This is not the Datang I am familiar with

Chen Fang smiled, this prescription is the crystallization of the wisdom of thousands of years of working people in China, Chen Fang naturally expected this result a long time ago.

"Your Majesty still has rewards, and someone will bring them to you in a while. Someone from Ye Ting Palace will come to tailor clothes for you soon."

"My lord, you don't know, the empress has been frowning for the past few days, and she just relaxed a little today."

The girl Taohong was obviously overjoyed, and started chattering a little bit.

"Okay, okay, as long as this prescription works!"

Just as he was talking, a palace maid came in from the door, followed by two maids, each carrying a wooden tray, which should be a gift from the empress.

Chen Fang quickly saluted, this ancient etiquette is really awkward.

"Thank you Wang Gonggong! Please trouble Wang Gonggong!"

As Tao Hong said, she helped Chen Fang receive the reward, and a small gold ingot was stuffed into the prince's sleeve.

"It's all for the empress, it can't be called hard work."

The prince put the little gold ingot back into Taohong's hands.

It seems that this girl's status in the palace is indeed not low, and the prince dare not accept gold from her at all.The servants are also divided into three, six, and nine grades, and the court is also strictly hierarchical.Obviously Wu Meiniang prefers the girl Taohong.

Those who work for the master, naturally the more the master likes it, the higher the status among the servants.

"Tea has been prepared for the father-in-law here!"

"Thank you, Xiao Taohong, but there is still important work for the empress, and I have to go to work!"

"Then don't delay business affairs!"

Chapter 7 I really found it

Sending off the prince, Tao Hong looked at the pile of rewards, her eyes lit up, and the rewards were supplemented by gold and silver. After all, there are not many places where gold and silver can be used in the palace, but most of them are daily necessities.

Chen Fang was also depressed when he saw that there were toilet paper, toothbrush, and soap in the reward.

Nima, dare you think, this is a reward from the empress, and it is a heavy reward.

But in this world, this is true. Soap is a luxury, and a good toothbrush is also expensive. Toilet paper is not a luxury, but what the empress rewarded was the latest high-end toilet paper produced by Beihan.

Chen Fang took a look, and found that the paper was indeed softer and fairer, but it was still much worse than the ones sold in supermarkets in later generations.

This is a problem with the manufacturing process, and there is no way around it.

Chen Fang picked up an exquisite wooden box and handed it to Tao Hong. Chen Fang once again despised Xi Qin for selling soap as a luxury.

"This is a reward from the empress to the young master, I dare not take it."

"I'm about to run out of what the empress gave you, and you don't dare to take what you gave me, take it quickly and see what else you like, just take it!"

"Thank you son!"

Seeing Tao Hong happily holding the exquisitely packaged soap, Chen Fang seemed to understand why Wu Meiniang liked this girl so much.To put it bluntly, someone seemed to see a shadow of her innocence from her.

Man has always been a strange creature.

Tao Hong only took a box of soap, but did not touch anything else. Chen Fang picked up the finely carved red sandalwood toothbrush and stuffed it into Tao Hong's arms, and also stuffed her with a roll of toilet paper.

"Young master, I'll just take a piece of soap, you gave too much."

"I'll take it for you. I have a toothbrush here. I'm more used to the spare toilet paper in the hut outside."

After a while, a maid from Yeting Palace came to tailor clothes for Chen Fang. Presumably, both the prince and the maid from Yeting Palace were trusted by Wu Meiniang, otherwise they would not be able to see me.

But from this, Chen Fang also thought that in this palace, the influence of Tang Gaozong and Li Zhi has become smaller and smaller. After all, he has been bedridden for a long time, and he doesn't have the energy to manage the harem.It is absolutely impossible for foreign ministers to meddle in the affairs of the palace. As for the emperor's relatives, who would dare to meddle in the emperor's family affairs.

The real master of this palace is already Wu Meiniang, who has mastered the government and the court.It seems that the Wu Zhou Dynasty Tang Dynasty is inevitable, and it will not disappear because of the butterfly effect.

After the maids of Yeting Palace left, only Tao Hong and Chen Fang remained in this palace.

"Almost forgot, son's meal!"

Seeing Tao Hong hurried out, Chen Fang was thinking whether to improve the food for himself.

Datang's food is really hard to swallow. Things like rice and eggs that don't require much cooking are fine, but dishes, Chen Fang's teeth hurt when he wants dishes.

To improve food, we must first change the way of cooking in this era. The basic food in this era is boiled, because there is no pressed vegetable oil in the Tang Dynasty.

Whenever thinking of this, Chen Fang despises those few traversers in history, who didn't hand over the extraction technology to the people of this era, don't they know that the people depend on food for their heaven!

As for animal oil, lard is excluded first, because in the upper class, pigs are a kind of dirty and lowly livestock. Eating pork does not conform to the human design of the upper class, so lard is naturally not acceptable.

And butter, sorry, as a farming society, the Tang Dynasty has always protected the cattle. Although in the Tang Gaozong period, there was no strict killing order at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. It is not that the rich and the rich can not eat beef, but beef is always not. A mainstream meat, so is butter.

According to the composition of Chen Fang's meals in the past few days, mutton often appears in the ingredients.

But..., thinking of the mutton smell, Chen Fang was very depressed.

Chen Fang felt that the pressed oil should be brought to Datang.

Firstly, to improve one's own food, one can cook by oneself as a matter of course. There is a saying in the ancients that a gentleman stays away from the kitchen. The problem is that Chen Fang has no such awareness at all.

It is Chen Fang's idea to do it by himself to have enough food and clothing. Doing it by himself also reduces the possibility of others poisoning him.Out of dual considerations of taste and safety, Chen Fang felt that it was more reliable to do it by himself.

Secondly, if the empress likes the dishes she cooks!Chen Fang is very confident in his own cooking. He used to travel around the world with that old Chinese doctor, and he prepared all the meals by himself, and many of the medicinal meals were taught by that old Chinese doctor.

After working, Chen Fang always insisted on doing it by himself, and being safe and worry-free. After all, food safety was a big problem in that era, and no one knew how to process food in restaurants outside.

The key is that Chen Fang cooks excellent dishes, but it is hard to swallow the greasy food outside.

At this time, Taohong was returning with the food box, put down the food box, Taohong went out by herself and closed the door.

In the past few days, she has gotten used to it. As long as the son is eating, he will definitely let her out and close the door.In Taohong's mind, this Mr. Chen doesn't like others watching him eat.

"Tao Hong, is there any rapeseed in this palace?"

Tao Hong was about to go out, but heard the young master asking casually.

"Rapese, what do you want this thing for, my lord?"

"eat!"

"How can this thing be eaten?"

"You'll know when you make it!"

Chen Fang didn't explain it either. The key point is that the explanation is unclear. The concept of rapeseed oil is completely absent in this era.

"I went to the Imperial Dining Room to ask, but there shouldn't be any, this thing is useless."

"Oh, then go ask!"

Chen Fang didn't report too much hope. After all, before rapeseed oil appeared, rapeseeds were not very useful, and the folks would not grow a large number of cabbage plants in order to obtain rapeseed.

Could it be that if you want to extract oil, you must first grow cabbage plants that can produce rapeseed?It hurts Chen Fang to think of this.If this is the case, the waiting time is too long, after all, the dishes will grow day by day.

When it was late in the day, Taohong came back.

"Young master, I found some rapeseed, do you know if it's enough?"

Behind Tao Hong, several maids carried two bags with difficulty, which contained rapeseed.Seeing them sweating while carrying them, Chen Fang was also depressed, why is there no such things as small carts in this palace.Probably there is no way to get into the Tai Chi Palace!

But the rapeseeds were actually found, and there were a lot of them, Chen Fang was quite surprised.

What is the purpose of planting this thing in this age.

"Is this thing still available in the Imperial Dining Room?"

"No, the maidservant was going to the imperial dining room, and met a sister from Ganlu Palace, saying that the empress is looking for me."

Chen Fang patted his forehead with his hand, and he knew what happened afterwards without asking.

I am sure that the girl told the empress that she wants rapeseed, and also told the empress that she can eat rapeseed.

Because of the chrysanthemum wine recipe before, Wu Meiniang must have thought that she had obtained some method of using rapeseed to eat from the envoy.

With Wu Meiniang's way of doing things, she doesn't need to think about what will happen next.As soon as the empress opened her mouth, it was conceivable that many people in and out of the palace would lose their legs.

Chapter 8 Preparing for Oil Pressing

In half a day, it is not surprising that these two bags of rapeseed were found with the efficiency of the royal family.

"Young master, Taohong still doesn't understand how to eat this thing. I tried to eat a few just now, and it's really hard to eat."

"It's not that tasty! You need to press the oil first!"

"Oil extraction?"

"Your Majesty must have other intentions, right?"

"Well, Madam, just tell me what the young master needs, and I will prepare for the young master."

Chen Fang pondered the meaning of this sentence in his heart, wondering if I could change to a different place now, living here, Chen Fang always felt restless, no matter who knew that someone wanted to harm him, and he would treat the other party all the time. You will be disturbed if you don't know!

"Then let's go to Yeting Palace now!"

Chen Fang tentatively mentioned that it would be best if he could go, but if he couldn't, Chen Fang would not insist on it, lest others would be suspicious.

Yeting Palace is the place where the court ladies and the women of the family members of criminal officials live, and it is also the place where the palace people work.If you want to extract oil, obviously Taiji Palace can't do it here, you can only go to Yeting Palace.

"Okay, you guys carry the rapeseed to Ye Ting Palace!"

Hearing Tao Hong's words, Chen Fang secretly heaved a sigh of relief, he thought he couldn't go to Ye Ting Palace, but it seems obviously not now.

When the maids heard this, their faces turned green.The distance to Ye Ting Palace is not far, and these two heavy bags of rapeseed have to be carried to Ye Ting Palace.

Leaving this palace, Chen Fangchang heaved a sigh of relief. He could finally leave here. He was terrified every day here, and he had to check carefully before he dared to speak even after eating.

Yeting Palace, although it is also called a palace, but compared to Taiji Palace, it obviously does not have so many carved beams and painted buildings, so many pavilions, and there are no places for leisure like gardens.

Because it is a place for labor, it does not need tall buildings, let alone exquisite gardens.This place is not so much a palace, but more like a patchwork of workshops and residential areas.Compared with the imperial palace, this place is more like the city square of Chang'an City.

Yeting Palace is divided into three parts, Taicang in the north, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the south. The so-called internal servants are eunuchs.And what Chen Fang came to was the place where the palace maids and wives of criminal officials' families lived.

This place is simply a country of daughters. Looking around, there are hurried and busy court ladies and women everywhere.Apart from Chen Fang, there was no other man here, except of course the eunuch who was in a hurry.

It's not that men can't come here, it's not as strict as the harem, but it's rare for a man to appear here on weekdays, and even if he does, he's always on business.

Of course, Chen Fang is also on business at this time, after all, it is the rapeseed that the empress asked to find.

Chen Fang followed Tao Hong, and the maids on the road all looked at Chen Fang curiously. Chen Fang looked over, and the maids blushed and quickly turned aside.

Chen Fang scratched his head, what's going on, he has such a great charm.

Came to a secluded courtyard, the maids who used to live here have all moved out, the whole courtyard was empty.The yard is not small, very simple, surrounded by houses, there is a lot of space in the middle, and there is only one well in the middle of the yard.

"Young Master, if you need anything, just ask."

"Two carpenters, two healthy women, and find a few more burly and powerful men."

"Ah! Young Master, you have to report this to your concubine and servants before you dare to help you find it."

"Well! You go and report it."

Tao Hong rushed to Ganlu Palace, while Chen Fang found paper and ink. To squeeze oil, you need an oil workshop, and some utensils are essential.

In fact, Chen Fang had never fried oil himself, but when he traveled with the old Chinese doctor, he saw an oil mill in a village in the south of the Yangtze River pressing oil.

It was a rare workshop that presses oil according to the ancient method. At that time, Chen Fang thought it was interesting, so he watched the whole process of how the workers cleaned the fried seeds, how to grind and steam the germ, and how to wrap the cake and squeeze it by hand.

The utensils needed are relatively simple, and Chen Fang also remembers clearly that there is absolutely no problem in making them with the skills of craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty.

Soon, Chen Fang drew all the drawings of the equipment needed for oil extraction based on his memory, and checked the drawings several times to make sure that nothing was missed.

At dusk, Tao Hong led the men Chen Fang needed to the yard, two carpenters, two strong women, and several strong soldiers in armor.

Judging by their attire, the two healthy women should be from the family members of criminal ministers, and they should have been domineering figures in the past, but now they are bullied by others.

Chen Fang couldn't tell which guards belonged to the few soldiers in the palace. The Tang Dynasty inherited the Imperial Guard system of the Sui Dynasty's Twelve Guards. Chen Fang didn't know it very well. Even if he knew, the history of this world would have changed long ago.

Chen Fang can only be sure that this is the transfer of the imperial palace's forbidden army, the forbidden army is the forbidden army, as long as there is strength.

Chen Fang handed the blueprints to the two carpenters. The two carpenters looked at the blueprints and were puzzled. The things on the blueprints were understandable, but they couldn't tell what they were doing. They had never done it before.

The two carpenters stared at each other, confused, they could only look at Chen Fang.

"Just do it according to the drawing. I don't know when it will be ready?"

"This, the fastest two days."

Chen Fang nodded, two days is only two days, just as it takes time to fry the seeds, dry them, grind them, and steam them.

The iron pots and stone mills required for these processes are readily available here, and the tools made by carpenters are not needed until the cake is squeezed.The time before and after is calculated just right.