The big man has a living father

Chapter 202 (Big Chapter) Working as a Duck for the Country
Zhao Yingqi sent people to keep an eye on the Han ships.

Almost every time the Han ship left, it was not empty, but it did not take away anything valuable. It seemed that it took away some coins? But it did not seem to be much.

All that was taken away were seeds, various fruits, and plants.

It was ridiculous. Where were they going with these perishable things? Were they planning to send them to Chang'an as fast as possible?

But by the time they crossed the Baiyue Kingdom and arrived in Zhenjiang, the fruits would have gone bad, and by the time they reached Lu, the fruits would have turned green.

Thinking of Green Hair, Zhao Yingqi's face darkened.

Zhao Yingqi, the king of a country, had a violent personality and enjoyed killing people.

But all this cannot change his nature as a bootlicker.

It is true that a young man may fall in love with a woman who has a boyfriend. But it is quite rare for a young man to fall in love with a woman who has a boyfriend and then marry her as his wife, and even as his legal wife.

It is even more rare that she was made queen and the emperor requested that her child be made the crown prince.

Of course, all this is not the origin. Emperor Wen's mother was Wei Bao's favorite concubine at first, and later followed Liu Bang.

But these are nothing. For those who have great ambitions, they may not see these things in their hearts.

But the problem is that Zhao Yingqi is not like that. At this moment, Zhao Yingqi is trying his best to manage this relationship, fearing that An Guo Shao Ji's reappearance will destroy his marriage.

What does this mean?
This shows that Zhao Yingqi was not confident enough, or that Zhao Yingqi knew from the beginning that Queen Qin did not like him that much.

It is because of this feeling that he is afraid.

If a man can't even handle the wife he has already married, what's the point of having a career?
After reading the report, Huo Hai couldn't help but shake his head.

"One hundred years later, when television is all the rage, won't your story, this top-notch material, be remade over and over again year after year?"

The innocent and lovely girl from Handan, the young man from a wealthy family in Chang'an, the prince of a vassal state, a love triangle, and the love triangle later turned into a harem drama! Aren't you being pulled out and filmed over and over again for thirty or fifty times?

Huo Hai put down the report and picked up an invitation letter.

Looking at the invitation, Huo Hai shouted, "Jiang Buyi, prepare the car!"

Jiang Buyi immediately appeared at the door: "It's ready, my lord."

Huo Hai picked up the invitation letter: "Where's Lao Huang?"

This Old Huang is Huo Hai’s cook. He was the previous cook. Now he has gone to the research institute and taken over Zhao Guo’s job in dietary research.

I can’t follow Huo Hai every day.

And this Old Huang is the second brother of Huang Jiao, the former chef of the research institute.

After Huang Jiao discovered the secret of the steam engine, he became one of the backbones of the steam engine team and became the top scientist of the Han Dynasty, so he introduced his younger brother to be the cook.

Then Huo Hai's personal chef went to the research institute again, so Huo Hai recruited a new chef, so his younger brother Huang Dou came to Huo Hai.

Jiang Buyi turned around and said, "Old Huang has been waiting in the car for a long time."

Huo Hai: "Okay, let's go!"

Jiang Buyi was also very confused. Well, I, Jiang Buyi, now know how profound the Marquis's attainments in science are. Although every idea he puts forward seems like a joke, it is always the best solution.

But, you guys are organizing a shitty cooking competition in Chang'an, why did you invite the Marquis? Is that funny?

In the past, Jiang Buyi had always heard that those delicious dishes came from the mines.

But Jiang Buyi's family was located in the mine, so of course he knew what the canteen in the mine was like.

Could Mr. Huo be in the mine every day at that time?
Those dishes were definitely not made by Lord Huo.

Jiang Buyi really chose the wrong name. Wouldn’t it be better to name it Jiang Duoyi?
After getting in the car, Huo Hai said calmly: "Old Huang, do you have confidence?"

Old Huang has seen a lot of storms and waves. He kicked his hands and said, "Don't worry, Lord Hou. I have seven swords. I can use any one of them and I won't let the championship slip away."

After saying that, Old Huang turned around and said, "My Lord, this number one is called Guan Jun. Is he in conflict with the eldest Lord?"

Huo Hai: "It's okay, just call me champion."

Jiang Buyi asked, "My Lord, why did Chang'an invite you to the cooking competition?"

Huo Hai: "You may not believe it..."

Huo Hai usually starts like this, but he is just showing off when he tells others. Now he tells Jiang Buyi that he really doesn’t believe it. Huo Hai continues: “You may not believe it, but those catering giants in Chang’an City are all my disciples.”

Jiang Buyi was skeptical.

Huo Haiya was itchy: "I'll send you to Jingzhao Yin to be a coroner!"

Jiang Buyi: "I believe it, I believe it."

Huo Hai felt even more anxious.

In fact, today's cooking competition is not just any cooking competition, but a national policy.

No one may believe this, but if you analyze the reasons for holding it, you will understand.

Now, the Han people want to go to the New World, to gain a foothold in Alaska, and to establish strongholds along the land bridge to the Bering Strait. What they need most is warm clothes.

Keeping warm is simple, animal skins can keep you warm.

Nowadays, the important thing is to keep warm while not delaying work.

When lightness, cold resistance and wear resistance are put together, it becomes more difficult.

In fact, the solution was already out at the first autumn and winter press conference two years ago.

The answer is down jacket.

A short down jacket filled with one pound of down is enough for anywhere unless you go to the Arctic.

Of course, in the north, you still need to wear underwear and woolen clothes inside and then a down jacket.

Or a long and wide down jacket filled with one pound of down, plus a down jacket liner, is enough to keep you warm.

But in this case, a large amount of down is needed to make down jackets.

At present, there are two main types of fabrics for down jackets, one is a thinner fine silk fabric, and the other is a thicker work cloth tarpaulin fabric.

The difference is that work cloth is suitable for dirty work, while tarpaulin is suitable for work that requires waterproofing.

Now that rubber has appeared, researchers are also trying to make rubber-brushed fabrics.

In addition to down jackets, the better ones are cotton-padded jackets, or more precisely, clothes made of thick cotton fabric filled with feathers.

With the same warmth retention, it is slightly heavier than a down jacket.

The next is pure cotton clothing, which, of course, is also divided into silk fabrics, cotton fabrics, work cloth (denim) and tarpaulin fabrics.

Next is animal skins.

Even though animal skins are more expensive than these in Chang'an, they must be met to meet the requirements of the Empire's Northern Expedition Team.

At present, there is an outpost base every hundred miles along the entire northward route.

There are a total of 120 outposts on the way to the Bering Strait. Each outpost provides ten of the best down jackets, ten of the second-rate down jackets, plus shoes, pants, etc. Each outpost requires ten kilograms of down.

Whether it is goose down or duck down.

And how do they sleep at night? You know, each of their outposts has north-south, east-west inspections, as well as coastline missions.

This requires 1,200 kilograms of goose down.

In addition, six ports for transit need to be established on the northbound route.

The number of work clothes required to be provided in these six places is almost the same as that of the one hundred and twenty outposts!

That means a total of 2,400 kilograms of goose down is needed.

Where is the fleet?
A fleet is not an outpost, and people need to wear wind-resistant clothes at all times. It is also easy to come into contact with water, and once it comes into contact with water, it is difficult to dry in a short time. Therefore, a person needs more than one set of clothes, or even multiple sets.

And how many employees and crew members were there in the entire mission of exploring the New World?
The initial plan is 10,000 people.

How many people will there be in the future? 30,000? 50,000? 100,000?

The people in the research institute have calculated it.

Twenty-six ducks, regardless of the quality of their feathers, produce one kilogram of duck feathers.

If you only want the best duck down, and each duck only produces more than ten grams of down, you need seventy ducks to produce one kilogram of down!

Seventy ducks!
If the northern exploration team is to be provided with the best equipment, it will require 170,000 ducks.

If a fleet were to be similarly equipped, four or five hundred thousand ducks would be needed.

What about the Western Regions team? What about the Xiongnu soldiers?

Oh, those who go to explore the New World are humans, but those of us who generate income for the empire on the frontiers of the empire are not humans?

What's more, the Western Region Company and the Xiongnu Company are now very wealthy and have produced more down jackets. They will definitely grab the orders. If there are fewer ducks, then expect crazy price increases.

Huo Hai is really speechless.

In my previous life, I encountered a huge price increase for down jackets, and now I am encountering a huge price increase for down jackets as well.

Moreover, the ducks of the Han Dynasty were smaller than those of later generations. To meet the same demand for down today, several dozen percent more ducks are needed than in the past.

Therefore, the court now issued orders to the major catering companies in Chang'an City, asking them to find a way to create a trend of eating duck.

You know, the House of Representatives is being established now. At the stock exchange, among the well-known large companies, who wouldn’t want to enter the upper house?

So, they took the job.

In the end, a cooking competition was organized, led by Fan Shengke Dog Meat Pizza, Zhao's Smoked Meat, and Grassland Farmhouse. The requirement was that the main dish must be duck or goose. Whoever cooked the best would become a member of the three chain stores. For the next year, they would eat lamb every week and dog meat pizza every day, plus 300 kilograms of bacon.

In addition, there are cash rewards, up to 100,000 yuan.

Fan Shengke Dog Meat Pizza sent an invitation letter to Huo Hai as soon as possible.

Huo Hai was originally invited to be a judge.

But how could Huo Hai be a judge? He had to participate in the competition, right?
So Huo Hai told the messenger that he wanted to participate in the competition and that he would bring his team of chefs to participate in the competition.

So, Huo Hai directly advanced to the finals.

The other contestants competed in rounds and finally made it to today.

And today is the day of the finals.

In previous competitions, without Huo Hai’s participation, the attention was still okay, but today, the attention exploded.

The competition venue is the square outside the stock trading center. All major catering stock companies are present today. Companies such as the Junsao Noodle Restaurant chain and Spicy Boiled Fish, which did not originally participate in the organization of the competition, are also present.

After all, which big company would not give face to Huo Hai when he came to participate in the competition?
It was very lively today.

Even the Royal Ranch came to join in the fun.

In fact, it’s not that Royal Ranch had to come, but several large companies bought the Royal Ranch’s weekly candy production and distributed them on site today, so Royal Ranch also came here to promote the product.

Currently, the sugar production of the royal ranch is not high. They are waiting for the Kingdom of Nanyue to be taken back so that they can do the sugar business.

After Huo Hai's car arrived at the scene, no one at the scene noticed Huo Hai's presence.

Because Xiang Xu was the one who drove for Huo Hai before, but now he has been replaced.

However, there are still some sharp-eyed people: "Look, there is an iron windmill hanging under the carriage. Is it the carriage symbol of Marquis Huo Wu?"

Someone who had seen Huo Hai's car up close turned around and looked: "Hey! It seems so! Why did the driver change?"

"Where does this kid come from?"

"Don't you know this? How long has it been since you came to the Stock Exchange Center? Lord Xiang Xu is now at the Stock Exchange Center preparing to build the Anluo Railway and is raising funds. He will be working on the project for the next six months or a year. I'm afraid he won't have time to drive for Wu Hou."

At this time, Huo Hai walked out and stood on the front platform of the carriage. He took a look at the noisy crowd and then slowly got off the carriage.

Immediately, people who were organizing the on-site work came over to clear the way.

Huo Hai also climbed up the platform.

Huo Hai was of course the last contestant to appear. At this time, the commentator on the scene held a loud speaker and said, "Good! Today, the most important contestant, the founder of the Han catering industry, the man who knows how to eat the most in the Han Dynasty, Huo Hai Huo Wuhou, has made a brilliant appearance!"

"Then please welcome the other finalists and their teams to the stage."

In fact, Huo Hai’s team had already arrived, but Huo Hai and Lao Huang had not yet arrived.

The teams of other contestants also took the stage.

When Huo Hai came on stage, he looked and said, “Are all the things I want ready?”

Today's jury all gathered around.

Fan Shengke’s uncle Fan Taguang, Zhao Ponu, the husband of Mrs. Zhao, the owner of Zhao’s Smoked Meat, and Gao Bushi, a partner of Caoyuan Farmhouse.

Haha, the entire judging team is made up of Huo Hai’s people.

But no one was dissatisfied.

Because it was because they learned a few tricks from Huo Hai that they became the representatives of Chang'an catering and even the Han catering industry.

Huo Hai felt a little cold and put his hands into his sleeves: "Let's get started."

The commentator held a loud speaker and said, "Okay! The game will start soon. All the audience members, please be quiet. Let's let the contestants introduce themselves one by one and say something fierce!"

"Please welcome the first chef, Nangong Bozi, from Liu Laoma Fried Food Restaurant on Tai'an Street."

Huo Hai turned his head and said, "As a cook, if you give yourself such a name, people who don't know you will think you are the protagonist."

Nangong Bozi held a frying pan in his left hand and a spatula in his right hand, folded his arms, and shouted harsh words loudly.

The commentator waved his hand, and several people holding up their microphones raised their loud speakers and repeated in unison: "Nangong family, specializing in duck!"

On-site commentator: "The second individual contestant is Loquat."

The name loquat sounds like it belongs to people from the east or even the south, because this plant does not exist in the north at all.

In other words, only someone as knowledgeable as Sima Xiangru mentioned loquat in his fu, otherwise people in Chang'an had never heard of loquat.

Loquat said these harsh words with a smile on his face.

The on-site commentator was completely confused.

Finally, the loud speakers shouted out: "I can't cheat, but you can't be a gigolo!"

Live commentator: "This player is accusing the shady business! Does anyone want to explain something?"

Gao Buzhi stood up and held up a sign saying "minus two points". "I was the one who minus his points last time, and I'll minus two points this time too. I didn't tell you the reason last time, but I'll tell you today. He's too ugly and affects your appetite, so I'll deduct two points. If you hadn't seen the chef's appearance, his dish in the last round was still very good."

The audience cheered wildly.

Many people were amused.

But this competition is originally for entertainment purposes, there is nothing to hide about this kind of thing, on the contrary it is hilarious, and it might become a hot topic in tomorrow's newspapers, and the whole country will know about it in a few days.

Loquat raised the kitchen knife high: "Damn it, I want to fight him one-on-one! Come out and fight him one-on-one!"

Narrator: "Do you want to play one-on-one or continue to compete? You can only choose one."

Loquat thought for a moment and said, "Then I'd better cook. I finally made it to the finals. I must win. If I win, I will have enough money to open a shop."

Huo Hai shook his head, what a fool! He made such a big show today. Even if he lost, someone would pay for him to open a store. Why were he still worrying about this?
Then it appeared.

"30 years of professional experience in duck cooking!"

"King of ducks, I'm the strongest!"

"The secret baked duck is so stimulating that you can't stand it!"

And so on slogans.

Finally, it was Huo Hai's turn.

On-site commentator: "Master Huo, you can make some harsh remarks now."

Huo Hai: "Are you all here to compete for second place?"

After the loudspeaker shouted, the audience became excited.

As expected of Lord Huo, his harsh words are unique and very aggressive.

Loquat: "I don't agree. I want to be paired with him. Let's fight him one-on-one!"

The audience all looked at Huo Hai. Huo Hai: "I'll give you a chance."

"lose."

stimulate.

Nangong Bozi couldn't take it anymore: "Why! Why did he get matched with Lord Huo? I also want to fight Lord Huo!"

"Why should he get this good thing?"

In this final competition, many local chefs understood that it would be like a foolish dream to defeat Huo Hai.

Therefore, it is best to meet Huo Hai first.

If I get eliminated later, I won’t meet Huo Hai again.

Suddenly other players came up to grab it.

Everyone thought that Loquat was really cunning. He ran very fast and picked people up right away.

Huo Hai: "Don't waste time, just come together."

After the megaphones shouted, there was a riot.

"boom!"

"Bullshit, bullshit! One dozen is more than enough!"

"Haha, Master Huo won't do it himself, so he just needs to tell the method to his cooks. It won't be a problem if there are more than one."

"That's easy for you to say. Can you come up with seven dishes to compete with the other seven people?"

Many people are not getting to the point in their discussion.

Huo Hai is just lazy. Who can wait for this round-robin battle?

Huo Hai: "Well, you just tell me what kind of dish yours is and what its characteristics are. I'll make a dish with the same characteristics and category. If you can catch up with me in one aspect, I'll lose."

To be honest, it is difficult to promote duck without some hard work, because no one wants to eat it.

Now that Huo Hai is here, he wants to spread all the common practices.

Nangong Hiroko: "Oh?! Although you are powerful, we are not to be underestimated. Not only are you fighting against many, but you are also targeting our dishes and fighting us? Then you win... I think you are powerful!"

Loquat has already started sharpening his knife: "Okay, okay, I'm looked down upon. We all have two hands, but I don't believe you are any better."

Huo Hai: "Who told you I have two hands? I brought a large group of people with me, and I didn't take any action."

The on-site commentator asked a few questions and seeing that no one refused, he announced the change in the competition format.

Huo Hai was fighting against seven people alone. No matter what dishes the other seven people prepared, Huo Hai would use the same method as them to win.

"Come on, come on, tell us the names of the dishes."

Loquat: "I roasted the duck..."

Huo Hai: "No need to say, I'll serve the Imperial Capital Roast Duck."

This roast duck was first in Jinling and later in Beijing in the previous life. It depends on where the capital is. It makes sense that it is in Chang'an now.

Loquat: "I haven't finished yet, my dish..."

Huo Hai: "I use fruit wood to bake this dish, then wrap it with pancakes, green onions, and cucumbers, and eat it with sweet noodle sauce. There are no cucumbers in this weather, so you are lucky, otherwise I am afraid you would not dare to serve the dish."

"What's so special about your dish? Come on."

Loquat: "What nonsense, I won't necessarily lose."

Huo Hai: "You win. I'll give you the name of Imperial Capital Roast Duck and change it to Peking Roast Duck."

Loquat: "A promise is as good as a promise!"

In fact, Loquat just wanted to show off more, but with Huo Hai's promise, that was enough.

Nangong Hiroko: "My dish is soup."

Huo Hai: "Then you will die the most miserably. My dish is called Sour Radish and Old Duck Soup. Watch and learn it carefully. If you learn it well, you can open a shop for a thousand years. This dish will never decline."

Nangong Hiroko: "..."

"Okay, okay, I'd like to take a look."

The third one was intimidated by Huo Hai's momentum, so he started to make up a story: "I use deep-frying to cook this dish..."

Before he finished speaking, Huo Hai said directly: "Crispy Duck, wait for death."

A third: "I haven't finished yet, after I fry it, I pick it up and cook it..."

Huo Hai: "Roast duck, this method is most suitable for making chicken. Today I send you thousands of miles away, I want to see how you fry the duck to make it delicious."

Duck meat is originally tough, so frying it is already incredible. After all, there is such a big gap in white down. KFC and McDonald's have not launched fried duck. If you want to fry a duck well, it is impossible to do it without some understanding. And then cooking it after frying, what an incredible operation!

Even if you use Daokou roast chicken recipe, the duck you cook will only be barely edible, and its reputation won't spread beyond three or five miles. If you use other methods, even dogs won't eat it.

As soon as Huo Hai heard it, he knew that he had made it up on the spot.

The fourth one: "I find that salt brings a salty flavor to the ingredients, so."

Huo Hai: "Pick one between salted duck and salt-baked duck."

The fourth one reminded: "Marquis Huo, I know I can't win, but he..." He pointed at the fifth person: "He just said his specialty is baked duck, do you want to leave the salt-baked duck for him?"

Huo Hai: "It doesn't matter. If you choose salt-baked duck, I have other ways to cook it."

Baking is the process of steaming something like boiling it in water. Huo Hai knows more than ten kinds of this dish made with duck.

The fifth one: "Who said I want baked duck? Baked duck is an insult... ahem... actually I want... smoked duck."

Huo Hai: "Xun?"

"You chose it yourself. It's tea-tea duck. It takes three days to make. You can't leave until it's done."

The fifth: "...and you?"

Huo Hai: "Nonsense, I'll just finish dinner... No, I'll leave after I finish competing with the others."

The sixth dish ended up being braised duck.

The seventh dish is three sets of duck.

It's a pity that there is no rival. If there were two more rivals, it would be great to bring out the last two most common duck cooking methods: beer duck and pressed duck.

Beer already existed in this era, but it was not called this name. Now, people in Chang'an were doing all kinds of business, and some of them were making beer, which was called malt.

So there is no shortage of materials.

But it’s quite nice to serve seven dishes.

While cooking on one side and conducting on-site interviews on the other, several catering giants certainly hoped that Huo Hai would say more, so as to cause a bigger sensation and achieve a greater effect.

Fan Taguang: "Interview, Lord Huo, may I ask, this Imperial Capital Roast Duck is made of fruit wood, if I am not mistaken, it is apple wood, also known as nai."

Huo Hai nodded.

Fan Taguang: "If it is apple wood, is it too extravagant and wasteful? We Han people have always been willing to eat fine food, but we refuse to waste. This has always been the case in the army, so this tradition has also been passed down to every household in Chang'an today."

Huo Hai: "If the apples were grown at home, it would be a waste to use them to roast duck, but this is not the case."

"As early as the year before last, I bought a lot of land and started to grow various plants, fruits and crops, including apples."

"I have discovered that in long-term planting, the biggest cost is not the apples or the land where they are grown, but the collection and transportation costs."

"Let me give you an example. Apples grow in the first year, they start to bear fruit in the second year, they bear fruit in the third year, but in the fourth year, you can no longer harvest them. What should you do?"

"Have a worker climb up the tree and collect the apples?"

Huo Hai continued: "If a worker does not climb the trees, he can collect 200 to 300 kilograms of apples a day, or even more. If he cuts branches directly, he can collect more. But if he climbs up the trees to collect apples, he can only collect one-fifth or one-sixth of the total in a day."

"This one-fifth or one-sixth of the apples are harvested 30 days a month, with two days off a week. The total harvested apples are not enough to pay the wages for picking the fruit. If you were the owner of the orchard, what would you do?"

Fan Taguan was a little stunned.

He already knew the answer, but it was too outrageous. He had never thought of such an outrageous answer before, but now he had to say: "Cut down the tree and replant it."

Planting new ones means there will be no fruit or less fruit in the first year. But if you don’t cut them down, it will be more difficult to harvest apples the next year.

I never expected that one day when the economy developed to a certain level, the large apple trees that bore more fruits would be cut down and replaced with small and short ones.

Huo Hai nodded: "So, the chopped apple trees are useless now. What can we do with them? We can use them to make roast duck. The taste will be better when roasted with fruit wood, and we won't lose so much money."

"And the real waste is seeing this happening and not looking at how to avoid it."

“If someone could develop an apple tree that grows low, bears fruit low, lies low to the ground only as tall as a person, but bears more fruit, then he would become one of the richest people in the Han Dynasty.”

“It’s similar with other fruits.”

Fan Taguang was excited: "So that's how it is. Listening to Lord Huo's words once is more effective than thinking for ten years on your own."

Many people who came to watch the fun were also thinking about something.

Although everyone was there to watch the fun and many people just listened to it, there were always people who took it seriously.

The reason why Huo Hai wanted to say this publicly was because the situation in Chang'an was more serious than in his previous life.

Huo Hai deliberately raised the labor costs of the entire Han Dynasty by more than ten times. Even if we only counted Chang'an, it was raised by more than three times.

Such high labor prices are destined to result in fewer and fewer people participating in farming in the future.

In that case, a future of scarcity awaits the Han people.

There are two ways to avoid this situation. One is to make everyone love eating it and stimulate the production side from the consumption side.

One is to make everyone aware of science as early as possible, use scientific methods to solve these problems, and make more breakthroughs in technology.

At present, Dahan’s market is actually forcibly divided.

Huo Hai and Liu Che used various economic means to connect the two sections together.

Huo Hai is leading the industry to operate at super-high prices, which is equivalent to stimulating inflation to the maximum from the very beginning.

On the other hand, Liu Che used various methods to control grain prices, neither allowing them to rise nor fall. At the same time, he used policies to stimulate food production to double and double again, striving to create an environment where food could be obtained at extremely low prices and at will.

This environment was created at the expense of Huo Hai and Liu Che.

It is hard to say how long the two can hold out in this environment. With more projects in the future and Liu Che withdrawing more funds from the grain market, he will eventually relax the current manual protection.

If plant science and crop science had not made progress by that time, a large number of people would suffer in the future.

Of course, this group of people may not necessarily be from the Han Dynasty.

However, if the food gap becomes large, it will eventually affect the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Since it was just a cooking competition, Huo Hai simply talked about the scientific knowledge on the development of food.

There are all kinds of ideas, such as sea transportation of food, fresh food transportation, cold chain transportation, etc.

"The closest thing to everyone right now is fresh food transportation. If we can build a railway from Chang'an to Luoyang, and a railway from Luoyang to Wancheng at the same time, then after the railway is completed, we will be able to eat fruits produced in the south of the Han Dynasty or even further away in winter."

"These places also have hot winters, which is not good for people, but good for fruits."

“So, let’s work hard.”

The beautiful blueprint described by Huo Hai really surprised everyone.

In the past, people had nothing to eat in winter.

Now we have meat to eat in winter, we feed chickens and ducks with grains, kill pigs and dogs for food, and dig cellars to store vegetables that can be stored.

As if that weren’t enough, you can eat freshly picked ones in the future?

Is that outrageous?
Your Majesty has never enjoyed such a day before, right?

They are overthinking it. Liu Che had enjoyed it before.

Liu Che's Shanglin Garden even had plants transplanted from the south. Sima Xiangru wrote about this in his fu.

If you want to know how these plants bear fruit in Chang'an, the answer should be asked to the people who are responsible for making fire and carrying water in Shanglin Garden all year round.

Finally, the dishes came out one by one.

To be honest, just by looking at them, everyone can tell that no one can compete with Huo Hai's chef.

How does this compare?
The chefs on Huo Hai's side do a lot of things that are hard to understand.

For example, why was the duck sealed and inflated at the beginning? Now, after roasting, the entire surface of the duck skin is as smooth and plump as silk, which increases your appetite. Then look at your opponent.

This is because the duck breed is wrong. If the breed is right, it will be much more than that.

Sure enough, appearance affects appetite.

The roast duck made by Loquat was not good-looking, and he himself was not good-looking either, so he was hung up and beaten by the Didu Roast Duck prepared by Huang Jiao himself.

If you ask Nangong Bozi, he will say that he cried after drinking the sour radish and old duck soup.

He didn't know why his duck was so fishy, ​​but the sour radish and duck soup made by his opponent was so authentic.

Is this the difference between professional teams and us?

There were seven dishes, and the opponent who had six dishes lost. I had to admit that I was far inferior after eating them all.

A lucky audience member was picked up to take a bite and fainted from happiness.

Can duck be so delicious?!

So outrageous?

Of course, it could also be that the weather was too cold and he was frozen from standing for too long.

Although he won, Huo Hai still called on everyone to eat more ducks and geese.

Eating more ducks and geese will produce more duck down and goose down. The imperial court and clothing factories will purchase the duck down and goose down. The purchases will be used to explore the New World and support the development of the Han Dynasty.

Eating duck means being patriotic!

This time, everyone understood.

Just let us raise more ducks next year?
What if I raise too many and the price drops?
Huo Hai: "It doesn't matter whether the duck down sells for money or not. Ducks are eaten, and if they can be sold for money after eating, isn't that pure profit? What's more, the price of duck down will never drop. The number of teams heading north will only increase."

"We would rather let our soldiers sweat in their down jackets than let them freeze, and we would rather let our soldiers bleed and freeze!"

Will the price go down if you raise more?

Huo Hai only hopes that the price of duck down will not rise too outrageously in the next three years so that he can get through the initial stage of exploration.

Then Huo Hai announced that the 100,000 prize money would be distributed to other contestants.

Everyone is happy.

Everyone is happy. The rival of the tea-flavored duck, the producer of the smoked duck: "Just... do we really have to wait for it to be served?"

"Do we really need to smoke for three days?"

"Can I admit defeat?"

"I want to go home..."

"If you can't go back, then you can't go back. You can't go back anyway."

"What, you guys are taking turns? Are you still human?"

"You are not allowed to surrender? You want me to eat a bite? Can I pretend to be a cook?"

"Oh, take back the bonus, I'm the cook, I'm the cook, I'll wait, I like to eat camphor tea duck the most, camphor tea duck is so delicious!"

The news of the "eating duck for the country" campaign spread to the Kingdom of Nanyue.

Lu Bode was so moved that he patted Anguo Shaoji on the shoulder and said, "The people of Chang'an bear the pain of eating duck for the sake of the Han Dynasty. You should also bear the pain and become a duck..."

An Guo Shao Ji kicked him out.

Lu Bode had already run far away: "Everything is arranged, go!"

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Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)