When the tour group’s hot air balloon was ready for the horse to ascend into the sky, the “radio” on Zhang Xiaobao’s body rang dripping, Wang Juan translated the content as quickly as possible, and Zhang Xiaobao looked at each other with infinity in his eyes. Surprise.
"I'm back. The people who went to North America finally came back. We can eat authentic Sichuan-style hot pot in the future, and we can also make tomato scrambled eggs for Beckham, as well as my smoke, roasted sweet potatoes, and potatoes. have… "
The first thing Zhang Xiaobao thought of was eating.
Wang Juan also nodded fiercely. She also knew the value of what the team brought back. That would add a lot of dishes to the tables of the people of Datang, especially potatoes, which can be stored for a long time. Like cabbage, peppers are not only It can make people feel good when eating, and has certain medicinal properties.
Touching the head of Xiaobei who was standing next to her, Wang Juan said to her: "Xiaobei, I'm almost eating popcorn, and there are pancakes made of rice noodles, which are eaten with salted fish. People walking outside, dry food. The variety will be much richer."
"What is corn? Is rice blossoms delicious?" Beckham stretched out his tongue and licked his lips.
"It's corn. Anyway, there are many names. It can be cooked as a snack, order, stop traveling, and let Shuiyun send some seeds."
It is really difficult for Wang Juan to explain to Xiaobei, no matter how good he is, it is better to see the real object directly and issue an order immediately.
The traveler who had just returned to Jilizhou took a good night's sleep. According to the order, he packed up many weird seeds he got, tied them to Shuiyun's feet, and let them fly in the sky.
While waiting, Zhang Xiaobao thought of Li Bai again.
Recently, Li Bai wrote a lot of poems for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan to see, hoping to be appreciated by the two, so as to obtain a satisfactory position, but the result is not very good.
Before Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were going to travel this time, he was arranged for a Sicang from Jilizhou to join the army. He was a sixth-rank officer, not small or small, but there were still a lot of regrets compared to the yearning for the capital.
Now that he knows that there are new varieties to come, Zhang Xiaobao does not intend to let Li Bai continue to manage the warehouse. He is afraid that after Li Bai drank too much one day, he will kill the newly obtained seeds, so there is no place to cry.
When he found Li Bai who was also packing his luggage, Zhang Xiaobao said to him very directly: "Young Master Li, now there are two official positions for you to choose again. One is the county magistrate in Jian'an. I will give you a task to lead the people of Jian'an in the greenhouse. A new thing is planted in it. This greenhouse is a glass greenhouse and is no longer simple."
Li Bai listened carefully. He was a little curious when Zhang Xiaobao said something new, but he didn't want to stay. Can a county with a population of just over 100 be called a county? Even if smallpox is planted, it is useless.
Then he asked: "What about the second one?"
"The second option is to go to Beijing to become an official. You first go to Jilizhou and get a few seeds there. Take them with you when you return to the capital. Then you go directly to Sinong Temple and let people plant them. Your official position is also in Sinong. Temple, um... Just be a garden supervisor, and set up a new garden, what is it called... Oh, call it a foreign garden, don’t you think it is
Zhang Xiaobao temporarily thought of a new name and new department, and asked Li Bai.
Li Bai made a slight estimate, knowing that the new official position is a sixth-rank official, with a bit of real power, and also a capital official. He has not considered whether this official position is like his own mind, but he has a new understanding of the capabilities of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. .
Listening to Zhang Xiaobao’s words, you can know that Sinong Temple does not have any imported gardens yet. Zhang Xiaobao is going to make one. It looks so sure, as if he said that Sinong Temple is just like Sinong Temple. Come one by one.
Feeling the strength of Zhang Xiaobao, Li Bai temporarily believed that Zhang Xiaobao could successfully assign a garden to him in Sinong Temple, but when he thought about it, he found that no matter what the garden, his official was a bit small, and he had to plant the land. Lusty.
Zhang Xiaobao knew what the other party was thinking as soon as he saw Li Bai's expression. He felt very uncomfortable. He was still dissatisfied when he came up to a sixth-rank official? This was given by looking at the name of the other Shixian.
"Which one does Li Gongzi think is more suitable?" Zhang Xiaobao asked patiently.
"Can you change the place?" Li Baida was unwilling to study farming matters in his heart.
"Then either go to the Ministry of Rites and become a secretary, and also a sixth-rank official." Zhang Xiaobao thought about giving another official position.
Li Bai lowered his head to ponder for a while, the expression on his face remained the same as before, and it seemed that the Ministry of Etiquette was not very good.
"If the Ministry of Etiquette doesn't work, go to the Ministry of Households, and be an official of the seventh grade." Zhang Xiaobao now thinks about new varieties, so he should send Li Bai out quickly.
The Ministry of Households is in charge of the money. It is a very important department. You can also see Shangshu in everything. It is easy to access. It is a good place, but the grade is down.
Li Bai gritted his teeth and asked, "Can you be a doctor?"
"What do you mean?" Zhang Xiaobao asked rhetorically. He knew that Li Bai wanted to be a doctor of various ministries and departments, a fifth-rank officer, the kind who can go to the big early dynasty. This is pure joke, not that it can't be arranged, but you Li Bai Why would you want to jump directly to the important position of the five products
Li Bai also felt that he had requested too much, but he was full of expectations. After thinking about it, he said, "That's all right."
This is how it came back, but what Li Bai thought in his heart was to go to the capital to find a way to meet the officials in the capital. After getting acquainted with it, let him recommend it. If it fails, use Zhang Xiaobao's one and slowly look for opportunities.
Zhang Xiaobao specializes in the study of human psychology, how can he not know what Li Bai thinks, Li Bai's eyes move, Zhang Xiaobao knows the other party’s small abacus from it, and does not expose it, let him try it and know the position he has arranged, see See who dares to intervene? Not to mention the officials of the various ministries, even if they are bigger, they can't do it. Didn't Zhang say that this Chinese book order was all taken down
As he thought about it, Zhang Xiaobao smiled secretly in his heart, brought Li Bai into the house, spread out the paper, studied the ink, and wrote on it: "Recommend, Li Bai and Li Taibai are all things for the Ministry of Household Books. I will try for one year and wait for the next year. More discussion. Zhang Xiaobao."
In a few simple words, Li Bai's official will be assigned, and the new position will be discussed after the evaluation next year.
Li Bai thought that Zhang Xiaobao would compliment himself vigorously, and put the reasons for the recommendation on it, which made people feel that it should not be bad, but he did not expect Zhang Xiaobao to write it so simple.
Looking at the ink that hadn't dried yet, he asked worriedly: "That's right?"
"That's right." Zhang Xiaobao put down his pen and picked up his own seal. This seal was made by himself. The seal of Jiduzhi has long become a habit. Li Longji did it hard, just close the officialdom, and other things such as Clothes, seals, etc. are not responsible.
"Who will I show to the capital after I arrive in Beijing?" Li Bairu didn't think that this letter could achieve its purpose, because it was too simple to write.
Zhang Xiaobao put down the pen and blew the ink. "You can show it to anyone. As long as you enter the place where the official Beijing office is doing business, you can take it out. Anyone who sees it will lead you to the person who arranged the position. The staff in charge of the official can do it. It’s okay to be an official at the Ministry of Households, or you can just let Li... Arrange it for you as soon as your Majesty sees it.
Go, don’t forget to help bring the seeds when passing by Jilizhou, I’ll write another letter to Sinong Temple, asking them to set up an exotic garden, oh, after arriving in the capital, you can ask Wang Wei, he wrote Poems are also good. "
After speaking, Zhang Xiaobao casually folds the new fold into Li Bai's hand, and it is finished.
Li Bai held the letter in his hand and watched Zhang Xiaobao go out. His face was blank. He always felt that Zhang Xiaobao's promise was too easy. He said that when he was a Beijing official, he would be a Beijing official.
He looked at the letter in his hand again, took a deep breath, and then slowly vomited it out. He had to treat the dead horse as a living Malay doctor, and try it after entering Beijing if he failed.
He lowered his head and walked out with infinite melancholy. When he raised his head, he just saw Zhang Xiaohai, who was squatting there, writing and painting on the snow. Li Bai found that Xiaohai had been silent for too long during the days of contact, compared to his sister. For Xiaobei, it is much worse, so he leaned forward curiously to see what Xiaohai wrote.
When he saw what Xiao Hai wrote, Li Bai was confused again and couldn't understand it at all, because Xiao Hai wrote "Suppose the side length is X, the area is Y, 2Y=Z..."
What kind of mess, ghostly drawn talisman
Xiaohai didn't notice Li Bai's arrival at all. He was still thinking and calculating. If this were replaced by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, he would definitely shout genius, but Li Bai was not.
"Hey... I have to ask my sister how to eliminate the yuan." Xiao Hai calculated for a while, and found that he could not calculate, his little face wrinkled and muttered.
"What are you writing?" Li Bai asked puzzledly.
"You don't understand what you said, did your brother arrange an official for you?" Xiao Hai said a few more words unexpectedly.
Li Bai nodded.
"Then do it hard. Don’t think that the official is a junior. I heard from my brother and sister that my father had studied hard for more than ten years and got a champion. In the end, he was just a seventh-rank official. If you dare to give Brother discredited, I will find my sister to impeach you."
Xiao Hai said a lot today, especially to outsiders.
Li Bai is obviously not in a good mood. He was threatened by a child. What do you mean? Do you look down on yourself
Right now Li Bai didn't say anything, turned and left, but he was really scared in his heart, afraid that the nine children would be jointly impeached. No kidding, there has been a precedent.
Li Bai left with the expectation in his heart. Under the protection of the four people, he went to the beach and took a boat. Then he transferred to Jilizhou and took the seeds to Beijing.
Shuiyun also came, not by himself, and brought a partner, a big red eagle, one white and one red flying in the sky very conspicuously. He was named Red Luan, which is regarded as a fairy bird. In Zhang Ying’s eyes, it is also Only fairy birds can be matched with water clouds.
The two eagles brought a bag of things. Judging from the traces, they should have stopped and rested on the way. The bottom of the package was covered with snow and ice, and it was stained with dirt and some animal blood stains left by the two eagles when they ate.
Zhang Xiaobao only looked at the package, and didn't rush to open it. Instead, he touched Shuiyun's head and said to him: "Congratulations, you are looking for a good one. I really haven't seen a red eagle. You have to say hello to the child, don’t fall to death."
As if he understood Zhang Xiaobao's words, Shui Yun rubbed his head against Zhang Xiaobao's face. The sharp mouth made people look scared.
Xiaobei let someone kill a deer and sent it to Shuiyun. He also said: "When we have a baby, our children's group will catch bugs. It's better to have more than a hundred. You have to work hard."
When Shuiyun took Hongluan to eat, Zhang Xiaobao opened the package. There were sprouting sweet potatoes and potatoes in it. I thought it was caused by the high temperature when I was on the boat, so I dug it down and sent it to the greenhouse for planting. In addition to these two, there are coffee beans and cocoa.
"Let someone send them to Luzhou for planting." Zhang Xiaobao picked out the two things, and Jian'an couldn't plant them.
Next is a dozen ears of corn, a lot of peppers, a pack of very poorly sun-dried tobacco and seeds, half of it, which is sunflower seeds, and washed tomato seeds. It looks like The harvest is not small. As for wood and other samples, no samples were sent. It is estimated that they will be tired from water and clouds.
Wang Juan followed and asked, "I remember there are a few things from South America. Didn't they have the past?"
"You have a wrong memory, come to Xiaobei, prepare the spicy seasoning, and make you a real mala Tang." Zhang Xiaobao replied Wang Juan, then picked up the chili peppers and told Xiaobei who was also looking curiously.
Beckham doubled her mouth and shook her head: "Are you going to eat this? Let's keep it as seeds."
"The inside is the seed, the outer skin is not counted, you can eat it." Zhang Xiaobao pinched a little chili and put it in his mouth to taste, sticking out his tongue to explain to Beckham.
"Oh, eat good food." Beckham cheered, and hurried to make arrangements.
Zhang Xiaobao took advantage of this effort to call in the people in the county and the people left behind, and supplemented Wang Juan to introduce a few crop cultivation methods. They cannot wait until next year to control the Turks. As for future plans, they have to wait for the locals to take care of them. Let's talk about it as a species.
Soon, Xiaobei prepared everything, and took all the seasonings and everything to be rinsed. The only thing missing was the mountain pepper seedlings. With real peppers, the substitutes are no longer available.
Zhang Xiaobao put a lot of chili in a grid, then fried chili oil, combined with pepper oil and sesame sauce, and can eat it when the water boils.
After Xiaobei worked hard to blow the fire, the water finally rolled up, and before he could eat it, the smell of chili entered his nose first.
"Ah! It's spicy." Beckham sneezed vigorously and said with red eyes.
The other group of people who smelled the smell also nodded. They thought that green onion, ginger, garlic, and mountain pepper seedlings would be spicy enough. Only today did they see what spicy is.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan swallowed at the same time. Only the two of them knew the delicacy of chili peppers. Zhang Xiaobao stuffed a large amount of bean curd into the grid and shaved it vigorously. When the bean curd became soft, he took it out and divided it among nine others. Brother and sister, pour some chili oil and pepper oil on top.
"Eat, I'll make boiled pork slices and boiled fish for you in the future."
Beckham nodded twice and leaned her nose to smell it. The taste of red oil and sesame oil mixed together. Before eating, it felt fragrant. He took a deep breath and prepared to be spicy first. Then he picked up one carefully. Put the skewers of bean curd into your mouth.
In less than two seconds, Beckham’s eyes suddenly widened, and the movement on his hand stopped. For another two seconds, Beckham lifted the sign and chewed it hard. Sweat was visible on his forehead, even with the movement of his mouth. He didn't stop, waited to swallow something, opened his mouth, breathed out, and said in a vague voice:
"Okay, it's so spicy. I want that soup. Give me some soup. It's comfortable, really comfortable, and warm."
"Do you still drink hot soup?" Xiaoyuan didn't eat it all the time, and was obviously shocked by Beckham's reaction.
"What do you know, you want to eat more and more. If you dare not cooperate with me in the future, I will fill you with chili water to let you know how powerful it is." Xiaobei suddenly thought of a good way.
Zhang Xiaobao was taken aback, looked at Wang Juan, and said, "It looks like our Beckham is really talented. Knowing the trick of pouring chili water, I really haven't tried what it feels like to pour this thing in from my nose."
"It can treat a cold," Wang Juan said.
Xiaoyuan watched Xiaobei sizzle while eating, and finally couldn't help but taste it. The result became the same as Xiaobei, the more spicy the more he wanted to eat.
Other people also came to taste it, including the people in the county, all of them thought this thing was magical.
Seeing that the food was almost the same, Zhang Xiaobao stopped his younger siblings and filled each of them with a large bowl of mung bean porridge, fearing that it would spoil the stomach.
"It's a pity that there are no green pepper seeds." Zhang Xiaobao said regretfully.
"It was cultivated later. When grafted with tomatoes, bell peppers can appear. When the tomatoes grow more, you can make tomato sauce. There will be one more tomato sauce fish in the can. Pack up and prepare to start."
Seeing the expected arrival, Wang Juan's thoughts were placed on Turkic again.
Zhang Xiaobao nodded: "Okay, make arrangements right away. Let's roast a ear of corn for them to taste. The fleet has brought back a lot. By next year, we will release it in our restaurant to see the effect."
"It's still worth looking at? As long as it is not popular, new things will inevitably become luxury goods. Smoking is harmful to your health. You are not allowed to smoke more if you have cigarettes."
Wang Juan looked very disgusted with other people's smoking.
"I'm going to make cigars, not cigarettes, and no fertilizer. Oh, there is no such good fertilizer now. I decided to help Silla people get rich, not just put various smelters in Silla. They have to plant the tobacco on their fertile ground, which looks like cabbage before it is exposed to the sun, and looks so green and gratifying."
With the words, Zhang Xiaobao's expression turned into that kind of compassion and compassion, which was sacred and inviolable.
After Xiaobei and others tasted roasted corn and decided to eat corn all day when the output of corn came up next year, the tour group finally slowly lifted off and went sightseeing in distant places.
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Before Li Bai arrived in Jilizhou, Jilizhou had already dispatched a fast boat to Dengzhou. Large packages and large packages of things were sent by Dengzhou to the capital. The speed was only slower than that of 800 miles. a little bit.
When Zhang Xiaobao's tour group continued to float in the sky, packages of goods were delivered to the champion building, and the cooks in the champion building started to make food according to the method written in the letter that came with the package.
There are actually two types that can be made, pepper and corn. Some corn is a little bit blue, and some are golden. It is not easy to preserve it.
At the end of the morning session the next day, when Li Long’s benchmark spare lunch, the food delivery person in the Zhuangyuan Building went outside the palace. After a series of inspections, the food box finally appeared on the table in front of Li Longji.
Li Longji’s food has changed a long time ago. There is no need to display so many things to watch. In his opinion, a dozen dishes per meal are luxurious enough, unless they are dining with Japanese, Silla and other countries. Will put out the pomp as it should be, and don't usually do it that way.
Today, the Imperial Dining Room had not brought the food. Li Longji immediately ordered the Imperial Dining Room to stop cooking when he heard that there was food in the Zhuangyuan Building. Eye-catching, it smells a special fragrance, I don't know what it is.
The other food box was opened, and there was charcoal heating underneath. There were a lot of meat slices and bean sprouts and other auxiliary materials cooked in it. After another smell, the tears almost didn't come out.
"This is..." For the first time, Li Longji felt that he was ignorant and had never seen anything like this.
According to the procedure, first test with silver needles to see if there are any commonly used poisons, such as arsenic, and let the little eunuch taste it again, waiting for the golden buns to cool down, and the little eunuch is still alive, Gao Lishi. First pick up a steamed bun, squeeze it into small pieces, and chew it in your mouth.
"Your Majesty, it's delicious. The minister has never eaten anything like this." While speaking, Gao Lishi went to eat the boiled pork slices, and after being stuck out his tongue, he continued to nod to Li Longji.
Li Longji can’t wait any longer. He is accustomed to every time he is sent from the Zhuangyuan Building or Deyiju, he will be happy and full every time. Similarly, every time he sees others go through the procedures for inspection, he will Thinking of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, if two of them came over to cook something in person, they wouldn't have to wait for the food to cool down before they could eat it.
Seeing Gao Lishi nodded, Li Longji couldn't wait to pick up a steamed bun, no matter what the emperor's dignity should be, he opened his mouth to bite it, and the entrance of the golden steamed buns immediately felt a chewy feeling, and then there was another uniqueness. Scent.
I picked up another piece of meat, and the spicy taste instantly filled my whole mouth. I quickly took another bite of the bun, exhaled, and squinted his eyes to praise: "It's delicious, Xiaobao and the cuckoo are interested, does Lux know what this thing is? "
Gao Lishi shook his head: "I don't know the minister, please go and ask after the minister writes a letter."
"Well, hurry up." Li Longji looked very anxious.
Gao Lishi put down his chopsticks and went to write a letter. At this time, Li Longji had already shaken off his cheeks and began to eat hard.
When Gao Lishi finished writing the letter and sent it back to Jilizhou with pigeons, what he saw was that there were only a few bean sprouts and vegetable leaves in the big bowl with boiled pork slices, and only three small steamed buns. The emperor sat with his stomach upright, his head slightly tilted back, watching the ups and downs of his chest, it was obvious that he was puffing up there.
"Luo Bin, hurry up, go to the medicated food room and fetch Dashan Chawan, Your Majesty, what are you... Hey!" Gao Lishi looked very helpless.
Li Longji touched his belly with his hand, "Lushi, I haven't eaten all of it, I'll keep it for you."
"Your Majesty," Gao Lishi responded.