Chapter three hundred and fifty fifth small test knife
Lu Yao and Yang Tao learned about the current situation of the hot pot restaurant. Everything is going smoothly. According to the current progress, when the second round of official competition begins, it will definitely be able to open on time. Moreover, for many dishes on the menu,
Yang Tao also gave Lu Yao some suggestions of his own. Lu Yao was very willing to listen to Yang Tao's suggestions. After all, he was designing hot pot from a modern perspective. In the Song Dynasty, spicy pot had not yet appeared, and Yang Tao, as a
As an out-and-out common man, the suggestions he made were naturally more in line with the tastes of the people of the Song Dynasty, such as the selection of meat and the types of hot-boiled dishes. Yang Tao worked carefully, and he knew that it was not enough to just listen to the suggestions of people around him.
Yes, so after getting Lu Yao's permission, Yang Tao invited people from different classes to eat hot pot according to Lu Yao's previous design concept. These included civilians of the same class as himself, as well as big businessmen like Zhao Hu.
, of course, through Zhao Hu’s relationship, Yang Tao also got the opportunity to invite some court officials to have hot pot. Naturally, the suggestions given by these people from different classes regarding the characteristics of hot pot were different. Yang Tao combined the opinions of people from all classes.
After making suggestions, he designed a set of rectification plans for Lu Yao.
It was only after Yang Tao's advice that Lu Yao realized that when he was designing hot pot, some of his concepts were indeed a bit ahead of his time, and he should consider the preferences of today's people more. After all, if this hot pot restaurant wants to continue operating, it must make money.
, it is still very important to consider everyone’s feelings.
The first is the selection of dishes. In the Song Dynasty, high-ranking officials liked mutton as their first choice for meat dishes. When the sixth emperor of the Song Dynasty, Song Shenzong, was in power, there were documents recording that the Song Dynasty palace consumed about 430,000 kilograms of mutton a year.
, following the example, it is natural for the dignitaries to eat mutton as a fashion.
By the Southern Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty had lost the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, and the pastures in the upper reaches of the Yellow River were also occupied by foreigners. Therefore, the price of mutton was not affordable for ordinary people, so most people at that time used rabbit meat as a food for hot pot.
The first choice of meat dishes, rabbit meat is a meat dish for hot pot. In addition to being cheap, the meat slices of rabbit meat are bright in color, so much so that they are known as "Baxia Gong".
Pork, which is very common now, had a very low "table status" in the Song Dynasty. This is because the pigs in the Song Dynasty were not gelded, and when cooked improperly, they tasted very fishy. Therefore, although the price of pork
It is very cheap, but no one likes it, whether it is scholar-bureaucrats or ordinary people. There is a saying that "the good pork in Huangzhou is as cheap as dirt. The rich will not eat it, and the poor will not know how to cook it."
Friends who like to eat beef hot pot must be cautious when arriving in the Song Dynasty. Cows were one of the most important means of production in the farming era, and the government prohibited the private slaughter of farm cows. The "Song Xingtong" stipulates: "Anyone who kills cattle for official purposes will be punished."
One and a half years. Those who kill cattle and horses will get one year." Risking jail time to eat beef is not a worthwhile business. Of course, if you must eat beef hot pot, you can go to a remote place far away from the town to eat it.
Fish is also a common delicacy on the table. There are a wide range of fish types: herring, grass carp, silver carp, bighead carp, bream, river dumpling, rock carp, yahoo, bass, sturgeon, saury, loach, eel, carp... there is always one.
It's your dish. The price of fish is very affordable. In 1110, Cai Jing took his 14-year-old son Cai Sui away from the capital to Hangzhou. On the way, he bought 20 fish with 30 copper coins. However, the fishermen caught up with them and returned the overcharged fish.
1 copper coin. When Lu You, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, was in Huanggang, he bought 100 copper coins and fed 20 people.
Chickens, ducks, and geese were must-have poultry for farmers in the Song Dynasty. As long as you have money, you don’t have to worry about not being able to eat chicken, duck, or goose meat. In "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Huang Rong used the "Beggar's Chicken" made by herself.
, exchanged Guo Jing for the peerless martial arts "Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms" from Hong Qigong. Restaurants in Kaifeng have already sold signed goose and duck, roasted duck, fried duck, goose and duck steaks, steamed lychee kidneys, and fine items in the oven.
Lotus duck and other dishes.
Now that we have pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, it is not difficult to eat some duck intestines, chicken intestines, duck blood, brains, chicken feet, etc. in hot pot. However, ham sausages, luncheon meat, etc. that have been processed by modern technology
Meat was really not available in the Song Dynasty, even if you had money, you couldn't eat it.
In terms of vegetarian dishes, basically all the vegetables we can eat today can also be eaten by people in the Song Dynasty, such as yams, winter melons, lotus roots, shepherd's purse, leeks, etc. Of course, varieties such as tomatoes and potatoes that had not been introduced to our country at that time were also eaten by people in the Song Dynasty.
It’s hard to tolerate it. Interestingly, chili peppers were introduced to our country in the Ming Dynasty, so spicy hot pot was not available in the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, the spicy hot pot designed by Lu Yao is relatively popular with these people. As for Yang Tao's suggestion that mutton should continue to be the main food supply, Lu Yao remembered the form of the later Song Dynasty and decided to use this type of rabbit meat.
Up to now, he asked Yang Tao to negotiate with Zhao Hu to add rabbit meat to the hot pot variety. Although modern people don't eat boiled rabbit meat much anymore, rabbit meat was very popular in the Song Dynasty.
Similar to us today, people in the Song Dynasty also liked to drink alcohol when eating hot pot. However, there was no high-alcohol liquor at that time. They were usually low-alcohol rice wine and rice wine. Rice wine generally had 6 degrees, and rice wine generally did not exceed 15 degrees. The higher-alcohol shochu also had a lower alcohol content due to its price.
High, but not popular. Also affected by the loose political environment at that time, people in the Song Dynasty liked drinking very much, and people in the Song Dynasty also had drinking orders, and they preferred to invite the prostitutes at that time to drink together, and even regarded this behavior as a
This kind of fashion is also the case for many literati, including the gourmet Su Dongpo.
After women finished hot pot, they had the habit of eating fruit. There were also many kinds of fruits at that time, such as hawthorn, pomegranate, lychee, etc., which were not difficult to eat. Fruit wine was also a fashionable choice for many women at that time. In addition, eating
Drinking tea after hot pot was also one of the fashions at the time. Tea culture reached its peak in the Song Dynasty. Tea, a unique drink, was welcomed by the ruling class and the common people. The tea ceremony in the Song Dynasty had many procedures, which was very important to the people.
The tea production process, including the color, aroma and appearance of the tea, has also put forward more stringent requirements.
When Yang Tao was entertaining guests, he naturally took into account the appetites of women and children. This gave Lu Yao a very pertinent suggestion, so Lu Yao decided that the wine could be served directly from the Jiu Zhongxian, but the accounts must be kept
clear.
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As for the fruits, Lu Yao directly asked Yang Tao to go to the market to find some trustworthy and high-quality fruit merchants to negotiate for long-term cooperation. He also told Yang Tao that he did not need to be stingy with money. He could even buy out one or two fruit merchants.
They no longer need to set up stalls for retail sales, but can directly deliver the fruits to hot pot restaurants.
Lu Yao was very satisfied with Yang Tao's style of doing things, and even reached the level of surprise. You know, it was only a day after Yang Tao's Tigers were eliminated, and after Yang Tao took over the charge of the hot pot restaurant
, just about a week has passed. Regarding the previous game against the Fanlou team, although Lu Yao was not present to watch the second half of the game in person, through Cao You's description, he also knew that the Fanlou team won in the end.
, but it is also a precursor. The strength shown by the Tigers is still very strong. It can be said that they are still capable of fighting even against the Huangtian Team.
As for Yang Tao, while he was training the Tigers to prepare for the new Cuju competition, he also had to take care of the tasks of running the hot pot restaurant assigned to him by Lu Yao. This shows that Yang Tao's personal ability is very outstanding. He gave him a lot of food today.
All of Lu Yao's suggestions are very pertinent. Lu Yao is very satisfied with the adjusted menu and prices of the hot pot restaurant. Moreover, there are many more types of dishes. Even the after-dinner fruits have been taken into consideration. Before, Lu Yao only just
He told Yang Tao that he could take money from the bank to run a hot pot restaurant, and Yang Tao also spent all the expenses wisely. Through the suggestions of people from different walks of life after tasting the hot pot, the hot pot restaurant can be more perfect when it officially opens.
The money was well spent. While training a very powerful Tigers team, he also managed the new industry of hot pot restaurant in an orderly manner. From this point alone, his ability has surpassed Pan Wen. As Pan Wen
Lu Yao, a good friend, knew that his friend's ability was limited to doing one thing well, just like the new Cuju competition. Pan Wen was concentrating on this matter and had no intention of doing anything else.
He went to think about other things. He himself said that since preparing for this competition, he has not been to Fanlou once.
Obviously, Yang Tao considers things more comprehensively than Pan Wen. Of course, this is also related to the environment in which Yang Tao grew up.
"Work hard. When the business of the hot pot restaurant is good, there will be other things waiting for you to do."
Before Lu Yao left, he left Yang Tao such a sentence, which meant that Yang Tao should do his job well. He knew that he was not a thing in the pool. When the hot pot restaurant business is booming, he would have more things to give him.
Do it.
Yang Tao, Chen Chen, and Tang Xi each have their own advantages. As long as they make good use of them, at least Lu Yao himself should not have any worries in life other than his official career.
Tangxi also highly recognized Yang Tao's ability. After Lu Yao took Tangxi away, Tangxi also praised Yang Tao's ability to Lu Yao.
Lu Yao smiled, and then followed Tangxi back to the mansion. As soon as he arrived at the mansion, Tangxi said that he would go out to do something in the afternoon. Lu Yao knew that it must be something he had told him before about finding his friends around him.
What Tangxi was looking for was naturally what Lu Yao had told him before, asking him to contact the escorts he knew in Bianliang City. Tangxi was considered a relatively powerful one in the escort profession before. Later, he was asked to contact the escorts he knew in Bianliang City.
When you are in trouble and go to the outer city, you will still have some good friends to help you at first. However, in the later stage, it is said that there are no filial sons in bed for a long time, let alone people who are just acquaintances of gentlemen. This has caused
Later, the situation between Tangxi and his brothers was undeniable. Tangxi was undoubtedly lucky. He met Lu Yao, and it is no exaggeration to say that he has reached the pinnacle of his life since then. However, the escorts who were in the same situation as him were not.
So lucky. It can be said that there are only a handful of escorts who can still transport escorts in Bianliang City. Some of them are on good terms with Tangxi, and naturally there are some who are enemies with them. However, since Tangxi became Lu Yao's housekeeper,
Basically, everyone in the escort profession treats Tangxi with courtesy, and Tangxi also knows very well that they do it not for their own face, but for the Lu family's face. After all, no one wants to offend today's people.
Red man, Lu Yao.
Therefore, the task that Lu Yao assigned to Tang Xi now turned out to be something that was not easy to complete. Lu Yao assigned Tang Xi to find some people who were bodyguards. The purpose was also very simple, so that they could sign up for the event that the Cao family would hold in the future.
Tangxi knew that Lu Yao’s purpose was to make this competition lively. Although Tangxi didn’t know what Mr. Lu Yao’s real purpose was, since it was something he had told him, he must work hard to complete it.
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Tangxi was busy enough this afternoon. He found a total of five escorts who were familiar with him. Some of these people were still working as escorts, but some had given up the profession and started business.
Or simply work as a small worker in wealthy families and inns.
Regarding Tang Xi's proposal, their initial reaction was that they didn't believe it. After all, the news about the Cao family's martial arts competition to recruit brides has not been announced to the outside world. If Lu Yao hadn't tricked Cao Ping into talking about the marriage competition after he got drunk,
The martial arts competition to recruit a bride was basically an event decided by the dignitaries. The contestants were actually destined to be those people from the beginning. Naturally, the Cao family had their intention in arranging this arrangement, which was to allow Fu Shaolong to
Successfully won the written test. For this reason, when Cao Guojiu first asked Cao Ping to choose the contestants, he already asked Cao Ping to choose those whose martial arts were not as good as Fu Shaolong.
Uncle Cao Guo's thoughts had naturally been seen through by Lu Yao, so when he asked Tangxi to search for candidates, the first point he made was that the martial arts skills of the bodyguards Tangxi found must not be inferior to Tangxi himself.
As for Tang Xi's skills, Lu Yao had experienced Guo De before, and he was one of the few people who could take four or five moves under him. Lu Yao didn't know what Fu Shaolong's skills were, but he knew very well that if he could let Cao
Han was satisfied, and since it was a competition to recruit a bride, this competition couldn't be too fake. Therefore, it was impossible to say that Fu Shaolong had no kung fu at all. After all, Cao Han would definitely be there to watch.
If he doesn't know Kung Fu and makes a fool of himself on the court, it won't be Fu Shaolong's own face that will be lost, but the relationship.
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It’s Fu Bi’s face issue, so this competition can’t be too fake.
Lu Yao really didn't know what Fu Shaolong's own kung fu was, but he knew that Fu Bi was a high-ranking official after all. He had three sons. In Lu Yao's memory, apart from Fu Shaolong, who died young, Fu Bi
Bi's eldest son and second son were both officials who held more important official positions in the later period. Therefore, in fact, Fu Bi must not have given much advice to Fu Shaolong in terms of martial arts. Maybe in his view, this martial arts contest was just a formality.
It's just a formality. In this case, Lu Yao has a general understanding of the level of Fu Shaolong's martial arts. Therefore, the martial arts of the five people Tangxi found must be passable. No matter how powerful Fu Shaolong is, but
It is still difficult to face these people on stage, but this is enough. After all, these five people are not the protagonists of this competition to find a bride. The protagonists only have to make a grand appearance at the end.
Faced with the questions of these five people, Tangxi naturally told the truth. However, these five people were still not very interested. The reason was more direct. Tangxi was several years older than Lu Yao, and the age of these five people was still younger than Tangxi.
Some, the oldest one is six or seven years older than Tangxi, so three of these five people are already married. For those who are married, naturally they don’t want to get involved in this competition to recruit a bride, but the remaining two
As an unmarried person, after hearing that the object was the princess of Cao Guo's uncle's family, they were also a little timid and hesitant to participate. They all felt that Cao Han was a daughter of a wealthy family and a lady. Even if they were lucky enough to win, this eldest lady
How could she be willing to marry herself? The other three expressed that they did not want to go into this troubled waters.
Tangxi had already considered the reaction of these people, but he had a back-up plan, which was that Lu Yao gave him 50 yuan as a fee to use as a favor fee for him to ask others to give him. Tangxi wanted to see it first
Look at the current living conditions of the people you are looking for, and then decide whether you want to give them money. After all, if they live a good life and are very wealthy, it doesn't matter whether you give them money or not.
However, fortunately, the five people Tangxi is looking for, whether they are married or not, are actually not living a very good life now, and their lives are not too wealthy. In this case, things are getting easier to handle.
Tang Xi smiled slightly, and then told everyone that he had prepared a carriage with fifty guan of money on it. As long as everyone signed up to participate in this competition, everyone would be rewarded with ten guan of money.
"Of course, if any of you don't want to participate, such as Lao Zhang, Lao Chen, and Lao Wang, and the three of you are already married, then this money has no fate with you. I think it will be divided between the remaining two.
Twenty-five guans per person."
As soon as these words were spoken, the five people immediately exploded. The two unmarried young escorts immediately expressed their willingness to participate in this martial arts competition to recruit a bride, because Tang Xi just said very clearly that as long as they participate in this martial arts competition to recruit a bride, listen to
It’s enough to direct people to do things and participate. Tangxi did not require them to win in this competition to recruit a bride. In other words, maybe they will just go on stage to go through the motions, and then they can take the money and leave.
.In this case, I am not married, so why not do it by participating in this competition and giving face to Tangxi and Lu Yao? The most important thing is of course the reward given by Tangxi, which is ten dollars. According to them
What I am doing now may take me three to five years to save this money.
Seeing these two people looking eager to try, the three married escorts looked at each other. They all thought of their family status. Their wives would complain to them because of money matters. If
Participating in this event and being able to photograph ten guans of money in front of your family is something that will give you more face. As for the contest to recruit a bride, everyone is tacitly aware of it, as long as they don't tell the truth to themselves, and don't say that they are participating in this event
The money earned from activities is not enough. This is ten dollars. For people who have already started a family, the meaning of these ten dollars is not just to help them solve their own problems.
Therefore, the three people almost unanimously expressed that they also wanted to participate in this martial arts competition.
Tangxi smiled and nodded. He had already figured out the reactions of these five people. According to the rules of the Jianghu, Tangxi first gave everyone a deposit of five guan, saying that after the martial arts contest and the marriage recruitment meeting, the other five guan would also be given.
Give it to them. Everyone understands this rule. In addition, Tangxi also ordered that no one else should know about this matter, especially the martial arts contest, otherwise the Lu family would not let them go.
of.
These five people naturally knew that Lu Yao was now a famous person and there would be no good consequences for offending him, so they all nodded in agreement.
"Okay, this matter has been settled. There is one last small question, that is, tomorrow morning, I hope you can go to the Lu Mansion and meet our Mr. Lu Yao. He will tell you about it then.
Regarding the specific things that you need to do, of course, he will also want to test his skills and test your skills."
After hearing what Tang Xi said, the five people laughed out loud, and one of them said: "Master Lu Yao, try our kung fu? Stop joking. We don't want to offend our sponsor."
Obviously, these five people did not take Lu Yao seriously. In their impression, although Lu Yao was a popular person around the emperor, in the final analysis, he was just an official. How high is the martial arts ability of such a person?
So they found it very funny that Tang Xi said that Lu Yao wanted to try their kung fu skills.
Tang Xi was not moved at all and continued: "Let me make it clear to you first. I can't beat Mr. Lu Yao. If you think your strength is much higher than mine, just pretend that I didn't say anything just now."
After hearing Tang Xi's very serious words, several people were stunned. They knew Tang Xi's martial arts very well, but Master Lu Yao's martial arts was actually superior to Tang Xi's? Looking at the silent crowd, Tang Xi
They were very calm here, and people gave them all the money, five guans per person.
Finally, he left a sentence: "Well, everyone, I'll see you at the Lu Mansion tomorrow morning."
After saying this, Tangxi left the scene and returned to Lu Mansion to report to Lu Yao.
"Well done, it seems I have to prepare a little bit." Lu Yao stretched and said.
