Half a month later, Cao Shi took a walk in the back garden of the Hou Mansion, perhaps for unknown reasons brought by the crossing, his body recovered very quickly, but he could walk on the ground in five days, and soon he had a big problem, he was not used to eating the main meal of the Western Han Dynasty.

Originally, he was seriously ill for a few months, and he could only eat some liquid food such as rice porridge every day, or pure broth, but after he got better, this treatment was gone.

But he just can't stand the heavy taste of this meal, the Han Dynasty people must have soup to cook, this is the three generations of the princes of the princes' gifts, the ancestors to serve the soup, the Spring and Autumn Period of the princes' banquet of the main dish is also a soup, the quality of the soup determines the face of the host in this banquet.

And the so-called soup is not the rice porridge and wheat porridge he imagined with meat and vegetable seasonings, the soup is the minced meat porridge, the deer soup is the venison porridge, the pheasant soup is the pheasant porridge, and the high-end soup will be made with the vegetables, what is it? Broth.

A large Ding dozens of catties of food is cooked until it is cooked, and a bowl of minced meat soup with turbid flesh and bones can not be seen clearly, only salt and vegetables that have been boiled are used as seasonings, and the material swallowed with the soup is a black sauce, which is also a pickled sauce made of beef, mutton, and fish.

After eating a few bites of boiled minced meat and then tasting the unknown meat sauce that intersects with salty and smelly, he resisted the urge to vomit and asked the housekeeper how it tasted. ”

Kong Qiu said again: I don't want to eat it, I don't eat it!"

I can't eat the soup anymore.

It is a slice of raw meat, the fish is a sashimi, the deer is a slice of raw venison, the most plump and tender part of the material is selected, and then it is cut carefully with a business dagger, and strive to do it in every minute, cut the fiber like a man, scatter such as a valley and accumulate such as a red, from the three dynasties to the Tang and Song dynasties, until the Ming and Qing dynasties are regarded as the supreme enjoyment of the delicacy.

It's a pity that he was scared to death when he saw this raw meat slices and sashimi, and he had seen many reports of eating raw meat slices and suffering from parasitic diseases, and he still remembered that Chen Deng in the late Han Dynasty especially liked to eat sashimi, and finally vomited worms three liters and died, which was terrifying.

Sashimi is also not daring to eat,

The two categories were rejected by Cao Shi, who was a picky eater, and the only thing left was deer roast, that is, roast venison, which he liked very much, although there was only salt and unknown meat sauce as condiments, and wheat rice steamed without husking, corn and rice, and only soup cakes (noodles) could eat a little.

I couldn't sleep for a few days at night, seeing that Cao Shi's complexion was suddenly thin again, and his originally strong body was getting thinner and thinner, Uncle Chen was so anxious: "Is Junhou unwell?" Otherwise, the old servant summoned the Feng medical worker to consult the prince. ”

"I'm fine, I'm just hungry and weak."

"Huh?" Uncle Chen's eyes widened: "Could it be that the cook is lazy, and the food he makes is not in line with the will of the prince?" The old servant will dispose of them. ”

Uncle Chen was murderous when he spoke, and it seemed that he was at least going to punish the chef of the Hou Mansion with criminal punishment, Cao Shi knew that the criminal law of the Han Dynasty was harsh, because he inherited the Qin law, so he often applied the corporal punishment of cutting off the feet, and the first emperor (Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty) ordered the abolition of the crippled corporal punishment to replace it with flogging.

There are several kinds of flogging, the light one uses rattan, the heavy one uses the torture rod, and if you want to punish lightly, it is naturally the rattan to deal with the matter, if you want to kill someone, you must use the torture rod, and you can beat the person to death without ten rods, Uncle Chen's murderous posture must want to kill the chef with a cane.

"Uncle Chen, stop, I can't eat and it has nothing to do with cooking, it's just that I've been weak recently and can't get used to eating dinner." Cao Shi paused to observe Uncle Chen's demeanor, and added: "Recently, I recalled the ancient records left by my ancestor (my father), and I saw several unique accompaniments, waiting for me to think about one or two common sense to make them. ”

"No! Never! How can a prince cook food with his own hands? If the Taigong (great-grandfather Cao Shen) had a spirit to learn about the behavior of the prince, he would definitely blame the ministers for being useless! Uncle Chen held his head high, his snow-white beard was blown messily, and a pair of eyes glared angrily.

The relationship between the monarch and the minister is also modeled on the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the family officials of the princes are like the retainers of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the relationship between the monarchs and ministers is not only the master-slave relationship but also the cooperative relationship of mutual trust and dependence.

The Western Han Dynasty still retains the slavery system of the pre-Qin era, of course, the Han court did not encourage slavery, Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty ordered the slave owners to levy twice the tax, but this can not stop the impulse of people to keep slaves, the poor civilians can not pay the tax will also sell themselves as slaves like rich families, the advantage is that the poll tax including the calculation of the levy and the field tax are paid by the slave owner.

Household officials are different from domestic slaves, they are close ministers trusted by the lord, they are not slaves or were once but were written off after becoming household officials, they received dozens of times hundreds of times the salary of the slaves, and did their best to serve the monarch, the so-called food of the monarch and loyalty to the monarch is like this.

Their income belonged to the middle class in this era, and even the lowest-ranking household officials had an annual income of several tens of stone corn, and they could wear summer and winter clothes provided by the Hou Mansion for free, and if they were trusted for meritorious service, they would have additional gifts, which were a hundred times happier than the peasants who were greedy for farming early and dark.

Uncle Chen is the oldest qualified official in the Hou Mansion, and his salary is 300 stones, as early as the Cao Shen era, he participated in the war to quell the Western Chu as a riding boy, Cao? In the era of Hou Qi, he successively served as the door doctor in charge of security in the Hou Mansion, and Hou Wei in charge of the security of the Hou State, and served as Hou Guocheng in the Cao Qi era, Cao Qi died of illness after the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, and Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty ordered the reduction of the Hou State governance power of the Hou Dynasty, and then descended to the Hou Jiacheng.

If Cao Shi does not listen to his advice, maybe the old man will not be able to think of going to see Cao Shen of Heaven for a while, then he will be regarded as a sign of mediocrity, and will definitely make Cao Shi's prestige in the Hou Mansion greatly lost, and the virtuous people will take the opportunity to escape, and the greedy people will take the opportunity to make money, and no one will be loyal to serve the Pingyang Hou Mansion in the future.

"Why bother going online with a little thing...... Well, I don't do it myself, it's always okay to guide on the sidelines, right? Find me some blacksmiths who are a little more skilled, and I'll have to instruct them in making utensils. ”

Uncle Chen was overjoyed, and happily went out to instruct his subordinates, and did not forget to persuade before leaving: "The prince has just recovered from a serious illness, and the old servant should not interject, but please also keep in mind the will of the ancestors, and recite the scriptures in order to enter and exit the lintel." ”

"The ambition of the ancestor (father) is always remembered in my heart and dare not be forgotten." Cao Shi nodded to indicate that he had listened to the advice, and Uncle Chen retreated even more happily.

Just after the afternoon, the princess's mansion ordered Hu Sui to come to see him again, but was impatiently beaten out by Uncle Chen, and the entire Hou Mansion knew that the prince was unwell after a serious illness, and the princess's mansion talked about returning to Beijing to find trouble.

Hu Sui was unlucky, this time he didn't even see the family supervisor of the Hou Mansion, so he was stopped by Uncle Chen's eldest grandson Chen Zhang, Chen Zhang, who was in his early twenties, inherited Uncle Chen's genetics, and was seven feet six inches tall and burly, and Hu Sui, who was only six feet five inches tall, was scolded by Chen Zhang.

"Hahaha, it's enjoyable!" Chen Clapped his hands and turned around to see Cao Shi standing in the distance applauding, and hurriedly ran over to salute: "Junhou, I will definitely be punished by the princess if I scare away the rats, but I am only twenty-one years old this year and have not yet married, if I die, the prince will definitely be sad." ”

Cao Shi caught a glimpse of Chen's sloppy eyes and said, "You still have two younger brothers and one younger sister, so you shouldn't have to worry about sacrificing at home." ”

Chen Zhang lowered his head in frustration, and listened again: "The princess will not meet you as a villain (slave), but if you scare Hu Sui, you will still be known by the princess, you are the domestic slave of the Hou Mansion, so you can only be punished by me, so I will punish you in the Hou Mansion for three days, as a punishment, if you commit another crime, you will be punished heavily." ”

"Xie Junhou!" Chen Zhang happily accepted the punishment and left, his face no longer depressed.

Cao Shi was proud, and suddenly heard the applause from behind, turned his head and saw a middle-aged strong man flashing out of the corner of the courtyard, and when he saw Cao Shi, he just casually arched his hand: "The prince has returned from illness, and his spirit is much better than before, which is gratifying." ”

This is said as indifferently as chatter, Cao Shi is not disgusted by his rudeness, he knows that this person is the Hou Mansion Sheren (Doorman) Fan Itguang, he has another identity is the grandson of Fan Xu, the former Marquis of Wuyang.

In terms of generation, Fan Hao and Cao Shen are of the same generation, and Cao Shi also calls Fan it widely an elder, but there is also a close relationship between the princes, but the Fan family and the Cao family are not close, and even once had a relationship of opposition between the enemy and me.

Fan Itguang's uncle Fan Yan was killed in the extermination of Zhulu only in the army, and Emperor Wen of Han succeeded to the throne before handing over the title of Marquis of Wuyang to his father Fan Shiren, whose father reigned for 29 years and died of illness in 15o BC, and the throne was passed to Fan Itguang.

After this monarch succeeded to the throne, he honestly did six years of marquis, and then somehow offended the people in his marquis's mansion, and was falsely accused of saying that he was not the son of a native of Fanshi, and the matter was once very noisy, and finally Emperor Jing of Han still withstood the pressure to abolish the Marquis of Wuyang, and degraded it to be widely regarded as a common man.

In the process of Fan Itguang being demoted to a concubine, there are many liehous who speak for him, but this does not mean that the liehous have a close relationship with the Wuyang Hou family, and the imprint of the Zhulu family is deeply engraved on the head of the Wuyang Hou family.

"The person who fell in distress was accepted by the prince for a year, this kindness can not be repaid, and now he has no money to spare, all of which are from the Hou Mansion and have been spurned by the mansion, and he has no shame to love the stack, so he has to leave." Fan Itguang looked sad and indignant, and hurriedly bowed his hand and retreated apologetically.

Cao Shi caught Fan Itguang, how could he let him go lightly: "The prince and the marquis have been wronged, I have relatives in my heart, if the prince and marquis return to his hometown and don't know how to make a living?" ”

Fan It widely thought that Cao Shi had a request: "A certain grass people, dare not pretend to be a prince, the grace of the prince does not dare to forget, this return to his hometown Pei County to plough in Longmu, will accumulate a salary to repay the grace of the prince and marquis." ”

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Wuyang Hou Fan It was widely abolished, you can refer to the "Historical Records of Fan Li Teng Guan Lie".

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