Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 201 Pork is delicious
"Get up and talk!"

Zhao Kuangyin waved his hands to get them up. Since ancient times, the king's power has never suppressed the people, so there is no need to show power and prestige over the common people.

"I'm here to ask you! What kind of food is this?"

As soon as Zhao Kuangyin opened his mouth, he asked very expertly.

It was noon at this time. If it was in Tokyo, the common people would eat lunch.

Then the poor in the countryside usually only have two meals in the morning and evening.

So Zhao Kuangyin asked them what they ate.

"Return to the Holy One! We ate lunch at noon. Since the Imperial Grain Institute was built here, His Royal Highness Qi recruited the idlers here to work. Although the wages given are not high, it is also a lot of extra money, so we all It's three meals a day."

Zhao Kuangyin nodded, "This is a good food! There is also meat, but it kills cattle?"

In ancient times, farming was heavy, with few and inefficient farm tools, lack of irrigation, and low yield.

Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, successive dynasties have explicitly prohibited the unauthorized killing of cattle, so as not to affect farming.

But now Zhao Kuangyin doesn't think that the farmer in front of him killed the cattle for food.

Even if you have money, it's too much to do.

"My lord! This is not farm beef! We all treasure farm cattle, how can we be willing to kill them for meat!"

"It's not farm cattle? Then what kind of meat are you eating here?" Zhao Guangyi picked up a spoon and stirred the meat pot, and saw that the color of the meat inside really didn't look like beef.

"It's pork! Pork! Pork!"

Before the Song Dynasty, the ancients seldom ate pork.There are no more than two reasons. One is because pigs are too dirty, have no style, and are low-level and low-level things. Eating their meat is also embarrassing.

The second is that the pork is fishy and smelly, which is not so delicious.

Moreover, in Chinese medicine, because pork is slightly poisonous, it will be poisoned after eating for a long time.

It wasn't until Su Dongpo improved the way of eating pork, and the pig breeding gradually eliminated the smell of pork, that eating pork gradually became popular.

The reason why Dongpo pork is famous not only refers to a famous dish, but also to commemorate the way Su Dongpo gave future generations to eat pork.

"Pork meat? Can pig meat be eaten too? Doesn't it mean it's fishy and smelly?" Zhao Kuangyin also looked at the meat pot, half-believing.

"Of course pig meat can be eaten. We still listen to King Qi and learn how to eat pig meat that he taught us."

It's King Qi again!

At this time, not only Zhao Guangyi, but also Zhao Kuangyin and other ministers were stunned.

Why is it him again? His appearance rate is too high.

Zhao Dezhao was submerged in everyone's astonished eyes, he smiled and kept a low profile.

"Tell me, how did King Qi teach you to eat pork?"

"My lord! The king of Qi taught us to castrate pigs early and remove the thread, the pork will not be so smelly when it grows up, and because the pigs are castrated early, the pigs will have nothing else to ask for, live very lazy, and gain a lot of fat .”

"Now we raise each pig to eat meat, and when we kill it, it weighs two to three hundred catties."

Zhao Kuangyin grinned, good guy!
My son now knows more than Lao Tzu, and I don't even know this knowledge myself.

Pigs can still be raised and eaten like this.

"Then how does it taste?"

The villager was taken aback, seeing His Majesty's appearance, he felt a little greedy. "The taste is very good! Now the pig breeds that have been improved by the king of Qi can not only produce tens of hundreds of catties of meat when they are slaughtered, but also have no fishy smell when they are eaten. If you add cinnamon and star anise when cooking the meat, Pepper, longan and other seasonings make the taste even better."

Then he pulled Zhao Kuangyin to sit down, took a new pair of bowls and chopsticks, and picked a pork leg with his own hands, asking Zhao Kuangyin to taste it.

When Zhao Kuangyin was poor, he ate pork a lot, but every time he felt it was fishy, ​​sour, bitter and unpalatable.

But this time it smelled like it really didn't taste like it used to.

So I carefully inserted the pork leg with chopsticks and took a bite.

After eating this piece of meat, I couldn't keep it, so I couldn't help but took another big bite, and said vaguely, "Mmm! It's really good! It's delicious!"

"That's right! At first we didn't believe King Qi's words, but after rectifying according to what he said, the taste is really delicious!"

As soon as the villagers finished speaking, Zhao Kuangyin had already hugged the pig's leg and began to bite it.

Eating meat is indecent, Zhao Guangyi looked at it and shook his head secretly, thinking, Brother Huang, how decent it is for you to eat meat like this in front of all the ministers.

But seeing how delicious Zhao Kuangyin's food was, he was actually greedy, and really wanted to get a piece of it for himself.

The farm house is too small to accommodate so many people, only those who usually like to flatter their faces squeezed in, and most of the ministers still stayed in the courtyard.
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Zhao Dezhao squeezed to Wang Jien's side and said with a smile, "Wang Daguan, there is nothing interesting here. I will take you to see the rice fields outside."

Wang Jien was very suspicious of his sudden enthusiasm, but as an eunuch, even though he was the current favorite of the Holy Majesty, he still didn't dare to disobey King Qi's words, so he had to make an apology and follow him out.

On the way, Zhao Dezhao dragged a few more people he wanted to beat to the open space of the labor camp.

It was the noon of early summer at this time, and the sun had gradually become poisonous.

Zhao Dezhao ordered someone to call Yan Shaole, who was still kneeling as a punishment, and led them to visit the work site of the labor camp prisoners.

Dozens of heinous reform-through-labour prisoners, dressed in ragged clothes and straw sandals, were sweating profusely in the fields under the sun.

But in a few months, these corrupt and corrupt officials who were originally white and fat have been tortured by heavy physical labor and are black and thin. They look like the Kunlun slaves in the Western Regions, only a white tooth.

"My God! That's not Pei Wenshao! I haven't seen you for a few months, and it turned out like this."

A civil servant pointed to a reform-through-labor prisoner in the distance and said.

Zhao Dezhao chuckled, "That Pei Wenshao you're talking about? Last time, this man said that I had selfish motives for leading troops to Lingnan to quell the barbarians. Fortunately, my father was willing to make the decision for me, so he rewarded him to me. You know, I am He has never held grudges. He works here and I have always taken care of him. You see how happy he is at work now!"

Wang Jien and Yan Shaole looked at each other, thinking this is how you take care of them!Don't do this to us for the rest of your life.

At this moment, someone screamed and dropped a large grain bag on his shoulder to the ground.

Immediately, a sergeant rushed over with strides, whipping his whip and whipping him.

The man who hit him screamed and then stopped moving.

The sergeant knelt down to take a closer look, and beckoned the doctor to come over.

The doctor found out that he suffered from fatigue and heatstroke, so he picked up a ladle of cold water and poured it on him.

The man woke up and was immediately driven back to work by the sergeant.

Wang Jien gasped, thinking that King Qi was so cruel.Why did he invite me here?You don't want to give me a blow, do you?

Yan Shaole also had a chill down his back.He knew that although he had an official position in the court, he was actually far less safe than Wang Jien.

After all, he is the entourage of the Holy Majesty, and he may be sacrificed by King Jin at any time.

(End of this chapter)