Beidi, Pingyang.

Guo Jia stared at the two servants with bright eyes, carrying an iron plate with a diameter of more than two feet, which was padded with wooden boards. On the plate was a huge steak with strong heat and meat fragrance. In addition, there were two fried eggs on the plate, and still half-life eggs. Put them on the plate, then pick up the prepared steak on the side and pour it on it. Suddenly, a fog churned, and there was a jumping and scorching sound of "squeezing and pulling".

Guo Jia's index finger twitched and praised: "This kind of Hu roast is really a great taste!"

The left hand knife and right hand chopsticks, the blade gently slashed across the large piece of beef, and the slightly burnt surface immediately bloomed left and right, revealing the bright red and tender and perfect flesh inside.

Many people in later generations believed that knife and fork were Western dining utensils, so they regarded it as modern, but they did not know that in the new era, the knife and fork used by Chinese people were found at the Hemudu site.

During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Chinese combined spoons and knives to form a "dagger" with a sharp edge in the middle. In later generations, the dead mother was called "bi", which actually represents the mother who cooked. A woman waved two "daggers" for cooking and was happy to chop meat and fish. When she got angry, she also chopped her husband and kids.

In the Han Dynasty, because of the skillful use of bronze ware, the knife and fork were smaller, and there were even certain patterns and decorations...

Guo Jia seemed to have no idea that the outside of the beef was still hot. He couldn't help but put the cut beef pieces into his mouth. After chewing it, he felt that the delicious juice and hot oil contained in the beef burst out instantly. The plump taste seemed to melt all the taste buds on his tongue...

Xun Chen looked at Guo Jia as if he was immersed in the food, smiled slightly, and then waited for the time when Guo Jia had a short gap, he raised the wine and said, "Good ingredients should also be accompanied by good wine, and it is better to drink..."

Guo Jia thought that he couldn't understand the meaning of Xun Chen's words, but just used it as a slogan of persuasion. He laughed, put down the knife and chopsticks in his hand, picked up the wine and respected Xun Chen, and then he gulped a large mouthful of water, and then stretched his neck so that the wine could slip into his stomach more smoothly, mixed with the delicious meat.

The wine and oil stains stained Guo Jia's beard, making him look a little oily and sloppy, but Guo Jia didn't care at all, and he was too lazy to wipe it for a while. After putting down the wine, he started eating the second and third pieces...

Xun Chen neither frowned nor laughed, but still asked Guo Jia gently: "Do you still need to be burned with filial piety?"

Guo Jia shook his head, swallowed the flesh in his mouth, and then raised his title and said, "As soon as you get drunk, you will be full and have virtue, a gentleman will be blessed for thousands of years..."

Xun Chen also smiled, "Better to drink!" but he sighed in his heart, Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao!

After Guo Jia went to Taiyuan, he felt that he was cheated by Fei Qian, which was a little unhappy. After all, Guo Jia had digged small holes everywhere and had been cheated by others. So he simply slacked off and stayed in Pingyang, claiming that he was not feeling well and could not stay.

Moreover, after hearing Fei Qian's actions in Chang'an, Guo Jia didn't want to go to Chang'an to trek in that muddy water. He just took it as a relaxation in Pingyang, the northern part of the world. So he wrote a letter to Fei Qian saying that he had a headache, legs and arms, and he was uncomfortable everywhere. He expressed it very perfunctorily and started to eat and drink every day in Pingyang.

According to national laws, plowing oxen are not allowed to be slaughtered at will. You must wait until the ox dies of illness and dies of old age before you can eat meat. Therefore, even if there are many wealthy people at the banquet, such as Guo Jia, it is difficult to eat beef when he was in Xu County.

Now that I live in the north, I am naturally close to the water. Can the Hu people's cows be considered plowing oxes?

Of course not counting!

So since it is not a plowing ox, you can naturally slaughter it directly, cut the tender meat in it, marinate it slightly, and fry it for consumption, and you will find fresh, fragrant, tender and beautiful things.

In Xu County, meat is mostly roasted and cooked, while in Pingyang, the northern part is made of copper plates to fry...

It can only be said that the General of the Cavalry is too rich.

True, inhumane.

After all, in this day and age, copper is almost equivalent to money, which is probably the same as the feeling of using gold and silver to make tableware in later generations...

People in the Han Dynasty did not have the so-called "eating raw meat and drinking blood" to eat beef that was five-quarters or even three-quarters. Because the gentry themselves even pursued eating raw meat. Not to mention raw fish as a delicacy along the coast, Chen Deng, the guy who loved stew as life, even the meat at the festival was mostly alive, and everyone still ate it.

At the Hongmen Banquet in the early Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu ordered the life to take the shoulders of Fan Kuai. Fan Erha didn't say anything, but directly cut it and ate it. Later generations thought that Xiang Yu made things difficult for others, but in fact, it shouldn't be intentional to make things difficult for him, but really admire Fan Erha.

Of course, Xun Chen would not come to invite Guo Jia alone to the banquet. After all, Guo Jia still belongs to Cao Cao's side, similar to prisoners, but only enjoys some preferential treatment, so there are some officials from the North in the same seat.

For example, Xinpi, who was newly transferred to the north, felt that the beef was a little raw, but it was just a little bit. After heating it for a while, it would be almost five minutes more cooked, and he was satisfied with the food.

Guo Jia was not afraid of raw and cold, and even felt that the more the bull was, he ate the first piece of it and ate it five-quarters of it. Later, he asked for some raw, and he shaking his head and almost ate his tongue, and he couldn't speak.

Most people may have shallow food, or dare not act too greedy and greedy in front of their superior Xun Chen, so they do not eat much. Xinpi even said that they cannot eat all meat and ordered some vegetarian dishes, saying that they can remind themselves and keep the truth.

As the master, Xun Chen naturally agreed with a smile.

Only Guo Jia was like a starving ghost and reincarnated. After eating two pieces in a row, he burped loudly, indicating that he was really full. You know, the beef I sent was not the steak restaurant that was famous in later generations and sold as thin as paper to deceive Chinese customers. Instead, each piece was more than two fingers thick, at least the size of a palm!

Seeing Guo Jia put down the knife and chopsticks, someone in the hall laughed and said, "Yan Yu has just settled, there is a lot of farmland, and it's like Brother Guo's food, I'm afraid Sikong will find it difficult to provide for it, so what...

In the past few days, Guo Jia has actually caused some trouble to the officials in Pingyang, so he is naturally a little dissatisfied. Seeing Guo Jia's lazy attitude, he couldn't help but speak out and ridicule.

Guo Jia glanced slightly, then smiled and said, "However! If there was such meat in the past, the emperor would not have been able to get rid of the bones!" Guo Jia must not be a good-looking lamp, so he blocked it back with just one sentence.

Xun Chen narrowed his eyes, glanced at the official who had just spoken out, and said, "The times change, the situation is like water flowing eastward. Chen wanted to stay in Pingyang for Fengxiao, but the lord summoned him..."

"Ah?" Guo Jia's face, which was originally slightly proud, suddenly became a little stiff.

Xun Chen smiled. Otherwise, what would I ask you to do specifically? Of course, it would be treated as a farewell banquet.

In fact, Xun Chen was not disgusted with Guo Jia. After all, Guo Jia and Xun Yu had a good relationship. This time he came to Pingyang, he could bring some information about his hometown to Xun Chen. Xun Chen, who had been wandering outside for a long time, could hear some changes in Yingchuan. This was already very rare in the Han Dynasty.

But for Guo Jia, he has not been enough in Pingyang...

It was not because of eating, uh, not all for eating, but because Guo Jia discovered some secrets of Fei Qian in Pingyang. He felt that he had not fully seen it clearly, and he understood it, and he was thinking about staying for a few more days.

In the Han Dynasty, many people even left their homes and never heard the local accent in their lives. Therefore, from the people and the children of the gentry to the children of the gentry, they were not willing to stay away from their hometowns, which obviously became a common psychology.

During these days, Guo Jia observed in Pingyang and found that this was indeed a problem he had never considered.

In the Han Dynasty, there was only one type of person who was busy outside, even stayed outside all year round.

That's the businessman.

The previous battles in Yanzhou and Yuzhou and Jianghuai areas caused many areas to become battlefields, and a large number of people migrated and dispersed, especially in the chaos, and a large number of people fled to the relatively stable Beidi and Guanzhong areas.

In this way, in Yanzhou, Yuzhou and those areas affected by war, the demand for goods naturally arises many vacant. The characteristic of merchants themselves is to pursue interests. Perhaps human instinct is to fear war, but they will not refuse profits because of this. When the war stops a little, merchants focus on the profits, and merchants of all sizes are busy transporting materials and making a fortune.

Therefore, Yanzhou and Yuzhou, which should have been restored to production facilities, were not in a hurry to restore production equipment under the conditions that relatively there were commodities that could meet their needs, resulting in the post-disaster reconstruction of handicrafts and some workshops in the Yuzhou area of ​​Yanzhou.

What is hidden under it is the booming workshops in Feiqian, producing various instruments day and night, and then sending them to various places for sale...

Living equipment, weapons and armor, seems to be able to be produced by all the products on the market in Pingyang North, and Guo Jia can often see war horses and steel that are difficult to buy on the market.

The more I read, the bigger the gap.

Cao Sikong and Fei Piqiu seem to be in two different stages.

During this period, Guo Jia saw all kinds of new things. The introduction of fresh policies and the gathering of various voices and messages made Guo Jia a little confused.

Could it be that my persistence has always been a mistake?

My own concept is actually behind?

Correspondingly, his belief that Cao Cao's side would eventually win gradually collapsed as the rivers faded...

As Ri Feiqian said, he was watching him get up the red building, he was watching him entertaining guests, and he was watching his building collapse. For the bystanders, every power alternation seems to be vigorous, but in fact, it does not have much benefit to the people, and they may even be implicated.

Guo Jia noticed that because of the protection of the priests of the priests and even the protection of the caravans, the goods of the priests of the cavalry have now penetrated to all levels. In recent years, through this kind of copper-smelling trade that the priests in the Han Dynasty were too shy to talk about, Fei Qian has become the top merchant leader in the entire Han Dynasty. Although Fei Qian did not go directly to sell it, no one dared not to give Fei Qian the face of the caravans. Even the bandits and road tyrants in various places charge some symbolic fees, and there are few incidents of intercepting and killing the priests.

Because Guo Jia acted as the leader of collecting intelligence at Cao Cao, after seeing Fei Qian and other caravan merchants, he suddenly realized that he was afraid that all kinds of information from his own actions were sent to Fei Qian by these merchants...

Guo Jia originally believed that since merchants are all profit-seeking, since Fei Qian can use merchants, he could also suggest that Cao Cao in turn to lure these merchants. However, after scattered and unintentional contact with these merchants, Guo Jia found that the problem was much more serious than he had originally imagined.

These businessmen seem to have a loyalty towards Fei Qian that is difficult for Guo Jia to understand.

How did Fei Qian do it?

But before Guo Jia could see clearly and figure it out, he was called back by Fei Qian again. How could this not make Guo Jia feel depressed?

Xinpi said on the side, "I heard that Cao Sikong Xin wrote a poem, saying, "I drove six dragons and rode the wind and walked around the world. I walked on the eight states under the road. I climbed high mountains and valleys and rode on clouds and walked on the four seas. I went east to Mount Tai. I am a fairy and jade girl, came down to soar. I drove six dragons and drank jade juice. The river water was gone, but I didn't flow east..." Cao Sikong's article was majestic and grand. I read it so that I could forget the customs. However, there was a sentence that said, "Why do you say, "The river water was gone, but you don't flow east?" I heard that Guo Fengxiao and Cao Sikong knew each other, but I don't know how to explain this sentence?"

Guo Jia was stunned and immediately said, "Nature is like turbulent water. If you decide the east, it flows east; if you decide the west, it flows west!"

Xin Pi looked at Xun Chen, then turned to Guo Jia. Although he knew that Guo Jia was quibbling, he could not find a suitable word to refute for a while.

Does Xinpi just admire Cao Cao? Of course not. I gave Xinpi a hundred courages, and I dared not openly express my preference for Boss Cao when Fei Qian was under the influence of Fei Qian. Therefore, Xinpi chose to say this fu and this sentence for a reason. However, Xinpi did not expect that Guo Jia was so quick in thinking, so he immediately blocked it. He also faintly mocked Xinpi himself, making it difficult for Xinpi to continue.

"I heard that "the sea never refuses to flow eastward, it is the greatest", but now Cao Sikong "was never flowing eastward", how can he last forever?" This sentence is a bit explicit. Of course, it was not said by someone like Xinpi, but by another minor official at the dinner.

Guo Jia smiled proudly: "The tomb is guided by ripples, and it flows eastward to become Han." Since this is the case, why not even people?"

『Haha…』 Xun Chen smiled and said, 『I had heard that Feng Xiao was quick in thinking and sharp in words. Now that I can see it, I should be like this... But I also heard that Feng Xiao was appointed as the "military advisor sacrificial wine" where Cao Sikong was?

Guo Jia nodded slowly. This matter is naturally undeniable, just like Guo Jia also knows what positions many people under Fei Qian's rule are.

Xun Chen also nodded slightly, and then said, "I heard that Cao Sikong has changed his appointment as Dong Zhao, and Dong Gongren is the military advisor to offer wine..."

Guo Jia's face finally changed a little.

The military advisor's sacrificial wine was considered the first of Cao Cao's creation. The original position of military advisor was already in the early Han Dynasty. At that time, most of them were the names of staff members, and there was no determined official rank. Some were similar to "Something and Aiden", and the status of "Military Advisor" was determined based on the size of the chief officer.

Sacrifice is a priest who originated from the custom of sacrificial ritual. It was originally impossible to go with the military advisor, and it was two completely different positions.

However, Cao Cao, who escaped, merged these two positions into one place, took the honor of priests and added them to the military advisor, and expressed them as the chief among the "military advisors" to show honor. The most important thing is that this position was created by Cao Cao for Guo Jia's first, that is, to enhance Guo Jia's status as the "machine advisors", so that the title of the position was born, probably like "first advisors" or "chief advisors".

And now, the military advisor who originally belonged to Guo Jia has now fallen on Dong Zhao.

Guo Jia closed her eyes and sighed slightly.

Before, Guo Jia could quickly fight back, but when Xun Chen said this, Guo Jia didn't know what to say...

Just like the love that is so passionate and the couple who have experienced passionate love will be defeated in front of the two words "againstant place". What defeats the original vows such as "Mountain Wuling" is not the so-called "Where are you when I need it?" or "can't feel your warmth", but "doubt".

Because the distance is very far, sometimes there may be quarrels and cold wars because of the other party's words. Once a problem occurs, it is difficult to solve. In fact, sometimes problems can be solved by just a hug or sit down and communicate. In a long-distance relationship, it seems to be a very difficult thing. The time points of the two parties are different. They cannot know when the other party is free and busy, nor do they know what the other party is doing, who is with, and what they are doing. This will cause conflicts to a certain extent, and will also cause speculation and doubt.

However, Cao Cao was so suspicious...

Just as Xun Chen and others could know some changes in Cao Cao, would Cao Cao not know about Guo Jia’s situation here? Even if Cao Cao had no channels, would Fei Qian and others not reveal anything intentionally or unintentionally?

The more Guo Jia acts indifferently, eating and drinking, and looking heartless, the easier it is to make Cao Cao feel a little suspicious. But on the other hand, even if Guo Jia shows pain and loss here, what can change? What Cao Cao gets and thinks about is the real situation?

It is not easy to fall in love, but it is even more difficult to get along with each other. If you want to keep "Love" unchanged, that is, "male plus male"...
Chapter completed!