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Chapter 243 Please Eat Potatoes

All kinds of news in Wayne City spread quickly. Frederick did not hide his identity, and what he did spread quickly.

After many down-and-out painters received his funding, not only did more people sell paintings on the street, but they also put out their stalls much earlier.

When Ferdinand heard about it, he asked his royal painter to put on old clothes and set up a stall early in the morning to see how Frederick reacted.

However, at this time Frederick ran off to find food.

"The taste is very good!" Frederick tasted the apple strudel in a small teahouse. "You can try adding some raisins to the apple filling, and sprinkle a little bit of the finest powdered sugar on the surface for decoration."

"It's a pity that it's not the season for apple harvest. Using jam always feels like something is missing. Come and try it when the time comes."

His words quickly reached Ferdinand's ears through the emperor's spy organization.

Ferdinand asked the intelligence chief suspiciously: "Is Wesson really saying that?"

The intelligence chief replied: "It is true, and the others present have heard it."

"Then Duke Wesson went to the restaurant opposite and ordered a beef stew. He said..."

Ferdinand frowned slightly, and asked in a deep voice, "What did he say?"

The intelligence chief replied cautiously: "Duke Wesson said that the stewed beef in that store is better than the one in the palace, because...the chefs in the palace dare not improve the recipe for fear of accidents, and all the recipes have not changed for a hundred years, which is very boring. "

Ferdinand nodded silently, and asked, "You should know what to do next, right?"

The intelligence leader immediately replied: "Yes, I will tell Duke Wesson and the people in that store to shut up."

"[Ven City swearing]!" Ferdinand wanted to hit someone, "I want you to buy a copy! See if it's really better than the one in the palace!"

"Also, what he ate, you can buy it for me to taste what he said."

The intelligence chief said with some embarrassment: "Duke Wesson...today... still eats Elizabeth potatoes, and he still cooks them for others in a shop."

Ferdinand raised his eyebrows and said, "Come on, let's go and have a look."

Frederick introduced potatoes for many years, and some people took them out to grow them. As a result, some people didn't know that the sprouts could not be eaten and something happened, so there were a lot of gossip.

The most widely circulated rumor is that these underground fruits are eaten by Duke Wesson's devil army, and ordinary people will die if they eat them.

On the side of the Osmaga Empire, only farmers in the mountains grow some in the mountains, and the people in the city don't touch it at all.

There is a restaurant in Wayne City. The proprietress married from Wessen State last year. Last year, she hoarded a cellar of Elizabeth potatoes according to her hometown’s practice. As a result, less than [-]% of them have been sold, and the rest are about to germinate. up.

Frederick took the promotion of potatoes as part of increasing Wessen's soft power, and he would not be indifferent after seeing this situation.

"Don't worry." Frederick said to the fellow, "I'll help you advertise!"

Theresa and several other young ladies who came out with Frederick to collect delicious food today were surprised to see Frederick come into the kitchen, and he was still cooking decently.

According to Frederick's idea, the promotion of potatoes starts with them.

When Ferdinand came to the shop, Frederick had just finished his first potato dish, which was a dessert.

After saluting, Ferdinand looked at his youngest daughter and the other young ladies with a smile, making their faces turn red.

"It's nice to be young." Ferdinand sighed.

The small shop was almost full of guards standing outside. Frederick squeezed between them, brought up the "Book Page Elizabeth Potato" himself, and said to the emperor with a depressed look: "Your Majesty, would you like It’s too early to say, I’ll give you my share.”

Ferdinand smiled and said, "Then you eat theirs."

While the two were talking, a guard behind the emperor picked up the potato in front of Ferdinand to test for drugs, and even ate a small piece.

The guard paused and ate another small piece.

Ferdinand said to him: "If you take the opportunity to steal it, I will let your father beat you!"

The guard replied solemnly: "Your Majesty, this is my duty."

Frederick said with a smile: "From the beneficiary's point of view, I will not murder His Majesty. It is not good for me. I am worried that someone will blame me."

In the past two years, someone in Wessen State has published several detective novels, which are very popular. There are several cases in which the scope of the criminals is determined by who can benefit from the murder of the victims.

He said that, even if the emperor burps now, most of the suspicions can be cleared in the public opinion.

Frederick went on to say: "This snack is very simple. Remove the sprouts and green poisonous parts of Elizabeth potatoes, cut them into slices, and the bottom is still connected. Steam them first and let them cool. Deep-fried fragrant garlic, Onions and other spices, spread on top of the Elizabeth potatoes, spread in the middle of each slice, and finally bake it in the oven until the skin is crispy."

His purpose is to promote Elizabeth Potatoes, so naturally he will not keep the recipe a secret. The more people who make it, the more people will eat it, and more people will think that he is awesome and can get this kind of good stuff.

Ferdinand took a bite of the Eliza sweet potato from the book page, and it felt pretty good, soft, suitable for an old man like himself who doesn't have many teeth.

At this time, Frederick made potato cheese cake again, that is, boiled peeled potatoes into mashed potatoes, mixed with grated cheese, spices, parsley, green onions, salt, etc., and kneaded into cakes, and finally wrapped in flour , eggs and bread crumbs are fried until the surface is golden, and eaten with red tomato sauce.

Finally, the main course, Friedrich sautéed the onions in oil in a pan, added a little ham and local spices, and put the potato cubes and meat cubes to stew.

To take care of the emperor with bad teeth, Frederick added some meatballs.

During the period, Frederick secretly said to the proprietress: "You can go home and buy some oyster sauce, put some in the stew, don't tell others, this is my family's secret recipe."

The proprietress nodded immediately.

When the pressure cooker opened the lid, the aroma of Eliza's sweet potato stew made Ferdinand shout in front: "Hurry up and serve it!"

The other guards in the store could only swallow their saliva, and looked enviously at the guy who tested the poison. Everyone has been loyal for generations and wished to take on this dangerous job for him today.

This time Frederick made a big pot, and finally he could sit down and eat together.

"It tastes pretty good." Ferdinand said while eating, "I didn't expect your cooking skills to be good."

Frederick just smiled. His culinary skills were forced out by Psyche. If he wanted to learn magic beyond the syllabus, he could only cook delicious food for her. He even made pearl milk tea. In the end, even Richard Gnar also learned this trick.

Ferdinand asked him again, "Isn't this meal cheap?"

Frederick replied: "There are ways to spend money on this Elizabeth potato, and there are also ways to do it cheaply. The rich naturally think of changing tricks. Most soldiers in the army cook a big pot of potato stew, beef, pork, The chicken is exchanged. The common people also cook a lot of stews, and sometimes mashed potatoes are used as the staple food. It is simple at the relief station, and they are cooked directly in water."

The guard who tested the poison just now heard it all. He was sent to the army by his family when he was a teenager. Although he is a small officer, the food is not much better than that of the big soldier. He cooks everything in a pot, unlike Wesson. On the Duke's side, the big soldiers can eat such delicious things.

Ferdinand noticed another point, and asked Frederick a bit puzzled: "What is a relief station?"

Frederick replied calmly: "In the past few years, many people have come to us to find work. Many of them have little money. They will not find work and have no food for a while. So I opened a relief station, no matter who it is If you go there, you can stutter and starve to death."

Ferdinand shook his head and said, "Those lazy people stopped working and went to the relief station, not to make you poor."

Frederick smiled and said, "I'm not afraid. The only thing I can eat there is Elizabeth potatoes boiled in clear water and boiled water. It's fine to eat for two or three days, but I can't bear to eat only this person for a long time."

"They also help arrange work there. If you do some work such as sweeping the streets and collecting garbage, you can get a little more cheese."

"If you are skilled, go to the guild to get a certificate, and you can eat well for a month before you find a job."

After hearing this, Ferdinand said: "Even if it's like this, the cost is too high. There is no fixed amount of food for a day. It's too convenient for the people below to do their tricks."

He has been the emperor for so many years and is too familiar with the people below. In fact, he needs to pay at least 100 gold coins to do a good job with 500 gold coins.

"It's not a big problem." Frederick said with a smile, "Elizabeth potatoes are very cheap in our place. If you sell them for less, you will be found out. There are monks from the church watching over there."

"To tell you the truth, the money is worth the money, and the law and order in the city has improved a lot. There used to be bread thieves, but now there are none."

"Hiss..." Ferdinand looked at Frederick in disbelief, "So there are no poor people there?"

"How is it possible." Frederick shook his head, "At best, no one will die from starvation. No one will freeze to death in winter."

"Many families are not able to eat meat every day. A family in the village can only eat one chicken every five or six days. The chicken is still boiled in the pot every day. A few days ago, people who worked in the fields could only eat a little. Meat to drink soup, children barely have an egg to eat every day, and the whole family eats bones on the last day."

"The clothes are barely enough for everyone to have thin cotton clothes, but there are many children in the family, so I can only wear clothes that the older children can't fit for the younger children."

"Isn't that enough?!" Ferdinand almost jumped up, "Not everyone in Wayne has a mouthful of chicken soup and eggs every day, and everyone has cotton clothes to wear!"

Frederick said embarrassingly: "It's not enough, my goal is to let every family eat a chicken every day, and every family has a bicycle."

Ferdinand was so angry that he didn't want to speak.

The content of the conversation between the two of them quickly spread through the guards in the store and the young ladies who followed Frederick out.

Many people have a new understanding of the wealth and prosperity of Wessen State, and some people have other thoughts.

(End of this chapter)