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The military academy was built on Chongming Island, and some officials suggested changing the name of Chongming Island.Zhao Han snapped back: "There was a theory of Chongming in the Tang Dynasty. Did the Tang people know that there would be a Ming Dynasty?"

Now, Zhao Kuangchen has successfully graduated, and he can serve as a naval officer while being a prince (the upper limit is that he cannot enter the Navy Governor's Mansion).

Eight of those who returned to Nanjing with Zhao Kuangchen were his bodyguards, and the remaining two were classmates who returned home after graduation.They have already been assigned work, and after the Chinese New Year, they will report to their respective ships.

"Unexpectedly, this rich and expensive car has already spread to Nanjing." Zhao Kuangchen rubbed his hands and let out a sigh.

Classmate Cui Wenmao stomped his feet and said, "The weather is getting colder and colder. I never heard that the Yangtze River has been frozen for several years."

Classmate Wang Chongxi said with a smile: "What is this? It is said that more than 100 years ago, the sea outside Chongming Island was frozen."

Zhao Kuangchen teased: "Cui Er, what are you afraid of? The Qiulong you will serve next year will be stationed in Malacca for a long time. The winter there is very warm. Don't be afraid of the cold, you can bask in the sun every day."

Cui Wenmao was quite speechless: "I would rather serve as a soldier in Guangzhou, and Malacca is too far away."

"Your Highness, why don't you go back to the palace first?" a guard reminded.

"Let's go for a stroll, I haven't been back to Beijing for a long time." Zhao Kuangchen had already gone wild, so he didn't want to go back to the Forbidden City and hold back.

As for the eight guards, although they accompanied the Second Prince to the Naval Academy, they will no longer be in charge of protecting them as long as the Second Prince officially serves.You can continue to be a guard in Nanjing, or you can obey the arrangement and go to the navy as an officer.

Zhao Kuangchen didn't even want to enter the city, he walked all the way from the pier to the base of the city wall, and wandered around along the city wall.

Walking to the northeast corner outside the city, Cui Wenmao covered his nose and said, "It stinks!"

Wang Chongxi cheered up: "There must be a store that sells Jinling Shuangqi. I haven't eaten it for a long time. Let's go and try it."

Jinling Shuangchou is pig intestines and stinky tofu, which can be fried, boiled or steamed together.The negative is positive, and the smell is fragrant. It belongs to the delicacies of the middle and lower classes.

Zhao Kuangchen became interested: "I've heard about Jinling's double stinky name for a long time, but I haven't eaten it yet. I want to try something new today."

Cui Wenmao came from a powerful family, he shook his head again and again: "Your Highness, it's better not to eat pig intestines... Hey, I don't have an appetite when I say it."

"Let's talk after you try it." Zhao Kuangchen said with a smile.

Everyone went looking for the smell, but saw that there were many roadside stalls set up by the river outside the city.This place is relatively far away, not only away from the pier, but also away from the north and east city gates.But judging from their standardized appearance, these stalls have probably been rectified, and they also need to pay booth fees.

It was almost noon at this time, and coolies continued to come in batches, and some people even came to eat with rich carts.

"It's not Jinling Shuangqi?"

When Wang Chongxi walked to a stall, he saw a steaming cauldron of boiling soup.

The noodle soup is full of red oil flowers, and there are some cheap spices floating around.

Several coolies sat around the table, and the strongest one shouted: "Old rules, two liang of water, three bowls of white rice!"

Two taels of water, three bowls of white rice, this is a person's food intake.

If you don't eat so much, you can't bear it if you work hard.

Wang Chongxi was quite surprised: "The coolies also have money to eat three bowls of white rice?"

When the stall owner brought the rice over, I realized that it was just a nice way of saying it.

There was indeed rice, but it was old rice that had turned yellow and black.Most of them are old grains from the official warehouses, which are almost too old to eat, and they are taken out and sold to the common people at a low price.

In addition to old rice, it is also mixed with crushed corn and cooked together to make rice.

As for the methods of launching into the water, it is similar to Malatang and Maocai.

Here in Nanjing, there is no feast without ducks. In the Ming Dynasty, the people at the bottom would eat ducks and go into the water.Needless to say, pigs into the water have always been the favorite of the common people.

In the two years when Zhao Han first took over Nanjing, the city consumed about a thousand pigs a day, but now it consumes 4000 pigs a day (including the Forbidden City), and about 300 people eat one pig a day.

This made Zhao Han very surprised. How did the author of "Tokyo Menghualu" calculate that Bianliang consumes tens of thousands of pigs every day?

At the same time, the first Portuguese book describing China calculated the daily food consumption of the city of Canton as five or six thousand pigs and eleven thousand ducks.This data is also weird. Could it be that the Nanjing of my Datong New Dynasty is not as good as Guangzhou during the Jiajing period?

In any case, there are 4000 pigs in Nanjing every day, as well as thousands of ducks, hundreds of sheep and a small amount of cattle. Animal offal resources are very rich.

Some people boil the excess fat from the large intestine of pigs repeatedly to make lard.This kind of oil has a foul smell, but I don't want to throw it away, so I add spices such as chili and pepper, mix it together to make a soup base, and add various internal organs and stinky tofu to cook together.

Well, it still stinks, but this stuff is delicious.Heavy oil, spicy and cheap, is very popular with the people at the bottom, especially those coolies on the docks.

But I saw those coolies, holding a big bowl of old rice and corn rice, without eating offal first, pouring oily and spicy soup into the bowl to mix the rice.There is very little water in two taels, and three bowls of rice are not enough to eat, but the soup is also delicious, salty, spicy and oily, which is very comfortable.

In the cold winter, a bowl of pork intestine stinky oil soup with rice is enough to warm the coolies.What's more, there are two taels of offal, these are the essence, save the last bowl of rice.

The coolies wiped out the three bowls of rice and licked clean the soup around the bowls.

"belch!"

A coolie let out a long belch, stood up and stretched his body, exhaled whitely and said, "This day is comfortable, and I have strength to go to work!"

These coolies left and hurried to work on the pier, while another group of coolies sat down again.

Cui Wenmao looked at the oil stains on the table, looked at the dirty cauldron, and the soup with complex colors, and smelled the strong smell in the air, and felt sick for a while: "Your Highness, don't eat this, it's afraid to eat it." I'm going to have a stomachache."

Zhao Kuangchen laughed and said, "Why don't these coolies get sick after eating them? I see that they taste delicious, and I'm afraid they taste very good."

"Store, half a catty of offal for each person, and a bowl of rice is enough!" Wang Chongxi had already shouted.

The owner of the stall was a couple. Seeing that they were military officers, the proprietress smiled and said, "Gentlemen, I'm really sorry, the tables are all full, even the Maza is gone."

Wang Chongxi glanced around and saw many diners eating squatting, so he said with a smile: "We squat too."

As soon as these words came out, the coolie next to him stood up: "Masters, you sit at the table, we can just squat down."

"I'm so sorry," Wang Chongxi smiled and cupped his hands, "Thank you very much!"

Zhao Kuangchen said, "I'll treat them to this table."

The coolies who gave up the table were happier, and even borrowed a rag to help Zhao Kuangchen wipe the table clean.

Zhao Kuangchen asked, "Is there any wine?"

The proprietress said: "I come here for lunch, and I have to work hard in the afternoon, and no one drinks normally..."

Zhao Kuangchen said to the guards beside him, "Go buy a jug of wine, no matter whether the wine is good or bad, the sooner you buy it, the better."

A guard hurriedly left and trotted to buy wine.

The rest sat down around the table. There were not enough benches, so they stood by the table. The guards also ate at the same table as the second prince.

Zhao Kuangtang scooped up a ball of duck intestines in the soup, nodded repeatedly: "It smells bad, but it tastes good, just a little bit spicy."

Not spicy can't hide the taste, the oil in the soup is all made from pork intestine oil.

Chili was still very expensive before, but with the expansion of planting area, it is now a cheap condiment.In the early Ming Dynasty, pepper, which was priced like gold, can be consumed by ordinary people today.

Wang Chongxi knew how to eat, imitating the coolie's way of eating, poured the soup into the rice, mixed it well, took a bite, and immediately smiled: "Good food!"

Cui Wenmao didn't want to eat offal, and he didn't want to touch soup.But he had to give the second prince some face, so he picked up a mouthful of rice with chopsticks, chewed it twice and almost spit it out.Old rice and crushed corn, let alone, the rice has not been pounded clean, and it is still mixed with rice bran shells.

"Not delicious?" Zhao Kuangchen asked with a grin, with a malicious smile on his face.

"It's delicious, it's delicious!" Cui Wenmao swallowed it down, and quickly put two more mouthfuls into his mouth.

Zhao Kuangchen said: "What did the teacher at the naval school say? If you encounter a storm when you go out to sea, and you are stranded in a desolate place without supplies, then you have to fill your stomach with everything. If you are not used to bad food, don't be in the navy."

Cui Wenmao quickly said: "What Your Highness said is absolutely true."

It's a pity that he came from a wealthy family, and his cultural studies were not very good, so he was thrown into the naval school by his father.After a few years of suffering, I still have to eat this kind of pig food.

The guard who bought the wine came back soon, and because the second prince asked for speed, he only bought a pot of ordinary wine.

"Come, come, let's celebrate our graduation!" Zhao Kuangchen raised his glass and shouted.

This second prince was spoiled and raised in Nanjing, and after several years of military academy, he is now full of recklessness.Eating and drinking, drinking bad wine, chatting and laughing at roadside stalls.

Chapter 964 [Dividing and opening up? 】

Hospital bed.

Famous doctor Hu Xun said: "Your Highness is fine, it's just that the intestines and stomach are over-stimulated, don't eat greasy and spicy food again these two days."

"I'm sorry." Zhao Han said.

"Don't dare!" Hu Xun hurriedly cupped his hands.

The doctor Shoujin left, and before he left, he prescribed a prescription to regulate the stomach.

Zhao Kuangchen was lying on the bed weak and weak. He had had diarrhea for a whole day, and the last thing he pulled out was water.

Zhao Han said to the maid who was preparing to boil the medicine: "Get a bowl of salted boiled water first, just a little salty."

"Father, I can really sit up, they are making too much fuss." Zhao Kuangchen said.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "You pull too much and you don't have the strength, you'd better lie down and talk."

Although the roadside stalls were dirty, they were cooked at high temperature all the time, and any bacteria would have been killed long ago. It must have been stimulated by the greasy and spicy taste.

In addition, let’s talk about pig large intestine oil, which is called skirt oil. Large pieces of fat are to be removed to make lard, and there is basically no weird smell.

The pig large intestine oil in the roadside soup, not even the skirt oil, is the layer of fat in the fat intestines.Cleaning along with the pig's large intestine will definitely cause the smell of the large intestine. Vendors are reluctant to use flour and salt, and they are bought by peddlers when they are not clean.

The hawker then peeled off the oil from the fat intestines, reluctant to wash it with flour, salt, and alkali, but rinsed it in water naturally, so it smelled very bad.

Zhao Han asked, "What title do you want?"

Zhao Kuangtang thought for a while: "Since the boy is going to the navy, why not make him King of the Sea."

After hearing this, Zhao Han grinned: "The king of the sea doesn't sound good, just make him the king of Jin. The princes of the new dynasty don't have fiefs, so they can only receive their salary on time. I will give you a palace in the city. The vacant land in the city has long since disappeared. Well, there are still a few small gardens left by the nobles of the previous dynasty. You can choose one by yourself, and live in it after it is renovated and tidy.”

"My son, thank you for your kindness." Zhao Kuangchen said.

Zhao Han asked: "This kind of empty prince is not very interesting, do you want to really seal off the land?"

Zhao Kuangchen was taken aback, and quickly said, "My child has no such thoughts."

Zhao Han said: "If you want to enshrine the frontier, you can go overseas to fight by yourself. East of Chittagong, you are not allowed to get involved. West of Chittagong, do whatever you want."

Zhao Kuangchen really didn't think about this, he could hear that his father was not joking, but with a kind of encouragement and expectation.

For a while, Zhao Kuangchen didn't know how to make a choice. He repeatedly weighed the pros and cons and said, "Father, my son has to think again."

"Think slowly, don't worry, there is plenty of time, and it won't be too late to reply after ten years," Zhao Han stood up and said, "Heal your illness first, and eat less messy things from now on!"

After Zhao Kuangtang drank the boiled salt water, he also took the medicine, his whole mind was in a mess.

He is greedy for the prosperity of China, and he does not want to go to remote and poor places overseas.He also has a lot of ambitions, wanting to emulate his father and achieve great achievements.Fish and bear's paw, you can't have both, you must choose one of the two.

With a little strength in his body, Zhao Kuangchen borrowed the files from Honglu Temple.

To the west of Chittagong is the Indian subcontinent. As for the farther places, it is not within the scope of Zhao Kuangchen's consideration.

The east coast of India is full of Dutch colonial ports.The west coast of India is full of Portuguese colonial ports.Zhao Kuangchen prefers the east coast for no other reason than being closer to China.

Information about the east coast of India comes partly from ocean missions, partly from Han businessmen, and partly from European missionaries.

The northernmost is Bangladesh, which is powerful.

To the south is the territory of the Mughal Empire, let alone provoke it.

Further south is the country of Golkonda, which fought back and forth with the Mughal Empire.

Continuing down, there are three states of Jinji, Tanjore, and Madurai, all of which were separated and independent from the Kingdom of Vijayanagar.

Among them, Tanjore is the richest, rich in rice and cotton.

Madurai is trickier, one of the seven holiest cities of Hinduism and the center of Dravidian culture.Once invaded by paganism, it is very likely that nearby states will join forces.

"Tanjore, or Thanjavur, is located in the southeast of the Indian mainland."

"It is bounded by Jinji Kingdom in the north, Mysore in the west, Golkonda in the northwest, and Madurai Kingdom in the southwest. It faces the sea in the east, and faces Ceylon Island in the southeast across the sea."

"Tanjore, the capital of the country, is at the estuary of the Kaveli River. There are many irrigation canals along the river. The climate is hot and there are two crops a year. If there are no irrigation canals and rivers, there are many kinds of upland rice and cotton, which are cropped once a year..."

"This country originally belonged to the Chula Kingdom. In the early years of Jiajing, it was annexed by the Vijayanagar Kingdom. In the early years of Chongzhen, the Governor Nayak established himself as the Kingdom of Nayak. In the last years of Chongzhen, the Kingdom of Nayak was divided into two parts. Two, that is, Tanjore and Madurai."

"This country has cavalry and elephant soldiers, which seem to be quite fierce. There are also gunfire soldiers and artillery soldiers, which are few in number. The king is arrogant and lustful, does not build irrigation canals, ignores farming, builds large-scale construction projects, and builds temples..."

"All the land in the whole country belongs to the king. However, like the emperor of Zhou, the land is all owned by noble landlords. Prefectures, counties, and cities are all represented by nobles. Villages, towns and townships are all owned by landlords. Every landlord must be a prominent family. One or more surnames, Jurisdiction over a village or several villages..."

The people of Tanjore believe in Hinduism almost entirely, and there are not many pagans to be found.

As for the land, it is mostly occupied by the Brahmin caste, and even the Kshatriyas are suppressed.The villages are all controlled by the landlords. As long as the taxes are paid on time, the king doesn't bother to take care of them, not even a serious official.The landlord is the sky, the landlord is the law, and the big landlords unite to oppress the people.

Moreover, the landlords muddled through and did not build water conservancy projects at all.The irrigation canals along the river were dug by the Chula Kingdom hundreds of years ago. Many irrigation canals have been in disrepair for a long time and they are too lazy to repair them.

A little farther away from the river, two crops can be harvested a year by repairing irrigation canals, but they only know that they depend on the sky for food, and there is even a lot of wasteland.The irrigation canals were not built because the landlords were not united and could not distribute benefits fairly.If the wasteland is not reclaimed, the farmers will not have the perseverance to produce a constant product, and even if it is reclaimed, it will be occupied.

This country has long been corrupted.

If history does not change, in another five years, the capital will be captured and the dynasty will be changed.