Chapter 45: The Poetry Conference Begins

"His Royal Highness the Prince, I wonder if the chef of the Prince's Restaurant is cooking today?" While Li Chengqian was pondering, a voice suddenly came to Li Chengqian's mind, pulling Li Chengqian's thoughts back.

“?” Li Chengqian looked at Du Ruhui suspiciously, because he was thinking about something just now, so Li Chengqian didn't hear it very clearly.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, I just want to ask, is it the cook of your Prince's Restaurant today?" Du Ruhui asked a little embarrassed.

"yes, what's wrong?" Li Chengqian nodded and continued to ask.

Li Chengqian didn't understand why Du Ruhui wanted to ask this question. Moreover, didn't Li Chengqian already say it yesterday? The question of this meal was handed over to his own prince's restaurant, didn't he hear it clearly? Not really, right? There were only a few people yesterday.

"Minister... I really like the food at Prince Restaurant. Du Ruhui said very embarrassedly.

To be honest, a civil servant likes to eat and drink, which is indeed not something to be proud of. But there is no way, yesterday Du Ruhui was indeed fascinated by the food at the Prince Restaurant. Since eating a meal at noon yesterday, Du Ruhui quietly ran over to eat it in the evening.

As the deputy judge of the poetry conference, shouldn't it be about how the poetry conference should be held and how it should be scored? What does it mean to like this too much?

Li Chengqian expressed deep contempt for such people who do not do their jobs properly. Turning his head to look at the other three ministers, he planned to invite the three ministers to despise Du Ruhui together, but the three ministers all stared at Li Chengqian with expectant eyes.

This appearance almost made Li Chengqian so angry that he spit out a mouthful of blood.

Uncles, and my dear uncles, we will have a poetry conference later. Can we stop worrying about eating first, can we care about business?

"I'll send someone to talk to them later, and I'll prepare one for each of you." Li Chengqian said tiredly.

Well, Li Chengqian can't compare to his own family's food again.

Li Chengqian felt that the statements made by these people in history were all wrong. Obviously, it is written in the history book that these four people are concerned about the world, but when they come to Li Chengqian, they become concerned about food?

Li Chengqian was really worried that if he didn't prepare for these people, he would not strike.

"Thank you, Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Several ministers immediately threw their gratitude to Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian decided to ignore these people, and the focus of these people was too much. This poetry conference for the selection of talents for the country is about to begin. Outcome... Hey, let's not talk about it.

Li Chengqian looked at the players' seat. At this point, it should have been a little over seven. However, almost all the prepared positions are almost sitting.

Li Chengqian had to admire this spirit of the ancients, and if it were Li Chengqian, Li Chengqian would definitely not have gotten up so early. Moreover, Li Chengqian really felt that it was not good to be an official in the DPRK, not only restricting his freedom, but also having to be frightened every day. After all, accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, and if the emperor is a little unhappy, you will have to fall to the ground.

However, the ancients knew that accompanying the king was like accompanying the tiger, but they still wanted to be officials in the court one after another.

After another half an hour, it was almost eight o'clock. Li Chengqian glanced at it, and the seats were already seated. Just as he was about to announce the beginning of the poetry conference, the voice of a eunuch came out.

"The emperor has arrived."

As soon as the eunuch's voice fell, he saw Li Shimin appear in front of the gate of Daming Palace. Dressed in a dragon robe, Li Shimin is particularly majestic.

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live." Everyone present, including Li Chengqian, immediately knelt down and shouted the moment they saw Li Shimin.

The voices of more than 10,000 people are like a sea of mountains. shocked Li Chengqian's heart, this may be the reason why everyone is quite emperor.

Indeed, as Li Chengqian thought. As soon as he heard this voice, Li Shimin was immediately intoxicated.

This sound is so beautiful.

"Flat." After a long time, Li Shimin came back to his senses, chuckled, and raised his hands flat.

"Your Majesty." Everyone immediately chanted again.

"I declare the tournament officially open. Ask our chief judge to read out the rules of the poetry competition. Li Shimin said loudly.

"Yes." Li Chengqian immediately responded.

"The main purpose of this poetry conference is to select talents for my Datang. The poetry conference will be divided into two rounds, and each round will have 10 minutes to write your own poems on the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone provided by us. Then, it's up to our judges to score it. Those who pass will enter the finals, and those who do not pass will be eliminated. Li Chengqian read out the rules of the poetry conference loudly, but because Li Chengqian's voice was not loud, all the eunuchs present had to repeat it.

"These are our deputy judges, they are..."Li Chengqian finished introducing the four ministers one by one. After the introduction, Li Chengqian felt as if something was missing, and after thinking about it carefully, Li Chengqian continued.

"Regardless of whether you pass it or not, you can eat the lunch made by the chef of Prince Restaurant for free."

"Okay." Li Chengqian's words immediately aroused everyone's favor.

The dishes of the Prince Restaurant are not something that everyone can eat, and the Prince Restaurant has been passed on so well for a while that those who have no money to go to the Prince Restaurant are fascinated. It's great to be able to eat it for free.

Li Chengqian felt that he had a very good grasp of the timing of his wave of advertising insertion.

Many of the literati who came to participate in the poetry conference were not from Chang'an. Then, once you feel that the food in the Prince Restaurant is delicious, you will definitely publicize it for Li Chengqian when you go back. This is equivalent to indirectly opening up the national market for Li Chengqian. It laid the foundation for Li Chengqian's future national chain stores.

Of course, even if there is a foundation, at the beginning of the opening of every Prince Restaurant, Li Chengqian will hold an opening event. After all, this is a good opportunity for losers.

"Oh, there's still this perk?" Li Shimin sat on his dragon chair and muttered softly.

Yesterday's meal was the best meal Li Shimin thought he had eaten. That taste, Li Shimin can taste it for a long time.

But because it is the emperor, all kinds of twists and turns need to be corrected by Li Shimin, so Li Shimin can't eat every meal.

Li Shimin thought that he could only wait until there was not much to do in the future, so that he could occasionally take the queen to eat. As a result, I was able to eat it again today after eating it yesterday, and this feeling is really, great.

Li Shimin felt that Li Chengqian's decision was very good and worthy of strong support. Li Shimin thought in his heart, should there be any activities in the future, and he had to find the chef of the Prince Restaurant to be in charge.

Good night everyone.