The Han Dynasty paid attention to eating at separate tables, so at this moment, in front of each person's desk, there were six dishes and a silver wine jug, which was estimated to weigh one catty.

Han Lie's words were not exaggerated, as well as the color, flavor, and taste, in fact, facing the twenty young beauties in robes in front of him, a man would have a feeling of uniform control.

As for the color and fragrance, it is a tribute to the food in front of the table, twelve dishes, including roast lamb shank, braised pork, roast chicken with honey sauce, white chopped duck, steamed white fish, boiled beef, twelve dishes are hard dishes, it can be said.

The boiled beef of this era is naturally not like a bowl of chili noodles in later generations, where thinly sliced beef is rolled in a hot soup, which is spicy and appetizing.

The beef in front of you is cut into egg-sized cubes and stewed with peppercorns and other spices, which smells equally fragrant and tastes delicious.

As a person of later generations, Han Lie is no stranger to cooking, he can see the method of cooking the dishes in front of him at a glance, to be honest, the cooking method of the Han Dynasty is mainly stewed, and the seasoning is also less, and the taste is really not very good, which is also what Han Lie has always criticized.

For this reason, he was in his own home, but he invented the use of an iron pot to stir-fry, although because of the lack of seasoning, the taste of stir-fried vegetables is still not comparable to that of later generations, but it is still better than stewed vegetables, and it is mainly because Han Lie uses lard.

The people of the Han Dynasty did not like to eat pork, the reason was still the problem of cooking, and the pork that had not been fanned had a very sassy taste and tasted bad. For this reason, the Han people eat oil, which is generally mainly taken from sheep or cattle, as well as plant extraction, followed by pigs and dogs.

But when it comes to oil extraction, it is naturally more than pork, and the fat is unique to fat pigs, although pork has a smell, but the lard is much smaller, and there is no oil in a dish, what is the taste of eating.

The appearance of mutton, chicken, duck meat, etc. on the table is not a strange thing for a wealthy county like Yandu, but the appearance of beef still surprised Guoyuan and others.

Beef is now a scarce labor, at least Guo Yuan, Cheng Bing, and Zheng Yi here have not eaten beef for at least a year, and even the last time Han Lie ate beef, it was under Beihai City, from the slaughtered beef captured from the Yellow Turban rebels who surrendered.

But there were forty or fifty people in front of the hall, and there was at least a pound of beef in front of each table, looking at the expressions of Wu Jun and his subordinates, but there was no change at all, it can be seen that eating beef in Yandu is not an uncommon thing.

There is also the roast leg of lamb, golden in color, fragrant, full of exotic flavor, it is obvious that this practice is transmitted from the Western Regions, and then what surprised Han Lie even more was that when the dish was finished, when a maid poured him wine, he was surprised to find that the wine in the white porcelain cup was actually wine.

Even if a person like Han Lie has a historical memory of two thousand years, he doesn't need to be moved at this moment, if the method of roasting mutton can be passed on from the Western Regions, but this wine must be paid tribute from the Western Regions at the moment, because even if he masters the method, as far as Han Lie knows, there is absolutely no place in Xuzhou and even the Central Plains at the moment, where large-scale grape cultivation has been formed.

A jar of wine brought from the Western Regions to the south, how much is worth, in Han Lie's opinion, it can no longer be measured by value, just this road of war, and the counties and counties of the Western Regions that have already fallen into the foreign race, it is already great to be able to walk safely alone, but he still has to carry fine wine with him, thinking about this process, Han Lie feels smacked.

"My lord, this is a local monk from the Western Regions, a jar of Western Regions wine sent to the lower officials, the lower officials have not been willing to drink it, today I learned that the adults came, and I specially took it out for the adults to taste." Wu Jun, who sat down on the lower right, had been watching Han Lie's expression, but when he saw Han Lie stunned, he immediately raised his eyebrows and asked for credit.

"Lord Wu has a heart." Han Lie raised the white porcelain cup, looking at the snow-white porcelain cup, the wine was as red as blood, although he kept a smile on his face, but he didn't have the slightest joy in his heart, he could almost imagine that the glass of red wine in front of him, the people who shed blood and sacrificed for him along the way, were enough to dye this wine red, as long as he thought about this scene, Han Lie felt that it was difficult to swallow.

"Your Excellency, your Excellency, please." Wu Jun held the wine glass in both hands, first saluted Han Lie, and then saluted to Guo Yuan and the others who were sitting opposite.

Guo Yuan, Cheng Bing, Zheng Yi and others, this will not be as much as Han Lie thought, they had only heard of wine before, but now it is the first time they have seen it, and they are a little curious in their hearts, but at this moment, Han Lie on the main seat did not move, but everyone did not dare to drink rudely.

"Such a delicious wine and food, when a floating glass." Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Han Lie didn't feel too much nostalgia, so he immediately raised his glass and took a sip, tasted and moistened his throat, and then took a big sip.

To be honest, Han Lie doesn't know much about red wine, although he has drunk some before, it doesn't seem to taste as good as the one in front of him, or Han Lie is now used to drinking contemporary sweet rice wine, so when he drinks this wine, it has a different taste.

"The wine of the Western Regions really lives up to its reputation." The wine entered his throat, and even the dignified Guoyuan couldn't help but appreciate it.

"It's good if you like it." Wu Jun looked at Han Lie with a smile on his face, for him, the first thing to serve today's guests was naturally Han Lie.

"Grape wine glow-in-the-dark cup, if you want to drink the pipa, immediately urge ......" Han Lie, who was holding the wine glass, couldn't help but think of a Tang poem in his mind, and subconsciously recited it, but the next moment he saw the officials in the hall, all looking at him with a look of surprise, knowing that he had done another copyist Han Lie, so he had to smile bitterly and said: "The wine and food really make people nostalgic." ”

"I have long heard that the lord is good at seven-word poetry, and today I heard it with my own ears, and I know that it really deserves its reputation." Cheng Bing, who has always been brilliant, couldn't help but praise under the soft chanting.

"It's true that the artistic conception is far-reaching, but it seems that there is still a lot to be done, why don't you make up for it?" Zheng Yi also said expectantly.

"Clever words, where to get down, forget it, drink wine and eat food, so as not to live up to Lord Wu's good intentions." Han Lie waved his hand and smiled, but buried his head in eating and drinking, obviously not planning to say anything more.

After a banquet, Han Lie, who had been eating for nearly two hours, and Han Lie, who was drunk and full, also changed his normal behavior, and even directly announced a day off, and put the various rosters sent by Wu Jun on the shelf.

It was night, in the study room of the east wing of the county government.

Han Lie gathered Guo Yuan, Cheng Bing, Zheng Yi and others together, and then said to Xu Sheng: "Wen Xiang, tell your subordinates about the news they have heard." ”

"Whoa." Xu Sheng stood up and saluted everyone: "According to the ten sergeants I arranged, I found out in Yandu in one afternoon, there are no less than twenty private salt workshops in the city, and in fact, according to the Han law, only traders who have obtained the approval and permission of the imperial court can use the quota of no more than 10% of the salt production in the salt works controlled by the local government. ”

"According to our inquiry, there are only three salt dealers who have obtained the permission of the government, and their sales volume was originally only 10,000 catties per year, but according to our people's tentative knowledge, the shopkeeper of the trader agreed that he could sell us 5,000 catties, that is to say, these traders, the original annual transaction volume, can be half of the transaction in a day, and several vendors are the same, so it is not difficult to show that the private salt in the hands of these salt dealers far exceeds the quota of the imperial court."

"What's even more surprising is that other smuggling salt dealers who are not approved by the imperial court also promise to sell more than 5,000 catties of illicit salt, think about the fact that there are 20 private salt traders in the whole city who are open and open, and there are also those who operate secretly in private.

Xu Sheng's words shocked Guoyuan and the others, if what Xu Sheng said was true, then it means that Yandu has at least more than five million huge money lost every year, where did this outflow go?

From today's luncheon and dinner, as well as the pavilions and palatial mansions in front of him, it is not difficult to see that Wu Jun, the county magistrate, if he hadn't participated in it, how could he live such a luxurious life?

"Now you should understand, why I didn't check the account, since Wu Jun can take out the account book, then it means that this person has arranged everything, today in front of the people of the city, he welcomed us into the county government with full respect, if we arrest him without evidence, no matter how we arrange it afterwards, it will leave people with a handle, so we can't touch him for the time being."

Han Lie smiled faintly, and continued: "So in the next three days, although you eat and have fun, deal with it indiscriminately, after three days, we will withdraw from Yandu, and then I will arrange someone to conduct a comprehensive secret investigation of Yandu, I still don't believe that a small county order can turn the sky upside down." ”

"Whoa." Guo Yuan and the others received Han Lie's instructions, so they put their minds at ease, eating, drinking, and having fun are things that they will enjoy personally, and since Han Lie, the lord of the lord, ordered them to enjoy it, they naturally have no scruples.

After withdrawing from Yandu, Han Lie took Xu Sheng and the two quietly rushed to Huaiyin, while Guo Yuan and the others slowly retreated to Guangling with a large group of people.

Han Lie went to Huaiyin, since he went to see Chen Deng, who served as a county magistrate in Huaiyin, Chen Qi and Chen Deng's father and son, although they did not explicitly say that they took refuge in themselves, but they still reached a tacit understanding with each other.