There was a sizzling sound in the kitchen, and the one-eyed dragon boy Qian Jin was holding an iron pot in one hand and stir-frying with the other, which made people dizzy.
The iron pots of this era were not the relatively light pots of later generations.
It is made of casting, is very thick, heavy, and has slow heat conduction. Of course, it is also very expensive. Therefore, it has not been widely spread since it appeared in the Qin and Han Dynasties. So far, only wealthy households can use it, and it is not commonly used.
Tong Qianjin, who has amazing arm strength, is cooking for Shao Xun: scrambled eggs with green onions.
Stir-fried vegetables first appeared in history books in the Northern Wei Dynasty, which was a dish of scrambled eggs.
First beat the eggs, "put them in a copper pan and stir until the yellow and white are mixed together", then add green onion, salt, black soybean, sesame oil, stir-fry, "very fragrant and delicious".
Shao Xun made this dish appear a hundred years in advance without any technical difficulty. For ordinary people, it is extremely difficult because they cannot afford to use an iron pot and it is too heavy and inconvenient.
"Dangdang..." Tong Qianjin picked up the iron pot lightly, poured the fried green onions and eggs into the plate, and knocked on the edge of the iron pot, letting the last few green onions slip away, highlighting a major.
"Master Tong Zhuan has been promoted." An acquaintance came over to serve the food and joked with a smile.
Tong Qianjin blinked his only remaining eye and grinned.
If you want to be promoted, you have to sacrifice your face.
He became enlightened after losing an eye.
That day, he climbed to the top of the city. He was very brave, but he was still shot down by an arrow and barely breathed his last.
This wealth is so hard to gain!
But he was weeding and farming for the King of Liang in Taiyuan, and making fried chicken with green onions and whites for the King of Liang in Pingcheng. Over time, he was very likely to gain wealth, which was not as easy as being the first to fight bravely? Besides, he was also very brave in fighting.
Each dish was brought to a small hall.
There is a copper stove burning in the hall, which is extremely warm.
Shao Xun came to the table wearing single clothes and walking on a blanket with bare feet.
"Oh, I've fallen." He sighed as he looked at the steaming breakfast.
In the past, I ate so much because of the high consumption of martial arts. I haven't practiced martial arts in the past two days, but my food intake has not decreased. I need to gain weight.
Wang was wearing a gauze skirt that could barely cover her flesh color, and even the bright red palm prints on her buttocks could not be covered up.
She picked up a mutton sausage and slowly cut it with a knife.
Shao Xun felt a chill in some places and lowered his head to drink corn porridge.
The mutton sausages were donated by the Wang family in dozens of cartloads as military supplies.
This food is a typical Hu-Chinese fusion food. Wash the mutton intestines, then file the mutton very finely, then finely chop the green onion, salt, soy sauce, ginger, and pepper and mix with it. Finally, add it to the mix. into the intestine.
When eating, cut a section, grill it over fire, and finally serve it on the table.
This is grilled sausage!
In fact, it tastes good. The only drawback is that it is too labor-intensive and is not as suitable as large pieces of dried meat for the military. The first appearance of mutton sausage in history was in the Northern Wei Dynasty, but it should have been available by this time.
These ignorant barbarians know how to enjoy it!
Shao Xun drank half a bowl of warm porridge in two gulps, then took a knife to cut the grilled sausages, and asked casually: "There were originally tribes on that land on the north bank of Dunshui (today's Baideng River), right?"
"Eating without speaking." Wang said softly and continued eating meat.
Shao Xun laughed angrily.
Wang couldn't help but laugh.
Since you are destined to commit yourself to this man, it is better to have some feelings with him, so that you can be happy both physically and mentally.
The King of Liang actually fits her aesthetics very well, and she has benefited a lot from his strength and bravery - "a lot" in the literal sense, but also in depth.
Moreover, she really enjoyed the feeling of despair and pleasure when she begged but got no response, and in the end she could only endure it.
"You always make me look like a villain." Wang complained: "That Xianbei tribe has already gone to Nao County. I personally persuaded it."
Shao Xun nodded.
Isn't this the value of a puppet? The sect leader has to come forward for everything, so what else do you need the puppet to do? The puppet is meant to be the bad guy, and then transfer the benefits to the sect leader.
"You must also know that I won't stay here for a long time." Shao Xun quickly finished his breakfast, picked up the tea soup, rinsed his mouth, and said: "The grass has stopped growing, and it will be more difficult to transport after the snow. I will be the last to
We will start teaching next month. From now on, you will have to rely on yourselves. If you have any issues, please report them to the Shanyu Protectorate."
Ms. Wang paused her hands and said in a low voice: "Are you leaving now?"
She felt that she should be happy, but she was also a little scared.
When the man was around, she wasn't worried or scared at all, and she didn't have to think too much when doing things. But now she suddenly found that she couldn't give orders as she pleased, and she had to consider many things.
She has to worry about others rebelling, she has to worry about not being able to control the four guards of the pro-army group, she has to worry about the tribes slandering her and criticizing her, and she has to worry about Helan Ai's head getting beaten up.
When the man was there, I didn't notice anything. After the man left, I suddenly felt something different. This is probably what I felt.
"When will you come?" she asked again.
Shao Xun put down his tea bowl and said, "My home is in Pingyang."
Wang was suffocated and said sadly: "Can't you move the shogunate to Pingcheng?"
"cannot."
"If you don't come, I will find another man." Wang said angrily.
"I'm not very generous when it comes to women." Shao Xun said with a smile, "Sima Rui can let his wives and concubines leave the house and marry themselves, but I can't."
Sima Rui's concubine, the Xun family, was a palace servant in the era of King Langya, but she was originally from Yan State, Youzhou. Therefore, although her surname was Xun, her family background was very low. However, she was beautiful and she was favored and gave birth to two sons.
Princess Langya was jealous of the Yu family and was driven out of the house.
Xun had no choice but to marry Ma, a commoner, and Sima Rui didn't care.
The two sons (Emperor Sima Shao of Jin Ming Dynasty and King Sima Pei of Langya) had to visit Ma at home if they wanted to see their biological mother.
Shao Xun then thought of Yang Xingmi, a tycoon in troubled times, and tricked his brother-in-law Zhu Yanshou into killing him, thus averting a rebellion. In the end, he just let Zhu Yanshou's sister, first wife, and Lady Zhu of the State of Yan, remarry someone else.
In this matter, Sima Rui and Yang Xingmi were generous, but Shao Xun was not so generous.
Fortunately, Mrs. Wang was just speaking out of anger, so it was normal for Mrs. Hu to talk about this matter, but she didn't dare yet.
"Actually, just keep quiet in the center of the court." Shao Xun added: "Helan Aitou also fought a war this year and surrendered a lot of tribes. Simply dividing the pastures is enough for him to have a headache. If we fight again after winter,
There will definitely be a mass opposition. I don’t think he has the ability. But you must be prepared. Liangchang, Wuzhou, and Mayi have sent out scouts widely in the cities. They can conduct far-reaching investigations and do not slack off."
"Even if Helan Aitou does come to attack, he can only attack by sneak attack. For a frontal attack, he must gather a large army. It is unlikely to be possible before the end of next spring."
"If we survive the next six months of winter and spring stably, people's hearts will be much more stable. The nobles from various tribes have already worshiped the heaven together. After more than half a year of peace, some habits will be formed. If we can stay stable for one or two years, then
It can be stable for at least three to five years. If it can be stable for three to five years, it is not a problem for more than ten years. The premise is that we can't go backwards and don't act recklessly."
"I will give Wang Feng a good warning and tell him not to rush for power and gain, but to calm him down first. You are smarter than your brother, and you should know what to do. Go to the inner room to take shelter first, and I will gather my staff."
Mrs. Wang hummed, went to the inner room to get a robe, and put it on for Shao Xun.
Shao Xun called his soldiers and removed the food utensils, and then allowed Wang Queer and others to enter.
"Your Majesty." More than ten people saluted in unison.
Shao Xun motioned for everyone to sit down, then looked at Taobao and asked: "I heard that someone was absconding on the Xiaojie Army Road?"
"Yes." Taobao said with some shame: "The sergeants are unwilling to go to the bitter cold land. Some people instigated rebellion on the road and fled after being defeated. They are already hunting them down."
"In the end, it is worse than Hei Youying." Shao Xun said: "I will be demoted to official slaves together with my family."
Sun He was secretly shocked after hearing this.
It is true that no one wants to come to Pingcheng, but someone has to come, and whoever gets the draw will be unlucky.
Heijin's right battalion was mostly composed of new soldiers, and most of the officers were martial arts students. They did not dare to cause trouble and reluctantly brought people over.
If something happened on the road, King Liang would not offend his family, but it was inevitable that he would be killed or demoted to an official slave, and he might also be implicated.
But for him, this was an unforeseen disaster. Every time he organized and trained some people, he would break them up and join other units, recruit new people, and then break them up to fill the gaps. Until now, he is not very familiar with the people below.
"Deqing, there are 4,200 people in Youying. How many families are there?" Shao Xun asked.
"About two thousand five hundred." Sun He replied.
"The families of these two thousand and five hundred people were given twenty bolts of silk, three cattle, and fifteen sheep, and they were sent to build their homes and gardens on behalf of the public." Shao Xun said.
"This is a generous reward." Sun He said with emotion: "If you continue to spread the word, I will be grateful for your kindness."
Shao Xun smiled. It was impossible to express gratitude. It would be good if he didn't curse.
But there have been too many border guarding incidents since ancient times, so what can we do?
In the Tang Dynasty, soldiers and their families were sent to Qinghai, and in the Ming Dynasty, the garrison was built in Yunnan and Guizhou. It was a virtue to allow their families to move there together. Many people joined the army at the age of fifteen and did not return until they were eighty.
fair?
In fact, the border guarding environment is poor and dangerous, and nothing is good. The bitter consequences must be swallowed by the border guarding soldiers all their lives.
The court may not even improve their treatment.
The families of soldiers guarding the border have to farm to support themselves, and the soldiers have to do hard labor to build cities, or go to official farms to help officials farm. The harvest is not their own, it is military rations.
When the enemy attacks, you have to perform military service and fight without any military pay.
The only chance is to be rewarded for meritorious service and escape from the sea of ​​suffering.
The riskiest time to do this kind of thing was in the late Tang Dynasty. The probability of resistance by those who dared to fight was very high, so they had to be scared.
"The military field is on the north bank of Dunshui. I'll go take a look and make a decision as soon as possible." Shao Xun said: "The family has 200 acres of land, and the space has been freed up. If we can't plant it, we can recruit people to cultivate it ourselves, or capture slaves.
That’s okay.”
Gaoliu Town, military residences, and military fields are located to the south of Yinshan Mountain and to the north of Dunshui. They are all plains with rivers for irrigation.
It is surrounded by mountains to the east, north and west, and is surrounded by a river to the south. There is only a small opening in the southwest, so the overall situation is relatively conducive to defense.
"Can you catch slaves?" Sun He said in surprise.
"As long as you can afford it, you can catch him at will." Shao Xun said, "In the future, you may be able to turn into a government soldier at your own discretion, so that your family can be exempted from taxes and servitude."
"In this case, it's no big deal." Sun He said.
"Let's go and have a look." Shao Xun stood up and said.
Chapter completed!