Zhang Jun, the word Baiying, Fengxiang Mansion Chengji (today's water) people, born in poverty, since childhood bow and horse skill, at the age of sixteen to Sanyang archers into the army, the southern barbarians, attack the Western Xia, the royal gold soldiers, accumulated military exploits, awarded the martial arts doctor two Zhejiang Road system envoys, itself is the Huainan Jiedu envoy, he is really Miao Liu mutiny when the seal of the Jiedu envoy.

Zhang Jun is known as the four generals of Zhongxing in history with Yue Fei, Liu Guangshi, and Han Shizhong, but this person's character is extremely poor, he once had 50,000 elite soldiers and did not go to rescue Liu Qi's department, yes, Liu Qi fought with Jin Bing to reduce his power, and was finally rescued by Wu Jue, but what Zhang Jun did was disgraceful.

However, this person's military exploits are not small, after Song Gaozong ascended the throne in the first year of Jianyan, Zhang Jun served as the commander of the former army of the imperial camp. Since July of the same year, he led his troops to quell the rebels and rebels many times, and was promoted to an observer and became a senior military attaché. In May of the second year of Jianyan, he suppressed Xu Ming in Xiuzhou (now Jiaxing, Zhejiang), and was promoted to Xuan Envoy. In March of the third year of Jianyan, when Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan mutinied, Zhang Junzheng garrisoned Wujiang, and then led 8,000 troops to retreat to Pingjiang. In July, he was reappointed as the commander of the right army in front of the imperial army.

Half of Zhang Jun's military exploits come from foreign wars, and generally come from internal counterinsurgency, but this person has an insidious personality and kills people like hemp, especially in quelling internal rebellions, so he greatly damaged his yin virtue and only lived to be sixty-one years old.

But after Xiao Ming took power, he dismissed the power of the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, but this person is also the identity of the envoy of the three towns of Zhentao, Chongxin, and Fengningjun, and it is not good to attack him again for a while, when Wan Qian and Qin Hui wanted to murder Yue Fei, among all the civil and military forces in the court, there are many literati who grovel, but there is no one of the warriors, Zhang Jun is the only one who is a military general who is obedient and aids the evil, which is very important to Wan Qian and Qin Hui and others.

Therefore, when Xiao Ming formed the cabinet when he was in power, the entire Privy Council wanted to absolutely exclude Zhang Jun, and he would rather use Zhang Jun, who didn't understand military bullshit, than use people like Zhang Jun! It was really he who thought that this person must be a traitorous minister, but now this Zhang Jungo has become a favorite minister again, and he was named the king of Qinghe County by Zhao Gou!

But it is said that Zhang Jun himself could not enter the cabinet, because the candidates for the entire cabinet must be decided by Xiao Ming, and the first and auxiliary ministers of the central province and the Privy Council and other institutions in the cabinet are generally jointly elected by the important ministers of the DPRK and the central government, but in order not to create a partisan hill, Xiao Ming has a veto power over those who are voted out.

After Xiao Ming returned to Kangjing, he didn't immediately meet Zhao Gou, but met Xue Bingchang first, and first learned about the major events in the court when he was not in Kangjing, only to know that Zhao Gou had set the time of the entire Daqing in late October, and because Xiao Ming was not there, Zhao Gou actually felt that he had no score in his heart!

Xiao Ming shook his head and smiled bitterly, he naturally hid from this kind of thing, Zhao Gou seemed to be inseparable from Xiao Ming to outsiders, this was nothing more than a gesture of his, the more he was like this, the more he had to be careful, when he was not sure that he would cut the emperor's rights on a large scale, it was the most important thing to avoid letting Zhao Gou catch the truth.

At present, the entire Song Dynasty is already in a festive atmosphere, and all parts of the Jiangnan are preparing for the big celebration, Xiao Ming shook his head along the way, because it was too wasteful! The government constantly requisitioned conscripts, paved the roads with stones, burned all kinds of incense as if they were not paying for money, and the roads were lined with precious flowers and trees! Not to mention that it's still wrapped in red paper!

Kangjing is even more exaggerated, a white marble paved avenue from the palace to the White Horse Square! There are nine ceremonial platforms above the officialdom, inlaid with gold and silver, extremely luxurious! The railings are all cast in pure copper! The marble reliefs at the bottom are all fairy-like, and the incense and red paper worn by the government in the city wrap the lintel, and the spices must be burned for a month, and they have not been collected again.

On the occasion of Daqing, as the emperor of a country, Gaozong Zhao Gou actually went crazy to collect money from all over the country, so the wind of bribery and tribute prevailed all over the country, all kinds of rare treasures and antique jade plus celebrity calligraphy and painting are Gaozong's favorite things, that Zhang Jun has relied on this behavior to get Gaozong's favor again!

Zhang Jun is keen to accumulate wealth in the Nandu generals second to none, once a palace banquet, there are servants to make fun of amusement, from a side of the money Kong to see Gaozong and Lu Yihao, Liu Guangshi and other monarchs and ministers, respectively said that they saw the "emperor star" and "phase star", "general star", but when looking at Zhang Jun, he said: "I don't see the star, only Zhang Junwang sits in the eyes of money", which shows that his greed and accumulation are notorious.

But this miser, who sat in the eyes of money, was willing to spend money like running water to try his best to flatter the Zhao Guan's family. He presented to Gaozong 46 pieces of antiques such as Shang and Zhou Yi utensils, 21 scrolls of calligraphy and painting by Wu Daozi and other famous artists, and more precious satin silks, gold and jade jewelry, and 69,509 beads of different sizes alone!

What's even more powerful is that Zhang Jun actually caught a special hobby of Gaozong Zhao Gou, and greatly curried favor with the emperor, it turned out that Gaozong was very greedy! He has always been a very gluttonous person, and it is recorded in the history books that in his later years, Gaozong often secretly went to the street to eat all kinds of snacks and snacks!

Zhang Jun grasped Zhao Gou's special hobby, and he scavenged all kinds of unique foods from the markets in Beijing and Hangzhou in different ways, because Zhao Gou loved the food in this area very much, such as Granny Li's mixed vegetable soup, He Si's cheese noodles and dirty three pig pancreatic cakes and Ge's sweets, etc., and secretly sent them to the palace to let Zhao Gou satisfy his hunger! This move is a great joy!

Zhao Gou is so greedy, the palace naturally innovated in the opening of the meal, that is, set up four divisions and six bureaus, and made this way very popular in the government and nobles, so the "four divisions and six bureaus" are both the accounting division, the kitchen division, the tea and wine division, the table plate division, the fruit bureau, the honey frying bureau, the vegetable bureau, the oil candle bureau, the incense medicine bureau, and the row bureau, "each has its own palm, so the banquet is arranged, and everything is neat."

Among them, "the kitchen department is in charge of mixing, batch cutting, cooking, eating, and blending sections", and "the vegetable and vegetable bureau is in charge of ou dumplings, vegetables and vegetables, and the genus of dregs" The ingredients used are also very exquisite, such as "Jade Food Batch", remembering the waste of the imperial kitchen and saying: "If the sheep's head is to take two wings, the soil step fish is to take two gills, and the cockles are used as the sticks, for the wontons, and for the orange urn, and the two claws are taken." The land that is abandoned is not the food of nobles. If you take it, you say: If you are a real dog! ”

Zhao Gou was so greedy that he completely forgot that when he ascended the throne in Nanjing, he heard about the drought in the Yellow River, and he issued an edict on the famine: "The hungry people beg here, and there are people who die of hunger every day", "There is fat meat, and there is hunger in the wild", which can be said to be the case in the past dynasties. No wonder "Jade Food Batch" says: "Woohoo! To be served by the world, the world's worries must be the first, otherwise, the vegetarian meal is ashamed, not especially the tyranny of your family! ”

Gaozong's delicious history has a record and a lot of interesting anecdotes, once, the imperial chef made the wontons a little raw, he was beaten into the Dali Temple, the two Haiyou came on the field to say the gimmick, asked each other Nian Geng, one said Jiazi (homophonic dumplings) raw, one said Bingzi (homophonic cake) raw, and then sighed: "We should all go down to Dali Temple." When asked the reason, he replied: "Dumplings are raw and cakes are raw, and they should be guilty of not being familiar with wontons!" Only then did Gaozong laugh and let go.

The emperor's style makes the people below follow suit, the so-called upward and downward effect, and the people in the entire palace dining room also follow the status climbing, people say that the prime minister is in front of the seven-grade official, and now the emperor's chef has to be from the official rank of the sixth-grade, the palace imperial chef can personally go to the street to select the ingredients are not much, everything has tribute, but there are exceptions.

A chef surnamed Jia can personally go to the street to select ingredients, this person is quite favored by Zhao Gou, can make a very good Bianjing northern food, he studies the taste and psychology of Gaozong Zhao Gou, often can change the emperor's mood through meals, so that he has received a lot of rewards, and Jia Chef is also Zhang Jun dedicated to the emperor.

During the whole Daqing period, this feast is indispensable, all the money prepared for this is piled up, these years the Great Song Dynasty is indeed rich, but because after Xiao Ming took charge, the income of the royal family in the household department was replaced by the income of the corresponding industrial shares, it seems that Zhao Gou's inner palace treasury is full of a lot, but it is actually a way to deprive the imperial power.

Now Zhao Gou's private pocket is also rich, extravagant and wanton waste must be indispensable, the local products offered from all over the country are also dazzling, seafood and mountain treasures are countless, just the royal meat, all kinds of cattle, sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens and other living creatures are tens of thousands, and the household itself can no longer pay for the emperor's crazy shopping, fortunately, Zhao Gou is still rich!

Xiao Ming returned to Kangjing, entered the palace to meet Gaozong, Gaozong asked someone to put lotus root soup to show his favor, asked Xiao Ming how to be in good health on vacation, etc., this is completely idle chat, Xiao Ming will be from Japan The famous master Xuanzang translated a set of handwritten "Pineapple Jackfruit Heart Sutra" to Zhao Gou, a total of thirteen volumes! Zhao Gou is naturally "Longyan Dayue".

So when it came to the war in Fusang Japan, Xiao Ming told him lightly that Fusang Japan was wiped out, and the territory was owned by the Great Song Dynasty, and it was planned to build Fusang Island there, a total of four provinces: Kyushu Road, Shikoku Road, Honshu Road and Hokkaido! Since then, it has become a screen domain north of the Yellow Sea of the Great Song Dynasty, and the power of the Great Song Dynasty has since reached the North Sea.

Zhao Gou said that he knew, although he was a little unhappy that Xiao Ming still wiped out Japan by not listening to his request, but Xiao Ming belonged to the act of expanding the territory for the Great Song Dynasty after all, although Fusang Japan was not very much, but it was still worth being happy to be able to become his own territory, to be honest, Zhao Gou felt that the whole of Japan was not as important as the scriptures that Xiao Ming gave him.

The topic naturally turned to the upcoming Daqing, there are some things, Zhao Gou really wants to discuss with Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming suggested that all the ceremonies should be handed over to Chen Dong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to solve, and the edict was written by Ouyang Che, the Zhengqing of Taichang Temple, and the emperor presided over the ceremony, and the follow-up thing was nothing more than a big banquet and then the whole world celebrated, and the emperor and the people were happy!

At that time, there will naturally be a grand event for all countries to come to the dynasty, and he has "invited" the emperor of Japan and all the princes and ministers to pay tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, and all kinds of gifts and tributes have been prepared to stop, and His Majesty the Emperor really doesn't need to worry about anything anymore! Let's play hollow and think about how to eat!

The two of them were chatting, the Yellow Gate was playing, Zhang Jun, the king of Qinghe County, asked to be seen, Zhao Gou heard this, smiled, and summoned him, and after a while, a black fat man walked in with broken steps, he first knelt down and shouted Long live, after Zhao Gou signaled to calm down, then he turned around and bowed to Xiao Ming to the end.

"Xia Guan has seen Taishi Xiao! Taishi Xiao hasn't shown up for a long time, so he thinks he's been busy with government affairs, right? ”

Xiao Ming said: "It turned out to be General Zhang!" I've been clearing a lot lately! Is it a little inappropriate to eat? Take care of yourself! ”

The two went back and forth and started fighting, Zhao Gou understood that the two had grievances and didn't want to get involved, so he asked, "What is the matter with Zhang Aiqing's visit today?" ”

"Qiqi official, Wechen came to ask the official family for the recipes in the banquet for the ceremony, and Wechen drafted a recipe and wanted to ask the official family to help see if it still needs to be increased or decreased?"

Zhao Gou was very interested in this matter, he took the recipe and read it carefully, nodded, his face showed satisfaction, and handed the recipe to Xiao Mingdao: "Zhang Aiqing is very troublesome, Xiao Aiqing might as well look at it, are these feasible?" ”

Xiao Ming turned out the recipe according to his words, and he couldn't help but be surprised at this look!