Douluo's evil tiger and silver dragon

Tiandou Royal Hotel Private Room

The attendants brought plates of exquisite dishes carefully prepared by the chef to the table.

Lin Chen looked at the plates of exquisite dishes with all the colors, flavors, and flavors in front of him. His eyes lit up for a moment, and his saliva almost flowed out.

The Tiandou Royal Hotel is not like the small hotel that Lin Chen stayed in before. Not only does it cost no fees for guests staying here, but the kitchen is on standby 25 hours a day.

There are a group of chefs with the best cooking skills in the Tiandou Empire gathered here, but they work three shifts a day to ensure that guests can eat delicious dishes at any time.

This kind of level and treatment is what Lin Chen, who has been in Shrek Academy for several years, can imagine.

Dugu Bo finally succeeded in pretending to be 13 in front of Lin Chen. In front of Lin Chen, a country bumpkin, Dugu Bo, as a titled Douluo, naturally knew a lot more about these luxurious dishes.

Lin Chen was feasting, Dugu Bo was tasting each dish, showing off his boss style, while Xue Li was introducing the dishes to the attendants.

"Senior Dugu Bo, little friend Lin Chen, this next dish is one of the most exquisite dishes in our hotel. Jingxue Whole Lamb." Xue Li clapped her jade hand.

Then two attendants brought Lin Chen and Dugu Bo a large plate made of silver and studded with diamonds and pearls.

When I opened the cover, I saw that the dishes inside were neatly arranged in an antelope-shaped pattern, and the aromas filled my nostrils. It was really full of color, flavor and aroma.

Lin Chen immediately took a bite. The mutton melted in his mouth. Not only did it taste perfect, but it was also very chewy. The most valuable thing was that the chef handled it extremely well and there was no trace of mutton smell. Lin Chen was immediately very satisfied and speeded up. Follow the steps of eating.

But what confused Lin Chen was that although this dish was extremely delicious, Lin Chen didn't taste a trace of mutton.

"Manager Xueli, this dish is called Jingxue Whole Lamb. Although it is extremely delicious, why can't I taste the mutton and not the other parts of the whole lamb?"

Xue Li obviously showed a strange expression, and then explained with a smile: "Little friend Lin Chen, this Jingxue whole sheep is made from snowy antelopes that live in the far north. The reason why I can't eat mutton is that Is it because we, the Heaven Dou nobles, never eat mutton?"

Lin Chen looked at each other and said in confusion: "Eating sheep or mutton? How can we eat it?"

Xue Li smiled slightly, "Little friend Lin Chen, maybe he only pays attention to cultivation and doesn't know anything about it. As for this Jingxue Quanyang."

"This crystal snow whole lamb is made up of the tongue of the snowy antelope, which has been processed by our chef in 32 steps..."

Lin Chen's face turned extremely livid at this time. He didn't listen to a word of what Xue Li said next. He put down his chopsticks with both hands and couldn't help but shed tears in his eyes.

Everyone present was stunned for a moment, especially Dugu Bo. In his eyes, Lin Chen had a character that was determined by fate. Lin Chen could face no matter how big the suffering was with a smile.

But at this moment, Lin Chen, who was upright and on the ground, actually cried. Although Lin Chen did not cry loudly, the tears and expression from the corners of his mouth shocked Dugu Bo.

Cooking with sheep's tongue also happened in Lin Chen's original time and space, and it may have never been interrupted, but what Lin Chen remembers most is undoubtedly a very elegant thing he learned while reading ancient books.

Yangzhou salt merchants are the richest in the world. These big businessmen are naturally extremely noble. How can ordinary people compare with them?

They are extremely noble, so naturally they cannot eat mortal delicacies. They only eat sheep's tongues. To make a dish, dozens of sheep have to be killed, and this is just one dish in their meal.

Except for the remaining parts of the tongues, these sheep are so noble that they naturally disdain to eat them. Anyone who eats them will naturally become a joke among the salt merchants, so these sheep are thrown into the smelly water. In order to show their noble status and the wealth in the world.

But this time is not the millennium, nor the founding emperor, but the late Ming Dynasty!

Instead of starving to death peacefully at home, civilians without any sense of self-consciousness brought trouble to this group of noble people.

They farmed the land for a year, and [-]% of their income had to be handed over to the landlord. The outstanding descendants of Kongzi even dared to harvest [-]%. The few self-cultivators not only had to endure the various means used by this group of noble people to occupy their land, And they have to bear the taxes of the entire country.

How could noble merchants and landowners pay taxes?As for these self-cultivated farmers who persisted, the imperial court set a tax of thirty to one. If it fell on these peasants, they would end up with their families destroyed. Being an official was too tiring, and the tax set by the government was several orders of magnitude different from what they collected. .

Literati, landowners, businessmen, and officials cooperated with each other and exchanged knowledge. They were all extremely elegant. They bullied men and women on weekdays. Some of the more qualified ones played with young girls and boys, and threw them into the pond after playing with them. That's it.

The wind, flowers, snow and moon on the Qinhuai River and the vast red land in the countryside, the elegant songs and talks of the dignitaries and the death struggle of the common people.

This group of dignitaries did not even pay any taxes. Anyway, the sky would not fall on their heads. They accumulated a large amount of wealth through various extremely despicable means.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's wealth is in their hands, but the court's taxation has nothing to do with them. They have the right to speak and the hub of the country's operation, but they are too smart and too noble.

They feasted on noble people and had extremely luxurious banquets, while ordinary people sold their children and daughters, and even ate the corpses of the dead.

When King Chuang raised his arms, the Dashun army became stronger and stronger. However, even at this time, these dignitaries were unwilling to deduct a little from their huge wealth to help Ming Dynasty build an army.

In the end, the Ming Dynasty could only raise taxes and gifts from farmers, so more farmers became hungry people. Li Zicheng's Dashun Army was defeated countless times, but as long as these refugees are there, the Dashun Army will never die. .

When the Dashun Army reached the city walls of Beijing, the diligent Emperor Chongzhen raised 100 million taels of military expenses from the dignitaries in Beijing to resist the Dashun Army.

But all the civil and military officials in the dynasty cried out for poverty, because they were too smart and knew that King Chuang could not do without them if he wanted to dominate the country, so the Ming Dynasty was gone.

But faced with the empty treasury of the Ming Dynasty and the thousands of miles of bare land in the north, how could the Dashun Army tolerate these thieves?In the end, these dignitaries in Beijing got their comeuppance.

The Dashun Army copied more than 100 million taels of real gold and silver from the literati who were destitute of one million taels of military expenditure.