The day before yesterday, Qin Shihuang arranged for people to send a few carts of delicacies from mountains and seas, with ten kilograms of dry sea parameters, and two carts of dried wild deer, pheasant, geese, swan, and rabbit. One of them was even more terrifying. The dried tiger legs, hump, elephant pull, rhino tongue, bear paw, etc. were all parts of the beast army.

Chen Xu was very upset after giving these things. It was okay to say that wild game such as sea cucumbers, hares and pheasants were all eaten, but he had eaten them. Even if he had never eaten them, it was not very expensive in later generations. However, tiger legs, elephant pulls, and bear paws would not be done well, let alone rhino tongue, which had never been heard of. At that time, Chen Xu almost cried with the big dry tongue.

These are precious nationally protected animals, so how can they be eaten?

However, after he asked a little, he dispelled the idea of ​​protecting animals.

Tigers are everywhere in the wilderness. Although elephants are gone, there are still many in Lingnan. Bears are similar to tigers and wolves. As long as they enter the mountains, they can hear their roars day and night. As for rhinos, well, Chen Xu originally thought there was no in China, but the answer made him stunned for a long time. Giant wild beasts like rhinos are not few, just like elephants, and they are even more distributed than elephants. Rhinos exist in the Qinling Mountains and large areas south of the Huai River. Because rhinos horns and ivory are the favorite things of nobles and nobles, these two beasts were also hunted and killed very well. However, because these two beasts are indeed too fierce, they basically need to be encircled to win. Therefore, ordinary hunters dare not provoke them, and it is not easy to kill them. Therefore, if you can get a rhino, you can basically sell them for tens of thousands of dollars. For hunters, it is definitely a huge sum of money.

Rhino horns are precious decorations, and nobles will rush to buy them. A rhino horn cup is worth tens of thousands of yuan.

Meat fat is edible, and skin is also the best material for making armor.

In the Qin Dynasty, ordinary soldiers could only wear the most ordinary mixed leather armor. Those above the lords could wear cowhide armor, officers could wear rhino or rhino cowhide armor, and generals could wear copper armor. However, this kind of copper armor was not full armor, but bronze pieces were hung outside the leather armor.

In addition to horns, skins and fat, the most valuable thing on rhino is its tongue. It is a very expensive and important delicacy that only kings, princes, ministers, and nobles can enjoy. However, according to the simple production method of Daqin, this delicacy is definitely a waste of resources. It is placed in a pot with salt water and some simple spices, and then cut into large pieces and chew it. According to the imperial chef in the mansion, it has a strong taste.

However, for Chen Xu, the taste only occupies a small part of the color, fragrance, taste and shape of the food. Whether a food is delicious or not is the taste. Moreover, for those who are familiar with the names of eight major cuisines in later generations, the original and rude method of boiling with salt water is definitely a pity to the dead Rhino brother, so Chen Xu decided to make this huge tongue into a braised food.

Soak large strips of cold water, wash them, cut them into three inches squares and marinate them with salt for half an hour, put them in a pot and cook them with spices such as green onion, ginger, garlic, mustard, pepper, bay leaf, star anise, herbs and other spices in a pot to cook to bring out the aroma, then heat the Qinghe tea oil, add soybean paste and stir-fry, and pour the boiled water in it, add a little sugar and season it, then add salt and boil it, put the cut strips in and simmer over low heat until you can smell the strong aroma. This time is about two hours, and only one strip of braised water is obviously a waste, so Chen Xu also braised a large piece of pig skin, more than ten chicken feet and chicken wings. Finally, when the pot was boiled, a few eggs and a few dried tofu braised for ten minutes.

When making this dish, there was a strong fragrance floating in the entire Qinghe Marquis Mansion that no one could let go. The outside of the kitchen was filled with people. Whether it was servants, guards or maids, they all stared at the steaming pot in the kitchen. But it was not just the temptation of the people in the Marquis Mansion drooling. Even the street where the Qinghe Marquis Mansion was located could smell a faint fragrance at the intersection of the street hundreds of meters away, which caused countless people to run outside the Qinghe Marquis Mansion to look around, and their eyes passed through the gate of the Marquis Mansion to swallow their saliva.

The family living next door is Neishi Qidang. Although the two families are still fifty or sixty meters away, Qi Neishi, who was reading books at home, resisted for half an hour and then put down his reserve. He swallowed his saliva and looked thick and shameless to visit Qinghe Hou Mansion. After that, when he had eaten the braised slits, chicken feet, and pig skin, he held Chen Xu's hand and shook it for a long time. Finally, he held a braised egg and a piece of dried tofu and went back crying. He originally wanted to eat it, but Chen Xu refused because he continued to let him eat it. The half-day effort was wasted, because Chen Xu also heard that Qi Neishi's good food is very famous throughout Xianyang.

Cut the braised mouth strips into thin slices, along with the pig skin cut into translucent thin strips, and the chicken feet, chicken wings, braised eggs and dried tofu. Each one was made for the imperial chef to send to the palace. Of course, the brine was also provided with the method of placing the brine and making the braised dishes.

Half an hour later, the imperial chef came back happily and said that the emperor praised him hard and gave him a jade bowl. The emperor was very happy to have eaten all the chicken claws and chicken wings alone, and even said it was delicious...

Chen Xu looked at the sky for a long time at that time. He was looking for a star, whether an imperial star was about to transform into a foodie star.

The history of braised cuisine is a long time, and it originated in Shu during the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Because Shu people have a strong taste and like spicy spicy food, they add some spicy seasoning spices such as pepper, ginger, mustard, etc. when cooking vegetables in salt water. Whether it is boiling fish or eggs, they cook meat. So the unique Sichuan braised rice is gradually formed. Shu County is Chengdu, with a flat and prosperous area, and there is almost no war away from the Central Plains. Therefore, the people live a peaceful and leisurely life. In life, the braised rice is gradually developed more colorful. As long as you can eat, you can use it to braised. Therefore, the scraps of various animals after slaughtering are too lazy to eat the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys.

They have gradually made chicken feet, chicken wings and rabbit heads into food. By the Tang and Song dynasties, braised dishes have become a delicacy that has become popular throughout China. And gradually, some Chinese medicine ingredients have been added to the braised ingredients, and the braised dishes have become more and more colorful. Especially after the Ming Dynasty chili was introduced to China, Sichuan people once again raised the braised dishes by one level. The techniques of fumigation, steamed braised, soup braised, salt braised, etc. have also become more and more inherited, forming many famous braised recipes, including Liu duck, Liao ribs, Shuangliu rabbit head, Yibin pig trotters, Zhang Fei beef, etc., which have become famous local specialty delicacies in Shuzhong.

Chen Xu spent four years in Chengdu. Not only did he like the leisure in Chengdu, but he also liked various delicious snacks in Chengdu. On weekdays, three or five people gathered on the roadside to eat barbecue and braised food, drink some beer, and see the night view of Jinjiang. This is also the most comfortable time in life.

Because of its simple production and strong taste, braised food has become the best way for Chen Xu to deal with these untreated beast parts.

According to the habit of Sichuan people, the water and soil are flying in the sky and running on the ground. Everything in the world can be braised. If it cannot be braised, it is not a qualified Sichuan chef. As for whether the braised food is delicious, it depends on the ability of different people.

Chen Xu then used such a delicious and half-baked braised art to conquer Qin Shihuang's stomach, and at the same time conquered the entire Qinghe Marquis's house, and even the stomachs of civil and military officials in Xianyang. Therefore, when he went to court the next day after the braised rhino tongue, more than a dozen civil and military ministers surrounded him outside the court hall to ask about the cooking method. So Chen Xu happily told them that in half a month, when the Qinghe Hotel in Xianyang opened, all colleagues who liked delicious food would be invited to taste countless delicious foods. All interested people were excited and nodded and agreed to come and try it.

But what made Chen Xu depressed was that the emperor had only eaten a few carts of ingredients. Before he could even start making tiger legs, elephant pull, bear paws, and hump, Princess Huayu actually sent a lot of ingredients. What exactly does this mean? I am the president of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Qin Dynasty and the Marquis of Qinghe. I want to do great things to help the emperor unify the earth. How can I do such a cook all day long?

You can eat by yourself, but you have to spend your time studying how to cook for others every day. This kind of life is too depressing.

Moreover, when Princess Huayu came, Chen Xu naturally knew what she was thinking.

Although the emperor pretended to be sick and refused to give up the marriage last time, and the emperor never mentioned this matter again, the fifth princess seemed to really fall in love with her. Last time she played mahjong and said she wanted to come to play, but she didn't expect that she would actually come in the past few days. The shyness and expectation, and the cleverness and stupidity made Chen Xu unable to refuse sternly, especially in front of the emperor. As the saying goes, there are only three things, but for the emperor, you can only do something like not giving face at most once.

The carriage was bumpy all the way, and it appeared in Qinghe Hou Mansion more than ten minutes later. When you entered the door, you saw three carriages parked in the middle of the yard, and dozens of imperial guards and palace eunuchs stood around. One of them was covered with black cloth, the other was Princess Huayu's carriage, and there was a lot of ingredients piled up on the carriage. The most conspicuous one was a basket of fresh chicken claws and chicken wings.

At this time, Princess Huayu had already got out of the car and was holding her skirt and looking at the gate of the Hou Mansion. Her beautiful and delicate cheeks looked a little anxious.

"Hurry up, the Marquis is back home!" With a few shouts at the door, the group of housekeepers and servants standing respectfully next to the Marquis' Mansion were all moved, some were ready to greet, and some were preparing to prepare hot water and clothes for washing.
Chapter completed!