Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 26 Development of the Fisheries Division
A large bowl of sauerkraut fish was shared by many imperial cooks, and even the soup dregs were eaten up. Sun Xiangfu himself ate a bowl of rice with pickled vegetables and meat, which was considered full.

Although Luo Tian really wanted to keep Sun Xiangfu to continue discussing cooking skills, but the emperor's meal time was approaching, and a servant came to inform Luo Tian that today the emperor would invite Sun Wuji, the Minister of the Household Department, and the left servant to shoot Fang Xuanling for lunch today. Minister of the Ministry of War Du Ruhui had a meal together, so he was going to Zhang Luo, so he had to stuff some beef and mutton ingredients from the imperial dining room to Sun Xiangfu as a thank you for Sun Xiangfu's teaching.

After leaving the palace, Sun Xiangfu directly asked the servants to send the ingredients back to Duke Yi's mansion, and he himself went back to the Yamen to instruct the servants to weave fishing nets. Happiness Village catches a lot of these things, and the fish in his hands can be more valuable when he promotes them. Now he is teaching Luo Tian’s gang of pickled cabbage fish, naturally because there will be more scale fish in his hands. Now, he guides the servants What they weave is a kind of river blocking net, which is known as the number one artifact for fishing besides electric boats.

The net is interspersed with pennies, and the middle can imitate the caliber of a fish cage, making multiple barbed openings that are easy to enter and difficult to exit. Behind the openings, a long and large fish cage is made with bamboo strips and fishing nets. After the whole big net has stopped a river, it is only necessary to send boats at both ends to chase it under the water with pennies, and all the fish that flee in panic will rush into the fish cage, making it difficult to escape.

Moreover, this method catches only live fish, and will not kill the fish due to entanglement in the net. It only needs to release the small fish caught, and it will not hurt the fish due to overfishing. Given the ecological environment and wild fish in this period, It is conceivable how much fish can be caught after this net is woven.

When Sun Xiangfu and his big guys were weaving nets in the Fisheries Department, Li Shimin was entertaining his three important ministers in the Taiji Palace. In Tang Dynasty, meals were divided, especially between the emperor and his ministers. Even the table should be placed a few meters away. Come, but this does not affect the enthusiasm of the meal at all, because Luo Tian completely followed Sun Xiangfu's cooking method and made a pickled fish as the main course of today's lunch. There was an obviously larger porcelain bowl, inside which was red and white fish sauerkraut, which was delicious and tempting. The four of them moved their chopsticks and forgot what they were going to discuss before. They were sweating profusely after eating.

"My dear friends, is my imperial meal delicious?"

"It's really delicious in the world. Luotian really put a lot of thought into doing things in the imperial dining room." Several people were old people in the Qin Palace, and they naturally knew a little about Li Shimin's imperial cook, Luotian. Changsun Wuji was the first to praise him.

"Well, come, someone, send Luo Tian to come."

After a while, Luo Tian was brought into the dining room by the servants. After some greetings, Li Shimin asked, "Today's fish sticks are from your hands."

"Your Majesty, that's right." Seeing that Li Shimin was in a good mood with a smile on his face, Luo Tian continued, "This dish was taught by Sun Jiancheng of the Fisheries Department when he was delivering fish to the palace today. .”

Next, Luo Tian briefly explained to Li Shimin the whole process of Sun Xiangfu's entry into the palace, especially the sentence that this pickled fish will taste better if it is cooked with more than ten catties of Yellow River carp. , but after Li Shimin heard it, he wanted to eat as fast as he could.

In the end, Li Shimin rewarded Luo Tian with two guans of money, and ordered him to send a palace piercing card to Sun Xiangfu. After that, he could enter and leave the imperial dining room within the specified time to exchange cooking skills with the imperial chefs.

Luotian, who got the reward and the badge, retired, the matter was not over, because at this time Empress Changsun also had a dish of pickled fish on the dining table. Now Empress Changsun is pregnant. Although she has been a mother for several times, she is embarrassed , still had a poor appetite, but the pickled fish whetted the appetite of Empress Changsun, and even ate up a whole big bowl, and even ate an extra bowl of rice than usual.

"Come here, tell Luotian."

Therefore, when Luo Tian came out of Lizheng Hall, he felt like he was going to float up. The stingy and stingy eldest grandson queen actually rewarded him with two pennies, and asked him to teach the cook of Zuixianlou, an industry under the queen's name. Learning how to cook this dish, I remember the last time when dishes such as stir-fried eel came out, after he learned it, he also went to Zuixianlou to teach. Arranging his son to be the steward of Zuixianlou, now, I am afraid it is another blessing.

The lunch was very enjoyable. After Li Shimin finished talking about the matter, he habitually visited Empress Sun, the head of Lizheng Hall. The couple discussed the matter of sauerkraut and fish to make a fortune. It is everywhere, so Li Shimin sent a servant to inform all the cooks in the imperial dining room that it is forbidden to spread the method of making this dish outside the palace, including Sun Xiangfu. At the same time, he rewarded Sun Xiangfu in the name of the queen. Enjoy five pennies, which is considered a hush money.

At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, Sun Xiangfu was about to go home from the Yamen, but at this time he received a verbal order from the servant and a reward of five pennies, and he couldn't laugh or cry. Brother pointed to this dish to open the fish market!
The next day, Sun Xiangfu sent another batch of fish to the palace, and asked Luo Tian to help him to thank him. After hearing that Empress Changsun lost her appetite during pregnancy, but only loved pickled fish, Sun Xiangfu said, "Sour children are spicy girls." , the birth of the eldest grandson empress should be a prince."

Then, this sentence was accidentally spread by Luo Tian, ​​and then, it spread out of control in the whole palace, and all the concubines heard the word, and even scrambled to eat pickled fish.

Two days later, Zuixianlou put up a signboard for a new dish, the palace secretly made sauerkraut fish, and passed on the taste and efficacy of this dish miraculously, especially the saying that eating sauerkraut fish is good for men is well known. Believe it or not, most people in Chang'an believe it anyway.

So, on that day, the Zuixianlou on the third floor was almost crowded by the guests. After eating the high-priced dishes that cost two yuan a dish, no one said it was worthless. You know, the cost of pickled fish is not as good as Stir-fried shredded eel!After all, the price of eel is now [-] Wen per catty, while the price of grass carp is currently less than [-] Wen per catty.

Empress Changsun counted the money until her hands cramped, while Sun Xiangfu continued to live his ordinary life, weaving nets, arranging people to fish, and delivering fish to the imperial dining room. During this period, he went back to Happy Village twice. Unknowingly, More than ten days have passed, the weather is getting colder, and the autumn harvest is coming.

In the agricultural society, the autumn harvest is the time when the people’s joy index is the highest in the country. There is no major disaster this year, and the grain harvest in Guanzhong is quite abundant. The more than 1000 mu of millet land in Xingfu Village has harvested nearly 2000 shi of grain, which is enough for all villagers to eat two It's been a year, and there are more than [-] acres of soybeans. Now I can peel some green beans and cook them.

Sun Xiangfu returned to the village for three days when the villagers started harvesting grain. In addition to instructing everyone to store the grain in the commune’s barn, he also taught everyone to use a large amount of autumn grass to make fish feed. There are hundreds of thousands of fish. If there is no accident, he will keep the fish until the middle of winter before starting the pond.

As for the increasingly large chicken and pig farms, Sun Xiangfu had already formulated a method of mixing feed. If not, he could just feed them grain directly, because since the autumn harvest, the price of grain in Chang'an has almost dropped by half. There is nothing wrong with feeding livestock and chickens with a little grain.

Sun Xiangfu returned to Chang'an by boat after harvesting some vegetables in the vegetable field he planted. These late-planted vegetables were actually out of season, so he needed to build a shed for the vegetables to ensure that they would not grow until they were fully mature. Being frozen to death, this task was naturally handed over to Sun Dali, and Sun Xiangfu just provided Sun Dali with the silk cloth for the tent.

The younger brothers and sisters prefer to stay in Xingfu Village, so Sun Xiangfu who lives alone is a bit boring. Empress Changsun once again increased the cost of fish in the palace. Five hundred catties, if it was in previous years, the Fisheries Department would definitely not be able to complete the task, but this year is different, because the production of the river blocking net was successful, the Fisheries Department not only did not feel sad because of the increase in share, but took the initiative to increase the three catties proposed by the queen to five catties , the daily delivery of [-] catties has become [-] catties, there is no way, only Zuixianlou's family is allowed to sell sauerkraut fish, and the fishery department catches too much fish to sell out.

"Hoarding, give me a lot of hoarding, weave fishing nets, put a piece in the Niushou pond, and hoard as many big fish as you can salvage. The era of real fish eating has not yet broken out."

Sun Xiangfu overfulfilled the task, and only received a verbal award from Empress Zhangsun, but he didn't care. Now, autumn vegetables are still sold in the market. When the weather is getting colder and the food options for big guys are getting less and less It's time for the fish to go all out.

Of course, Sun Xiangfu has never forgotten the threat of the Seven Sects and Five Watches. In addition to honestly going to the Yamen, Sun Xiangfu also paid a lot of money to recruit martial arts masters as his guards. After half a month, he finally recruited a talent. His name is Xi Junmai. He was originally a young ranger in Chang'an. Sun Xiangfu, who has watched some costume TV dramas, knows that this person will become a powerful general in the Tang Dynasty in the future, but at this time, he is still a proper young man. With the salary of Qianqian, Sun Xiangfu took him into his pocket properly.

"Buy it! There is nothing to do in the Yamen today. I will take you to inspect the Taiye Pond. I will go to the kitchen to ask Mrs. Meng for two fat chickens, wrap them in lotus leaves, and my seasoning box. For lunch, let's go directly to Taiye Pond." Solve it by the liquid pool."

Xi Junmai was born as a low-level peasant. Therefore, even the historical records are not very ominous about his provenance. If he is the happiest thing after he followed Sun Xiangfu, it is that he eats endlessly every day and brings his grandson along. He also carried a small altar of fine wine from the Qin Mansion in order to enjoy the items he had given him. A life with wine and meat is his ideal state.

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