Just as Zhang Xiaobao guessed, two days later, when the team passed by another village, the villagers came to give something, including a gift for the emperor.
Two hens still laying eggs, were carried in their hands, cooing.
Compared with the gifts given to Zhang Xiaobao’s family, it should be because the people felt that the emperor could not eat too much by himself, and the emperor ate better than he gave him, and was not as frugal as the little cuckoo, and took the money saved. Come out and use it for the people.
In this regard, Li Longji is fairly satisfied, at least a little bit less, but it is also considered an improvement, it is better than nothing.
He happily returned a piece of silk, worth enough to buy a hundred hens, and ordered two chickens, called Zhang Xiaobao, and said to Zhang Xiaobao: "Xiaobao, go there, I want to eat chickens tonight. Stew mushrooms and add more potatoes."
"This is a hen, not a chick. It's okay to feed my mother, so I can help myself." Zhang Xiaobao corrected.
"It's a little hen. Could it be that you have never seen a bigger hen?" Li Longji stared.
"I have seen it, ok, I made it. Don’t blame me if I get caught up in it. Potatoes are not good potatoes. They have sprouted. I originally planned to plant them for people in need. I dug down the sprouting area and found a nearby village to plant them. The other positions are used for eating."
Zhang Xiaobao took the two chickens who didn't know what fate he was going to face, and left a sentence, turned around to clean up, slandered in his heart, eating chicken stewed with mushrooms on a hot day, is this Northeastern cuisine good? In winter, I will eat it to replenish the body, and then I will put ginseng root for you, which will make your nose bleed.
Li Longji has learned a lot, and he greeted Zhang Xiaobao's leaving figure: "Don't put anything else in it. I believe your craftsmanship, and the taste of potatoes must not be bad."
"Toss me, you toss me hard." Zhang Xiaobao continued to slander in his heart.
Sprouted potatoes are not easy to make and not enough noodles. The hens need to be simmered for a long time. The potatoes should not be put in together, otherwise the potatoes will be simmered. Zhang Xiaobao can only increase the process, steam the potatoes first, and wait for the chicken to be simmered. When it's almost ripe, put the potatoes in.
The hen has a lot of fat, so remove the oily parts when cleaning it up. When eating normally in the Northeast, it is specially used for oily fish. Just like Russians like to eat butter, it is used to resist the cold.
At dinner in the evening, Li Longji invited Queen Wang, Concubine Wu Hui, and eleven children to let the family taste the fruits of his victory.
When Xiaobei saw the stew, she looked at the cool clothes she was wearing, her eyes were straight, and she turned to look for brother, meaning, brother, what do you want to do? Eating sister to death
The brothers and sisters Pan'er asked about the strong fragrance, which was so strong that they smelled disgusting at first, and tried to hide behind them, their eyes full of fear.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiaobao was well prepared. Except for a large pot of stewed chicken, the rest were cold plates, as well as wild vegetables that were dug locally. In other words, they were blanched and eaten with bean paste to balance the chicken supplements.
When Li Longji saw the food, it was difficult to swallow. He hesitated for a moment, but still sandwiched a piece of meat, and said: "Eat, good things, eat them all."
After taking one bite, you don't want to take a second bite anymore. It is a test for people to slurp meat when it is already sultry.
After eating another bite of potatoes, Li Longji saw that the meat in other people's plates didn't move, and said in a deep thought, "Normally the people here can't eat pine mushrooms, right? It's better to share it with the people and send it there."
There was not much food in the basin, and not all of them stretched out their chopsticks to clamp them together. They didn't get any saliva. An emperor brought them as gifts, and it made sense.
"Take it away, send it back, I'll fry two more dishes?" Zhang Xiaobao knew that everyone couldn't eat it, and there was no shortage of meat.
"No, cold dishes are the same. What you prepare for the staple food is..." Li Longji was embarrassed to continue tossing Zhang Xiaobao, looking at the cold dishes on the table and asking about the staple food.
"Over the water noodles, or eat the rice over the water?" Zhang Xiaobao asked, and without waiting for someone to answer, immediately ordered someone to prepare it.
Soon, the over-water rice was brought up, and the little guys started to move their chopsticks.
When everyone was eating, the guards and other people also took turns eating and resting.
When the stew was delivered to the people, it was still cold. It was not the people who gave it away, but the people took the opportunity to repair the road.
The road that Li Longji walked was a simple road built by the engineering team in front of it. The quality was not good enough. Waiting for the large troops to pass by, they were stepped on the bumps and bumps in the back. A part of the crew was responsible for filling the pits.
The people were also behind to help. They found stone rollers to press down. Even if it was a simple road, they couldn't make it by themselves. Now they pressed it down and compacted it, even if it rains, it’s nothing more than water accumulating in some place. Fill in some soil.
In the future, even if others don't repair roads, they will often make up for themselves, so that they can be used all the time.
It is a good thing for the emperor to go on tour without using the treasury and the local people's money.
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Just after dinner, Zhang Xiaobao, who was guarding the ice basin and planning to discuss things with Wang Juan, received a message from Hangzhou.
The message from his mother, Zhang Wang, looked very ordinary, asking whether the children were doing well on the road and how their father was doing.
This is nothing. Zhang Xiaobao knew what his mother wanted to express when he saw the back. The last sentence said, after arriving in Luzhou, he would help the people in Luzhou to say hello. It is best to paint the scenery. Take it back and see.
"My wife, tell you something." Zhang Xiaobao put down the news and said to Wang Juan who was waiting to see.
Wang Juan didn’t listen to Zhang Xiaobao, grabbed the paper, quickly scanned it, and said, “Needless to say, my mother and your mother want to go to Luzhou. I can manage them."
"It is estimated that we are afraid of affecting us. Except for the parents who abuse their children or even cause death, the parents in the world are almost the same. I don't mean to say whether to go or not, how to go."
Zhang Xiaobao tapped his hand on his face.
Wang Juan hadn't seen Zhang Xiaobao's action for a long time, and only when he was bothered to calculate, would Zhang Xiaobao have such a habitual action.
"What do you want to do? Our two mothers are going to visit Luzhou. Do you plan to calculate?"
"It's not calculating them, it's calculating others, you think, my mother will go by, naturally, you can't go by land like us, you have to go by boat, the speed is faster, and the road conditions are more stable than the current road conditions, but..."
"Don't come and go. If you have something to say, take a boat, then how do you use it?" Wang Juan asked directly without giving Zhang Xiaobao a chance to show off.
Zhang Xiaobao said half a sentence, was blocked, coughed, and said: "It's not use, it's protection. My mother and the others are on the boat. Even if they are stable, things may not go smoothly. I don't send someone to protect me. install."
Wang Juan kept his head down and continued to read the news on the paper. He seemed to study her mother-in-law's language organization ability, at least better than his mother. If he changed to his mother to tell the news, he must have said it directly and wanted to go to Luzhou. , Seems not tactful enough.
Zhang Xiaobao waited for a while, and saw Wang Juan not cooperating to ask, so he continued to say: "Speaking of protection, how can I just say how many people are sent to follow? There is no difference between saying it and not saying it, right?"
Wang Juan watched it again.
Zhang Xiaobao also said to himself: "So I thought of an idea, guess what."
"Bad idea, don't tell me, don't tell me to go to bed, sleepy." Wang Juan yawned.
"My idea is to send another group of people from other places. Guess... Forget it, don't guess, I'm going to send a team of gunboats from Luzhou to meet the past.
Our mother is going to Luzhou once, not empty-handed, so she should prepare more gifts, such as rice noodles elsewhere, and other specialties. Therefore, a large amount of materials must be assembled to the east of Jiangnan at the fastest speed, and the logistics of our home must also be Move.
The speed must be fast, otherwise when we arrive in Luzhou, my mother and your mother have not left Hangzhou, so it is better not to go, right? "
Seeing that Wang Juan didn't have a tacit understanding, or that he knew him too much, Zhang Xiaobao had to think of a little bit of language to attract him, so that he could show his intelligence in front of his wife.
Wang Juan finally cooperated and asked, "Are there any more?"
"Yes." Zhang Xiaobao nodded happily: "Luzhou, I think the things that are most lacking are things in Gyeonggi Province, things in Lingnan Province, and northern Hebei Province. If the other two places are transported, it will take too long, northern Hebei Province. It’s directly connected to the sea and transports the things over there, okay?"
Zhang Xiaobao was concerned about Lu Zhou's appearance and asked for opinions.
Wang Juan smiled slightly: "Okay, do you think there is anything to send in the Northeast? Ginseng? Mink? Ula grass? Deer antler? I'm afraid that people in Luzhou will get cold and the cold wind will be so cold in the summer. Why don't you give them supplements? You used to cook chicken stew with mushrooms, they must be very happy."
"Uh..." Zhang Xiaobao said: "Happy is happy. After all, I personally made it. Don't give it away for the time being. There are hazelnuts and pine nuts in the northeast. I picked a lot last year. Although the season is not yet in season this year. You can send someone to pick it up on the ground, and there may be unexpected surprises.
The local people are busy now, so it’s hard to use them for work. Let’s dispatch the army. The local army has been under training again. Let’s deploy troops from Youzhou in the southern part of Hebei Province. Are you optimistic about it
Henan Road convenes a large transport ship to prepare some goods and transport them together. Maybe they can earn back the cost, and tell the Japanese that we will not borrow the steam engine armed ships that we leased to them for the time being. Do you think it will be a success while escorting the transportation team at sea? "
Wang Juan finally heard what was wrong in Zhang Xiaobao’s words, and asked in amazement: "You really planned to do that? Do you need to mobilize tens of thousands of Tubo troops to Henan Road, which is Shandong, and say it’s a crossroads. Regional joint training exercises?"
"Don't move there. I really plan to help my mother travel and give Luzhou some benefits. Don't get me wrong." Zhang Xiaobao said seriously.
"It’s strange to believe in you. I didn’t misunderstand it, but you want to misunderstand others. Do you want to kill two birds with one stone? No wonder you just made a small move, but you still have to take advantage of our mother’s trip. My mother knows it and promises to hate you. , What son-in-law."
Wang Juan gave Zhang Xiaobao a white look.
"Where can I find a son-in-law like me? Don't rush to bury me, help me improve it, hurry up, sleep for a while, I will give you the story of the wolf and the lamb."
Zhang Xiaobao said without blushing.