Chapter 268: Slaughtering a Cultivated Cow?

"My father doesn't want to eat that beef, probably because he thinks that ploughing cattle is too important in my Daqin, and I still need ploughing cattle in Daqin to use ploughing fields, so I don't want to kill ploughing cattle to eat, what Erchen said, right?"

"You kid, you can guess what I'm thinking!"

Hearing this, Ying Zheng couldn't help laughing a few times and expressed his agreement.

In this era of extreme backwardness in terms of productivity, the role of ploughing cattle is of course quite large.

In this era, there are no large-scale industrial machinery in later generations.

The absence of such industrial machinery means a serious consequence, and this consequence is that the absence of machinery will lead to a large dependence on animal power.

And among the strength of livestock, although the ox is not fast, it is not as fast as the horse.

However, the cow also has an advantage, first of all, his stamina is strong enough, several times that of a horse.

Secondly, it is hard-working.

If you have a horse, raising a horse is not just about feeding the horses with forage.

If you are only fed forage, how can a horse grow well?

Therefore, if you want to raise horses, you must feed them some more grain.

And this cost is naturally extremely high.

And if you raise a year, you don't need to think about it so much.

If you want to raise cattle, feed some forage and you'll be fine.

Therefore, in the current era, cattle are the most important production tools.

In fact, in the more than 2,000 years of feudal dynasties in China, from beginning to end, it has always attached great importance to cultivating cattle.

That's a very serious crime.

The reason is simple.

In an era of backward productivity.

When a person is plowing, the strength he can exert is much worse than that of plowing an ox.

However, at the moment, in the eyes of Ying Changsheng, all this is not a problem, and he only heard Win Changsheng say with a smile to Ying Zheng in front of him.

"Father, now that I'm in Daqin, where is there still a shortage of cattle?"

"Now that I'm Daqin, I have conquered the grassland, and I can graze with the Xiongnu grassland, and now, on the grassland, there are herds of cattle and sheep, and horses are herds, and I can't use up much, so why do I need to be like before, stick to the rules, and prohibit the slaughter of cultivated cattle?"

"In my opinion, I, Daqin, should eat more beef!"

"Moreover, in the eyes of Erchen, in the future, I should also allow the people to slaughter cultivated cattle, because now, there is no shortage of cattle to eat, let alone add such a restriction?"

"This ......"

After hearing what Ying Changsheng said, Ying Zheng couldn't help but bow slightly.

Indeed, what Ying Changsheng said is very reasonable.

At present, Daqin has long been no shortage of cultivating cattle, and there is no shortage of cultivating cattle, so naturally, it is possible to slaughter cultivating cattle to eat.

Thinking of this, Ying Zheng slapped his thigh, and then, towards Ying Changshengdao.

"Then do what your kid said, kill a cow and get some beef to eat!"

Saying that, Ying Zheng looked at Ying Changsheng and continued to ask.

"It's just, I don't know how you kid is going to cook, what about this beef?"

"Well, father, wait a minute, it'll be clear!"

Ying Changsheng said with a smile.

Immediately, he retreated, planning to give Brother Zheng, ready to get some beef to eat.

A cow that was transported from the grassland to Xianyang was led into the imperial dining room.

At this moment, I only saw Ying Changsheng, looking at the cow in front of him, and asked the cooks on the side.

"Can you kill cows?"

"Of course, it will!"

Hearing this, the cooks on the side opened their mouths and said without thinking.

They do kill cattle.

During the Qin Dynasty, although the imperial court forbade the slaughter of cultivated cattle, this prohibition did not actually prohibit the eating of beef.

After all, although cattle are large production animals, the problem is that they can grow old, get sick, and also die.

A cow, once old, no longer has the strength to work, once he is sick, he can't be cured, or in other words, he dies directly.

This cow can't just go to waste, right?

After all, in this era of extremely backward productivity, no one is willing to give up this ploughing cow weighing hundreds of catties, this rare protein, and rare meat.

In such a situation.

This slaughter of ploughing cattle is naturally very common.

As the imperial chefs in Xianyang Palace, they are naturally proficient in this craft.

I saw that a few cooks stood up and volunteered to say to Ying Changsheng.

"Nineteen sons, don't worry, this cow will be given to us, and we will slaughter it for you in a while, but what do you want this beef for?"

"Well, make a steak!"

Ying Changsheng said with a smile, and then, as if he thought of something, he instructed the eunuch on the side and said.

"Go and prepare another iron plate for this son immediately, then brush it and make a charcoal fire under it, understand?"

"The little one understands!"

The latter hurriedly bowed his head, not daring to slack off in the slightest, and then hurriedly retreated, and went to prepare according to Ying Changsheng's instructions.

In a short time, the beef is ready.

Ying Changsheng looked at the beef in front of him and nodded with satisfaction.

At the same time, the iron plate was also prepared, and at this moment, a scorching charcoal fire was also lit, all of which made Ying Changsheng very satisfied, he said with a smile.

"Very good, very good, with these things, you can successfully make beef and eat it!"

As he spoke, Ying Changsheng immediately smeared some oil on the iron plate, the oil is lard, in fact, butter should be used for frying steaks.

But the problem is that it's the Qin Dynasty at the moment.

Moreover, butter is not very difficult to make, though.

But for a while, where will Ying Changsheng get butter?

Therefore, you can only use one use of lard.

But fortunately, although lard has been criticized a lot in later generations, it is considered a not very healthy oil, but in fact, lard is actually a very suitable oil, not to mention the taste.

Moreover, easy to obtain.

It can be said to be a must-have for home cooking.

I saw that after the lard was hot, Ying Changsheng picked up a piece without thinking, cut it, and added it to the marinade, and then put it in the ice cubes, refrigerated and marinated the steak, and then put it on the iron plate in front of him.

Win the longevity fried thing, and naturally it will not be fried half-cooked - no matter how good the taste is when you eat it.

No matter how delicious it is, it tastes good.

But still, it can't change the fact that it is susceptible to parasites.

The steaks of later generations, after their own selection, can probably be eliminated, this problem.

But it can be the Qin Dynasty at the moment, so Ying Changsheng really didn't dare to take such a risk, so he simply fried it and cooked it all over!

Win Changsheng and Brother Zheng, they are both people with a lot of belly.

One steak for one meal, but it is definitely not enough, so Win Changsheng is not ambiguous, and directly fried more than a dozen steaks in one go, and then gave up.