Chapter Twenty-Three: The Temptation of Face
In 907 AD, the Tang Dynasty collapsed.
During the 53-year period of the Great Division, five regimes were established in the Central Plains, the order of which was Liang, Tang, Jin, Han and Zhou, known as Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han and Later Zhou.
These five regimes are known as the Five Generations.
Outside the Central Plains, there were many separatist regimes at this time, the relatively large ones were the former Shu, the Later Shu, the Southern Wu, the Wu Yue, the Southern Tang, the Wu Chu, the Fujian, the Chu, the Southern Han, and the Northern Han ten regimes, but in addition to these ten regimes, there were also some other smaller regimes.
These ten regimes, most of which are located in the south, are known as the Ten Kingdoms.
The five regimes in the north and the ten larger separatist forces in the south are collectively known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
In 960, after the last regime of the Five Dynasties, Zhao Kuangyin, who was in charge of the forbidden army in front of the palace, staged a mutiny in Chenqiao (Chenqiao Town, southeast of Fengqiu, Henan).
After the Zhou generals launched the Chenqiao Mutiny, they supported Zhao Kuangyin as the emperor, and Zhao Kuangyin changed the country name to Song, and set the capital Bianliang (Kaifeng, Henan).
After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, it began to crusade against the remnants of the political secession.
After several wars, one percent is still standing...
Yunzhou City, with an area of 35,000 square kilometers, is located at the eastern foot of Minshan Mountain and Dadu River in the southwest of the Great Song Dynasty, and is opposed to many forces and regimes.
The fourth year of the Heavenly Sage, December.
When Mei Xiaohan and his entourage's heavy truck arrived at Yangcheng, Yunzhou, the only place to Raozhou, it was already dark.
Mei Xiaohan and his entourage drove the car under the city gate, and the gate of Yangcheng was closed at this moment.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Mei Xiaohan decided to abandon the car, and at this moment he had safely left the desert and arrived within the sphere of influence under the jurisdiction of the Great Song Dynasty.
The heavy truck was stored in a warehouse, a large warehouse of a tea merchant in Yangcheng, for which Mei Xiaohan deliberately paid an extra year for sealing fees.
The ten horses that had been following behind were all lost at the moment, and the horses were always horses, unable to keep up with modern means of transportation.
The oil for the heavy truck is also running out, and at this moment, for Mei Xiaohan, its role is not as good as that of an ox cart. When Mei Xiaohan entered Yangcheng, she saw the beauty of Yangcheng, revealing vitality everywhere.
Taverns, trades, inns, caravans, leather goods, and the rare "shopping street".
"How much silver did we bring with us?"
"It's two thousand six hundred taels in total, and it's all here."
The price of silver in the Song Dynasty changed, and the silver-to-letter ratio of the four years of Tiansheng reached the highest value since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and one tael of silver was exchanged for 2,000 wen.
This family is really wronged, the head of the family was kicked out of the team and got a pocket money, but this is already a lot compared to ordinary people.
Two thousand six hundred taels of silver is already an astronomical amount.
It was not early, and his stomach was already rumbling with hunger, and he ran all the way to the Shazhou Desert, Mei Xiaohan and his party had never seen a more prosperous town than Yangcheng.
How can he wronged his stomach now. On Yangcheng Street, there are many inns and restaurants, and there is an endless stream of pedestrians.
Mei Xiaohan and his entourage entered the restaurant and ordered a table of dishes. Although it is a meal, it is just to fill the stomach, no matter how beautiful the dish is, modern people's stomachs are not used to eating.
In addition to Yutong's relish, Tang Songming, Zhou Tong, Lin Hao, Yuanfeng and the two guards all just ate a few bites of food casually, and then never put down chopsticks again.
Yutong couldn't understand that after a large table of dishes was served, almost everyone was eating alone around him, which made him very embarrassed.
Zhou Tong took out a bucket of instant noodles from the big backpack behind him, smiled evilly, and said, "Eating this is much more flavorful than that." ”
Although Lin Hao is a child of a rich family, he has no resistance to magical instant noodles.
Seeing the bucket of instant noodles, his eyes lit up with fiery eyes, and Zhou Tong, who shot it, didn't dare to let go.
"As the leader of the catering group, you are guilty of harming the public and private interests, and you are morally corrupt. If you are marching in the army, this kind of behavior should be beheaded! ”
Mei Xiaohan suddenly said angrily.
Although Zhou Tong was a tall man of 1.88 meters and a burly body, he was very afraid of Mei Xiaohan, and when he heard his top boss talk like this, he was so frightened that he fell off the bench.
"It's... I found it from them after the gang broke up, and there were several boxes on it in the heavy truck, so I took a few buckets with me. ”
Mei Xiaohan held back a smile, snatched the instant noodles from Zhou Tong's hand, and said, "It's confiscated now, which means it's mine!" ”
Zhou Tong's face was full of dishes, but he was helpless.
"The boss... Bring me a pot of boiling water, the water should be hot enough! ”
Mei Xiaohan tore open the package and shouted at the boss. At the door of the inn, there were already two or three passers-by standing at some point, staring blankly at Mei Xiaohan and opening the bucket of things they had never seen in their lives. It was like a wooden stake, a woman carrying a bamboo basket, and the vegetables in the bamboo basket had been taken away without noticing.
The boss scooped up the boiling water and poured it into the noodles in the carton, and the boiling water reacted with the dry noodles instantly, and a faint fragrance of noodles came to the nose.
Passers-by at the door stopped one after another and looked inside at this strange scene. Mei Xiao suddenly realized something, this is not eating instant noodles at home, here, it is completely two concepts. When the smell of chili peppers broke through the crowd and permeated the sky above Yangcheng, a rumor followed.
''The God of Food has descended!'' ‘’
Ancient civilizations, thousands of years, have never had the taste of the first appeared. The entire Yangcheng was almost about to explode, and several people had already stretched their necks and stuck out their tongues, as if this delicacy was prepared for them.
Even if you close your eyes and take a deep breath, it's enough to be intoxicating.
Perhaps, there was no chance to taste it, but it was enough.
''What the hell is this!'' Why does it smell so magical?''
''I don't know how much money, I'm afraid it's expensive.''
"The old man has really lived for fifty years, and he has never smelled such delicious!"
Yu Tong was staring blankly at the moment, the rice grains in his mouth could be seen, Mei Xiaohan's chopsticks stretched the noodles, and he was about to wrap them all in one bite. But I felt that there was something wrong with the surrounding atmosphere.
Seeing that there were more and more onlookers, the boss shook his pockmarked face again and again, and said, "I haven't seen it, I've never heard of it!" ”
"Boss, which guest officer eats noodles, I also want to have a big bowl!"
"Boss, I want it too, I want a bowl too!"
"Go, go, go... What kind of excitement is it, there are small shops that want to eat ordinary noodles, but there is no small noodle shop where the guest officer eats, don't make trouble. ”
When he said this, the boss unconsciously shook his head in a circle, froze and gently swung from side to side twice.
Lin Hao smiled secretly: "Master Mei, you have to rush to eat noodles, you see, Yutong is also stupid, and the passers-by outside are no longer leaving, and something is going to happen when eating noodles." ”
More and more people came to hear the news, to see the excitement, to inquire about intelligence, and to ask about the price, and more and more people gathered...