On this day, under the grape trellis in the back garden, Gongsun Kang led his wives and concubines to eat shabu mutton.

In the battle of Wuheng, Gongsun Kang distributed thousands of sheep, so more than 500 people from the top and bottom of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion have been eating mutton in recent days.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, mutton was boiled, the difference was that the common people were cooked in clay pots, and the nobles were boiled in a ding, that is, copper pots.

The Dadu Governor's Mansion ate roast mutton yesterday, and Qiqige and Qi Muge took 10 Wuheng singers to shoot, and the wives and concubines ate with a mouthful of oil, without a bit of ladylike image.

Today, Gongsun Kang taught his family how to eat mutton in hot pot.

After the family tastes it, it is ready to be promoted in hotels under the Xinghua Chamber of Commerce across the country.

The workshop at home used iron sheets to create the appearance of Beijing hot pot in later generations, which was a design drawing drawn by Gongsun Kang. There is an isolated space in the middle of the hot pot where charcoal can be placed to burn and heat. The lamb is cut into thin slices, which can be sandwiched with chopsticks and eaten in an iron pot.

Green vegetables are prepared cabbage, rape, leeks and perilla, which are all popular greens in Liaodong at the end of the Han Dynasty. In addition, there is tofu, radish, kelp, and garlic. It's a pity that there are no chili peppers.

Radish and garlic were cultivated in all parts of Liaodong in the late Han Dynasty; Kelp, however, is endemic and is a marine plant that Gongsun Kang brought back from Wajima. Gongsun Kang insisted that the kelp was edible, and his family ate it a few times, admitting that it was delicious. All the ingredients were prepared according to the command of Gongsun Kang.

The seasoning is sesame paste, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic paste, and snow salt. In the Han Dynasty, sesame oil was the most commonly used edible vegetable oil. Even when Manzhong resisted Sun Quan's attack on Hefei, he also used sesame oil to set fire to Sun Quan's siege equipment. So there is still no shortage of tahini.

The Northeast is rich in soybeans, which were called soybeans in ancient times. But in this era, oil extraction is done manually, and soybean oil is more expensive than gold. This is another way to make money. Gongsun Kang decided to look into it later.

In the Han Dynasty, the technology of pressing vegetable oil was very backward. Only by "frying and squeezing, can you get raw oil." "That's just a few words.

Soybean has a long history of planting in China, but it is very late as a raw material for oil extraction, the reason is that the oil content of soybean is low, only 16~19%, and the oil yield of the pressing method in the Ming Dynasty is only 7.5%. The oil content of sesame seeds is higher, reaching 45~50%, and the oil yield can be close to 35% by pressing method. Another kind of tung seed with a high oil yield is inedible and can only be used as fuel. With the exception of sesame seeds, other edible oil crops rarely have an oil yield of more than 25%, which is why sesame oil has dominated for a long time.

Peanuts have a high oil content, about 45%; But peanuts are also an alien species, corn, peppers, sweet potatoes, peanuts and so on are still in the Americas and have not been introduced to China.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, not only oil was a valuable material, but also vinegar and noodle sauce were these. Tahini was also a seasoning that only the aristocracy could eat.

Gongsun Kang demonstratively poured a thin plate of mutton into the pot, waited for a while to see the meat slices change color, and then picked it up and dipped it in sesame sauce to eat. Then he said contentedly, "This is the taste, this is the feeling." ”

Now, they are eating hot pot around a high round table. No longer low tables; It is no longer a separate meal system with one table per person.

Gongsun Kang and his wives and concubines all sat on high-backed chairs, an invention that has now been popularized in Liaodong. There is a lot of wood in Liaodong, and soon imitations are popular in big cities and small counties. Gongsun Kang's purpose was to promote a new way of life, so he did not ask businessmen for royalties. It's just that Zhen Jiang complained from time to time that he didn't make huge profits.

Zhen Jiang smiled silently and ate in small bites, but she could see that she was satisfied with the food.

Gongsun Kang looked at the high-grade liquor brought by the maids, and said expertly: "Red meat with red wine, beloved wife, the wine you made should also be born." ”

In this era, grapes were ornamental plants, but two years ago, after Gongsun Kang began to take the lead in eating grapes, people discovered that grapes were delicious. As a result, growers began to grow grapes on a large scale.

Zhen Jiang even uses grapes to make wine, and uses oak wood as barrels for storage. Count the time, and you can drink.

In later generations, it was popular to use oak to store red wine, because the oak wood has a fine texture, there are more intrusions in the pipe holes, it is not easy to absorb water, it is corrosion-resistant, and it has high strength.

But in this era, there was no oak in China at the end of the Han Dynasty; Zhen Jiang had people experiment with various kinds of wood and make them into wooden barrels to store fruit wine. Found a kind of wood that grows widely in the wild of eastern Liaodong: oak wood.

The oak wood is solid, the grain is fine, the wood color is brown and red, and the oak belongs to the oak genus, and the performance is very close. Wines fermented in oak barrels tend to have a purer colour and softer palate, as well as a more delicious taste.

The maids carried a small barrel of wine. Gongsun Kang asked people to take out a few treasured tall glasses. After repeated practice in the workshop at home, it was finally possible to blow the glass. It's just that the yield is very low, it's all cracked, and it's brittle. And often the color is not pure, and the flowers are green.

Gongsun Kang picked out a few barely eye-catching, crackless goblets to take them for his own use.

He had wine scooped out with a wooden spoon and poured into a goblet, one for each wife and concubine. Decant the wine, shake it gently, warm the cup, smell the fragrance, and taste it slowly.

The wives and concubines followed Gongsun Kang step by step to learn how to drink wine.

Kikige laughed and said, "It's really troublesome, I like to eat meat and drink a lot." ”

Cai Wenji said solemnly: "Wine tasting is a kind of etiquette and a kind of culture. ”

Diao Chan said: "Uneducated, it's terrible." ”

Several women are very familiar with each other, and they are also very good, so Diao Chan's jokes will not be mistaken for ridicule by Kikige.

Gongsun Kang and his wives and concubines ate and drank, and when the wine came to Tian, he had a whim, saying, "I have a way to make a lot of money." ”

The wives and concubines have become accustomed to his sudden and wild words, and they know that Gongsun Kang's words are credible, saying that if you make a lot of money, you will definitely be able to make a lot of money.

Zhen Jiang didn't want to answer, why am I the image of a philistine businessman alone?

Diao Chan had no choice but to speak: "What is the whimsy of the husband?" "If there is no one to help, how embarrassing it will be for my husband. Diao Chan is still very kind.

Gongsun Kang said with great ambition: "We bundle glasses and wine. Make a box out of sandalwood and put a glass in it. Each sells for 1,000 gold and comes with a barrel of wine. ”

Cai Wenji answered: "Can you sell it in this way?" ”

Gongsun Kang continued: "Of course we can't just do this, we also have to sell culture!" I made a poem and engraved it on a sandalwood box and it was sure to sell well. ”

"A thousand poems?" The Kikige and Qimuge sisters expressed serious suspicions.

Gongsun Kang didn't explain, and already shook his head and began to chant poetry:

Grape wine luminous glass, want to drink pipa immediately urge.

Drunk and lying on the battlefield, how many people came back to fight in ancient times?

The wives and concubines still refused to believe it, Cai Wenji said: "1000 gold is too expensive, even if it is a precious item, there are not many rich people in the world who can afford it." ”

"Then reduce it to five hundred gold, and each luminous cup is priced at five hundred gold." Gongsun Kang cut the price by 1 time at once, saying that he was not greedy.

"What is a glow-in-the-dark cup?" Kikige asked shamelessly.

"When you put the wine in the glass and put it in the moonlight, it will sparkle in the glass, hence the name of the luminous cup. It's not like drinking all the wine in the evening. Gongsun Kang explained to Qiqige.

Gongsun Kang sells glass as a treasure, and in fact, the current technology cannot be produced in large quantities. The remaining glass slag, failed products or something, Gongsun Kang asked to return to the furnace for reconstruction, which can be made into glass beads, each sold for 50 gold.