A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 839 Defense and Capture Camp

In the sub-city of Guangzhou,

In a corridor courtyard with Chang'an style,

"Thank you for taking care of Mother Run and her daughter during this time,"

Chen Sheng said helplessly, "We are brothers and sisters from the same mother. Erlang and I are so alienated."

Runniang was sifting wine aside.

There is a table of Lingnan specialties, including steamed fish with ginger and scallions, grilled oysters, roasted abalone, braised squab, boiled conch slices, as well as the famous Lingnan shrimps, fish, and stewed snake.

"The food here in Lingnan was a bit scary when I first came here. They like to eat raw and miscellaneous foods. Lingnan people eat everything from buffalo and elephant trunks to ant eggs. They all regard them as delicacies, not to mention snakes, insects, rats and ants. said,"

Huaiyu smiled and said to Runniang, "Are you used to this Lingnan food now?"

"Some tried it and found it was good, but some were afraid to try it,"

Huaiyu pointed at the shrimp, "Have you tried this?"

Now the improved "Southern cooking" here in Guangzhou is quite famous. It is as famous as Yangzhou cuisine. It is the more acceptable southern cuisine in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty.

“I’ve tasted it a few times and it’s pretty good.”

This kind of shrimp is to buy fine shrimp, raw cut orchid, sesame, polygonum, etc., first stir up the shrimp with thick sauce and vinegar, cover it with lettuce, cover it with hot pot, and it will jump out of the mouth. There are also cases where it jumps out of the vinegar plate, which is called The shrimp is raw.

This thing is actually Chaoshan raw pickled shrimp, which is quite famous in later generations. Of course, there is a big difference in detail. Raw shrimp is easy to be greasy and a little nauseated, but raw pickled shrimp is not easy to be greasy.

"Here in Lingnan, Chaozhou likes shrimps, Rongzhou likes buffalo, and Xunzhou has wild elephants. If the locals catch wild elephants, they will fight for their trunks. They say they are fat and crispy, and are especially suitable for barbecue. , People in Qinzhou like to eat centipede meat, which is said to be better than beef, people in Yongzhou like to eat ant eggs and stew them into sauce, and people in Liuzhou like to eat bee pupae..."

After saying that, Chen Sheng actually asked the servant, "Are you ready to find elephant trunks, buffalo hooves, centipede meat, ant egg paste and bee pupae?"

"Go back to Alang. Everything is ready and the kitchen is cooking."

"Hurry up!"

These days, there are actually wild elephants in Chaoshan, not to mention Yongguijiao and other places.

However, in addition to eating raw food and miscellaneous food, the food in Lingnan is actually more famous for fresh seafood. After all, Lingnan has many rivers along the coast and is rich in aquatic products.

Because the weather here is hot and the summers are long and the winters are short, we are also accustomed to drinking soup in our diet, and the soup should be thick and drink before meals.

Chen Sheng invited Wu Huaiyu and his sister to dinner at home today, and of course he prepared Lingnan specialty Bu Nao soup.

"Bu Nai Geng is cooked with sheep, deer, chicken, pork and bones in the same pot to make the soup rich and thick. Remove the meat and remove the bones. Add onion and ginger, season with five flavors, and store it in a basin."

According to the local tradition, the way to drink Bu Nai Geng is quite particular. It is called Bu Nai Hui. When the soup is brought to the table, the host lifts it first, fills a ladle, drinks it first, and then passes it around to the ladle, just like a wine parade.

Not to mention, the hot weather in Lingnan makes it easy to sweat, and people tend to have a poor appetite, so this soup is actually a thicker broth.

Drink a bowl of broth before eating. This thick soup is easy to attract and can better supplement nutrition. Compared with eating meat directly, it is not so fatty.

"When I first came here, I missed the Guanzhong noodles and couldn't get used to rice, but gradually I got used to it. It's pretty good, especially the rich river seafood here. I even like eating snake soup now." Chen Sheng said with a smile.

Huaiyu said to Runniang, "Eating snake soup actually has a lot of benefits. I don't think our daughter gets prickly heat during the hot weather. Let's stew some venomous snakes into a soup. Once you drink the soup, the prickly heat will disappear. Even in the future, It won’t last long.”

Runniang was surprised, "Is there such a thing?"

"That's natural, and it's also a kind of medicinal food." Huaiyu said.

Uncle Chen Sheng immediately ordered the kitchen to have not only chicken, deer, pig and mutton soup, but also snake soup.

"Alang, can I have Taibao Five Snake Soup?" the steward asked. "This dish was passed down from the ambassador's house."

The envoy's residence is naturally Huaiyu's observation envoy's residence, and this Taibao is also the Prince's Taibao Wu Huaiyu. This dish uses rice shovel-headed snake, golden krait, bungar snake, water snake, golden snake, five kinds of snakes as the main ingredients, and then adds abalone, fresh bamboo shoots, chicken, fungus, mushrooms, etc. to cook the soup. Take it out and tear it into shreds, filter the soup with gauze, and thicken it into soup.

The taste is delicious, rich and fragrant,

Wu Huaiyu had eaten snake soup when he first came to Lingnan. At that time, the dish was stewed with snake and cat meat, and it was called Dragon Tiger Fight. Huaiyu was unwilling to eat cats, so he improved it himself, using five kinds of snakes and adding a lot of Other ingredients made the soup taste more delicious, and everyone who tasted it was full of praise, so it spread to Lingnan and was called Taibao Five Snake Soup.

Chen Sheng said a word and decided to eat the Five Snake Soup modified by Erlang himself.

"Add some cooked squid," Huaiyu said to Runniang with a smile. "The fresh squid is fried and eaten with ginger vinegar. It's quite crispy and delicious. You can try it later."

You can't eat fresh seafood in Chang'an, but you can eat it in Guangzhou.

Anyway, Chen Sheng, the fifth-rank Sima of the Guangzhou Governor's Office, is really happy to miss Shu and does not want to return to Chang'an.

When the soup is brought up, each person drinks from a small bowl first.

We chatted while drinking. The last time Huaiyu returned to Beijing, Runniang brought Er Pei to Lingnan. She missed her halfway and stayed in Lingnan for a few months, but she got used to it.

"Er Pei gets along very well with master and apprentice A Liu here. They both like music and are especially good at pipa. Master A Liu and Madam Dugu are very good at finger-playing the pipa. Now Er Pei has also switched to finger-playing."

After Fan Xuanfu and the others came to Lingnan, they liked A Liu very much and didn't care about such trivial things as Wu Huaiyu's mercy.

"That Lady Dugu, Madam said she really came from the family of the former Empress Dugu."

Wu Huaiyu didn't care about this. There were already many people from famous families, so it wasn't unusual for some to become slaves in Lingnan.

The Five Snake Soup was served. Huaiyu and Runniang's daughter also liked to eat it. The snake soup was very sweet and light. The children didn't know it was a snake, but they didn't eat meat anyway. They just drank the soup and drank several small bowls.

Runniang said to her second brother, "Brother, I will get some fresh ingredients and send them to our house later. Let the kitchen of the house give some to other young men and women to drink, so we don't have to worry about getting prickly heat."

I enjoyed this meal very much.

After the meal, Huaiyu talked about business with his second uncle.

"My brother Huaiyi is also the defense envoy of Guangzhou, but he is busy with affairs. As his commander, you will be responsible for guarding and capturing the camp in Guangzhou.

I have the money. You can quickly recruit 3,000 young warriors from the regiment training in various states in Guangfu, and train them well as soon as possible. With the current situation in Lingnan, these soldiers may be used at any time. "

The original private soldiers in Lingnan were all organized into unity and belonged to the militia. They worked as farmers in peacetime, trained in leisure time, and were recruited in wartime.

Now, each of the six governor's offices has a garrison camp, which is a standing army. This was prepared to deal with the refusal of Lingnan provincial governors and magistrates to pay taxes and tribute after the new tax law. .

If you don't eat after being toasted, you will have to drink wine as a penalty.

When the time comes, the military commanders and camp guards will immediately turn into tax policemen. They will also serve as a regular security force and a reserve force for the regular army.

The three thousand guarding camp in Guangzhou are not the same system as the five thousand Qing navy in Guangzhou, but in the final analysis they are all to strengthen control.

For such a force, Wu Huaiyi naturally served as the commander, but the day-to-day leadership was left to Chen Sheng. Therefore, Wu Huaiyu gave Chen Sheng the title of deputy envoy for defense in Guangzhou.

Wu Huaiyu will handle the food, clothing, weapons and equipment for three thousand people, while Chen Sheng will handle the selection of elites from local regiment training, and daily training and garrisoning.

"Can you pull this guy up?"

"As long as we have enough soldiers, enough food, and enough pay, then I guarantee enough training, and I guarantee that I will dare to fight and be able to fight!" Chen Sheng said, patting his chest.

"Very good, then I'll leave these three thousand people to you. I only ask for one,"

"When you are summoned, you come, when you come you are able to fight, and when you fight you are sure to win!"

Chen Sheng added, "I guarantee that the Guangzhou regiment will defend and capture the camp with 3,000 soldiers, and we will fight wherever Commander Lian directs us."

"Very good. As long as you select those who enter the guarding camp for training, they will all be given a resettlement allowance, and they will be given fields. During their service, their monthly clothing and food will be one stone of rice and one piece of cloth..."

(End of this chapter)