Qiming 1158

Chapter 1065 I Treat You

After the things that should be dealt with were almost done, Su Yonglin realized that it was still morning.

Because of Zhou Yunxiang and Qian Yiduo's affairs, Su Yonglin got up early and hasn't had breakfast yet.

So I'm a little hungry.

"Did you eat breakfast?"

Su Yonglin asked Xin Qiji.

Xin Qiji shook his head.

"I haven't eaten yet."

"That's fine."

Su Yonglin smiled and said, "I don't want to eat in the palace, let's go out to eat together, I'll treat you, find a delicious restaurant or a walking stall to eat something warm, it's always comfortable."

"what?"

"Ah what? Go out to eat, people are iron rice or steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be so hungry. Let's walk around, let's go together."

Having said that, Su Yonglin dragged Xin Qiji into his regular clothes and went out to the palace for breakfast.

Su Yonglin is not an otaku emperor who lives in the inner palace, and he is not a person who stays in the palace all day without leaving the door.

Sometimes, he will feel very tired and tired to deal with government affairs.

Too much accumulated pressure will affect work efficiency. At this time, it is necessary to relax properly.

But as the emperor, as the chairman of the Renaissance Society, his words and deeds can have a huge impact, so he must control himself, suppress his desires, and limit his actions.

So in addition to exchanging feelings with his wife Zhao Xirui and taking the children to feel the warmth of the family, the only way for him to relax is to leave the palace with his close subordinates, visit privately in micro-service, and come to the city of Zhongdu City as a person to feel the fireworks of the world gas.

Having lived in the palace for a long time to deal with national affairs, he felt that he also needed to come out to replenish his fireworks every once in a while, so that he would not forget that he was always alone, with inalienable mortal attributes.

The so-called fireworks in the world are the most touching, and being able to feel the fireworks up close is a very healing enjoyment for Su Yonglin.

Dragging Xin Qiji, Su Yonglin prepared to go to Jiefang Street, one of the three major commercial streets in Zhongdu, to solve today's breakfast.

Similar to Su Yonglin, Xin Qiji is also a workaholic. Once he starts working, it will be endless, often for several days. Su Yonglin thinks this is not a good habit.

It just happened to be an opportunity, so Su Yonglin took Xin Qiji out for a stroll and relaxed.

Xin Qiji didn't have any resistance to this. Rather, he felt honored to be Su Yonglin's playmate when he went out to relax.

On the way out of the palace, Su Yonglin met Hu Wei, the new governor of Daxing, who came to visit Su Yonglin.

Such a coincidence, of course Su Yonglin would not let Hu Wei go, and directly pulled Hu Wei out to have breakfast together.

The three left the palace by car under the secret protection of Su Yong and others, and soon came to Jiefang Street, the largest commercial pedestrian street in the southeast of Zhongdu City.

This street is the product of the expansion of the Central Capital City. It didn't exist when Su Yonglin first entered the Central Capital City. Later, it was gradually born with the expansion of the Central Capital City.

At that time, there was only one commercial street in Zhongdu City. After Su Yonglin expanded Zhongdu, it gradually increased to three streets. In addition to Jiefang Street, the commercial street at the northeast corner was called Fuxing Street, and the commercial street at the southwest corner was called Prosperity Street.

It is full of a strong atmosphere of the times.

The three commercial streets have built a prosperous commercial circle in the southeast, southwest and northeast of Zhongdu City. Only the northwest corner belongs to the area where there are many state organs, so there is no commercial circle.

Each of these three commercial streets can be regarded as comprehensive commercial streets focusing on the nature of daily life, such as eating and entertainment, and is deeply loved by residents of Zhongdu and foreigners.

But to say which street Su Yonglin likes the most, of course, it must be Jiefang Street in the southeast corner.

This is not to say which street is more prosperous.

In fact, the prosperity of the three streets is similar, and there is no obvious difference between them. Su Yonglin's policy support for small traders is the same.

The reason why Su Yonglin likes Jiefang Street is very simple, because the food on Jiefang Street is the most suitable for his appetite.

Although Su Yonglin's ancestral home is in Shandong, he grew up in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and his taste inevitably has Jiangnan attributes. He prefers rice and rice from the south to cakes from the north.

The food on Jiefang Street tends to be southern, and there are many restaurants and restaurants.
After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, starting from the Song Dynasty, the proportion of rice in the Chinese diet began to increase.

Song people are good at cooking rice and like to cook rice with other ingredients.

According to the different ingredients, there are clear rice, Yujing rice, pantao rice, chalcedony rice, golden rice, panyou rice, Peng rice, Dagu rice, Erhong rice and Xi rice and so on.

It is precisely because of the development of many habits that are different from the people in the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the matter of eating rice, the consumption of rice has increased significantly, so the local rice production is insufficient, so the Song people still need to import rice from abroad to meet the internal requirements. need.

The famous Champa rice entered China during this period.

After the Song Dynasty moved to the south, the climate and hydrology of the south of the Yangtze River were more suitable for rice cultivation, so the habit of eating rice gradually overwhelmed the habit of eating all kinds of cakes by the Central Plains residents in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Su Yonglin lives in such an environment, and with the memory of his love of rice in later generations, he naturally has many preferences for rice.

He likes to eat all kinds of steamed rice, as well as all kinds of vegetable rice and fried rice. He was an absolute rice supremacist when he was young and young. Without rice, a meal would not taste good.

However, when he went north to Shandong, the harsh conditions and the customs of the Central Plains forced him to accept the reality, follow the local customs, and eat all kinds of cakes with army soldiers, or what to eat.

Not picky eaters, do not engage in specialization, lead the revolution by example.

The premise of asking others to do it is that you can do it yourself and strictly abide by it, so as to establish prestige and maintain discipline.

Due to financial difficulties during the occupation of the Central Capital and a few years before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Su Yonglin still did not improve his meals very much, eating pancakes, drinking pickle soup, and practicing frugality.

Until three years after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the improvement of domestic and foreign conditions and the gradual wealth of the court's finances made Su Yonglin have the conditions to improve his diet.

If you can improve, you must improve. There is no need to keep holding on to the hard times and not let go.

No one said that revolutionaries should be poor and backward, and exploiters should be rich and high-class.

As long as the distribution is done well, the so-called luxury goods can eventually become mass commodities. His goal is to make luxury goods gradually become mass commodities, so that everything can be civilianized and no longer have luxury attributes.

So in the palace, Su Yonglin added various kinds of egg fried rice, various types of sizzling rice, various types of claypot rice, various types of vegetable and meat stewed rice and even Spanish paella to the royal menu.

The way of eating these rice has also flowed into the folk with the publicity of pork dishes, and has become a part of the popular folk cuisine [Court Cuisine], which has been widely circulated.

As the birthplace of court cuisine, all kinds of restaurants and stalls in the three major commercial streets of Zhongdu are closely following the trend of the times, striving for the upper reaches, and carrying forward court cuisine, various magical changes, and the way of eating various foods can be described as A hundred flowers are blooming, competing for beauty.

So starting from the second half of the third year of Hongwu, with Zhongdu as the center, the proportion of Zhongdu residents eating cakes began to decline.

And the number of people who directly eat rice and hulled wheat rice as their staple food has begun to increase.

The publication of the royal menu has also allowed ordinary people to learn many kinds of delicious rice practices, and their impression of rice is no longer limited to the category of steaming, and such delicious practices are not only limited to the upper class.

Riding on this wave, coupled with the Ming government's preferential tax policies and subsidy policies for small and micro vendors, the newly opened restaurants on the three commercial streets have begun to be named [XX Restaurant] or [XX Restaurant], specializing in providing various Various meals.

Steamed rice, boiled rice, boiled rice, fried rice, stewed rice, etc., and so on.

Su Yonglin was very happy when he learned that, once he was free or he felt a lot of pressure, he would bring people to go to a small restaurant on the commercial street to eat, euphemistically called it "Exploring the Store".

This is his only known hobby within the court.

Xin Qiji admires Su Yonglin's personal morals and public heart. While Su Yonglin requires others to be strict with himself, he can indeed be exactly the same, even to a higher degree.

The extravagant and wasteful habits of the previous royal family were almost abolished by him here. His few personal hobbies were to leave the palace and sneak outside to visit the restaurant for dinner.

If you go out to eat, you will spend your own money, treat guests yourself, and the entourage can have a meal with him without paying.

Although it was quite stressful for most accompanying officials.

Because Su Yonglin pulls people out to eat without looking at people. Generally speaking, as long as he has an idea, he can pull anyone out, or if he sees an official on the way out, as long as there is nothing urgent, he will pull him out to eat. .

It would be fine if he was close to the official, but if it was a petty official who was not familiar with Su Yonglin and only knew his prestige, wouldn't he be frightened?

Xin Qiji still remembered that the last time he followed Su Yonglin out, Su Yonglin happened to pick up a young official who was running errands in the cabinet, scaring the young official quite a bit.

Indeed, it was not an easy thing to sit and eat with the two of them. He was trembling, for fear that Su Yonglin would be unhappy if a grain of rice fell while eating.

Xin Qiji even guessed that this guy didn't know what he ate.

However, Su Yonglin was unaware of this, and was pleased with himself.

Fortunately today, Hu Wei is a middle and senior cadre of the Fuxing Association, a relatively outstanding cadre since the founding of the Fuxing Association, otherwise it would be impossible to replace Jiang Yu as the new Daxing Governor.

Still, it's a little nervous to say.

So Hu Wei was one position behind Su Yonglin, walked with Xin Qiji, and asked in a low voice.

"President Xin, I heard that the chairman likes to take officials out to eat. Is this an assessment?"

Xin Qiji looked at Su Yonglin who was walking in front of him, left and right, looked happy, and shook his head with a smile.

"Really don't be nervous. The chairman is already very tired when he handles government affairs in the palace. It's rare to come out for a meal. He won't have other ideas, just eat."

Hu Wei nodded suspiciously.

"Many people have said that this may be a way for the chairman to assess officials."

"Don't think too much. The chairman really wants to assess officials. There are countless ways. There is no need to do this kind of thing when you are happy when you go out to eat."

Xin Qiji smiled and said: "It's just relaxation, rest, nothing else, don't think too much, eat whatever you want, the chairman will pay."

"Really?"

Hu Wei was stunned: "Isn't this the chairman's invitation to host?"

"You have to say this, it is indeed the case. I have eaten several times, and I have not paid for it. Don't worry, the chairman has always been very generous when it comes to meals."

Xin Qiji patted Hu Wei on the shoulder and smiled happily.

At this time, it was the morning of Zhongdu. There were many restaurants and stalls opening early on the street, doing breakfast business, and the people who came and went on the street were people who were rushing to eat breakfast and then go to work.

It is worth mentioning that Zhongdu is a city that never sleeps, and it has the style of Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Su Yonglin lifted the curfew in Zhongdu in the first half of Hongwu's second year, so until now, there are quite a few night owls in Zhongdu even in the second half of the night.

An hour after the night market ended, the morning market opened.

The shopkeepers and street vendors who sell breakfast are very industrious and get up early, come here early to get their storefronts and stalls done, prepare everything that should be cut and heated, and wait for the hungry diners to take care of them. business.

(End of this chapter)