Chapter 461: Something New Arrives in Beijing

When the hot air balloon of the tour group was ready to rise into the air, the 'radio' on Zhang Xiaobao's back sounded dripping, Wang Juan translated the content as quickly as possible, and looked at each other with Zhang Xiaobao with infinite surprise in his eyes.

"I'm back, the people who went to North America are finally back, we can eat serious Sichuan-style hot pot in the future, and we can also make scrambled eggs with tomatoes for Xiaobei and them, as well as my cigarettes, roasted sweet potatoes, roasted potatoes, and ......."

Zhang Xiaobao's first thought was to eat.

Wang Juan also nodded violently, she also knew how valuable the things the team brought back would be, which would make the people of Datang have a lot of dishes on their tables, especially potatoes, which can be stored for a long time.

Touching the head of Xiaobei standing next to her, Wang Juan said to her: "Xiaobei, you are about to eat popcorn, and there are cakes made of bud rice noodles, just salted fish to eat, people who go out and walk, dry food varieties will be much richer." ”

"What is bud rice? Is it good to have rice flowers? Becky stuck out her tongue and licked her lips.

"It's corn, there are many names anyway, boiled out can be used as snacks, order, suspend travel, and let Shui Yun send some seeds."

Wang Juan is really not good at explaining to Xiaobei, no matter how good he says, it is better to see the real thing come directly and issue an order immediately.

The traveler who had just returned to Jili Prefecture slept beautifully, and according to the order, he packed up a lot of strange seeds he had obtained, tied them to Shui Yun's feet, and released them in the sky.

While waiting, Zhang Xiaobao thought of Li Bai again.

Recently, Li Bai wrote a lot of poems for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan to read, hoping to get the appreciation of the two and get a satisfactory position, but the result was not too good.

Before Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were going to travel this time, they arranged for him to join the army with a Sicang from Jili Prefecture, which was regarded as a six-grade official, not small or small, but there were still many regrets compared to the yearning for the capital.

Now that he knows that there are new varieties coming over, in order to be able to preserve them, Zhang Xiaobao does not plan to let Li Bai continue to manage the warehouse, he is afraid that after Li Bai drinks too much one day, he will kill the newly obtained seeds, and there will be no place to cry.

Finding Li Bai, who was also packing his luggage, Zhang Xiaobao said to him very directly: "Li Gongzi, now there are two local official positions for you to choose again, one is to be the county commander in Jian'an, give you a task, and lead the people of Jian'an to plant a new thing in the greenhouse, this greenhouse is a glass greenhouse, and it is no longer simple." ”

Li Bai listened carefully, and when he heard Zhang Xiaobao say something new, he was a little curious, but he didn't want to stay, a county with a population of only a hundred people could still be called a county? Even smallpox is useless.

Then he asked, "What about the second one?" ”

"The second option is to go to Beijing to be an official, you go to Jili Prefecture first, go there to get a few seeds, bring them when you go back to the capital, and then go directly to Sinong Temple to let people plant them, your official position is also in Sinong Temple, En...... Let's be a garden supervisor, what is the name of a new garden...... Oh, it's called the Alien Garden, don't you think it's possible? ”

Zhang Xiaobao temporarily thought of a new name and a new department, and asked Li Bai.

Li Bai estimated it slightly, knowing that the new official position was an official from Liupin, with a bit of real power, and he was also a Beijing official, and he had not yet considered whether this official position was as he thought, but he had a new understanding of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's ability.

Listening to Zhang Xiaobao's words, you can know that there is no foreign garden in Sinong Temple, Zhang Xiaobao is ready to make one, that determined look, as if he said how Sinong Temple is, Sinong Temple is how it is, and the official of the six products said that one will be stuffed over.

Feeling Zhang Xiaobao's strength, Li Bai temporarily believed that Zhang Xiaobao could successfully set out a garden in Sinong Temple for him to manage, but after thinking about it again, he found that no matter what kind of garden it was, his official was a little small, and he had to farm, so he couldn't help but look embarrassed.

Zhang Xiaobao knew what the other party was thinking as soon as he saw Li Bai's expression, and he felt very uncomfortable in his heart. This is given by looking at the name of the other party's poet.

"Which one does Li Gongzi think is more suitable?" Zhang Xiaobao asked patiently.

"Can you change places?" Li Bai was reluctant to study farming.

"Then either go to the Ministry of Rites and be a secretary, and you will also be a six-rank official." Zhang Xiaobao thought about it and gave another official position.

Li Bai lowered his head and thought for a while, the expression on his face was still the same as just now, and it seemed that the Ministry of Etiquette was not very good.

"If the Ministry of Rites doesn't work, go to the Ministry of Households, and be a metropolitan official." Zhang Xiaobao is now thinking about all new varieties, and he wants to send Li Bai out as soon as possible.

The household department is in charge of money, it is a very important department, and you can also see Shangshu in everything, and it is easy to contact, which is a good place, but the grade has come down.

Li Bai gritted his teeth and asked, "Can you be a Langzhong?" ”

"What do you say?" Zhang Xiaobao asked rhetorically, he knew that Li Bai wanted to be the Langzhong of the left and right divisions of the ministries, the kind of Wupin official, the kind that could go to the early dynasty, this is purely a joke, it's not that it can't be arranged, but how can you Li Bai want to jump directly to the important position of Wupin?

Li Bai also felt that he was asking too much, but he was full of expectations, and after thinking about it, he said, "Then let's take care of everything." ”

Back like this, what Li Bai thought in his heart was to enter the capital and then find a way to meet the officials in the capital, and after getting acquainted with them, let them help recommend, if not, then use Zhang Xiaobao's this, and then slowly look for opportunities.

Zhang Xiaobao specializes in the study of human psychology, how can he not know what Li Bai thinks, Li Bai's eyes move, Zhang Xiaobao knows the other party's small abacus from it, and does not expose it, let him know when he tries it, who dares to interfere in the position he has arranged? Not to mention the officials of various ministries, even if it is a little bigger, I didn't see that Zhang said that this Chinese book order was all down.

Thinking like this, Zhang Xiaobao smiled secretly in his heart, took Li Bai into the house, spread out the paper, studied the ink, and wrote on it, "Recommend, Li Bai and Li Taibai are all things for the household department, try for a year, and wait for next year's exam, and discuss more." Zhang Xiaobao. ’

In a few simple words, Li Bai's official will be determined, and the new position will be discussed after next year's evaluation.

Li Bai also thought that Zhang Xiaobao would praise himself vigorously, and wrote down the reason for the recommendation, which made people feel that it should not be bad, but he didn't expect Zhang Xiaobao to write it so simply.

Looking at the ink that had not yet dried, he asked worriedly, "Is it right to write like this?" ”

"That's right." Zhang Xiaobao put down the pen and picked up his own seal to cover it, this seal was also made by himself, the seal of the festival envoy has long become a habit, Li Longji is dead picked, only the official is sealed, and other things such as clothes, sealed letters and so on are not responsible.

"Who will I show when I get to the capital?" No matter how Li Bairu looks at it, he doesn't think that this letter can achieve its purpose, and it is too simple to write.

Zhang Xiaobao put down the pen and blew the ink, "You can show it to anyone, as long as you enter the place where the Beijing officials do business and take it out, anyone who sees it will lead you to meet the person who arranges the position, the official department in charge of the official can do it, and you have no problem going to the household department of the official, or let Li ...... directly. Your Majesty will arrange it for you when you see it.

Go, don't forget to help bring the seeds when passing through Jili Prefecture, I will write another letter to Sinong Temple, let them set up a special foreign garden, oh, after arriving in the capital, you can inquire about Wang Wei, he is not bad at writing poetry. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhang Xiaobao casually folded the new fold and stuffed it into Li Bai's hand, and it was over.

Li Bai held the letter in his hand, and watched Zhang Xiaobao go out, his face was blank, he always felt that Zhang Xiaobao's promise was too easy, saying that if he became a Beijing official, he would be a Beijing official, and he came a little quickly, so it should not be like this if he wants to enter Beijing as an official.

On the letter again, he took a deep breath, and then slowly spit it out, so he had to treat the dead horse as a live horse, and try it after entering Beijing if he couldn't succeed.

With his head down, he walked out with infinite melancholy, and looked up just in time to see Zhang Xiaohai squatting there, writing and painting on the snow, Li Bai found that in the days of contact, Xiaohai was silent for too long, much worse than his sister Xiaobei, and curiously leaned over to think about what the sea wrote.

When he saw what Xiao Hai wrote, Li Bai was confused again, and he couldn't understand it at all, because what Xiao Hai wrote was 'Let the side length be X, the area is Y, and 2Y=Z......." ’

What kind of mess, ghost drawing?

Hai didn't notice Li Bai's arrival at all, and was still pondering and calculating there, if it was Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's people at that time, they would definitely shout genius, but unfortunately Li Bai was not.

"Hey~ I have to ask my sister how to eliminate the yuan." Xiao Hai calculated for a while, and found that he couldn't calculate, and his little face wrinkled and muttered.

"What are you writing about?" Li Bai asked puzzled.

"You don't understand, my brother has arranged an official for you?" Xiao Hai said a few more words very unexpectedly.

Li Bai nodded.

"Then work hard, don't think that the official is small, listen to my brother and sister, my father studied hard for more than ten years, and he took the top prize, and in the end he was just a seven-grade petty official, if you dare to discredit your brother, I will find my sister to impeach you together."

Hai has a lot to say today, especially for outsiders.

Li Bai was obviously not in a good mood, and he was threatened by a child, what do you mean? Do you look down on yourself?

At that moment, Li Bai didn't say anything, turned around and left, but he was really scared in his heart, afraid that the nine children would be jointly impeached, no joke, there was already a precedent, one bullet and one quasi-child.

Li Bai left with the expectation in his heart, and under the protection of the four people, he went to the beach to take a boat, and then transferred to Jili Prefecture, and took the seeds into Beijing.

Shuiyun also came, not by himself, but also with a partner, a big red eagle, one white and one red flying in the sky is very conspicuous, named Hongluan, it is considered a fairy bird, in Zhang Ying's eyes, only a fairy bird can match Shui Yun.

The two eagles brought a bag of things, which from the traces should have stopped to rest on the way, the bottom of the package was covered with snow and ice, and there was a little dirt and the blood of some animal left by the two eagles while eating.

Zhang Xiaobao only looked at the package, did not rush to open it, but touched Shui Yun's head, and said: "Congratulations, you are looking for a good one, I really haven't seen a red eagle, I have to say hello when I have a child, don't fall to death." ”

seemed to understand Zhang Xiaobao's words, Shui Yun rubbed his head on Zhang Xiaobao's face, and his sharp mouth made people scared when they looked at it.

Bei asked people to kill a deer and sent it to Shui Yun, and also said: "When we have a baby, our children's group will catch insects, it is best to have more than a hundred, and you have to work hard." ”

Waiting for Shui Yun to take Hongluan to eat, Zhang Xiaobao opened the package, which contained sprouted sweet potatoes and potatoes, thinking that it was caused by the relatively high temperature on the ship, so he just dug it down and sent it to the greenhouse for planting, in addition to these two things, there are coffee beans and cocoa.

"Let people send it to Luzhou to plant." Zhang Xiaobao picked out two things, and Jian'an couldn't plant them.

Next is a dozen ears of corn, and a lot of peppers, a pack of very poorly dried cigarettes and seeds, half a plate of hair, that is, sunflower seeds, and washed tomato seeds, it seems that the harvest is not small, as for the wood or something, no samples were sent, it is estimated that they are afraid of water clouds and they are tired.

Wang Juan also looked at it, and wondered: "I remember that there are a few things from South America, don't they have no past?" ”

"You're mistaken, come to Xiaobei, go prepare the seasoning of Malatang, and make a real Malatang for you." Zhang Xiaobao replied to Wang Juan, picked up those chili peppers and instructed Xiaobei, who was also looking curiously.

Bei Bar clicked his mouth twice and shook his head, "Do you want to eat this?" Let's keep it as a seed. ”

"The inside is the seed, the skin outside is not counted, it can be eaten." Zhang Xiaobao pinched off a little chili pepper and tasted it in his mouth, and stuck out his tongue to explain to Xiaobei.

"Oh, good food." Xiaobei cheered and hurriedly ran to arrange.

Zhang Xiaobao took advantage of this time to call the people in the county and the people left behind, and Wang Juan complemented each other to introduce the planting methods of several crops, they could not wait until next year to take care of the Turks, as for the future plan, they had to wait for the locals to come out with crops.

Very Bei prepared things properly, all the spices and things to be eaten in shabu were all brought over, the only thing missing was the mountain pepper seedlings, with real peppers, substitutes were not needed.

Zhang Xiaobao put a lot of chili peppers in a grid, and fried chili oil, with pepper oil and sesame sauce, and waited for the water to boil before eating.

After Xiaobei tried hard to blow the fire, the water finally boiled, and before he could eat it, the taste of chili peppers entered his nose first.

"Ahh Xiaobei sneezed vigorously and said with red eyes.

The other people who smelled the smell also nodded, it turned out that they thought that the green onions, ginger, garlic, and mountain pepper seedlings were spicy enough, and they only saw what spicy is today.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan swallowed saliva at the same time, only the two of them knew the deliciousness of chili peppers, a large handful of bean skin was stuffed into the lattice by Zhang Xiaobao, and it was soaked vigorously, and when the bean skin was soft, it was taken out and distributed to the nine younger brothers and sisters, and then poured some chili oil and pepper oil on it.

"Eat, I'll make you boiled pork slices and boiled fish later."

Bei Meng nodded his head twice, leaned his nose over and smelled it, the smell of red oil and sesame oil was mixed together, and he felt fragrant without waiting to eat, took a deep breath, and was ready to be spicy first, and then carefully picked up a string of bean skin and put it in his mouth.

In less than two seconds, Xiao Bei's eyes suddenly became bigger, the movements in his hands stopped, and for another two seconds, Xiao Bei took off the skewer and chewed vigorously, sweating was obvious on his head, even so the movements on his mouth did not stop, and when he swallowed something, he opened his mouth, sighed outward, and said in a vague voice:

"Okay, it's so spicy, I want that soup, give me some soup, it's comfortable, it's so comfortable, it's hot."

"Spicy, you still drink soup?" Xiaoyuan didn't eat it all the time, and was obviously frightened by Xiaobei's reaction.

"What do you know, I want to eat more and more, and if you dare not cooperate with me in the future, I will pour you with chili water and let you know that it is amazing." Xiaobei suddenly thought of a good solution.

Zhang Xiaobao was stunned for a moment, and said: "It seems that our Xiaobei is really talented, and he knows the trick of pouring chili water, and I really haven't tried what it feels like to pour this thing into my nose." ”

"It can cure colds." Wang Juan said.

watched Xiaobei eat it while hissing from afar, and finally couldn't help but taste it, but it became the same as Xiaobei, the spicier it was, the more I wanted to eat it.

Others also came to taste it, including the people in the county, and they all thought it was magical.

Seeing that the food was almost the same, Zhang Xiaobao stopped his younger brothers and sisters and poured a big bowl of mung bean porridge for each of them, for fear that the stomach would be spicy.

"It's a pity that there are no green pepper seeds." Zhang Xiaobao said regretfully.

"That's what was bred later, and when the tomatoes are grafted, you can get persimmon peppers, and when the tomatoes grow more, you can make tomato sauce, and there will be one more tomato juice fish in the can, so pack up and get ready to go."

Seeing the arrival of the expected thing, Wang Juan's mind was set on the Turks again.

Zhang Xiaobao nodded, "Okay, arrange it immediately, roast an ear of bud rice for them to taste, the fleet will bring back a lot, and next year, it will be released in our restaurant first." ”

"Then you still need to see? As long as it is not popular, new things will inevitably become luxuries, smoking is harmful to health, and you are not allowed to smoke more when you have cigarettes. ”

Wang Juan seems to be very disgusted with other people's smoking.

"I'm going to make cigars, not cigarettes, and no chemical fertilizer, oh, and now there is no such good chemical fertilizer, so I decided that in order to help the Silla people get rich, I will not only put all kinds of smelters in Silla, but also plant tobacco on their fertile land, which looks like cabbage before it is sunburned, and looks green and gratifying."

Zhang Xiaobao's expression changed to that kind of compassion with the words, which was sacred and inviolable.

After Xiaobei and others tasted roasted bud rice and decided to eat bud rice all day next year when the bud rice production came up, the tour group finally slowly rose into the air and went to a distant place for sightseeing.

Before Li Bai arrived in Jili Prefecture, Jili Prefecture had already sent a fast boat to Dengzhou, and a large bag of things was sent by Dengzhou to the capital by fast horses, and the speed was only a little slower than the 800-mile emergency report.

As Zhang Xiaobao's tour group continued to float in the sky, bags of goods were delivered to the Zhuangyuan Building, and the cooks in the Zhuangyuan Building began to make food according to the method written in the letter that came with the package.

In fact, there are two kinds of things that can be made, peppers and corn, some corn is still a little green, and some have become golden, and it is not easy to preserve.

At the end of the next morning, when Li Long's lunch was prepared, the food delivery person from the Zhuangyuan Building arrived outside the palace, and after one inspection after another, the food box finally appeared on the table in front of Li Longji.

Li Longji's food has long changed, there are not so many things to look at, more than a dozen dishes per meal, in his opinion, it is already luxurious enough, unless it is to dine with envoys from Japan, Silla and other countries, it will put on the pomp and circumstance it deserves, and he usually does not do it so much.

As soon as Li Longji heard that there was food coming from the Zhuangyuan Building, he immediately ordered the imperial dining room to stop cooking, and ordered someone to open the food box, only to see that there were a lot of small yellow steamed buns inside, which looked more pleasing to the eye, and smelled a special fragrance, I don't know what it was.

Another food box was opened, and there was a charcoal fire heating underneath, and a lot of meat slices were cooked in it, as well as bean sprouts and other accessories.

"...... this?" For the first time, Li Longji felt that he was lonely and unheard, and he had never seen such a thing.

According to the procedure, first test with a silver needle to see if there is any commonly used poison, such as arsenic, and let the little eunuch taste it again, waiting for the golden steamed bun to be cold, the little eunuch is still alive and well, Gao Lishi first picked up a steamed bun and pinched it into small pieces and put it in his mouth to chew.

"Your Majesty, it's delicious, the minister has never eaten anything like this." As he spoke, Gao Lishi went to eat the boiled pork slice again, and after sticking out his tongue spicily, he continued to nod to Li Longji.

Li Longji can't wait, he is used to every time Zhuangyuanlou or the things sent by Proudhouse, every time he will let him be happy, the same way, every time he sees others go through the procedures one by one, he will think of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, if the two of them come to cook something to eat, they don't have to wait for the food to be cold before they can eat.

Seeing Gao Lishi nodding, Li Longji couldn't wait to pick up a steamed bun, no matter what the emperor should be, he opened his mouth and took a bite, and the golden steamed bun entered the mouth, and immediately there was a feeling of tendon, and then there was a unique fragrance.

Picking up another piece of meat, the spicy taste instantly filled the entire mouth, and he quickly took another bite of the steamed bun, exhaled, squinted his eyes and praised: "It's delicious, Xiaobao and Juan Juan have a heart, can Lux know what this thing is?" ”

Gao Lishi shook his head, "I don't know, wait for the minister to write a letter and ask." ”

"Yes, go quickly." Li Longji seemed very anxious.

Gao Lishi put down his chopsticks and went to write a letter, and at this time, Li Longji had already shaken off his cheeks and ate hard.

When Gao Lishi finished writing the letter and sent it to Jili Prefecture with pigeons, he saw that there were only a few bean sprouts and vegetable leaves left in the big bowl with boiled meat slices, and there were only three small steamed buns left.

"Luo Bin went to the medicine room to get the Dashan Cha Pill, Your Majesty, what are you...... "Colliers looked very helpless.

Li Longji touched his stomach with his hand, "Lux, I didn't eat it all, I'll leave it for you." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Colliers responded.

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