Xuande

Chapter 827 The Central Dining Hall of the Third Reich
For such a major event that would affect the entire bureaucracy, the basic plan was actually in his hands just now?

I actually read such an important document just now?
Yang Xiu felt dazed for a while.

"Long article, is that really the new system that His Majesty wants to replace the imperial examination system? Is it called the imperial examination?"

"Well, it's true. His Majesty handed it to me. I plan to take a look at it myself, and then show it to everyone in the cabinet, so we can discuss it together."

Chen Qun nodded and said: "The internal examination of the Ministry of Officials is actually a rehearsal of this new system. Your Majesty is making preparations in advance. We also have to give some practical and effective opinions. After the new system is implemented, it will inevitably affect the current situation of the big man. Great benefit."

"Then I'll take a closer look later."

Yang Xiu touched the stubble on his chin, nodded and said: "This level of new system reform will definitely cause a great response. I just saw the exam session. Your Majesty plans to divide the exam into three sections? This may be a bit too strict. Well, this time, it’s just an exam.”

"Your Majesty also has his own ideas, and there are not too many people in the exam this time. If there are too many people in the future, it will be inevitable to screen candidates in three exams."

Chen Qun said with a smile: "Okay, don't talk about it, go to eat first, take your time after eating, and then we will discuss and discuss. By the way, there is still that part of government affairs, you can help me deal with it, otherwise I will Don't even think about going home tonight."

"It's easy to say, it's all trivial, I..."

Yang Xiu was stunned suddenly, and looked at Chen Qun: "Shall I handle it for you? How can I help you handle your matter?"

"Didn't you agree? I put the part of what you promised on your desk."

Chen Qun said with a smile: "Why, Yang Dezu, who keeps his word, also wants to do something that breaks his promise and gets fat? I never thought that you, Yang Dezu, are such a person who breaks his promise and gets fat. If other colleagues know about this, then..."

"Get fat by breaking your promise?"

Yang Xiu was furious immediately: "Yang Dezu has no talent, but he also knows that he will never break his promise and get fat! I will do what I promised! Those things, just let me handle them! If you don't finish all these things, let you do it! "

"That's good."

Chen Qun squinted his eyes and walked towards the cafeteria with a smile. He joined the army of hungry cooks and started a journey of cooking meals at noon.

The place where they want to cook is naturally the newly built Central Canteen of the Third Reich.

The layout of the central dining hall of the Third Reich Palace is different from other places.

It was a particularly spacious and tall palace complex with several different palaces, including a canteen specially used for people to eat, a warehouse for storing various ingredients, and a resting place for the canteen staff.

In addition to these buildings, there is a wider space opened up as farmland for growing vegetables, and ponds for raising fish. The vegetables grown and fish raised are used as ingredients for the canteen, which can be described as Make the most of everything.

The facilities in the entire canteen are also well-equipped and very lively.

In this way, at meal time every day, hungry officials arrived here in groups. Entering from the main entrance, they were greeted by a rather grand main palace. There was a plaque hanging on the main entrance of the palace that read [ The first canteen].

There is a path on the left and right sides of the first cafeteria, the path on the left leads to the second cafeteria, the path on the right leads to the third cafeteria, and there is another path next to the second cafeteria and the third cafeteria, which converge to the fourth cafeteria construction into a standard rhombus structure.

In the cafeteria, skylights are opened on the top floor for lighting. When the sky is good, there is no need to light up the cafeteria.

If it is cloudy or rainy, or at night, the cafeteria will be lit up for everyone to eat and drink. The bright candlelight will cost a lot of money.

In addition to the road, the large space in the middle of the four canteens is filled with trees, flowers and plants. It is full of greenery in spring and summer, and there are occasional sounds of insects and birds, which is quite pleasing to the eye.

Among the trees and flowers, there are seven or eight pavilions that provide shade and protection from the sun and rain. There are stone tables and benches inside, which can be used for digesting food after meals, resting, and chatting with friends.

There are also some people who like to be quiet and choose to take the meals they called and occupy a small pavilion with their friends as a private dining room. Sitting in the small pavilion and talking with friends, eating and chatting, it is also quiet and elegant.

However, because the seats are limited and very popular, you often need to come early to grab a seat, otherwise you can only wait for the next meal to try your luck.

Being able to enjoy daily meals here is a very fortunate thing for some small officials, not only because they can eat and drink for free here, but more importantly, the predecessor of this central dining hall is called Xixi. garden.

Xiyuan was famous during the Second Empire, and few of the officials serving in the Third Reich do not know what the predecessor of the Central Canteen was for.

Even Chen Qun and Yang Xiu, who hadn't been in Luoyang much before, knew that this place used to be the leisure and entertainment place of the first emperor, and it was built with a huge cost. It was an emperor's private leisure and entertainment place.

There used to be a collection of exotic flowers and plants, rare beasts, gold and silver jewels, exotic beauties, and the world is so big that any rare thing can be found here. If you can't find it, it can only mean that the thing is not rare enough.

There is even a swimming pool here. In the past, the late emperor played here every day, drinking, eating meat, and playing with the maids. If it was hot, he would take off his clothes and play in the swimming pool with the maids. If you are a couple of gods and immortals, you will have boundless joy, making people envious and fascinated when they think about it.

Then the emperor died.

After the death of the first emperor, it was vacant for a time.

During the Jian'an period, Liu Bei completely sealed up the West Garden on the grounds of playing with things and spending extravagance. It is said that Liu Bei sold the rare beasts, exotic flowers and plants, gold, silver, pearls and jade in it to the dignitaries of the capital.

Anyone who likes it will buy it, and the one with the highest price will get it. Because the quality is extremely high and the meaning is far-reaching, many high-ranking officials and dignitaries are chasing after them, and privately ask Liu Bei to buy them through the back door. It was used by Liu Bei to expand the army.

People at the time had a lot of opinions on this matter, thinking that Liu Bei did not respect the late emperor and the royal family enough, but later the Empress Dowager Dong issued an edict to allow Liu Bei to do so, and the discussion gradually subsided.

Later, when Liu Bei ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he felt that it was a pity not to use the West Garden due to its superior architecture and vast area, so he reopened the West Garden and built it into the central dining hall in the palace.

Any officials and officials who work in the palace can register with the household department in advance, receive meal tickets, and come here to eat, three meals a day, plus a supper, free of charge.

Those who come to the palace temporarily to do business can also show their official certificate and work certificate at the registration office at the entrance of the first cafeteria, and then receive a temporary meal ticket, and they can eat a meal for free.

You guys also heard that not only the officials eat here, but the nobles in the harem and the empress dowager have their own small kitchens, so they don’t eat here, and even the maids and eunuchs who serve in the palace have a separate kitchen here. The canteen, which is independent of the four major canteens, often takes turns to eat.

And later it was said that Emperor Liu Bei also ate here.

However, Liu Bei usually asks people to bring food to his study to eat alone, instead of going to the cafeteria to eat, because he is worried that everyone will be restrained and unhappy after seeing him.

Should I say it or not, everyone believes that the emperor eats here, not to mention that the canteen is rebuilt from the West Garden, which is quite high-end, but the dishes in this canteen are so good , people feel that it is natural for the emperor to eat here.

The four sub-canteens in the central canteen are also exquisite.

Breakfast, they all have the same content, mainly to divert the crowd. The cafeteria provides porridge, rice, side dishes, fried eggs, various fried rice, etc., which are familiar to the big guys.

In addition, the breakfast cafeteria will also provide [steamed buns], [baozi], and [dumplings] that you have never eaten before. It is said that it is also the pasta that originated in the army. It was first promoted in the army and received unanimous praise from the army.

These kinds of food taste soft and very special, and taste different from the pasta that everyone is familiar with.

During the Second Empire, the pasta that everyone ate was uniformly called pancakes. According to different ways of eating, there were also different names. Steamed pancakes were called steamed pancakes, sliced ​​and eaten in soup called soup pancakes, and baked pancakes sprinkled with sesame seeds. It's called Hubing.

But although these steamed buns, steamed buns and dumplings are pasta, they are not called cakes. The officials don't know how they got their names, but they only know that the master chefs in the cafeteria call them so.

There is no filling in the steamed buns, just a soft dough, and it feels good to eat with side dishes.

Baozi and dumplings are filled with fillings, including vegetable fillings and meat fillings. The fillings are delicious and can be made either steamed or fried. When eaten, the textures are very different.

It's soft when steamed and crispy when fried. Each one has its own merits.

Many people have never seen these foods at the beginning, and they were shocked when they first ate them, and they can’t be eaten outside, only in the cafeteria. People who like them get up early every day to eat, or simply sleep in the palace, In order to have a delicious and free breakfast in the morning.

When it comes to lunch, each of the four canteens has its own merits.

The first canteen specializes in steamed dishes, the second canteen specializes in barbecue food, the third canteen specializes in soup-like foods, and the fourth canteen specializes in stir-fry foods.

Each canteen has more than 20 windows, and the four canteens have more than 100 windows in total. There are different dishes displayed at the windows. If you want to eat any type of food, you can go to the window of a certain canteen to queue up for food. If you want to eat, then go to a few canteens.

Anyway, all major canteens have plenty of seats, so you can sit down and eat whenever you want, which is very convenient.

Some officials are very smart. In order to eat more dishes, a group of people started a group war. Three or five friends went to different canteens to get food, selected what they liked, and then gathered together to sit and eat together. .

It was as lively as attending a banquet.

Dinner is similar, and the four canteens are also in the same situation. However, compared with the large amount at noon, many people find that the dishes in the evening are exquisite and rich, which is more abundant than at noon, but in terms of quantity Not as big as noon.

The chefs in the cafeteria are as generous as their relatives when they order dishes at noon. Whatever dishes are put into the bowls and dishes, they will overflow. It is a big test for the capacity of the stomach bag and the strength of the masseter muscles.

But at night, the hands of the master chef began to shake, and the officials who were shaking the vegetables frowned. A spoonful of vegetables could be shaken off half a spoonful for him, and even the staple food was picked and searched, so that the officials wanted to eat it. Find the imperial doctor in the palace to give the masters a few needles to cure the trembling hands.

But the food is free after all, and the officials don’t spend money to eat. This large dining hall is equal to everyone’s welfare. The emperor pays for it.

They didn't have this kind of benefits in the Second Empire. They had to pay for anything they ate, and they even had to bring their own food to eat. Want to eat so many dishes for free?
At that time, it was more difficult to eat something warm than anything else in the cold weather. On the first day of the first lunar month, I had to endure the cold wind and eat a summer ice drink, which made people stiff from body to soul.

Now that they finally had such good food and treatment, they were afraid that the emperor Liu Bei would learn about their complaints, and then Liu Bei would get angry and start asking them to pay for the food.

Good guy, there is food and drink in this central canteen, there are all kinds of pasta and fried food that you can’t eat outside, just be careful, if you eat outside, it will cost a lot of money no matter what, and in the palace Eating for free is not a concept at all.

We must keep this hard-won superior welfare!
Compared with the various styles of three meals a day, the night snack canteen is relatively simple, because after all, there are not many people who work the night shift, and not everyone wants to eat a night snack, so the night snack canteen is only open in the first canteen, and generally Only noodles and wontons and dumplings are served.

These three kinds of pasta are also very novel things. It is said that they were first popularized in the army and were introduced to the court after being welcomed by soldiers in the army.

Noodles are similar to soup cakes that you eat every day, but soup cakes are thin noodles, not long noodles.

Officials don't know exactly how the noodles are made, but the noodles are smooth and elastic, with rich or light soup, plus a fried egg, it's comfortable to eat, and that's enough.

After all, no one will thank the hen who laid the egg just because the egg tastes good.

However, the excellent taste of this novel noodle still attracted a considerable number of noodle lovers, making them the original noodle stars. In order to eat a bowl of noodle, they would not hesitate to ask Shangguan to work overtime and stay behind so that they can eat in the supper cafeteria. Serve a bowl of noodles.

According to incomplete statistics, noodle lovers who love noodles are the group who have worked overtime and stayed behind the most during this period.

Dumplings are the soup version of steamed and fried dumplings for breakfast. They are also paired with rich or light soup. Drinking soup and eating dumplings is welcomed by many people.

If it is a person with a bad stomach, the master chef in the cafeteria will recommend him to eat wontons.

Unlike dumplings, wonton skins are thinner, and the officials who eat them don't even know how the master chefs make such thin skins.

But it is really delicious, and it is easy to digest. One bite at a time, one bite at a time, and it enters the stomach after a short inhalation. It is warm and does not feel uncomfortable at all.

All in all, the successful establishment of this large canteen has indeed greatly improved the work enthusiasm and overtime enthusiasm of the officials of the Luoyang court to a certain extent. It can even be said that after the establishment of the large canteen, it was very important for many petty officials to go to work in the palace. , suddenly became something worth looking forward to.

(End of this chapter)