Liu Bei struggled for a full eleven year - he started to confront Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun. If he started to confront the Yellow Turban, he was fourteen years - he finally became emperor.

It is impossible to say that there is no mentality of "being complacent and being successful" at all. Anyone who climbs to this point will be more or less expanded. For the time being, it is a bit "arrogant and extravagant and ignoring government affairs."

So after ascending the throne on the first day of July, a full five-day banquet was held for the ministers, and the whole world was amnesty, and all the people in Chang'an City were given alms and wine and food, and the whole world celebrated.

Anyway, the war has stopped a little, and Yuan Shao is also busy dealing with internal opposition forces and eliminating the cadre team who misses the strange words of the late emperor. Everyone has maintained a strange peace, without disturbing the war, and it will not be delayed if they don’t work for five days.

Li Su wanted to talk to Liu Bei about the upcoming reform of the official selection system while drinking and watching singing and dancing, but Liu Bei pushed him away on the grounds that he was disappointed:

"Boya! Don't let go of the fun. I agreed that the five-day banquet will be the five-day banquet. I don't know you yet? I usually throw all the things I can throw to the lower part. You only need to take care of the most important things. Have fun when playing and do well when working."

Can’t you enjoy yourself well after becoming emperors?

Li Su had nothing to say. Every day, he followed a group of officials with a rank of over 1,000 stones and sat in the Xuanshi Hall to drink and watch singing and dancing.

After Liu Bei became emperor, he sorted the formal ranks of the court, and now every official is very clear about the order of his court attending court or attending banquets, unlike when Liu Bei was the Grand Sima King Hanzhong.

So when having a banquet, they are in a row on the left, and the first one is Li Su, who can go up to the third level of the stairs and set up a seat between the two stages of the stairs. The first one on the right is Guan Yu, who also goes up to the third level of the stairs. (Cai Yong is old and does not attend the banquet, and the Taifu does not need to attend court, so he can ask for leave for a long time. He only invites him to discuss matters when the emperor has important matters)

There is no problem of literature and martial arts or martial arts or left and right. The left and right arrangements in the early Western Han Dynasty paid attention to the left and right, but since Emperor Wu of Han, Dong Zhongshu, it has gradually been explained in accordance with Confucius' etiquette that "a gentleman lives and a gentleman is more important than the left, and a military service is more important than the right."

That is, the civil servants are left and right, when they are civil servants, when they are civil servants, when they are military officers, when they are military officers, when they are military officers, the one who stands on the left is indeed more respectful; but if there are civil servants and military officers, they are equally respectful.

Behind Li Su, currently Zhong Yao and Xun You, behind Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, the order of the small group of people at the top of the entire court is obvious at a glance.

In addition, long before ascending the throne, Liu Bei asked Li Su to think about it without hesitation, whether he could produce any brand-name new dishes or wines to add some pomp to the throne banquet.

Liu Bei has formed a habit of thinking over the years. Whenever he needs a new and extravagant lifestyle, he thinks of going to Li Su's house to get a meal for a while.

Poor Li Su has been in this world for eleven years. The little extravagant and lewd goods in his stomach can be taken out. The conditions are basically not allowed if they are not taken out, and the materials are not satisfied, such as the lack of African or American origins.

However, it is difficult to lose the money for Liu Bei ascended the throne and the ministers in the grand banquet. If he eats worse than Li's food, he will easily be gossiped behind his back.

So Li Su had tried his best to investigate as early as early May. He thought that he had only visited Jiaozhou at the end of last year, and Jiaozhou area was a relatively late recovery in Liu Bei's camp, and the senior management should have never eaten Nanyang sea goods.

So Li Su wrote a letter to Lu Su at that time. Before Gao Shun took over Wancheng, Lu Su, who was in Changsha, was responsible for transporting food, grass and supplies to the troops from Jingzhou's Northern Expedition. Li Su asked Lu Su to take advantage of the grain transport to transport some South China Sea dry goods to Wancheng, and then go to Wuguan Road to pay tribute to Chang'an.

Fresh seafood will definitely not be shipped and will rot, so the ones sent are dried shellfish, dried clams, dried shrimps, dried sea cucumbers and abalone, and manta ray skirts. In addition, the first batch of Lusu's lucky ships and sea boats went to trade opposite the South China Sea and brought back Nanyang bird's nest (the best bird's nest is in Malaysia, and Malaysia was savages in the late Han Dynasty, but there are also bird's nests south of Linyi Kingdom)

These dry goods were basically popular in the Song and Ming dynasties, and only sea cucumbers and bird's nests and shrimps were earlier. The main reason was that shark fin abalone and japonica were not tasted, and they needed careful cooking to increase the flavor before they were delicious.

In other words, "Eggplant needs more than a dozen chickens to match it to get this flavor." Shark fin abalone does not have a lot of chicken, ham, goose palm, big bone hanging soup for abalone juice, it will be very bland.

"Manta ray" is commonly known as the manta ray, a large flat fish that can often be seen in the aquarium with a long tail.

This thing was not eaten by ancient people in history, but in the 21st century, when Li Su lived in the era when he paid attention to environmental protection and protected sharks, those who sold shark fins began to use a full circle of cartilage fin skirts outside the manta ray fish to fake shark fins.

Moreover, because the body is flat, the outer ring of the manta ray can sport the paddling fin skirt that can occupy a large area of ​​the body, so the consumption utilization rate is very high. Cutting a wing can offset 30% of the weight of the fish meat in the whole body. Unlike a shark who cuts a fin and throws it away, even half of the body's weight is not enough, and the meat is wasted.

Therefore, Li Su, a man who was used to eating manta ray skirts and fake shark fins, asked Lu Su to pay tribute to this, to avoid not being environmentally friendly to hunt sharks, and to the end of the Han Dynasty, the South China Sea fishermen were not well equipped enough, so killing sharks was dangerous. Lu Su thought that Li Su was kind to consider the people's fishermen, and was really moved.

Later, because of Li Su's operation, later generations called eating manta ray skirts "shark fins" and included them in the eight seafood treasures. No one ate the real shark fins.

It can only be said that the right to speak culture has a great influence on art and elegance. Li Su has a strong definition of what elegance is and what vulgarity is in later generations.

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So, during the five-day celebration banquet, Liu Bei saw the grand show of roasted sea cucumbers, braised manta flakes, and various rare items of shrimp and charcoal. Even the cooking method was taught by the chef borrowed from the Li family.

As for the various Lifu dishes that have been available in the past few years, there is no need to say much. In the end, it is rare to use the two white wines that were tributed by Yizhou, "Yidao Wuliangye" and "Jiangyang Laojiao" that should have been used for generals to heal and disinfect the wounds and disinfect them for a banquet for the ministers.

These two types of distilled liquors have been in the past for three years, but Liu Bei's camp has always paid great attention to controlling their manufacturing scale and has basically not been given drinks before.

Later, the Northern Expedition was completely successful, and Guanzhong also survived the famine between 194 and 195 and completely restored its vitality. Then, considering the difficulty of Shu Road, the Yizhou area was already rich.

Moreover, Yizhou has been fully popularizing double-season rice since 194. In other words, in the past three years, Yizhou has had two waves of rice harvests every year, and the grain has been piled up and the official warehouse in Chengdu is about to overflow. Therefore, Li Su suggested that Liu Bei only relax the brewing scale in Yizhou.

After all, the freight rate for Yizhou's surplus grain was very high. Even if it was to support the Jingzhou battlefield, Yizhou transported one stone of grain, and finally arrived in Changsha in only six or seven dou.

This is the freight fee for the entire Yangtze River waterway. It does not count the hardship of an empty boat returning to the Yangtze River Three Gorges. If it was transported from places in Yizhou that did not follow the Yangtze River, the loss would be even greater.

In this case, all necessary distilled wineries in the country are licensed to operate in Yizhou, and ban brewing in other places, which will save transportation costs to the greatest extent. After more than ten kilograms of grain are concentrated into one kilogram of high-alcohol liquor, the freight cost will be saved for more than 90% of the shipping fee to Sichuan.

The process of distilled liquor is strictly controlled. This thing was invented by Zhuge Liang four years ago. At that time, he conducted a "Jiangyang Hemisphere Experiment" for it, so so far, only Zhuge's business has been doing private brewing.

The other official wines in the Path and Jiangyang and other places were led by two officials, including the Salt and Iron Captain Wang Lian and the General Zhang Yi, and were allowed to absorb some investments from noble and wealthy relatives.

Therefore, it is still easy to limit the origin, and people from other places still don’t know how to distil them. Liu Bei’s camp has insisted on only the middle-class high-quality liquor in Shu for many years since then.

At this moment, because of the height of the throne ceremony, the ban on liquor was finally lifted. Of course, Zhang Fei was the most enjoyable. He was drunk in less than half an hour. If Guan Yu next to him hadn't been suppressing him, Zhang Fei would have been drunk to the sky long ago.

Moreover, when Guan Yu killed Wei Yue, his arm injury relapsed. He had only been recuperating for more than a month. Based on the injury of his muscles and bones for 100 days, he had to take care of him for at least two months and not drink too much. Seeing that his second brother was greedy and could not drink, Zhang Fei had to calm down a little.

For civil servants, everyone is more gentle and depends on the occasion to see the status and seats. Because Li Su doesn’t like strong wine, he specially invented a small cup of white wine for today’s occasions, so that others will not drink wildly.

Of course, there are also some wild people who do not pay much attention to etiquette and law, such as Fa Zheng and Pang Tong. One is a lonely minister, who is to be excluded by his colleagues, such as a report to his leaders; the other is that he is ugly and has few friends, and these two people have good alcohol tolerance, so they don’t care whether the three men drink or not. They gather a table to drink and get drunk.

Liu Bei also liked the atmosphere very much and did not make things difficult for them. Later, Liu Bei even waved to Fa Zheng to come forward and personally gave him a few more drinks:

"Xiaozhi, I should drink as much as I should drink today. There is no magnanimity here. I just like your pleasure. Don't look at how much Beya drinks, just care about yourself! Hey, what are you doing when you peek at other people's reactions? You are not sincere in drinking, and you will be fined three more glasses!"

Fa Zheng quickly admitted his mistake: "I am really selfish, and I accept the punishment."

At the end of the drink, Fa Zheng was shaking and unable to stand firmly and rolled down the steps. He subconsciously climbed onto the big sleeves of a palace maid who was dancing in the venue, and barely put on the ground without any head or face.

Taichang Qing Guan Ning was a little reluctant to see him, and almost scolded him for losing his manners in front of him.

However, Liu Bei had seen it for a long time. He knew very well who his ministers were. He directly blocked Guan Ning's words: "You'an, I advise you not to be troubled! There is no such thing as losing your etiquette today! Come on!"

Liu Bei's last word was said to the dancing palace maid whose sleeves were pulled, and waved his hand to move forward.

The palace maid was a little happy and thought she was attracted by the emperor, but Liu Bei just touched her hands and checked them and confirmed that she had not slept. Then he waved his hand: "Xiaozhi, this dancer will give you this one!"

Fa Zheng had not yet woken up, but he was confused and knew roughly what was happening. He quickly rolled around for a while, fell down from his back and changed to a lying position, and lay on the ground and shouted thanks.

Many officials of the Etiquette Sect also shook their heads secretly: This... Although they are talented, polite and polite, how come they are not as good as those of the monarch in life?

Li Su drank less and helped to smooth things over: "This palace maid was not fortunate by His Majesty. It is also kind to release it out of the palace or reward the ministers, which is better than the meeting of King Zhuang of Chu."

When most ordinary civil servants heard this, they felt confused that this matter was over.

However, a very small number of people with intelligence value above 95 were secretly alert in their hearts:
Chapter completed!