Li Chao told Chengqian and Qiuyan that he would return to Xiangyang the next day.

"I don't want to go back, it's pretty good here." Cheng Qian was not interested in returning to Xiangyang at all. The bearded guest also asked, "Aren't we going to build a ship here?"

"We can build ships when we return to Xiangyang. We can build a timber factory and a shipyard there."

Seeing that Li Chao was firm in his attitude, the two understood that he had made up his mind. Although they didn't know why Li Chao suddenly decided to return to the court, they finally listened to Li Chao's arrangements.

It’s not difficult to go back two hundred miles away. After making a sedan chair, someone was carrying Cheng Qian. The sedan chair is better than a carriage and does not bump. If you put a stove in the sedan chair, you won’t be afraid of the cold weather.

The one who is most unwilling to go back to Xiangyang is Pingyang. In Wudang Mountain, she lives with Li Chao every day, and watches the sunrise together in the morning, watches the sunset together in the evening, and occasionally goes hunting and fishing. She even made a piece of land with Li Chao and planted some vegetables.

It tastes like a man ploughing and a woman weaving. At night, the two of them lie on the kang together, chatting casually, and snuggling together, how warm and happy it is.

Now I have to go back suddenly and go back to reality.

She got angry and refused to leave, and Li Chao had to comfort her with kind words. "You have me in your heart, and I have you in my heart, and it will be the same wherever you go."

No matter what, when it dawns, Li Chao still took everyone down the mountain.

I walked very slowly along the way, only forty miles a day. I walked from Wudang Mountain to Xiangyang for five days.

Empress Changsun came to greet him in person, and couldn't help crying when she watched the prince.

Empress Changsun was much more friendly towards Li Chao. After she became angry at first, she no longer took her anger and blamed Li Chao. On the contrary, Empress Changsun was very grateful to Li Chao. If Li Chao had not found a bearded guest, Cheng Qian might have been lame.

"Let's go home, my mother has prepared good things for you."

"What good thing?"

"Whale, the day before yesterday, just caught a whale, a big light blue whale, said to weigh 300,000 to 400,000 kilograms, and more than eight feet long. They slaughtered whales and sent them to Xiangyang by boat."

After hearing this, Li Chao immediately judged that it must be a blue whale. Only the blue whale will have such a big size. It weighs 300,000 to 400,000 kilograms, which is at least more than 100 tons.

Li Chao suddenly became interested. How did they catch such a big whale?

The blue whale is very fast, and it is very difficult to catch this whale so big.

"It is said that the food sent by the Dragon Prince is auspicious." The queen said happily.

After listening for a while, Li Chao understood that it turned out that the whale was stranded. A big blue whale weighing nearly 200 tons was stranded on the coast near Yangzhou for some reason.

Because of famine, the government encouraged the people to go fishing and pick up sea catches. As a result, early in the morning, a big whale like a mountain was found on the beach.

At the beginning, the fishermen were still a little scared.

After hearing the news, the government officials checked, they found that the big whale was still alive and could not go into the sea and was trapped on the beach. If it were ordinary years, people might not dare to think about eating this big whale, and they would think that this was the Dragon King's subordinate.

But now in this famine year, who cares about this? Besides, the imperial court has issued orders to everyone to fish. How could it be missed if it comes to the door now?

So, local officials reported.

Soon, someone came, and they were officials who were responsible for mobilizing food in various places. These were officials sent from the top and were brave. When they saw this big whale, their eyes immediately shone.

Then gather experienced fishermen to study how to slaughter the big whale.

No matter how large a big blue whale was stranded and unable to move, it could only be slaughtered by others.

This was a grand festival. Countless people flocked to the beach to watch the whale slaughtering conference. After the whale was slaughtered, they obtained countless whale meat, blubber, many whale skins, baleen, etc.

Even the whale's internal organs were not wasted.

The best blubber-whale meat needs to be stored, but it does not need to cause whale internal organs, etc., and the government will directly distribute it to the people on the spot.

It is not easy to divide a huge whale, but fortunately there are many people. I got a huge long knife, cut the whale, hollowed out the internal organs, and then divided the whale into large pieces and peeled off the thick whale skin on it.

The local people all said that this was a gift from the Dragon King.

Local officials even regarded this as auspicious. In the years of famine, the Dragon King sent hundreds of thousands of kilograms of big fish, which is not auspicious.

The cut whale was loaded directly onto the ship and then sent to Xiangyang immediately. Since it was auspicious, of course it had to be given to the court and the emperor.

Li Chao and the others returned to Xiangyang, but they happened to catch up.

"Really? Ah, I'm going to see it." Cheng Qian said excitedly.

Li Chao smiled and said that he did not believe Xiangrui at all. It is very common for whale stranding to be stranded, but even drought can be said to be dissatisfied with heaven. Then whale stranding can naturally be said to be auspicious to heaven.

Go directly to Yuliangzhou.

A trench has been dug between Yuliangzhou and Dongyuliangping, Xiangyang, and the Han River water has been introduced. Yuliangzhou has become a large river center continent. A pontoon bridge is built on the trench. You have to pass the pontoon bridge when entering and leaving, or you can only take a boat to the continent.

There are bridgeheads at both ends of the pontoon bridge and guards are stationed.

The security guards of the palace on the island are getting stronger and stronger.

"Teacher, do you know how to eat whales?"

“What does whales taste like?”

Cheng Qian looked curious.

Li Chao has really eaten whales, but it was in later generations. He went to Japan to travel in later generations. The Japanese like to hunt whales. Even though they have regarded whales as protected animals in later generations, the Japanese have to hunt many whales under the name of scientific research every year.

The fishing whales will enter the Japanese shop table.

In fact, whale meat tastes not much different from pork.

There are many ways to eat whales, or cooking methods. However, there is one that is said to be the oldest way to eat, which is to eat raw.

I heard that the fishermen on the seaside who used to hunt whales and cut them into pieces to store them. When they want to eat, they just take a piece of them, cut them into thin slices, and then eat them raw.

Or you can eat it by dipping some soy sauce or other seasonings.

When they arrived at the Eastern Palace, the queen sent someone to get whale meat.

After a while, several eunuchs carried a large basket containing a large piece of whale meat and a skin, just like a large brick, weighing at least nearly a hundred kilograms.

Cheng Qian turned his wheelchair and approached the large piece of whale meat.
Chapter completed!