Chapter 667: Spain but so
Let’s say that official Hong Xi was in Hutianhudi, the officers and soldiers of the Southeast Mansion also had a happy life. They disembarked and played around, eating exotic food-----after eating for two days, they returned to their boat and ate the noodles!
Ordinary Portuguese food is not as delicious as a royal meal.
Moreover, Hong Maofan is still in a feudal society, and the upper and lower ranks are distinct. The nobles can invite the southeast officers to enjoy the feast. They think that they are the same class as the officers, but they don't look at the big Chinese soldiers.
Therefore, the Chinese can't compliment the ordinary Portuguese food. For example, Portugal has a wealth of seafood, but when it comes to removing fishy, they don't have the skills of a Chinese chef; eating lamb, a Chinese chef can achieve no sorrow. , Makes you almost suspect that you are not eating lamb.
As for the Portuguese, you can’t eat these dishes if you eat fish, and you can eat sheep.
The power of Chinese food lies in its ability to make ordinary home-cooked dishes delicious. The Portuguese cooking skills are obviously not on the same level as the Chinese chefs.
Most Chinese are not used to eating, but reporter Yao Wenqi and naturalist Tao Yuanzao are like sweets. They drill everywhere, shop and eat everywhere!
It's really not in vain, there are a lot of things worth seeing. As the capital of Lisbon, there are plenty of places of interest to visit.
The Belém Tower, located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, was built in the early 16th century. When the tide is high, it seems to float on the water and the scenery is beautiful. The Jeronimos Monastery in front of the tower is a typical Manuel-style architecture popular in the early 16th century, with grandeur and gorgeous carvings. There is a cemetery of famous nationals in the courtyard. The Portuguese navigator Da Gama and the famous poet Camoánz lie there. Yao Wenqi and Tao Yuanzao both went to pay their respects and laid flowers.
The Portuguese say that those who have not seen Lisbon have never seen the beautiful scenery. The best street in this beautiful city is located at the mouth of the Targas River (Teho River). The Targas River flows to the Atlantic Ocean and forms an inland sea called "The Sea of Chao", which is the most magnificent in the world One of the natural harbors, famous for sailing here by great navigators.
Although the turmoil has just occurred, Lisbon is still fascinating. It is now the golden age of the great nautical era, and it is also the golden age of Lisbon. Ships departing from Lisbon go to Africa and Asia for trade, and there are also trades by land.
The capital of Portugal became one of the wealthiest cities in Europe, and Portugal became a world power. The gold, silver, gems, silk, spices, rare plants, and animals such as live rhinos that were transported back by sea were unloaded at the port of Lisbon, and the city's treasure house was overflowing.
So the people's lives are relatively rich, at least they can eat a lot of meat that is not well done.
Hong Xiguan did not ask the chefs on the ship to show his craftsmanship. He wanted those Portuguese who had been to the East to promote the legend of Chinese cuisine!
Seven days later, the Southeast Fleet bid farewell to the reluctant Portuguese and received a lot of money!
Just as Hong Xiguan looked down on Hong Maofan's goods, Hong Maofan found that he was embarrassed and did not have any good goods to return to the distinguished guests from the East.
Well, simplistic, rebate three thousand taels of gold!
thanks, thanks!
They reached a consensus with the Portuguese, one is to establish diplomatic relations on both sides and to set up their own embassies; the other is to actively develop trade, provide good services to the other side's merchant ships and cut tariffs in half.
With the help of Lopez and Prado, they led them to the port of Cadiz in Spain, and they were also warmly welcomed.
The Spanish Minister of State, Santos, personally waited here, and kindly invited him to Madrid to meet with King Philip IV of Spain!
Philip IV was very interested in the envoys from the east, but he couldn't go to see Hong Xiguan with dignity, so Hong Xiguan had to go to see him!
When people give face so much, of course Hong Xi official has to save face, so he got on the carriage and headed to Madrid with Santos.
Facts have proved that this is an unbearable journey!
The road conditions were serious and bad, and official Hong Xi almost vomited out his internal organs.
In the southeast government, highway conditions are one of the evaluation indicators for local officials. Yan Changwu has already made bureaucratic evaluations digitized. It is no longer outstanding, good or bad, but scoring item by item, which one is well done, which one It's easy to see if the project is not well done. The hard bottoming of the road is also an evaluation indicator. The local officials dare not care about the township roads, but the main roads will definitely be maintained.
He simply rode a horse!
The method is to cover up the face, revealing only a pair of eyes, like a masked thief.
Otherwise, do you want to be chic?
Then eat mud, and I hope you have hot water in your accommodation, otherwise your clothes are all mud!
Official Hong Xi went all the way, paying attention to the feelings of the people along the way.
Despite the influx of silver from the great nautical era, Spain is still quite backward. Most of the wooden houses are seen on the road. The stone buildings are only visible in the towns. Most of the roads are dirt roads. The good roads are only close to the city. Only on the side.
The nobles wore the finest silk, while the people were homespun cloth, ragged, and they didn't look tall!
Don't think that the red hair fan was born tall. In the age of ignorance, they were also short. The average height of the Germans in the 17th century was only a few six meters, as can be seen from the castles and knight armors. Many places in the real ancient castle are very narrow and short.
The armor of those knights is so narrow that even modern Asians can't wear them. The knights are like this, the common people can imagine.
Spain is just so!
Sure enough, there are all evil nobles and bureaucrats living well.
Official Hong Xi couldn't help being proud of his Southeast Mansion. In Southeast Mansion, porters wear silk clothes. Almost everyone eats white rice and meat from time to time!
The Southeastern Government has vigorously promoted the vegetable basket project, first ensuring that urban residents have white rice and meat to eat, and then in the countryside, they also try to make them full and eat well.
The fellow reporter Yao Wenqi is even more aware of ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ where ordinary people can eat meat every day, most of them have some bread. I was busy all day long, and I didn't have much time to pay attention to cooking. Only aristocratic masters are relatively particular.
The staple food of Westerners is of course bread, but the main ingredient of bread may not be wheat. Until the 17th century, the production of safflower was in short supply. So all kinds of substitutes, including barley, rye, and diploid wheat, are made into bread, and even chestnuts and beans are used to make bread.
The poor have long eaten bread with complex ingredients, while white bread has been enjoyed by the rich, nobles, and church privileges.
At that time, a kind of white bread was called priest bread, priest was the name of priest, and there was also a kind of fine white bread that was added with milk and replaced with beer yeast. It was called queen bread, which means that when you eat this bread, you have The queen's life enjoyment.
According to the French family, it embodies the ugly integration of the church and the kingship.
Later, when Hong Xiguan arrived in France, the enthusiastic French aristocrats used ugliness to entertain him, lest they neglect the distinguished guests from the East!
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