After the game emperor awakens

Baijiafan is mostly home-cooked food. The current cooking method is monotonous, and the conditions of the common people are limited. Almost all the food is made with the most primitive method, and the taste is ordinary.

But there are also surprises.

Lu Xuechao picked up a piece of meat, its color was deep red, but it was not braised pork.The taste is slightly salty, thin but not firewood, fragrant but not greasy, which is a flavor that Yujing does not have.

There is also a green onion cake, which is rich in aroma, crispy and soft, and is many times more delicious than dry grain hard cakes. Yujing does not sell this kind of cake.

If it is improved, there is a better way, and the taste can be doubled.

After tasting a few mouthfuls, Lu Xuechao summoned his followers: "Find out who made these two dishes, and bring them over tomorrow."

The entourage's expression was instantly dignified: "Your Highness, what's the problem with the food?"

Then you don't have to wait until tomorrow, you have to go get someone right away.

Lu Xuechao shook her head: "It tastes good, I want to learn how to do it."

Lu Xuechao was not born able to cook. Before he could develop his own dishes, he invited famous chefs from all over the world to learn how to cook. In fact, it was his choice of taste at the beginning, so Prime Minister Lu invited chefs from all over the world to cook various dishes for his son. However, Lu Xuechao was not too satisfied with the taste of the dishes, so he learned the opposite, and the best is better than the blue.

Because all the chefs are consulted, and the dishes are all delicious delicacies from the banquets of noble families, and they are exquisite and high-end everywhere.Like ordinary local snacks, Lu Xuechao, who grew up in Yujing, let alone know how to make them, has never even tasted them.

But these common snacks often contain a lot of folk wisdom, which are worth learning from Lu Xuechao.

Take command.

Xie Chongjin smiled and said, "You are too studious."

Lu Xue looked at him: "If I know more, I can help you more."

In the past, he worked so hard to learn so many things, all in order to fight against the illusory fate and save Xie Chongjin who couldn't help himself.

Now he is fortunate that he has this ability, so many lives are not wasted.In the past, he wanted to eat good food for himself, but now he wanted to make everyone in the world feel comfortable.

Xie Chongjin smiled, didn't say anything, just gently rubbed Lu Xuechao's hair.

The next day, the person who made these two dishes was invited.

One is an elderly farmer, and the other is a familiar face. It is Da Zhou who was released in court yesterday.

Da Zhou's name is Zhou Ziyan. He is 24 years old this year. He is a passionate young man with a warm heart.

When he was called to the yamen to see the emperor and empress again, his whole heart was disturbed.

What happened yesterday was too magical and too sudden. He was staying in the prison, but he was suddenly taken out to meet the emperor, and he was suddenly released without charge. He walked out of the yamen in a daze.

It wasn't until he got home at night that he realized it belatedly and had a real feeling.

Has he seen His Majesty and His Highness the Queen?

He spoke to Her Majesty the Queen?

His Majesty and His Royal Highness helped him to clear his grievances?

Zhou Ziyan excitedly punched a set of combined punches at home, rolled on the bed with the quilt in his arms, and didn't sleep well all night. While being excited, he was annoyed that he didn't perform well in front of the queen. He must have looked so stupid in the hall.

He is actually a scholar. Although no one in his family has read books, and his ancestors have been selling sesame cakes for generations, he is very interested in studying and becoming an official.

Zhou Ziyan has been righteous since he was a child, he takes pleasure in helping others, and loves to fight against injustices.Seeing many injustices, I deeply feel how little one person's power is. If I can be a superior, I can help more people.After the death of his parents, he took over his father's business selling sesame seed cakes to make ends meet during the day, and at night hung the beams and lit the lamps to read and prepare for the provincial examinations, and finally joined Qiuwei in August last year.

It's a pity that he lost his name to Sun Shan.

Although Zhou Ziyan was disappointed, he was not discouraged, and determined to fight again next time.It's just that before the next scientific examination, he was arrested and put in prison. With a criminal record, let alone the scientific examination, whether he can survive is a problem.

Fortunately, the heavens have eyes, he met His Majesty and His Highness the Queen, and he was able to wash away his grievances.

There is no scholar in Changli who does not admire Lu Xuechao, and Zhou Ziyan is no different.

Excited all night, Zhou Ziyan barely calmed down today, and was summoned again, saying that His Highness the Queen wanted to see him.

Zhou Ziyan was excited and shocked, but also faintly apprehensive.

Could it be that something went wrong with yesterday's case and it needs to be retried?

He is upright and is not afraid of the shadow slanting, but the misfortune of half a year has already told him that Quling's officialdom is dark, the upper beam is not upright and the lower beam is crooked, the superiors distort right and wrong and turn black and white.

Of course, His Majesty and His Royal Highness are definitely not such people.

He's just very nervous.

When he really saw the queen, Zhou Ziyan lost all mood and his mind went blank.

Lu Xuechao didn't wear as grandly as yesterday, she was dressed in snow-white clothes, a few strands of black hair were tied loosely with a white jade hairpin, and the rest was draped behind her back. "Wearing white clothes, wearing white jade, walking with the wind, as if wanting to ride the wind to return" the fairy appearance.

Xie Chongjin was also dressed in normal clothes, not as majestic and scary as in the hall yesterday, and the eyes that looked at Lu Xuechao were somewhat gentle.

Zhou Ziyan blushed, unable to bear the slightest blasphemy, his excitement was exactly the same as that of Fu Xinian when he first met Lu Xuechao.

"Grass, grass people, I greet Your Majesty, I greet Your Highness the Queen." Due to nervousness, Zhou Ziyan stuttered a little.

He is not bad, at least he can speak, the other farmer who was summoned has already fallen to the ground, trembling and unable to speak a word.

Looking at the Empress from a distance in the crowd, and meeting the Empress alone, the tension is completely different.

"Excuse me." Lu Xue said gently, "Don't be nervous, I sent you here because I think the dishes you two cook are very good, and I want to ask you how to do it."

Zhou Ziyan thought of 1 reasons why the queen summoned him, but he never thought it was because of this.

It took him a while to realize: "Your Highness, the sesame seed cakes are the secret recipe handed down by Cao Min's family. But if Her Royal Highness wants it, Cao Min will offer it immediately!"

Another farmer hesitated for a moment before timidly speaking: "Caomin doesn't have any secret recipe. Your Highness wants to know, Caomin just said it."

Nowadays, people’s living standards are not high, and they can’t eat meat several times throughout the year. They only choose to kill pigs and ducks during festivals.Because it is mostly pickled in the twelfth lunar month, it is called bacon.

Yujing has no bacon.Yujing is prosperous and rich, and if you can't eat meat, you can feed it to dogs. Every meal is served with the freshest food, so Lu Xuechao naturally doesn't understand.This is the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people.

Generally, only poor families choose to marinate bacon, and this method has not been widely spread, and most people still don't know it.Lu Xuechao felt that bacon was delicious, and it could be popular among the nobles...and earn a lot of money.

There are also soldiers who march and fight and can only eat dry food. Meat cannot be preserved for a long time, so they can hardly eat it.Learning how to marinate meat will allow soldiers to eat meat, and they will have the strength to fight when they are full.

"Thank you." Lu Xuechao said.

The entourage understood and handed over a stack of bank notes.

The farmer was flattered.He just talked about the pickling method that is common sense to him, and he was able to get a thank you from Her Majesty the Queen, and also received so much silver.

Lu Xuechao carefully wrote down the practice, and had a new research direction.

The farmer walked away with the silver reward, and Zhou Ziyan wanted to leave, so Lu Xuechao said, "Mr. Zhou stay here."

Zhou Ziyan staggered.

Her Royal Highness still remembers him?

Although we only met yesterday, since we met today, Her Highness the Queen didn't mention anything about the yamen, and only asked about sesame seed cakes and bacon. He thought that Her Highness the Queen had forgotten who he was.

"What questions does Your Highness have?" Zhou Ziyan cupped his hands.

Lu Xuechao said, "You took the township examination in August last year."

Zhou Ziyan nodded and said with a wry smile: "Yes, it's just that the grassroots are ignorant, so they were not selected..."

"It's not that you're ignorant and unlearned." Lu Xue said, "You are Xie Yuan from the provincial examination."

Zhou Ziyan was startled.

Jieyuan is No.1 in the provincial examination.After passing the township examination, even if you are a candidate, you can participate in the subsequent general examination and the final palace examination.

But he clearly failed.

"The evidence found by the imperial envoy." Xie Chongjin said lightly, "Then Liu Hanzhang sells his officials and nobility, and the appointment of county magistrates is all based on business, regardless of merit. Changli's laws, unless I personally appoint, no official can't be an official, nor can he donate an official. These people The origin of his official position is unknown. In order to deceive the world, he replaced the merits of the candidates who won the official position with the person who bought the official position. In this way, the person who bought the official position will gain fame, and the real candidate will lose the name of Sun Shan. You are not the first one to be replaced, but He is the only one still alive today."

The magistrate of Zhang County was also replaced.Zhou Ziyan's fame was exchanged to the county magistrate next door.This group of people are in the same boat, and Zhang Zhixian insisted on sentence Zhou Ziyan to death even though the whole town pleaded for mercy, because he wanted to silence him.

Naturally, the prefect of Quling and Zhang County are just the beginning, and the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River is rotten from the root. Xie Chongjin doesn't need to go to the trial in person, the imperial envoy will investigate and deal with them one by one.

Zhou Ziyan gasped.

The only one who is still alive...meaning that the other candidates who were replaced were all silenced.

If His Majesty and Queen's Royal Highness hadn't come down, he might also be one of the dead souls who didn't know that their lives were changed until their death.

"I restore your status as a juren and appoint you as the county magistrate of Xinqiu Ling. Are you willing?" Xie Chongjin asked, "If you don't want to, just wait for the next round of scientific examination..."

"Cao Min is willing!" Zhou Ziyan replied before Xie Chongjin finished speaking.

The seventh-rank magistrate is not a big official, but he has a lot of things to manage. The importance of a good official is self-evident.Negative teaching materials...you can see it from Zhangzhi County.

Zhou Ziyan was born and raised in Qiuling. Because of his integrity and enthusiasm, he was already deeply loved by the local people. It would be perfect for him to be the magistrate of Qiuling.

But Xie Chongjin still considered Zhou Ziyan's wishes.

Zhou Ziyan only participated in the provincial examination, but was taken into jail by the substitute, and had no chance to participate in the next palace examination.If he continues the exam, if he wins the top three, he can directly become a fifth-rank official in the imperial court for a few steps.

Rank seven and rank five have very different starting points.There are very few opportunities for the county magistrate to climb up, and the court will not see even the best political achievements.How many people have been a sesame official for a lifetime, but they have no chance to climb to the next level.

Xie Chongjin has read Zhou Ziyan's article, and he will never stop at one juren.If he wants to continue the exam, he will send another person to be the county magistrate.

Zhou Ziyan agreed without hesitation.

"Oh?" Xie Chongjin raised his eyebrows, "Don't you want to go to Yujing and become a high-ranking official to benefit all people?"

Qiuling Town is too small, too small to see a future.

"Your Majesty and Your Highness the Queen are dragons and phoenixes among men, they care about the world and benefit all people." Zhou Ziyan smiled frankly, "Caomin wanted to study and become an official since he was a child, because he wanted to get his hometown out of poverty, not to leave his poor hometown."

"It would be great if the meager efforts of the grassroots can benefit the people of one side."