The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

Cao Yong admired all kinds of ideas of the Fourteenth Lord: "This is really a living God of Wealth!"

Kangxi also knew about the two people's auction quota, but pretended not to know it. After Cao Yin came up to talk about it in fear, Kangxi said generously: "The two children want to play, so let's play for a while." Playing is nothing more than a few tables of wine and food, why are you nervous?"

"Slave, this is not, this is not...." Cao Yin couldn't laugh or cry: "Isn't this inappropriate?"

Longevity Day, the first day is naturally the day when people come to celebrate.

Cao Yong wanted to auction [-] places, and let those wealthy businessmen compete for it. In fact, Cao Yin didn't arrange rich businessmen to come to the banquet at all.

The first is that they do not deal with it.

The second is that they feel that they cannot get on the stage.

The status of the ancient merchants was low!

"What's wrong? As long as it's not an assassin, it's fine." Kangxi said with a big heart, "It doesn't matter if it's an assassin. After the inspection, how can they assassinate with bare hands?"

"That's not the case. At that time, only your close ministers will be able to get close to you. It is their good fortune that other people will kowtow together ten miles away from the crowd." Cao Yong's unexpected place, Cao Yin Being a father has to be thought of.

It's a big deal, when the time comes, arrange those people far away from the holy car, preferably separated from the sea of ​​people, and just kneel and worship from a distance.

"It's okay, the two children are also for our own good." Kangxi even used "we", what else could Cao Yin say?

I can only go back and do business.

Cao Yong is worthy of being the son of Cao Yin, who has a strong executive ability. He has faded a little bit, and he is merciless towards wealthy businessmen!

In the end, Zuixian Tower was still contracted, but it was not a contract on the surface, but someone booked rooms and food and drinks on the third floor, the second floor was reserved, and the first floor was full of those rich businessmen who brought them. regular attendants.

When Cao Yong was auctioned, it was one position, one position was auctioned, not ten or eight positions at one go.

"Why can't we take more shots?" The wealthy businessmen were not happy, they brought enough money, and only one family got a spot?

"What place do you think this is?" Cao Yong tapped the small hammer in his hand, which was the auction mallet custom-made for him by the Fourteenth Master: "Long Live Lord's birthday banquet, you are dragging your family to eat the big family ? This is only done for birthday banquets in the countryside, so you don’t have to go!”

After finishing speaking, he ignored the wealthy businessman in his early years: "There is only one quota for one family. You should think about it, there are fifty in total. If you lose it, you will never have another chance. This is the Longevity Festival, not just playing house!"

Sure enough, the atmosphere was mobilized. There are only fifty places in total, but there are more than fifty rich merchants, at least one or two hundred.

That's all, because some people didn't know the news and didn't have time to come over.

Fortunately, the Zuixian building is so big that it wouldn't be able to accommodate it if it were smaller.

And these people are from the rich and powerful families in Jiangnan, but they only have money but no status.

Therefore, after three generations of merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, they will let the children of the family study hard, so as to honor the lintel of the family.

Therefore, the style of writing in the south of the Yangtze River was at its peak, and wealthy businessmen were willing to provide for their children to study, and they were also willing to marry their daughters to promising scholars as wives.

It's a pity that many scholars don't like to marry business women as wives.

Cao Yong's quota for this auction is to participate in the Wanmin birthday celebration of the Longevity Festival. In fact, they are not qualified, but if they go this time, it will be a life-long glory for them.

So from the very beginning, the first quota was sold at a high price of 1 taels of silver!

Cao Yong made the final decision directly!

Others were unconvinced: "It's only 1 taels, Mr. Cao's situation is a bit small, isn't it?"

"This is the meaning of long live, long live, long live, do you have an opinion?" Cao Yong looked at the rich businessman indifferently, he was the one who choked with Cao Yong just now.

The rich businessman was dumbfounded, how can he explain it like this?

And the one who won the first place happened to be another wealthy businessman who had a problem with him.

The second place was sold at a price of 5000 taels of silver.

From the third place onwards, the price has been rising continuously, and the competition for the last place is fierce.

It was sold at a price of 12 taels of silver!

Cao Yong brought a bunch of money back to Jiangning Weaving Mansion, and then handed the money to his father: "Father, this is the money from today's auction, you can use it to prepare for the Longevity Festival expenses!"

Seeing so much money, Cao Yin was speechless.

Long live Lord is really, predicts things like a god!

On the day of Wanshou Festival, the atmosphere was very lively. The people sang and danced. Kangxi was also very happy. His sons who were far away in the capital also started the celebration. Of course, Cheng Baylor sent people from all over the world to send a newly renovated "Biography of Heroes", Severely wiped the sense of presence.

People were not in front of them, but people remembered Chengbeile's third elder brother's brilliant writing skills.

The other princes and elder brothers each sent gifts. Of course, what they sent was a list of gifts, and the gifts had already entered Kangxi's private treasury in Beijing.

The most conspicuous one is the Fourteenth Master. He brought the eighteenth elder brother and the nineteenth elder brother together to celebrate Kangxi's birthday, and also offered their filial piety: a dish!

This dish is "Yang Fang Tibetan Fish".

As mentioned earlier, this dish has something to do with Peng Zu.

The ancients believed that fish and sheep are the most "fresh" foods in the world, and cooking these two freshest foods together will make them even fresher, so the famous dish "Yang Fang Tibetan Fish" came into being.

In fact, it is unknown who invented this dish, but it is related to the legendary figure "Peng Zu". At that time, Peng Zu was used as a symbol of longevity.

Legend has it that Peng Zu was good at spooning soup and offered it to Yao, who was highly praised by Yao.

Fourteen estimated that Peng Zu could cook as well as soup, so he believed that "Yang Fang Tibetan Fish" was invented by Peng Zu or his descendants.

The main reason is that the meaning of this dish is very good.

In history, Peng Zu did research on soup. Soup pays attention to the word "xian", so he also pays attention to "xian" in dishes. He cooks sheep and fish together, thinking that it is the freshest and fresher. The ancient Chinese character "xian" means "fresh". It also comes from the famous dish "Yangfang Tibetan Fish".

The method is to put the fish in a large piece of cut mutton, cook with seasoning, steam or stew, and its taste is extremely delicious.

Because fresh fish and sheep are integrated into one, the taste is more fresh.The mutton is crispy and fragrant, and the hidden fish is tender.

But the difficulty of this dish lies in the skill of cutting the vegetables, the meat must be cut well, and the fish must be fresh. When Fourteenth Master practiced, he cut into small meat claws several times!

As a result, on the day of Kangxi's birthday, when he served the dishes, there were still cuts on his paws that hadn't healed... It smelled like golden sore medicine!

Really speaking, a bitter tear.

Seeing that fourteen paws were still tied with strips of cloth, Kangxi twitched the corners of his mouth: "How did you do that?"

"When I was cutting mutton, I wasn't very proficient, so I started cutting it." Fourteen sniffed: "Huang Ama, the sheep in this dish was caught by the eighteenth brother, and the fish in this dish is the nineteenth brother. My younger brother fished it; my son is in charge of making it, you can try it!"

The fourteenth master put the dish in front of Kangxi in a fawning manner: "When it was just out of the pot, I tasted it, and it tasted good, moderately salty."

The so-called "caught by the eighteenth brother" actually means that the eighteenth brother went to clean the clean sheepfold, caught a suitable sheep, and let it be slaughtered.

The so-called fish "caught by the nineteenth brother" is actually to let the nineteenth elder brother, holding a scoop, fish in the pond for a while, and catch a fish suitable for cooking.

Although the food was not very good, this dish made Kangxi happier than any gift: "Okay, let me have a taste."

Kangxi really started to eat, and he ate six bites!

From the perspective of others, Long Live Lord really loves this dish.

"Not bad, not bad!" Kangxi said happily: "Reward the [-]th Baylor, the [-]th elder brother, and the [-]th elder brother, each with a set of four treasures of the study."

The fourteenth master was wilting to the extent visible to the naked eye.

It is really the style of the patriarchs to reward the Four Treasures of the Study if there is a disagreement.

"Okay, last time there are two toys for one person." Kangxi felt that the fourteenth son was really hopeless.

The Fourteenth Master was immediately happy: "Huang Ama, I want the emerald handle. I want to give the eighteenth and nineteenth brothers a gold nine-linked ring. The eighteenth brother's silver nine-linked ring last time , was spoiled by Erchen..."

"Okay, okay, okay!" Kangxi nodded: "Come here and sit down, we'll have dinner later."

Beside Kangxi, there was a table with only three seats, namely his three sons, sitting together.

The eighteenth brother was grinning, and the nineteenth brother was giggling.

In addition to the fourteenth master, there are two younger brothers sitting on one left and one on the right, so he will take care of the younger brother and wait for the meal by the way.

Of course, after the princes and elder brothers presented gifts, they were appreciated by everyone, and besides Kangxi's close ministers, there were folk representatives sitting beside Kangxi.

One of them is the old birthday star who is already 99 years old. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is old.

And beside him is a nine-year-old child, who is his great-great-great-grandson. It is said that he can recite the Four Books and Five Classics at the age of seven, and he can compose poems at the age of nine.

This is the oldest birthday star in the south of the Yangtze River, and the smartest little boy.

The old birthday star is so old, but he has good ears and eyes. Kangxi's birthday banquet, he came to celebrate his birthday, which has a very good meaning. The old man can speak: "Caomin and Long live together, live a long life!"

"Okay, long life!" Kangxi was also very happy to see the old birthday star.

But after the old birthday party started, Xili Hulu ate it, and the chopsticks babbled on the five-spice sauce chicken, salt water tenderloin, red oil duck and spicy mouth strips.

He didn't even take a bite of pine mushrooms, fried white mushrooms with beef tenderloin, not to mention soft dishes such as vegetarian fried celery and pearl tofu.

Yuquan wine, one drink is a big cup, and the face is red and happy after eating and drinking.

The great-great-grandson beside him ate less, but watched a lot, with big eyes rolling around.

"You always eat slowly and eat some vegetarian dishes." Li Guangdi who was next to him persuaded the old man.

The Fourteenth Master couldn't help but said, "Drink some water and relax."

"If you go back to the Long Live Lord, the grass people are fine!" The old man remembered the rules. Every time he talked to Kangxi, he would shout the six words "Back to the Long Live God": "The grass people are 99 years old! It is not easy for the Long Live God to come once. The next time I come to pay my respects to Lord Long Live, I’m afraid they will be the descendants of Caomin, they are no longer Caomin, Caomin have food and drink, and I will tell people in the future that they are also people who have eaten imperial banquets and drank imperial wine!”

"Okay, just let the old man enjoy it." Kangxi felt that what the old man said was right, how many days can a 99-year-old have to live?

But this old man can really talk: "The son of the Long Live Lord is very filial, he knows how to cook for the Long Live Lord, filial piety! Good boy."

He is 99 years old, and the Fourteenth Master also thinks that the old man is a national treasure, so he personally guards and pours the wine: "Thank you for your compliment, I just cook a dish for Huang Ama."

"That's different!" The old man said earnestly: "The sons of Caomin don't cook for Caomin."

"Great-grandfather and great-grandfather are both in their eighties." The child next to him said solemnly, "The youngest great-uncle is also in his seventies."

The corner of the fourteenth master's mouth twitched: "My master strives for the future, even in his seventies and eighties, he can still cook for Huang Ama."

You are so old, you still need to cook?Stop talking nonsense!

Those people in later generations have retired at this age.

What's more, the ancients were still "a life of seventy is rare since ancient times"!

This unique Wanshou Festival was very happy, Kangxi gained a lot of wealth, and the day after the Wanshou Festival, Cao Yong made a move.