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Chapter 103: Food War, Bloodless
Tang Dynasty.
The hall was extremely lively at this time. Everyone in the Tang Dynasty group was holding a small black box and eating happily.
"Your Majesty, you know what, this 'little hot pot' is really tasty, much more potent than onions, ginger and garlic." Yuchi Jingde couldn't help but say as he was tasting the spiciness.
Li Shimin's face also turned red from the spiciness. He wiped the sweat off his face with his sleeve and said, "It's really tasty. It's much spicier than the ones made with pepper, dogwood, etc."
At this time, Cheng Yaojin threw a piece of beef into his mouth, chewed it carefully and said, "It's really spicy, and the seasoning tastes good, but this beef... It's a bit hard to describe."
As an expert on beef, he could tell after one bite that the beef was quite ordinary. If it weren't for the taste of the seasoning, he estimated that he would have found it difficult to swallow.
"Really? Why didn't I taste it? If you don't like it, give it to me." As he said that, Yuchi Jingde stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the beef from Cheng Yaojin's box.
"Get away! When did I say I don't like eating?" Seeing that the chopsticks were about to reach into his food box, Cheng Yaojin instantly turned sideways and protected the food box behind him.
"Tsk, you're so stingy that you can't bear to talk so much nonsense." Yuchi Jingde tried to use provocation to get two bites of meat. He had already finished the beef in his own box in two bites and didn't taste anything at all.
"Hmph, stop provoking me, it's useless. This beef is indeed very ordinary. I'm not exaggerating, but future generations are definitely not as good as me in eating beef!"
As soon as the words fell, the picture on the sky curtain suddenly changed and a new video began to play.
[A big banquet in a rural area in Northeast China, 400 yuan, 16 dishes. Eating Northeastern dishes to enjoy the daily life]
[This is the feast we prepared on the spot when we got married in Northeast China. There were 16 dishes and the price of one table was over 400 yuan, which was considered the best.]
[Everyone, take a look at this dish and see if it is hard or not. Disciple, start cooking! ]
Following the chef's shout, everyone in the kitchen started to get busy. The sounds of pots and pans could be heard one after another, making it very lively.
As time went by, one dish after another, delicious and fragrant, was served.
[First dish: Spiced beef. Pure freshly slaughtered beef, just eat it without making a sound.]
The person filming the video also took a close-up shot, showing the beef sliced into even thin slices, each slice showing an attractive dark brown color, which is the result of spices and seasonings penetrating into the meat after a long stew. Under the light, the beef slices shone with a glossy luster.
[The second dish: Big carp covered in oil. Look, this fish is taller than me, almost longer than my arm.]
【Third course: sweet and sour spareribs. 】
[The fourth dish: Braised pork slices. This is a pure Northeastern specialty. If you can’t stand the sweet taste of sweet and sour pork, you can try this.]
[Fifth dish: Tiger skin pork elbow. Oh, this big elbow, look at the way it shakes, it must be boiled till it's mushy.]
[Sixth course: Four-joy meatballs. There is nothing much to say about this. Whoever gets it first will get it when it reaches the table.]
——"Really? If I use my chopsticks to pick two, the others will have nothing to eat."
——"It's not worth getting beaten up just to eat a meatball. (Doghead)"
[Dish 7: Crispy pork tenderloin. This is my specialty, but it doesn’t require any technical skills.]
[Eighth dish: beef stewed with radish. The radish was freshly picked from the ground by the host.]
……
[Dish 16: Braised prawns. The prawns are about the same size as my palm.]
——"I give in. There is nothing I don't like to eat."
——"I'll follow 200 people, can you please take me with you? (covering face)"
——"Tell me the address quickly, let me go and eat for three days, and you can give me another 30,000 yuan. (Dog head)"
——"Why are you eating and taking at the same time?"
——"The convenience bags are ready at the entrance of the village."
——"Last month, after the college entrance examination, our village held a banquet for four or five days in a row. I couldn't eat any more after three days, and my weight skyrocketed!"
——"Me too. I went to various classmates' houses for banquets every day. I gained five or six pounds!"
In ancient times, the ancient people who had just enjoyed eating the hot pot were all defeated at this moment.
Looking at the plates of delicious dishes, and then looking down at their own "lonely" broken box, everyone suddenly felt that the hot pot was not delicious anymore.
This is so depressing. I thought eating hotpot and looking at the sky was the peak of life.
And this is what I am shown? We would never dream of eating so many dishes!
Can’t eat anymore after three days?
Is this really human language?
If you can't eat it, give it to me. I can eat it! I'm so cool!
"Dad, my daughter wants to eat pork elbow."
"For tomorrow, Dad will make it for you tomorrow. Eat a piece of this beef first."
"Dad, I want to eat pork elbow, too."
"Eat your ass, get out and work!"
Qin Dynasty.
Ying Zheng looked at the sumptuous dishes displayed on the skylight, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
Ordinary people in later generations can enjoy the best of meat and fish. When I think about the fact that I either have bean rice with meat soup or bean rice with dried meat every day, I suddenly feel that life is a bit boring. I, an emperor, eat worse than ordinary people in later generations. No wonder I have a poor appetite every day.
If he could eat the delicacies of later generations, could he be without an appetite every day?
"Ah, I hope Miss Luo will work hard and sell those condiments from later generations to my Great Qin as soon as possible." Ying Zheng sighed and murmured softly.
……
Tang Dynasty.
Everyone in the Tang Dynasty group sighed quietly at the same time.
They have watched a lot of videos, about the atomic bomb and landing on the moon, but those are far from their lives and they have basically no sense of immersion. They just know that it is very fierce and amazing, but that's all.
But they were really jealous after watching this video. It turns out that ordinary people in rural areas eat better than them!
This is so enviable!
"呲流~"
The piercing sound was unusually clear in the hall.
Everyone subconsciously looked at Yuchi Jingde, only to see him with his back to them, shrugging his shoulders.
"What's wrong with him?" Li Shimin asked curiously.
Cheng Yaojin couldn't help but roll his eyes: "What else could it be? This simpleton is probably kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see so many pigs lose their elbows. Tears are streaming from the corners of his mouth."
Hearing this, everyone in the hall burst into laughter.
Just as he was laughing, Cheng Yaojin felt something was wrong.
What the hell? Where is my big box of hot pot?
"Slurp~Slurp~"
Listening to Yuchi Jingde's constant "slurping" sound, Cheng Yaojin suddenly realized that this was not the sound of sucking saliva, but the sound of slurping noodles!
"Give me back my beef!"
"Don't even think about it, this is mine, huh!"
Amid the two people's quarreling, the picture on the sky screen changed again and a new video began to play.
[In the grain war, COFCO fought one against four. Fortunately, we won this war without gunpowder. Grain Finance]
What is the most deadly weapon in the United States?
[Military? Finance? Or Culture?]
[In fact, none of these are true. Food is the sharpest weapon of the United States! ]
[Because this is not a simple "eating" issue at all, but a "food fate" that can affect the life and death of other countries. 】
【Using food as a weapon, they often kill people without bloodshed. Wherever they go, there is widespread grief and blood flows like a river.】
[The American country is using food as a weapon to disintegrate the Western countries such as the Western Bear, the White Elephant, and Argentina. There are many countries that are threatened by the United States, and we, with a population of more than one billion, are the big fat meat in their eyes. ]
——"I remember this. Although I was still young at the time, I remember that my family did store a lot of rice."
——"Then you are better than me. Not only did I never snatch the seat, I even had to give them my seat on the bus."
[In the moment of crisis, COFCO stepped forward and fought four companies alone to turn the tide like a god descending from heaven. This was a battle without gunpowder, but it concerned the lifeblood of all Chinese people. ]
[If we had failed, I can’t imagine what we would be like today. Let’s review the war that we lost first and then won. ]
【If you understand how a country is controlled by food, you will understand why we must keep our rice bowl firmly in our own hands. 】
Three Kingdoms.
Zhang Fei looked at Liu Bei in confusion: "Brother, the rice yield in later generations is frighteningly high, how can there still be a food war? Could it be that some blind people are jealous of the rice of later generations and want to steal it from them?"
Liu Bei hesitated for two seconds and said uncertainly: "That shouldn't be the case. I think the war here refers to a business war."
"Business war? What kind of war is that? Future generations will only scare people." Upon hearing this, Zhang Fei curled his lips in disdain.
Zhuge Liang shook his head and explained, "No, no, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zhong required all officials in the country to change their clothes from Qi's silk to Lu's silk, which caused the price of silk to rise. At the same time, he strictly prohibited the people of Qi from weaving silk, and instead bought up Lu's silk on a large scale."
"The State of Lu saw that it could make money, so it planted mulberry and hemp on all its land, abandoned farming, and left the country without any surplus grain."
"Two years later, Qi refused Lu's silk. But by then Lu had no more food left. It was too late to grow food again, so Lu was forced to sign a treaty to respect Qi."
"I think the food war that was talked about in later generations should be very similar to this story."
"So sinister? Oh my god, you scholars are just so cunning. How can we win in the future?" Zhang Fei smacked his lips and couldn't help saying.
"The title is Lose First and Then Win, so it must be a big loss." Zhuge Liang ignored Zhang Fei's offense and replied patiently.
……
The marquee continues to play.
[In fact, according to the current global food production, there is no absolute food crisis. ]
[According to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the global grain production last year was about 27.65 billion tons. If potatoes and beans are included, the total amount is about 35 billion tons.]
[Based on the total population of the Blue Planet of about 80 billion, the average per capita food intake is about 437 kilograms, which exceeds the international food security standard of 400 kilograms.]
[But last year, 24 billion people in the world still had no sustainable access to food, accounting for about 29.6% of the world's population, of which about 9 million people were in severe temporary insecurity, and the food crisis still lingered around humanity. ]
——"I am a useless person, but I can have enough food to eat, thanks to the country and Mr. Yuan."
——"Suddenly I remembered that in "The Past by the Waterside", Brother Takuzi said that Ah Xing had a good fate because he was born in China."
——"Wow, don't mention it, Brother Takuzi is dead, Wei Layang, Wei Layang after all!"
【It was not a natural disaster that caused all this, but a man-made disaster. 】
Kissinger once said, whoever controls the currency controls the global economy, and whoever controls food controls the entire human race.
[As the world's number one agricultural power and the largest food exporter, the United States holds the power to set global food prices. ]
[So in 1980, Reagan, then the boss of the United States, clearly stated in the Santa Fe Conference document that the United States’ main strategy for controlling the world was food supply.]
[The specific implementers are the four major international grain traders known as ABCD. Three of these four grain traders are from the United States, and only one is from France. But it is easy to guess which side France is on.]