[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

Fried noodles, as the name suggests, are fried noodles.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the cooking technique of frying has not yet been developed, mainly because iron is too precious nowadays. Except for Xia Anran who bought an iron pot in Chenggao at that time, theoretically no one else will use this method again.

Then the identity of this peddler is very clear.

This person is the same as several small teams that together promote the food culture of Changyi City. The people behind it are Cao Ying's people. Simply put, they are Cao Ying's tertiary industry.

Most of these people are selected from the retired wounded soldiers of Cao Jun, or the families of the wounded soldiers. The purpose of creating a tertiary industry was to allow these soldiers to learn a craft so that they would not be afraid of not being able to survive after retirement.

Because most of the soldiers retired because of disabilities, and they basically came to the army because their families had no way of life. Now they have nowhere to go after retiring. Cao Cao has just become richer now. According to his original They are all good men, heroes who shed blood for him, Cao Mengde, but Xia Anran put forward another opinion on this point.

Although disabled soldiers can't go to the battlefield, it doesn't mean that they can't do anything. Cao Cao's idea of ​​raising them is correct, but teaching people how to fish is the right way. Nowadays, these retired soldiers account for a large proportion of Cao's camp. Not big, but what about the future?

If they have been relying on Cao to nourish them, one day they will become a burden on Cao Ying.

What's more, even if Cao Cao can withstand this pressure when he is in power, what about the second generations of Cao Cao?For them, this is a large financial expenditure.

"What do you think of Jingxi?" Cao Cao was not angry when his opinion was refuted. He stuffed a fruit into his mouth and handed another one to Xia Anran, waiting patiently for Xia Anran's opinion.

He has long been used to Xia Anran's character, and he also understands that if he has no ideas, he will not speak at this time.Sure enough, the next day, Xia Anran came up with a seemingly feasible system, but still needs to be perfected. ?

This system is a government-supported project adopted by later generations. It is similar to newsstands, breakfast stalls, and lottery shops. Make way, but it must be mentioned that the existence of this batch of support projects supported the first batch of laid-off workers until their retirement years. Although their income was meager, at least they had a job with a decent income.

Newsstands are obviously impossible, where are the newspapers here!

But convenience breakfast stalls can still be used for reference.

The first batch of pilot places are all in Changyi. This batch released more than 20 wooden carts. Their carts were dyed a unique reddish-brown color with persimmon paint. Numbers are hung on them to ensure that responsibilities can be clearly implemented.

In order to ensure competitiveness, each car sells different items. According to Xia Anran's plan, in addition to steamed buns, steamed buns and other breakfasts for the public that can be overlapped, there are also some foods that have a certain cooking foundation or are flexible in hands and feet. As a soldier, he learned some advanced dishes, such as stir-frying.

Soldiers can get wheat noodles, sauces, etc. from Caoying at a relatively low price, and their pots, pans, and pans are all deducted from military merits.

That's right, Xia Anran worked out a military merit exchange system.

This is Zhuge Liang's suggestion, and it's also the same reason. Fighting rice is a kindness, and raising rice is an enemy. After the soldiers are disabled, only Cao Jun is responsible for the elderly. Even if it is a regular military system, it is not responsible for this matter. However, the regular army will give a severance payment, but since the Eastern Han Dynasty became poor, this subsidy has disappeared.

What he didn't say is that such an exchange system can also effectively restrain soldiers from being deliberately injured in exchange for pension services. Don't think this is impossible. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, if there was such a regular job, it would be enough for poor Farmer, it cost a leg or a hand.

Furthermore, such an operation mode can also encourage the current sergeants of Cao Ying to work hard to accumulate military merits when they are in good health.

On the other hand, there are indeed many benefits to promoting friendly exchanges between soldiers.

The reason is very simple. According to a wooden cart and the equipment it is equipped with, it is difficult to collect all the military merits of one person alone. In fact, most of the twenty carts this time are composed of two to three soldiers. Exchanged by military exploits.

The most expensive of these is the briquette stove.

Yes, it is the briquette furnace. When it comes to the invention of the briquette furnace, we have to mention the current iron burning mode in Changyi. In order to increase the temperature of the flame, today’s cast iron uses coal instead of carbon as raw material. Since If it is coal, it is inevitable that there will be coal powder. In order to increase the temperature of the flame, coal powder will be deliberately sprinkled in after the fire temperature reaches a certain level to make it reach the highest temperature in a short time.

But in this way, part of the coal containing impurities is eliminated during the crushing process. These coals cannot be used for cast iron, and carbon is basically used for heating. These embarrassing coals are made into briquettes, and the briquette furnace is also Came into being.

The briquettes made in this way are not suitable for burning indoors, because it contains too many magazines, and the color and smell of smoke are choking when burned, but it is excellent outdoors.

The iron used to make these briquette stoves is all iron that has been eliminated, but even so, these are all iron, and the production process of the briquette stove is relatively complicated, and now only Cao Jun's family can use it, so the military merit exchanged needs to be worth a lot. high.

And if you want to make this mobile food stall, the briquette stove is a must. These retired soldiers put together things, and many of them rely on the sponsorship of the brothers who are still serving to return the briquette stove.

The price of coal is very low. Henan and Shandong are large coal-producing cities. The price of coal here is much cheaper than that of charcoal.

Therefore, when Sima Hui and his party were so enticed by the aroma that they couldn't bear to go out, what they saw were two peddlers pushing a small reddish-brown cart. Without the look of flinching, he looks like a famous Haojilang at first glance.

Seeing Sima Hui and others coming, a man who looked a little more gentle greeted, "Mr., would you like to try our handicrafts? You can get a bowl of fried noodles with oil for a catty of millet, and you can also choose a side dish."

While he was saying hello, he saw a few people coming over, they didn't inquire about the price, they were obviously very familiar with it, and said to the black-faced man holding the spoon, "I want to add bean sprouts to my share!"

Or say "I want to add vegetarian meat"

The man nodded silently. He didn't wear a shirt, apparently because he was afraid that the oily smoke would stain his clothes. His upper body was strong, but he had many scars.

Somehow, the fire under the stove turned out to be huge. When the yellow oily liquid was poured in, the flame jumped up suddenly, causing a lot of exclamations. Seeing that the man was not in a hurry, he scooped up some of it with a spoon. Pour the yellow thick liquid into the oil, roll the round spoon quickly, and the liquid will spread out as soon as it enters the oil, accompanied by an extremely attractive aroma, which belongs to the aroma of meat food.

Seeing that the round spoon mercilessly smashed up the congealed yellow lump, and at the same time, a small handful of white crystal clear and lovely vegetables were thrown into the pot. With the water mist rising into the sky, the man used the spoon Slightly pressed the whisker-shaped object, but after a while, the object softened and became extremely obedient.

At this moment, another person squeezed a pinch of cooked and dehydrated coarse noodles into the pot. The big man was very tacit, the spoon flew, and a small ball of brown sauce picked up by the round spoon was also thrown into the pot. A guest hurriedly shouted, "Oh, sir, give me more sauce, I like the taste of Jingxi sauce!"

Seeing him like this, this man was also very talkative, so he took some and mixed it into the pot, and the next thing that exploded was the fragrance that attracted Sima Hui out.

So fragrant.

He said in his heart that he was still a little hesitant about the pasta that he had never seen before, but he saw the little man who had just finished his request and ran to them. The mouth of the bag poured the corn inside into a wooden box. Sima Hui was wondering why he moved so cautiously, when he suddenly saw a "click" sound from the small box, a round head on the outside of the box suddenly tilted up, and fell down.

That Langjun stopped immediately, and said with a smile, "Langjun! I'll pay."

The man nodded slightly when he heard the words, but the person who had just greeted Sima Hui smiled and said, "Ah Wu, do you still bring your own bowl today?"

"That's right, you can get two more slices of courgette with your own bowl, I remember." Seeing that the man took another bowl from his pocket, he didn't pass it to the speaker, but directly gave it to the man who fried noodles , the latter took his bowl and put it down, then poured the noodles in the pot into it.

When the noodles touched a high-temperature area around the iron pot, there was another "sting" sound, and the burnt aroma filled the nostrils with water vapor, filling the entire nose.

After all the noodles were poured in, he scooped up another small spoonful of oil to heat the wok very quickly. At the same time, he picked up the chopsticks and chose two pieces of dark-colored courgettes to cover the cooked noodles.

The bowl of dry noodles was quickly taken over, and the man repeated the order just now, adding the thick yellow juice first, but this time he didn't add the vegetables, but directly added the noodles, Sima Hui saw Interestingly, he saw that the person who just bought noodles took a bowl and took out a pair of chopsticks, ran to the wooden bench next to him and sat down, and began to eat gruntingly on the table, looking very beautiful .

This is interesting. Sima Hui first leaned over to study the wooden box. Seeing that he was curious, the man who accosted him said to him, "Mr. Pour a catty of rice into the grid, and the ball at the back will lift up, and the rice will fall into the box, which is very convenient."

Sima Hui looked at it carefully, and then smiled, "If my prediction is correct, the ball in the back is a catty, right?"

"The old man is smart." The gentleman said with a smile, and he introduced the one next to him. "This one weighs half a catty. In this way, there will be no disputes when the grain is harvested."

This is indeed a good way, but the premise of all this is that all the people have to approve the quantity of this thing, and from his point of view, the people around seem to have no opinion on it.

Sima Hui quickly noticed the number on the car, what is it?Artisan's mark?

Seeing that he was curious about this, someone explained to him that it was made by the Yanzhou Governor's Mansion, including the machine from the workshop of the Yanzhou Governor's Mansion. The enthusiastic Yanzhou people introduced him to the two people at the stall by the way.

Both of them are brave generals under the command of Governor Cao.

The man who cooked the vegetables used to be a village head, and he was in charge of a team of 50 people. He was extremely brave, but he was seriously injured in a fierce battle. He recovered his life but was unable to fight again, so he had to retire with honor. With all the props and his excellent craftsmanship, everyone loves to come and eat.

And the man who greeted him was the vice-team of the cooking man. He had his arm cut off in that battle, so they retired together. Seeing this, the soldiers under his two tents went to the workshop and asked if they could find a way. It was Xiumu that day, and Zhuge Liang was in charge of duty.

The young Zhuge is very easy to talk to. Hearing the soldier's request, he felt that it was not too difficult. At that time, he and Xia Anran were thinking about improving the trebuchet, so they directly thought of the lever theory. A weighing scale was placed in a box, but this invention won the silver award of the Invention Award in the daily necessities department of the Kobo during the voting. This is a later story.

For the convenience of subsequent maintenance, the rear spheres put on the market were painted with persimmon paint to avoid the weight of the wood soaked in water on the bad side.In addition, there are random market checks and reports. At present, the effect is still acceptable. I haven't heard of anyone who dares to commit crimes against the wind.

In Xia Anran's opinion, this is probably the earliest automatic payment machine.

At the beginning, this machine was made for the convenience of merchants with inconvenient hands. Later, it was turned into a tool for merchants to collect money. Of course, there are risks in it. However, the market is so big after all, there is always someone who shows up, and soon this person is jointly added to the blacklist.

For this reason, Xun Yu also wrote an essay, discussing in detail the importance of "sincerity" and "faith".

This document was first copied and posted all over the bulletin boards of the counties, and the county pavilions used it to educate the people under the rule. Later, this plaintiff was posted in the library, and gradually spread through the students.

A man cannot stand without faith, a business cannot prosper without faith, and a country will decline without faith.

This is exactly one of the principles that Cao Cao upholds in governing the people, and he is the same in later generations. Later generations often comment on Cao Cao. To tell the truth, in the end he got tricked and could only knock on the floor and call him treacherous.

In fact, it can be said that he is the most treacherous and honest person.

But now, this article is only circulated in a short range, so Sima Hui still doesn't know anything about it. What surprised him was the trust of the people of Yanzhou in Cao Cao's regime.

And Cao Mengde's arrangement for retired soldiers under his account.

Sima Hui is a smart man, and he saw his ambition from Cao Cao's arrangement.

If Cao Jun is such a warlord who can take good care of retired soldiers who are useless, who would not want to join such an army in the future?Which city citizen would not welcome such an army?

This is where fame comes in handy.

Cao Cao's current reputation is that he is a loyal minister and a benevolent army. From Sima Hui's point of view, Cao Jun's march is still a bit too soft, or it can be said that he seems to follow the trend.

It's just that now it seems...

It makes some sense.

Thinking of this, he also ordered a bowl of fried noodles, but because he didn't bring a bowl, he lost the two slices of courgette.

He was old, and the gentleman who greeted him told him to sit down first. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although there were no stools, there were a few. The height of these few people required a squatting posture, which was quite indecent and unsightly. It's a comfortable posture... Of course, it's much more comfortable than kneeling.

However, because the source is from the Hu people, even though Emperor Ling personally endorsed it, everyone still felt that it was a bit inelegant.

Sima Hui looked at the wooden table and hesitated for a moment, then sat on it. The reason for his hesitation was that the wooden table was much higher than the usual one.

But now it's raised to the knees... it's...

Hmm...comfortable.

After the knee was no longer under the force, it completely relaxed. The old man's sitting made his brows open, but this posture left his hands with no place to rest, so he could only put them on his knees with some discomfort. But after turning on the light for a while, he saw that the noodles he wanted were brought up, because he didn't know the tastes of the people here, so he ordered the most common configuration, and it tasted delicious.

Especially this Jingxi sauce, full of fragrance.

The noodles are tasteless at first, just like a piece of white paper. The strong taste is still stained by the sauce, but the processed taste is not soft at all. Although the teeth will break after chewing, they seem to bounce in the mouth with chewing move the same.Obviously, a lot of thought was spent on kneading the dough.

What he wanted was the portion of vegetarian meat. As soon as he took the food, Sima Hui was startled by the smell of the meat that exploded suddenly when he chewed it. Later, he thought that he could never buy meat at this price. As soon as I think of the name of this meat, I realize that it should be a processed vegetarian food. Although I don't know what the raw material is... it can really be confused with the real one.

And most importantly... oh, this sauce is delicious.As soon as you chew it, your mouth is full of sauce, which really gives you a sense of happiness when you taste it.

A small piece of pickled courgette was put in his noodles. Although he didn’t bring a bowl, because he was old and an outsider, the soldiers saw that it was the first time for him to take care of his business, so they chose a smaller piece. It's an extra.

After eating a few mouthfuls of fried noodles, I stuffed this small piece of courgette into my mouth. What entered my mouth was the pungent aroma and sour taste. One trick resolved the slightly greasy feeling of fried noodles. People salivate and feel that they can finish this bowl of noodles in one go.

And the fact is the same, the old man found out at the first mouthful that the oil they use is soybean oil, although this oil will have a soybean taste, so that some people don't like it, but it is not like lard Congeals more easily and is more refreshing.And the most wonderful thing is, although I don't know what the yellow material is, but the aroma after frying is really attractive, it seems a bit like chicken...but there are some differences.

He ate his first meal after coming to Yanzhou very happily, and handed the bowl and chopsticks to the soldier with only one hand. After the two exchanged a little greeting, he left.

Compared with this delicious meal, what he cares more about is the hidden information in this simple fried noodles.

For example, Yanzhou, which has quickly recovered its economy to the point where it is possible to eat out.

Another example is the unprecedented level of public trust in Cao Mengde, Cao Mengde's love and treatment of retired sergeants, there may be more important... that is, Cao Mengde's subordinates do not use Fang technology as a strange skill, but are willing to innovate and change. Also happy to accept.

He slowly took out the veil and nodded his lips, thinking of several waterwheels and overturned vehicles that happened to pass by on the way to the east, and a few days ago, he heard that Cao Mengde had concocted a drilling vehicle that could break hundreds of steps underground.

Although he came from Yuzhou, he also knew the information of the neighboring states and counties. Compared with other states and counties, they were like stagnant waters. Yanzhou and Yuzhou were like gurgling brooks that gradually expanded. Although there was little movement, they never stopped.

In this way, one day, the creeks will be able to merge into rivers and seas.

He stood with his arms folded and turned his gaze towards the direction of Yanzhou Governor's Mansion.

What kind of person is Cao Mengde?It really made the old man a little curious.

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The next day, he left the room before dawn, and asked people to hitch up a carriage and go to the library. It was the end of summer and early autumn, and because he got up early, the air was cool, not cold. But it can make people wake up all of a sudden.

There was no natural light at this time, so the coachman walked more cautiously. He was leading the horse and was afraid of bumping into people.

After a while, they met the first person facing the same direction. Sima Hui opened the curtain to talk to him. Knowing that he was also going to the library, he asked someone to come up and ride in the carriage together, but the young man refused. "Thank you, Mr. Cao, but Governor Cao said that we scholars spend a whole day reading in the library, and we often lose our health, so I take this journey as a physical exercise every day. Don't tell me, in the morning Get up and walk like this, and you will feel more energetic throughout the day."

Seeing him like this, Sima Hui chatted with the person through the curtain, and after asking, he learned that this young man is a local, and his family has a field. This trip is to go to the library to find some farming and mulberry matters during the off-season.

"The library still has this book?" This surprised Sima Hui a little. According to what he knew from his friends, most of the books in this library were literary works. People who are thirsty, unexpectedly, there is a book teaching Nongsang in it, "But "Book of Si"?"

His question was met with blank eyes from the young man, "No, what I want to borrow is the agricultural book compiled by Master Xia." Hearing this, Sima Hui raised his eyebrows, his face was invisible in the night, On the contrary, the voice sounded very interesting, "What kind of agricultural book did Master Xia compile?"

The young man was a little embarrassed, "I only memorized a few sentences, but I haven't learned them all yet." After that, he said a few passwords for predicting the weather, which was quickly praised by the elders.

Sima Hui naturally knew who the young master Xia was talking about.

Xia Jingxi, this young man has been well-known in a small circle in recent days, especially this kid who "asked Cao Mengde three times", has been widely spread.

Regarding the three questions, Sima Hui did not make any comments because he did not know the details.

The two chatted and laughed all the way, and felt that a short time had passed before they arrived at the library. At this time, the sky was not yet bright, and a few scattered people had just lined up at the entrance of the library. In fact, due to the lack of lighting equipment, the library could not use firelight for lighting. , the opening time here is at the beginning of Chenshi.

It's almost two hours early now, but the students waiting at the door are not empty. Many of them already know each other, and they have started chatting in twos and threes. book, or talk about the words of gold and jade that I saw yesterday.

The atmosphere was very harmonious. After Sima Hui got out of the car, everyone looked over. They were not surprised to see that he was an old scholar. On the contrary, some students took the initiative to say hello. Although they didn't know who Sima Hui was, they didn't know Shui Jing The name of Mr., but because of the age of this man, but still has the heart to study, I think it is worthy of respect.

A few young people brought a high table from an inconspicuous place next to it, which was exactly the same as the high table line of the fried noodle stall they saw yesterday, put the high table next to Sima Hui, and told him that this was a library In order to prevent the old gentlemen from standing for a long time and getting tired, please sit down quickly, old gentlemen, it will take a long time, don't worry about it.

Sima Hui would not be pretentious, he told the driver to wait until the library closed to pick him up, and then he chatted with these students.

In his opinion, although these young people are plainly dressed, they all have straight backs, bright eyes, and a high-spirited posture, which is the same as everyone he saw when he entered Changyi. As an old man, I like young people like this very much.

Faced with his questions, the young people answered his questions very carefully, and recommended him delicious food shops in Changyi City. These scholars talked about learning while talking, and Sima Hui didn't hesitate to face their confusion. Concerned about their poor foundation and messy learning, they also answered patiently. Later, when these students learned that he came for those few books, they all said that we would not borrow this one, so that the old man could read it as soon as possible. arrive.

The atmosphere was extremely happy, and Sima Hui quickly noticed that although there were still a few high tables like him, no one took them even after standing there for almost an hour.

He didn't say anything, but his affection for these students increased a lot in his heart.

During the chat, I learned that most of these students had studied in private schools, but later because of the war in Yanzhou, the private schools were disbanded. They came to read books when they had a foundation. Fortunately, the books in the library were arranged for them. The difficulty level of practice allows them to learn by themselves at their own pace, so everyone actually came early on purpose, taking advantage of this time to discuss knowledge with each other.

... that's not okay.

In learning, the book cannot describe everything, and the speaker cannot fully believe it. If there is no teacher, many wonderful things in the books of the sages will be misunderstood!

But in the past few minutes, he found a few points that they had misunderstood, and after correcting them, he finally couldn't bear to ask, "Could it be that Governor Cao didn't build a school?"

According to his understanding of Cao Cao and how much he cares about Yanzhou Academy, he should not be like this, but this question has brought wry smiles from the young people.

"It's because Governor Cao didn't want to build a school building." The older student explained, "Mr. Cao has already designated a suitable place for the school building, and the reason why it hasn't been listed yet is because... I haven't got a famous teacher."

"That's right, the recruitment list is posted in the library, and you can see it when you enter the academy, but no one has released the list so far, so the academy has never been opened."

This is not to find a famous teacher.

Sima Hui stroked his beautiful beard, only to feel that the building in front of him suddenly changed from the extremely solemn and sacred building he thought before, to a huge fishhook.

And the fishing rod was held in Cao Mengde's hands.

The bait was delicious and dangled right in front of him.

Mr. Shui Jing snorted coldly, waved the bait away with a wave of his hand, and saw that the sky was bright, he stood up with the young people, and put the long table back to its original position, Sima Hui patiently You have to follow the students into the library one by one.

The author has something to say: Cao Cao: Fishing Fishing Fishing Fishing

Mr. Shui Jing: Damn it’s all routine.

Xia Miao: I am still immersed in infrastructure construction today. Although I am not here, my legend is everywhere.

Author: It turns out that this chapter is 6K, I changed a typo and abruptly added 1K... I am full of despair for myself.

Quietly, Mimi, I am a native of Modu, and the newspaper kiosks are about to be withdrawn now, because the group of laid-off workers to solve the problem of laid-off employment has reached retirement age, but many residents think that this is not hereditary?It is very unacceptable, because in the end, many newsstands are contracted out, or opened for children at home.

The author really thinks: HMMMMMMM Forget it, I still don’t comment.

The same goes for the breakfast car. It was really good at the beginning, but after a long time, it became a little more relaxed.

The welfare lottery has been done, but now the small pavilion will be demolished.

But in any case, the layoffs of that generation's economic turmoil were indeed overcome so safely, and the government worked very hard.

After all, the times can’t keep up with the changes, which is why I said before: Don’t give up learning anyway, and you must not lose your competitiveness.