[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

Brother Erxia is worthy of being a local. The restaurant he recommends, which sells fresh mushrooms in season, is only [-] steps away from the government office on Mangbu Road. It can be seen that this restaurant has considerable strength in the local area.

In order to replenish the body of the younger brother who struggled with the exam, Er Xia ordered the most expensive star product of this store-fresh mushroom chicken soup.

This made the two children who hadn't eaten meat for a long time explode with great enthusiasm.

Because of the appointment made in advance, as soon as Mu Bai and the others sat down, the chicken soup that had been simmering for a long time was served in a clay pot. As soon as the lid was opened, the two children exclaimed.

The chicken soup boiled with this kind of mushroom called morel has a clear and moist color, and a very thin layer of oily flowers floats on the surface of the soup, which is golden and very moving.

Gently poke the oil flowers with a spoon, the heat and the aroma sealed by the oil burst out unreasonably.Then, the waiter sprinkled a small dish of snow-white table salt into the soup and stirred it gently with a slender spoon.With the stirring, a sublimation of taste quietly occurred in the chicken soup.

After a long time of stewing, the protein in the chicken decomposes an amino acid called glutamic acid. The taste of glutamic acid itself is slightly pantothenic, which is not delicious, but when it comes into contact with salt in the soup, it will Generate a new substance - sodium glutamate.

This amino acid salt will stimulate the amino acid receptors on the human taste buds, and the brain will secrete a feedback of happiness and happiness.

This is the origin of freshness.

Sprinkle with a pinch of tender scallions, and this pot of chicken soup is truly complete.

Er Xia reached out to serve a bowl of chicken soup to each of the two children who were watching him eagerly, "Eat it, eat it, there is no need to be polite between us."

"Senior brother, please first." Mu Bai shook his head, insisting on waiting for Er Xia to pick up the chopsticks and take the first bite before signaling Mu Wen to do it.The two brothers raised their soup spoons, scooped up a spoonful of soup at the first time, and blew a couple of mouthfuls together before taking it in.

From Er Xia's point of view, the movements of the two children, one big and one small, are exactly the same. He couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, thinking that the junior and younger family are really fun.

But when the chicken soup was in his mouth, he didn't want to observe the minds of his juniors.The aroma of the chicken soup is rich and overbearing. The unique thickness of the mushrooms in the mountains neutralizes the oily taste of the chicken soup.

"It's so fresh!" Mu Wen immediately opened his mouth and exclaimed in admiration.However, as a carnivore, no matter how fresh the soup was, it would not last long. The child immediately put down the small bowl, picked up the chopsticks, fiddled with the chicken and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Blow it up and eat again." Mu Bai stopped the child's death in time, and successfully avoided a tragedy that burned his mouth because of gluttony.

After confirming that his younger brother was breathing, Mu Bai picked up a piece of brown mushroom in the soup and stuffed it into his mouth.The surface of this kind of fungus recommended by Er Xia is pitted, and it looks very unpalatable, but after taking a bite, Mu Bai found that this kind of mushroom is moist and delicious. It is obviously full of soup, but it is not overwhelmed by the rich flavor. The chicken soup hides the aroma, but it is still sweet and delicious.

This is different from the deliciousness of chicken soup, and Mu Bai's eyes lit up immediately.

"Taste this chicken quickly!" Er Jia looked at the expressions of the two junior brothers and knew that the two children were very satisfied, so he burst out a mouthful of white teeth, "This chicken is unique to our place, it left our land, Even the emperor can't eat such authentic food."

He's not talking big.

Because it is located on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the terrain is relatively closed, many local animal species in Yunnan can basically maintain purebred breeding under long-term natural selection.

And the most talked about by the locals are the two kinds of local chickens.

One is Wuding Chicken located on Wuding Road in the northwest of Kunming. The local Luowu tribe is the most powerful of the 37 Eastern Wuman tribes. It once assisted Duan Siping in establishing the Dali State regime and has a very long history.

It is said that Wuding chickens, which have been domesticated and bred from generation to generation, come from the chicken ancestors. Their feathers are bright red and they are huge in size.The most important thing is that Wuding chicken is most suitable for making clear soup. There is no need to add extra ingredients. The cooked chicken soup will be golden in color and fragrant.

Due to its special characteristics, and the fact that Wuding Road is adjacent to Kunming, Wuding Chicken has been exclusively offered to the King of Liang since the mid-Yuan Dynasty.

However, as the power of the Yuan government gradually declined, Wuding chicken gradually entered the homes of ordinary people.

↑ But this has little to do with Mumbo Road!

Mangbu Road is quite far from Wuding Road, the price of buying a chicken from Wuding and transporting it to Mangbu can buy a pony.The meat quality of Wuding chicken will deteriorate after leaving the local breeding environment. Therefore, although Wuding chicken is well-known to the locals, it is only a legend.

But it doesn't matter, people in Mangbu Road don't care about it at all, because they also have a famous product here that is no less than Wuding chicken, and that is the silky chicken that grows in Wumeng Mountain.

The black-bone chicken here is medium in size and dark in color. It is so named because its tongue, claws, bones and internal organs are like ink dyed.

The feathers of a healthy silky chicken will have a metallic luster under the sun, and the skin will be black with bluish, and the color scheme is extremely elegant.

In the local mythology, this brave bird helped the ancestors of the local tribe to get the precious fire at the beginning of creation, but because they were too close to the flame, they were roasted black.

"Look, in terms of background, it's a grade higher than the Wuding Chicken in the west, is there?" Er Jia lowered his voice while filling soup for the two younger brothers, "Of course, is this kind of thing real? We don't know, after all, it's what other people say. But the point is—"

He suddenly amplified his voice: "Silkies are nutritious!"

The Mu and Bai brothers were taken aback by the suddenly amplified voice, and looked up blankly at their senior brother who seemed to have been beaten to death.

"The silky chickens here are not like Wuding Road. In order not to let the blood of their chickens be skewered, they stipulate that they can only sell chickens and not buy chickens. But we don't have to worry about silky chickens, no matter where they come from. It is impossible for chickens to be mixed with silkie blood, so everyone is free-range in the mountains, drinking spring water, eating herbs, and they eat all the good things that people in the mountains can't eat. Can this chicken be nutritious? "

In fact, it is because the environment of Wumeng Mountain is relatively closed, and it is basically impossible for ordinary exotic chickens to avoid hunting from all walks of life and reach the grazing area of ​​the local people, so the bloodline of the silky chicken here is guaranteed to be pure.

Mu Bai complained silently in his heart, he wiped the greasy mouth of his stunned brother, and gave him two pieces of cold chicken for him to continue eating.

"Well said." Er Xia's words were immediately approved by an acquaintance at the next table, who was the local warrior Halati who participated in the martial arts with Mu Bai and also passed.

After throwing a clean grilled lamb chop on the table, the young man patted Erxia on the shoulder appreciatively. Mu Bai had a hard time listening to a series of dialects with a heavy accent.

The young man took a mouthful of the soft bone marrow full of soup, and tried his best to pull his mind back from the delicious chicken soup to do his listening comprehension.

Obviously, what Brother Erxia said aroused this man's sense of local pride.Halati, who has a rough appearance, is also an old gourmet. After a long speech, he praised the silky chicken as having nothing in the sky, what is born in nature, what must escape the hunting of eagles in the sky and tigers and leopards on the ground in the process of growing up, what every The black-bone chicken that can only enter the diners is a battle chicken with battle medals on its wings, and so on, which makes the blood of the diners around it boil.

After some fanciful flattery, he even stepped on the Wuding chicken that was raised in captivity next door, and the atmosphere at the scene was very hot for a while.

The two Mu family brothers who had eaten Wuding chicken in Kunming before and felt that the taste of the two kinds of chicken had their own advantages and disadvantages exchanged a look and remained silent in a very tacit understanding.

And Erjia, who was aroused with regional pride, got together with the young man while talking, and the posture of the two changed to hugging shoulders and backs, and even toasted each other. The heroic posture made Mu Bai silently cover himself wallet.

I always feel that if the senior brother is not stopped, they may go to the road where the senior brother treats him and pays the bill.

But before he could stop his senior brother from drinking together, he heard the sound of a messenger whistle coming from the road below.

The two brothers immediately went to the window and looked down. Passers-by who heard the whistle from a distance hurriedly avoided, and some even grabbed passers-by who were slow to react.

Mu Bai and the others were condescending, and from a distance, they saw a young man dressed in official robes of the Ming Dynasty leading a small group of horses galloping while blowing whistles to warn. Although he could not see the face of the man, he could see the leader behind A small flag was flying in the wind.

The information transmission between the various garrisons in southern Yunnan is based on the banner, which increases or decreases with the urgency of the situation.

A small flag symbolizes that the situation is urgent and needs to be dealt with as quickly as possible.If it reaches the three flags, everyone will retreat, and those who block will not only be killed, but will be held accountable to their families for delay afterwards.

Of course, so far, Mubai has not seen the communication of the status of the Three Banners, and even the last Ursa joint rebellion in Mangbu was only the Second Banner.

Due to the timely warning of the whistle, when the knights arrived, the road was cleared, and the horse team came galloping with dust, and gradually slowed down when they reached the street, and turned to a trot when they reached the restaurant. You can see the familiar face of the leader.

He couldn't help but let out a "huh", and at the same time, Mu Wen who was crowded beside him obviously recognized the person who came, and immediately called out crisply: "It's Brother Chun!"

Mu Bai hurriedly "hush" at his younger brother to stop him from yelling to attract the knight's attention, "When you see someone else riding a horse, you must not call him suddenly, if you startle the horse, Brother Achun will fall down .”

Mu Wen immediately covered his mouth with his oily little hands, and opened his round eyes wide, expressing his desire not to surprise Mu Chun with practical actions.

Mu Bai, who was so cute by this action, took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands and mouth, and then the two brothers probed together to observe the movement of the horse team.

The team led by Mu Chun stopped steadily at the gate of the government office on Mangbu Road, and soon the guards who dismounted with them were welcomed in by the office servants who heard the whistle, and the group walked in a hurry.

Ah Chun's appearance on Mangbu Road at this time should be related to the barbarians who moved away before, right?I just don't know how the higher ups plan to deal with this incident.

Mu Bai, who became more and more curious as he thought about it, turned his head to Er, who was not disturbed by the sound at all, and was still drinking with others, and said: "Senior brother, I saw a friend, I will go down and meet him for a while, wait until I return directly." The hotel will not come up."

"Hey, wait!" Seeing that his junior brother was about to leave, Er Jia hurriedly stopped him. He called the waiter at the side and told him to bring something like a bamboo tube, and then scooped a few spoonfuls of chicken soup into the bamboo tube. While sealing the lid, he ordered, "You take this away, and when you want to eat it, put it on the fire and roast it directly, until the bamboo smokes, you can pour it out and drink it."

Is it so amazing?Mu Bai widened his eyes, and took the bamboo tube very strangely.The guy even brought him a small net bag made of hemp rope, so that once the bamboo tube is stuffed inside, it will not easily fall over.

"Thank you, senior brother." Mu Bai gave his caring senior brother a loving hug, and then patted Mu Wen's head, "Wen'er, follow senior brother."

"Wen'er wants to follow brother." Mu Wen immediately grabbed Mu Bai's hand tightly, expressing his firm determination.

"Okay." Mu Bai tilted his head and thought for a while, thinking that there should be no problem with bringing his younger brother, so he turned his head and explained to Er Jia, then hurried downstairs with his younger brother in his arms.

The two brothers stopped when they passed the hot stall downstairs of the restaurant. Mu Bai paid for twenty steamed bait pieces, and asked someone to wrap them in a banana leaf and carry them in his hand.Seeing how pitiful his younger brother's eyes were looking at the frying pan, he hesitated for a while, and bought a steaming fried bait sandwiched with minced meat and handed it to Mu Wen, letting him eat it slowly.

In fact, Mu Wen just drank a big bowl of chicken soup and ate a lot of chicken, so he should be full, but children will never be able to resist the temptation of fried food, especially the freshly baked fried bait, the aroma is really tempting .

Mu Bai begged for a small piece of banana leaf, wrapped the fried bait and handed it to his younger brother, and said: "If you can't eat it, give it to brother, don't force yourself, be careful that you will have a stomachache at night."

Mu Wen's soul flew to the fried bait, and he nodded repeatedly when he heard Mu Bai's words. Mu Bai suspected that he didn't listen at all, so he pinched his small mouth and repeated it before handing him the bait.

Mu Wen held Mu Bai with one hand, and with the other, he ate the hot fried bait and ate it deliciously.

The bait block in Yunnan is a kind of rice food made by steaming rice until it is half-cooked and pounding it in a pestle. The bait is completely made of rice, so the taste is more chewy.

The appearance of the two brothers holding hands and waiting at the gate of the government office immediately attracted the attention of the government office servant.However, before the yamen servants stepped forward to ask, Mu Bai and others came out.

The young man walked in a hurry, although it could be seen that there was still some greenness between his brows, but the cold aura around him had already taken shape. Wherever he went, the local government officials quickly avoided it, as if he would be infected by the murderous aura if he took a slow step .

"Ah Chun!" The young man raised the food in his hand high to his friend who walked out quickly, and smiled, "Do you still have a summons mission? If you have any, take it with you on the way? It's just out of the oven, and it's still hot Woolen cloth."

The movement of Mu Chun stepping out was paused, and the coldness on his body gradually disappeared between this movement and the stillness, and the young man who stepped out of the mansion actually had a three-pointed smile on his face: "Ah Bai .”

"I didn't expect to meet so soon. I thought we'd meet again in Kunming." Mu Bai tapped his shoulder, feeling the hardness of his subordinate's eyes lit up, "Your armor is different from before."

"This is a battle armor." Mu Chunchong made a silent gesture to him, picked up the wooden text on the ground and turned it upside down, and then put him down as if he was very satisfied with the increased weight of Mu Xiaowen, "Ah Bai, The military situation is urgent, I have to rush to Wumeng Road, and make a long story short with you."

"Tell me." Mu Bai's expression became serious, he gently pressed Mu Xiaowen who wanted Mu Chun to hug him again, leaned over and whispered, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"That's not enough." Mu Chun smiled when he heard the words, reached out and touched the young man's head, and whispered before his eyes turned sharp, "Congratulations, you have passed the government examination, but you have to hurry up and clean up immediately. Go to Kunming to prepare for the provincial examination, don't delay."

in such a hurry?

Mu Bai was taken aback, doubts flashed in his eyes, but he didn't say anything, he just nodded his head to express his understanding, but Mu Chun said comfortingly: "Don't worry, it's fine for ordinary people."

It is not harmful to ordinary people, it is an act aimed at a specific group of people.Mu Bai thought about it for a while, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he suddenly said: "But the superiors have made a decision on how to deal with those barbarians who have moved away?"

"Yes." Mu Chun smiled slightly, "But it has nothing to do with letting you go to Kunming."

He leaned forward and said in a low voice beside Mubai's ear: "Father has already written a letter before, requesting that the Usa, Wumeng, and Mangbu prefectures be included in the Chief Secretary of Sichuan. Although His Majesty has not approved it, the change in this matter should not be big. ,so……"

"So, I may only have this chance. If I don't pass the provincial examination, I have to go to Chengdu to fight for a place with others?"

This is really the worst news.Mubai's eyes narrowed slightly, and he couldn't help but feel very lucky that he had taken both civil and military exams at the same time and got a double insurance. He smiled heartily at his friend: "I understand, don't worry, I will definitely not let you down. .”

Mu Chun showed her face when she heard the words, and got on the horse: "I believe in you."

"Just look at it." Mu Bai knew that his task was urgent, so he hurriedly stuffed the bait and bamboo tube into his hands, and said quickly, "You share this with your brothers to satisfy your hunger. The chicken soup is still hot now. The weather can’t stand it, so you can drink it directly, it contains black-bone chicken and morels, it tastes very good, and it will become fishy when it’s cold.”

"Thank you." Mu Chun tied the things to the horse's back, and stretched out his hand to Mu Bai, "Then I will wait for you in Yingtian."

"It won't make you wait too long!"

The two teenagers lightly clenched their fists and showed a tacit smile.

Mu Bai suddenly remembered something, took out a small gourd-shaped thing and stuffed it into Mu Chun's hand, "This is the golden sore medicine prepared by my husband's friend, and it also has some detoxifying effects on the bites of poisonous insects in the forest. Wumengluduo In the mountains and forests, be careful of snakes and insects."

"then you……"

"I can still ask my husband for it, you can take it." Mu Bai grinned at him, "Wu Yun is prosperous."

"You too, take care."

After the two waved goodbye, they each embarked on their own paths.

At the end of August in the 15th year of Hongwu, Mubai and Harati, who passed the government examination on Mangbu Road, embarked on the road to Kunming to participate in the rural examination.When passing by Usa, the two youths passed by a group of Tu tribes who were escorted back to Mang by the Shuixi Aicui tribe and the Ming army.

The two people who went to take reference were still a little apprehensive about the upcoming rural examination.What they didn't know was that due to the unrest in Yunnan, the local people and the Tu ethnic group all held a wait-and-see attitude towards the Ming Dynasty's rule, and they would not participate in the talent selection activities organized by the new government that was not stable.Coupled with language barriers, poor government orders, etc., as of the time of the government examination, the household registration in many areas is still not in place.

The result of all these is that, looking at the entire northern Yunnan region, only Mangbu Road, run by Song Lian, who tried his best to promote the imperial examination, successfully completed the government examination and some students passed the provincial examination process.

And looking at the whole of Yunnan, there are only five candidates.

Although I was somewhat prepared in my heart, this too bleak result still shocked the local top administrative agency.In order to tie the two single seedlings in northern Yunnan to Yunnan before Emperor Hongwu ordered the three mansions of Mangbu to be transferred to Sichuan, Zuo Cheng, the supreme chief executive of Yunnan, announced that Mei Sizu, the political envoy, would immediately discuss with Fu Youde, the top local military chief, to transfer the rural examination ahead of time.

Of course, Fu Youde would not reject this proposal. Old Fu also enthusiastically sent a team of soldiers to connect the candidates scattered in various places to Kunming, and ensured that the early rural examination could be held smoothly with practical actions.

In September, the first rural examination in Yunnan was held in Kunming ahead of schedule.

On another timeline, no one passed the provincial examination in Yunnan's imperial examination, and naturally there was no such thing as a rural examination.

The Tu tribes who were sent back to Mangbulu and Usalu were extremely dissatisfied with Daming. Later, at the instigation of the native official Yang Ju, and the secret support of the Luchuan Kingdom, they took advantage of Fu Youde and Muying to send troops to settle the disputes and mobilized 20 troops Attack Kunming together.

The governors Feng Cheng and Xie Xiong led the army to defend until Mu Ying returned to the defense, and defended Kunming City with extremely tragic casualties.

However, more than half of Kunming City was destroyed in this battle to defend the city, and mourners were everywhere.

It was also in this battle that Mu Ying led the troops to chase down the rebels, beheaded [-] and captured [-] alive, making the largest number of kills in the Battle of Pingyun. The fighting power of the Ming army shocked all the tribes. Hearing the wind and falling.

But now, Kunming City, where Fu Youde's army is stationed, seems to have a needle that stabilizes the sea, and even if those who are willing to provoke him in every possible way, there are very few people who respond.

On the contrary, more people paid attention to the results of this provincial examination because of the open recruitment examination, and they were eager to read the emperor's governance intentions from this talent examination.

On September [-]th, the results of the township examination were released, and the fact that Jie Yuan, a nine-year-old child with a household registration in Mangbu, won the Yunnan Civil and Military Rankings shocked the ruling and opposition parties.

On September [-], Song Lian, the presiding judge of Mangbulu Mansion Examination, and Mei Sizu Qiqi, the presiding judge of Yunnan Provincial Examination, sealed and printed the test papers copied from the seal, and then went to Datianting to record for the emperor.The next day, the emperor called his ministers to meet him in Jinshen Hall.

At the end of October, the three candidates for the first batch of Yunnan Chengxuan Political and Envoy Division who passed the provincial examination set foot on the road to the capital on horses presented by the Yunnan government.

In the same month, Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, announced to merchants all over the world that they would reopen the Chinese Salt Law. Anyone who transported grain, horses, iron, cloth, agricultural machinery, and fine seeds to Kunming, Yunnan Province could exchange salt with the local chief envoy. You can buy salt at designated salt farms, the market price of which is much higher than transporting it to the border, and all the merchants in the Southland have heard the news all of a sudden.