Chen Fei is very busy now!

Yesterday evening, when the curfew was approaching, the heavy rain stopped, and the holy decree finally came from the palace, announcing that a banquet would be held at Chen Fei's manor ten days later.

The banquet held by the royal family is naturally a top-level feast with extremely high specifications and capped grades, and there can be no mistakes during the banquet, so Chen Fei is also heartbroken, he has to consider many things and do it well.

Fortunately, Li Shimin didn't pick the door, and allocated 5,000 taels of silver from his inner treasury, and explained that if it was not enough, he could still open his mouth to him, of course, he must have a credential, and he would not allocate it without a voucher.

Five thousand taels of silver... Chen Fei did a rough calculation... decided to hide the five thousand taels of silver, and then use the nearly ten thousand copper coins he had won.

Don't ask why, because silver is worth a lot of money! And it won't depreciate!

In addition to the money that Li Shimin had to do, he also transferred many eunuchs and palace maids from the palace for Chen Fei's deployment.

Chen Fei took no less than hundreds of eunuchs and palace maids to his manor early in the morning, and asked them to do some decorations according to their own requirements, and set up tables and chairs.

The tables and chairs were all ordered from my uncle, all of them pear blossom wood Taishi chairs and high tables.

Because the Tang Dynasty liked to divide food, the table was not a large round table, but a square table with high legs for a single person.

Chen Fei's requirement is that all the tables and chairs should be placed neatly, without the slightest deviation, and a staggered position between the front and back so that the people at the back table will not be blocked.

The table should be covered with a red tablecloth to represent the festivities, and a porcelain vessel with fresh flowers on it, and a small sign next to the flowers with the names of the ministers seated on it.

A group of palace maids, eunuchs were transferred by the regiment under his command. Even so, Chen Fei was still dissatisfied with the very right places and kept correcting them.

Because the middle of the manor was to be vacated for performances, the eunuch told Chen Fei that there were more than 200 ministers and imperial relatives attending the banquet, so in order to consider the comfort of the space, Chen Fei had to constantly adjust the position of the tables and chairs.

From the initial sideways placement to the later square placement, Chen Fei kept trying, and finally found a reasonable way to place it - according to the different classes of the ministers, they were placed in a hierarchical arch. The farther back and the periphery, the denser the placement. That is, the more people.

However, Chen Fei still tried his best to let everyone see the stage vacated by the semicircle in front of him.

As for the front, it is naturally the VIP privileged seat that Li Shimin and the royal family can embrace. After the table was set, a group of people came to Taichang Temple, and they came to rehearse songs and dances.

Chen Fei brought the two brothers Wang Tian and Hu from the village, who had nothing to do, and asked them to help take care of the manor, and gave some instructions, and then ran around non-stop.

Paper mills, kilns, strange workshops, his figure flashed everywhere.

Especially the kiln, a new workshop was built next to the kiln, and Chen Fei specially used it to brew high-grade wine.

With the invention of glassware, some distillation techniques can also be used, and it is time for high-grade liquor to be invented, just in time for the promotion of state banquets.

Of course, this workshop was also opened by Chen Fei and Cheng Yanjin, but this time, Chen Fei accounted for seventy percent. Cheng Yanjin is only responsible for sales, so he takes 30%.

The first batch of paper has already been produced in the paper mill, and the first samples of rice paper and bamboo paper have been produced.

Chen Feiduan looked at the rice paper and bamboo paper and was amazed, he couldn't imagine that the quality of the paper made by this method was really good, and it was many times better than the paper used before!

"Waiting to shine at the state banquet!" Chen Fei put away the paper and continued to run around.

As for the cook, he didn't have to worry too much, he spent a night yesterday teaching all the cooks in Cheng's mansion, and the new cooks were taught by them.

In fact, Chen Feihui's dishes are not much, they are nothing more than a few simple home-cooked dishes: fish-flavored shredded pork, minced meat and eggplant, kung pao chicken, shallots mixed with tofu, boiled woad vegetables, braised pork ribs, white chopped chicken, as well as marinated chicken feet and braised duck.

He also invented some simple pastry cakes and taught them to cooks to eat as desserts at banquets.

"These dishes should be enough for one person." Chen Fei felt that one person couldn't eat so many dishes, so the dishes were set to these few.

Several home-cooked dishes that were very common in later generations were listed by Chen Fei as the height of the state banquet in the Tang Dynasty, and I don't know what kind of bad taste Chen Fei is in.

"Rare is expensive!" Chen Fei comforted himself in his heart, "There are no stir-fried dishes in the Tang Dynasty, and I am also a top dish, I hope that no one will complain about me after thousands of years." ”

Regarding the procurement of banquets, Chen Fei must also check the same, such as whether the style of the purchased porcelain is good, and the goblet charms produced do not meet the aesthetics.

Chen Fei has been busy with dizziness in the past few days, thinking about what he wants to do tomorrow before going to bed, and what he hasn't done well, and everyone has lost a lot of weight.

Fortunately, his legs were almost healed, so his movement was quite convenient, and if he was still on crutches to worry about everywhere, that miserable appearance would be sad to see.

Chen Fei was busy running east and west, Chang'an City was not calm during this time, there were constantly ministers who made mistakes were arrested in Dali Temple, or expelled from Chang'an City, and even this trend is intensifying, some county officials near Chang'an City have also been picketed out.

All of a sudden, the court was conscientious, and everyone didn't know why Li Shimin, who had always been broad, suddenly showed a butcher's knife to the courtiers. There are only a few ministers who know the inside story, and there are also the Lu family who are far away in Fanyang!

"Humph! What is the surname Li trying to do? Will we weaken the power of our Lu family? Lu Hong, the head of the Lu family, said angrily.

The people around him persuaded: "Don't be angry, it's inconvenient for us to have a seizure now, it's better to forbear." ”

"Humph!" Lu Hong let out a sigh of relief, pointed to the gradually emerging pass in front of him and said: "Li Jing, this old guy doesn't know what the hell to do, he brought 20,000 soldiers and horses over, saying that he was going to do some kind of military performance, and invited envoys from so many countries to come, I don't know what he wants to do, aren't you afraid of being misunderstood by other countries and causing war?" ”

The people around him also shook their heads to indicate that they didn't know, and the group soon arrived at the foot of the pass.

"Stop the horses! Please show the invitation card before you can go up to the city wall to watch the martial arts! ”

"Humph!" The head of the Lu family dismounted, handed the invitation in his hand to the soldier, and said proudly: "Can I go up now?" ”

Before the soldier could reply, suddenly a heroic laugh came from the city wall. "Hahahaha! The head of the Lu family is in person, how can he not be qualified? The head of the Lu family will wait for a while, and the old man will come down to greet you personally! ”

It was Li Jing who laughed loudly on the city wall, and at this moment, he was wearing armor and a knife, walking down from the city wall, and greeted Lu Hong with a smile.

"The head of the Lu family came from afar, the old man was sluggish, and the environment was difficult, so please don't care, go, follow the old man to the city wall and watch!"

(End of chapter)