Brother Hei Niu went to see Sister-in-law Hei Niu again, and Sister-in-law Hei Niu blinked again, anyway, Yang Huairen didn't understand what was going on, and Brother Hei Niu understood again.

"Well, thank you for your kindness."

The green-robed little official said "don't dare" before inviting them to the Jade Brocade Garden.

Yang Huairen really walked into the food inspection and quarantine agency of the Great Song Dynasty for the first time, and thought that he must take a good look.

The courtyard of Yujin Garden is quite large, it looks boxy, like the structure of a nine-square grid, and several long pergolas have been erected in the front yard, and the butchers push their slaughtered pork or mutton in, which is to be inspected by the officials in the pergola.

The inspectors wore long aprons of white linen cloth and carefully examined the pork.

In fact, with the means of this era, it is impossible to do a deep inspection, and the inspection method of the officials is only to inspect the color of the pork, and judge whether the pork is fresh by looking at the nose and smelling it.

Another important test is whether there are parasite eggs in the pork, but any pork suspected of being problematic will not be approved.

Not only that, but if pork contaminated with parasite eggs was found, the officials would confiscate it in strict accordance with the rules and let others pull the pork down to a separate courtyard on the north side of the yard and dispose of it.

For pork that passed the test, a certificate was issued to the butcher, and only the date was written on the certificate, but nothing else, and the official seal stamped was also interesting, a lotus leaf-shaped pattern.

Yang Huairen thought about it, this may be because at this time the butchers sell meat, many of them simply use lotus leaves as packaging, one is to prevent flies, after all, it is only hanging with a straw rope and it is not good to store, and the other is to add some fragrance of lotus leaves to the fresh meat.

The vast majority of the pig and mutton sent by the butchers for inspection are no problem, and the officials in charge of the inspection have finished the inspection and stamped it, and the butchers can go into the city to sell it with the voucher issued by this Yujin Garden.

Yang Huairen looked at the serious work of the officials, but he felt very relieved, and also felt that the Song Dynasty did the best in terms of food safety for the people.

The Song Dynasty also had the fewest vicious incidents due to food safety in historical records, and it has to be said that, to a certain extent, the Song Dynasty's culture of emphasizing literature over military force also brought certain benefits to people's livelihood.

The literati still attach great importance to the people's livelihood, whether it is those literati emperors who seem to be a little incompetent or the generations of scholars and Confucians who seem to be outdated in the court, they still do a good job in terms of people's livelihood.

After all, the literati became officials, and they still cared about their reputation among the common people, and the Song Dynasty had the habit of high salaries and incorruptible support, so the happiness of the common people in the Song Dynasty was still very high.

It's just that at the end of the Song Dynasty, the party struggle for power and profit made the literati show off their brains.

Yang Huairen thought about the reform of the law that has been debated endlessly in recent decades, and felt that the reform faction had actually done a good job, and their starting point was good, but some things were too idealistic, which led to good things turning into bad things and causing endless fights.

For example, Zhao Xu's changes after regaining imperial power, in fact, a lot of content really made Yang Huairen very admired, there is one thing that everyone may not believe, China's systematic and relatively perfect pension system, the earliest Zhao Xu this kid proposed.

Since the Han Dynasty, there has been a sense of pension in the state system, but it is limited to finance, and it is only in large cities like Beijing in the Han and Tang dynasties that some institutions similar to nursing homes in later generations appeared.

But more is from the guidance of the government, the folk celebrities spontaneously send money for the good deeds, the symbolism is relatively large, the actual significance and popularity, is far from the pension system.

When Zhao Xu was in power, he proposed a measure to benefit the people, and the previous system of respecting the elderly was just to provide monthly "food money" to the elderly over 60 years old in the city, and he was even more bold to popularize this "food money" to every corner of the Great Song Dynasty.

The so-called food money is the earliest pension. Another thing that surprised everyone even more, the person in charge of the implementation of this system was Cai Jing, the later traitor.

Cai Jing did many bad things later and didn't care about it, but in this matter, he really did a rare good thing, and promoted the pension system to the entire Great Song Dynasty, which is an unprecedented achievement.

Of course, this is not to whitewash him, but to say things fairly, maybe Cai Jing is conscientious in this matter, but it is just a means for him to rise to the top.

The Song Dynasty was able to do this, but other so-called powerful dynasties couldn't, in fact, the reason was very simple, the Song Dynasty was rich, even if the Song Dynasty's active taxation was very low, but the annual financial revenue of the imperial court was still proud in the past dynasties.

This is not a little bit higher than the second place, but the first is more than the second, three, and four combined, and then more than doubled.

High fiscal revenue does not mean that the imperial court is rich, because the income of officials is high, and the expenditure of the imperial court is also very high.

The emperors of the Song Dynasty all loved face, and they never wanted to be detained with a bad reputation for competing with the people, compared to other dynasties, which often said that they would levy a penny and not give a penny.

The prosperity of the people, not to mention, Sima Guang once said that "the world is declining, and the peddlers and pawns are wearing stockings", which shows that before and after the Zhezong Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was still very prosperous and wealthy.

Maybe the old man Sima Guang just saw the most prosperous side of the city of Tokyo, the silk socks that he wore personally, which sounds a bit exaggerated, but this is a kind of demonstration of the economic prosperity of the Song Dynasty and the prosperity of the people.

So it is not surprising that the people of the Song Dynasty attached great importance to food safety.

When you can't eat, you can eat and be satisfied, who still cares about it, and whether you will get sick after eating?

And the great development of food in the Song Dynasty is also thanks to the blessing of the prosperity of the Song Dynasty, so to speak, Yang Huairen, a cook, can come to the Great Song Dynasty, but also at the right time, changed a dynasty, where did so many rich people come from to take care of his family's Suiyuan business?

An institution like Yujinyuan may sound very ordinary, but if you think about it carefully, maybe this kind of detail reflects the social style of the Song Dynasty, when the court and the people are very concerned about and care about food hygiene and safety, this can be regarded as a prosperous era.

It's just that this prosperous era is also facing a huge crisis, and the army is easy to lose its combat effectiveness in a comfortable living environment, and the arrogant and pedantic foreign policy of the court confirms the saying "die in peace."