Datang: My father is the head bodyguard

After some impassioned talk, the harvest of fairy food came to an end. The old man suddenly remembered that the peanuts had not yet been harvested, so he walked over to Yuchi Baoqi and pulled down his sleeve.

"Master, Master! I forgot the peanut, and the precocious seed has already matured. What should I do?"

Li Shimin was nearby and heard clearly. It was already afternoon, and all farmers in the village had basically finished picking the fields they were responsible for.

"How about I come over again tomorrow?"

Yuchi Baoqi nodded: "Abo, is that possible?"

The old man frowned slightly: "It's the first big episode after the New Year tomorrow. I thought I'd make some and take them over today, along with the potatoes and sweet potatoes."

When Yuchi Baoqi heard about Daji, such a strange yet familiar vocabulary, he immediately became interested: "Daji? Where is it? In the city?"

The old man waved his hand: "On the outskirts of the city, outside the breeding base, it is formed spontaneously by the people, and it is very lively."

When Li Shimin heard this, he wanted to go: "Then let's dig out those peanuts. It should be fine."

Yuchi Baoqi looked at the exhausted officials. Except for a dozen or twenty Qilu local officials who often traveled to the field, they basically had blisters on their hands.

"Forget it, let them go back. Hey! There are still peanuts left to dig. Zhuangzi's good tricks are here to help!"

Yuchi Baoqi howled out, and the farmers reacted quickly when they heard it, huffing and puffing in this direction. They also got the seeds of these peanuts, but they are all late-maturing varieties, and now there are early-maturing varieties to practice picking. Everyone wants to come.

Li Shimin was in a surprisingly good mood as he watched the dealers swarm in and file into the peanut greenhouse: "Do you want to go to the big gathering tomorrow?"

Yuchi Baoqi shrugged: "I don't have much to do anyway, so let's go and have a look. Wouldn't it be nice to feel the fireworks in the world?"

Li Shimin looked at Wang De: "Isn't the queen resting on Zhuangzi? Go and report it."

Wang De took the order and left. Yuchi Baoqi put his hands in each other's sleeves and bowed his back slightly: "The smoke of fireworks in the world is the most touching thing."

Li Lizhi had been standing here holding her child for a long time, so she went to look for her mother with Wang De. Along the way, there were people helping to look after the child, so she felt more relaxed.

Li Shimin still didn't know what this peanut was, so he bumped Yuchi Baoqi with his shoulder: "How do you eat this peanut?"

Yuchi Baoqi took out a brown paper bag from his sleeve and handed it to Li Shimin: "You came from across the ocean, so save some food."

Li Shimin shook off the brown paper bag and opened it. The peanut kernels inside looked like sheep excrement eggs. Li Shimin poured a handful out. They no longer looked like sheep excrement eggs. The purple-red leather wrapped the peanut kernels inside, which was very beautiful. .

Yuchi Baoqi took a few grains from Li Shimin's hand and put them into his mouth: "Thin-salt peanuts, the production conditions there are too bad, so I just took a wok and made some casually. It's okay to make a side dish."

Li Shimin also learned to put a few peanuts into his mouth. The salty taste in his mouth came from the thin salt mentioned by Yuchi Baoqi. As he continued chewing, the flavor of the peanuts combined with the rich oil left a fragrance on Li Shimin's lips and teeth.

"I feel like these peanuts are similar to walnuts?"

Yuchi Baoqi nodded: "It can only be said that the properties are similar. They are different families and genera. The only similarity is that they have a similar taste and rich oil, which means peanuts can be used to squeeze oil."

"Now the oils on the market in Datang are divided into vegetable oils and animal oils. Vegetable oils include soybean oil, cottonseed oil, rapeseed oil, camellia oil, etc. The output of the rest is too low, and by the way, there is also palm oil from Nanyang. Oil."

"Animal oils are mainly meat oil, butter, duck fat, duck fat, etc. These are also oils that people in the Tang Dynasty often eat. Since down jackets began to be mass-produced and prepared for launch next year, a large number of ducks began to be supplied to the people in Chang'an City. Poultry prices can be said to have dropped again and again.”

Li Shimin also heard that in today's Tang Dynasty, at least in Chang'an City, the people's dining tables can be said to be very rich, and the price of food has repeatedly reached new lows, which is a good thing for people's livelihood.

Yuchi Baoqi grabbed a handful of peanuts from the brown paper bag in Li Shimin's hand and threw two into his mouth: "In the future, there will be more and more types of edible oils in the entire Tang Dynasty, and there will be more and more types of food. They will all produce supplies for the Tang Dynasty, and the one that currently has trade relations with our Datang Dynasty is the Charlemagne Empire.”

Li Shimin really couldn't stand Yuchi Baoqi: "You call this trade? Didn't you force people to sign it? If that old boy from the Weishui Alliance Jieli had come up with this contract, I would have fought to the death."

Yuchi Baoqi patted Li Shimin on the shoulder: "It is very necessary to have a clear understanding of your own strength. If you want, any regime in the world can be destroyed by the Tang Dynasty."

Li Shimin shook his head like a rattle: "I don't think so, it's so far away and so remote. How can we govern it? Will China be in turmoil again a hundred years after the vassal king declares vassal status? I think we should first govern the position that Datang can govern now. , that is, to be in an invincible position, no matter the war is raging outside, Datang will sit back and watch, and when the time is right, he will hit it with one strike. "

Yuchi Baoqi nodded: "I have to examine myself three times today. First, has the subway been repaired? Second, are the people happy? Third, how is the development of armaments?"

Li Shimin heard another strange term, but he was used to these things that Yuchi Baoqi popped up casually. As he watched the farmers dig out sacks of peanuts from the greenhouse, Li Shimin went over to take a look.

Li Shimin looked at the peanuts in his hand, and then at the peanuts he had just pulled out from the ground. They could be said to be the city gate building and the hip axle. They were not touching each other.

Yuchi Baoqi walked over and saw Li Shimin's doubts. He grabbed a handful of peanuts and threw them to the ground. The black soil slowly shook off, revealing long strips of seed pods.

Yuchi Baoqi pinched open a seed pod, and the peanut kernels inside were lying quietly. Li Shimin nodded repeatedly: "So that's it. Do you have to fry the peanuts to extract oil?"

"Of course, by removing a lot of water inside the peanut kernels, the fried peanut kernels will be more fragrant, and the squeezed oil will also be more fragrant. However, if large-scale industrial production is carried out in the future, there will be more raw squeezes, and the cost will be reduced so that people can enjoy it. Affordability is the last word.”

Wei Tong squatted on the ground and twisted the peanut pods in his hands. After opening them, he put them in his mouth and chewed them. The unfried peanuts had a greenish smell, but he could still feel the richness of their vegetable oils.

"Master Guo, these peanuts are easy to grow on the land of Qilu. I think they are very suitable for our place."

Yuchi Baoqi patted Wei Tong on the shoulder: "There is a secret compartment under the bed of your governor's office. There are technical and industrial plans for cash crops and deep processing in it. Remember to look through it when you go back."

Many officials looked at Wei Tong with envy. Although he was far away from the political center of Chang'an, Wei Tong's future road had already been paved by Yuchi Baoqi. He only needed 120% of his energy and 3,000 yuan. With just 1,700,000 points of hard work and 1,700,000 points of physical practice, one can go down in history, which is really enviable to others!