"I, a barbarian, don't have a nickname with China!"

This is what the king of Chu said.

The Great Zhou Dynasty divided the princes, and the Chinese princes from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period had a very clear chain of contempt, and the State of Chu was at the bottom of this chain of contempt, because the State of Chu was divided into the land of the Southern Barbarians, and every time he participated in the banquet of the King of Zhou, he would be ridiculed and ridiculed by other princes, and many idioms and stories were based on the people of Chu, and after a long time of ridicule, the whole of Chu was also serious and admitted that the King of Chu was also a barbarian, and he held his breath and desperately developed to the south, and laid down a territory larger than the entire Central Plains for hundreds of years. And they did not abide by all kinds of complicated etiquette, and began to abandon the Central Plains culture to make a set of Chu culture with Southern Barbarian characteristics, so that the Jing Chu civilization represented by Chu Ci Lisao and the Bashu civilization injected a unique fresh breath into the thick Chinese civilization developed with the Yellow River Basin as the center.

Therefore, when the self-proclaimed orthodox princes of the Central Plains listened to the bells and drums and admired Yale and fed on the wok, it was not surprising that the nobles of the Chu State gathered together to sit on the ground and listen to the white snow in the spring gnawing on sugarcane.

Because they admit that they are all Nanban, impolite, and too lazy to get close to a group of northern Yankees.

Therefore, although there is sugarcane in Daqin at the moment, the yield is very scarce, because no one specializes in large-scale planting, and growing food in this famine era when there is not enough to eat is the most important thing, no one has the energy to plant sugarcane, plant a few in front of the house and behind the house, and beware of wild boars and elephants, because this sweet weed is not only liked by people, but also by wild animals.

The Yue people, like the people of the Central Plains, are mainly farming, and the yield of rice planted is lower than that of millet rice in the Central Plains.

These are all Hu Kuan and others in the Lingnan lands to see with their own eyes, the local people are black and thin, climb mountains and cliffs like monkeys, good at hunting and fishing, but not good at making utensils, pottery weapons are very rough, metal smelting is almost none, many are from Chu land.

Generally speaking, in the eyes of Hu Kuan and others, the Lingnan lands are a wild land, not only full of mountains, dense forests and ravines and canyons, but also wild beasts and insects and snakes that rage all year round, and then it is humid and hot, and it is really not necessary to conquer it.

But the so-called not in his position and not in his government, Qin Dada's ambition is not something that Hu Kuan, a small scumbag in history, can put his beak, although in Chen Xu's opinion, it is really useless to conquer Lingnan at the moment.

But now that they have been conquered, and the sugarcane is also available, when Chen Xu was about to get some cane sugar, he found that everything was too beautiful.

Although Hu Kuan and the others didn't know that they could still use Tutu to boil sugar, after listening to Chen Xu's thoughts, they shook their heads one by one, and directly asked him not to think too much, it was impossible to establish a sugar workshop in Lingnan, not only was it difficult to collect sugarcane, but the quantity was not as much as imagined.

This thing is not like the wild fruits in the Central Plains, there are everywhere in the mountains, there are several others, a single sugarcane can not support a sugar workshop within a radius of dozens of miles, and the mountains are high, the forests are dense, the rivers and ditches are dense, the Yue people live in different places, unlike the Central Plains rural towns are so dense and full of people, carrying a bundle of sugarcane to walk dozens of miles of mountains and waterways is not as easy as the Central Plains, accidentally fall into the mouth of the beast, the bones are gone, the Yue people are not fools......

Although the body was completely damaged by Hu Kuan and others, Chen Xu still refused to give up easily, Nima Laozi's cannon was all out, is it difficult to get some sucrose?

Lao Tzu now wants money, money, and people, and the emperor is his father-in-law, so is it difficult to do things in the world? No!

So he found a group of people in the College of Agriculture of the Academy of Sciences to form a professional team, with his own handwritten letter to Wuzhong to find the county shou Jiang Heng, and asked him to arrange people to open up a sugarcane orchard in Wuzhong to plant, large-scale planting while studying the juicer and building a sugar workshop and winery, next autumn, Chen Xu must let himself eat sucrose, and drink the liquor made by sugarbagasse fermentation, because even the sugarbagasse after pressing, it must also contain a large amount of powdered sugar, which is also a good industry for winemaking.

In addition to asking Jiang Heng to cooperate in planting sugarcane, Chen Xu also wrote a letter to Gao Yan, the lieutenant of Minzhong County, asking him to publicize it widely in Lingnan, encouraging the Yue people and the prisoners to plant sugarcane, plant as much as Qinghe Hou reaps, and the price is fair.

After the arrangement, naturally we can only wait, but I think that in a few years, the output of sugarcane will inevitably increase significantly, because after hearing about this incident, several groups of businessmen from the south came to inquire about the authenticity of this matter, and after getting Chen Xu's promise, some businessmen have gone to the south to find a place to plant sugarcane.

What Qinghehou wants to do is naturally to make money, and it will definitely not be wrong to hurry up and keep up with the pace, because many southerners of sugarcane also know that it is extremely sweet, although it is worthless, but it is not worthless.

There is no sucrose, fructose is not good, and honey is too precious, so making a flower cake makes Chen Xu entangled.

And the flower cake and the moon cake need to be baked in the oven, and it is estimated that it will take more than half an hour to eat it, so after the honey and flower filling is reconciled, Chen Xu instructed the kitchen worker to and a pot of very thin batter, which is put with salt, green onions, pepper, peppercorns, etc. and stirred evenly, and then pour a few catties of tea tree seed oil into the pot to heat, and wait until the oil pot has a hot appearance, and then the gourd flowers and fresh pepper leaves that are picked back are dipped in the paste and put into the oil pot to fry.

This is a very common fried vegetable in later generations, and there are many dishes that can be fried, pumpkin flowers, gourd flowers, winter melon flowers, fresh pepper leaves, fish, shrimp and crabs, etc., and the crispy meat is also fried in this way.

In particular, the fresh pepper leaves, the moment they are put into the pot, they roll up with the oil flowers, and a fresh flavor with green onion peppers quickly spreads in the kitchen.

"Wow, it smells so good!" There was an instant commotion inside and outside the kitchen, and the maids and servants all crowded in front of the kitchen doors and windows together and tiptoed inside, while constantly sniffing hard.

"Husband, I'm hungry!" Ying Shiyan, who was originally directing the maid to roll the dough with a big belly, instantly lost her concentration, and when she walked to Chen Xu's side, a pair of beautiful eyes could not be separated from the food tumbling in the oil pot.

"Don't worry, don't worry, you'll be able to eat it soon!" Chen Xu used a pair of long wooden chopsticks to keep throwing pepper leaves and gourd flowers stained with noodle sauce into the pot, and at the same time kept flipping, as the fragrance became stronger and stronger, the noodle sauce in the oil pot quickly turned golden.

"Come on, it's time to cook!" Chen Xu greeted, fished a few times in the oil pot with a bamboo fisher, and then put the fried pepper leaves and gourd flowers into a clay pot, picked it up and tasted it first, and then fed it to Ying Shiyan with a smile.

"Brother Xiaoxu, I want to eat it too!" Yu Ji squeezed up from behind Ying Shiyan, Chen Xu took another piece and stuffed it into her mouth, and then instructed the servant to bring the pot of fried food to the restaurant in the backyard, so Meng Wan, Ying Shiyan, Yu Ji and a large group of maids all followed with a smile.

"Whew~" Chen Xu wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Finally quieted down.

There are too many women in the family, and they don't have jobs, they have nothing to do at home all day, and once they have something fun, they will run up to join in the fun, and they are most interested in two things, one is to watch Chen Xu make good food, and the other is to listen to Chen Xu's stories.

In particular, the first one made Chen Xu deeply understand the natural weakening resistance of women to food, whether it is Ying Shiyan or Meng Wan, or even the water is gentle and Fan Caiying, once they encounter delicious food, they can be immediately ripe and reserved.

It can even be said that the water is gentle and Ying Shiyan was seduced back by him with food.

Because Chen Xu used food for the first time to completely seduce Yu Wuya, a disciple of Liezi who is strong in martial arts and extremely cold, into a big foodie, since this thing has eaten the food that Chen Xu has cooked, the demeanor of the cold young man is gone, and the character design has completely collapsed, and he is not satisfied with eating alone, so he also brought the little junior sister over to eat.

At that time, in Yu Wuya's mind, the dark and thin Chen Xu was simply a miracle in the world, and he was the most incredible teenager he had met in the past few years.

Then he was right.

Soon after, Chen Xu personally admitted that he had obtained the three volumes of the Heavenly Book from Taiyi Immortal Venerable.

And the first time I went to Xiaohe Village, Shui Qingrou's attitude towards Chen Xu was a 180-degree turn, and a hot eel with chopsticks changed her impression, and then added a poignant mythological love story, a girl who had never seen the sinister world fell into the hands of a liar who looked like a teenager on the outside, but was actually a big man on the inside.

"Come, eat one gently!"

The big liar quickly fried some more, then scooped it up, and then threw the chopsticks to a cook, and stood beside him with a plate and water, and the two of them tasted it one by one.

Not to mention, this is what my mother tasted like when I was a child.

Chen Xu still remembers that at that time, what he hated the most was the taste of peppercorns and green onions, ginger and garlic, but as he grew older, he found that he fell in love with these strange-tasting condiments more and more, and now the only regret is chili.

I don't know when and when I can get what I want?

While eating, Chen Xu sighed unconsciously.