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Zhang's mansion is still brightly lit and full of people.
"Your yokan is delicious" Li Yuan took a spoon and scooped a spoonful of mutton steamed buns, and was very satisfied after eating.
The emperor suddenly arrived with the prime ministers of the three provinces, and Zhang's mansion was not prepared, because it was late to chat, Li Yuan simply asked Zhang Chao to prepare some food.
Zhang Chao looked at the prime ministers, bachelors, and several princes and horses in the hall, and he couldn't prepare too much sumptuous food for a while.
Just eat mutton steamed buns.
Zhang Chao was bold, the emperor wanted to have a supper at your house, but Zhang Chao only got a mutton steamed bun.
Mutton steamed bun is not unique to Zhangfu, this belongs to Qin cooking, that is, the more traditional Guanzhong food, known as mutton soup in ancient times, commonly known as mutton soak.
Anyway, in Guanzhong, this is a very famous and ordinary food.
Zhang Chao went to the back kitchen and gave orders, personally commanding the Zhou family and Qiuyue Dongqing, as well as a group of people in the kitchen to help, and even Cui Yingying, Hongxian and Qi Niang all came to help.
The emperor and the prime ministers and scholars have arrived, and they have to eat supper at Zhang's house, which is an honor.
Pancakes and mutton soup are ready-made, because there are many people in Zhangfu, mutton soup is also a daily dish, and a pot of soup broth will be cooked early in the kitchen every day.
This is also the reason why Zhang Chao chose mutton steamed buns, which are ready-made.
Zhang's pancakes are rolled out with flour, smeared with sesame oil, and added with sesame seeds, which are golden on both sides, thin and crispy.
Li Yuan also often eats mutton steamed buns, but tonight he thinks the Zhang family's yokan is particularly delicious.
"Your Majesty, the most important thing about this mutton steamed bun is that the soup is clear and the meat is rotten, cooking the soup is the most important, the bone broth and the broth must be cooked separately, the meat must be marinated for a day, and then boiled for half a day, and a lot of seasonings must be used, and the type and amount of seasonings are also extremely important.
A good pot of soup is the key to the deliciousness of this mutton steamed bun. ” "In addition, it is also very important to eat mutton steamed buns, you must tear the pancakes yourself, and the more broken the better, so that it tastes more delicious."
Over there, the three brothers Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, and Li Yuanji were working hard to tear pancakes for the emperor Lao Tzu, but as soon as Zhang Chao said this, the three of them turned their heads and looked at him.
Li Yuan laughed.
Picked up a pancake from the basin and literally tore it up by himself.
"Your Majesty, tear it up a little more, the smaller it is, the better."
Zhang Chao stood next to him and began to guide.
"I had heard of Zhang Saburo before, he was a genius, he could compile books, write poems, and heal, especially food, and when I saw it today, it really deserved his name."
Li Yuan said with a smile, he could see it, he seemed to be very happy tonight, he sat there and tore the pancakes, and did not forget to call other prime ministers and scholars to tear them together.
So, in the hall of the Zhang family, a group of prime ministers, Shangshu, Huangmen Shilang and other high-ranking officials of the three provinces, and dozens of newly appointed Hanlin scholars, sat in the hall on the first floor of the Zhang family and tore the pancakes together.
This scene is quite spectacular, fortunately, the Zhang family hall is large enough, and hundreds of people sitting in it are not crowded, but those guards and attendants have no chance to sit in the hall, they can only stay under the Zhang family's corridor.
There is not so much mutton soup, and the Zhang family temporarily gives them pancakes to eat.
There is floor heating in the hall, which is very warm.
Li Yuan specially called Zhang Chao to sit next to him, and chatted with Zhang Chao while breaking the pancakes.
In front of the emperor and Zhang Chao, like everyone else, there was an empty bowl, and then everyone tore the pancakes hard.
Li Yuan had already eaten a small bowl of ready-made steamed buns just now, but he didn't feel that he had eaten it, so he had to come to another bowl, and like Zhang Chao and the others, he had to break the pancakes by himself.
Breaking the pancakes, Zhang Chao called the servants in the palace and asked them to bring down the pancakes broken by these imperial generals.
A good mutton steamed bun is not eaten after it is broken, but the pancake is broken first, and then it has to be processed, put the broken pancake in the pot, add the dried daylily, the fungus and vermicelli, add the green garlic to cook, and then put the coriander out of the pot.
"Don't get confused with that bowl."
Li Yuan smiled and said to Zhang Chao, what about the pancakes that he broke himself.
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, there will be no confusion."
The housekeeper personally took Li Yuan's bowl of broken cakes to the kitchen and cooked the first one.
This bowl of cake was personally made by Cui Yingying, under the guidance of Zhou and Qiu Yueniang, and the whole process was watched by the palace attendants.
A large bowl of mutton steamed buns was brought to Li Yuan.
The mutton soup stewed with ginger, garlic, cinnamon, star anise, codonopsis, hawthorn and other seasonings, accompanied by daylily, fungus and some vermicelli, add some green garlic and coriander, and then put on more than two taels of sliced cooked mutton.
There is also the piece of pancake of five taels that Li Yuan personally broken.
It's a big bowl.
The material is heavy and mellow, the meat and soup are thick, fat but not greasy.
The aroma is full and tempting to the appetite.
Especially on this winter night, a bowl of such mutton steamed buns is really tempting.
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"Your Majesty, please use it slowly" Zhang Chao said with a smile.
Li Yuan picked up the chopsticks and sandwiched a piece of crushed cake first, the pancake was already soaked with mutton soup, and when he ate it in one bite, it tasted good, not only with the fragrance of the pancake, but also with the richness of mutton soup.
Li Yuan nodded, and picked up another slice of mutton.
This is a slice of marinated cooked mutton, using a half-year-old leg of mutton, this meat is the most tender, and the taste of the marinated meat is good.
I don't feel the slightest bit of mutton.
Sandwich another chopstick vermicelli, slippery and delicious, fungus and daylily also make this soup not greasy.
"Delicious, I've never eaten such delicious yokan."
Li Yuan ate most of the bowl in one breath before slowing down, and did not forget to praise Zhang Chao.
"It's the same as noodles, it's slippery and delicious."
"Your Majesty, this is a vermicelli, made of red beans, because it is made like silk after being made, so it is called vermicelli."
The cultivation history of mung beans is quite long, and it has been there for a long time before the Tang Dynasty, but using mung beans to make vermicelli is a specialty of the Zhang family.
In fact, the production of mung bean vermicelli is quite simple, but the predecessors did not get it, or someone made it but did not spread it.
After a while, other people's mutton steamed buns are also ready.
As a result, the emperors and generals of the Tang Dynasty ate mutton steamed buns at Zhang's house, and they ate very refreshingly and praised endlessly.
"It's so full, this mutton steamed bun is the most delicious method I've ever tasted, and I ate a big bowl before I knew it, and I was happy."
Li Yuan laughed.
Everyone else also nodded, yokan often eats, and they have also eaten steamed buns, but compared with the Zhang family, what they used to eat was too simple.
"Yan Aiqing, after you go back, you will draw down tonight's events, and after the painting is finished, I will hang it in the palace for collection, and I have thought of the name of the painting, so I will call Weifu a private visit to the night banquet of Mr.
Zhang's mansion."
A minister who was eating steamed buns and had a stomach propped up hurriedly stood up to receive the order, and he would be the young eunuch Yan Liben, who was famous in the court and was good at calligraphy and painting.
Yan Liben, father and son, are all good at crafts, calligraphy and painting.
His father was a young eunuch in the palace of the Sui Dynasty, and his brother Yan Lide was a royal servant of Shangyi, designing costumes, umbrellas and ceremonial guards for the court.
Their family is a family of engineers, and they are very good at construction and design, and because they are a family of engineers, their painting level is also very high.
"Wen Yuan."
"The Minister" Li Yuan was very satisfied with the supper this time, he lay on the back chair of the Zhang family, touched his stomach with satisfaction and said, "Go back and send a few imperial chefs over to learn how to cook from your family." ” "Also, yours have a nice piece of furniture."
After a few words of gossip, Li Yuan finally said with a straight face, "If we are unified today, I intend to reopen the imperial examination and select talents."
Last winter, Guozixue and various prefectures and counties were asked to ensure that they were suitable students in schools, and recommended those who were not in school in various places but had talents and virtues to enter Beijing, and in a few days, they would take the official examination. ” "This time, I plan to select more talents, so this time I plan to open more subjects, and Kuaima decided to open Xiucai, Ming Jing, Jinshi, Ming Law, Ming Calculation, Ming Characters, Tongzi, and Taoism."
"I intend that this imperial examination will be held in the new Hanlin Academy, and you will be the examiners of the newly awarded Hanlin Academy."
Li Yuan hand-picked four chief examiners from these Hanlins, Zhang Chao, Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui.
In addition, there are eighteen examiners in the same examiner, and the remaining bachelors are examiners.
This surprised Zhang Chao very much, he didn't expect that he could also be the chief examiner.
However, after looking at the other three examiners, he was not so surprised.
This year's imperial examination will be the first imperial examination in Datang.
However, in general, although the emperor attaches great importance to it, the imperial examination is not as important as it was later.
At present, the imperial examination is only a way to select talents, and it is still a relatively minor way.
Although there are many subjects, but at the moment the imperial examination is still just beginning, the influence is still very weak, from the Sui Dynasty when the emperor began to open the imperial examination, to now, it has been done for many years, and it has stopped for a long time in the middle, and the influence is improving, but it is still not high.
This is also why the four examiners are only fourth- and fifth-grade officials, and most of them are subordinate officials of the East Palace and the palace.
However, Zhang Chao still feels very honored to be the chief examiner of the imperial examination.
The legendary imperial examination examiner is quite good, and those candidates will become their protégés in the future After thinking about it, the protégés are all over the Tang Dynasty officialdom, and even the three provinces and six departments of the imperial court, and I am excited to think about it.
Pei Lin and Xiao Yu, the prime ministers of the three provinces, estimate that they can't look down on the position of the examiner now, after all, even if they pass the Ministry of Rites exam, they only have the qualifications to be officials, and they have to participate in the official exam.
It is necessary to judge the body and words, and finally pass the test, and then the official will be awarded, but it is generally a low-level official position of the ninth and nine grades.
Generally, the real nobles and even the children of high-ranking officials disdain to participate in the imperial examination, because they can enter the official office, which is much more convenient, and often very high as soon as they enter the office, which is much simpler and more cost-effective than the imperial examination.
Should I change the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty and let him increase his influence?
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