On the third floor of the Wangjing Tower in Yucheng City, Li Yuanji was calmly watching the commotion of his subordinates.

"Lao Hu, what are you talking about that makes you miss it so much, our brother is a frequent visitor to this lookout tower, and he doesn't come less on weekdays, why don't we know that there is such a strange thing?" One of them quipped at the deputy general of Yu Cheng.

Without waiting for the deputy general to explain, someone next to him guessed: "Could it be that Hou Ye has developed new dishes again?" ”

"Ha, Hou Ye's new dish? Then we have to see. ”

"How is that possible? If Hou Ye comes out with a new dish, our prince must be the first to know, where will it be Lao Hu's turn? This person took advantage of the situation and hugged Li Yuanji next to him.

Li Yuanji smiled and said nothing, and also looked at the deputy general, wanting to ask him what was going on?

Vice General Hu's name is Hu Zilai, who has followed Li Yuanji for many years and has always been his confidant.

"Lord Wang, don't you know, this time it's not a new dish from Lord Hou, but a chef in this Wangjing Tower created it himself, and the taste is really ...... It's not much better than what the Hou Ye fried himself. ”

This person originally wanted to say that it surpassed the craftsmanship of Lantian Hou Bai Fan, but after thinking about it, he didn't dare to be disrespectful to Bai Fan, so he changed his words and said a lot.

"Really? Lao Hu, this is a bit exaggerated, who is Master Hou? That's my Tang Dynasty kitchen god, can a frontier restaurant chef compare? "Some people don't believe it.

However, Li Yuanji waved his hand and said: "Lao Hu is recognized as the number one foodie in our group, and the dishes he praises are even inferior to Jian Zhi, they must have their extraordinary, and this king is looking forward to it very much."

If it really surpasses Jian Zhi, then the king will definitely repair a book himself, and let Jian Zhi come to see what it means to have a heaven outside the sky, which is interesting to think about. ”

Vice General Hu Zilai said confidently: "Haha, Hou Ye still understands me, and I won't dare to guarantee that I will surpass Hou Ye, but this person's cooking is really memorable, and even I want to taste his craftsmanship every day, even my family is about to leave, and I guarantee that today's dishes will not disappoint you." ”

A few people were talking and laughing, the wine and food in the restaurant here were ready, and a person dressed as a chef came to serve the food with a few trays of helpers.

"Haha, Cao Cao Cao arrived, everyone, this is the new star chef of the restaurant I said, Liu Zicheng, today I heard that His Royal Highness King Qi came to taste his craftsmanship, and I admired him, so I took the opportunity to serve the food to come to meet it." Hu Zilai introduced it with a big grin.

Although everyone thinks it is a little strange that the chef of the restaurant will serve the food himself, this statement is not strange.

The chef sent someone to put the food on the table, and then wanted to go forward and kneel down to salute Li Yuanji and pour out his admiration.

But Li Yuanji came with a personal guard, and the personal guard never left his duty, how could he let a stranger come forward?

"Stand down, strangers must not approach His Highness within three steps." The guard scolded.

Li Yuanji waved his hand and said: "Hey, this is outside, since it is recommended by Lao Hu, he is naturally not a wicked person, rest assured." ”

"Your Highness, we are in a key place on the border, we must not be cautious, Your Highness's safety is more important than Mount Tai, if there is a villain who wants to assassinate......"

"The villain once learned cooking skills from Chef Xu of Chang'an, and he is the apprentice grandson of the Marquis of Lantian in terms of seniority, not a villain." The man said boldly.

Li Yuanji smiled: "Haha, no wonder the shot is extraordinary, it turns out that there is a famous teacher inheritance."

Forget it, you don't have to be careful, how can Wangjinglou recruit people without arguing about good and evil? This king is also a military general, can I not know if the assassin is murderous? Don't disturb our eating Yaxing. ”

"This, that's okay, but His Highness is dining out, and the food safety inspection must be carried out, please don't stop your subordinates." The man insisted on going forward for a drug test.

Li Yuanji naturally won't stop it anymore, after all, this guard is a real confidant, the person he trusts the most, and for the sake of the general, these cautious procedures still need to be there.

Soon the chef finished the visit, and retired happily with a group of cooks, and there was no surprise in the drug test, and the generals began to feast under the purging of Vice General Hu.

In fact, this Vice General Hu is not a spy, just a stupid person who is addicted to his appetite, as long as there is food, he can't help but have a trust in others without buying, and the chef Liu Zicheng is a big undercover agent sent by Li Xinzhong, the lord of Tubo, and he has set a long-term plan after taking on the task.

first used food to conquer Hu Zilai, and did not expose his purpose, but naturally waited for the opportunity to bring Li Yuanji here, and then gradually borrowed the relationship between colleagues in the restaurant to add ingredients to the catering of colleagues, so that colleagues and even restaurant executives were held by their own food, so that they could invisibly control the watchtower of Yucheng City.

Then there was an opportunity to carry out the plan against Li Yuanji, the reason why it was only open to Li Yuanji and not the people of the whole city was to capture the thief and capture the king first, otherwise once something happened to the people in the city, it would definitely attract Li Yuanji's vigilance.

"Huh? Yes, this yak meat slice tastes very different from the beef of the Tang Dynasty, it seems that this chef has developed a new dish in this plateau, and this person is a talent.

Let's go back and see if we can recruit it to this palace. ”

The last sentence was addressed to the guards behind him.

"Obey Your Highness, but after all, it is an unidentified person, and you still need to find out the origin to determine your safety."

"But can't it, Your Highness, my old Hu is almost inseparable from this chef's craftsmanship now, thinking that the people in the city also want food, I didn't dare to rob people, otherwise I would have been taken home to be a cook.

You can't snatch love with a sword, or what will we do with dinner in the future? You can't just go to your city lord's mansion in a hurry. ”

The other generals have been conquered by the delicacy at this time, and they have helped out, and this matter of recruiting cooks has been done.

There is no doubt that Liu Zicheng's plan succeeded, or Li Xinzhong's plan succeeded, because he was the big boss behind the scenes.

The leaders of this group of Yucheng defenders all remembered the food here for a meal, and the more they thought about it when they went home, the more they had to eat it every day, which was the poison of forgetting worries added to the dish and becoming addicted, and this thing actually had a well-known name in the late Qing Dynasty in later generations, that is, poppy, at this time, Li Xinzhong sent people to develop a finished edible poppy powder, and this thing could not be tested by silver needle poison.

(Note: Opium poppy refining can be made into large tobacco paste (book name 'opium'), opium is generally smoked, large tobacco paste is poisonous when eaten with alcohol, but large tobacco paste is also edible, direct consumption is also addictive, although the effect is slow and not violent, but the drug addiction lasts longer.)

Here is the use of the Tang Dynasty drug black technology to make edible powder, with wine will not be poisoned, the kind is hereby explained. ）

As Li Yuanji and others were counted into the net step by step, Wangjinglou finally began to put his hand into the people in the city, the richest in the city is the city guards, and the soldiers who were sent to Yucheng to train the soldiers, the salary is three times the normal, it can be said that the treatment is extremely generous, just to lay down the Tubo paving the way for training in the future.