In the evening, the sunset was full of sunset, and the lights were bright on the palace observation deck. Yu Wenwen enjoyed the sunset while eating mutton hotpot. This time, it was not the eunuch who simmered him with mutton, but Xiao Jiuniang.

Xiao Jiuniang has a good mutton hotpot and has a good grasp of the heat, which makes Yuwen Wen eat with relish. The two of them feed each other a few times from time to time, showing their affection so that the palace maids serving each other lowered their heads.

Old couples always talk about oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, too unconventional, so they need appropriate adjustments. One of them is to adjust and flirt according to different situations.

Yuwen Wen gets along with his women without any extravagance and waste. Ordinary hot pot can create a warm atmosphere.

Lamb hotpot is "mutton hotpot". It is said to have appeared in the Song and Yuan dynasties. With the "invention" of hotpot, the way to eat lamb hotpot naturally appeared in this era.

As soon as it appeared, it was very popular among people from all walks of life.

Originally, the eating habits of eating mutton in Guanzhong are very common. The need for mutton is very simple, just have a copper hotpot and charcoal. The promotion speed is natural.

With copper hot pot, prepare soup, light charcoal fire, cut the mutton into thin slices, supplemented with seasonings, and burn it just so cooked that it tastes very delicious.

Yuwen Wen is now in Tongzhou and the mutton he eats comes from the famous "Bookquan Sheep" in Tongzhou. This mutton is tender and delicious. After being scalded, it does not require dipping seasonings. It can also leave a fragrance between the teeth.

There are bitter springs near Tongzhou Prefecture. The sheep that grows up with these bitter spring water is tender and delicious, so it is named "bite spring sheep". It is famous far and wide and is served in the palace all year round. Xiao Jiuniang also likes to eat them, but because of Yuwen Wen, mutton often appears in the palace recipes in winter.

It’s not that Yu Wen Wen has any taboos, but that he thinks that eating too much meat is unhealthy and prone to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, leading to premature death. The mutton is really delicious and it is easy to overeat before he knows it.

Eating too much meat is easy to get sick. This problem does not exist for people who cannot eat meat several times a month, but for the royal family who are rich and well-off, meat must be controlled.

Secondly, Yuwen Wen felt that if Tongzhou Shayuan, a treasure land with abundant water and grass, would be too wasteful to raise sheep. He would rather raise less bitter spring sheep than raise more horses.

He asked Ma Wu to get the Saracen Horses back from the Saracen Desert, the Arabian Desert, the Saracen Desert, the Arabian Desert in the west, to breed in several major pastures in the Central Plains, and Tongzhou Shayuanjian is one of the breeding sites.

These divine horses will bring excellent bloodlines to the horses raised by various pastoral prisons in Zhou State, so the treatment cannot be affected by the bitter spring sheep.

The King of Chu was so thin that he starved to death in the palace. Yuwen Wen had to set an example and eat less mutton to fight for grassland for horses. Otherwise, in order to supply the huge mutton consumption in the palace, Shayuanjian would sooner or later be occupied by the sheep.

The Northern Song Dynasty royal family was fond of eating mutton, and mutton became an indispensable ingredient in the palace diet. The Zhao Guan family was indispensable to eating mutton every day. The royal family's persistence in mutton led to the upper class's dietary trend.

Therefore, sheep and horses compete for grasslands in China, and even "imported" sheep from the Liao Kingdom every year.

The consequence is that in the already tense pastures in China, there are more sheep than horses, and there are not enough horses, so the Song army is very depressed when they face the Liao army.

Yuwen Wen did not want this situation in Zhou State, but in order to solve the problem of sheep and horse fighting for grassland, it is not enough to just ban mutton. Therefore, the key to the problem is not to reduce expenditure but to increase source. As long as there are enough pastures, sheep and horses can coexist.

There are large grasslands with abundant water and grass in Hetao area, which can enable sheep and horse coexist. Therefore, the huge demand for mutton in Guanzhong area can be solved by Yellow River shipping to transport sheep from Hetao area. Guanzhong ranch still needs to focus on raising horses, so...

"What a pity that the Yellow River is frozen in winter, otherwise if the Hetao sheep can be imported into Guanzhong in winter, Chang'an sheep would not have been occupied by Longyou sheep."

Xiao Jiuniang sighed while trying to slap the sheep. Yuwen Wen was a little confused when he heard this: "Longyou sheep? Didn't the sheep be imported into Chang'an the same? Fenshui shipping is constantly in winter, and there are so many coal ships that are said to be able to line up from Jinyang to Weikou. How do you say... Have you heard anything inside?"

"Ah, no, I forgot about Bing Shuoyang..."

"Is that right?" Yuwen Wen was a little disappointed. He thought that Xiao Jiuniang had found some amazing inside information, and then he had something to do.

Chang'an Sheep City is now in winter where the world comes from Longyou Sheep and the northeastern direction of the northeastern direction of the Sheep. This is the result that Yuwen Wen saw from the investigation report, so when he heard what Xiao Jiuniang said, he thought someone was lying to him.

It is a great regret that the middle reaches of the Yellow River are not allowed to sail in winter. However, just a few years after the opening of the Yellow River shipping, the General Administration of Shipping has achieved profits. One of the sources of profits is the "Northern Sheep Transportation South".

Sheep, wool products and cheese products from the Hetao area were continuously imported into Guanzhong by steamships, bringing a lot of benefits to the military and civilians who were stationed in the Hetao area and grazing.

The second source of profits of the China Shipping Administration through the Yellow River shipping is "Tea in the south and north".

Tea from Lianghuai and Jiangnan enters the Yellow River through Tongji Canal, and then by land bypasses Dizhu Mountain and Hukou Waterfall and other natural dangers in the Yellow River, it will continue to be transported to the Hetao area by steamship and then sold to the grassland.

With the ease of relations between the Zhou State and the Eastern Turks and the continuous promotion of the Zhou State, the demand for tea in the grassland increased greatly, so tea trading was very profitable. The Yellow River shipping successfully reduced the transportation cost of tea transport in the south and north, allowing merchants to obtain more profits.

The steamship heading north was full of tea. After unloading the goods at the place, it loaded sheep, wool, and cheese products back and forth. The profits were amazing.

Although there are dangers of Hukou Waterfall and the main pillar, it is profitable that the shipping in the middle reaches of the Yellow River has developed rapidly. The emergence of new modes of transportation has led to the emergence of new trade routes, which is exactly what Yuwen Wen likes to see.

Technology changes life, and through unremitting efforts, he has changed the times in a small way. This feeling is really good.

Just as he was sighing, he saw Xiao Jiuniang reaching out with a piece of mutton. Yuwen Wen opened his mouth to bite but didn't bite it. He felt that he was probably a mistake in judging distance, so he leaned his head slightly and bit it again.

Still not bitten.

Yuwen Wen saw it very clearly this time, and he moved his mutton chopsticks back, so his gaze turned to Xiao Jiuniang's face.

Xiao Jiuniang looked at him with a provocative look, took back the chopsticks, and then bit the mutton into her mouth, revealing half of the mutton.

At that moment, Yuwen Wen felt a fever on his body.

Oh, are you writing a war book?

He leaned forward, faced Xiao Jiuniang's scorching gaze, and put the mutton and red lips in his mouth.
Chapter completed!