Ming Diary

Chapter 5: New Location 1

The running around in the past few days has been able to make Cao Muwen physically and mentally exhausted. With so many journeys and strength in the cold wind, Cao Muwen consciously admires himself. Holding the tired horse behind him and walking slowly forward, he no longer has the strength to walk faster on the slippery road. Far away, I saw a restaurant with a three-story building, which is spacious and should be available for accommodation.

Cao Muwen walked to him and looked up. He had no choice but to have an inn. At a glance, he didn't have an invitation. A shopkeeper came to sign the reins in his hand and signed the horses from the side gatekeeper to the stable. The service was warm and thoughtful.

As soon as Cao Muwen entered the hall, a strong smell of wine mixed with a warm smell came and almost stammered him.

Find a quiet table to sit down. There are not many people now. There are a few tables near the gate. It seems that there are ordinary people, and there are several merchants dressed as guests, and the rest are scattered.

"It's okay. Now that you have money in your arms, you can kill a lot." Cao Muwen thought to himself that he had been tossed up and down immediately for dozens of days, and now he could finally find a place to rest. It's very comfortable. It seems that after working for days, it has finally ushered in a holiday. Although the most tragic thing was that after two days of fatigue, I found the three words "Monday" on the calendar on the third day.

Cao Muwen's urgency was a few days earlier, and now there is still a lot of time at his disposal. Fortunately, he is fine. After all, he was promoted by his superiors.

Since the Yingzhou War, most of the people in the Jinyiwei system have been promoted. Wu Zheng, Wei Bingwen and three of them were all sent to Jiangxi after being promoted. However, the three did not serve in one place at the same time, which may also be a measure taken by the court to limit the human relationship of Jinyiwei. After all, old acquaintances often mix together and always "proble a little trouble."

Nanchang City is very large. As the capital of Nanchang, how can there be fewer people in the vassal land of King Ning? Jiangxi has also been an important grain-producing area and a hometown of fish and rice since ancient times. The harvest of rice and water is very large, which is also one of the reasons for the large population here. In the first year of Zhengde, the population was close to more than 800,000, and now, it is unknown that the population is 900,000. Perhaps after more than 20 years, it is no problem for the population to exceed one million.

As the land of the king of Ning, the architectural luxury here is not inferior to the northern capital, such as the king of De of Jinan, the king of Jin in Taiyuan, the king of Liao of Ningzhou, the king of Zhou in Kaifeng, the king of Chu in Wuchang, and the king of Lin Linzong. At the same time, these places are selected as vassals. Fang also increased his popularity because of the arrival of the vassal emperor. The palace and residence of the vassal king need a lot of manpower to build, and at the same time, it also drives more people to settle down. Although these vassals who have been promoted to the emperor's relatives have nothing to do with, and they can't say a word in their lives, but this also seems to be the idea of the people in the market - if with these If the emperor's relatives and nobles are closer to the royals, can they also get some noble? Generally speaking, a variety of factors stimulated the expansion of the urban population. During the Zhengde period, hundreds of thousands of people were not uncommon in cities at the level of Nanchang - cities became a veritable population settlement, with three teachings and nine classes, and ordinary people came here to live.

Now the age has passed, but the first month has not yet come out, and the densely populated Nanchang City is still in the taste of the year. There are still many red decorations hanging on the houses facing the street. Even the door of this restaurant is pasted with New Year's couplets, which is nothing more than auspicious words such as getting rich next year and opening the door.

The second child of the store came very timely. Cao Muwen suddenly sat on the chair, which should be said to be hit on it. He bumped on the saddle all day and had been numb in the ups and downs. This suddenly sat on a solid wooden chair, and a strange feeling rose from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. The child was very attentive and came to ask Cao Muwen what he wanted to eat.

"Since you have come to Jiangxi, you have to eat some snacks that you can't eat anywhere else." Cao Muwen thought and asked, "Son, what are your famous Jiangxi food here?"

"Oh, listen to the guest's accent, is it from the north?" Xiao Er's hearing is good.

"Well, I'm from Beijing. Come on... on business." Cao Muwen thought for a moment and replied.

"It turns out that the guest officer is from Beijing? Oh, it's really like an imperial city at a glance. The second child's mouth is also very sweet.

Cao Muwen smiled and asked, "Let's talk about what delicious food is. It's delicious!"

When it comes to Jiangxi snacks, the most famous one should be "three cups of chicken".

Three cups of chicken is a famous traditional dish in Jiangxi. Because it is cooked without soup, it only uses one cup of rice wine, one cup of lard and one cup of soy sauce, so it is called three cups of chicken. This dish is red in color, original taste, mellow and attractive, and suitable for both wine and rice.

If it is said that its origin is related to the national hero Wen Tianxiang. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the national hero Wen Tianxiang was captured, and the broad masses of the people were very sad. One day, an old woman in her 70s came to the prison where Wen Tianxiang was imprisoned to pay tribute to Wen Tianxiang with a bamboo basket and a chicken and a pot of wine in her basket. The old woman accidentally saw Wen Tianxiang and was full of sadness and joy. It turned out that Wen Tianxiang had been killed, and she came to sacrifice to Prime Minister Wen. Seeing that Prime Minister Wen was still alive, she regretted not bringing a cooked chicken, so she had to ask the jailer for help. The jailer was originally from Jiangxi, and he also admired Wen Tianxiang in his heart. He was deeply moved by the old woman's words. Thinking that Wen Tianxiang would be killed tomorrow, I was also very sad, so I decided to use the old woman's chicken and wine to make a decent dish for Wen Tianxiang as a sign of admiration. So, he and his mother-in-law slaughtered the chicken, packed it up, cut it into pieces, found a tile bowl, put the chicken pieces in the bowl, poured rice wine, added some salt, filled it with seasoning and soup, set up a tile bowl with a few bricks, and simmered the chicken over low heat. After an hour, they opened the cover and saw that the chicken was crispy and fragrant. The two cried and brought the chicken to Wen Tianxiang. Prime Minister Wen drank soup, ate chicken, cherished the hatred of the subjugation of the country, and generously sang sad songs. The next day, Wen Tianxiang regarded death as hell and died bravely. This day was the ninth day of December. Later, the jailer returned to his hometown Jiangxi from most of the time. On December 9th, he would pay tribute to Wen Tianxiang with three glasses of simmered chicken. Therefore, the delicious food has spread throughout Jiangxi. Gradually becoming a famous dish, many large hotel restaurants have slightly changed three cups of chicken in order to improve their taste: a glass of sweet wine, a glass of soy sauce, and a glass of sesame oil. Pour these three cups of seasoning and chicken nuggets into the sand bowl, then add a little cold water and simmer until the meat is rotten. It is full of color, aroma and taste, and is extremely delicious.

"Well, I like to eat chicken the most, since I simmer it slowly until the meat is rotten. It is full of color, aroma and taste, and is extremely delicious. Then you must try it." After Cao Muwen heard it, his index finger was already moved.

After a gluttonous meal, Cao Muwen felt that his days of fatigue had dissipated. The body is not tired, but the head falls asleep. In addition to a big meal, I also drank half a jar of hot farm wine to drive away the cold. After a meal, it was time to go to bed.

Cao Muwen came to the guest room and felt dizzy for a while. He was really tired. When he got to the bedside, he had an impulse to jump on it. After packing up his luggage, Cao Muwen fell down on the bed. Without a cup of tea, Cao Muwen fell into a deep sleep.

Although it is a few days earlier than the specified time, he is still sure to go to the front station in advance. Will he have a good impression if he arrives a day earlier? That should be the case. Cao Muwen thought so.

After all, if you have been promoted in the organization, you still have to sell good deeds. Isn't that the right sentence?" If you don't run or send it, you can use it down; just run and send it, transfer it at a level, run and send it again, and promote and reuse it. Although Cao Muwen did not participate in his own running official activities. Because he also knows that it is too early to rise to the position of 100 households only by his age and qualifications. It's just because I have played a little sense of existence in Yingzhou City, and took advantage of the rising trend of the whole brocade and health system to rise, so that I was promoted to the position of 100 households. However, thanks to his old boss, Wu Zheng's worldly wisdom, he said a few more words, which means that he passed without pressure.

Wu Zheng also seems to be a little guilty about Cao Muwen. A very good child was abducted by him and became a member of the "special agent" organ. For the first mission, there was still a mistake when he led the team. Although it was not his main responsibility, he still had the responsibility of negligence. Fortunately, Wu Zheng himself was not punished for this, so under the influence of this mood, he also repaid his guilt that he had not had several times, and finally I won this position. Although it is not high, it is not low. At his age, very few people can achieve this kind of official position. Even Wu Zheng himself, in his twenties, was just a small role that followed his father.

Wu Zheng had planned to work in the south early in the morning. Now that he had the opportunity to choose, he also asked his boss for orders and came to Jiujiang to serve as a deputy thousand households. Although he succumbed to others, after all, Wu Zheng was satisfied with his promotion. After all, he was a person who had made mistakes.

And his other deputy Wei Bingwen is also indispensable, but after all, in order to avoid suspicion, he can't get his two old departments to his side again, so Cao Muwen went to Nanchang to become a small hundred households. Yes! Hundreds of households are indeed small, because the so-called vassal land of Nanchang is a special place in the Jinyiwei system. There are more people at the level of 100 households here than the general world, so a hundred households are really not a big official? At most, it scares the people and flatten the people.

Wu Zheng is in Jiujiang, Cao Muwen is in Nanchang, and Wei Bingwen is in Nankang. Although the three are not together, they are still in Jiangxi, and it is convenient to exchange letters and letters.