What kind of dishes do you need for a sumptuous feast?

According to Chinese standards, if it is just an ordinary friend, then it is chicken, duck and pork, plus a few side dishes or two taels of white wine; If you want to be rich, then you must have fish, and there will be more than enough every year; If it is a Chinese New Year's Eve meal, it is even more amazing, chicken, duck, pig, fish, beef and mutton, eggplant cucumber, enoki mushroom, cabbage and green vegetables tender tofu, as well as cold dishes, peanut jelly fruit platter, after talking about cold dishes and wine, wine, white wine, rice wine, red wine and so on. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the art of eating alone, the art of eating, Chinese is definitely the highest in the world, and the food standards of the Chinese people are definitely the highest in the world...... ）

But if this standard is replaced by the British, or more precisely the people living in the British Isles, then this dietary standard can only make people cry.

Stargazing Pie......

Forget it, we won't talk about this kind of black history. But what you may not know is that for Britons, this dish is truly a delicacy!

The art of modern British food lies in potatoes: lamb stew with potatoes, oxtail soup with potatoes, roasted goose with potatoes......

Well, potatoes were introduced to Great Britain during the Age of Discovery, and have nothing to do with the Earl of Don; So what was the diet like in the Middle Ages before the introduction of potatoes?

For example, the traditional Scottish 'delicacy', the haggis, is made with butter oats, jam with skin and the stomach of a whole sheep, and this meal is 'rich' and 'unique', and it is difficult for ordinary people to appreciate. It is said that when George W. Bush visited the G8 summit in Scotland, he firmly rejected this dish, and the Englishman Robert even expressed his complaint: "From this dish, it is not difficult for you to imagine how difficult it is for us to get along with NATO." ”

But this dish is indeed a famous dish, at least in ancient times, because of what? It's because of its 'rich taste'.

In ancient times, whether in the East or in the West, salt was an extremely valuable and cherished item. This can be seen from the fact that the emperors of the East, regardless of every dynasty and generation, had to firmly grasp the salt and iron monopoly. You must know that iron, this is a national strategic reserve material, and salt can be ranked alongside iron, and even before iron, you can see the important position of salt.

But in ancient times, the East was stronger than the West and stronger in this place, because salt was a national monopoly, and the state adjusted the price of salt according to demand, so no matter how much salt rose, its price always had a limit, and ordinary people could always eat a bite, but the West was different. As we said earlier, the entire Middle Ages in the West for nearly a thousand years has been in a situation of feudal division and wars among princes, and the lords in various places have neither strong enough power to ensure the stability of salt prices, nor enough strength to ensure the smooth flow of trade routes, resulting in high salt prices, and ordinary civilians have not had enough salt to act as a condiment, so they can only work the natural flavorful internal organs.

This is expressed in the anime "Wolf and Spice", the main character of the anime, Lawrence, when selling pepper, the shopkeeper carefully closed all the doors and windows, and took him to the basement, and then took out the scales, and weighed the pepper without daring to breathe.

And what is the end result? Lawrence took out a small bag of pepper, which weighed 45. 5 grams, worth 32 and four-fifths of a silver coin, according to our previous calculations, this is equal to 1 gram of pepper worth 1009 yuan!

Of course, the actual price will certainly not be so much, because we used a simple algorithm before, and did not take into account the changes in productivity, as well as the conversion of the gold and silver standard, the actual price should have shrunk by about five times, but even this is already very impressive! One gram of condiments costs 200 yuan, who can eat it?!

Therefore, the important thing in this feast is not what dishes Count Xiao Tang makes, but how much salt Count Xiao Tang puts in!

Facts have proved that Count Xiao Tang is indeed quite willing to invest capital, and at this feast, not to mention anything else, at least meat and salt, Count Xiao Tang is sufficient.

Students are given meat because the nutrients that meat can provide are far from being comparable to vegetables, and the large amount of vitamins contained in meat is also the basis for a child's healthy growth. Why is it that when we talk about knights, they are tall and handsome, while peasants are always short and ugly? One of the most important reasons is that the peasants do not have enough meat to eat -- as for the modern people who are now advocating to eat less meat, it is purely a disease of wealth and nobility, and eating too much meat is rising.

Count Tang Jr. hoped that each of his first batch of students would grow up healthy and healthy, and that these people would be his first batch, completely loyal to his unrivalled team; And since these people are all taught by Count Xiao Tang, then these people will be able to understand Count Xiao's thoughts, and they will be able to understand the benefits of Count Xiao Tang's actions like this, instead of being like these knights, as long as there is a little bit of dissatisfaction, they will always be ready to draw a knife and cut people!

After eating - it was not easy, and a few students almost ate the table just because two drops of flavorful soup were missing from the table! After that, the parents of the students who were reluctant to give up were sent away, and then the little Earl Tang took them all to the place where they stayed, a row of wooden houses.

This row of wooden houses is also newly built, and each student has one, which is also a first experience for these students, who have lived with their parents, brothers and sisters, as well as the pigs, chickens, ducks and sheep in the family, and have never lived in a single room!

But there was a problem when the room was divided, Count Xiao Tang didn't expect that there would be girls in the first batch of students, and girls would account for the vast majority, so this first batch of students, they were mixed.

Of course, this is not a problem for students, and even Priest Philip, who has always emphasized the need to maintain 'purity', does not think that this is a problem, is it mixed, what is the big deal? That family isn't like that?

But Count Xiao Tang doesn't think so, young people always have countless vitality, when they couldn't eat enough before, they were fine, and they only thought about how to eat enough, but now that they can't be hungry, then I think about ****, I'm afraid that something that should happen and shouldn't happen will happen. Little Count Tang didn't want to be two people when he came, and he would take the child with him when he left! Therefore, it has been allocated to male residents, and the construction of houses for female students has already begun, and of course, temporary mixing is inevitable.

Once everything is settled, the next day, it's time for class.

Count Tang Jr. gave a total of three classes, Chinese, mathematics, and politics.

In Chinese classes, from pronunciation to characters, all the teaching is Chinese.

Although it was certainly easier for these students to learn the native language of Ireland, the Earl of Don insisted that they learn ...... Simplified characters.

Because, English, Spanish, French, most languages that use letters, don't just spell them.

And although the spelling is already troublesome, the pronunciation of the same word is not the same for the upper class and the lower class. Of course, the spelling must be based on the pronunciation of the superior person, so if the inferior person learns to write, it is easy to make spelling mistakes.

Besides, just because the spelling is correct doesn't mean the sentence is correct.

Grammar is the real enemy of students.

Nouns alone have masculine, neutral, feminine, and what singular and plural, past tense, present tense, future tense, and so on, and there are many of them.

If you continue to teach like this, you don't know how much energy you will use.

Anyway, Count Xiao Tang didn't expect them to write poems, and they didn't need to write any eight-strand texts, as long as there was no problem with reading and writing daily.

Besides, Chinese is difficult to learn and easy to master, it is really difficult to learn square characters at the beginning, and it depends on continuous practice, but the rules of Chinese are simple, pork is pig + meat, beef is beef + meat, there is neither singular and plural, nor tense. And generally speaking, if you master 300 Chinese characters, you can speak daily, if you master 1,000 Chinese characters, you will not have any problems with simple reading and writing, and if you master 3,000 Chinese characters, you can go anywhere in the world where Chinese characters are used. It's not like the alphabet, even if it's the same thing in different places, there are different words, and you have to keep making new words, and you can never finish remembering.

Besides, even if Count Tang can teach alphabet, then the advanced version, Latin, which is claimed to be able to communicate with God, is extremely cumbersome, and Count Tang himself can't teach it, so how can he teach it?

Therefore, the little Count Tang decided to teach Chinese.

After the Chinese class, there is the math class.

Mathematics, what is taught is simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, ninety-nine multiplication table, these are enough, because it has been said before, what Earl Xiao Tang needs is not a high-quality and knowledgeable talent, what Count Xiao Tang needs is a loyal and 'certain' ability of managers, and for general managers, it is already great to be able to understand accounts and know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide.

After that, there are political classes, which are rarely held, only one session a week, but one session is a day, usually the day before the Sabbath, on Saturday.

There is only one theme in the politics class, and that is to remember the bittersweet ones. Everyone went to work in the countryside together, and then recalled the miserable life in the past, and then recalled the good life now, and then these students naturally came to a conclusion: their good life was given by Count Xiao Tang, and without Count Xiao Tang, they were not fart, so they could only go back to the kind of life in the past, forever wearing tattered clothes, eating black bread mixed with sawdust and powder, wiping their butts with their hands, and their sons, their grandchildren, their children and grandchildren, their descendants, They will all live this way until the end of the world.

Therefore, the minds of these students will immediately become red and specialized, and every time they take a political class, these students will understand more and more that they have relied on Count Xiao Tang to have their current status, so they will become more and more loyal to Count Xiao Tang, and even prefer to sacrifice their own interests, because they understand that they are nothing without Count Xiao Tang.

These courses are certainly not easy for students, especially since they are all crash courses that last only six months. Count Don did not have that much time to spend with this group of little boys, only a few who were particularly outstanding would be able to stay and continue their studies, and the rest would be released after graduation to take up the position of a squad leader or something like that - this squad leader would not mean that they would command a group of soldiers, but that they would organize a group of peasants, and then teach these peasants what they had learned, such as Chinese, mathematics, etc. - in short, they would be like 'political commissars'.

In six months, it will not be easy to change from an illiterate person to a 'political commissar' who is proficient in languages, has a rough understanding of mathematics, and has a firm mind. But as we said before, these students, although they are still children in the eyes of modern people, have seen the hardships of life, and they understand, and they know, that this is probably the only chance in their lives to change their fate. Therefore, these students are very serious, very serious, as if they are crazy, and they study without sleep.

This is true for these students, and it is also true for this era, there is no third way to triumph or perish in madness.

Ps: I went out for a drink with my friends yesterday, and the update was late, as compensation for the afternoon plus a new chapter.

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