In the spring of March, the green grass is like silk, the spring is bright, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, the fields are full of green seedlings, and the transplanted potatoes and sweet potato seedlings are also thriving on the Dongmen Mountain.

On this day, almost all the squires in Pingyang County received an invitation from Zhang Bin, the county magistrate, inviting them to go to the county government restaurant for lunch.

The county government restaurant, which is a place to cook for the county officials, catchers, jailers and other miscellaneous servants, what can be delicious, usually these squires will not look at it.

However, this time it's a treat from the prefectural magistrate, so even if it's a pickle, you have to go.

The county order is the parent official of a county, and the average squire can't afford to provoke it, plus this Zhang Bin Zhang's background is much more awesome than the ordinary county order, in Pingyang, no one dares not to give him face.

Before noon, more than a dozen squires rushed to the county restaurant one after another.

This restaurant is not only a lobby, there is also a relatively large single room in the east near the middle corridor, which is mainly for the guests in the guest house opposite, and Zhang Bin is here to entertain.

There was originally a large round table in the room, and it was not a problem to seat more than ten people, but how to sit was very particular.

Shinong businessman, this squire belongs to the first level, the gentry, himself is an official or a scholarly family, except for Xu Hui, a nouveau riche, others are still very particular.

How do you assign seats?

At this time, the county magistrate Zhang Bin had not yet arrived, and it stands to reason that Xu Hui should go crazy and go directly to the left of the main seat to sit down, but he didn't even mean to sit down, what was going on?

He wasn't afraid of Zhao Mu who was present, he was in awe of someone else.

Although he and Zhao Mu are one of the biggest squires in Binh Duong, they are not the most famous squires.

Among the squires in Pingyang, the most famous is the old man Tang Xiantang of the Pingyang Tang family.

The Pingyang Tang family is amazing, even in the entire Wenzhou Mansion and even in Zhejiang, the political envoy Si Na is also famous, because his ancestor has a great official Tang Zong.

Who is this Tang Sect?

Tang Zong, the word is the same as the biography, the Yuan Dynasty to the twenty-fifth year of the birth of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Hongwu 28 years of the Tai students were promoted to Henan according to the inspection of the affairs, successively served as the Beiping according to the inspection of the affairs, Shandong according to the inspection of the envoy, Suzhou prefect, Dali Siqing, after Hongwu, Jianwen, Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande five dynasties, is the authentic five dynasties of the elders.

Dali Siqing, Zheng Sanpin, is the highest official in charge of the national prison, and is already one of the most important members of the imperial court.

Tang Zong was honest and promising, upright, although he was framed by political enemies many times, but he never fell, quite legendary, and finally listed in the annals of history, and was the only Pingyang official who was passed down in the "History of the Ming Dynasty".

The most famous thing Tang Zong did was that in March of the first year of Jianwen, during the period of serving as the governor of Beiping, he found that the new envoy Chen Ying, the political envoy Cao Yu and the deputy envoy Zhang Lian accepted bribes from Zhu Di, the king of Yan, colluded with each other to plot against each other.

He was not afraid of the powerful, and did not hesitate to report the matter to the imperial court, Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwei immediately issued an edict to arrest Chen Ying to Beijing, and soon sent him to Guangxi, he was promoted to Shandong according to the envoy because of his merits, but also because of this and Chengzu Zhu Di's favorite minister Chen Ying formed an indissoluble enmity, and was later killed several times as a prisoner.

However, Chengzu Zhu Di has always been meritocracy, and he did not retaliate against Tang Zong for exposing his plot to usurp the throne, but pardoned him many times because of his talent.

Tang Zong is also famous for loving the people like a son, during his tenure as the prefect of Suzhou, Suzhou has been flooded for many years, the people have been displaced, the flight is serious, and the arrears of taxes have reached more than 1 million stones, Tang Zong can not bear to urge the people, and inform the rich people to pay the rice on their behalf, and the rich people know that he loves the people, and the payment will be completed in less than three months.

When he was the secretary of Dali Temple, he went to Shandong to clean up the military, and when there was no rain for a long time, Tang Zong vigorously stated the situation of famine and poverty among the people, and Xuanzong exempted Shandong from taxation and forced labor.

Because of his loyalty, honesty and ability throughout his life, he was consistent, after Tang Zong died, Ming Xuanzong was very sorry, called him "the good of the Lieqing", and sent the official to give sacrifices and funerals.

His descendants were also used by the imperial court because of this, and the eldest son Tang Mu once served as the prefect of Haizhou, and when he came to Tang Xian, although he was only a showman, he also served as the chief of discipline, that is, an official who assisted the prefect in managing the education of a government.

This Tang Xian's prestige in Pingyang was even above the county magistrate Zhang Bin, and Xu Hui naturally didn't dare to get embarrassed in front of him.

Everyone was humble for a while, Tang Xian was pushed to the left of the main seat, Zhao Mu sat down directly against him without saying a word, and Xu Hui sat on the right side of the main seat, and when the three of them sat down, the others sat down in turn.

As soon as everyone arranged their seats and sat down in turn, Zhang Bin appeared at the door in time as if he had rehearsed.

As soon as he arrived, everyone who had just sat down stood up again and greeted him one after another.

Zhang Bin walked towards the main seat, and arched his hand: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, everyone, you're entangled in mundane affairs, it's late, forgive your sins, forgive your sins." ”

The crowd returned the salute and praised it until he came to the throne.

Coming to the main seat, Zhang Bin arched his hand again and said: "I'm sorry, everyone, I was going to invite you to a gathering a long time ago, but I was shy in my pocket, and I didn't dare to speak. ”

Xu Hui thinks that Zhang Bin has a good relationship with him, and the two of them don't know how many times they have drunk in private, at this time, he saw Zhang Bin being humble, and hurriedly praised him: "My lord's sleeves are breezy, diligent and thrifty, which is really admirable, what is there in the restaurant, even if the adult invites us to eat pickles, it is also a blessing for us." ”

Zhang Bin was stunned when he heard this, there was no rehearsal in advance for this play!

He was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand and invited everyone to sit down, and then exclaimed: "Xu Yuanwai is really a god, and the appetizer prepared by the official is pickles. ”

As he gave the order, several of the servants of the restaurant walked in with wooden plates and placed a stack of pickles in front of each of them.

This pickle is not a lot of portions, and it is clearly an appetizer.

Xu Hui looked at the pickles in front of him, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded, this fuck in his heart, am I joking, you really let me eat this thing!

This thing was eaten every day when his family was still very poor, but since it was issued, every meal he has eaten with big fish and meat, pickles or something, and whoever dares to serve it in front of him must be beaten out by him.

Of course, it was at home, and he didn't dare to make a mistake in the county government, after all, the "backstage" of this county magistrate was much wilder than him.

Zhang Bin wasn't joking with them, as soon as the pickles were served, he immediately picked up the chopsticks and beckoned: "Come on, come on, everyone taste, authentic farmhouse flavor." “

With that, he picked up a piece of pickle, stuffed it in his mouth, and chewed it carefully.

Everyone is so strange, it seems, the treat is not like this, the last pickle is eaten, it's unheard of!

However, the county magistrates all said hello, and everyone couldn't afford not to give face, so they could only pick up chopsticks one after another and "taste" them.

, what the hell is this pickles, is there any salt!

This pickle is the light pickle that Chen Yingying's family pickled, and Zhang Bin specially asked people to bring it back.

If the pickles are too light, they are indeed not very delicious, these people are used to eating good things, and when they suddenly eat this light pickle, many people almost squirt out.

Zhang Bin didn't seem to see everyone's painful expressions, and he didn't mean to continue serving, he slowly swallowed the pickles in his mouth, and then sighed: "Do you know why this pickle is so light?" ”

There is less salt, and this still needs to be asked, but no one answered, because the county magistrate was obviously not asking them, but was ready to ask himself.

Sure enough, after Zhang Bin glanced around, he sighed: "Because the common people have no money to buy salt!" ”