At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

People are no longer obsessed with the "upper class" life of one person, one table, one meal, and have begun to accept this mode of sitting at one table to eat.

How to eat is really not a strange thing for the officials, and it is not necessary for Simpi to explain to Manuel himself, otherwise the meaning of Wei Yong coming with him would be meaningless.

This is not counting.

In addition to these big dishes, there is also a whole piece of roast meat placed on an iron plate for one person, and it is still making a sizzling sound when it is served.

It is not eaten with chopsticks, but with a knife and a fork that looks like a miniature farming tool. Cut the meat and eat it with a fork. This kind of eating in Famanuer is also unheard of.

Wei Yong said it was beef, and Manuer followed Wei Yong's example and cut a piece and put it in his mouth. As soon as he chewed it, he could instantly feel the excellent taste experience brought by the fresh and tender beef.

"This way of eating meat came from the imperial palace. It is said that it was created by His Majesty the Emperor on the way of marching and fighting. I heard that His Majesty likes eating meat very much, and now he often eats it like this. When the Fa was passed on from the palace, everyone learned it.”

While eating, Wei Yong did not forget to explain the origin of these dishes to Manuel.

There are always many people who are connected with that Emperor His Majesty.

He felt that the food culture of the Wei Empire was too rich, and every kind of food was delicious, no worse than the Roman court dishes.

But the only thing that surprised him was that there were more than a dozen dishes on the table, and there was a dazzling array of beautiful things in his eyes, but he didn't see a single raw food, all of them were cooked food.

Manuel was puzzled.

This has a really big relationship with Guo Peng.

Guo Peng promotes cooked food nationwide, and the policy of refusing raw food has been implemented for many years.

With the popularity of iron pots and coal, the rules of cooked food have gradually become popular, and even in coastal areas, fewer and fewer people eat raw food.

The tradition of raw food is mainly inseparable from the objective factors such as the lack of cooking tools and fuel in ancient times.

Iron pots began to be popularized in the Song Dynasty, and cooking began to spread on a large scale in the Song Dynasty. Cheap fuels such as coal also entered the homes of ordinary people at about the same time, and began to really spread to ordinary people.

If the major cuisines in China today lack the key cooking tool of iron pot, it will be difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

Prior to this, without iron pots and lack of fuel, people's cooking skills were limited, even for the royal family.

There is no way to cook without an iron pan, and people's cooking techniques are limited. When the fuel is expensive and cannot be popularized, there is no way to process food for a long time. In order to save money, raw food is a good choice.

That's why the raw food tradition from the age of drinking blood has not been abandoned, but has been passed down.

This is true all over the world, and some traditional customs have been passed down to modern times.

In the Sui and Tang Dynasties before the Song Dynasty, the concept and dishes of raw food happened to reach a peak.

This dish that appeared in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods developed to a peak in the Tang Dynasty and became a high-quality dish that everyone loves to eat. There are various dishes such as sashimi, and they are popular all over the country.

It just so happened that the Japanese envoys sent to Tang Dynasty also had a peak of going to China to study during this period, and sashimi also spread to Japan with the envoys sent to Tang Dynasty, and was inherited by Japan and continues to this day.

But eating like this is undoubtedly dangerous, regardless of whether it is freshwater fish or seawater fish.

No one knows how much of the so-called concept of pursuing the original taste and freshness of food was due to the lack of fuel and the inconvenience of cooking without pots.

However, with his arbitrariness and arbitrariness, Mr. Guo decided that this was a bad tradition. While promoting iron pots and coal, he enforced cooked food orders in many areas with a strong tradition of raw food, forbidding raw food.

Especially in the coastal areas, the areas around rivers and lakes, and the fishermen’s villages living in the surrounding areas are strictly required not to eat raw fish and meat, but to cook them, and those who are found to eat raw fish will be severely punished.

This also caused resistance in some places, mob riots and so on.

However, Mr. Guo did not back down, and strongly demanded that local officials follow through. While transporting more cheap coal to the local market for sale, he ordered that local people not be allowed to eat fish even if harsh measures were taken.

After repeated severe attacks and even questioning and imprisonment, thousands of assassins were arrested and imprisoned for sentencing, which demonstrated the toughness of the imperial court. The fierce resistance in some places was suppressed, and the cooked food order began to be honestly implemented.

Up to now, raw food has been completely eliminated at the official level, and among the people, raw food has basically disappeared in the mainstream catering field.

Guo Peng's publicity combined the plague and raw food together, and used the plague to scare people, so as to force them to no longer eat raw meat.

No matter what method is used, as long as this tradition can be abolished, or associating raw food with the plague, Guo feels that he has already made a great contribution.

For this reason, Mr. Guo feels that he really needs to speed up the development and sale of coal, and always let cheap fuel spread all over the country, fundamentally relieve people's worries, and let them get used to the state of having cheap fuel available.

There is no reason to say that things like parasites are hard to see with the naked eye, let alone viruses.

As an emperor, you have to use the absolute power of the emperor occasionally to be a dictator, otherwise Guo will not feel like an emperor anymore.

Manuel was even more surprised when he learned that His Majesty the Emperor of Wei linked the eating of raw meat with the plague, thus banning the eating of raw meat nationwide and punishing those who ate raw meat.

This kind of thing is also common in Rome. The cooking custom in many areas is to eat raw food and cook it as little as possible. I think it tastes fresher and more delicious, and I can’t wait to bite directly on the animal carcass.

Wei Yong didn't know the specific reason, so he could only ask Simpi, and then convey what Simpi said to Manuel.

"Why is there no raw food? It's a long story."

Simpi was quite impressed with this matter.

Because the group of people who liked eating fish meat most at the beginning included the current ruling class.

Except for fishermen who are forced to eat raw fish, there is no one who has the spare money to eat fish.

Guo Peng ordered that people are not allowed to eat raw food such as fish sticks nationwide. Many officials felt very puzzled and asked the emperor why this was.

The emperor summoned his ministers to meet and told them why he did so.

The reason is that in the seventh year of Yande, a small plague broke out in a certain place in Yuzhou.

At the beginning of the outbreak of the plague, the local grassroots officials who had undergone strict training were firmly and ruthlessly suppressed with isolation, and then quickly emptied the houses in the surrounding area, and immediately reported the matter layer by layer.

Local officials feared the plague, did not dare to conceal it, and reported it quickly.

Luoyang soon learned of this matter, and Guo Peng attached great importance to it, and ordered the Great Medical Center and Tai Hospital to form a joint investigation team to go to the local area to investigate the cause.

Of course, the cause was never investigated, and no one was able to be revived in time.

All thirteen patients died of illness, and the joint investigation team supervised the cremation of the corpses, and the plague ended with no danger.

The joint investigation team returned to Luoyang to report to Guo Peng and submit a local investigation report.

The report was nothing special, but Guo Peng noticed that in the investigation report, a patient stated that they once violated the imperial ban in the early years of Yande because of their greed, they went up the mountain in groups to hunt wild rabbits and pheasants, and then roasted them over a fire.

Of course, due to poor barbecue technology, some places are burnt, and some places are still bloodshot.

After learning about it, Guo Peng was very angry, thinking that these two things must be related.

Moreover, these people violated the prohibition issued by the imperial court a few years ago against going up to the mountains to hunt wild game without permission.

Not only must the rules and regulations of wild hunting be strictly stipulated nationwide, but also a complete ban on raw meat consumption.

"After these two orders were fully promulgated, there were indeed some troubles in some places, but His Majesty did not compromise, and even sent troops to suppress this matter, and the order was carried out to the end. Naturally, we officials should take the lead. You can’t eat raw food anymore.”

Simpi smiled wryly for a while: "But there is no clear statement on this matter from the beginning to the end, and we don't know whether it is the plague caused by raw food, but His Majesty's strict orders, we can only follow, not disobey."

What Simpi said was relayed to Manuel by Wei Yong, and Manuel was also surprised when he heard it.

"After the order was issued, will the plague still break out?"

Wei Yong translated Manuel's question.

Simpi frowned, and said slowly: "Don't tell me, seven years ago in Yande, there were similar reports to the court from time to time in the states of the Central Plains, Jiangnan, and Hebei.

Every year, I can hear news of plague outbreaks in some places several times, but since Yande issued the raw food ban in the seventh year, really, in the past three years, I have only heard of news of suspected plague outbreaks three times. "

Manuel was even more surprised.

"Is this a result of the raw food ban?"

Simpi was silent for a while, then shook his head.

"I don't know. The doctors in the Great Medical Hall and the Imperial Hospital don't know why, and His Majesty hasn't talked about it publicly."

Manuel nodded, indicating that he understood.

But should I say it or not, although Simpi has a lot of opinions on Guo Peng's raw food ban, but in the past, before his rural system was established, Simpi didn't know that the plague seemed to be around him all the time and never left. .

From the first year of Yande to the seventh year of Yande, every year, every region can report two or three times three or four suspected outbreaks of plague.

Some are common fever symptoms, the patient can be cured, it is just a false alarm, some really feel like the plague, the medicine is ineffective, and all the infected people die of illness.

They have no other way to deal with it other than isolation, and common medicines are useless at all.

Later, Simpi learned that such things did not happen in the past, but that the traffic was difficult in the past, the grassroots government was weak, and the speed of information transmission was much slower than it is now.

They didn't know that the plague happened in a place with backward traffic.

The plague happened, it was contagious, and then people died, and the plague ended by itself.

Unknown from start to finish.

There are not many such things happening, but they have no way of knowing, can't count, can't record, and can't pass on to future generations.

It's not that it didn't happen, it's just not documented.

What can be recorded must be on a scale that is large enough to cause widespread concern and fear, and at this scale, the situation is almost out of control.

People are dying piece by piece, some whole families are dead, and no one can survive.

Thanks to the poor transportation at that time, the population hardly moved with each other, so the plague could always be controlled in a certain area and would not spread to the whole country.

Once there is a situation where the population is forced to move in chaos, it will trigger a nationwide plague.

Still no cure.

We can only wait until the damned people die slowly, and the plague will end.

But now, Guo Peng is vigorously rectifying traffic and vigorously strengthening the central government's control over the grassroots. Officials have also received training in plague prevention and control. Once they find any suspected cases, they will be quarantined immediately and reported immediately.

That's why the big bosses in Luoyang felt as if the plague was breaking out every day, and there was a danger of extinction every day.

Although Simpi didn't quite believe it, such things have gradually decreased since Yande's seven-year raw food ban was promulgated and enforced.

Chapter 1399 One thousand three hundred and nine

In the current environment, no one is sure that this kind of thing happened because of the raw food ban.

But the facts seem to point directly to the raw food ban.

Everyone did not dare to comment hastily, even the emperor did not comment on this, but insisted on the ban on raw food, which has continued to this day.

Things happened like this, and there were fewer and fewer suspected plague outbreaks reported in the local area. It seemed that people were about to forget the horrible memories brought about by the plague.

Simpi always felt that Guo Peng might know something they didn't know, otherwise, how could he do so many things that seemed unreasonable but thought carefully and thought it was quite interesting?

While cutting meat with a knife to eat, Simpi thought about the unexpected things Guo Peng had done over the years, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that everyone might never know Guo Peng.

The three court musicians dutifully played the moving music, and the three dancers also dutifully showed their graceful posture and dance.

Manuel's attention was attracted by the graceful figure of the dancer, and he gradually stopped paying attention to other things and concentrated on enjoying the dance.

The dances of the dancers of the Wei Empire are different from the dances of Rome. On the one hand, the posture is more graceful, and on the other hand, the body is more plump and bold. Each has its own advantages and can always arouse the interest of men.

He thinks it is a supreme enjoyment to listen to music, watch dance and enjoy food at the same time.

This kind of life can only be enjoyed by the emperor and those powerful people in Rome, and the general tyrants do not have the qualifications and financial resources to raise musicians and dancers.

It is indeed very comfortable to enjoy such treatment here.

After a luxurious lunch, Manuel was very full and very satisfied. In the afternoon, Manuel was taken by Simpi to Taixue, the highest institution in the country.

"This is my Wei's educational institution that specializes in cultivating outstanding talents. It is called Taixue. There are more than 2 students and [-] teachers in it. The scale is quite large."

Simpi pointed to Taixue to show off to Manuel.

"More than 2 people? So many?"

Manuel couldn't help admiring.

Rome is not without schools.

In order to control the land and cultivate subjects loyal to the empire, the imperial government also set up schools to educate civilians. Of course, this wide establishment is nothing to be proud of compared to the number of imperial subjects.

Education in this day and age is expensive everywhere.

Especially for the slave-infested system of the Roman Empire, those who can receive education must be the richer part of the Roman citizens.

The Roman Empire also had the distinction between public schools and private schools, which were similar in meaning to those of imperial schools and family schools of aristocratic families, but there were still quite a few such public schools.

Schools are mainly grammar schools and rhetoric schools. The main purpose of good schools is to train young nobles to enter the political circle, equip them with eloquence and legal skills, and master some principles of natural science so that they can govern the land.

The appointment of teachers was highly valued by the emperor, and many teachers were appointed by the central government rather than the local government itself. Education tended to safeguard the interests of the central government.

Naturally, there are missionary schools among them.

In order to expand their influence, the surviving Christian churches in the empire also continued to send pastors as teachers to secular schools to teach normal content while spreading doctrine, trying to exclude secular teachers and expand their influence among young people.