Post house, a grand practice banquet is underway, Huangzhou Governor Shi and a group of officials, set up a banquet for Wang Meng and several other former Chen Guoling officials who are about to go to Anlu to practice, what will be the next appointment of the other party, others do not know, but the number of etiquette is to be done.

The confrontation between the north and the south has been hundreds of years, and there are sometimes demoted generals and officials to operate in the new dynasty, and they are promoted step by step, even if the possibility of 'resurgence' is not considered, it is too harsh to receive people and things, and it will affect the reputation if it is spread out.

Therefore, a group of officials from the Huangzhou Governor's Office are sincerely entertaining passers-by, not to mention that with the financial resources of the Governor's Office, it will not be overstretched to hold a sumptuous practice banquet.

Thanks to the increasing prosperity of commerce and trade in Xiyang City, the cooking level of restaurants and wine stores in the city is getting higher and higher, and the cooking technique of "stir-frying" is becoming more and more mature, and the cooking level of the post house is also improving day by day.

All kinds of delicacies at today's banquet are special dishes, Dongpo meat, sauce elbow, roast chicken, roast duck are must-haves, and many delicacies are all obtained from cooking with high-quality and inexpensive ingredients.

At this time, the maid put on the table of everyone's food, is the Xiyang delicacy "pan-fried foie gras", which is the second dish served since the feast, because the guests have a high degree of acceptance, so it is temporarily added.

For many people from well-to-do families, the diet on weekdays basically does not touch the internal organs, whether it is the internal organs of livestock or poultry, they are not eaten for many reasons, but for Wang Meng, the distinguished guest on the table, it is purely because he has never eaten it, so he is not very accustomed to eating this kind of thing.

Before coming to Xiyang, he had never even eaten "stir-fried vegetables", but since he went to the banquet, he had to give face to the host, and the Huangzhou officials who presided over the banquet also consulted their opinions in advance to make sure that no one was taboo, so he asked the room to prepare the dish of "fried foie gras".

Trying to eat a small bite, everyone found that this dish was unexpectedly delicious, Wang Meng found a new problem from it, and just finished toasting, asked Wang Fei who was sitting on the side: "It is so popular to use foie gras in dishes, how is Xiyang's goose?" ”

Wang Fei was already drunk at this time, but he had drunk a lot, so he was very conscious, and when he heard Wang Meng's question, he smiled: "Not to mention that, there are many goose farms outside the city, and there are as many geese as there are domestic." ”

Afraid that the persuasion is not strong, Wang Hao explained the reason in detail.

There are many farms in Xiyang, supplying a large number of chickens, ducks and geese, feathers are made of arrow feathers, fluff is made of down, eggs are made of salted eggs, and meat is used for cooking, and because of the cooking skill of "frying", internal organs are also made into various dishes.

Pan-fried foie gras is a more famous dish, because of the large supply of foie gras, so large and small restaurants and wine shops in Xiyang City have this dish.

Foie gras is just a microcosm of the strength of Xiyang's farming industry, which has a positive impact on the low prices of poultry and poultry meat, thanks to the huge demand for down products.

For ordinary people, it is not easy to eat meat often on weekdays, mainly because they can't afford to consume it, but the people of Huangzhou and surrounding states and counties are wiped out, because the extremely cheap poultry price in Xiyang allows many people to eat poultry meat regularly.

The input of a large amount of salt ensures the output of cured meat products, chicken, duck and goose eggs can be made into salted eggs, and meat can also be made into preserved meat floss, Huangzhou pigs are more, such as ham, sausage and other meat products have also become "Huangzhou famous products".

Wang Jun gave an example, this time the Lingnan Road march to the south, the army's dry food included a large number of meat floss, salted eggs, ham, and sausages, which ensured the dietary needs of the soldiers and was also an important means to ensure morale.

"No wonder..."Wang Meng finally understood, he saw that Yuwenwen's Hulin Army soldiers were all muscular, sturdy, and did not look like animals, and at that time he wondered how the other party recruited so many strong men, but now it seems that it is all thanks to the rich supply of meat in Huangzhou.

Wang Meng is a general of Chen State, who has led soldiers for many years, and knows many bad habits in the army, which is not only in Chen Guo's army, and the generals rely on soldiers to make a fortune, in short, they drink the blood of soldiers.

The generals of all countries have similar methods of drinking the blood of soldiers, and the most common one is to withhold food.

One stone of brown rice, mixed with sediment, becomes two stones of 'brown rice', porridge that could have been used as chopsticks, put less rice, put more water, and become a real 'thin' rice.

Cooking is done with salt, and I was supposed to put a spoonful of salt, but it turned out to be a third of a spoonful, or coarse salt mixed with a lot of sediment.

It's no wonder that the soldiers who eat this kind of food are not weak!

When Wang Meng led the troops, he would not drink the blood of the soldiers to such a point, but the stereotypes and bad habits of the generals were more or less there, as long as it was not too excessive, he could only turn a blind eye.

Most of the troops had to withhold even basic rations, let alone prepare meat for the soldiers, and if the soldiers wanted to eat meat, they had to sneak out of the camp to hunt game, and then make a fire in the field to roast and eat it.

Why don't you bring it back to the barracks?

The comrades even turned red when they saw the meat, is that bit of meat enough?

Only now did Wang Meng really realize why Wang Yuwenwen's soldiers in Xiyang were so capable of fighting: good diet, adequate training, sophisticated equipment, clear rewards and punishments, plus a commander who could fight.

What is strange about such an army sweeping Jiangzhou, Lingbiao, and Jiaozhou, and slaughtering the capital of Linyi?

Therefore, Chen Guo couldn't stand it.

Thinking of this, Wang Meng was a little silent, as a pastor of Chen Guoling's cousin, he had no choice but to surrender in the case of successive defeats, his mother and wife were still in Jiankang, and he didn't know what would happen to his family after Chen Guan's family knew that he surrendered.

But he didn't regret it, even if he came to Xiyang and learned that the Zhou State had undergone a great change, and the Yuchi clan and the Yuwen clan had broken up, he didn't think about escaping back to the Chen country, this kind of repeated villain's behavior was really impossible to do, let alone that the Chen country had no hope.

And now, he saw with his own eyes the other side of Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen's strength in Xiyang, and Yuwenwen did not only rely on the Hulin Army to win the battle, and today's victory in Xiyang illustrates this.

The strength of the Yuwen clan now seems to be not as weak as imagined, and the situation in the Zhou State has developed to the back, and it is very likely that it will be a confrontation between the East and the West, while his homeland, the Chen State, has accumulated a lot of difficulties and has no chance to revive at all.

The Yuwen clan occupied Baxiang, Jiangzhou, and Lingbiao, and Chen now only had the land of Sanwu left, and the grain output on this territory could no longer strongly support the Chen army to launch a western expedition to regain the lost land.

After hundreds of years of confrontation between the north and the south, the situation in the Jiankang court has never been so critical, and the Chen Guanjia is not a heroic lord who works hard.

Seeing that Wang Meng was preoccupied, Wang Meng did not bother, and now the situation has changed suddenly, it is really beyond his expectations, when he was in Lingbiao before, he also offered advice to Yuwen Wen, and made a judgment on the trend of the situation in the next few years, and now it seems that it is necessary to re-decide.

In less than two months, the situation in Shannan has turned from crisis to safety, and Yuwenwen has actually opened up the situation in Yuzhou.