The Rise of the European Emperor

After thinking about it for a long time, Marin suddenly remembered the words of the messenger - William IV, Duke of Jülich-Berger now lives with wine and food every day...

Yes, for a man with damaged eggs, what else is there to pursue besides eating and drinking? As for money? Perhaps many eunuchs will pursue. But those eunuchs pursued money because they were servants of the royal family and had no power in themselves. The pursuit of money is nothing but anti-aging. After all, money can buy good food, good food, and the care of others.

However, William IV, Duke of Jülich-Berger, was different. He is a monarch, not lacking in power, and has enough money. As long as he says a word, all the good things in the country can be brought. As for the foreign ones...he couldn't get his eggs in perfect condition...

Therefore, for a duke who has nothing to pursue, there is nothing better than indulging in fine wine and food.

In fact, getting yourself drunk is also a kind of paralysis to yourself. People with unfulfilled ambitions are very heartbroken. Only by numbing themselves can they temporarily forget the pain in their hearts.

Marin called the messenger again and asked:

"You mean, William IV now enjoys wine and food all day?"

The messenger nodded. He had repeatedly asked people about this. To this end, also spent a lot of money.

"Then does he have high requirements for the quality of wine and food?" Erguotou is a fine wine, and Maotai is also a fine wine, but the grades of the two are obviously different.

The messenger thought for a while and said:

"It's quite high. It is said that William IV specially sent someone to Italy to hire a cook..."

Italian food is the best in Europe these days. Of course, the Chinese food and French food brought by Marin, a traveler, are not counted. As for German food... hehe... potatoes, sausages... what else? sorry, can't remember...

Also, Germany doesn't have potatoes these days, only sausages... Of course, it's a little better than the UK. At least, the sausages are still available...and the beer, which is also very famous...As for England, sorry...the food and drink are not famous, and the only sandwich is stole the limelight by the burger. As for the drink, whisky was originally Scottish...

After listening to what his subordinates said, Marin suddenly felt the bottom - you don't have no desires, but you still like to eat and drink...

If you want something, it will be fine. Marin decided to offer Chinese delicacies, and now the top maple syrup Erguotou, to capture William IV, Duke of Lich-Berger...

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Needless to say, Chinese cuisine, Sichuan cuisine Marin has no conditions, after all, there is no pepper. However, Huaiyang cuisine Marin is still very familiar. Huaiyang cuisine is light in taste, neither as heavy as northern and Sichuan cuisine, nor as sweet and greasy as Cantonese cuisine. It looks like there is nothing special about it.

However, lack of features is precisely the biggest feature. Because Huaiyang cuisine is a cuisine that can adapt to most of the world's tastes. Maybe you are not satisfied with the light Huaiyang cuisine, but you will never be dissatisfied.

Therefore, Huaiyang cuisine is definitely the most suitable for people among Chinese cuisines. Unlike Sichuan and Hunan cuisine, those who like spicy love it to death, and those who hate spicy food regard it as poison.

In later generations, many people who like to eat Sichuan cuisine go to foreign Sichuan restaurants to eat, but they always feel that their cooking is not authentic. But in fact, they don't understand that there are only a few foreigners who like spicy food, and the majority are those who don't. Therefore, the Sichuan restaurant mixed in foreign countries had to change the taste, and also added a lot of ketchup and other messy things. If they don't do this, their restaurant will not be able to operate... So don't blame foreign Sichuan restaurants for being unauthentic, they are just trying to survive... After all, their diners are foreigners, not Chinese...

And Huaiyang cuisine is different, Huaiyang cuisine itself is relatively light, and the palatability is very good. Even if people who like spicy food are not used to it, you can bring a ** Laoganma to adjust it yourself...

Therefore, in the state banquets of later generations in China, Huaiyang cuisine is often the main dish, rather than Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine. Many people who like Sichuan and Hunan dishes are not satisfied.

But they didn't consider it from the standpoint of foreigners - people don't like spicy food, you want to kill foreigners? Or so hot that the tears and snot flowed together and caused the loss of face?

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Since the crossing, because there is no pepper, Marin has been promoting Huaiyang cuisine in East Frisian from the beginning. Then, Marin found out that this kind of mild cuisine is very adaptable, and there is no European who doesn't like Huaiyang cuisine... After all, this is the most suitable Chinese cuisine...

In order to attract William IV, Duke of Jülich-Berger, Malin specially sent someone to buy a luxurious mansion near the palace in the city of Jülich as an embassy. Then, a group of chefs were sent over...

On the day the embassy was established, the special ambassador, Portman (a new medieval college student recruited by Marin), under Marin's instruction, specially held a feast and invited William IV, Duke of Jülich-Berger, to visit in person...

In order to be afraid that William IV, Duke of Jülich-Berger would not come, Marin also sent a bucket of maple syrup Erguotou in advance to attract the other party...

Marin has personally tasted it, and the 40-degree Erguotou with maple sugar has an excellent taste, which is much better than the original whiskey (rye Erguotou) added with brown sugar.

In order to improve the quality, Marin named this rye Erguotou with maple syrup added as "Royal Salute" and sold it as the most high-end wine. As for the addition of brown sugar, it is also called whisky...

Also, take into account that most weak nobles may not be comfortable with spirits. Marin also mixed with boiled water (the scientific name full of force is called "blending"), reducing the degree of "Royal Salute" to more than 20 alcohol...

In this way, the brand-new "Royal Salute" not only tastes good, but also is not too strong, which is in line with the taste of the nobles. At least, Prime Minister Geoffrey and other civil servants like it very much.

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Just as Marin imagined, at the beginning, William IV was really not interested in the invitation of the North Sea Embassy. Even, William IV planned to send an ordinary diplomat to attend the banquet in his place.

However, the "Royal Salute" sent by Marin aroused the interest of William IV. He tried a "Royal Salute" and was immediately attracted by the mellow aroma of maple syrup... …

Then, because of his love for Wu and Wu, William IV also became interested in the feast of the embassy of the North Sea. Just an hour before the banquet started, William IV temporarily notified the diplomat who would have attended the banquet in his place—going in person...

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At the banquet, the new ambassador Portman took out a batch of "royal salutes" as wine for the banquet. Unlike the "Royal Salute" that was given to William IV in barrels, the royal salutes at the banquet were all made of glass. These glass pieces are all carefully blown by the master craftsmen of glass blowers that Marin dug up from Venice. Moreover, the design of the cap is also very domineering - on the cork, there is a golden European-style crown...

Of course, this can't be a crown made of gold, just brass with zinc. But the color of brass is like gold, and the crown-shaped cap made of brass is extremely high...

Portman solemnly introduced this "precious" drink, and praised it as a "noble in wine"... If Aunt Zhao Lirong was present, she would probably tell everyone secretly -- in fact, it was Erguotou, mixed with that boiled water... um, Also added maple syrup...

Erguotou is already mellow, even with boiled water...

The taste of maple syrup made the guests very fond of it. Everyone inquired about how this fine wine was made, so Portman bragged according to the lines given by Marin:

"Well, it is said that in order to brew this fine wine, the artisans spent a lot of honey imported from Eastern Europe..."

The guests were smacking their tongues - honey... No wonder it tastes so good...

You know, in this era, European sucrose is still sold in pharmacies as medicine. As for honey, it is also an expensive dessert. If only a few hundred years earlier, in the darkest age of the Middle Ages, two noble lords could dispatch troops and fight for the ownership of a few boxes sealed...

Although the current material conditions are better than hundreds of years ago, ordinary people still cannot eat sugar often. Even aristocrats can't often eat honey. Therefore, for this kind of "Royal Salute" sweet wine, everyone even drinks it with a little awe. And because of the serious lack of desserts, even the top nobles like William IV drank sweet maple syrup Erguotou... Abu, it's a "royal salute", and it's a sweet treat...

By the way, the wines of this era are not desugared. Because drinking wine is one of the most important ways to consume sweets in this era. It was only later that Europeans did not lack sugar, and diseases such as obesity caused by too much sugar intake made Europeans come up with desugarized dry red wine.

However, in Europe in this era, if your wine is de-sweetened, it is estimated that the nobles are unwilling to drink it - paralysis, the noble nobles of Laozi, drinking wine is not only for the sake of comparison, but also for the intake of sugar. You take off the sugar and drink a p?

In fact, unsweetened wines have a softer taste than unsweetened wines. However, you know the national conditions of later generations in China—foreigners like to drink dry red, and Chinese people who worship foreigners think that drinking dry red is enough to pretend... Although these people don't actually like the taste of dry red, they still pretend to be " I like the taste of dry red very much", as if this is in line with international standards...

In this era, in order to keep the sugar in the wine, even when making wine, the winemaker will deliberately put less koji and keep the sugar in the wine as much as possible to increase the sweetness (if the koji is enough, the sugar in the wine will be converted into Alcohol).

But in any case, the sugar in the wine is actually the leftover from the incomplete conversion during winemaking, and the content is not high. The maple syrup in the "Royal Salute" was added afterwards, not only in sufficient amount, but also with plant aromas such as woody fragrance, which tasted better. The alcohol content of more than 20 degrees is higher than that of wine, but it is not unacceptable.

As a result, Portman discovered that this "royal salute" was specially "blended" and diluted in order to suit the taste of the nobles.

, seems to be particularly popular...

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Of course, today's theme is not only "Royal Salute", but also Huaiyang dishes full of tables...

Huaiyang-style braised pork, braised lion head, boiled dried shreds made of American soybeans, sweet and sour pork ribs, white-cut chicken, salted goose, large plate of dry-cut beef with sauce... Of course, there are also scrambled eggs with chives, shredded cabbage ( cabbage), sautéed spinach and other simple vegetables…

But as Marin expected, these noble guests from the Principality of Lixi basically ignored those vegetables and only dealt with those meat dishes. William IV, Duke of Jülich-Berger, who loved food, had a dark face and looked at the nobles under him, snatching the food on the plate without image. The most hateful thing is that he was a dignified duke and was robbed of food...

Fortunately, Portman knew the rules and asked the cook to make a few more. Although there are not many of them, at least William IV can taste everything...

But after tasting these delicacies, William IV couldn't calm down. Because these foods are so delicious. Those barbecued meats and pork that I used to eat, in front of these delicacies, are especially pig food... Ah, sorry, Europeans raise pigs in free-range and do not feed pigs... So, it is more appropriate to use dog food to describe it. ...(Tianjin Novel Network)