The road to national restoration that began at the end of the century - #356 - Chapter 357: His ancestor is not named Dai
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When the time goes back to forty years after the establishment of the Krorod Empire, the Krorod Empire at that time was already in the period when the second generation emperor ruled as a virtual king. The first emperor must not have passed away at this time, he was only 40 years old.
He can completely continue to assume the responsibilities of an emperor.
However, the Emperor, as everyone calls him, not only stays away from military and political affairs (in fact, there is no place where he can speak. The puppet emperor’s biggest function is to serve as a high-end vase – a beautiful decoration), he also started to stay in a place not far from the palace. Mustard greens were planted in the fields. Therefore, from this time on, the Dai family began to sell mustard greens and a yellow mustard sauce that was said to have been learned from the Negan Empire and improved according to their own taste.
Let’s not talk about mustard greens. This vegetable is still a common vegetable for many people in the Crurod Empire. Its rhizomes are also used to make special pickles or feed according to the people’s preferences. But yellow mustard, this is the first seasoning in the Crurod Empire that is made through plant seed processing, specially ground, and the first spicy seasoning.
Compared with the chili peppers that later came across the ocean through international trade, the mustard sauce from the royal family has made today’s people have a certain love-hate relationship. Especially until now, the cold dishes and even breads of the Crurod Empire are simply a disgrace to every domestic diner if they do not have yellow mustard.
As for the spicy taste, sorry, Zelen can only say that people’s tastes are becoming more and more novel every day. Even now, Zelen knows that Natalie and Nathalie like horseradish, which is spicier. It is said that it is originally a farm weed and does not even bother pests, but it should be used as a stronger yellow mustard ingredient.
He couldn’t stand this.
Just yellow mustard, which is usually made from ground mustard seeds. Don’t put other weird things in it. Eating is not about seeking sin, even if it is to satisfy one’s own curiosity.
At most, he can only accept ordinary yellow mustard sauce with some ginger powder, garlic and the like added to it.
Of course, in the final analysis, no one in the Crurod Empire, not even the upper-class noble officials, would think that yellow mustard is a unique ingredient of the palace.
If nothing else, mustard greens are one of the cheap vegetables on the streets in the Crurod Empire, and they are really not difficult to grow.
Only how to use mustard seeds is the biggest watershed.
At that time, His Majesty the First Emperor had a rather heavy taste, and for a long time he was full of complaints about the dishes in the palace life that lacked salt and oil.
As a result, after he voluntarily abdicated the throne in favor of his eldest son, he devoted his whole mind to how to make yellow mustard sauce. Although the matter was not very important and worthy of being written down in history books, Zelen felt that his ancestors were role models worth remembering.
Especially at that time, although the Krolod Empire had temporarily recovered from the pursuit of the human forces in the north, the Krolod Empire, which was established for a short time, has been fighting against the cannibals that have not been completely wiped out today. Even due to the geographical reasons of the archipelago, the Krurod Empire even has very precious land resources, and has to make repeated considerations on land.
During this period, in addition to dividing provinces, districts and even urban areas according to local conditions, the Krurod Empire also had to develop agriculture as a top priority for the country.
As a result, everyone’s opinions at the time were very simple.
What is easy to grow, what is harvestable, and what is easy to take care of. Therefore, the Rimai people, as an intelligent race who originally relied on eating bread made from wheat to satisfy their hunger, were transformed by the geographical environment into an intelligent race eating rice.
At the same time, it was at that time that the Krorod Empire and the Negan Empire officially came into contact. As one of the cheap commodities, mustard greens and the grinding of mustard seeds to make sauce naturally took root in the Crurod Empire.
That’s right.
Eating mustard itself is actually one of the eating behaviors from the Negan Empire. However, Negan Empire’s yellow mustard sauce is not very flavorful and pursues a fragrant taste too much. Therefore, the Cruelder Empire invented its own yellow mustard sauce, and then made its own special yellow mustard sauce a common condiment for the people.
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However, compared to the yellow mustard sauce invented by His Majesty the first emperor of the Crurod Empire, the pig-headed emperor of the Akitsu Empire is the type who only opens his mouth when he reaches for his clothes. Even though the soldiers below were angry because they had no rice to eat, they launched “military remonstrance” to “clear the emperor’s side”. As a result, their emperor, in order to show his noble status, had to ask his officials to prepare a green wasabi paste as a royal tribute.
Wasabi was certainly not a common fruit and vegetable in the Akitsu Empire. And this thing needs to use shark skin to make sauce. Yes, shark skin is used for grinding tools.
It has to be said that His Majesty the Emperor of the Akitsu Empire really enjoys it, and no wonder he is often tricked by the soldiers below to overpower his superiors, and uses force to tell His Majesty the Emperor, who lives a luxurious life, that it is time to control his words and deeds.
In this regard, Zelen can only say that His Majesty the Emperor is not a being who has to intervene in everything and has to intervene in everything himself. What’s more, His Majesty, the Emperor of the Crurod Empire, had little power in the first place.
It is better to make more money with mustard sauce than to do nothing and become a decoration. Moreover, the emperor of the Krurod Empire does not violate the laws of the Krurod Empire if he wants to do his own thing. It is just that there are factions in the Krurod Empire that need the emperor to mediate.
Even if everyone can guess, mediating the conflicts between the parties is a compromise.
Therefore, the early emperors of the Krurod Empire basically chose to abdicate when their eldest son was about 20 years old and they had many grandchildren. Then they continued to sell mustard sauce or engage in some very ordinary small businesses.
For example, the simple pickled sauerkraut, the reason why the people of the Krurod Empire later invented the sauerkraut soup and stewed meat slices creatively, is that the appearance of sauerkraut and its necessary food for the sailors of the Krurod Empire started.
In any case, on a long voyage, if the food carried cannot be stored for a long time and is not processed to prevent it from rotting, then the Krurod Empire will never be able to give birth to the shipping industry. As for the race that can come up with fermented fish to reduce salt consumption, in Zelun’s eyes, they are all abnormal things.
Even though magic and things called refrigerators appeared later, bacon and pickled cabbage did not bid farewell to the sailors’ menu. Even though the current navy officers and soldiers don’t want these two things anymore, they don’t even want them to exist. However, the lessons left by history always have their reasons for existence.
What’s more, bacon and pickled cabbage are the only two things that can absolutely guarantee everyone’s survival at sea.
Zelun can only say that the initial development of the Dai family was very humble, so humble that it was originally just a mascot, pretending to be noble, and then looking for various opportunities to avoid becoming a member of the royal family. It was an accident that the royal family could develop a tyrant like his grandfather.
As everyone guessed, the royal family is not a free place. Especially the royal family of the Krurod Empire was originally just a puppet pulled out by a group of civil officials and generals and forced onto the throne.
Therefore, the royal family has so many rules that Zelen has to marry more wives to raise the number of males in the royal family. Therefore, including Paula, they will not take any protective measures. As long as there is a new life, they will give birth to the children one by one. Therefore, Paula really doesn’t mind sleeping with him every night.
Otherwise, the royal family of the Krurod Empire…
Let’s put it this way.
In fact, Zelen knows very well that the Dai family was originally a royal family that was pulled out. In other words, the ministers below can also pick someone to be the emperor at will, so as to change the dynasty. What’s more, what surname…
After all, Zelen himself knows that his ancestors are not surnamed Dai.