The next morning, Chen Xu submitted the chapter to the emperor, and the emperor nodded and agreed without the slightest hesitation after hearing Chen Xu's statement, so after the dispersal of the court, Chen Xu brought Chen Ping, Li Shun and An Yuliang to discuss the specific preparations for the translation hall.

At present, the Ministry of Rites has a special Pawn Bureau, which is a special department for the court to deal with foreign clans, and all foreign envoys and even foreign officials and royal families who have been arrested are managed by the Pawn Bureau.

And Li Shun came back smoothly because of the envoy Yue's family, and also inquired about the internal news of the Yue's family, so that Meng Tian's design quickly conquered the Yue's family, and Li Shun was promoted by the royal family as an important hero to the five-grade official of the Pawn Bureau, specializing in managing the envoys of various countries.

And after the conquest of the Yue Clan, the emperor according to the merit statistics of the Ministry of War to all the soldiers who participated in the conquest of the Yue clan were rewarded, Yingbu because of the strategy and personally led three thousand horses to fight the blood puzzle of the South King to delay the battle between the Yue clan and the Qiang people, was rewarded by the emperor at the fourth level, and now the martial arts have been tired to the fourteenth level of the right watch, and has become another rapidly rising general in the northwest army, if you continue to conquer the Western Regions and then rise to the next level, you can rank in the court and enter the ranks of generals, but as for the marquis, it is still far away, At present, the surroundings of Daqin are no longer the situation surrounded by Hun and Hu at the beginning, there is not much danger around Daqin, and the emperor's reward will be much more stingy when it comes to destroying some small tribes.

The translation hall prepared by Chen Xu is located in the Dictionary Bureau, as a four-level yamen, which is responsible for the translation work of external liaison, but the specific training operation is the Faculty of Letters, which is regarded as a translation class under the Faculty of Letters, and those who are qualified will be assigned to the Dictionary Administration after graduation, and their identities will naturally become low-level officials, which is also a good way for civilians to become scholars by learning to step into the officialdom.

At present, there are some officials in the Dianke Department who are proficient in the Yue, Hu, Qiang, and Yueshi languages, but they have almost no understanding of the languages of the Wusun, Loulan, Cheshi, Yanqi, Xinli and other tribes that are more westward.

Regarding Chen Xu's arrangement, Chen Ping, Li Shun and An Yuliang naturally had to fully cooperate, and after returning home, they recruited and selected translators in the newspaper and the Academy of Literature to study systematically, and Chen Xu also asked the Ministry of Chinese Books to send an order to Meng Tian, asking him to collect some people from all ethnic groups who are proficient in language and writing in the Western Regions and send them to Xianyang to hand over to the Translation Hall and the Academy of Literature.

After this matter was arranged, Chen Xu was a little more relaxed, in addition to instructing the housekeepers and servants in the house and the students of the Agricultural College to be responsible for returning all the sesame grains to the warehouse, he also prepared to make a common dim sum in later generations to add some atmosphere to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated very early, but it was formed very late.

In the Zhou Li. In the Book of Rites, there is 'the moon of mid-autumn to nourish the elderly, and to eat porridge and food.' And 'the Son of Heaven is the sun in spring, and the moon is in autumn. '.

That is to say, when the moon is full in mid-autumn, the princes and kings want to worship the moon to celebrate the harvest, and at the same time will eat some porridge to add to the festive atmosphere, although there is no Mid-Autumn Festival, but the Mid-Autumn Festival has slowly evolved into a fixed festival, but this kind of festival is only an official habit, the folk are not too lively, the main reason is that the people are too poor, they can't afford to eat, kowtow to the moon at night to express their gratitude to the moon god, basically there is no entertainment, The Mid-Autumn Festival lantern festival and the custom of eating moon cakes did not become lively until the Tang and Song dynasties, and this process dragged on for hundreds of thousands of years.

Guan Ziyun: Cang Liao knows etiquette and knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing.

Only under the abundance of food and clothing will the people have more spiritual needs and pay attention to civility and politeness, people who are hungry every day are not in the mood to talk about politeness and morality, and it is better to dig a grassroots root that can fill the stomach than to say a word without nutrition.

In fact, many festivals in China were slowly formed during the peak period of high prosperity of Chinese civilization in the Tang and Song dynasties, and it can be seen that the Tang and Song dynasties were indeed the most prosperous and prosperous times in China.

Although the Mid-Autumn Festival has not yet officially appeared, as a must-eat foodie civilization tradition, it is still necessary to find an opportunity to eat delicious food for yourself.

Moon cakes in the 21st century, which is extremely rich in material, has transformed into a tangled food and snacks, but in this era of poverty to eat soil, moon cakes must still be an extremely luxurious and very delicious food, even when Chen Xu was young, every year until the Mid-Autumn Festival, must still be very much hope to be able to eat a few pieces of fragrant moon cakes to be considered a real festival, as for the lantern riddle, that is only done in the city, rural people are to move a bench to sit under the moon and chat with the neighbors.

And to make moon cakes, you must have sesame oil.

And this year there happened to be sesame seeds.

This seems to be a special gift specially arranged by God for him, a glorious messenger who came to Daqin to spread the civilization of foodies.

So as soon as the sesame seeds were harvested, Chen Xu asked people to wash dozens of catties of sesame seeds with water and soak them for half a day, and then drain them for later use after the sesame seeds absorb enough water.

There are two ways to prepare sesame oil, one is pressing, which is the same as pressing rapeseed oil, grinding after frying, and then putting on a corn iron ring to make an oil cake, placing it on a hydraulic press and pressing it continuously, squeezing out the most common sesame oil, which can also be done now, just like making tea tree oil, but this sesame oil will have precipitation, and in fact, the more touted one in later generations is called small grinding sesame oil, which can be made by ordinary farmers, and only needs a pair of stone grinding. It is a test of skill when filtering oil, and every time it is my father who does it himself, otherwise there will be a lot of water in the jar.

Because the Hou Mansion has a big business, there are hundreds of people who have to eat, drink and Lazar every day, so there are several stone mills in the Hou Mansion at present, grinding noodles and grinding tofu on weekdays, Chen Xu asked the steward to clean one of the stone mills, and then let the sesame seeds after soaking and draining the water be slowly fried in a large iron pot.

"Wow, it smells so good!"

In the courtyard, a large iron pot was frying sesame seeds, and a large group of people gathered around the iron pot to watch the excitement, and as the sesame seeds were slowly fried, a touching rich fragrance gradually emanated, permeating the entire Hou Mansion and could smell it, so the onlookers couldn't help but drool and stir.

"Master Hou, can you eat this flax to satisfy your cravings!" As a servant in the mansion of the foodie, although he treats Chen Xu with great respect on weekdays, he is also very familiar with Chen Xu, and he often jokes and begs for some food.

Chen Xu himself couldn't help but grab a handful and stuff it into his mouth, nodding while eating, so a group of onlookers and maids and maids all rushed up, each grabbed a large handful and stuffed it into their mouths, and in the blink of an eye, a large pot of sesame seeds was missing.

"It's so fragrant, I've never eaten such fragrant food!"

A circle of people all shouted excitedly, Chen Xu was not stingy, simply fried the first pot and packed it in a clay pot, and let people send some to the inner courtyard to keep for Xing'er Yu Ji and a few wives as snacks, and the rest was distributed to the domestic servants to satisfy their hunger.

After the second pot is fried, let people spread out and cool and then send it to the mill, grind it into sesame paste with a stone mill for later use, and wait for several pots of sesame seeds to be fried and ground into sesame paste, then pour the sesame paste into the iron pot with the wood off, and tell the boiled pot of boiling water to slowly pour it into the sesame paste, and at the same time let the cook stir it with a wooden stick, and then scoop out all the sesame paste with water and put it in a wooden barrel to let it cool.

Because the specific gravity of oil and water is different, after standing for a few hours to completely cool, the sesame residue and water will precipitate below, and the oil will float on the water, forming two separate layers.

After all, the process is very simple, that is, when you filter oil, you must master the skills, and you can't muddy the water and oil.

With sesame oil, Chen Xu didn't wait to start making moon cakes, after all, there were still several days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and to make moon cakes, he had to prepare various fillings, molds and special ovens.

Because of the stuffing Chen Xuhao has been entangled for a long time, as a great foodie country, and the territory is vast and vast, the living habits and tastes of different people in the southeast and northwest are completely different, just like tofu brain, the south wants to eat sweet, the north wants to eat salty, and the people in Shu want to eat spicy, and they have also launched regional attacks on each other, so the taste of moon cakes is the same, Cantonese moon cakes, Chao style moon cakes, Beijing-style moon cakes, Suzhou-style moon cakes have their own characteristics, five kernels, lotus paste, bean paste, egg yolk and so on. The regional attack mode of netizens across the country has become more colorful, and every bite you have to scold a few words to satisfy your cravings.

After struggling a few times, Chen Xu decided to make the types of moon cakes more colorful, so he arranged for the housekeeper to prepare some fillings.

As for the mold, it is very simple, draw the graphics, arrange the skillful carpentry to carve a few with jujube wood, as for the pattern and font, it is naturally festive and auspicious.

In the end, the most important thing is the oven, the most convenient is naturally the electric oven, but it can't be done now, and the Chinese foodie country has been inherited for thousands of years, and the moon cakes made when there is no electricity are still very sweet, but this oven needs to be customized.

In order to bake the moon cakes evenly heated, Chen Xu specially made a special oven, made a stove with bricks and yellow clay, separated by furnace teeth to become the upper, middle and lower three layers, the upper and lower layers put charcoal fire, and the oven in the middle, the oven is not difficult.

And these preparations are not something that can be done in one day, so after waiting for the sesame oil to come out, Chen Xu personally cooked a few small dishes with small grinding sesame oil to let the family appreciate the results of what they had been worried about for more than half a year, and instructed the kitchen workers to mix sesame oil when making cold vegetables, dried tofu and tofu milk in the future, and the tea tree fruit oil with the taste of tea fruit took a back seat and became the main oil for stir-frying, the most important thing is that tea tree oil cannot be made in large quantities at present, With sesame seeds, which can be cultivated on a large scale, the unstable labor of collecting tea tree fruit is expected to be abandoned soon, and tea tree oil will be upgraded to a more luxurious oil.