Qi Yuan's refusal of the official position really made many ministers look at him with admiration. Even King Zhou was a little surprised.
The official positions in the Great Shang Dynasty were all controlled by nobles. Even if King Zhou had thought about promoting lower-level talents, he would have been opposed by the nobles, and not many of those lower-level talents could actually embark on official careers.
Now it was a rare opportunity, and Qi Yuan actually refused it himself.
The current social system has three levels: nobles, commoners, and slaves. Whether slaves or commoners, there is an insurmountable gap between them and the nobles.
Now King Zhou has opened his mouth and granted Qi Yuan an official position. This is a change in status like a carp leaping over the dragon's gate. His status is completely different from before. Even if he is captured by the enemy on the battlefield, he will receive a certain degree of courtesy and can even be treated as a prisoner.
Redeem it yourself.
Qi Yuan actually turned down such an opportunity?
"Oh, what reward do you want?"
King Zhou looked at the old man in front of him and asked.
Qi Yuan thought for a while and said: "The little old man has traveled all over the world in his life. He has never put fame and fortune in his heart, and he has never thought about becoming an official."
When the ministers were lamenting Qi Yuan's indifferent nature, they heard Qi Yuan change his words: "However, now that I am getting older, I just want to pass on what I have learned. I hope that all my fellow merchants can be able to do so."
And benefit. However, this requires the recognition of the general public. Only when it is recognized can it be widely disseminated and let more people learn from it."
The shy Qi Yuan expressed his noble sentiments without blushing. What he did was not to benefit himself, but to benefit more people.
Therefore, even if he makes some small requests next, it is not for himself, but for the sake of my countless people in Dashan with a benevolent heart.
"I have nothing else to ask for, I just hope that your majesty can recognize my identity as the No. 1 Zao in the world. If possible, it would be better if it can be spread to the territories of other princes in Guanzhen."
"In this way, when I go to these places to teach cooking skills in the future, no one will question me, and it will also allow me to teach a few more people who will inherit my cooking skills in my lifetime."
As soon as these words came out, the whole room immediately aroused admiration.
What is high moral integrity?
What is a benevolent person with a benevolent heart?
What does it mean to serve the public wholeheartedly?
This is!
Look at Qi Yuan, for such an old man, he actually has no selfish motives and only wants to benefit the world and enable countless people of Da Shang to live a better life. He is indeed worthy of the name of a sage and is admirable.
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"Okay, sir, if you have this intention, I can't help but fulfill it."
After all, King Zhou was a king of his generation, and of course he wanted to see the people under his rule get better and better, so he fully agreed to Qi Yuan's request.
Besides, Qi Yuan's cooking skills are indeed worthy of being considered the best in the world.
In this way, amid the compliments of all the civil and military ministers, Qi Yuan completed his first show in the palace and made a perfect exit.
While praising Qi Yuan's character, the ministers murmured in their hearts that they must send their cooks to learn from the sage as soon as possible.
Otherwise, after seeing such cooking skills, I would never be able to get used to the food of the past.
Qi Yuan didn't care about the little thoughts of these people. For him, the more people learned from him, the more people recognized him.
Once he reaches the point where his fame is spread all over the world, even if someone wants to compete with him for the position of Kitchen God when he is conferred as a god in the future, I am afraid that he will not be able to compete with him.
The only thing he should be careful about is not to die early, because he is not sure whether his soul will float to the list of gods. As for becoming a god, as long as he does not commit suicide, he will really not die.
However, his current reputation is only spread around Chaoge, and it is still a bit unsafe. It is far from being known to the whole world. He still needs to work hard!
The old guy couldn't help but feel secretly happy. He returned to his residence triumphantly and continued to teach his disciples about life. Then when he had nothing to do, he teased Jiang Ziya, which made Qi Yuan feel a little proud.
If he didn't have to pretend to be a mature and prudent sage, he could hardly help but reveal his villainous nature.
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Autumn is getting thicker, the sun is shining warmly on people, and the feeling of summer heat is gone.
When Qi Yuan was teasing Jiang Ziya for frying a fish into black charcoal, there was a noise outside.
Looking up, he happened to see Huang Feihu jump off his five-color sacred bull and walk in with several generals.
"Haha, sir, this place is still so lively."
Even though they were far away, Huang Feihu laughed and greeted Qi Yuan.
Qi Yuan greeted him with a smile: "If King Wu Cheng is not busy with military affairs, why does he have time to come to my place?"
Huang Feihu shook his head and said: "Military affairs cannot be dealt with every day. You have to find some time for yourself to relax. Well, I went out to the city to hunt today and the harvest was good. Thinking that there is a shortage of food here, sir, I sent some to you."
"I think you really want me to cook for you."
Qi Yuan laughed and teased him.
"Haha, I can't hide anything from you sir."
Huang Feihu admitted without the slightest embarrassment: "Although the chefs in my house have improved their cooking skills a lot after being taught by my husband, they are still far behind him. I happened to have some free time today, so I came to my husband's place to have a meal."
"Hahaha……"
The two smiled at each other.
"Bring everything up and show it to sir."
Huang Feihu gave an order, and the guards at the rear moved the prey into the yard. There were pheasants, hares, gazelles, sika deer, wild boars, bison, and even two huge rhinos. They were captured by two extremely powerful men.
The generals of the house were brought in one by one. This power made Qi Yuan's eyes wide open and he was filled with envy.
“What a harvest!”
Qi Yuan looked a little envious.
He also wanted to go hunting, but unfortunately he couldn't ride a horse or draw a bow. Huang Feihu invited him there once before when he went out to hunt in the city, but in the end he could only watch others show off their power in embarrassment. From then on, Qi Yuan
There was never any mention of hunting again.
Qi Yuan, who was looking back and forth at the many prey items, suddenly had his eyes lit up. He saw a wild donkey among the prey items.
"This is it."
Qi Yuan pointed to the wild donkey and ordered several disciples to skin and debone the donkey, and later he would do it himself to entertain Huang Feihu.
In later generations, there was a saying that there was dragon meat in the sky and donkey meat on the earth to praise the deliciousness of donkey meat.
In fact, Qi Yuan has never cooked donkey meat before, but he has eaten it several times. Because he was attracted by its unique taste, he once learned how to make donkey meat on the Internet.
It is difficult to remove the odor from fresh donkey meat, so Qi Yuan first cut a few large pieces of donkey meat, mixed it with ginger, star anise, and fragrant leaves with several medicinal materials, added broth and simmered it slowly, and then took a piece of meat from the donkey ribs.
He started chopping the stuffing and planned to make several baskets of steamed dumplings.
I saw two kitchen knives in Qi Yuan's hand flying up and down, and there was a very rhythmic sound of horse hooves, which was pleasing to the eye. Then he took a few bamboo shoots and chopped them similarly, adding onions, ginger, garlic, oil, salt and other seasonings.
Mix evenly, take the risen dough and roll it out to make dumplings.
As the steamed dumplings gradually began to give off a strong aroma, the donkey meat in the pot was also cooked. After taking it out, he mobilized his magic power, stretched out his finger, and a burst of coldness came out, and he froze a piece of donkey meat.
This is commonly known as over-icing. Through thermal expansion and contraction, the meat can become firmer and more elastic. This is used to make white-cut donkey meat. Cut it and put it on a plate. Bring it over to Huang Feihu to drink.
Huang Feihu looked over with a smile and saw that the slices of donkey meat were plump, with half of the skin and eight of the meat. He picked up a piece and dipped it in Qi Yuan's specially prepared sauce. It was full of deliciousness.
Qi Yuan cut another portion of donkey meat, heated the oil in a copper pot, added onions, garlic, shredded ginger, and spicy polygonum, sauteed until fragrant, then added the donkey meat, stir-fried, and poured on the meat sauce he had prepared.
Garnished with a little coriander and it's done.
Then with a weird smile, he took out something that had been cooking until now from another pot, and gave Huang Feihu a playful look.