Chapter 493: Success is due to frugality, and defeat is due to luxury
During the dinner, although Li Shimin was unhappy, he just flashed away, and then changed his smile, but he remembered this in his heart.
Originally, Li Shimin forgot about this matter two days later, but the next day, first Gao Yang complained that he used a brazier to heat the house last night, and then the little princess of Jinyang said that the porridge was not too soft.
When he saw that there were still two plates of sparse green vegetables at noon, and the others were all meat, Li Shimin finally exploded. directly called the palace supervisor and reprimanded him sharply.
In fact, this palace supervisor is also very wronged, at this time it is still early spring, and it is normal to eat no green vegetables, although there is a warm soup supervisor in Luoyang, and some green vegetables will be planted by the hot spring in winter, but how much can be planted.
Just two years ago, Emperor Li Shimin couldn't eat much vegetables in winter, and sometimes he was a little happy to reward the ministers with a small handful of vegetables, which shows how scarce vegetables are in winter at this time.
It's like this in the capital city of Chang'an, not to mention Luoyang, although it is called the Eastern Capital, but the emperor has not been here for so many years, and even the palace has not been repaired, let alone allocate funds to expand the cultivation of hot spring vegetables, and it is very good to be able to ensure that it is planted every year for the emperor who does not know whether to come or not.
Imagine that in the current Chang'an, at least the princes and nobles can eat vegetables every day in winter, which is pure luxury.
That is, after Wu Yuanqing crossed over, he made a lot of green vegetables, and also made a lot of delicacies, and the food and use were better than before, I don't know how much, so that Li Shimin, no, not only Li Shimin, but also the royal family of Chang'an, the palace nobles, and the people were all raised.
Like what autumn, winter and spring to get out of the greenhouse to grow a large number of all kinds of greens, crops and other out-of-season things, like what vegetables can not only be baked, boiled, but also all kinds of fried, all kinds of fried, all kinds of fried, pastries can also add sugar and eggs, add a lot of things, fried, baked and so on to make a lot of tricks, boil porridge to boil enough heat, boil out rice milk, when the weather is cold, you can use a stove, a pan kang and so on, before Wu Yuanqing did not cross over, Li Shimin They knew a ball, and they had eaten a ball.
But when Wu Yuanqing came, these things were all brought out, and then let Li Shimin eat meat and not vegetables in winter, and he couldn't even open up to eat vegetables, Li Shimin felt unhappy, and felt that the officials in Luoyang were not doing well, and they were lazy.
Like the two princesses of Gaoyang and Jinyang, they didn't mean to say that the officials here were bad, but what they ate after they were born was good, and suddenly let them use a choking brazier to warm up and drink porridge that was not boiled, they would naturally feel bad and complain.
The emperor and princess have been in Chang'an for a long time, and they are used to eating and using those that are better, and of course they want to be the same as Chang'an when they arrive in Luoyang.
But the palace eunuchs here, the officials up and down failed to meet their ideas, and of course the emperor stopped opening and cursed.
But again, the palace eunuch is really wronged, and I really don't blame him.
Chang'an does have greenhouse vegetables, stoves, and various cooking methods, but due to the outrageous spread of news at this time, Luoyang has no understanding of those things at all.
Take the greenhouse dishes as an example, Wu Yuanqing did get it out, in his fiefdom in Wugong County, almost every household in the food village that was assigned to him had a greenhouse, and his small life was prosperous.
It stands to reason that other farmers around his fiefdom should also have someone follow suit to get out of the greenhouse, because he hasn't given an order that can't be passed on.
But it didn't.
In addition to the farmers who were distributed to him, the other people around did not make a greenhouse, and few of the large and small landlords and aristocratic families who coveted the high profits of winter vegetables came out.
The reason is that although the greenhouse seems simple, you can't get it out without knowing the trick inside.
And this method of making money, those martial arts dealers are like heirlooms and have to keep secrets, not to mention outsiders, except for relatives other than their own family, those will never be told.
Therefore, these people who can grow greenhouse vegetables do not pass on the know-how, even if others imitate the greenhouse, and also plant vegetables in it, they don't know that they need to pollinate the flowers manually, and they just grow plants without fruit.
At most, they grow leeks and the like in the greenhouse, and they don't have to think about crops that bear fruit such as cucumbers, unless they are lucky and unintentional actions lead to the completion of pollination.
Although there is nothing secret about things like stoves and cooking methods, it is not so easy to pass from Chang'an to Luoyang in more than ten years, unless someone specifically mentions it in Luoyang, or Chang'an people live in Luoyang, but that will only affect the surrounding people, and it will spread widely.
Just like in later generations, potatoes and corn were introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty, but it was not until the Qing Dynasty that large-scale cultivation began.
If there is no official vigorous promotion, to be honest, relying on such communication in ancient times, it may not be possible to completely popularize a thing in one or two hundred years.
The palace eunuch of Xianren Palace suffered from the lag in communication, and he didn't know what the emperor, princesses, and concubines ate and used in Chang'an, and everyone upgraded him, and he still did it according to the previous one, so he was naturally reprimanded.
The emperor's scolding of the palace eunuchs for not eating and drinking well soon reached the ears of the ministers.
Comrade Lao Wei was the first to quit, and directly found the emperor and made a statement.
The meaning of the words is that the emperor, we don't ask you to remember the bittersweet or anything, nor do we say anything like thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, let's talk about the difference between your behavior and your predecessor Emperor Yang of Sui.
Lao Wei's original words are like this: "Your Majesty reprimands the officials with the prince, and the ministers are afraid of the wind fanning each other, and the people in different days are not happy, and it is not the original intention of doing good luck." Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Emperor Yang of the past sarcastic county food, depending on its abundance and thrift as a reward and punishment, so the sea rebelled. What His Majesty has seen in person, why do you want to do it! ”
In the vernacular, it is: Your Majesty thinks that the supply is not good and loses his temper and scolds the officials, and the ministers are afraid that they will be effective in the future, and if this trend is opened, it will make the people miserable, if so, it is definitely not the original intention of His Majesty's visit to Luoyang. In another year, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty paraded, and whenever he went to a place, he was punished for not offering food or not making good offerings, and pursued enjoyment without limits, and the people were overburdened, resulting in rebellions and the destruction of the country. These are all things that Your Majesty has seen with your own eyes, why does Your Majesty also want to follow Emperor Yang of Sui now?
Li Shimin's face was blue and white for a while by Comrade Lao Wei, and he wanted to scold Lao Wei, but thinking of Lao Wei's temper, now he is obsessed, this guy can never stop chattering about this matter.
In order to be clean in the future, Li Shimin scolded wildly in his heart, but he had to admit that he was wrong, and praised Wei Zheng a little, saying Lao Wei, if it weren't for you, but someone else, I would never have heard such deafening and thought-provoking words.
As a result, one bluntly speaks and one admonishes, and the monarch and the minister are suitable, and it is another good story to pass on to future generations.