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Pei Shiju said with a smile: "I have already thought of what you said. It is extremely difficult for the two of us to obtain the official position we have now, so naturally we cannot take risks."
Wang Tong was thoughtful and said: "What my uncle means is..."
Pei Shiju said: "My grandson Yuan Qing has a close relationship with Wang Junlin. I plan to find a suitable opportunity to give Wang Junlin some powerful help."
When Wang Tong heard this, his eyes lit up, he nodded and said, "This guy is indeed a good helper for us."
Pei Shiju said with a smile: "Tomorrow Wang Junlin will hold a banquet at his residence. I received the invitation handwritten by Wang Junlin, so of course I want to go."
Wang Tong smiled slightly and said: "I also heard that Wang Junlin actually wanted to cook and prepare delicious food himself. After Sun Sheng, the eldest son, came back from his mission to the Western Regions at the beginning of the year, he blew Wang Junlin's delicious food to the sky. Naturally, I want to taste it too.
It’s something I’ve seen.”
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Wang Junlin attached great importance to the banquets held in his palace. He not only wrote the invitations himself, but also prepared the dishes, selected the ingredients, and prepared several dishes to entertain the guests.
Various ingredients had been prepared three days ago. A big fat pig was hung on the shelf outside the kitchen. It was cleaned up by the servants at the request of Wang Junlin. Wang Junlin left the scene of the Dayun Restaurant murder case yesterday.
, after returning home, he ordered his servants to decompose the pork, specially set aside the pork ribs, tenderloin, and pork belly fat, and then found the fat and thin hind leg meat and ordered it to be chopped into minced meat for later use.
As mentioned before, Wang Junlin often wandered abroad after becoming a mercenary and could not eat authentic Chinese food, so he worked hard to study food and developed good cooking skills. Today, Princess Xinyi lives among the savages of the Western Turks
, the life is relatively stable, which has a lot to do with the few delicious food recipes taught by Wang Junlin himself.
The biggest need of animals is to eat. Although humans are advanced animals, they are still beyond this rule. A delicious meal will often subtly change a person's thoughts or perceptions of a person. Therefore, people at all times and in all countries ask for help.
When doing things, I like to treat people to dinner. The saying "If you want to capture a man's heart, you must first capture his stomach" is a full reflection of this truth.
Wang Junlin knew this very well, so he planned to make a big fuss at the banquet in his palace, using delicious food to change some people's views on him as cruel, cold-blooded, weird, and perverted, thereby subtly dispelling the various opinions of the ministers and nobles about him.
A kind of fear.
Most of the important ministers of the Sui Dynasty were from Xianbei, and they were located in places like Daxing City where there was no shortage of mutton. They had eaten mutton since they were young, so Wang Junlin, in addition to preparing a few mutton recipes that these people had never eaten, spent all his time on it.
On pork. People ate very little pork in this era, but in later generations it was the type of meat that Chinese people ate most, and it spawned too many delicacies. Later generations liked it, and the Sui people had no reason not to like it.
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For example, after careful consideration, Wang Junlin believed that braised pig's trotters would suit the taste of his guests, so he ordered someone to buy a cart of pig's trotters to ensure that each guest had at least one pig's trotters.
Compared with later generations, the cuisine of the Sui Dynasty was too poor and tasteless. In addition to boiling or roasting, or eating it raw, it was unhygienic, and the parasites in it could not be killed, and you would get all kinds of diseases.
Weird disease. Wang Junlin ordered a pork dish at a restaurant on his way to Beijing some time ago. One look reminded him of pork tapeworms running around in his stomach, which made his hair stand on end. You have to know that there will be health quarantines in future generations, let alone this era.
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Wang Junlin remembered that stir-fry probably originated in the Song Dynasty. It was an era where food and clothing were important and material was extremely abundant. It was a paradise for literati. But now that we are in the Sui Dynasty instead of the Song Dynasty, we have to do everything by ourselves, without woks and woks.
In the past few days, Wang Junlin has found someone to make the shovel. Without seasoning and MSG, he can find similar ones by himself, or directly match them with similar ones, such as seasoning with boiled chicken soup. As for soy sauce, it is easy to brew. Wang Junlin in later generations
I tried it myself when I was abroad.
Boil the pig's trotters in a casserole. Ten casseroles were used. Bring to a boil over high heat. Pour out the water, add new water, add ginger, onions, and garlic. Put the seasonings in gauze and simmer over low heat. Wang Junlin is a dignified marquis.
Naturally, he couldn't cook by himself every day, so he called all the cooks in the mansion to observe and learn on the spot. Worried that these people would not be able to remember, he asked the accounting office in the mansion to record the procedures, ingredients, etc. on the spot.
It has to be said that Wang Junlin cooked the food himself, which frightened the servants half to death at first. In particular, several cooks knelt down in front of Wang Junlin crying and shouted, Lord Marquis, please spare his life. This made Wang Junlin speechless and he explained for a long time.
, and even swore to make these people believe that they would never blame them for this matter, let alone kill them.
To be honest, since King Yang Zhao of Jin sent these servants here, everyone has been on tenterhooks because of Wang Junlin's vicious and poisonous reputation, fearing that they might be killed or even eaten by the new master at any time. After all, what happened before about Wang Junlin
The rumors are really too scary and frightening.
It was only after a few days that the servants discovered that the legendary poisonous general Hou Ye was very different from the rumors. They were two different people. He had no airs, spoke easy-going, never punished people at will, and had deep feelings from the bottom of his heart.
Showing respect for them moved them to their core.
After all, servants in this era are as cheap as dogs. When have they ever seen such a kind master? This is because Yang Zhao has a kinder character. There are naturally many families in Daxing City that can afford servants, but compared to the huge number of common people,
The base number is not that many, but servants are beaten to death every day, and beatings, corporal punishment, torture, buying and selling, and humiliation are commonplace.
Wang Junlin was already famous. When he came to Kyoto, he was granted the title of Founding Marquis and General of Zhenyuan. The day before yesterday, he became the Supervisory Censor. However, he did not have any aristocratic family behind him and his foundation was shallow. At first, he was still looked down upon by some aristocratic families from the bottom of their hearts.
But in just three or four days, Wang Junlin used his own efforts to drive Changping Wang Qiu Rui out of the court, let him lose his official position, and even gave him two hundred thousand taels of silver. And then
In yesterday's murderous case at the Dayun Restaurant, Wang Junlin did not deliberately conceal the fact that he was behind the incident, but no one could find any evidence.
The relationships between the various wealthy families in the capital are complicated and have various connections with each other, so that sometimes only one person knows a piece of news, and soon everyone knows it. For example, some cases of the Dayun Restaurant murder case
The truth, when Wang Tong sent the report to Yang Jian, it had already spread among the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.
In short, Wang Junlin used just three or four days to bring down Wang Qiurui, the only person with a different surname in the dynasty, and killed the grandson of Yang Su, the most powerful official at the time. This was a fact that shocked the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and the capital.
The recognition of him by the small and powerful nobles has once again increased, and many people have listed Wang Junlin as one of the people who should not be offended. Moreover, Wang Junlin has no family ties behind him, which makes him somewhat "barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes"
This feeling made many people extremely afraid of him. Yang Su and Qiu Rui did not dare to kill him. In addition to Yang Jian's reason, they were worried that if they failed to kill Wang Junlin, Wang Junlin would be desperate.
, and retaliate against them with the same means.
Whether they were optimistic about Wang Junlin, were fearful, or had their own motives, the number of people who came to Wang Junlin's opening banquet exceeded Wang Junlin's previous expectations.
Pei Yuanqing and Changsun Wuji came over early to help Wang Junlin receive some ordinary officials and nobles. In addition to the expected four important ministers Changsun Sheng, Yang Lin, Han Qinhu, and Pei Shiju, Wang Tong, Su Wei, and Yuwenshu
Three heavyweights also came. In addition, some of Yu Juluo's old subordinates in the army also arrived one by one. Everyone brought valuable gifts. Wang Junlin took a brief look at them.
The value of this gift alone is no less than 50,000 taels of silver, and there are still two heavyweights who have not yet arrived.
Jin Wang Yang Zhao came with the eldest princess Yang Lihua. The guards and honor guards of the two royal families, plus the carriage carrying gifts for Wang Junlin, formed a long queue of carriages and horses. It was very noisy and attracted many people.
Various forces in the capital are secretly making various speculations. The eldest princess is okay, she is just a noble princess on the surface, but Yang Zhao is the eldest son of the current prince Yang Guang. If he has a good relationship with Wang Junlin, will he be the prince?
Instruction? In fact, many people are speculating that if Yang Su was not a staunch supporter of Yang Guang, and Yang Su had a deadly feud with Wang Junlin, and if it were not for the concern of Yang Su's feelings, Yang Guang would have come in person.
The carriages of Yang Zhao and Yang Lihua stopped in front of the main entrance of Qin'an Hou Mansion. Wang Junlin came with a large group of people to greet them. It was obvious that Yang Zhao and Yang Lihua, the aunt and nephew, had a good relationship. They actually rode in a luxury carriage together.
After the most distinguished guest came down, Mo Jiuhan, who was sitting on the carriage shaft, glanced at Wang Junlin with squinted eyes, flicked his whip, and drove the six-horse carriage to the open space specially opened by Zhan Peng next to it.
The old eunuch looked kind and smiling, but only Wang Junlin knew how perverted this old guy was.
They had obviously slept with each other, but both Wang Junlin and Yang Lihua pretended to be unfamiliar with each other. They met each other formally and exchanged a few polite greetings.
Before Chang Sun Sheng, Han Qinhu, Pei Shiju and others came to greet him, Yang Lihua casually picked up the little lynx Maomao at Wang Junlin's feet and said: "I heard that the Marquis of Qin An raised two spiritual beasts, except for this little lynx.
, and a legendary horse with blood mane. Although I am a female, I am a very good horse. So I came to congratulate Marquis Qin An on opening his mansion today. In addition to tasting the delicacies cooked by Marquis Qin An himself, I just want to
Look at that bloody-maned horse. Please Qin Anhou, please send someone to take me to see the bloody-maned horse."
PS: Sorry, I’ve been busy all day today, so I’m late. I’m very sorry.