Chapter 8 The imperial meal in the palace is not as good as hot pot!

"No! The pigs in our village may eat better than those in the palace. Because we in our village feed the pigs with leftovers." Zhao Yi said with a smile.

Ying Zheng felt something was wrong when he heard this.

What does it mean that the imperial meals in the palace look like pig food?
Do the pigs in the village eat better than those in the palace?
What he meant was that the food he ate as the great Emperor of Qin was not as good as that of their village?
What a joke!

The imperial meal cannot be compared with iced black tea.

The ingredients for the imperial meals in the palace are all delicacies from mountains and seas carefully selected from all over the country.

Then it is cooked by the skillful hands of the imperial chef in the palace.

All the chefs in the palace are famous chefs, inheriting the cooking skills from several generations of their ancestors.

When Ying Zheng conquered the six kingdoms, he also brought some of their royal chefs back to the palace.

How can a small village compare to this?

Ying Zheng felt that Zhao Yi only said such things because he was inexperienced.

After all, he had never eaten the imperial meals in the palace.

I won't get angry with him.

I will take him to the palace later and let him taste the imperial cuisine.

Then he will know how delicious the imperial meals in the palace are.

Wang Jian, who was standing by, saw that his majesty was not angry after hearing this.

I murmured quietly in my heart.

Your Majesty didn't even get angry!

It can be seen that His Majesty really likes this kid Zhao.

This kid Zhao is really favored by the emperor!
It seems that there will be great achievements in the future.

Wang Jian planned to establish a good relationship with Zhao Yi.

Soon, a villager came in pushing a small cart.

Then a clay stove is placed on the table and red-hot charcoal is put into it.

When Ying Zheng saw this, he laughed in his heart.

I thought Zhao kid could come up with something.

It turned out to be just a barbecue.

What kind of barbecue haven’t I eaten?

I will let Zhao Yi taste the roast suckling pig roasted by the imperial chef in the palace later.

Let him know what delicious food is.

(Roasted suckling pig has a long history, dating back to the Zhou Dynasty, and has a high status as one of the "Eight Delicacies".)
Then the villager took out a large iron pot from the cart.

There is red soup and white soup.

Then he placed several ingredients on the table.

Taking into account that the scumbag dads and their friends might have different tastes, Zhao Yi invited them to eat the all-purpose yuanyang hotpot.

In addition, Zhao Yi is very confident that Yuanyang Hotpot can conquer his scumbag father and others.

After all, his hot pot dip is too good.

In this era when all the condiments are weird, dipping butter in soy sauce and oyster sauce is the perfect choice.

Because it’s so fresh
If salt is the king of all flavors.

Then freshness is the king of all flavors!

If people of this era want to taste the delicious flavor, they can only do so by cooking various broths and seafood.

But the degree of freshness is far inferior to that of soy sauce and oyster sauce.

Moreover, Zhao Yi also has a special beef tallow hot pot base.

The base sauce prepared according to the hot pot recipe of later generations was able to crush the market in this era when food culture was still in its infancy.

After all, the spice combinations and processing methods in the hot pot base are the result of more than two thousand years of accumulated food culture.

There are reasons why hotpot is so popular all over the country.

The villagers laid out all the ingredients and left.

Ying Zheng saw the plates of sliced ​​viscera on the table.

"You want to treat us to these offal?"

In Ying Zheng's view, offal was something that only inferior people ate, so he felt a little disgusted.

Zhao Yi smiled and said, "You will know if you try it. I guarantee you will be satisfied."

As he said this, he poured the ingredients into the pot.

Wang Jian, who was standing by, was very surprised when he saw the pot.

Because he could see that the pot was made of iron!
Zhao Yi's village can make a thin iron pot with iron! This shows that their metal forging technology is far superior to that of the Qin Dynasty.

Although the Qin cavalry had iron armor.

But that iron armor was just pieces of iron connected together.

In essence, the technology is no different from those iron farm tools.

Daqin did not have the ability to manufacture one-piece iron products like this iron pot.

But now a one-piece iron pot appeared in front of Wang Jian.

This means that the forging technology of Zhao Yi’s village can produce an integrated iron shield and an integrated iron armor!

Wang Jian knew very well what the one-piece iron shield and one-piece iron armor meant to the army.

This means that the enemy can no longer break through the armor by splitting the joints between the iron plates as before.

This means that soldiers no longer have to worry about enemy arrows passing through the gaps in the iron plates of their armor and hurting them.

Iron shield and iron armor, plus a saddle, stirrups and horseshoes in front.

Zhao Yi indeed has the ability to build an army that can defeat the Qin cavalry!
Wang Jian couldn't help but feel fortunate that His Majesty was interested in making an incognito visit yesterday.

Otherwise they wouldn't have met Zhao Yi.

In that case, Zhao Yi might really be able to secretly build a rebel army.

Wang Jian didn't dare to imagine what would happen if an elite rebellious cavalry equipped with iron weapons suddenly appeared in the territory of the Qin Dynasty.

Suddenly, I heard His Majesty's exclamation.

"Oh my god, Zhao boy, what is this red pot of yours? It tastes so refreshing and delicious. Huhuhu"

Ying Zheng exhaled due to the spiciness while speaking.

But the chopsticks in his hand did not stop, and he continued to scoop up the beef tripe from the pot and put it into his mouth.

Zhao Yi smiled and said, "It tastes good, right? This is called spicy flavor. It comes from those red things called chili peppers. Don't just eat the sticky sauce dish with nothing in your mouth. Try it."

Ying Zheng followed his instructions and dipped the sauce in the sauce dish before putting it in his mouth. "Wow! So delicious. I've never eaten anything so delicious."

Zhang Han on the side also praised: "It's delicious."

Wang Jian was very confused.

Is it really that delicious?

Let His Majesty be surprised like this.

Your Majesty, what delicacies from land and sea have you not tasted?

So Wang Jian also picked up a piece from the hot pot and tasted it.

It hurts a little! But it feels so good!
This spicy taste is much better than that of pepper and ginger.

Wang Jian liked the taste immediately.

Wang Jian said as he ate, "What a pity! It would be perfect if there was more wine!"

Ying Zheng also agreed: "It would be more refreshing if there was wine."

"As for wine, we have it in our village too. I tell you, this wine can be said to be the best in the world." Zhao Yi said as he took a bottle of wine from the cart.

Of course, Zhao Yi also learned the method of brewing liquor from the system.

However, due to the limited planting area in the village, not many people grow sorghum.

So not much wine was brewed.

Then Zhao Yi also needs to distill a large part of the wine to make high-purity alcohol for other uses.

This liquor is also very precious in the village.

Zhao Yi also planned to let his scumbag father taste the wine and then become his own liquor distributor.

Good for yourself to make money and collect more resources.

After all, Shahe Village is too small and has no channels.

After a few years when the First Emperor dies, the world will begin to fall into chaos.

Then business won’t be so easy to do.

It is difficult to get money and various resources.

Zhao Yi must seize this last window of time for development and prepare for the coming chaos.

After the baptism of hot pot, Ying Zheng and the other two were looking forward to the wine that Zhao Yi mentioned.

Wang Jian quickly took the wine jug.

He opened the lid and took a closer sniff.

Fragrant!
Really fragrant!

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(End of this chapter)