Chapter 216: Eight Treasures of Food

Since the cement is now in the preliminary research stage, this kind of cement, if Zhu Changhao is allowed to judge, is just the original cement. Romance debuts

The city gate is going to be expanded, Zhu Changhao feels that this matter should be sooner rather than later, so he will let Song Yingxing of the Ministry of Industry pay attention to this matter, after all, smooth traffic can promote the development of commerce.

Zhu Changhao handed over this matter to Uncle Wang, who accompanied him, and asked him to write it down and explain it to Song Yingxing. Zhu Changhao looked at the defects at the city gate and decided to go to the trading market again

Here is an explanation of one thing, the current prefect of Hanzhong, although the boss is the political envoy of Shaanxi Province, but it is nominal, and the real boss is Rui Wangfu.

Under the operation of Zhu Changhao, the Financial Bureau, the Capture Bureau, the Commerce Bureau, the Taxation Bureau, the Agricultural Affairs Bureau, and the Dali Temple Bureau under the jurisdiction of the Hanzhong Prefect began to operate.

Also, from now on, the prefect will not directly judge the case, and the matter of judging the case will be handed over to the Dali Temple Bureau.

The reorganization was completed under the strong pressure of the royal government. At the beginning, Wang Zaitai was very reluctant and resisted, but Zhu Changhao said, "Lord Wang, now in the city of Hanzhong Mansion, every day you have to decide the case, the case is basically backlogged, not to mention anything else, in the past three days, from the eighteen-mile shop wharf, to the soup pot head, the blacksmith shop, and the old pimple village, just four places, you let the officials in the prefect's yamen, the soles of the catchers are about to wear out, but there are still thirteen cases backlogged."

If there is a backlog of cases, the people who do the wrongdoing, because your prefect yamen does not have enough manpower, so they can easily escape, isn't this just letting the tiger return to the mountain to leave trouble, so that they can continue to harm others? ”

Wang Zaitai heard Zhu Changhao say this, and then thought that he is now a subordinate of the nameless prince, and what the prince said is also right, this Hanzhong Mansion is accompanied by the dredging of the Hanjiang River waterway, the development of business roads, and there are more and more gangsters who do evil.

Next, even the right to judge can be divided, and the other remaining rights of the prefect's yamen are naturally no longer discussed, and they are gradually stripped away, but the prefect is still the boss of the bureau under his jurisdiction, and he can supervise everything.

In fact, the six bureaus set up by Zhu Changhao also correspond to the original organization of the prefect's yamen, the "six rooms".

Since the Ming Dynasty, the prefecture and county government also imitated the system of the six central departments, with six rooms for officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, corresponding to the six central departments.

Officer's room: In charge of attendance, squire, Ding worry, resumption, and official affairs in other provinces.

Household housing: in charge of household management, taxation and payment of grain, disaster relief, etc.

Ritual room: Zhangxing learning, imperial examination, education, table, etiquette, sacrifice, festival and other things.

Barracks: Poor soldiers, people's strength, military tests, public security, etc.

Torture room: in charge of case investigation, court records, case writing, and management of criminal and prison matters.

Workshop: in charge of project construction, repair warehouse, build yamen, etc.

Shop long room: the matter of handwriting and greeting officials.

Undertaking room: all kinds of official documents and letters should be registered in this room, and distributed to each room for transfer.

The clerks of each room are generally called the wardens, and the head of each room is either called the scripture or the name of each room, and is called the official book, the household book, the ritual book, the military book, the punishment book, and the work book. The staff under it are called Xu officials, scribes, and clerks. There are generally more than 10 scribes in each room, no more than 20 people, they are not officials, and there is no roasted dog liver in oil) Eight kinds of food (or think of it as eight cooking methods). In addition, it is said that the "treasured eight things" refer to cattle, sheep, elk, deer, horses, pigs (pigs), dogs, and wolves.

Now, the eight treasures of Hanzhong Mansion City that appear are not so simple.

Dragon's liver (it may be the liver of a baby fish or pangolin, or the liver of a snake, or some people believe it is white horse liver).

Phoenix pith (probably the cerebral marrow of a golden pheasant).

Leopard fetus, carp tail (not a carp tail, because there is nothing special about carp tails, they are neither rare nor precious, nor do they have any special taste, they are probably the tail of pangolins, because pangolins were called "dace carp" in ancient times).

Owl (roasted owl), scarlet lips, bear's paws, and crisp cheese cicadas (probably high-grade crisp cheese, Ming Li Rihua's "Notes on Liuyan Zhai" says "it is the snail crisp of today." Its shape is not the same as that of a snail, but resembles the belly of a cicada").

These mountain dishes, Uncle Wang said that they should be booked in advance, after all, the ingredients are not so easy to cook. Now, the eight treasures provided casually on the eight treasures upstairs are: eight treasures of mountains and rivers, four eight treasures, eight treasures of the sea, eight treasures of birds and beasts, and so on.

Among them, the "Eight Treasures of Mountains and Rivers" are divided into

Eight treasures of the mountain: bear paws, deer antlers, rhino trunks (or elephant pulls, elephant trunks), humps, civets, leopard fetus, lion milk, monkey heads.

Water Eight Treasures: shark fin, abalone, fish lips, sea cucumber, skirt (skirt-like ruan meat on the carapace of soft-shelled turtles), dried scallops, fish crisps, and toads.

The "four or eight treasures" of the whole table are:

"Eight treasures of the mountain": hump, bear's paw, monkey's head, scarlet lip, elephant pull (elephant trunk), leopard fetus, rhino tail, deer tendon;

"Eight treasures of the sea": bird's nest, shark fin, large black cucumber, fish maw, fish bone, abalone, seal, pike (baby fish);

"Eight treasures of birds": red swallow, flying dragon (a bird called hazel pheasant produced in the mountains and forests of Northeast China), quail goose, partridge, colorful finch (possibly peacock), turtle dove, red-headed eagle;

"Eight treasures of grass": lion's head (fungus), white fungus, bamboo sunflower (bamboo fungus), donkey nest mushroom, morel mushroom, flower mushroom, daylily, Yunxiangxin (one of the mushrooms).

Sea Eight Treasures: shark fin, sea cucumber, fish maw, mussels (dried mussel meat, mussels), dried scallop meat, fish lip (fish skin), abalone, squid.

There are two kinds of eight treasures of birds and beasts, the first is bear paw, elephant trunk, hump, scarlet lip, deer tail, monkey head, leopard fetus, and bird's nest.

The second is: bear's paw, deer tail, car ao, shark fin, crab, Jiangyao Zhu (dried scallops), orchid mushroom (straw mushroom), grouper.

From the above groups of "eight treasures" can be seen, the so-called "eight treasures" do not have a fixed model, subjectively think that precious, can be listed as "treasures", and there are more and more varieties of colors.

Uncle Wang called Xiao Er over, and reported the names of such a string of dishes to the prince, Zhu Changhao didn't hear a few, so he let Uncle Wang call the shots and ordered four tables of meals, these dishes, to be honest, among these people who ate on the third floor, they didn't think it was too expensive, but Zhu Changhao finally silently calculated that a table of meals would cost almost ten taels of silver, which was a year's income from a well-off family.

It seems that the development of commerce, extravagance is also prevailing, how to guide this extravagance, at this moment, has been Zhu Changhao's next major event, after all, changing customs is also a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people!