Weizhou City looks different every day.

Shu banknotes are so convenient. As soon as Su Mingrun's new-style leather came out, he did nothing. The first thing he did was to give a free wallet to each official and Zhenrong army in Weizhou to hold Shu banknotes.

wallet!

During the holidays, the sergeants left the village early and waited for the four-wheeled carriages from Sitong Trading Company to pick up people.

Entering Weizhou City, it is really lively, with a wide variety of products, and most of the vendors speak with southwestern accents.

Cuodas are not interested in mirror-headed flowers and the like, they are interested in eating!

The fragrant oil-baked Guokui, called a Xiang, has beef and pork fillings, paired with a bowl of wontons sprinkled with coriander and shrimps, and a familiar comrade on the low stool next to the stall said hello.

Already.

Opposite Guokui, there is a sandwich shop selling pancakes. Use a sharp knife to poke a hole in the semi-dry pancakes, chop the stewed pork into soft pieces and stuff it inside, or a small portion of the unique southwestern delicacy Long Lung Chao.

Click inside, take a bite, and your mouth will be full of flavor!

Walk two steps further and you will find the mutton soup pot.

Weizhou sheep are cheap. There are five racks of washed and skinned whole sheep hanging on the shelf. Lamb bone soup with spices is boiling in a large vat, and a dustpan is filled with various types of haggis.

This is a place that the higher-ranking commanders and group leaders like.

Pick two samples and cook the haggis into slices, or if you don't like it, ask the waiter to cut a tender loin of beef, pick up Meishan watercress, pickle ginger, add some parsley, chives, and seasonal vegetables, stir-fry over high heat and serve.

I served a small glass of wine, a pot of mutton blood vermicelli soup, and a small table with my three or five companions. I was very happy.

If you are a wealthy businessman and a high-ranking military officer from the Yi people, you will have to go to a big restaurant. The most difficult one to book a table for is definitely Fang Zhiwei.

It turns out that there are many kinds of dishes in Weili, but most of the Yi people, soldiers and Han people eat cows and peonies, and the most rare thing for them is the various kinds of good wine here.

Fruit-infused wine is just a drink to spice things up, and the authentic Yongchun Dew is the most popular. As for the elderly bosses, Yujuguan’s medicinal wine is a must-order every time you come.

Rumor has it that the transfer envoy Xue Xiang once came to Weizhou for an inspection and tasted Fang Zhiwei's tiger penis and deer antler wine. When he returned, there was an extra sedan in the team.

If we want to talk about the local food that Weizhou is proud of, it is probably pasta.

There is a kind of grass in Weizhou, which turns into balls and rolls all over the ground when the wind blows. Li Shangyin once described himself as "Zou Malantai type of grass", referring to the unique grass in the northwest.

I am greedy, and I don’t like many Northwest delicacies. Ramen is one, and mutton steamed buns are one.

When he ate mutton steamed buns for the first time, he found them very unpalatable. It wasn't until an indigenous friend from Shaanxi gave him some advice that Su You knew what real mutton steamed buns were.

Those on the pedestrian streets that are very busy are average, but the really delicious steamed buns are hidden deep in the Huimin Old Street. You have to get up at six in the morning to go there, because they sell out after nine in the morning, so you are late.

I want to eat but I can't.

After Su You had a meal, he went to bed early that night because he decided to get up early the next day.

There is no way, the Northwest diet is too heavy, so I can only eat beef steamed buns on the first day and mutton steamed buns on the second day.

Steamed buns are very easy to revive in Weizhou. Dasu arrived in the northwest a few years before Suyou, and has long been full of praise for mutton soup, thinking that "Qin cooks only mutton soup".

The improvements of Suyou are only yeast pancakes, pepper, and sugar and garlic as side dishes.

The third child will be the same in future generations.

Ramen noodles use the ashes of the burnt grass that I just mentioned. It has many uses. In addition to eating, it can also be used to wash clothes and shampoo.

Nowadays, burning ashes is no longer for personal use, but a way to make money. The surrounding villagers keep enough for their own use, and also send the ashes to the work team to exchange for Sichuan banknotes.

The ash is taken to Huating, where it is reprocessed and refined into white powder.

It is a good thing, its main ingredient is potassium carbonate, and it can be easily turned into potassium nitrate.

The main secret of ramen is not the ramen noodles, but the beef broth that is different from yokan.

This thing originated in the Tang Dynasty. Su You asked Cai Que to search for a long time before he found the successor of authentic yokan and beef noodle soup.

Su You's excuse is very good. Now Weizhou has a lot of industries waiting to flourish. We have to compete with the Xixia people for time, so we need to develop fast food.

Education is a century-old plan, and the students’ meals must be taken care of. Back then, Renzong personally praised Taixue’s steamed buns, so let’s come to the state to learn ramen! The state learns to make steamed buns! The state learns to make big steamed buns!

Every time he saw Zhang Zai happily inviting visiting officials and scholars to eat ramen, Su You couldn't help but think of Long Changqi, that naughty and greedy stubborn old man.

But Zhang Hengqu is really modest. Although he is Atun Yuanzhen's teacher, he is also studying mathematics with Yuanzhen.

"Book of Changes" was Zhang Hengqu's weak point. At that time, Wen Yanbo set up a tiger-skin seat in the capital and invited Zhang Zai to give lectures. There is a record in "History of the Song Dynasty":

"After reading his books for a long time, I thought it was not enough, and I also visited various commentaries. I spent many years studying his explanations, but found nothing, so I looked for the "Six Classics" instead.

I tried sitting on a tiger skin and lectured the capital master on the Book of Changes, and many people listened.

One night, the second Cheng arrived and discussed the "Yi". The next day, the speaker said: "Compared with the second Cheng, I have a profound understanding of the "Yi". It is beyond my reach, and you can learn from it." He sat down and stopped talking, and talked with the second Cheng.

The Essentials of Cheng Yu’s Taoism.”

Zhang Zai was astonished by the ideas of Shu studies. He studied physics exhaustively and proved the way of heaven. He started from the simple point, deduced and piled up, and gradually pushed it higher, and every step was proved to be true. It is not easy.

For things that cannot be explained, Shu Xue believes that they are all worthy of study, but until they are proven and cannot be replicated, and until a theory is refined, they are considered to be unexplained.

It needs to be studied carefully rather than making casual assumptions. You can guess, but you must explain that it is a guess.

Zhang Zai believes that this is the biggest difference between Shu studies and other schools, and the most praiseworthy aspect.

For example, my own theory of monism and dualism appears to be nihilistic; while Shu School's periodic theory of elements has countless proofs.

The key is that these proofs later turned into practical knowledge, and the technologies and products developed were very useful.

Confucianism pays attention to cultivating Qi Zhiping, but how to practice it, how to move from cultivation to Qi, how to Qi, how to move from Qi to Zhi, and how to go step by step, everyone knows the eight words of "being sincere and studying things to achieve knowledge".

More specifically, it is reasonable for the public to speak to the public, and it is reasonable for the mother-in-law to speak to her mother-in-law.

Zhang Zai felt that although Shu studies did not emphasize principles or high-profile matters, they were the first to be solid among the other schools in terms of "how to do things."

Good things must be learned, so in the evenings, Zhang Zai often came over with unsolvable math problems and asked Su You to explain them.

Su You naturally explained patiently that the essence of a politician is to influence the majority of people and make them accept their own ideas and work together towards their own political direction.

Guan Xue can definitely become a political ally of Shu Xue.

Li Fu and Adun Yuanzhen can be said to have lost each other now. One has become a disciple of Shu School, and the other has become a disciple of Guan School.

Most ordinary people do not have the heart to care about the country and the people, or to save the world. They just want to eat well, sleep well, and be happy.

For example, after Xiumu's sergeants and businessmen have had enough to eat and drink, there are many places in the city where they can have fun.

Next to Fang Zhiwei is a teahouse, where three old men sit in the morning, noon and evening, writing in Bianjing Mandarin, which they are still proficient in.

In the morning it was "Five Dynasties" and in the afternoon it was "Three Kingdoms".

Dutiful sons and loyal ministers, virtuous kings and good generals are called Pinghua.

At night, Xiu Mu's sergeants were forced to return to the camp, and the books they talked about were replaced by miscellaneous notes, also called nonsense.

Many of the dirty stories about cheating, wild affairs, and fights between gods and gods were obviously told by an old man at the top, which made the young and old men below blush and feel thick-necked.

This is also a skill. I heard that Xiao Su Tanhua called it dock art. This is the most authentic oral writing technique on the Bianjing dock.

They all have serious inheritances. Yin Changmai from "Five Dynasties", Huo Siju from "Three Kingdoms", and Sun Shishi who spoke Hunhua are all from family traditions.
Chapter completed!