Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 358 New Equipment

"Xu, Xu Qing, do you only eat soup and rice here?" Li Yuan looked disgusted. Before he became emperor, he was also the governor of Taiyuan.At that moment, Xu Qing explained: "Your Majesty, this is for cooking,"

"Shabu dishes?"

"Please look, Your Majesty..." Xu Qing said, took a small plate, put some homemade sauce, and a little salt, and placed it in front of Li Yuan.I took another pair of chopsticks, picked up a piece of mutton, and rinsed it in the pot, but I took a trip to the water, but the soup was already boiling, so I rinsed it and put it on Li Yuan's plate.Xu Qing said again: "Your Majesty, please taste..."

Li Yuan looked at Xu Qing and said: "If you are not cooked, I will accuse you of murdering the monarch!" Without letting Xu Qing take away the plate of mutton, Li Yuan ate up the mutton: "Well...no What does it taste like..."

Xu Qing helped Li Yuan boil a few more slices, Li Yuan dipped them in sauce and salt and ate them, and then praised: "Well, this cooking method is good, come, let me try it myself." Li Yuan picked it up excitedly. A piece of meat is also boiled in the pot to eat, and I see that I can also cook cooked dishes, although I just put it in the pot for a while.But these years, as an emperor, except for government affairs, he will not do other things by himself, even if he puts on clothes, he is helped by his servants. Now that he can cook the dishes by himself, he can't help but feel a kind of hands-on fun.

At this time, Li Chengdao reminded: "Father Emperor, this..."

Li Yuan stopped chopping his chopsticks again and again, suddenly realized, and said oh oh repeatedly: "I remember, tsk tsk, I heard that Xu Qing, you are here, regardless of master and slave, sitting at the same table to eat?
Xu Qing wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at Li Chengdao, nodded and said: "Your Majesty, there are few people in my small place, so I don't have so many scruples about etiquette."

Li Yuan waved his hands and said: "Hmph, from my point of view, this is some new idea of ​​your kid, right? It's okay, just do as the Romans do, and I will abide by your rules when I come to your place to eat. Everyone sit down and eat."

How could Zhao Gong and Wei Xian dare, they hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, but the Taoist officials did not dare.Li Yuan straightened his face and said that if you don't sit down, I will chop off your heads.As soon as Wei Xian and others showed such an aggressive attitude, they immediately surrendered, but seeing that Li Yuan was not the kind of person who was polite in words but disgusted in his heart, they let go of eating as they ate.

Xu Qing took out the wine and drank a small cup with everyone.Li Yuan brought a lot more dishes than Xu Qing himself, not only a lot of meat, but also vegetables from Warm Soup Supervisor.Of course, Xu Qing thought that these were the vegetables from Wen Tangjian, but in fact, Li Yuan sent people to search Xu Qing's old house in Dunyifang.

Everyone's belly was round after eating, especially Wei Xian, he was very thin, but his stomach was so big that Xu Qing was worried that he would explode.In the end, Li Yuan sighed that it had been a long time since he had a lively meal in such a disregard of etiquette.

Xu Qing was also slightly drunk, patted Li Yuan's thigh and said, "Your Majesty, how about giving me some money?"

Apart from supporting Li Yuan's stomach, those few glasses of wine did not trouble him. He was very sober, so he said to Xu Qing: "What do you want money for? In a few days, servants will come down. Those soldiers , do you want a reward?"

Xu Qing nodded, and said with a groan, "Just give me [-]. I pawned all the bowls for reward today."

Li Yuan was stunned and said: "How much are you rewarding? I tell you, this money cannot be rewarded at once, you have to reward a little bit, every time you increase it, it will be useful, otherwise they will not appreciate you."

But Xu Qing didn't care. He patted Li Yuan on the shoulder and said, "Aren't you looking down on me? Give me a thousand or eight hundred silver if you look down on me."

Xu Qing was drunk and pretended to be drunk, but Li Yuan couldn't laugh or cry, so he asked the eunuch to draw 2000 taels from his internal treasury to Xu Qing. 2000 taels, to Li Yuan, was really just a few meals, but to Xu Qing, it had to be spent on this army for a year.The reason why Li Yuan gave Xu Qing the money was because, with the new cooking method invented by Xu Qing, he could save a lot for the next few meals.

Of course, there is still another request, Li Yuan said to Xu Qing: "The Qiankun mirror that was given to me last time was given to Ouyang Yuan, how about you make ten more for me?"

Everyone had a great time, Li Chengdao and Li Chengqian said they would come every day in the future, Wei Xian and Zhao Gong were a little scared, saying that if it wasn't for Xu Qing, how many lifetimes of happiness would it take to eat in the same pot as the emperor.

The matter of martial arts that was mentioned at the court meeting today has to be ordered by the Ministry of Officials to issue a document and spread it all over the country. Bar.

Xu Qing thought about it, after such a long time, the first thing to do is to build the army in his hands into his own arm, and the other thing is to make perfume.The aunt's towel has been prepared, and it will be improved according to the feedback of several girls.

For military training, Xu Qing knows some modern methods, just tell Zhuge Yan and let him organize the training.In addition, Xu Qing also wanted to use the method of hiring a coach to find a few people in the dark river and put them in the Xuanwu Gate for training, but he was afraid that there would be Li Yuan's eyeliner in the Xuanwu Gate.

Although after the incident in front of Suzaku's gate, almost everyone knew that Xu Qing had some tricks, and Li Yuan didn't specifically ask, but it's better to keep it mysterious.

2000 taels, how is it more appropriate to use it, Xu Qing thought about it, and asked Wei Xian next to him, "Wei Xian, do you know if it is possible to make ordnance armor in Chang'an City?"

Wei Xian rubbed his chubby belly and said, "Sir, that can't be forged. Now in Chang'an City, even forging Wenjian is very cumbersome. We have to check three generations and five suits. If one case is found to have a criminal record , are not allowed to be built.”

Doesn't this mean that private casting of weapons is strictly prohibited? Xu Qing asked: "The Ministry of Industry will be the supervisor. Can they make weapons and armor?"

Wei Xian shook his head and said, "Sir, the matter of making weapons and armor is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War. Now Chang'an City only needs the Weapons Department and Military Supervision of the Ministry of War to build. The Weapons Department is responsible for leading the military guards, military guards, Weiwei and Jianmen guards were built, and the Military Weapons Supervision was built for the Fourth Army and the other sixteen guards, which can be regarded as being built by the royal family for the pro-army."

Xu Qing's eyes lit up and he asked: "Then, what kind of guard is my Xuanwu Sect army, and who can I ask for weapons and armor?"

Wei Xian pondered for a moment: "I don't know about this. Civil servants like me rarely know the secrets of the military. What I said just now is just that everyone knows their respective duties and responsibilities, but the gatekeepers are us. beyond comprehension."

After finishing speaking, Wei Xian guessed again: "However, the Xuanwu Gate is either the prison guard, or the Shenwu Army, or the Yulin Army. But considering the importance of the Xuanwu Gate, it is more likely to be the Shenwu Army. General You might as well go to the Military Superintendent to have a look."

(End of this chapter)