Chapter 1 Drunken Cloud Tower
It's hard to buy a drunk, a pot of turbid wine and a pot of sleep. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
If you want to ask the best restaurant in Jinzhou, then Zuiyunlou claims to be the second, and no restaurant dares to stand up and claim the first. It's not that the chef in charge of Zuiyun Building is skilled, but the owner of this shop makes good wine.
This winemaking technique was passed down from the owner's ancestors, and in his generation, it is already the fourth generation. The previous three generations were just ordinary winemakers, and the drinks could only be regarded as upper-middle, far less fragrant than now. It is rumored that the owner of this drunken cloud building once got a secret recipe for brewing wine decades ago, and since then, the business of his own liquor shop has been getting better and better. After some drinkers finished buying the wine, they actually drank it on the spot, shouting that there was no food to accompany the wine, and it was like the boss begging for food to accompany the wine. The boss had a heart, and it didn't take long for the wine shop to change to the golden stall in Jinzhou City, and it turned into a restaurant, and it also changed its name and named it Zuiyun Building.
If that's just the case, then Zuiyun Louyi is not the best restaurant in Jinzhou, what really makes it a pheasant a phoenix is because of a poem by today's great talent, the great swordsman Nangong Ming.
"There are tens of thousands of wine sellers in Jinzhou, and none of them can be compared to drunken clouds. ”
As soon as these words came out, the scholars of Jinzhou and nearby states and counties were eager to taste the drunken cloud wine of this drunken cloud building. Even the Jinzhou Governor, Du Yue Du, also went to taste the wine, and for a time Zuiyun wine became the most respected wine among the Jinzhou scholars.
But after all, Zuiyunlou is just a small wine shop, and the Jinzhou scholars and nobles add up to tens of thousands? Even if it has great ability, it does not dare to claim that its own family can be sold and sold in Jinzhou. Therefore, under the advice of the masters, Zuiyunlou has changed the original drunken cloud wine that can be bought alone to the current one who must order food in Zuiyunlou, and then order wine, and no takeaway. As soon as this rule came out, it caused dissatisfaction among the Jinzhou scholars for a while. The gentleman who has good things is entangled with his own house slave and wants to go and give Drunken Cloud Tower some color to see. As soon as I arrived at the door of the restaurant, I saw a middle-aged Confucian man in green clothes walking down from a luxurious carriage. The owner of the hotel bowed to greet him, and his bent waist never lifted.
I only heard Lord Zhou Mu say lightly: "Boss Jia, your rules have changed, and even I have to go to your restaurant to drink your drunken wine." ”
Hearing this, everyone also understood that it turned out that the one who set the rules for Zuiyun Tower was Lord Zhou Mu. The gentleman had no choice but to bow his head and go back. Since then, Zuiyunlou's business has been getting better and better, and within a few years, it has become the largest restaurant in Jinzhou.
The boss of Zuiyun Building is surnamed Jia, but he claims to have never cheated, whether he is a person or sells alcohol, he has never cheated. Although Zuiyunlou has made a lot of money in recent years, every time the wine is still made by Boss Jia himself, and when there are some special steps, everyone in the winery will be emptied to ensure that only his own family can make Zuiyun wine.
On this day, the business of Zuiyun Building is still good, the thirty-six tables in the lobby on the lowest floor of the entire floor are almost full, and the twelve private seats on the second floor are also about to be full. The ten chefs in the back kitchen are busy, and the little ones serving the dishes keep going back and forth between the back kitchen and the front hall.
Boss Jia dressed neatly today, put on a satin robe, embroidered with the most popular Liuyun pattern of the Ming Dynasty, and the outer ring of Liuyun was inlaid with a circle of gold threads. The stitches of the needle are not the crosses commonly used by ordinary people, but the extremely expensive spoke stripes in the embroidery room, and the embroidered pattern can not distinguish the place where the needle falls and the needle is received, and the embroidery pattern on both sides is also the same, also known as double-sided embroidery. This dress is very expensive at first glance, and Zhang Da, who has been a shopkeeper here for two years, remembered that the last time he saw Boss Jia wearing this dress was when Lord Zhou Mu personally came to drink and set rules for this drunken cloud building.
This time, I don't know if any powerful people came to drink.
In front of the drunken cloud building is a government road, according to the rules set by the law of the Ming Dynasty, the house road is divided into left and right, each side is two zhang long, paved by adobe bricks, from the Panyang Mansion under Jinzhou to the state pastor in the city of Jinzhou. The road in front of the governor's house can lead to the government offices in Jinzhou, and the government offices can go directly to the county offices through the county roads.
In addition, there are national highways leading to the capital in various states, and the national highways are divided into three zhang on the left and right sides, and the government road is reduced by one zhang, and the county road is reduced. It is said that when the emperor was the emperor, he was not yet fifteen years old, but he set ten policies for the founding of the country. At that time, even the elders of the Three Dynasties, the scholars of the Song Dynasty, were shocked and speechless by the Ten Strategies for the Founding of the State of the Holy Beings today.
Now twenty years have passed, the Ming Dynasty is unprecedentedly prosperous, and even the most ordinary people can eat and wear clothes. The Ming Dynasty's high-ranking officials, down to the people, are full of praise for today's saints, and their gratitude to Dade is incomprehensible, and some people are spreading that today's saints are emperors through the ages.
Thanks to the hard work of Emperor Chengzhi, Boss Jia's restaurant came and went from all over Jinzhou, and even many scholars in the three states near Jinzhou came thousands of miles in order to drink this drunken cloud wine.
Although the shopkeeper Zhang didn't know what kind of big man was coming today, he didn't think it would be an ordinary scholar. It may even be the state pastor, thinking of this, the shopkeeper Zhang straightened his waist unconsciously. I just feel that being the big shopkeeper in this restaurant is really a face-saving thing.
Boss Jia wore the clothes that only big people would wear when they came to drink, waiting on the road at the entrance of the restaurant, and the guests who came and went laughed and greeted him, today he was not an ordinary person, he still listened to the person who was summoned in the state minister's mansion and informed him in advance, and when he first heard that the person was going to his restaurant to drink, his legs trembled unconsciously. I comforted myself that I was just a winemaker, and that person was just here to drink, and after drinking, he left.
There was the sound of horses' hooves in the distance of the road, and when I heard this sound, I was afraid that there were no less than twenty horses.
The imperial court has set up rules when building national highways and government roads, and when entering the city, those who have no orders are not allowed to ride horses, and the same is true for national roads. The "non-ordered" here actually refers to ordinary people and officials with no real power, and even the children of many high-ranking officials regard this rule as nothing. There are few people in the imperial court who are held accountable, but as they are today, there are not many fast horses galloping, and there are more than 20 horses.
The horse galloped quickly, and a man in white took the lead, and the twenty men in black behind him deliberately kept a distance between the two horses. From the first time I heard the sound to the twenty horses running in front of me, it was only a matter of a moment.
There were many people in the drunken cloud building who came out to see the excitement, and although the shopkeeper did not leave the counter, he also stretched his neck, wanting to see who the person who came.
The man in white did not dismount, looked at the gate and plaque of Zuiyun Tower, and snorted softly, this soft sound, in Boss Jia's ears, was tantamount to thunder. On the spot, he knelt on his knees, his forehead against the floor, and bowed down to the man in white in front of him. And shouted angrily: "Grass people, Drunken Cloud Tower, Jia Shimao knocked on the general of Zhenyuan Huaihua." ”
At this point, it was known inside and outside the store that the person who came was the legendary general of Zhenyuan Huaihua. Suddenly, the people inside and outside the store were silent, no longer as noisy as before, those who were blocked at the door silently returned to their positions, and those who had not yet entered turned to leave, looking for the next place to eat.
The Ming Dynasty had seven generals, who led the Ming Dynasty. Under the generals, there were four generals each, a total of twenty-eight.
It can be said that the seven generals of the Ming Dynasty are the largest among the military generals, which is equivalent to the auxiliary ministers of civil officials. It's just that there are only four auxiliary ministers. This may be related to the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty, different from the first emperor's reign when the emphasis on literature and light on martial arts, there is one of the ten policies promulgated by the Holy Emperor today: those who know martial arts can have preferential treatment when they join the army, and the number of generals in the dynasty shall not be less than the number of auxiliaries.
This national policy alone has greatly increased the number of people who practiced martial arts in the Ming Dynasty, which originally emphasized literature and light military force, and the status of the general has also changed from the original lower than the civilian official to the current palace. What amazes the world the most is that in the 20 years since the promulgation of this national policy, the passive beating between the Ming Dynasty and the Dajin Kingdom has become the current active counterattack. There is a martial atmosphere between the temples and the rivers and lakes.
The man in white in front of Boss Jia is General Zhenyuan Huaihua, one of the seven generals in the legendary army, Bai Yiyi.
Bai Yiyi's surname is Bai, he likes to wear white clothes, he looks dignified, and he also has a momentum that he has experienced in the army. But the reputation of this general inside and outside the dynasty is not good, not to mention that he killed 100,000 soldiers of Chen Guo, a small country between Dajin and Ming, which led to the destruction of Chen Guo, it is said that whenever he encounters troubles, he likes to kill people, so that the common people can't like it.
At this time, Du Yue, the state pastor, rode a horse and caught up, just now he was the general Bai who greeted him at the gate of the city, and after a few words of greeting, he said that he had booked a good private room in Zuiyun Building, as well as the famous drunken cloud wine in Jinzhou, and he was willing to go to the general to taste it together. However, the horses of this general and his party are fast horses on the march, and the mounts raised in captivity by the state pastor are incomparable, and the state pastor was left behind the ass halfway, if it was an ordinary official or general, Du Yue would have been angry, but in the face of the general of Zhenyuan Huaihua, this has always been straightforward, and the master who will kill people if he disagrees, Lord Du really can't afford to be angry.
Du Yue dismounted and raised his hand to compliment: "I have heard for a long time that General Bai's riding skills are the first, and there is no one to beat in horse battles on the battlefield. ”
Bai Yiyi dismounted at this time, and said to Du Yue lukewarmly: "I think it's better to forget about the first riding skills, if you talk about horse battles, although no Jin person has ever been able to win me, but when Gu Yanwu and I practiced against me, I have never won." ”
Du Yue only felt sweating profusely, and the flattering words in the officialdom, this master is not in oil and salt, and this sycophant slapped on the horse's hooves. I had to smile at Bai Yi and said, "General Bai is mighty, how can he be compared to the golden people." ”
Bai Yi snorted noncommittally, but he could feel the arrogance all over his body, Du Yue breathed a sigh of relief, this time it was in the right place.
"General Bai, this is Zuiyun Building, my Zuiyun wine in Jinzhou is produced here, only this one has no other branches, although it can't be compared to the imperial wine in the capital, but it has a different flavor. Please go upstairs and have a drink. Du Yue no longer had an official relationship with Bai Yiyi, turned to Boss Jia and said, "Old Jia, lead the way." ”
Boss Jia bowed down and took the two big men upstairs, not the private room on the second floor, but the largest private room in Zuiyun Building on the third floor, which is not open to outsiders.