In front of them was a small pot, in which the blood-red soup was boiling and rolling, looking at the slices and diced ingredients on the table, it was the hot pot that Luo Lun invited them to eat, but what caught their attention was not this cooking method that was already very common in the Song Dynasty, but something in the hot pot soup that they had not seen. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The soup in the pot was boiling, and the tumbling bubbles changed from small to large until they burst open, transmitting the hot heat to the nostrils of everyone present.

"Luo Tongzhi, this is not Zhuyu."

"It's really not, it's called pepper, it was brought by Taixi maritime merchants, and it has been planted in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for many years, but most of it is used for ornamentation, and very little is eaten. There's no way, the taste in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is light, and I really can't eat this thing. ”

Sichuan cuisine before the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, because of the geography and climate, was no different from the spicy and later generations, but the material used was not chili, but dogwood, which was planted all over the dogwood.

This ingredient, with its spicy and bitter taste, has been the most important seasoning in Sichuan cuisine before chili peppers were introduced to Sichuan. The chili pepper was only transmitted to the southeast coast in the late Ming Dynasty, and was originally called pepper, which began to be planted in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but it was for ornamentation rather than eating, but when this ingredient entered the southwest land in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the use was completely reversed, and it replaced the status of dogwood in Sichuan cuisine at an unimaginable speed.

"This thing, just smelling it is hotter than dogwood."

"Xinjin Hou knows the goods, this pepper, the first time Xia Guan ate it, he also thinks so. This time, when the lower officials returned to their hometowns, His Royal Highness the King of Qi specially asked the lower officials to bring some over for you to taste. ”

Luo Lun is like this, Liu and Yang Erjiang did not doubt him, and sat down politely, but the three Tan glanced at each other, especially Tan Hong, the Marquis of Xinjin, who swallowed his saliva, and they slowly sat down.

The pot is placed in the middle, and the ingredients used for shabu are surrounded by it, and the generals are on the table, with their own soldiers by the side, ready to pick up the ingredients according to the instructions and put them in the pot to boil. The military general is like this, it stands to reason that this civil official should pay more attention to etiquette, but unexpectedly sat down, Luo Lun handed over the official hat to the entourage, and took care of himself and put the vegetables in the pot to boil.

"This ordinary thing, the lower officials won't take care of it, please take care of yourself."

Before the words fell, the greens had already entered the pot, and after a while, Luo Lun sandwiched the steaming, dripping red chili oil greens into the plate, changed his hand to another pair of chopsticks, dipped the greens in the plate into the sauce in the bowl, and stuffed them into his mouth in one bite.

There is always a charcoal fire burning under the pot, and the green vegetables can be eaten as soon as they are hot, Luo Lun put the hot green vegetables into his mouth, and quickly put down the chopsticks before he chewed much, grinned, and fanned the wind with his hands.

Luo Lun is like this, Liu Yao and Yang Youcai, the two generals and adjutant generals who were born as junior officers of the guard, have also lived a hard life in Chengdu for many years, and the delicacies are in front, so they are not polite, and they hurriedly started. On the contrary, San Tan looked at each other again, and then motioned for his soldiers to pick up the vegetables and put them in the pot to blanch.

"It's spicy."

"Happy, happy."

Liu Yao and Yang Youcai were so addicted that Luo Lun swallowed the green vegetables, and hurriedly took a sip of wine to suppress the spicy energy, but he immediately aimed at a plate of mushrooms close to Tan Yi, and even stood up and reached out to clamp it.

"Try this, this mushroom is called shiitake mushroom, and it is also a specialty of Zhejiang, and it tastes very good."

Shiitake mushroom cultivation is the earliest in the world in China, which has been started since the Southern Song Dynasty. By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong had a large number of mushroom farmers who specialized in cultivating this crop for sale and consumption. However, in the southwest, this is still a rarity, and it is not uncommon to have eaten and seen it, but these few people here are not included.

In fact, Tan Yi had already noticed this mushroom just now, but he was still thinking about whether it would be poisonous in his mind, so he didn't dare to use chopsticks. But now, seeing that Luo Lun took away the largest one with a pair of chopsticks, and put it directly in the pot to burn it, and with a look of anticipation, he swallowed his saliva like Tan Hong, so he asked his soldiers to wait for the radish to be scalded before clipping the shiitake mushroom to shabu.

"The taste is really good, this is much stronger than the taste of dogwood, without that crying smell, it's really happy."

Compared with Tan Yi, Tan Hong got off the chopsticks early, the ingredients are novel, which is secondary, the key is that the chili peppers in the soup are too flavorful. Thinking about the dogwoods that have been smuggled in to Huguang during the New Year's holidays over the years, there really seems to be nothing comparable to this thing, especially the bitter taste, which reminds him of decoction.

As the first two or three chopsticks go down, the range of personal chopsticks becomes more and more frequent. At the beginning, the three marquis still held the shelf and asked the soldiers to pick up the vegetables and blanch them, but then they couldn't bear it anymore, so they simply put down their chopsticks to burn them, and even later they didn't even change the chopsticks, and directly used the chopsticks at the entrance to wash the pot.

This kind of spicy taste is really in line with the taste of these Sichuan locals, one by one is either the Hou Ye or the chief soldier and deputy general, and the lowest grade is also a civil official of the fifth grade, but it is like a group of country gourmets, throwing their arms and feasting, completely ignoring what they eat.

The side dishes on the table were quickly eaten, and the cook who accompanied the ship brought another table of fresh, but this table did not last long before they were wiped out like a storm.

After a long time, the side dishes were served for a few rounds, until they were shy, and they collapsed on the seat and no longer wanted to move.

"Those people in Jiangnan actually used this pepper as an ornament, but they didn't dare to enter it, really, really, that, brother, how did you say that word."

"Tyrannical Creatures!"

Tan Hong turned his head and asked, Tan Wen glanced at him, his face was full of contempt for illiteracy, but there was too much empathy mixed in his answer.

After getting this answer, Tan Hong nodded hurriedly, turned his head and emphasized loudly to everyone: "Yes, it's a tyrannical thing!" ”

With a full burp, San Tan, Liu and Yang discussed whether this pepper could be used to replace the status of dogwood in Sichuan cuisine. But when it comes to this, San Tan has more say than Liu Yao and Yang Youcai, not to mention anything else, before the Sichuan Rebellion, their status was higher than the latter two, and after eating and seeing, they naturally have a greater right to speak.

In this way, as he spoke, several famous dishes and some home-cooked dishes in Sichuan were also named by them, but Tan Yi also suddenly remembered that although the people here were all local people in Sichuan, one of them was from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"If you want to say, His Royal Highness King Qi is still knowledgeable and sympathetic, otherwise our brothers wouldn't be able to eat such delicious food."

"That's it, that's it, His Royal Highness King Qi's good intentions, I am grateful, and I will never dare to forget it one day."

The words of praise turned to Chen Wen, and the conversation between the people quickly changed the topic. In the past six months, the relocation of the generals has been completed, and the production and construction work has begun in the prefectures and counties to which they have been assigned. Of course, all production is first to clear the beasts in the city, repair the city walls, and have a safe place, so that the land can be cultivated in the city, and the food can be planted, and the soldiers in the city will have the energy to go out of the city to hunt.

The distribution of land is along the Yangtze River, and the fleet led by Luo Lun has actually returned some, and at the same time, it has also transported the leather goods and such as tiger bones, tiger whips, and antiques, calligraphy and paintings found in the city to Wuchang, and will pay for the goods when the next fleet enters Sichuan.

The feudal towns of Sichuan were finally hung in the commercial system of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, although they were not close together, but this was only the beginning. At least now, as a responsible official, Luo Lun's strength is still tougher than the new Sichuan-Hubei governor Mao Dengshou, who took over Wen'an's residence in Fengjie, the capital of Jiekuizhou, not long ago.

"Speaking of those Western thieves, they really laughed at so-and-so. A certain person demolished the bridge, they didn't know how to build a pontoon bridge, and they still wanted to rebuild the bridge, and they didn't want to think that it could be used for a long time after it was built? Lao Tzu won't send someone to demolish it again? ”

"What Renshouhou said is that this group of thieves is too much worse than their rebellion, and the last general will send people to throw croton into the well, and they actually drank it, and as a result, tens of thousands of people in the sky had diarrhea together, and the scene was really spectacular."

"Mr. Liu, it's not Ben Hou who said you, you are too kind, what kind of people are those guys, the western thieves who killed a thousand knives, if there were no them, our Sichuan, the country of abundance, could be reduced to such a field as it is now, you should throw arsenic and drink them to death."

"The lesson of Xinjin Hou is that the last general has written it down."

"But don't say it, Mr. Xiong Qian, who is under Ben Hou, has also seen it with his own eyes, and the tens of thousands of people mentioned by Mr. Liu have diarrhea together, which is indeed spectacular, indeed spectacular."

"Hahahaha."

The contradiction between the Ming army in Sichuan and the Xiying is not an exaggeration to use a sea of blood for deep hatred. Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, and also killed a sea of corpses in Sichuan, and the battle with the local Ming army never stopped. Among them, compared with the Xiying in the Central Plains of Shanxi and even in Nanzhili and Huguang for many years, the Sichuan Ming army was able to take advantage of very little, but the biggest military achievement was to say that the Jiading General Army Jinjiang Hou Yang Zhan, Jiangkou victory, Zhang Xianzhong's savings for many years sank into the river, and forced Zhang Xianzhong to return to northern Sichuan to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army, which indirectly led to Zhang Xianzhong's death.

However, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated, and the Ming army in Sichuan also fell into the warlord melee. When Zhang Xianzhong's righteous sons gained a firm foothold in Yunnan and began to unite the Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing Dynasty, Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu, led a large army into Sichuan and also wantonly annexed the Ming army from all walks of life in Sichuan.

As Yang Hongji said in "Documentary of the Difficulties of Shu": "When Sun Kewang is from Yunnan to Guizhou, Xin Mao sent troops to comply; Liu Wenxiu built himself from the south to Liya, and Yang Jingxing went to Baoning; Ordered troops to capture Yuan Tao and surrender to Dading; Then the soldiers of Hezun and Chongqing went east, and Yu Dahai and Li Zhanchun let the boat go to Chu; He is like Santan and Tianxi, or descend or escape. Since then, the three rivers have been blocked. Although the killing luck is still not over, the people are still in trouble, and looking back at the sun and moon and the tiger, the frost and snow clothes, the ears and eyes, the east and west, and the deceased on credit, it is no less than a fire and water feast. ”

Compared with the Sichuan warlords who were still in frequent civil wars, Xiying had the strength and potential to defeat the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the great victory in Jingzhou, Guilin, Chenzhou, and Hengyang in the sixth year of Yongli, as well as the series of counterattack operations organized by Liu Wenxiu before the defeat of Baoning, all dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Qing army.

However, for the local Ming army in Sichuan, as well as the remnants of the camp in eastern Sichuan, Xiying was intolerable to their annexation, and before that, a series of struggles between the Sichuan Ming army, the Dashun army and the Xiying in Zhang Xianzhong's era made them not have the slightest trust in the vassal king from Xiying.

"If you want to say that He Zhen is cunning, the way to pretend to be a savage and drink five or six and not speak Chinese to scare the Western thief is what he did, and even the court can't hold us accountable. However, the Western Thieves will not continue to go north again after the New Year, otherwise it would be a good thing to see the three walls of Linguo Gong attacking the army of the Western Thieves. ”

With the Great Western Army, an opponent who has both old hatreds and hatreds, the remnants of the Dashun Army who have been scolded by them behind their backs for many years, now it seems that they also have such a cute side.

Wu Sangui was in Shaanxi anyway, Liu Wenxiu was ordered to go to Yunnan for assistance, but on the one hand, the Sichuan warlords were intertwined with new hatred and old hatred, and on the other hand, they were afraid that they would annex various feudal towns under the banner of resisting the Qing Dynasty again as they did back then, so they consciously and spontaneously organized, put aside the previous contradictions, and worked together to harass Liu Wenxiu's army, which directly led to Wu Sangui's isolation.

"After these few interactions, I feel that King Qi is a good person to get along with, as long as he follows him, he can say anything, but it is more pleasing to the eye than those western thieves."

"What my brother said is very true, and I think His Royal Highness is not bad."

"Don't be blinded by that pepper, the King of Qi has the intention to usurp the throne, we are the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, don't be confused in the big festival."

After eating and talking, Luo Lun went to rest, and the next day he took a boat back to Yunyang Mansion. Luo Lun got on the boat, San Tan also left Chengdu, before leaving, Tan Wen's head drink, Tan Yi and Tan Hong also looked like they were taught, but when Tan Wen took his own soldiers to ride north, they also changed their faces to disdain when they were divided into land in the south of Chengdu.

"Big brother just reads too much, and his brain is bad. King Qi fought a succession of battles, and fought a piece of the world with one hand in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where heavy troops gathered, and was a hero in the world. Not to mention anything else, the decline of the Tartar now is also single-handedly beaten by others, just because the Tartar has run far away as soon as he comes, and he can't even take care of his wife and children, how to compare, what to compare. ”

"Brother is reasonable, let's just say that our brothers, guarding eastern Sichuan for the imperial court, guarding the Tartars on the one hand, and guarding against the rogues on the other, the imperial court has never given money and grain, or His Royal Highness the King of Qi is kind, opening up Sichuan, money and grain, seeds, farming cattle, farm tools, what you want, they are all given for free, and the court has been so kind?"

The three Tan have their own thoughts, but Luo Lun has already left, and he only has a slightly inexplicable feeling about this. However, when he went all the way down the river and arrived in Fengjie, Mao Dengshou, the new governor of Sichuan and Hubei, still refused to see him, but a new piece of information came from the superintendent's line - the Yongli court had the intention of opening a branch to take scholars.

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"The imperial court opened a department this time, and I'm afraid that the people who come will be the same as last time, and there won't be too many."

In the twelfth year of Yongli, the Yongli court began to discuss the issue of opening a branch and taking scholars, but for the Manchu Dynasty, the imperial examination has been held many times, and this year is also the year of the scientific examination.

However, in the last scientific expedition, that is, in the twelfth year of Shunzhi, Chen Wen was famous in Zhejiang and Jiangnan in that year, and the world was shaken, and the number of participants in the Manchu Qing scientific expedition decreased sharply, including Enke after they destroyed the country and Korea.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang have a strong literary style, and the number of scholars far exceeds that of other places, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty lost there, and the number of people in the occupied areas was reduced by a large proportion. Others don't mention it, this year is the fifteenth year of Shunzhi, and the champion of this year's history Sun Chengen is a person from Suzhou, who has passed the assessment of the civil official training class more than a year ago, and is now serving as a county magistrate in Xiangtan County, Changsha Prefecture, assisting the local magistrate, and Ma Shijun of Liyang County, Zhenjiang Prefecture, the champion of Shunzhi for 18 years, is taking care of the affairs of the county.

"Wash your heart, you still have the heart to care about this. This time, I came back to report to the imperial court, and specially asked you to come out, just to tell you that the new army under your command has been ranked last by Ning Wan, and at the current rate, I should count on the smuggling from Taixi, Macao, and even Jiangsu and Zhejiang. ”