Li An is an indispensable top talent in the Tang Empire, and he is a heavyweight who can influence the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty.

Because it is extremely important and irreplaceable, the emperor and his ministers are very supportive of Ang Lee, they also want to live a better life, and they also very much hope that Ang Lee can research those machines that sound incredible, and they are also looking forward to being able to talk directly to people thousands of miles away.

Before, when Li An released the ability to develop a telegraph, many people still didn't believe it, but now it's okay, the experiment has been successful, and no one dares to doubt it, and Li An can invent such a powerful machine, which is also a great credit to the Tang Empire, the emperor said that there is nothing to reward, but the two giant groupers can also be regarded as a reward, and the difference between the rest of the ministers can better reflect the weight of this reward.

And the emperor rewarded Li An so much, also to show a clear posture and tell everyone that he is an emperor who must be rewarded for meritorious service, and whoever can make meritorious contributions to the court in the future can get the treatment he deserves, in addition, the emperor treats him so well, if Li An does something disloyal in the future, he will not be grateful and will be scolded.

Therefore, the reward is sometimes a kind of shackle, so that the person being rewarded has to be loyal to the rewarder, otherwise his reputation will be greatly affected.

In the history of China, usurpation of power happened from time to time, in many non-unified eras, almost every few years there will be a usurpation, and the vast majority of usurpation is because the previous king was incompetent, beating and scolding his courtiers for no reason, causing the ministers to panic, so as to support the usurper in their hearts and behaviors, and help the usurper ascend to the new throne.

Especially in the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties before the Tang Dynasty, whether it was the Southern Dynasty or the Northern Dynasties, there were constant usurpation of power by ministers and generals, which made the dynasties of this period special, if it were not for specialized scholars, they could not figure out the order of these dynasties and the specific relationship between the characters, and many of the founding emperors who usurped power rebelled because they could not stand the mediocrity and tyranny of the last emperor of the previous dynasty, and at the same time, this is also the main reason why they can get support, if these last emperors can be better to the ministers, It wouldn't have happened.

The emperor is so loving, even if Li An is full, he must continue to eat a bite, otherwise he will not know how to lift, and besides, the grouper is so delicious and nutritious, how can Li An eat more.

"Your Majesty is so loving, even if Weichen breaks his belly, he will have to eat more."

Li An said and picked up a piece of belly meat and ate it in a big gulp.

This kind of grouper is not only extremely delicious, but also extremely nutritious, which can be called the most nutritious top delicacy, and it is very good for the human body to eat it often.

The delicate meat of the grouper, has the functions of warming the qi, warming the stomach, moisturizing the skin, etc., is the warm and healthy food, the fish fat content is low, the heating energy is low, the beneficial qi nourishes the blood, the muscles and bones are soft and other functions, which contains various trace elements, can enhance people's memory, thinking and analysis ability, delay the function of mental decline.

This kind of fish meat also has the functions of nourishing blood, brightening the eyes, passing through the menstruation, stabilizing the fetus, benefiting production, hemostasis, lactation and other functions, all kinds of people have benefits to eat, it has a variety of nicknames, such as beauty and skin care fish, high protein fish, anti-aging fish, etc., the benefits are not general, and the larger the grouper, the more nutritious it is, and the price in the market is sky-high, not that the powerful and big businessmen can not afford to eat.

Li An tasted the grouper, but the ministers beside him were watching Li An eat the fish, their expressions were a little intriguing, and Li An was embarrassed to see it.

"Colleagues, why don't you eat it! What are you looking at me for? This grouper is a rare delicacy, and it is extremely nutritious, eating more can prolong life, and it will be strong when you are old, although you only get a small piece, but it is enough for you to eat. ”

Ang Lee is really not used to others watching him eat, this feeling is very bad.

"Ladies and gentlemen, groupers over 100 catties are rare to see, the largest grouper that the dog bought from the market half a year ago was only 20 catties, and I thought it was very big at the time, but now it seems that it can't be compared with these few in the palace! Try them all! There aren't many opportunities to eat such a large grouper. ”

Yang Guozhong opened his mouth and picked up the chopsticks to eat, praising the taste as he ate.

All the ministers also picked up their chopsticks and ate them seriously, the taste of the grouper was not to be said, and the taste of such a big grouper was even better.

"Your Majesty, such a big grouper, the taste is different, it is much more delicious than those small groupers of a few catties, the meat is softer and thicker, and it tastes more chewy."

Li An said.

Now, everyone is eating grouper, only the emperor has no grouper to enjoy, but the grouper in front of him is given to him by the emperor, so Li An has no reason to give a piece to the emperor, which is not in accordance with the rules, as for the fish that is distributed to the ministers, although there is still half left, but after all, it is distributed to the ministers first, and it is even more inappropriate to give the rest to the emperor, so the emperor can only stare dryly, and he can't eat the grouper.

"As long as you Aiqing are happy to eat, I will be happy in my heart, the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty is inseparable from talents like Li Aiqing, and at the same time, it is also inseparable from the assistance of your Aiqing, without you, I would be alone."

Li Longji said happily, paused, and then said: "By the way, these are not the biggest groupers, this time, the palace people in charge of purchasing got a three-hundred-pound big grouper in Yangzhou, which is much bigger than the grouper on Li Aiqing's table, and the taste should be better." ”

The ministers were all taken aback when they heard it, the common groupers on the market are one or two catties, three or four catties, and ten or twenty catties are all rare water chestnuts, and the emperor stewed three hundred catties of big fish as soon as he made a move, and also got a giant fish weighing three hundred catties, which is really not simple.

When Li An heard this, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, a hundred catties of grouper is already very rare, and a three-hundred-pound one can be regarded as the king of fish. ”

"I have this intention, I have already let people raise it, Penglai will transport several truckloads of seawater every day, enough to feed these big fish, haha!"

Li Longji said very proudly.

Since the railway was opened to the seaside, Li Longji has become more and more willful, and if there are any good sea fish on the seaside, he will let people transport them to the capital, and in order to feed some of the sea fish he likes, he will specially let people be responsible for transporting seawater, and transport the seawater from the East China Sea directly to Daming Palace.

However, not all sea fish can be fed, such as grouper, shallow sea fish, can naturally be raised in the palace to play, but for some deep-sea sea fish, there is no way to feed, because the conditions of the palace are very limited, it is trivial to get a breeding pond with a depth of about ten meters, but some deep-sea fish, can only live in the deep sea with great pressure, once they enter the shallow sea, their bodies will burst and die, and the palace is impossible to build a pool with a depth of hundreds of thousands of meters specifically to feed these sea fish, There is no need for that, so there is no way to feed the fish in the deep sea, which can also be regarded as a pity!

In addition, whether it is a deep-sea fish or a shallow sea fish, they can't leave the sea water for a long time, not to mention the deep-sea marine fish, as long as they leave the deep sea, their bodies will burst and die, and the shallow sea fish will also burst their bodies due to decompression after entering the air, and they will die of dehydration.

There are also marine fish that cannot be fed in fresh water, and freshwater fish will be salted to death when they enter the seawater, and marine fish will also cause death after entering freshwater, but they are certainly not killed by light, but because of long-term pressure changes.

In seawater, because the density of seawater is relatively large, marine fish live in seawater for a long time, and the body's blood pressure adapts to the pressure of seawater, and after entering freshwater, because the pressure of the river water is smaller, and the body blood pressure of marine fish has no time to adjust, which will make the blood vessel pressure of marine fish exceed the water pressure, resulting in blood vessel bursting and death.

But if the marine fish are domesticated for a period of time and then put into fresh water, it is still possible to survive, such as salmon, which is a marine fish, but the place where they lay their eggs is in fresh water, and they will not die.

This is because before they enter the freshwater river, they will stay in the junction of the coastal freshwater and seawater for some more time, so that their bodies can gradually adapt to the change in water pressure, and then go up the river and enter the freshwater to reproduce.

Therefore, the fact that marine fish cannot be put directly into fresh water is because their body functions cannot adapt to the great changes in the living environment in a short period of time.

The emperor can be so capricious, in the palace to breed large marine fish, which is inseparable from the various high-tech machines invented by Li An, if Li An did not invent the railway and train, then these marine fish can not be smoothly transported to the Daming Palace in a live state, so, the emperor wants to breed marine fish, can only breed ultra-small ornamental fish, after all, if there is no railway this mode of transportation, large marine fish can not be transported from the sea to the Daming Palace alive, this is absolutely difficult to complete the task, on the way, The big fish are going to die.

That is to say, before Li An invented the railway, even the richest people in the capital could not eat fresh sea fish, even if it was the emperor, what he could eat was basically dead sea fish, or pickled dried sea fish, such as squid, squid and sea cucumber, which one was not a dead dry goods, and if you wanted to eat live fish, you had to go to the beach in person.

Before the advent of railway transportation, the cost of transporting live fish from the sea to the capital was very high, so high that it was unbelievably high, and it was still a small marine fish with a small size, and it was impossible to transport large fish far.

Among them, one is that the transportation time is too long, the sea fish slowly die on the halfway, from the sea to Chang'an City, the road is too far, even if it is by water, it will take a long time, and it is not possible to go directly to Chang'an City, you need to change the carriage to transport in Luoyang, so that it brings a lot of pressure to the transportation work, such a long journey toss, the sea fish do not die halfway is strange.

Another point is that the transportation technology is not up to par, do not understand that the sea fish also need to breathe oxygen, do not know how to ventilate the seawater, so that the fish inside are slowly suffocated, and do not know how to maintain the hygiene of the sea water, the normal metabolism of the sea fish will make the sea water become more and more turbid, if you can not clean and filter the turbid sea water in time, the sea fish will be weak and sick, and if the sick and dead fish are not treated in time, it will infect a whole tank of fish, and finally let all the fish slowly die.

In the long run, there will not be many businessmen who will stupidly transport live fish from the sea to the capital, because it means that the loss of money, the cost and loss of long-distance transportation, so that the sea fish that are lucky enough to arrive in the capital alive, the price has increased hundreds and thousands of times, so that who else can afford to eat, and there is no such problem of direct transportation of pickled sea fish, a large number of can be transported at a time, the transportation cost is greatly reduced, basically there will be no loss, this is also the inland area full of market pickled sea fish, And the root cause of very few live fish.

In this way, the merchant will transport some gorgeous ornamental marine fish at most, and they are all very small marine fish, so that it will be much more convenient to transport, as long as the transportation volume is relatively small, there will be no dead fish.

That is to say, in the previous Tang Dynasty, there are generally no edible fresh marine fish in the capital, they are all pickled salty sea fish, it is good to have a small number of beautiful ornamental sea fish, most of the ornamental fish are goldfish in inland rivers, sea fish are absolutely rare, and the price is naturally higher.

However, after the railway was repaired, this situation has changed greatly, after loading from the seaside, in a few days, the fresh sea fish can be transported to Chang'an City, in such a short period of time, as long as the care is taken care of, the density of live fish is controlled within a certain range, there will be no large-scale death, so that the cost of transporting live sea fish from the sea to Chang'an City is greatly reduced, and the nutrition and taste of live fish must be far more than that of dead fish, and can be sold at a better price.

The price of live marine fish in the capital is naturally many times more expensive than that of the city by the sea, but compared with before, it is still a lot cheaper, taking a lot of ornamental marine fish as an example, although the current price is also relatively expensive, ten times the price of the seaside, but before the operation of the railway, the price of these ornamental marine fish is enough to be thirty or fifty times that of the seaside city, so the price is relatively speaking, it is still a lot lower, and this is all the credit of the railway.