Do you know what the wealthy people in ancient times called 'bells and tripods'? What is 'tripods'? It's a small hot pot for one person! Let's set up a rotating buffet, wouldn't that be more advanced and more shocking to them!?"

The Jade Emperor looked skeptical: "Although it sounds reasonable, but... Zundu is fake?"

Zhao Qing, who was putting the ingredients on the plate, couldn't help rolling his eyes: "You listen to him, the tripod in bells and tripods refers to The meaning is to eat in a row of tripods, which means to emphasize luxury and pomp, and has nothing to do with hot pot! Besides, it seems that the prototype of hot pot only appeared in the Han Dynasty, and it was not popularized in the market until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. "

"You can't calculate it this way. Look, in the pre-Qin period, didn't people use tripods to cook things? Is a tripod a pot? Isn't hot pot also cooked in a pot? Rounding it off, cooking with a tripod is cooking with a pot, that's hot pot!"

Wang Ergou said, and even clapped his hands confidently, "And this thing is simple and has excellent palatability! We have even developed sesame sauce Here it comes! This should be promoted to pave the way for future food exports? "

Not far away, a player who was still struggling to pound peppers questioned: "But isn't this too uncool?"

"The so-called coolness is supported by packaging! Even if you pick up a stone on the roadside and put it in a golden box, you can pretend to be a rare treasure! So! As long as we make the dishes well and set the atmosphere, the rotating hot pot can also be a state banquet!"

Speaking of this, Wang Ergou became more confident. He stretched out his fingers and tapped the glass plate in his hand, which was shining with colorful luster in the sun. With a crisp sound, he proudly showed off: "See, this is the glass that we have just researched from the improved high-temperature furnace. We originally wanted to strike at it with dimensionality reduction, but we don't know how to purify it. The technical team said that they don't have time to help us do this and have to postpone the processing, so we can only make some handicrafts!"

The transparency of the glass plate is not very high, but the colorful light is radiant. Even if there are not too many exquisite patterns and decorations, it does look a bit luxurious.

"We tried several kinds of ores to come up with the formula for this thing. Before, there were too many impurities in the burned product, and it was ugly. But after adding a kind of ore called five-color water stone, it looks much better. In addition, we specially asked the Guangcheng Sect's weapon refiner to improve the high-temperature furnace. The fire used is now the lower-grade yellow-level ground vein fire. The impurities are burned away during the high-temperature melting of the quartz ore. It's amazing!" The Jade Emperor also touched the glass plate and smacked his lips, "No wonder the world of immortal cultivation can't come up with our kind of technology. When they are in doubt, they rely on metaphysics. Who is willing to study other methods!" " That can't be said," Wang Ergou touched his chin and exclaimed: "The 'rotating table' of our 'rotating hot pot' was developed by an alchemist in the research institute. She suddenly got the idea after attending a few classes at the school next door. At that time, I just mentioned that it would be great if the food plate could move automatically, and she actually did it! Amazing!" The Jade Emperor, who was temporarily pulled in to help, did not know the specific plan of Wang Ergou's "rotating hot pot". When he heard that the so-called "rotation" could not only be realized, but also was done by a native, he was immediately surprised and asked: "What the hell? How did she Did you do it?" Zhao Qing is very familiar with these things: "I've seen it, the principle is actually very simple, that is, engrave directional tracking talismans and various talismans such as light body and flight on the food plate, control the tracking speed of the food plate, and let it track the food plate in front at a constant speed, so that a cycle can be formed... However, this method also has great disadvantages, for example, as long as one of them is taken down, the whole cycle will be disrupted and useless. Another thing is that this method is very expensive. It takes at least half a day to make a food plate. In short, it is not very practical and can only be used temporarily..."

Wang Ergou followed up and said: "Anyway, at least a big problem has been solved, and there is a solution to the problem of disrupted tracking. For example, we later specially made several very long curved food trays, which are large and heavy. Unless someone is crazy, no one will take the trays away. In this way, although the continuity of the movement of the food trays is a little worse, at least it is guaranteed that there will be no accidents!"

As Wang Ergou received the task of [Preparing for the Banquet of the Sect Ceremony], he racked his brains to receive the monks from various sects and forces.

The idea of ​​the "rotating hot pot" is not really for fun, but because of the lack of manpower.

The monks in Guixu Realm do not need to eat to maintain their lives. In this case, the food part of the banquet has become a point of curiosity and comparison. It is not important whether they are full or not. What is important is that it should be new and strange, unheard of and unseen, and exquisite and luxurious to show the "superior" status of the monks.

So, with insufficient manpower, limited ingredients, and even the utensils and tables are not as exquisite as the Guangcheng Sect next door, which is known for its low-key simplicity, it is really a show of force to hold a traditional "palace banquet" in front of Guan Gong.

The way of eating hot pot is different. First of all, it is convenient. A large number of ingredients only need to be simply processed and plated, which greatly reduces the preparation work and the labor required for cooking.

The second is palatability. The hot pot that has been popular in various countries and regions around the world in Blue Star has never hit a wall. There may be some cases with strange tastes who don't like it, but they will never think it is "unpalatable". The former is personal taste, and the latter is the universality of taste.

Finally, its novelty is also one of the factors that made Wang Ergou make the decision. Luxury and exquisiteness cannot be compared for a while, but novelty is too easy to achieve. The so-called "high-end" is mostly to complicate simple things. For example, for hot pot, even if the ingredients are local, players can come up with dozens or even hundreds of different ingredients, and the dipping sauces can be made into a set of more than a dozen plates and bowls!

If someone who has never eaten hot pot or heard of it sits down and finds that there are more than a dozen plates and bowls with different sauces in front of them, they will be psychologically inferior - such a complicated and "profound" way of eating, they have never seen it before!