If it hadn't been getting late, Niu Jianwu would have gone to Chang'an to request that Palm Lei be escorted to the front line.
Today's food was very good. Xu Jingzong still didn't see Duan Lun when he entered Chang'an. Huaiyu directly asked Wei Siren to take the 150,000 yuan he had received and loaned 50,000 yuan to Shenjifang without interest. He was from the brother's yamen.
As a temporary relief, I used the money to buy groceries.
Huaiyu sent Er Zhuangzi to take his name tag to Duan Lun Manor next door and proposed to buy some pigs and sheep. The manor steward of Duke Ji's Mansion still remembered the last time he came to the village as a guest, and then his cows were forced to fight and hit their heads against the trees.
The young Takejiro who died.
Knowing that he was a distinguished guest of Alang's family, he happily took him to pick pigs and sheep.
The second pole was not polite, he picked two pigs and two sheep, and also bought some vegetables at the Zhuangzi, the prices were relatively reasonable.
In the evening, we had stew and bone soup.
The pigs are black pigs, and the Duan family's pigs, like most domestic pigs at this time, are free range and roam around outside like chickens. They even have to rush to the swamps and wetlands every day to feed earthworms and eat grass roots, so that they can eat and drink enough.
Just roll around in the mud and sleep.
This pig is dark and not very good-looking, nor is it very fat, but this pig Huaiyu thinks it is very natural. It has absolutely no feed and no clenbuterol. However, it is a bit wasteful to cook such a good pig for those who don’t understand.
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The pork belly is cut into mahjong pieces to make braised pork. How delicious it is. The elbows are stewed, the ribs are suitable for braised pork, the plum meat is steamed in meat cake soup, the tenderloin is stir-fried with shredded pork, the pig head can be braised, and the shredded pig ears are not to mention how delicious. But
These guys slaughtered the pigs and not only spilled the pig blood on the ground but also wasted it.
Also peeled off the pig skin.
What's so delicious about pork without skin?
They actually want to peel off the skin to make clothes and shoes...
The various parts are not properly divided. The backbone, ribs, and pork ribs are all cut in one go. A pig is divided into two halves, then cut into half, then chopped into large pieces, thrown into the pot and stewed.
, neither boiling water nor adding ginger and scallion cooking wine.
Fortunately, Huaiyu grabbed a knife of meat and opened a small stove to reward himself.
Sauced shredded pork, twice-cooked pork, braised pork ribs, braised pork trotters with kelp, stir-fried pork intestines, pork liver, braised meatballs, minced garlic white meat, deboned meat. It's a pity that the pig blood was wasted, otherwise it would be a famous dish of killing pigs.
Wei Siren originally didn't eat pork.
In the Tang Dynasty, which nobleman ate pork?
Pork is a cheap meat, and the nobles eat mutton.
A pig weighs one to two hundred kilograms, and a sheep only weighs fifty or sixty kilograms, but a pig is less expensive than a sheep.
The nobles of Chang'an ate sheep, and even selected breeds, considering Tongyang sheep as the most valuable. This kind of sheep is a breed selected from Shayuan in Tongzhou. The meat is delicious, fat and not greasy, the meat is not smelly, and the bones are thin and light.
But today Huaiyu didn't cook mutton, but grabbed a large piece of pork and cooked eight pig-killing dishes.
Apart from pork, there is nothing else today.
Wei Siren thought about drinking some millet porridge and asking his entourage to go to his farm to get two sheep to eat tomorrow.
"Hey, I didn't expect that this piece of cheap meat could be cooked in so many ways in Erlang's hands?"
Niu Jianwu, who was angry at Huaiyu yesterday, was also very polite to Huaiyu today, especially after he made thousands of palm thunders. This guy was like a licking dog, always circling around Huaiyu, extremely attentive.
, just want the opportunity to send gunpowder to the army tomorrow.
Wu Junya and Xu Jingzong were still hesitant to take off their chopsticks and taste this cheap meat.
Niu Jianwu braced himself, stretched out his chopsticks and picked up a large piece of twice-cooked pork. The meat was cut very thin and was made from pork buttocks, commonly known as Erdao Pork. Twice-cooked meat means cooking again. The meat was boiled under cold water and added
Add onion slices, ginger slices, a few peppercorns, and an appropriate amount of rice wine and cook until cooked, take out and let cool, cut into thin slices, stir-fry until the color is transparent and slightly rolled.
Add the prepared leeks, chives, and a little black bean.
Huaiyu controls the heat very well, and this time the pot of meat is absolutely delicious and full of flavor, which is definitely different from those people who stew bones and meat in a pot.
"Um?"
"It's fragrant in the mouth, fat but not greasy, not fishy and not spicy. Is this really pork?"
Niu Jian saw that the Wu family was also powerful, not comparable to the famous noble families, but they were also rich and powerful for generations. He had never eaten pork. In his impression, pork was not delicious, greasy, and had a fishy smell. It was really no different from mutton.
Compare.
Moreover, the pigs raised by some people eat shit like dogs, and the pig pen is the toilet.
Although this pork is raised and pastured by the Duan family, it is pork after all.
But as soon as I put it in my mouth, it was obviously pork, but the taste was completely unexpected.
Wu Junya looked at him suspiciously, "Brother Niu, are you not deliberately lying to us?"
"You don't believe me, don't you believe Wu Erlang?"
As soon as he said this, Wu Junya also immediately picked up the chopsticks and picked out a slice of twice-cooked pork that looked like a lamp nest. He didn't pick up other pieces, for fear that the other pieces would not taste good.
"Hey, it's really wonderful."
Xu Jingzong hesitated for a moment, then picked up a piece with chopsticks and tasted it. He only bit a little at first, then tasted it carefully, then threw the remaining half of the piece into his mouth and chewed it.
“It’s like turning decay into magic!”
Seeing this, Wei Siren had no choice but to take a piece, but he didn't say anything. After eating one piece, he went to take another piece.
Actual actions have proven that this meat is indeed good.
Huaiyu just said: "It seems that you really haven't eaten anything good. You are from a famous family. Although this pig is free-range, it has not been castrated, and the taste is still a lot worse. I will cook it."
Although I used a lot of methods to remove the fishy smell,..."
Niu Jinwu took another meatball and felt it was very tender after eating it. "Who raises pigs and castrates them? It's not a cow or horse. This pig was raised for more than a year and then killed. Why bother? Besides, it doesn't cost money to castrate.
Whose fault is it if you get castrated?"
"That's because you have no idea. For pork to taste delicious, it must be castrated. Both boars and sows must be castrated, and they must be castrated at a very young age. Such pigs will have the fattest meat after being raised for about a year, and will have the fattest meat.
There won’t be any odor.”
Ushio Jianwu picked up a piece of braised pork ribs. He felt that the heat was very good and the taste was excellent. It was not burnt or rotten, it was just right.
"This pork is already so delicious because you made it, how could it be even better?"
"It's like the difference between eating wild boars and domestic pigs. Wild boar is very hard and has a strong smell, but domestic pigs have much less of it. If they are castrated, the taste will be purer."
Pork is the protagonist on the dining table in later generations, and anyone who knows how to cook will have several pork dishes.
But although there were many people raising pigs in the Tang Dynasty, and even the royal family had special pig farms, with large pig farms having hundreds or even thousands of pigs, there were not many people who really knew how to eat them, and the royal nobles only raised pigs.
If you sell it to the market, you won't eat it yourself.
Ushimitake and others, try this one and that one. It turned out that every dish is delicious. Several dishes are very delicious and exquisite. The portions are not large, and several of them are very good at eating, especially Ushimitake. I have chopsticks.
I went down and found that there wasn't much left, so I started to grab it aggressively.
While the dragons and tigers were fighting, a voice sounded.
"It seems like your meals are good. You almost get into fights no matter what good food you eat."
As the words fell, Li Shimin appeared outside the tent dressed in white robes. Xu Luoren and Zhou Shaofan, two of the crown prince's bodyguards, followed them. Following them, Cheng Chumo, Wu Huaiyi, the chief of the north gate, and Shi Mazhou, the imperial censor, also followed.
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Duan Lun, the warden of weapons, accompanied the prince, and there was also an old acquaintance, Lu Kuan, the warden of the palace.
Huaiyu and others quickly stood up to pay their respects.
"Sit down," Li Shimin stepped forward and looked at the eight dishes on the table. There wasn't much left to eat, but they all looked pretty good.
"I heard that Shenji Workshop produced more than 3,000 palm thunders today. As soon as I received the news, I couldn't sit still and came over quickly to have a look." Li Shimin patted Huaiyu on the shoulder, "Erlang did his job very well.
You're so fast, you came here suddenly, and you didn't even have time to eat dinner, so you brought me some bowls and chopsticks, and we ate here."
"For Supervisor Duan, Supervisor Lu, General Zhou, General Xu, Ma Shi Yushi, Cheng Tongjun, General Wubie, they are also here to serve as bowls and chopsticks."
Li Shimin sat down politely and was very approachable.
He stretched out his chopsticks and picked up a piece of pork liver.
Wei Siren reminded his brother-in-law in a low voice, "Your Highness, these dishes are all cooked with pork. We have been working very hard these days. General Wu specially bought two pigs to reward everyone."
"Is this pork liver?" Li Shimin thought it was liver, but he didn't expect it to be pork liver. "The cooking is very special and it's delicious."
His Royal Highness the Prince didn't really care that the pork he was eating was as cheap as mud, and he stretched out his chopsticks to pick up another steamed meatball.
"Come, let's eat together. These dishes are very delicious. Which cook cooked them, I want to take them back to the palace." Li Shimin said with a smile.
"Your Highness, these dishes are cooked by me." Huaiyu said quickly.
"You can still cook so well?" Li Shimin was surprised, "Go to the mountains to learn Taoism, you can draw talismans, make elixirs, and make medicine. You can also ride horses and fight, and you can actually cook. Wu Erlang, what do you still have?
How much ability?"
Duan Lun and others also sat down to dine with the prince. They tried it and were surprised. The dish was indeed good.
"Your Highness, I used the saltpeter and sulfur brought by the Ordnance Supervision to make more than 3,000 palm mines, and all the materials were used up. Rockets, fire and crossbows swarmed, sky-shaking thunder, poisonous smoke balls, explosive caltrop balls, etc. are temporarily
It can’t be done.”
Li Shimin didn't care at all, but was very happy to be able to make a batch of palm thunder so quickly.
Niu Jianwu also took the opportunity to request that these firearms be escorted to the frontline army and was willing to try them out personally.
"Let me try it out first."
Xu Luoren tried it before, but suffered a big loss. My ears couldn't hear clearly for many days.
Huaiyu led everyone outside the tent, cleared an area, and then brought in the newly made palm mines and randomly selected a dozen of them. Niu Jianwu excitedly volunteered to test the explosion.
This guy has already test-exploded a few bombs, and has gained some experience in igniting and throwing them with graceful and free movements. After throwing them, he can look back calmly and confidently without having to look back to see the explosion.
There was a constant roaring sound, and the power was obviously stronger than the one Xu Luoren tested last time.
"This time, the saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal have been purified and processed, and the proportions have been adjusted. They are more suitable for blasting. However, the raw materials are still too small, and the purification is not refined enough in a hurry. Otherwise, if the medicine is filled in larger earthenware bottles, the contents will still be good.
Load some broken porcelain pieces and iron nails, etc., light the fuse and then throw it into the enemy with a catapult, or throw it on the city wall when defending the city. It is more powerful. In addition to frightening the enemy soldiers and horses with the blasting sound, it can also directly
Kill the enemy..."
Li Shimin was greatly moved after hearing this, but he said, "Don't rush, take your time, now these palm mines can be of great use if used properly. Didn't you annihilate 1,500 enemy cavalry with just a hundred or so last time?"
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"Your Highness, I would like to request that Palm Thunder be escorted to the frontline camp."
Li Shimin stroked his beard and said, "Take 800 palm thunders and go to the camp of the general manager of Qizhou Chai University."
"Cheng Chumo, take 800 coins and go to your father's camp in Gaoling."
"Wu Huaiyi, take 800 coins and go to Yuchigong's camp in Jingyang."
"Your Highness, I request to accompany my brother to Jingyang," Huaiyu requested. He wanted to stop by Longqiao to see Lao Wu and see if he could persuade him to come to Chang'an.
Li Shimin thought for a while and then said, "Wu Baiqi is going to Jingyang, so you don't want to go with him, or you go to Shubao's camp in Xianyang."
Nowadays, there are Turkic cavalry everywhere in Guanzhong. Li Shimin is also worried that if the two brothers are intercepted by the Turks, both brothers will be lost. When the imperial court selects soldiers, the only son will not be accepted, and one of the two will have to be kept.
It's also a common practice.
Qin Shubao was stationed in Xianyang, on the south bank of Wei Bridge, which was close to Chang'an and was safer.
"The palm thunder has been delivered to them. After teaching them how to use it, you can come back quickly," Li Shimin pointed in front of him. "There are not enough materials such as sulfur and saltpeter at the moment. The imperial court will immediately collect them from various places. Those more powerful firearms you mentioned are not available."
looking forward!"
"Start tomorrow morning, go early and come back early." Li Shimin made a special confession and asked Yousi to send ten pigs and twenty sheep to reward everyone tomorrow.
