"As for Chen Bing, you are the Quanzhou Bo, with a fief of 2,500 households, a hundred hectares of land, two thousand stagnant stag, and a mansion."

"Thank you for your kindness!" Chen Bing was extremely happy and hurriedly bowed.

Both money and fiefs are less than those in Huangyang, which is the difference in qualifications, but the titles are the same to highlight the difference.

"This is what you deserve!" Li Jia nodded, looked at the faces of the two who were flushed due to excitement, and said:

"My eyes are normal. Whoever does the work for the court will naturally receive the rewards they deserve. This is what I deserve. I will remember it in my heart for everyone!"

Li Jiabao said meaningfully, then clapped his hands and said, "Okay, you go down, the rewards for the other generals and schools will be drafted by the Governor's Office of the Five Army and the Military Affairs Office. I will not interfere!"

"promise--"

"I'm going to leave!" The two of them retreated one after another.

These are the two earls who were granted since the Battle of Jiangnan, which has made the entire Changsha City even more hustle and bustle.

Immediately, the two counts held a tail-burning banquet one after another.

What is a tail-burning banquet? As the name suggests, it means that carp jumps over the dragon gate and gets promoted and made money.

There are different sources of this, and it is traditionally like this:

There is a place called "Longmen" in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. The cliffs on both sides confront each other and the water flows very fast.

Every spring, carp from the Yellow River comes here up the water. If a fish can leap over the dragon gate, clouds and rain will be generated immediately. The sky fire will fall and burn the tail of the fish. The fish will turn into a dragon from now on!

Therefore, Jackie Chan must burn his tail before.

In this case, the promoted person holds a banquet and even gives the banquet to the palace for the emperor to eat.

This is decided by the emperor himself. Those who like to eat eat two bites, and those who don’t like to eat share rewards for others. This kind of action of “sending delicious food to the palace” is called “shang Shaoxiao”.

This kind of person can only have high-ranking officials and titles, and is a symbol of status.

Therefore, the two portions are extremely luxurious, no less than a palace banquet, and even in some cases, it has a unique taste.

Among them, there is a delicacy that made Li Jia quite interested and called Brahmin light noodles.

"Steaming" is one of the most commonly used cooking techniques by the people of the Tang Dynasty. The steamed noodles are made of noodles with no fillings, and the noodles with internal and external fillings (collectively called "steamed cakes" at that time). Brahmin light noodles are actually sugar steamed buns.

In the Tang Dynasty, the sugar-making method was just introduced from India. "Brahmin" was the name for India and Indians in Buddhist scriptures familiar to the Tang Dynasty. Since this dim sum is named after this, it probably has something to do with India and Buddhism, and the production technology is also quite mysterious. For example, do you need to use Ganges water to knead dough?

As a southerner, Li Jia rarely ate steamed cakes (steamed buns). This time, he added sugar and tasted them. He was quite happy. So he asked the imperial kitchen to make a few things and let the harems taste them together.

During the 19th Tang Dynasty, Su Gui was named Duke Xu, but Su Gui did not present a tail-burning banquet. All officials laughed at Su Gui for being stingy, but Su Gui was unmoved.

He bluntly advised Emperor Zhongzong of Tang: "I am the prime minister to assist the emperor in governing national affairs. Now that the famine has been going on for many years, rice and grain are expensive, and the people cannot have enough food, so what else should I hold a boiled banquet?"

Zhongzong was speechless for a moment and had to give up. After that, the "tail-burning banquet" was no longer held.

"I guess the capital will be noisy for a few days! The desire for war will inevitably be more enthusiastic!" Li Jia did not care about the return of the Hang-Yehan Banquet, and even said that this was also a hint and support for the two.

Huang Yang and Chen Bing are both poor children and have little reputation. Moreover, the family is poor, so all officials do not respect him very much.

In order to highlight his outstanding military merits and the precious title, Li Jia personally endorsed the two of them and reported a huge and luxurious tail-burning banquet to highlight his wealth.

In fact, the effect of this kind of momentum is very good.

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, people have become more and more interested in money. Although marrying a daughter is at the family level, she is not rich in money. No matter how high the family level is, it is useless. No matter how powerful the count is, it is not as good as the tail-burning banquet this time.

Holding a tail-burning banquet consumed nearly a thousand guan, and the price was extremely grand.

All the two counts all over Changsha City met these two counts, especially the prime minister, and the emperor personally tasted their banquet, which made their reputation reach its highest point.

"That's true. After this great victory, the people took advantage of this excuse and praised the Holy Emperor for being alive!" Tian Zhong exclaimed.

"Win is a victory, but a loss. The Southern Tang Treasury is even poorer than a beggar."

Li Jia said a little frustrated.

This war, in a sense, is a loss-making deal.

It took more than half a year to go, spending about two million guan. In addition, after the victory, the rewards of the other soldiers also required hundreds of thousands of guan. However, the harvest was only one million guan, which could be a big loss.

But this is how the war is. On the surface, it is a loss, but in fact it is a profit.

"..." Tian Zhong knew that this was the emperor's special pride pattern, so he could only wait silently.

"This victory is hard-won. A mere tail-cooking banquet is not enough, absolutely not enough!"

Sure enough, the emperor suddenly laughed and shouted loudly.

"Your Majesty can hold a celebration banquet to meet the requirements of all officials and the people!" Tian Zhong said with excitement on the emperor's face.

"Yes, it's really necessary to have a banquet!"

Li Jia nodded and said with a smile:

"I want to invite King Yue, King Changsha and others to participate in this banquet. Half of the south of Tai belongs to the Tang Dynasty, which is a thing worth celebrating."

"Also, Duke Jing passed away before, and Li Yu has not been welcomed yet. This time, I can't delay it!"

"What Your Majesty said is that if Duke Li comes to Beijing, if he doesn't welcome him, he will lose the face of our court."

Tian Zhong complimented.

"Let's inform you. Three days later, a banquet will be held in the Daming Palace, and all officials will not be absent for no reason."

Soon, Li Yu received the decree.

He held the book in his hand tightly, his eyes flushed: "This is to humiliate me!"

"Don't think too much, my husband, Duke Jing passed away not long ago, and there was a banquet. Now it is really going to start, which is normal!" Zhou Ehuang comforted.

"The person who came is not good!" Li Yu shook his head and said, "It seems that he can only adapt to the situation. The king of the country will be sad for everything!"

"Langjun--" Tears flashed from the corners of Zhou Ehuang's eyes.

"Sister, brother-in-law, I'm back!" A crisp shout woke up the two of them, and then they felt happy. This was the voice of their sister Zhou Ying'er.

Sure enough, a teenage girl ran over with a thin man on her forehead, wearing a green chest-length skirt, a golden hairpin on her head, shaking, and her white and tender little face, she was really cute.

"Why did Ying'er come to Changsha?" Zhou Ehuang asked hurriedly.

"Dad brought me here. I heard that all officials of the sixth rank and above in Jinling were going to move to Changsha Prefecture, so I came!"

Zhou Ying'er said in a crisp voice.

ps; I was originally going to update after midnight, but I heard that the points will be updated on the 20th. I can see if I can buy another leave note, hey...
Chapter completed!