While Han Qian secretly summoned Feng Xuan and Gao Bao to discuss matters in Guanyue Tower, Han Daoxun was listening to Fan Xicheng's report on the life experience of Mrs. Xi he inquired about, and said with emotion:

"It turns out that she is the daughter of Gao Long and the only heir of the exterminated surname Xi?"

"The young master may not know the background of the Xi family's daughter, do you want me to tell me?" Fan Xicheng said.

"Where do you need to talk? If this kid hadn't thought about Feng Xuan and Xi's two moves a long time ago, where would he suggest that I lure the wolf into the room? Han Daoxun sighed lightly and said with a wry smile.

Seeing that the head of the family was so sure that the young master must know the life experience of the Xi family's daughter, Fan Xicheng suddenly understood what the overall plan of the young master Han Qian was.

Xuzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and the native surname controls the place, and the Great Chu has only been founded for thirteen years, and it is more remote for Xuzhou and other border prefectures and counties, not to mention that there is Tanzhou in the middle, which makes the Hakka people's recognition of the new dynasty not high, and also makes Xuzhou a pool of stagnant water.

If we want to revive the stagnant water in Xuzhou, it is necessary to open up trade routes and lure displaced people to pour into Xuzhou in a big way.

And this must first get permission from Tanzhou.

Otherwise, even if Tanzhou is low-key and no longer wants to attract the attention of the imperial court, it only needs to set up card checks at key passes such as Yuanshuikou to prohibit the influx of displaced people into Xuzhou, and no one can say that Tanzhou is not.

After all, the imperial court also strictly forbade the movement of people at will.

And if you want to get Tanzhou's acquiescence, you need to give Tanzhou enough benefits and temptations.

The biggest temptation is that the head of the family, Han Daoxun, acquiesced to Tanzhou secretly sending a large number of people and horses, taking the opportunity to infiltrate Xuzhou, and using the siege and reclamation to form a force directly controlled by Tanzhou.

Tanzhou will extend its tentacles into Xuzhou in a big way, it will form a mutual containment trend with the forces of the native surnames led by the four surnames, and it is not ruled out that the contradictions between them will intensify and worsen, and the head of the family, Han Daoxun, can make good use of this to reduce his own pressure, and even take advantage of the situation of checks and balances to do something, but no matter who it is, if he wants to gain a foothold in Xuzhou in the end, he still has to rely on hard power to speak.

And because Tanzhou's power between Xianghu Lake is too strong, they really want to lure wolves into the house, and it is really difficult to guarantee that one day it will be self-defeating, and finally Tanzhou doves occupy the magpie's nest, and the four surnames are all annexed by Tanzhou.

Fan Xicheng can be regarded as gradually realizing the scheming of the young master Han Qian, and he doesn't think that the young master is really willing to make a wedding dress for Tanzhou on that day.

Using the two moves of Feng Xuan and Xi's daughter, secretly cultivating their own forces, and supporting Yang Qin and others to form a boat gang, is the key to the young master Han Qian's countering Tanzhou and the native surname forces in Xuzhou in the future to seize the initiative and prevent him from making a wedding dress for Tanzhou.

And even if Tanzhou knows the background of the Xi family's daughter, as long as he can't guess that Feng Xuan will actually be used by this side, he won't realize the real intention behind the young master Han Qian's strategy to lure the wolf into the house - and the young master Han Qian will keep the Xi girl by his side, and then secretly order Feng Xuan to secretly collect the Xi family's children, which will also ensure that Feng Xuan can't escape his control in the end.

Thinking about all this, Fan Xicheng was also deeply shocked by the calculation of the young master Han Qian, and couldn't help but think, what is the ultimate goal of the young master Han Qian, is to hope that the head of the family, Han Daoxun, will be Ma Yin, and can he become a figure like Ma Xun, the prince of Tanzhou Jiedu?

Fan Xicheng peeked at the slightly gloomy face of the head of the family, Han Daoxun, and finally did not ask this question.

Fan Xicheng thought to himself, the young master Han Qian did not take the initiative to mention the background of the Xi family daughter when he suggested luring the wolf into the house the night before, and the head of the family specially instructed him to inquire about the life history of the Xi family's daughter, their father and son were actually secretly competing, how stupid would he be if he pierced this layer of window paper?

Of course, Fan Xicheng is also worried in his heart, there may only be two or three thousand people left in the Xi clan at present, even if the young master Han Qian brings these people over through Feng Xuan and the Xi family's daughter, he will be able to use three or five hundred strong men in the sky, can the mantis arm really compete with Tanzhou, which actually controls nearly two million people?

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Although there were still a lot of affairs left after dark, Han Daoxun also set a rule for himself that the affairs of the day would not be dealt with without resting, but all the officials were also hungry, and Han Daoxun still allowed them to go home to eat and then go back to the state government to work overtime.

The state government is only responsible for providing one lunch to the officials who should be cooked.

Han Daoxun didn't want to break the rules, so he took Fan Xicheng back to Furong Garden to dine first.

Han Daoxun wanted to eat a simple meal and then went to the front office to deal with the official documents, but he never wanted to return to the west courtyard of Furong Garden, Han Laoshan didn't have anything ready here, and no one was there, so he asked Qingyun to know that Han Qian was tossing around in the back kitchen, and everyone in the house was not ready for dinner.

Han Daoxun also wanted to see what Han Qian was tossing, and walked to the back kitchen with Fan Xicheng, and across the road, he heard Han Laoshan shouting there full of regret: "Little ancestor, you want to eat braised duck tongue, buy a hundred ducks and slaughter them, how do I clean them up?" ”

Braised duck tongue?

Fan Xicheng was confused, thinking to himself, could it be to take a hundred duck tongues and marinate them to make a dish?

That's too extravagant, isn't it?

Although Han Daoxun does not wear clothes and eat light rice, he also pays great attention to frugality, and his meat is mostly bacon, and he slaughters a hundred ducks just to make a braised duck tongue.

Fan Xicheng saw that the head of the house had a calm face, and walked to the back kitchen, smelling the aroma of the brine boiling from a distance, which was quite appetizing.

Then I saw that there were hundreds of bloody ducks on the reed mat where the grain was drying in the narrow yard of the back kitchen, and the scene was very "bloody", and Fan Xicheng was also secretly tongued, and saw that the young master Han Qian was wearing a short coat and was directing people to wash a foot-high clay pot with boiling water.

"This jar is first rinsed with boiling water, then rinsed with piping hot brine, and finally stored in the brine to cool down before being capped, so that the brine can be stored for a long time - you must not be lazy, save this work; To boil the brine, add more oil, at least to see that a thick layer of oil can float after canning. And once you taste the brine fermented and sour, don't be reluctant, eating a bad stomach is a matter of your life......"

Han Qian instructed Han Zhou and the two cooks how to boil and seal the brine, and at the same time asked Zhao Ting'er and Xi Ying to copy down what he said.

Seeing his father and Fan Xicheng coming over, Han Qian said with a smile:

"Today I went to Guanyuelou for a banquet, a few flavors of braised vegetables turned out to be a little sour, thinking that my father would not be able to eat the best braised meat in Xuzhou in the future, it would really be a thorn and it didn't make much sense, thinking that I didn't have anything special to do these days, so I taught Han Zhou's how to boil the brine - the brine boiled out, the duck tongue should be put into a simmer to simmer to be enough to taste, and dinner will have to wait for a while."

"The young master was in Guanyue Tower at noon, and he ate a few dishes that were not to his taste, and he was so angry that he almost demolished Guanyue Tower!" Zhao Ting'er wasted no time in complaining.

Han Qian decided to use Xi Yi, Zhao Ting'er had the biggest opinion, seeing that she didn't mention it for a day, she had to find a way to make some little temperament come out at this time, she couldn't help laughing, and jokingly said to his father:

"Xi Ying thinks that those duck dishes are too rough, Guan Yuelou fools the young master with such things, if I don't have a little temper, then I worked hard to follow my father to Xuzhou to take office, why are you?"

Han Qian deliberately mentioned Mrs. Xi's maiden name, and seeing that there was no doubt in his father and Fan Xicheng's eyes, he knew that his father already knew Xi Ying's life experience at this time.

Xi Ying is not very familiar with Han Qian's temperament, how do you know that he said casually, hiding so many curves and curves.

She stood aside, and saw Han Daoxun and Fan Xicheng looking over, especially Fan Xicheng who looked at her several times after entering the courtyard, and also felt embarrassed, as if after seeing Feng Xuan and Gao Bao today, Han Qian was making trouble in Guanyue Tower, which was really related to her.

"You slaughtered a hundred ducks just to marinate a few plates of duck tongue?" Han Do-hoon asked.

"How can it be so wasteful?" Han Qian said, "Duck gizzards, duck liver, and duck hearts can also be marinated and eaten, but today I bought some duck meat with some firewood, not fat and tender enough, I made a few osmanthus ducks according to the recipes copied in the "Zhou Xuetang Book", the taste may not be authentic, my father don't mind too much later." ”

“…… Everything has been going well for you these days, and your mood should not be bad, there is no reason to toss the irrelevant Guanyue Tower," Han Daoxun was the person who knew Han Qian's temperament best, so he didn't believe that he said it so easily, and asked, "Don't pretend to be stupid, what are your ideas?" ”

"If my father wants to spread the name of tyranny, arrogance and lasciviousness, there must always be some iconic rhetoric," Han Qian said with a smile, "Now we kill a hundred ducks in our house just to make a dish, and it is majestic enough to spread it, right?" ”

"......" Fan Xicheng was dumbfounded, thinking to himself what kind of explanation is this, what kind of school is this?

Han Daoxun stared at the bloody ducks all over the yard, frowned and thought for a while, and asked, "Do you want to encourage the people to raise more ducks and poultry for your father in Xuzhou?" ”

Han Qian patted his thigh and laughed, pointed at Han Laoshan and scolded with a smile: "You idiots, you haven't figured it out for most of the day, it's really a few people who don't add up to my father's brains!" Then he smiled and said to his father, "What is good at the top will be bad at the bottom." The day before yesterday, I traced the water upstream, and saw that the mudflats on both sides of the bank are extremely wide, even if the embankment is enclosed in the future, the ponds will inevitably be very large, and there are many small fish, shrimps, crabs, insects, snails, and earthworms, but there are very few ducks and birds in the villages on both sides of the strait, and they cannot do their best to make the best of their strength, which is a pity. I don't know if my father has seen it, but I think that if my father asks the local people to change their customs just by relying on an official letter at this time, it is really far less effective than eating special food and eating new ideas in our house! The surplus slaughtered ducks can't be eaten, they are smoked and dried to make cured meat, and they are transported to Jinling by ship to be sold! Today, there is a lot of trouble in Guanyue Tower, and I also hope that they can improve their skills in making ducks, so that Xuzhou can develop a habit of eating ducks, and duck raising can be more popular. ”

Only then did Fan Xicheng understand that the young master's actions, in the final analysis, were still trying in every possible way to expand the scale of trade from Xuzhou to Jinling, and he really wanted to use the name of the head of the family to the extreme.

Han Daoxun shook his head and smiled bitterly, he promised that after he arrived in Xuzhou, he would take on the name of a wicked official who was rampant and tyrannical, but he didn't expect that Han Qian would really use it all.

Han Qian said with a smile: "I will personally cook and try to make a few roast duck dishes today, and we will serve them together later. ”

Han Qian wants to stir up the backwater of Xuzhou, hoping that the scale of the trade and influx of displaced people directly involved in Xuzhou will be more beneficial, but no matter how rich Xuzhou's products are, whether it is medicinal materials, tea, dansha, etc., limited by population, the scale that can really be transported out of Xuzhou for sale is quite limited.

The rise of any industry in Xuzhou can directly stimulate the expansion of trade with Jinling.

He thought that the industry that could directly induce ordinary people in Xuzhou to participate in it was quite limited in a short period of time, and the use of the Yuanshui flowing through the section of Qianyang County was one of the characteristics of raising ducks and birds.

Even if weaving canvas and tarpaulin can become an industry, it is still limited by the limited planting scale of cotton and linen in Xuzhou, and it is difficult to truly form a pillar industry in a short time.

This is true for tea planting, mineral mining, and smelting.

As long as the trend of eating ducks can flourish in Xuzhou, even if there are not many duck seedlings in Xuzhou, the boat gang can be trafficked from Yuanshui and even the shores of Dongting Lake, so that the duck raising and smoking ducks in Xuzhou will form a scale in a short period of time.

Han Qian was heartbroken by these things, Han Laoshan and the others were naturally incomprehensible, but his father was a character like Wang Yu, Yang En, Shen Yang and others, and he could still understand his intentions with a little thought, and he didn't need to bother to explain anything.

Of course, if you want to develop the flavor of eating duck in Xuzhou, which is more conducive to the rise of the duck industry, Han Qian thought about making a few more roast duck dishes in Xuzhou during this time to promote it, which is also his intention to make trouble in Guanyuelou today.

Otherwise, he doesn't particularly like to eat duck, so why spend so much effort on it?

Jinling osmanthus duck is a must, as well as the roasted duck often eaten in the north, have a history of hundreds of years, but Han Laoshan's mother-in-law and a few servants, usually eat not so fine, do not know the specific method.

Even the Guanyue Building, which is known as the first chef in Qianyang City, the osmanthus duck and roasted duck made today are quite ordinary.

After Han Qian met Feng Xuan and Gao Bao in the afternoon, he specially pulled out the chef of Guanyue Building and questioned him, only to find that the Jianghuai cuisine and northern cuisine they learned were not fine enough, so he specially asked them to copy down the recipes and bring them back to Furong Garden in the afternoon to ponder.

Han Daoxun went to Xuzhou this time, and the most in his bag was a collection of books, and many literati copied a lot of recipes in their codex notes - literati are more foodies, which is true.

Han Qian, Zhao Ting'er, and Xi Ying rummaged through the recipes in the afternoon, and then compared them with the recipes copied by the chef of Guanyuelou, only to find that the marinade boiled in Guanyuelou was not sterilized thoroughly enough when sealed, and the reluctance to use more oil was the key to the fermentation of lo-mei, and the osmanthus duck and roasted duck were suspected of cutting corners, and one or two procedures were missing, so that the taste changed completely.

Han Qian, Zhao Ting'er, and Xi Ying studied the recipes at the same time, and asked Han Laoshan to take people to buy ducks, but duck eating was not popular in Xuzhou, and there were two duck shops in the Dongcheng market, both of which were less than a hundred ducks, and they still went out of the city to collect a small half a day, and only in the evening did they gather enough hundred ducks to go back to Furong Garden to slaughter.

By the time Han Qian had made a few braised duck dishes and osmanthus duck, the night was already dark, and everyone was hungry, but they didn't dare to complain.

After Han Qian tasted it himself and felt satisfied, in addition to the dinner party prepared by the house, he called Han Laoshan over: "These things, now each seal a bowl and send it to Guanyuelou, ask their owners and chefs to taste it, and I will change restaurants tomorrow to smash the field!" ”

Han Laoshan couldn't laugh when he saw that Han Qian was forcibly pushing the roast duck dish through this means, and asked, "Young master, if you toss for a few more days, our house will really be hated by people and gods in Qianyang City?" ”

"Go, I've gone to great lengths to help this restaurant improve its cooking, and they're not grateful to Dade, so what else do they want?" Han Qian glared at Han Laoshan and asked him to do as he was told and stop being verbose.