Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

Everyone boarded the boat with Xiao Dan. After more than an hour, the weather became hotter and hotter. It was almost noon. First, they took crushed ice from the wooden refrigerator and made various ice drinks to cool down.

The next step was to prepare lunch.

The recipes of the Song people were already quite complicated, with all kinds of seafood, river fish, and beasts in the recipes.

Of course, it also included sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese and other animals raised by humans.

When it was hot, it was difficult to eat large pieces of meat.

So what was prepared on the boat was fried clams, with some dogwood, perilla and the like to remove the fishy smell and enhance the fragrance.

Washing hands crab is to wash and chop the river crab, and then add various seasonings.

It can be said to be the ancestor of Chaoshan raw pickled crab in later generations.

There is also a way to cook crab, which is crab orange stuffing.

Steam the crab, wash and split it, cut off the top of the orange, and then carve it. Put the crab meat and crab roe into the orange, add rice wine, vinegar, and squeezed orange juice, cover the lid, and steam it for a few more minutes.

In this way, you can have the fresh fragrance of crab meat and yellow, mixed with the slight acidity of vinegar and the sweetness and sourness of orange, which is really delicious.

There is also iced fish sashimi, which uses the best Yellow River carp, removes the scales, internal organs and bones, and cuts the fish meat into thin slices, as thin as cicada wings, crystal clear, with ice cubes and various seasonings. It is most popular among scholars in summer.

In addition, Dongpo preserved meat is made by splitting the green fish meat into strips, marinating it with pepper, salt, etc., adding cornstarch and frying it into fish strips, and then air-drying it.

It is also a kind of snack for 597 tea parties and gossip.

These scholars, mainly Zhao Mingcheng, were born in the prime minister's family. The Zhao family was said to be honest, unlike the Cai family, who were corrupt. However, the prime minister's monthly salary was 300 guan, plus 200 pieces of brocade per year, 300 guan per month for food allowance, over 100 dan of rice per month, 200 guan per month for salary, and other various rewards and subsidies, not counting welfare. These regular salaries alone were over 1,000 guan per month and over 10,000 guan per year.

After serving as prime minister for a few years, he would have a family fortune of tens of thousands of guan, which was an extremely terrifying income in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Su Dongpo wrote in his notes when he was in Huangzhou that the young men at that time could earn as little as 30 to 40 to 50 to 60 wen per year, and as much as about 100 wen per year.

The prime minister's annual salary was tens of millions of wen, which was equivalent to the income of thousands of young men working for a year without eating or drinking. The difference was so huge that it was shocking.

When Zhao Mingcheng went south during the Jingkang period, he brought tens of thousands of antiques with him.

His wealth is evident from this.

The snacks in front of him were exquisite and beautiful, and naturally very expensive. After all, the crab market had just opened, and a basket of crabs would cost at least dozens of strings of money, which was the savings of ordinary Tokyo residents for several years. But in the eyes of Zhao Mingcheng and others, it was just an ordinary meal.

It was not even a proper meal, but just a snack for a cruise.

"The Bian River has become much wider and more open recently."

"Well, the view is no longer blocked."

"Haha, I understand, it's the big ships carrying the flower and stone gang that disappeared."

While eating snacks, drinking on the upperWhen waiting for good wine, it is natural to talk about current affairs.

Since Fang La was destroyed, everyone thought that the Flower and Stone Gang would be re-launched soon.

Both the Yuanfeng and Yuanyou parties were opposed to the Flower and Stone Gang.

At this time, it is said that the vision is broad, but in fact it is also a mockery of the emperor Zhao Ji.

The main reason for suppressing Fang La is the Flower and Stone Gang.

As a result, Liangshan fought fiercely in Hebei, threatening the heartland of the court.

The court could only raise a large army to conquer, and money, manpower, and ships all went to Hebei.

Restarting the Flower and Stone Gang and spending a huge amount of money to build in the inner court, although Zhao Ji usually did not take the lives of the people seriously, and did not take the rebellion of Fang La and the loss of most of the Liangzhe Road seriously, but at this time, the matter involved the safety of the Zhao Song Dynasty, and he was not crazy to such an extent.

"It would be great if the emperor knew to be afraid!"

"Alas, I am afraid that after destroying Liangshan, the emperor will go back to his old ways."

"There should be a righteous person in the court to control the emperor."

"Alas! Prime ministers like Han Xiangguo, Fu Xiangguo, and even the stubborn Xianggong will never be seen again."

Zhao Mingcheng and his friends were of course dissatisfied with Cai Jing.

They were also dissatisfied with Huizong.

They also missed the big men among the senior civil officials.

What was Han Qi?

He was the top powerful prime minister who suppressed Yingzong and Shenzong.

Fu Bi was even more powerful. He told the emperor in person that if he didn't obey, he could do what Yi Yin did.

He threatened to depose the emperor in person.

If it was the emperors of the Han and Tang dynasties, or the emperor of Zhu Ming, Fu Bi's ashes would have been scattered.

The Qing emperor was even less likely to do so. Everyone, including the princes and nobles, was the emperor's slave. Fu Bi was probably executed by lingchi before he could finish his words.

That was the Song Dynasty. The imperial power was centralized, but the power of the prime minister in the Northern Song Dynasty was not inferior to that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and even exceeded that of the Tang Dynasty in some periods.

As it is now, several scholars mocked the government, discussed the government, and praised the strong prime minister, which was the trend of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, it went a step further. Several powerful prime ministers could welcome the emperor and influence the government. The main reason was that the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty not only ruled the government hall, but also often managed the privy council, and was in charge of both civil and military affairs. His power far exceeded that of the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty and was not inferior to that of the powerful prime minister of the Han Dynasty.

"I just hope that after the government wipes out Liangshan, it will think about the difficulties of people's livelihood. The government forces people to rebel, and change its ways. Otherwise, if Liangshan is wiped out today, new rebels will emerge in the future."

"Isn't it? I heard that the Liangshan bandits have a good method in governing the people's livelihood in the territory, and the people have benefited a lot. The people are rich and the public security is good. A group of bandits can do this..."

Hearing the words of his two friends, Zhao Mingcheng was quite displeased.

Isn't this just to promote the bandits?

But the trend of Song Dynasty scholars and officials criticizing the court and disparaging the government has a long history. Zhao Mingcheng would not turn against his friends for such a small matter... He just smiled and said, "Most of them are rumors. It may also be that many scholars and officials who lost their land under the land-collection law deliberately spread such rumors."

"Even so, it also shows people's hearts."

"We must clean up the officialdom and revitalize the government."

"What the two brothers said is very true. My father has had this idea for a long time..."

Zhao Mingcheng has always been trying to win over young and middle-aged officials for his father and create a good image for his father in order to gain their support.

The effect is quite good.

Zhao Tingzhi's second restoration to the position of prime minister is related to this.

After everyone talked about the government affairs, the topic turned to the war in front again. (To read exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

"I heard that the government soldiers and cavalry were defeated repeatedly?"

"That's right. The elite cavalry of the Western Army could not win. Guan Sheng and his linked horses, who were highly expected, were completely wiped out."

Zhao Mingcheng was secretly happy in his heart, but on the surface he said angrily: "Guan Sheng is exaggerating. As the sponsor, Master Cai should actually bear joint responsibility and take the initiative to submit a petition to resign and apologize to the government...even if it's just for show."

"That's right, but Master Cai is too thick-skinned."

"You two, do you think there will be no accidents in this battle against the bandits?"

Li Jiong's words made Zhao Mingcheng frown. What's wrong with the world? Why are they so pessimistic about the court?

"Three hundred thousand elite troops, and more than one hundred thousand are surrounding their lair. With the military, financial, human and material resources of the imperial court, how can they fail?"

"That's right..."

Although Zhao Mingcheng's attitude was fierce, what he said was reasonable. The two friends did not refute, but nodded.

The atmosphere became relaxed again. Zhao Mingcheng was about to ask the boatman to serve fresh fish soup. He caught a glimpse of the situation in the distance on the river from the corner of his eye, and his body froze.

Li Jiong and the others also saw it. Both of them were horrified, as if they had seen a ghost.

On the river, more than a hundred warships with strange and beautiful shapes and full of beauty were riding the wind and waves, speeding towards the Tokyo State Bridge! .