My father is Emperor Wu of Han, how can I be different from him?

Chapter 50 Elegance and vulgarity
What's different?
The way of cooking is different.

In addition to frying, roasting, boiling, stewing, braising and simmering, Liu Ju also brought out another category: stir-frying!
Stir-fry!

This kind of cooking method, which became popular in every household in later generations, did not exist in the Han Dynasty. The method of stir-frying dishes was not popularized until around the Song Dynasty.

But isn’t Liu Ju here?

Although the chefs in the palace were very skilled, every day they either roasted the food over fire - which made it dry - or boiled it in water - which made it mushy. Anyone who ate it for a year or two would get tired of it.

Stir-fried dishes are different, they are colorful, fragrant and delicious.

When entertaining Zhuang Qingzhai, Li Guang and others, those old guys were treated to a feast. Huo Qubing and Wei Qing even left the Prince's Palace with bulging bellies.

For them, cooking and stir-frying is, firstly, a novelty, and secondly, it is indeed a dimensionality reduction blow to the daily meals that are mainly boiled.

If you want to cook, a pot and a shovel are enough. With the current iron smelting technology of the Han Dynasty and the power of the prince, a pot and a shovel are not a problem.

Fats also include animal oils.

However, Liu Ju did not let the kitchen in the Prince's Palace use it, but specifically asked Zhang Qian for sesame oil, also known as sesame oil.

In the foreseeable future, sesame will be the dominant oil crop in China.

Zhang Qian brought back sesame from the Western Regions, but it is not yet popular.

Acceptance is a problem.

Liu Ju followed the idea of ​​"leading by example" and as the crown prince, he took the lead in using it, which could be regarded as his contribution to the rapid popularization of sesame...

After leaving the palace and arriving at his own territory, Liu Juzhen let go and did whatever he wanted. Just the word "eat" was enough to make him do something fun.

Not only that, he also studied eating, drinking, defecating and urinating.

The eating and drinking of tea are at most embellishments of private life, but the defecation and urination that come later are of great importance!

Taiwong.

There is a pavilion on the top floor of a palace where one can go up and see far into the distance.

This place is called: Jiaguan.

Right now, in this balcony, there is a recliner shaking, and who else could be sitting on it but Liu Ju.

"Ho."

"Before, when I was alone in Weiyang, I didn't dare to do too many out-of-line or strange things. I was afraid of being caught and scolded by the old scholar, and I was also afraid of being blamed by my father."

"It's good now. It's my own territory. I feel comfortable!"

Eunuch Wei was bending over at the side, with a shy smile on his face, and he kept praising His Highness for his intelligence and for inventing good things.

Although……

The chair looked a bit like the ones used by the barbarians, but the lackey still held it happily.

Su Wu and Jin Midi stood on the left and right, one silently watched the eunuchs show their courtesy, while the other pricked up his ears and imitated the pronunciation of the eunuchs show their courtesy...

"okay."

Liu Ju looked at the palaces in the distance and waved his hand leisurely: "Stop flattering me. If you let me get carried away, I will chop you off."

"I asked you to go to the Shaofu to borrow a craftsman. Did you get one?"

Young Eunuch Wei didn't care about the threat of chopping people. He had gradually understood the prince's temper over the past few days and knew that his master was not angry, so he quickly replied in a serious tone:

"I went to the Shaofu and reported your highness's name. The Shaofu Cheng immediately allocated fifty professional craftsmen, and said it was not enough. Your highness can just give the order."

"It's just...it's..."

Young Eunuch Wei's smile was a little forced, and he said carefully: "It's just that the Minister of the Imperial Household wants to find out what His Highness wants to build, so that His Majesty won't ask him and he won't have an explanation."

Ever since the horseshoe was invented last time, the emperor has announced that if the prince needs new items in the future, he does not need to use the eunuchs' orders, but can go directly to the Shaofu.

Once the power was given, Liu Ju naturally wanted to use it.

However, since it concerns the Shaofu, the government office that is in charge of the royal purse and even the forging of most of the court's utensils, Liu Ju cannot act recklessly without an oral order.

It’s okay to want to build something, but you have to have a good reason.

however.

The prince cannot give the Shaofucheng a reason now.

Could Liu Ju say, "Ah, I am going to invent paper, yes, paper, what? You don't know what paper is?"
Is it something you can use to write on or wipe your butt, like a bamboo stick or a toilet stick? No, no, no, paper, paper made from plant fiber. You don’t even know what fiber is?
How do you explain this and that? How do you give a reason?
Can't give it.

"Just be perfunctory for now. I'm going to make something good that will benefit the country and the people. No need to say anything else." Liu Ju said to the young eunuch while sitting on the recliner.

Paper.

If we look at it from a broader perspective, it is indeed beneficial to the country and the people. The implementation of the imperial examination system is based on paper replacing bamboo slips for recording words.

If I were to discuss this aspect in detail, even 170,000 or 180,000 words would not be enough.

For example, bamboo slips are heavy and difficult to preserve, while paper is light and can record more words. The increase in the popularity of writing has prompted the reform of the dynasty's talent selection system, and so on.

There are so many of them, and they are so high-end.

but.

Liu Ju's original intention of inventing paper had nothing to do with the above. It was only about the "shit" in eating, drinking, defecating and urinating... No.

For Liu Ju, it's all about the word 'pull'!

Everyone's life is inseparable from this vulgar word. Who dares to say that he doesn't shit?

When people eat grains, they will have metabolism, and this involves a very realistic problem.

How did people clean the toilet in the Han Dynasty?
Anyway, Liu Ju was troubled by this every day. It was so irritating when the small bamboo pieces scraped against him!

all in all.

Liu Ju's original intention in inventing paper was to first solve the problem of personal hygiene, and then to selflessly consider education and even talent selection issues from a national level.

"oops."

"Enough rest, get to work!"

Standing up from the recliner and patting his butt, Liu Juxian said to the eunuch beside him: "Xiao Shengzi, you go and report to the Shaofu first, so as not to be held accountable later."

"All right, Your Highness!"

Wei Sheng, Young Eunuch Wei, didn't know why the Crown Prince always liked to call him that. He couldn't resist, so he had to enjoy it. It sounded pretty good...

After Xiaoshengzi leaves.

Liu Ju looked at Su Wu again, "Let's go find a craftsman together. I don't know what we are going to tinker with this time. It will probably take a long time to experiment. Let's work together."

"As for you..."

As he was talking, Liu Ju had already walked down the balcony and nodded at Jin Midi, "Learn to read and speak. Can you understand?"

“I…I…I understand!”

Jin Midi spoke the two words with difficulty in an exotic accent.

"Yes, you can understand what I say now..." Liu Ju took Su Wu and walked between the palace walls, muttering to himself, and gradually went away.

After watching the prince leave, Jin Midi took a step forward.

The Hun prince made many twists and turns along the way, and stopped one by one to nod to the patrolling guards along the way.

Half an hour later.

Jin Midi walked to the southeast corner of the Prince's Palace, pushed open a side room, and just as he entered, a child rushed towards him.

"Brother, I found out that he is..."

"Shut up!"

Jin Midi shouted, closed the door, and looked ferocious, "Speak...speak Chinese! Call...brother!"

Jin Lun, who also had the surname "Jin", turned slightly pale, nodded, and retreated to the inner room.

After the two of them sat down at the corner of the bed, Jin Midi's expression softened. He sighed and patted his brother's shoulder, "Did you find out where he lives now?"

Only after being comforted by his brother did Jin Lun feel a little relieved.

The child's timidity came and went quickly, and his emotions became excited again. He said mysteriously: "I heard from a guard that King Hunxie was conferred the title of Marquis of Luoyin by the emperor."

"But he was not sent out to a fiefdom."

"The mansion is in Chang'an City, in a place called Xiyin Street!"

(End of this chapter)