Drinking heavily and eating meat are the words of these ministers who have no worldly experience.
A plump lotus leaf chicken can be associated with many stories.
But this lotus leaf chicken obviously couldn't satisfy the ministers who had huge appetites. Even the old Shang Rong only ate half full.
Like hungry wolves, the ministers looked at Di Xin one after another, just like diners waiting for him.
Di Xin laughed and clapped his hands.
Many attendants, holding bronze gui with two ears, placed them on each minister's table.
The temperature on the food gui is extremely high, but the two ears are well insulated from the heat. It is obvious that this food gui is very intelligent.
Huang Feihu eagerly opened the lid on the bronze gui, and the aroma of meat immediately overflowed.
Large pieces of meat, red in color, oily and shiny, with a small amount of tendons in the muscles yellow and transparent; the meat is firm.
Huang Feihu couldn't wait to take a bite. The umami was rich, the texture was rich, and the tendons were chewy. Combined with the meat, it was definitely unforgettable.
"Is this...beef?"
"What! Cattle?!"
Everyone in Shang Rong looked ugly. You must know that in the Yin Shang Dynasty, where agriculture was underdeveloped, the work brought by a cattle was definitely worth much more than that of an adult male.
Although he thought so, Shang Rongbi Gan was not a pedantic person. He was thinking of words of advice in his heart, but he was eating them in big and small bites, but they were not ambiguous at all.
Beef is rare, let alone beef with soy sauce that melts in your mouth.
[Improve humanity, improve cooking skills, make soy sauce beef, and gain 100 merits.]
Only Yang Ren can taste the specialness of this beef.
"Your Majesty, this beef is certainly good, but are there any special cooking techniques used in its preparation?"
"Haha, the person who knows me is Yang Renye, come here!"
Di Xin took out two small lacquer boxes. Yang Ren opened them and saw that one contained meat dumplings and the other looked like ink.
Yang Ren picked some with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, his eyes suddenly trembled.
"Doctor Yang, can you taste what this is made of?"
Di Xin looked at Yang Ren patiently, as if he wanted to know the answer.
"Is this Shu?"
Emperor Xin laughed. In the Yin Shang Dynasty, soybeans were called shu, which was made from fermented soybeans and was also the most important seasoning.
[Perfect humanity, make dry yellow sauce and soy sauce, and gain 200 merits.]
The reason why soy sauce beef is so delicious in the Yin Shang Dynasty, where seasonings are scarce, all depends on the dried yellow sauce and soy sauce.
"No, why is this soy beef so delicious? It's not just these two seasonings and salt. Where does this sweetness come from?"
As a top-notch chef, Wang Shubigan could immediately tell the difference.
Emperor Xin laughed loudly, so he ordered someone to fetch a small box as a reward and put it on the table of each minister.
After Wang Shubigan opened it, he was shocked on the spot. Not to mention him, even the well-informed Shang Rong and Yang Ren all had their eyes straightened.
"This is white sugar, but the current production is limited and it is not yet possible to produce it on a large scale."
Di Xin went through a lot of trouble to get this little sugar.
Not to mention sweets in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, even in later generations, people loved to eat sweets.
In the Yin Shang Dynasty, only nobles could obtain malt sugar or honey through crop fermentation. They had never seen this kind of snow-like sugar.
Bi Gan grabbed a handful and put it directly into his mouth. He was instantly satisfied. The sweetness was even higher than that of caramel.
Other ministers also flocked to it, and even generals like Huang Feihu and Li Jing liked it very much after tasting it.
[Perfect humanity, make white sugar, and gain 100 merits. 】
This was Dr. Mabel, who stood up and bowed deeply.
"Your Majesty, I have something to say."
Di Xin glanced at Uncle Mei, and naturally knew that he had nothing good to say, and said, "Say it."
"Your Majesty, although this soy sauce beef is good, it is too extravagant. Farm cattle are the foundation of the country and must not be slaughtered. What's more, making this delicacy requires the sauce made from Shu and this sugar. How much manpower and material resources are needed to make this delicacy?
OK."
Meb's words were affirmed by many ministers.
At this time, Zhao Qi also came out and said, "Your Majesty, there have been rebellions almost every year in recent years. I heard that the Grand Master was out on an expedition. In order to supply food and grass, we were already stretched thin, but we must not be extravagant, otherwise Xia Jie's way
, not far away.”
Come on, eat some beef with soy sauce and you will become Xia Jie again.
Just as Di Xin was about to retort, Su Hu stood up at an inappropriate time and said, "Your Majesty, especially this pork, although it grows very fast, it also requires a huge amount of grains. Please give me your permission to abolish pig farming.
"
Su Hu actually wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to let Gu give up raising pigs, which was a wishful thinking.
"Dr. Su, let me ask you, have you been able to raise pigs in the past two months, and have you been successful?"
"Well, to report back to your Majesty, in the past two months, the boar has gained 50 kilograms after being stirred up. The sow has already laid a litter and is white in color. The stinky smell has also been reduced a lot."
Hearing what Su Hu said, even Su Daji, who was sitting high above, couldn't listen anymore and said directly, "Father, this pig-raising technique is so powerful and it can provide high-quality pork, why is father still opposed? Is it because of this?
reputation?"
Su Hu's face turned red. Naturally, he couldn't discuss it with Su Daji. After the boar was stirred up, he only ate grains and fodder every day and slept. Not to mention, the court now called him Doctor Boar.
Di Xin glanced at Su Daji with a smile, which immediately made her blush.
[Di Xin winked at Su Daji, and his admiration value increased to -39%]
When Queen Jiang saw Di Xin and Su Daji looking at each other, she suddenly coughed.
"Doctor Mei and Dr. Zhao are overly worried. The reason why the king did this was because he used money to buy it."
At present, the Yin Shang Dynasty has no concept of internal funds. If Emperor Xin wants to spend money, he must come from the treasury.
"The king indeed does not use the money from the treasury, it all comes from the palace."
As Prime Minister Shang Rong, he naturally knows the money in the treasury, and his words carry great weight.
But Uncle Mei, Zhao Qi and others didn't believe it at all.
Everyone knows that Di Xin's expenses are definitely not small. In just a few months, the soap, glassware, coarse salt, barbecue, fruit wine, charcoal fire, etc. that came out of the palace are all very expensive.
Now that they have extravagant soy sauce beef and distilled liquor, how can this not worry them?
"Haha, queen, all the ministers here are loyal ministers and good generals of Gu. Let them see Gu's way of making money."
Queen Jiang nodded and gave the order. Immediately, the palace maid took out a piece of cloth.
"silk?"
The well-informed doctor Mabel saw the fabric and it felt extremely smooth, and he immediately knew that it was the finest silk and snow satin.
The value of this piece of silk and snow satin is comparable to gold.
"Previously, the king taught us how to grow mulberry and raise silkworms, as well as how to weave. The palace consumes a lot of money, so this silk and snow satin can be used just right."
"Thank you for your hard work, Queen!"
[Perfect humanity, plant mulberry and raise silkworms, make silk goods, and gain 500 merits.]
[The accumulated merit is 3600, which can be exchanged for 1100 merit.]