Turbulent Times Chapter 143: Lifu Opening Banquet (Part 1)
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Pei Shiju smiled and said: "I have already thought of what you said. It is extremely difficult for the two of us to get the current official position, so naturally we can't take risks."
Wang Tong said thoughtfully, "Uncle means..."
Pei Shiju said: "My grandson Yuanqing and Wang Junlin have a good relationship. I plan to find a suitable opportunity to give Wang Junlin some very powerful help."
Wang Tong couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard the words, he nodded and said: "This son is indeed a good helper for us."
Pei Shiju said with a smile: "Tomorrow, Wang Junlin will hold a banquet at the Lifu. The old man has received an invitation letter written by Wang Junlin himself, so he will naturally go."
Wang Tong smiled slightly, and said, "I also heard that Wang Junlin was going to cook and prepare the food himself. At the beginning of the year, when Chang Sun Sheng returned from his mission to the Western Regions, he blew up the food made by Wang Junlin into the sky. Going to have a taste and experience."
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Wang Junlin attaches great importance to the banquet held in his Hou Mansion. He not only writes the invitation himself, but also arranges the dishes and selects the ingredients himself, and prepares to cook a few dishes to entertain the distinguished guests.
All kinds of ingredients have been prepared three days ago. A large fat pig was hung on the shelf outside the kitchen. At the request of Wang Junlin, the servants cleaned it up. Wang Junlin came from Dayun Restaurant yesterday. After leaving the scene of the **** crime, after returning home, he ordered his servants to decompose the pork, spare ribs, tenderloin, and pork belly fat, and then found the fat and thin hind legs and ordered them to be chopped into minced meat for later use.
As mentioned before, after Wang Junlin became a mercenary, he often wandered abroad and could not eat authentic Chinese food, so he worked hard to study food, so that he developed a good cooking skill. Now Princess Xinyi lives among the savages of the Western Turks, and her life is relatively stable, which has a lot to do with the few delicious dishes taught by Wang Junlin himself.
The greatest need of animals is to eat. Although humans are advanced animals, they still transcend this rule. A delicious meal will subtly change a person's thinking or perception of a person in many cases. Therefore, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign people like to invite people to dinner. The so-called "If you want to grab a man's heart, you must first grab a man's stomach" is the full embodiment of this truth.
Wang Junlin is well aware of this, so he is going to make a big fuss at the banquet in his Marquis Mansion, using food to change some people's perceptions of him as vicious, cold-blooded, weird, and perverted, so as to subtly dispel the attitude of the officials and nobles. His various fears.
Most of the important ministers of the Sui Dynasty were from Xianbei, and they were located in places like Daxing City where there is no shortage of mutton. I spent my mind on the pork. Pork was rarely eaten by people in this era, but it was the type of meat that Chinese people ate the most in later generations, and it gave rise to too many delicacies, which later generations liked, but Sui people had no reason not to like it.
For example, after careful consideration, Wang Junlin thought that braised pork trotters should be very suitable for the taste of the visitors, so he asked people to buy a cart of trotters to ensure that each visitor had at least one trotter.
The cuisine of the Sui Dynasty is too poor and tasteless compared to the later generations. In addition to cooking or roasting, or eating raw, it is unhygienic. The parasites in it cannot be killed, and you will get all kinds of All kinds of strange diseases, Wang Junlin ordered a pork dish in a restaurant on his way to Beijing some time ago, a glance reminded him of pork tapeworms running around in his stomach and made his hair stand on end. We must know that there will be health and quarantine in future generations, let alone this era.
Wang Junlin remembers that stir-frying originated in the Song Dynasty. It was a time when food and clothing were very important, and the material was extremely rich. It was a paradise for literati. But now that we are in the Sui Dynasty instead of the Song Dynasty, we have to do everything by ourselves. There is no wok and shovel. Wang Junlin has already found someone to build it in the past few days. There is no seasoning or monosodium glutamate, so you can find similar ones by yourself, or directly use similar ingredients, such as seasoning with boiled chicken soup. As for soy sauce, it is easy to brew. Wang Junlin tried to make it himself when he was abroad in later generations.
Cook trotters in a casserole. Ten casseroles are used. Bring to a boil over high heat, pour out the water, add new water, add ginger, green onion, garlic, put the seasoning in gauze, and simmer slowly over low heat. Wang Junlin, a majestic marquis, naturally couldn't cook by himself every day, so he called all the cooks in the mansion to observe and study on the spot. Worried that these people would not remember, he asked the accountant in the mansion to record the procedures and ingredients on the spot.
I have to say that Wang Junlin cooks in person, and at first he scared the servants to death, especially a few cooks knelt down in front of Wang Junlin crying and shouting for Lord Hou to spare his life, which made Wang Junlin very speechless. After explaining for a long time, and even swearing, these people believed that they would never blame them for this matter, let alone kill them.
To be honest, since Jin Wang Yang Zhao sent these servants here, because of Wang Junlin's vicious and poisonous reputation, everyone was worried, worried that they would be killed or even eaten by the new master at any time. After all, the previous rumors about Wang Junlin were too terrifying and frightening.
Only a few days later, the servants discovered that the legendary poisonous Lord Hou was too different from the rumors. Showing respect for them from the bottom of their hearts moved them completely.
After all, the life of a servant in this era is as cheap as a dog. When have they seen such a kind master. This is because Yang Zhao's character is more benevolent. There are naturally many families in Daxing City who can afford servants, but they are not many compared to the huge base of ordinary people. However, servants are beaten to death every day. As for Beatings, corporal punishment, torture, buying and selling, and humiliation are commonplace.
Wang Junlin was already well-known, and when he came to Kyoto, he was granted the titles of Founding Marquis and General Zhenyuan, and the day before yesterday he became the supervisory censor. It's just that there are no aristocratic families behind him, and his foundation is shallow. At the beginning, he was still looked down upon by some aristocratic families from the bottom of his heart.
However, in this short period of three or four days, Wang Junlin first drove Changping Wang Qiu Rui out of the court with his own strength, made him lose his official position, and even accompanied him with 200,000 taels of silver . Then there was the **** case at the Universiade Restaurant yesterday, Wang Junlin didn't deliberately conceal that there was his shadow behind it, it was just that no evidence was found.
The relationship between the various powerful families in the capital is intricate, and there are various contacts and exchanges with each other, so that sometimes as long as one person knows a piece of news, everyone will know it soon. For example, when Wang Tong sent the report to Yang Jian about the truth about the massacre at the Universiade Restaurant, it had already spread among the civil and military circles of the Manchu Dynasty.
In short, Wang Junlin brought down the only Wang Qiurui with a different surname in the dynasty in just three or four days, and killed the grandson of Yang Su, Duke of Yue, who was the most powerful minister on the spot. The aristocrats and aristocrats of all sizes in the capital knew him better again, and many people had already listed Wang Junlin as one of the people who should not be offended. Moreover, Wang Junlin does not have the fetters of family members behind him, which makes him feel a little "barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes", and makes many people extremely afraid of him. Yang Su and Qiu Rui dare not kill him, except for Yang Jian. In addition to the reason, Wang Junlin was worried that if he failed to kill Wang Junlin, Wang Junlin would desperately use the same means to retaliate against them.
Whether they were optimistic about Wang Junlin, fearful, or had some other purpose, the number of people who came to Wang Junlin's opening banquet exceeded Wang Junlin's expectations.
Pei Yuanqing and Changsun Wuji came early to help Wang Junlin receive some ordinary officials and nobles, and apart from the expected four important ministers, Changsun Sheng, Yang Lin, Han Qinhu, and Pei Shiju, Wang Tong, Su Wei, The three heavyweights Yu Wenshu also came, and besides that, some of Yu Ju Luo's old subordinates in the army also came one by one. Everyone brought valuable gifts. Wang Junlin took a quick look and found that the value of the gifts this time alone was no less than fifty thousand taels of silver, and there were still two heavyweights who hadn't arrived yet.
Jin Wang Yang Zhao came with the eldest princess Yang Lihua, the guards and ceremonial guards of the two royal families, plus the carriage carrying gifts for Wang Junlin, there was a long line of carriages and horses, and there was a lot of noise It also attracted various secret speculations from various forces in the capital. The eldest princess is okay, she is just a noble princess on the surface, but Yang Zhao is the eldest son of the current crown prince Yang Guang. Could it be the crown prince's order that he has a good relationship with Wang Junlin? In fact, many people are guessing, if Yang Su is not a staunch supporter of Yang Guang, and Yang Su and Wang Junlin have formed a deadly feud, if it is not out of concern for Yang Su's feelings, I am afraid that Yang Guang will come here in person.
Yang Zhao and Yang Lihua's car stopped in front of the main gate of the Marquis of Qin'an's mansion. Wang Junlin brought a large group of people to greet him. It could be seen that Yang Zhao and Yang Lihua, uncle and nephew, had a good relationship, and they actually rode in a luxurious carriage together. After the two most distinguished guests came down, Mo Jiuhan, who was sitting on the shaft of the chariot, squinted his eyes and glanced at Wang Junlin, then flicked his whip, and the carriage of six horses went to the side. open space. The old **** smiled kindly, but only Wang Junlin knew how perverted this old guy was.
Even though they had already slept with each other, both Wang Junlin and Yang Lihua pretended to be unfamiliar, greeted each other formally, and exchanged a few polite words of greeting.
Not waiting for Changsun Sheng, Han Qinhu, Pei Shiju and others to come to see the ceremony, Yang Lihua picked up the little lynx Mao Mao under Wang Junlin's feet and said, "I heard that Marquis Qin An raised two spirit beasts, except for this one. There is a little lynx and a legendary blood-maned horse. Although I am a woman, I am a very good horse. So I came to congratulate Qin Anhou on the opening of the mansion today. In addition to tasting the delicacies that Qin Anhou personally cooked, I just want to see the blood-maned horse, please Qin Anhou, send someone to take me to see the blood-maned horse right now."
PS: Sorry, I have been busy for a day today, so I am late, I am very sorry,