Chapter 180: I also serve the country when I grow vegetables
"What do you mean by that?"
Yang Huairen said seriously: "Tomato scrambled eggs, you don't need many ingredients, even if you only have tomatoes and eggs, you only need a spoonful of oil and a pinch of salt to make it." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
But it's not easy to make something that everyone likes to eat and recognizes your cooking skills.
What kind of egg mixture to beat, what kind of technique to pour in the hot oil pan, how to break the cooked eggs into small pieces of almost the same size, and finally add tomato pieces, how to stir-fry so that the two flavors are perfectly combined, how to master the heat and get out of the pot, all of the above are all knowledge.
Since the chef is still like this, it is even more difficult to be an official. There are more people in the world who are educated, and there are actually quite a lot of people who can get famous and have the opportunity to become officials.
But so many people have become officials, are they all good officials? Not necessarily.
It is even more difficult to cultivate a good official who thinks about the country and the people, even if it is a champion, according to the practice of this dynasty, he must start from the head of a county, in order to be familiar with the people's livelihood.
If you do a good job, you can be promoted step by step, from the state to the government, and finally enter the center of the imperial court. That kind of thing that ascends to the sky in one step, even if the two prime ministers are so talented, they have never seen it, right? ”
Yang Huairen has read a lot of novels in his later generations, and feels that those modern people who have traveled to ancient times are just a small clerk who does not know the world, or even a student with little experience, who can become a marshal in one step in ancient times, which is really ridiculous.
Talent is something that needs to be sharpened by experience, even if it is a piece of steel, it needs to be constantly tempered and polished in order to truly become a sharp blade.
It's true that gold always shines, but since it's gold, it will shine long ago, and it won't shine until it travels to another era.
Lu Dafang and Fan Chunren felt that Yang Huairen's words were quite insightful, but they still didn't explain why he didn't want to be an official, and both of them suspected that Yang Huairen, an arrogant person, could not have no ambition at all.
Lu Dafang asked: "Just because things are difficult doesn't mean you can't do it, it depends on whether you have the heart or not." ”
Yang Huairen didn't know why, he talked and laughed with the two prime ministers, which made him a little flustered, and he drank a little too much, so he said what was in his heart.
"What if you have a heart? I, Yang Huairen, am a cook, except for cooking, I am good at other things, playing a little clever and fooling and fooling people, and I will be dwarfed by smart people like the two ministers.
To put it mildly, I'm not afraid of your two jokes, what talent do I have, if I break the sky, at most I will govern a county, and maybe I can make do with it so that the people don't scold me, no matter how big it is, hehe, it is estimated that it will be a misguided country and a misguided people.
The same is true of all walks of life in this world, cooks cook, soldiers garrison borders, farmers farm, hunters hunt, blacksmiths make iron, and tailors mend clothes.
Let me become an official, just like finding a tailor to make an iron pot and a blacksmith to make clothes, the profession is not right. ”
Fan Chunren sighed: "Listening to your words, the old man knows that Schisandra is a talented person and cannot serve the country, but it is a pity that he has the skills and knowledge of his body. ”
Yang Huairen cupped one cup after another, his face turned red, and he shook his head at Fan Chunren with a pout, "I said Old Fan, what you said is not right, hiccup......"
Fan Chunren and Lu Dafang heard Yang Huairen shout out the title of Lao Fan, they were stunned at first, and then looked at each other and smiled, it seems that Yang Huairen is really drunk, a wine burp came out full of wine, as for the question of calling Fan Da Chan affectionately as Lao Fan, they can only laugh and pass by, where can I be more serious with a drunk person?
Yang Huairen became more and more happy, rolled up his sleeves, grabbed a few fennel beans and threw them in his mouth, wiped his hand on Fan Chunren without any scruples, and then patted Lu Dafang, who was laughing happily, and then said: "Old Lu, old Fan, buddy to tell the truth, you two are here today, this is a set of buddy words." Don't think I'm drunk and don't know! Belch......
You two thieves are thieves, and you're stupid to be a buddy? Asking why the buddy is unwilling to be an official, in fact, he is not afraid that the buddy will become an official and rob you two of your jobs? Ha ha......
Dude really doesn't want to be an official, how tired it is to be an official, and he can't get down well even if he worries, where is there a buddy who grows food and drinks and drinks refreshingly?
Besides, who said that growing vegetables is not contributing to the country?
It depends on our Zhuangzi, those who farm the land, those who grow vegetables, those who make tofu, and those who steam wine, which one is not contributing to the country?
Without the peasants growing grain, without me to grow vegetables, without making tofu and steaming wine, we wouldn't be able to eat this meal at noon today.
It is the thousands of such people who work in the land, condensed, is a country, you think that the country is building a great wall to enclose yourself, that is painting the ground as a prison, so self-contained. ”
Such words came out of the mouth of a drunken little cook, and even the great Confucians of the time like Lu Dafang and Fan Chunren fell into deep thought.
Yang Huairen had no intention of stopping at all, and the more he talked, the more energetic he became.
"I planted vegetables, raised pigs, the farmers ate well, and the standard of living improved, if there were 10,000 Zhuangzi like me in the Great Song Dynasty, what would our Great Song Dynasty look like?
When the people are rich, the country is strong, and when the country is strong, those men who are soldiers give them wives and children, so that they can have a family, and if they have a home, they will be willing to sacrifice their lives to protect this family, and they are still worried that the army is not strong?
What Xixia Khitan, count it as a ball, those Hu people together are not as many as our Great Song people, if we blow a mouthful, we can blow them into the sea and feed Wang Ba. ”
Yang Huairen was really drunk, and his speech became slurred, and the servants guarding the door were afraid that the master's family would make a joke in front of outsiders, so he hurriedly called a maid to find his wife in the back house.
When He Zhiyun arrived, Lu Dafang and Fan Chunren were pondering the meaning of Yang Huairen's words, and felt that his words were too strange, but in terms of the overall meaning, there seemed to be some truth, but some thoughts were not quite in line with the current common sense.
Yang Huairen saw that the two prime ministers couldn't understand what he said, and he was even more poetic, thinking of an extremely inspiring poem in later generations, holding a wine glass, standing up and singing loudly.
"Millions of soldiers on the Great Wall, how can the national shame be treated by children and grandchildren? I am willing to mention 100,000 tiger and wolf divisions, and the prancing horse raises the sword and steps on ......"
Before the last word came out, a hand reached out from behind Yang Huairen and covered his mouth.
He Zhiyun covered his mouth and apologized to the two old men he didn't know, "Let the two benevolent elders smile, my family officials are drunk and drunk, talk drunk, and go crazy, don't take it to heart."
The two of you please continue, and the slave family will order someone to serve some more wine and food, and wait for the slave family to wait for the official to go to the back hall to rest for a while, and then invite him to make amends to the two benevolent chiefs when he wakes up. ”