Book 12: Chapter 54
Honestly, I wasn’t accustomed to the dishes in the North. The anthropoids had some habits that belonged to wild beasts. They weren’t good with cooking. To the contrary, they enjoyed raw meat. Even Ling Yue liked seasoning raw meat with some salt, and then eating it raw. Watching her lick the blood off her fingers truly shattered fantasies you’d have about her.
I intended to introduce some colour to dishes to the North. The main dishes and soup would be prepared as per humanity’s cooking. Additionally, we chose fruit from the elven lands. Everyone would be given some meat skewers. Then, we’d share the Empress bread Mommy Elizabeth prepared in order to show the anthropoids the purpose of wheat.
The farmers in the North weren’t willing to plant wheat. The wheat in the North was a quite similar to soybeans. Once they were ripe, they were wrapped in shells. There were very few farmers in the North. Freya gave them wheat crops, but they were full of vigilance, because they’d never seen wheat before. Up until we introduced wheat, they planted a crop similar to tomatoes. What grew, instead, resembled potatoes.
There weren’t many of them. One strain provided roughly two potatoes. What they did was wrap it up in mud, throw it into the fire and finally eat it once it was baked. Anthropoids usually had those potatoes and raw meat for dinner. If they didn’t have salt, they’d just chew the raw meat. They smoked meat in autumn to preserve the meat.
Since salt was scarce in the North, bacon and salt could, therefore, only be enjoyed by noble tribes such as Ling Yue’s. I wasn’t sure if improving the environment would help increase the production volume correspondingly.
The coronation ceremony would be a bit too shabby if they ate that way at the banquet, too. I needed to change the nobles’ concepts of food with humanity and elven foods. That, in turn, would change the people’s tastes. As a subsequence, the North would be more civilised, and thereby resemble the South.
Admittedly, while I consider eating raw meat and drinking blood to be a unique characteristic of beasts, I wanted to make them more similar to humans… Perhaps… that was because I was a human. I suppose it was comparable to what we considered as bread.
My coronation was tomorrow. You could say today was the entire Imperial Palace’s most bustling day. It was late at night, yet the horses in the stable were still neighing. There were a total of four stables; but nonetheless, there were still people who had to leave their horses outside.
A bright flame was lit in the centre of the palace to make it convenient for everybody to move their horse carriages around and unload. Lots of people were moving about in the palace. All the nobles brought food when they came over as per Alex’s request. They offered food under the pretext of a gift from the North to the new King. That also managed to cover the fact that there was no food in the Imperial City.