What was placed in front of them was a large pot, with blood-red soup boiling and rolling in it, looking at the slices and cut ingredients on the table. Luo Lun invited them to eat hot pot, but what attracted their attention was not this very common cooking method in the Song Dynasty, but something in the hot pot soup that they had never seen before.

The soup in the pot boiled, and the rolling bubbles grew from small to large until they broke, conveying the hot heat to everyone's nostrils. Liu and Yang Ershui were not mentioned, and Santan Jiuweixun Town had also eaten and seen it, but in the face of this hotness, his index fingers could not help but move.

"Luo Tongzhi, this is not dogwood."

"It's true that's not. This is called croquette. It was brought by Taixi Maritime Merchants. It has been grown in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for many years, but it is mostly for viewing and is rarely eaten. There is no way, the taste in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is light, so I can't eat this thing."

Sichuan cuisine before the Ming Dynasty and before the Ming Dynasty had a geography and climate, and its emphasis on spicy food was no different from later generations, but the ingredients used were not chili peppers, but dogwood, which was the dogwood that was inserted into one person.

This ingredient is spicy and bitter. Before pepper was introduced to Sichuan, it was always the most important seasoning for Sichuan cuisine. However, pepper was introduced to the southeast coast in the late Ming Dynasty. It was originally called pepper. It was planted in Jiangsu and Zhejiang at that time, but it was for viewing rather than eating. However, when this ingredient entered the southwest in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, its purpose was completely reversed and replaced the status of dogwood in Sichuan cuisine at an unimaginable speed.

"This thing is spicyer than dogwood just by smelling it."

"Xinjinhou knew the goods. This is the first time Xiaguan ate this pepper. He also felt the same way. This time Xiaguan returned to his hometown, His Highness the King of Qi specially asked Xiaguan to bring some to you to taste."

Luo Lun did this, and Liu and Yang were not sure about him. He was polite and sat down. Santan looked at each other, especially Tan Hong, the Marquis of Xinjin, swallowed, and then they slowly sat down.

The pot was placed in the middle, and the ingredients used to rinse it around. The generals went to the table, and their own soldiers were beside them. They were preparing to pick up the ingredients according to their instructions and put them in the pot to rinse it. This was the case with the military general. The civil servants were even more polite. Unexpectedly, after they fell down, Luo Lun handed the official hat to the entourage, and then picked up the vegetables and rinsed them into the pot.

"This is an ordinary thing, so the officials will not take care of you. Please give yourself your own care."

Before he finished speaking, the vegetables had already been put into the pot. After a while, Luolun picked up the steaming and red spicy oil-dripping vegetables into the plate. He changed his hand and dipped the vegetables in the plate into the sauce in the bowl, and stuffed them into his mouth in one bite.

There was always charcoal fire under the pot, and the vegetables could be put into their mouths as soon as they were burned. Luolun grabbed the hot vegetables into his mouth. Before he could chew them, he quickly put down his chopsticks, grinned, and fanned the air with his hands.

Luo Lun was like this. Liu Yao and Yang Youcai, the two generals who were from subordinate officers in the garrison, had been suffering for many years in Chengdu. They were in front of the treasures, so they were not polite and quickly took action. Instead, Santan looked at each other again before signaling his personal soldiers to pick up the food and boil it in the pot.

“It’s so spicy.”

"Happy, happy."

Liu Yao and Yang Youcai were excited. Luo Lun swallowed the vegetables and quickly drank a little wine, suppressing the spicy energy, but immediately aimed at a plate of mushrooms close to Tan Yi, and even stood up to reach for the clip.

"Try this, this mushroom is called shiitake mushroom, which is also a specialty of Zhejiang and tastes very good."

China is the earliest in the world and has begun since the Southern Song Dynasty. Chuzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang, is the birthplace of mushroom cultivation. By the mid-Ming Dynasty, a large number of mushroom people in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong specially planted this crop for sale and consumption. However, in the southwest, this is still a rare thing. It has been eaten and seen, but these people here are not included.

In fact, Tan Yi had noticed this kind of mushroom just now, but he was still thinking about whether it would be poisonous, so he didn't dare to move his chopsticks. But now, seeing Luo Lun pick up the biggest one with one chopsticks, put it in the pot and burn it. He looked expectant, swallowing like Tan Hong, he asked his personal soldiers to pick up the mushrooms after the radish was boiled.

"It tastes really good. It tastes much stronger than dogwood. It doesn't have that kind of crying smell. It's so satisfying."

Compared with Tan Yi, Tan Hong put down chopsticks early, and the ingredients are novel. This is secondarily because the peppers in the soup are so stolen. Thinking about the fact that they smuggled some dogwood to Huguang during festivals these years. Compared with this thing, there seems to be nothing that can be compared, especially the bitter taste, which reminds him of soup.

As the first two or three chopsticks went down, the individual's chopsticks became more and more frequent. At the beginning, these three marquises were still holding racks and asked their personal soldiers to pick up food and boil them. Later, they couldn't stand it anymore, so they simply put the chopsticks on their own to boil them. Later, they didn't even change the chopsticks and used the chopsticks at the entrance to wash the pot.

This spicy taste really matches the taste of these Sichuan locals. They are either marquis or generals, deputy generals, and the lowest-ranking civil servants are also a fifth-rank civil servant, but they are like a group of country gourmets, feasting with their arms around, completely ignoring what they eat.

The side dishes on the table were quickly eaten, and the chef on the boat brought another table of fresh ones, but the table was not supported for long before it was wiped out like a wind and cloud.

After a long time, I served the side dishes for several rounds until I ate them with my stomach and slumped on my seat and never wanted to move anymore.

"The people in Jiangnan actually used this pepper as a decoration and didn't dare to talk about it. It's really, really, that brother, how did that word come from."

"So wastes the resources!"

Tan Hong turned around and asked. Tan Wen glanced at him. The face was full of contempt for illiteracy, but there was too much empathy in the answer.

After getting this answer, Tan Hong nodded quickly, turned his head to everyone and emphasized loudly: "Yes, it's just a waste of resources!"

While burping, Santan, Liu and Yang discussed whether this pepper can be used to replace dogwood in Sichuan cuisine. However, when it comes to this, Santan has a greater say than Liu Yao and Yang Youcai. Not to mention anything else, their status was higher than that of the latter two before the Sichuan chaos. After eating and seeing each other, their voice was naturally greater.

As they talked, they had already ordered several famous dishes in Sichuan and some home-cooked dishes. But Tan Yi suddenly remembered that although the people here were all locals in Sichuan, one of them was from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"If you want to say it, His Highness King Qi is knowledgeable and sympathetic, otherwise our brothers will not be able to eat such delicious food."

"That's right, that's right, the kindness of His Highness King Qi, we are so grateful that we will never forget it one day."

The praise turned to Chen Wen, and the dialogue between the people quickly changed the topic. In the past six months, the relocation of the generals of Kuidong has been completed, and they have started production and construction work in the prefectures and counties they have assigned to. Of course, all production is to clear the beasts in the city and repair the city walls, and have a safe place, so that the land and food can be reclaimed in the city, and the war soldiers in the city have the energy to go out to hunt.

The land was distributed along the Yangtze River. The fleet led by Luo Lun had actually returned some of it. At the same time, it also transported furs, tiger bones, tiger whips, antiques, calligraphy and paintings found in the city to Wuchang, and the next time the fleet entered Sichuan, the next time it entered Sichuan.

The various vassal states in Sichuan were finally placed in the commercial system of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang from one Yangtze River and the commercial channels on the Yangtze River. Although it was not close, this was just the beginning. At least now, as the responsible official, Luo Lun spoke more vigorously than Mao Dengshou, the new Sichuan-European governor who took over the Fengjie city of Kuizhou, who had been in charge, who had not long been replaced by Wen'an, the new Sichuan-European governor, who had been stationed in Fengjie, Kuizhou Prefecture City, not long ago.

"Those Western thieves really made someone laugh. Someone sent to demolish the bridge. They didn't know how to build a floating bridge, but they were still thinking about building the bridge again. They didn't think about it. Once it was built, it would be used for a long time? Will I not send someone to demolish it again?"

"What Renshouhou said is that this group of Western thieves is much worse than Xian Ni. Even though they were sent to throw crotons into the well, they actually drank it. As a result, tens of thousands of people all over the world had diarrhea. The scene was really spectacular."

"General Liu, it's not that I'm a marquis who are too kind to you. Who are those guys? If we weren't here in Sichuan and the country of Tianfu, we could have fallen into the fields of this kind of land now, we should throw arsenic into it and drink them to death."

"What Xinjinhou taught me is that the last one will record it."

"But let alone, Mr. Xiong Qian, who is under this marquis, saw it with his own eyes. The tens of thousands of people mentioned by General Liu had diarrhea together. It was really spectacular, indeed spectacular."

"Ha ha ha ha."

The conflict between the Ming army in Sichuan and the Xiying is not an exaggeration to use blood hatred. Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan and killed corpses in Sichuan, and the battle with the local Ming army has never stopped. Among them, compared with the Xiying, which was wandering in the Central Plains of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and even in Nanzhili and Huguang for many years, the Ming army in Sichuan could gain very little advantage. The biggest military achievement was Yang Zhan, the Marquis of Jinjiang, the General of Jiading, and the great victory of Jiangkou. Zhang Xianzhong had many years of savings and sank into the river, which forced Zhang Xianzhong to return to the north of Sichuan to fight the Qing army, which indirectly led to Zhang Xianzhong's death.

However, when Zhang Xianzhong was defeated, the Ming army in Sichuan was also trapped in a warlord melee. When Zhang Xianzhong's adopted sons gained a foothold in Yunnan and began to join forces with the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Qing Dynasty, King Liu Wenxiu of Shu led his army into Sichuan and also thrived in annexation of various Ming troops from Sichuan. The Ming army in Sichuan was killed, captured, and even forced to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. The generals of Kuidong were all occupied by the dangerous enemy, and they could only survive if they were under the slightest attachment to the Western Camp.

As Yang Hongji, a man of the time, said in "The Record of Shu Difficult": "Just when Sun Kewang came to Yunnan to occupy Guizhou, Xinmao sent troops to force Zun; Liu Wenxiu built his own south and went out of Liya, Yang Jingxing fled to Baoning; he sent troops to Jianwei, captured Yuan Tao and surrendered to Wu Dading; he joined Zun, and Yu's troops went east, Yu Dahai, Li Zhanchun sent boats to Chu; he was like Santan, and Tianxi surrendered or fled. Since then, all the blocking soldiers of the Three Sichuans have been exhausted. Although the fate of killing has not been exhausted, the people have not yet stopped. But he looked back at the sun and the moon, frost, snow, clothes and fur, and fur, and ears and eyes, running east and west, and those who died in credit for a moment are no more than water, fire and mats."

The Xiying went out of Yunnan to fight against the Qing Dynasty, which had a positive effect on the Qing movement. Compared with the Sichuan warlords who had frequent civil wars, the Xiying had the strength and potential to defeat the Qing Dynasty. The Jingzhou victory, Guilin victory, Chenzhou victory, Hengyang victory and the series of counterattacks organized by Liu Wenxiu before the defeat of Baoning all severely hit the arrogance of the Qing army.

However, for the local Ming army in Sichuan and the remaining troops of the camp who were wandering in eastern Sichuan, the Xiying was intolerable to their annexation. Before this, the series of struggles between the Ming army in Sichuan, the Dashun army and the Xiying in the Zhang Xianzhong era made them unable to express any trust in the vassal kings who came from Xiying.

"If you want to say that He Zhen is cunning, the way to scare the Western thieves without saying Chinese is that he is out, even the court cannot hold us accountable. However, the Western thieves will not continue to go north again after the New Year. Otherwise, it would be a good thing if we could see Duke Lin's three walls attacking the Western thieves' army."

With the Daxi Army, an opponent with all the previous hatreds and hatreds, the remnants of the Dashun Army, who had been criticized by them for many years, now it seems that they have such a cute side.

In Shaanxi, Liu Wenxiu was ordered to go to Yunnan for assistance, but on the one hand, the Sichuan warlords were intertwined with new and old hatreds, and on the other hand, they were afraid that they would once again merge various vassal states under the banner of resisting the Qing Dynasty. They voluntarily and spontaneously organized themselves, put aside the previous conflicts, and worked together to harass Liu Wenxiu's army, which directly led to Wu Sangui's isolation and helplessness.

"After dating these few times, I feel that King Qi is easy to get along with. As long as I follow him, everything is easy to say, but it is more pleasing to those Western thieves."

"What my brother said is very good. I think His Highness Qi is not bad either."

"Don't be fooled by that pepper. King Qi was determined to usurp the throne. We are ministers of the Ming Dynasty, so we should not be confused about the great rituals."

After dinner, after chatting, Luo Lun went to rest. The next day he took a boat back to Yunyang Mansion. Luo Lun boarded the boat, and Santan also left Chengdu. Before leaving, Tan Wen was shocked, and Tan Yi and Tan Hong also looked like they were taught, but when Tan Wen led his personal soldiers to the north, they were divided into disdain in the south of Chengdu.

"Brother has read too much and his mind has been broken. The King of Qi won consecutive battles and created a world in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where heavy troops gathered, and was a hero of the world. Not to mention anything else, the current decline of the Tartars is also achieved by others. As soon as the Tartars came, they ran far away and didn't even care about their wives and children. How can they compare and what to compare?"

"Brother is right, just say that we brothers guard the eastern Sichuan for the court, guarding the Tartars while guarding against bandits. The court has never given money and grain. Is His Highness the King of Qi honest and generous, and he has made good contributions to Sichuan. Money, grain, seeds, oxen, and farm tools, and whatever you want, they are all given for free. Has the court been so kind?"

The three Tans had their own thoughts, but Luo Lun had already left, and he was just a little confused about this. However, when he walked down the river and arrived at Fengjie, Mao Dengshou, the new Sichuan-European governor, still refused to see him, but a new information came from the head of the governor's headquarters-the Yongli court had the intention to open a statute and win a scholar.

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"This time the imperial court held a vocational examination and won't have too many people coming as before."

In the 12th year of Yongli, the Yongli court began to discuss the issue of opening the imperial examinations and selecting scholars. However, the imperial examinations had been held many times for the Qing Dynasty, and this year was the year of the scientific examination. If it weren't for the rebellion of Wu Sangui, the spring examination would not have been postponed to the second half of the year.

However, in the last scientific expedition, that is, in the 12th year of Shunzhi, Chen Wen fell into a famous king in Zhejiang and Jiangnan that year, and the world was shocked. The number of participants in the Qing Dynasty's scientific expedition dropped sharply. Enko, who later destroyed North Korea, was also deserted. If the Koreans had not made up for it and the Eight Banners scholars were referring to it, they might not have been able to get all the 300 people together.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang have a strong literary style, and the number of scholars is far greater than other places. After the Qing Dynasty lost it, the number of juren in the occupied areas has decreased significantly. No one mentions it. This year is the fifteenth year of Shunzhi. In history, Sun Chengen, the top scholar in this year, was a Suzhou native. He had passed the civil service training class assessment more than a year ago. He is now serving as the county magistrate in Xiangtan County, Changsha Prefecture, assisting the local magistrate, and Ma Shijun, the top scholar in Zhenjiang Prefecture, who had been the top scholar in Shunzhi for the 18th year, handled the affairs of the county.

"Xi Xin, you still have the heart to care about this. This time I came back to report to the court and specially asked you to come out to tell you that the new army you commanded has been ranked last by Ning Wan. At the current speed, I would like to rely on the smuggling from Thailand, Macau and even Jiangsu and Zhejiang."
Chapter completed!