When Empress Changsun and the others came back, they gave some fruits to the concubines of the palaces. Of course, they were all the concubines who were in the first rank of concubines, Zhaoyi and Zhaorong, but there was no such rank as Jieyu.

Of course, there are concubines who have given birth to children, but that is the fruit that the Empress Changsun gave to her concubines and concubines as her first mother, not to those concubines.

Empress Changsun didn't buy too much fruit this time. After sending them to the concubines and the princes, they didn't have much, but it was enough for their family of five to eat for a while.

Empress Zhangsun thought for a while, and planned to buy some in the store tomorrow, and then ask Li Shimin to give it to those princes and officials who contributed to the Tang Dynasty.

Can't they enjoy the royal people, and those officials don't enjoy these fresh fruits, right?

However, when Empress Changsun and her mother and son went to the store to buy things, Li Shimin asked the people in the pantry to cook corn, roast sweet potatoes, and stew lamb chops with potatoes, and invited these heroes to have a meal together.

For this meal, Li Shimin asked the people in the dining room to make it with the recipes that Li Chengqian had bought before. It was made with three ingredients: corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes. Li Shimin planned to let these officials eat and then let them serve them. Promote the heart.

Although he had just bought seeds for him and the Queen's Zhuangzi to plant while they were ploughing in the spring, but if you want to eat, you can still buy fresh ones from the store? Li Shimin won't wait until their sweet potatoes are planted to taste it.

Li Shimin and the others had already eaten boiled corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes before, but now they are letting the chefs in the pantry show their skills to make these ingredients delicious and make more dishes.

So today's dish has assorted corn kernels. Of course, there is no ham sausage in Datang, and of course there is no ham, but there is air-dried meat. So the cook in the pantry used air-dried meat to dice, carrots to dice, and peas to fry.

The pork ribs with corn-stewed ribs are still bought from the store, and the nobles at this time regarded pork as cheap meat. Even if the technique of the pig was born in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it was not widely spread, and most of the pigs like everyone had never seen the pig.

Then there are corn dishes, such as corn roasted, grilled corn, boiled corn, etc.

Then there are potatoes, potato stewed lamb chops, hot and sour potato shreds, pan-fried potato cakes, braised potatoes, etc., and then sweet potatoes are roasted sweet potatoes, pork stewed vermicelli, mutton stewed vermicelli, and so on.

This meal is really rich, but most of these princes are fighting with Li Shimin, but they are not very restrained, they are very heroic when they eat, they forgot to ask what these ingredients are.

Cheng Yaojin and Yuchigong, the two big old men, couldn't even lift their heads, while Zhangsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling were a lot more polite, and they didn't look as bold and bold as these two.

Qin Qiong and Li Jing are Confucian generals, and they are also very polite, and they are not the same as Cheng Yaojin and Yuchigong.

"Your Majesty, what a good day to invite us to have such a sumptuous meal? It's so delicious." Cheng Yaojin finally asked Li Shimin when he was about seven or eight minutes full.

The cooking skills of the royal chefs are all very good, plus there are recipes and seasonings, the taste of the food made is also very good.

Cheng Yaojin really didn't expect these foods, which are mostly cooked, stewed, and steamed, to be so delicious.

"What kind of dish is this? It's very soft and glutinous, and you will feel full after eating too much." Li Jing asked while eating. As generals who were marching and fighting, they valued food.

The food in front of me is delicious, and the potatoes and corn have a very good satiety, and the roasted sweet potatoes are also very delicious, and the satiety is also very good.

"Hahaha..." Li Shimin smiled in a good mood, "This is a good thing I got not long ago."

Li Shimin asked people to bring the raw corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes, and then introduced to others, "This is corn, this assorted corn kernels and the ingredients for these corn-boiled and grilled corns, it tastes very good."

"And this corn has a sweet taste. If a large pot of corn is boiled in water, not only the corn is delicious, but the soup of the corn is also sweet. No need to add salt or sugar, the water to boil the corn will be sweet. Very delicious." Li Shimin said with a smile.

When he just bought corn before, he let the people in the pantry cook the corn. After a dozen or twenty corns were cooked in a pot, he distributed the corn to the children, and then the corn soup was also given to the children. No salt or sugar is needed to cook corn, and the water is very sweet.

In fact, it is said that adding a little salt when cooking corn can increase the sweetness, but Datang does not have much salt, and the price of salt is high. Since the corn itself is very sweet, why add salt? Therefore, Li Shimin eats corn without salt. Not only is the corn delicious, the soup is also sweet.

"This corn is so good? It's sweet without adding sugar?" Cheng Yaojin heard Li Shimin say this, and quickly took a boiled corn from the table, then scooped out the boiled corn soup with a spoon and tasted it. He kept squinting his eyes. "What Your Majesty said is really good. This corn soup is really sweet."

"Hahaha... Of course." Li Shimin said in a very good mood, "The most important thing is that this corn can be grown on dry land or mountains, and it doesn't take up fertile land. And the yield of corn per mu is 1,000 catties. , if you take good care of it, it may be a little more."

"Is what Your Majesty said true?" After hearing Li Shimin's statement about the yield of corn per mu, all the officials present looked at him in surprise.

They are all surprises, surprises, and food is very important to them. It's that they came from a noble family, and their family background was good, but most of them were military attachés who fought in the army, and what they cared about most was food and grass.

What is the most important thing for soldiers to fight? Of course food.

There is enough food, so that the soldiers have enough food and drink before they can have the energy to fight. How can a war be fought if the soldiers are all half-starved? No strength to kill the enemy.

And Zhangsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and the others were all civil servants, but that didn't mean they didn't know the importance of food.

Even if they are all from aristocratic families, the aristocratic families don't care much about how the people live, they only care about whether they live well or not, and whether they are extravagant or not. But these few people are officials, although they will seek benefits for their own family, but it is impossible not to care about the interests of the Tang Dynasty.

High yields of food, all of them are happy.

"It's not just corn, this is sweet potato. This is roasted sweet potato, this is vermicelli made from sweet potatoes, and the vermicelli that has just been stewed is made of sweet potatoes. The yield of sweet potatoes is very high, with five or six thousand catties per mu. ."

"It's the same with potatoes. The yield of potatoes per mu is about four or five thousand catties. Sweet potatoes and potatoes are both high-yield grains. If they are promoted and the whole Tang Dynasty is planted with sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, then the people of Datang will be You can eat enough." Li Shimin said excitedly.

Even though he has long known that the yield of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn is very high, he has been unable to calm down until now. How many people can be fed with such high-yield food? With such high-yield grains in their Datang Dynasty, they will develop more prosperous and prosperous in the future.

"I have already let Zhuangzi plant the seeds of these crops, and they can be harvested in a few months." Li Shimin said with a smile, "According to the information I got, these crops can be planted twice a year. In the south, you can plant three times."

Li Shimin was really happy. He not only bought so many high-yielding grain seeds from the store, but also bought other things.

As the emperor, he really hopes that he can manage the Tang Dynasty well, and then let the Tang Dynasty enter the prosperous world, and he will be famous in the history and become an emperor through the ages.

Every emperor thinks this way, and Li Shimin is no exception.

Others understand Li Shimin's ideas. Of course, they also hope that they can be remembered in history, and they also hope that they have a better family and descendants, so they discussed the planting and promotion of these crops with Li Shimin.

Li Shimin also came up with various ways to eat tofu, such as bean curd, bean curd, dried bean curd, fermented bean curd, stinky tofu and so on.

Of course, as the emperor, Li Shimin couldn't keep the various ways of tofu and how to eat it to make a profit. He planned to popularize these methods and ways of eating tofu, and let the common people make and eat it by themselves.

Even if grinding and making tofu is hard work, isn't that also a kind of income? There are also bean curd, dried tofu, yuba and other things that are durable, so they can make more and sell them.

Of course, other people have no opinion, even if they want to participate in a share to make money, they can't grab it from Li Shimin.

However, Li Shimin did not treat everyone badly. The practice of tofu is to promote it, but he intends to hand over the practice of bean curd, fermented bean curd, and tofu skin to these people. After all, ordinary people cannot make these things on a large scale. Only those families can do it.

There are also soybeans that can be used to extract oil, soybeans to make soy sauce, soybean paste, bean paste and other things, Li Shimin did not intend to hand over all of them. His emperor is also very poor, right?

He didn't intend to compete with the people for profits, but of course he could take out the things that the common people would not do and let the clan or his queen manage them. Li Shimin was really not a pedantic emperor.

He can not compete with the people for the benefit of the common people, but it does not mean that he will not consider his own interests without competing for the interests of the common people.

Li Shimin chatted with his subordinates for a long time, and then Li Jing, Zhangsun Wuji and the others not only had enough to eat and drink when they left, but also brought various methods of tofu that Li Shimin distributed to them.

Li Shimin left behind the practice of extracting oil from soybeans, making soy sauce and bean paste from soybeans, and then giving bean sprouts, soybean paste and other methods to others, and he said that these things need to be made with small profits but quick turnover. They are not allowed to raise prices.

Li Shimin wanted to let the common people live a good life through the hands of these aristocratic families, not to give the aristocratic family a way to make them more mean to oppress the common people.

Li Shimin also came from an aristocratic family, and of course he knew very well what kind of temperament these families were. But now he is the emperor, no longer the son of the aristocratic family, what he sees is the interests of the entire Tang Dynasty, not the interests of the aristocratic family.