In the inn, a grand practice banquet was underway. The Chief Secretary of the Huangzhou General and a group of officials held a banquet for Wang Meng, who was about to go to Anlu, and other former Chen Guoling, who was about to go to Anlu, to practice. What will the other party do next? Others don’t know, but etiquette must be done.

The north and south have been confronted for hundreds of years, and there are surrendered generals from time to time. The surrendered officials have been operating in the new dynasty and are promoted step by step. Even if the possibility of "resurrection" is not considered, the treatment of people and things is too harsh, and it will affect reputation if it is spread.

Therefore, the officials of the Huangzhou General Administration Office sincerely entertained passers-by, not to mention that with the financial resources of the General Administration Office, it would not be too difficult to hold a sumptuous practice banquet.

Thanks to the increasing prosperity of Xiyang City's commerce, the cooking level of restaurants and wineries in the city is getting higher and higher, and the cooking techniques of "frying" are becoming more and more mature, the cooking level of inn kitchens is also improving day by day.

All kinds of delicacies at today's banquet are special dishes, including Dongpo pork, elbow sauce, roast chicken, and roast duck. There are also many delicious dishes, which are obtained from cooking with good quality and low-cost ingredients.

At this time, the maid placed the table on everyone's table. The delicious food "Fried Goose Gras" in Xiyang was the second time I served since the banquet. Because the guests received it highly, they made it temporarily.

For many people from wealthy families, their daily diet basically does not touch the internal organs, and they do not eat them, whether they are livestock or poultry. There are many reasons. However, for Wang Meng, the distinguished guest at the seat, it is purely because he has never eaten it, so he is not very used to eating this kind of thing.

Before coming to Xiyang, he had never even eaten "fried dishes", but since he was at the banquet, he had to give the host face. The Huangzhou officials who hosted the banquet also sought their opinions in advance and confirmed that no one was afraid of food, so he asked the kitchen to prepare the dish "fried foie gras".

After trying to take a small bite, everyone found that the dish was unexpectedly delicious. Wang Meng discovered a new problem from it. After just finishing the wine, he asked Wang Nao who was sitting aside: "Is there a lot of geese in Xiyang so popular with foie gras?"

Wang Jun was already drunk and his face was flushed, but he was very drunk, so he was very sober. When Wang Meng asked, he smiled: "It's not just that. There are many goose farms outside the city, so how many geese are raised in the domestic geese."

Afraid that the persuasion is not strong, Wang Jun explained the reason in detail.

There are many breeding farms in Xiyang, which supply a large number of chickens, ducks and geese, feathers for arrow feathers, down for down, and eggs for salted eggs and meat for cooking. Because of the cooking technique of "frying", the internal organs are also made into various dishes.

Pan-fried foie gras is a relatively famous dish. Because the supply of foie gras is large, restaurants and restaurants in Xiyang City all have this dish.

Foie gras is just a microcosm of the strong strength of Xiyang's breeding industry. Thanks to the huge demand for down products, the poultry breeding scale in Xiyang's breeding farms has a large scale, which has brought about a positive impact, that is, the prices of poultry and poultry meat are very low.

For ordinary people, it is not easy to eat meat regularly on weekdays, mainly because they cannot afford it. However, the people in Huangzhou and surrounding prefectures and counties benefit from it. Because Xiyang's extremely cheap poultry price allows many people to eat poultry frequently.

The input of a large amount of salt ensures the yield of marinated meat products. Chicken, duck, goose eggs can be made into salted eggs, and meat can also be made into preserve-resistant meat floss. There are many pigs in Huangzhou, and meat products such as ham and sausage have also become "famous products in Huangzhou".

Wang Jun gave an example. During this Lingnan Road march in the southern expedition, there were a lot of meat floss, salted eggs, ham and sausages in the army, which ensured the dietary needs of the soldiers and was also an important means to ensure morale.

"No wonder..." Wang Meng finally understood. He saw Yuwen Wen's Hulin Army soldiers, one by one, had strong muscles and strong figures, and didn't look like human animals. At that time, he wondered how the other party recruited so many strong men. Now it seems that it is all thanks to Huangzhou's rich meat supply.

Wang Meng was a general of Chen State. He had been in charge of soldiers for many years and knew that there were many bad habits in the army. This bad habit was not only available in the Chen State army. The generals made money by soldiers, in short, it was to drink soldiers' blood.

The methods of drinking blood from various countries are similar, and the most common one is to withhold food.

One stone of brown rice is mixed with mud and sand and turns into two stones of "brown rice". The porridge that could have been standing with chopsticks, put less rice and more water, becomes the real "blurred" rice.

When cooking, you need to add salt. You originally had to add a spoonful of salt, but as a result, you were one-third of the spoonful or coarse salt mixed with a lot of mud and sand.

It would be strange if the soldiers who eat this kind of food were not weak!

When Wang Meng led his troops, he would not drink soldiers' blood to this extent, but the generals had some old customs and bad habits. As long as they were not too much, he could only turn a blind eye.

Most of the troops even had to deduct basic rations, let alone prepare meat for soldiers. If the soldiers wanted to eat meat, they could only sneak out of the camp to get wild game, and then set fire to roast them in the wild.

Why don't you take it back to the military camp?

My classmates even had their eyes red when they saw the meat. Is that little meat enough to share?

It was only now that Wang Meng truly realized why Wang Yuwen Wen's soldiers in Xiyang were so capable of fighting: good diet, sufficient training, excellent equipment, clear rewards and punishments, and a commander who could fight.

Such an army swept across Jiangzhou, Lingbiao, Jiaozhou, and also slaughtered the capital of Linyi. What's so strange?

Therefore, Chen Guo couldn't stand it anymore.

Thinking of this, Wang Meng was a little silent. As Chen Guoling's concubine Mu Shou, he had no choice but to surrender in succession of defeats. His mother and wife were still in Jiankang, and he didn't know what happened to his family after the Chen Guan family knew that he would surrender.

But he did not regret it. Even when he came to Xiyang and learned that the Zhou State had undergone a huge change and the Yuchi family broke up, he had never thought of escaping back to Chen State. Such repeated villainous behavior was really impossible, let alone that Chen State had no hope.

Now, he saw the other side of Xiyang Wang Yuwen Wen's strength in Xiyang with his own eyes. Yuwen Wen did not only rely on the Hulin Army to win the battle. The great victory that was passed to Xiyang today shows this.

The strength of the Yuwen family now seems not as weak as imagined. When the situation in Zhou State develops to the future, it is very likely that the confrontation between the East and West Zhou, while his home country, Chen State, has become difficult to return and has no chance to revive.

The Yuwen family occupied Baxiang and Jiangzhou, Lingbiao, and Chen State only had the lowest land of the Three Wus. The grain output on this area could no longer support the Chen army to launch a western expedition to recover lost territory.

The north and south have been confronted for hundreds of years, and the situation in the Jiankang court has never been so critical, and the Chen official family is not a powerful lord who works hard to govern.

Seeing that Wang Meng was worried, Wang Hu didn't bother him. The situation has changed dramatically, which was beyond his expectations. When he was in Lingbiao, he also offered suggestions to Yuwen Wen and made a judgment on the direction of the situation in the next few years. Now it seems that he has to make a new decision.
Chapter completed!