The stories in the Three Kingdoms are not only talked about in later generations, but also very popular among the people in the Northern Song Dynasty. This is why Li Qi's Romance of the Three Kingdoms became an instant hit.
However, Song Huizong and his son read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which regarded Cao Cao as the orthodox one, while Li Qi grew up reading the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and regarded Liu Bei as the orthodox one, so differences between the two sides were inevitable.
As for who is better, Guo Jia or Zhuge Liang, Li Qi got a headache as soon as he heard this question. In later generations, people would argue about this matter almost every day, but the problem is that the two of them have never fought. The public is right when the public is right, and the mother-in-law is right when the mother-in-law is right.
Can the fight be clear? He said with a cold sweat: "Then, may I ask your Majesty, who will win between Guan Gong and Qin Qiong?"
"Guan Yu."
Song Huizong and his son said in unison.
It was so unanimous. Li Qi was stunned for a moment and wondered: "Your Majesty, Your Highness, how do you know it is Guan Gong? They have never fought before?"
"this---."
Song Huizong and Zhao Kai looked at each other affectionately, as if they were saying, it's up to you to answer this question. Song Huizong relied on himself as the father, coughed lightly, and took the lead: "Kaier, please talk to Li Qi.
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This was obviously just trying to catch up. Zhao Kai had a bitter look on his face, but after his father spoke, he had no choice but to bite the bullet. He pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled and asked, "Li Qi, you are asking about them."
Who is stronger in force?"
"yes."
"Then let me ask you, Guan Yu and Qin Qiong are both men who have experienced hundreds of battles, right?"
"yes."
"Then do you know how Qin Qiong died?"
Li Qi frowned and said: "This--it is said that he died of illness."
Zhao Kai nodded and said: "That's right. The reason why he died of illness was because he was injured too much when he was young. The old injuries recurred and he died. I wonder if I am wrong?"
Li Qi wondered: "Even so, how can it prove that Guan Yu is stronger?"
Zhao Kai smiled slightly and said: "Both of them have also experienced hundreds of battles, but Guan Yu is still a dragon and a tiger in his later years. In the early days of the Northern Expedition, he was unstoppable and could easily kill Pang De. It can be seen that he has fought all his life.
He was not injured in the battle. As for being captured later, it was the result of the entire battle, rather than being captured in a duel with others. However, Qin Qiong was repeatedly hit hard on the battlefield. Qin Qiong himself often told people this.
.Therefore, in terms of force, Guan Yu is still slightly superior."
Day. Is this okay? Li Qi was speechless.
Song Huizong laughed loudly and said: "Well said, Kai'er's insights really opened my father's eyes. Hahaha, good, Guan Gong will fight Qin Qiong. Guan Gong will win."
Just win if you say you can. It has nothing to do with me. Li Qi broke into a cold sweat and said, "Yes, His Highness is right. Li Qi has learned a lesson."
Song Huizong said again: "Okay, let's not talk nonsense. Let's talk about whether Cao Mengde can win the battle against Soochow if he can have Guo Jia to help him?"
Sweat! Isn’t what we are saying now just idle talk? Li Qi looked at Zhao Kai and said, "Your Highness must have some high opinions."
Zhao Kai defeated Li Qi twice in a row. He was very proud and said with a smile: "In my opinion, there is a great hope of winning. Otherwise, after Cao Mengde failed, he would not look up to the sky and sigh, 'If Fengxiao was here, I would not have been alone here!
It's sad to show filial piety! It's painful to show filial piety! It's a pity to show filial piety!'"
Damn it! You think Guo Jia is a god. Li Qi was a little unhappy and retorted: "Your Highness, there are many reasons for the failure of the attack on Wu. It was also a plague, and Cao's soldiers did not understand water warfare. These are all natural disasters."
How can Guo Jia prevent man-made disasters? Dongwu Zhoulang is also a contemporary genius, and his strategy is not inferior to Guo Jia. Moreover, there is Zhuge Liang here. Guo Jia faces one of them, which is enough for him to have a headache. Who wins and who loses is still uncertain.
It can be seen that, not to mention the two combined, although Soochow is not as powerful as Wei, it has the right time, place and people, so there is no reason to be invincible."
Zhao Kai said: "The defeat of Wu failed because Cao Mengde was stubborn. Cheng Yu, Jia Xu and other counselors tried to persuade him not to attack rashly, but he refused to listen, which is why he was defeated. However, he always regarded Guo Fengxiao as his confidant.
If Guo Fengxiao were here, he would not be able to see his own disadvantage and would definitely persuade him. If Cao Mengde did not choose to attack rashly, with Cao Wei's strength, even if he faced Zhuge and Zhou Gongjin, the outcome would still be uncertain.
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"Yes, His Highness is right, but it is still unclear." Li Qi nodded, changed the topic and said: "If Cao Cao does not listen to the advice and attacks rashly, with or without Guo Jia, he will definitely lose. Even if Cao Cao
If we don't attack rashly, we still don't know who will win and who will lose."
Song Huizong laughed and said: "This is reasonable, this is reasonable. Even if Li Qi wins this time." He listened to the two people's debate. Although both seemed to be trying to be clever, he found it very interesting.
Zhao Kai smiled and said no more.
A wry smile appeared at the corner of Li Qi's mouth, and he thought to himself, Li Qi, Li Qi, why would you argue with others about such a boring issue?
When Song Huizong saw the wry smile on Li Qi's face, he also realized that his question was a bit boring. He stopped smiling and changed the subject: "Li Qi, when will your second volume be released?"
Li Qi replied: "Report to the Emperor, we are already preparing, I believe it won't take long."
Song Huizong nodded and said: "That's good. I'm still waiting to see your fire burn Chibi." After a pause, he suddenly touched his stomach and said: "After talking for a long time, I am also a little hungry. Li Qi, you just
Go and cook some delicious dishes for me."
Li Qi had a thought in his mind and said: "Since the emperor said to wait for my fire to burn Red Cliff, then I will cook a fire to burn Red Cliff for the emperor today."
Song Huizong and his son were both stunned. Zhao Kai asked doubtfully: "You said you want to cook a fire to burn Red Cliff?"
Li Qidao: "Exactly. When I was creating Burning Red Cliff, I came up with a dish from it, but I never made it out."
This was the first time Song Huizong heard such things, and he excitedly asked: "Is this true?"
Li Qi nodded and said: "How dare I deceive the emperor?"
Zhao Kai said: "Then I'm going to see how you cook this burning red cliff."
Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty got excited and said: "I have nothing to do, so I just happened to go and have a look."
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The emperor personally visited the royal dining room, which had never happened before. The royal chefs were so frightened that they almost fell to the ground. Even Zuo Boqing was confused. But when he saw that Li Qi was also there, he knew it must be Li Qi.
Qi tricked the emperor into coming here.
Song Huizong didn't say much, asked Li Qi to hurry up, and then sat on the corridor upstairs with Zhao Kai.
After Zuo Boqing learned from Li Qi the reason why Song Huizong came here, he was surprised and said: "Brother Li, you said you want to burn Red Cliff?"
Li Qidao: "Yes. Oh, brother Zuo, are there any turtles in the imperial kitchen now?"
"Yes. How much do you want?" Zuo Boqing said in a big voice. How could a mere turtle trouble the imperial kitchen?
"Well, just two, please help me find a larger plate."
"Okay. I'll ask someone to get it for you." Zuo Boqing nodded excitedly. It was easy to see from the expression on his face that he was very interested in this dish.
Li Qi thanked him and started to make preparations. He washed his hands, put on his apron, ordered someone to bring some Wushuang, and then started making cooking wine and other ingredients.
After a while, two fresh turtles were brought up. Li Qi was meticulously busy in front of the chopping board again.
Song Huizong took a look and asked curiously: "Kaier, is that a turtle?"
Zhao Kai nodded and said, "It seems so."
Song Huizong smiled slightly and said: "Speaking of which, I haven't tasted turtle meat for a long time. I wonder what kind of surprise Li Qi will bring me this time."
Ever since the Four Kingdoms Banquet, the chefs in the imperial dining room all admired Li Qi's cooking skills, and they heard the name of the dish was so weird. Regardless of the emperor watching from above, they all moved towards Li Qi consciously.
Li Qi skillfully removed the turtle skirt and carapace. The so-called turtle skirt is the soft fleshy edge around the turtle's carapace. He soaked the turtle skirt in boiling water to remove the sand, washed it, rinsed it with clean water, and cut it into pieces.
Use a knife to carve the carapace into a boat shape into a five-centimeter-long rhombus, then put the turtle skirt pieces into the carapace, add rice wine, green onion knots, and ginger slices, steam them in a cage over high heat until soft.
During this period, he cut the cooked ham he had prepared earlier into thin slices about five centimeters long. Cut the green leaves into shreds, boiled them in hot water, and set them aside.
Heat a pot, add a little oil, and when the oil is 80% hot, add onion, ginger, and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, then add the turtle skirt and stir-fry thoroughly, add fresh pork skin, rice wine, sauce, white sugar and stock, add ham cubes, and use high heat.
Bring to a boil, then simmer over medium-low heat until the marinade is thick. Remove the ginger pieces and fresh meat skin, thicken the soup, add oil to color, select the ham pieces and skewer them with bamboo skewers to make a sail-like shape, insert them on both sides.
into two pieces of carapace, and then pour the cooked skirt into the two pieces of carapace respectively.
Then, he spread the green leaf silk on the plate, poured the special cooking wine on it, and put the two pieces of back armor with turtle skirts on the plate. After being busy at this point, he took a deep breath and carried the plate toward the stairs upstairs.
Go.
When Song Huizong saw Li Qi coming, he couldn't bear it anymore. When Li Qi put the dishes on the table, Song Huizong and his son couldn't help being happy when they saw the boat-shaped turtle shell. They said: "This is your burning red cliff."
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Li Qi shook his head and said: "That's not the case. Red Cliff is burning. How can we do without this fire?"
Song Huizong's eyes lit up and he said, "Are you going to burn it with fire again?"
"Exactly."
"Then hurry up. I can't wait any longer."
Li Qi lit the candle with bamboo silk, and then gently put it on one end of the plate. At first, only a spark was seen. In a blink of an eye, the flame turned into a fire snake and swept across the plate. In the light of the fire, two oily turtle shells were seen.
Suddenly it turned fiery red, and the green leaves looked like the surging river water under the firelight, which was really beautiful.
Li Qidao: "The pronunciation of "bi" and "tortoise" are almost the same, and "chi" refers to the red color of red burning. Together with the burning of fire, it is collectively called the burning red wall."
After hearing Li Qi's introduction, Song Huizong smiled and said: "Wonderful, wonderful. The creativity of your dish is really wonderful. Compared with your story, I'm afraid it's just as good."
Zhao Kai smelled the fragrance of the turtle skirt that had been burnt with wine and said intoxicatedly: "Just smelling this fragrance is enough to make people salivate."
As he spoke, the fire was extinguished, and the bright red turtle skirt meat appeared in front of Song Huizong and his son, making the two father and son swallow their saliva.
Song Huizong asked impatiently: "Can we eat it now?"
"certainly."
Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty picked up a piece of turtle skirt and put it into his mouth, chewing it slowly. The rich aroma of meat lingered between his lips and teeth. He let out a long hum and said: "The meat is rich in aroma, the meat is soft and not greasy, and the texture is soft and glutinous."
, Yes, this fire burning Red Cliff is really good."
Zhao Kai also tasted a piece, with the same expression as his father, and said with a smile: "Coupled with the wonderful story, it is really unforgettable."
Li Qi smiled and said: "Your Majesty, Your Highness has thanked you."
Zhao Kai smiled and said: "I think you should put this dish in Zuixianju and let those guests from the Three Kingdoms who like you try it."
Li Qi raised his brows and thought to himself, this is really a good idea. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is so popular now. I would be really sorry if I didn't make a lot of money from it, Brother Luo. Well, by the way, I'll give this first volume a try.
I'll get back the money I lost. Hehe, if I do something to quarrel with the Confucian scholars, and organize a gathering of heroes from the Three Kingdoms, wouldn't I make a lot of money, hahaha.
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