Chapter 144 Epiphany
Ruan Dacheng smiled and said, "Young people have some different thoughts, which is understandable."
Ruan Dacheng continued, "The time is almost over, let's start the meal." After saying that, he informed him and started serving the dishes.
Zhu Hongsan used to eat in the market, but he never went to a top restaurant in the Ming Dynasty. He never went to a private club like Zhu Hongsan.
So he always thought that eating and drinking in the Ming Dynasty was much worse than in his previous life. But this time it was a big eye-opener. It turned out that no matter which dynasty, the rich people lived a similar way of life.
Not to mention the rest, this table of porcelain is worth silver. They are all blue and white porcelains of the Yuan Dynasty. They are the wine glass in front of you, as thin as a cicada's wings, and the wine is even more crystal clear when poured, which makes Zhu Hongsan dare not pick up the wine glass, for fear that the wine glass will break if you try hard.
Feng Ruoshu said: "Brother Jizhi's set of Yuan blue and white porcelain costs a lot of silver, right? Look at the glass of this wine glass with a slightly blue glaze, and it is a slightly light blue hue. It is the shadow blue glaze produced by the official kiln of Jingdezhen in the Yuan Dynasty."
Ruan Dacheng smiled and said, "Isn't the things just used there? Brother Jie Xiu likes them and I'll give them to you later."
Feng Ruoshu said in surprise: "How can this set of Yuan blue and white wine utensils not be able to get it without ten thousand taels of silver? Feng really can't accept it."
Ruan Dacheng said: "We were in the same year and haven't seen each other for many years. We can express our feelings for a little thing."
Zhu Hongsan next to him heard that this set of wine utensils was worth 10,000 taels of silver, so he was so scared that he put the wine glass on the table, afraid that it would be broken and could not afford to pay. In fact, Zhu Hongsan didn't know the future price of this set of wine utensils. You should know that in the future, the Yuan blue and white fragments and gold were equally heavy. Zhu Hongsan was afraid that he would kill Ruan Dacheng and take the wine utensils for himself.
Zhu Hongsan saw these two old guys pushing around and said, "Don't refuse, uncle, this is Lord Ruan's wish."
Ruan Dacheng smiled and said, "I saw it, it's still the mistress who knows me."
When Feng Ruoshu heard Zhu Hongsan say this, he had to say, "Brother Jizhi, then I will be disrespectful."
When the dishes were spoken, Zhu Hongsan was so dazzled. This was exactly the same as the hotel in his previous life, and he had to win the knife skills.
Zhu Hongsan saw a plate of croaked tongue coming up and asked, "Mr. Ruan, is this a croaked tongue?"
Ruan Dacheng nodded and said, "This is a canary tongue, made of 100 canaries. This dish mainly uses broth to remove the fishy smell of the sparrow tongue. The broth needs ten chickens, which takes three days to make."
Zhu Hongsan was so scared that he stretched out his tongue, but he didn't expect that the people of the Ming Dynasty could live so well.
Then a plate of locusts came up, and Zhu Hongsan asked, "Isn't this a locust?"
Ruan Dacheng said: "This is not a locust in the wild. It is a locust fed with millet. After the second molt, it is soft and delicious. The mistress can try it."
Zhu Hongsan picked up a chopstick and put it into his mouth. It was really different from what he ate when he was a child. It didn’t have the fishy smell of grass, but it tasted a bit like a millet crust. It was indeed delicious.
Next, I saw dishes coming up, and Ruan Dacheng would introduce how to make this dish. Zhu Hongsan nodded repeatedly.
Feng Ruoshu was nothing. He was a senior official of the court and had attended such banquets countless times.
Zhu Hongsan is different. When he was a child, his family was not rich, so he relied on his mother Zhao Chunhua's grocery store to raise him. Later, when he had too much money, he only ate braised pork, mutton, dog meat, etc. This high-standard banquet was really unthinkable.
Zhu Hongsan asked, "Mr. Ruan, this table of banquet is not cheap."
Ruan Dacheng smiled and said, "I don't have much money, just two hundred taels of silver."
"Damn, I'll just pay 200 taels of silver." Zhu Hongsan cursed in his heart. You must know that Zhu Hongsan's musketman's equipment was only 100 taels of silver. This was the price of muskets, horizontal knives, gunpowder, a base ammunition, grenade ammunition, pills, stingers, luggage, and three sets of military uniforms. Unexpectedly, the three people ate the equipment of two musketmen in this meal.
Zhu Hongsan thought: "It is said that the scholars in the south are extravagant, but they didn't expect it to be like this. The northern courts have no money to quell the rebellion, but they are eating and drinking here."
Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan asked, "Mr. Ruan, I heard that the capital was occupied by the Qing Dynasty. I wonder what the lords in the court think?"
Ruan Dacheng said: "This time the bandits killed by the Qing Dynasty was so powerful that it was a huge defeat. Some people in the court said they wanted to use the Qing Dynasty's hands to deal with Li Zicheng, and I also agreed very much."
Zhu Hongsan didn't expect Ruan Dacheng to say this, and then asked, "Mr. Ruan, the Qing Dynasty is not my race, but the hearts of the Qing Dynasty must be different. Let them come in, what if they don't leave in the future?"
Ruan Dacheng said: "Anyway, the north is no longer like this. It would be better to use the Yellow River as the boundary and cut the north to the Qing Dynasty."
Zhu Hongsan didn't expect Ruan Dacheng to make such a bastard remark. In the past, Zhu Hongsan thought Ruan Dacheng was quite pitiful. Now he found that the comment he had given to Ruan Dacheng in history was that "the villain among villains" really didn't wrong him.
Zhu Hongsan was so happy to see Ruan Dacheng saying that he was ready to use the Qing Dynasty's hands to deal with Li Zicheng. However, Zhu Hongsan was deeply disappointed with Ruan Dacheng.
Zhu Hongsan now feels that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed is not unfair. Everyone in a dynasty considers the problem from their own perspective. The first thing that comes to mind is whether he suffers or not. Can such a dynasty be better?
Zhu Hongsan thought of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, Jiajing, Wanli, and Hu Weiyong, Sanyang, Xu Youzhen, Xu Jie, and Zhang Juzheng. They have both good and bad things, but at least they all have one thing in common, they all want to do something for this country, regardless of right or wrong.
However, everyone from the literati and officials of the Southern Ming Dynasty started from themselves and did not take any responsibility. Zhu Hongsan thought of Chongzhen who was hanging himself in Beijing, and remembered the big words under his feet, "All civil officials can be killed!" Chongzhen, you died, it is not unfair.
Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan couldn't help laughing, which made Ruan Dacheng and Feng Ruoshu stunned. Feng Ruoshu said, "Miss San, what's wrong with you? Don't be rude."
Zhu Hongsan stopped laughing and said, "I'm sorry, I just remembered something interesting, I laughed at you." After that, he continued to have a meal and drink.
Ruan Dacheng and the other two had no doubts, and then talked.
Zhu Hongsan was very angry and thought to himself: "It seems that the Qing Dynasty should have a massacre in Nanjing to make these scholars and officials wake up."
Zhu Hongsan had already seen that Ruan Dacheng was of no use, and he had no interest in talking to him, and just focused on eating and drinking.
The banquet was until midnight, and Ruan Dacheng and Feng Ruoshu were both drunk a little. When Zhu Hongsan saw that Feng Ruoshu could not leave, he opened two rooms in Chunjiang Tower and lived there.
Zhu Hongsan lay on the bed listening to the croaking of the insects outside, and his heart couldn't calm down for a long time.
For the first time, he felt powerless towards this era. He had never felt this way before. In the past, in order to escape or be happy in the second half of his life, he always faced difficulties with a smile. If he didn't agree, he would kill him. If his whole family wouldn't agree, he would kill him.
But now it’s not that person who is dissatisfied, but the whole world is living in a state of drunkenness and dreams. Can we kill all the people in the world?
Zhu Hongsan was confused about his future general direction for the first time. It was simple to drive away the Qing Dynasty, but what about the future? Could it be that the previous emperors had a prosperous era and a governance like the previous dynasties?
Then we continued the old tradition and started land annexation? Then we established a new dynasty in the peasant uprising? So why did we expel the Qing Dynasty? At least the few emperors of the Qing Dynasty were still diligent.
What to do in the future? Zhu Hongsan really couldn't sleep early, so he walked out of the room for a walk outside.
As I walked, I came to the place where the guy lived in Chunjiang Tower and passed by a room where I had not yet slept, so the light was lit.
Zhu Hongsan heard a person talking inside. Zhu Hongsan heard that he was counting money, one copper plate and one copper plate. At the end, the man laughed softly: "I made a fortune today. I hope that the business will be so good in the future and have more rewards. In this way, I can buy a few acres of land when I go home. Find a wife to respect my mother and have a few children. It is perfect."
At this moment, someone in the room was talking: "Old Liu, why are you muttering when you don't sleep in the middle of the night?"
The old Liu hurriedly said to go to bed, then blew out the light and went to bed.
Zhu Hongsan heard it clearly outside the window. Such a small person had a dream of being a wife and children. What about mine?
Zhu Hongsan stood until the sky was bright. Seeing the red sun rising, thinking of his children in Guangdong, Zhu Hongsan suddenly figured out, what do you care about? As long as you are happy, you can build a great country and pass it on to your son. As for what happened later, it is the business of future generations, it has nothing to do with me. Life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky. Without me, Zhu Hongsan, the earth will not turn?
Chapter completed!