Zhang Zijun quickly spread out many bowls and plates, cut onions into sections, sliced ​​ginger, minced garlic, and put each in a bowl. Next came the real side dishes, cutting the remaining pork into fat and lean pieces.

Cut the meat into small dices, beat two eggs, add some flour, wrap the diced meat all over, heat the stove with a large amount of oil

The diced meat is fried until crispy. Take it out and set it aside for later use. First, add water to the earthen pot and boil it. Add ginger, white scallions, and a little daughter red. After boiling again, put the chicken that the second brother just killed into the earthen pot.

medium, cover the lid, and when the crock pot starts to steam for the first time, remove it from the heat and let it cool down.

On this side, blanch the four pieces of chicken, chicken liver, chicken gizzards, chicken intestines, and chicken hearts, then cut them into small dices, garnish with water celery and set aside.

Prepare a piece of lettuce, peel it and cut it into shreds, add a little salt and mix it with your hands, set it aside for later use. After doing all this, the Dongpo pork stewed in the coal stove next to it has emitted bursts of fragrance, and the meat is mixed with the aroma.

The aroma of wine hits your nose.

Then take out the whole chicken from the crock pot and let it cool while preparing dipping sauce. Chop the green onion into chopped green onion, mince the ginger and put it together with the minced garlic. Unfortunately, it is not as spicy as the millet, so I don’t care. Anyway, use all the available ingredients.

, put the sauce

Add some icing sugar to the oil, bring to a boil, pour into the bowl of minced ginger and garlic, remove the oil from the pan, add sesame oil, sesame oil, heat the oil until white smoke comes out, pour it into the bowl of soy sauce, sprinkle with chopped green onions,

A Ming Dynasty version of dipping sauce is completed.

After cutting the whole chicken into small pieces and putting it on a plate, a Ming Dynasty version of plain-cut chicken is completed. It can be eaten with dipping sauces.

Squeeze the water from the lettuce, put it into a basin, add sesame oil, chopped green onion, icing sugar, minced garlic and mix well with your hands, put it into a bowl, take a plate, turn the bowl over and put it on the plate.

The Korean version of cold lettuce is ready.

Add a wide amount of oil to a frying pan. When the oil temperature rises, prepare the sweet and sour ingredients. Unfortunately, there are no tomatoes and tomato sauce. Mix the vinegar and icing sugar evenly. Add some flour and beat into water powder. Set aside. The oil is 70% hot.

Pour in the fried diced pork, fry it again and then pour out the oil. Put the fried diced pork back into the pan, add the prepared sweet and sour ingredients, stir-fry quickly to completely coat the sweet and sour meat, then remove from the pan and serve on a plate

, a Ming Dynasty version of sweet and sour pork is completed.

Heat up another frying pan, add vegetable oil, stir-fry the onion, ginger and garlic until fragrant. Pour in four pieces of blanched chicken over high heat. Stir-fry quickly. Add a little bit of red wine, add some refined salt to taste, and pour in the water cut into sections.

After cutting the celery, add water and flour instead of celery, turn it over a few times, take it out and put it on a plate.

In the end, the Dongpo pork is also crispy. Take out the whole piece and put it on a plate. Use a knife to cut the meat into small pieces. Bring the remaining soup to a boil again over high heat to reduce the juice until it becomes thick. Pour in

On top of the meat pieces on the plate, the Dongpo pork is completed. Then let everyone start cooking.

The whole cooking process can be said to be done in one go. The maid Xiner was dumbfounded and was urged to light the fire from time to time.

After eating this meal, it is estimated that the three women of the Chen family will not be hungry for three days without eating. Zhang Zijun left everything to the Chen family. When he said goodbye at the end, he said that he would come to visit at any time in the future before he got away.

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By the way, since the death of Shi Heng, the internal official Cao Jixiang has become more and more uneasy. Not to mention the lack of an opponent, the emperor is now focusing all his energy on himself. In the past, Shi Heng was in front, but Shi Heng was very corrupt, and Cao Jixiang

A little greed didn't show much, but now I'm at the forefront of the storm.

Cao Jixiang was not well versed in writing, so he strongly advocated that all important matters should go through the cabinet, hoping to win over the support of cabinet members. This was also the secret to Cao Jixiang's ability to climb up the ladder. Cao Jixiang was uneducated, read little, but was very greedy.

When recommending civil and military officials, they often only look at the amount of bribes given to them, regardless of their talents.

Whether he is competent or not. This is the tragedy of being uneducated, doing things too openly. Zhu Qizhen could see this to some extent, but because Cao Jixiang had contributed to his restoration, he did not directly reprimand him, but secretly ordered his ministers to treat him slightly.

This led to conflicts between the cabinet and Cao Jixiang, and Cao Jixiang gradually became dissatisfied with the cabinet.

You see, although I, Cao Jixiang, am uneducated, I always respect you literati and treat them with great respect. But you, relying on your being an literate person, in turn make things difficult for you and target miscellaneous families.

Cao Jixiang openly occupied civilian land many times and was repeatedly impeached by the supervisor. Cao Jixiang was furious and said to the emperor: "The miscellaneous family occupied civilian land for the sake of the emperor and for your majesty. However, the supervisory officials created difficulties at every turn.

This is not taking His Majesty seriously." Zhu Qizhen was also helpless. In order to calm down the anger of the courtiers towards Cao Jixiang, at least to show it publicly, he ordered Wang Ao, the Minister of Civil Affairs, to investigate.

The Ming Dynasty stipulated that only those supervisory officials who are over thirty-five years old can continue to serve, and those under thirty-five years old must be transferred. Cao Jixiang secretly resorted to tricks, and as a result, thirteen people were imprisoned in the incident.

Twenty-three people including the imperial censor Wu Zhen were transferred to the county magistrate level. Aren't you people saying that miscellaneous families are occupying people's land? Then all of them should be transferred to local officials.

Unexpectedly, there was a natural disaster like thunder, rain and hail at this time, so Zhu Qizhen realized that this was wrong and reinstated all these people.

In ancient times, when it came to natural disasters, which were irresistible forces that humans could not resist, they would say that the court acted against the will of God. In ancient times, "natural disasters" were mostly caused by floods and droughts. People who made a living mostly by farming had little ability to withstand "natural disasters".

Every time they cannot get help, or the help is not timely, they not only starve to death, but also usually because of the concept of traditional "patriarchal" society, and also accompanied by the common phenomenon of exchanging children for food, buying and selling wives, and women for money and food.

Natural disasters must be followed by man-made disasters. For example, a severe drought in the late Eastern Han Dynasty caused countless hungry people to pick up hoes and rebel, shouting the slogan "Heaven is dead, Huang Tian is here to stand", setting off a mighty Yellow Turban Uprising. Although there was no

Directly destroying the Eastern Han Dynasty, it contributed to the situation of separatism among the heroes, making the Eastern Han Dynasty regime exist in name only.

It is not inconsistent with the Confucian saying that "The Master does not talk about strange powers and confuses the gods". Confucianism does not deny the existence of ghosts and gods, but emphasizes the need to keep a respectful distance from them, and advocates using one's own righteousness and virtue to gain recognition from heaven, rather than servilely begging ghosts and gods.

Under the influence of the "disaster theory", the ancients believed that natural disasters were a warning and punishment, and that the faults of the monarch and his subjects were noticed by God. Therefore, if natural disasters occur frequently, they will cause panic among the people and subjectively criticize the current rulers.

Doubts arose about his governance ability and prestige.

The huge damage caused by natural disasters and the poor effectiveness of disaster relief objectively exacerbated the decline in the court's credibility and gave the rebels an excellent reason. That is, the disaster from heaven showed that the rulers were unworthy of their moral integrity, and overthrowing them was

Follow God's will.

Therefore, when a natural disaster occurs, the emperor admits his mistakes to God and his subjects and issues a "Edict of Sin and Self" to appease God's anger.

Obviously Zhu Qizhen was afraid of the wrath of heaven. Although Cao Jixiang was uneducated, he was very smart. He learned from Shi Heng's lessons and often rewarded those Tibetan generals generously and tried to satisfy their demands for money and material. The Tibetan generals were also afraid of Cao Jixiang.

Good luck is lost in one day

After taking power, his position was not guaranteed, so he was willing to sacrifice his life for Cao Jixiang. Cao Qin once asked his disciple Feng Yi, "Is there any eunuch's son who became the emperor in history?" Feng Yi said: "Your descendant is Emperor Wu of Wei."

Qin was very happy after hearing this.

Who is Cao Qin? He is the adopted son of Cao Jixiang. Once power was in his hands, Cao Qin's ambitions grew stronger and he gradually made as much concessions as Shi Heng.

Cao Qin abused lynching against his family member Cao Fulai and was impeached by the censor. Zhu Qizhen ordered the Jin Yiwei to command Lu Gao to handle the matter and issued an edict to inform the ministers.

Cao Qin was shocked and said: "General Shi was arrested last time when he issued an edict, and now it is too dangerous." He quickly went to discuss countermeasures with his godfather Cao Jixiang. Cao Qin, whose ambitions had grown so big that there was no room for him in the world, was

Qin, plus Cao Jixiang, who couldn't read a lot of Chinese characters, the result of the discussion was

Determined to rebel. Damn it, the emperor has changed more than once or twice anyway. It is safe to ask Cao Qin to become emperor this time. Just like the "seizing the door" a while ago, he will bring troops to kill Zhu.

Once Qi Zhen is under control, Cao Qin will sit on the throne and summon the civil and military forces to announce the change of dynasty.

In the eyes of these two people, it is indeed a minor matter of Mi Dugu. It is not surprising that the emperor changed. In Cao Jixiang's hands, he used the Mongolian officers and soldiers outside and the eunuchs in the imperial city to launch a coup. In order to win over the Mongols, they surrendered.

Under the temptation of large sums of money and delicious food, all of the soldiers expressed their willingness to follow Cao Jixiang in taking risks, and Cao Jixiang also believed that he had mastered them.

At this time, there was an emergency in Ganzhou and Liangzhou. Zhu Qizhen ordered Sun Bor, the Marquis of Huaining, to march westward. He ordered Sun Bor to serve as the general military officer and led the army with Ma Ang, the Minister of War, to go to the expedition. Cao Jixiang's party members were in charge of Qintian.

The Taichang Shaoqing Tang Xu decided to launch a rebellion at dawn on the Gengzi Day of this month. Cao Qin led the troops in, and Cao Jixiang led the Imperial Army to respond. After the plan was confirmed, Cao Qin gathered the Tibetan generals together for a night of drinking

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That night, both Sun Bor and Gongshun Hou Wu Jin were on duty in the court room. Sun Bor was trusted both during the Daizong period and now. Zhu Qi Zhen granted Sun Bor the title of Huaining Bo. Wu Jin was also favored by Zhu Qi.

Trusted by Qizhen. Promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the Left Army

As a matter of government affairs, Wu Jin was given ten hectares of land in Tongzhou, Shuntian Prefecture. These two are currently the few veterans in the Ming Dynasty. Thinking that Huaining Hou Sun Boring will march westward tomorrow, he can still stand on the last guard tonight.

He had to be respected by Wu Jin.

After nightfall, the Jinyi Guards commanded that Ma Liang was a sensible person. After learning about tonight's action, he thought that Cao Jixiang was crazy to do such a no-win move, so he secretly ran out to the court room to expose Cao.

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I happened to meet Wu Jin's younger brother, Wu Cong, the uncle of Guangyi. Wu Cong was bringing wine and food to Sun Bor and Wu Jin. He was on duty at night, and the rain and dew were getting louder. He drank some wine to ward off the cold. Sun Bor would lead his troops to the west tomorrow.

, it can also be regarded as a farewell drink before leaving.

Ma Liang saw Uncle Guangyi Wu Cong coming out of the court room, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask who was on duty tonight. When Wu Cong saw it, it turned out that it was the Jin Yiwei Commander who commanded Ma Liang, and he went to the room in a rage at such a late hour.

He didn't dare to neglect his posture and quickly introduced him inside.
Chapter completed!