Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 272 Willow's little aggressiveness
"Noisy, why so noisy?"

Before everyone could react, Liu Mu jumped up: "You can raise your opinion, but it can't affect the normal banquet. If you want to change it, it will be tomorrow night. Is it possible that you have to compete today."

Although Liu Mu stood up to speak, the elders of the four clans all pleaded guilty to Li Yuan.

They all said that it was not causing trouble, but they just hoped to compete.

Li Yuan laughed: "Okay, okay, let me wait for a comparison tomorrow. Come." Under Li Yuan's order, a high-ranking eunuch in the palace stepped forward, and after Li Yuan ordered a few words.The eunuch brought eight horsewhips with silver handles.

"I bestow a horsewhip on each of the outstanding knights. Tomorrow's victor will get a golden horsewhip and a hundred iron knives."

"Thank you, Emperor Tang." All the tribes thanked in unison.

The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty turned his head to Kinderman and said, "I heard that you, Silla, provided tens of thousands of excellent weavers for our Tang Dynasty. You should be rewarded for such achievements. I will reward you with a dressing mirror and ten pieces of brocade. Princess Lang's golden page."

Kinderman hurried out to thank you.

The little turmoil before the banquet came and went quickly.

But it is unusual for important ministers, Xiaobang also visited before, these people are rude and do not understand etiquette, and it is not the first time to quarrel over seats.

The seats in the Honglu Temple are determined according to the comprehensive strength of each state assessed by the Tang Dynasty, but there are often people who are not convinced.

I remember that when the three kingdoms of the peninsula came, Goguryeo was the strongest, but there was nothing to say, but whether Silla or Baekje ranked second, they had been fighting for more than an hour in the Taiji Palace.

Liu Mu is not an official, and recently he doesn't even have a title of title.

But one sentence suppressed the four states, how could this not attract the attention of the important ministers.

The wine is served first, all of which are specially made by Liu Mu's wine shop, which are naturally Xifeng and Dionysus.

Immediately after serving.

A plate of boiled vegetables was molded into a nice shape, and a carved radish was placed on it.A plate of deep-fried meatballs, using fried scatterers as a basket, and then putting coriander and other green vegetables to make a shape.

The cooks at the Jinghe Wharf are all Liumu's cooks.

Liu Mu had instructed that whether the food is good or not should be put aside first. The first thing is the color, aroma, shape, and meaning, and then the taste.

Li Shimin's eyes were dazzled looking at these dishes, and when he looked at his father Li Yuan, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan also stared at the dishes on the big table in the middle.

Li Shimin turned his head and asked Liu Mu: "Are you setting the plate? But the second brother knows that your chef doesn't need to set the plate."

Arranging a plate is a habit of the nobles of the Tang Dynasty to eat.

The first four dishes were not eaten, they were just placed, so they were the main dishes.

Liu Mu chuckled: "These are for eating, and the imperial banquet is a recipe. For the first dish, I asked Ma Zhou to make up some allusions. The shapes have been carefully studied by many chefs. I'll let you know if it's delicious or not." I don’t know, but it’s right for people to watch and not to speak.”

"This..." Li Shimin didn't know how to evaluate it.

In terms of good looks, each of these dishes looks so special.

The last dish was carried up by eight maids, with the lid on the huge silver plate.

A whole suckling pig.

In the banquet hall, everyone from the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to the maids standing beside him stared straight at him. This is not a table of food, and no one can describe what it is.

But no one spoke, and their eyes were fixed on the huge round table.

Let's go!

In the second row, a person with a thousand households from Turkic dripped water onto the plate on the small table in front of him.

In fact, Li Yuan was drooling, but he went down the steps like this Turkic Qianhu was drooling, and after a few hearty laughs: "Come on, give him the first plate."

How to place the big market and how to divide the small market.

Ma Zhou led dozens of cooks to study this for several days.

When the dishes were divided into small plates and sent to each individual small table, the maid in front of Li Shimin walked back and forth just to block him, so he asked Liu Mu: "I ask you, how can you let these people who don't know etiquette I was suppressed by your words."

"Whoever dares to make trouble, the quota will be reduced." Liu Mu said viciously.

"quota?"

"Well, the purchase volume of various materials, the sales of important goods from Datang. Such as iron, tea, silk, spices, etc." Liu Mu gave Li Shimin a few simple explanations, and Li Shimin completely understood.

Willow really stuck the necks of these little states.

One thing Li Shimin knew was that on the wharf on the Jinghe River, there were mountains of tea and cloth that had been transported to Youzhou along the canal from the Jiangnan area, and the merchants were all waiting to pay their bills.

But the merchants don't want money, they want wool, wool, cattle, mules and horses and so on.

A royal banquet allowed these outsiders to see what is called Great Tang, what is meant by abundance, and what is meant by prosperity.

The next day, horse racing.

To Liu Mu's surprise, among the knights from the nobles, Cheng Yaojin ended up in person.

"Second brother, you say this old Cheng..." Liu Muxin said, is it appropriate for you, a prince of the state, to go to the competition in person?

Li Shimin said, "Old Cheng feels uncomfortable, let him alone."

Cheng Yaojin didn't get the first place, but only got a third place.

This result made the merchants and common people who came to place bets even more fanatical, proving that horse racing is fair, it all depends on the level of horses and knights, and there is absolutely no infiltration.

Getting off his horse, Cheng Yaojin came to Li Yuan: "Saint, old Cheng asks to go north."

"No." Li Yuan coldly rejected Cheng Yaojin: "I ordered you to come back before the new year after inspecting Shu."

"Yes!" Cheng Yao's blond-haired wife passed away, and he felt bad.I don't want to stay in Chang'an.And Li Yuan was also kind enough to let Cheng Yaojin go out for a walk. The land of Sichuan is so mountainous, Cheng Yaojin arrived in Chengdu after hunting, and then came back after a round trip.

Before evening, the Khitan people won the Sibang Horse Race Championship.

Liu Mu didn't attend the dinner, but took the boat to the north of the Jing River.

Just as Liu Mu got on his horse, another boat stopped, and Li Shimin got off the boat.

"Second brother, you are not going to the banquet."

"Come and see, what are you going to do?"

Liu Mu smiled and said nothing, and led Li Shimin to a slope.Nearly a hundred carriages had already parked at the bottom of the slope, and the people waiting on the slope saw His Highness King Qin approaching in person, and quickly moved out of the way to greet him.

Cheap merchants, these people are inferior in Li Shimin's eyes.

But as the king of Qin, as long as he waved his hand, there was a smile that moved these people very much.

Liu Mu stood in the best position, and then motioned to take out twenty binoculars.

Li Shimin had his own, picked it up and looked at it from a distance, this scene made Li Shimin feel a kind of pleasure that the prosperous age is coming.

The countless cows that can't be seen at a glance are so spectacular under the afterglow of the setting sun.

"You people, don't you feel at ease now? I just took you a little tea. There are [-] of these cows that can only eat meat. This is a sage's dispensation, and [-] of them belong to you. The other cows, Chang'an Secretary of Agriculture only needs four thousand heads, and the rest will belong to you, don't you be happy."

(End of this chapter)