Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry

When the two returned to the central hall, the servants had already prepared wine and food. There were only two tables in the huge hall, and the other troops were lined up in front of the corridor.

"You go and eat, enjoy the wine and food, and don't disturb my uncle and nephew's conversation!"

Gao Zhongmi stood in front of the hall and waved his hand, then pulled Li Tai into the hall. The troops outside the corridor went to the side hall and sat down, and only a few maids who served dishes and meals followed them in.

The two sat down at their own tables, looking at the somewhat empty hall, Gao Zhongmi sighed again: "In previous years, there were many followers. Now, only A Pan and I can eat together!"

After hearing this, Li Tai thought about it for a while, and Gao Zhongmi was not bragging.

Li Tai himself had more than a dozen family soldiers and troops following him all the way, which looked very impressive, but compared with Gao Zhongmi, it was just a small witch meeting a big witch.

When Gao Zhongmi went to Hulao, Beiyuzhou to take office, he led nearly two thousand troops. It was not the army assigned by the Eastern Wei court, but the family soldiers of the Gao family of Bohai! Even this was the scale of the family that could be maintained even after Gao Aocao died in battle for several years, when many of the Gao family of Bohai were scattered. The huge private armed forces of the nobles of this era can be seen. Therefore, after the Western Wei experienced the disastrous defeat of the Battle of Mangshan, Yuwen Tai recruited Guanlong nobles to reorganize into an army. The soldiers were quickly replenished and became the Guanzhong government soldiers that shook the world in later generations. Li Tai had roughly counted the family slaves of the family who were dining outside the hall, including the more than 30 people he brought back, and there were also hundreds of people, but compared with the thousands of Gao Zhongmi's previous family, it was naturally greatly reduced. "Let's use this cup to remember the people who died a month ago!" Gao Zhongmi asked the maid to fill the wine cup, stood up and bowed deeply to the east, and poured the wine in the cup to the ground, with a lot of sadness between his eyebrows. Seeing this, Li Tai followed suit, silently hoping that his father Li Xiao could escape safely. He has occupied the body of someone else's son, and his feelings for his relatives may not be deep, but he can't help feeling guilty.

"Okay, let's eat! The food in the Western Army is simple, and I think you, A Pan, have only eaten a little recently."

After returning to the table and sitting down, Gao Zhongmi squeezed out a smile and pointed at the food on the table.

Li Tai's eyes also turned back to the food table in front of him. There were already five or six dishes on the table, both meat and vegetables. Finally, it was no longer just a simple combination like buttermilk rice, and just looking at it made people salivate.

Before coming to this world, Li Tai was an UP host of ancient style life. He racked his brains every day for material copywriting. The food of various periods in ancient times was also a major source of his video material.

After all, people live by food. Compared with the relatively boring ancient history popular science, the ancient food is undoubtedly more flavorful and textured, which is a guarantee of traffic.

In the long course of history, the presence of the Northern and Southern Dynasties was not high, and many people in later generations felt unfamiliar with this era.

But when it comes to food, the Northern and Southern Dynasties have to be mentioned. The fundamental reason lies in a strange book that appeared in this era, that is, "Qimin Yaoshu" written by Jia Sixie, the most famous agronomist in ancient times.

"Qimin Yaoshu" not only records the rich agricultural and animal husbandry knowledge of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but also records a lot of dietary information of this era.

Li Tai once made a special edition of food in the Northern and Southern Dynasties based on "Qimin Yaoshu", which received a good response, so he also had a certain understanding of the food in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

There was a small clay stove in the center of the dining table, with a charcoal fire in the stove, and a small copper tripod on it. The soup in the copper tripod was boiling, the soup was milky white, and there were a lot of meat materials floating and sinking, and the aroma was fragrant.

Next to the small stove was a wooden box with a radius of more than one foot. The wooden box contained cooked venison with skin, and next to it were condiments such as green onion, shredded ginger, pepper, salt, vinegar and fermented black beans.

This dish, which is very similar to hot pot, is called Qiangzhu. As the name suggests, it is a dietary custom of the Qiang people, which was introduced to China and became popular.

The base soup of Qiangzhu is made of pork and various condiments. The deer head is boiled in water and cut into pieces, and it can be directly eaten on the table.

This involves a little knowledge, that is, will the base soup made of pork be fishy and unpalatable?

In ancient times, pigs were one of the six domestic animals and one of the three animals of Tailao. Their breeding and eating history are long. Especially because of their habit of fattening in the house, they are an important part of the small peasant economy.

An ancient name for pigs is fen, which specifically refers to castrated boars, so there is no need to worry that the ancients did not know how to castrate pigs and make pork fishy and unpalatable. After all, if you don't eat it yourself, your ancestors will eat it.

Li Tai felt that there was little oil and water during this period. Seeing such a delicacy, he naturally would not be polite. He picked up the bamboo chopsticks and started to eat it. He ate half a box of venison before stopping. It was not because he was full, but because he was too greasy.

It is recorded in "Qimin Yaoshu" that the seasoning of Qiangzhu also includes half a cup of orange peel, which is used to relieve greasiness and seasoning. Maybe orange peel is too rare in Guanzhong, so the chef did not put it in the dish, so the soup is too greasy.

But the venison is tender and delicious. Even if it is not boiled in the soup, it is already a delicacy with only salt and vinegar.

Gao Zhongmi is not as untidy as Li Tai. He just drinks from the cup and watches Li Tai eat with a smile.

Next to the Qiangzhu stove, there is a box of 齑. 齑 is a kind of food method of chopping and mixing vegetables. It is also a common food method in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is popular from top to bottom and people can choose it according to their own taste.

"Qi Min Yao Shu" records a recipe of eight kinds of ingredients and seasonings, including ginger, garlic, oranges, white plums, cooked chestnut kernels, japonica rice, salt and anhydrous. The anhydrous is vinegar.

Li Tai tasted the box of glutinous rice on the table carefully. It also had no orange peel, but was replaced with mallow leaves and mixed with honey. It was equally sweet and delicious.

Others include chicken and duck breasts, sour minced rice sauce, etc. Li Tai also tasted them one by one. In terms of taste alone, it is naturally not as strong and distinct as the food of later generations. After all, there is a gap in seasoning between the times. However, the atmosphere and feeling brought by the antique cooking method cannot be compared with the food of later generations.

Li Tai was in his mid-teens and exercised a lot. He tried every dish and unknowingly wiped out most of the food on the table.

Gao Zhongmi saw that Li Tai still had unfulfilled intentions, so he smiled and asked his maid to send the dishes without chopsticks on his table to Li Tai's dining table, and said with a smile: "Apan, don't just worry about filling your stomach, drink with me." cup!"

After hearing this, Li Tai put down his chopsticks, raised his still-filled wine glass and said with a smile: "Young man has no restraint on his appetite, which makes my uncle laugh. From then on, my uncle and nephew live in this hometown and make progress in their careers. Ah Pan drinks first as a token of respect." !”

When the wine entered his mouth, he paused for a moment. He felt that the wine in his mouth was not spicy enough and was too sour. It was a torture to his taste buds and was almost difficult to swallow.

When Gao Zhongmi saw this, he slapped the table and laughed: "Don't vomit, don't vomit, drink it! Alas, when I lived in the countryside, half an area of ​​seedlings in my house was used as a wine field, and the fine wine I brewed at home was not as delicious as any other wine shop in Ye. When I came to Kansai, I had to rely on Daxingtai to give me even this kind of physalis, so I couldn’t drink it as much as I wanted..."

Li Tai was not addicted to alcohol, so he barely swallowed the glass of sour wine and refused to let the maid refill it. Hearing Gao Zhongmi's emotion, he was reminded of it for a while.

The Eastern Wei Dynasty occupied the fertile land of Hebei, and its productivity could not be compared with that of the Western Wei Dynasty, which ruled the exhausted Guanzhong. There was a great famine in the Western Wei Dynasty a few years ago, forcing Yuwentai to lead his army out of Tongguan and go to Hengnong to steal grain to eat. Of course, there was not enough grain to make wine.

Just seeing that Yu Wentai had to go through so much for this kind of physalis, we can see the lack of supplies in Guanzhong. Even if there are powerful people on the ground with a huge family background, I am afraid they will not be as generous as the Gao family in Bohai, who used 100 acres of fertile land to grow sorghum and make wine.

Gao Zhongmi smiled, his eyes became moist again, and his thoughts were probably once again obsessed with the gap in fortunes brought about by moving from the Eastern Wei Dynasty to the Western Wei Dynasty.

Li Taiyin knew that the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties had a bright future, and since Xinjin had crossed over, he didn't feel any regrets about the disparity in fortunes. Seeing Gao Zhongmi drinking alone, he continued to focus on the food on the table.

A dish moved to Gao Zhongmi's table caught Li Tai's attention. This dish was yellow and white, fragrant, and was a plate of scrambled eggs with green onions and whites.

Yes, stir-fried dishes were already available in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it is not the common belief of later generations that it was not until the Song Dynasty that the ancestors had a bite of stir-fried dishes.

Stir-frying was not originally a cooking method, but a processing method of crude drugs. There have been records of stir-frying medicinal materials since the Han Dynasty. Vegetable oil also has a long history. It is not only used for food, but also for lighting, lubrication, lacquerware and even as a military supply reserve.

The scrambled eggs are naturally not made in an iron pan, but in a copper pan. However, the thermal conductivity of copper is much higher than that of iron, and copper utensils are not very popular. There are not many ingredients that can be fried and processed with copper pans. Therefore, stir-frying was not a mainstream method of cooking before iron pots became popular.

The lives of ancient dignitaries and ordinary people were two completely different worlds. Unlike later generations, which were based on abundant materials, there was no essential difference in the food experience between the rich and the poor.

After Li Tai finished the plate of scrambled eggs, the maids served tonight's staple food, steamed buns, which are steamed noodles. After dipping in the remaining vegetable juice and soup, Li Tai ate two more fist-sized steamed buns, finally finishing his first full meal after coming to this world.

"He Liuhun, you are ungrateful and bad at raising your children! I will kill you, I..."

Gao Zhongmi drank to himself, and soon became drunk. He slapped the table and cried and cursed a few times, and then shouted: "Bring the wine, bring the wine..."

"The wine, the wine is gone..."

The maidservant said with a trembling cry. When Li Tai saw this, he stepped forward and waved his hand to dismiss the maidservant, and helped Gao Zhongmi up who had fallen on the table.

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