Chapter 827 The Central Canteen of the Third Reich
For such a major event that would affect the entire bureaucracy, the basic plan was actually in his hands just now?
Did you actually read such an important document just now?
Yang Xiu felt dazed for a while.
"Long article, what you just said is really the new system that your Majesty wants to replace the imperial examination system? It's called the imperial examination?"
"Well, it's true. Your Majesty handed it to me personally. I plan to take a look at it myself first, and then show it to everyone in the cabinet, and then we can discuss it together."
Chen Qun nodded and said: "This internal examination of the Ministry of Personnel is actually a drill for this new system. Your Majesty is making preparations in advance. We also have to give some practical and effective opinions. After the new system is implemented, we will definitely have a better understanding of the current situation of the Han Dynasty.
It’s very beneficial.”
"Then I'll take a closer look later."
Yang Xiu touched the stubble on his chin and nodded: "This level of new system reform will definitely arouse a great response. I just saw the exam session. Your Majesty plans to divide the exam into three sections? This may be a bit too strict.
Well, this time, it’s just an exam.”
"Your Majesty also has his own ideas, and there are not too many people taking the exam this time. If there are too many people in the future, it will be inevitable to take three exams to select candidates."
Chen Qun smiled and said: "Okay, stop talking. Let's go have a meal first. You can watch it slowly after the meal. Then we will discuss it. By the way, there is also that part of the government affairs. You can help me deal with it, otherwise I will
Don’t even think about going home tonight.”
"It's easy to say, it's all trivial, I..."
Yang Xiu suddenly froze and looked at Chen Qun: "How can I help you handle your matter?"
"Didn't you agree? I put the part of what you promised on your table."
Chen Qun smiled and said: "Why, you Yang Dezu, who keeps your promises, also wants to break your promises and get fat? I never thought that you, Yang Dezu, would be such a person who breaks your promises and gets fat. If other colleagues know about this, then..."
"Breaking promises and getting fat?"
Yang Xiu was immediately furious: "Yang Dezu has no talent, but he also knows that he will never do anything to get rich by breaking his promise! I will definitely do what I promised! Just leave those things to me! If you don't finish all these things, you will be left alone!"
"
"That's good."
Chen Qun squinted his eyes and walked to the canteen with a smile, joined the hungry army of rice cooks, and began his lunch journey.
The place where they wanted to cook was naturally the newly built Central Canteen of the Third Reich.
The layout of the central dining hall in the Imperial Palace of the Third Reich was different from other places.
It was a particularly spacious and tall palace complex with several different palaces, including a canteen specially used for people to eat, a warehouse for storing various ingredients, and a resting place for the canteen staff.
In addition to these buildings, there is also a wider space that has been opened up as farmland for growing vegetables, and there are even ponds for raising fish. The vegetables and fish raised are used as ingredients for the large canteen. It can be said that
Make the best use of everything.
The entire cafeteria has all the facilities and is very lively.
In this way, every day at meal time, hungry officials arrived here in groups. Entering from the main entrance, they were greeted by a rather grand main palace. There was a plaque hanging on the main entrance of the palace that read:
First Canteen].
There is a small road on the left and right sides of the first canteen. The small road on the left leads to the second canteen. The small road on the right leads to the third canteen. There is a small road next to the second canteen and the third canteen, which converge to the final fourth canteen.
into a standard rhombus structure.
In the canteen, skylights are opened on the top floor for lighting. When the sky is bright, there is no need to light up the lights. The canteen is also bright and can be seen all the way.
If it's a rainy day or at night, the lights will be lit in the cafeteria for everyone to eat and drink. The bright candlelight will cost a lot of money.
In addition to the roads, the large space between the four canteens is filled with trees, flowers and plants. It is full of greenery in spring and summer, and there are occasional sounds of insects and birds, which is quite pleasing to the eye.
Among the trees and flowers, there are seven or eight pavilions with sun and rain protection. There are stone tables and stone benches inside, which can be used for digestion after meals, resting, and chatting with friends.
Some people who like peace and quiet will choose to bring the meals they brought and occupy a small pavilion as a private restaurant with their friends. They can sit in the small pavilion and talk to their friends while eating, which is quiet and elegant.
However, because the seats are limited and it is very popular, you often need to come in advance to grab a seat, otherwise you have to wait for the next meal to try your luck.
Being able to enjoy daily meals here is a very lucky thing for some small officials and officials, not only because they can eat and drink for free here, but more importantly, the predecessor of this central canteen is called the West Restaurant.
garden.
West Garden was famous during the Second Reich. There are few officials currently serving in the Third Reich who don’t know what the predecessor of the Central Dining Hall was.
Even Chen Qun and Yang Xiu, who had not spent much time in Luoyang before, also knew that this place used to be the late emperor's leisure and entertainment place. It was built at a huge cost and was an emperor's private leisure and entertainment place.
Here once gathered the world's most exotic flowers and plants, rare beasts, gold, silver, jewelry, and exotic beauties. The world is so vast that any rare thing can be found here. If you can't find it, it only means that the thing is not rare enough.
There is even a swimming pool here. In the past, the late emperor played here every day, drank wine, ate meat, and played with the palace maids. If it was hot, he would take off his clothes and play in the swimming pool with the palace maids.
If they are a couple of gods and immortals, their joy is boundless, making people envious and fascinated by them.
Then the late emperor died.
After the death of the late emperor, this place was vacant for a time.
During the Jian'an period, Liu Bei completely sealed up the West Garden on the grounds that he was bored with playthings and spending extravagance. It is said that the rare beasts, exotic flowers and plants, as well as gold, silver, pearls and jade were all sold by Liu Bei to high-ranking officials in the capital.
Anyone who likes it can buy it. The one with the highest price will get it. Because the quality is extremely high and the meaning is far-reaching, many dignitaries are after it. They privately go to Liu Bei to buy it through the back door. Liu Bei sells these things for a lot of money.
Liu Bei was used to expand the army.
People at the time had some opinions on this matter, thinking that Liu Bei did not respect the late emperor and the royal family enough. However, later the Empress Dowager Dong issued an edict allowing Liu Bei to do this, and the discussion gradually subsided.
Later, when Liu Bei ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he felt that it would be a pity not to use the West Garden because of its superior architecture and vast area, so he reopened the West Garden and built it into the central dining hall of the palace.
Any officials or staff working in the palace can register with the Ministry of Household Affairs in advance, receive meal tickets, and eat here, three meals a day, plus one late night snack, free of charge.
People who come to the palace temporarily to do business can also show their official certificate and service certificate at the registration office at the entrance of the first canteen, and then receive a temporary meal ticket, and they can have a free meal.
Everyone has also heard that not only the officials eat here, but also the nobles in the harem and the empress dowager have their own small kitchens, so they do not eat here. Even the maids and eunuchs who serve in the palace have separate kitchens here.
The cafeteria is independent of the four major cafeterias and is often rotated here for meals.
And later, some people said that Emperor Liu Bei also ate here.
However, Liu Bei usually asked people to bring food to his study to eat alone, instead of going to the cafeteria to eat, because he was worried that everyone would be cautious after seeing him and would not enjoy the meal.
Needless to say, everyone believed that the emperor ate here. Not to mention that this cafeteria was renovated from the West Garden and was of a very high quality. The dishes in this cafeteria were just so delicious.
, people felt that it was natural for the emperor to eat here.
The four sub-canteens in the central canteen are also very particular.
Breakfast, they all have the same content, mainly to divert the crowd. The cafeteria provides porridge, rice, side dishes, fried eggs, various fried rice, etc., which everyone is familiar with.
In addition, the breakfast canteen will also provide [steamed buns], [steamed buns], and [dumplings] that everyone has never eaten before. It is said that they are also pasta that originated in the army. They were first promoted in the army and received unanimous praise from the army.
These kinds of food have a soft texture and are very special. They taste different from the pasta that everyone is familiar with.
During the Second Empire, the pasta that everyone ate was called pancakes, and they had different names depending on how they were eaten. Those eaten steamed were called steamed pancakes, those cut into slices and eaten in soup were called soup pancakes, and those baked with sesame seeds sprinkled on them.
It’s called Hu Cake.
But although these steamed buns, steamed buns and dumplings are pasta, they are not called cakes. The officials don't know how they got their names. They only know that the master chefs in the cafeteria call them so.
The steamed buns have no fillings, just soft dough. It feels good to eat them with side dishes.
Baozi and dumplings are filled with fillings, including vegetable fillings and meat fillings. The fillings are delicious and can be made either steamed or fried. When eaten, the textures are very different.
It's soft when steamed and crispy when fried, each has its own merits.
Many people have never seen these foods at first, and they are shocked when they first eat them. Moreover, they cannot be eaten outside and can only be eaten in the cafeteria. Those who like them get up early every day to eat them, or even sleep in the palace.
Have a delicious and free breakfast in the morning.
When it comes to lunch, each of the four canteens has its own merits.
The first cafeteria specializes in steamed dishes, the second cafeteria specializes in barbecue foods, the third cafeteria specializes in soups, and the fourth cafeteria specializes in stir-fried dishes.
Each canteen has more than 20 windows, and the four canteens add up to more than 100 windows. Different dishes are displayed at the windows. If you want to eat any type of food, you can go to the window of a certain canteen and queue up for food.
If you want to eat everything, then go to more canteens.
Anyway, all major canteens have enough seats, so you can sit down and eat whenever you want, which is very convenient.
Some officials are very smart. In order to eat more dishes, a group of people started a group war. Three or five friends went to different canteens to get food, selected what they liked, and then gathered together to sit and eat together.
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It was as lively as attending a banquet.
Dinner is similar, and the four canteens are all in the same situation. However, compared to the large portions at noon, many people find that the dishes in the evening focus on exquisite and rich dishes, which are richer than at noon, but in terms of quantity
It's not as big as noon.
The master chef in the cafeteria was as generous as his relatives when serving food at noon. He poured all kinds of dishes into the dishes, and they overflowed. Every one of the officials had their mouths full of oil and their cheeks were as bulging as hamsters.
It is a great test for the capacity of the stomach bag and the strength of the masseter muscles.
But at night, the master's hands began to shake, which made the officials serving the dishes frown. Half a spoonful of vegetables could be shaken off for him. Even the staple food was picked and picked, so that the officials wanted to
Ask the imperial physician in the palace to give the masters a few injections to cure the trembling hands.
But after all, the food is free. Officials eat at no cost. This big canteen is a welfare for everyone. The emperor pays for it. They are too embarrassed to say anything about the so-called "taking advantage of people with short hands and eating people with short mouths".
They didn't have this kind of welfare during the Second Empire. They had to pay for anything they wanted to eat. They even had to bring their own meals. Why do you want to eat so many dishes for free?
At that time, it was more difficult to eat hot food on a cold day than anything else. On the first day of the first lunar month, one had to bear the cold wind and eat a summer ice drink, which made people stiff from body to soul.
Now that they have such good food and treatment, they are afraid that their complaints will be known to Emperor Liu Bei, and then Liu Bei will get angry and start asking them to pay for food.
Good guy, there is food and drink in this central dining hall. There are all kinds of pasta and fried foods that you can’t eat outside. Take care of yourself. If you eat outside, it will cost a lot of money no matter what. And in the palace
Eating for free is not a concept at all.
We must maintain this hard-won superior benefit!
Compared with the various types of three meals a day, the late-night snack canteen is relatively simple, because after all, not the majority of people work night shifts, and not everyone wants to have a late-night snack, so only the first canteen is open for late-night snack canteens, and they are generally open.
Only noodles, wontons and dumplings are provided.
These three kinds of pasta are also quite new. It is said that they were first popularized in the army and were welcomed by the soldiers in the army before being introduced to the imperial court.
Noodles feel similar to the soup cakes you eat every day, but the soup cakes are thin noodles, not such long noodles.
The officials don't know exactly how the noodles are made, but the noodles are smooth and elastic in the mouth, paired with rich or light soup, and a fried egg, which makes it very comfortable to eat, and that's enough.
After all, no one would thank the hen that laid the egg just because the egg tastes delicious.
However, the excellent taste of this novel pasta still attracted a considerable number of pasta lovers, making them the first noodle lovers. In order to eat a bowl of noodles, they would not hesitate to ask their superiors to work overtime and stay behind so that they could eat in the late-night cafeteria.
Serve a bowl of noodles.
According to incomplete statistics, noodles-loving Noodlers are the group that has worked the most overtime and stayed behind during this period.
Dumplings are the soup version of steamed and fried dumplings for breakfast. They can also be paired with rich or light soup. You can drink the soup and eat the dumplings. This way of eating is welcomed by many people.
If someone has a bad stomach, the master chef in the cafeteria will recommend him to eat wontons.
Unlike dumplings, wonton wrappers are thinner, and the officials who ate them didn't even know how the masters made the dough so thin.
But it's really delicious and easy to digest. One bite after another, it goes into your stomach after just one sip. It's warm and doesn't feel uncomfortable at all.
All in all, the successful establishment of this large canteen has indeed greatly improved the work enthusiasm and overtime enthusiasm of the officials of the Luoyang court to a certain extent. It can even be said that after the establishment of the large canteen, it was very important for many petty officials to go to work in the palace.
, suddenly became something worth looking forward to.