Sun Xiangfu had not been in contact with the Tang Dynasty for a long time, and it was still a little difficult to read the traditional characters in the account book, and after a while, he put down the account book dizzily.

"This account is so complicated, I can't understand it, just tell me how much living money is available in the Fisheries Department now."

I don't understand! I see too clearly, how we can make good profits.

Huang Xuan thought so in his heart, but reported in his mouth, "Summer is the peak tax season, and there are five hundred and twenty-seven surplus money in the account room, which should be able to cope with the shortage this winter." ”

In the winter, there are no people fishing, and there are few boats in each pond, and only a small amount of docking fees can be collected, but so many people in the fishery department have to eat, and they have to pay some goods to the palace, so it is natural to reserve more money in the summer.

Sun Xiangfu nodded when he heard this, "Set aside two hundred guan to buy more wooden barrels or build water tanks, don't use bamboo baskets to catch fish in the future, they are all raised in the water tank, and don't send a dead fish to the palace, in addition, allocate a hundred guan to buy fishing net needles, fish net lines, I want to teach everyone to weave new nets, those fishing nets in the past, are no longer applicable, and then have spare money, go to the east and west cities to each plate a fish store, build more water tanks in the shop, and in the future, as a fixed sales point for fish goods in my fishery division." ”

"Well, this, my lord, are you going to use up all the money in your account at once? Also, taking out the extra fish to sell is a means for us to fill the deficit in private, if you sell the fish of Huangzhuang publicly, it is not easy to explain it! Huang Xuan was a little confused.

"Don't talk nonsense, I'll just ask you if you want to make more money, if you want, just do as I say, and make sure it's more than the little bit you took the card on the account."

"Uh, this ······" Huang Xuan's old face turned red, and he was embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

"Okay, it's such a happy decision, the official believes in your ability, and you must complete the task I assigned as soon as possible, and in addition, if the money in the account allows, change the office utensils in the yamen!" If you hurt your knee after kneeling for a long time, how good is it to replace it with a high stool? ”

Chang'an has no things that can't be bought with money, especially the things that Sun Xiangfu said, which are all available on the market, one morning, Huang Xuan bought the things that Sun Xiangfu wanted, and directly bought dozens of large bath buckets to put in the warehouse to load fish, in addition, there were also a few four-wheeled vehicles that transported these bath barrels, bundles of fishing net lines, a large box of fishing net needles, as for the stool, the high case, Huang Xuan only bought one according to the head of the scribe, and there was no more money in the account.

Just because the shops in the east and west cities are too expensive, the two shops under the plate, spent nearly 200 yuan, and the money for subsequent decoration to build the water tank is at least dozens of yuan, and within one day, the books of the fishery department are all emptied.

With the stool, Sun Xiangfu's knees no longer hurt, at more than ten o'clock in the morning, Xiong Tingzhong and Sun Dali and others rushed from Jinshui Wharf, loach and yellow eel they each brought two hundred catties, and some fresh live fish caught this morning, three or four hundred catties, Sun Xiangfu commanded the big guy to load the fish with a big bath bucket, and personally escorted the fish to the harem.

After the guards of the harem saw the queen's order, they only checked Sun Xiangfu's official plate, and issued them a token to enter and exit, with this token, they can pass through the corridor between the imperial city and the harem, and enter the door corresponding to the direction of the imperial dining room.

The chief manager of the imperial dining room is a high-ranking official, not a eunuch, usually responsible for arranging the emperor's banquet, called Luo Khotan, in his thirties, with calluses on his hands, and at first glance he is a chef who is proficient in knife work. He was very satisfied with the live fish sent by Sun Xiangfu, and after visually inspecting the number of fish that was only a little more, he issued a document for Sun Xiangfu to supply the full amount, and personally sent him out of the yafang.

"I heard that Sun Jiancheng is from the Yiguo Mansion, and he is the inventor of those new stir-fried dishes, Aunt Meng has a lot of respect for you, and I don't know when I have time to learn cooking skills with Luo."

Luo Khotan's official rank is only half a level higher than Sun Xiangfu's, but his official career ends here, a cook, being able to serve as the head of the imperial dining room has reached the top, although he also belongs to the emperor's retainer sequence, but Sun Xiangfu is a foreign affairs official who can go further at any time, and his future is much better than Luo Khotan, yes, he speaks very politely.

"It's better to choose a day than to hit the day! Today's lunch hasn't been settled yet, so why don't you just rub it in your imperial dining room? ”

"That's very good, let's go to the fire room together!"

Luo Tian was overjoyed, that Aunt Meng came to the imperial dining room several times, and blew Sun Xiangfu in the sky and in the ground, he just wanted to see and see, what kind of ability did Sun Xiangfu have when he was said to be able to cook and make a fierce and unparalleled momentum.

The scale of the imperial dining room of the harem is very large, because of this incident, there are two generations of emperors living in the palace at the time, as well as their harem groups, the number of people is very large, yes, the ingredients in the imperial dining room are also very many, many spices that are not available outside, there are all here, Sun Xiangfu after watching and identifying, mentioned in passing, Luo Tian asked people to fill a small bag for him, and walked around, and the major imperial chefs in the fire room also knew that this person who came was Sun Xiangfu, who invented new stir-fried dishes, so they all gathered around.

"Manager Luo, there are a lot of ingredients in the imperial dining room, and there are a lot of delicacies that I usually make, but I don't know, in the middle of winter, there are so many ingredients in the fire room?"

"This, in winter, there are only a few fresh vegetables sent from the Jiucheng Palace, which are not enough for His Majesty and the Empress to eat."

"So, we need to research some delicious foods that can be made with simple ingredients, what dishes are the most in the palace in the middle of winter?" Sun Xiangfu asked again.

"Of course it's sauerkraut, pickled vegetables." Luo Tian replied without hesitation.

"Okay, I'll just cook with these two dishes, please get some dishes."

When Luo Khotan heard this, he immediately opened the altar and took some good sauerkraut and pickles, Sun Xiangfu tasted a bite, and nodded, these vegetables were pickled and sealed well, and they were not worse than the old altar sauerkraut in later generations.

"Let's make a sauerkraut fish and a plum cabbage button meat for Mr. Luo today!"

After speaking, Sun Xiangfu began to cut meat, but Luo Tian took the initiative to help Sun Xiangfu kill the fish, looking at Luo Khotan's knife work, obviously a few streets higher than himself, Sun Xiangfu let it slice the fish into thin slices, for cutting fish slices, Luo Khotan is very familiar, the Tang people like to eat fish slices, that is, sashimi, Li Shimin is no exception, so, usually he has a lot of opportunities to slice fish, after a while, a grass carp weighing four or five catties was sliced by Luo Khotan into a large plate of fish slices, at this time, Sun Xiangfu The ingredients needed were also found and prepared by other imperial chefs.

Sun Xiangfu first wiped the fish fillet with a little salt, because there was no corn starch at this time, so Sun Xiangfu stirred the fish meat with egg white, so that it could be more smooth, when the wok oil was hot, Sun Xiangfu stir-fried garlic and ginger shreds, and then poured in the cut shredded sauerkraut, fried out the fragrance and then put water, added to the firewood to cook, during the period, the extra fish head and fish bones after the sliced meat were added to the pot, which was also regarded as boiling fish soup.

After the water boils for a while, the fish fillets are put into the pot, boiled a little, then add some dogwood, and remove from the pot.

Just when everyone thought that Sun Xiangfu's sauerkraut fish had been done, they saw that he put the washed iron pot on the stove, fried pepper and several spices with a small amount of oil and low heat, and finally poured the fried pepper sesame oil into the fish, sprinkled with chopped green onions and tender cabbage, that is, coriander.

"Fragrant, really fragrant." Luo Tian looked at the brightly colored fish and sauerkraut in the large porcelain bowl and couldn't help but praise.

"Taste, there are surprises." Sun Xiangfu made a gesture of please, and suddenly, all the imperial chefs in the imperial dining room were eager to try.

"I'll come first."

After all, Luo Tian is the chief manager, and he has authority, so he took chopsticks and first picked up a piece of fish fillet and put it in his mouth.

"Well, it's delicious." After saying this, he sandwiched another sauerkraut, after the entrance, there was no pungent taste of sauerkraut in the past, but it was crispy and delicious, slightly sour, instantly amplified his appetite, this wild grass carp plus the special sauerkraut of the palace, in terms of raw materials, can be much more advanced than those restaurants specializing in sauerkraut fish in later generations, if it is not for the lack of chili peppers and pickled peppers, the taste of this bowl of sauerkraut fish, to throw off some well-known sauerkraut fish restaurants in later generations several streets.

When Luo Khotan ate the sauerkraut fish one bite at a time, the other imperial chefs couldn't help it, and came up to taste a few bites, and then, their sense of taste has been staying on the fresh and smooth taste of the sauerkraut fish, and then everyone took advantage of the memory is still hot, and they have run to the fish bucket to grab the fish, and the imperial chefs of each palace naturally want to tie up their masters, so the three hundred catties of live fish are ahead of the yellow eel loach, and they are robbed by the palace chefs.

As for Sun Xiangfu, who was cooking plum vegetables and meat on the side, everyone didn't care much, pork was cheap meat, and the nobles wouldn't eat it, at most, it was for some middle and low-level stewards and eunuchs in the palace, and they didn't need to be taken care of by these top imperial chefs.

"Convinced, Luo Mou is really convinced this time, if Sun Jian Cheng comes to the imperial dining room in the future, I, Luo Khotan, will definitely greet him."

"It's a prize, but if this sauerkraut fish is made with more than ten catties of Yellow River carp, it will be called a top-level delicacy, but it's a pity ·····"

Sun Xiangfu didn't finish his words, but Luo Khotan knew that he was afraid of committing taboos, but he was an old man from the Qin Palace, when the march was hard, he didn't cook carp for Li Shimin to eat, and he didn't eat carp, it was those civil officials who fooled Li Yuan to make it out, but Li Shimin, who has always been enlightened, didn't care, but he was just a son, and it was not good to refute the rules formulated by Lao Tzu.