Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

For someone like Cheng Yaojin, it is normal to scold and kick people. These are all expressions of love. Only Li Xin, a junior whom he valued very much, would kick and scold him so affectionately. If it was someone else, he wouldn't even bother.

When Li Xin walked out of Cheng Mansion rubbing his kicked butt, he kept thinking this way in his mind, talking to comfort his wounded heart.

Hitting is kissing, scolding is love. Forget it, forget it. Besides, what can I do if I forget it? He couldn't beat him again and again, he couldn't win even if he scolded him, and he still held the status of an elder. Li Xin was also helpless, so he could only silently endure the "bullying" of this old hooligan.

After returning home, the lovely Run Niang obediently served Li Xin a glass of water. Li Xin drank it all in one gulp, and returned the empty glass to Run Niang, and finally he was relieved. It has to be said that the life of this kind of feudal small landlord is really very comfortable.

I don’t have much to do every day, I sleep in as long as I like, occasionally cook by myself, cook something good to eat, and live happily ever after.

However, the cook of the Wangfu has been feeling a lot of pressure recently, almost close to autism. As a chef, the most important thing is of course her dignity in cooking. However, this dignity has been crushed hundreds of times by Li Xinxin's various postures and fancy styles, and it is almost shattered into slag.

Before the time travel, Li Xin always thought that the so-called prince should of course be well-clothed and delicious, but when he really traveled, he realized that the chefs of the Tang Dynasty had too little imagination for food. If he wants to eat something good, he can only do it himself.

The cook was upset at first, but after tasting Li Xin's dishes, she was completely convinced. I didn't expect my prince to have such a skill! She immediately cried and begged Li Xin to teach her how to cook.

Know your shame and then be brave, children can be taught.

Li Xin is not a person who keeps secrets, let alone enjoy it by himself after teaching his own cook? Also happy to save trouble. So, every time he came to the kitchen to cook, he would ask the cook to observe. Sometimes he didn't even do it himself, and let the cook do it, and he just pointed out from the sidelines.

However, generally speaking, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Although Li Xin tried his best to make a fuss about food, some things were still difficult to do.

Although it is forbidden to kill cattle casually these days, as Li Xin, it is not difficult to get some beef, but the difficulty is that he wants to eat potatoes and beef but can't get them—potatoes are probably still growing wildly in that corner of America right now. Woolen cloth.

Li Xin was originally an engineering student, so it was no problem to build a large ship that could handle ocean voyages. The only problem was that he had no money.

Ocean voyages are of course profitable, and they are hugely profitable. In history, small countries like Portugal and the Netherlands all made a lot of money from overseas colonization. Who said that I, Tang Dynasty, could not take this route?

However, just like running a business requires capital, it is not easy to raise the start-up capital for an ocean-going fleet. With Li Xin alone, no matter how many whimsical ideas he has in his mind, it is absolutely impossible. of. Considering the poor finances in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the whole country could not even raise the money for a fleet. Therefore, Li Xin finally chose to temporarily shelve his plan to conquer the sea of ​​stars.

That's all, potatoes and beef are definitely not available for the time being, so let's think about something practical.

In fact, braised pork is the most likely good thing Li Xin can eat at this stage.

Although there is no mature soy sauce available for the time being, it can also be used for frying with coarse sugar. By the way, the technology of extracting sucrose these days is also too poor, and the sugar produced is all black and red, and the sweetness is also low, which is completely inferior to the white sugar of later generations.

Li Xin rubbed his chin, remembering the experience of later generations of British and American capitalists starting from the sugar industry, and secretly said in his heart: "Let's do the wine business first. After the first wave of capital is saved, we can turn to the south and buy a few pieces of sugar cane to make sugar." Business."

He knows the general steps of finely extracting sucrose, and some details can be left to the sugar workers to explore slowly. This is another big monopoly business.

However, the matter of the distillery has just begun to take shape, and it is too far away to start thinking about sugar production now. Li Xin shook his head, drove away redundant thoughts, and returned his thoughts to the braised pork.

Raw sugar and salt can roughly replace soy sauce. Wait a minute. Datang's current salt-making technology seems to be immature, and the cost is very high. The green salt with the best color is generally used to brush teeth, and it costs about 500 Wen per catty, and the coarse salt that ordinary people eat usually costs about 300 Wen per catty. There are many people who can't afford salt at all, and can only use something called "vinegar cloth" for seasoning.

The so-called vinegar cloth is a cloth that has been dipped in some brine and dried in the sun. When it needs seasoning, cut some and put it in a pot to cook. In short, it is sour and salty, which is disgusting.

After all, Chang'an is the capital of the Tang Dynasty. Although most people don't have much money, they can still afford coarse salt and low-quality salt. The worst thing is that poor people in relatively remote areas and soldiers who are fighting outside, even a piece of vinegar cloth should be saved as a treasure.

When Li Xin was picky about food, he had heard Wang Gui and other veterans talk about the hardships of fighting outside, so he knew these things.

Or get involved in salt production?

Li Xin naturally thought so, but he quickly rejected it this year. Since ancient times, salt and iron have been two major resource industries that have been strictly controlled by many feudal dynasties. The families qualified to operate these two industries are all political forces with profound backgrounds and powerful strengths. Li Xin is a small king of Chu, and he is not qualified to be a part of it.

However, since Li Xin does not intend to be involved in the salt industry, the method of making salt can be handed over to Li Shimin generously, as a contribution to the Tang Dynasty, hoping that more people can enjoy high-quality and low-cost food because of this. Salt, it can be considered that Li Xin did not come to this Tang Dynasty in vain.

No, aren't you talking about braised pork? Yes yes yes, sugar and salt, and last but not least: pork.

Don't people these days know that pigs need to be castrated? After being eunuched, the pig's temperament is docile and manageable, and it eats too much and is lazy all day long. It grows meat crazily. There is no damn skatole and skatole in the meat, and it tastes without any foul smell. It is like a treasure all over.

This shows how important castration is!

After thinking about it, Li Xin still felt that it was necessary for him to have a talk with the farmers in his fief in order to be able to eat this delicious bowl of braised pork.

Didn't they also encounter drought this year and have nothing to harvest? Just in time, teach them how to raise pigs scientifically. In this way, Li Xin will also have good pork to eat, and they will also have an extra income.