Prince Hayi expressed his internal wishes, but was reprimanded by Zhao Han, saying that the Celestial Empire would not covet the territory of the subject country. vii. 8]

When he returned to the temple, he was soon rewarded again. 2 4]

The officials of Honglu Temple came to deliver a decree, saying that although the imperial court did not want to annex the subject country, the prince of Hayi was loyal and commendable, and gave him ten gold dollars and one hundred silver dollars. 1 10

Prince Hayi held the gold and silver coins in his hand, pondered carefully for a long time, probably understood what it meant, and then went to play happily. 2 10]

A ship of the Yangtze River Naval Division came from the downstream at a rapid speed, and ten to one soldier landed one after another.

Judging by what they were wearing, they were Navy reserve officers.

All canvas military uniforms, and a navy cap, but the epaulettes are blank.

The second prince, Zhao Kuangbiao, is about to turn twenty-one years old. 11 ]

He first graduated from Huangcheng Middle School and went to Jinling University for four years, but he did not get his graduation certificate without any suspense. At this time, you can be crowned king, or you can extend your studies for one year (after adjustment

The policy that college students can repeat for a year), get the graduation certificate and take the road of the imperial examination.

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The royal family and the clan have set the rules, and there are only two options - one is to get the knighthood honestly, take the dead salary, and don't rebel, and the rest is as you can toss; One

One is to be admitted to the imperial examination and give up the title, but there is an upper limit to the rank of an official, and it is never possible to become an important minister of the cabinet. 1 13

Zhao Kuangbiao wanted to try the third way, and after Jinling University was open, he went to study at Chongming Naval Academy. Jen 8

The military academy was built on Chongming Island, and some officials suggested that Chongming Island be renamed. Zhao Han replied: "There is a saying in the Tang Dynasty that there is Chongming, do the Tang people know that there will be a great Ming."

Appear?

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Now, Zhao Kuangbiao has successfully graduated and can serve as a naval officer while being a prince (the upper limit is that he cannot enter the Navy Governor's Palace). Jen 4

Eight of those who returned to Nanjing with Zhao Kuangbiao were his guards, and the remaining two were classmates who had returned home after graduation. They have been assigned a job, and after the New Year, they will go

Reports from the respective ships.

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"I didn't expect this rich car to have been transmitted to Nanjing." Zhao Kuangbiao rubbed his hands and sighed, this winter is not bad, the Yangtze River has not formed ice floe. Jen 5]

Classmate Cui Wenmao stomped his feet and said: "This ghost weather, it's getting colder and colder, I haven't heard that the Yangtze River has frozen for several years." 2 2]

Classmate Wang Chongxi smiled: "What is this? I heard that more than 100 years ago, the sea outside Chongming Island was frozen. ”

Zhao Kuangbiao teased: "Cui = What are you afraid of? The Dragon, which you will serve next year, will be stationed in Malacca for a long time, where the winters can be very warm. Don't be afraid of the cold, you can get too hot every day

Yang.

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Cui Wenmao was rather speechless: "I would rather be a soldier in Guangzhou, and Malacca is too far away." Jen 2]

"Your Highness, do you want to go back to the palace first?" A guard reminded.

"Let's go shopping, I haven't been back to Beijing for a long time." Zhao Kuangbiao had already been wild, so he didn't want to go back to the Forbidden City to hold back.

As for these eight guards, although they accompanied the second prince to study at the naval school, as long as the second prince officially served, they were no longer responsible for protection. can continue to be a guard in Nanjing,

You can also obey the arrangement and go to the navy as an officer. Jen 8

Zhao Kuangbiao didn't even want to enter the city, walked from the dock-road to the base of the city wall, and wandered around along the city wall.

Walking to the northeast corner outside the city, Cui Wenmao covered his nose and said, "It stinks!"

Wang Chongxi was happy: "There must be a store that sells Jinling double smell, I haven't eaten it for a long time, let's go and try it."

Jinling double smell, that is, the pig's large intestine and stinky tofu, can be fried together, can also be boiled together, and can also be steamed together. Negative and negative are positive, smelly and fragrant, which is the beauty that belongs to the middle and bottom people

Food. {13]

Zhao Kuangbiao became interested: "I have heard the double smell of Jinling for a long time, I haven't eaten it yet, but I want to try it today."

Cui Wenmao came from a powerful family, and he shook his head again and again: "Your Highness, don't eat it, pig_-hey, I don't have an appetite when I talk about it." Jen 8

"Taste it." Zhao Kuangbiao said with a smile. 2 1 ]

The people searched for the smell, but they saw that there were many roadside stalls set up by the river outside the city. It's a bit out of the way, far from the docks, but also from the city to the north and east

Door. But looking at their standardized appearance, these stalls are estimated to have been rectified, and they also have to pay booth fees.

At this time, it was almost noon, and coolies kept coming in batches, and some people even pulled rich carts to eat. 1

"Isn't it Jinling Shuangstin?"

Wang Chongxi walked to a stall, but saw a steaming cauldron, and he didn't know what soup was boiling.

The noodle soup is all red oil flowers, and there are some cheap spices floating around.

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Several coolies sat down around the table, and the strongest one shouted, "Old rule, two or two in the water, three bowls of white rice!"

Two or two in the water, three bowls of white rice, this is a person's appetite.

If you don't eat so much, you can't bear it.

Wang Chongxi was quite surprised: "The coolies also have money to eat three bowls of white rice?"

When the stall owner brought the rice, he realized that it was just a nice statement.

There is indeed rice, but it is all yellowed and blackened old rice. Most of them are old grain from the official warehouse, and they are almost no longer edible, so they are taken out and sold to the people at a low price. VII 7

In addition to the aged rice, it is mixed with crushed corn and boiled together to make rice.

As for those practices that go into the water, they are similar to spicy tang and steamed vegetables.

Here in Nanjing, there is no duck and no feast, and the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty ate ducks and went into the water. Needless to say, pigs are the favorite of the common people. 2 13]

In the two years when Zhao Han first took over Nanjing, the city consumed more than 1,000 pigs a day, and now it consumes 4,000 pigs a day (including the Forbidden City), about 300 people eat one every day

A pig. 10

This made Zhao Han very surprised, the author of "Tokyo Menghualu", said that Bianliang consumes tens of thousands of pigs every day, how did he calculate? { 23

At the same time, the first Portuguese book to describe China calculated the daily consumption of food in the city of Canton at five or six thousand pigs and eleven thousand ducks. this data

It's also weird, is it that Nanjing, which is the same as the new dynasty, is not as good as Guangzhou in the Jiajing period? Jen 7]

In any case, Nanjing has 4,000 pigs a day, thousands of ducks, hundreds of sheep and a small number of cattle, and animal offal resources are very rich.

Some people boil the excess fat from the large intestine of pigs into lard after repeated cleaning. This oil has a foul smell, but it is reluctant to lose it, so spices such as chili pepper and pepper are added.

Mix together and cook into a base soup, and add various offal and stinky tofu to cook together. 2 11

Well, it still stinks, but this thing is delicious. Heavy oil and spicy are also cheap, and they are very popular with the people at the bottom, especially those dock coolies. [ 15]

But when I saw those coolies, holding a big bowl of old rice and corn, they didn't eat the offal first, and poured the spicy soup into the bowl and mixed rice. There is very little water in two or two, and it is not enough to eat three bowls of rice.

But the soup also tastes good, salty, spicy and oily, which is very comfortable.

In the cold winter, a bowl of bibimbap with stinky oil soup with pork intestine is enough to warm the coolies. What's more, there are two taels of miscellaneous pieces, these are Shanhua, keep the last one

Bowl of rice.

The coolies swept away the three bowls of rice, and the soup on the sides of the bowls was licked clean. Jen 1

"Hiccup!

A coolie made a long burp, stood up and stretched his body, exhaled white breath and said, "This day is comfortable, and I have the strength to go to work!" 11

The coolies left, hurried to the docks to work, and then sat down again.

Cui Wenmao looked at the table full of grease stains, then at the dirty cauldron, and at the complicated soup, and then smelled the rich stench in the air, and felt nauseous: "Your Highness,

Don't eat this, I'm afraid I'll get sick to my stomach if I eat it. Jen 2]

Zhao Kuangbiao said with a smile: "Why don't these coolies have stomach trouble after eating?" I saw that they ate deliciously, and I am afraid that it tasted very good. "Jen 4

"Shopkeeper, half a catty of chop per person, - a bowl of rice is enough!" Wang Chongxi had already shouted.

The stall owner was a husband and wife, and when the proprietress saw that they were officers, she said with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm really sorry, the table is full, and even Maza is gone."

Wang Chongxi glanced around and saw many diners squatting and eating, so he smiled and said:

"We're squatting too.

As soon as these words came out, the coolie next to him stood up: "Ladies and gentlemen, you sit at the table, and we can do it by squatting."

"I'm so embarrassed," Wang Chongxi smiled and arched his hand, "Thank you!"

Zhao Kuangbiao said: "I will treat them to their table."

made the coolies who came out of the table happier, and even borrowed rags to help Zhao Kuangbiao wipe the table clean.

Zhao Kuangbiao asked, "Is there any wine?"

The proprietress said, "Those who come here for lunch have to work hard in the afternoon, and no one usually drinks."

Zhao Kuangbiao said to the guards beside him: "Go and sell a pot of wine, no matter whether it is good or bad, the sooner you buy it, the better.

One of the guards hurriedly left, trotting to buy wine.

The rest all sat down around the table, and the benches were not enough, so they stood at the table, and the guards also ate at the same table with the second prince.

Zhao Kuangbiao scooped it into the soup, scooped up a ball of duck intestines, and nodded again and again: "It smells stinky, but it tastes good, it's just a little spicy." Benevolence knife

It's not spicy, it can't hide the taste, and the oil in the soup is all made of pork intestine oil. Jen 8

Chili peppers used to be expensive, but with the expansion of the cultivation area, they are now a cheap condiment. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, pepper, which was more expensive than gold, can now be consumed by ordinary people

Finish. 2

Wang Chongxi knew how to eat, learned the way of coolies, poured the soup into the rice, mixed it well, and immediately smiled: "Good thing!" Jen 2]

Cui Wenmao didn't want to eat chop and didn't want to touch the soup. But he had to give the second prince face, so he picked up a mouthful of rice with chopsticks, chewed it twice and almost spit it out. Aged rice and corn crumbles

, not to mention, the rice is not clean in spring, and it is mixed with rice bran husks.

"Doesn't it taste good?" Zhao Kuangbiao asked with a grin, the smile on his face full of malice. Jen 11

"Delicious, delicious!" Cui Wenmao swallowed, and hurriedly took two more mouthfuls into his mouth. [ 2_]

Zhao Kuangbiao said: "What did the teacher of the naval school say? If you go out to sea and encounter a storm and are stranded in a desolate place with no supplies, you have to fill your stomach with everything. eat

If you don't get used to bad food, don't go to the navy. Jen 2]

Cui Wenmao hurriedly said:

"What Your Highness said is very true.

It's a pity that he came from a powerful family, and his cultural class was not very good, so he was thrown to the naval school by his father. I've had enough of suffering for a few years, and now I still have to eat this pig food. 5]

The guards who bought the wine came back soon, and due to the second prince's request for speed, they only bought a pot of ordinary wine.

"Come on, come on, celebrate our graduation!" Zhao Kuangbiao raised his glass and shouted.

This second prince was pampered in Nanjing, and after a few years of military school, he is now full of recklessness. Eating water, drinking bad wine, talking and laughing at roadside stalls.