Chapter 2 16 The Imperial History of the People
"I said stunned, your posture looks like there are two hits!" Zhao Xun looked at Li Wuchang's movements and was amazed.
"Hey, you can figure it out, most of the new dishes in our Dongli Restaurant were created by me, if I go to be a chef, it must be a first-class master, of course it is not a problem to fry game. Li Wuchang smiled coquettishly.
Now he is frying roe deer meat, fresh, the amount of the big pot dish is particularly sufficient, there are dozens of catties in one pot, and Li Wuchang is not struggling to stir it up at all.
A group of people, a total of seven or eight, all of them are busy, except for Zhao Xun, this guy is wandering around, look here, look there, and when he sees the finished dishes, he twists them with his hands to taste the taste, and occasionally adds a handful of firewood to the big stove, which can be regarded as a contribution.
Jiang Minglun is preparing green vegetables next to the small stove, and the green vegetables need to be added to a small pot with meat oil, so that they are fragrant when they are fried.
Hu Qianyong is cutting lamb slices and preparing the ingredients for the hot pot.
Everyone else did their own thing, boiling soup, cooking, chopping vegetables, and washing vegetables, and each did his best.
After working for most of the hour, it was finally finished.
"Stunned, stunned, there are distinguished guests in Chang'an City!" Li Wuchang had just taken off his apron when he heard the fat bear shouting outside.
Li Wuchang hurriedly went out to take a look, and the first thing that caught his eye was Guo Yunling's little girl, who was weird and deceived himself, and then he saw Tang Zhifeng, Lu Ting, Zhou Chengwang and others.
"Oh, Mr. Tang, Li Wuchang see the boss, Peng Shenshi, Peng Shenshi, I said why are there always magpies calling this morning, please please, just about to eat, come together, come together." Li Wuchang greeted him in an exaggerated manner.
Tang Zhifeng smiled and said, "You kid is still like that."
He had seen Li Wuchang a few times before, and knew that Li Wuchang liked to play tricks, so he didn't care.
"Hmph, Li Er is stunned, don't you see us and patronize Uncle Tang's ass?" Guo Yunling pouted.
Lu Ting and Lin Qin also chuckled.
Zhou Chengwang and Zheng Wenlong sniffed and muttered so fragrant.
Li Wuchang hurriedly said: "How can it, the little brother Li Wuchang has seen the county lord Ting, Miss Guo, and Miss Lin, the three big beauties are more beautiful than in the past, they really blinded the little brother's dog eyes, you can come to this small place this time, the little brother is really a great honor." ”
coaxed a few little girls to laugh.
Li Wuchang looked at Zhou Chengwang and Zheng Wenlong again, and asked lightly, "What are the two noble surnames?"
Then they laughed and hugged each other.
Everyone came out to say hello, Jiang Minglun and Zhao Xun had seen everyone before, so they were neither humble nor arrogant, Hu Qianyong, these boys saw so many big people for the first time, they were very nervous, and they looked very respectful.
Next is meal time.
Luckily, the dishes were prepared in large portions, and it was no problem to divide them into two large tables.
Li Wuchang, Zhao Xun, and Jiang Minglun personally entertained several distinguished guests, while the fat bear Hu Qianyong entertained Tang Zhifeng and the few guards they brought over.
The main course is of course game, with several kinds of cured meat, roast chicken, sauerkraut fish, bone wild vegetable soup, and a mutton pot with a few vegetables.
The staple food is rice, noodles, baked steamed buns, and steamed sweet potatoes.
There is naturally no shortage of drinks, fruit wine, sweet wine, and coarse grain wine.
"Don't be surprised, the mountains and wilderness can't compare to Chang'an City, this place is a temporary canteen in the past, and naturally it can't compare to the Dongli Restaurant, but the big pot dishes still have some taste, come, I'll give you a glass first." Li Wuchang picked up his wine glass.
"I said impermanence, although the dishes are not exquisite, but the materials are of high quality, it costs a lot of silver for this table, right?
"That's all I want to collect every day, seven or eight Zhuangzi nearby are my suppliers, the prices are not too expensive, I not only eat, I also take out. Li Wuchang smiled coquettishly and bragged.
Everyone laughed.
Come to think of it, they have all seen the purchase place, and it is very convenient for the people to carry those things in exchange for grain and copper coins.
Tang Zhifeng took a sip of coarse grain wine, nodded and said, "This wine has a different taste, compared to the second pot head, it is completely two styles, and you also brewed it?"
Li Wuchang said with a smile: "It's not that I brewed it, I combined the experience of the old people in Zhuangzi, improved it a little, and added some herbs, the taste and taste have improved, and it is also useful for alleviating dampness and cold and treating old injuries, and it also has a certain health effect. ”
Tang Zhifeng said strangely: "Oh, there is such an effect, it seems that you have put a lot of thought, as far as the old man knows, dampness and cold disease is very difficult to treat." ”
Li Wuchang sighed: "Boss, you don't know, I wanted to make medicinal baths for those veterans before, but they refused, saying that it was a waste of medicinal materials, and they had to make medicinal materials into trauma medicine and then pull them to Shuofang to sell for money, I had no choice but to spend some thought on wine, those guys are all drunkards, since the first trip, they are uncomfortable if they don't drink every day, and their injuries are healed after drinking for a while." ”
After a pause, he continued: "Speaking of curing dampness and cold, I have a better recipe for wine, which is made with big ants, poisonous snakes and scorpions as the main ingredients, but these things are difficult to collect, so they cannot be mass-produced. ”
"Phew, Li Wuchang, are you disgusting?" Lu Ting scolded with a smile, she was eating happily, and when she heard Li Wuchang talking about the method of making wine from such poisonous insects, she almost couldn't eat it.
Guo Yunling and Lin Qin were also disgusted.
"Okay, you guys go on, I won't say anything...... Hey, I said why are you so happy to eat in a mutton pot, try the roe deer meat, fresh, I fried it myself, it would be better if you came a few days earlier, you can eat leopard meat. Li Wuchang said with a smile.
Lu Ting and the three of them are all eating mutton shabu, and they are all very curious about shabu shabu, they have never eaten like this before.
Li Wuchang gave Tang Zhifeng a bowl of bone and wild vegetable soup, and said: "Boss, come and warm up, this bone broth is not a high-quality product, but it is not bad, and the farmer who works drinks it every day." ”
Tang Zhifeng smiled and took a sip of bone broth, it was really good, hot, unusually warm, especially suitable for drinking when it was cold.
Zhou Chengwang and Zheng Wenlong are both foodies and don't need to be entertained.
Zheng Wenlong fished out a bowl of sauerkraut fish, tasted it, and said with a smile: "This is what was caught in that lake?"
Li Wuchang said: "Yes, the lake has only been built for a long time, a few days ago the water was just stored, the fish was bought by Beidi County, put it in the lake for a few days, today I came here to see the water storage effect of the lake, fishing is just by the way." ”
Tang Zhifeng said: "The old man took a look at the lake just now, and I heard that it used to be a muddy field?"
Just now the group of them had a general tour of the lake, and they felt that it was vast and very wide, and they were very surprised when they heard that it was artificially made.
How much effort does it take?
Lin Qin said curiously: "You dug that lake just to fish? I also heard those people in Chang'an City say that you are building a bathhouse in Fengyi County." ”
Li Wuchang did say something like that, and at the beginning, he said that it was for the convenience of taking a bath, so he built a big bathhouse, and it caused a lot of jokes.
Zhou Chengwang and Zheng Wenlong naturally knew that Li Wuchang would not be so superficial, so they continued to eat, while Tang Zhifeng also looked at Li Wuchang and wanted to hear his thoughts.
Li Wuchang sighed: "Whether it is repairing a bathhouse or fishing, it is a purpose, but the main purpose is to give the farmers a job, how can those sandy lands feed people, you don't know, when I first came, every household was sweet potatoes with wild vegetable soup, and I couldn't eat a meal of white noodles, but it was better in the last month, and a few business routes were opened, and there were more people. ”
After sighing, he then smiled and said: "But the hard days have passed, and after nearly half a year, it is finally time for Li to make a lot of money." ”
Zhao Xun and Jiang Minglun also felt the same way, it is indeed not a simple task to manage the eating, drinking and Lazar of so many people, and to let them live a good life.
But now, the original plan is almost realized, and the people who follow Li Wuchang are very proud.
Li Wuchang didn't want to be very high-profile, they all knew it, so they all silently supported it, whether it was to suppress bandits, engage in construction, or open business routes, they all acted as decision-makers and pioneers.
Tang Zhifeng looked at it all the way, and felt a lot, not to mention making money, just talking about investment, it should be a huge amount, with a forest of shops, open markets, brick kilns, roads that are better than official roads, lakes, breeding farms, medicine fields, building houses, etc., the investment will not be small, and ordinary people do not have that courage.
In addition, Tang Zhifeng also knew that there were no bandits in this area, and they were all exterminated by Li Wuchang with some veterans, and the credit was given to Wang Taishou.
Not to mention that the people of Erduzizhuang have benefited, but also more or less benefited nearly 10,000 people around them, and these Li Wuchang and his subordinates have made great contributions.
In the future, if you want to make a lot of money, that's how it should be.
Tang Zhifeng likes to watch people, especially young people, he also has a set of people's observation skills, he just met Zheng Heng when he was a teenager, and he predicted that Zheng Heng would grow into a pillar of the country in the future.
Sure enough, now Zheng Heng is Dingxianggong, joined the Ministry of Rites, and acted as Han Guang's deputy, and is deeply trusted by His Majesty.
And when Tang Zhifeng first heard the name Li Wuchang, it was a few years ago, when the reputation of the duo of "Han Dasha" and "Li Erdu" spread throughout Chang'an City, and the upper echelons of Chang'an City naturally didn't care about those two gentlemen, and Tang Zhifeng also laughed.
Later, Li Wuchang cured General Zhou Sheng's illness, and Tang Zhifeng began to pay attention to Li Wuchang again.
It wasn't until Li Wuchang went to treat Zheng Heng's mother that he met Li Wuchang for the first time, although Li Wuchang looked very immature at that time, he was quite knowledgeable about human feelings, and he was neither humble nor arrogant when talking to people, and he did not lose his youthful heart.
At that time, Tang Zhifeng saw the true side of Li Erxuan, who was rumored in Daojing, and had a good impression of him.
Later, Li Wuchang opened the Dongli Restaurant, and Tang Zhifeng would often go there to listen to some stories, or appreciate the masterpieces of his "cousin", and when Li Wuchang was there, he would personally entertain him.
Later, Li Wuchang was made a viscount, entered the military village, suppressed bandits, took in the people, engaged in construction, opened up trade roads, etc., Tang Zhifeng paid attention to it, until he saw everything about Zhuangzi with his own eyes, Tang Zhifeng's impression of Li Wuchang was undoubtedly a little better.
Feng Yijun has always been a poor jingle place, but Li Wuchang can toss such a big movement in this small Zhuangzi, which is really unusual, and now Feng Yicheng is still recovering, this Erzizhuang can really become the center of Feng Yi's southwest, a veritable commercial town.
"Actually, impermanence, you should be an official!" Tang Zhifeng was silent for a while, and suddenly burst out.
Li Wuchang was taken aback, and said strangely: "Boss, this coarse grain wine shouldn't be intoxicating, right? I'm an official? With my stunned temperament, I'm afraid that I will commit a big taboo in a few days, and then be taken into the prison by His Majesty, waiting for the execution after the autumn." ”
Everyone laughed.
Tang Zhifeng shook his head with a smile and continued to drink the soup.