Chinese dining table

Chapter 242
A thing has to go through many joints from the beginning of planning, to the formal implementation, and then to the start of work.

Therefore, during the twelfth lunar month, the figures of Yun Chu and Liu Rengui kept appearing in various yamen in the imperial city.

Ask the Shaofu supervisor for a weaver, ask the Sinong Temple for a doctorate in agriculture, ask the general supervisor for a blacksmith, carpenter, and mason, ask the Taipu Temple for cattle, horses, and carts, and ask the Dushui Supervisor if he can build a waterwheel at the mouth of the river. Finally, we need to find a large amount of start-up capital from the Ministry of Finance.

Under normal circumstances, when you hand over things to these departments, they will appear extremely enthusiastic. As long as you ask them for something, even if it is a piece of shit, they will push back and forth.

Especially asking the household department for money is almost like asking for their lives.

Liu Rengui was the candidate for the hard household department. After being rejected once, he found a bench and sat at the door of the official office of Cui Xiu, the left servant of the household department. , it will take the initiative to fill it up, and when it sees that the ground is dirty, it will clean it up with a broom.

One day, two days, everyone took it as a joke, and on the fourth day, Liu Rengui impeached Cui Xiu's corpse at the court meeting for not doing anything.

After Cui Xiu made some excuses, Liu Rengui took out a notebook and detailed everything that Cui Xiu had done in the past three days, even writing down the time when he was born.

He also said that Cui Xiu's effective daily office hours are less than half an hour, and he hoped that the emperor would severely punish this guy who wasted state funds for nothing.

Of course, this matter can be big or small. After becoming a high-ranking official, who doesn't rely on fishing all day long?

Little things can't be brought to the table of the fourth-rank official Zuo Shilang of the household department at all, but big things... To be honest, if the household department has big things every day, it can only mean that the Tang Dynasty is about to end.

With Liu Rengui carrying it in front, Yunchu was relaxed and happy when he was doing business. The young minister of the Taipu Temple only groaned a few words, meaning that the imperial court was short of cattle and horses, and there were not enough cars, so there was nothing left for Yunchu and the others to do. Textile workshop.

Then, Yunchu found a long bench and sat at the door of Shaoqing's office in Taipusi, staring at the young minister with piercing eyes, holding a pen and a notebook in his hand, and wrote on it. Write and draw.

The Shaoqing of the Taipu Temple is no match for the Zuo Shilang of the Household Department. He is an official of the fourth rank, and he is an official of the lower rank.

The left servant of the household department can confront Liu Rengui in the hall. He is not the second in command of a key department, so he really can't stand Yunchu's toss.

So, before the Spring Festival was approaching and the yamen was about to close their offices, Yunchu and Liu Rengui finally got everything they wanted.

Drinking clear tea in winter is boring, so Yunchu and Liu Rengui stayed in the magistrate's office in Chang'an County, cooking pots of tea on a small red clay stove, Liu Rengui didn't know what a pot of tea was.

But Yunchu knows that this thing is the best thing to add to the fun when two or three people are chatting about gossip.

Absolutely no more than four people, once the number exceeds four, the pot of tea will lose its original charm.

The stove is a small square red clay stove with only a fist-sized fire hole, and the dry pine cones are burned inside.

It is just right to put two pine cones in at a time, the bottom one is responsible for burning, and the top one is responsible for producing incense.

Yunchu put a thick cast iron sheet on the fire hole, and the cast iron sheet became hot very quickly.

Drinking canned tea is a very ceremonial behavior, and this ritual is also part of the canned tea.

The tea pot is a black clay pot the size of a fist. After sitting on the iron plate, Yunchu always puts the tea into the pot first, roasts it on the fire, then pours cold water into it with a sound of stabbing, and waits for the water to boil. At the same time, he also took out two dates and put them on the iron plate to roast slowly. Seeing that the outer skin was burnt, he threw the two burnt dates into the pot with a bamboo clip and cooked them together. There are three dried longans that have been pinched open.

After the water boils and bubbles, do not rush to drink tea, but pour out the first tea, add new water and continue to cook.

At this time, the fried buns brought from home had been slightly yellowed by the charcoal fire in the brazier.

The tea also started to bubble up, so I added a spoonful of icing sugar to the small pottery cup with a bamboo spoon, and then slowly poured the bubbling tea into the cup.

There is absolutely only one sip of tea that is poured into the teacup each time, which is enough to melt the icing sugar. Yunchu pushed one of the cups in front of Liu Rengui.

Although he had never drank it before, Liu Rengui drank it in one gulp while sucking in the cold air. At the same time, Yun Chu also finished the tea in the cup...

It was the first time for Liu Rengui to drink such a weird tea. However, the burnt aroma of the tea leaves was mixed with strong sweetness, which still made him feel that this thing was very good. The sweet taste will also come back, which will make people feel refreshed.

He added cold water and continued to cook. While waiting for the water to boil, he would usually take a bite of the burnt-yellow shortbread bun. When the bun was swallowed, the tea was just bubbling, and the cycle went on and on...

"It's just drinking tea, Yunxian Cheng made it so elegant, but this meal of tea may not be affordable for ordinary people and small households."

Liu Rengui pointed to the fried bun with sesame salt sandwiched between it, feeling a little emotional.

Yunchu felt a little nauseous, feeling that there were bugs in the tea he just drank.

In his world, no one ever said that canned tea is an elegant drink. On the contrary, it is a very common thing for farmers in Northwest China to relieve fatigue before and after work. Here, it is Has it become something elegant?
"It's not unattainable, but it's just some tea leaves, some icing sugar, two dates, and a few dried longan. As for this shortbread bun, although it's rare, it's also very good to use Hubing instead."

Liu Rengui took a bite of the pastry bun and said, "I'm not accusing the county magistrate of being too extravagant, but just talking about the etiquette of this tea meal has already separated the county magistrate from ordinary people."

Yunchu poured another cup of tea for Liu Rengui and said, "Etiquette can be learned without cost.

A person always wants to live his life in a delicate way.

Last year, when I went to the countryside to check the lives of the people, I found some children were eating with their hands. I asked why they were eating with their dirty hands. They told me that they had no chopsticks because they were poor.

I looked at it at the time, and there was a bamboo forest in front of his house, but if he wanted to, he could use bamboo to make a pair of good chopsticks.

Oh, the chopsticks I use now are also made of bamboo.

Their house is so dirty that no one can get in. Just in front of his house, there is a big canal with water all the year round.

Their hair has become felt, and their clothes are too tattered to describe, but they don't know how to wash them.

A certain family asked him to work in a brick kiln. As long as he was willing to work, it would not be a problem to support his family of five.

However, he said that his family was poor, and once he left, his old mother would have no one to take care of him, and he hoped that the official could give him a job as a laborer..."

Liu Rengui said indifferently: "How did the county magistrate deal with it?"

Yun Chu sneered, drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, put the teacup heavily on the low table and said, "The head of the house played twenty boards, the housewife played ten boards, and the five children in the family are five years old. More than five lashes.

The woman in her forties who called herself an old woman was also reprimanded on the spot by the official and ordered to clean up the house within two days, otherwise she would be punished severely. "

Liu Rengui smacked his lips and said, "If this beating continues, they may really starve to death."

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "You can't die from hunger."

Liu Rengui looked at Yunchu and smiled, waiting for his answer.

"A certain family lent him a hundred catties of grain, two catties of salt, twenty chicks, thirty ducklings, and a piglet in the name of a brick kiln."

Liu Rengui frowned and said, "This is not a good idea. The reason why the family is in trouble is probably not just laziness?"

Yun Chu laughed and said: "I don't have time to understand how their family got into such a situation, I just need to let their family know that now, their family owes a lot to the brick kiln, and if they want to survive, the man must immediately Going to work in a brick kiln, women must start raising poultry and livestock from now on.

If their family refuses to grasp even this last chance, such a person would have absolutely no need to live.

Killing alive is a great relief for everyone. "

"The laws of the Tang Dynasty do not seem to have such a law that laziness can be killed."

Yun Chu looked at Liu Ren's orbit: "It seems that the county magistrate killed not too few people in Lantian County."

Liu Rengui pointed to Yunchu and said, "That's a bandit, it's not the same."

Yun Chu bit the fried bun and said: "Their family is also a bandit, with their appearance, I can't continue to carry out the plan of raising poultry and livestock in the countryside, because I want to give some subsidies to the people.

If the subsidy is given to this family of lazy people, they will never work hard again in the future, and more lazy people will come out.

After all, who wants to work standing up when they can eat while lying down? "

Liu Rengui wasn't very concerned about Yunchu's killing of a family. The county magistrate guarded the herds, and the local people were the cattle and sheep under the government of the officials. Killing a few black sheep was not a big deal for the county magistrate.

What he is interested in now is why the yamen of Wannian County can have so much surplus to subsidize the rural farmers in Wannian County.

You have to say what you want to say to anyone, and it's best to be with someone like Liu Rengui to confide in your heart.

This is what Wenrou taught Yunchu. He believes that people like Liu Rengui who are not lacking in wisdom, insight, courage, and ability, it is best not to make themselves cloudy, which is not conducive to quickly approaching Liu Rengui. , and it is not convenient to get along with each other in the future.

Especially when the military has grown dissatisfied with Yun Chu, another reliable ally must be found as soon as possible.

And Liu Rengui is just a fifth-rank official, but this fifth-rank official is a reef with only one corner exposed on the water. If you dare to underestimate him because of this, you will definitely be smashed to pieces by the hidden part of the reef .

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