The three of them leaned on the bow of the boat together and looked at the turquoise river in a daze, each with a ghost, Liu Ziguang thought: The second lady is so mixed, the plan to overturn is about to be disrupted, and the two sisters are tired of being together, how can I have a chance. The eldest lady thought: This dead child, if you don't let her follow, you have to follow, can't she ....... him, I can't fight with my sister. The second lady's idea is relatively simple: Hmph, don't let me come, I want to come, Nanjing is much more than Xuzhou Mansion, and it's much more fun. Well, there's 9527, a very interesting guy, people just want to see him.

The atmosphere was a little awkward, Liu Ziguang coughed dryly, and asked the eldest lady why she didn't take the train to Beijing this time and made a steamer.

The eldest lady said: "Although the railway is good, but it is not coherent, it needs to be transferred many times, the cost of laying the railway is very high, and the damaged fertile land and cemetery need to be compensated. The railways in Anhui and Jiangsu are also very mixed, the railways repaired by Hui merchants and the railways repaired by salt merchants are not the same, and the wagons cannot be mixed, so when it comes to convenient transportation, it is better to take the canal. ”

"Speaking of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it was still to Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, it is said that Emperor Yang in order to go to Yangzhou to see Qionghua, mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to open the Grand Canal to connect the Yellow River, the Huai River, the Yangtze River, from Luoyang can take a dragon boat directly to Yangzhou, Emperor Yang in order to satisfy his own arrogance and lasciviousness, labor and money, resulting in eighteen anti-king, seventy-two roads of smoke and dust, everywhere is rebellion, and finally buried the Sui Dynasty."

The eldest lady felt that Liu Ziguang's basic knowledge was relatively weak, and wanted to teach him a lesson by the way.

Liu Ziguang snorted, "You heard this history from listening to the commentary, right, opening the canal just to see Qionghua?" Can't the canal pass on government decrees and transport grain and grass goods? ”

One sentence made Peng Jingrong's pretty face frost: "I see Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian", not a commentary." "I'm going back to the cabin.

Liu Ziguang hurriedly made amends, saying that he didn't understand anything and was talking nonsense, hoping that the eldest lady would continue to talk about it and ensure that she would not interfere indiscriminately. The second lady also coaxed.

Peng Jingrong is not a stubborn person in the end, she is not angry when Liu Ziguang says a few soft words, and she is also keenly aware that Liu Ziguang has a clear mind, and although Emperor Yang of Sui has no way, he writes good poems, conquers Goryeo, digs canals, and is also ambitious to be a promising emperor.

She didn't know that Liu Ziguang used to go online a lot, and he read a lot of posts about overturning the case, not to mention Emperor Yang of Sui, it was Qin Hui, he could say some crooked reasoning to overturn the case.

The eldest lady continued: "Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty dug a canal running east-west. By the time of the Yuan Dynasty, the capital of the Yuan Dynasty was the capital, and a canal had to be dug to transport grain from the south to the north. To this end, three sections of the river were dug successively, and the horizontal canal of the Sui Dynasty with Luoyang as the center was built into a longitudinal Grand Canal with Dadu as the center and went south to Hangzhou. ”

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is divided into seven sections according to geographical location: Beijing to Tongzhou District is called Tonghui River, which is 160 miles long; Tongzhou District to Tianjin is called the North Canal, which is 370 miles long; Tianjin to Linqing is called the South Canal, which is 800 miles long; Linqing to Taierzhuang is called Lu Canal, which is about 1,000 miles long; Taierzhuang to Huaiyin is called the middle canal, which is 370 miles long; Huaiyin to Guazhou is called the Li Canal, which is about 360 miles long; Zhenjiang to Hangzhou is called Jiangnan Canal, which is about 660 miles long. Yangzhou is the famous town of the canal, Emperor Yang of Sui dug a canal in the city, since then Yangzhou has become a north-south transportation hub, by the benefit of Cao Yun, rich in the south of the Yangtze River, one of the most prosperous areas of my Ming Dynasty. ”

Speaking of Yangzhou, the eldest lady became excited and chanted a poem.

The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March.

The lonely sail is far away and the blue sky is exhausted, but the Yangtze River skyline is seen.

"Good poem, it's really Du Fu's famous sentence!" Liu Ziguang couldn't help but admire.

The two girls laughed together, and the second lady scratched her nose with her fingers and said, "General, are you ashamed, Li Bai's poem you said was Du Fu's, you really haven't read a book." ”

Liu Ziguang blushed a little, I learned it in elementary school, but I almost forgot it, now it's the Ming Dynasty, Tang poems and Song lyrics are almost out, there are no famous sentences in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it's very difficult to pretend to be a talent, by the way, there is, Chairman Mao's "Qinyuan Chun. Snow hasn't asked about it yet, so I quickly recall the words when I go back, and I must keep them in mind and wait until it snows next winter to deter them.

Peng Jingrong poked her sister's waist with her finger: "Don't talk nonsense." ”

The second lady giggled: "Don't say it yet, he's not my brother-in-law." ”

"Still talking nonsense, see if I don't tear your mouth." The two girls chased after each other.

After giggling and laughing for a while, the eldest lady continued to come over to popularize common sense to Liu Ziguang. "The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs can only reach Xuzhou Mansion in the north, and further north is the chaotic Shandong region, Weishan Lake bandits are serious, passing ships are very unsafe, of course, even if there are no water bandits, the imperial court also prohibits goods from going north to the Qing Kingdom. Our boat passed through the Huai River into Hongze Lake, then entered the waters of the Yangtze River, crossed Yangzhou and then went upstream, and entered Nanjing from the West Gate of Shuiximen. ”

"Then our Ming Dynasty is the strongest country in the world, right?" Liu Ziguang asked pretending to be a patriotic idiot.

"No, there are Manchu Qing in the north, Xixia in the west, and the Zheng family in Taiwan in the south, all of them are the enemies of the tiger and wolf, since our dynasty crossed to the south, the dynasty was corrupted, the eunuchs were autocratic, and most of the military generals were proud, some were attached to the eunuchs, and some were self-contained, the Huang family of Haizhou salt merchants, the Hu family of Anhui ticket number, the Yuan family of Hubei big grain merchants, the Cao family of Suzhou weaving, the Qi family of Qishuyan locomotive, and our Liguo Peng family, all tried their best to arrange the children of several families in the court. Now the imperial court is controlled by the eunuch river and the Hao family. ”

"Then the ironworks also have a helping hand in the imperial court? How can the payment be deducted by the Ministry of War? Liu Ziguang was puzzled.

"If Daddy bet on the right treasure back then, this would not be the case, the current saint is only fifteen years old, stubborn and abnormal, maybe the Queen Mother and the nine thousand years old have taken a fancy to this. Daddy chose the King of Chu back then, which is now the King of Pengcheng as the object of support, at that time he was still a prince and a crown prince, but unfortunately he was defeated by the Queen Mother and Nine Thousand Years Old in the end. So my family not only did not help in the court, but also had many enemies. ”

"So that's the case," Liu Ziguang nodded thoughtfully, today's Ming Dynasty is already in the embryonic stage of capitalism, and the bourgeois forces have begun to seek political rights.

"The last question, why not make musket cannons, well, I mean weapons with gunpowder." This is something that Liu Ziguang has always wondered about, he once asked others, and everyone who was asked said that they didn't know what gunpowder was.

Sure enough, the eldest lady, like everyone else, said in surprise: "Gunpowder? Potions that can catch fire? I only know that the oil and alcohol are on fire, and I really don't know about drugs. ”

This world is really different from the Ming Dynasty recorded in history, and it is completely out of shape.

The bow of the boat was windy, Peng Jingrong felt a little cold, and dragged her sister back to the cabin to rest.

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The scenery along the coast was very boring, and Liu Ziguang also followed the cabin, and the three of them bragged and chatted. The two young ladies told a lot of folk tales of this era, and the old-fashioned snail girl and the like made Liu Ziguang sleepy, and in turn told the two girls ghost stories, such as the midnight bell, which of course was an improved version, the telephone bell became a knock, the video tape became a joke, and the TV set became a shadow puppet cabinet. The two listeners were so scared that they didn't dare to go out of the cabin in broad daylight, but they still wanted to listen to it, and it was more enjoyable than listening to Liaozhai. Later, when the boat was parked for the night, the whole boat came to listen to Liu Ziguang's story.

In this way, life on the ship is happy, and the eldest lady no longer shows the appearance of a strong woman who kills decisively, and is as innocent and cute as an ordinary eighteen-year-old girl. Everyone's relationship deepened rapidly during the journey.

The boat arrived at Hongze Lake, the wind and waves were high, and some dim sky was drizzling with a light rain, the captain ordered to stop the boat and add coal to eat, it is said that there is a fisherman's small fish pot in the lakeside town that is very famous, and the group went to taste it.

Small fish pot collapse'; The origin is very early and prestigious. Legend has it that when Emperor Taizu was a child who fled to the Huaishui in the years of famine, when he got together with the poor children who caught fish, herded cattle, cut grass, and begged for food, he would gather together what they had obtained, cook small fish in a pot (no fishing gear, caught by hand), and paste cakes on the side of the pot (mixed noodles or rice noodles from the lake that were mashed by the prince of Artemisia Miao), and cook in this quick and trouble-free way to fill his stomach. Although the method is simple and primitive, it tastes crispy, fragrant and tender, and gradually becomes a home-cooked meal for fishermen on the lake and farmers along the lake, which is called; The small fish pot collapsed; After Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he was tired of the banquet in the palace, so he specially asked someone to invite the fisherwoman into the palace to make this kind of work for him; The small fish pot collapsed; Since then, this kind of eating judge is called; Three fresh (sweet lake water, fresh and tender lake fish, fragrant lake grass seeds) small fish cakes; , the folk are called; Emperor Cake; Or; Zhu Jiafan;. After the death of Zhu Yuanzhang, the palace was gradually lost, while the folk have been passed down.

Authentic fishermen on the lake; The small fish pot collapsed; , the fish are; small fish; , usually one or two inches long, the pot is an iron pot, it is easy to cook quickly when it is burned in a hurry, the noodles are thinner, and it always has to fall down when it is pasted on the edge of the pot; Collapse; It came down, and after cooking, it was thick on the top and bottom, so it was called the pot collapse. The traditional method is to use the freshly caught small fish, wash it, remove the scales and disembowel, remove the internal organs such as intestines and gallbladders, and then boil them in clear lake water. At the same time, with some batter, paste a layer of book cake around the middle of the pot, the bottom of the cake is flat water, or half an inch into the water, the fire water boils, the soup is splashed, so there is a slip on the bottom of the cake after cooking. At first glance, when the lid of the pot is removed, the dough is stained with fresh fish, and the fish is fragrant and fragrant

The taste is delicious. Small fish, small fish, fresh fish; The pot collapsed; , crispy, fragrant; The fish soup is delicious and refreshing. Use; The pot collapsed; Dip it in the fish soup to eat, taste the small fish fresh and fragrant, suddenly feel the fish fragrant meat and tender, and the soup cake is crispy, which is enough to make the tasters fluent and praise. All of these are just ordinary meals for fishermen on the lake, which not only save time and trouble, but also take care of them; Meals are cooked in one pot. (The above introduction is a repost, interested readers can go to Hongze Lake to try it, small fish pot stickers are very flooded.) ）

Liu Ziguang and their paddle steamer is the iron factory to travel between the country and the capital of the means of transportation, similar to the 21st century business plane, along the way there are fixed coaling and eating places, Hongze Town is not a special restaurant, but an ordinary fisherman, because the small fish pot collapse is particularly good, the passing boatman always likes to come to taste a bite, and do not need to give money, just a little firewood, rice, oil and salt, the captain of the iron factory happens to be one of the frequent customers. So take Liu Ziguang and the two young ladies to taste something fresh. The fisherman only had a mother and daughter, and they couldn't entertain too many guests, so the maid attendants didn't follow.

The fisherman's boat was tethered to the shore, and a simple yellow mud thatched house was curling smoke in the drizzle. It was better to come early than to come early, the fisherman mother and daughter were cooking on the fire, and the captain hurriedly brought a newly caught basket of crucian carp and a small bag of flour to the kitchen.

Liu Ziguang and the three put away the oil-paper umbrella and hid under the shed in front of the grass hut, the shed was supported by a few pieces of wood, and there were tables and benches below.