The sun sets gradually, and the bustling Tianjin, which has been busy all day, finally calms down.
At each construction site, the victims, who had worked hard all day, led the fish in the sea to their temporary homes, talking and laughing.
A day's hard work yielded ten kilograms of fish. Today, the fleet heading to North Korea returned with five million kilograms of rice, so Liu Jin gave everyone an extra twenty taels of rice.
Although you won't starve to death by eating fish, everyone has long been tired of eating fish every day. They even want to vomit when they see the fish, but there is no way. Now is the era of famine, and the price of food has gone to the sky.
, some are already very good to eat, not to mention there is still meat to eat.
Now that I have an extra two taels of rice, I can save it and use it to make porridge. The family can eat it for a few days and it can be regarded as a change of taste.
There are curls of cooking smoke both inside and outside the city of Tianjin, and there are bursts of fish scent floating in the air. Of course, for people who have been here in Tianjin, these fish scents not only have no fragrance at all, but also
There's a queasy feeling.
There is no other way. People here in Tianjin have long been tired of eating fish for a long time.
However, for Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, Zhang Mao and others who had just arrived in Tianjin, the fish smell was very tempting, especially when the three of them came to Liu Jin's house. In order to entertain them, Liu Jin personally
He cooked and prepared a table of sumptuous seafood to entertain them.
“The last dish is bluefin tuna sashimi, the best seafood, definitely not to be missed.”
Liu Jin walked in with a plate of sashimi and said with a smile.
Li Dongyang looked at Liu Jin, and then at the table of delicacies, steamed grouper, garlic vermicelli scallops, stir-fried spicy snail meat, sour bamboo shoots and snail slices, steamed crab, deep-fried lobster, butterfly sea cucumber soup
, braised fish maw with three shreds…..
Although the three of them had eaten all kinds of delicacies, they still couldn't help but salivate when they looked at the delicious food on the table in front of them. Liu Jin, who came from a later generation, was a person who loved food, and he also liked to eat food in a blink of an eye, so that's why
I can cook pretty good food.
"Li Gong, Zhou Gong, Zhang Gong, everyone has a try."
After changing his clothes and washing himself, Liu Jin came over and sat down with a smile. Seeing that they were still waiting for him, he smiled and motioned for everyone to have a taste.
"Come together, come together."
Several people picked up their chopsticks, smiled and gestured to each other, and each began to set up a dish and taste it carefully.
"Hmm~"
What Li Dongyang served was steamed grouper. The meat of the grouper is extremely tender. This wild large grouper is absolutely top-notch delicious. Steaming is the best way to bring out the ultimate freshness and sweetness of the ingredients.
As soon as the fish entered his mouth, his eyes lit up with the sweetness. After tasting it carefully, he couldn't help but take down his chopsticks one after another.
“Delicious food~”
"what fish is this?"
Li Dongyang took a few bites, then looked at the grouper on the plate carefully and asked.
"This is grouper. This grouper usually lives in reefs and coral areas in the sea. The meat is extremely delicious, solid and delicate. It also contains a lot of nutrients and is very suitable for elderly people to eat."
Liu Jin smiled and introduced Li Dongyang.
"Grouper?"
"Well, the taste is indeed very delicious. It's even more delicious than the mandarin fish I've eaten before. Moreover, it has very few spines and the meat is firmer."
After hearing this, Li Dongyang nodded, then picked up his chopsticks and took two more bites.
"My dish is also very good. What kind of meat is in this piece?"
“Not only is it very delicious, the meat is also extremely crispy and chewy.”
Zhou Jing asked while looking at the fried conch slices beside him.
"This is sliced snail meat. The snail is a common type of snail in the sea. It is very large and the meat is extremely delicious."
Liu Jin said to him with a smile.
"It's delicious, it's delicious. If I had known how good you were at cooking, boy, I should have come to your house every day."
On the other side, Zhang Mao was feasting. He was a gourmet himself and loved food. He had eaten in almost all the restaurants in the capital, including stalls and hawkers. He had tasted almost all of them.
Already.
Now that I have tasted the seafood feast that Liu Jin made with all kinds of seafood, my whole body is full of appetite, and I am eating big and big without caring about my image.
Zhou Jing and Li Dongyang smiled at this, as if they had already become accustomed to it. They had known Zhang Mao for more than a day or two, and they had long known that he was a glutton and could not stop eating when he encountered delicious food.
"Haha, actually this is not about how good my craftsmanship is, but that the ingredients themselves are top-notch ingredients, so they only need the simplest cooking method to show their ultimate deliciousness."
"Look, this grouper is steamed, this prawn is boiled, the lobster is fried, and this crab is steamed. The cooking methods of these dishes are extremely simple, and there is nothing too much.
methods and techniques.”
Liu Jin smiled and shook his head and said.
"The sea is a huge treasure. It not only has endless wealth, it also has endless food. The table in front of you is just an extremely insignificant point in the sea. There are more, more
Delicious food is waiting for us to taste.”
Liu Jin's invitation to treat guests to a meal was naturally not just to treat them to a meal, but to let these important officials in the court have a taste of the seafood. Only by seeing and feeling it in person can one know the benefits brought by the ocean.
The three of them saw the huge amount of food brought by the ocean here in Tianjin, and at the same time saw the huge profits and benefits brought by sea trade. Now Liu Jin let them taste the ultimate deliciousness of seafood.
Liu Jin believed that if they were really upright ministers, capable ministers, and people who dedicated their lives to the country and the country as written in the history books, they should be able to see the importance of this ocean to the Ming Dynasty. I believe
They will definitely stand on their side in imposing a sea ban.
Of these three people, Zhang Mao can be regarded as the representative of the military commanders. Although the military commanders have little say or real power now, this does not mean that they have no influence. On the contrary, the military commanders have been married to each other for generations.
They are already intertwined and have formed a huge community of interests.
Once someone touches the interests of the generals and nobles, they will not hesitate to join forces to fight back. Whether in the court or outside the court, the power of these generals and nobles is indispensable in almost every field.
Li Dongyang can be regarded as the representative of the Southern Scholars. Although his hometown is a bit far away from the Jiangnan area, because of his high position and authority, the Scholars in the Jiangnan area automatically included him. Together with Xie Qian, he is considered the mainstay of the Southern Scholars in the court.
.
If he can also support the establishment of a sea ban, with his huge influence, he can create a rift in the Southern Scholars who have the greatest resistance and reduce the opposition of the Southern Scholars.
As for Zhou Jing, he was from the north, and he and Liu Jian were considered representatives of northern scholars, and they held equally high positions.
The big gentry families in the north have very little profit from the ocean. This sea ban will not offend their interests. On the contrary, once the sea ban is lifted, Beizhili and Shandong will also be able to go to sea. The same goes for the gentry and big families in the north.
It can be profitable, and it is a support force that is relatively easy to win over.
As long as the support of these three people can be won, and Liu Jin has asked Emperor Hongzhi and Zhu Houzhao to taste the huge benefits brought by the sea, and with the strongest support, Liu Jin believes that the sea ban will be nothing.
Problem.
"yes!"
"This ocean is indeed a huge treasure. This trip to Tianjin is an eye-opener."
After hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhou Jing put down the chopsticks in his hands and sighed.
“It is indeed an eye-opener and makes people feel a lot of emotions.”
Li Dongyang thought for a while and sighed in the same way. The impact he received when he came to Tianjin was really too great.
"Come, come, what are you talking about? Drink, drink~"
Zhang Mao looked at Liu Jin, then at Li Dongyang and Zhou Jing. He rolled his eyes and seemed to understand something, but he pretended to be rude and poured wine for others, shouting and drinking together.
"Yes, yes, with delicious food, how can we not have fine wine?"
Liu Jin also smiled and raised the wine glass in his hand.