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Chapter 20 Rejection

"During the Five Dynasties, people with amazing talents were not popular, but the country was in chaos and change, wars continued, and the people were living in poverty. Therefore, the Master's way was focused on virtue, not talent. Although this son was talented, he was brave, cunning, greedy for money and lust. Once used by the court, the harm might be more intense than Gao Xi. Moreover, arithmetic is just a small path, and the ability of equipment is even more erotic and lewd. Once this wind opens, more people will learn this son, using the technique of craftsmanship and the ability of strange and craftsmanship, and the country will not be in power."

Zhao Kuangyi said that it was a fortune to buy bones to show that the country could attract talents. It cannot be said that it was wrong. Zhao Pu said that he should attach importance to Confucian moralization, nor could he say that it was wrong. The biggest problem at the moment of the Song Dynasty was not that he went south and north, nor that he was in the economy and population, but how to end the chaos of changing countries and dynasties in the past ten years. Therefore, Zhao Pu said that virtue was the second, Confucianism, and the three pillars of Confucianism were to serve the rulers.

"Xue Qing, what do you think?"

Xue Juzheng thought to himself, the three of you opened the door and were one king and two ministers, and the one closed the door and was a family. One asked, one said it was useful, and the other said it was not useful, why should I mix it in? However, when Zhao Kuangyin asked, he could only answer and raised his dentifriculum: "Your Majesty, in the opinion of my ministers, official titles are famous tools of the country, and we must not ignore them. Talents are the foundation of the country, and we must not choose them. Therefore, I think it can be used, but not reused. The Song family Xiaolang is also young and he has talent in arithmetics. It is better to transfer him to the Imperial College to be a lecturer."

That is, doctor of the Imperial College.

The country was established, but the rules were not perfect. For example, Lu Yuqing was Zhao Kuangyin's confidant. Li Chuyun was in Jinghu and Hunan killed people and ate human flesh, making a mess. Lu Yuqing went down to appease him and was promoted to the magistrate. In his thirties, he was promoted to the magistrate and political affairs. The same was true for the Imperial College. There were two supervisors. This supervisor must be held in two systems or as a court official. There were also several lecturers, who had no fixed staff, taught the Nine Classics, Five Classics, Three Rites, Three Passages and Minglu. The rest were like poetry, music and arithmetics, and they were not often placed.

Lecture is easily confused with the storytelling in Wazi, so the people often call them doctors. In the end, they simply changed to the position of doctors. The lecturer of the Imperial College is a doctor, and the doctor of the Imperial College is a lecturer, and the senior national special teacher!

"If Zhao Xianggong said, will he bring bad children of officials?" Lu Yuqing raised an objection.

"Just decide like this," Zhao Kuangyin said. A small doctor, no matter how precious it is, it is not worth even an edict. Just send an eunuch to pass on his words.

...

Dragon Boat Festival is coming.

The eldest sister, the fifth sister and the seventh sister both called Song Jiu to celebrate the festival. In the past, Song Jiu went there, and the most of them went to the eldest sister's house, but now Song Jiu doesn't go, even if this spring, he just went to the three sisters' houses and sat down and came back.

What should we do if there are old people above and young people below?

The tenants all have small families, and only Zhu San and Song Jiu are two bachelors, discussing that the two bachelors will make do with the holiday. The students are on holiday, and there are three days off. Song Jiu decides how many days it has been decided. Three arithmetic questions come out, and Song Jiu gradually saves some situations.

Then when Song Jiu came back with a large bag of ingredients, Zhu San followed behind and looked sad.

The ingredients are good things. Two large eels weighing three pounds are definitely grown naturally, which is only equivalent to half a pound of mutton and one pound of pork.

It's not strange yet. Song Jiu also bought a big turtle weighing more than four kilograms, two kilograms of grass shrimp, each with a head of more than one kilogram. He also deliberately caught a few water snakes weighing more than half a kilogram and a fat-headed fish weighing six or seven kilograms in advance.

I don’t have to worry about not being able to eat. The six tenants and more than a dozen people in the family are living a hard life. No matter how much they do, they can finish it.

It’s like a holiday.

But Zhu San followed behind and was worried. He was from the north, and he could eat fish and shrimps, but this turtle could be eaten black, which was not disgusting. This slippery and sticky eel is a delicacy? Especially these snakes.

Zhu San said, "Brother Song, let's go back and buy a pound of mutton, I'll pay for it."

"You don't understand, how smelly the mutton is, then there is this delicious food. If you want to buy mutton, you can cook it yourself."

Zhu Sanyi was so angry that he asked him to burn.

It turned out that Song Jiu knew how to cook. Whenever the elder sister came over and saw Song Jiu cooking, she was very sad. She was so scared that Song Jiu didn't dare to show her skills in front of her elder sister.

As the school opened, Song Jiu became more and more delicious when he became skilled in craftsmanship. As soon as the two doctors returned home, they complained about their wives, saying that they were not as good as a big man in cooking.

When he returned home, he first brought out the snake. The northerners were afraid of it. Don’t scare the children of the tenant next door. Before he had eaten it, he saw Song Jiu peeling the snake skin and Zhu San ran to the corner of the wall to start retching. After finally recovering, he saw Song Jiu playing eels, his hands were bleeding and some mucus, and he ran to the corner of the wall to retching. It was not until Song Jiu played with river shrimp that he came to help.

The two of them were taking care of the ingredients, and the guests kept coming. First, the elder sister came over. Recently, Song Jiu refused. The elder sister saw a push of snake meat in the blue, and the eels began to be eaten by bold people in the capital. No one seemed to dare to eat the snake meat. The elder sister raised the meat with her hands and asked, "What kind of meat is it?"

Zhu San was pinching the shrimp intestines without raising his head, saying, "It's the meat peeled from several snakes."

The eldest sister was so scared that she was so scared that she hit Song Jiu on the head: "You are making trouble, can you eat snakes?"

Scared away.

The fifth sister came yesterday and said, "Today, the seventh sister is here, and helped for a while, she inserted the dogwood and calamus at the door for Song Jiu, hung a portrait of Zhong Kui on the door, and went home. However, she made an appointment with her elder brother-in-law's family, and the three families went to the river bank to watch the dragon boat together in the afternoon.

Firecrackers sounded in the distance.

Gunpowder was started to be used as firecrackers. Due to the inaccurate ratio of charcoal powder and sulfur, the explosion was insufficient, and the power of the explosion was only dull, just like the sound of firecrackers in later generations getting damp. However, relatively speaking, it was relatively safe and had very few accident rates. It was better than the Tang Dynasty. There were no firecrackers in the Tang Dynasty. In order to exorcise evil spirits, bamboo was burned and the bamboo exploded violently, making a festive atmosphere. That kind of firecracker would be safer.

Song Jiu began to wash his hands and prepare to cook.

Another guest came.

Cui'er was not polite when she came in this time. This kid was too rude and didn't need any etiquette to break in directly, but Yu Ping couldn't even hold him back.

Song Jiu turned his head and looked: "Cui'er, that fragrant wind blows you?"

"The fragrance is outside the door."

Song Jiu walked out of the kitchen and saw Yu Ping standing at the door, scratching his head and said, "Madam Yu, why are you free to visit the humble house today?"

"Everyone in the capital is celebrating the festival, and my family is lonely, so I come and take a walk."

Zhu San looked up and said happily: "That's fine, let's celebrate the festival together."

Song Jiu knocked on his head and whispered: "Don't forget the little lady who was engaged in your hometown."

Seeing that Song Jiu was preparing to cook the dishes, Yuping asked for help. Zhu San said, "Madam Yu, you don't have to interfere. The dishes he cooks are delicious. I guarantee that you will never forget them today."

As he said that, he glanced at the plate of chopped snake meat with his eyes, and then bit hard: "It will be unforgettable."

Song Jiu started cooking, and his cooking skills were very particular, including ingredients, oil, seasoning, heat, and other methods. For example, eels must be crushed with stones and then boiled with boiling oil. As long as they are done well, they will taste crispy and tender. Eat fat head fish for one or two fish, and the fish head must be put with pepper and yellow wine. No matter how expensive the pepper is, it must be marinated with raw powder, egg white, salt, and cooking wine for a while. After boiling water, put it in the pot. The fish meat will be tender. The soup is not salty and the fish meat tastes good. Song Jiu tried to teach Zhu San, otherwise it would be unfair. Why did he cook by himself? But Zhu San is a real foodie. He only knows how to eat and cannot cook, and he can't teach him anymore.

A man who is fully focused on doing things will be attractive. When the beauty comes, Zhu San snatches all the miscellaneous items, and Yuping sits on the stone bench and holds her cheeks to watch.

Cui'er said disdainfully: "What is a skill for a big man to cook?"

"I will make my wife like it, and everything will be prosperous after family harmony!" Song Jiu replied in the kitchen. There are still some feminisms in the Song Dynasty. The dignified emperor teacher Xia Shuo is a typical wife, and the roar of the Hedong Lion Roar also comes from the Northern Song Dynasty. However, if a promising man cooks for his wife's happiness, the family will be in harmony. Yu Ping meditates in his heart: I don't know if he will have such a cute idea when he gets married in the future. Cui'er wants to refute, Yu Ping stops her and whispers: "Cui'er, if his three sisters get married, don't cook by themselves, who will cook for him?"

"Yes, he is as pitiful as his wife."

Yuping was sad. Not long after she was born, the Khitan entered the Central Plains and then retreated to the north. Her father was captured by the Khitan. Her mother passed away soon. She was sold to a brothel by her uncle since childhood. In terms of her life experience, she was even more pitiful than Song Jiu. But after a while, her little nose wrinkled, and the first fragrance came out, which was the smell of turtles in the bacon. Cui'er also smelled it, smelling the fragrance in the air: "My wife, it is even more fragrant than those main stores."

First, the first dish was made, crispy eel section, followed by a shrimp, scallion shrimp, and salted shrimp. Originally, Song Jiu was going to make a drunk shrimp, but he was afraid that Zhu San would vomit again, so he made two traditional dishes.

A dish was served. If you want to arouse your appetite, you must have a full range of flavor. Song Jiu also placed perilla leaves, orange petals, and coriander next to the dish, making each dish look colorful and attractive. The two of them came over from afar. Before eating in the morning, Cui'er couldn't help it. Seeing that Zhu San was busy in, he stole a shrimp and put it in his mouth, and then said, "It's so delicious, madam, you can try it too."

Zhu San said anxiously: "Don't eat it secretly, you haven't burned incense and set off firecrackers yet."

Yuping pursed her lips and laughed.

Zhu San brought the fourth dish with a prank, peach juice and snake pieces, and where to put the eel, it was very obvious. Cui'er didn't say that she dared not eat it, but she didn't taste it, but she didn't know the snake meat, and she didn't recognize it. Zhu San said: "This is the delicious."

"Really or false?" Cui'er stared at the plate. She used the yellow peaches stored last year to cut them into diced them instead of canned yellow peaches. The yellow ones were yellow peach meat and the white ones were snakes. She sprinkled with a layer of carrot flowers, red, yellow and white, and a lightly coated with a layer of starch, at least she looked very good. She stole another piece and put it in her mouth, and immediately ate the deliciousness of the snake meat and the fragrance of the peach meat, and said, "It's so delicious."

Zhu San saw Cui'er stealing snake meat and laughed in the kitchen. When he heard this, he was suspicious. Is it really delicious?

Then the fish fillet soup, fish head soup, and stewed turtle with bacon were also served.

Zhu San went to get the firecrackers and was about to set them off. At this time, the fourth group of guests came. A small yellow gate stood at the door and asked, "Is this Song Jiulang's home?"

Song Jiu said: "Yes, may I ask the eunuch..."

"Song Jiu received the imperial edict."

Song Jiufu sent an edict to receive it, which could not be considered a real edict, but only an ordinary edict of appointment. "I went to Kujing Lane, the capital to teach a book to the Imperial College, and went to take office today, and I admire this."

"I obey the order." But after Song Jiu stood up, he asked: "May I ask the eunuch, what will happen if the court appoints a minister or is promoted to a minister, if the minister does not accept the imperial edict?"

"What will happen to this end? On the contrary, it is a noble character."
Chapter completed!
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