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Chapter 3 On the Countless Barren Hills in the World

"Oh?"

Zhao Liangha glanced at the Taoist priest.

The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty believed in various religions and rewarded monks, nuns and Taoists a lot.

Just like Yang Lian Zhenjia, the fan monk who dug up the imperial mausoleum of the Song Dynasty and made Song Lizong's head into a Gabala bowl, because he broke the geomantic omen of the Song Dynasty, he was granted the right to collect taxes of hundreds of thousands of hectares by the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. He is "Jiangnan Buddhist President".

Therefore, there are often monks and lamas, monks, nuns and Taoists who offer golden elixir, immortality, etc. to the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty to invite his favor.Many monks, lamas and Taoist priests are still white today, but tomorrow they will be favored and become the masters of the Great Yuan Dynasty.

Today, the most favored technique is of course the Great Joy Technique presented by the Tubo monks. The emperor practiced it, and he can practice it with many concubines, which is very enjoyable.

Zhao Liangha only thought that this Taoist priest named Chen Sijiu wanted to give the Great Yuan Emperor Xianju, but he didn't ask.

no way.

The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, since the death of Kublai Khan, Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty.

During the past 40 years, the emperor has been changing like a horse on a horse.

I heard that the emperor seems to be dying now, and the Mongolian emperor of the Yuan Dynasty is very careless.

The emperor's names are long and awkward, extremely difficult to remember.

The last emperor collapsed before he could remember his name.

Northern Han people like Zhao Liangha and Liu Shishi, who have the blood of the Great Jin Kingdom, don’t have much affection for the Mongols themselves. After the Mongols conquered the north, they killed the Han people of the Jin Kingdom more severely than they did in the Southern Song Dynasty, especially in Shanxi. People in Henan and other places, in the early Yuan Dynasty, ten households shared a knife, and Han people were not allowed to carry weapons.

They, the sons of the Han army who surrendered, were also suppressed.

It's none of my business who will be the emperor.

Zhao Liangha gritted his teeth and felt pain, and saw the precious tiger skin and flesh, rolled his eyes, took care, took out a treasured wine gourd from his waist, and smiled at Chen Sijiu: "Since you tear it up, little brother I don't hide the tiger's food, I have a good wine and a gourd here."

"I drank this wine with you, how about giving me your tiger skin?"

Chen Sijiu's eyes lit up.

Can't help but swallow his saliva. In Tiefeng Mountain, the three masters can make wine, and let him drink more high-grade baijiu to exercise his alcohol capacity, because the emperor of Dayuan likes to drink, and entertains his officials every day without getting drunk or happy .

If you don't know how to drink, how can you gain the trust of Emperor Dayuan?
The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty liked to reward his ministers after drinking, and by the way, he did a multi-person learning foreign language movement together.

Besides, good meat goes well with good wine. This tiger meat is served with chili and peppercorns. It is spicy and refreshing. It would be a pity to drink it without wine.

According to the three masters, spicy eggplant is an original product of Yingzhou, which has never been found in the Central Plains. If this thing is introduced to China, the spiciness of the five flavors can be named after this thing, so this spicy eggplant can also be called chili pepper, spicy pepper , Now here to taste the new taste of the world, it should be clear.

"Okay, it's better to have wine, it can relieve the fishy greasy."

Chen Sijiu chuckled, he had already finished drinking the gourd of old ginseng wine he carried on his body before going out, and now the glutton in his stomach was muttering.

Liu Shishi was also pleasantly surprised: "We are so lucky!"

He looked at Chen Sijiu enviously, and said sourly: "Little Taoist priest, you really have face!"

"We have always been frugal. Last time we hunted and caught a sea dongqing, the emperor rewarded him with two hundred coins and begged him to treat us to a couple of taels of white wine. He was reluctant, and finally changed to the south The rice wine, the thief has no energy, and drinking it will shame you to go to the alley with the green hat."

The so-called "green hat gentleman" is the tortoise of the brothel.

The "Yuan Decrees" of the Yuan Dynasty stipulated that all prostitutes in brothels and their immediate male relatives must wear green hats or headscarves and black trousers on their heads, so they are called "Green Hat Langjun".

Because of the Great Yuan Dynasty, Confucian households were at the end of the low stream, lower than prostitute households, and only a little higher than beggars.

Confucian scholars entered the brothels and restaurants one after another, wrote songs and compiled scripts, which made Dayuan's miscellaneous songs flourish.

The music and dance of prostitutes in Dayuan was very prosperous, not as prosperous as in Tang Dynasty, but it was dozens of times more prosperous than in Song Dynasty. Quyuan miscellaneous altars, especially Zaqu'er, were very prosperous. Most temples can also openly store prostitutes, especially temples. The Buddha's head has a lot of money, and the common people have no livelihood, so they can sell themselves into the temple and become prostitutes in the temple.

At that time, people even said: "The so-called fence builders provide excellent performances and enjoy the entertainment, and the viewers spend money on them... There are hundreds of millions of prostitutes who teach dancing in the world."

Most of the common people like to watch music, so they don't despise music household prostitutes.

Zhao Liangha scolded angrily when he heard the words: "You know what, this liquor is precious and can be used as medicine, if it wasn't for this little brother who shot a tiger, our quota for this year's arrests is already full, I am absolutely reluctant to take out the liquor Come!"

If a tiger has three sons, there must be one!
The tiger that Chen Sijiu shot down was fierce, fierce and huge. It must be the king of tigers hundreds of miles away, and it was called Biao.

In his words, he had already regarded the tiger shot by Chen Sijiu as their number of arrests this year, and he didn't care about Chen Sijiu's willingness to give the tiger to them. Although Chen Sijiu was a little bit Not happy, after all, this tiger skin is at least worth ten taels of gold, and if he just gave it away like this, he still couldn't talk and laugh freely.

But Chen Sijiu didn't say anything. After all, if Zhao Liangha and Liu Shishi hadn't taken a rest in this stone house and rescued him by accident, he might have lost his life.

"It's easy to say, this tiger skin belongs to my brother, but I, Chen Sijiu, was reincarnated as a gluttonous hungry ghost. Don't grab the tiger whip from me later, you two, hahahaha!"

Chen Sijiu took the wine gourd in Zhao Liangha's hand and shook it.

Reaching out to unscrew the wine gourd, a strong smell of alcohol came to his face.

Liquor has a wide range of uses. If you are injured in the wild, such as being bitten by a wild animal, or being trapped by a trap, it can be used as a medicine for sores. When it is bitter and cold in Liaobei, pour a sip of strong wine when you are cold and hungry, it is enough to comfort the wind and dust, and warm you up. bones.

"This wine is good, two old brothers, are there many people in Dayuan who can afford to drink?"

Chen Sijiu asked suddenly.

Northern real estate spirits, since the time of Dajin Kingdom, Taoist priest Xiao Baozhen dedicated the fairy recipe for brewing Qiongye Xianlu to the emperor. It has been decades now, and baijiu is no longer a rarity.

But during the period of the Great Jin Dynasty, the emperor could not afford to drink this liquor.

Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Great Jin Kingdom once said that money from the treasury is not allowed to be spent indiscriminately, and neither is the emperor. As a result, baijiu is rare and too expensive. Later, Emperor Wanyanmian couldn't help but secretly bought baijiu with the money from the treasury, and was banned. Twenty big boards were played.

Zhao Liangha's family has hunted and arrested for generations, counting up to 70 years, and their ancestors were once the dignitaries of the Dajin Kingdom.

Therefore, this wine is not unusual for him, and it is also a means for him to win over the hunters under his command. Liaodong is bitterly cold, and it is easy to get cold legs if it is frozen in the mountains. It is necessary to wrap the knee pads with yellow or black dog skins, otherwise, before the age of 30, the hands and feet will be crooked, swollen and pus will be swollen, and finally the mouth will be crooked.

Baijiu can be used as medicine for golden sores, and it can cure cold sores. Although it is a bit more expensive, the arresters are willing to buy it.

After all, in an extremely cold place, a sip of strong wine can warm you up for hours.

"Little brother, why do you ask this?"

Zhao Liangha was puzzled.

Chen Sijiu smiled and patted his head again: "Well, it's a long story."

"We are orphans taken in by my three masters. We grew up in the mountains, and we are not familiar with the outside world. As for our three masters, more than fifty years ago, that is, Emperor Kublai Khan of the Great Yuan Dynasty was still there. Because of avoiding the calamity of war, he went to sea to visit Penglai Yingzhou in Xianshan Mountain, and was guided by the fairy wind and fell into Yingzhou."

"Before they went to Yingzhou Fairy Mountain, this burnt knife liquor is still a rare thing."

Chen Sijiu explained.

Zhao Liangha and Liu Shishi didn't believe it, they just thought Chen Sijiu was bragging.

"We grew up in the mountains since we were young. I heard from three masters that the knives-burning liquor was produced after Xiao Baozhen, a Taoist priest of the Dajin Kingdom, gave the brewing method to the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom. However, most of the big wineries are temples or Taoist temples. Landlord, wine is very expensive, can ordinary people afford it?"

Chen Sijiu's words sounded unintentional, but they were actually a little cautious.

Zhao Liangha didn't take it seriously, and said, "Little brother, you don't understand this."

"This Shaodaozi strong wine is divided into several pots. The first pot is cloudy and not clear, the second pot is clear and strong, and the third pot is just water wine with little lees, which is similar to the rice wine in the south."

"If it's the first pot or three pots, glutinous rice wine, or wine from Chagatai, the people in Dadu can smack their lips after a while."

Chen Sijiu snorted, and said to himself that the technique of brewing baijiu was originally created by my Taoist teacher, how could I not know it.

However, he nodded with great interest, and said with a smile: "That's not bad, it shows that the common people in Dayuan still have enough to eat."

"Have you had enough to eat?"

Zhao Liangha and Liu Shisi shook their heads at the same time, showing embarrassment.

Zhao Liangha said bitterly: "Brother Chen Sijiu, you are wrong. Those who can eat enough are those monks and lamas, as well as Dagenjiao (from Mongolia) in Dayuan. Ordinary people can eat their fill. , that is the blessing of the Bodhisattva."

"The common people in most of us can take a few sips of wine to drink, because the Mongolian princes and nobles like to drink, and their eyes are back to business. Han merchants in the south like to transport wine to sell."

"The wine is not easy to store, and regular restaurants have to sell it, otherwise the wine will go bad."

"Otherwise, I'll wait for Xiaomin, how can I have a chance to drink?"

Chen Sijiu suddenly realized.

It turned out to be like this...

He called the two old arresters to help him, first skinned the tiger, cleaned the internal organs, and picked up some information about the current Dayuan.

This is also the most important task of his coming out this time.

I don't know how I am an old citizen of the Song Dynasty, how I am now...

Back then, the three masters who were murdered were the nobles of the Han army who lived in Yingzhou, and the gang of ministers and civil officials, what is going on now...

Zhao Liangha and Liu Shisi started talking while helping with work.

Today's Dadu can be regarded as a large Mongolian tribe.

The ranks are distinct, the rich are very rich, the poor have no place to stand, and most of them sell themselves to princes and nobles, and famous merchants and businessmen should be expelled (servants).

To Chen Sijiu's surprise, even many Mongolians lived worse than dogs.

After a little thought, it makes sense.

According to the three masters.

During the period of the Great Jin Kingdom, Mongolia was originally a nomadic slave tribe in the north.

The Dajin Kingdom was invaded by Mongols and finally destroyed. It has only been 80 to [-] years now, and the habits of Mongol slaves are unavoidable.

Many Mongols who were slaves on the Mongolian grasslands were still slaves to Mongolian princes and nobles for generations when they arrived in Dadu...

Perhaps it is in response to what the five virtues have always said.

Raising one's head three feet up, it is really clear that the law of heaven is so obvious. It has been less than a hundred years since the founding of Dayuan, and there have been thousands of floods, large and small. Just for major floods, the imperial court recorded nearly [-] times.

This is because Dayuan is Jinde, Jinshengshui.

And after the flood, came the drought.

After the drought, locust plagues and plagues...

Take the Central Plains as an example, about 40 years since the death of Kublai Khan, there have been floods, droughts, locust plagues and plagues every year. How can ordinary people survive?Besides, thousands of households in Mongolia enclose land everywhere, drive the Han people away, and use the good land to grow alfalfa, beans, and grass to feed horses, cattle, and sheep.

There is simply not enough food to eat.

Liu Shishi seemed to remember something, shivered and said: "It's okay for us to hunt down households. We hunt wild animals in the mountains and forests. If we don't open for three to five days, we can eat a lot when we open."

"The people in the Central Plains are really miserable..."

"Once we went to the Central Plains to hunt white foxes, that place..."

Liu Fourteen swallowed his saliva.

"How?" Chen Sijiu asked hastily. Hearing that the people of the Han family in the Central Plains were affected by the disaster, his face looked very anxious.

This time out of the mountain, the second master gave a lot of explanations. He asked him to go to the hometown of the Song Dynasty to see how the people of our Han family are. If he can find Song Lizong’s skull that was made into a Tantric wine vessel by the monk, the idea will break the pressure of the monk. Defeat sorcery and return my luck to the Han family!

Liu Shisi gritted his teeth and his eyes flickered: "Since ancient times, white foxes have been full of tombs and barren mounds. At that time, I followed dozens of brothers and went to Luoyang, Henan Province to hunt white foxes. Along the way, the fields were starved and killed. The fields were planted by the Mongols. The common people Just eat wild vegetables, eat leaves, eat the bark after the leaves are eaten up, eat the Avalokitesvara soil after eating the bark..."

"The ones on the mountain are alright. You can scrape and cook the pine needles and bark to eat. In the plains, it's really miserable. We are all hunters who are used to hunting wild animals. We are said to be hard-hearted, but seeing the refugees from the Central Plains, I really feel that the Great Yuan Emperor Damn bastard!"

"I heard from my father that during the time of the Great Jin Kingdom, although the Central Plains also suffered from disasters, there had never been such things as starving and dying, changing sons to eat, choosing people to eat, and so on. We have really seen the Central Plains under the rule of the Great Yuan..."

ps: Cold knowledge, the Yuan Dynasty was the dynasty with the most floods recorded in the official history of Chinese feudal history.

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