Li Chao told Cheng Qian and the bearded guest that they would return to Xiangyang the next day.
"I don't want to go back, it's good here."
Cheng Qian was not interested in returning to Xiangyang at all.
The bearded guest also asked, "Aren't we going to build a ship here?"
"Back to Xiangyang, we can also build ships, we can build lumber mills and shipyards there."
The two saw Li Chao's resolute attitude, and they also understood that he had made up his mind, although they didn't know why Li Chao suddenly decided to return to the court, but the two finally listened to Li Chao's arrangement.
Two hundred miles away, it is not difficult to go back, made a sedan chair, let people carry the Chengqian.
The sedan chair is better than a horse-drawn carriage and does not bump.
Put a stove in the sedan chair, and you are not afraid of the cold.
The most reluctant to go back to Xiangyang is Pingyang, in Wudang Mountain, every day with Li Chao and the two of them live a two-person world, watch the sunrise together in the morning, watch the sunset together in the evening, and occasionally go hunting and fishing.
She even worked with Li Chao to organize a piece of land and grow some vegetables.
It's a bit of a male farmer and a female weaver, and the two of them lie on the kang together at night, chatting casually, snuggling together, how warm and happy.
Now all of a sudden, I want to go back, and I have to go back to reality.
She lost her temper and refused to leave, and Li Chao had to comfort her with kind words.
"You have me in your heart, I have you in my heart, it's the same everywhere you go."
No matter what, as soon as the morning dawned, Li Chao still took everyone down the mountain together.
The journey was very slow, only forty miles a day.
From Wudang Mountain to Xiangyang, it took five days.
Empress Changsun came to greet her in person, and she couldn't help but cry when she saw the crown prince.
For Li Chao, Empress Changsun has a much kinder attitude, and after the initial bit of anger goes down, she no longer blames Li Chao for anger, on the contrary, Empress Changsun is still very grateful to Li Chao.
If Li Chao hadn't found a bearded guest, Cheng Qian might have been really lame.
"Let's go, go home, the queen mother has prepared something good for you."
"What a good thing?"
"Whale, the day before yesterday, a whale was just caught in the East China Sea, a big light blue whale, it is said to weigh three or four hundred thousand catties, and it is more than eight zhang long.
They slaughtered the whales and brought them to Xiangyang by boat. ” Li Chao listened to it and immediately judged that it should be a blue whale, and only a blue whale would have such a big body.
Three or four hundred thousand catties weigh, that is, at least more than 100 tons.
Li Chao suddenly became interested, how did they catch such a big whale The speed of the blue whale is very fast, and this whale is so big, it is very difficult to catch it.
"It is said that it is the food sent by the Dragon King, and it is Xiangrui."
The queen said happily.
After listening for a while, Li Chao understood, it turned out that the whale was stranded.
A large blue whale weighing nearly 200 tons, for unknown reasons, stranded on the coast near Yangzhou.
Because of the famine, the government encouraged the people to go to the sea to fish and collect catches.
As a result, early in the morning, a large whale like a mountain was spotted on the beach. 、 At first, the fishermen were a little frightened.
After hearing the news, the government came to check, only to find that the big whale was still alive, but it could not go to sea and was trapped on the beach.
If it were an ordinary year, maybe everyone would not dare to think about eating this big whale, and they would think that it was the Dragon King's subordinates.
But now in these famine years, who cares about this, not to mention that the imperial court has already issued an order for everyone to go fishing, and those who are sent to the door now will not miss it.
So, local officials reported.
Soon, someone came, an official in charge of collecting food in various places.
These are the officials sent from above, and they are also bold.
As soon as I saw this big whale, my eyes lit up.
Then gather the experienced fishermen and study together how to slaughter the whale.
A stranded big blue whale that can't move, no matter how big it is, can only be slaughtered.
It's a big festival and hundreds of people flock to the beach to watch the whale slaughter.
After the whale is slaughtered, it obtains countless whale meat, blubber, and a lot of whale skin, baleen, etc.
Even the guts of the whales are not wasted.
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The best whale fat whale meat should be put into storage, but if it causes whale offal, etc., there is no need for it, and the government directly distributes it to the people on the spot.
The huge whale is not easy to divide, but fortunately there are many people.
He got a huge long knife, cut the whale open, hollowed out the internal organs, and then cut the whale into large pieces and peeled off the thick whale skin on top.
The local people all said that this was a gift from the dragon king.
Local officials directly regarded this as auspicious, in the year of famine, the dragon king sent hundreds of thousands of catties of big fish, this is not what auspicious rui is.
The large pieces of whales cut are loaded directly onto the boat and then immediately sent to Xiangyang.
Since it is auspicious, of course it has to be given to the imperial court and shown to the emperor.
Li Chao and the others returned to Xiangyang, but they just caught up.
"Really, I'm going to see it."
Cheng Qian said excitedly.
Li Chao smiled, he didn't believe Xiangrui's statement at all.
Whale stranding is also a very common thing, but even drought can be said to be dissatisfaction with the sky, so whale stranding can naturally be said to be auspicious from heaven.
Go directly to Yuliang Chau.
A trench has been dug between Yuliangzhou and Yuliangping in Xiangyang East, and water from the Han River has also been introduced.
It made Yuliangzhou a large Jiangxinzhou, and built a pontoon bridge on the trench, and you have to pass through the pontoon bridge to enter and exit, or you can only take a boat to Zhouzhou.
There were bridgeheads at both ends of the pontoon, where guards were stationed.
The security guards of the island palace are getting stronger and stronger.
"Teacher, do you know how whales are going to eat?"
"What does whale taste like?"
Cheng Qian looked curious.
As for whales, Li Chao has really eaten them, but it was in the later generations.
He traveled to Japan in later life, and the Japanese are a country that likes to hunt whales, even if later generations have regarded whales as protected animals, but the Japanese have to hunt many whales every year in the name of scientific research.
Whales that are caught will find their way to shop tables in Japan.
Whale meat actually tastes like it's not much different from pork.
And there are many ways to eat whales, or how to cook them.
However, there is one that is said to be the oldest way to eat it, and that is to eat it raw.
I heard that in the past, those fishermen on the extremely cold seashore would kill whales and cut them into pieces for storage.
When it's time to eat it, just take a piece out, cut it into thin slices, and eat it raw.
Alternatively, you can dip it in a sauce like soy sauce and eat it.
When they arrived at the East Palace, the queen sent someone to fetch whale meat.
After a while, several chamberlains directly brought a large basket, which contained a large piece of whale meat and attached skin, just like a large square brick, weighing at least nearly 100 catties.
Cheng Qian turned his wheelchair to approach the large piece of whale meat.
This piece of meat was originally placed in an ice cellar, so it was frozen hard, but the black skin, the white thick fish oil, and the dark red line of the fish meat were all layered. t1706231537: