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Chapter 270 From time to time
Why can't you eat it?
With this idea in mind, Chen Mu entered the Bite Spring Garden, bypassed the door, and was surrounded by courtyards. They were all in the style of royal gardens. The inside was neither big nor small. It was a big garden. The only difference was that it was covered with silk. The little eunuchs around the emperor flattered and explained: "Light is transparent, for warmth, the cloth has been brushed with oil."

The garden is full of spring, with hundreds of flowers blooming in full bloom, which is exactly the name of the spring garden. There are also melon vines and bean vats in the corners. This feeling is very novel to Chen Mu.It's not that he hasn't seen it, and he hasn't seen it carefully, but the key is that he doesn't know that there are such greenhouses in this era.

"Go, pick one for me."

The little eunuch climbed up and down very smoothly, pulled up his sleeves and jumped up and down to grab a cucumber for the emperor, held it in both hands and offered it to the emperor, the emperor broke it open with a 'click' and sniffed it refreshingly, and the emperor enjoyed it very much At the same time, the little eunuch who had just picked melons presented a red lacquered wooden tray beside it, as if he had already prepared it.

Under Chen Mu's blank gaze, the emperor naturally put two cucumbers on the wooden plate, waved his hands and said, "Go and bury it."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at Chen Mu and asked, "Do you want to hear about General Chen?"

An Da led the cavalry to trample past Chen Mu's heart.

He has eaten cucumbers, seen sliced ​​cucumbers sticking to his face, and seen people use them in his previous life, but this is the first time he has seen people tear them apart, smell them, and bury them in the ground.

What is this!
The emperor agreed to save it!

"Your Majesty, don't throw it away! This is full of water, slice it, it's dry, and the nobles in the palace can apply it to your face, it's good!"

Chen Mu said this without thinking about it at all. His mind was still stuck in Emperor Longqing asking him if he wanted to come and hear about it. Could the emperor be so capricious?

Long Qing was stunned for a moment, picked up the cucumber and looked at it, laughed dumbfounded at Chen Mu, and said with emotion: "In the world, General Chen, the man who burned the city and destroyed the village, knows how to maintain it, I should also look at it with admiration!"

"It's a pity to waste it. I will send it to Concubine Li Gui according to General Chen's order. She always complains about the dryness of the sky. Let's try." The emperor wiped Chen Mu's hand that didn't feel dusty with the hand towel handed by the eunuch, and waved his hand to Chen Mu. All around, with a serious face, said: "Bite the spring garden, I don't think it is useful. I don't know how many charcoal fires have been burned this winter. How extravagant is it just for these spring colors?"

"I originally wanted to remove it, but the palace people said that Fengshui weather should be restrained by fire. Is it really so effective?"

Chen Mu's mind is still in a mess. This master lamented the waste, and at the same time threw away the good cucumbers. He didn't hear that Master Long Qing was schizophrenic!

"Your Majesty, this melon..." Chen Mu didn't know whether it was right to ask, but it might be that Long Qing was too kind, which made Chen Mu a little bolder. He asked, "Why don't you eat it, but throw it away instead?"

"Eat? Can't eat."

Emperor Longqing glanced at Chen Mu in surprise, and said earnestly: "These vegetables are against the natural timing, and manpower is used to cause them to grow when they should not grow. This unseasonable thing often hurts people, so just look at it. Do not eat it."

Chen Mu already wanted to bump his head up against the wall, but Emperor Longqing didn't forget to slash two more knives at the back, "General Chen is my good general, from now on you should study more and understand the scriptures and principles!"

He didn't know what to say.

But in the end, Emperor Longqing's answer made him feel comfortable, at least not the kind of thing that wastes while talking about his distress, but how can he change the existing view of the emperor?

"Your Majesty, in fact, I didn't enter the palace to see why peonies bloom in winter. I wanted to bring this method of growing vegetables in winter back to the Xuanfu, so that the soldiers could have vegetables to eat in winter, and even the people of the Xuanfu lived in the palace. Don't stop the fields in winter."

"This is not a random thing, Your Majesty, it can save thousands of people's lives!"

Emperor Longqing looked at Chen Mu with vigilance and suspicion, his expression expressed his meaning very clearly without opening his mouth: what are you talking about!

"In Xuanfu, on Nine Sides, it is difficult to practice in winter, one is because of the cold weather, and the other is because there is no food to eat, the sergeants eat noodles all day long, and have no money to buy meat and vegetables, and only occasionally can they eat pickled vegetables , Dried vegetables, and even yellow and emaciated, the ministers dare not let them practice. There are vegetables in Beijing, but Xuanfu does not, and even if they are, how can the Banner Army afford them, because the cost is too high."

"Pickled vegetables, dried vegetables, air-dried meat outside the Great Wall, cellar vegetables, and warm soup dishes, none of them are contrary to the weather, but as long as they can satisfy His Majesty's people, they are good dishes!" Now that Chen Mu had said it, he didn't say anything The reason for shrinking, he simply said it cleanly, and said: "When I came here, I already thought that this is to use fire to imitate the warmth of spring to make cauliflower grow, but I don't know how to do it, so I want to come to the palace to ask His Majesty for advice. "

"Your Majesty said that burning fires in Yaochun Garden consumes a lot of materials every day. Chenliang made coal and matched it with a special stove. Two pieces of coal can be burned for more than half an hour. The temperature is high and the fire is fast, and the charcoal is less poisonous. I plan to make everything in the future. The military subsidizes the household industry, which can reduce the consumption of growing vegetables in greenhouses."

"Is it good food to feed my people?"

Emperor Longqing took a deep breath, nodded slowly, very moved, and said: "Maybe you are right, but you can't."

"My health is not good, and the imperial physician is at a loss what to do. I can barely continue before the prince can take on the big job. General Chen, when you know this, do you still dare to take the untimely thing back to Xuanfu?"

Chen Mu was dumbfounded—this is Pengci!

"You have a heart, but this can't be done now. The government and the public call you Chen Mianmian, and people impeach you for those trivial matters, and the cabinet ministers will stop you from distinguishing right from wrong, but don't think that it is really Mianmian. Who is involved in some things? I can't stop it."

"Okay!" Emperor Longqing shook his head helplessly but with a smile, and said to Chen Mu: "I also know about the Xuanfu, go back and ask the Ministry of War to see if I can give you some more money to subsidize the soldiers. But it is estimated that there will not be many, the court is very difficult, this is walking on thin ice."

"Is the military affairs on the Nine Sides so difficult in the middle of winter? No one has ever told me about this palace! I am not as comfortable as you generals." Emperor Longqing looked into the distance and said with a smile: "A few years ago As soon as I ascended the throne, I wanted to eat fruit pies, and the Imperial Cuisine Supervisor began to toss about it, it was the best pie I have ever eaten, both in appearance and taste, it was better than the ones I ate in Prince Yu's Mansion in the past."

"Later, I wanted to know how much money such a delicious pie would cost. The Yushan Supervisor reported the account, and it was fifty gold." Long Qing shook his head, with the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, but did not smile, "I have lived outside the palace for many years. For five coins, you can be outside the Donghua Gate, not far from the house I gave you, and you can buy a big box for five coins!"

"But I have never been out of Beijing, and I don't know what it's like outside the capital."

Emperor Longqing shook his head, and said to Chen Mu: "The coal and stove you mentioned will only be brought into the palace in the past few days. They don't need to be well-made, and let me see what the ordinary peasants use; I can't help you with this dish. When the assistant is old, don't bother him, talk to the assistants, maybe they can help you."

(End of this chapter)