When Jiang Jianghao brought a pot of fragrant, red and attractive boiled beef to the front hall, the time was just right, not earlier or later than the previously agreed time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But when the envoy of Yan Kingdom saw this boiled beef, his face was blue and black, and his face did not have the expectation that Jiang Jianghao expected, but wanted to get angry with his momentum.

Jiang Jianghao saw that the atmosphere was not right, and the thin old man had already begun to yell at Jiang Jianghao.

"The surname is Jiang, we came from the distant Yan country, and we spent a hundred gold, and you actually gave us dye?!"

"Dyes?"

Jiang Jianghao's eyes widened, and his heart was extremely depressed, these dirt buns actually said that the chili peppers he had worked so hard to get were paints for dyeing cloth?!!!

You must know that the origin of chili peppers is in Mexico in North America, and it was only introduced to Chinese mainland in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

Chili peppers are native to the tropical regions of Central and Latin America, and the country of origin is Mexico. At the end of the 15th century, after Columbus discovered America, he brought chili peppers back to Europe, where they spread to other parts of the world. It was introduced to China during the Ming Dynasty. Qing Chen Haozi's "Flower Mirror" has a record of pepper. Nowadays, it is widely cultivated in various parts of China and has become a popular vegetable. Cayenne pepper is the central axis placenta. Capsicum pepper is an annual or perennial herbaceous plant with ovate-lanceolate leaves and white flowers. Most of the fruits resemble the tip of a brush, but there are also lantern-shaped, heart-shaped, etc. The fruit is green when unripe and turns red or yellow when ripe. It is generally spicy and is used for both edible and medicinal purposes.

Chili peppers are originally grown in the tropical regions of Central and South America. After European colonialism arrived in the Americas, chili peppers were first introduced to Europe in 1493 and to Japan from about 1583 to 1598. There is no specific record of the age of its introduction into China, but it is more recognized that the earliest record of chili pepper in China is the Ming Dynasty Gao Lian's "Zunsheng Eight Notes" (1591), which said: "The pepper is thick, the white flowers, the fruit is like a bald pen, the taste is spicy and the color is red, and it is very considerable". According to this account, it is generally believed that chili peppers were introduced to China in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

There are two ways for chili peppers to be introduced into China, one is the Silk Road, which was declared far-reaching, from West Asia to Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi and other places, and was the first to be cultivated in the northwest; First, it entered South China through the Strait of Malacca, cultivated in Yunnan, Guangxi and Hunan in the south, and then gradually expanded to the whole country, and now there is almost no blank area of chili peppers.

During the Qianlong period, a large number of chili peppers began to be eaten in Guizhou, followed by Zhenxiong in Yunnan and Chenzhou in Hunan, which are adjacent to Guizhou. In the "Taiwan Prefecture Chronicles" in the twelfth year of Qianlong (1747), there is a record of eating chili peppers on the island of Taiwan. After Jiaqing (1796~1820), it was recorded that the four provinces of Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, and Jiangxi began to "grow (chili peppers) as vegetables". During the Daoguang period (1821~1850), the northern part of Guizhou has been "eating every thing must be peppered". During the Tongzhi period (1862~1874), the people of Guizhou "ate sea pepper at four o'clock". At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the bud grain rice that prevailed in Guizhou was mostly made of bean curd, which was soaked in salt and added with sea pepper to be used as a dipping water, a bit like the sea pepper dipped in water in Fushun bean curd in Sichuan today.

Some areas of Hunan did not eat much spicy food during the Jiaqing period, but after Daoguang, the consumption of chili peppers became more common. According to the record of the "Qing Barnyard Banknotes" in the last years of the Qing Dynasty: "Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and Shu people like spicy products", "(Hunan and Hubei people) like spicy products", "no pepper mustard is not under the chopstick, and there are many soups", indicating that in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Hunan and Hubei people have become spicy, and even put chili peppers in the soup.

In contrast, the consumption of chili peppers in Sichuan is recorded a little later. Yongzheng's "Sichuan Tongzhi" and Jiaqing's "Sichuan Tongzhi" have no record of planting and eating chili peppers. The earliest recorded area may be in the late Jiaqing period, when the main areas for growing and eating chili peppers were the Chengdu Plain, southern Sichuan, southwestern Sichuan, and the Daba Mountains at the junction of Sichuan, Hubei and Shaanxi. After Tongzhi, the consumption of chili peppers in Sichuan became popular, so that "the mountains and wilderness are planted all over the country". According to Fu Chongju's "Chengdu Overview" at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there are as many as 1,328 kinds of dishes in Chengdu after Guangxu, and chili pepper has become one of the main ingredients in Sichuan cuisine, and spicy food has become an important feature of Sichuan people's diet. Xu Xinyu, who was the same era as Fu Chongju, also had a similar record in "Shu You Wenjian": "However, when Sichuan people eat peppers, they must choose those that are extremely spicy, and every meal and dish must be spicy." ”

Yunnan and its neighboring Guizhou Zhenxiong began to eat spicy peppers during the Qianlong period, but there was no trace of chili peppers in the Guangxu period's work "Yunnan Tongzhi", when chili peppers had already poured into Yunnan - Xu Xinyu wrote in "Shu You Wen Jianlu" that his father found in Ya'an that the chili peppers transported into Yunnan through Ya'an, Sichuan Province every year were "worth hundreds of thousands, like the amount of peppers eaten by the Yunnan people, not weaker than the Sichuan people".

Chili pepper has a spicy taste and is hot in nature. It can warm and strengthen the stomach, dissipate cold, dampness, and sweating. Contains spicy ingredients, mainly capsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin; It also contains volatile oil, protein, calcium, phosphorus, rich in vitamin C, carotene and capsaicin.

Cayenne pepper has a strong local irritating effect; Oral administration can increase appetite and promote gastrointestinal digestion; Capsaicin can stimulate the taste receptors of the human tongue and reflexively cause a temporary rise in blood pressure, which generally recovers after 10~15 minutes.

Chili pepper is generally used for spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness, loss of appetite, cold feeling in the abdomen, and diarrhea of thin water; Cold, dampness and stagnation, less food and greasy, body drowsiness, and sore limbs; Cold, wind chill, cold without sweat.

Stir-fried, boiled, ground or raw can be eaten. However, when eating, it is advisable to choose those that are not very spicy, spicy and oily and meaty. It is not advisable to eat too much, too much food can cause dizziness, dry eyes, burning in the mouth, abdomen or **, pain, diarrhea, cold herpes, etc. In addition, patients with yin deficiency and fire, cough, hemoptysis, vomiting blood, blood in the stool, eye diseases, boils and peptic ulcers should not take it.

Jiang Jianghao wondered, they are from the Northeast region, and it is already very embarrassing to greet them to eat boiled beef, and they still want to find fault? !

But even if there are many benefits about chili peppers and boiled beef, Jiang Jianghao can't say it, no way, who let these ancestors not see this thing?

The thin old man jumped higher and higher, and was about to kick his nose and face and smash the pot, but at this time, a very familiar voice came from the courtyard.

"Boss Jiang~ Hurry up! Get me something to eat! I'm starving! ”

Remnant Yang took the lead in the front hall with his stomach covered, Thirteen followed closely behind, Hu Haha's expression fully proved Remnant Yang's statement, and it could be seen from his face that they were really hungry!

"Ugh! Don't tell me that you help the king do things, and he won't give you food?! ”

Speaking of this, Thirteen's expression was even more bitter, and Remnant Yang kept muttering.

"It's lamb every day! Roast lamb! Roast lamb! No taste at all! I'm about to vomit when I eat it! Hey? I'm not dreaming, am I?! What do I see?! ”

Remnant Yang looked up at Jiang Jianghao with an accusatory face: "Boss Jiang! You don't even call me when you make boiled beef?! It's a shame that I help you educate thirteen on weekdays, and you don't tell me when you make boiled beef?! ”

As he spoke, Remnant Yang was about to turn over the beef in the basin, but the next action was stopped by Jiang Jianghao stretching out his hand, Jiang Jianghao had not yet spoken, and the thin old man standing on the side had already stepped forward and bowed to Remnant Yang and said, "My lord, this thing is absolutely uneatable!" ”

"Who are you?" Remnant Yang glanced at it and found that he didn't know the old man, and he didn't know why the old man stopped him.

"My lord, the envoy from the Xia Yan Kingdom has seen my lord in the Xuan Hall of King Qin."

Rean Yang nodded perfunctorily, for this kind of envoy from other countries, Rean Yang has always been reluctant to deal with it, not to mention that he only has that pot of fragrant boiled beef in his eyes now.

"Why are you stopping me?"

"My lord, this thing is really uneatable!"

"Why?" Remnant Yang was depressed, obviously he had a good boiled beef, why didn't this little old man stop him from eating it, you must know that Jiang Jianghao is very rare to make this dish once, and he hasn't even eaten it yet! How dare this little old man stop him? If there is no reason, Remnant Yang is ready to slap this long-time old man out of the hall.

"My lord, this thing has a very strange color, it is actually red, he must have added the dye of the cloth to make the meal red, and the fuel is not edible!"

Feeling the sincerity of the thin old man, Rean Yang was in a cold sweat, looking at Jiang Jianghao with an innocent face and said, "Boss Jiang, haven't you told him about chili peppers?" ”

Jiang Jianghao was also very helpless, it was not that he didn't want to talk about it, he was stunned by this primitive man before he could think about how to speak, and then he swaggered in to beg for food, where did he have a chance to spit out?

Remnant Yang was quite speechless at the moment, no longer paying attention to the thin old man and his entourage, nor paying attention to Jiang Jianghao, but directly picked up the chopsticks placed next to the boiled beef, and ate it directly, shouting while eating.

"Thirteen, come and eat together, Ah Qi, go to the kitchen and help us make two bowls of rice, no! It's four bowls! Boiled beef must be served with rice! Otherwise, it's so boring! Hurry up, hurry up! ”

Seeing that Remnant Yang looked like a starving ghost, Ah Qi hurriedly nodded in response, turned around and hurriedly ran out.

"Adult ......"

The thin old man wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by the remnant yang directly waving his hand.

"It's so ignorant to come to make it, Boss Jiang's boiled beef is the best delicacy in the world, even the king in the palace has a chance to taste it, you actually say that he is a dye, hahaha, it's so funny!"

The thin old man's face suddenly turned the color of pork liver, he looked at the boiled beef that had been fished out of shape by the remnant sun, and then looked at Jiang Jianghao who was standing innocently on the side, and asked weakly: "Boss Jiang, how can this be counted?!" ”