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Fumanlou Hotel, in the box on the third floor, Li Shimin and Li Chaojunchen sat opposite each other to drink tea. Fumanlou was originally Cui Zheng's dowry, and Li Chao took a lot of effort to help Thirteen Niang get it back. This is also the first restaurant in Chang'an to focus on stir-fried dishes, creating a cuisine and prosperous business.

Nowadays, Fumanlou has opened more than 500 branches in the entire Datang, and it can be said that there are Fumanlou in slightly larger cities, even in the border areas.

Now Fumanlou is also regarded as the top restaurant in Datang, and it is known as the leader in the restaurant industry like Zuixianlou. Fumanlou is Cui Yingying's dowry, and now it is doing a lot, mainly due to Li Chao's contributions, but this industry still belongs to Thirteen Niang. Thirteen Niang also said that in the future, she will give it to her children.

Zuixianlou is the industry of Li Chao and his protégés, at the beginning, only Cui Yan enlisted in the army, and later Zuixianlou opened all over the country, Li Chao also let Liu Renliang and other disciples have entered one, the restaurant is good, and it can be regarded as taking care of them.

The two major restaurants of Fumanlou and Zuixianlou are mainly catering, but now, they have different cuisine styles. At this time, the Tang Dynasty also had two major cuisines, southern and northern cuisine, but Li Chao brought stir-fried dishes and a revolution in cooking.

In the past, catering and cooking have changed greatly, and now the northern cuisine led by Fumanlou is actually made in the style of Sichuan and Lu cuisine, and the Tang Dynasty did not even have stir-fried dishes, and naturally there was no Sichuan and Lu cuisine, but under the guidance of Li Chao, Fumanlou has been developing in this direction, and now it has formed its own stable style and cultivated many loyal customers.

Zuixianlou takes a different path, focusing on southern food, but it is also a new cuisine, integrating Cantonese cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine in later generations.

The dishes of Fumanlou are famous for their numb, spicy, fresh and fragrant, and make good use of cooking methods such as stir-frying, dry stir-frying, dry roasting, and soaking, stewing, etc., and are famous for their "taste", with more flavor types, rich in changes, and are more prominent in fish fragrance, red oil, strange flavor, and spicy. The style of Sichuan cuisine is simple and fresh, with a strong local flavor. Famous representative dishes include: fish-flavored shredded pork, back to the pot meat, mapo tofu, boiled fish, husband and wife lung slices and so on.

The dishes of the drunken fairy building actually began in the Spring and Autumn Period and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

It is characterized by fine production, elegant style, fresh and peaceful. The cooking skills are exquisite, the taste is both north and south, the selection of materials is rigorous, and the production is fine. And especially pay attention to the light of the sword, make good use of the fire. Good at stewing, stewing, simmering, boiling, steaming, burning, stir-frying; The raw materials are mostly aquatic products, focusing on freshness, peaceful taste, fresh and slightly sweet. Famous dishes include Yangzhou fried rice, stewed crab roe lion's head, boiled dried shreds, three sets of duck, soft pocket long fish, crystal meat, squirrel mandarin fish, Liangxi crispy eel and so on.

In terms of taste, it is fresh and slightly sweet.

One is spicy, the other is sweet, it can be said that the style is very different, and it also takes care of all kinds of customers. Guests who like spicy and fresh fragrance love Fumanlou very much. And those who like fresh and sweet taste praise Zuixianlou.

It is this kind of differentiated operation that makes Fumanlou and Zuixianlou both the Li family's industry, but the two restaurants have opened thousands of branches, and even often open together, but they have never robbed each other of customers, nor have they affected each other, but where the two stores are opened, then that piece will inevitably form a prosperous and lively dining area.

Li Shimin actually prefers the dishes of Zuixianlou, which is also a more mainstream taste before the emergence of stir-fried dishes. However, now it is called Southern Food Cuisine, which makes Li Shimin feel a little strange, obviously the northerners used to eat like this.

Li Shimin occasionally eats some of the current northern cuisine.

"Wenyuan, what is the name of this fish-flavored fish?"

Li Shimin was holding the meat and fish, and he was more curious about the name of this dish. The fish is fragrant, but where is the fish?

This dish has pork and black fungus, and the accessories are carrots, bamboo shoots, etc., and the shredded meat is very tender to eat, and the whole dish looks ruddy, tender, fresh, and indeed a little fishy.

"Did you use fish soup?"

"Your Majesty, the fish flavor of this dish does not come from the fish, but is made from spices such as onions, ginger, garlic, sugar, salt, soy sauce, etc. Moreover, in fact, this dish was originally called Yuxiang shredded pork, but the restaurant misheard it and wrote it as fish-flavored shredded pork, which was falsely spread, and later it was used. Li Chao explained with a smile.

There are many fish-flavored dishes in Fumanlou, such as fish-flavored eggplant.

The box is along the street, the stove is burning in the house, and the windows are open a little to let in some fresh air and see the street view below. The slightest cold wind penetrated in, and it was said that the snow was not cold and the snow was cold, and the previous heavy snow was slowly melting.

Li Shimin looked at the pedestrians below, the New Year was not over yet, but the streets of Hanjing were so lively again.

"In a few days, it will be the Shangyuan Festival, and this year the imperial court will hold a seven-day lantern festival, which will be very lively. Have you picked the 3,000 centaurs going south? Li Shimin asked.

Originally, Li Chao planned to leave early, but Li Shimin meant that he hoped that Li Chao would leave after the first month. The emperor gave Li Chao 3,000 soldiers and horses, but he did not directly forbid him. Instead, he had to choose 3,000 soldiers from the Nanyafu.

It was not directly from the last government soldiers to draw 3,000, but in the tens of thousands of government troops in the last time, they were notified and asked to sign up voluntarily. Those who are willing to go south with Li Chao signed up, and said in advance that after they went, they would settle in South Vietnam in the future, and even their families would have to immigrate there in the future.

Because the place is too far away, and it is the notorious land of Lingnan and South Vietnam, there are not many people who are really willing to go. Fortunately, Li Chao still understands people's hearts relatively well, and has already offered very generous conditions.

Those who went with him to South Vietnam had a settling-in allowance for each person, and when they got there, the family gave them 500 acres of land. This condition can be said to be very good, especially since the settlement fee is as high as 100 yuan.

The uniform land system has been abolished, and the imperial court no longer grants land equal land. Even if it is a government soldier, although it still retains the benefits of being able to distribute the land and tax exemption after clicking, after their death, the military field has to be recovered. Even if it's a military field, it's actually not much.

Li Chao promised that of the 500 mu of land they would divide after they arrived in Nanyue, 100 mu could be tax-exempt, and the remaining 400 mu would be taxed at the rate of two taxes per mu of the imperial court, but they could be exempted for three years and halved in the next five years. Moreover, these fields are truly given to them, and they may be passed on to their children and grandchildren in the future. Even as long as it has been planted for 30 years, it can be sold.

And the settling-in allowance of 100 yuan has made many people excited. What's more, the imperial court also promised that after their original Juntian imperial court took it back, it would give them a compensation.

Originally, no one wanted to go to South Vietnam, but Li Chao's favorable conditions were smashed, and many people signed up. Li Chao can still pick and choose.

"Your Majesty, the three thousand government soldiers have been selected, but the minister has a request, I hope that His Majesty can allow the minister to go to the lecture hall and recruit a group of military attachés to serve as officers of these government soldiers."

Now Li Chao has soldiers, but he still needs officers. His soldiers were recruited scattered, not drawn to him in formation, and many officers were reluctant to go to South Vietnam in exile to make a living.

Li Shimin picked up a salt-and-pepper shrimp and chewed it, but did not agree immediately.

"Your Majesty, the minister selected some students from the lecture hall to go to South Vietnam, which can be regarded as a temporary loan. The cadets went to South Vietnam to serve as officers of the government soldiers, served there for three years, and then returned. Going to South Vietnam can be regarded as a sharpening internship. ”

"If you come back in three years, won't your soldiers still have no officers?"

"Your Majesty, three years is enough time to train a group of outstanding officers."

Li Shimin put down his chopsticks and smiled slightly, "Go back and go to the martial arts hall to pick it up, and give you three hundred people." Captain-level advanced officers, brigade commanders, and non-commissioned officers will each be given a batch. The emperor paused, "The man went to South Vietnam for a period of three years, and was transferred back after three years." In addition, in the future, the imperial court will transfer a group of middle and low-level military attaches and non-commissioned officers to you every year. ”

Li Chao suddenly understood what the emperor meant.

On the surface, of course, the emperor generously gave Li Chao's officers and non-commissioned officers to enrich his South Vietnamese guards, but in fact, the emperor used the method of three-year rotation, in fact, to control Li Chao's officer level of the South Vietnamese Army in disguise. Every year, a batch of new people are sent over, but after three years, they are transferred away, which makes it difficult for Li Chao to turn these officers into his own.

Li Chao smiled, but it didn't matter.

The sky is high and the birds fly, the sea is wide and the fish jumps, if he really has his own territory, will he still be rare with those 3,000 men and horses and hundreds of officers and non-commissioned officers?

Even if this matter is finalized, Li Chao has no objection, and Li Shimin is very happy.

"How do I feel that the food in Fumanlou has become so much spicier? And this spicy is not quite the same as the original spicy? Li Shimin felt spicy and sweaty.

"Your Majesty, when Chu Mo came back from Nanzhao, he brought back some local specialty wild peppers over there. I call it chili, and this chili pepper is spicier than dogwood. Cooking with chili oil and chili powder made from this wild pepper can greatly increase the spiciness, or directly add fresh chili peppers, or make dried chili peppers are extremely flavorful. I have asked people to cultivate carefully, and then I can breed different varieties with different spicy tastes, which can make the dishes of Fu Man Lou more flavorful. ”

"I didn't expect Nanzhao to have this pepper in addition to Pubait tea, that's a good place."

"Your Majesty, Chu Mo will return to Nanzhao in a few days, and I listened to him talk about the situation over there, and it seems that it is not very stable. Nanzhao is now using the banner of my Tang Dynasty to attack the other five edicts, as well as the surrounding small countries, and they have become the leader of Yunnan, and the imperial court should be vigilant, maybe it's time to get involved and do some layout and control. Li Chao reminded the emperor.

The rise of Nanzhao in history was very fast, and by the time Xuanzong arrived, it was already difficult to control it. Relying on his geographical advantages, he colluded with Tibet and fought with Tang. Until the death of Tang, Nanzhao fought several battles with Tang, but Tang won fewer victories and lost more losses, and lost countless soldiers.

In particular, with the containment of this Nanzhao, the confrontation between Tang and Tubo became more and more unfavorable.

Li Shimin drank the tea and said slowly, "The southwest is now headed by the Six Edicts, and the rest of the small countries are innumerable, and there are also barbarian tribes scattered over there, where the mountains are high and the forests are dense, the location is remote, and the situation is complicated. Eagerly asking for a large army to enter is not the best policy, but can only be slowly planned. ”

"Wenyuan, your Yue Kingdom is in the southeast of this place, and you can even reach the vicinity of Nanzhao along the Red River." The emperor smiled, put down the teacup, and tapped his finger lightly on the tabletop, "After you conquer the Yue Kingdom, you can slowly go up the river to appease the southwestern tribes, trade with them, step by step." I will give you a position as an ambassador for the southwest to preach comfort and pacify, and you will do things cheaply. ”

"I understand."

Xuanwei pacifies the envoy, that is, the Xuanfu envoy, but with a disposition, this is more authoritative than the Xuanfu envoy.