Sometimes the more you rush to do something, the more you can't do it.

Sun Xiangfu is like this, he now wants to hurry to Wangjiang Tower and make the final preparations for the banquet, however, the main road of Dingxiang City, which is several zhang wide, is blocked to death.

"What's up ahead?"

"Grandpa, those Fanbang delegations, after entering the city, are like dirt buns, look here, look there, the officials in charge of leading people tried their best to persuade them, but there are many people, and the language is mixed, so it is not easy to restrain them."

"Let the soldiers in charge of the realm pay attention to law and order, and let's go up the city wall and make a detour."

In this situation, Sun Xiangfu actually expected that no matter how knowledgeable a person is in this era, the first time he comes to Datang and enters Dingxiang City for the first time, he will be attracted by the things here, even if it is the crown prince of the strongest empire in the West like Heraclius.

In fact, it was he who was at the forefront and ordered to slow down, so that all the teams behind him slowed down, and after that, everyone was attracted by the offices on both sides of the street.

The first thing that made Heraclo unable to walk was the visual impact, because he was riding in an open-top carriage with a very good view, and walked to the door of a larger fresh fruit store, where yellow bananas, mangoes, green-skinned pears, yellow-skinned pears, bright red apples, begonia fruits, and lychees with crushed ice slag in the cold storage, longan, green-skinned, yellow-skinned citrus, melons, papayas, cantaloupe, flower-skinned watermelons larger than heads, and thick and long black-skinned sugar cane······

He didn't expect that there would be dozens of kinds of fruits in a shop along the street, most of which he had never seen.

Further down, it is still a food store, this time what makes him unable to walk is the kind of olfactory stimulation, too fragrant, he is a dignified imperial crown prince, a person who has been dressed and eaten since childhood, and he can't stop his saliva because of the smell of food in a street shop.

The freshly baked flower cakes, moon cakes, and the fragrance are really very tempting, especially when Heracle saw those moon cakes printed with Chinese characters and carved with beautiful patterns, he was very skeptical about life, is the food eaten by the people of the Tang Dynasty so exquisite?

Even in Constantinople, such a beautiful thing should be considered a craft!

Without thinking too much, he asked the maid in charge of his daily life to take out a handful of gold coins and wanted to buy them in the store, but not long after, the maid came back with the gold coins again, and told him that Datang does not accept foreign currency, and if they want to use money, they must first go to the mint or money house in the city to exchange gold and silver for the official currency of Datang.

Moreover, buying things with gold coins like him, it is difficult for many shop owners to make change.

Because, a gold coin officially issued by Datang is worth 100 yuan, and in the cake shop, the most expensive lotus paste mooncake is only sold for 5 cents a piece, and a gold coin can be bought for 2,000 pieces.

"Crooked?"

The saliva of Herac looked at the Tang translator who led him in surprise.

The translator understood what he meant, and said, "If His Royal Highness the Prince wants to eat moon cakes, I can treat you, but I advise you to eat less, because the food in our Datang is so delicious." ”

After speaking, the interpreter of the Ministry of Rites named Chen Jun took out a silver coin made by the Datang Mint Division from his money bag, came to the street, handed it to the shopkeeper, discussed two sentences, and then, the guy in the shop, holding several exquisite cardboard boxes, went to the carriage.

Chen Jun opened the top box and said, "This box of moon cakes, called Seven Stars with the Moon, is eaten by the people of our Tang Dynasty when they celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are seven small and one large, eight moon cakes, which are made of eight different materials, and the largest moon cake is made of lotus paste, with two eggs in it, just out of the pot, sweet and delicious, His Royal Highness the Prince can taste it." ”

As he spoke, he skillfully used the wooden knife in the cardboard box to cut the big moon cake into small pieces, and then used a wooden fork to fork one of the small pieces with egg yolk and lotus paste, and handed it to Heraclius.

Heraclius got up before dawn this morning and hurried, and now, noon has passed, he hasn't eaten yet, he is already hungry, swallowed the saliva in his mouth, took the fork handed by Chen Jun, and ate the moon cake on it in one bite.

"Well, it's delicious."

In this era, due to the backward sugar technology, it is difficult for people to feel the sweet taste in other foods except fruits, but the sweetness of this moon cake makes Chirac feel slightly sweeter than the sweetest grapes he has eaten, and the whole mood is a lot happier.

He was about to eat again, but he was stopped by Chen Jun and said, "Has His Royal Highness the Prince forgotten, let's Datang, there are many delicious things than this, you can keep your stomach and taste the food in other boxes first!"

This one, called Flower Cake, is a specialty of Shanyang, and this box alone has sixteen floral flavors······"

When Heraclius opened the next box by Chen Jun, he had a long insight, and when he opened the next box, he had a long insight, and he didn't expect that just a cake to eat, the people on the Tang side could make dozens of flavors and hundreds of exquisite styles, which were tens of thousands of times better than the hard, tasteless cakes they usually ate.

What frustrated him the most was that he could buy several boxes of nearly two hundred loaves of bread with different tastes and styles for just one silver coin, which was much cheaper than their Byzantine Empire, and Heraclius felt that if he took these cakes to Constantinople and sold them to the nobles in the city, he could at least sell them for several gold coins.

However, Chen Jun told him that the things sold in these street shops are not considered high-end goods, and if you want to buy better things, you have to go to the Times Mall in the city, where can the things represent the most high-end craftsmanship of Datang, and as for the types that can be bought, there are too many to calculate.

Soon, Heraclius knew that there were so many types of goods that it was impossible to calculate what it was, and there were dozens of shops selling food in this area, not only for food, but also for drinking, and now, it used a straw straw to suck a large cup of mixed fruit honey milk tea.

He also saw a kind of two-wheeled cart in the city, and also saw a three-wheeled or five-wheeled cart, all of which were made of fine iron, and which, without being pulled by livestock, but by manpower, could be ridden, and could carry people, or pull a lot of goods.

He also saw hundreds of shops with different styles of clothes and fabrics, as for those handicrafts, furniture ornaments and other shops, there were too many to count, until he came to the front of a large hotel with a height of more than 20 meters, he was a little dazed.

Since he walked through Ningyuan County, the cement road that seemed to grow out of the ground had shocked him, but when he arrived in this building, he knew what luxury was.

The gate made of glass, and the expensive and exquisite porcelain are used to pave the floor, how much does it cost to build such a building? I'm afraid that they will build a royal palace in Constantinople!

What surprised him even more was that the service of this hotel, there were more than 3,000 people in his line, but in just a few minutes, under the leadership of hundreds of waiters, two people and four people entered their respective rooms.

Moreover, this so-called hotel is not only for his team, but also for Persian, Dashi, Tianzhu, several major delegations, with a total of more than 10,000 people, who can all live here.

"How many rooms are there in this hotel?"

Ishili, Abu Bakr, and Bhani all had the same doubts as Heraclius.

I saw a person wearing long sleeves and long pants, looking very upright and energetic, with a smile to explain to them, "My Wang's Hotel is one of the two largest hotels in Dingxiang City, the main building has 3,600 guest rooms, the left and right two annex buildings, each with 1,600 guest rooms, can provide accommodation and catering services for 15,000 people at the same time, in addition, our hotel also has a variety of entertainment venues, men's sauna and massage, women's aromatherapy spa, warm swimming pool, chess and card room, sports field exercise place, everything, After you check in to your room, you can play in all the entertainment venues in the restaurant, and if you have any needs, you can tell our waiter, and we will do our best to provide services to all guests. ”

A hotel can provide accommodation, entertainment and entertainment for 15,000 people, which gives these local buns from the West a new positioning for the strength of Datang.

However, they were shocked again when they were taken to their rooms by the waiters and translators of the restaurant.

In the luxury suite on the fifth floor, everything gives people a sense of sophistication, and comparing the room they originally lived in with such a room, it feels inappropriate to describe it as simple, it should be said that it is almost dilapidated.

In each of the luxury suites, there is a full-time waitress with a peugeot-looking bearded girl, who will teach the people who live here to use everything in the room, these bearded women, who have been trained for a long time, can even translate for people like Hiraclius who do not understand Chinese at all.

Soon, they brought in a beautifully arranged fruit bowl with more than a dozen kinds of fruit, as well as a variety of pastries and drinks, and, in the white porcelain jar in one of the rooms, turned on the faucet to drain the water.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, the interpreter said that you will soon go to the banquet of the Duke, so let me serve you to bathe and dress!"

Heraclius had grown up being served by maids since he was a child, and he did not resist this, but looking at his handmaidens looking at things in the room like dirt buns, or staring at the exquisite food on the table and swallowing his saliva, Heraclius felt that it was better for him to obey the waiter's arrangement.

Soon, the water in the bathtub was placed, and after the waitress Hu poured some fragrant things into the steaming bathtub, she began to help him undress, and after a while, both of them entered the white porcelain jar cleanly.

According to the normal clear, Heraclius should be the first to strike at this time, Hu Ren is so open to this, like the Greek kingdom, many women's clothes are no different from not wearing, however, now his attention is not on these things, he is very curious, why the metal pipe above the bathtub will keep warm water coming out.

He was even more curious about why his skin became so smooth after he entered the bathtub, and then a lot of fragrant foam rose in the bathtub.

He clearly felt that the stains on his body were empty as the waiter scrubbed them, and the skin on his body exuded an unprecedented feeling of comfort.

He felt the same way, Yi Si Qi, Abu Bakr, and Po Ni, as well as some of the high-ranking officials in their accompanying team, all gathered in the hall half an hour later, and the look of amazement on their faces could not be concealed at all.

At this time, the interpreters of the Ministry of Rites had already asked the hotel to arrange rickshaws for them, and the luxurious and exquisite five-wheeled carts had already lined up outside the gate.

Heraclius and others then knew that in Dingxiang City, it was a shame to take a carriage, and the really rich and powerful people were riding this kind of five-wheeled or tricycle with soft sofas, which was safe and comfortable, and the most important thing was that it would not be like cows and horses, with some feces and urine and other things, polluting everyone's environment on the street.

In their opinion, the people of Datang are really exquisite, and life in Dingxiang City is like being in heaven, and there is no more comfortable place in the world.