Win the Ding 1617

Having said that, all the officials in Tianjin official circles who have received the invitation letter from Uncle Ning Yuan are all worried.Among other things, Uncle Ning Yuan paid a lot for the Liaodong War.She almost lost the life of Princess Zhaoyang, the jewel in her palm, to Tashan!There is also the consumption of the soldiers, horses, food, weapons, and military salaries, which can be described as huge!

Careful officials have calculated in private, not counting the 4000 Tuntian soldiers assigned to Ningyuan General Wu Sangui whose combat effectiveness is far better than [-] households, the Southern Guangdong Army's casualties in this battle should be around [-]!This can be said to be a loss that uncle has never had since he led the army.

There are also a large number of food, grass, military equipment, gunpowder, guns, military salaries, armor, medicine and other materials that were transferred from Tianjin Port. The grain, rice and beans alone cost no less than a million shi!Now, after a lot of painstaking efforts, a lot of supplies have been spent, whoever it is, I am afraid that I will find someone to find something to kill and vent my anger!

The next day, under the leadership of the governor of Tianjin, civil servants, Taoists, military officials and generals in Tianjin official circles gathered outside Tianhou Palace.Everyone accepted Li Shouhan's summons with the mentality of accepting Ning Yuan Bo Lei Ting's wrath.

Surprisingly, Li Shouhan seemed to be in a good mood today, and there was no trace of camouflage at all. He greeted everyone with a smile, as if there was some happy event at home.This made everyone very puzzled. It was said that the rage was extraordinary, and the signing room was smashed into a mess, but now where can they see the shadow of the rage?

In the courtyard of the Empress Palace, a ridge-level ceiling was temporarily erected, and fine cotton cloth was used as the material of the ceiling to keep out the sunshine and wind and dust in early spring.In the ceiling, the silver mats and noodles on the twenty or thirty tables have already been arranged, and in the silver tall fruit plate, four dry, four wet, four fruits and four candied fruit have already been arranged.

The banquet began amidst the apprehension and fear of the crowd.Li Shouhan warmly greeted everyone to sit down, and then called out: "Serve."

Everyone couldn't help being taken aback.What dish to serve?so hasty?Did you really come here for dinner today?However, in this way, what is the difference between us officials and those coolies on the pier?Start eating as soon as you come up, fill the seam with a big bowl of tea, and then go to the pier to carry the big bag?When in doubt.But I saw the servant bring up a plate of very strange dishes.Some potatoes were cut into pieces, and some syrup was obviously poured on them. This dish is special. Everyone has eaten it before, but they have never seen it before.

Li Shouhan smiled and said, "This is a dish that Ben Bo personally instructed the cooks to make. The cooks gave it a name called shredded sweet potato. Because the raw material is sweet potato, and the outside is wrapped in syrup, it can be pulled out like shredded lotus root. So It’s called shredded sweet potato.”

Only then did everyone know the origin of this dish, smelling the bursts of sweetness, they suddenly moved their index fingers.Sweet potatoes at this time are absolutely rare in the north. Moreover, they are eaten in a way that has never been seen before. They are boiled and cooked with high-quality white sugar. How can this be easily let go?At that moment, someone was about to use their chopsticks to taste it, but Li Shouhan said, "Don't be too busy, everyone. This dish tastes very learned."

After Li Shouhan finished speaking, he brought a water bowl.Then pick up a piece of sweet potato and put it in the water, and then eat the piece of sweet potato.After eating, Li Shouhan said: "This dish is good, but the syrup is very hot. If you don't dip it in water to cool down, and cool down the sugar coating outside, you will burn your mouth if you eat it forcibly. Maybe your mouth will be full of bubbles." .

It was only then that everyone realized that they were almost scalded just now, and they were all thankful that they didn't hesitate to eat directly.Then, according to the method introduced by Li Shouhan, everyone tasted this shredded sweet potato.Sure enough, it tastes delicious when eaten like this.The mouth is full of sweetness and does not feel hot.

Seeing that everyone had finished tasting, Li Shouhan said: "Benbo first wants to apologize to everyone. In the past, Benbo was too anxious, always thinking about defeating the enemy, and completely forgot one thing. This war is also like cooking. .Looking at the reality, talking about the heat, the so-called impatient can’t eat hot tofu. Sometimes, if you are too busy, your mouth will be full of blisters, and if you stop to deal with it, the opponent is this delicious sweet potato.”

"Uncle is a hard-working king, and he only wants to wipe out ugly people overnight, and restore a peaceful world to all people in the world. To relieve the worries of the emperor, the subordinates are naturally willing to follow him!"

It was only then that everyone knew Li Shouhan's purpose for serving this dish, and it was just a routine of flattery and loyalty to show his ambition.Seeing this, Li Peiting was naturally not to be outdone. He got up and said, "I'm ashamed of my lord. Now that the situation is collapsing and people's hearts are unstable, it's fine as a subordinate who can't share the lord's worries. You need to be encouraged by the lord. I'm really ashamed to kill you. But don't worry, lord. We will help the lord with one heart and one mind, no matter how strong the enemy is, he will be dead in the grave."

Li Shouhan smiled slightly and said: "You are half right. Jiannu is indeed a dead bone in the tomb. But the situation is not broken, and the hearts of the people are not unstable. Before Guangning was not lost, all our strategies were only Can be deployed around Guangning, the enemy knows how to attack, but I don't know how to defend, so Tashan was defeated before, and Shi Lang was forced to withdraw later. As a result, Liaoyang was gained and lost again, and the success was lost."

"But now, the enemy doesn't know how to attack me, but I know how to defend the enemy. How can we say that the situation has collapsed? As for people's hearts, as long as you and me are of the same mind, this uncle will be what people want." He couldn't help admiring from his heart, and Li Peiting was even more admiring. He said in his heart that the lord is the lord. The collapse of Mount Tai has not changed, and he quickly calmed people's hearts.

Some words lifted the atmosphere, and everyone began to put forward their opinions and opinions one by one. Some advocated immediately increasing troops for a decisive battle, some advocated training troops and fighting again, and some advocated farming for long-term combat.However, too enthusiastic atmosphere also has its disadvantages. Everyone insists on their own opinions and lacks a unified opinion. As a result, they can only waste time in arguments.Unknowingly, all the dried and fresh fruits, snacks and other items on the table have been wiped out.

Li Shouhan interrupted the debate with a smile and said: "Everyone, people are iron, rice is steel, slavery can be destroyed after ten years, but we can't eat after ten years. Come, let's taste it again today." It's a new thing, this dish is the same as the one just now, it's definitely the first time for you to eat it."

Dozens of servants had already filed in, quickly cleared the table and rearranged the cups, plates and chopsticks.After everyone was seated according to the arrangement, they saw that there was only one dish on the table today, and there seemed to be no rice, tea, wine glasses, which made everyone suspicious.What is this for?It can't be taken seriously like Fan Kuai asked King Xiang to eat wine and meat at the Hongmen Banquet. Everyone eats a raw pork knuckle together, right?On all the tables now, there is only one huge thin-skinned iron pot, the size of a washbasin, covered with an iron lid, so it is impossible to see what is inside.Until the servant lifted the lid.Everyone discovered that this dish is special enough.

I saw some beige pancakes stuck to the outer edge of the pot. I don't know what material they are made of, but they are fried golden and exude a tempting aroma. Just by smelling, they don't look unpalatable.At the bottom of the pot, there are some small fish.Those with sharp eyes can tell at a glance that this is the famous golden-eyed whitebait produced in Baodi County under the jurisdiction of Tianjin, and it is the most delicious.This kind of whitebait, also known as golden-eyed whitebait because of its golden eye circles, usually lives in Bohai Bay, swims upstream in winter, and swims to the mouth of the Sancha River to lay eggs. It is also a unique whitebait in the mouth of the Sancha River.

Golden-eye whitebait can be fried and eaten directly without cleaning.Its meat is tender and has the fragrance of cucumber.Therefore, it is listed as a tribute, and it has been favored by the royal family since the time of Zhu Di. Every winter, the palace will send eunuchs to live in Tianjin, waiting to catch golden-eye whitebait.Liu Jin, the great eunuch known as the emperor of Lidi, loves whitebait most. He once set up a "whitebait factory eunuch" in Tianjin to collect Weihe whitebait.When Yuan Shikai was in power."Silver fish tax" was once set up, which shows its preciousness.This kind of fish listed as a tribute was piled up in this iron pot very casually, and because the fish at the bottom of the pot were more concentrated, it was piled up into a small pyramid shape.

Although everyone has eaten golden-eyed whitebait.But this kind of practice, this kind of food, everyone really saw it for the first time.But since it's here, let's try it.As soon as they ate it, it was delicious beyond their imagination.The pancakes are soft on the top and crispy on the bottom. The small fish tastes delicious, and you don’t have to worry about thorns, because even the fish head is crispy.I couldn't stop eating once, and as a result, these foodies who had eaten all over the country quickly ate up the whole pot of dishes, including pancakes and small fish.

Seeing that everyone was eating happily, Li Shouhan smiled and waved his hands, and the servants changed another pot for the adults so that everyone could eat to their fullest.As a result, the effect of the delicious food still surpassed Li Shouhan's imagination. Even after drinking and eating, some people still seemed to have a feeling of not enjoying themselves.Of course, this is what Li Shouhan wanted.

Seeing that everyone had eaten enough, Li Shouhan asked with a smile: "Everyone, is this food to your liking?"

There is a description in "Jinmen Zhuzhi Ci" that "whitebait is served in Shaojiu, tastes like cucumber and is used as soup, jade eyes are as expensive as golden eyes, and Haihe River is not as strong as Weihe River". It can be seen that the taste of whitebait is delicious, but everyone Most of what I enjoy on weekdays is cinnabar whitebait, Korean whitebait, whitebait in white sauce, stir-fried whitebait with green leeks, and whitebait soup; fish rot.How have you ever tasted Li Shouhan, an advanced version of Tianjin flavor characteristic that came out more than 200 years earlier? (To make a joke, there are actually a lot of delicious food in Tianjin, especially river and seafood. However, the world knows, that is, the three, mahua, fried cake, and Goubuli. You might as well think about it, as the earliest How can there be only so few kinds of food in an industrial and commercial city? Where do you put Li Zhongtang and President Yuan Da? Moreover, we don’t know what the smell of Goubuli was, but the smell of Goubuli today is similar to that of your alley. The Hangzhou Xiaolongbao sold at Kouzao shop is not much different.)

Of course, everyone would not say that it was unpalatable, and it was indeed very delicious, so they praised it again.Li Shouhan nodded in satisfaction and said, "This dish is really good, but to make such an effect, it will take some effort."

Then, Li Shouhan introduced the method of this dish, which is actually simple to say, the cake is corn flour with a small amount of bean flour, and the fish is whitebait from Baodi.Although these things are rare, they are not uncommon to everyone, and the key to this dish is the grasp of the heat and the preparation.

In the early stage of preparation, the cornmeal should be put into a pot and scalded with boiling water, then stir well with chopsticks, consider whether to add bean flour according to preference, cool slightly to make the dough moist, soft and hard, not sticky, and not flowy.Live small fish are kept healthy in advance, spit out the dirt, then squeeze out the internal organs by hand, wash them, and control the water.Mix several seasonings into a sauce.Put a large amount of oil in the pot and heat it up, fry the small fish on both sides until they are colored, then cook the mixed juice, taste it well, until the juice overflows the small fish, heat the pot to a boil, divide the cornmeal into ten portions, two or two for each portion , Use two palms to paste up and down and paste them into the pot. The pot must be hot.Otherwise it will slide down.Generally, there is no need to rub oil in the common pot, and then cook it on a low heat for about 3 quarters of an hour.

This sticky stew boiled small fish, which was a common food eaten by people in the market after the opening of Tianjin.However, during the reign of Chongzhen, it was an extremely extravagant meal.The reason is simple. At this time, corn has not been planted in large quantities in the north, cornmeal.Or stick noodles, or rare items, can only be used by Li Shouhan to entertain these civil and military officials in Tianjin.

After Li Shouhan said this, he said: "These things are simple to say, but there are thousands of miles to miss. It is the same dish, the master and the apprentice have two tastes. The difference lies in the understanding of the preparation and the grasp of the heat. I used to say , Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. When Benbo was reading the Tao Te Ching, he thought he was saying that he is a powerful old man, and running the country is as easy as running a small fish. I just found out today. Cooking a small fish is really not that easy of."

It's all said, if everyone doesn't know what Li Shouhan means, then it's really a waste of time.Li Peiting then stood up and said, "My lord, do you mean to agree with me? Use the trade embargo as a means to make a preliminary preparation, just like frying this little fish before it goes to the pan. At the same time, Tuntian District in Shandong and Shanghai They must be caught together. This Jiannu is a small fish, and the Tuntian District business district is rice. The two are stewed in one pot. When eaten together, it is the real delicacy."

Li Shouhan nodded and said: "Those who know me, Pei Ting, are indeed so. In the past, my uncle used Jianu as a dried fruit, which was eaten without cooking. After these days, I realized that Jianu is like this little fish. If If left untreated, the fishy smell will hurt the stomach, and the fishbone will choke. And the Tuntian District and the business district will continue to be built. Therefore, the future policy should be like this dish, handle it carefully and cook slowly. As long as we ourselves No mistake, I believe that after a few years, although the whitebait of the Liaodong rebels are rampant for a while, they are just struggling to cook! Sooner or later, they will become a delicacy in our mouths together with the Tuntian District of the business district. Until then Time, today's unhappiness is equivalent to the hardships of the past. Gentlemen, are you willing to help me cook this dish?"

Uncle Ning Yuan wants to continue farming and commerce?The quick-witted officials were very happy!To farm the fields, it is necessary to recruit a large number of refugees, build water conservancy, and distribute rations and tools. After that, whether it is growing grain or cotton, it will be very profitable.Not only can one's own pocket be filled with silver dollars, but one's political achievements can be fully earned!

As for the so-called business district, it is a place that is making money day by day.A large number of goods and money are flowing, and there are ways to make money everywhere!As for the trade embargo, this is news worth tens of thousands of dollars. You must let your important goods go to Liaodong before the embargo officially begins!In this way, just wait for the embargo order, and you can make a lot of money!

"Subordinates dare not follow the commander in chief?!"

"Willing to follow the commander-in-chief and share the worries for the country!"

"The subordinates are waiting for their lives."

The group of Tianjin local officials who were full of money in their heads hiccupped, looking forward to a bright future, and left separately.In Tianhou Palace, all those left are Li Shouhan's direct descendants, officials above battalion officer of the Southern Guangdong Army in Tianjin.

"There is no one who needs us to save right now, so we can think about it for a while!"

They were all his direct subordinates, so Li Shouhan naturally didn't have so many scruples when speaking.

After the war, both sides were exhausted and needed a period of time to recuperate, heal their wounds, and prepare for the next battle.Therefore, Li Shouhan planned to use this rare time window to turn Tianjin Denglai and other places into a forward base for the Southern Guangdong Army, laying a solid material foundation for the next war.

"I intend to turn the current Tianjin into a wartime camp for fighting the Liao thieves in the future. Not only must the barracks be built, but there must also be various facilities around the barracks to serve the war. Naturally, the docks, warehouses, warehouses, roads, etc. are indispensable, factories and shops. There must be one too!"

"Order!"

These people in the Southern Guangdong Army have always only had their lord in their hearts, not the emperor. As long as the lord does what they want, anyway, we don’t have any shortage of money and food, so just spread the money and food to do it!Nowadays, land is worthless, and labor is cheap. The lord did this because he saw that it was a spring famine, and those suffering haha ​​had no way to get over it. They were also poor poor people. They wanted to use work as a substitute for relief!

At that moment, without waiting for the imperial court's order, they began to build large-scale construction projects around Tianjin Wei, making preparations for Li Shouhan's grand project.Such a big movement naturally attracted countless hungry people and refugees. From Jimen to Gyeonggi, and even Baoding, there are large groups of refugees who come here to support the old and the young, in order to find something to do here. Get through this spring.

"My lord, do you want to issue a military order to Shi Lang's navy to seal off the coastal areas and not let the boards go into the sea? Make Jiannu not get a grain of rice or an inch of cloth?"

In Tianhou Palace, Li Shouhan and Li Peiting cooked tea and chatted. Our Second Young Master Li tried to get the trump card from Li Shouhan for the trade embargo he imposed on the Liaodong rebels.

"Don't let the slabs go to the sea? The Liao thieves won't be able to get what they want?" Li Shouhan rolled his eyes, and the ban on the sea can only be cheaper. Those Shanxi merchants who rely on land transport for bulk commodities can sit on the ground and raise prices. .

"The Liaodong rebels have just defeated Hong Chengchou. They must have seized a lot of property. Can we turn this wealth into their swords and guns, armor on their bodies, and food in their stomachs?" Embarrassed, a little confused, I had to laugh with the lord.

"Tell you that the shopkeepers who are stationed in Liaodong not only can't stop the trade with Liao thieves, on the contrary, they must increase the trade with Liao thieves. All kinds of silk, glass, ceramics, tea, tea bricks, refined salt, sugar And other luxuries, just send them to Liaodong, as long as you don’t sell food and weapons to Liao thieves! Regarding these goods, I will tell the navy and strictly investigate and arrest them!”

Li Shouhan's policy immediately made Li Peiting feel at ease. The so-called trade embargo is actually not about not selling anything, but about buying what I want, selling what I want, and not selling what I don't want to sell.At the same time, the embargo on important strategic materials should be strengthened.

However, the problem came again.What the Southern Guangdong Army exported were necessities and luxuries with high added value. Although they could be provided to the rebels in Liaodong to improve their aesthetic standards and enjoyment of life, what would they use to pay for the goods?

It is definitely not enough to rely on the money captured by Master Hong. The so-called three treasures of Liaodong, ginseng mink fur, and raw gold, etc., Li Peiting himself obtained from Kuyi Island and from the Sauron people in the direction of Yongning Temple. And the price is far more than the Liao thieves.

It can only be another way.

"My lord, my subordinate has a little opinion, please correct me, my lord."

He ordered someone to fetch something and put it in front of Li Shouhan. (To be continued..)

ps: Continue to ask for a monthly pass.