Chapter 1215: Celebration Banquet
Yang Huairen enjoyed the happy life of the local lord at home for a few days, and the army of the expedition to the west returned to Beijing.
The people in the city of Tokyo were overjoyed, and went out of the west gate to welcome the victorious return of the soldiers of the expedition to the west, and Zhao Xu also drove in person on the city gate building for the first time, which was regarded as a great courtesy to the soldiers.
Not only that, Zhao Xu also set up a banquet of 1,000 people in the palace to entertain the ministers and meritorious soldiers, and at the same time, it was also announced that the relevant people who had contributed to the Songxia War would be rewarded.
The scene is very grand, and the process is boring. At least that's what Yang Huairen thinks, looking at Zhao Xu's high-spirited energy, Yang Huairen has a feeling of being in a different world.
The little chick that lived under the wings of his grandmother back then has now become a big rooster with a red face, and I don't know what to think, wearing a golden and red dragon robe, which is more festive than getting married.
On such an occasion, it is said that the queen should also attend together, and later Yang Huairen heard that Queen Meng was pregnant and about to give birth in October, so he remembered a conversation between Zhao Xu and him a few years ago.
It's just that in the original history, Zhao Xu had no children under his knees, and he didn't hear that he had a daughter, so after thinking about it, Yang Huairen realized that the gentle and virtuous Empress Meng had become a victim of the palace battles that were constantly staged in history.
He can't remember exactly what happened, but his impression is probably another story of a tanuki for a prince, the harem of the Song Dynasty always played the old routine of changing tanuki for children, and the emperors didn't know whether they were really stupid or intentionally indulgent, which was really interesting.
This kind of thing, Yang Huairen is not involved, and there is no need to use this kind of thing to show his justice, firstly, because this kind of thing is more sticky than a dog skin plaster, and it can't be torn off if it is attached to the body, and secondly, because he feels that upholding justice is what Superman and Spider-Man do, he is a cook, and he has no obligation.
Although Yang Huairen is not a long-sleeved person who is good at dancing, he can also be at ease among the ministers of civil and military affairs, not to mention that he has just been given the title of king of the north, who dares not to give face?
As a result, when the warriors saw that Yang Huairen could be crowned king by virtue of his military exploits, they naturally admired Zhao Xu, the emperor's mind, and were also full of expectations for his future career.
But in the hearts of the literati, there are opinions, but at this time, the whole country is singing praises for the merits of the warriors, and they don't dare to be presumptuous, so they show that they are appreciative of Yang Huairen on the surface, and in their hearts, they should be envious, jealous and hateful.
So Yang Huairen is more willing to deal with the martial arts, not that they don't have scheming, but that these people are scheming, although Yang Huairen is with them not to the point of being open-mouthed, but when he talks, he is really relaxed and refreshing.
But the fact is that with Yang Huairen's current status, he naturally sits with the literati bigwigs in the court, Zhang Dian, who always speaks in a literary manner, and Yang Huairen listens to half of it, and laughs hypocritically for a long time, and he doesn't understand what they want to express.
Looking at the constipated looks of those bigwigs who couldn't pull out SHI, Yang Huairen was happy in his heart, who let you pretend to be literate with Lao Tzu? Deserve.
Zhang Duan is both civil and military, and he is not as delicate as those scholars, and he knows Yang Huairen's temper, so he just greeted him on this occasion and did not come to his side.
For Yang Huairen, this is a rare person who understands. Pigs, rabbits, cages, chickens and ducks, this kind of thing can only be done by the beasts are uncomfortable, why bother?
Of course, Yang Huairen didn't scold himself for this, what he scolded in his heart was that the literati who had to pretend to be high in every move, and it was a reason to think that some people in later generations liked to pretend.
The banquet is very rich, I dare not say that the dragon essence and phoenix essence, the delicacies of the mountains and seas are still complete.
The palace kitchen was not manpower enough to undertake such a large banquet, so Zhao Xu's task for Zhao Ji was to ask him to go to the big restaurant in the city and invite some chefs to come into the palace to help.
This kind of thing is an opportunity for the cooks in Tokyo to enter the palace to gild, regardless of whether the things they make really enter the stomach of the emperor, but with this time, they can boast outside that he is the one who cooks for the official family in the future.
Don't look at Zhao Ji's young age, he understands the truth of this kind of thing better than anyone else, and the biggest benefit is naturally to make arrangements for related households such as Suiyuan and Guiyanlou first.
There is nothing for outsiders to slander in this way, now Yang Huairen's Suiyuan, as well as thirteen big restaurants like Guiyanlou that cooperate with Suiyuan, the quality of the chef is second to none in the capital, no one dares to oppose it at all, not to mention that everyone has heard that Yang Huairen, a big stunned man, is now crowned king, who would dare to provoke?
So the cooks in the imperial kitchen were very faceless, and the kitchen tasks arranged, the dishes made by everyone were different, and as a result, the civil and military ministers who participated in the banquet all named the dishes to be made by the cooks in the garden, and ignored the dishes made by the cooks in the imperial kitchen.
It's no wonder that Suiyuan is famous for its delicious things, but also notoriously expensive, it is said that the banquet has been scheduled for next year, and the officials do not take advantage of this opportunity to eat for free to make the official family's cheap, and when will they stay?
Yang Huairen didn't know it before, so at this banquet, he, the big boss of Suiyuan, didn't eat the dishes made by the chef in his own restaurant.
Then, he felt that Zhao Xu was actually very pitiful. The chefs in the imperial kitchen are said to be of a very high standard, otherwise they would not have been invited into the palace to be the imperial chef.
But now with the rise of Suiyuan, all kinds of new dishes and recipes flowing out of Suiyuan have become the most popular food vane in the capital, making the most proud imperial chefs seem lonely and unheard, and they have become the first time to enter the city.
Eating dishes made of these buns all day long, do you say Zhao Xu is pitiful? So it's a good thing to be an emperor, but he has a lot of wives but makes trouble all day long, has the highest status but no freedom, and even the most basic blessings are gone, this emperor is really boring.
Yang Huairen eats a lot of good things, and occasionally experiences what the official family usually eats, and it doesn't matter, what makes him happy is that Suiyuan Spring wine has been drunk a lot at today's banquet, and he must have made a lot of money.
Especially the victorious generals, who are happy today, are also a little presumptuous, and they blow at the wine jar at every turn, as if these good wines are not spent by them.
By the way, it's really not them who spend money, the emperor is rewarded, if they don't drink for nothing, they don't drink to death, and if they don't drink to death, they look like fools.
So after Zhao Xu went back to rest after he was too drunk, Yang Huairen came to the generals and shouted "If you don't get drunk, you won't return" and "If you drink less, it's not the masters", inciting hundreds of drunkards to follow him crazy.
That's right, it's a once-in-a-century victory, if you're not crazy, you'll be out of the devil!