Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the game is to touch the Princess Changle

Li Shimin looked at the piles of sweet potatoes and smiled knowingly.

He planned to keep half of them and use them all to make sweet potato noodles.

The taste of the hot and sour noodles is still unforgettable to him...

"Hehe... the sweet potatoes planted by that kid can only be harvested in the middle of the twelfth lunar month!"

"Report!"

Just when Li Shimin wanted to use sweet potato noodles to suppress Su Chen, Wang Defa, who stayed in Taiji Hall, ran over in a hurry.

"Old Wang, what's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, 500 shi of sugarcane from Lingnan... has arrived in Chang'an!" Wang De said breathlessly.

Li Shimin was happy at first, then frowned slightly and looked at Changsun Wuji.

"Your Majesty, please allow me to report that the official road from the capital to Lingnan has been repaired every year and rotted every year with little effect. It is not convenient for a large group of carriages to pass, so I only sent 80 carriages."

The carriages dare not be fully loaded due to the long journey, and each carriage only carries more than 600 kilograms of sugarcane.

Changsun Wuji knew that the emperor was dissatisfied with the lack of sugar cane, so he sent 500 people to transport back only 50,000 kilograms of sugar cane.

Li Shimin nodded slightly, and Changsun Wuji's words were true.

The temperature in Lingnan is suitable for the growth of some unique fruits, such as lychees, which are unique to Lingnan West Road.

However, the official road leading to Lingnan is not easy to travel. It is close to Shu, but there are many mountain roads.

It can only be detoured via Hebei Road and Jiangnan Road.

"Your Majesty, please be at ease. The second batch of 2,000 troops heading to Lingnan should have arrived in Lingnan. This time, at least 1,000 stones of sugar cane can be transported back."

Changsun Wuji bowed again.

He also knew what sugar cane was used for, and white sugar was the most important.

He did not dare to neglect it at all.

"Assistant, I got it!" Then, Li Shimin looked at Li Junxian and said, "Junxian, you go there in person and hand over all the sugarcanes to that kid."

"He will arrange it!"

"I will obey your orders!" Li Junxian obeyed respectfully.

"Great, it is almost noon now, come back to dig the Zhenguan beans in an hour." Li Shimin looked at the time and it was almost time for lunch.

"Okay, father!"

Li Chengqian withdrew the East Palace Guards and told them to come back to dig potatoes in an hour.

Li Shimin glanced at the ministers around him, there were seven people present.

"Old King, send the meal to the pavilion in the Imperial Garden! It will be great for me and my beloved ministers to enjoy the beautiful harvest and have a meal together!" Li Shimin waved his hand and pointed to the pile of sweet potatoes that had just been harvested, his expression excited.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The ministers bowed their hands to thank him.

"May I ask your Majesty, is there hot pot today?" Changsun Wuji asked cautiously.

Since the emperor invited them to eat hot pot two days ago, they have no interest in eating.

"Haha, don't eat too much hot pot!"

"It will make you angry!"

Li Shimin turned his head and walked towards the pavilion.

He was used to cooking alone with Empress Changsun, and Li Chengqian could only eat it occasionally.

Fortunately, Li Shimin was considerate of his subordinates and made a charcoal hot pot for each of the eight dukes. He asked them to send the chefs in the mansion to learn the seasoning.

The advantage of hot pot is that it depends on the person. If there is meat, you can cook meat.

If there is no meat, you can cook vegetables.

The key is the seasoning.

...

Lijin Manor.

"Jin'er, Xiao Sizi, stop playing!"

"It's time to have lunch later. There will be delicious food at noon!"

Su Chen and the other two built six big snowmen in the manor square, and there were two rows of tall and mighty snowman guards, distributed on both sides of the road leading to the living room from the square.

The whole morning was not wasted!

People who have never seen heavy snow are like this.

Little Sizi is also tough and not afraid of the cold at all. She grabs snow with her bare hands without any fear.

However, she is dressed like a standing panda these days.

"Okay, Sizi, eat bacon!"

The little girl clapped her hands and picked up the tools she used to make a snowman.

Yesterday, Su Chen had a try-it attitude and asked the cook to cut off a piece of bacon that was hung in the kitchen and smoked a little black. First roast it with fire, then scrape off the burnt surface, blanch it in water and wash it.

Cut it into slices and steam it directly in the pot without any seasoning.

Before putting it in the pot, looking at the slightly transparent bacon slices, Su Chen felt that his pickled bacon should be successful.

The bacon is also rich in aroma.

Only the pork belly and two hind legs of the three pigs were pickled, and other parts were not easy to handle.

The hind legs are planned to be eaten two months later to see if they can become ham.

When the bacon was first served, Li Tai and his brothers praised it highly. Even Princess Changle and her friends liked the unique salty flavor of the bacon.

It took a lot of effort to marinate it. The freshly slaughtered pork was cut into pieces and evenly smeared with imperial wine without touching raw water.

Heat fine salt in a pot and add peppercorns.

Wait for it to cool down and not get hot, then apply it evenly to every part of the pork.

After marinating in a ceramic jar for seven days, rinse it with hot water, put it through a hemp rope, put it in the sun to dry for three days, and then hang it in the kitchen.A month.

Suffering from not being able to find pine and cypress branches, otherwise they could imitate the smoked bacon in Shu in later generations.

"Jin'er, have you learned to knit a sweater?"

"Brother, my sister-in-law is so smart and can't learn it, let alone me. I can't even knit gloves!" Jin'er said frustratedly.

She also wanted to knit a sweater for her brother, but she couldn't learn it after a long time.

"Haha, it doesn't matter if you can't. There will be more people who can knit sweaters in the future, so just spend money to buy ready-made ones."

Su Chen smiled and comforted.

"Yeah!"

At half past eleven, Princess Changle and Li Tai returned to the manor.

"Su Chen! Did you make all these?"

When Li Tai walked into the manor, he saw two rows of snowman guards welcoming them.

"The five people and one pig were made by the three of us."

Li Tai walked towards a snowman, which was about the same height as him. He dug out the snowman's eyeballs and found that they were polished charcoal.

"Haha, very lifelike, very interesting."

Su Chen winked at Princess Changle, and several people tiptoed to the living room, leaving only Li Tai.

"Su..."

When Li Tai turned around, Princess Changle and Su Chen had already walked into the living room.

"Asshole!"

Li Tai said angrily.

...

Lunch was over, and two large plates of bacon were swept away.

"Su Chen, do you think it's too late to have a holiday on the 20th of the twelfth lunar month?"

As the principal, Li Tai and the school teachers had a meeting to set the holiday time as December 20th. Considering that some students may not be able to return home in time for New Year's Eve, the holiday time should be advanced a few days.

"You are the principal, you decide. As long as the teaching progress is arranged in advance, it doesn't matter when to have a holiday." Su Chen answered casually.

Li Tai nodded, "I decided to have a holiday on the tenth of the twelfth lunar month."

"What day is today?" Su Chen suddenly asked.

"It's Monday on the second day of the twelfth lunar month. What's wrong?" Li Tai asked in confusion, thinking that Su Chen had something important to say.

Princess Changle also looked up and looked at Su Chen.

"It shouldn't be! Atana and the cattle and sheep from the Western Regions, haven't arrived in Chang'an for so long? Is Ganzhou so far from Chang'an?"

Su Chen remembered very clearly that at the beginning of last month, Ganzhou sent an urgent message of 600 miles, saying that the Western Regions envoys were setting off for Chang'an with cattle and sheep. It's been a month and there is still no news.

"What's the big deal? If it's a single person riding alone, you can reach Chang'an within ten days.

Have you forgotten that they have 300 people and 1,000 cattle and sheep, so they must be traveling slower."

Li Tai made a brief analysis and said to Su Chen.

"In my opinion, if it weren't for the snowfall a few days ago, Atana and his party might have arrived in Chang'an within a week."

"Do you want to eat beef again?"

Li Tai looked at Su Chen with a suspicious look.

"Go away. Am I that kind of person? I think everyone is like you. Look how fat you are!"

Su Chen rolled his eyes at Li Tai. Is he the kind of person who only cares about eating?

However, the beef hotpot is really first-rate!

"My Lord, Commander Li has something important to report. Please wait in the living room!"

At 12:35, Zhang Long came to the study to report.