At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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The chef who came out of the palace, the way of cooking is different from other places, the taste is full, no matter how you eat it, it feels very delicious.

And the price is very high. A plate of green leafy vegetables costs more than a dozen dollars in other restaurants, but it costs ten times the price here.

At first glance, the materials are exquisite!No other restaurant can compare!

That's not true, these dishes are purchased from the royal purchase channel, and the royal family uses the leftover vegetables for reuse here, and the quality used here is second only to the royal family.

The emperors all ate dishes from the same channel!

Do you think it is appropriate not to charge you ten times the price?

The price of meat and vegetables is increased by [-] times and [-] times. Some dishes that Guo Peng never eats and has never heard of are invented by the little money-making experts in the East Factory. Crazy money here.

When the envoys from the countries in the Western Regions were still there, they often spent huge sums of money to spend here, enjoying the singing and dancing, and staying for the whole morning and afternoon.

Anyway, these guys have nothing but money, so just throw money into it.

They feel that they can experience the noble royal enjoyment here, and experience the pleasure of being an emperor. Speaking out, how glorious is it that Lao Tzu eats the same food as the emperor?

Isn't it worth the money for this?

What we eat is not the food, but the environment, the style, the interpersonal relationship, and the noble experience.

These things cannot be bought with money.

Guo's sickle usually cuts this kind of leeks covered in gold and silver.

Now that the envoys from the Western Regions are gone, and the richer Roman envoys are here, Simpi feels that he must bring him here no matter what, and let him spend a lot of gold and silver in his pockets here.

Anyway, aren't these guys rich?

Wei Yong found it quite exciting.

He is a low-level official, a small interpreter. Because he wanted to become an official as soon as possible to reduce the burden on his family, he didn't even take the imperial examination. He directly participated in the study class to learn the language, and then took a shortcut to become a diplomatic official.

Although he received a good salary and was able to send money to his family every month, his family wrote back to tell him that life at home was much better, and he was very happy.

But it is relative to ordinary people.

As for the Shanhai Restaurant, it was a place where officials under a thousand shi in the imperial government all talked about it, and felt that if they went there once, they would not even think about having a good meal for more than half a year.

If you can still eat well after going there once, you will be targeted by Sansi and other relevant departments.

Like Cheng Yu.

Can you still live so comfortably after going to Shanhai Restaurant?

Come on, let's have a cup of tea and chat slowly, talk about whether you live so comfortably with your property or with your other property, does the court know?Have you reported in advance?

Cheng Yu would look at them with dead eyes.

This shows the high consumption of Shanhai Restaurant.

This in itself is prepared for high-ranking officials and nobles, not the place where small officials like them should go. If you insist on slapping your face and pretending to be fat, you have to take risks.

But this time, it’s obviously not paying for it by myself. My share must be paid by Simpi, or directly go to the public account - there is a special account book for entertaining Roman envoys, and His Majesty specially approved a fund for them Wandering in Luoyang.

But only this time, next time, he will have to spend the money himself.

Of course, as long as you make him like it and give him the ultimate enjoyment, you won't be afraid that he won't obediently throw money into it.

What is a Bonanza?

This is called a million profits.

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The other neighborhoods in Luoyang City are crowded and lively, but orderly.

Those who do business in these places are all local residents. They run small businesses, small shops on the street, or small vendors in circulation. They don't want to make a fortune, but just to survive.

Sell ​​some small handicrafts, some distinctive gadgets, fabrics and the like.

And then there's the food, all kinds of food.

The Luoyang people of the Wei Empire came from all over the world, and no one was born and raised in the past [Luoyang people]. Their arrival naturally brought food customs from all over the place.

Therefore, during this period, Luoyang's food culture was simply a hodgepodge of food customs from all over the country in the Wei Empire.

There are also some folk entertainers who find an open space here to set up their stuff and start to show their ability to eat. After a while, they can gather a group of people to watch the fun. reward.

From sunrise to sunset, the entertainment and pastimes in the city of Luoyang have never stopped. The laughter and cries of vendors in the streets and alleys echoed the prosperity of Yande created by Guo.

This is a pastime for common people.

But the four cities in the southeast, northwest, and north are not places where ordinary people should go. They are places where rich people spend their money, where dignitaries and wealthy businessmen spend money to play.

After years of development, the four cities in the southeast and northwest have a very clear consumption orientation.

Dongshi focuses on the luxury service industry, operating high-end brothels, high-end restaurants, high-end accommodation, etc. Rich merchants from other places who come to Luoyang to do business usually settle in Dongshi.

Among them, Shanhai Restaurant, which is backed by the Royal No. [-] signboard of Tianzi, is the core main force, and countless dignitaries, wealthy businessmen and wealthy households spend a lot of money here.

West Market focuses on the luxury clothing industry, dealing in high-end silk and custom-made high-end clothing, leading the fashion style of Luoyang City. The most famous store in it is Ruixiang Silk and Satin Shop.

This silk and satin shop can always launch the so-called "latest style of the season" every once in a while, and the various clothing collocations attract the noble ladies and young ladies who live in seclusion all over Luoyang City.

According to gossip that is not sure whether it is true or not, the backer behind Ruixiang Silk and Satin Village is also inextricably related to Dongchang, and these latest styles of the season are said to be related to a certain high-status woman in the palace.

Anyway, all the ladies and ladies in Luoyang City are all staring at the Ruixiang Silk and Satin Shop in the West Market. Once there is news, they will always go to inquire about the news and find out the latest collocation.

It doesn't matter whether you wear it or not, the important thing is not to lose face, so that you can't speak in the circle of ladies, and you can't hold your head up.

Beishi is a place that hot-blooded men like.

All kinds of tall horses and exquisite harnesses are sold here. It is a luxury horse trading place that can only be visited by rich people. It is said that the horses here are all bloody BMW bloodlines, and there are even some purebred sweaty bloody BMWs. I don’t know how they got here. Marketing.

The price of these high-headed horses with excellent bloodlines is extremely expensive. The price of a purebred sweathorse is worth three or five military-grade war horses, and non-top nobles cannot buy them.

Sometimes, some monkeys, deer, rare birds and other fresh animals that people in Luoyang City have never seen are even sold here, and the prices are also high.

Nanshi specializes in gold, silver, jade and antiques, and it's not something ordinary people can come to.

Those who come here are either discerning treasures, or they are rich and powerful, and want to buy some antique things to show their [cultural heritage].

In short, the four cities in the southeast, north, and west included almost all the luxuries that could be found within the scope of the Wei Empire in this era, all high-end consumer goods, and all rare commodities that could be bought from the pockets of dignitaries. You can see them here.

What men like, what women like, what young men like, what old men like, all-round coverage.

The family members of the powerful family can find whatever they like in the four markets in the southeast, northwest, and then attract them to spend money and spend a lot of money.

Moreover, the four cities in the southeast, northwest, and the royal family are inextricably linked to the royal family, and the Dongchang controlled by the emperor is everywhere here.

Dongchang is like a tentacle monster dormant in the capital, silently extending its tentacles to the four cities in the southeast, northwest, and through the veins of the four cities, and then extending its tentacles to any corner of the country, controlling the country economic lifeline.

Every move of Dongchang can change the country's economic trend and solve the country's economic problems.

Anyone who wants to fight this economic system will be smashed to pieces and eaten by this terrible tentacle monster.

I don't know when it started, all the powerful, wealthy businessmen and wealthy households in Luoyang were firmly attracted by the four markets in the southeast, northwest and unable to extricate themselves.

But to be honest, Simpi doesn't like the feeling of spending a lot of money in Shanhai Restaurant.

He is not the kind of person who likes to spend money lavishly.

But sometimes, the occasion pushes him to spend a lot of money, to spend a lot of money and high consumption to show his status, and he can't do it otherwise.

Just like the wife of the family, in order to integrate into the group of top-ranking and powerful wives, she has worked hard to get the latest styles and latest gossip from Ruixiang Silk and Satin Village, just to get some news in the wives circle, so as to Simpi's official career was given a boost.

The long-term road of writing on the white board also exhausted Simpi's wife physically and mentally.

Her husband is a white board secretary, and she is also a white board lady, with no status, no face, and nothing.

Some noble ladies who looked down on her even called her "Madame Bai" in front of her face in formal occasions.

Isn't this a blatant slap in the face?

Mrs. Xin was so angry, she almost didn't take it away, and she didn't give Xin Pi a bad look at home.

What about Simpi?

What else would a Yuan Shao vassal want if he could hold the position of minister in the new empire?How dare you?

After being depressed day after day and year after year, finally, it was time to marry the crown prince.

The Xin family turned salty fish all of a sudden, and jumped from a marginal figure in the top elite circle to an important core figure.

Mrs. Bai is gone forever, and Mrs. Xin has become a popular figure that everyone is chasing after.

Those noble ladies who used to call Mrs. Bai to mock her all surrounded her with smiling faces, one after another, the tone was as soft as the satisfied tone after being subdued by her husband on the bed Same.

Mrs. Xin can be regarded as experiencing the rewards of hardships.

Simpi almost felt it too.

Now, no one will take him seriously as a white board secretary. Even though his powers are still limited and he still can't dominate the politics of the empire, those colleagues in the Shangshu desk who used to turn a blind eye to him are trying to curry favor with him one by one.

That face, tsk tsk.

It's really beautiful.

In the past, when he entered the Shanhai Restaurant, if he bumped into some colleagues who came here to consume, he would look at him with contemptuous eyes and a mocking expression on his face. He would look him up and down and make a "heh" sound.

Now, when he enters the Shanhai Restaurant, he will hold his head high and hold his chest high.

Anyone who sees him should put on a smiling face and call out [Xin Bu Tang].

The feeling of salted fish turning over is really good.

This time, he took Manuel to Shanhai Restaurant with ease. Seeing the magnificent decoration, Manuel was stunned for a moment, thinking he saw the Roman Palace.

The magnificence that cannot be seen in the Luoyang Palace is here?

Xin Pi greeted the shopkeeper familiarly, and the shopkeeper nodded and bowed to welcome Xin Pi to the private room on the second floor. When the window opened, it was facing the dance hall in the lobby below.

Of course, if you like something more private, you can close the windows and call the musicians and dancers to perform for them alone, that's also okay.

Those who can enter the private room on the second floor are the powerful and powerful. When they enter the palace to hold a banquet, the emperor will let these musicians and dancers come out to entertain the guests, let alone here.

The soft carpets, elegant and clean decorations, faint incense, and light gauze curtains in the private room all reveal rich cultural heritage and luxurious demeanor.

A large round table was placed in the middle of the room, with chairs beside it. According to what Manuel learned in the few days after he arrived in Wei, this should be a table and chairs for eating.

Unlike Rome, Wei people eat at the table and sit on chairs in a circle, with food on the middle table.

Then they ate with two wooden sticks they called [chopsticks]. There were also spoons, bowls, plates, etc. that he was familiar with, and they were very particular.

Manuel is a country bumpkin and a pure businessman. Looking at it with his professional eyes, everything he sees is full of gold and silver.

This house, this hotel, is entirely made of gold and silver.

The degree of magnificence is not even as good as the palace where the emperor himself lives.

The emperor's palace focuses on majesty, rules, and a sense of oppression, not the feeling of grandeur and dazzling eyes.

Not to mention Manuel, a country bumpkin, Wei Yong also entered Shanhai Restaurant for the first time, and it was also the first time and maybe the last time he entered the private room on the second floor.

Wei Yong felt that he would never be able to reach Simpi's height in his whole life, so there was no need to talk about whether he could enter the private room on the second floor of Shanhai Restaurant to enjoy such treatment.

To be honest, sometimes Wei Yong felt a little regretful, regretting that he did not persevere in the imperial examination room, but chose to take a shortcut and entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has turned around now, how far can he go as an interpreter?

he does not know.

But looking at this magnificent scene that only appeared in his dreams, he felt that perhaps in the countless years to come, this scene would continue to appear in his dreams.

Fantastic.

Simpi can't be regarded as a regular visitor.

A few years ago, when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was dormant in the capital and he was still a white board secretary, he was rarely able to come here. When he came here, he would inevitably meet those real dignitaries. Facing them, he only felt that there was no need for him to exist, so he tried his best to Stop it.

The Xin family's ancestral property does not prevent him from spending time here, but there are some places where money is not enough to go in and enjoy.

Shanhai Restaurant's consumption is high, but it's not so high that you must be a high-ranking official. Before the Nine Years of Yande, before the world's tyrants were wiped out, many tyrants in the world had money to spend a lot of money at Shanhai Restaurant.

But they have never been here, and even if they came, they were invited by dignitaries.

Because only dignitaries and dignitaries are eligible to independently enter this restaurant with royal background to enjoy the "luxury" life spent by the royal family, which is recognized by everyone.

Being rich is nothing, having power means having money, the most indispensable thing in Luoyang city is rich people, but being rich does not necessarily mean having power.