Chapter 33 Luoyang Underworld
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Luoyang, known as Luoyang and Yuzhou in ancient times, is located in the western part of Henan, the middle reaches of the Yellow River, named after the Yang of the Luohe River, is the first batch of historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council, and is also an important industrial city in the central region.
Luoyang has a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, 4,000 years of city building[1] and more than 1,500 years of capital history, and 105 emperors have settled in Kyushu here. It is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization and one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation. It is an important hub of the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Peony is famous all over the world for Luoyang, known as "the thousand-year-old imperial capital, peony flower city"
Luoyang water banquet is a unique Han traditional banquet in Luoyang, Henan, which belongs to the Henan cuisine. Luoyang Water Banquet began in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,000 years, making it one of the oldest famous banquets preserved in China. It has two meanings: one is that all hot dishes have soup - soup soup water; The second is to eat one hot dish Luoyang water seat, and then serve another dish after withdrawing, which is constantly updated like flowing water. Luoyang water mat is characterized by meat and vegetarian, a wide selection of materials, simple and complex, diverse tastes, sour, spicy, sweet and salty, comfortable and delicious.
Luoyang Water Banquet began in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,000 years, making it one of the oldest famous banquets preserved in China.
The water mat originated in Luoyang, which is directly related to its geography and climate. Luoyang is surrounded by mountains, and the rain is little and dry. In ancient times, the weather was cold and did not produce fruits, so the folk diet mostly used soups.
Likes sour and spicy to ward off the dry cold. People here are accustomed to using local rice points, lotus vegetables, yams, radish, cabbage, etc. to make an economical, rich soup feast, even the princes and nobles are also used to cook the main and sideline foods together, and over time gradually create a Luoyang water seat with local characteristics, and gradually form the flavor of "sour and spicy, refreshing and delicious".
According to legend, Yuan Tiangang watched the sky on Chinese New Year's Eve and knew that Wu Zetian would become emperor in the future, but the heavenly machine could not be leaked, so he designed this banquet to herald Wu Zetian's wine and meat in the next twenty-four years. The soup and water of each dish allude to Wu Zetian's natural success; Dry and thin, it is a metaphor for Wu Zetian's twenty-four years of dry (thin). The dish sequence of "Luoyang Water Seat" is the first eight products (cold dishes), four town tables, eight large pieces, and four sweeping tails, a total of 24 dishes, which corresponds to Wu Zetian's 24 years from the first year of Yonglong to the first year of Shenlong's death in Luoyang Palace.
The so-called "water mat" has two meanings: one is that all hot dishes have soup - soup soup water; The second is hot dishes
After eating one, withdraw and add another one, and keep renewing it like running water.
The people of Luoyang regard the water seat as the upper seat in various banquets, in order to entertain guests from afar. It is not only a popular banquet in the grand banquet, it is usually a ceremonial occasion such as folk weddings and funerals, birthdays, and festivals, and people are also accustomed to entertaining relatives and friends with water mats, and people affectionately call it "38 tables". As a traditional food style, it is known as the three unique styles of Luoyang, and the traditional peony flower meeting and the ancient Longmen Grottoes, and is known as the three unique winds of the ancient capital Luoyang, and has become the pride of Luoyang people.
There are a total of 24 dishes for the whole table, including 8 cold cuts, 4 large dishes, 8 medium dishes, and 4 pressed table dishes, which are hot and cold, meat and vegetarian, sweet and salty, sour and spicy. The order of serving is very exquisite, first serve 8 cold dishes as appetizers, each plate is three pieces of meat and vegetables, a total of 16 kinds; Wait for the guests to drink for three rounds and then serve hot dishes: first serve 4 large hot dishes, each one is followed by two medium dishes (also called foil dishes or seasoning dishes), which is called "belt on the court"; Finally, there are 4 dishes on the table, including an egg soup, also known as send-off soup, to show that the whole table is full. Hot dishes must be served with soup water, chicken, duck and fish, fresh goods, mushrooms, seasonal vegetables are all included in the food, silk, slices, strips, blocks, dices, fried, cooked, fried, fried, and roasted, with endless changes. However, there are still many kinds of folk water mat practices, such as the last dish of some is eight treasures.
In the center of Luoyang there is such a water seat shop, his name is brilliant, this water seat shop in Luoyang has a history of several decades, according to legend at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, this water seat shop existed, in the following decades, this water seat shop has developed and grown, and has now become the most famous water seat shop in the center of Luoyang, if people who come to Luoyang do not come here to eat some water seats, they are embarrassed to say that they have been to Luoyang.
The brilliant water seat shop has always been full of people, the door has always been full of traffic, and the guests who want to come over to eat sometimes even have to be three days in advance with the positioning, which shows that the business of this shop is booming, every night the water seat shop is bustling and full of people, but today, this water seat shop is a little weird.
There were cars parked at his door, and there were about ten black-clad bodyguards standing around each car, looking around at the pedestrians with cold eyes, their waists bulging and they could see that they were all carrying guys, and the pedestrians on the road were far away, for fear of frowning.
The water seat shop was full of people, but they were all about fifty years old, and the number of people was about fifty people.
"Hey. Brothers, I have gathered everyone here today to discuss where our Luoyang underworld is going! An old man who looked the tallest in the grade stood up and coughed, and the crowd around him who was still noisy suddenly fell silent, which showed the majesty of this old man.
"Where can I go? Brother Yu, if you have something to say, just say it, all of you here are people with heads and faces on our Luoyang underworld," a man who looked to be in his early forties stood up and shouted in a rough manner.
The men below have echoed one after another, and they want the old man who just spoke to take a note, it seems that this old man should be the leader of this group of people, this old man's name is Yu Hehuan, he has been sixty years old, and he is the boss of one of the Luoyang underworlds, in addition to the rat gang, Luoyang is the largest in the scale of the Fengzi Society, but it is a pity that Yu Hehuan did not have Qian Sen's motivation back then, otherwise the Luoyang underworld would not let the rat gang be the master for decades.
Yu Hehuan looked at the people in the hall who wanted to make up their own ideas, and smiled bitterly in his heart, where is this idea, it is simply forcing himself to a dead end! "Brothers, the Rat Poison Gang is finished, that kid from Qian Sen has surrendered to the Tianlong Society, and it seems that the Tianlong Society has become a settlement in Luoyang! Do you have any plans? ”
The man in his forties just now stood up and said, "What can you do, we did the same when the Rat Poison Gang was here, and the Rat Poison Gang is no longer here, are we just fine?" ”
"You can't say that," a middle-aged man with glasses who looked like an office worker stood up and said, "The style of the Tianlong Society is extremely ruthless, have you forgotten the lessons of the gang bosses in the three cities of Kaifeng?" Don't forget, when the Tianlong Society entered Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, it wiped out all the gangsters in these two cities. You go and see if you can still find a gangster in these two cities, no, not one! ”
Another man stood up, "And what do you mean?" Do you want us to join forces and fight to the death with the Celestial Dragon Society? ”
"Fight? Jokes, what do we fight? There are more than 6,000 people in Luoyang, not counting the people and horses left behind in the three cities of Zhengzhou, if all of them are counted, they will have at least 20,000 people, what do we fight? Can you fight better than others? Another man with a scar on his face stood up and said loudly and dissatisfiedly when he heard that he was going to fight hard.
"Hmph, what are you afraid of? It's a big deal that you're a good guy again after eighteen years, aren't you every kind of handle? The man who spoke just now sneered at Scarface and shouted.
"Grass your grandma's, who are you talking about? If you have the ability, tell Lao Tzu again! When the scar man heard this, he immediately became angry, stood up with a snap, kicked the chair behind him away, and pointed at the murderous roar on the man's face,
"What? Want to fight? Scarface, Lao Tzu can tell you that others may be afraid of your knife, but Lao Tzu has never put your knife in his eyes! Seeing Scarface stand up menacingly, the man did not have a trace of fear, but shouted at Scarface-for-tat.
"Turtle grandson, brothers, copy the guys for Lao Tzu and kill them!" Scarface was so angry that the scar on his face jumped on his face like an earthworm, and yelled at the few men standing behind him, he only has one idea now, no matter what Tianlong will be or not, cut this guy first.
"Do you think you're the only one? Brothers, come on! The man saw that Scarface made the first move, he didn't get angry, and shouted to the people behind him, and several bodyguards standing behind the man pulled out their pistols, and the muzzle of the black hole was pointed at Scarface, and Scarface was not to be outdone, and all the guys in his hands escaped.
Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Yu Hehuan hurriedly stood up and only knew, "Brothers, everyone calm down, we are here to discuss the future, not to fight here!" "It's good now, the matter hasn't been resolved yet, and these guys with evil intentions are about to fight. 、
No one knows Scarface's real name anymore, because when he was young, he was slashed in his face by his opponent when he was angry, leaving a scar, and many people used to call him Scar in the future, and over time, no one knew his real name.
He is the president of the Little Knife Club, the ranking of the Little Knife Club in the Luoyang underworld is not high or low, the number of people is about two hundred, occupying more than a dozen fields in the west of the city, the strength is definitely one of the best in the west of the city, and the thin man who is opposite the scar is named Fu Zhijie, who is the owner of the Duzi Gate, and the ranking of the Duzi Gate and the Little Knife Club is not much different, the territory of the two of them is very close, and there are often young men and women between the two sides, so the relationship between the two people is not good.
"Hmph, the surname is Fu, you remember to Lao Tzu, this matter is not over today!" Scarface has not solved this matter until today, and now that so many people in the Luoyang underworld are here, he is too fierce here, and it will be difficult to see people in the future.
"Haha, Scarface, my ears are calloused, you can't say something new!" Fu Zhijie was very unimpressed by Scarface's threat, he and Scar had been fighting for more than ten years, and they had been fooling each other, but until now they didn't have enough strength to destroy each other.
"Alright, alright. This matter will be put aside first, you all talk about it, what is the attitude and countermeasures of our Luoyang underworld towards the Tianlong Society? Surrender or rebellion! Yu Hehuan said to the dozens of people around him, worthy of being an old fritter in the rivers and lakes, he said to the point in a casual sentence, in fact, in the final analysis, there are only two answers to this matter, one is to surrender, and the other is to resist!
The crowd was silent.
Revolt? That pure shatter is looking for death, the Tianlong Club is not a poisonous rat gang in the outside power, they are the rising stars of the Henan underworld, with endless momentum and energy, Long Ao took his brothers all the way from Xinxiang to Luoyang, the dragon army is invincible, and the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and they only garrison 6,000 soldiers in the Luoyang area, and there are nearly 10,000 people in the three cities of Zhengzhou can still be mobilized, there are a lot of people in Luoyang, but they are some gangsters who have no combat effectiveness, let them fight with the brave and good dragon soldiers, I am afraid of a long timeand they will collapse first,
Returning to Shun, this method seems to be the only method that can be used at present, but Guishun Tianlong will not go to them psychologically, the hearts of Henan people are arrogant, they were afraid of the majesty of the Rat-Poison Gang when they were in the past, and they were obedient to it, after all, the Rat-Poisoning Gang defeated the prestige rebels at that time with a thousand people, they were kings, and they were strong, and they had nothing to do except Return.
But what about the Draco? Yes, the Tianlong Society defeated the Rat Poison Gang, no, it can't be said to be defeated but completely eliminated, the Rat Poison Gang no longer exists, the Tianlong Society is currently the strongest gang in Luoyang, according to reason, they are the only leaders of the Luoyang underworld, and there is no doubt that the Luoyang underworld will obey them.
But they are not convinced, Henan people are crazy, in a derogatory term is not to hit the south wall and not look back, only after a blow will they realize the gap between themselves and their opponents, and they are currently in such a state of mind.
"You can do what you like, anyway, we won't surrender the little rabbit cub whose hair hasn't grown yet, I won't accompany you, and I'll leave!" A big man in his forties stood up, bowed his hand to the underworld bosses around him, and led people away.
"And me, although our Tianmen is not a big gang, we also have our own dignity, even if we defect to the Tianlong Society, we have to ask the brothers if they agree," the other bald man stood up and said to the bosses around him with a cold face.
With these two bosses taking the lead, the rest of the things are much easier, many people stood up and said to this Yu Hehuan that they were going to lead the brothers below to fight a bloody battle, and after they failed, after a while, the bosses on the scene had become sparse, and it was no longer the crowded scene before.