Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Hemingxian had never seen a bicycle, nor had he heard of it.

"Brother-in-law, this bicycle is also a means of transportation, but it just requires a little effort, but this bicycle is the first in the entire Great Xia Dynasty and even the previous dynasties."

Although Hai Mingxian is still copying books in the Imperial Academy and wants to enter Honglu Temple in the future, he still attaches great importance to his quality of life.

Eating, drinking and having fun is not bad, that is, now that I have a family, I have to restrain myself in everything, but this time my brother-in-law gave me such a gift.

So he couldn't help being interested.

"Then how is this bicycle used?"

Chen Nian knew that the bicycle he gave would interest his brother-in-law, after all, it was something that Pu Yi couldn't put it down.

He rode around in the Forbidden City all day long, and in order to ride a bicycle, he also asked the people in the palace to remove the threshold between each door.

Hearing this question from brother-in-law, Chen Nian didn't bother, and just got into the car and started to demonstrate.

The ancients did not ride a bicycle, but Chen Nian did. He had already learned how to ride a bicycle when he was still in elementary school, but at that time, Chen Nian was too small, and at that time there was only one bike ridden by his mother at home. women's bike.

But Chen Nian had short legs, so when he first started learning, he could only do a half-circle and a half-circle, that is to say, he could only complete a full circle when he grew taller, but at that time he still couldn't sit on the seat.

But even so, Chen Nian still has a soft spot for cycling, so that he has been riding a bicycle to school since he started to grow tall.

Even if the bicycle made this time is a little crude, there is still no big problem in riding it when it is old.

"Brother-in-law, when riding a bicycle, just keep pedaling forward, and the bike will move forward by itself, and all you have to do is to control the direction of the handlebar besides pedaling forward with your feet."

After Chen Nian rode for two laps, sure enough, Hai Mingxian became interested.

It's just that although Hai Mingxian is almost 20 years old now, he has never ridden a bicycle before, so Chen Nian has been holding the seat behind him.

After riding for a while, Hai Mingxian found this thing more and more interesting.

"Chen Nian, this bicycle is really good. It's so fun. I've already thought about it. I'll ride this bicycle to the court from tomorrow."

Chen Nian thought about it, there was no car at this time, so even if my brother-in-law rode a bicycle to work, it seemed that there was no great danger, the only danger was that he might not be able to ride stably and fall down.

But for such an adult, a fall is no big deal.

"Brother-in-law, then you have to practice well first, and this thing is not as comfortable to ride as a carriage."

"It doesn't matter what's comfortable or not. I'm going to learn how to ride a bicycle today, and I'll ride it to court tomorrow!"

Hai Mingxian became more enthusiastic as he spoke, and now he could imagine the surprised look of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty when he saw the bicycle.

It's not that Chen Nian thinks these civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are ignorant, it's mainly because the egg-filled biscuits and hamburgers he made for Master Tan when he was in the Tan Mansion earlier caused a sensation, let alone this bicycle.

However, when Hai Mingxian was practicing cycling, Chen Nian told him that he could take people on the back seat after he learned how to ride a bicycle.

When Chen Nian was designing the bicycle, he also added a rear seat and a frame at the front.

"That is to say, I didn't graduate from a related major. Otherwise, I would have to design a bicycle with a chain for my brother-in-law, instead of such a dead fly."

It is enough to get out the bicycle with old age's current ability. At the beginning, he spent a lot of brain cells in order to calculate the speed difference between the pedals and the tires.

It's just that the happy time is always short, after Chen Nian stayed in Haifu for another day, he will go back to the palace the next day.

This time, I left for four or five days, and it was Li Xu's extra favor.

In addition to the Qionglin Banquet for Wen Zhuangyuan, there is also a martial arts banquet for Wu Zhuangyuan in the palace.

Although it is impossible for these martial arts practitioners to compare with those literati in terms of food, although the quantity is the same, the portion is much larger. Roast whole lamb and roast duck have to be arranged.

However, Chen Nian is better at these relatively extensive foods. He made roast duck at the beginning, and roast whole lamb is much simpler than roast duck, so he took the initiative to ask Song Qingzhou to make these kinds.

Out of trust in Chen Nian, Song Qingzhou agreed.

Then he discovered that when Chen Nian was cooking roast duck, the whole process was extremely smooth, and he even didn't quite understand some things.

Of course, this is not his fault. Chen Nian learned roast duck about a few hundred years after the Great Xia Dynasty. The final processing of various ingredients is also delicate and careful in advance.

This made him less and less able to see through Chen Nian. The only time when he could feel that Chen Nian was still his apprentice was when he taught Chen Nian Tan's family dishes.

He has been learning every dish with great care. Even if he couldn’t remember the dishes at the banquet, he will write them down in a booklet later, and record most of the steps he wrote down. If there is something you don't understand, just ask Song Qingzhou directly.

In addition to his job as the royal chef, he also cooks various desserts for Li Xu every day.

With chocolate and coffee, there are many more things that can be done in the old age.

If it is to be made in old age now, he can make different kinds of dim sum every day of the year.

It can even be guaranteed that these dim sums are something neither Li Xu nor those empresses have eaten.

It's just that Li Xu won't let him do that. After all, among the desserts that she has already eaten, many of them are very suitable for her appetite, so there are often opportunities to make desserts a second time.

Day after day, year after year, time flies by like a fleeting horse, and Chen Nian has spent three years in this palace in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Li Xu was reviewing official documents in the imperial study, but while she was reviewing, she suddenly found that her hands seemed to be a little fleshier than a few years ago.

Thinking of this, she lowered her head and looked at her body again. Whether it was her arms, legs, or stomach, she was much fatter than before.

So on this day, she specially called Chen Nian and told Chen Nian to try her best to make some desserts and snacks that are not easy to gain weight from today on.

On the other hand, the aging experiments have finally been successfully completed, and the toxicity in sweet potatoes and potatoes has been removed.

Then Hai Shaowen asked his subordinate Sinong to take the cultivated seeds and seedlings to plant in the imperial field.

And when planting, it is also strictly according to the various experimental variables designed before aging, and grouped to do control experiments.

Since it is still in the initial stage, they can't go too fast on this road. The goal this year can only be to plant the first batch of potatoes first, and then continue to do research on the second batch.

So after those potatoes and sweet potatoes were planted, there were fewer things to do on the old side.

And those farmers also left here to farm.

All of a sudden the laboratory is so empty.

It is not easy for Chen Nian to have such a laboratory of his own. Although the environment and various facilities are so simple that it cannot be called a laboratory at all, all the things in all the rooms in this yard are very important for Chen Nian. It is of great significance to the former experimental dogs.

No matter how bad the conditions are, this is still his own laboratory. Even if there are a few assistants in the laboratory, they are only assigned to be in charge of farming.

"They have gone to farm now, but it's a pity that this laboratory is so empty." Thinking of this, Chen Nian couldn't help but sigh.

"No, I finally got such a laboratory, I can't let it be so deserted, I have to think about it later, and make something good.

But these things in the laboratory are indeed too simple, and I have to talk to Mr. Meng Tiemeng later to see if he can get the glass out.

If glass can be made, then many things can continue to be produced. "

Thinking of this, Chen Nian felt that he had a long way to go. Obviously he just got a bottle of vinegar, but for this bottle of vinegar, he made dumplings with dough and made dumplings.

Forget it, who cares, anyway, here to toss casually, I used to only read novels and watch anime, and in the past, when I entered the dream space, the main purpose was to learn how to cook, so there is no need to do more Something else.

But since I have this condition here, I can do a little bit of tossing and tossing, and even if I am developing science, it is also developing food science.

After making up his mind in this way, Chen Nian went back at night and thought about what to do next in the laboratory.

The first thing is to let the Ministry of Industry produce glass, but making glass requires a higher furnace temperature. Chen Nian worked very hard to recall the structure of the blast furnace, and took advantage of Meng Tie to come to find it the next day. When I was a child, I gave Meng Tie the design drawings.

"Master Meng, this drawing may not be accurate, but the general principle should be fine. You can study it later. This will increase the temperature of the furnace, but you must pay attention to safety when researching."

Meng Tie was overjoyed after hearing this!

If they can increase the temperature of the blast furnace, they can also make more things.

Chen Nian put forward ideas and directions, and the specific implementation was directly handed over to Meng Tie.

Then Chen Nian also began to work harder to learn Tan's cuisine.

The days passed day by day, Chen Nian went out of the palace every two months, and every time he went out of the palace, it was still the same, living in Tan Mansion for a day, and then in Hai Mansion for a day, both rain and dew.

And in the Tan Mansion, every time Chen Nian goes back, Master Peng Changhai will also tell Chen Nian some unique skills he knew in his early years.

Although Peng Changhai is already old, these unique skills are all things he has learned in his long career.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Nian had already stayed in the palace for a full year.

Chen Nian has already learned about one-third of Tan Jiacai, and also learned a lot about the various banquets held in the palace on weekdays.

Although every time there is a banquet in the palace, you can only start to make two or three menus, but this is already an achievement that many imperial chefs can hardly match. Many of them did it because they had various unique skills in their hands. was invited into the palace.

But no matter whether it's Li Xu or those ladies, they get tired of eating those things after a few times, so they have no use for them and become idlers.

Seeing that there is no way out in the palace, they just wait for the day when the emperor suddenly thinks of them and bestows them on the ministers in the palace.

Chen Nian is different, although now he can only cook two or three dishes independently, but there are quite a lot of dishes in his hands. Following Song Qingzhou, basically every big dish is prepared by Chen Nian .

After the old age is ready, Song Qingzhou will do it.

So anyone with a discerning eye can see that Chen Nian's position in the palace will only become more and more stable in the future.

But now His Majesty has to eat the snacks made by Chen Nian every day at noon after lunch.

But they eat aged desserts, snacks, milk tea, ice cream, ice cream, and yogurt every day at the cost of gaining weight visible to the naked eye.

In addition to the imperial dining room, potatoes and sweet potatoes were also planted on the Huangtian side.

Under the best circumstances, potatoes can reach a yield of just over one thousand catties per mu, while sweet potatoes can reach two thousand catties.

This made Li Xu very happy.

What does it mean to produce one to two thousand catties per mu?
It means that if these seeds are promoted, the grain yield per mu of their Great Xia Dynasty will be at least several times higher.

With more food, the common people can give birth with peace of mind, and don't have to worry about not being able to fill their stomachs after giving birth.

And after the population rises, it represents the improvement of national strength.

"Chen Nian, you have done a great job. I can grant you an official position. Are you from the fourth rank now? In this way, I can let you directly become the fourth rank, and unlike the imperial chef, you, the fourth rank official, really want to be in power. of.

You are not only good at craftsman manufacturing, physics and arithmetic, but also know how to cultivate and improve crops, so you can choose the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, and go to whichever you want, but no matter where you go, I will allow you to build experiments Room, I will give you whatever you want. "

"Thank you, Your Majesty, but until now, I have only treated craftsmen and crops as sideline jobs..."

Li Xu took a deep breath, she knew very well the importance of talents like Chen Nian to the Great Xia Dynasty.

"Do you still want to learn how to cook?"

"Well, I hope His Majesty will forgive me."

"What's the crime?" Li Xu chuckled, and waved his hands indifferently, "Since you are so interested in cooking together, I will allow you to tell me whoever you want to learn cooking from in the future. , I will send the master directly to you, and you can learn whatever you want!" (End of this chapter)