Chapter Seventy-Seven: Who Wants to Find Death
Chen Fang originally thought that only in the Taiji Palace did anyone know him, and even if someone knew him in the imperial city outside, Chang'an knew him, it was only the old old man of the original Honglu Temple and those courtiers who had participated in the Chongyang Chrysanthemum Wine Banquet in the court.
Chen Fang didn't expect that at this time, he had already become famous in the entire Chang'an City, not only because of the Tang Workshop, but also because those snacks had actually begun to pass through the palace to the relatives of the powerful people in the court.
Many courtiers' own kitchens have actually begun to imitate it, of course, the results of imitation are not good, because the maltose, because the condiments are made and proportioned are stuck there.
Some raw materials also became a constraint for these people to imitate at this time, for example, if you need to fry melon seeds, you must need sunflower seeds, and at this time, sunflower seeds also need to be imported from the Northern Han Dynasty.
For example, if you want to make small dried fish, maybe small fish are easy to find, but the rapeseed oil you need can only be squeezed by the Yeting Palace Oil Mill at this time, you need rapeseed oil, you also need to build an oil mill, you also need raw rapeseed, and you also need to understand the process of the operation of the entire oil mill.
It seems simple, but in fact, it is a hard restriction that these snacks cannot emulate. No is nothing, you can't draw one.
At that time, perhaps the travelers of the Western Qin and Northern Han Dynasty also thought about squeezing rapeseed oil, but the Northern Han Dynasty was originally a bitter cold land, where to produce rapeseed. Raw material constraints, this is a fundamental constraint, there is no way. It's like if you don't discover America, you can't bring potatoes to Asia and Europe.
In Xiqin, rapeseed may be found, but the traverser may not know the oil mill process, or how to squeeze it.
In addition, these traversers themselves have just come to a new place from the Central Plains, and their foothold is not stable, and there are still too many things to deal with, and some small things will not be resolved.
Not every traveler is as idle as Chen Fang, and he has a lot of time to spend on making food.
Therefore, it seems to be a very simple delicacy, but none of the princely mansions in Chang'an have made it.
Even if some ministers' mansions are barely made, they are too far from the occasional smell in the palace, and they are not a thing at all.
Hawthorn without maltose syrup is strung with bamboo skewers, is that a rock sugar gourd?
As for how these snacks flow out of the palace, in fact, this is very natural, there are so many palace maids who go to the Shangshi Bureau every day to ask for them, and snacks have long been popular in the harem.
The concubines and beauties in these harems always have some snacks to their relatives living in Chang'an for them to taste.
In this way, the rock sugar gourd made by Chen Fang will always be passed on to the people, of course, this requires a process.
At this time, the name of snacks and the delicacy of snacks have long been known by the upper class of Chang'an and widely spread.
Being able to get a snack from the palace has long become the pride of many royal relatives, princes and ministers, and princes.
During this period, there were also ministers who wanted to inquire about the production method from the palace, but the people who knew it at this time were all in the Shangshi Bureau, and the Shangshi Bureau under Chen Fang's Imperial Court was really ironclad.
At this time, the name of snacks is still being transmitted from various national mansions and ministers' palaces to the surroundings, and the people take food as the sky, and when a delicacy appears, the transmission speed is absolutely unimaginable. Not to mention the fact that there are many kinds at once.
Maybe when a delicacy appears, the public only understands the delicacy itself, but when a large number of delicacy appears together, the public is very interested in the person who makes the delicacy.
More and more people know Chen Fang and know this figure who rises like a rising sun in the court.
Chen Fang has become a miracle person and a legend in the hearts of many people at this time.
Even when the old people of Honglu Temple talked about Chen Fang, they always shook their heads and smiled bitterly, thinking that they were very ordinary and a small official around him, usually receiving envoys with him, and running errands together. At most, he is handsome, and he is very popular with some women in the envoys.
Who knew that the other party had inadvertently already surpassed them far and stood at the height they needed to look up to.
Even for a long time, the officials of Honglu Temple were fascinated and talked with envoys from various countries, and even enhanced the affection between the Tang Dynasty and various states.
Of course, the secret recipe and some craftsmanship they want to get will definitely not be available.
At this time, it is not surprising that the supervisor of the Tang Workshop construction site knows Chen Fang's name.
"Get up!"
After getting Chen Fang's order, several overseers dared to get up at this time.
"Lord Chen, this construction site is dirty and messy at this time, so it's better for adults to avoid it for the time being!"
The overseer looked like a sloppy horse, which made Chen Fang a little disgusted.
"I'll just go around, and you can continue."
Chen Fang walked in the construction site, and those Xing disciples and the laborers recruited from all over the country avoided one after another. Even if these people didn't know Chen Fang, they could know from the clothes that this was a big man, and the overseers around him were very respectful to him.
And looking at them, I don't know why, Chen Fang felt quite heavy in his heart.
In this winter, they were still wearing single clothes, a Datang version of a down jacket plus a fox fur, deerskin boots, and bearskin gloves were all cold at this time, how should they feel.
Can such a single piece of clothing really keep out the cold?
At this time, a couple of people were carrying a heavy stone not far from Chen Fang, and the elderly man accidentally slipped his foot and fell in the snow.
"Dad, are you alright?"
The young man hurried to help the elderly, and it turned out to be a father and son. This pair of father and son are obviously not Xing disciples, but the ordinary people are wearing thicker clothes than Xing disciples, but they are still very thin.
The old man had a torn cotton jacket on his body, and the cotton wool on it was exposed in several places, and the exposed cotton wool was a kind of gray and black, and I don't know how many winters had passed.
At this moment, the overseer's whip was pulled down hard!
"Hurry up and get to work, who told you to be lazy!"
The leather whip slammed into the old man's body, whipping out a bloody mark, the blood passed through the old man's torn cotton jacket, soaked the dirty cotton wool exposed by the old man's cotton jacket, and the long whip raised brought up a few pieces of cotton wool, flying in the air.
The old man let out a wail, and his body, which had just stood up, fell down again.
"Dare to be lazy, see if I don't kill you!"
The leather whip was raised, and then it was pulled down with all his might, and the young farmer there hurriedly hugged the old man.
"Don't hit my dad, please don't hit my dad!"
The sound of the leather whip slapping on the flesh sounded, and the blood mark made Chen Fang feel dazzling.
"If you want to fight, I'll fight together!"
This time, the overseer's whip was raised high again, but it couldn't be drawn!
"Who wants to find death!"
The overseer turned around, but saw Chen Fang in unusual clothes behind him, and immediately recognized Chen Fang.
"Damn it, I don't know it's Lord Chen!"
The overseer was honestly frightened, and when he saw Chen Fang thinking of his sentence just now, who wanted to find death, his legs trembled on his knees in fright.