"There is nothing wrong with having a good relationship in advance," the Queen Mother applauded everyone, another show ended, and today's performance came to an end, "China has not yet reached the strength to go to war with the Western powers in Europe, but if someone makes trouble in their lair, it will be a great help, we are prone to break our bones in Asia, and they are the same in Europe." The Queen Mother stood up, the actors began to take a curtain call, cheers and whistles filled the whole **, "I want to talk to them about the deal tomorrow, tell Qinghai to keep an eye on it, I heard that the Austro-Hungarian arms are also good, if you can buy them, buy some, I won't go, prepare for the dinner in the evening, I want to entertain the Austrian family." ”

"Yes, then Weichen asks more, does the Queen Mother know the future of Weichen?" Gao Xinkui asked.

"Haha, Bozu, are you panicking too?" The Queen Mother turned her head and smiled, "I also want to know the future?" Well, let me take a look," the Queen Mother thought for a while, "Your fate has also changed, next, well, you have to hurry up and marry a wife and have children, and start a family!" ”……

The next night, in the Austrian Emperor's Transana Palace, the Queen Mother used the imperial kitchen brought out by China to prepare to conquer the upper echelons of Austria, today Cixi also met the famous Princess Sisi for the first time, the Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Joseph I said something to her, Empress Sisi tightly pulled the crown prince Rudolph, came to gratefully chased after the Empress Dowager Cixi and said some words of gratitude, although Rudolph was a little awkward about his mother's intimacy, but the smile on his face was very cheerful. The Queen Mother said to Queen Sissi that she is also a mother with a son, of course, she can understand the pain of the separation of mother and son, and talk a few words, the two women have a great sense of confidant, and agreed that if there is a chance in the future, they must come to China to visit.

Today's dishes are from the Manchu and Han banquets. Austria-Hungary is a relatively feudal country in Central Europe, which means that it pays more attention to pomp and decency, so the queen mother ordered the imperial chef to show all the skills, and the Manchu and Han banquets are at least one hundred and eight dishes, far overseas. I couldn't get enough of it for a while, so after cutting out the offal and other ingredients that foreigners might not eat, and adding fruits, vegetables and meat produced in Austria-Hungary, I made up four dim sum, four candied dried fruits, 28 hot dishes, 10 dumplings, 5 porridge soups, and 2 desserts. and milk tea, a total of fifty-four dishes, half of the Manchu Han full banquet. Entertaining Emperor Ao and others like this, the Queen Mother felt that it was simpler.

Perhaps it was Xiao Biesheng's new marriage, Joseph was very happy, of course, there was also a military factory in Budapest with the help of Chinese money, out of the danger of stopping production, hundreds of workers did not riot, and the technical talents in it may go to China to work. Earn overseas subsidies. He was a freewheeling monarch, and the mood came. No one could stop him, and just as the banquet was about to begin, he announced that he hoped that the Empress Dowager Cixi would become the godmother of Crown Prince Rudolph.

The Queen Mother was very surprised, "Franz, but I am not a person who believes in God. How can you be Rudolph's godmother. ”

"It's okay," said Joseph I with a laugh, "I'm not very concerned with religion, it's just a title, and I hope that the connection between the royal families of our two countries will be closer." If Rudolph could get more instruction from you, so much the better. ”

Queen Sissi did not object to this matter, so the matter was settled, received a godson, how can it not be a big bleeding to give a meeting gift, there is nothing to prepare in a hurry, fortunately, Tang Wufu knew that the Queen Mother often had to give gifts, and had already prepared some silk brocade porcelain and the like, seeing that the matter had been done, in addition to the twenty horses of the best silk woven in Suzhou and Hangzhou, he took a complete set of bright yellow porcelain kits for the emperor and the queen without authorization, a total of two hundred and eight pieces were given to Rudolph, and the queen mother was okay for the royal porcelain. Looking at those twenty silk horses, my heart was dripping blood: these days, a whole shipload of silk was transported by a cruise ship, and it was sold in Europe, and I don't know how much money it was exchanged for.

The banquet began, this must be an eye-catching banquet, first served dim sum: tea knife cut, almond milk, crispy apples, Heyi cake, four dried fruit candied fruits: tiger skin peanuts, milky white grapes, honey fresh peaches, candied green plums, appetizers four products: Hongzi chicken shredded cucumber, Fuzi melon roasted tenderloin, 10,000 characters spicy beef shreds, Nian Zikou mushroom cabbage, 10,000 characters were originally spicy belly shreds, afraid that foreigners would not eat internal organs, so it was changed to Vienna's veal.

Among the appetizers, the most revealing of the taste of knife work is the Hongzi chicken shredded cucumber, the chicken breast meat is torn into thin shreds, the cucumber is also cut into thin strips, the emerald green cucumber and the tender white chicken shredded are placed on the plate into a "Hongzi", the color is a little faint, Queen Sisi looked at it and did not do it, the Queen Mother invited again and again, she reluctantly tried it, sent it to the mouth, but her eyes lit up, "How does it taste very good?" This is an appetizer that doesn't make it too flavorful, but it tastes very delicious, light and delicious. ”

Next, jade palm offering life, pearl tofu, shou wu chicken, pine lion's mane mushroom, cuttlefish soup, lotus leaf chicken, beef fillet fried white mushrooms and so on, between several dishes, one after another soup soup and dim sum dumplings, for guests to fill their stomachs, the Chinese dishes and tableware, adopt a Western meal system, which is also a kind of local custom, Austria has very few black truffles, the imperial chef uses corn noodles and chestnuts to decorate the truffle steamed and roasted five blessing rolls, the fragrance is strange, the entrance is soft, Joseph I likes it very much, and praises it repeatedly.

Tang Wufu commanded the dish with a red face, he was out of the limelight on this day, the Austro-Hungarian nobles asked how this dish was made, and the Queen Mother naturally couldn't know everything, so Tang Wufu ran before and after answering it, everyone was very surprised that Tang Wufu remembered these very clearly, and praised him again and again for his intentions, and won the praise of foreigners.

This half of the Manchu and Han banquets have been eaten for two hours, everyone praised again and again, and finally served Mongolian milk tea and sugar steamed cheese, as the last consumption, accompanied by local red and white wine and brought out Shaoxing rice wine and bamboo leaf green, the attendants were arranging the plate, Gao Xinkui hurriedly walked over, said something in the ear of the queen mother, the queen mother's eyebrows frowned slightly, and then unfolded, "Lose your company." ”

After a while, the Queen Mother returned, and Joseph I asked, "Is there any problem?" Your Highness. ”

"There's no problem," the Queen Mother raised her glass and said with a smile, "It's just that there are a little things in the country, and they don't matter." (To be continued.) )