After almost all the things that should be dealt with were dealt with, Su Yonglin realized that it was still morning.
Because of Zhou Yunxiang and Qian Yiduo's affairs, Su Yonglin got up early and hasn't had breakfast yet.
So I'm a little hungry.
"Did you eat breakfast?"
Su Yonglin asked Xin Qiji.
Xin Qiji shook his head.
"I haven't eaten yet."
"That's just right."
Su Yonglin smiled and said, "I don't want to eat in the palace. Let's go out to eat together. I'll treat you. Find a good restaurant or a stall to eat something hot. It's always comfortable."
"ah?"
"Ah, what? Let's go out to eat. People are like iron rice. If you don't eat one meal, you'll get hungry. Let's go for a walk. Let's go together."
With that said, Su Yonglin couldn't help but drag Xin Qiji to change into normal clothes and leave the palace to have breakfast.
Su Yonglin is not an otaku emperor who lives deep in the inner palace, nor is he a person who stays in the palace all day without leaving the door.
Sometimes, he will feel tired and tired from dealing with government affairs.
Too much accumulated stress will affect work efficiency. At this time, proper relaxation is necessary.
But as the emperor, as the chairman of the Renaissance, his words and deeds can have a huge impact, so he must control himself, suppress his desires, and limit what he does.
So in addition to communicating with his wife Zhao Xirui and bringing their children together to feel the warmth of the family, the only way he could relax himself was to leave the palace with his close subordinates, pay a private visit incognito, and personally come to the streets of Zhongdu City to experience the fireworks on earth. gas.
After living in the palace for a long time and dealing with national affairs, he felt that he needed to come out every once in a while to replenish his fireworks, so that he would not forget that he was always a human being and had inalienable mortal attributes.
It is said that the smoke of fireworks in the world is the most soothing to mortals' hearts. Being able to feel the smoke of fireworks up close is an extremely healing enjoyment for Su Yonglin.
Dragging Xin Qiji with him, Su Yonglin prepared to go to Jiefang Street, one of the three major commercial streets in Zhongdu, to finish today's breakfast.
Similar to Su Yonglin, Xin Qiji is also a workaholic. Once he starts working, he will never stop working. He often works continuously for several days. Su Yonglin thinks this is not a good habit.
It happened to be an opportunity, so Su Yonglin took Xin Qiji out for a walk and relax.
Xin Qiji had nothing to resist. Rather, he felt honored to be Su Yonglin's companion when he went out to relax.
On the way out of the palace, Su Yonglin met Hu Wei, the new Yin of Daxing Prefecture who came to see Su Yonglin.
Such a coincidence, of course Su Yonglin would not let Hu Wei go, and directly took Hu Wei out to have breakfast.
Under the covert protection of Su Yong and others, the three of them left the palace by car and soon arrived at Jiefang Street, the largest commercial pedestrian street in the southeast of Zhongdu City.
This street is the product of the expansion of Zhongdu City. It did not exist when Su Yonglin first entered Zhongdu. It was gradually born with the expansion of Zhongdu.
At that time, Zhongdu City had only one decent commercial street. After Su Yonglin expanded Zhongdu, it gradually increased to three streets. In addition to Jiefang Street, the commercial street in the northeast corner was called Fuxing Street, and the commercial street in the southwest corner was called Prosperity Street.
Full of strong flavor of the times.
The three commercial streets have built extremely prosperous commercial circles in the southeast, southwest and northeast directions of Zhongdu City. Only the northwest corner is an area with many state agencies, so there is no commercial circle.
Each of these three commercial streets can be regarded as a comprehensive commercial street focusing on daily life such as catering and entertainment. They are deeply loved by Zhongdu residents and visitors from other places.
But when it comes to Su Yonglin's favorite street, of course it has to be Jiefang Street in the southeast corner.
This is not to say which street is more prosperous.
In fact, the prosperity of the three streets is almost the same, and there is no obvious difference. Su Yonglin's policy support for small traders is the same.
The reason why Su Yonglin likes Jiefang Street is simple, because the food on Jiefang Street best suits his appetite.
Although Su Yonglin's ancestral home is Shandong, he grew up in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River. His taste inevitably has Jiangnan characteristics. He likes rice from the south more than cakes from the north.
The food on Jiefang Street is more southern-style, and there are many restaurants of all kinds.
After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and starting from the Song Dynasty, the proportion of rice in the Chinese diet began to increase.
Song people were good at making rice and liked to cook it with other ingredients.
Depending on the ingredients, there are pure rice, Yujing rice, flat peach rice, stone marrow rice, golden rice, Panyou rice, Peng rice, big bone rice, Erhong rice, Xi rice and so on.
It is precisely because people in the Sui and Tang Dynasties developed many different habits when it comes to eating rice that rice consumption increased significantly. As a result, local rice production was insufficient, so the Song people also needed to import rice from abroad to meet internal needs. need.
The famous Champa rice entered China during this period.
After the Song Dynasty moved south, the climate and hydrology in the south of the Yangtze River was more suitable for growing rice, so the habit of eating rice gradually overcame the habit of eating various cakes and cakes that the residents of the Central Plains had during the Northern Song Dynasty, following the style of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Su Yonglin lived in such an environment, and had the memory of loving rice in later generations, so he naturally had many preferences for rice.
He likes to eat all kinds of steamed rice, as well as all kinds of vegetable rice and fried rice. He was an absolute rice supremacist when he was a child and a teenager. Without rice, no meal would taste good.
However, when he went north to Shandong, the difficult conditions and the customs of the Central Plains forced him to accept the reality, do as the Romans did, and eat all kinds of cakes with the army soldiers, or eat whatever was available.
Don’t be picky about food, don’t be special, set an example and lead the revolution. Valley lazy
The prerequisite for asking others to do it is that you can do it yourself and strictly abide by it. Only in this way can you establish prestige and maintain discipline.
Due to financial difficulties during the occupation of Zhongdu and the years before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Su Yonglin still did not improve his food. He ate cooking cakes, drank pickle soup, and practiced frugality.
It was not until three years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty that the domestic and international situation improved and the imperial government's finances gradually became more abundant, which gave Su Yonglin the conditions to improve his diet.
If you can improve, you should improve. There is no need to hold on to the hard times and not let go.
No one says that revolutionaries should be poor and backward, and exploiters should be luxurious and high-class.
As long as the distribution is done well, so-called luxury goods can eventually become mass commodities. His goal is to make luxury goods gradually become mass commodities and make everything civilian and no longer have luxury attributes.
So in the palace, Su Yonglin added various egg fried rice, various sizzling rice, various clay pot rice, various vegetable and meat braised rice and even Spanish paella to the royal menu.
These ways of eating rice also flowed into the public with the publicity of pork dishes, and became part of the popular folk cuisine [palace cuisine], which was widely circulated.
As the birthplace of palace cuisine, various restaurants and stalls in the three major commercial streets in Zhongdu have kept up with the trends of the times and strived to be the best in promoting palace cuisine. With various magic modifications, the ways to eat various foods can be said to be amazing. A hundred flowers bloom and compete for beauty.
So starting from the second half of the third year of Hongwu, centered on Zhongdu, the proportion of cakes eaten by Zhongdu residents began to decline.
The number of people who directly eat rice and shelled wheat rice as their staple food has begun to increase.
The publicity of the royal menu also allowed ordinary people to learn many kinds of delicious rice recipes. Their impression of rice is no longer limited to steaming and cooking, and such delicious recipes are not only available to the upper class.
Riding on this wave, coupled with the Ming government's preferential tax policies and subsidy policies for small and micro vendors, the newly opened restaurants on the three commercial streets began to be named [XX Restaurant] or [XX Restaurant], specializing in various types of food. All kinds of meals.
Steamed rice, cooked rice, pickled rice, fried rice, stewed rice, etc., to name a few.
Su Yonglin was very happy after learning about it. Once he had free time or felt that there was a lot of pressure accumulated, he would invite people to go to a small restaurant on the commercial street to eat together, euphemistically called Tan Dian.
This was his only known hobby within the imperial court.
Xin Qiji admired Su Yonglin's personal morality and public spirit. While Su Yonglin asked others to be strict with themselves, he was also able to be just as strict with himself, or even to a higher degree.
The extravagant habits and ostentation of the previous royal family have almost been abolished here. His few personal hobbies are to leave the palace and sneak out to visit restaurants for dinner.
When you go out to eat, you spend your own money, treat yourself, and your entourage can have a meal with him without paying.
Although it is quite stressful for most of the accompanying officials.
Because Su Yonglin doesn't look at the person when he invites people to go out for dinner. Generally speaking, as long as he has an idea, he will just drag someone out and go out. Or if he sees an official on the way out, as long as there is nothing urgent, he will grab him and go out to eat. .
It would be fine if he was close to an official, but if he were to change to a junior official who was not familiar with Su Yonglin and only knew his reputation, wouldn't he be frightened?
Xin Qiji still remembered that the last time he followed Su Yonglin out, Su Yonglin happened to hook up with a young official who was running errands in the cabinet, and the young official was frightened.
Indeed, it was not an easy task to sit and eat with the two big guys. He was trembling with fear, fearing that he would drop a grain of rice while eating and make Su Yonglin unhappy.
Xin Qiji even guessed that this guy didn't know what he had eaten.
However, Su Yonglin had no awareness of this and was just enjoying himself.
Fortunately today, Hu Wei is a middle- and senior-level cadre of the Fuxing Association and one of the outstanding cadres since the founding of the Fuxing Association. Otherwise, it would be impossible to succeed Jiang Yu as the new Daxing governor.
But it's still a bit nervous to say that I'm nervous.
So Hu Wei was one position behind Su Yonglin, walking with Xin Qiji, and asked in a low voice.
"Director Xin, I heard that the chairman likes to take officials out to eat. Is this a kind of assessment?"
Xin Qiji looked at Su Yonglin who was walking in front, looking left and right with a happy face, and shook his head with a smile.
"Really don't be nervous. The chairman is already very tired when dealing with government affairs in the palace. It's rare for him to come out for a meal. He won't have other ideas. He just eats."
Hu Wei nodded doubtfully.
"Many people said that this might be the chairman's way of evaluating officials."
"Don't think too much. The chairman really wants to evaluate officials. There are countless ways. There is no need to do such a thing when you are having fun like going out to eat."
Xin Qiji smiled and said: "It's just a matter of relaxing and resting. There is no other meaning. Don't think too much. You can eat whatever you want. The chairman will pay for it."
"Really?"
Hu Wei was stunned: "Isn't this the same as the chairman's treat?"
"If you want to say so, it's true. I've eaten several times and haven't paid for it. Don't worry, the chairman has always been very generous when it comes to meals."
Xin Qiji patted Hu Wei on the shoulder and smiled happily.
It was the morning in Zhongdu. There were many restaurants and street stalls opening early on the street, doing breakfast business, and the people coming and going on the street were rushing to have breakfast and then go about their business.
It is worth mentioning that Zhongdu is a city that never sleeps, with the style of Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Su Yonglin canceled the curfew in Zhongdu in the first half of the second year of Hongwu. So now, Zhongdu still has a lot of night owls even in the second half of the night. Only in the deepest night, no one does business for about an hour.
Only an hour after the night market ended, the morning market opened.
The breakfast shop owners and vendors got up very hard early and came here early to fix up their shops and stalls, prepare everything that should be cut and heated, and wait for the hungry diners to take care of them. Business is over.
