About 10 days later, the messenger sent by Ying Zheng arrived in Xianyang and gathered me, Feng Quji, and Zhou Zhi to read out Ying Zheng's reply at the Prime Minister's Mansion.

First of all, the edict to me and Feng Quji, which was relatively simple, to the effect that the affairs of the Xiongnu could be handled, and we should step up preparations for war or something.

There are only two sentences for the evaluation of the Hun strategy and the pulley, the horse chopping knife, the saddle, and the horseshoe that I proposed, the former is "ill-thought", and the latter cannot be called a sentence, just one word: "good".

This made me speechless, don't boast if you can't praise you, there's no need, I don't want you to praise me to take out these things......

Then he called Zhou Zhi in and read out another edict. This edict is to the effect that the winter solstice has arrived, and it is necessary to pay close attention to the construction of water conservancy, do a good job in the leveling of farmland, and so on. Around the winter solstice is a good time to build water conservancy, engage in farmland infrastructure construction, and accumulate fertilizer to make fertilizer, so there has been this habit since the Qin Dynasty. Zhou Zhi is the Taicang Order, and now Shi Geyue is not in Xianyang, so he can only hand it over to him for specific implementation.

After the edict was read, a few of us began to make specific arrangements. Although there are not many things, Daqin is too big, involving so many water conservancy and water systems, as well as so many farmlands with different natural conditions, it took a whole day of hard work to finish it, and handed it over to Zhou Zhi to distribute to various counties. After saying goodbye, I also returned to the Imperial Palace.

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Think about the day after tomorrow is the winter solstice, in the Qin Dynasty winter solstice is already a very important solar term, the Qin Dynasty used to have the habit of winter solstice sacrifices, but after Ying Zheng set October as the first year of the year, the sacrifice of the court was moved to October, but most people are still used to the winter solstice day of the sacrificial ceremony.

I am a northerner, and I have the habit of eating dumplings on the winter solstice, but in the Qin Dynasty, let alone dumplings, there are no steamed buns, everything is dead, fortunately, after eating, it is more anti-hunger, and two meals a day can be accepted. I've been here for almost two months, and I've been cooking every day, and now it's evening again, and the more I think about it, the more I drool.

"Lan'er." I'm going to try the Baotun dumplings.

Lan'er responded: "Your Highness, please command." ”

"Let me ask you, is there fine flour in the palace?" You have to ask the main material first, although the flour can be ground with wheat, but the tool efficiency is low at this time, many places are still using pestle mortars, pounding like pounding garlic, if there is a grinding plate, it is better, but the flour is still relatively coarse.

"Your Highness, yes, there is a grinding disc in our palace, but I don't know how fine the flour you want?" Lan'er replied.

"The finer the better, is it difficult to have three catties of flour?" I asked.

Lan'er replied: "It should be no problem, Your Highness, the grinding disc in the palace is rarely used, and it will only be used when making some dough, so I will go and inform the family order Li Shan." ”

"Wait a minute, I'll write a few things, and you can see if there are any."

Then I wrote down the mutton, soy sauce (soy sauce), vinegar, green onion, ginger, radish, etc., and handed them to Lan'er.

After Lan'er took it, she went out to prepare, I suddenly thought that it was already dark, I was afraid that I would have to make people work overtime, I hated overtime the most, and hurriedly asked people to tell Lan'er to prepare again tomorrow.

The next day, when I was reading the report sent by Feng Quji, Lishan, and Afang, Lan'er walked in with a cloth bag and replied: "Your Highness, the flour has been ground, can you see it?" ”

I got up and opened the bag to take a look, and although it couldn't be as fine as the flour milled by the machine, there was nothing wrong with making dumplings. Then he instructed Lan'er to make old noodles with about a pound of flour, and explained in detail the production process, the ratio of noodles and water, and the water filtered by plant ash, and stood still for 5 hours after reconciliation......

Lan'er was stunned when she heard this, and couldn't help asking, "Your Highness, aren't you here to eat?" ”

I wondered, "Why don't you eat flour for?" ”

"But can you still eat flour with ash, and even though it's winter, it will be sour if you put it for 5 hours."

I smiled and said, "If you add grass and wood ash water, it won't be sour, forget it, I'll write it to you, you just do it." ”

Lan'er was still skeptical of the process I wrote, but she didn't say anything more and went out to prepare.

The next day, after reading the report as usual, I went to the house to prepare dumplings.

In the middle, I also met the prince Qinggong Luzi, this guy heard that I was going to the kitchen to cook, and quickly ran over to stop me, what kind of gentleman is cooking, and what is the gift of a saint, I talked for a long time before he agreed to let me in, and only this time.

There's no way, who makes the family the big housekeeper of the palace, he is the biggest in this courtyard except me, and this person is an old pedant, deeply influenced by the Confucian set of rules, it is not easy to convince him.

After entering the house, I asked people to take out a little of the fermented old noodles, keep some of the remaining flour for later use, and mix the rest into noodles, and hold them in a clay pot and put them on the table. He also instructed everyone to treat the mutton with green onion and ginger first, remove the smell, and then cut the auxiliary materials for later use.

But when I saw the green onions, I was still a little speechless, poor a few single seedlings, yellow only green onions white. According to Lan'er, this is still the winter solstice, and a few days later, these single seedlings will be gone, and if you want to eat again, you will have to eat it next spring. There is no way, there are no greenhouses or cold storage in this era, and the role of the cellar is limited.

After working for most of the day, the dough is almost ready, and the filling is ready. In the Qin Dynasty, there was no pepper, thirteen spices or anything, there was salt and soy sauce, and with some sesame oil, it still smelled very good.

Then I taught everyone how to roll the skin and how to make dumplings, and everyone was in a hurry, but fortunately it was not very complicated, and everyone learned it relatively quickly.

Seeing that Lan'er's speed of making dumplings is comparable to mine, I smiled and said, "Lan'er's dumplings are good, I'll let you eat a few more." ”

Lan'er's face turned red: "Your Highness Xie praised it, I didn't expect this dumpling to smell so fragrant before it was cooked." ”

"That's, it doesn't matter who came up with it." I said triumphantly. But in my heart, I thought, 'Lan'er, this little girl is very white, and her face is blushing and she is strangely good-looking......

Everyone smiled and complimented, "Your Highness is wise." ”

The snow outside the house was getting thicker and thicker, and seeing the smiles on the faces of the people in the house reflected brightly in the light of the fire in the furnace, I suddenly felt that this kind of life was not bad, but I didn't have my family by my side.

Thinking of this, I stood up and said, "Everyone pack first, I'll go out and come back in a while." ”

After washing my hands and tidying up my clothes, I took Meng He out of the Tai Womb and walked to the Wan'an Palace in the west.

It's been two months, since I was able to get out of bed and walk, Fusu's mother has never been to the palace, and it must have something to do with Yingzheng, so I think I should go and see it.