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Late at night.

However, the Zhang Mansion is still bright and the people are roaring.

"Your yam soup is delicious!"

Li Yuan took a spoonful of mutton soaked buns with a spoonful, and was very satisfied after eating them.

The emperor suddenly brought the prime ministers of the three provinces to come, and the Zhang family was not prepared. Because they were having a late chat, Li Yuan simply asked Zhang to prepare food.

Zhang looked at the prime ministers, bachelors, and several princes and princes in the hall, and couldn't prepare too much hearty food for a while. First, there was not so much fresh ingredients, and second, it was time to have a sumptuous feast, and it was time to go.

I just ate mutton soaked buns.

He was so bold that the emperor wanted to have a midnight snack at your house, but Zhang only got a portion of mutton soaking steamed buns. The mutton soaking steamed buns are not unique to the Zhang family. This belongs to Qin cuisine, which is a more traditional Guanzhong food. It was called mutton soup in ancient times, commonly known as mutton soaking. In Guanzhong, this is a very famous and ordinary food.

Zhang went to the kitchen and gave instructions, personally directed Zhou Shi, Qiu Yue Dongqing, as well as a group of people in the kitchen to help, even Cui Yingying, Hongxian, Qi Niang and others came to help. When the emperor and the prime ministers arrived, they still had to have midnight snacks at the Zhang family. This is glory.

Pancakes and mutton soup are all ready-made. Because there are many people in the Zhang family, mutton soup is also a daily dish. Every day, the kitchen will cook a pot of soup early.

This is also the reason why Zhang chose mutton soaked buns, and there are ready-made ones.

After the Zhang family’s pancakes were rolled with flour, they were coated with sesame oil and added sesame seeds. The two sides were golden, thin and crisp.

Li Yuan also often eats mutton soaked buns, but tonight I think the yam soup from the Zhang family is particularly delicious.

"Your Majesty, the most important thing about this mutton soup is to clear the soup and rotten the meat. The most important thing is to cook the bone soup and the broth separately. The meat must be marinated for a day and then cooked for a long time. There are many seasonings to use, and the type and amount of seasonings are also particularly important. A good pot of soup is the key to the deliciousness of this mutton soup."

"In addition, eating mutton soaked buns is also very important. You must tear the pancakes yourself. The more you tear the better, the better it will taste more delicious."

On the other side, the three brothers Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin and Li Yuanji are working hard to tear pancakes for the emperor. As a result, after Zhang said this, the three of them turned their heads and looked at him.

Li Yuan laughed.

Picking up a pancake from the basin and ripping it up by itself.

"Your Majesty, tear the points apart, the smaller it is, the better." Zhang stood beside him and took guidance.

"I have heard that Zhang Sanlang of Bashang was a genius. He was good at editing books, writing poetry, writing medicine, and especially food. When I saw him today, he was indeed well-known." Li Yuan said with a smile, and could see that he seemed very happy tonight. He sat on the tearing pancake himself, and did not forget to greet other prime ministers and the scholars to tear them together.

So, in the hall of the Zhang family, a group of prime ministers, ministers of the three provinces, including senior officials from the three provinces, and dozens of new Hanlin scholars, sat in the hall on the first floor of the Zhang family to tear pancakes together.

The scene was quite spectacular. Fortunately, the hall of the Zhang family was big enough, and hundreds of people were not crowded. However, the guards and eunuchs had no chance to sit in the hall, so they could only stay in the corridor of the Zhang family. There was not so much mutton soup, so the Zhang family gave them pancakes for them to eat.

There is floor heating in the hall, which is very warm.

Li Yuan called Zhang Nie to sit next to him, and chatted with Zhang while breaking the pancakes.

The emperor and Zhang were in front of him, like everyone else, and then everyone worked hard to tear the pancakes. Li Yuan had just eaten a small bowl of ready-made pancakes, but he felt that he was not satisfied with it, so he had to give another bowl, and like Zhang and others, he wanted to break the pancakes by himself.

After breaking the pancakes into pieces, Zhang called the servants in the mansion and asked them to take down the pancakes that the emperors and generals broke. A good mutton soy steamed bun was not eaten after breaking them, but first broke the pancakes, and then took them to process them. Put the broken pancakes in the pot, add dried daylily, good fungus and vermicelli, and cook them with green garlic, and then put coriander out of the pot.

"Don't mess with my bowl."

Li Yuan smiled and said to Zhang, "I broke the pancakes myself."

"Please rest assured that your Majesty will not be confused."

The butler personally took Li Yuan's bowl of broken cakes to the kitchen and cooked the first portion.

This bowl of cake was carried out by Cui Yingying himself and was completed under the guidance of Zhou and Qiu Yueniang. The whole process was watched by the eunuchs from the palace. After it was prepared, another eunuch came up to try it first. After waiting for a while, he was sent to the front.

A large bowl of mutton soaked buns were brought to Li Yuan.

The mutton soup stewed with seasonings such as ginger, garlic, cinnamon, star anise, Codonopsis pilosula, hawthorn, etc., plus daylily, black fungus, add some vermicelli, add some green garlic and coriander, and then add more than two ounces of sliced ​​mutton.

There is also the 50-liang pancake that Li Yuan broke into pieces himself.

What a big bowl.

The ingredients are heavy and mellow, the meat is rotten and the soup is thick, and it is fat but not greasy.

The fragrance is everywhere and it is attractive.

Especially on this winter night, a bowl of such mutton soaking buns is really tempting.

"Please use it slowly, Your Majesty!"

Zhang said with a smile.

Li Yuan picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of crumbled cake. The pancake was soaked with mutton soup. After eating it in one bite, the taste was very good. Not only did it have the aroma of pancakes, but it also had the richness of mutton soup. Li Yuan nodded and picked up another slice of mutton.

This is a piece of braised cooked mutton, which uses half a year old lamb leg meat. This meat is the most tender and the braised tastes good.

I don't feel the smell of mutton.

Pick up a chopstick for fans, which is smooth and delicious. The fungus and daylily tastes so that the soup will not be greasy.

“Delicious, never had such delicious yam soup.”

Li Yuan ate most of the bowl in one breath before slowing down the severity, and did not forget to praise Zhang.

"What's the same as noodles? It's smooth and delicious."

"Your Majesty, this is a fan. It is made of red beans. It is made of silk, so it is called a fan." The cultivation of mung beans has a long history. It has existed before the Tang Dynasty, but using mung beans to make vermicelli is considered a specialty of the Zhang family. In fact, the production of mung beans is quite simple, but the predecessors did not make it, or someone did not spread it.

After a while, the mutton steamed buns from others were also ready.

So, the emperors and generals of the Tang Dynasty ate mutton soaked buns at the Zhang family, and they ate very happily and kept praising them.

"I'm so full. This mutton soaked bun is the best way I've ever eaten. I ate a big bowl without realizing it, and it's so satisfying." Li Yuan laughed.

Others also nodded, and they often ate yam soup and had eaten soy steamed buns. However, compared with the Zhang family, they used to eat too simple.

"Yan Aiqing, after you go back, you will draw down the night's event. After you finish the painting, I will hang it in the palace to collect it. I have already thought of the name of the painting, so I will ask you to visit Zhang Xueshi's Mansion in a private room! "

A minister who was sucking with a stomachache was quickly standing up and taking the order. Yan Liben, the young supervisor, was a famous court master, who was good at calligraphy and painting. Yan Liben and his son were both good at craftsmanship and calligraphy. His father was once the young supervisor of the Sui Dynasty. His brother Yan Lide was Shangyi Fengyu, who designed clothing, umbrellas and ceremonial guards for the palace.

Their family is both an engineering family and has great construction and design. It is precisely because they are an engineering family that their painting skills are also very high.

"Wenyuan."

"I'm here!"

Li Yuan was very satisfied with this late-night snack. He lay on the backrest chair of the Zhang family and touched his stomach with satisfaction, "Let me send a few imperial chefs here to learn how to cook from your family."

"Also, these furniture in your house are very good."

After saying a few gossips, Li Yuan finally said seriously, "If today is unification, I intend to reopen the imperial examination and select talents. Last winter, I have asked the Imperial College and various prefectures and counties to recommend students and students in school, as well as recommending those who have not been studying and have not been eligible in Beijing to enter Beijing. In a few days, they will take the formal exam."

"This time I am planning to select more talents, so I plan to open more subjects this time. Kuaima decided to open scholars, Mingjing, Jinshi, Mingfa, Mingshu, Mingshu, Mingzi, Mingzi, Mingzi, Daoju and other subjects."

"I plan to hold this imperial examination in the new Hanlin Bachelor's College, with the newly-educated Hanlin Bachelor's College as examiners."

From these Hanlin people, Li Yuan ordered four examiners, Zhang, Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui. There were eighteen same examiners, and the remaining Hanlin bachelors were examiners.

This surprised Zhang very much. He didn't expect that he could become the chief examiner. However, after seeing the other three examiners, he was not that surprised.

This year's imperial examination will be the first imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty.

But in general, although the emperor attached importance to it, the imperial examination was not as important as that later. The current imperial examination was only a way to obtain talents, and a relatively minor way. Although many subjects were set up, the imperial examination was only the beginning and its influence was very weak. From the opening of the Sui Dynasty during the founding of the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, until now, the 6th consecutive examination has been carried out for many years, and it has been a long time in the middle, and its influence has been increasing, but it is still not high.

This is why the four examiners are only fourth- and fifth-rank officials, and most of them are officials of the Eastern Palace and the Royal Palace.

However, Zhang still feels very honored to be the chief examiner of the imperial examination.

The legendary imperial examination examiners are quite awesome. Wouldn’t those candidates become their own disciples in the future?

After thinking about it, my disciples were spread throughout the Tang Dynasty’s officialdom, and even the three provinces and six ministries of the court, so I was excited to think about it.

Pei Ji and Xiao Yu, the prime ministers of the three provinces, probably don’t look down on the position of the chief examiner now. After all, even if they pass the Ministry of Rites, they only have to be qualified to be an official and have to participate in the Ministry of Personnel. They have to take the examination for the body and speech, and only after they pass the test will they be awarded an official position, but they are generally awarded a low-level official position of the 9th rank.

Generally, true nobles and even high-ranking officials are disdainful of taking the imperial examination because they can enter the officialdom, which is much more convenient, and often starts at a high level as soon as they enter the officialdom, which is much simpler and more cost-effective than taking the imperial examination.

Should I change the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty and increase his influence? Zhang secretly thought. It will not be continued.
Chapter completed!