The group drove into Yanzhou City at sunset, and the guards who played the outpost had already arranged the inn, "I'm tired of the journey, rest early after dinner, and leave early tomorrow morning!" ”

After calling Wang Tianxing, Zhen Qian said to Fujiwara Shuxiong: "Go!" Let's go to the restaurant and sit down! ”

Fujiwara Shuxiong does not doubt that he has him, and Zhen Qian always likes to sit in the nearest restaurant whenever he goes, which has long become a habit for Zhen Qian.

Fujiwara Shuxiong took a samurai and followed Zhen Qian out of the inn, and came to the nearest restaurant to sit down, "Little Er! ”

"What do you need?" Xiao Er's signature smiling face came up.

Wang Tianxing threw out a few copper coins and said, "Serve the best wine and food in your restaurant, and then buy two tables of first-class noodle seats and send them to Yuelai Inn, hurry!" "There were no recipes in the Tang Dynasty, and ordering food was completely a conversation with Xiao Er.

"A few guest officers, please wait, the wine and food will be here soon!" For the sake of the copper coin face, Xiao Er responded and looked at the strangely dressed Japanese warriors, and walked away happily.

Fujiwara Shuxiong sneered: "Zhen Lang, I have eaten all the way, and it is the best wine and food in the Drunken Immortal Building, I didn't expect that you still have a hobby of tasting delicious food all over the world!" ”

"The world's delicious food has its own merits, a dish often eaten will be tired, since it comes out to taste the flavors of various places, perhaps most of them are unsatisfactory, but the taste can only be understood by slowly tasting it?"

"What Zhen Lang says has a deep meaning, I just follow the customs!"

For Zhen Qian's various strange behaviors, Fujiwara Shuxiong mostly doesn't ask in detail, and when he asks, he always gets some vague and seemingly plausible explanations, which may sound funny, but after slowly tasting it, he can always appreciate a different meaning.

"Guest officer, this salamander is the signature dish of the store, it is not easy to catch the salamander, it can only be seen in the place where the water quality is excellent in the deep mountains and old forests, its sound is like a baby's cry, there are four legs shaped like the palm of the hand crawling in the crevice of the stream, so it is called the salamander, it will die within three days after being caught, and the meat will rot and stink, so it is usually difficult to see, today someone just sent one, please taste it!"

Zhen Qian raised his chopsticks and stopped in mid-air, with a wry smile on his face, he didn't expect to eat a national first-class protected animal in Datang, or a genuine original wild green food, if he took a bite greedily, he would be closed for at least ten or eight years in the future.

After thinking about it, I still used chopsticks to clip a piece, and there are still fewer protected wild animals to eat? It's not bad for the baby fish.

The fish meat is delicate and smooth, and it melts in your mouth, and only the simplest seasonings are added when cooking, which ensures the original flavor of the salamander, so that Zhen Qian can't help but eat two more bites: "Fujiwara-kun try it!" ”

Fujiwara tasted it: "It's really good, it's not as good as the puffer fish I ate in Yangzhou!" I'm afraid this dish will cost a lot of money! ”

Xiao Er showed off: "Five times per plate, I wonder if the guest officer feels that it is worth the money?" ”

Xiao Er looked at Zhen Qian and the two of them as he spoke, a dish of five dishes is already the most expensive of all the dishes in the shop, many people feel pain when they hear the price of the dish after tasting it, but the two of them in front of them have no expression, "Yes, it is indeed worth the money!" ”

The price level is different in each dynasty, and with the development of productive forces, the purchasing power of money will decline over time. In the Han Dynasty, the consistent money was equivalent to half a year's household of a common man, and in the Tang Dynasty, the consistent money was also equivalent to about 3,000 yuan in later generations, and after the Ming and Qing dynasties, the purchasing power of the consistent money dropped to about 500 yuan in later generations.

A dish worth tens of thousands of yuan makes Fujiwara Shuxiong indeed a little painful, but Zhen Qian feels that he has made a lot of money, not to mention whether he can eat wild salamanders in the future, even the salamanders raised in captivity are more than two or three thousand, the question is whether money can buy it?

When Xiao Er saw that it was a few high-rollers, the flattery on his face fell down, and he bowed down and said: "How about a few people go upstairs to the elegant seat, where the environment is elegant, and there are pretty singers to accompany the wine and sing, how about a few people?" ”

"No, the hall is fine!"

Zhen Qian waved his hand to let Xiao Er retreat, but his eyes stayed on a few diners dressed as businessmen not far away, and his ears stood up.

"Brother Zhao, you have made a lot of money in this Silla business!"

A fat businessman grabbed a large piece of mutton in his hand and stuffed it into his mouth, but his eyes looked at a tall and thin man beside him in a daze.

The tall and thin man was gorgeously dressed, with a piece of valuable jade tied around his waist, and opened his mouth full of yellow teeth and said, "Didn't Brother Qian also go to the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate?" I guess I've made a lot of money! ”

The fat man's face was a little ugly, and he took a sip of the wine glass and said, "What you said was the past, and the business of the Anton Protectorate has been difficult to do since last year!" ”

"How do you say that?"

The fat man's expression was a little angry and said, "Didn't you ask knowingly? In the past, the forces of the Andong Protectorate were restrained by each other, and we merchants could still travel to various places from the sea to trade, although some pirates appeared on the sea from time to time, but after all, they were a minority, and as long as they avoided it in advance, it would not be a big ......loss."

The tall and thin man was puzzled: "Hasn't this always been the case?" I went to Silla on the east coast, you went to Jian'an on the west coast, we are in a similar situation, why is your business so difficult? ”

Another businessman also interjected: "I remember that last year, didn't Jia Xun, the protector of Anton, clear out pirates once? The pirates' momentum should be restrained, are they now resurrected? ”

Listening to the conversation of several merchants, it is obvious that these people are a group of maritime merchants, who set out from Dengzhou and other places to trade in the northeast and other places, and took advantage of the northwest wind at the end of last year to return to the Tang Dynasty, and this period should be a time to recuperate. Get together to exchange news and prepare for this year's business.

In addition to the Tang Dynasty, the forces in their mouths also include the Xi people, the Khitan, the Yan Dynasty, the Silla, the Bohai and the Sogdians, and Jia Xun is only the honorary deputy envoy of the Anton Protectorate, An Lushan secretly controls some of the military power of the Anton Protectorate, and stirs up the contradictions of all forces in the Anton Protectorate and creates a large number of conflicts, often using this as an excuse to send troops to crusade against various tribes and incorporate some soldiers. Take the opportunity to weaken the influence of the Tang Dynasty in the Andong Protectorate.

After the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the Andong Protectorate became the main source of troops in An Lushan, and the Tang Dynasty's control over the Andong Protectorate was also abolished during this period, and it was not incorporated into the Central Plains again until the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Liaodong Peninsula was occupied by the Liao State in the Song Dynasty, and then the Jin people rose in Changbai Mountain, and then the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty more than 600 years later The Liaodong Peninsula was once again included in the territory of the Central Plains, but at that time the Han people in the Northeast had basically been Hu, and this history made people sigh.