According to modern time, the sun rises at around five o'clock every morning in Chongcheng County.
Li Qingzhi and Jin Xiaoye arrived at Miaoqian Village at around six in the morning. By seven, they had already started cooking the marinade.
The braised pork can be eaten in half an hour. After Li Qingzhi used his supernatural power to develop the brains of Li Damao and Li Ermao, he went outside and fished the pork out of the big pot.
He cut the large piece of pork into smaller pieces, and put it into a small pot in the house together with a certain amount of braising liquid to absorb the sauce. The pork was then considered ready.
Seeing that the villagers were looking at him eagerly, Li Qingzhi simply divided the meat among them.
And when the villagers put the meat into their mouths...
“This meat is so delicious!”
“This is the best meat I’ve ever eaten!”
“I can’t even swallow it!”
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Li Qingzhi smiled when he saw this, and talked to several families who lived nearby: "We are short of tables, chairs, benches, and pots for the banquet, and we need to borrow some from you. I won't lend you bowls and chopsticks this time, so please bring bowls and chopsticks from home and come over to eat."
These people responded one after another, and soon some of them brought pots, tables and chairs. Li Qingzhi asked them to help build a few more stoves and cook rice.
Of course, braised meat was also being made. He also bought some chickens and ducks from the villagers and asked them to kill them on the spot, wash them, and then put them in the pot to make braised chicken and duck.
Li Qingzhi was a southerner in his previous life. There was a time-honored braised food shop in his local area that had been passed down for two hundred years. The braised food made there was very delicious. The braised food made by the Chang family's recipe was not inferior to that of the time-honored braised food shop.
The only pity is that the stew is not spicy at all.
Li Qingzhi had never seen chili peppers on the market, but he had learned about the situation in Da Qi from Zhu Qian and knew that Da Qi's maritime trade was quite prosperous... Chili peppers might already be available, but just not popular.
Even sweet potatoes may already be available and can be promoted.
Sweet potatoes have a high yield and their leaves are edible. If there were more of this crop, people's lives would be much better.
However, it is unrealistic to expect to feed everyone with sweet potatoes.
In modern society, some countries have rich lands, but their people are still starving because the lands are not in the hands of the poor at all.
If we want to prevent the people from going hungry, we need to let them own land.
Well, it is not enough to just give them land, they also need fertilizers. When their country's industry has not yet developed and there is not enough fertilizer, many people still starve.
For crops like sweet potatoes, without enough fertilizer, the yield per mu cannot be increased and they are also difficult to preserve. He remembered from a book he had read... In difficult times, people in the south would make sweet potato porridge and sweet potato rice to satisfy their hunger, but their main food was still rice.
It would be great if there were chemical fertilizers. Then even if there were no sweet potatoes, everyone would be able to eat white rice to their heart’s content.
There is such a severe shortage of fertilizer in this era that some people in the countryside even steal manure from other people's homes.
Moreover, the population of Da Qi was far smaller than that of later generations. In fact, there were still a lot of wasteland. No one cultivated those lands. One of the reasons was that the land lacked fertility and could not grow crops.