Yang Chong went to the kitchen to fry two dishes by himself, fried garlic with shredded meat and stir-fried kohlrabi. The vegetables of the Sui Dynasty are still mainly sunflower, weed, shallot, onion and leek, weed is the young leaf of soybean seedlings, shallots are small roots of garlic, and sunflower is sunflower; The other is radish and kohlrabi, but radish is called reed, and kohlrabi is called cranberry.

Yang Chong cut another plate of raw mutton, and then asked Wei Lei's wife to bring the wind stove and copper pot for cooking tea soup, boil half a pot of water in the copper pot, and when the water boils, put the mutton slices as thin as paper into it, and when the mutton is cooked, it will be eaten with dogwood sauce. The wine is naturally the liquor of Yuwen Distillery, Kong Yingda is the first time to eat such mutton, and said while eating: "Cao Pi's five-cooked kettle should be similar to your method, but it is much more convenient than Tongding, by the way, your shredded meat does not seem to be mutton, and the oil for stir-frying vegetables is not mutton." ”

The eunuchs in Chang'an City rarely ate pork, but Yang Chong's family was an exception, from the time he bought the Ma Xingfang house, Yang Chong asked his family to start eating pork, because pork was half the price cheaper than mutton; There is only one superior person in the family, Yang Chong, and the others are slaves, so Yang Chong doesn't care, and Wei Lei and the others don't care. Yang Chong's cooking is okay, but it is difficult to get condiments in Chang'an, and he can only instruct his subordinates to boil lard and stir-fry vegetables and cook sauce meat with soybean sauce, but today he uses lard and shredded pork.

Kong Yingda is not pedantic, and he has no psychological burden on eating pork, but after learning the truth, he said: "You should get a little soybean sauce from Yu Wenkai, and the fried dishes are delicious and the color is good." ”

Yang Chong heard about this seasoning for the first time, and asked Kong Yingda carefully, only to figure out that soybean sauce is soy sauce. Yang Chong once looked for it in the market in Chang'an, but he didn't see soy sauce, and today he realized that soy sauce is still a luxury like perfume so far. The technique of soy sauce is only mastered by the palace and the workshops of wealthy families, and it is difficult to buy it on the market, and the middle and lower class may only be able to see it when receiving gifts.

Yang Chong secretly made up his mind to develop it himself, this trance did not hide it from Kong Yingda, Kong Yingda reminded with a straight face: "Brother Yang Xian, I know that you are leading your art to the door of Uncle Zhuge Shi, and you are very skilled, but have you thought about it, your craft is like this wine at present, it can only bring huge profits to others, and you will be targeted by others." And everyone actually wants to take advantage of all the conditions to squeeze a fortune out of you. ”

Yang Chong listened to it as if he had been empowered, and asked sincerely, "Can Brother Confucius teach me?" ”

"Two paths." Kong Yingda stretched out two fingers and said: "The first way, you are soaring, even if you can't build a family, you are also a powerful person for a while; The second way, when you rebuild the Momen, there are thousands of disciples, and whoever competes with you is competing with thousands of people. ”

Yang Chong has nothing to say, Kong Yingda is not only a great Confucian in history, but also participated in Yang Xuangan's lesions, and later joined Li Shimin's Qin Palace, and is also an insider of the Xuanwumen incident, and he really has a vision. Kong Yingda said calmly: "You have a fluke mentality now, thinking that you have learned a lot, and anyone is just taking a penny." But have you ever thought that it is precisely because of your indifferent attitude that you will cause a big disaster for yourself, and you are very close to a person's character, that is, King Fangling. ”

Yang Chong's heart jumped, King Fangling is the dead former prince Yang Yong, the history books say that he has a generous and generous personality, willful, and unpretentious, but some people in the Internet have commented in later generations that it is this character that caused him to lose the position of prince and lose his life; The simplest thing is the battle for the guards. Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian ordered the selection of palace guards, and the left servant of Shangshu shot Gao Xi and said that if he tried his best to win the strong, he was afraid that the strength of the guards of the East Palace would be too poor; This made Emperor Wen of Sui very angry, and he became angry and said: "I sometimes act, and the guards must be strong. Prince Yude East Palace, why do you need to be strong left and right? ”

Gao Gong was an outstanding politician, strategist, and military strategist of the Sui Dynasty, known in history as a man of civil and military talent, a wise understanding of world affairs, and a prime minister for nearly 20 years, didn't he know that his few words would make Emperor Wen of Sui unhappy? Yang Yong may not even know about this matter from front to back, he carried a pot in vain, this kind of backing and other things accumulated one by one, and there is also Yang Guang who can win the Oscar, Yang Yong finally lost the position of prince.

This is the so-called "people are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden", Yang Chong thought deeply for a while, and the chopsticks in his hand involuntarily stopped there, until he heard Kong Yingda's toast, and then reacted. Yang Chong drank the wine in the cup and said: "What Brother Confucius said is very true, I will discuss with my senior brother in a few days, and ask the people who collect books in the world to ask for enough Mojia classics and the art of organs. ”

Kong Yingda said with a smile: "Zhuge wants to hear it, I don't know how happy he is, he feels that there is a lack of opponents in the world." ”

The two laughed, Zhuge Quan has been pursuing the rebuilding of Xunzi and Han Feizi's doctrine, if he knew that Yang Chong was going to rebuild Moxue, he must have had many remarks. Yang Chong suppressed and smiled: "I don't know how he is in the south." ”

Zhuge Quan was assigned a position by Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Guang to the south of the Yangtze River to assist Zhu Kuan, the captain of the feather cavalry, in implementing the strategy of the southeast. Kong Yingda replied: "They found a sea master He Man, who once found an island in the sea, which is similar to the Yizhou map of the Three Kingdoms in Zhuge Quan's hand. By the way, I heard Zhuge Quan say that you came to the Central Plains by sea, and said that one of the islands is the closest to Quanzhou. ”

Kong Yingda is talking about the island of Taiwan, called "Yizhou" during the Three Kingdoms period, and Sun Quan, the king of Wu, once sent the generals Wei Wen and Zhuge Zhi to lead a fleet of more than 10,000 soldiers and more than 30 ships. The map of Yizhou in Zhuge Quan's hand is said to have been painted by Zhuge Zhi and passed down among the clan; Yang Chong has seen this map, and he has also discussed some geographical locations with Zhuge Quan, but one centimeter on the map, how many nautical miles on the sea, and the terrain and weather all have to be investigated on the spot. Quanzhou in the Sui Dynasty was the entire area of Fuzhou in later generations, close to the island of Taiwan, and modern people know it.

Yang Chong said cautiously: "I also heard from the big sailor on the ship, it is said that there are pirates in that area, if Zhuge Quan can catch a few pirates who have sailed far, it may be easier to find those islands." However, according to what I saw when I came, and what I heard from the people on the boat, I am afraid that it will be easier to find some countries along the coastline, such as Chenla and Bori that have dealings with the merchants of Canton. ”

Kong Yingda pointed at Yang Chong with chopsticks and said: "Make a mistake again, what you think about is business, and those people in the court want to open up territory, and it is better to have no lord." ”