The big man has a living father

Chapter 82 A piece of bacon caused a war
The problem that meat cannot be preserved for long periods of time is indeed easy to solve.

Huo Hai told Zhao Chen what was needed, and Zhao Chen immediately asked someone to prepare it.

Soon, they took bricks from the households that had their walls demolished to repair their storefronts, and piled them up according to Huo Hai's instructions.

According to Huo Hai's request, the largest grill was found.

Then put it on top.

This creates a large grill.

But this is not for roasting, but for smoking.

When cypress branches and orange peels were ignited without open flames, a lot of smoke came out directly.

"Put the bacon you have preserved and not yet eaten on it."

It's winter now, and many families in Junlu have already slaughtered pigs. Although they can't be preserved and have to be eaten quickly, it's better than slaughtering them in the summer and then spoiling them in two days, right? So pickled meat is easy to find.

These already marinated meats are placed on the smoking racks, and you will understand what I mean.

Zhao Chenshi: "Second Master, can it be preserved by smoking like this?"

Huo Hai: "This will dry the meat, and the meat that is dried after being marinated can be preserved."

After hearing this, a little kid suddenly realized: "Isn't that just hunting meat?"

Huo Hai: "Hunted meat? No, it's called bacon."

The child is learning to write recently, so he asked: "How do you write this word?"

Huo Hai took the stick and started writing on the ground. He wrote the word "La": "This is the simplified Chinese writing method you are learning now."

Then he wrote: "This is the seal script."

Before learning simplified Chinese, the child learned to recognize Chinese characters from a teacher. He looked at the characters and wondered, "Isn't this still the word lie? It turns out that this word is pronounced la?"
Huo Hai didn't know that he had read the wrong word.

In other words, in later generations, La and are the same word, but in this era, these two words are different words.

La refers to the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, and it means sacrifice.

Because Huo Hai had only studied seal script for a short time, he did not realize that the half of "La" he thought was "巢" was the same as the half of "La" in "Sloppy".

巤 means hair, and can also be extended to mean animals with long hair.

Sloppy means that the place is like a wild beast running around and lying down everywhere, and it is a mess at a glance, so this is the meaning of sloppy as understood by modern people.

This character, with the moon character on the side, is very easy to recognize. It means meat with hair, and is extended to meat hunted.

Because of the sacrificial purpose, the meat will be exposed to the sun in the open air. Also, because the sacrificial ceremony is held in February or March, the weather will not easily cause the meat to rot.

So it will become larger pieces of jerky.

So this kind of meat that can be preserved was called meat, and it was passed down and pronounced as hunting meat.

The Book of Rites describes the ceremony of "Shuxiu". The word "one bundle" means ten pieces of meat tied together.

In fact, this name has been used throughout history after the new type of meat, which was smoked instead of exposed to the sun and pickled with salt to prevent maggots, replaced the old type of meat.

Later on, people confused the word with "la", and later it was unified into "la meat", pronounced as "xi meat".

Later, because of the pronunciation of "la", people recognized half of the word and thus xi meat finally became la la meat.

Huo Hai is not a student of ancient Chinese, nor has he studied the history of bacon, so how would he know this? He just knew that the right half of the ancient Chinese character for hunting was "巤", so he generalized and thought that "拉" was written in the same way.

I didn’t know that these two words were actually merged into one word in later generations and they have different meanings in this era.

……

Tang Jiao returned home from vacation at the coal mine and had a lot of things to do.

Although being a soldier and fighting in the war is tiring, the work in the mines is even harder. Although his task is to manage the workers, there are many more refugees who need to be accommodated recently, and he also has to maintain the relationship between the two sides and prevent conflicts.

Not to mention that he was an ordinary sixth-rank noble, even the third boss Sima Xiangru was driven crazy by exhaustion.

After finally getting a holiday, Tang Jiao wanted to rest, but there were too many social interactions and he couldn't rest.

Tang Jiao brushed off the black ash on his body and turned to look at his wife: "My wife, please prepare the gift of sacrifice for me. I want to take Tang Nuo to pay a visit to Mr. Lu."

"I'll go find some clothes, boil some water, and take a bath."

Tang Jiao's wife had already taken out the clothes and put them aside, wondering: "Aren't children learning new characters now? Why do they have to go to Mr. Lu to pay respects?"

Tang Jiao was not afraid of the cold, and took off his clothes at the door of the stove: "Learning is learning, once a teacher, always a teacher. Tang Nuo spent so much time learning to read from Mr. Lu, now you don't care about human relations if you don't learn from him anymore?"

"It's not that we have to go to school every day, but because Mr. Lu opened a bookstore in Wannian County, we went to visit him and support him."

As he spoke, Tang Jiao looked down at the stove, his heart filled with pride.

The coal in this stove is produced in the mine. Now every household uses coal from the Tongguan Coal Mine, which is produced by the Imperial Tan Factory.

With this, it's warm.

However, Tang Jiao had never seen the pot on the stove: "Is this for boiling water?"

Tang Jiao's wife: "That's a cauldron, used to cook pig food, but it can also boil water, just let me do it."

The couple talked about things at the mine.

Tang Jiao's wife was stunned when she heard this.

In the past, when Tang Jiao came back from the war, he would tell stories about how cruel, terrifying, and murderous the Huns were.

He spoke of how brave he was, killing the Huns so hard that they fled in panic. He and General Huo also killed the Hun nobles so hard that they knelt down and begged for mercy.

But this time, Tang Jiao talked about how the Huns in the mine lived in harmony with the newly arrived refugees.

Because the second boss had given the order that no room could be vacated specifically for the refugees to live in, and the refugees had to be dispersed into every room, so in reality the mine was almost always in a three-to-one situation.

That is, three refugees and one Hun.

To be precise, there were fifteen refugees and five Huns in one room.

But it doesn't matter, because the second boss said that in the future, 20 workers will live in one room, and they will live like this before the new house is built. After the new house is built, there will still be five people in one room, and the ratio will be roughly the same as now.

Although the refugees were Han people and were taller and heavier than the Xiongnu workers, they had been hungry for so long and lived under the roof of others, so no one caused trouble.

The Huns are not fools. If you bully those who have not eaten enough now, won’t you get beaten when they have enough food?
So the two sides are very harmonious and neither side takes the initiative to cause trouble.

Because the refugees had just arrived, they had nothing to eat, nothing to wear, and their clothes were all dirty.

Therefore, many good people and good deeds emerged in the mine. For example, some Hun workers gave the delicious food they bought and the dried meat they saved to take back for their sons and daughters to the newly arrived hungry refugees.

There are also people who help them fetch water and boil water for bathing.

To familiarize them with the work.

There was also a refugee in his teens who, relying on his youth and energy, went down to the river to take a bath.

You know, although the river is not frozen, the shore is actually frozen.

This guy looks strong, but in fact he has been traveling for such a long time, has not eaten well, and has not slept well. He was just picked up to replenish his energy. Does he really have strong energy?

As soon as I got into the river, my legs cramped and I almost died in the river.

A Hun worker saw this and without saying a word jumped into the river to save the man. After he was rescued, he himself fell ill from the cold and fever.

Tang Jiao ate his steamed buns while talking: "The third boss Sima Gong even talked about this incident at the meeting and named the worker Yao Jie Luo who saved the man as an advanced representative of helping others and doing good deeds."

Tang Jiao's wife was surprised: "There's an award?"

Tang Jiao's wife's impression of the Huns came from what Tang Jiao told her.

I used to think that the Huns must be like wolves, and it was impossible to change that in a short time.

Tang Jiao whispered: "In fact, the second master told us privately that if we want the Xiongnu to be obedient, we must teach them morality. If they don't learn morality, even if nothing happens now, they will cause trouble or even rebel in the future."

"But if they had morals, they would be the same as us. Even now, the moral level of the entire Han Dynasty is not good enough and they still need to learn."

"That's why the second boss told the third boss to set more moral examples and make everyone proud of doing good deeds."

"Don't tell anyone about this."

It was difficult for Huo Hai to explain this to Tang Jiao and the others.

Man is first an animal, and secondly a social animal.

If you are an animal, you will be born with selfish genes, which is the basis of your survival in nature.

But social animals are born with altruistic genes, because only by helping their own kind can they better establish themselves as a group in nature.

Therefore, everyone has both selfish and selfless sides.

What you do when faced with a specific situation depends entirely on the overall environment and education.

To put it bluntly, the general environment means that most people will think, "Others are taking advantage while I am at a disadvantage? I won't do it!" When the general environment is bad, many people who were originally selfless and dedicated are no longer willing to be selfless.

But education is the foundation.

However, Huo Hai was also sure that the Huns in the mine would definitely help the refugees during this difficult time.

With this foundation, the two sides will get along very well in the future.

The reason is also very simple.

What about the Huns and refugees? These are concepts brought about by the general environment.

Now that everyone is working in the mines, we will have a unified name in the future - coal miners.

With common interests, integration is inevitable.

However, the cornerstone of morality that allows the two sides to merge is that morality is positive, rather than negative and purely profit-oriented. Morality is used to constrain this newly formed group from harming people outside the group.

After taking a shower, Tang Jiao went out with his son Tang Nuo.

Soon, Tang Jiao arrived at Wannian County and found Mr. Lu’s study.

The new bookstore has been built and the neighbors are all watching.

When someone came to visit, Mr. Lu couldn't stop smiling.

To be honest, Mr. Lu did not expect to make money when he opened the book house this time, because the purpose of opening the book house was to increase the literacy rate, improve the level of education, and help Shi Gong defeat Huo Hai.

The reason why Mr. Lu was so happy was that he had only taught children to read privately before and did not have the capital to open a bookstore.

This time, with financial sponsorship, the book house was opened.

Regardless of whether I defeat Huo Hai or not, I have my own school, so of course I am happy.

Tang Nuo handed the gift to Mr. Lu: "Please accept it, sir."

Mr. Lu looked at the gift again with a smile, a little confused: "Hey, why does this shiny meat look different? This is not meat, right?"

Tang Nuo: "Sir, this is it, but this word is not pronounced as lie, it is pronounced as larouyo."

Mr. Lu was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "Meat is a gift, how could I remember it wrong?"

Meat was originally used for offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, and later it was extended to ancestors. After that, countless teachers contributed to it, and finally meat was turned into a gift of sacrifice.

Among the Heaven, Earth, Emperor, Parents and Teachers, the teacher has finally made it to the threshold of the main priest. Although he will not be brought along during the real sacrifice and it is not his turn to be called "teacher", at least he enjoys the same treatment.

The issue of treatment is a matter of face.

The problem of face is the problem of showing off.

Showing off is an eternal need of human beings, how can it be wrong?

Tang Nuo: "But Lieutenant Huo said..."

Mr. Lu narrowed his eyes slightly: "Second Lieutenant Huo? Lord Huo Haihuo? What did he say?"

(End of this chapter)