Chapter Twenty-Nine
The wine is the best lamb wine, and when I saw that it was hot, I poured it for Huang Jingchen, "There are no outsiders here, let's all sit down and eat together!" Zhao Ta looked at the three people who were standing aside and waiting.
"Yes!" Seeing that Xi agreed and sat down, Feng Xi and Shunzi didn't dare to sit and looked at Huang Jingchen.
"The prince asked you to sit, just sit down!" Huang Jingchen raised his eyelids and put down his chopsticks and said, Fengxi and the two sat down next to him, and they only dared to sit down with their buttocks half-stretched.
"See Xi, pour me a little too, Huang Bo is too boring to drink alone, I will accompany his old man to drink, you also pour wine, everyone drinks together!" Zhao Ta commanded with a smile.
"Lord Wang, you are still young, you should drink less!" Huang Jingchen thanked him and said with concern.
"Uncle Huang, how does it taste when you taste the cucumber you just picked this morning!" Zhao Ta pushed the plate and said.
"It's like a dream to be able to eat this freshly picked cucumber in this cold winter month!" Huang Jingchen took a cucumber and took a bite, it was refreshing, he chewed it slowly, and said with emotion.
"Hehe, Uncle Huang loves to eat, what we have in our greenhouse, even if the whole house eats enough!" Zhao Ta looked at Huang Jingchen's eyes and said with a smile, "You can eat it every time, don't be restrained!" The three of them all stretched their chopsticks to the fish that was still open.
"Uncle Huang, try this eggplant again, I also cooked this dish!" Zhao Ta sandwiched a piece of eggplant for Huang Jingchen, this braised eggplant is his favorite, and he can eat two large bowls of rice poured over the vegetables when he was a soldier.
"Well, it tastes good, it's not quite the same as what is done in the palace?" Huang Jingchen has been in the palace for many years, and he can be regarded as having eaten all the delicacies in the palace, but he has not eaten the eggplant of this method.
"Big official, the prince's cooking skills are even willing to bow down to the two cooks in the small kitchen, and they all want to learn from the prince!" Miki said.
"Lord Wang, the sage said 'The gentleman is far away from cooking', and the kitchen should be less in the future, and you can order the people to do what you want to eat!" Huang Jingchen put down his chopsticks and said.
"Hehe, Uncle Huang, this saint can only say that he is a hypocrite, he is not hungry, if he is not fed for three days, you see that he can't enter the kitchen, I'm afraid he will climb in!"
"Ha Lu Ha ยท Everyone at the table was amused by him, and the dull atmosphere just now was broken, and the three little ones took the opportunity to taste every dish, with a satisfied expression on their faces.
"Come, let's toast Uncle Huang together, he works hardest for the affairs of the house every day, we want to thank him!" Zhao Ta picked up the cup and proposed.
"Lord Wang, how dare the old man be like this!" Huang Jingchen stood up in fear and said, he was still self-aware.
"Uncle Huang, I'm young, and the house relies on you on weekdays, so you deserve it!" Zhao Ta pulled Huang Jingchen to sit down and said, first drank the wine in the cup, he smacked his lips, tasted the best wine in the legendary Song Dynasty, and found that it was not so delicious, light and tasteless, it is estimated that it is the degree of 'low-alcohol beer', which is not in line with his taste as a 'modern person'.
Tasting the degree of wine, Zhao Ta had a bottom in his heart, holding half a glass of wine and everyone pushed the cup to change the cup, the dishes were five flavors, the wine was three rounds, several people had some wine, the old face and little face were red, and then the little yellow door sent gourd soup again.
"It's a good thing, you can only eat it in early summer in previous years!" Huang Jingchen took a sip of soup and said with a satisfied smile.
"Uncle Huang, I want to wait for the next batch of vegetables to be picked, and send them to the palace for my father and mothers to taste, you can see it!" Zhao Ta poured wine for Huang Jingchen and said.
"Lord, by all means, if you pay tribute, I'm afraid there will be no more time for peace in our mansion!"
"Uncle Huang, why is this?" Zhao Ta asked puzzled.
"Hehe, Lord Wang, you don't know about those people in the capital, not to mention the nobles in the palace, that is, the people from the palaces and the prime minister's mansions will come to the door!"
"I'm also the prince, don't they dare to rob it!"
"Lord Wang, you are still young, you don't know the methods of those people, although they don't dare to offend you openly, but they can't stop them from making bad things behind their backs, you forgot the words that your mother gave you!" Huang Jingchen touched his smooth chin and said.
"Stupid and dull!" Zhao Ta nodded, "Uncle Huang, I have been taught, Niangniang taught me to keep a low profile!" โ
"The word low-key is appropriate, this time the prince did a good job in dealing with Chen Tang, let him suffer a loss, ruined his wealth, and made him grateful to Dade, he can't say what he suffers!" Huang Jingchen said. ,
"Oh, this guy Chen Tang won't show off at this time, I'm still afraid that my father will know about it and say that I'm messing around!"
"Ha Luha, Lord Wang, I'm afraid that Chen Tang can't hide this matter, he will definitely order the people who know about this matter to be silenced when he goes back, and he will never leak a word, Lord Wang Don't worry!" Huang Jingchen felt that the prince's words were interesting, and Da Lu said with a smile.
"Hmph, if he dares to say a word nonsense, we can let him roll up the quilt tomorrow, this time he is disrespectful to the prince, he should have taught him a lesson!" Junko interjected, and he didn't seem to take this prefect seriously at all.
"Junko, you've drunk too much, don't talk nonsense!" Huang Jingchen glared and scolded, and Shunzi was so frightened that he lowered his head and didn't dare to say anything.
"Uncle Huang, you said that I rectified Chen Tang, will you think that I am too bad?" Zhao Ta looked at Junzi and asked.
"Hehe, how could the prince think like this, what Chen Tang committed, saying that he could raid his house and destroy his clan, and saying that he could also make him lose his official position and dismiss him, and he would never be able to turn over, the prince only let him break a little money, even if others know the truth, they will say that you are generous and benevolent!" Huang Jingchen listened to the prince's childish words, shook his head and said with a smile.
"It's better to fuck have an emperor's father, whoever fights his father can't fight himself, although he is clever, but it's not much different from Ming Robbing, everyone has to say that he has a good reputation, but he can't afford to mess with his father!" Zhao Ta thought so in his heart, but he couldn't say that, "Yes, I should still do this too much!" โ
"The prince should have killed him forever, he escaped this time, and it is inevitable that he will have some disobedience!" Junko seemed to have drunk a little too much, and after drinking a glass of wine, she poured herself and said.
"Junko, you're wrong with that!" Zhao Ta tapped the fish on the plate with chopsticks and said, "Lao Tzu said, 'To govern a big country, if you cook a small fresh', do you understand what this means? He asked, pointing to them.
"That means governing the country is like cooking, right?" Junzi guessed literally, Zhao Ta shook his head and didn't speak, looking at Feng Xi.
"Isn't it like cooking to govern the country?" Feng Xi thought about it and said, seeing that Xi secretly pursed his lips and didn't speak, he knew that the prince of Lu Dao must have another meaning when he asked this question, and he definitely couldn't figure it out, and Feng Xi said it even more unreliable.
"Lord Wang, tell me about it!" Huang Jingchen was stunned for a moment, why would the prince say such a thing, could this child have any thoughts.
There is a story from the origin of this sentence, in the last years of the Xia Dynasty, Yi Yin suggested that Shang Tang stop paying tribute to Xia Wei and see how Xia Ji moves, so as to detect Xia Ji's strength. Xia Wei was really angry, and requisitioned Jiuyi's troops to come to kill the merchants. Yi Yin immediately persuaded Shang Tang and said: Xia Wei can still mobilize troops, and the time is not yet ripe for us to attack him. So, Shang Tang paid tribute to Xia Wei again. When Yi Yin saw that the time was ripe, he stopped paying tribute to Xia Ji again, but because of Xia Ji's atrocities, this time, he was unable to mobilize the army, so Yi Yin suggested to Shang Tang to raise troops. Shang Tang quickly defeated Xia Wei's army and exiled Xia Wei to Nanchao, and the Xia Dynasty perished, and the princes supported the virtuous Shang Tang to establish the Shang Dynasty for the Son of Heaven. Zhao Ta took a sip of wine and said, "After that, the understanding of this sentence is that the benevolent see the wise and the wise see the wise, my understanding is: doing things is like cooking, you must master the heat, the fire should be big when it is big, when it should be small, and the combination of civil and military can taste good!" โ
"Lord Wang, what does the truth you said have to do with this matter?" Junko asked, scratching her head.
"Alas, Junko, you still have to read more books!" Huang Jingchen sighed and said, he had already seen that the prince was by no means as simple as an ordinary child, and what he said was very meaningful, "Shunzi, who do you think about Chen Tang?" โ
"Chen Tang is Cai Jing Cai Xiang's subordinate officials, he is used to deceiving his superiors and subordinates, and he has won his trust, Cai Jing still wants to be so filial after he resigned from the prime minister, and he was immediately promoted to the prefect of Gongzhou, and he was promoted to six levels in a row, but we don't need to be afraid of them!" Junko seemed to know these very well, and immediately replied after a little thought.
"Well, that's right, after Cai Jing regained his appearance with the help of the concubine, he immediately squeezed out and cracked down on dissidents, and promoted his cronies in a big way, even the cats and dogs in their hometown have made a background, and now they are all over the central state capital, and they have a big tail!" Huang Jingchen said, "As the saying goes, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, Chen Tang is Cai Jing's disciple, if the prince kills him, he will definitely offend Cai Jing, although he can't treat us well, but it is inevitable that we will be dirty and alienated from us, so that some people will take advantage of it and elbow us everywhere." Now that the prince is just teaching him a lesson, not only Chen Tang will be more honest, but Cai Jing is also a smart person, he will not not understand the truth, and will only befriend us. Lord Wang, is what the old slave said right? โ
"Hehe, Uncle Huang, I didn't think about it that much, I just think that we bullied the prefect, Chen Tang is still this official, and no one will dare to bully me in the future!" Zhao Ta was still 'pretending to be confused' and said with a smile.
"I drank a little too much today, see you go to the kitchen to make a bowl of sobering soup, Shunzi Fengxi, you come to my house and use the 'little dragon group' to fry a cup of tea for me!" Huang Jingchen pinched his forehead with his fingers and ordered, the three of them agreed and went out, and there were only two people left in the room, Zhao Ta and him...