The sun has not yet risen, and the cool breeze is blowing. In the atrium of the earth building, Wu Huaiyu is practicing the Eight Parts of Vajra, and his wife and children are also practicing.
A group of children are also posing in a stylish manner,
Huaiyu's children, Huaiyi's children, and Lao Wu's children are about the same age, and the uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces cannot be distinguished clearly.
Compared with the big houses in Chang'an, the round fort in the countryside is closer to everyone and more lively.
The third master lives in the middle of the five round forts, and it is also the inner ring of the five rings of the middle fort. The inner ring is laid out according to the Bagua, with six rooms starting from the same hexagram. When the door is closed, it forms its own courtyard. Each courtyard
There are twelve rooms on the third and fourth floors for living, and there are twelve rooms on the first and second floors for halls, kitchens, warehouses, etc.
And the eight courtyards all surround the huge atrium.
The children get along with each other every day, and it's time for fun, jumping up and down and running around.
After finishing the exercise, I feel refreshed.
The children were still in high spirits and ran and had fun again.
"Alang, Liu Yuanwailang is here."
Huaiyu now works from home and stays in the countryside of Sanyuan to supervise and direct pilot projects. He has more time to spend with his parents, wife and children.
All his staff also followed him to Miyuan and now live in Xibao, Wujiabao. They share various affairs for Huaiyu, which makes him more leisurely.
Liu Rengui and a group of officials and historians from Chang'an stayed at the Dongbao in Wujiabao for office and accommodation.
"Have you eaten yet?"
"not yet."
Liu Rengui was not polite to Wu Huaiyu. The tall and strong man patted his belly and said, "I know that my husband's breakfast is exquisite, so I came here to share the meal."
Wu Huaiyu smiled and called a maid, "Go and prepare."
After a while, the maid brought some breakfast on a tray.
Jian Feng Xiao You Jie Cake, Wo Wo Noodles, Long Lung Pork, Thousand Layer Pancakes, and River Fresh Pimple Soup.
Liu Rengui looked at these items and saw that they were all very exquisite, "My husband's breakfast is really exquisite, and I don't bring the same thing every day."
He picked up a fried pancake and was about to bite it. Huaiyu quickly reminded him, "Don't be impatient when eating this. It's freshly fried. It looks like a crispy bubble shell on the outside, but it's lard inside.
If you bite too many fillings made of sugar, walnut kernels, cooked flour, cinnamon paste, etc. in a hurry, it will easily burn your throat and stomach."
Liu Rengui stopped talking and took a closer look at the cake. The freshly fried cake had a layer of bubbles as thin as cicada wings and as white as frost and snow. It was like a flower blooming. It seemed to melt in the mouth as soon as it caught the wind.
Very fragrant.
"No wonder this oil cake is also called Feng Jianxiao. I heard it is a famous snack in the palace?"
"Well, it's called Feng Jianxiao at the palace banquet, but in my family it's usually called bubble cake."
Bubble cake is very delicious, but it is not easy to make. First boil water and then add lard, then pour flour into the pot, knead the oil and flour over low heat until the dough is mature, take it out of the pot and let it cool, add cold water and knead it repeatedly to form a dough.
, and it becomes hot noodles.
Then mix a yellow cinnamon sauce and white sugar filling, then scald the noodles and filling to make a cake base, and then fry it.
The key lies in the two steps of blanching the noodles and frying, which require skilled experience. Especially when frying, the heat must be well controlled and time is also critical, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve the expanded bubbles or it will be burnt.
Huaiyu picked up one and ate it first.
You have to eat it in small bites, and it will be very hot inside, so it will be very uncomfortable if you swallow it.
Take a small bite, it melts in your mouth, is soft and moist, and tastes great.
Liu Rengui also learned to take a small bite.
"Be careful that the sugar filling will flow, don't let it flow to your elbows,"
A small oil cake, not to mention complicated to make, it only requires lard, white sugar, and yellow cinnamon sauce. This yellow cinnamon sauce is made by pickling fresh osmanthus flowers in sugar and adding some nuts.
Ordinary people can't afford white sugar, let alone a lot of fried cakes.
"tasty."
Wujia's Wo Wo noodles are also very delicious. They mainly use eggs and good noodles, roll them into small cubes, then use the head of a chopstick to hold the dough through the center of your fist, and the noodles will be shaped like a nest, and then add mushrooms.
, shredded pork, fungus and other condiments, stewed into noodles,
Wujia's Wowo noodles also add chicken soup, sprinkle with walnut kernels, shredded egg pancakes, shredded green onions, and finally drip with sesame oil.
The fragrance is very strong and smooth in the mouth.
Liu Rengui ate two bubble cakes and then picked up a bowl of wowo noodles.
After eating it, I sighed, "The aftertaste is long and the aftertaste is endless. This taste can only be found in heaven, and it is rare to smell it in the human world."
Huaiyu pushed a plate of caged meat in front of him, "Actually, whether it's bubble cake or wowo noodles, you can eat them all on Longqiao Street."
"But it's not as authentic as yours."
Most of the shops and houses in Longqiao were built by the Wu family. Most of them are rented and some are self-operated. Among them are shops selling breakfast.
There are shops selling sesame pancakes, steamed cakes, steamed buns, etc., as well as more exquisite ones such as bubble cakes, caged pork, etc. There are even shops selling morning tea and morning wine.
Longqiao's industry and commerce is booming, there are many merchants, and consumption is good.
The various delicacies on Longqiao Street are even famous in Chang'an. If you pass by Longqiao, you must try them.
Long cage pork is actually glutinous rice flour mixed with diced pork belly and steamed in a cage. It becomes softer and softer and is very delicious.
Another Thousand Layer Oil Cake, also called Qianqian Oil Cake, is characterized by its many layers, which are thin and fluffy but not greasy. It is even more flavorful when paired with almond soy milk.
It’s also good to go with river fresh pimple soup.
The fish, shrimp and river delicacies in this pimple soup are all very fresh and were just caught from the Qinghe River in the morning.
As the largest noble here, the Wu family would have many nearby people bring in fish and shrimps, birds, rabbits, wild boars, wild deer, etc. to sell every day.
Although Longqiao Market is also very lively, people are still used to sending it to Wujiabao for sale first.
Under normal circumstances, the Wu family will also buy the game meat sent by the villagers, and may even pay a little higher than the price sold on the street.
It has been like this for several years.
It's just like the barbarians from all over the world come to the Central Plains Dynasty every year to pay tribute to some local products, and then the emperor gives silk, porcelain, money, silk, etc. in return.
Fortunately, Longqiao is now bustling. In the past, when there were not so many shops in Longqiao, some of the game that the common people got was not easy to sell. Only aristocratic powerful people like the Wu family could afford it regularly. The Wu family purchased it.
, which not only improves life, but also helps the villagers.
Liu Rengui was very satisfied with the meal, and even gained a lot of knowledge. Although he was now a sixth-grade member, he had been lonely and poor since he was a child and had never lived a good life. Even after being an official for more than ten years, he was still quite poor.
"Recently, many people have come to give gifts, not only to me, but also to subordinate officials in the yamen, and to village officials. The officials and officials from Chang'an who went to the countryside basically all received more or less gifts,"
Wu Huaiyu had expected this.
Liu Rengui continued, "Most of the officials I selected and transferred from Chang'an still didn't receive the gifts, while some reported them after receiving them. There are a few guys who are more bold, and even after receiving the gifts, they still have to follow me."
The division is divided into seven for him and three for me."
Huaiyu smiled and said, "It is divided into thirty-seven percent. I heard that it seems to be the unspoken rule below. After doing things and receiving gifts, the officials will take seven percent and then give three to the Shangguan. Of these seventy percent, the official in charge will also have to give some to
For the servants and fellow officials below, he probably gets 30%, while the superior officer gets 30% for doing nothing, which is quite reasonable."
After all, Liu Rengui had been working below for more than ten years, and he was very aware of these situations. "I plan to make a warning, pick a few unlucky officials and punish them severely, and catch two powerful landlords who paid bribes to set an example."
"Without this culture of killing, things will not be handled well."
Huaiyu was not in a hurry.
Light the small stove to boil water for tea,
"This kind of thing can actually be expected a long time ago. Let's not be in a hurry. We should be polite first and then attack, step by step."
After this round of villagers' formal declarations and registrations are completed and verified by village chief Li Zheng, the next step will be the public notice period, when reports and reports from villagers will be accepted.
It would be justifiable to take action at that time.
"Reaffirm the discipline with them and ask them not to accept gifts or bribes, let alone take bribes for personal gain. Give them another chance to correct themselves.
If it is not corrected by the end of the public notice period, then it will be dealt with fairly."
"When you have time, you can also visit the powerful households in the countryside, or say hello to some landlords who have discovered problems and ask them to correct them themselves."
Wu Huaiyu didn't want to rush to kill people or exile him. After all, it was just a trial now. If he did it too harshly at the beginning, it would inevitably lead to greater conflicts.
What he wants now is a good result. The most important thing is to collect more accurate statistics on the registered population, land acres, and property, so as to compile a tax collection and serve as the basis for collecting the two taxes in the next stage.
"There is an Lingshi named Fan Zhiheng in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. He was born in the Fan family of Fanyang. As a commoner, he was recommended by the governor of Dezhou to study arithmetic in the Imperial Academy. He achieved excellent results. Later he entered the capital as an Lingshi and served as an official for ten years.
"
"This man is very good at arithmetic,"
"I was born in the Imperial College, I am good at arithmetic, and I am even a member of a famous family, but I have been an official for ten years and I am still an official," Huaiyu smiled, "Why can't he be promoted?"
The Imperial College was the highest institution of higher education in the Tang Dynasty. It usually recruited the children of noble officials. However, in studies such as calligraphy, arithmetic, and law, it would also recruit some outstanding children of common people, who would usually serve as officials. Although the rise was slow, there were still some.
Opportunity to become an official.
What's more, Fan Zhiheng is still a descendant of the Fan family in Fan Yang and is related to the Lu family. Logically speaking, by now, he can at least be a recorder or a ninth grader.
"Fan Zhiheng has taken a group to Xiaoli Village these days and is very serious about his work."
"Um."
"Li Yuanwai of Xiaoli Village was a bad commander of Wannian County in the previous dynasty, and Wu Dechu served as Yuanwai County Captain for two years."
"I've heard of this man."
"Fan Zhiheng was in Xiaoli Village, and Yuanwai Li gave him six banknotes worth one thousand yuan. He refused and refused to accept them, but he came to me the same day and handed over the six thousand banknotes.
In the following days, when he checked the property and fields of Yuan Li's family, he used his extraordinary arithmetic skills to compare the past files, and talked with the Li family and the villagers, and revealed many properties and people that Yuan Li had hidden.
The properties such as the slaves, livestock, workshops, etc. have all been recorded and reported to me one by one."
When Liu Rengui said this, Wu Huaiyu understood why Fan Zhiheng was still in the imperial court for ten years.
Mr. Li gave him 6,000 yuan without asking him to do anything, and everyone accepted it. But after Fan Zhiheng accepted it, he turned around and reported to his superiors. He even found out about Mr. Li's family's fraud. If ordinary people either
If you don't accept it, you will at least turn a blind eye.
Subordinate officials like Lao Fan are indeed rare.
Not only did he take the money and do nothing, he also stabbed him in the face.
"Mr. Sir, I think Fan Zhiheng is upright and has really strong ability. He can be reused."
"Is there any suitable location in the Yamen?"
"An old hero has retired."
Huaiyu smiled and said, "Since there is a position, let's arrange a Cao Zuo for Fan Zhiheng, but I suggest that Fan Zhiheng can be Si Huzuo first."
Although Shidozuo is just a miscellaneous person,
But this is a signal of reuse. If you mention Miyuan County as Sitozuo first, as long as you do a good job, you can arrange it again immediately.
Once the public notice period is over, a group of subordinate officials who are unrepentant will definitely be punished, and even the current county magistrates, chief registrars, and county lieutenants in the county government may have to be adjusted. Fan Zhiheng can be assigned to them at that time.
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"I will bring Fan Zhiheng to see my husband later."
