"What are you doing when you get up and kneel down? I'm not causing trouble for you. On the contrary, I want to reward you! Reward..." Xiao Letian roared. As a leader, Xiao Letian must of course prepare some reward money at any time, but this money is not for his civil and military officials and soldiers. The Chinese have a very complete mechanism for recording military merit, and everyone's rewards are distributed according to the law. Within the Chinese, especially within the military and political system, private rewards of the Manchu and Qing dynasties, which have the connotation of master and slave, are strictly prohibited. In particular, the Chinese army has no practice of rewarding various titles and silver coins, even if it is a desperate charge with less to fight, even if It was a fierce battle that they knew would result in the annihilation of the entire army, but they were not motivated by giving money on the spot.
All rewards are given out after the war, after detailed and systematic analysis. No one will give you a penny less, nor will they give you a penny more. Everything is precise and fair.
But after all, the Chinese lived at the end of the 19th century, and the world outside the Chinese was still old and traditional. When dealing with the Manchus and other foreign races, this silver reward system was very necessary.
Liu Dadao saved Zai Chun's life, and he also thought that he had done a big favor to the Chinese people. It would be wrong not to reward him for such a contribution. But after all, Liu Dadao was a pigtailed Qing Dynasty citizen, and he was not a Chinese citizen, so the Chinese system of merit-based rewards did not apply to him.
In this case, Xiao Letian can only activate the most traditional cash reward mechanism.
After giving the order, the guard soldier took out a long roll of silver coins from the house. This was one hundred brand-new dragon-patterned silver coins, tightly wrapped in red paper into a roll. This is the most common thing among Chinese businessmen. The way to store silver coins is that when you use them, just break them and they will fall out.
One hundred silver coins is about ten months' salary for a skilled blue-collar worker. It is neither too much nor too little. It is definitely too little to reward the driver for saving the driver, but to reward him with this bowl of hooves The flower soup is definitely too much.
"Thank you, Prime Minister, for the reward...Thank you, Prime Minister, for the reward! I kowtow to the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister is a thousand years old..."
Xiao Letian laughed and patted Liu Dadao, who was kowtowing. He said to himself that this boy was a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty after all. He would never forget that Zai Chun was his master.
The guard soldiers took the remaining hoof flower soup and led Liu Dadao to find Emperor Tongzhi. Before leaving, Liu Dadao tentatively asked the prime minister why he rewarded him.
Liu Dadao knew that it would definitely not be because of the rescue. The Manchu royal family would naturally be rewarded for rescuing the driver, and a hundred silver coins would not be equivalent to such merit, so the reward could only be related to this bowl of hoof flower soup, but Did such a bowl of secret hoof flower soup scratch the prime minister's itch? Why would you be rewarded!
In the end, Xiao Letian didn't give him a clear answer. He just said that this bowl of soup tasted delicious.
Watching Liu Dadao go away, Xiao Letian smiled secretly in his heart and said, "This secret is my plan to make a fortune. Not only that, it is also a trump card in social situations. Telling you is equivalent to telling the Qing Dynasty? Absolutely not..."
"Come here, Doctor Huang is here to have lunch with me. I have something to ask him about..."
Doctor Huang was on another warship discussing the plague situation in Suez Port with his doctors. He never expected that the Prime Minister would meet him. This had never happened before.
After all, Xiao Letian has all the Chinese military and state leaders to worry about. It would be good to meet with these medical research groups once a quarter. Sometimes they can only report problems to the head of state in the form of written reports.
Doctor Huang was immediately surprised to be summoned by the head of state today.
"Call me someone? Didn't you call Dr. Buck?"
"No, the head of state specifically stated that he would only summon you. It shouldn't be about medical research, so you don't need to bring any tools or anything..."
The surprised doctor Huang followed the soldiers in a small boat and transferred to the Zhiyuan. When he saw the head of state, the dishes on the table were already placed.
It was a simple four dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetarian dishes. The soup was half-divided hoof flower soup. There was no drinking and there was a pot of green tea on the table.
"Sit down, it's been a bumpy journey on the sea. You doctors have been through a lot. Even the big-headed soldiers have suffered from seasickness in large numbers. It's not easy for you to be able to hold on until now!"
"Thank you for your concern, head of state. We can hold on. Virus Island is a full day and a half away from Ryukyu. We often go back and forth, and we are used to it..."
After a few simple greetings, Xiao Letian actually served a bowl of soup to Dr. Huang Xi personally. Just when his eyes were red and swollen due to emotion and he was about to drink, Xiao Letian said, "Take a sip of tea first and clear your mouth. Then taste this bowl of soup carefully...this is the private dish of Liu Dadao, the imperial chef who rescued you!"
Doctor Huang quickly rinsed his mouth with tea to ensure that there was no smell at all, and then carefully tasted this bowl of humble-looking hoof flower soup.
His eyes lit up as soon as he took the mouthful, "Fresh! So fresh! As expected, the imperial chef has a secret recipe. This is the most delicious soup I have ever tasted in my life..."
"But when the head of state asked me to come, I shouldn't just taste this bowl of soup, right? With such delicious food, you should reward the generals who have made greater contributions, right?"
"Hahaha, you have made great contributions to studying germology, so don't belittle yourselves... But today I called you here, and I really have a new task for you!"
"I know that you are also studying chemistry while cultivating bacteria. After all, the knowledge of laboratory operations can also be used in medicine..."
"Bring a top-secret team and you will be in charge... help me extract the delicious flavor from this bowl of soup!"
"Ah?" Doctor Huang made a smack sound and dropped the porcelain spoon in his hand on the table.
"No...I said that you, the head of state, are in trouble. How can you extract this flavor? Isn't this a joke..."
"Who are you kidding? Why can't the taste be refined? Where is the saltiness? In the salt, where is the sweetness? In the sugar..."
"Chili peppers are spicy, vinegar is sour, and bitter melon is bitter...sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty. What taste is not represented by anything? Why can't it be refined?"
"Chemistry studies the changes in these tiny substances. Find the basic substances of these flavors and purify them. This is what you should do!"
"The same goes for umami. If I say it can be extracted, it means it can be extracted!"
Doctor Huang completely grimaced, "Führer, you are really being embarrassed. It's hard to say that one ingredient is the most representative of umami. Almost all ingredients have umami. Do you want me to study the whole world?" All the ingredients? Do I want to do medicine anymore? Kill chickens and sheep for you all day long and work as a cook?"
Doctor Huang is right. To purify a certain element through chemical experiments, you must first confirm that it is the most abundant in those substances, and then conduct experiments again and again to screen.
Sea water is salty, so to find the source of the salty smell, go to the sea or a salt well. Chili peppers are spicy, so the extraction of capsaicin is naturally found here. The crystallized sugar cane after drying with sweet water is of course white sugar.
But where is this delicious flavor hidden? Dr. Huang Xie believed that the head of state was being unreasonable.
