After rejecting the others, only Brother Zhang was left in the hall. It was impossible for Brother Zhang to kneel down to the emperor, but the good thing about the Song Dynasty was that they did not kneel down in informal situations, especially Brother Zhang.
As a scholar myself, there is no need to kneel down even when seeing the emperor unless there are special circumstances.
After all, how is it possible for him to kneel down? If that doesn't work, just kill him. Then he will lock this world and come back with three million heavy-armored combined troops to turn this place into a primitive society.
"You idiot, let me ask you, if it were you, how would you seize this throne?"
People are all the same. There is nothing to be anxious about. The most urgent thing here is to transform the orthodox dynasty from the Central Plains into a small and peaceful court in the south. Winning or losing is a trivial matter to the emperor. Seizing unification is a top priority.
In addition, Shandong was also occupied by the Liao people. Once the Kong family presided over the Taishan ceremony for the Liao people, everything would really be over.
Therefore, the old man Zhao Zhen is a little ill and wants to seek medical treatment urgently. He will ask questions when he sees someone. All the ministers in the dynasty say that it is education and enlightenment, but now they have all educated themselves in Lin'an City. I am afraid it will be necessary to educate them again.
He was forced to jump into the sea.
"Me?" Brother Zhang saw the old man asking himself, so he thought for a while: "I don't have any good ideas. After all, the two sides of the legal system are evenly matched, and the Liao Kingdom still has a slight advantage. If you have to fight for this unity, who can be better than any of you?"
Don't ask for it, spend money to support someone who can't be conquered, and then destroy the Liao Dynasty first, and then use the natural chasm of the Yangtze River to survive for a few years. When they take over the world, for the legal rule of the south, they must also recognize our
Legal system."
Fortunately, it was Renzong Zhao Zhen. If any emperor didn't pull Zhang Ge out and fry him, he would be considered a famous emperor through the ages. And even Zhao Zhen was so angry that he was about to have a heart attack and pointed at Zhang Ge.
The big eunuch rushed over to help Zhao Zhen soothe his chest, and after they were fussing around for a while, when Zhao Zhen came over in one breath, he patted the dragon chair and scolded: "How can there be such a stupid person in the world like you?"
Son, you are so angry with me, you are so angry with me..."
"Actually, there is no other way. Since ancient times, the north and the south have been fighting against each other. The north is strong and the south is weak. The east and west are fighting against each other. The west is strong and the east is weak. This place is both south and east. The weak ones are actually quite weak. There is Liao over there.
Xixia, Longyou Protectorate, Tubo, and a little further away there are Gaochang Uighurs. They all crawled out from places where it was difficult to survive. In comparison, other people fight to survive, and here they fight to fight for unification. For ordinary soldiers,
To be honest, orthodoxy has nothing to do with them, but they still have to survive."
Hearing this, Zhao Zhen pursed his lips and said, "Then we really have nothing to do?"
"It's not impossible. If you can kill half of the civil servants in the court, maybe you can still fight back."
As soon as these words came out, Zhao Zhen almost spat out a mouthful of blood. Hearing that this fool actually said such words, he didn't know whether to cry or laugh for a moment. He waved his hand: "Go, go, you
Get out of here. I don’t want to see you idiot anymore.”
The eunuch also shook his head: "Let's go, the officials let you go, why are you still hanging around?"
Brother Zhang said, turned around and walked out. Halfway through, he suddenly turned around and asked, "Can you take care of a meal? I'm still hungry today."
Zhao Zhen smacked his lips. He was originally unhappy because he was driven to this place by the Liao people, but today he was so angry at this fool that his blood surged several times.
However, he was calm and waved helplessly: "Go and take him to eat."
When the eunuch took Brother Zhang to dinner, Zhao Zhen sat alone on the dragon chair and carefully considered what the idiot said just now. Although every sentence sounded rebellious, it felt like all his relatives were
It comes wholesale, but if you really taste it carefully, it really has that smell.
After a while, the big eunuch came back. Zhao Zhen raised his eyelids and looked at him: "Take that idiot to eat?"
"When we got back to the official's house, he had already eaten. He even thought the food in our dining hall was unpalatable. He also said it was no wonder Her Highness the Princess couldn't eat. Anyone who ate this food every day would be crazy."
"This fool!
!I..." Zhao Zhen raised his head: "I want to see what he is capable of. Go! Go and tell that guy that I will see his cooking skills today. I can allow him to talk nonsense in front of me.
, but if he can’t cook this meal, don’t blame me for sending him to corvee!”
"Yes...slave, go right away."
At this moment, Brother Zhang was eating steamed steamed buns. Because there was no white sugar, the steamed buns had a sour taste, and even the royal stuff wasn't necessarily that exquisite. No wonder Su Dongpo invented so many dishes in his life. I'm sorry.
These guys eat really rough.
"That idiot!"
The eunuch outside yelled: "The official said that since you dislike this palace meal, the official wants to see if you have any good ideas. The official also said that he can tolerate your misconduct in front of the palace, but
If your food is not as good as your taciturnity, don't blame him for dragging you into corvée service."
Brother Zhang didn't answer immediately. He just stood up and walked around the kitchen with the steamed bun in his mouth. He looked at and touched all the dishes and seasonings. Then he said: "Although there are not many things, there are a lot of things."
It’s still enough, I’ll call you when it’s ready.”
"Hey... you idiot!"
"The world may be longer, so let's just have dinner then."
The eunuch had no choice but to report what he said to Zhao Zhen. After hearing this, Zhao Zhen nodded: "Okay, I want to see what tricks he can come up with."
Due to the limitations of the times, there are not many seasonings here. For example, there is no MSG from the King of Umami, but it can be replaced with chicken soup. There is no oyster sauce, but you can use fish bones to boil the glue instead. There is no sugar, but it can be replaced.
Honey can be used instead. It's not spicy, but horseradish, horseradish, and red corn can be used instead.
When Brother Zhang saw the things in the imperial dining room, he rolled up his sleeves and started to work. He immediately started to greet the little eunuchs in the imperial dining room and started to chop the old hen and clear water crucian carp into mince.
Stew fish bones, chicken, duck, ham hooves and scallops, and the dish he is about to cook is the legendary boiled cabbage.
Fortunately, there are a lot of things in the kitchen, so Brother Zhang can still have a lot of room to play.
Tonight’s menu is boiled cabbage, Jiang Shilang tofu, pickled radish, mandarin fish with pine nuts, grilled wings with honey sauce, braised wild vegetables, minced meat pickles, tea oil toad, the soup is sea rice and winter melon soup, and the staple food is green onions.
Noodles mixed with oil, multi-grain steamed buns, rice and chowder, and dessert is almond tofu curd and ginger juice mixed with milk.
There is no mutton here that is commonly eaten by people in the Song Dynasty. Most of them have a light, fresh and sweet taste. Only the steamed dumplings and minced meat pickles are spicy, but the main purpose of this set of dishes is to appetizer and comfort.
Except for boiled cabbage, all other dishes are very fast, but this staple food needs to be slower. Noodles, steamed buns, etc. are all good, but this rice is different. People in the Song Dynasty also eat rice, but the way of eating it is different.
They like to cook rice porridge or steamed rice with water, and rarely eat steamed rice like Brother Zhang.
So this is a bit more troublesome, and he has to beat part of the rice into rice paste and mix it with glutinous rice to make steamed dumplings.
Ginger juice with milk uses buffalo milk. Song cannot eat beef. Buffaloes are used for plowing fields, but getting some buffalo milk is not a big problem. Ginger juice with milk is a typical Cantonese style dish.
It's most likely their first time eating today.
His kitchen knife was chopping on the eucalyptus board all afternoon. In the evening, the eunuch came again. He stood at the door with squinted eyes, watching the dishes of clear soup and watery things being placed on the table by this idiot.
, but there was contempt in my heart.
"Are you ready? The officials are a little impatient to wait."
Brother Zhang made a sound and poured the soup from the last dish of boiled cabbage onto the cabbage. The cabbage slowly bloomed into a flower. The eunuch sighed and stretched his head over to look at him in surprise.
The cooks in the room all had their eyes widened. After all, they had been busy all afternoon and were just waiting for this.
When the dishes were all ready, the eunuch hummed and pointed at the food on the table: "You eat some first, and I'll watch you eat."
Brother Zhang knew these bad habits, and he was not polite. He was hungry anyway, so he took a spoon and a bowl. He made some of each dish and made a big bowl. He sat there and slurped and ate like this.
He was really greedy, and even the well-informed eunuch swallowed his saliva a few times.
After waiting for a while, seeing that the fool showed no signs of being poisoned, the eunuch raised his hand and asked someone to bring the things over.
At this moment, Emperor Renzong was sitting there with a headache. The current situation on the front line was really not very optimistic. If the civil and military officials in the dynasty were not so loyal, he would have to consider what that idiot said and kill half of them first.
"Guan family, the food is here."
"knew."
Seeing that Emperor Renzong didn't move, the eunuch said softly: "This is all done by that idiot."
"Oh?" Emperor Renzong's only joy during this period was Brother Zhang. When he heard that the meal was cooked by this fool, he recovered from his troubles.
When several dishes came to him, he stood up and took a look: "It's interesting. They all look like rural things, but they are thick and thin. Even though this boiled cabbage clear soup is not watery, it looks good."
, but it also makes people lose their appetite just looking at it.”
After saying that, he picked up a spoon and scooped out a spoonful of boiled cabbage soup. He thought it was a bland and tasteless soup, but as soon as it entered his mouth, he was immediately opened.
The level of light in the child's body was really shocking for a long time.
After that, he took a few more sips and hissed: "It's weird, how come this clear cabbage soup has such a strong meaty taste? It's weird."
He marveled at it, and then ate another crystal-clear Mijiaozi. When he entered his mouth, he felt the elasticity that was different from flour, then the slightly bitter taste of wild vegetables, then the brightness of shrimps, and finally the horseradish and red corn.
The food was very spicy. Emperor Renzong was not good at eating spicy food, so his face suddenly turned red from the spicy food.
At this moment, the chief eunuch thought something had happened and hurriedly stepped forward. Just as he was about to help him, Zhao Zhen pushed him: "It's nothing, it's just that it's spicy..."
He quickly picked up the moist white stuff on the side and took a bite. Then he felt a fresh and sweet taste, and he hummed: "What is this?"
"That idiot said it's called almond tofu."
"Okay, okay, this is good."
Not to mention, Zhao Zhen became more and more addicted to these dishes as he ate them. Zhao Zhen, who had been dealing with random bites for a long time because he was in a bad mood, today ate six of the multi-grain Wowotou buns, minced meat pickles and so on.
I soaked up a bowl of rice with sea rice and winter melon soup, ate a small plate of noodles, and finally ate four colorful spicy dumplings.
But he was an old man after all. After eating, he sat there and panted: "This guy is indeed quite capable. No wonder he said that my dining room is not good. From this look, it is indeed not good. It's just that I don't understand what's wrong with this cabbage."
It will be so delicious, full of meat flavor. And the white and tender tofu, how come it is so sweet."
Having said this, he slapped his forehead: "Go quickly, heat some up and bring it to my poor daughter. She hasn't had anything to eat in several days."
"Slave, let's do it now."
"Wait a minute, I'll go with you."
My dearly loved little daughter is dying. She hasn't had a normal meal for several days. She always feels full after just two bites and will vomit if she eats any more.
Even if he is a dead horse today, maybe this idiot will actually be lucky enough to fool people.
Several kinds of food were heated and delivered to the sick princess's boudoir. Zhao Zhen waited outside until the palace maid inside rushed out and said excitedly with tears in her eyes: "Guan family, eat... eat,...
Your Highness the Princess ate."
Zhao Zhen didn't care about the imperial etiquette at this moment. He opened the curtain and walked in. He saw his daughter eating the spicy dumplings in small bites. It was so spicy that he burped and drank a bowl of the ginger-flavored dumplings.
Milky dessert, followed by a big bowl of soup and a lot of rice.
People are like iron rice or steel. Although there is no medicine in this food, within just one stick of incense after eating the food, the princess's pale face actually turned red, and her energy level was obviously much better.
"Rong'er, are you still dizzy?"
"Much better, thank you Father for your concern..."
"If you still want to eat, just tell me." Zhao Zhen's eyes turned red: "Eat more, eat more, my dear Rong'er, you have been suffering these days, and it's all your fault for being useless.
You are running around here and there, and you are not accustomed to the local environment...sigh..."
"Father, please don't do this. My daughter feels uncomfortable after hearing this. Being able to receive the grace of her parents is already a blessing that Rong'er has cultivated for three lifetimes."
While he was talking, the eunuch suddenly walked in quickly from outside and said in Zhao Zhen's ear: "Guan family, that idiot said he cooked a meal for Her Royal Highness alone, and even had someone bring it over.
.”
"Quick! Bring it here!"
After the things were brought over, Zhao Zhen found that there was only a plate of red and green radish peels and orange peels, which were sour and spicy, and a bowl of Huhu soup full of sour pepper flavor with egg drop, shredded tofu and coriander.
And a big bowl of white rice with clear grains.
"The fool said, let Her Highness the Princess eat while you're at it."
"Bubble!"
A bowl of soup rice that didn't fit on the table was completely eaten by the princess who couldn't eat anything. The spicy and sour orange peel and radish peel coupled with the flavorful Huhu soup, rolled in the rice,
The taste can't be said to be very good, but it is enjoyable, and the princess, who already has a small appetite, ate it until her belly bulged.
"The official...that fool is leaving!" The big eunuch ran in again at this moment: "He asked you if you wanted to kill him, and he left if you didn't."