Peng smiled: "Okay, no matter how fierce the goose is, it won't bite you when it dies." After finishing speaking, he directly picked up a piece of goose meat and tasted it, and gave everyone a thumbs up: "Delicious and juicy, crispy on the outside, oily but not greasy!

Yali frowned slightly after seeing it: "It looks so greasy, is this delicious?"

Xiao Peng directly stuffed a piece in her mouth: "Just taste it." ”

Yali tasted it and her eyes lit up: "Is it sweet?"

"It's a little sweet, because it's mixed with honey and sugar, but the level of this roast goose is really good, so I don't have to choose!" Xiao Peng praised.

Yali nodded, "It's much better than the goose meat I ate." Do you like to eat goose very much?"

Xiao Peng thought for a while: "Now there are many geese in the south, and there are not many geese in the north, but the Chinese people do like geese very much, and there was a period, oh, that is, the Tang Dynasty, that was simply the whole people raising geese." You can have nothing at home, but you can't have a goose. ”

Yali was curious, "Why is that?"

"Why? If you don't have a goose, you can't marry a wife, do you think you have to raise a goose?"

"Huh, what does this goose have to do with marrying a wife?"

Xiao Peng explained: "The history of our Chinese people raising poultry has a long history, but the earliest is to raise chickens and ducks, and in the Tang Dynasty, people suddenly changed the style of painting and began to raise geese, just as Yao He's "Three Songs of Yangzhou Spring Songs" wrote, 'There is only bamboo in the land, and there is no home to raise geese'." ”

"Why do you all have geese?" asked Arlie.

Xiao Peng shrugged: "In ancient China, there were all kinds of complicated etiquette systems, and during the Zhou Dynasty, men had to give an indispensable gift when they were hired and married, that is, wild geese. This kind of etiquette is called 'laying geese', Confucius recorded in "Etiquette-Dowry" and "Etiquette-Tudui Ceremony": "The doctor lays the goose and worships again, and the upper intermediary receives", "Those who take the goose as their deferential take it to follow the yin and yang", anyway, it means that if you want to marry a wife? ”

Ya Li's eyes widened: "Xiao, aren't you kidding me? Although I don't read as much as you, I also know that geese are migratory birds, and they go north in spring and south in autumn, and they can't see geese until the season.

Xiao Peng snapped his fingers: "You got to the key point, the 'geese' sent out by marriage during the Zhou Dynasty are real geese, but as you said, geese are difficult to catch, and they are still very precious, and civilians can't afford to consume them at all, so how can the common people get married? So after the Zhou Dynasty, the 'geese' that people gave when they got married were not geese, but 'Shu geese', that is, geese------ in that year, geese were not called geese but Shu geese. Geese were used as a substitute for wild geese, and this custom was inherited. After Songtsen Gampo married Princess Wencheng, the gift he gave to Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, was a golden goose. During that period, I didn't dare to say that I was from the Tang Dynasty without raising a few geese, and even in some local government offices, raising geese was a very important thing, and special official slaves and maids would be arranged to be responsible for raising geese. (Tang Liudian - Criminal Department Dusi recorded that 'women and skilled people enter the court, and the rest are incompetent, and Xianli is a farmer', and raising geese is an important duty of Si Nong. ）

Xiao Peng was talking energetically, I don't know when everyone in the house was already listening to him tell stories there, and the bear child Sophia sighed: "You Chinese people are too hard to marry wives, right? You ancients just raised so many geese to marry wives? Oh, I know that you Chinese ancients can marry a lot of wives." ”

"You're naïve, too. How is that possible? During the Tang Dynasty, the average age of our Chinese people was only 27 years old, so how many wives could we marry at such a young age? Raising geese must have other purposes!" Xiao Peng shook his finger at Sophia.

It is said that the ancient Chinese could marry many wives and have many children, but in fact this is really a helpless thing; in ancient times, the sanitary conditions were poor, and the medical conditions were also poor; during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the average age of the whole country was only 22 years old! The Tang Dynasty was a little better, 27 years old! The Song Dynasty was 30 years old! The Qing Dynasty was 33 years old! Even in the Republic of China period, it is reasonable to say that it is already modern, right? As a result, the average age of the whole country is only 35 years old!

And now, in his seventies!

It is said that the Chinese people are too capable of giving birth to a population explosion, but in fact this is not the case; a few years ago, the Chinese people all had children in this way, and there was no population overflow, and that was because there were more births and more deaths!

"That's because you Tang Dynasty people like to eat goose?" Kayatana guessed on the side: "I also like goose meat, French bean stew and foie gras made of goose meat are my favorites, but I can't stand it if I eat it every day, right?"

Xiao Peng continued to shake his head and gave the answer: "The main reason why the people of the Tang Dynasty raised geese was neither to eat nor to marry a wife, but to make a fortune. ”

At this time, even Yali was confused: "If everyone raises geese, the price of geese must be cheap, how can they make a fortune?"

Xiao Peng explained: "No matter what period of time it is, if you can lie down and make a fortune, who will go out to work hard? The Tang Dynasty people are no exception, the intelligence of the ancients cannot be underestimated, they thought of a way to make a fortune, that is, to dig gold. ”

"What does gold have to do with geese?" everyone was confused.

Xiao Peng lit a cigarette and took a puff, grinning: "Hehe, don't you understand? In the Tang Dynasty, there were only two ways to dig gold, the first was to dig in the soil with tools, which was the most commonly used method." But you don't know the people of the Tang Dynasty, at that time the Tang Dynasty was the state of the Heavenly Empire, and every Tang Dynasty person was proud from the bottom of their bones! The beggars of the Tang Dynasty would not accept the alms of Hu Shang even if they starved to death, and this also led to the fact that the people of the Tang Dynasty were all lazy patients with terminal cancer, and you let them dig up the land to dig for gold? They would not work so hard for themselves. ”

Feng Zhi couldn't help but interject when he heard this, although he was from Huaxia, he really didn't know this history: "Then the second way to find gold is to pan for gold." Could it be that the goose can help pan for gold after training?"

Xiao Peng snapped his fingers: "Although the guess is not quite correct, but it is almost reliable, everyone knows that gold panning is to salvage the mud and quicksand in the riverbed, and carefully wash out the golden sand inside, right? But the people of the Tang Dynasty were smart! This goose is actually very similar to chickens and ducks, they are used to swallowing sand into their stomachs to help digestion, but geese are good at swimming, so they often go to the bottom of the river to swallow silt, and there is golden sand in the silt, so the people of the Tang Dynasty can wash and refine gold from the poop pulled out by the goose. So as to embark on a life of making a fortune. ”

An Xiaoya was dumbfounded after hearing this: "Brother Peng, is this true or false?

Xiao Peng nodded and said: "Liu Xie recorded in the "Lingbiao Strange Record" that 'he is in the middle, suddenly raising geese and ducks, often seeing bran gold flakes in the, so he raises more, collects, and gets one or two or half taels a day, so he gets rich." It is not unreasonable for geese to be so sought after in the Tang Dynasty, by the way, do you remember Luo Bingwang? The poor people in the family are all jingling, but they are also a big goose breeder. In order to write a down-to-earth poem like 'goose goose goose, song to the sky' will be passed down through the ages. ”

Sophia opened her mouth wide: "The goose is really so powerful? If you want to dig the sand, you don't need to raise geese and dig goose droppings?"

Xiao Peng pouted: "Ahh It is necessary to engage in a national goose breeding. Is it because goose droppings are more elegant than sand? That's good, at least not starving. ”

Everyone laughed, and Yali asked, "Don't the Chinese people like geese now?"

"Tell me?" Xiao Peng glared, crossed his fingers and began to count: "Yangzhou salted water goose, braised Lu goose, goose paw stewed soup, fried goose intestines with green onions, casserole beer goose, ancient stuffy goose, Guangdong Lu goose, three-flavor stewed goose, braised goose in southern milk sauce, five-flavor goose, roasted goose, Yangzhou wind goose, open fire and dark simmering live goose, old goose head, yellow stewed goose, iron pot stewed goose, sour plum goose, Chaoshan braised goose, and this legendary deep well roast goose that can't fly out of Guangdong。。。。。。 ”

Let Xiao Peng say this, everyone is interested in the roast goose in the deep well, and several girls were not interested in goose meat and felt that it was too fatty, but now they can't help it and want to try it.

Under this meal, only praise remained.

"Actually, I haven't eaten goose since I saw how foie gras is produced in Hungary, but today I can't help it, this deep well roast goose is so delicious," said Alee. ”

Sophia was puzzled and asked, "How delicious is the foie gras, Sister Ari, why don't you eat foie gras?" ”

"That's right, foie gras and caviar and truffles are known as the three great delicacies of the world, and since the ancient Egyptians, wild geese have been found to eat a lot of food before migrating and store energy in their livers," she explained to Sophia. to meet the needs of long-haul flights. And the wild geese caught during this time taste the best. This discovery spread from Egypt to Rome and then to Gaul, where it became a favorite food of the Gauls. But did you know that despite the love of foie gras in Gaul, most of the foie gras is imported from Hungary. ”

Sophia blinked wide-eyed, "Why?"

"Because of cruelty. Yali gave the answer: "Animal protection organizations do not allow foie gras to be cultivated in Gaul. ”

"Foie gras still needs to be cultivated?" said Kayatana, who ate her hands and mouth, full of oil, and had no image at all.

Yali smiled: "You think the foie gras we eat is the liver of an ordinary goose?"

Several girls nodded together.

Yali shook her head: "The foie gras we eat in the restaurant costs about 500 grams each, and the big ones even cost two kilograms, while the foie gras of ordinary geese is about 50 grams, do you think it's still a thing?"

Kayatana blinked, "Is it a special breed of goose liver?"

"It's the common Antessburg goose, the Lande goose and the Toulouse goose. From the age of 12 weeks, the young geese are placed in an iron cage with only their necks exposed, and then the farmer begins to stuff food into the goose's belly with an iron pipe every day, trying to make the stomach of the goose into a noodle bag. Every day, each goose is force-fed about 12 kilograms of a mixture of corn and cereals, so that the goose's stomach is completely full, and the goose is fed another meal before it has digested the food of the previous meal, and after several weeks, the foie gras will swell. It becomes 'fatty liver'. The foie gras we usually eat is actually the fatty liver in the body of live geese. ”

"In addition to the damage to the mouth and the injury to the throat, those geese have to endure stomach pain, transportation, and forced to sleep every day, and can not move at will, and their daily life is to be fed from the goose's mouth by workers with high-pressure intubation, and the goose's esophagus has long been ulcerated because of the intubation three times a day。。。。。。 Alas, I went to visit once, and I came home with nightmares for days, it was so cruel!"

The girls were stunned, they had always thought that the foie gras they usually ate was ordinary foie gras, and for the first time they knew that the process of cultivating foie gras was so cruel.

When they were sad there, they saw Xiao Peng smiling on the side.

You Mei frowned: "Xiao, you're too ruthless, haven't you heard that those geese have been treated so cruelly?"

With Yumi taking the lead, Caya Tana and Sophia also came to the spirit, accusing Xiao Peng of being ruthless on the side.

Xiao Peng spread his hands: "There is no killing, there is no buying and selling, I don't eat foie gras, I don't buy foie gras, what does it have to do with me? I just think that people like you who eat foie gras exist, and there are people who specialize in feeding foie gras, and you are embarrassed to call me cruel?"

After speaking, Xiao Peng pointed at Sophia and Kayetana: "I really can't stand the moral standards of you Westerners, on the one hand, pointing fingers at others, and on the other hand, turning a blind eye to your own mistakes! I can see clearly, this so-called morality is the tool you use to kidnap others, and the so-called moral code depends on whether it is beneficial to yourself!" You criticize us Chinese people for eating dog meat, let's not say that most of us Chinese people don't eat dog meat, even if there are people who eat dog meat, it is also a dog bred by themselves, compared to your goose eating liver, we are kind, right? Why don't you feel ashamed of eating foie gras?"

"Of course, I also understand, we have a word in Huaxia that says it very well, called 'rat eyes and inches', it is talking about people like you, if Yali doesn't tell you about the production process of foie gras today, do you always think that ordinary domestic geese can grow delicious foie gras? After all, you live in a place where a quarter of the population has never eaten a banana and half of the population has never seen a coconut, so what else is there to say?"

(A quarter of the people in Europe have never eaten a banana, and half of them have never seen a coconut, this is not a joke, when a minister of the Eagle Country went to Australia, and the Australian official took a banana to entertain him, and this guy went up to take a bite and did not peel it.) Seeing the coconut is even more amazing. The official ministers are like this, and the common people can imagine it. The reason for many European countries is that our country's own fruits are rich enough, and we don't need any bananas, coconut, durians, and the like。。。。。。。 ）