So how can Luo Youde and others gather around him and be influenced by his own catalyst? Hong Tao thinks it is very simple and difficult, it is nothing more than two words, interests! With sufficient benefits, in a mercantile society like the Southern Song Dynasty, it will inevitably attract a large number of people to become their partners or followers. But how to control this part of the population is a big problem, once people have money and become rich, they will lose their initial motivation. The only way to keep them working is to give them more benefits, and once you can't give them, they will abandon you.

Hong Tao is not sure that he can provide them with more and more benefits, but there are still at present, as for what to do in the future, cold salad! I am not a thinker, a reformer, or a politician, and I can't think that far, I can only take one step at a time. It is not clear how far it will go in the end, but Hong Tao is sure that it is better to go than not to go.

After leaving the kitchen, Hong Tao and the previous judgment were like two people, not on the surface, but in their hearts. Now that he has a preliminary understanding of the Great Song Dynasty, the places that he originally thought were difficult are now no longer difficult, and the places that he thought were easy seem to be not so easy. He also has to revise his plan accordingly, keep pace with the times, and adapt to the different environments.

After Luo Youde's observation in the kitchen, he also basically determined Hong Tao's identity, and the relationship between the two became more harmonious. In Luo Youde's eyes, Hong Tao is a Nanfan person, and he is still a rare and interesting Nanfan person. In Hong Tao's eyes, Luo Youde is not so threatening, he is just a very ordinary maritime merchant in the Southern Song Dynasty, although there is a Qiongzhou Luo clan behind him, but judging from his words and deeds, he is not a very vicious person.

"When I get ashore, Brother Wei will definitely make a sharkskin dumpling for Brother Hong, the taste of this dish is not enough!" After leaving the kitchen, Luo Youde did not take Hong Tao back to the platform on the roof of the stern, but entered the other side of the first floor of the stern. Luo Youde was very happy that Hong Tao showed him a fish cutlet, and he really hadn't seen it, and he couldn't stop apologizing to Hong Tao, saying that the kitchen on the ship was too low, and he must cook it himself after going ashore and get a table of food to entertain Hong Tao.

"Didn't you say that the gentleman was far away from cooking?" Hong Tao basically has questions about everything Luo Youde said, fortunately, this Luo Youde doesn't care about Hong Tao's questions, he is also the same as Hong Tao, he asks if he doesn't understand, and the guests and hosts talk very happily.

"Hey, what Brother Hong said is wrong, Chef Yuan is not saying that the gentleman will not cook, but that the gentleman had better not slaughter the living beings with his own hands. There are many people who believe in Buddhism in our Great Song Dynasty, and the official family also believes in Buddhism. Luo Youde corrected a misunderstanding of Hong Tao again, until Hong Tao of the Great Song Dynasty did not know how bad he was in history, it was simply too bad, there was not much historical knowledge, and there were still many wrongs and few rightes. And the next dinner made Hong Tao feel like a vivid history lesson, it turned out that the Song Dynasty people ate like this!

According to Hong Tao's standard of food, the food of the Song Dynasty was enough to meet his needs, both in terms of type and taste, and the later generations were not too different, there was no kind of thing that was difficult to swallow when looked at, and even tasted more elaborate than most restaurants in later generations, and met the health standards.

First of all, the restaurant, which is huge! The dining table took up less than a quarter of the area, and the rest was empty. At first, Hong Tao thought that it was for the sake of setting more tables, and there would be one table for fewer people, and 3 or 4 tables for more people, but he was wrong again, and he was ridiculously wrong. Those spare places are places to arrange bands, backing dances and games, yes, the Song Dynasty paid attention to people's hospitality, not just eating and finishing, but also listening to tunes, watching dances, and drinking orders! So the restaurant has to be big.

Not only the restaurant is exquisite, but also the seating, a round table can only seat 4 people, but it is usually empty in front of the door. Why? Because this is the main seat, if the elders of the host's family are alive, then this seat cannot be sat as a sign of respect. On the right hand side of the main seat is the real host seat, on the left is the main guest, and the position with the back to the door is the lowest seat at this table, called the co-attendant. Because this position is used for serving, it has to be disturbed often, plus it is closest to the door, and the person sitting in this position goes to Zhang Luo for anything.

Chinese buildings generally sit in the north and face south, and the main entrance of the house will also open in the south, so the main seat is generally in the east, which is the origin of the word "owner". The guest seat is the west side, and the word west seat also evolved from the dinner table, which means to respect the guest.

This regulation can be arbitrarily amplified, for example, if the emperor invites guests in the palace, then the emperor himself will sit in the position of facing the door, because he is the most noble, even if he still has Lao Tzu alive, he is not as noble as him, so he must sit on the throne. The other ministers will sit on two sides, with the east side as the main and the west side as the auxiliary, which means that the ministers sitting on the east side have a higher status, and the west ministers have a lower status. When drinking, the east side raises a glass first, and the west side can follow suit, and if the east side does not raise it, the west side will endure it.

The restaurant is exquisite, the rules are exquisite, the following is the tableware, the same, it is also very exquisite, it is the most exquisite that Hong Tao has ever seen, and the imitation of the Qing Dynasty banquet in later generations is not as good as the style of an ordinary Song Dynasty maritime merchant. The first is the container, that is, the plate and bowl or something, with gold as the best, silver as the second, lacquer again, the most is porcelain! To say that Song porcelain should have a very high status in history, how can it be so uninvited?

Because there is too much porcelain, no matter how much Song porcelain is used, it can't be used for high-end banquets in the Great Song Dynasty, only ordinary people will use porcelain, and the other is exclusively for export. The Great Song Dynasty's exquisite people, literati, and rich people will never use it, but any restaurant or restaurant with a certain grade must also have wooden lacquerware at the very least, otherwise people with status will not patronize it at all. In addition to high-end tableware such as gold, silver, and lacquer, there is also a special material, such as glass and glass. These things are the best, good glass cups, glass bowls, that are all treasure level, according to Luo Youde, the Song Dynasty itself can also fire glassware, but the color is not good, too turbid, the more transparent, the more colorless the glass is more valuable.

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