"I must be rewarded, and I must be rewarded more."

Emperor Li Zhi attached great importance to the secret recipe for decolorization of sugar, because the Shaofu Temple gave the emperor this secret recipe to verify it, which is indeed quite useful. In their professional terms, with this secret recipe, the Tang Dynasty Royal Sugar Floor continued to produce real frosted sugar from the source.

What is the significance of this?

It means a lot.

Because this is related to the emperor's small treasury, ordinary people can't afford it, and it is like pepper.

It is precisely because of the importance of frosting sugar that Emperor Taizong sent envoys to Tianzhu to seek the process of frosting sugar manufacturing, and then continued to increase the rewards, allowing craftsmen to further improve the craftsmanship formula for making sugar.

Under the special care of Emperor Taizong, the level of frosting and sugar production in the Tang Dynasty was ahead of the world and surpassed the Mogado Kingdom, which had been introduced. The domestic sales of frosting and sugar produced in the Tang Dynasty not only increased significantly, but also became a hot-selling product for the Tang Dynasty to trade with surrounding countries, and also a good thing for the Tang Dynasty to reward the surrounding vassal states by the Tang Dynasty.

Because the highest manufacturing process of frosting candy is in the hands of the royal family, the emperor's inner treasury has been very fulfilled over the years. It is also very convenient to give a minister, or to build a palace by himself, or to favor a concubine and prince.

Frosting candy is a huge market and a huge profit industry. Royal's technology is not much ahead. The secret recipe for decolorization offered by Xue Rengui can be said to allow Royal's technology to be far ahead of other competitors, and allow the emperor to have a steady stream of revenue for many years to come.

"I specially grant you two imperial horses, ten slaves, hundreds of colorful silk, thousands of pounds of frosted sugar, and a reward of 100,000 gold!"

Li Zhi was very generous and was even more generous to a powerful general like Xue Rengui who had already become famous, and he said a long list of rewards in one breath.

"What kind of virtue is merit and what can I do? How dare I accept such a generous reward?"

"If I reward you, you can accept it." Li Zhi's reward of Xue Rengui so many things was not entirely because he offered a secret recipe.

Li Zhi still attaches great importance to Xue Rengui's loyal and capable general.

"By the way, the villagers who offered the grounds also have to reward them. I cannot ignore such loyal people. By the way, what's the name of that person?"

The king of a country will not care about a rural citizen.

But since this rural minority presented such a precious secret recipe, and the general Xue Rengui offered it for him, this shows that this person has something to do with Xue Rengui.

"When you go back to your Majesty, this person is named Li Xiao, and he ranks third in his family. He is from Lanxi Township, Lantian County, Guanzhong. His family has been kind for generations and is very kind in the local area. Li Xiao is filial and loyal. After he developed the secret recipe for frosting and sugar decolorization, he did not hide it privately, but thought of giving it to His Majesty at the first time."

These words "kindness, filial piety, loyalty and righteousness" are already very high. The Tang Dynasty governed the country with filial piety and attached great importance to filial piety. Xue Rengui further explained that Li Xiao was born in a good family, was born in a landlord, not a craftsman or a businessman.

"How old are you?"

“Twenty-one this year!”

"I didn't expect that I would be so young, I would reward ten thousand golds and hundreds of silks." Li Zhi was very comfortable with this fellow villager named Li Xiao, and he would open his mouth for the reward.

"Since he is a landlord, then I will give him another hundred acres of fertile land in Lanxi. Well, I will give him a new birth, and give him a honor to the Martial Cavalry, and then give him a name in Shaofu Temple, and then receive a monthly salary."

"I thank Your Majesty for the reward of Li Xiao." Xue Rengui felt that the reward was very generous.

One hundred acres of fertile land are a family business that can be passed down from generation to generation.

Ten thousand gold and hundreds of silk are nothing. After all, ten thousand gold is just ten cents of coins, and hundreds of silk are not worth much. But the Martial Cavalry Guard is not simple, he is a hero.

A great official is not an official, but an additional official position, and a title. Generally, soldiers make meritorious contributions in war, with the highest twelve revolutions. The lowest one is the Martial Cavalry, who is regarded as the seventh rank and enjoys the treatment of the seventh rank.

But there is no official position, nor is there a formal official rank.

But with this honor, it is equivalent to entering the career of officialdom with half a foot, or at least having an official identity, which is equivalent to having a background.

This thing is very precious.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, honors were not worth much. At that time, in order to seize the world, the emperor rewarded many honors and titles. Even Emperor Gaozu once gave honors to thousands of people passing by.

However, now the Tang Dynasty has experienced the three emperors, and the honors no longer reward and gifts indiscriminately, and have become valuable.

For example, under the Tang Dynasty's equal land order, ordinary people have an upper limit on the amount of land. People without officials, no titles and no honors cannot own too much land, but if there are good deeds, a lot of upper limit can be added.

Even ordinary people cannot take concubines at will if they do not have children, but if they have honors, officials and titles, they will naturally not be allowed.

Even in terms of taxation and service, people with honors are different from ordinary people.

Li Xiao transformed from an ordinary citizen to a person with status.

Xue Rengui was happy for him. His efforts were not without reward. He said he wanted to provide him with a secret recipe, which really helped him.

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Lijiazhuang.

Courtyard, kitchen.

The small stove has already dried up, and Li Xiao set up a wok again today.

Today we will hold a wok opening ceremony. If a good wok is to be used well, it must undergo some special treatment.

"Sanlang, why do you still have to make a fuss?" Lao He asked inexplicably.

Li Xiao took a knife to cut a piece of fat meat from a piece of pork belly. Why did the new iron pot have to be boiled? Of course, it is because when it is made, there will be many impurities remaining on the pot noodles, and the pot is generally not smooth.

If you use such a new pot to stir-fry, it will be easy to stick to the pot in the future, so you must first open the pot, or call it a refining pot. The refined pot will be very good in the future, not easy to rust, and not easy to stick to the pot.

It’s actually very simple to start a pot, just make a piece of raw fat.

The meat should be fat and not lean meat.

Boil the stove in the fire, boil water in the pot.

The stove burned quickly, and in a moment, half of the pot of water was already on.

"So fast, this stove!"

The onlookers were amazed at the speed of the stove. Even Old He was so impressed that he stopped talking. The speed of boiling water was more than twice as fast.

Li Xiao rolled up his sleeves, scrubbed the pot, poured out the water, and set up the pot again.

Wipe the water clean.

"Change a small fire!"

Slowly dry the iron pot over low heat. After the pot was dry, Li Xiao took the piece of fat meat and started to wipe the iron pot like a brush, and wiped it continuously from the inner ring to the outer ring in a spiral shape on the inner wall of the pot.

The fat on the fat kept overflowing due to heat, and Li Xiao evenly rubbed the oil throughout the pot noodles.

The lard is getting darker and the fat is getting smaller and smaller.

Some people are swallowing, while others are a pity that the good fat is wasted.

Remove the heat from the pot, pour off the blackened lard, clean the pot with hot water, then set the stove again, and then pick up a piece of fat to continue repeating the previous movements.

After repeating this for five or six times, the fat can no longer be worn black.

"Okay, the pot has been refined."

In the future, the pot will become darker and brighter the more you use it. It will not rust or sticky, making it an excellent wok.

"Oh my god, I wasted six pieces of fat, all of them had to be three or four pounds. It's a pity, I've all been wiped out." Old He said with heartache.

Li Xiao was speechless. How could a few kilograms of pork be compared with a good wok?
Chapter completed!