This is not the Datang I am familiar with

On this day, Chen Fang finally had some free time and asked Wu Meiniang for instructions to go to the construction site. Wu Meiniang naturally agreed and promised that Chen Fang could go to the construction site whenever he wanted to.

Chen Fang did not expect Wu Meiniang to be so generous. When Wu Meiniang asked Taohong to take Chen Fang through the palace gate guarded by the guards, Chen Fang might not be able to come in and out at will.

"Young Master, why do you want to visit the construction site? I heard that it is very chaotic. The Ministry of Industry recruited many disciples from the prisons of the Ministry of Punishment. There are many bad guys there!"

When no one was around, Tao Hong remembered Chen Fang's instructions and called him son.

"I'll be in charge of this workshop when it's completed, so of course I have to go and see it! As for Xingtu..."

Most of them were implicated!

Chen Fang did not say the second half of the sentence. The criminal laws of the Tang Dynasty were actually not harsh, but the implicated and implicated system has always existed. Often, if one person commits a crime, the whole family will be implicated. In some major cases, even the villagers and neighbors will be implicated.

Prisons in various places are generally operating at full capacity or even overloaded, and it has naturally become a common practice for Xingtu to do all kinds of hard and dangerous work.

For example, the Yeting Palace received many family members of criminal officials, and Meng Fei was one of them.Often when an official commits a crime, the whole family, dozens or even hundreds of members, will be unlucky together.

The so-called ransacking of the house means that there are no eggs left under the overturned nest.

"My lord, what's wrong with Xingtu?"

"Xing Tu is actually not as scary as you think!"

"Oh, if you say it's not scary, then it's not scary."

Chen Fang looked at Tao Hong. This girl really believed in him. If he really sold her, he might let her count the money for him.

"Then the workshop is completed, the young master will live in the workshop?"

Chen Fang nodded, seeing Tao Hong's disappointed eyes.

"The workshop is just behind the Taiji Palace, and it's not like I won't be able to see it in the future!"

"It's not as easy as it is now! If I didn't have my mother, I would have to be interrogated when I entered and exited the palace. The guards at the prison guards are more stringent than before."

Tao Hong sighed, and Chen Fang pinched her nose angrily.

"Knowing that you are greedy, there will still be people making those things in the Shangshi Bureau in the future, and I will ask Dingyu to instruct the Shangshi Bureau to prepare a copy for you!"

"It's better, my son!"

Tao Hong's smiling face was like peach blossoms, Chen Fang really wanted to reach out and pinch her face, but she held back, two palace ladies passed by not far away, and they were seen passing by Wu Meiniang's ears, which was not good for this girl.

Chen Fang just smiled, the two passed through the palace gates, and Chen Fang had already seen the Hall of Sanqing in front of him.

Taiji Palace is famous for Taiji, and many of them have Taoist charm, such as Sanqing Palace, Ziwei Palace, and Liangyi Palace.The Emperor of Sui, whose capital was Daxing City, preferred the Taoist style.

The direction Chen Fang was looking at was a small attic next to the Sanqing Hall, which was quite small compared to the Sanqing Hall. If you didn't pay attention, you would often overlook that small attic.

The name of that attic is Lingyan Pavilion, no matter in this era or later generations, it is a legendary place.

At this time, in Lingyan Pavilion, the portraits painted by Yan Liben for the 24 heroes of the Tang Dynasty were hung in it, many of whom are still alive.The portrait of Changsun Wuji is among them.

After bypassing the Sanqing Hall, Chen Fang looked at the Lingyan Pavilion not far away. The Emperor Tang was also very powerful. He just had 24 portraits painted and hung in it. Later, this place became a holy place in the hearts of officials of all dynasties.

As a result, as long as there are novels about Tang Dynasty in later generations, Lingyan Pavilion must be mentioned.

Please go to Lingyan Pavilion for a while, if you are a scholar, Wanhuhou.

Passing through the numerous halls of Taiji Palace, Chen Fang already heard the sound coming from a distant direction.

That was the sound of rushing to work at the construction site of the Tang Workshop, which brought life to the silent land at this time.

After leaving the palace gate, I could see the bustling construction site in the distance, a construction site that was extremely incompatible with the icy and snowy background.

"My lord, Taohong can only take you here!"

"Well, you go back!"

"How can I go back, I'm waiting for you at the gate of the palace, and I will take you back soon!"

"Then just wait inside, it's too cold outside! It's not good to be frozen."

Chen Fang walked towards the busy and hustle and bustle by himself, saw figures, overseers with long whips and migrant workers in ragged clothes.There are mountains of materials and building materials piled up everywhere. A mule and horse were whipped with a leather whip, and a thick hemp rope was tied behind it with a waist-thick log, which was three feet long.

Chen Fang saw someone carrying stones and logs, someone digging the ground with a shovel, a rake, and a pick. Begging to roll in the ice and snow.

This is Datang, it was not so beautiful.

Chen Fang took a few glances, sighed, mourning the hardships of the people's lives, but it was a pity that Chen Fang had no ability to save anyone.

Several supervisors obviously saw Chen Fang. Chen Fang's clothes at this time were the ones that Wu Meiniang asked the Shangyi Bureau to make for him. It looked like someone with a prominent position in the palace.

"This lord, I don't know how to address him?"

The supervisor hurriedly threw the whip in his hand to his subordinates, kicked away a student Xing in front of him, and came to Chen Fang to ask.

"Chen Fang!"

Chen Fang faintly said two words, and several supervisors around him hurriedly knelt on the ground.

"Humble duty to meet Mr. Chen!"

It turns out that since the construction of the Tang Workshop, the entire Tang court has known that the first owner of the Tang Workshop in the future will be Chen Fang.This is what the emperor himself said, a golden word, and it will not be changed. .

Chen Fang's name had already spread throughout Chang'an.

It's just that Chen Fang himself doesn't seem to know it yet.

Chapter 77 Who wants to court death

Chen Fang originally thought that only people in the Taiji Palace knew him. Even if people knew him in the imperial city outside, Chang'an, they were only the old stories of Honglu Temple and the courtiers who participated in the Chongyang Chrysanthemum Banquet.

Chen Fang didn't expect that he had already become famous in the whole Chang'an City at this time, not only because of the Tang Workshop, but also those snacks had already begun to pass through the palace to the powerful relatives in the court.

Many courtiers' own kitchens have actually started to imitate it. Of course, the result of imitation is not good, because of maltose, because the production and ratio of condiments are stuck there.

Some raw materials have also become constraints for these people to imitate at this time. For example, you need sunflower seeds to fry melon seeds, and at this time sunflower seeds still need to be imported from the Northern Han Dynasty.

For example, if you want to make small dried fish, maybe small fish are easy to find, but the rapeseed oil you need can only be squeezed by Yeting Palace Oil Factory at this time. If you want rapeseed oil, you need to build an oil factory, and you also need raw rapeseed , It is also necessary to understand the technological process of the entire oil mill operation.

It seems simple, but it is actually a rigid constraint that these snacks cannot imitate.Nothing is nothing, you can't draw one.

Maybe the traversers of the Western Qin and Northern Han also thought about squeezing rapeseed oil back then, but the Northern Han was originally a place of bitter cold, where rapeseed was grown.Raw material constraints, this is a fundamental constraint, there is no way around it.It's like if you didn't discover America, it would be impossible to bring potatoes to Asia and Europe.

As for Xiqin, rapeseed may be found, but the traveler may not know the craft of the oil mill, or how to squeeze it.

In addition, these traversers themselves have just arrived from the Central Plains to the new place, and their foothold is not stable. There are still too many things to deal with, and some trivial matters will be left alone.

Not every traveler is as free as Chen Fang, who has a lot of time to spend on making delicious food.

Therefore, none of the princely mansions in Chang'an made seemingly simple delicacies.

Even if the mansions of some ministers and dukes are barely made, the smell that occasionally comes out of the palace is too far away, and it is not a thing at all.

The hawthorns without maltose syrup are strung together with bamboo sticks. Is that candied haws?

As for how these snacks flowed out in the palace, it was actually very natural. There were so many court ladies who went to Shangshi Bureau to ask for it every day, and snacks had already become popular in the harem.

Some of the concubines, concubines, concubines, and beauties in the harem always give snacks to their relatives living in Chang'an for them to taste.

In this way, the candied haws made by Chen Fang will always be spread among the people. Of course, this requires a process.

At this time, the name and delicacy of snacks have long been known by the upper class in Chang'an and spread widely.

It has long been the pride of many royal relatives, princes and ministers, and princes to get a snack produced by Shangshi Bureau from the palace.

During the period, some ministers also wanted to inquire about the production method from the palace, but at this time, everyone who knew about it was in the Shangshi Bureau, and the Shangshi Bureau under Chen Fangyu was really monolithic.

At this time, the name of snacks is still being passed on from various government offices and ministerial offices to the surroundings. Food is the most important thing for the people. When a delicacy appears, the speed of transmission is absolutely unimaginable.What's more, there are many middle schools at once.

Perhaps when a delicacy appears, the public only understands the delicacy itself, but when a large number of delicacy appear together, the public will be very interested in the person who made the delicacy.

More and more people know Chen Fang, who is rising like the rising sun in the imperial court.

At this time, Chen Fang became a miraculous person and a legend in the hearts of many people.

Even the old people of Honglu Temple always shook their heads and smiled wryly when they talked about Chen Fang. He thought he was an ordinary little official, and he usually received envoys with him, took a shower and ran errands together.At most, he is handsome and is very popular with some women in the envoys.

Who knew that the other party had already far surpassed them inadvertently, standing at a height they needed to look up to.

Even for a long time, the officials of Honglu Temple were obsessed with chatting with envoys from various countries, and even enhanced the friendship between Datang and various foreign countries.

Of course, the secret recipe and some crafts they want are definitely not available.

At this time, it was not surprising that the supervisor at the construction site of Tang Workshop knew Chen Fang's name.

"Get up!"

After receiving Chen Fang's order, several supervisors dared to get up now.

"Master Chen, this construction site is dirty right now, sir, it's better to avoid it for now!"

Chen Fang was a little disgusted by the sycophantic appearance of the supervisor.

"I'll just turn around casually, you guys continue."

Chen Fang was walking on the construction site, and those Xing disciples and the laborers recruited from all over the place all gave way.Even if these people didn't know Chen Fang, they could tell from his clothes that he was a big man, and the supervisors around him were respectful to him.

Looking at them, for some reason, Chen Fang felt quite heavy in his heart.

In this winter, they are still wearing unlined clothing. They are wearing a Tang style down jacket, a fox fur cloak, buckskin boots, and bearskin gloves. They feel cold at this moment. How should they feel?

Can such a single dress really keep out the cold?

At this time, a pair of civilian husbands were carrying a heavy stone and passed not far from Chen Fang. The elderly man accidentally slipped his foot and fell down in the snow.

"Father, are you alright?"

The young civilian husband hurried to help the elder, and it turned out to be a father and son.This pair of father and son is obviously not Xing Tuzi, but ordinary civilian husbands wear thicker clothes than Xing Tuzi, but they are still very thin.

The old man was wearing a torn cotton jacket, the cotton wadding was exposed in several places, and the exposed wadding was gray-black, and he did not know how many winters he had passed through.

At this moment, the supervisor's whip was lashed down!

"Hurry up and work, who told you to be lazy!"

The leather whip hit the old man fiercely, leaving a trail of blood. The blood penetrated the old man's ragged cotton jacket and soaked the dirty cotton wool exposed by the old man's cotton jacket.

The old man wailed, and the body that had just stood up fell down again.

"Dare to be lazy, see if I don't kill you!"

The whip was raised, and then slammed down violently, and the young farmer there hurriedly hugged the old man.

"Don't hit my father, please don't hit my father!"

The sound of the whip hitting the flesh sounded, and the bloodstain made Chen Fang feel glaring.

"If you want to fight, I will fight together!"

This time the supervisor's leather whip was raised high again, but he couldn't pull it off!

"Who wants to court death!"

The supervisor turned around, but saw Chen Fang who was dressed in unusual clothes behind him, and immediately recognized Chen Fang. .

"Damn the humble job, I didn't know it was Mr. Chen!"

The supervisor was terrified, and when he saw Chen Fang, he thought of his sentence just now: "Who wants to court death?" His knees on the ground trembled in fright.

Chapter 78 The iron hat will kill you

The supervisor never expected that it was Chen Fang who grabbed his whip to stop him from beating the migrant workers.

If he knew that Chen Fang was behind him just now, he would never dare to do anything wrong.

Looking at the two trembling overseers kneeling on the ground, Chen Fang whipped his long whip.

"Damn you, the Holy Majesty is so sympathetic to the hearts of the people and cherishes the power of the people, yet you use a whip here to make the people of Tang Dynasty misunderstand the Holy Majesty. You really have a long life!"

Chen Fang put an iron hat on the opponent directly, and no one could refute what Chen Fang said, and no one dared to refute it.You are refuting that the Holy One cherishes the power of the people and is sympathetic to the hearts of the people.Still refute that you didn't use the whip to make the people of Datang misunderstand the Holy Majesty.

It was the two civilian husbands who were beaten by the supervisor in front of Chen just now.

If it was Xing Tu who was whipped, he might have something to say, but it happened that he whipped a civilian husband who was confiscated.

Chen Fang didn't know why there was such anger in his heart at this time, but Chen Fang had always been in a better mood when he was furious and in crisis.

At this time, an iron hat was fastened, so that all the supervisors around did not dare to intercede for this supervisor.

Chen Fang flicked the supervisor's leather whip, and the whip made a piercing sonic boom in the air.Long Whip Chen Fang has really played with it. When he traveled around the world with that old Chinese doctor, he lived on the grassland for a month.

Riding a horse and raising the whip, learning to use a harness to harness a horse, Chen Fang is no stranger to the long whip.