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Chapter 122 The City of Food
For small churches, the family conditions of believers are important.

Because these churches do not have abundant material resources, they naturally hope that believers can use their own resources to "take a few steps" before joining the church, and then be able to make up for some of the resource gaps on their own after joining the church.

In this way, small churches have the opportunity to "do big things with small money" and recruit as many believers as possible while ensuring the development of the church's overall strength to a certain extent.

Medium and large churches have completely different strategies for developing believers.

For a church of this level, the advantages that wealth brings to the common people are no longer that important.

The church is willing to cast its net wider and give more people the opportunity to join the church.

Even if you mistakenly recruit dozens of believers who have no potential, as long as you can find a believer who did not show the outstanding potential he should have due to limited material conditions, you will make a profit.

After all, these churches generally have the ability to provide all believers with sufficient resources in the secular world, ensuring that the conditions they have on the material level are basically no worse than those of wealthy families.

The church's balanced meal supply and unique meditation venue resources often allow believers born in poverty to quickly catch up with or even surpass the strength of those children of the rich who are exploring themselves.

For a church that has developed to this level, the criteria for recruiting believers have changed from a criterion based on wealth to a variety of criteria that focus more on non-material aspects.

These churches often have their own unique and standardized admissions process to accommodate the large number of applicants and select candidates who are in line with the "spirit of the church."

For plump wheat ears, the tasting is just such a process.

In "Belstad", people generally like to taste all kinds of delicious food.

The city's excellent location connecting the northern border of the kingdom and the evergreen plains ensures that specialties from all regions of the kingdom have a place in "Belstad".

On the one hand, agriculture has always been the top priority of "Belstad".

The emphasis on food seems to have been engraved in the bones of the people of "Belstad" since the city's founders.

With the rapid development of cities, the problem of "how to eat enough" gradually no longer exists, and the problem of "how to eat well" has naturally become the focus of people's lives.

On the other hand, "Belstad" has a unique strategic location.

As the "key to the North", it is obviously too wasteful to only serve as the kingdom's granary.

This largest city in the north is also an important trading city of the kingdom.

A large number of business trips brought a variety of local specialties and cooking techniques to "Belstad".

It also brings various dietary needs.

These conditions further make this city very receptive to novel foods and ingredients from top to bottom, and it also has sufficient motivation to discover outstanding dishes.

As long as conditions are ripe, the excavated food and ingredients will be distributed throughout the kingdom and even sold abroad through the "Belstad" platform.

In the end, it brings considerable returns to the entire city.

Even if there is no official organization, many times the residents of "Belstad" will spontaneously gather in certain squares or the courtyards of generous organizers to participate in private tastings.

For the organizers, although they basically have to bear the costs of food, venue, etc., it is not a waste of money.

Foreign businessmen who organize tasting events can quickly integrate into the society of "Belstad" and gain a good reputation.

Even local businessmen can use such philanthropy to further solidify their reputation.

At the same time, guests participating in the tasting will also fulfill their obligations and provide the host with as detailed feedback as possible to help the host judge the market feedback of the food in advance to the greatest extent possible.

Those "expert critics" who can accurately write about the characteristics, pros and cons of tasting objects can make a living from this and are extremely sought after by wealthy businessmen.

After all, such geniuses can not only provide accurate judgment basis for the master at the market level, but they are also basically believers of the Church of the Full Wheat.

A believer with such potential might be promoted to a priest at some point.

Businessmen who are good at investing will never miss such a good investment opportunity.

The Church of the Full Wheat, which rules the city, is of course also a strong promoter of the custom of tastings.

The success of every transaction and the flow of ingredients in "Belstad" will further make the city prosperous.

Relying on the mechanism of the tasting meeting and its own strong foundation of planting and animal husbandry, "Belstad" can always lead the kingdom's food trade as a pioneer.

The biggest beneficiary of the city's prosperity is undoubtedly the Full Wheat Ear Church.

Therefore, it can be said that it is inevitable that tasting meetings will become a key step in becoming a Christian.

However, even though the church attaches great importance to tasting meetings, Jorvik did not expect that Chief Sean would come to this "Bronze Level" tasting meeting.

The Agricultural Officer had three main jobs: supervising grain production, attending regular tastings, and assisting with city trade.

The first two are fixed, job-related matters, while the last one is auxiliary.

"Belstad" has a dedicated trade department to connect with merchants: recommend goods, provide goods, ensure goods storage and transshipment, etc.

However, considering that food trade is the leading type of trade in the city, and agricultural officers regularly participate in tastings and often have deep insights into food and ingredients, agricultural officers are often invited by the trade department to assist in work. .

For agricultural officers who have already completed their duties, making contributions on such auxiliary matters is also a good opportunity to add to their resume.

In addition to passively following the requests of the trading department staff to provide various suggestions, of course, you can also proactively recommend new foods, ingredients, spices, etc.

However, the types of ingredients and spices in the kingdom are not endless. After so many years of exploration, it is relatively difficult to come up with new things from these two aspects.

Therefore, the “trends” in tastings in recent years are basically reflected in new cooking techniques and seasoning techniques.

The former is purely about food appreciation and belongs to the personal achievements and inheritance of the chefs. It has little to do with the development of the food trade in "Belstad".

Naturally, it has little to do with the achievements and promotions of agricultural officers.

The latter is different.

It is common knowledge that the profits from the trade in finished food are greater than those from the trade in ingredients.

However, finished foods have clear innate requirements for storage conditions.

In the cold north, this requirement may not be so high.

Although it takes more than half a month for the goods to be transported from "Belstad" to "Tarentu", a large city in the central part of the north, many foods with medium and heavy salt can still be eaten normally.

Many even after reheating, the flavor is not lost much.

But south of "Belstad", in the evergreen plains where the temperature is significantly higher, such a thing is undoubtedly a fantasy.

Not to mention that it has been shipped for more than half a month, even if it has only been shipped for a week, most of the finished food has already begun to spoil.

So the only two types of finished food left are pickled and smoked.And because they can be sold and sold in both the south and the north, they are destined to become the core product of "Belstad"'s prosperous food trade.

Many agricultural officers who want to gain some credit and seek advancement will "unintentionally" reveal their preference for pickled and smoked foods, and they attach great importance to the various new seasoning techniques used therein.

Naturally, merchants who like them will find relevant formulas and food for them.

New products recommended by agricultural officers will not be directly accepted by the trade department, and still need to go through a series of processes.

The most important thing is the tasting session.

If you really want to promote food, it doesn’t have to be so troublesome.

Find a restaurant on the road and give the boss a try. If you think it's good, he'll add a dish to the menu.

As long as the taste is excellent, customers recognize it, and word of mouth spreads, the new dishes will naturally spread.

But these are usually the paths taken by chefs and restaurateurs who develop new dishes.

For them, making money is the most important thing.

Even if the "creativity" of the dishes is stolen, the money earned in the early stage has already been pocketed, and in the later stage, it can maintain a group of customers through the combination of cooking skills and previous reputation.

This is already considered a win.

But the core motivation of agricultural officers in recommending dishes is not to make money, but to improve themselves.

Therefore, following the process, leaving a mark at every step, and finally using the trade department to promote the dishes from top to bottom is their "right way".

In this process, the Bronze Level Tasting Session, as the lowest level tasting session, plays a preliminary screening role——

It is impossible for the trade department to give the same level of promotion to all products, let alone directly add the dishes, ingredients, etc. recommended by the agricultural officers into the promotion manual.

The important indicator that determines all this is the feedback from the tasting.

If you don't get good feedback at the Bronze Level Tasting Meeting, no matter how much the agricultural officer himself recommends the dish he discovered, it is unlikely that it will be adopted by the trade department.

After all, the standards of the bronze-level tasting are very low, and they even accept dish recommendations from the private sector.

The vast majority of participants in the Bronze Tasting Conference are not even believers in gods.

If you "accidentally" heard from the "gaffe" of the agricultural officer in attendance that a certain dish was recommended by another agricultural officer, who would dare not to praise it to the fullest?
Even if the agricultural officer is relatively unpopular, due to the principle of avoiding suspicion, he cannot appear alone at the tasting meeting where he recommends dishes, and the other agricultural officer refuses to help "spread the word". In fact, it is not a big problem.

Agricultural officers participate in tastings all year round. They are also priests of the Golden Mother, and all of them have very tricky tongues.

Most of the things they would actively recommend would make civilians want to eat their tongues when they taste them.

After passing the preliminary screening of the bronze-level tasting meeting, agricultural officers can officially begin to undergo the test.

Recommended dishes will appear first at the “Silver Level” tasting.

All the guests at the silver-level tasting party are followers of a certain god, and even many clergymen will appear.

There is basically no such thing as selling the face of agricultural officials, and the process will be stricter.

If the dishes can get good reviews at the silver-level tasting meeting, the agricultural officers will be done.

Even if you don’t get good feedback the first time, if you don’t get many bad reviews, the result won’t be too bad.

Tasting sessions never prohibit you from trying the dishes you have recommended before with adjustments.

Many of the dishes that are now popular in "Belstad" became popular after they were awarded the Silver Level Tasting for the second or third time.

And during the weekly Silver Tastings, one of the most outstanding dishes will be selected to participate in the monthly "Gold" Tastings.

If the dishes can show off at the highest level of gold-level tasting, it will leave a mark on the recommender's resume.

This is also an honor that all agricultural officers who aspire to progress have long pursued and never have too much.

Jorvik is very optimistic about the "Fruit Smoked Moon Rabbit" he recommended.

Whether it is its natural advantages and potential as a smoked food or its unique and attractive flavor, Jorvik is full of confidence.

Of course he had to start tracking it from the very beginning of the bronze tasting session.

If there is anything worthy of note in the feedback, fine-tuning can be made in time.

However, he doubted that the civilians present could offer any constructive suggestions for such an outstanding dish.

After receiving and tasting the smoked rabbit that Jorvik brought from "Talek", his friend Wumer also couldn't forget it and participated in this tasting party.

In addition, Chief Agricultural Officer Sean, who also tasted the Fruit Smoked Moon Rabbit and spoke highly of it, and Agricultural Officer Siegmen, who was originally assigned to take a shift at this tasting event.

In a small bronze-level tasting meeting, four priests suddenly appeared.

Needless to say, the other civilian guests present were whispering to each other and did not even dare to go to the toilet.

The waiters at the "East Building" who had seen the market several times were also very energetic.

The East Building, which hosts the Bronze Level Tasting Conference, has not seen so many priests in the same venue for a long time.

Not to mention that there is also the famous agricultural chief Sean Chapman.

After chatting with Sean quite uncomfortably for a while, a waiter finally came to rescue Jorvik.

When agricultural officers face Sean, who is their immediate superior, they are inevitably nervous.

Didn’t you see that Wumer and Siegmen also looked serious?
If it weren't for the customary requirement that the Agricultural Officer first visit and inform the Chief Agricultural Officer before recommending a new dish, Jorvik might not have knocked on the door of Sean's office for a long time——

Individual work reports are held at the beginning of March, June and September every year, and a summary meeting of all members of the Ministry of Agriculture is held at the beginning of December.

Jorvik only reported his work on the [-]st of last month and took a leave of absence. There are still two months before the next regular meeting with Sean.

The middle-aged waiter approached the long table of agricultural officers and subconsciously swallowed nervously, then bowed to Sean and asked:

"Sir, can the tasting party begin?"

After Sean nodded calmly, the middle-aged waiter bowed respectfully, came to the front of the banquet hall, and announced loudly to all the guests:
"On April 880, 4, the first calendar year, the second bronze-level tasting event officially begins!"

“The dishes at this conference are: Wheat Stewed Chicken, Golden Onion Shrimp Balls and Fruit Smoked Moon Rabbit!”

　Thanks to Daqian Regent, I haven’t slept yet for my monthly ticket!

　　
　
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