While they were shaken, it was time for lunch. Wang Qi went to see the food at the construction site today, and then walked back with a smile.

"According to this, today is the day to eat meat. There are meat for lunch and dinner. The morning is full of vegetable and meat porridge. Are the three of them willing to deal with one meal on the construction site?"

Lu You and Yu Yunwen were stunned for a moment, then looked at Chen Kangbo, who had never spoken.

Chen Kangbo hesitated for a moment and nodded, as if he wanted to confirm something, so he agreed.

Wang Qi smiled and asked someone to go to get food for the three main envoys and other members of the Southern Song envoys, and brought tables and chairs to let them sit down and have dinner.

When making meals, Chen Kangbo asked Wang Qi intentionally or unintentionally, asking them if it was not good for them to join in for dinner and whether it would prevent the workers from having enough food.

Wang Qi shook his head and said they don’t have to worry.

"The rice on the construction site has always been made more. After a morning of labor, migrant workers always have a big appetite. They can only eat a full meal by eating steamed cakes by pounds. Therefore, cooking on the construction site is also a big stove with fire. Try to make more and leave room for food.

You are not afraid of eating leftovers, but you are afraid of not having enough food. Leaves are not important, but not having enough food is not important. Naturally, you don’t worry about wasting what you eat. Because the construction site has a long construction period and lasts for several years, there will be a circle around each construction site to raise pigs...

The leftover slurry this guy sent to feed the pigs. The slurry is good, and the pigs are not picky about food. They gain weight quickly after eating slurry. They will not be able to slaughter them for a long time. Haha, the meat I ate today is the meat slaughtered by the pigs raised on the construction site.

This pig farming is also beneficial. In addition to pigs, the chefs who cook also set up their own vegetable gardens, use pig manure as fertilizer, and grow some green leafy vegetables, which grows well, so the food costs on the construction site can be saved a lot."

"This...I..."

Chen Kangbo didn't react for a moment, and he didn't know whether to sigh at the richness of food on the construction site or the excellent thinking of recycling. However, after thinking about it, he still focused his finger on the pig.

"pork?"

"Ah, the pork is very fragrant."

Wang Qi smiled and said, "The Ming Dynasty ate a lot of pork, and many people like to eat pork. By the way, wasn't Mr. Su Dongpo particularly good at making pork back then? Don't you still eat pork much now?"

"This...is, but not many."

"Don't worry, the pork in Daming is so fragrant. Don't look like a big stove on this construction site, the pork stewed from the high heat can bite the tongue."

Wang Qi's words are true. The pig farming industry in the Ming Dynasty began to change as early as the Zhongdu General Affairs Bureau.

As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, the pig craftsmanship had already appeared in China. However, this industry has not yet flourished, and the pig craftsmanship has not been promoted in the pig farming industry. Although there is a rule that pigs need to be ridden without distinguishing between male and female pigs in some areas, there is still no such rule in most areas.

After Su Yonglin conquered Zhongdu and established the General Affairs Bureau, he instructed some people who mastered pig slaying technology to gather together to innovate the pig farming industry and widely taught breeders how to use pig slaying methods.

From then on, except for breeding pigs, all other pigs were ridden without any male or female, thus changing the pig farming industry, and the pig farming industry began to flourish in the Ming Dynasty.

If a pig is not slapped, it will not be divided into male and female. Most of the food eaten is used to accumulate essence and reproduce, making it difficult to grow meat.

Boars are not scattered, they are thin, and sows are not scattered. They are graceful and have a irritable personality. They are easy to hurt people. They are not easy to raise and have bad meat. After slaughtering, the smell is very heavy. Without a lot of spices, sugars cannot cover up the smell, and naturally they are not delicious.

So pork has been made in China for many years. Anyone with a little grade will not let pork be served, otherwise it will become a laughing stock for everyone.

However, once the pig is swept away, the boars and sows will be clean and have no desires, become gentle and begin to gain weight. They will grow as fast as they eat, grow as much as they eat, and the fishy smell of meat will be greatly reduced, and the difficulty and cost of cooking will be greatly reduced.

So the advantages of pigs over other livestock began to become prominent.

Therefore, starting from the first year of Hongwu, pig farms in the Ming Dynasty were getting more and more year by year. Large state-owned pig farms and small private pig farms were quickly spread throughout the provinces. Pork quickly occupied most of the people's meat markets and became the main meat favorites of the people.

The price of pork was originally [savory as earth], but after being popular, it once rose. However, with the full entry of state-owned pig farms, a large amount of pork entered the meat market, and the price of pork gradually fell back to a normal level.

The common people of the Ming Dynasty like to buy some pork from time to time to satisfy their cravings. When it comes to the festival or harvest, they will take their families to the market to buy a whole pig leg, or even half a pig, and then buy some soy sauce, and take it back to cook the braised pork for several days, and have a hard meal of meat.

Because the pork after the breeding reform tastes very fragrant and delicious, and is not expensive, even the chicken, duck, geese, fish and mutton, which once had the advantage of the folk table, have begun to retreat to the secondary. Pork has become the main meat food on the people's tables, and folk customs have undergone great changes.

Wang Qi knew that this was the situation in the Ming Dynasty. As for whether there was such a situation in the Southern Song Dynasty, he didn't know much about it, but he thought that it shouldn't be there. Otherwise, why did these officials look bad when they heard that they were eating pork?

You should know that in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor took the lead in eating pork.

Emperor Su Yonglin especially liked to eat pork, and gave him banquets to all ministers during festivals and festivals.

Not only that, he also innovated and developed pork menus in the palace, causing many famous pork dishes such as scorched pork sections, pot buns, braised lion heads, etc.

Su Yonglin also generously disclosed the menu and production methods of the pork he ate in the palace to Quanmingguo for free.

So not long after, starting from the restaurants in Zhongdu, restaurants with conditions across the country began to launch the same menu, called court dishes, and were very popular among the people.

Over time, some people in the folk themselves also make pork dishes at home, and they think it is the same meal as the emperor, and they are very proud.

Judging from this attitude, it seems that the palace dishes are going to be transformed into home-cooked dishes.

Pork was so popular in the Ming Dynasty, and the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty were embarrassed about it. They were depressed before eating, and suspected that they were going to eat fishy and were very sad.

However, they were moved by the food they called.

The reason is nothing else, the meat smells really fragrant, it really smells good.

It was only at this time that they discovered that the pork on the construction site was braised with soy sauce. They could not smell the fishy smell, but could only smell the aroma of meat.

The smell of the meat really aroused the greed in my stomach. A group of people looked at me and I looked at you, and finally looked at Chen Kangbo together.

As a commander and the highest-ranking official, he must play an exemplary role.

"Mr. Chen, please."

Wang Qi looked at Chen Kangbo with a smile.

Chen Kangbo swallowed, hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the portion of pork that belonged to him in front of him, slowly put it into his mouth, and chewed it.

this……

This smell...

Is it the pork that these migrant workers on the construction site can eat?

Chen Kangbo ate pork in the Southern Song Dynasty.

To be precise, I have eaten two types of pork. One is high-end pork carefully cooked with a lot of seasonings. It tastes delicious, but it is said that sugar, a lot of seasonings, spices, and cooking over high heat to suppress the fishy smell, so the price is also quite expensive.

He also ate low-priced pork, and then he was tormented by the fishy smell of meat for several days and it didn't taste good to eat.

Of course, with his status, he could easily eat mutton that ordinary rich people in the Southern Song Dynasty could not eat.

Even if you can't eat mutton, you can still eat a lot of other meats. There is no need to make things difficult for you to eat pork that only the lowest-level people and those "clever officials" who pretend to be noble will eat.

But despite this, he did not expect that migrant workers on the construction site in Mingguo could eat this bite of pork.

This taste, the aroma of meat, was definitely not something that ordinary people could afford in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, they could be sold to officials and wealthy businessmen in restaurants, but here...

Chen Kangbo swallowed the pork in his mouth and looked at Wang Qi.
Chapter completed!