Chapter 122: Decision-making

The candlelight flickered, and the lights were dim. In the hazy atmosphere deliberately created, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion has no light in her eyes, but the woman with a delicate appearance softly sings a story of Professor Fan Jinxin.

On the opposite side of the woman, on the table of the Eight Immortals, the broth in the copper hot pot is boiling, and the best mutton is rolled out after a roll in it, and a few rolls are rolled in the prepared sauce, which is the delicacy of the entrance.

At the end of the year, it was the busiest time for the hotel restaurant, but today Yipinxiang closed early and closed before dark, so as to entertain an important guest: Ling Yunyi, the new governor of Liangguang.

Ling Yunyi is old, and he mainly eats and drinks in terms of pleasure. Daming also has hot pot, such as raw cattle, Fan Jin's pot of the old Beijing copper hot pot model, which is considered an improvement, but the essence is still something all the way, and it is not difficult to accept. Through Lin Haishan's way, the seasoning sold from Nanyang greatly increased the taste. Fan Jin's sesame paste, chili oil and other ingredients made the old man have a great appetite, and he waved frequently, if most of the other staff members were to suspect what poison was in this soup, otherwise how could he make the army lose his temper?

has been an official for many years, and he has naturally enjoyed eating and drinking for a long time, and ordinary food can't get into his eyes. At the moment, there are no outsiders, and he can't afford to praise Fan Jin, but when he eats this mutton in his mouth, he is still full of praise and says:

"This soup...... It's really fresh, I haven't eaten such a delicious broth for a long time, but I don't know how to make it? ”

"If you go back to Dong Weng, this is actually easy, literally, fish and sheep are fresh. The students' soup is first made with a good carp, and then accompanied by this mutton, and dozens of mushrooms and dried scallops are put in it, which is naturally fresh. Please try this fish again, and take the best carp with sea rice, Shao wine, mutton soup, and shiitake mushrooms, and the taste is quite palatable, right? ”

The dish made by Fan Jin is actually a pan fish invented by Pan Zuyin, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, in another time and space, which is a front-door dish in Guangheju, the capital. Later, Guangheju went out of business, and this dish spread to Tongheju, Fan Jin was a coincidence in his previous life, he knew an old chef who lived with him, and the other party loved to listen to his play, and he also learned this method of making fish from the old man.

In this life, I have the blessing of the system, and I have relied on this time to hone in the kitchen, and my cooking skills have improved greatly, and this dish is made very carefully. Ling Yunyi didn't know how much fish he ate in Guangzhou, but after putting a mouthful of fish meat in his mouth and chewing it carefully, he still showed an incredible look on his face, and said:

"Wonderful...... This is really wonderful, the cook hired by the old man from Wuzhong, with a salary of four taels of silver a month, can't make such delicious food at all, and he has to lose his temper if he has nothing to do. I really should let him taste your craft, and let him know what it means to be delicious. ”

"Dong Weng won the award, and the students were just messing around, and they couldn't be on the stage."

"If there is no one else between the banquets, you don't have to be polite, do you have a name for this fish?"

"I just researched it recently, and I haven't had time to name it yet."

"Since he didn't get up, then the old man will give him a name. Since it is the dish you studied, it will be named after your surname, and it will be called Fan Yu. ”

"Please try this Cuigai shark fin again. This is to use small rib wings, stew with chicken soup, and then use large purple abalone, real cloud legs, and well-borened oily chicken, only to put off the chicken skin, wrap it with a piece of fresh lotus leaves, and put it in the ingredients to burn. Burn for an hour, then change the new lotus leaf cover on it, steam it for 20 minutes in the basket drawer, then throw away the lotus leaf, and cover it with green lotus leaves, the fragrance of ham and abalone is all in, the chicken fat is smoother and finer than the fat, this dish is naturally mellow and delicate, and the lotus fragrance is overflowing but not greasy. You're always slow to use it. ”

Ling Yunyi picked up a shark fin and chewed it lightly in his mouth, then nodded and said, "Okay, it's really good!" The fools in the world say that the gentleman is far away from cooking, the most hateful, even some scholars say so, this is very undeserved. There is no injury, it is a benevolent technique, and the cow is not seen the sheep. A gentleman is also to beasts, seeing their life, and not being able to bear to see their death; Hearing its voice, I can't bear to eat its flesh. It is a gentleman who cooks far away. The Book of Rites. Yuzao has clouds, gentlemen are far away from cooking, and all flesh and blood are practiced. In the final analysis, it means that people have a heart of forbearance, not that the gentleman really leave the kitchen. Generally, people who don't want to understand how to read books understand this sentence as a scholar who doesn't enter the kitchen, it's simply insulting! ”

Fan Jin also smiled: "Although our Cantonese style is not as good as that of the southeast, it is not so much that we can't even understand this sentence." It's nothing more than that the scholars want to be lazy, and when his wife asks him to help out in the kitchen, he uses this sentence as a shield. said that it was the sage Yun's 'gentleman who was far away from cooking', I want to be a gentleman, and your husband can't be a villain! So you can stand by and wait for the lady to bring the hot food to enjoy. ”

As soon as he spoke, Ling Yunyi was noncommittal, but the blind girl named Ah Qiao couldn't help laughing. When he laughed, he also knew that he had made a big mistake, so he quickly put down the pipa and knelt on the ground and said: "The slave knows that she is wrong, and she will not dare anymore." ”

Ling Yunyi looked at the woman who was playing and singing, and said with a smile: "With a blind girl as a musician, this method is good, it is better for her to fall to you than to fall into the north." Get up and speak. It doesn't matter if your host tells a joke and you laugh a few times. If it's somewhere else, just laugh at you, maybe you laugh at your life. But your host is a benevolent person, I won't blame you, so sit down, you should thank the gods and Buddhas for letting you meet such a generous master, otherwise it wouldn't be what it is now. Thinking that you can take the initiative to help these weak women and keep them from poison, this unbearable heart is far from being comparable to the so-called pedantic people who do not kill, and this kitchen can be entered and exited at will. ”

"Xie Dongjia, Xie Zhijun." The woman staggered up, but she didn't know where to go, so Fan Jin had to take her, lead her to the seat and sit down, put the pipa in her hand and said:

"Sing it, don't laugh."

Ling Yunyi said with a smile: "Your bureau in Luoshanbu this time is almost a desperate plan, and in the future, I don't know how many people will say that your heart is like a snake and scorpion, cruel and easy to kill." In the final analysis, the benevolence they can see is different from the benevolence that we can see. The scholars only saw that the Luoshan barbarians were poor and had a difficult livelihood, and when they saw the tragic situation of the imperial army being overwhelmed, they felt that the imperial court was extremely evil, but they could not see the scene of the Luoshan people attacking the state and breaking the county, killing the officials, humiliating the officials, and looting the large households. If I don't commit a killing, this Luo Shanman's murder will never end, if I don't kill them, will they kill the innocent? ”

Ah Qiao had just sung two sentences while playing the pipa, but at this time, the tune was chaotic and his voice was a little choked. Fan Jin hurriedly said: "Ah Qiao is a person from Takishui, her family is still a decent family, her father works on the banknote, it is worth one hundred draws, and there is a lot of income every month." Although her eyes are inconvenient, she is a young lady, and someone serves her to eat, drink and wear, and she doesn't have to do anything herself. However, Luo Shanman was not satisfied with the logging tax being sucked into the wood, so he burned the money and killed the tax collector. Among those who were killed that night was her father......"

The woman was already crying silently at this time, Ling Yunyi pointed at Fan Jin, "I just said that you are kind, and you make people cry, how can you bear it?" Hurry up and send people back and come back for a drink. ”

Fan Jin's speed was very fast, he sent the people away, and after a while, he turned back and said to Ling Yunyi: "Commander Jun, what do you think of this woman?" If she is really asked to tell everyone the story of her family, and then cry like this, I think that at least sixty percent of the young scholars in Guangzhou City will immediately support the use of force against Luo Shan. The remaining forty percent did not dare to openly oppose it. ”

"You...... Deliberately? Ling Yunyi asked, "Did you deliberately accept her because of her background?" Are the other women in a similar situation? ”

"It's the same or different, in fact, go to the market and see, all the people who sell their sons and daughters, who don't have a stomach of bitter water, poured out one by one, there are few people in the world who can't be killed. If you let those Luo Shanman speak, they also have countless grievances to confide in, and they are not inferior at all. What the government can do is not let those people speak, but only let the people hear what we want them to hear. Robbers and thieves can succeed in the first place, because they put together a lot of unlucky people, so that everyone's grievances are concentrated, infected and spread to each other, this is the so-called resentment. This kind of force has a strong momentum, relying on this resentment. And this resentment is used by the government, and it can also be used as a sharp blade to clean up those thieves. ”

Ling Yunyi nodded, "In my shogunate, there are special personnel in terms of marching formations and financial affairs, and you may not be really strong compared to them." But when it comes to overall planning, when it comes to calculating people's hearts, no one can match you. First, he used the Luoshan gold mine to pull the gentry over, and now he borrowed this woman to arouse the enthusiasm of the lower-class scholars, and when the fight really started, there would be a lot less constraints in the rear. After all, this time the net is spread on all sides, and it will take a lot of money, food, and time, and the people behind are not happy, and this battle will not be able to continue. ”

"In the past, people didn't like to fight because the longer the war was fought, the heavier the burden on the people. Those big families are no exception, and if they want to provide food and husbands, they naturally hope to be superior without fighting. But now it's different, a whip law has been made, although they pay silver, but when they change hands, the court uses the silver to buy grain and hire servants from them, and the money is only left hand out and right hand in, and there is a lot less consideration for interests, and then opposing it is nothing more than not wanting Dong Weng to do this. ”

"The scholars below are also a truth, they have always been happy to criticize the government, the longer the war is fought, the more bitter the people are, and the more reason they have to scold the court. This kind of person can only end in their own way, since they like poor people, let them know that there are many poor people in the world, and they may not be pitiful. The soldiers in front must be able to see hope, and those behind must be able to see the good, and they must also be made aware of the harm. If they don't follow us, their lives will be in danger. Especially for those big families, I will let a few girls pretend to be young ladies from big families, and talk about how they were harmed by the Luoshan barbarians after being broken, and life is worse than death. Although Luo Shanman couldn't beat Guangzhou, the rabbit died and the fox was sad, and these big families would not be happy when they heard that the gentry were victimized. At least they won't come to bad things, as long as they can concentrate their strength, Luo Shanman will die this time. ”

Ling Yunyi nodded and said: "Retreat and think about your idea is the most in line with my mind, Luo Shan has rebelled and revived, and it has been a cause for a long time." Zeng Qu'an (Zeng Xingwu) wiped out the entire family of the Nine Silk Thieves at one time, so that Sichuan would no longer be harassed by the natives. I also want to learn from him this time, turn Luo Shanman into powder, and let the surrounding Dong people see what the fate of going against the government is! ”

"I borrowed these Luo Shanman's heads, so as to deter those rich people. A whip law and the Luoshan war, although it was a political battle, in the final analysis, it is still one thing. If the big families bow their heads, our business will be easy to do, and if they go against the government, it will be difficult to move an inch. If you want to implement the new law, you have to let them know that the court is very determined this time, and if anyone tries to provoke the court, they will have to pay the price. ”

Ling Yunyi nodded, "Iron-fisted and soft, indispensable. I have decided to adopt your proposal and make Takishui a state of Zhili. In this way, there will be many more positions. Even if those big families can't be officials, they can arrange for people to be officials. With this interest, they will be more inclined to support the government. But if you have grace, you have to have power, and I just didn't see it when I secretly transported some rice grain and even iron tools in exchange for sand gold. When I want to close the mountain, whoever dares to do this again will kill someone. It's just that the gentry are not compared to barbarians, and to kill them, you can't use officers and soldiers, you have to use a quick knife, is that knife powerful? ”

Fan Jin said: "That knife is indeed fast enough, and the handle of the knife is in the hands of the army, so it is naturally easy to use." If you kill some people, there is no need to make a noise, the gentry will not go to death if they suffer a dumb loss. ”

Ling Yunyi took the first battle since he became the governor very seriously, especially this battle was also related to his prestige in Liangguang and the implementation of the new policy in the future, so he couldn't help nodding and said: "This knife...... Is it really fast enough? I heard that there is only a group of women left, and the men are dying, is it still useful? ”

Don't worry, although they only have women left, it is enough to deal with some merchants. This time into the mountains, the biggest enemy is not the mountain people but the plague, to deal with the plague needs a blind very important medicinal materials, but also these people to find a way. ”

Ling Yunyi nodded: "You say a word to the new thief leader of the Lin clan, I will protect Lin Feng, and I will also take a big risk." This risk is not something that can be offset by a few taels of gold that he gave me. I want someone who is obedient and can be used, and if he can't satisfy me, the living can become dead at any time, including him. ”

"Don't worry, the students are measured."

"The last time he attacked Nanao, Brother Shi Ting only believed in his staff, and refused to discuss with you. This time to attack Luo Mountain, you just have to let go of your hands and feet to do it, the old man has only one request for you: Luo Shanman is all dead! ”