Chapter 142 can't be fake, can't be fake

Pork is the main meat on the people's table, whether it is mutton or beef, because of the cost, the people really can't afford to eat.

Many people believe that there was no beef to eat in the Tang Dynasty, but in fact this is a misconception. Of course, Datang's wanton slaughtering of beef is illegal, and it will also be subject to heavy taxes and fines, but it is not impossible to eat beef. After all, cattle will die of old age, die of disease, fall and hurt their legs, or damage their hooves, and cattle that can't do heavy work are wasted to raise, so they can only be killed and eaten.

Of course, when the full set of legal procedures is complete, it is still possible to kill the cow. For example, let Lizheng and the village elders testify that this cow can belong to the disabled ploughing cattle and cannot work at all, so that it is completely legal to kill the cow and eat meat again.

In Datang, a ploughing cow can be sold for 8,000 or 10,000 yuan, but the beef is as high as 100 yuan a catty, who knows, even if it is a small cow, in fact, it is far more than 100 catties, so the cattle killed are far more expensive than adult strong cattle. Because of the interests, Datang is almost everywhere with all kinds of full-law cattle killing procedures.

However, although beef is delicious, it is not something that ordinary people can afford. Of course, mutton is also expensive, although mutton is only one-fifth of beef, but it is still the price of several buckets of grain, and people who can't even eat food will naturally not eat meat.

However, Chen Ying knew it very well. The strength of a nation depends largely on the source of its food. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese Oriental people were called "the sick man of East Asia", which was actually because the corrupt Qing government levied on the people, and the people could not even eat, let alone be healthy. Almost all Chinese are emaciated, and fat people are rarer than giant pandas.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, although there have been years of war. However, most of the wars were won outside the country, except for the rebellion of Liu Wuzhou in Hedong and the rebellion in Lizhou, which were found within the Tang Dynasty, but the impact was not very serious. Now the food of the people is gradually becoming abundant. I can eat enough, but I am far from the standard of eating well.

In the words of later generations, the people of Datang are still struggling with food and clothing. It is foreseeable that in the near future, the people of Datang will no longer lack food and food, and it is urgent to improve the quality of life.

The Central Plains is not like a grassland, there is no large amount of grassland for raising sheep, and it is simply unrealistic to eat a large amount of mutton. However, pork is different. Pigs are omnivores, whether it is grass or leftovers, they are meat and vegetarian.

However, in this era, pork still has a very significant disadvantage, that is, the taste is too poor, even if it is cooked with a lot of spices, the taste is still very poor. The reason why Su Dongpo invented Dongpo meat and became popular is because the pork is fishy and difficult to eat, and Dongpo meat is different, it puts a lot of sauce, three catties of pork have to put two taels of green onions, two taels of sugar, and four taels of Shao wine, one or two ginger pieces, and three taels of soy sauce. Chen Ying completely followed the practice of Dongpo meat, and the taste of Dongpo meat was far inferior to that of later generations.

Of course, the reason for this is mainly because of the fishy pork, because of a large number of ingredients, you can remove the fishy sauce in the pork, but in this era, the ingredients are actually considered luxury, many people can't even afford salt, they have to buy bad salt mixed with sand, how can they put so many ingredients to make a meal of meat?

In Datang, there are a lot of sheep to eat, and there are not many fish and shrimp to eat, and the meat in the mouths of the people is mainly mutton, and there are many sheep raisers, and pigs, even in the countryside, are relatively rare. Of course, because pigs are very active, consume quickly, and eat an amazing amount of food, they don't grow much meat.

The only difference between pig raising in later generations and this era is that when pigs were raised in later generations, pigs would be castrated, commonly known as castration. It is the operation to remove or destroy the ovaries of pigs or **. After castration, the pig loses its reproductive function, and the temperament becomes docile, which is easy to manage, serve, fatten and improve the quality of meat, and can also prevent the free mating of inferior pigs, which has played a positive role in improving the breed of domestic pigs. Pigs are castrated, which greatly improves economic efficiency.

After some experiments, Chen Ying asked the military medical officer to castrate more than 100 pigs, and the effect was still very obvious, and in less than half a year, these pigs had grown to more than 100 catties. The lazy, fat pig looks very cute.

Just when Chen Ying's stewed fat chicken had not yet come out of the pot, a rapid sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded. A fierce cavalry, coming from afar.

Chen Ying didn't pay attention to it, there were no formed cavalry in Xizhou Road, no matter which tribe, the buttocks of the war horses were branded with the numbers of each tribe, and once these war horses appeared on the battlefield hostile to the Tang Dynasty, these tribes would suffer.

Therefore, the Xizhou Provincial Committee will strictly manage each tribe, and there will be no outflow of war horses, let alone hordes of cavalry galloping across the country.

Just when Chen Ying was ready to start the pot and add the chives. A burst of laughter came from outside: "It's better to come early, it's better to come at the right time, it seems that this king came at the right time!" ”

Chen Ying followed the sound and looked at it, only to see Li Yuanji, who was dressed in silver armor, surging his throat, drooling towards the cauldron in front of Chen Ying.

Chen Ying looked at Li Yuanji and smiled, "Why are you here?" ”

Li Yuanji stretched out his hand to serve the pot and said: "Third brother-in-law, I am idle in Liangzhou, so I will come to Xizhou Road to find you, this time, I am tired to death, I first went to Gaochang City, and then to Jingjue City, and now I have run to Jingjue City, but I am tired to death!" ”

Li Yuanji was also bold, with more than 500 elite Qi Wangfu guards, he ran for more than 3,000 miles on the Xizhou Road, and after half a month, everyone lost a circle.

Seeing that Li Yuanji was about to drool, Chen Ying said: "This is a chicken!" ”

"I don't care!" Li Yuanji smiled: "Third brother-in-law, you have to give me food!" ”

At this moment, Li Yuanji suddenly found Minawar beside Chen Ying. He looked at Minawar vigilantly and asked, "Third brother-in-law, don't you explain to me who this woman is?" ”

"You're the mother-in-law!" Minawar glared and shouted, "Your whole family is a woman! ”

Li Yuanji suddenly smiled: "Hey...... You're quite spicy, I don't know if you'll be so energetic in bed! ”

Chen Ying said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qi, don't come nonsense, she is Minawar, the princess of the Sassanid Empire!" ”

Li Yuanji said proudly: "What is so great about a mere princess of Sasanian Fanguo." I am the king of Tang Qi! ”

Chen Ying looked at Li Yuanji and Minawal, who were bickering, and said, "You go out to quarrel, don't hinder Ben Dahu's cooking!" ”

Seeing Chen Ying's angry face, Li Yuanji stretched out his hand and pointed at Minawar.

Chen Yingchong Zhou Qing said: "Go get two big pigs, let's eat pork today!" ”

When Li Yuanji heard about eating pork, he said with a displeased face: "Third brother-in-law, I want to eat mutton!" ”

"Okay, kill two more sheep!"

Chen Ying commanded Zhou Qing to kill pigs, and the soldiers in the army killed pigs simply and rudely, with a knife, the pig's head was cut off directly, and the pig's blood was picked up with a large basin, and then the internal organs were removed, the hair was removed, and the meat was cut into pieces.

Two mouthfuls of three feet in diameter of the army pot poured two buckets of water, and then cut into a palm-sized pork sound thrown in, and then the pig blood, pig bones, lean meat, pork belly, pig intestines, pig kidneys, as well as pig head meat, pig brain fell into the cauldron, in later generations this is a famous dish, is a famous dish in the Northeast, originally a kind of stew held by the rural year every year close to the year to kill the pig, a large pot, directly with all parts of the pig are thrown into the pot.

Li Yuanji watched Chen Ying kill the pig, cut the meat, and throw the entire part of the pig into the cauldron, he had no appetite for this dish.

Chen Ying was naturally not reluctant.

Looking at the fire by himself, as the steam spread, the aroma of pig-killing vegetables gradually came out.

Minawar, who was originally fighting with Li Yuanji, looked at Chen Ying and smiled: "I'm not eating chicken, I'm going to eat pork!" ”

"Really want to eat?" Chen Ying really couldn't believe that although this pig-killing dish was famous and tasted good, it didn't look very good.

Minawar waited for Chen Ying to prepare the pig-killing dish, and volunteered to pick up the chopsticks, but looking at the white pork, she began to hesitate again.

It is an indisputable fact that pork is cheap meat. The Sassanid Empire also used lamb and beef as its main sources of meat, and the Sassanid Empire also did not have many pigs, and most people did not eat pork.

Li Yuanji looked at Minawar and laughed hesitantly: "You eat it!" ”

Minawar picked up the chopsticks, took a piece of pork, looked at it for a while, and finally didn't put it in his mouth.

Li Yuanji was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, so he continued to add fuel to the fire of Minawar and said: "You are eating, you are afraid!" ”

Minawar held a sound of pork, hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth and said, "Eat is eat!" ”

As she spoke, she closed her eyes and shoved it into her mouth.

But...... Gradually, Minaval's face became slightly strange.

This meat doesn't smell fishy? Instead, there is a strong aroma? With a light bite, the fat in the fat meat is soft and flavorful, giving Minawar a strange flavor.

She is the princess of the Sassanid Empire, even if the Sassanid Empire is now sunset and the rivers are falling, but she will not lack a bite to eat. However, even though she had tasted all the delicacies of the mountains and the sea, Minawar felt a different feeling.

In this era, in fact, there are almost no large pieces of fat, whether it is cattle, sheep, horses and pigs, the skin is stained with fine meat or bones.

Minawar must have been the first to taste the big chunks of fat that came after.

Perhaps for later generations, the fat meat is too greasy and unpalatable. But as everyone knows, for people who have never tasted fatty meat, this mouthful of fat taste is another taste that other meats can't bring.

Minawar began to chew carefully, her face growing more and more strange. I have to say that the more you chew this meat, the more you feel the umami, compared to the slightly fishy mutton, compared to the old horse meat, the more Minawaal chews, the more wonderful it feels.

Seeing that Minawar was eating hard, Li Yuanji also picked up chopsticks.

However, when Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui arrived, the feast completely changed.

Eating was like a world war, with chopsticks staggered and plates empty everywhere you went. The most fierce one was Chen Ying, because it would be more fragrant to eat it, so he began to snatch it with Li Yuanji and Luo Shixin unscrupulously, which was not polite at all, and Mina Val couldn't find a chance to get chopsticks when he ate with him.

If it weren't for the husband who served Minawar a separate bowl of pig-killing dishes, she would have had to gnaw bones on the rice.

Chen Ying's appetite was so good that he ate all the meat of the pig-killing vegetables, not to mention, and even let him eat the soup with rice, and his appearance can only be described as miserable.

Accustomed to the gentleness of the scholars, Minawar was full of contempt for Chen Ying's hungry reincarnated eater, but at the same time he admitted that he was much more energetic than those who were powerless.

After eating and drinking, Chen Ying looked at Li Yuanji, who was burping one after another, and said, "Okay, you have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, you have run more than 3,000 miles, is it just to eat this meal?" If there's anything, let's say it clearly! ”

Li Yuanji pondered for a moment, looked at Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui, opened his mouth, but did not speak.

Motioned to Chen Ying with his eyes and let the two leave.

Chen Ying waved his hand and said: "Shigui and Shixin are both my friends, if you have anything to say, it doesn't hurt to say it!" ”

When Zhang Shigui and Luo Shixin heard this, they were moved!

Li Yuanji sighed and said, "Since that's the case, then I'll say it directly!" ”

Chen Ying said lightly: "Say it!" ”

"The second child was assassinated in Taiyuan City!" Li Yuanji looked at Chen Ying in surprise, and said with an indifferent look: "You don't seem to be strange? ”

Chen Ying smiled: "This is the news from four months ago, do you think I still don't know?" ”

Li Yuanji said: "Do you know that the assassin confessed to you?" ”

"So what?" Chen Ying said disapprerovingly: "It can't be fake, it can't be fake!" ”