Ming Dynasty: At the beginning of the game, Lao Zhu resigned and retired.

The bloodshed and turmoil outside can't affect Mr. Hu's leisurely life.

After Mr. Hu discovered his hobbies such as beauties, fishing, singing and dancing, the wound on the back of his head was almost healed, and Mr. Hu finally no longer had to eat taboos.

So, Mr. Hu, who had been greedy for a long time, finally started to think about eating.

In fact, after this period of small life, Mr. Hu did not say that he could not accept eating at all.

Because, he found that his cook could at least stir-fry and use stock.

In addition, the family has no shortage of money for food, so naturally it will be pretty good.

But Hu Weiyong was still not satisfied.

Because the current soup stock is basically a kind of old chicken soup.

Freshness also mainly relies on seafood and stock.

Because Yingtian Mansion is not far from the seaside, especially relying on the Yangtze River water transport, it is extremely abundant in materials.

This brought great convenience to Mr. Hu’s “research”.

So much so that when the chef of Hu Mansion saw his master rushing into the kitchen excitedly, he was completely stunned.

Mom, I just stole a piece of shit, I don’t need to come and arrest the person myself.

Just when the cook was gutted and kneeling on the ground in fear, waiting for death, Hu Weiyong kicked him and asked him to get up and answer the questions honestly.

While the fat cook was chatting, he felt something was wrong.

Hiss... When did my master know so much about food?

After chatting with his chef, Hu Weiyong probably understood the current situation in the "food industry".

As the saying goes, only when the top-level "wind vane" starts to exert force in a certain direction, will there be momentum for progress below.

It's so damn good that in the past one or two hundred years, it was the foreign races that occupied the top level of the entire Central Plains.

The Golden Family, which conquered most of the Eurasian plate, stuck to their favorite barbecue and wine, and stubbornly persisted in their eating habits.

And if you want to live under the hands of these people, you naturally have to follow their lead.

As a result, barbecue, an already popular thing, became even more sophisticated.

This is the conclusion I got after eating a meal of barbecue prepared by the chef after losing my taboo.

At least in terms of heat, as well as marinating and processing ingredients in advance, Hu Weiyong came to the conclusion.

But based on the results of chatting and his own observations, Hu Weiyong came to a conclusion.

First, there is too little seasoning.

There are still too few wealthy, leisurely and gluttonous men. If there were more people like Su Dongpo, perhaps eating would be even better now.

Second, the dishes are not varied enough and exquisite enough.

During the turbulent times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, many craftsmen lost their inheritance as they struggled to survive for decades.

Those who have some good cooking skills are the lucky ones who have put in the effort.

Therefore, forget about expecting the chef to develop any new dishes.

However, these problems are not problems when it comes to Mr. Hu Weiyong.

"I can't do it, and I can't even say it!"

In my previous life, I watched so many food videos that made me drool, and I always felt like I had a good brain and no hands.

Now that he is better, he has realized deeply that as long as his brain is good, it doesn't matter if he can't use his hands.

Because he doesn’t have to do the work himself anyway!

And... he has money, so he doesn't have to worry about the loss of some ingredients.

So, for a bite to eat, Mr. Hu happily dived into the kitchen.

He was in charge of talking, and the fat cook was in charge of hands. The two of them worked together to start "food research."

The first one to be sacrificed was the beggar's chicken.

This stuff is simple to make, but tastes great.

Ask someone to go to the pharmacy to buy common spices such as star anise, cinnamon and cinnamon that have not been developed for "correct uses", and then prepare spices such as cumin and fennel that are already used again.

The chicken that had been washed in advance was marinated for an hour, and then a spice bag in a bag was stuffed into the stomach.

Then wrap it in lotus leaves, and then wrap it in thick wet mud.

He directed the fat cook to dig a small hole in the ground nearby, put the "mud lump" in it, and then set up a bonfire on it.

After that it was just a matter of waiting.

Because I didn’t know what the appropriate heat was, I prepared four servings.

Looking at the four bonfires scattered around the small courtyard, Hu Weiyong smiled like a fool.

He believes that there may be some differences in the heat, but the taste should not be too bad.

Sure enough, when the first test product of the first round of "food research" was placed on the stone table, it was smashed open with a hammer.

Looking at the steaming yellow chicken and the rich aroma, Hu Weiyong laughed out loud.

Yes, the first test was successful.

The following "test products" may have slightly different tastes, but at least the one in front of him is enough to satisfy Mr. Hu.

He unceremoniously broke off a chicken leg and stuffed it into his mouth, feeling the pleasure of the rich soup locked in the meat due to the sealing and heating.

Hu Weiyong nodded happily.

This little day is getting more and more exciting.

Even if the Beggar Chicken is successful, it’s time to increase the difficulty and do something else.

Nowadays, the seasonings are becoming more and more complete, so the skills also need to be improved, right?

The former Prime Minister Hu Weiyong focused on food, and the current Prime Minister Li Shanchang stayed behind closed doors, but the court was still running, and the empty seal case was becoming more and more involved.

In less than a month, tens of thousands of officials throughout the Ming Dynasty were involved.

Emperor Zhu's ruthlessness really surprised many people.

They couldn't understand what the emperor wanted by torturing his ministers like this.

If it's an imperial trick, then it shouldn't be done like this, right?

Isn’t it a bit too much and not enough?

But how could they know? They couldn't understand it from any emperor in the past.

As the only emperor in the past five thousand years who had risen from the bottom, he watched his parents, brothers and sisters starve to death, and watched Zhu Yuanzhang live in a land of fish and meat among officials.

Even after he became emperor, he still had an instinctive dislike for officials.

And he looked at the entire Ming Dynasty with values ​​that were completely different from other emperors, with simple values ​​like an old farmer.

Daming belongs to our old Zhu family, and you are all long-term workers of our family. If you don't work hard and still want to be lazy and greedy for our family's money and food, then you deserve to die.

So simple!

But when this scene fell into Li Shanchang's eyes, he was a little discouraged!

Mom, this prime minister doesn’t seem to be that easy to be.

Although Emperor Zhu is currently targeting ordinary officials, he seems to be indifferent to these senior brothers.

But what if?

What if one day I offend Emperor Zhu?

Li Shanchang did not dare to think further.