That's right, the new meal brought by Liu Zhenhua's upgrade this time did not change the prestige meal as a whole, but there was an extra tea egg.

The raw material of tea eggs is eggs, you know, in the early days of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the pork was about fifteen to twenty wen per catty,

As for eggs, goose eggs cost seven cents, duck eggs cost about three cents, and eggs are about the same price.

An egg is three and five, about fifty grams, and a pound in the Ming Dynasty is almost 600 grams, according to a pound of ten eggs, the price of a pound of eggs is thirty-five Wen, far more than pork.

Of course, the actual price of these things, in the Ming Dynasty, which was dominated by self-sufficiency, far exceeded the historical record, and it can basically be described as having a price but no market.

What's more, Liu Zhenhua is in his hands tea eggs, made of tea, salt, and some large ingredients, although it is said that it is not bad with ordinary eggs in terms of nutritional content, but the value is much worse, for example, Qingshui cabbage is very cheap in ordinary homes, and it is slightly processed in a five-star hotel, and the value will increase exponentially.

In the Ming Dynasty, tea eggs did not appear, and the first time this thing appeared was in the Qing Dynasty in a book called "Suiyuan Food List" written by an intellectual named Yuan Mei, "100 eggs, one or two salt, coarse tea leaves, two incense sticks for the degree." For example, fifty eggs, only use five coins of salt, add or subtract according to the number. Can be used as a snack. "It's normal that these people don't know each other.

Knowing that it was roughly the eggs had shocked them.

"Yesterday, the deity said that the heavenly soldiers' meals changed and the meals increased, and this increased thing was the thing in the hands of the deity, called tea eggs."

Liu Zhenhua said.

"Report!"

Ren Hongli suddenly roared.

The onlookers of the civil official team, Ren Fanyi couldn't help but turn black when he saw Ren Hongli, "This kid..."

"Dad, Manulife is estimated to ask what this thing is, and the King of the Stove is estimated to have to explain what this tea egg is, Manulife is a dazzle."

Ren Zhuo saw it more clearly.

"You can see it clearly," Ren Fanyi looked at his son, looking at Ren Hongli, and was quite satisfied in his heart, this is no more useful than his stubborn imperial examination.

"Speak."

Liu Zhenhua smiled, these two brothers, there is always someone who can stand up and be a showman.

"Stove King, what are tea eggs?"

Sure enough, Ren Hongli couldn't help but ask this question, he had eaten eggs once since he was a child, and he had never heard of tea eggs, could it be that tea became eggs.

"Hehe, that's a good question, this tea egg is made of eggs, spices, salt, tea, rock sugar, soy sauce, etc., so it is called tea eggs, this is the way to eat in the sky, and his emperor has no way to eat it."

Liu Zhenhua said with a smile.

"Shhh

Everyone present looked like they had seen a ghost, they heard it right, what was it made of.

Tea? Salt? Egg? Rock candy? Spices? Soy sauce?

This and this, one is more bluffing than the other, these things are used as marinade, and the tea eggs made of the marinade, what the king of the stove said is really right, the emperor probably didn't expect that eggs could be eaten like this.

"Hehe, this tea egg will be the daily meal of the heavenly soldiers in the future, three meals a day, white porridge and mustard tea eggs, in order to treat my heavenly soldiers."

Liu Zhenhua said softly, "In addition... Although the food eaten by the soldiers of the heavenly soldiers has become more and more rare, the promotion of the militia to the heavenly soldiers is still a war achievement! Kill three! ”

There is no price increase for the increase.

"Stove King Wise!"

The heavenly soldiers and the militia shouted, all with fanatical colors, and when they were finished, they all knelt on the ground, put down their blades, and threw their bodies to the ground, and their faces were close to the ground, or with fanatical colors, or with bitter tears, dust, snot, and tears, and they all shouted:

"Long live the Stove King, long live, long live!"

"Long live the Stove King, long live, long live!"

The soldiers shouted over and over again.

Different from the painted cake, Liu Zhenhua sent the cake to the heavenly soldiers, so that they could be grateful to Dade, and Liu Zhenhua put the real cake in the place where the militiamen could reach it, so that the militiamen would envy the heavenly soldiers, but they would not be red-eyed, they would only be more courageous to kill the enemy for Liu Zhenhua.

In Liu Zhenhua's place, the heavenly soldiers can eat white porridge, mustard, tea and eggs, and the militiamen at least have noodles and wheat porridge.

In the outside world, the famine is becoming more and more serious and widespread.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Xiaoice River period, the temperature dropped by one degree, you must know that this is the average temperature, in the local that is an absolute disaster, although the famine has not yet swept the country, but Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and other places, the spring river plumbing duck prophet, once there is a drought, the people in these places are almost always the first to suffer.

The people eat first the fluffy grass, and then the bark, the grass roots, like locusts, after stripping everything away, it is 'bluestone, Guanyin soil,' some stones and soil with a salty smell, ground into powder, eat, very full, but drink to quench thirst, within three days of stomach and death.

What's even more terrifying is that some children or people walking alone, the old and weak, women, will soon disappear, and then there will be a group of more people.

There is always a record in historical materials that somewhere, a catastrophe, cannibalism.

Some contemporary officials love the people, but they want to save the people but are powerless, and they can't bear this tragic situation and commit suicide directly," Yancheng instructor Wang Mingzuozhi hanged himself in the official office. ”

There are few numbers, but it depicts a picture of purgatory on earth.

...

Yan'an Mansion came to a heavyweight guest, Ma Maocai.

Although the prefect of Yan'an did not have the ability to govern the troubled people, he was well-informed, and he did not set up a banquet to entertain Ma Maocai, but invited Ma Maocai to sit at home and prepare porridge and pickles to entertain Ma Maocai.

Because he knew that Ma Mao was sent by the emperor to Shaanxi to investigate the disaster, and he even knew that this Ma Mao was not good at oil and salt, and dared to give direct advice, so he did not dare to raise the heart of bribery, and he could not bribe, so he could only come to such a bitter plan, you see that a prefect of my country is poor to such a situation, and I can't blame me for being powerless to deal with the victims.

Facts have proved that his preparation is still useful, Ma Mao also shook his head after listening to his complaints, he saw too many hungry people along the way, relying on the power of Yan'an Mansion alone, it was just a drop in the bucket.

After saying goodbye to the prefect of Yan'an, Ma Mao continued to observe the people's situation in Shaanxi, he went from south to north, and his entourage pretended to be the victims, all the way, all the way, all the way, and planned to investigate the situation of the victims in Shaanxi and the situation of the rebel army at the end of the year, and then report what he saw and heard to the imperial court after the year.

I hope that Emperor Chongzhen can allocate some relief funds to save the situation in northern Shaanxi, after all, there is one of the nine important towns here, and the situation of the rebel army is so serious, if it is not suppressed as soon as possible, I am afraid it will affect Shanxi and other places.