The third feature, which is the biggest feature of the entire banquet, is that all the non-spicy dishes are delicious when you taste them! Especially the last two soups are simply irresistible!
So the final result was that less than ten people swept away the dishes on the table, and everyone lay stretched out on their seats and groaned! At this time, these people realized that they seemed to have lost their composure!
At this time, a middle-aged man touched his beard sheepishly and said with a smile: "This Shiweizhai dish is beyond my expectation. I accidentally ate too much!"
He was so unanimous in laughing at himself, and other people also followed suit and said that they had eaten too much, and really lost your honor! Someone else said: "I have never seen many of the dishes today, maybe they are newly developed, right?
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"Yes, I guess those cooks have put in a lot of effort! But I've never heard of their names before. Why are they suddenly so capable?"
"No need to ask, it must be the Liu family's secret recipe!"
"If you say that the dishes are delicious, it is definitely due to the secret recipe! But the emergence of many new dishes is not just a matter of the secret recipe! How about it? Brother Liu will explain it to everyone!"
Father Liu laughed and said: "This new dish is naturally the work of the chef! But, as Brother Li said, making delicious dishes naturally depends on the secret recipe!"
The middle-aged man who spoke before said: "Old Liu, you can't keep such a good thing to yourself!"
Father Liu raised his eyebrows and said, "Of course! I forgot what you said, the secret sauces for each family have been prepared. When you leave, just ask your servants to go directly to the counter to get them! In addition, with you
You can also take the VIP card you mentioned with you!”
"Brother Liu is loyal and indeed a good friend!"
Everyone was naturally overjoyed to hear that they could get the secret sauce passed down by the Liu family! Maybe some of them were trying to crack the secret recipe! But how could Liu Haojia leave such an obvious loophole for them? He had already been on guard against them!
Not to mention that after the sea intestines were carefully ground, it was so fine that it was impossible to recognize what it was! Moreover, he also added the powder of another thing to the sea intestines powder, that is, bamboo fungus!
Dictyophora fungi is actually just an ordinary fungus with an ordinary taste. But it has a characteristic that once it encounters something containing sodium glutamate, it will amplify the taste dozens of times!
Therefore, Liu Haojia ground the bamboo fungus and bamboo shoots into powder and mixed it with sea intestine powder in a ratio of 1:20, so it is one of the best native condiments!
When making the seasoning, Liu Haojia and his people ground the sea intestines and bamboo fungus again and again until they could not be any finer. When they were mixed together, even the gods would not be able to recognize them! Unless they had modern inspections.
Means, otherwise just guess slowly!
After the nobles finished their meal, they each took the seasoning packets and left with satisfaction. After seeing off these people, Liu's father, who was also full, staggered to the second floor holding on to the handrail of the stairs, and saw Liu Haojia sitting on a
Listening to the performance on the stage in the empty private room, I was quite intoxicated by the way he shook his head!
At this time, there was a female musician on the stage playing the Yao Qin, her voice was as soft as running water, and it sounded sweet to the ear! This female musician was about thirty years old, and although her figure was still graceful, she already had thin crow's feet at the corners of her eyes.
Father Liu walked over and asked, "Xiaoer, are there many people eating at lunch today?"
Liu Haojia stood up and helped Liu's father sit down, pointed to the surrounding area and said: "Look, there are only three tables of people on the second floor. The first floor is better, there are about five or six tables of people!"
Father Liu frowned immediately after hearing this and said, "How come there are so few? Is the price too high?"
Liu Haojia said nonchalantly: "This is the first day we are open, so it is normal for there to be fewer people! When the reputation of Shiweizhai spreads in the future, there will naturally be more people!"
Father Liu thought about it and thought it made sense, and said: "Then you stay here, I want to go home and rest for a while. I drank a bit too much at noon today!"
After he got up, Liu Haojia naturally wanted to get up and see him off, but Liu's father took two steps and turned back and said, "Are these musicians from the Jiaofang Department? You'd better arrange for someone to guard here, just in case someone gets drunk and rudely disturbs the musicians.
Stop it!"
Liu Haojia nodded and said: "Understood, I will make arrangements later. Our family has already reached an agreement with the Jiaofang Secretary, and the money that should be given to us is not large at all. If a guest gives a reward, it belongs to the musician, and our family will only take a commission according to the rules.
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Father Liu said: "I'm actually not worried about someone harming the people in Jiaofangsi. I'm mainly worried that the musicians and dancers invited from outside will be disturbed by the guests! They are all poor people, so we should help if we can!"
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Liu Hao's family naturally nodded in agreement. In fact, it was only in the past few days that he understood what the Jiaofangsi was? In the past, he always thought that the Jiaofangsi was a government-run brothel, but in fact it was not the case at all!
The Jiaofangsi was actually the ritual and music organization of the Ming Dynasty. Its main responsibility was to be in charge of national rituals and music. The main personnel were musicians and music households. Jingfei was the government-run brothel that most people understood. As for the official prostitutes, they were indeed subordinate to
He is in charge of the Jiaofang, but it is not his main responsibility.
Jiaofang began in the Tang Dynasty. The rise of Jiaofang to the Music Department began in the Jin Dynasty. The name of Jiaofangsi began in the Yuan Dynasty. The real establishment of Jiaofangsi was in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, as a formal official institution, Jiaofangsi actually
Only the Ming Dynasty.
There are a lot of records of "Jiaofangsi" in "Records of the Ming Dynasty", but they basically set up "music and dance" in some major ceremonies. Therefore, Jiaofangsi officially replaced Taichang and became the core of the ritual and music institution of the generation.
The institutions or places that really accommodate a certain number of official prostitutes are Fule Yuan, Li Chun Yuan, Sixteenth Floor, Goulan Washe and other institutions or places, although they are also affiliated with the Jiaofang Division. The sources of the official prostitutes in these institutions or places are also
Very few come from the wives and daughters of unofficial criminals.
For example, Fule Yuan was first established in Hongwu. In fact, it was not mainly a place to accommodate official prostitutes, but a place for musicians to live.
As for the sixteenth floor, there are more than ten restaurants built by Zhu Yuanzhang in Nanjing during the Hongwu period to "accumulate the traveling prostitutes". Therefore, the sixteenth floor is directly linked to the official prostitute system in the early Ming Dynasty.
There are also Goulan, which is mainly used as a place for the musicians of the Jiaofang to perform dramas and dramas, and there are also some singing girls. After Yongle moved the capital, Goulan was also set up in Beijing. This kind of place was more prosperous in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, but declined quickly after the Ming Dynasty.
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So in general, the Ming Dynasty took the Jiaofangsi as the core and the music registration system as the basis. The capital also established Fule Yuan as the residence of the musicians, built a sixteenth floor to facilitate the singing and drinking of the prostitutes, and erected hook rails to prepare for the music.
For the performance of workers, there are also corresponding teaching studios, music halls and restaurants from the capital to the local areas.