Scrambled eggs with tomatoes, shredded potatoes with green peppers, green peppers with tiger skin, stir-fried pumpkin flowers, pork with green peppers, shredded potatoes with hot and sour potatoes, fried baby potatoes, stir-fried pumpkin, mashed potatoes, stewed pork ribs with corn. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition, there are tomatoes mixed with sugar, sweet potato chips with cold salad, boiled peanuts in salted water, steamed sweet corn, and roasted white potatoes.

Corn pot heads, tortillas, steamed sweet potatoes.

A table of dishes, all of which are new dishes from the East Continent America.

In later generations, this is the most common home-cooked food, but in the Tang Zhenguan year, this is a new thing that even the crown princess has never eaten.

"Taste it all, what are you doing?" Li Chao took off his apron and sat down with a smile.

The whole family gathered around the table.

Li Chao and Daddy sat on it, and then the women such as Qi Niang and Thirteen Niang, and Xia Hua also sat on this one.

The other children sat at the tables below, because there were so many children in the house, they sat at several tables.

Li Chao poured wine for his father, the wine that his father brought back from Liaodong, the ginseng wine brewed in his own territory distillery, made a lot of good wine, brewed with sorghum, and added ginseng to it.

Looking at such a room of children and grandchildren, Dad is very happy.

The family is thriving!

Because the marriage between the eldest Li Jing and Princess Changle was delayed due to the princess's filial piety, the father was still a little anxious. If the eldest does not get married, the second eldest Li Hui naturally cannot marry Cui Gan's daughter first.

It has to be in order, in Daddy's words, how to harvest the late rice when the early rice is harvested.

"Eat, eat."

Xia Hua helped her grandfather serve a bowl of corn rib soup, and her father happily took it. Immediately, a piece of corn was sandwiched, which was tender and tender after the stew, and at the same time soaked in the meaty flavor of the pork ribs, as well as the special flavor of the bone broth.

"Well, this corn is delicious and sweet." Daddy laughed.

Cui Yingying helped Qi Niang serve soup, and Qi Niang helped Li Chaosheng, and the family was very polite.

Li Chao scooped up a spoonful of soup and put it in his mouth, and sure enough, it was a familiar taste.

This corn stewed pork ribs, Li Chao basically didn't put any seasoning, just a little salt, the ribs were soaked in water before stewing, and stewed over low heat with crockpot charcoal, but it was so delicious.

After eating a piece of pork ribs, Dad said to Xia Hua with some sighs, "You people have caught up with the good time, like we used to eat meat, that is like to eat fatty meat, the fatter the better." Ribs like this, no one likes them, and they are all bones without oil. ”

Qi Niang also laughed.

"Now I think the ribs are delicious."

"That's the pig is different today, the breed has been improved, and the pig has been castrated when it is small, so it is naturally different. Besides, today's ribs are stewed by Wenyuan. ”

Li Chao smiled, "Today's soup is actually made by Xia Hua, I just pointed out one or two." ”

Xia Hua hurriedly said, "It's really so delicious, that's great, I'll make it for His Royal Highness when I return to the palace." ”

"Xia Hua said well, if you want to capture a man's heart, you must first grab his stomach. Cheng Qian is also very hard, Xia Hua, you have time, make more soup for Cheng Qian to drink. The soup is good, nutritious and delicious. Cheng Qian is also a tricky person, you have to change more tricks and cook more fresh dishes often. ”

Just as he was talking about Cao Cao, Cao Cao came.

Cheng Qian originally said that he didn't have time to come, but this meeting came again, not only by himself, but also by Li Shimin. Li Shimin also brought Li Zhi and his son-in-law.

"Uninvited, a lot of disturbances." Li Shimin is quite polite.

Li Chao was not very happy that the emperor disturbed his family banquet, but he came here, and there was no reason to rush out, so he had to call someone to set the table and prepare dishes.

"No need, it's all in-laws, why don't you use it so politely, just add a few seats, and put a few pairs of dishes and chopsticks, and I'll sit at this table." Well, the food on this table looks quite fresh, could it be American food? ”

The emperor is so casual, Li Chao doesn't insist, anyway, the emperor is also a micro-service visit.

At that moment, Du Shi Niang's concubines gave up their seats and re-loaded a few pairs of dishes and chopsticks, so Li Shimin and the prince sat down, and Princess Jinyang and King Jin also sat down at this table.

A few other entourages followed, Cui Yingying opened another table.

At this time, Li Shimin suddenly said to the person over there, "Mei Niang, come and sit too, you grew up with the crown princess when you were young, and you have a company when you come over." ”

Li Chao found out that Wu Meiniang was also here.

But I didn't notice it just now.

Fortunately, the Li family has just started eating, and the dishes have not been touched a few times. Originally, he wanted to make some more dishes, but Li Shimin said that if he wanted to try the freshness of American food, he didn't need to make other dishes.

"What's this gold?"

"Your Majesty, this is hot and sour shredded potatoes."

Li Shimin took a pair of chopsticks with great interest.

"Well, it's a little sour, but it's very good, it makes people have an appetite, this shredded potato tastes crunchy and crunchy, and the knife skill is also good, the cut is so even, thin strips."

The brothers and sisters of Li Zhi, the king of Jin, were taken care of by Wu Meiniang, Li Zhi looked at the steamed corn in the small willow basket, the golden cob was beautiful and shouted to eat, Wu Meiniang took one and gave it to him, and Li Zhi took it and gnawed it. After taking a bite, my eyes lit up, and I continued to nibble as I spoke.

I like to fry the french fries, which are golden and fragrant and crispy.

Wu Meiniang carefully took a handkerchief to wipe the oil off Jinyang's mouth, and this action was seen by Li Shimin, who was peeling saltwater peanuts on the side, and a look of satisfaction flowed in his eyes.

Li Chao has also been secretly looking at Li Shimin and Wu Meiniang, and then saw Wu Meiniang wiping his hands with Li Zhi, the king of Jin.

Complicated threesome.

Fortunately, Cheng Qian didn't look at this father's talent from beginning to end, well, good.

"Wen Yuan, the potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes you said are really so powerful?"

"How dare the minister lie to Your Majesty, if the Indians of the Americas have been cultivating these crops for thousands of years."

Li Shimin was interested, "That America really has a history of thousands of years?" I don't think I've ever heard it before. ”

"Your Majesty, the Americas are far away from us, and in the past, navigation technology was not developed, so naturally we did not know about their existence. But now, with the development of seafaring technology and the many brave explorers, we know more and more about this world. Tell Your Majesty an astonishing secret, in fact, the world we live in now is a huge sphere, not a round place. ”

Li Shimin looked at Li Chao in surprise.

Li Zhi couldn't help but ask, "Isn't the world we live in like a chessboard, where the earth is square and the sky is round?" ”

The son also asked curiously, "Huge balls?" How can the people who live below not fall? ”

"Haha, the princess is a good question, this actually involves a very important issue, that is, gravity. The big ball we are in, I call it the earth, and the earth has an attraction. For example, if you jump up and end up on the ground, this is the gravitational pull of the earth. ”

Li Shimin pinched his chin and listened to Li Chao's bold statement.

"It is precisely because of this gravitational pull that people everywhere on the earth will stay on the surface of the earth very well and steadily, and will not fall. Let me say another phenomenon to prove it, for example, King Jin has followed His Majesty in Dengzhou before, so he must have been to the port and seen the sea, right? ”

Li Jin put down the corn cob and nodded.

"Then I ask Your Highness, when you stand on the dock and look at the ships approaching in the distance, do you see the mast of the ship first, and then the whole ship?"

"That's true."

Li Chao took a bowl and put it upside down on the table. Then he took a chopstick and demonstrated, "Your Highness, please look, because the earth under our feet is round, so when the ship comes from a distance, we can only see the mast first, and when it gets closer and closer, we can see its whole body." ”

This statement is so amazing that even Li Shimin doesn't believe it.

"One of the other most important discoveries is that America is to the east of us, and Persia and Rome are to the west. To the west of Rome is also the sea. And from there, the sea continues westward, and the American continent that we discovered this time can be reached by boat. If you cross the American continent, take a boat on the west coast of the Americas, and drive all the way west, you can reach our Datang. ”

"As long as you keep going in one direction, you'll eventually get back to square one."

Li Shimin knew how far Rome was from the Tang Dynasty, and the westernmost point in the West was the island of England, inhabited by Anglo-Saxon tribes.

Further west, can you actually reach the Americas, which are obviously east of the Tang Dynasty?

Is the earth under your feet really a ball?

It's too unbelievable, but it seems that what Li Chao said also has some truth.

Li Shimin is now very interested in that America.

"Are there a lot of Americans?"

"America is big and there are a lot of people. That place can be divided into North America and South America, and the Americas combined, are not smaller than our Tang Dynasty plus the northern grasslands, the ice fields further north and Zhenla in the south, as well as the Western Regions combined, and even add the entire continent where Rome, Persia and other places are located, it is estimated that it is only about the same. ”

Hearing that the Americas are so big, Li Shimin was really surprised.

"The north of the Americas, indeed, is as cold as our far north. But in Central and South America, the climate is not bad, and there are many indigenous Indians. There were many nomadic tribes, farming kingdoms, and even the Mayans, who were said to have inhabited South America 2,000 years ago. ”

"Then America is not a wild land?" Li Shimin was surprised.

"The Mayans are still very powerful, and their civilization is not later and worse than our Chinese civilization. Two thousand years ago, they had wandering settlements, and there was an agriculture of corn, potatoes, and pumpkins. They already had temples, pyramids, palaces, and cities hundreds of years ago, and they had their own writing and even a very elaborate calendar. They also made paper and wrote on it to make books. There are also intricate and beautiful carvings and reliefs, and their architectural level is also extremely high. ”

"Today, they rule Central America. There were nobles and commoners, and there were multiple slave city-states. ”

"Slave city-states, meaning many small states?" Li Shimin asked.

"Well, it's true, these Mayan states together are estimated to have a population of nearly 10 million."