His Majesty is a sick beauty

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"Is this the recipe for the New Year's banquet?" Su Xun looked at the cowering old eunuch in front of him, and said, "You should open your mind, open your mind, you know?"

Forget about the previous Great Court Meeting, it was just a superficial project, but the annual banquet is different. The banquets are all officials from within the Yu Dynasty, not only officials from the Suiyang lineage, but also many prefects from other prefectures will also send people.

After two banquets, Su Xun can be considered to know the current level of cooking.To be honest, that's pretty bad.

It's okay to eat on weekdays, they are all freshly prepared, and there are fire dragons in the palace, so the dishes are served hot anyway.But the banquet is different. The place where the banquet is held is either in the open air, or in a special large room, and the windows and doors will be opened for the sake of transparency.The dishes became cold not long after they were served. Although the main purpose of the New Year's banquet is not to eat, Su Xun also wanted to take advantage of this New Year's banquet to let the imperial dining room develop a few more dishes, which can be considered as a gift for himself. For the benefit.

"Your Majesty, this..."

"The national teacher has already checked that there is no problem with the chili, and you have tasted it, why don't you try to use it to make some other dishes?"

"And don't always use abalone, sea cucumber, mutton and other ingredients. I had someone raise a few castrated piglets in Huangzhuang before. Didn't I send one over? The ones you have eaten are gone. It smells fishy, ​​why don't you try using pork as an a la carte?"

Especially braised pork, he really wanted it!

"But Your Majesty, pork is humble, it is only eaten by poor families."

"..." Su Xun was speechless, "It's just a dish, why is it related to identity, I'm not saying that you are not allowed to use that kind of expensive ingredients, I mean, whether a dish is good or not is not just a matter of ingredients, And the taste and presentation."

There is one way of thinking in cooking in the imperial dining room. For hot dishes, good ingredients must be used. The more expensive and rare the dish, the better the dish. Vegetarian dishes, just make tricks on the side dishes or seasonings, regardless of how common the dish is or what bacteria it is. Put the minced mushroom and seafood first, and then pour some ginseng chicken soup that has been stewed for several days on it. The dessert is just to pose. The more difficult and complicated the shape, the better.

It's not that Su Xun wants to stop the people in the Imperial Dining Room from delving into culinary skills, but they are simply going astray.

In the final analysis, this is a dish, neither a luxury item nor a decoration. The most important appearance and taste of a dish has been abandoned by you. Instead, you are chasing something noble and in line with your status. There is a problem!

Su Xun patted the table: "I'm the emperor and you are the emperor. I'm going to eat the Dongpo pork and spicy chicken I mentioned earlier at noon today. If I can't make it, you all go clean the toilet for me!"

The eunuch in the imperial dining room was so frightened by Su Xun, his whole body trembled, and he didn't dare to say anything, and ran away despondently with his tail between his legs.

Su Xun looked at his rolling and crawling back, and was so angry that he drank several mouthfuls of tea. Really, if you talk well and don't listen, do you have to let me roar to be happy?

After calming down, Su Xun took out Qin Tianjian's memorial to read again.

After the drought this summer, Su Xun was frightened by the capricious God, and quickly ordered Qin Tianjian to keep an eye on the weather conditions in the Yu Dynasty, and report any problems immediately.

God knows that when he found the memorial of the Qin Tianjian in a pile of memorials, he almost jumped up in surprise, and he waited for a long time to make enough mental preparations before opening it.

The content of the memorial was indeed as he thought, and it was not good news.

According to Qin Tianjian's prediction and observation, this year's Yu Dynasty's autumn is extremely short, and the weather cools down too quickly, and from the observation of astrology, this winter will not be too good.

It will not be too easy, which means that the winter time will be longer than in previous years, and the temperature will be lower than in previous years.

Su Xun frowned and looked at the memorial that was about to be torn apart in his hand. In fact, he could memorize the contents of the memorial, but it was easier for him to think while looking at the text.

To be honest, Su Xun still thinks that Qin Tianjian's method of predicting the weather based on the astrology is not reliable, but whoever let him prove himself with facts last time, Su Xun can only believe it rather than believe it.

Less precipitation and longer winters sound like the Little Ice Age.

He had a vague impression that some dynasty also experienced the Little Ice Age, which led to a great reduction in population, and the final dynasty change was also inseparable from this climate.

The more Su Xun thought about it, the more he felt it was possible. In fact, there were signs of this incident. The weather in previous years was actually not very good. God had to get angry several times a year, but this year's severe drought was particularly severe. The entire Central Plains, including Outer Mongolia was not spared.

If he is really unlucky and happened to meet the Little Ice Age, it means that this summer's drought is just a prelude to an even more terrible disaster. Before the end of the Little Ice Age, weird weather, scarce precipitation and terrible low temperatures in winter will It goes on and on.

This is not a good sign. He also plans to focus on promoting farming and weaving next year, living with the people, replenishing grain depots in various places and increasing the population.

A politician cannot take chances. Even if there is only a slight sign now, he must plan for the worst possibility.

Although Su Xun still maintained the posture of reading the memorial, his thoughts had already flown away.

Judging from the operating conditions of these newly built factories in Suiyang, it can indeed solve the problem of wasting labor during the slack period caused by the current farming schedule.He originally planned to let these factories in Suiyang City run for a period of time before promoting them, but if it really enters the Little Ice Age, the unsuitable time for farming will only get longer and longer. If so many laborers cannot be released, On the contrary, there will be problems.

It is very important to promote the construction of factories according to local conditions, especially textile factories and garment factories. Once built, they can provide a large amount of cheap and cheap cloth and clothes for the local area to help them survive the harsh winter in the future.

...This will inevitably impact traditional hand-woven textiles, but at this moment, we can only make sacrifices.

The rabbit farm is also developing well. Su Xun heard that several batches of rabbits are pregnant. The factory has opened a "delivery room" for those pregnant female rabbits, hoping that they can give birth smoothly.Once this wave of little rabbits successfully grows to adulthood, it means that this farming model has achieved initial success.

Nowadays, even the people in Suiyang City seldom eat meat. The cheap rabbit meat can greatly enrich their diet and provide them with valuable protein after entering the market.Nowadays, especially among ordinary people, there are two causes of many diseases, one is overwork, and the other is malnutrition.

Inexpensive ways to keep warm and high-calorie diets are the two most direct ways to reduce winter deaths.He still doesn't have the ability to make the people of Suiyang City have meat every day, but it is the minimum goal for this winter that a family can eat rabbit meat once a week.

But this is nothing more than raising soup to stop the boiling. What can really help them survive the Little Ice Age is to dig out and breed crops that are resistant to drought and cold.

Improving crops is not a one-day effort. Don’t you see that even in the later generations with such advanced technology, crop improvement is still a big project that requires a lot of manpower and material resources. With the current level of technology of the Yu Dynasty, whether crop improvement can be completed, to be honest, Su Xun is very worried. But pretty clueless.

There is no way to improve crops in a short period of time, so hope can only be placed on the introduction of foreign crops.

Su Xun is now a little rejoicing that Wan Yanhong came to attend the New Year's banquet in person this time, and will enter Suiyang in two days.

At that time, I am afraid that I will have to personally mention the business routes of the Western Regions to Wan Yanhong.

[The author has something to say: follow the plot and follow the plot]