The furnishings of the Xinghe restaurant are good, the roof beams and furniture are finely carved boutiques, there are no tables and chairs in the south, the guests are all a person with a table and a Hu bed on the ground, the Hu bed is covered with mink, not only warm, but also high-grade; the wine is also a good wine, Zhang Nu, yes, drink in the mouth is a taste of Shou Mei wine, the dishes are in the local customs, called a roast sheep's head and white cut beef. It's completely to the taste of the Khitans.

Yang Zhi drank a few glasses of wine, and seemed to have forgotten all about today's business, and only cared about the wine; Zhang Nu held a sheep's head and gnawed, and the sauce dripped from the sheep's head on the table. Sha Jing seemed a little worried, drank very little wine, and didn't eat much food; Yang Zhi frowned and asked: "Sha Jing, I eat my own by myself, I don't feel distressed, you still care, is it that the wine and food are not to taste? We have done a lot today, even if there is no harvest at all, it is acceptable." ”

Sha Jing said with a wry smile: "I'm not distressed, I'm thinking about the people I saw on the road before, a man wearing a hat seems to be a tenant of our Tianxiong Temple, and a vendor selling snacks, who is also very familiar." ”

Yang Zhi and Zhang Nu were both stunned, Sha Jing was naturally clear about the situation in Tianxiong Temple, but Sha Jing's statement was really unfavorable to Tianxiong Temple, and the tenants of Tianxiong Temple were actually slaves without status, and it was impossible to do tolerance, so it was likely to be fake; Tianxiong Temple arranged for such two people to go on the street, but Shajing, who was in Zhongjing, didn't know, which is really hard to guess.

Yang Zhi suddenly beckoned a guy over and asked, "What are the best dishes in your store?"

The guy did not hesitate to report the menu: "Fried deer antlers, lamb ears in sauce, fish bones, braised deer tendons, ice flower beef, braised lamb chops, braised bear bile, braised shredded abalone, red stewed bear paws, scarlet lips, swan square meat, fried prawns." ”

Yang Zhi waved his hand to stop, and ordered: "Fried deer antlers, stewed shredded abalone, fried prawns, and a portion of haggis soup." ”

Not long after eating, the dishes were added, and the man's attitude was immediately much more polite, and he nodded and went to the back kitchen. But the other guests in the lobby all showed strange looks, everyone seemed to be secretly looking at Yang Zhi and the three of them, and even the shopkeeper behind the counter glanced at Yang Zhi. The shopkeeper is in his thirties, with a shrewd look of a businessman and a smile on his face, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.

Sha Jing himself is not a vegetarian, and his vision is even more first-class, listening to Yang Zhi's order, he knows that Yang Zhi is interrupting, and he is unwilling to talk about these problems in public. The sound of hooves outside the door was urgent, the healthy horses neighed, Yang Zhi could hear clearly, five people dismounted, parked the horses outside the door, and in a blink of an eye, he saw five people lifting the curtain and coming in, all of them were officials, tall and tall, speaking calmly, with relaxed expressions on their faces, and it could be seen that the relationship with each other was very good.

One of the Han people saw Sha Jing with a happy face, left his partner, walked over a few steps and asked with a smile, "When will Senior Brother return to Zhongjing?"

Sha Jing stood up and said, "I'm coming back with Yang Zhi, Yeluyue, let me introduce you, this is Yang Zhi Yang, Yang Zhi, this is my junior brother Yeluyue." ”

Yeluyue obviously knew Yang Zhi's identity, and said with a bow: "The family teacher wrote to me that Brother Yang is one year older than me, and I only came to Zhongjing today and met my brother. ”

Yeluyue is a disciple of Master Tianxin, a descendant of Yang Gon, and Yang Zhi does have a relationship; Yeluyue is indeed extraordinary, and his gestures are all the demeanor of a master, but Yang Zhi knows that after more than a hundred years, Yeluyue probably only remembers Yelu, and the idea of the surname Yang has long been weak. Yang Zhi replied without humility or arrogance: "I have long heard of the great name of the virtuous brother, it is better to meet by chance, if you don't see the outside, drink a glass of wine together." ”

Yeluyue waved his hand and said, "Brother and senior brother Mo Wei, I am here to greet King Zhao this time, we have invited Master Mo Qingshu Mo from the Ministry of War, and I will visit you when I have time tomorrow." ”

Sha Jing smiled and said, "You go and get busy with you, King Zhao knows that our residence is the Qingma Inn." ”

The shopkeeper of the hotel seemed to be acquaintances with that Mo Qingshu, and he walked out from behind the counter and politely led the five of them up to the second floor; Yang Zhi glanced at Sha Jing, raised his wine glass and said, "Is that Lord Mo's official position very high?"

Zhang Nu understood that Yang Zhi looked at Sha Jing, but in fact, he was asking himself, smiled and said: "Mo Qingshu is one of the four principals of the Ministry of War, our Daliao is the same as the Song Dynasty, the Ministry of War does not govern the military administration, and the so-called main thing is to do clerical things, which is very leisurely." Inviting Mo Qingshu is definitely not what Yeluyue and them meant, the wine and food of the Xinghe Restaurant are expensive, and the four small officials who came to report to King Zhao have the money to spend. ”

It's not the meaning of Yeluyue and others, that's the meaning of King Zhao, although the military department doesn't care about the war, but it still has the right to arrange some generals, Yang Zhi has seen a lot in Bianliang, in a word, it is to see how the article is done, how to write that official document; for example, King Zhao served as the guard of Xijing Datong Mansion, from the perspective of the importance of Xijing's strategic location, and from the perspective of King Zhao's status in the imperial family, it can be completely different, thus affecting King Zhao's authority and arrangement in personnel.

Yang Zhi looked at the stairs and said thoughtfully: "If this Lord Mo has not been immersed in the Ministry of War for many years and has his own connections, he will be deeply trusted by the Ministry of War. ”

Zhang angrily shook his head and said: "No, Mo Qingshu turned out to be a commander of the Jingzhou Army, because he was married to Xiao Fengxian, and he only sat in this position two years ago. In fact, most of the people in the army looked down on him, but Mo Qingshu didn't have the idea of galloping on the field, but he was also happy, and he heard that he made a lot of money. ”

The Great Liao is a soldier of all countries, and it maintains an army of 6 or 700,000 all year round, and it can mobilize an army of 2 million in a war; in such a huge army, a commander of a thousand is really nothing? People go to high places, and water flows to low places, Mo Qingshu's idea is not wrong, rather than not being able to get ahead in the field, it is better to find a big tree to be promoted to an official and make a fortune. However, the Khitan is a horse nation, and it is the warriors who admire, and Mo Qingshu's approach is from another point of view, that is, he has no ideals and no ambitions, and it is normal to be looked down upon by his colleagues, but it will not have an impact on Mo Qingshu at all.

Yang Zhi tapped the table twice casually, looked at the empty stairs again, and asked Zhang Nu in a low voice: "Does Xinghe Restaurant have a background?"

Zhang Nu shook his head and said: "I don't know, a wine shop that can be famous in a place like Zhongjing must have beaten some people, and black and white dare not provoke it." However, Galaxy Restaurant has its own unique advantages, turning a street from this street to the west, which is the office of the Military Department, and when I was helping in the Military Department, I often came to eat, because there are three or four streets nearby, which are really not comparable to Xinghe Restaurant. ”