Tang's dining table

Li Zhi's stop in Zhengzhou was not just for a simple rest. One of the most important things the emperor did during his tour was to win people's hearts.

The roads chosen, the location for palace construction, and the length of stay are all very particular.

At this time, when the emperor met with local officials and local squires, he would show great sincerity and patience, and was willing to listen to their opinions and views on the dynasty. He rarely got angry and punished those who heard offensive words. Someone who speaks the truth.

This kind of thing is a once-in-a-century opportunity for the local area. Once their requests or suggestions that are beneficial to the local area are adopted by the emperor, a good thing that will be famous in the local area for eternity will happen, and then be praised by the local people. The villagers have been praising it for thousands of years.

For example, the emperor drank a bowl of thick, sour and spicy soup with a lot of pepper, and was stimulated to sweat by the pepper. He casually shouted "Hello", and the local officials and even the gentry present showed proud looks on their faces.

Zhengzhou Hu spicy soup really deserves its reputation!

While everyone was happily tasting the bowl of spicy soup, Li Si, who was standing behind Li Hong and dressed in a prince's attire, had a look of disdain on his face.

In this regard, he accompanied the emperor to meet with local officials, great scholars, celebrities, squires, and wealthy people in Zhengzhou.

The emperor wants to win over people's hearts, but it is the local people who are ready to be won over by the emperor who pay.

At least the emperor had to pay for the banquet he entertained them.

Although Zhengzhou is a big place, if you want to hold a big banquet to entertain the emperor and queen, it involves more than just food.

It can be said that within a hundred miles, only Li Si's kitchen has this ability. Even the chefs brought by the emperor and empress cannot compare with it.

It wasn't that the cooking skills of the imperial chefs were not as good as those brought by Li Si, but that under Li Hong's intimidation, the imperial chefs did not dare to say that they were stronger than the chefs under Li Si's command.

Not only did they admit that they were not as good as the cooks under Li Si, but they also offered to help Li Si prepare meals for the emperor, empress, prince and other nobles.

This is the standard approach of just wanting to make money without taking any responsibility, and it is also Li Hong's way of caring for his sister.

During the snowy season, the emperor sat in a warm shed and drank and chatted with high-ranking officials, great scholars, and celebrities. Those petty officials, rich men, and landowners could only stand in the white snow and watch the emperor drink with the local bigwigs.

The weather was very cold, but people's hearts were very warm. When the emperor stayed in Chang'an and Luoyang did not go out, they were very dissatisfied with the Emperor of Tang Dynasty.

Now, the emperor personally came to the land where they lived, and was willing to listen to their views and opinions. As a result, their hearts, which were originally disappointed with the Tang Dynasty, suddenly became hot.

The emperor rewarded them with a bowl of spicy soup to prevent them from freezing while standing in the snow.

The spicy spicy soup that the emperor drank was naturally different from the original spicy spicy soup in Zhengzhou. The earliest spicy spicy soup in Zhengzhou did not have pepper, but only had a sour, pungent sour taste. The imperial chef and the master of the canteen added this vulgar local snack to After adding valuable ingredients such as pepper, yellow flowers, fungus, and beef slices, and softening the pungent sourness, a new hot and sour soup with the pungent smell of pepper appeared.

Pepper was very precious, and it was considered a special favor for the emperor to reward them with a bowl of pepper-flavored soup on a snowy day.

The ability to blend the five flavors is a skill that every high-end canteen chef must possess. In this regard, canteen chefs with rich experience in improving snacks are better than those of the royal chefs.

Seeing his father applauding after drinking the improved version of spicy spicy soup, Li Si knew that the improvement of spicy spicy soup this time was extremely successful.

It doesn't matter whether others like it or not. As long as his father likes it, if others don't like it, it can only be said that his drunkenness is not right and his tongue cannot feel the good taste of the delicacy.

As long as given time, their taste will quickly approach the emperor's taste.

Because the emperor rewarded him with hot spicy soup, the little man standing in the snow now had a short table, a futon, and a bamboo umbrella on his head.

After drinking the spicy soup, it warms the body, indicating that the emperor has felt the coldness that the people of Zhengzhou have experienced over the years and wants to make changes.

Having an umbrella on his head saved him from the pain of being showered with snow, which showed that the emperor was aware of all the sufferings suffered by the people of Zhengzhou, including the mistakes of the imperial court. Now, the emperor was willing to give them an umbrella to cover their suffering.

There was a short table and a futon on one side, which was a sign of participating in the grand banquet. It was obvious that the emperor's reward today clearly told these people that they were qualified to attend the table of Datang.

After each person was rewarded with a pot of about three taels of antiseptic medicine, some of the gentry with white beards and white hair could not help but burst into tears.

Just when Li Zhi was confused, Xu Jingzong, who also had white beard and white hair, explained in a low voice why these gentry were crying.

Li Zhi said in surprise: "Can you still explain it like this?"

Li Jingxuan said quickly: "His Majesty is so majestic that he moves with every breath. Even though it is a simple reward, it is a huge favor that falls on these people."

Li Zhi laughed loudly, waved his hand to the eunuch, and rewarded these bumpkins with the mountains of food in front of him.

Although the meal in front of the emperor was large, it was still far from enough to feed six hundred people.

Everyone could only get a very small handful on the plate in front of them, but after the eunuchs distributed the food evenly, Li Zhi came to the edge of the shed with his wine glass high and shouted: "Drink!" "

More than 600 Zhengzhou natives, as well as the accompanying civil and military officials, raised their glasses one after another. No one needed to teach them, let alone anyone else to direct them. The shouts of "Your Majesty will last for ten thousand years" resounded throughout the teaching military field.

Faced with such a heated scene, Li Zhi burst into hearty laughter from time to time.

Li Hong took the opportunity to ask Li Si to serve the dishes that had been prepared long ago in waves. As soon as those people finished the previous dish, the next dish would be served immediately.

After Li Zhi took a bite of the sour soup balls, he turned to look at Li Jingxuan, who was sitting at the third table on the left.

Li Jingxuan immediately stepped forward and heard Li Zhi ask: "Today's banquet is extremely in line with my wishes. The person who prepared the banquet should be rewarded."

Li Jingxuan smiled and said: "Such a banquet is worth more than an army of 30,000 men. As for the preparations, those who prepare it are behind your majesty."

When Li Zhi was eating, there was always someone helping with the dishes. Looking at the sleeves, he thought it was Li Hong, but when he turned around, he realized it was Li Si wearing a prince's clothes.

"Nonsense, my dear royal princess, how can I be so decent wearing men's clothes?"

Li Si smiled and said: "Only in this way can we relieve our father's worries."

Li Zhi frowned and said, "Just this once."

Li Sidao: "My child is good at preparing banquets. With this ability, he still wants to serve his father."

Li Zhi looked at the civil and military officials in the shed, and then at the local gentry in Zhengzhou who were eating and drinking very enthusiastically. He felt that it was not a big deal for Li Si to help prepare the banquet, so he immediately agreed.

After receiving the emperor's permission, Li Si immediately beamed.

Li Zhi saw Li Si smiling brightly and raised his hand to touch his daughter's face for the first time...

Naturally, none of the civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty were given free of charge. His Majesty the Emperor had already given his favor to the gentry of Zhengzhou, so these gentry must pay something in return.

They are professionals in taking advantage of opportunities. Seeing the civil and military officials disperse and walk into the group of gentry, whether it was Xu Jingzong or Li Jingxuan, an inexplicable smile appeared on their faces.

The Tang Dynasty court used to be too tyrannical in handling local affairs. Now, it should be a new change to show rare gentleness through a banquet.

The person who was best at riding a horse in the entire Tang Dynasty was King Ji Li Shen.

At the beginning, he ran fifty miles a day. After meeting the emperor, he discussed some things that he could not decide, and then he went back again. This was a hundred miles.

After that, it was just a matter of running a hundred miles a day, repeating the same thing as the first day, and then rushing back overnight.

Now, he set off from Luoyang in the early morning and reached Zhengzhou, three hundred miles away, in the middle of the night.

It was not that Yun Chu had never run three hundred miles a day before, but at that time, he was chased by the Turkic cavalry and would die if he didn't run, so he ran three hundred miles willingly.

But after running these three hundred miles, Yun Chu could only walk with his legs crossed, and this lasted for half a month.

After riding on horseback for a long time, the two hip bones that could move freely will be locked in the riding position, not to mention that the tender skin on the inner thighs is tortured by the saddle.

Li Shen's body is far less durable than Yun Chu's, but he can insist on running for three hundred miles, which shows how tortured he is by the task of supervising the country.

In this regard, he accompanied the emperor to meet with local officials, great scholars, celebrities, squires, and wealthy people in Zhengzhou.

Witnessed Li Zhi's first embrace of local imperial methods.

This time, Li Shen did not run back to Luoyang overnight. This was beyond the limit of his ability and his body.

After meeting Yunchu at Hulao Pass, he fell off his horse and fell unconscious.

After the military doctor used scissors to cut open Li Shen's lower skirt, he saw the guy's thighs and the flesh on his buttocks was rolled up, and not a single piece of good skin was visible.

Because it was winter, the possibility of inflammation and suppuration was lower, so Yunchu did not ask the military doctor to directly clean his wound with antiseptic, but chose relatively mild willow water.

Even so, Li Shen still woke up from the coma in pain, took Yun Chu's hand and said: "Yu Chu, my life is worse than death -"

After yelling, he fainted again.

Wen Wen put his hands in his sleeves and looked at Li Shen, who had a sallow complexion, and said to Yun Chu, "He must make a big mistake this time to supervise the country."

Yun Chu said: "Li Hong was right not to stay in Luoyang, but he didn't expect to hurt Li Shen."

He smiled softly and said: "If the supervisor is doing well, it means that King Ji is also suitable to be the emperor. If something big happens to the supervisor, it means that King Ji is incompetent and needs to be punished. This is all based on the laws and regulations of the country. Even the old gods There is no room for comment.

King Cao Li Ming had submitted a memorial last night to withdraw from the feudal vassal. In the memorial, he said that he was stupid and incompetent. He also made the people under his rule miserable and had no ability to govern the place. I hope the emperor can see the consequences of his brothers. For his sake, he will be built a royal residence in Chang'an, and he will be allowed to enjoy a lifetime of wealth in Chang'an, as a wealthy younger brother. "

When Yun Chu was lamenting that things about Xuanzong's Sixteenth Prince's House were about to happen in advance, Li Shen suddenly opened his eyes, took Yun Chu's hand and said: "Help me up, I want to study, I want to go back to Chang'an to have peace of mind The carved stone of the heart…”

Li Shen stayed at the Yunchu military camp for an hour for treatment of his butt and legs. After an hour, he felt that he was really not good enough, so he asked for a carriage from Yunchu and drove to Luoyang overnight. As for what he wrote specifically for the emperor, "Fools Please Retreat" also went to Zhengzhou overnight.

The suffering of a few people will not cause changes in the sky. The first snow in winter finally stopped. The earth was originally white and clean, but it was just a rut to Luoyang and a horse's hooves to Zhengzhou.

This time, because there was a banquet to be arranged, Li Si finally met the queen mother she had longed for.

When Li Si bowed down in front of Wu Mei, Li Hong's eyes were filled with tears, Li Xian looked up at the sky, Li Xian was horrified, Li Dan was carefree, but Taiping in Wu Mei's arms stretched out her little hand to Li Si.

Wu Mei smiled, let go of Taiping, and let her crawl towards Li Si...

I'm not in good health and I'm going back to the maintenance station for repairs.