One thousand three hundred and seventy-seven, any surplus value must be squeezed out(1/2)
Xinpi is naturally qualified to come here.
Even if he is a white-ban Shangshu, he is also a Shangshu, and he is also a high-ranking official, so he is qualified to come.
After my daughter promised her to the crown prince, her qualifications became more stable and she was no longer afraid of being ridiculed by others when she came here.
To be honest, it feels very uncomfortable to have status but no power. Although there is no power now, there is a future.
If you bind to the crown prince, it feels really extraordinary.
Now he is a white-board minister and still has no power, but who dares to look at him like before?
That was just to make yourself feel uncomfortable.
Today is different from the past, Xinpi has re-installed the battle.
Of course, today is not here to show off.
Today is official business and is here to work.
After the payment is completed, you can still use the public finance to reimburse it. You don’t have to pay any cost. It’s not only good, but also good.
So Xinpi called out the ten most famous dishes of Shanhai Restaurant.
It is said that each one is cooked according to the taste of His Majesty the Emperor of the dynasty, and it is extremely delicious.
As a subject of His Majesty the Emperor, how can you not taste these exquisite delicacies that only the Emperor has eaten?
Manur was not sure about this, only knowing that it was indeed very luxurious, and the luxury reminded him of the private entertainment venue built by Emperor Karakara for his own enjoyment.
Here, I served tea and wine, and then Xinpi began to smile and asked Wei Yong to translate it for Manur to tell the origin of this restaurant.
Then Manur was surprised to learn that the ultimate benefit of this restaurant that was extremely luxurious may be His Majesty the Emperor.
Any consumption they generate may provide His Majesty with benefits to His Majesty the Emperor and make His Majesty profitable.
Of course, this kind of thing happened in Rome, and when he was a little surprised, Manur regarded it as normal.
He would never be surprised that any ruler would do his best to gain benefits.
It is not surprising that those of the ministers come here to consume, obviously to enhance the connection with the emperor.
Later, Manur further learned that the biggest selling point of this restaurant is not only related to the emperor, but also the special experience that imitates the royal life to give to everyone.
The dishes here are all the dishes that the emperor likes. The chef who cooks them is also the imperial chef in the palace, and even the musicians and dancers in the palace performing singing and dancing are musicians and dancers.
In a sense, it is nothing wrong to say that this is a miniature version of the small palace. What His Majesty the Emperor can enjoy is also appearing here, but the specifications are different.
So there is a prerequisite for coming here, that is, you must be a high-ranking official and take charge of some very important power, and secondly, you must be rich.
The miniature version of the palace, even if it is allowed by the emperor to open to the public, is not something that ordinary tycoons can come. It must be someone with some status. Otherwise, what is the difference between Shanhai Restaurant and other restaurants?
How dare I come here even if a tycoon?
Do you want to enjoy royal life?
Are you worthy?
"That means, are all people with status eating here?"
Manur asked carefully.
Wei Yong nodded.
"Yes, they are all people with status, or family members and friends of officials with status. In short, they are all famous figures in the dynasty. Some of them can even meet His Majesty to discuss national policies, and at least they must be able to hand in the memorial directly to His Majesty."
"Memorial?"
Manur was very curious.
"Ah, yes, the memorial book. Some of my Wei officials have the qualifications to write the memorial book directly to Your Majesty and discuss state affairs with Your Majesty. There are more than 1,300 such officials. They are not high-ranking officials of the current dynasty, but also local officials, and they all have great power."
"Discuss the state affairs directly with His Majesty the Emperor? Just use that memorial? Will His Majesty the Emperor reply to them?"
"That's of course. I heard that Your Majesty has to review hundreds of memorials every day and write countless words. Only the First Emperor can compare with His Majesty today."
Wei Yong's face was full of reverence.
What he said is true. Everyone has heard that His Majesty the Emperor is very diligent and does not forget to handle state affairs even if he goes out for inspection.
When His Majesty the Emperor inspected the Grand Canal Project, while inspecting, he also solved more than 1,300 state affairs within eight days. He had to write countless words every day, and many things were arranged by His Majesty himself to make decisions and then executed.
The emperor is so diligent, why worry about the country not prospering?
In comparison, the emperors of the previous dynasty felt that they were not emperors at all. How could they have the courage and mightyness of His Majesty today?
Manur still has many things he doesn't understand. He just planned to ask, but the dishes have been served.
Wei Yong had benefited from it. As the main translator, he followed Xinpi and Manur to the second floor private room. The other entourages all booked a table to have dinner in the first floor lobby.
The lobby on the first floor is where those who have power and status but are not so prominent, or those who have relationships with prominent people stay.
They can't go to the private room, but they can also eat at Shanhai Restaurant, and by the way, they brag about how strong their relationship with the real bigwigs in the private room on the second floor is.
There were only three people entering the private room, so three chairs were left.
Wei Yong never dreamed that he was qualified to have dinner with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is now extremely grateful to himself who worked hard to learn foreign languages.
In the early stage of his life, he was just a small mud leg facing the loess and facing the sky.
Once a storm, Guo Peng made a brilliant appearance. He had the opportunity to read and read, and was even selected as a student of Tai to study in Taixue, and then got the opportunity to become an official.
He changed his destiny, his family and descendants.
He cherished such an opportunity very much, worked very hard, and did not dare to waste a little time, becoming one of the best foreign language communication experts in the translation team.
So today came about.
He was extremely moved--reading can really change his destiny.
The dishes ordered by Xinpi are all specialized in the palace chefs.
The chefs in the palace are basically all old military officials.
In the past five years, I can participate in the selection and enter the imperial kitchen of the palace to cook for the emperor. Now I don’t have seven or eight years of qualifications, so I can’t even think about it.
Every old firehead who comes in has his own unique skills and best-known dishes. Only in this way can he pass the numerous tests of the inner court and become the imperial chef who cooks for the emperor.
However, the royal family was not large, and the emperor did not have much demand for the imperial chefs, so the imperial chefs achieved a rotational break very early.
Later, the emperor felt that he could not support others for nothing, so he asked the imperial chefs to cook for the staff and the cabinet that worked in the palace, which made the ministers working outside the palace hatred and jealous of the staff and the cabinet, and secretly called them a bucket of food.
Later, the emperor found that even so, the imperial chefs were still quite leisurely and had a lot of spare time. He felt that this was not possible. These imperial chefs still had surplus value and had not been squeezed out.
So the despicable Mr. Guo ordered the resting imperial chef to take turns to go to Shanhai Restaurant to cook, and take turns to go out to work with the musician and dance girls to open up a second battlefield.
It is an iron rule to not raise idle people in the palace.
Every carrot and pit, and everyone who comes in must be prepared for 996007. Any surplus value must be completely squeezed, so that the allocation of funds can be worthy.
Those who take money from the emperor's pocket must be mentally prepared in this regard.
Xinpi had eaten many dishes made by imperial chefs at the palace banquet.
The taste is good, the dishes are good, and the quality is excellent. They are all hard dishes that can be counted.
However, the quantity is a bit large, the style is a bit wild, and not fine enough, which is a disadvantage in Xinpi's opinion.
However, the court dishes of the Wei State during the Yande period were derived from military food. The emperor himself also ate military food and has been here today. He likes military food very much and is very accustomed to this slightly rough dish.
The military food is wild, wild, and large.
As soon as the meal was coming, the soldiers who were trained to exhaust their physical strength and whose eyes were green rushed to the vicinity of the Huotou Army's barracks. They were all like starving ghosts who hadn't eaten for three days, and they were so energetic.
When cooking for them, they need to cook a large pot of cooking, steam rice in a large jar, and put soup in a large bucket, and then put rice in a large bowl. The first is to measure and fill the tube, and the second is to taste.
It is not easy for these old imperial chefs who are born in the hot pot to make the taste good.
It is really not easy to make them get the dishes to a fine level.
But this is not completely impossible.
Those who can be an imperial chef in the palace must be large and full while taking into account the taste. They have received unanimous praise from everyone, which is enough to prove that these old hotheads have very strong skills in themselves.
In recent years, with the increase in objective demand, places such as Shanhai Restaurants will also recruit some famous folk chefs to help and communicate with the imperial chefs.
Through communication, the imperial chefs gradually mastered some normal folk dishes and cooking techniques, and integrated this technique with the techniques they mastered, creating a new style of palace dishes.
There are both the wild and extensive founding of the Great Wei Empire by force and the unremitting pursuit of fine food. The combination of the two has led to many new combinations.
Some very distinctive special dishes that can only be eaten in Luoyang.
For example, using iron plates to make iron plate rice, it is fragrant and crispy, which is very good. The chef also adds milk to the stew to make a milk stew. It’s really good, it tastes really good.
It is said that he also received praise from the emperor.
The dishes served now are improved court dishes that were praised by the emperor.
Isn't it a loss to sell you ten times and twenty times the price, right?
New-style palace dishes gradually faded away from the boldness and roughness of military food, and began to have the exquisiteness of high-end cuisine and the cumbersome production.
The only thing that is retained is probably the characteristic of large amounts and fullness.
The court dishes of Wei State are similar to those of the court dishes that the Roman Empire has developed for many years, but they are often different in cooking techniques and have more choices in seasoning.
To be continued...