After broadcasting the ancient times live, I handed the system over to the state.

"Steamed ones are called steamed cakes!"

Plump, white steamed buns and dumplings were arranged one by one in the rising steam, gradually revealing their true form, and the aroma of wheat quickly filled people's rumbling stomachs.

Just seeing it makes you imagine taking a bite and experiencing the sweet, soft flavor that bursts on your lips and tongue.

"The boiled kind is called soup noodles, just like today's noodle soup."

Long noodles coated in chili oil lie quietly on the sizzling soup, surrounded by crisp, tender green vegetables.

Thin slices of noodles lie in a tangy tomato soup, the red tomatoes contributing their flavor and juice, blending into the broth. A few crisp green scallions as a garnish are enough to whet the appetite.

"hungry!"

This is the shared thought of countless people under the sky.

Even Zhu Qinggu himself was getting hungry from talking about it, let alone the others.

She quickly changed the subject; she couldn't linger there!

"...By the Southern Song Dynasty, wheat had replaced millet as the primary staple food in the north, and this status has remained unchanged to this day!"

"We're talking about wheat here, but let's not forget about barley!"

Zhu Qinggu marked the Tibet region on the map on the sky and also released a few seconds of video of the Tibet region.

Some nomadic people looked up at the sky and immediately recognized it as their descendants who would later live on this sacred land. Those descendants, with bright eyes, enjoyed their food with great relish as they chatted and laughed.

"Barley, when it reaches the high plateau region, becomes the staple food of the local people, which is also the main raw material used to make tsampa."

Thus, the people under the sky learned that tsampa is a type of fried flour, and that it is also a type of oat used in other places to make oat noodles.

The variety of grains also broadened the horizons of many people under the sky.

"There is another grain called sorghum. Actually, sorghum is used for food but that's secondary. The most important thing is that sorghum is very suitable for brewing wine, and there are also major historical events associated with sorghum winemaking."

"When the Ming Dynasty was founded and its capital was Nanjing, taxes were collected in silk and grain. However, after Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, collecting taxes required traversing the north and south of China, which was too costly."

Hearing Zhu Qinggu's words, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to beat up his fourth son again.

He could tell from a glance that the fourth prince was going to side with Zhu Di. It wasn't because Yan was originally the fourth prince's fiefdom that there weren't so many demons and monsters there.

……

“Starting from the first year of the Zhengtong reign, some places were allowed to use silver to replace some taxes in kind. Later, with Zhang Juzheng’s Single Whip Law, except for a few areas, silver was used for settlement and collection.”

"There has never been a shortage of clever people in ancient China. For every policy, there is a countermeasure. Some people thought that sorghum was cheap, but its value would increase many times over after it was used to brew wine. As a result, more and more wineries began to appear."

"Alcohol was banned during the Qing Dynasty, but it was repeatedly banned but not stopped. During the War of Resistance against Japan, sorghum liquor was still an important source of tax revenue, and there were even limits on the annual production. In addition, the brewing industry continued to produce fuel and alcohol for the defense industry and medical industry."

Winemaking can be done in so many ways?

"They said the barrage of comments on the screen could be used for disinfection and sterilization..." Sun Simiao immediately became interested. "It seems to be the essence of the wine. I wonder how to extract it!"

Meanwhile, the other doctors who were with Sun Simiao were chatting amongst themselves.

“Since this wine is distilled, and we also process medicinal herbs by steaming and drying them three times or even nine times, why not just steam the wine more? Maybe we can extract the essence of the wine!” one of the medical workers said.

Everyone suddenly realized what was going on and thought it made a lot of sense.

"Now that we've talked about grains, let's talk about beans. The first thing we have to mention is soybeans!" Zhu Qinggu smiled. She had tried to grow soybeans when she was little, but she hadn't succeeded. However, she had managed to grow mung bean sprouts.

The topic of growing bean sprouts has been covered in elementary school textbooks. When she was little, there was a period when her family was poor and bean sprouts were cheap, so she ate a lot of bean sprouts.

"Huaxia is the origin of soybeans. According to the 'Guanzi Rong Pian', Duke Huan of Qi introduced soybeans and scallions from the northern Shanrong. Later, beans were used as a staple food and were also an important food source for the common people."

"Soybeans are a treasure trove, and the Chinese people have truly made the most of them."

"The rich and powerful eat meat, while the common people eat wild vegetables. What are wild vegetables? They are actually soybean leaves."

“In the past, people ate bean rice and bean leaves to make soup. In the years when meat was scarce, beans were the most important source of protein for the poor. Beans can be steamed, boiled, or stir-fried. They can also be ground into soy milk. Beans can also be pressed for oil. The soybean cake residue after pressing the oil can be used to feed pigs.”

"Beans can also be fermented into fermented black beans, and can even be used to make sauces. The Chinese even invented tofu! This directly opened up another school of Chinese cuisine."

“There are also bean stalks that can be used for burning.”

The poem "Seven Steps" by Cao Zhi was then displayed on the sky.

It says, "The stalks burn in the pot, and the beans weep in the pot."

The comments section was already buzzing with clever responses—

[Beans are boiled with beanstalks as fuel; the beans cry out in the pot, "We all have the same father, why do you kill me?"]

[Why does this version seem different from the one I learned?]

[This is closer to the original work.]

[You can travel back in time and ask Cao Zhi what he actually wrote, and you'll find out.]

Cao Zhi: “…”

He felt it was not a good thing that the sky suddenly mentioned this poem.

There's also the easy-to-understand version in the comments: they all have the same father... Cao Zhi also sighed deeply.

If they could see it, Cao Cao could naturally see it too.

Cao Cao naturally wanted the brothers to fight each other, but he also didn't want to see them kill each other. Now, these things were laid bare in the open.

Some literati who were originally looking forward to composing poems and exchanging verses lost all their inspiration upon seeing the line, "We all have the same father, why did you kill me?"

People of later generations are really narrow-minded!

“It was this kind of soybean that caused us to suffer huge losses in international food trade,” Zhu Qinggu was about to say something when the system reminded her that they had already seen it. Zhu Qinggu then remembered that she seemed to have seen it herself when she browsed Douyin. “Everyone should have seen it too, that international trade war.”

"Even in times of peace, there are crises of all kinds, and therefore those who contribute to our country's food production deserve to be remembered and praised!"

Those under the sky thought of Yuan Longping, who was only mentioned briefly, and those who also contributed to the food supply for future generations of the country and the people, and couldn't help but feel a deep sense of respect.

"Next, let's talk about wild rice. Wild rice was once known as one of the six grains. So how did wild rice transform from a grain into a vegetable?"