A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 145
If it wasn't getting late, Niu Jianwu would have to go to Chang'an to ask for Zhang Xinlei to be escorted to the front line.

Today's food is very good, Xu Jingzong went to Chang'an and still didn't see Duan Lun, Huaiyu directly asked Wei Siren to take the 15 yuan he received, and took [-] yuan to lend it to Shenjifang, no interest, it was considered as a temporary in the brother's yamen Help me, use this money to buy vegetables.

Huaiyu sent two poles to take his name stickers to Duanlun Manor next door, offering to buy some pigs and sheep.The manager of the manor in Ji Guogong's mansion still remembered the last time he came to the Zhuangzi as a guest, and then his cattle were forced to fight and hit the dead young Wu Erlang on a tree.

Knowing that he was a distinguished guest of Alang at home, he happily took him to pick pigs and sheep.

Er Ganzi was not too polite, he picked two pigs and two sheep, and bought some vegetables on the Zhuangzi, and the price was relatively reasonable.

In the evening, there was stew and bone soup to drink.

The pigs are black pigs. Like most domestic pigs at this time, the pigs of Duan’s family are free-range. They roam outside like chickens. They even go to the swamp every day to feed earthworms and eat grass roots. Just roll in the mud and sleep.

This pig is dark and not very good-looking, and it is not very fat, but this pig Huaiyu thinks it is very natural, absolutely no feed and no clenbuterol, but it is a waste of such a good pig to cook for those who don’t understand .

The pork belly is cut into mahjong pieces to make braised pork so delicious, the elbow is stewed, the ribs are suitable for braised, plum meat steamed meat pie soup, the tenderloin is fried with shredded pork, the pig's head can be stewed, and the pig's ear shreds are not to mention delicious. These guys slaughtered the pigs, not only spilling the pig's blood on the ground to waste,
Also peeled off the pork skin.

What's so good about pork without the skin?

They actually want to peel off the skin to make clothes and shoes...
The various parts are not well divided, and the spine, ribs, pork belly and pork belly are all one size fits all.A pig is divided into two halves, then cut to the end with a knife, and then chopped into large pieces, thrown into the pot and stewed like that, neither soaking water nor adding ginger and onion cooking wine.

Fortunately, Huaiyu grabbed a piece of meat and opened a small stove to reward himself.

Shredded pork in sauce, twice-cooked pork, braised pork ribs, kombu roasted pork feet, stir-fried fatty intestines, pork liver, boiled meatballs, white meat with garlic, and bone-in pork. It’s a pity that the pig’s blood is wasted, or it is also a famous dish for killing pigs.

Wei Siren didn't eat pork in the first place.

In Datang, which nobleman ate pork?

Pork is cheap meat, and the nobles eat mutton.

A pig is one or two hundred catties, and a sheep is only fifty or sixty catties, but a pig is less expensive than a sheep.

The aristocrats in Chang'an eat sheep, and even choose the breed. The same sheep is the most expensive. This kind of sheep is a breed selected from Shayuan in Tongzhou. The meat is delicious and fat but not greasy.

But today Huaiyu didn't cook mutton, but grabbed a large piece of pork and made eight dishes for slaughtering pigs.

Nothing but pork today.

Wei Siren thought about drinking some millet porridge and let his entourage go to his farm to get two sheep to eat tomorrow.

"Hey, I didn't expect this piece of cheap meat to cook so many tricks in Erlang's hands?"

Niu Jianwu, who lost his temper at Huaiyu yesterday, is also very polite to Huaiyu today, especially after he has produced thousands of palm thunders, this guy is like a dog licking, and has been circling around Huaiyu, extremely attentive , I just want to get the opportunity to send gunpowder to the army tomorrow.

Wu Junya and Xu Jingzong were still hesitating whether to put down their chopsticks and taste this cheap meat.

Niu Jianwu braced himself, stretched out his chopsticks and picked up a large piece of twice-cooked meat. The meat was sliced ​​very thin, and the pork rump was used, commonly known as Erdao meat. Huiguo means cooking again. Add scallions and ginger slices, a few prickly ash peppers, and an appropriate amount of rice wine and cook until it is half mature. Take it out to cool, cut into thin slices, and stir fry in a pan. The color of the fry is transparent and slightly rolled.
Add the prepared scallions, leeks, and a little tempeh.

Huaiyu cooked it well, this time the pot of meat was definitely full of color, flavor and taste, it was absolutely different from those people who stewed the meat in a pot.

"Ok?"

"The taste is rich and fragrant, fat but not greasy, not fishy or showy, is this really pork?"

Niu Jian Wu family is also powerful, not comparable to the famous nobles, but they are also rich and powerful from generation to generation. He has never eaten pork. In his impression, pork is not delicious, greasy, and has a fishy smell. It is really nothing to do with mutton Compare.

And some people's pigs eat shit like dogs, and the pigsty is the toilet.

Although the pork was free-range raised by Duan's family, it was pork after all.

But it was clearly pork in the mouth just now, but it tasted completely unexpected.

Wu Junya looked at him suspiciously, "Brother Niu, are you deliberately deceiving us?"

"You don't believe me, don't you believe Wu Erlang?"

As soon as the words came out, Wu Junya also immediately picked up a piece of twice-cooked pork slices that looked like a lamphouse with his chopsticks. He didn't pick up anything else, for fear that the others would not taste good.

"Hey, really, it's wonderful."

Xu Jingzong hesitated for a moment, and took a slice with his chopsticks to taste. At first, he only bit a little, tasted it carefully, and threw the remaining half of the slice into his mouth to chew.

"It's simply turning decay into magic!"

Seeing this, Wei Siren had no choice but to pick up a piece, but in the end he didn't say anything, and after eating a piece, he went to pick up another piece.

Actual actions have proved that this meat is really good.

Huaiyu just said: "It seems that you really didn't eat any good food. It's useless to be a famous family. Although this pig is free-range, it has not been castrated, and the taste is still much worse. Although I used a lot of methods to remove the fishy smell, but..."

Niu Jinwu took another meatball and found it very tender after eating, "Who raises pigs and still castrates them? It's not cattle and horses. This pig was raised for more than a year and then killed. What is Fei Nashen doing? Besides, it doesn't cost money to ask someone to castrate. If you get castrated to death, whose will it be?"

"That's because you don't know much. If pork is to taste good, it must be castrated. Both male and female pigs must be castrated, and must be castrated at a very young age. Such pigs will be raised for about a year, and the meat will be the most plump. There will be no foul smell."

Niu Jianwu picked up a piece of braised pork ribs. He felt that the heat was very good, and the taste was even better. It was just right.

"This pork has already made you so delicious, how can it be more delicious?"

"It's like the difference between wild boar and domestic pig. Wild boar is very hard and has a strong smell, but domestic pig is much less. If castrated, the taste will be purer."

Pork is the protagonist on the table of later generations, and it is a few pork dishes that anyone who can cook will know.

However, although there are many people who raise pigs in the Tang Dynasty, even the royal family has special pig farms. Large pig farms must have hundreds or even thousands of pigs, but there are not many people who really know how to eat pigs. The royal nobles only raise pigs. Sell ​​it to the market, but you don't eat it yourself.

Niu Jianwu and others, try this and that, and found that every dish is delicious, a few dishes are delicious and delicate, the amount is not a lot, and several guys are very edible, especially Niu Jianwu, a few chopsticks When I went down, I found that there was not much left, so I started to grab it domineeringly.

In the midst of the battle between dragons and tigers, a voice sounded.

"It seems that you have a good meal. If you eat something good, you are almost fighting."

As the words fell, Li Shimin appeared outside the tent in a white robe.Xu Luoren and Zhou Shaofan, the prince's bodyguards, followed them, and Cheng Chumo, Wu Huaiyi, the head of the north gate, and Ma Zhou, the censor, also followed.

Duan Lun, the military supervisor, accompanied the prince, and an old acquaintance, Lu Kuan, the palace supervisor.

Huaiyu and the others hurriedly stood up to pay their respects.

"Sit down," Li Shimin stepped forward and looked at the eight dishes on the table. There wasn't much left, but they all looked pretty.

"Gu heard that Shenjifang has produced more than 3000 palm mines today. When I received the news, I couldn't sit still, so I hurried over to have a look." Li Shimin patted Huaiyu on the shoulder, "Erlang is very fast in his work. Ah, you came all of a sudden, you didn't even have time to eat dinner, so bring me a table and chopsticks, and I ate here."

"For Supervisor Duan, Supervisor Lu, General Zhou, General Xu, Ma Shi Yushi, Cheng Tongjun, General Wu Bie, they also come to set the table and chopsticks."

Li Shimin sat down unceremoniously, very approachable.

Stretched out the chopsticks and picked up a piece of pork liver.

Wei Siren reminded his brother-in-law in a low voice, "Your Highness, these dishes are made with pork. Everyone has worked hard these days. General Wu specially bought two pigs to reward everyone."

"Is this pork liver?" Li Shimin ate liver, but he didn't expect it to be pork liver. "The cooking is very special and delicious."

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't care much about what he was eating was cheap pork, and he stretched out his chopsticks to pick up another boiled meatball.

"Come on, let's eat together. These dishes are delicious. Which cook cooks them? I have to take them back to the palace." Li Shimin laughed.

"Your Highness, these dishes are all cooked by the minister." Huaiyu said hastily.

"You can still cook such a good dish?" Li Shimin was surprised, "Going up the mountain to learn the Tao, you can draw talismans, make alchemy, and medicine, and you can ride horses and fight, and you can cook. Wu Erlang, what do you have? How much is it?"

Duan Lun and the others also sat down to dine with the crown prince. They tried it, but they were all surprised. The dish was really good.

"Your Highness, I used the saltpeter and sulfur drawn by the military supervisor to make more than 3000 palm mines, and used up all the materials. Rocket fire crossbows, thunderbolts, poisonous smoke balls, exploding tribulus balls, etc. are temporarily made. It won't work."

Li Shimin didn't care at all, but was very happy to be able to produce a batch of palm thunder so quickly.

Niu Jianwu also took the opportunity to request that these firearms be escorted to the frontline army, willing to try them out himself.

"Try it for Gu first."

Xu Luoren tried it before, but suffered a big loss, and couldn't hear clearly for many days.

Huaiyu led everyone to the outside of the tent, cleared out a space, and then moved in the newly produced Palm Thunder, and randomly selected a dozen or so.Niu Jianwu excitedly volunteered to test the explosion.

This guy has tried to explode a few bombs, and with some experience, he ignites, throws, and moves freely. After throwing, he can turn back calmly and confidently, without looking back at the explosion.

The sound of boom boom boom was obviously stronger than the one that Xu Luoren tried to explode last time.

"The saltpeter sulfur charcoal this time has been purified and processed, and the ratio has been adjusted. It is more suitable for blasting, but the raw materials are still too small, and the purification is not refined enough in a hurry. Otherwise, the medicine can be filled in a larger earthen bottle and earthen jar. Put in some broken porcelain pieces, rotten iron nails, etc., light the fuse and throw it into the enemy army with a catapult, or throw it on the city wall when defending the city. kill the enemy..."

Li Shimin was very moved when he heard this, but he said, "Don't worry, take your time, now these palm mines can be of great use if you use them well, didn't you wipe out a thousand or five hundred cavalry with a hundred of them last time? "

"Your Highness, I request that Zhang Xinlei be escorted to the front camp."

Li Shimin stroked his beard, "You take [-] palm mines and go to the camp of the general manager of Chai University in Qizhou."

"Cheng Chumo, take [-] pieces and go to your father's camp in Gaoling."

"Wu Huaiyi, take [-] pieces and go to the Yuchi Gong camp in Jingyang."

"Your Highness, I request you to go to Jingyang with my brother," Huaiyu asked, he wanted to stop by Longqiao to see Lao Wu, and see if he could be persuaded to come to Chang'an.

Li Shimin thought for a while but said, "Wu Baiqi has gone to Jingyang, so you don't want to go with him, or you can go to Xianyang Shubao's camp."

Now there are Turkic cavalry everywhere in Guanzhong, Li Shimin is also worried that if the two brothers are intercepted by the Turks, if there is an eventuality, the two brothers will disappear. It's also customary.

Qin Shubao is stationed in Xianyang, on the south bank of the Wei Bridge, which is next to Chang'an and is safer.

"The palm thunder has been delivered, and after you teach them how to use it, you should come back quickly," Li Shimin pointed in front of his eyes, "Right now, there are not enough materials such as sulfur, saltpeter, etc., and the imperial court will collect them from all over the place immediately. The more powerful firearms you mentioned are lonely. looking forward!"

"Leave tomorrow morning, go early and return early." Li Shimin made a special confession, and asked Yousi to send ten pigs and twenty sheep here as a reward for everyone tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)