Chen Xu insisted on leaving, and a group of people were even more reluctant to give up, so they were not in a hurry to say goodbye and leave, and they all said that they would arrange a banquet for Chen Xu and others as soon as possible.

"You don't need to spend so much, the ingredients are all ready now, Ben Hou is just a gesture, you sit down for a while, Ben Hou will go to the back kitchen to arrange it first!"

After a few small talks, Chen Xu stood up and decided to get the food out first, and sit on the veranda on the third floor after sunset to eat snails and drink beer...... Well, mulberry wine is definitely a very pleasant enjoyment, and it is definitely much more comfortable than sitting in a closed room with the group of old men in front of you to eat and drink the so-called feast.

And this kind of enjoyment can not be felt in Xianyang, Xianyang is too coarse, dry fields, vast plains, undulating mountains, Xianyang City, and a rushing Wei River, cold and windy in winter and spring, hot and dry in summer and autumn, and Yangzhou this delicate and beautiful water town is completely different, eating food is also very majestic, steamed buns and meat sandwich buns are the mainstream, snails this kind of picky and sucking shell to add hands to the food Northwest people are actually slightly disgusted, the small family is angry, can only be used as a boring pastime.

Chen Xu went to the kitchen, Guangling County Ling and others naturally didn't dare to really sit in the lobby to drink tea and wait, but they all followed to the kitchen, and then stood at the door of the kitchen, watching Chen Xu roll up his sleeves and wear a chef's coat and hat, incarnated as a standard chef, and commanded several cooks and a group of kitchen workers to clean snails and dispose of fish and shrimp, and stewed a clay pot of white fungus lotus seed soup while preparing various seasonings.

Busy working for half an hour, Chen Xu was happy in it, Guangling County Ling and a group of other people also watched it with relish and did not feel bored at all, and even an old man volunteered to put on a smock and a hat to help, and followed Chen Xu to learn to make these dishes one by one.

Soon the sauce snails began, as a large pot of snails that had been processed was poured into the pot, and in an instant the whole kitchen was filled with a choking smell of fresh and spicy fragrance, which stimulated the entire kitchen people began to swallow saliva, and the fragrance wafted out, and soon the entire back kitchen was full of people, these Shen Yuan's servants and maids all stood on tiptoe and looked at the kitchen where the fragrance continued to overflow, and watched a young chef waving the spatula with a smile inside, with a comfortable look.

"This sauce snail is simple to make, because the meat is less, so the taste is sufficient, so the ingredients must be enough, green onions, ginger, garlic mustard and spiced perilla sauce are essential, stir-fry for half a moment and then add water or stock, simmer for half a quarter to dry the soup, remember to cook thoroughly to eat, the trouble is in the initial cleaning, otherwise there will be sediment in it......"

Chen Xu was busy while explaining the preparation method of this dish to the onlookers and kitchen workers, and this way came not only to Chen Xu's inspection of the smooth road plan to tour the mountains and rivers, but also to teach Chen Xu the process of teaching chefs from all over the world to make food along the way.

Stir-fry is very simple, but after all, it has only been popular in Daqin for six or seven years, and it has slowly spread from Xianyang to Guangling, a small county town, whether it is an ingredient recipe or a production method, it has changed beyond recognition, although almost every issue of the food column of Daqin Metropolis Daily in recent years has to introduce the production of a dish, but in addition to the real rich ministers and some restaurants, there are not too many people to study and learn the production of food, and they can't learn it. And as the most important seasoning for stir-frying...... Oil is the biggest obstacle.

The first five-year plan has been carried out so far, the implementation of the iron pot has been effective, as long as it is not an extremely remote and poor area, the farmers have an iron pot in their homes, and it has indeed greatly improved their eating habits, but for civilian families, it has only changed the method of making dishes, and the taste is really not too much pursuit, in short, stir-fry is more convenient than cooking and stewing, and the taste is indeed better, but the degree of good is actually similar to the taste that Chen Xu ate in the staff canteen yesterday.

Although the leadership of the silk factory opened their own small stoves, the level of the chefs was also not flattering, and the amount of oil used, the number of dishes, and the timing of seasonings such as onions, ginger, garlic mustard, etc., were all based on mood.

Shen Yuan's team of chefs is slightly stronger, but in Chen Xu's opinion, it is also extremely limited, the best thing is the traditional stew and barbecue, but it just adds more ingredients, as for the various dishes that have been circulated in Xianyang, they make it in vain at most, a stir-fried kidney flower can be made into boiled, a green onion fried fat intestine is still half raw, and the hot eel slices can only be cooked, and the taste makes Chen Xu unable to swallow.

Although Chen Xu has only been in Guangling for two days and has only eaten one meal in Shen Yuan, this meal is half a catty and eight taels of taste eaten in the county town and county town on the way all the way, which can be called the dark cuisine of the stir-fry world.

However, even if it is a stir-fry that Chen Xu thinks is completely unpalatable, these restaurants can also be mixed in the local area, such as this Shen Yuan, which is the largest restaurant in the entire Guangling, and is very popular.

Chen Xu couldn't stand the fact that all kinds of delicacies developed by the originator of food were ruined by these county restaurants, so while traveling all the way, he cooked and made food in person to satisfy the appetite of himself and his family, and he was also happy to teach local chefs on the spot to learn how to make authentic stir-fried dishes.

Suddenly, an hour passed, a large pot of sauce snails, a pot of fried river shrimp, a pot of green onion fried eel, and a spicy lake crab were all cleaned up, Chen Xu also took a breath of relief and lifted the overcoat to wipe the sweat off his face, just when everyone thought that Chen Xu had finished work, Chen Xu washed an iron pot again, and instructed the kitchen workers to take out the cold rice, bacon and green beans that he asked to prepare when he left in the morning.

Looking at half a basin of cold and hard rice and bacon and green beans, a group of people all looked at each other.

"Master Hou, this rice is already raw and cold, do you want to cook another pot of fresh rice?" Shen Yuan's owner, Shen Jing, stood beside him cautiously and asked.

"No, Benhou's dish is to use cold rice, preferably overnight, and then help me peel a pound of shrimp, ten eggs and a handful of fresh shallots to ......"

Chen Xu shook his head and ordered at the same time, he quickly used a knife to cut a piece of cleaned bacon into diced meat, put the green beans into an iron pot and boiled them with water, and after the eggs and shallots were delivered, he began to beat the eggs and cut the green onions, and put in the salt to adjust, and soon the shrimp were peeled and washed by a group of kitchen workers, and all the ingredients were prepared.

Remove the cooked green beans from the water and drain.

Tell the pot to put on the fire, pour in a small grinding sesame oil after the pot is hot, wait until the oil is warm, put the bacon cubes in and stir-fry, wait until the meat is fragrant and cooked, pour in the shrimp and continue to stir-fry, wait for the shrimp to turn red, then get out of the pot and serve on a plate for later use.

Then pour some sesame oil into the pot, wait for the heat to add green beans and green onions to burst the fragrance, then pour the stirred eggs into the pot, and when the egg whites begin to solidify, add cold rice and stir-fry quickly, let the eggs, green onions, green beans and rice stir together evenly, and then pour in the bacon shrimp in front of the pot and continue to stir-fry, and soon a pot of fried rice with golden color sandwiched with red shrimp, green beans and fat and lean meat particles will be presented in front of everyone.

Watching Qinghehou make a pot of cold rice like this, the onlookers were surprised and excited, and at the same time, they felt that they couldn't cry or laugh.

Rice is not valuable, shrimp and green beans are not to mention, they are everywhere, but bacon and eggs are definitely considered a luxury.

At present, an egg on the market is a penny, which is equivalent to three catties of grain, that is, the ration of ordinary people for three days, and there are many people who can afford it, but most civilians are reluctant to eat, and they raise three or five old hens at home, and they have two or three eggs every other day during the egg laying season, and they are saved up and sold in the market for twenty or thirty dollars, which is definitely a lot of income for poor families.

Chen Xu still remembers that when he was in elementary school and junior high school, his daily living expenses all depended on a few old hens at home, and his father and mother were reluctant to eat after laying eggs, so he saved them and sold them to Chen Xu as living expenses.

In Chen Xu's memory, in addition to silk and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, there is only one most famous food in Yangzhou, called Yangzhou fried rice.

It's delicious, but it's definitely famous, and it's an outlier compared to the rest of the country's snacks, because he's just an egg...... Fry...... Rice.

To be able to make an egg fried rice into a national or even world-famous food, I have to admire the saving and slashing of Yangzhou people.

The origin of Yangzhou fried rice has no evidence, because egg fried rice is estimated to have appeared since the iron pot, and when he left the hotel this morning, Chen Xu asked the maid to inform the kitchen to prepare these ingredients, and now it has been completed.

"Get out of the pot~" After Chen Xu wiped his sweat, he happily took a rice bowl and put the fried Yangzhou fried rice into the rice bowl, which was enough for more than ten people to eat.

There is no way, there are too many wives and concubines, there are too many children to eat in a family, and there is no one hundred and eighty yuan for a meal, and if you add the guards, retainers, doctors, grooms, coachmen and other servants who follow, there are more than 500 people, plus the maintenance of horses and carriages, and various expenses such as accommodation, food, clothing, etc., will cost more than 5,000 yuan a day, and the monthly expenses will exceed 150,000 yuan.

Therefore, this kind of thing has only been done by the emperor since ancient times, because the whole world is his, where to eat, along the way can also recruit servants, open roads and rivers to build bridges to build palaces to ensure a smooth journey, and this is also a place that many people criticize, the emperor inspects the people and hurts money is not worth advocating.

Qin Shi Huang mobilized millions of servants, prisoners, and slaves to build the Great Wall, galloping roads, and mausoleums, and toured the world six times, demonstrating virtue while also making county officials and people everywhere miserable.

Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was also eloquent, opening canals, building dragon boats, moving the capital, conquering Goryeo three times, touring the world several times to build a palace, and touring the river capital with more than 100,000 princes and palace maids, mobilizing millions of servants, boats and boats stretched for more than 200 miles, and grain had to be offered in advance within 500 miles of the prefectures and counties, and it was already extremely poor and extravagant to the point of outrageousness.

And it was these two emperors who liked to parade that were the most controversial in later generations.

But in Chen Xu's view, while not being able to erase the great achievements of these emperors, their practice of working the people and wasting money is indeed not the work of virtuous monarchs.

Chen Xu inspected the world this time to supervise the Tantu plan, and he did not intend to use the country's money and grain from the beginning, so he passed all the way, whether it was food and accommodation, he paid out of his own pocket, although this money was huge, but it was only a small amount of money for him, and the purpose of this was also to set an example, cut off the unhealthy trend of eating and drinking with public funds in advance, so as not to let the officials run errands for the emperor and eat and drink everywhere, if this situation forms a trend, it will also cause huge pressure and waste to various places.