Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

"The most delicious... friend?"

In Kongming's view, people who follow each other can be called friends, and those who share similar interests can be called friends.

Those who can be called friends must either be like scholars of Yuan Yuanzhi who can work together for great causes without sacrificing their lives, or they should be like Zijing who have noble aspirations and share the same views.

Kong Ming never expected that more than a thousand years later, he would ask future generations:

"What is a friend?"

"tasty."

Well, I can only say that the younger generations are not as humorous and harmonious as they are.

But Jian Yong, who was secretly compared by Kong Ming in his heart, couldn't care so much.

His eyes were fixed on the few words in the ancient book displayed when he was talking about the braised pork, and he read directly:

"Slow down the fire, use less water, and when the heat is sufficient, it will be beautiful... How can it be so simple?"

If the light curtain hadn't ended yet, Jian Yong would have wanted to go straight to the kitchen and try it now.

For Jian Yong, while doing his best for Xuande's desire to bring peace to the world, seeing things the world has never seen and tasting the delicacies of the world can be regarded as a personal pursuit.

But now, after later generations' narration, Jian Yong suddenly discovered that such a delicious delicacy can be made by himself, and there must be a lot of fun in it!

Liu Bei sighed:

"We also wanted to slaughter fat pigs every year to welcome the New Year, but..."

Every time he saw Guangmu briefly talk about the future, his chest was filled with envy for his abundant food.

Not to mention the later generations who were "unparalleled in five thousand years", the Tang Dynasty had the best climate in two thousand years, and the rice was almost planted in Zhuozhou, which was magical to him.

What about Song?

Although it seems that the younger generations criticized his literary and martial arts, they also generously acknowledged the improvement of craftsmanship of Song Dynasty craftsmen, the prosperity of commerce and trade, and the prosperity of writing style that could rival that of Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, regardless of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the population far exceeded that of the troubled times he lived in, not to mention that there are now 100,000 Cao thieves in Jiangdong in the Central Plains, and they have not yet been unified...

Originally, the Three Qin Dynasty was decided this year, and under the assumptions of Kong Ming and others, he was confident that he would have a decisive battle with Cao Cao next year and win. Liu Bei could also be said to be hesitant and ambitious.

But every time, he will be tortured by various prosperous scenes in later generations.

The complacency faded away, and what remained was a state of introspection:

Look at others and then look at yourself. When the Han people under the rule can slaughter pigs to celebrate the New Year, then can the Han Dynasty be truly restored.

Liu Bei is full of ambition again!

However, even if I think about it, many people's toilets in Chang'an today still follow the old custom of building a front toilet and a back wall structure.

Then the next things to do in farming are obvious:

Try rotating crops of the same species to give domestic pigs a change of taste.

After all, although Liu Bei didn't dislike the pigs raised in the front and back toilets, he always felt weird in his heart...

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"Can this pork meat be as fat as lamb?"

This was what Li Shimin was most concerned about, but he was immediately suppressed ruthlessly by Sun Simiao:

"Your Majesty can't eat fat sheep or cows, so no matter how fat the fat pig is, he won't be allowed to enter the imperial dining room."

Li Shimin stared at Sun Simiao with a serious face, then turned his head away and said "hum":

"I don't think it tastes delicious, but I just want to taste it for the people first."

That's what he said, but the saliva he swallowed betrayed all his thoughts.

Queen Changsun saw that even though Li Shimin had turned his head, he was still glancing at the braised pork dishes on the light screen with the corner of his eye, and she suddenly smiled and said:

"It's okay for me to be the queen if I'm the first to taste things for the people. This way I can share your Majesty's worries."

Li Shimin raised his hand, and in the end he could only reluctantly say "good" from between his teeth.

Seeing her husband's posture, Empress Changsun also smiled softly and said:

"When the imperial dining room perfects the cooking method of this dish, I will present it to Your Majesty in Yiyue. After all, the preparation method here is too crude and it will not taste delicious."

Empress Changsun certainly knows the art of cooking, and she can tell at a glance that this text explanation is too simple. How can it be possible to cook such a delicious and appetizing dish by just simmering it over a slow fire without adding anything else? ?

After hearing what the queen said, Li Shimin nodded and no longer worried about it.

Then he thought thoughtfully and said:

"This method of raising dolphins should be ordered to the Taipu Temple Priest and Animal Husbandry Department to standardize the technique and promote it to the world."

Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling looked at each other and took the order to write it down.

After going through troubled times, the two of them understand that if they want to keep athletes strong, they must be able to eat both food and meat.

This method of raising pigs that has been summarized over thousands of years is naturally precious.

[Domestic pigs are limited by the meat-to-feed ratio problem, and it was not until Ming Dynasty that a relatively complete method of raising meat was developed.

But the lack of pigs does not mean that the ancients could not eat meat. Apart from the well-known cattle and sheep, the most popular thing among the ancients was of course chicken.

This most common method of raising poultry is simple. After exploration in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the breeding method was quite complete at least in the Han Dynasty, and there were sporadic records of large-scale breeding.

However, due to the problem of chicken poverty and weak resistance, large-scale breeding quickly came to an end in the Han Dynasty, and there were basically no records of large-scale breeding in the feudal era thereafter.

This problem was basically unsolvable in ancient times. It was only in modern times that with the availability of a large number of cheap antibiotics, there was hope that the problem of chicken farms being wiped out by infectious diseases could be solved.

After all, even if the ancients suddenly opened up the Rendu Meridian and used distillation to produce a very low-quality antibiotic like allicin, they would still face the problem that this "miracle medicine" could only be stored for half a day.

It is difficult to use it for humans, let alone for breeding.

Although large-scale chicken raising has encountered difficulties, ancient China was also unrivaled in how to eat chickens.

Someone in modern times once asked, could ancient emperors resist the temptation of fried chicken?

In fact, if you secretly offer fried chicken to the emperor as a trump card, most emperors after the Tang Dynasty will think you are a fool.

For example, people in the Tang Dynasty would fix the whole chicken with twine, boil it in white water first, then put it into a bowl and steam it with spices, and finally fry it in rapeseed oil. Finally, it would be served with pepper and salt, which is called gourd chicken.

This method is infinitely better than fried chicken. It is probably just the egg white flour mixed with batter and fried into a crispy shell that would have surprised the ancients - but that's about it.

In addition, the price of chicken was not expensive in ancient times.

The Han Dynasty has attached great importance to military building since Emperor Wu. Although it would be slightly difficult for ordinary people to slaughter chickens for food, judging from the Han Juyan Slips, the complete Han Dynasty army meals include grains, whole chickens, salt, vegetables and wine, which is basically guaranteed You can have meat all year round.

The sufficient and abundant food supply of the Western Han Dynasty army was far better than that of the Xiongnu who could only eat meat in winter. As a result, they achieved a record of one Han serving as the five barbarians, and quickly emptied the Western Han Dynasty's treasury.

With the developed economy of the Song Dynasty, it became easier to eat chicken. Ordinary people could buy a big rooster with three days' wages. Lu You's poem is the best evidence:

"Don't laugh at the farmer's wax wine, which is full of chickens and dolphins in the good years."

It can be seen from the literal meaning that this was the standard configuration of homesteaders or small landowners in the Song Dynasty during the New Year.

Not to mention the need to bring food. A day's wages for an ordinary person is enough to buy a chicken or two ducks, making eating meat more comfortable on a daily basis.

Of course, the above discussion is limited to ancient times of peace. If you encounter troubled times, don't worry about eating meat during the New Year. It is only right to first consider how to survive and compete with others for a bowl of Laba porridge to celebrate the New Year. 】