Chapter 18 The Best Seafood

"Anyway, put the cannon on the battleship as soon as possible, I'm going to take it this time." Li Zhen said: "Speaking of warships, how many warships has the shipyard produced now?" Are there ten of them? ”

The reason why he asked so little is because the Dengzhou shipyard was built by him five years ago, and it was completed three years ago, and in order to train craftsmen, the shipyard did not directly build warships at the beginning, but started from small cargo ships, and it was not until a year ago that the fifth-level battleship was successfully built, not to mention that the shipyard has other production tasks, Li Zhen estimates that it would be good to have ten warships at this time.

"Your Highness, you underestimate our shipyard too much." Liu Renliang said with a smile: "Your Highness doesn't know, although the shipyard business is booming, but we use the three-shift working method you said, Your Highness, so don't look at us busy, in fact, there are already fifteen fifth-level battleships in the shipyard now, if Your Highness can come a month late, our first fourth-level battleship can also be produced." ”

"So much?" Li Zhen was taken aback: "There won't be a problem with the quality, right?" ”

"Your Highness, you're going too far to say that." Liu Renliang pretended to be very hurt, and said aggrievedly: "Who doesn't know that our Dengzhou Shipyard is the most famous shipyard in the whole Tang Dynasty, integrating military technology, and the quality is definitely the first in the world, even the people in Jiangnan are using the ships built by our shipyard - even civilian ships have such a good reputation, not to mention warships, Your Highness, you really hurt the hearts of your subordinates." ”

"Poof~ Okay, don't be weird, as long as the quality is okay." Li Zhen really didn't expect Liu Renliang to have such a funny side, and suddenly squirted.

Liu Renliang also put away his funny smile and said solemnly: "Yes, but Your Highness, our ship is really good, we have done all kinds of tests, and we have wasted three warships for this, and the quality is absolutely guaranteed." ”

"That's very good." Li Zhen said with satisfaction: "Everyone has worked hard, and after this matter is over, you can reward each of them with ten yuan on my behalf." ”

"Then the subordinates will act as the masters, thank you, Your Highness."

"Hahaha"

"Your Highness, the seafood has been bought." Just as the two were talking, Xue Rengui came in and said, "What should I do next?" ”

"Are you back already?" Li Zhen's expression perked up, regardless of his prestige, he rolled up his sleeves and said: "You guys are blessed, this time this king personally took action to let you taste the charm of real seafood." ”

"Your Highness, do you want to cook yourself?" Liu Renliang said with a strange expression, it's not that the gentleman cooks far away or something, when he was in Chang'an before, Li Zhen would take them to the picnic by himself, and he had long been used to it, what really made him strange was: "There are thousands of people this time, can you be busy alone, Your Highness?" ”

"What thousands? Including the people in the shipyard, there must be more than 10,000 people, right? Li Zhen said: "This king has this dinner tonight, but he is going to have a good relationship with the masters of the shipyard, you, the factory director, will not give them a holiday, right?" ”

"Huh? Wouldn't that be even more impossible? Liu Renliang looked at Li Zhen up and down: "10,000 people, even if one person has one bite, when everyone finishes eating, it should be tomorrow morning, right?" ”

"Who said I was alone?" Li Zhen said strangely: "There are so many cooks in the shipyard, don't all the men in my army know how to cook?" Seafood is not difficult to make, as long as I give a little guidance, as long as it is a person who can cook, you can make it, you can rest assured. ”

"So that's the case, and my subordinates thought that His Highness was going to do it himself."

"When did your IQ become so impressive? It's impossible to think about. Li Zhen looked at Liu Renliang like an idiot: "I serve more than 10,000 people alone, so I can't be tired to death?" But I don't blame you, it's me who didn't make it clear. ”

"It's a subordinate who misunderstood." Liu Renliang said embarrassedly.

"Okay, Your Highness, we're all waiting for you, let's talk while we go." Xue Rengui urged: "Isn't the seafood to be eaten fresh?" If you drag it out like this, the seafood won't be fresh. ”

"Oh yes, I forgot if you didn't remind me." Li Zhen woke up and patted her head.

"Your Highness, what are you going to do with this seafood?" As soon as he returned to the station, Linglong greeted him, pointed to a basket, and the sea crabs in it were crawling all over the ground, and said with a bitter face: "Your Highness, have you ever taught the slave maid to make seafood, ask other masters, they can't tell why, you have to help the slave maid." ”

"Those are ordinary cooks, of course I can't say why, this time the king will personally guide you." Li Zhen said with a smile, the catering industry before the Tang Dynasty was extremely underdeveloped, if it weren't for Li Zhen, there would not even be stir-fried vegetables now, at this time there are only a few limited cooking methods, the most used is boiling, and then it is baked, only steamed buns and other foods can enjoy the treatment of steaming. In addition to these three common methods, there is also a way to eat it raw, that is, it is guan, which refers to finely chopped meat, such as sashimi (it is said that this technology was transmitted from China to small Japan, this thing is very popular in Japan, but it is not popular in China, because the meat contains parasites, and it is easy to get sick if you eat it, such as Chen Deng in the Three Kingdoms period, it is said that he died of parasites when he ate sashimi), but it is not widely spread. So although the seafood at this time is fresh, don't think about how good it tastes, at most it's just a fresh meal.

"It's easy, you just follow me." Li Zhen took out a lobster casually and dealt with it casually, saying that the lobster at this time was really fat, and if she took one casually, she would have the thickness of her own arm. And the basket over there, if I'm not mistaken, it should be abalone, right? And they are all the best abalone-**, this ancient man is really luxurious, who has ever seen a abalone in a basket in later generations? It's a treasure that money can't buy, and if this basket of abalone can be transported to future generations, you won't have to worry about it for a lifetime.

"Your Highness, why are you drooling?" Linglong was following Li Zhen to learn, and suddenly noticed that the corners of Li Zhen's mouth were actually shiny, and immediately asked with a smile.

"Huh? Where? Li Zhen naturally knew her embarrassment, but she still said stiffly: "Sister Linglong, you misunderstood, this is the water that I splashed on my mouth when I was handling the shrimp just now, you are wrong." ”

"Yes, yes, it's the slave who misunderstood the sea water for His Highness's saliva." Linglong has been following Li Zhen for more than ten years, where is it still unclear what kind of character Li Zhen is? As soon as she meets something delicious, she can't help but drool, and this is not the first time she has seen this situation.

"What I said is true." Li Zhen was almost embarrassed: "No, look at it, there is a lot of water on this shrimp." ”

"Your Highness, this shrimp has been drained before we sent it, where did the water come from?" Fang Yiai suddenly jumped over and asked, "Isn't it that profiteer who poured water into the shrimp's stomach in advance in order to make money?" What a profiteer, I'll take someone to smash his stall tomorrow. ”

"Poof~" Linglong's eyes smiled into a slit, and regardless of the fishy smell on his hands, he covered his mouth and smiled: "This is not what the slave said, but I can let His Highness make such a look, I think this seafood taste should be the top in the world, after all, Your Highness, you are famous for picking your mouth, giggles"

"Shut up." Li Zhen glared at Fang Yiai, this guy, he is everywhere like this?

"Oh, I'll just shut up." Fang Yiai, who didn't know where he was wrong, closed his mouth inexplicably: "Then you can talk, and your subordinates will go over there and take a look." ”

"Really, this guy is a mess."

"Giggles," Linglong continued to laugh as she continued to laugh.