Chapter 17: Smashing pots and selling iron
Menes rummaged through the cabinets at home, feeling like she was raiding her home.
All bronze or iron utensils, tools, statues, etc., that can be taken out of the house are collected and piled up in the hall.
The servants were busy carrying all kinds of metal objects.
Ipuya's face was full of sorrow, and his bronze basin was piled on the ground.
Jett was dissatisfied to see that the statues and relics of the temple were also placed on the ground haphazardly.
Only Nana wholeheartedly supports Menes, and I am willing to do whatever you want.
"Brother, what are you doing here? It's never been peaceful, how did my washbasin offend you, and what do you want him to do with my bronze mirror?"
"Hey...... It's nothing, brother, just look at how much metal property our family has, you ...... The bronze shovel was brought over and stacked here!" Menes commanded on the spot.
Jett had a gloomy face and looked at Menes coldly, you can do whatever you want, but you can't touch the things in the temple, this is blasphemous, it will anger the gods!
"Jett, come here, I'll discuss something with you!" Menis said with a smile and a wave of his hand.
Jett walked over slowly and said, "My lord, I know what you are going to do, but the temple relics must not be moved, it will annoy the gods!"
Menes rejected Jett before he could say anything.
"Don't refuse so quickly, let's discuss, you see, these things can only be seen in the temple and cannot be used, so many years of worshipping and praying every day, and we have not seen the gods give us benefits, they are all covered with dust on them, and they have to be scrubbed every day, you see how a pity this is rusty." Menes said, holding the idol.
"I don't think it's better to use it like this, if you don't borrow it from me, I'll pay it back to you in the future, okay?" Menes cheekily forced it to borrow.
"My lord, this is not good, I know that you have to use these bronzes to make weapons, and I also understand that our army is too poorly equipped and needs to be upgraded, but we can't touch the temple relics!" Jett persuaded bitterly.
Menes smashed the pot and sold iron and dismantled the belongings today, just to raise some metal to improve the weapons of the army, the weapons of the army are too poor.
The Holy Cat State is located between the first and second waterfalls, which completely cut off the large-scale shipping trade between the north and the south, and the import of bronze or iron tools has to be transported by land, so that metal weapons are expensive and scarce, and there is no iron ore in their own territory, so in the short term, Menes has to fight the idea of household daily necessities.
"The weapons of the army must be improved, and in the current situation, if Ankotifi fights, we will be vulnerable at all, don't you want me to die again?" Menes asked.
"My lord, Ankotifi will definitely not attack us in the short term, after all, we have not started a war, and the last incident was only an assassination, and open hostilities will not happen for the time being, we must be patient, and when the harvest season is over, we will go to White City or Lily Harbor, where we can buy bronze or iron, and we can buy weapons directly. Jett still disagreed with Menes' idea.
"No, I can't wait, danger is imminent, and we must be ready right away. ”
"Why don't you look at this? Even if I borrow these holy relics, I will write you an IOU, just like a bond, how about I give you 30% of the interest, and at most I will pay you back with interest for a year!"
"It's not about money, you're blaspheming, do you know how powerful the gods are?
"You're not right, you'd rather watch the people of the Holy Cat State live in misery than offend the gods? You don't care about the life and death of the people, regardless of the future of our Holy Cat State, and spoil your gods, or you live well with the gods in the future and let the gods cook for you!" Menes felt that Jett was making a bit of a fuss about the treatment of the gods.
Menes had the brain and mind of a modern atheist, and although he came here to see the magic of magic, in Menes' eyes, the gods were still ethereal.
Jett refuses to live or die, the two are like a little couple quarreling, you say a word to me, and the talk is endless.
"Jet, I'm the lord of the Holy Cat State, I'm in charge, you have to listen to me!"
"I am the high priest of the temple, and I have the final say in everything that matters about the temple!"
"The temple is also the temple of the Holy Cat State, I am the lord!"
"You're a Acting Lord!"
Damn, there are retainers who talk to the lord like this! Menis was angry, and after taking a few deep breaths, he said, "Jet, you just have a good word with the fairy master, I just borrowed it, I made a note on the spot, and I will exchange them for a golden body in a year!"
"Absolutely impossible, these are holy things, not money!" Jett still refused!
"Alright, alright, let's eat!" Menis roared!
When angry, food calms people's emotions, Ipuya and Nana are already hungry, and Menes and Jett quarrel and they don't dare to eat.
Since Menes came to power, many of the family's habits have changed.
Menes began to use two small wooden sticks to hold the food in her mouth when she ate, and no longer grabbed it with her hands, saying that it was unhygienic?
Not only did he use it himself, but he also asked everyone to eat with wooden sticks, saying that wooden sticks are called chopsticks, and chopsticks are so difficult to use, where did Menes learn them?
And Menes asked Nana to dine with her family......? Domestic servants and slaves can't dine with their masters, this is the rule, Menes spoils Nana too much, Jet is from a noble background, this kind of thing is very important, but Menes insists on this, Ipuya doesn't have much opinion, she is young This kind of master-servant hierarchy concept is not strong, after all, Ipuya and Nana are also good sisters who have played since childhood!
And this cooking method I learned from there, put the pot on the table, and put a small stove underneath, saying that it is called hot pot?
Beef, mutton, goose intestines, radish, vegetables, lotus root, etc., all put in the pot to brush and eat, spicy hot pot to eat sweaty, eat this is to train everyone to use chopsticks, without chopsticks hands can not catch!
But the taste is really good, Ipuya still likes it, Jett can't accept it at once, but Spicy is liked!
Speaking of spicy, in the memory of Menes' previous life, these two things are associated with the Sichuan people, Sichuan pepper has long been in China, and pepper comes from the Americas, but in this strange world, these are all there!
As for how it came about, don't think much about it, eating is the key.
Ipuya always felt that something was wrong, his brother was completely different from before, where did he learn these things?
Jett was also puzzled, yesterday he was still teaching himself and a little boy, new numbers, and a multiplication formula table, how hard it was to memorize, but Jett had to admit that this way of counting was very convenient, and the math was very easy, was this Menes really possessed by the gods?
Or if you don't listen to him, lend him the holy weapon for the time being? Maybe he's right, after all, it's also urgent to strengthen the armament!
Jett was still hesitating, and after eating, he found that the holy weapon in the hall was long gone, and Menes took advantage of the meal time to let people transport it away and break it off, and now the wood is in a boat and cannot be changed!