This is not the Datang I am familiar with

At this time, it was already dark, and Chen Fang had no intention of letting these people rush to work.

"Tao Hong, can these people live here?"

"Yes, but you can't go out of the courtyard, other places are where the maids live."

Chen Fang's question was actually a bit of a throwing stone to attract jade.These few carpenters and soldiers can live in the Yeting Palace, so naturally I can too, as long as I don't leave this courtyard.

Chen Fang didn't intend to leave this yard at all.

"Everyone go to rest first, just come here tomorrow morning. Remember, everyone will live here from tomorrow on, so prepare yourself."

"Yes, the servant obeys!"

"Yes! I am obedient!"

Several craftsmen, healthy women and soldiers agreed one after another and saluted Chen Fang.Chen Fang simply nodded, and everyone backed away.

In the past few days in the Tang Dynasty, Chen Fang got used to the etiquette of high and low status in the palace.

Seeing that all the people she found left first, Tao Hong picked up the blueprint drawn by Chen Fang, but she couldn't understand it at all.

Young master, let's go back first, and come back here tomorrow morning.

"No, I'll just rest here at night! Going back and forth to waste time."

"How can this be done? This is where the slaves live. How can the young master live here?"

"I still have some things to do here! Besides, I was just a small official in Chang'an before, so I can't live where the servants live."

"But son, it's not what it used to be."

Chapter 9 Gentlemen are not far from the kitchen

"I really have something to do!"

"Let the servants do whatever they want."

"I have to do these things. Go back and rest. I'll just make do with it for a few days."

Back to Tai Chi Palace, Chen Fang didn't want to go back at all, Nima, he was worried all day when he went back, the devil wanted to go back.

"The young master wants to live here, and Tao Hong also lives here. I was specially ordered by the empress to serve the young master. Tao Hong will be there wherever the young master is. If the young master is not well served, the empress will definitely blame the slaves."

"Okay, let's clean up the house!"

"Yes, servant girl, let's tidy up now! I'll ask someone to bring another quilt later."

"I'll move you an extra bed too!"

"Thank you, son!"

The beds in Ye Ting Palace are indeed much different from those in Tai Chi Palace. They are hard and they are already approaching the Double Ninth Festival, and the nights are getting colder and colder. Moreover, Tai Chi Palace was originally built on the low-lying wetlands of Chang’an. It was very cold.

Chen Fang also felt a little strange, wasn't the period from the Sui Dynasty to the heyday of the Tang Dynasty a warm period in the history of China, why was it so cold.

The fourth cold period is from the middle and late Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, which obviously hasn't started yet.

Maybe I got used to living in modern times with severe greenhouse effect, but I can't adapt to the prosperous Tang Dynasty when the warm period came!

We must know that the time when Chen Fang came from the Arctic summer temperature could exceed [-] degrees, but in this era, the midsummer is only close to [-] degrees.

The north wind blows the ground and the white grass turns, and Hu Tian snows in August.

It seems that it's not just Hudi, it's also cold in September in Chang'an!

Fortunately, Tao Hong prepared an extra bedding in advance, otherwise Chen Fang would wake up from the cold in the middle of the night.

On the second day, the people that Taohong was looking for yesterday arrived early. The carpenter brought tools and wood, and some necessary iron pans and shovels were also prepared.

Prepare the stove, and the two carpenters are already busy.

Chen Fang called a few soldiers and brought a stone mill from the courtyard next to it, while Tao Hong called a lot of maids, this Ye Ting Palace lacked everything except the maids.

When the stone mill was moved, everyone was sweating profusely.

Tao Hong didn't know where to find a donkey, Chen Fang looked at the strong black donkey, he hadn't eaten donkey meat for a long time.

What am I thinking, others are killing donkeys, and my donkey is useless!

It was also when he came to Datang that Chen Fang's food was not very good, that's why Chen Fang saw that the black donkey had such an idea.

When everything was ready, Chen Fang began to instruct two healthy women to wash the seeds and stir fry them.

Needless to say, while Chen Fang searched for memories, he commanded, and the two healthy women who were used to rough work in the palace also did it well.

During the stir-frying, the unique spicy fragrance of rapeseed wafted in the courtyard and flowed into other courtyards. There was a palace maid outside the courtyard looking into the courtyard, but Chen Fang did not stop her.

Tao Hong snorted, and the probing maid hurried away.

"My lord, drink some water, let them do these rough jobs, my lord sit here and rest!"

Chen Fang sat on a newly moved stone bench in the courtyard, the stone was warmed by the autumn sun.

Tao Hong rubbed Chen Fang's shoulders and beat her back.

These hands used to serve Wu Meiniang, but now they serve Chen Fang.

Two healthy women worked hard to stir-fry the rapeseed there, and the fried rapeseed was spread out in the yard to dry and dissipate heat.

After a while the donkey will start working.

Chen Fang looked at the sun and felt comfortable.

In the evening, the two carpenters did not need to be ordered to rush to work there, and torches were lit in the courtyard.

Chen Fang had eaten the meal prepared by Taohong, but he still locked himself in the room while eating.

"Squeeze the rapeseed oil quickly, I really don't want to eat this boiled food again."

Chen Fang thought.

On the second day, the carpenter finally finished all the tools, vacated a large room, and emptied it. Chen Fang commanded a few soldiers to turn it into a simple oil workshop.

The steamed embryos were pressed on the top, and several soldiers insisted on pressing oil in military uniforms at first. After drying for a while, they took off their military uniforms one after another, and the clothes inside were soaked in sweat.

One of the burly men couldn't stand the heat, so he took off his shirt. Tao Hong was looking into the square at this time, and when she saw the soldier's naked upper body, she screamed and ran away.

As for what, this young master has not been seen by you several times.

The two healthy women looked at it with gusto in the oil workshop, and they knew the taste after eating it. This is the difference between girls and women.

At dusk today, freshly squeezed rapeseed oil has been freshly baked.

Looking at the oily and slightly green rapeseed oil, Tao Hong directly dipped a little bit of it with her scallion-white finger and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Bah! Young master, it's really unpalatable!"

"Haha, it's not like that!"

Chen Fang couldn't help being amused by the bitter look on this girl's face.

"Then how to eat?"

"You go to the kitchen to get some vegetables and meat, forget it, I will go with you."

"Ah! That's not okay, the kitchen is where the young master goes."

Sure enough, this is ancient times, when a gentleman stays away from the kitchen, Chen Fang just wants to say that he is going to the kitchen to find food, Tao Hong immediately stops Chen Fang.

"Yes! You must not go to the kitchen, son. If there is any heavy object, we can help you get it."

The two healthy women also hurried over to help stop Chen Fang.

Nima, don't you just want to go to the kitchen to pick up a dish, as for it.

It seems that there is still a huge cultural difference between ancient and modern times!

Chen Fang thought that if he insisted on cooking for a while, he didn't know how these people would stop him.

It seems that there is only a trick.

"Tao Hong, why did your majesty ask people to search Chang'an City to find these two bags of rapeseed, and why did you let so many people accompany me here to squeeze the oil, because I just want to see how the oil tastes. The oil is now squeezed out Now, let’s try to see how the stir-fried vegetables are. You won’t let me go to the kitchen now, are you blatantly defying the order?”

"The slaves dare not!"

Tao Hong suddenly knelt on the ground, the sound of her knees hitting the ground made Chen Fang feel distressed.

Chen Fang quickly helped the girl up.

"Then quickly take me to the kitchen of Ye Ting Palace!"

"Okay, servant girl will lead the way."

Look, Wu Meiniang was moved out, and this girl suddenly behaved.Tao Hong obediently gave in, and the two healthy women naturally didn't dare to stop her.

The kitchen is not the imperial dining room. The imperial dining room is a place where food is specially prepared for the nobles in the palace.There is only one imperial dining room in the palace, but there are several in the kitchen.This is like the leadership canteen and staff canteen in the factories of later generations.

The kitchen of Ye Ting Palace is only a place for the maids to cook, so it is very simple.

Seeing Tao Hong, several cooks who were serving in the kitchen hurried over to greet her.Seeing Chen Fang, a young cook took a peek and immediately lowered her head.

In the past two days, rumors have spread among the maids of Ye Ting Palace that there is a Mr. Fang who works for the empress in Ye Ting Palace. It is said that he is extremely handsome.

When I saw him at this time, he was really personable, with the appearance of a handsome young man.

Chen Fang didn't know what the young cook was thinking, so he asked the cook to lead the way and walked directly into the storage room where the ingredients were stored.

And there, Tao Hong carefully placed a bowl of rapeseed oil that Chen Fang asked her to bring beside the stove, and followed her in.

Chapter 10 There Is Corn

As soon as he entered the storage room, it turned out that the ingredients here were not of the highest quality, and there were not many samples, but when Chen Fang saw a piece of pork, his eyes lit up.

There is absolutely no such thing in the imperial dining room. The emperor's concubines in the palace don't eat pork. In their eyes, pigs are dirty and lowly animals.

After searching in the storage room, Chen Fang was holding a corn, a little embarrassed and confused.

Shouldn't this thing lie in the deep mountains and old forests of the American continent, and only Native Americans use it as food and make tortillas!

Why did he appear in the kitchen of Yeting Palace now?

The butterfly effect, it must be the butterfly effect, did the Northern Han Dynasty already discover the American continent?Nima, if this is the case, Columbus knows whether he will rise from the coffin.No, Columbus was born early, nearly a thousand years away.

There is only one possibility that corn appeared in the kitchen of Yeting Palace, and that is that the American continent had already been discovered by the people of the Northern Han Dynasty.

This is not surprising. In the colder ice ages in history, Asia and America were connected by ice shelves, which extended in the Bering Strait. As long as someone walked through the ice shelf, they could reach America.

And as a time traveler, no matter how ignorant and incompetent Liu Xiu was, it was impossible for him not to know that there was an American continent in this world.Therefore, the Northern Han Dynasty should have discovered the American continent long ago, and may even have operated there for hundreds of years.

If this is the case, then the strength of the Northern Han Dynasty will have to be re-evaluated.Of course, this is not something that Chen Fang worries about. He is still in the stage of how to survive, and it is his turn to worry about national affairs.

If the Northern Han court knew of the existence of America and sent people to America, then it is not surprising that American native products such as corn, watermelon, tomato, potato, and pepper were introduced to Datang through the Northern Han Dynasty.

Butterfly effect, Chen Fang looked at the corn again, the corn was not big, only the size of a palm, and the grains were not particularly neat.Compared with the corn of later generations, one seems to have straightened teeth, while the other seems to have no straight teeth.

Coincidentally, that piece of pork is a piece of rib meat, and the pork ribs will be removed in a while, just to make a corn rib soup.Of course, some scallions and ginger are needed. The scallions should be chives, but Chen Fang couldn't find them. He only found some scallions, so he had to use them.

Onions, ginger and leeks were planted in the Han Dynasty, and are clearly recorded in Sima Qian's historical records. Therefore, it is normal for Datang's kitchen to have onions and ginger.

What Chen Fang didn't understand was that since scallion and ginger appeared so early, why didn't Tang people know how to use scallion and ginger to remove the earthy smell of pork.

Probably pork has always been unwelcome by the upper class, which is why it is so.

Since there were few such greenhouses in ancient times, the dishes were all seasonal, and some very common dishes were almost impossible to find in later generations.

And many dishes of later generations were gradually evolved and cultivated later, and they certainly did not exist at this time. For example, cabbage, which gradually evolved from the later cabbage, and cabbage was eaten on a large scale in the Song Dynasty.

Chen Fang was very depressed, but in a remote corner, Chen Fang found some potatoes and some peppers, which are also vegetables native to America.

It seems that, like corn, it spread to Datang in advance due to the butterfly effect.

Both corn and potato peppers have the characteristics of strong adaptability and high yield.Leaving the Americas, it can quickly adapt to growth in the soil of Asia, and even grow better.

For example, chili peppers, before Chen Fang crossed over, China was a big country in the production, processing and consumption of chili peppers.

These crops should be widely planted now, otherwise they would not appear in the kitchen for the maids.

When leaving the kitchen storage room, Taohong carried a bunch of pork and two potatoes, while Chen Fang only took two corns, and the two healthy women took a lot of ingredients, many of which Chen Fang didn't know were called. What, just roughly can tell what type of vegetable it is.

For example, spinach, which was brought back by Zhang Qian on his mission to the Western Regions, was already grown in large quantities in the Tang Dynasty.For example, green vegetables, but they are shorter and thinner than those of later generations. After all, green vegetables of later generations have gone through a lot of cultivation and improvement.

Borrowing the pot from the kitchen, Chen Fang planned to start cooking here.

Tao Hong was about to stop her, but was stared at by Chen Fang, and immediately dared not speak.