First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 141

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After getting out of the large tent of the Chinese army, Gao Chong went straight to the ordnance department behind the camp. There were clanging sounds from inside, or weapons were being made or repaired.

Gao Chong found a steward, revealed his identity, and put an iron pot and a simple distillation device. It was not complicated.

A quarter of an hour later, Gao Chong returned to his office, looking at the mountain of documents in front of him, a little dumbfounded.

Li Shimin patted Gao Chong on the shoulder, "In order not to disturb your newlyweds, I have shared a lot with you these days."

Pointing to a stack on the desk, he said: "This is the most important thing. I have eliminated 13 soldiers from the Right Commander's Mansion, and reorganized [-] soldiers. You need to re-enact the military tax regulations as soon as possible." ;
In addition, this stack is a booklet that will be released this month, so you need to check it;

This pile is the list of discipline violations for this month, here are the detailed records, Keming has already made a preliminary judgment, and you still need to delineate it."

After finishing speaking, Li Shimin personally poured Gao Chong a cup of tea, "Youzhi, your burden is heavy."

Gao Chong wanted to cry but had no tears, seeing this situation.

Li Shimin laughed heartily, got up and left.

Until night fell, Gao Chong was still working hard.

"Yuzhi..." Li Shimin called from outside the door, and was about to continue calling, but he heard Gao Chong shout hoarsely: "Don't make noise."

Outside the door, Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji, Liu Hongji and Xue Shou looked at each other.

"Three stacks of case files, doesn't he want to finish sorting them out in one afternoon?" Li Shimin asked in astonishment.

Changsun Wuji shook his head, but Liu Hongji frowned and said, "I'm just worried about whether we can have a good dinner tonight."

As soon as the words fell, two craftsmen rushed to the door, and when they saw Li Shimin and others, they hurriedly saluted.

Seeing these two craftsmen carrying two objects with strange shapes, Li Shimin couldn't help asking curiously: "What are these objects? What are they used for?"

"Back to the governor, this is made by Gao Sima. This is called an iron pot, and this is called a distiller. As for what it is for, the humble official does not know."The person from the Ordnance Department replied truthfully.

At this moment, the door creaked open, and Gao Chong came out with disheveled hair. Seeing a group of people gathered around the door, he couldn't help being startled, "You...what are you doing here?"

Seeing Gao Chong's appearance, several people were also curious. When they entered the room, they saw a mess everywhere and files scattered all over the place.

"It's a bit of a mess, but at least it's settled," Gao Chong said with a grin, and then summoned two subordinate officials to tidy him up.

Li Shimin picked up a case file, flipped through it, and saw only one line approved on it.

"On the seventh day of the lunar new year, 200 people should have arrived, but 23 people actually arrived, 240 people were sick, and 27 people were false. Where are the remaining [-] people?"

Seeing this, Li Shimin couldn't help nodding and laughing: "Youzhi's arithmetic is really rigorous."

Then Liu Hongji walked up to him with a mouthful of black water and knocked on it, "What do you want this iron pot for?"

Seeing the iron pot, Gao Chong's eyes lit up, and he checked it. It was indeed made of high-quality iron, and according to his requirements, it was made very thin, with a deep mouth and a round bottom. He was very satisfied immediately, and took out a small piece of silver from his cuff Throw the barley to the craftsman, and the craftsman is busy thanking him.

"Let's go, go to my house and show you a hand." Seeing that everyone was there, Gao Chong laughed immediately.

The crowd went to the Duke of Yan's mansion together, and when they returned to the mansion, Gao Junya had already returned to the mansion. Seeing so many people, she was about to call Gao Fu to prepare a banquet, but was stopped by Gao Chong.

Gao Chong hurriedly carried the iron pan into the kitchen, but he startled all the servants in the kitchen, trying to dissuade them, Gao Chong drove them all out, took a look at the raw materials and seasonings, and couldn't help pulling them out cold.

The raw materials are only chicken, duck, goose, sheep, rabbit, and a large piece of venison, but there is no pork, and there are very few vegetables. Pepper, ginger, garlic, tempeh, etc.

Gao Chong had no choice but to order someone to clean the still, pour a jar of turbid wine, and let someone set up firewood to take care of it, while he rolled up his sleeves under the surprised eyes of everyone, fried chicken with peppercorns, fried ginger mother duck……

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, there have been bronze stills. Gao Chong is temporarily unable to brew high-grade wine. He can only distill ordinary turbid wine again to evaporate the water and increase the degree. After repeated distillations several times, the kitchen is full of wine. However, there are only two bowls left in a jar of wine.

Seeing this, Gao Chong was secretly speechless, the water content of this turbid wine is really high enough, and the cost of distilled shochu is really not low, it seems that a high price has to be set.

An hour later, everyone in the banquet hall was already hungry, so Gao Chong changed into a suit of clothes and came to the hall, "Today is too hasty, and many materials have not been collected, everyone will just do it."

"Yuzhi, you can eat whatever you have," Liu Hongji yelled, "I'm so hungry that my chest sticks to my back."

Gao Chong clapped his hands, and the maid brought plates of fried chicken with pepper, stir-fried ginger duck, fresh fried lamb, etc. to the table.

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help being very curious, "It's not boiled, not broiled, what's the method?" Liu Hongji asked curiously with his eyes wide open.

The food at this time is either stewed or roasted. The plates of authentic chicken, duck and mutton don't look like roasted, let alone stewed.

"This is stir-fried vegetables in an iron pan," Gao Chong said with a smile, "How do you guys taste it?"

Liu Hongji and the others couldn't bear the smell for a long time. They immediately picked up the chopsticks and chewed a piece of chicken. Their eyes lit up, "This taste...is really unique. It's not as greasy as roasted, and it's not as soft as stewed." .

Li Shimin and the others nodded in praise after eating.

This stir-fried dish came out ahead of time, and everyone was full of praise immediately.

At this time, Gao Chong took out another jar and put it on the desk.

Seeing this, Liu Hongji yelled: "Such delicious food, how can there be no wine, you should serve wine quickly, and only one person and one pot can be happy."

"There is no one jar per person, at most one bowl per person," Gao Chong shook his head and smiled wryly.

While Liu Hongji was muttering, Gao Chong patted the Kaifeng altar, and a strong aroma of wine overflowed.

"This..." Li Shimin next to him twitched his nose and asked in surprise, "Why is the aroma of this wine so strong?"

Gao Chong hugged the jar, poured a bowl each, and when he arrived, there was only half a bowl left.

Seeing Liu Hongji's eyes widen, holding up the bowl with a look of astonishment on his face, Gao Chong hurriedly said, "Drink slowly, take a small sip at a time."

It's a pity that it was a bit late, Liu Hongji took a sip and drank less than half a bowl, and when he coughed violently, he felt a burning pain in his throat, and tears came out from the choking.

It took a long time before he calmed down under the surprised eyes of everyone, "This...why is this wine...so strong".

Everyone didn't dare to underestimate it. Gao Junya sniffed it, and a strong pungent smell came out. She took a sip, and a spicy rush rushed into her throat, and then she felt her abdomen was burning like fire.

"This is shochu, I named it Burning Knife", Gao Chong said with a smile when he saw this, "Drinking it is like drinking fire, everyone, drink slowly."

　As a time traveler, it would be outrageous not to produce some epoch-making things. Rifles, cannons, and steam engines are a bit exaggerated, but getting some cooking distilled wine and so on, it is still possible to expand the source of income, right?
　　Of course, I won't spend a lot of ink on this, but I just proposed it temporarily to help Li Er make money. You have to know why the warrior Xun was able to win Li Yuan's trust, because the warrior Xun was willing to invest, and recruiting soldiers and horses required money.Immediately after entering the battle link.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)