When Zhao Huanhuan was hiding in the inner room and feasted with Zhao Fujin with crab roe steamed buns that had just come out of the steamer, Zhao Ji, a distinguished guest whom the Grand Tutor's Mansion could not be invited, also arrived in the meal.

"I am late to pick you up, I hope my emperor will forgive me." The old Cai Jing was about to kneel down in front of Zhao Ji. The emperor seemed to be in a good mood today. He waved his sleeves and made a gesture of waving his politeness. Cai Jing, who was secretly happy, then he pretended to be very grateful and straightened his slightly bent body, and his face was filled with spring breeze, adding a lot of color.

"My dear, have you heard about the things in the west?" Zhao Ji asked anxiously.

Cai Jing's visit to the official family has long been in his heart. If he tells it up at this time, his careful preparations seemed too unworthy. He quickly led the way and said repeatedly: "Please, the official family, it's already dinner time, so we might as well eat and talk."

It would be fine if I didn't mention it. When I mentioned it, Zhao Ji was really hungry. He traveled around for most of the morning and even listened to "The Tang Dynasty's Three Zangshu's poems to obtain scriptures" in the brothels. He had no intention of eating at all. Judging from Cai Jing's expression, "Journey to the West" seemed to have a play in the subsequent serials, so he was not in a hurry for a while. He was familiar with the road and quickly walked in the carved beams, painted buildings, and the poetic and painting Cai Mansion. He stopped from time to time and wrote a poem with the scenery in the garden, and the king and his ministers joined hands to write a small poem, which made the subtle emotions between the two reach a state of perfection. Zhao Ji, who was praised by Cai Jing from time to time, was in a good mood. Finally, he took the hand of the minister and walked together, which made Cai Jing's vanity feel infinitely satisfied.

Before the banquet between the king and his ministers began, as usual, it was the first time, that is, the opening ceremony of the banquet. There was only Cai Jing in the lower seat of Zhao Ji. Other kings and ministers who were inseparable from time to time for a happy and romantic life. Cai Jing was actually very satisfied with his current state. The two whispered to each other, chatting about some poems in "Journey to the West", and chuckled from time to time. They talked happily and had a harmonious atmosphere.

At this moment, two pretty maids came together with a plate of eight fruits built high from eight fruits. The first play called "Looking for Vegetables" officially began. These eight fruits are fresh fruits of the current season, including: fragrant round, real orange, pomegranate, cereal, goose pear, milk pear, hawthorn, flower papaya. The third pretty maid held a bamboo slice in her hand and wrote several beautiful and super-spirited words, "Embroidered High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-Headed High-He

The second dish was a row of dried fruit fork bags of Lexian: lychees, round eyes, lotus, beetle nuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, ginkgo, plow meat, date circles, lotus seed meat, Lin Ju, and steamed dates (these things are placed in a cloth bag). The two seemed not very interested, but just glanced at them. Cai Jing now completely took Zhao Ji's preferences.

The third dish was a line of gold-carved fragrance medicines with gold-carved patterns: Brain Flowers, Licorice Flowers, Cinnabar Rounds, Wood-scented Lilac, Water-dead Bob, Shi Junzi, Sand-shrimp Flowers, Official Osmanthus Flowers, Atractylodes, Ginseng, Olive Flowers. Zhao Ji seemed to be particularly interested in these spices, but he was prepared for the beauties in the palace. He went back empty-handedly without a gift and went back to the evening without a meeting. Cai Jing understood and winked at Zhang Di, who was beside him. A handsome servant quickly followed Zhang Di to the carriage where Zhao Ji was riding. It was obvious that the public minister had already made preparations. He stuffed several bottles of incense perfume that were extremely difficult to get. After this thing was taken back by Zhao Ji, a perfume revolution broke out in the harem. This is a later story. I won't mention it for now.

The fourth dish is a line of carved honey: carved plum balls, red flowers, carved bamboo shoots, honey melon fish, carved red balls, papaya section flowers, carved kumquats, green plum lotus leaves, carved ginger, honey bamboo shoots, carved cereals, papaya square flowers.

The fifth course is to look at the dish as a fragrant, salty and sour line: fragrant papaya, pepper and plum, fragrant vine flowers, fragrant cherry, perilla scent, fragrant grapes, fragrant historic willows, licorice flowers, shredded ginger, plum meat cake, water red ginger, and miscellaneous plum cake.

The sixth course is a line of dried shrimps: meat lines, soap bean tangerines, Yunmeng Fenger, shrimps, meat salad, milk house, whirlpool, Jinshan salted soybean, wine bacon, meat melon.

At this moment, Zhao Ji suddenly became interested in the red powder on these waxy wax. He pointed to the whirlpool and asked, "Love, what is this?"

Cai Jing was not in a hurry to answer, but kept it a secret. This thing was offered to him by Shang Jing, a transshipment envoy who had just returned to Tokyo from Chengdu not long ago. At first, he tasted it, and was so anxious that he jumped straight. Shang Jing was so scared that he had the intention to jump the Bian River at that time. You must know that Cai Jing's old waist and old legs could not withstand such torture. Just when Shang Jing was completely disappointed, things changed dramatically. A pretty maid with a clever mind quickly brought a bowl of goat milk. Cai Jing swallowed the cow drink impatiently, and the flush on his face quickly faded away.

Other flavors made him love and hate him. At that moment, he thought of the government in the palace. Zhao Ji couldn't eat these days, and perhaps this thing could regain his desire for food. After trying it with Shennong's mentality of tasting hundreds of herbs, the prime minister gradually fell in love with this taste that he had never had before. Now he almost didn't have this red powder. At this moment, he picked up a piece of golden whirlpool from the plate with spare chopsticks specially used to pick up the dishes for Zhao Ji, dipped it gently a little red powder, and finally handed over the initiative to taste or not to taste to the government.

Zhao Ji hesitated for a long time, and finally, with curiosity, staring at Cai Jing beside him, chewing her sweaty face, and couldn't help but put a piece into her mouth. The moment the taste buds on the tip of her tongue came into contact with the strange smell of thorns, Zhao Ji couldn't help but shiver, and a wave of sweat slowly slipped down with his temples. It felt even more exciting than eating a bowl of ice plum soup in the dog days.

The wood, even the lost taste buds seemed to have come back in an instant. Zhao Ji was so satisfied. He took a fat goose pear for him by Zhang Di, who had just been melancholy beside him. He whirled and drank the goose pear in a whirlpool like Cai Jing. Zhang Di, who was beside him, had never seen Zhao Ji swallowed it like this. He coughed lightly many times and reminded him that the king and his ministers were still eating the cow drink, and did not listen to Zhang Di's kind reminder at all.

"Love, this thing seems very novel, I don't know..." Zhao Ji slapped his tongue and bit the goose pear in his hand. The interweaving of ice and fire wiped out the original wealth and disease in his body, and his appetite suddenly became widespread.

"Officials, this thing is called chili pepper. Usually eaten with meat and poultry, it is definitely comparable to any kind of delicious food in the world."

"I am so lucky."

Cai Jing felt ecstatic when he heard Zhao Ji's praise. The things sent thousands of miles away were just useful, but he did not mention Wu Bo, the governor of Chengdu who invented this thing, and directly intercepted Wu Yonglin's Hu. He didn't want to steal the limelight because of that guy.

The dishes are still going on. The seventh course is the eight plates of hanging hands: picking bees, grapes, rosary beads, balans, big kumquats, new coconut ivory boards, small olives, and elm tangerines.

While waiting for the seventy-six courses to see the dishes served, Zhao Ji and Cai Jing were already red and red with peppers, and their bodies were wet with sweat. After they took them to the inner room to change into dry clothes, the second item of the banquet was - the appetizer before serving, which was actually the fruit before serving.

This time, there are a line of fruits cut: spring lotus root, goose pear cake, sugarcane, milk pear moon, red persimmon, cut orange, green orange, raw lotus root tins;

Shixin fruits are among the line: kumquat, bayberry, Silla kudzu, cut honey mushroom, crispy orange, elm tangerine, new coconut, cheryi mother and son, lotus root tangerine, sugarcane Naxiang, new tangerine, pear pork belly;

Longzang Fruits and a line: lychee nectar cake, lychee and douki flowers, good lychee man, longzang peach strips, crispy walnuts, jujube circles, pear meat, fragrant lotus incident, fragrant medicinal grapes, pine nuts, frosted jade bee, white peach strips; this time, thirty-two kinds were added, Zhao Ji had just swallowed too much peppers, and his whole mouth was hot. Seeing the watery sugarcane on the table, he didn't care about his appearance, picked up one, and started chewing it out loud, let Cai Jing bee on the side see it, and was happy in his heart. The emperor could not treat himself as an outsider when he had dinner here, which means that today's public relations was very successful.

In fact, Zhao Ji was not full at this time. After all, most of them just looked at it and didn't even move. He also knew that the main seat was behind. Since the ministers were entertained with each other, he had to try it more or less and sell the public minister to face.

As the saying goes, there is no alcohol, and after the banquet begins, you will start drinking. There is a "Neijiufang" in the palace, which is a wine workshop that specializes in producing wine for the Danai of the palace. The fine wine Puzhong wine is even more untold.

Puzhong wine is the current mulberry wine, produced in Yongji City. Yongji was called "Hedong", "Azhong" and "Puzhou". The ancient method was lost, but it was not distilled liquor at that time. Now the preparation method is mostly made of high-quality sorghum, peas, mung beans, etc., and after storage for one year, it is completed. Mulberry wine is a refreshing and fragrant Daqu. The wine is fresh and mellow, sweet in the mouth, and has a long aftertaste. It is a traditional fine white wine. Founded in the late Northern Wei Dynasty, it was brewed with unique taste and is one of the traditional famous liquors in my country. In the early Qing Dynasty, the preparation method of mulberry wine was lost and famous liquor was lost. It was not until 1979 that the combination of the secret recipes for excavated winemaking and modern winemaking technology that mulberry wine reappeared.

Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, scholars who were able to influence the world also liked to drink mulberry wine. The great poet Yu Xin once praised mulberry wine in many poems:

The sad man sits in a narrow and evil spirit, and is happy to send the flowing clouds. The window urges the wine to ripen, and stops the glass to wait for the chrysanthemums.--"The answer to the King of Wei gives the mulberry wine"

The mulberry leaves in Pucheng fall, and the chrysanthemums on the Ba bank are in autumn. I am willing to drink with the river and persuade the Marquis of Dongling to share the same.---"Appointment to the envoy of Puzhou"

The autumn mulberry leaves and the spring ants have not bloomed. I only say that I drink a thousand days, but I have been chasing Zhongshan. --- "The governor of Puzhou, Zhongshan, promised to beg for wine but not sent a cart"

Among these good sentences by Yu Xin, "Mangluo" and "Chrysanthemum" were the synonyms of wine at that time. Puzhou is in Yongji City, Shanxi Province, which was originally from Hedong in ancient times. Here, it refers to Hedong, the origin of mulberry wine. "The autumn mulberry wine is over and over" refers to mulberry wine. "Only speaking, drinking a thousand-day wine from Zhongshan, I used to drink a thousand-day wine brewed by Di Xi, a native of Zhongshan. When a poet came to Puzhou, Hedong, he must drink the best wine in the local area, that is, Hedong mulberry wine, just like when he came to Fenyang today, he must drink Xinghua Village.

Fenjiu is the same as Zhuyeqing wine. In fact, Fenyang is located at the northern end of the Hedong region, just before Fenyue wine became famous all over the world. In terms of place names, Hedong is more well-known and has a wider range. Therefore, good wines including Fenyang sake and Sangluo were also called Hedong wine. Of course, in ancient times, Hedong wine was not all produced in Fenyang, but the wine brewed in Fenyang was the best and most famous wine in the Hedong region. In other words, the world's fine wine is in Hedong, and the Hedong wine is in Fenyang.

In addition to continuing to use and maintaining the traditional Puzhong wine, the "Niejiufang" also has new inventions, and chances have been spread and are well known. For example, Song Zhenzong once gave Prime Minister Wang Dan a bottle of Suhexiang wine, and revealed the secret recipe and effects: each bucket of wine is cooked with one or two Suhexiang pills, which can harmonize the five internal organs, but the abdominal diseases are all the diseases. This is a bit like the medicinal wine that can be drunk now, and of course it is definitely not the xx medicinal wine that is advertised all over the sky. The ancients were real, as the saying goes, "The ancients were sincere and did not deceive."

In addition to the ‘Nianjiufang’, Zhao’s wine industry has a Guanglu Temple, which is specially designed for high-end state banquets and welfare for senior officials. The main brand ‘Guanglu Temple Wine’ is the first wine in the Song Dynasty. Like Neijiu, it is not sold to the public and is only used for rewards and special occasions. Guanglu Temple also produces royal wine for the royal family. This wine is covered with a yellow silk as an anti-counterfeiting label, becoming a symbol of its exclusive label and value.

After Cai Jing has been in the officialdom for so many years, he naturally has mastered the secret recipe of Puzhong wine in his hands early. Of course, this wine is not sold to the public. The public minister's family produces and sells it themselves and enjoys it. The taste has also been improved. Of course, it must be a little worse than that of Yujiu. The degree of measure in this is just right.

Zhao Ji drank the first sip of the cup and could make the real "Puzhong Wine". Naturally, he pretended not to know anything. With his taste for the wine, the Puzhong Wine in the cup seemed to be a little short of the year, as if it had just been brewed recently. He vaguely remembered that he had rewarded the other party with a lot of Puzhong Wine not long ago, and the other party was reluctant to drink it to entertain him. It seemed reasonable. He was actually very satisfied with today's meal. He had never had such a good appetite for many years. It seemed that he would return to the unrestrained days of being Duanwang. As for the tricks in Puzhong Wine, it was less important after weighing the two.

This meal is somewhat similar to the French dinners in later generations. Every time Zhao Ji drinks a cup of wine, he will serve two main dishes, which can be said to be the official banquet dish. As for how much wine Zhao Ji drank in total, he didn't remember at all afterwards, but he knew how many dishes he served. After drinking the wine in front, the guests and hosts enjoyed it and had a feast, so there was no such concern.

The first drink after drinking: quails with flower cooked, lychee white waist

After the second drink: milk room sign, three crispy soup

After the third drink: sheep tongue stick, sprouting tang

After the fourth drink: quail soup

After the fifth cup of wine: stew, mandarin duck fried belly

After the sixth cup of wine: sand fish sashimi, fried sand fish soup

After the seventh cup of wine: fried horseshoe crab with eel, goose palm soup

After the Eighth Drink: Crab Orange, Milk House Jade Soup

After the ninth cup of wine: fresh shrimp hoof sashimi, fried eel

After the tenth cup of wine: hand washing crab, fish and fake clams

After the eleventh cup of wine: Five treasures, crab soup

After the twelve cups of wine: quatrain crystal sashimi, pig belly fake Jiang Yao

After the thirteenth cup of wine: shrimp and orange sashimi, shrimp and fish soup

After the 14th cup of wine: jellyfish steak, two-color cocoon soup

After the fifteenth cup of wine: raw clams, blood powder
Chapter completed!