The Three Kingdoms: The strategist will stop, and Rome will be unified

Chapter 318 Lu Su Who Doesn't Eat Pork

Soon, bags of white sugar were produced. Most of the white sugar was sent to the army of the Guishuang Empire, and a small half was taken back to the court and distributed to officials. Xianbei and Huns with cattle, sheep and horses.

In the court hall, Zhao Feng specially hosted a feast for the ministers in order to show the breakthrough in the quantity of Wei's sugar industry.

Everyone was delighted with this banquet, but they didn't have any special feelings. After all, it was common for the emperor to entertain ministers in the past. They were all those things, and there was nothing new.

After everyone was seated, they chatted and bragged with Zhao Feng for a while, and the air was warmer. In this kind of banquet, eating is secondary, and drinking and bragging are the main thing.

Once the wine is finished, everyone can take advantage of the wine and come out to brag, and this bragging will bring the atmosphere up.

With some beautiful women dancing, the atmosphere will reach its peak.

However, something was obviously wrong with today's situation. After everyone chatted awkwardly for a while, Ju Shou couldn't hold back anymore: "Your Majesty, do you have any wine? Is your throat smoking?"

Zhao Feng smiled slightly: "Come on, serve sugar water to everyone!"

"Sugar water?" Ju Shou was immediately stunned, "Your Majesty, you will not fool everyone with sugar water when you entertain the ministers?"

Zhao Feng laughed: "There is wine, but it's not time to serve, today I'm not here to listen to you chatting, but to let you come to eat and drink!"

Everyone immediately discussed in a low voice.

Jia Xu looked blankly at Lu Su beside him: "Zijing, would it be interesting to have a banquet that only eats and drinks without chatting? Can it still be called a banquet?"

Lu Su smiled wryly: "Your Majesty clearly has something in this banquet, just wait and see."

However, after everyone took a sip of the sugar water, the unhappiness just now disappeared immediately!
"It's so sweet!"

"Sweet and fragrant, as if there is a milky taste in the sugar!"

"Mellow fragrance, Your Majesty, this is top grade!"

"Wrong! This is clearly the top grade! That is the top grade!"

Zhao Feng then smiled and said, "Wine is better, or sugar water?"

Jushou rolled his eyes and said, "Everyone has its own merits, Your Majesty is fine with both."

Zhao Feng nodded in satisfaction, and seeing everyone chatting below, he immediately waved his hand: "Come on, serve the dishes, one by one!"

Soon, pots of big bones were brought out first.

"Ribs!"

Many ministers drooled.

Although all the people sitting here are high officials in the imperial court, except for those of the third rank and above, they are almost all poor ghosts.

Although the salaries of the imperial court are quite high, although there are some changes in the current official system, the subordinate officials still pay for their own recruitment, perfectly inheriting the habits of the big man.

Many officials' pockets were taken away by their own officials.

In addition, except for the senior officials who were rewarded with houses by Zhao Feng, everyone else had to set up their own residences in Xudu.

The west is the place where the poor live, and everyone is decent, and the officials have to walk back and forth after the court is usually down, so the officials live in the east.

In addition to the court officials, there are members of the royal family, local prominent families in Luoyang, and big businessmen who are famous all over the country.

Although Luoyang is big, it can't help that there are so many noble people living here!
As a result, the housing prices in the east have risen year after year, especially after the people and officials' sense of belonging to the Great Wei has greatly improved.

Everyone worshiped the emperor Zhao Feng even more, and they all wanted to live in Luoyang, which further led to an increase in housing prices in Luoyang, so many officials' income was spent on buying houses.

Many officials, after negotiating with the house sellers based on their official positions, signed a contract and sent out a large amount of salary every month to pay back the money.

These officials, for the sake of face, married many wives and concubines, gave birth to many children, and called their parents and clan relatives to live together so that everyone could live a prosperous life, which further exacerbated the tension in life. Difficult, many people can't afford meat at ordinary times.

Of course, pork can be eaten, but whoever lives in the wealthy area in the east is ashamed to buy pork to eat, even if he buys it back, who will eat it?
The first dish, big bones, immediately aroused great interest from everyone.

"It smells so good!" Jia Xu was the first to exclaim.

He happily grabbed a bone, ate it with relish, and licked his fingers from time to time.

Ju Shou even devoured the meal, unable to speak, only waited until he choked on the food, and then desperately gestured towards Zhao Feng: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, wine, minister, minister is choking!"

However, it was another bowl of sugar water.

After Ju Shou drank it, he showed a look of enjoyment: "Uh, sugar water with big meat tastes good! It's actually quite suitable for an elderly person like me!"

However, Lu Su next to him looked suspiciously at the big bone in the basin, took a hesitant bite, put it down immediately, and then began to retch, although he tried his best to conceal it, but he was still noticed.

Jushou immediately asked strangely: "Zijing, what's the matter with you? Did you eat the food rewarded by the emperor until you vomited?"

Lu Su quickly covered his mouth with a bone: "Eat yours! Don't talk nonsense! You're drunk, and your eyes are blurred!"

Jushou laughed immediately: "Zijing lied to me again! I drank sugar water! Can you still feel dizzy after drinking sugar water? Tell me why you are like this? I remember, you like meat the most!"

Xu You next to him also stared at him with suspicion on his face.

Lu Su felt bitter, he came here from Jiangdong, his family business was gone, and now he has lived without eating meat for a long time in order to buy a house in Luoyang.

He still remembers the scene when he was greedy and secretly bought a catty of pork.

However, the moment he chewed the pork, he would always think of the unbearable smell of pig urine, and would retch immediately!
So far, the memory is still fresh!
And the bones, texture, and taste in front of them are clearly pork!

Lu Su naturally knew why he did this, but he couldn't say anything about it. He had already guessed some of the emperor's plans.

"Son of Heaven, this banquet should be used to completely push pork and sugar to the people, to the common people. This is for the ministers to take the lead!"

"It's not hard to imagine that if all the people of the Wei Dynasty were not ashamed to eat pork, and they all liked to eat sugar, then the court could make a lot of profits from it."

Lu Su almost understood Zhao Feng's plan in his heart, so he gritted his teeth not to let himself spit it out.

However, he looked at the pot of pig bones in front of him, and after confirming that it was pork, he immediately felt that there seemed to be a strong smell of pigs coming out of it.

Lu Su lowered his head in pain.

The strong fragrance that I smelled immediately changed!
He also knew that this was a problem in his heart, but he really couldn't overcome this obstacle.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty must know that this is pork. The question is, can he eat it?"

Lu Su suddenly raised his head, but saw that Zhao Feng was eating a big bone with relish, even took out the marrow inside and licked it up, but there were already two big bones piled up next to him.

Lu Su was stunned for a moment: "Your Majesty is so honorable that he eats such cheap pork! If I, Lu Su, don't eat it, don't I think I am nobler than the emperor?"

(End of this chapter)