A few simple home-cooked dishes have become supreme delicacy in Zhu Youneng's mouth.

They found out that ordinary vegetables turned out to be so delicious.

"Brother Li, who are you?" At the wine table, Zhu Youneng suddenly asked.

Li Ji was stunned for a moment: "Why do you ask that?"

"You seem to know everything, and you know everything we don't know. I dare to say, looking at the entire Tang Dynasty, no one will. Can you tell me where you learned all this? ”

Zhang Wanxi next to her was also looking at Li Ji in a daze, and everyone had the same doubt: The emperor doesn't seem to be a person of this era, and he is incompatible with this era.

Li Ji smiled: "This, it's really not a secret." I, when I was a prince. One night, I suddenly found that there was a bright glow in the dormitory, and a white-bearded immortal appeared. Then the old man told me that you are the true dragon emperor, and I will teach you some secret techniques. When I woke up, I forgot about it. ”

Everyone listened with relish, and Zhu Youneng's eyes widened: "Forgot?"

"Well, I forgot." Li Ji nodded.

"Forget how you got all this weird stuff?" Zhu Youneng looked at a table of dishes.

Li Ji shook his head: "I don't know, anyway, when I see these things, I will only remember them." I usually forget it, and I can't remember it. I only remember that after the white-bearded old man left, my dormitory was full of purple energy, and it was still endless for three days and three nights. ”

Li Ji was full of nonsense, but the listeners were convinced. In history books, whether it is the official history or the wild record, when the big man is born, it is often full of red clouds, or auspicious clouds, and the sky is full of energy.

These are all in order to create a sense of mystery and legitimacy for a big man, making people think that he is a natural nobleman, different from ordinary people.

Many people are convinced of this, for example, when an emperor was born, the house was full of sunshine and auspiciousness, which was also a means of rulership.

Zhu Youneng, including Zhang Wanxi and Du Fangying, they all believed in Li Ji's words.

Zhu Youneng stretched out his thumb: "No wonder, no wonder, you are the true dragon emperor." Probably the gods let you come down to let you save Datang, Datang is not exhausted, come down to you. ”

Li Ji couldn't help laughing: "Yes, what Brother Zhu said is very true."

Youneng whispered into his ear: "Brother Li, you will see those immortals in the sky in the future, can you give my brother a few kind words in front of them?" You have allowed us ordinary people to be favored by the gods. ”

"Yes, yes, yes, definitely!"

Li Ji remembered that Zhang Wanxi had always been a picky eater and ate very little like a kitten. But tonight's dish, she eats more than twice as much as usual, and it seems that her skills are not bad.

Shang Shi Bureau, all changed to iron pot stir-frying. The current palace should be the most deserted, Zhaozong's concubines have all been killed, Li Ji is still a single emperor, and there are not many people in the harem.

And those brothers of Li Ji, King De, were placed in the East Palace. Except for the New Year's holidays, Li Ji rarely interacts with them.

The emperor is destined to be alone. These princes, including Li Yu, a compatriot of Li Ji's mother, Li Ji didn't want to arrange official positions for them.

Li Ji didn't want them to be polluted by the right to intrigue, and he saw too much of the distortion of human nature for the sake of profit.

Jishan Palace, Empress Dowager He looked at a table of dishes: "These are all made by the Shangshi Bureau?"

Zhuge Kong Fang next to him nodded respectfully: "Hui Yu Queen Mother, exactly." This is a new and improved recipe of the Shang Food Bureau, all fried by an iron pot and soybean oil, please try it after the Queen Mother. ”

Wearing reading glasses, Empress Dowager He picked up chopsticks and gently picked up a dish and tasted it.

Since she had this reading glasses, she would wear them when she ate, and the moment the food was eaten, Empress Dowager He's eyes lit up. Then she nodded, "Yes, you did it?"

"Back to the Queen Mother, this, this is done by the minister."

Li Ji once warned that the Queen Mother must not know that these dishes were invented by herself. Cooking is a ninth-rate industry, how can a dignified son of heaven do this, Zhuge Kong Fang had to accept it and said that he came up with it himself.

Empress Dowager He put down her chopsticks: "I can't imagine that this ordinary dish is so delicious after being fried in oil, look at it!"

The court cuisine has always been private, and the emperor is arbitrary, and his own dishes must be unique, and he does not want to spread the word. This is probably a kind of autocracy of the ancient emperors, the emperor eats, drinks, and sleeps the best, and others can't have it.

They don't know that only by popularizing can they innovate and progress.

Since Li Ji said that these palace dishes can be outflowed, then Zhuge Kong Fang, who is a royal servant, is afraid that he will make a lot of money.

Folk restaurant, if you want to learn, you must ask him to guide and teach. In particular, Zhuge Kongfang got the true biography of Li Ji and used an iron pot to fry vegetables. Soon, restaurants of all sizes in Luoyang City will follow suit.

Different from the roasted stew I used to eat, the stir-fried dishes are so delicious and fragrant.

These restaurants invite Zhuge Kongfang once, and there is no one who can't handle it for dozens or hundreds of taels of silver.

For a time, the entire Luoyang City learned to stir-fry in an iron pot. It not only enriches the dishes, but also makes the night market more prosperous.

Li Ji used a convex lens to make the first telescope in the history of the Tang Dynasty, although the magnification is not high, it can be used on the battlefield of cold weapons.

War has always burned money, and if you have money and people, you can be equipped with advanced weapons. It is no exaggeration to say that the forbidden army can now fight a war of cutting feuds without pressure.

The courtiers began to make a move, and some people proposed to start with the small feudal towns first.

Li Ji disagreed, with the current strength of the imperial court, even if he took the feudal town, he would be greatly injured. Recuperation and recuperation, the development of productive forces in grain storage is the first priority.

"Ladies and gentlemen, how about we go to the field of persuading the peasant envoys today?" On the Hanyuan Palace, Li Ji proposed again.

No one responded, and the last time the ministers were tired like dogs. No matter what you can grow this time, we just won't go.

"Your Majesty, the farming will be handed over to Han E, the envoy of persuasion, and the ministers don't want to plow the land anymore. Your Majesty forgives the sin, and the old minister's body and bones can't stand the toss. Dugu was the first to stand up and shout bitterness.

"Yes, Your Majesty, farming is not the head of the minister. Your Majesty, don't toss us old bones, what should be planted in the future is up to Your Majesty. The land of the minister's family will be planted with these corns and peanuts next year. As long as Your Majesty speaks, you can do anything. Cui Yuan was also afraid.

Li Ji smiled: "You have to go, but this time you just follow and take a look." As for the harvest, let the peasant envoy take the people and do it. ”

Now that the labor force is available, the ministers are forced to come to the field again, but fortunately they don't have to go to the field.

Han E led the people to harvest all the sweet potato seedlings in the field.

Li Ji pointed to these sweet potato seedlings: "These are good things, and these leaves can also be cooked in disaster years." You can also raise cattle and sheep, and this sweet potato can be described as a treasure. ”

The ministers pointed and pointed, this sweet potato leaf is really strange, could it be that the fruit that bears under it is also like a peanut?

Han E led people to measure an acre of land, and there was a weighing pole on the ground, and the ministers understood that the emperor wanted them to see the yield of this sweet potato.

When the hired people used hoes to dig the sweet potatoes out of the ground, the ministers were stunned.

What kind of objects, implicated constantly, are all big tubers. It looks heavy and heavy, but if this thing is used for food, will it taste good?

But then, they realized that something was getting more and more wrong. Why, there are so many?

Sweet potatoes are the most unfavorable among all crops, with a yield of five or six thousand catties per mu.

The sweet potatoes that were shoeed out were packed in sacks and carried to the ground.

They struggle to move, and a bag of sweet potatoes often takes two people together to move.

The four people next to him were carrying a scale and weighing bags by bag, and Han E was still holding a small notebook and recording the quantity.

The more the ministers looked, the more surprised they became, and the more they looked, the more frightened they became, and Dugu ran over: "How much?"

Han E sold Guanzi: "It's still counting."

There is no need to count, judging from the naked eye alone, this production is already crazy. This acre of sweet potatoes seems to be inexhaustible.

Li Ji was calm and composed, and this output was within his expected range. He just instructed Youwei to set up a big iron pot on the ground, and the water in the pot had already begun to boil.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's boil a pot and taste it, how does this sweet potato taste? It can be steamed in gruel or roasted. Or slice and dry sweet potatoes, and there are various ways to eat them. However, there is one thing that should not be eaten too much, which will cause bloating. ”

There are many people and great strength, and the sweet potatoes of one acre of land are quickly planed, and the small book of Han E here is almost recorded.

"Han E, how many are there?" Li Ji asked lightly.

Han E's hand holding the pen trembled slightly: "Your Majesty, there are as many as fifty stones in the foot."

The ministers were shocked, what kind of monster is this, more than fifty stones, five or six thousand catties!

If you follow this method, one person can feed dozens of people. How can there be such a huge product in the world, I just don't know what it tastes like.

"Fifty stones, not much." Li Ji spoke.

Fifty stones is not much, and the ministers feel that Li Ji has begun to pretend again.

"Youwei, take a bag, wash it and cook it in the pot, and you Aiqing will also taste the taste of this sweet potato."

Sweet potatoes are very laborious to cook, especially the large ones, and they are even more difficult to cook, but everyone can already smell the enticing aroma.

Finally, after boiling for a full hour, the lid of the pot was lifted, and the aroma of sweet potatoes was dispersed.

Each of the ministers went over and took one, and they were impatient, boasting and boasting, and stuffed it into their mouths without caring about the heat.

Sweet, soft and glutinous, boiled sweet potatoes are not as delicious as roasted, but they are just as unbearable.

"Delicious, delicious."

"yes, it tastes good." The ministers were amazed.

Dugu Yan just swallowed a mouthful: "Your Majesty, this thing is so delicious." But if you eat too much and have bloating, is there no other way? ”

"Yes, make pancakes!"