Yi Xin heard the words but said disapprovingly: "Mr. Zhang is too careful, the officials here are only me and him, and it doesn't matter if the officials are big or small, everyone is just a brother, and now you are also a member of my civil officials, and in the future, we will have more people who speak together, but we will also be free of a little loneliness, this is a happy thing, in the future, you and I should support each other to govern this place well, Mr. Zhang will treat this place as his home, and there is no need to have so many courtesies." ”

Zhang Shu said with emotion when he heard this: "There are only two officials in this town, and I am afraid that this government affairs are quite busy." ”

Yi Xin smiled, "It doesn't matter if you are busy or not, you can do something for the people of Daqi, I am also happy to wait until I wait, I think that before the winter, this is still a small tribe of dozens of people, you look at it now, although it is not as prosperous as Chang'an, but before all the people had a place to live, and no one starved to death, we are also worthy of our official uniform." ”

Zhang Shu can imagine the hard work of the two of them in the past six months, and he admires it in his heart.

"The benevolence of the two Shangguan is admired, and I only hope that I can learn the two Shangguan here."

Yi Xin said: "Mr. Zhang is so young, he can be entrusted with important tasks by the imperial court, and his future achievements will definitely be above the two of us." ”

Listening to Yixin's praise, Zhang Shu was a little embarrassed and humbled himself again and again.

In the conversation with Yixin, Zhang Shu also learned a little about the situation in Angu Town.

There are now more than 800 people in Angu Town, among which the tribes who returned to Qi before the Battle of Qi Xia have been given the status of citizens and become one of the people of Daqi, these people live in Angu City and are the main residents of the city.

And outside the city are the people who were later captured by the Qi State, although the life is hard, but the Qi State provides them with a meal a day, although the food is small, but they are given new rice, and the government has not carried out deductions, and the savages outside the city have no signs of rebellion.

Moreover, Daqi also told them that they would be granted citizenship and given fields in a year, so these savages were quite active in their work, and a lot of fields had been reclaimed outside the city, just waiting for the guano transported from Chang'an, and they could start sowing.

Regarding the school-age children's enrollment that Zhang was most concerned about, Yixin only told him that there were not many children under the age of ten and over eight among the Qi citizens in Angu Town, roughly about ten people, and among those savages, Yixin did not have too many statistics.

Zhang received an order that for the children of the citizens, arithmetic should be taught together with writing, and as for the wild people, they only need to be roughly taught to read and write, and the children of the citizens should go to the school every day to study, and the children of the wild people are all voluntary, and the school is open to them every three days.

From this policy of the imperial court, it can be clearly seen that the imperial court of Qi did not trust these savages.

Although Zhang Shu had some sympathy for those savages, he was now an alternate official of the imperial court, and he could only act according to the decrees of the imperial court, and only wanted to spend more energy on teaching in the future.

After about half an hour, the smell wafted from the small courtyard.

Zhang Shu was surprised: "What a fragrant taste!" ”

Yi Xin smiled: "Brother Zhong Geng's cooking skills, but I learned it from the Great King Ku Zheng, so naturally I didn't say anything. ”

When Zhang Shu heard this, he was a little surprised in his heart, and couldn't help but look forward to this reception banquet.

After a while, I saw Zhong Geng trotting over with a large pottery pot, and after putting the pottery pot on the ground, he hurriedly blew at his hands.

After rubbing his clothes, he handed the dishes and chopsticks to the two of them, and said, "Try the art of cooking." ”

Zhang Shu looked at the food that was still bubbling in the clay pot, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva unconsciously.

Yixin was not polite to Zhong Geng, picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth.

Under Zhang Shu's gaze, Yi Xin praised again and again: "Brother Zhong Geng's art is more profound, and it is really another delicious dish." ”

Zhong Geng smiled when he heard this, "Yixin is too famous, it's all from me, Mr. Zhang, don't look at it, try it." ”

Zhang heard the words and confessed, carefully picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth, only to feel that the aroma of meat permeated his mouth, and the taste was delicious.

I was amazed: "It's so delicious!" ”

"If you can enter the mouth of the two, it doesn't mean that I'm busy in vain, let's eat it quickly, this cold will lose the deliciousness."

The three of them tasted the deliciousness, and Zhang Shu ate for a while and said: "Mayor Shangguan, I don't know how to make this delicacy, I see that this meat is pork meat, how can it lose its smell." ”

Zhong Geng heard this: "This way of concocting pork meat is passed on to me by the Great King, and it is said that he also learned it from the Great King. ”

Zhang Shu was surprised and said: "The king still knows how to cook?" ”

Zhong Geng said: "The king's ability is not something we can imagine, and it is not strange to know how to cook." ”

When Zhang heard this, he knew that he had lost his words, and hurriedly confessed to the south.

Seeing this, Zhong Geng also arched his hand towards the south and said, "Although the king has solved the smell of pork meat, the taste is not delicious. ”

Seeing the mystery of what Zhong Geng said, Zhang Shu became even more curious, like a compliment, and asked, "Isn't the pork meat in front of you made according to the king's method?" ”

Zhong Geng said: "The method of making is the same, but I have added some other things to it. ”

"What?"

Not only Zhong Geng, but Yixin on the side was also curious about this.

Zhong Geng pretended to look at the two of them mysteriously, and said, "I call it green and white!" ”

Hearing this, Yixin muttered, "Green and white! Green and white! Could it be that thing? ”

Seeing this, Zhong Geng smiled and said, "It seems that Brother Yixin guessed that it was that thing." ”

Zhang Xu was confused, and he didn't know what the two were talking about.

Yi Xin saw Zhang Xu's blank look and explained: "Mr. Zhang doesn't know, the green and white is a kind of weed, the taste is a little strange, the mouth of the food has a peculiar smell, the chest and abdomen are not smooth, but it has nothing to do with the body, after getting used to it, but there is a taste in it, we lived here tribe before, when we came here, we saw the tribe here for food, after eating, but it was difficult to eat, I couldn't think of such a thing but made today's delicious." ”

After Zhang Shu understood the reason, he became even more puzzled.

Since this green and white is not very delicious, how is this pot of pork meat made?

Zhong Geng explained: "This is actually not difficult, this green and white raw food is really difficult to eat, but I thought of the way of the pot that the king said, I replaced the previous cabbage with green and white, after the pot, put in the pork meat, fry it, enter the water, add cabbage and green onion white, boil, put salt and there is today's pork meat." ”