After thinking for a long time, Marin suddenly remembered the words of the messenger - Wilhelm IV, Duke of Jülich-Berg, now lives every day with fine wine and good food......

Yes, for a man with damaged balls, what is there to pursue besides eating and drinking? As for the money? Perhaps many eunuchs will pursue. But the reason why those eunuchs pursued money was because they were royal servants and had no power in their own right. The pursuit of money is just to prevent old age. After all, money can buy good food and wine, as well as the care of others.

However, Wilhelm IV, Duke of Jülich-Berg, was different. He was a monarch, he was not short of power, and he had enough money. As long as he says a word, good things in the country can be brought. As for foreign ...... He can't take his balls as good as ever......

Therefore, for a damaged Duke who has nothing to pursue, there is no better option than to indulge in fine wine and good food.

In fact, to eat and get drunk is also a kind of paralysis of yourself. People who have unpaid ambitions are very sad, and only by paralyzing themselves can they temporarily forget the pain in their hearts.

Marin called the messenger again and asked:

"You mean, Wilhelm IV now spends his days enjoying good food and wine?"

The envoy nodded, he had repeatedly asked people about this. A lot of money was also spent on this.

"Does he demand a lot of quality from wine and food?" Erguotou is a fine wine, and Moutai is also a fine wine, but the grades of the two are obviously different.

The messenger thought for a moment and said:

"It's quite high, it is said that William IV also sent someone to Italy to hire a cook......"

These days, Italian cuisine is among the best in Europe. Of course, the Chinese cuisine and French cuisine brought by Marin, a traveler, do not count. As for German cuisine...... Hehe...... Potatoes, sausages...... What else is there? Sorry, I can't remember......

Moreover, there were no potatoes in Germany in those years, only sausages...... Of course, this is a little better than in the UK. At least, other people's sausages are still handy...... There is also beer, which is also very famous...... As for England, sorry...... The food and drink were not famous, and the only sandwich was stolen by the burger. As for the drinks, the whisky was originally Scottish......

After listening to the words of his subordinates, Marin suddenly had a bottom in his heart - you are not desireless, but you still like to eat and drink......

If you ask for something, it's easy to do. Marin decides to sacrifice Chinese delicacies, and now the best maple sugar two-pot head, to conquer William IV, Duke of Lich-Berg......

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Needless to say, Chinese cuisine, Sichuan cuisine Marin has no conditions to engage in it, after all, there is no chili. However, Huaiyang Cai Marin is still very familiar. Huaiyang cuisine has a light taste, neither as heavy as northern and Sichuan cuisine, nor as sweet and greasy as Cantonese cuisine. It doesn't seem to be very remarkable.

However, the lack of features is precisely the biggest feature. Because, Huaiyang cuisine is a cuisine that can adapt to most tastes in the world. Perhaps, you are not very satisfied with the light Huaiyang cuisine, but you will definitely not be dissatisfied.

Therefore, Huaiyang cuisine is definitely the most suitable for the most people in Chinese cuisine. Unlike Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine, those who like spicy food like it to death, and those who hate spicy food regard it as poison.

In later generations, many people who like to eat Sichuan cuisine go to Sichuan restaurants abroad to eat, and they always feel that they are not authentic. But in fact, they don't understand that foreigners who like spicy food are only a minority, and those who don't like it are the majority. Therefore, in the Sichuan restaurant mixed abroad, I had to change the taste, and I also added a lot of messy things such as tomato sauce. If they don't, their restaurants won't be able to operate...... Therefore, don't blame foreign Sichuan restaurants for not being authentic, people are just trying to survive...... After all, their diners are foreigners, not Chinese......

Huaiyang cuisine is different, Huaiyang cuisine itself is relatively light and has good palatability. Even if people who like spicy food are not used to it, you can also bring an old godmother to adjust it yourself......

Therefore, at the state banquets of later generations in China, it was often Huaiyang cuisine that was the main feature, rather than Sichuan and Hunan cuisine. Many people who like Sichuan and Hunan cuisine are not convinced, but they don't consider it from the standpoint of foreigners - people don't like spicy food, do you want to spicy foreign guests? Or is it so spicy that tears and snot flow together, resulting in a loss of face?

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Since the crossing, because there are no chili peppers, Marin has promoted Huaiyang cuisine in East Frysland from the beginning. Then, Marin found that sure enough, this mild cuisine is very adaptable, and there are no Europeans who don't like to eat Huaiyang cuisine...... After all, this is the most suitable Chinese cuisine......

In order to attract Wilhelm IV, Duke of Lich-Berg, Marin sent someone to buy a luxurious mansion as an embassy in the city of Hulich, close to the royal palace. Then, a group of chefs were sent over......

On the day of the inauguration of the embassy, the special ambassador Portman (a newly recruited medieval university student from Marin) held a banquet at Marin's behest and invited William IV, Duke of Hulich-Berg, to attend in person......

In order to be afraid that William IV, Duke of Hulich-Berg, would not come, Marin also sent a bucket of maple sugar in advance to attract the other party......

Marin personally tasted the 40-degree two-pot head with maple sugar, and the taste was excellent, which was much better than the original whisky with black sugar (rye two-pot head).

In order to improve the style, Marlin named this rye two-pot head with maple syrup as the "Royal Salute" and sold it as the most high-end wine. As for the addition of black sugar, it is also called whiskey......

Also, considering that most of the weak nobles may not be used to spirits. Marlin also mixed it with boiled water (the scientific name for it is called "blending"), which lowered the degree of "Royal Salute" to more than 20 alcohol......

In this way, the new "Royal Salute" not only tastes good, but also not too strong, which is very in line with the taste of the aristocracy. At least, Prime Minister Jeffrey and other civilian officials like it very much.

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As Marin imagined, at first, William IV was really uninterested in the invitation to the embassy of the North Sea State. Even, William IV intended to send an ordinary diplomat to attend the banquet in his place.

However, the name "Royal Salute" sent by Marin aroused the interest of William IV, and he tried to taste the "Royal Salute", and was immediately attracted by the mellow aroma with maple syrup......

Then, because of his love for the house and the U, William IV also became interested in the feast of the embassy of the North Sea Kingdom. Just an hour before the banquet began, Wilhelm IV gave a short notice to the diplomats who were supposed to attend the banquet in his place - to go himself......

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At the banquet, the new ambassador Portman took out a batch of "royal salutes" as banquet wine. Unlike the barreled "Royal Salute" given to William IV, the Royal Salute at the banquet was all made of glass. These glasses** are all carefully blown by the master craftsmen of blown glassware that Marin dug from Venice. Moreover, the ** cover is also designed to be domineering - on the cork, there is a golden European-style crown......

Of course, this can't be a crown made of gold, just a zinc-containing brass. But the original color of brass is like gold, and the crown-shaped ** cover made of brass is extremely high......

Portman introduced this "precious" drink, praising it as the "nobility of wines...... If Aunt Zhao Lirong was present, it is estimated that she would secretly tell everyone - in fact, it was the second pot head, mixed with the boiled water...... Well, maple syrup was also added......

The second pot head is already mellow, even if it is mixed with boiled water......

And the taste of maple syrup made the guests present like it very much. Everyone asked how this fine wine was made, and Portman bragged according to the lines given by Marin:

"Well, it is said that in order to make this fine sake, the craftsmen consumed a lot of honey imported from Eastern Europe......"

The guests in the audience smacked their tongues - honey...... No wonder it tastes so good......

You know, in this era, European cane sugar was still sold as medicine in pharmacies. As for honey, it is also an expensive dessert. If it were a few hundred years earlier, in the darkest years of the Middle Ages, two noble lords could send troops and fight for the ownership of several boxes of seals......

Although the material conditions are much better now than hundreds of years ago, ordinary people still can't eat sugar regularly. Even the aristocracy could not eat honey very often. Therefore, for this kind of "Royal Salute" sweet wine, everyone even drinks it with a little awe. And because of the serious lack of desserts, even a top nobleman like William IV drank sweet maple syrup...... Ah no, it's a "royal salute", and it's also sweet......

By the way, the wines of this age are not sugar-free. Because, drinking wine is one of the important ways to consume sweets in this era. Wine desugaring is only later, when Europeans were not short of sugar to eat, and obesity and other diseases caused by too much sugar intake made Europeans make desugared dry red wine.

However, in Europe in this era, if your wine is desugared, it is estimated that the aristocratic lord will not want to drink it - paralysis, Lao Tzu is a dignified aristocratic lord, drinking wine not only for pretending, but also for sugar intake. You took off the sugar and drank a puppy?

In fact, unsweetened wines have a softer taste than desugared wines. However, the domestic national conditions in later generations, you know - foreigners like to drink dry red, and foreigners who worship foreign countries think that drinking dry red is enough to pretend to be ...... Although these people don't actually like the taste of dry red, they still pretend to be "very fond of the taste of dry red", as if this is in line with international standards......

In this era, in order to maintain the sugar content of the sake, even when making the sake, the brewer would deliberately reduce the amount of koji and retain the sugar in the sake as much as possible to increase the sweetness (if the koji is sufficient, it will convert all the sugar in the sake into alcohol).

But in any case, the little sugar in the wine is actually left over from the incomplete transformation during winemaking, and the content is not high. The maple syrup in the "Royal Salute" was added afterwards, not only in sufficient amount, but also with plant aromas such as woody fragrance, and the taste was better. And the alcohol content in the twenties is higher than that of wine, but it is not unacceptable.

As a result, Portman discovered that this kind of diluted "royal salute" was specially "blended" in order to adapt to the tastes of the aristocracy

, seems to be particularly popular......

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Of course, today's theme is not only the "Royal Salute", but also the Huaiyang dishes on the table......

Huaiyang-style braised pork, braised lion's head, boiled dried shreds made of American soybeans, sweet and sour pork ribs, white-cut chicken, salted goose, and a large plate of beef with dry-cut sauce...... Of course, there are also simple vegetables such as scrambled eggs with leeks, shredded cabbage (cabbage), and stir-fried spinach......

But as Marin expected, these noble guests from the Duchy of Lich basically didn't look at the vegetables, but only dealt with the meat dishes. Wilhelm IV, Duke of Jülich-Berg, a lover of good food, looked at his nobles with a dark face, snatching the food from his plate without any image. The most hateful thing is that he is a dignified duke and has been robbed and eaten......

Fortunately, Portman understood the rules and asked the cook to make a few copies. Although there are not many of them, at least William IV can taste everything......

But after tasting these delicacies, William IV couldn't calm down. Because, these delicacies are so delicious. The barbecue and pork I used to eat are especially pig food in front of these delicacies...... Ah, sorry, the Europeans raise pigs free-range and don't feed them...... Therefore, it is more appropriate to describe it as dog food......