Chapter 16: Apprenticeship I
Li Bao pondered for a long time and didn't figure out why Yang Gongqing was so weak. simply put it aside, handed over the items to Yang Siqi, and then asked Hu Sanbao to see him off.
Li Bao and Ling'er's master and servant smirked at the treasures in the room. Hu Sanbao turned around and saw the appearance of the two of them and joined them, so the three masters and servants were stupidly happy for a long time. Later, Li Bao finally came back to his senses, woke up Ling'er and Hu Sanbao, and said to the two of them: "We are all a little tired today, so we are resting just now, understand!" ”
Looking at Ling'er and Hu Sanbao's confused expressions, he continued: We have lived a very hard life in the past few years, so when we see so many good things today, it is inevitable that we will behave like a rich man in the countryside. Treat these possessions as treasures, and then we will only hold back. This money is just a small amount of money, and now it is just the beginning, we will have more good things and more money in the future, and we must have a high vision. And don't spread the word about today, or we'll lose our faces, you know? The two promised yes.
Many years later, Cui Ling'er, who was the princess of the Super Empire, would always think of that day, when she and Liulang smiled at the mere three thousand yuan.
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Li Bao ordered the palace people to put all their belongings into the treasury, and the four treasures of the study room were placed in calligraphy, and all the face fat and bath beans were given to Ling'er, and the girls loved to be clean. When Ling'er took the fat and bath beans from Li Bao's hand, her heart was very sweet, these things can only be used by nobles, but Lang Jun gave them all to himself. I made up my mind that I would take care of Lang Jun more wholeheartedly and protect Lang Jun in the future.
Everyone in the hall was busy for a long time and finally sorted out all kinds of belongings, and Li Bao asked Ling'er to take the account books of the registered items and look at them. This account book was written by Ling'er, after Ling'er arrived at Li Bao's side, Li Bao would teach her to read and count when she was fine, and after Aunt Liang left, Li Bao handed over the power of money and food in the Jinluan Palace to her.
Ling'er recorded in great detail, and later summarized the various money and things, including: 3,500 pieces of money, 50 silk horses, a celebrity calligraphy and painting, and a small character behind it is indicated that the calligraphy is Liu Gongquan, and the painting is Wu Daozi. Two pieces of mutton fat jade, a set of royal Dingzhou white porcelain, two animal head agate quilts, a large plate of flowing gold hairpins, a pair of poisonous chopsticks, and a number of jade gems.
And on the account book, Li Bao roughly calculated, he can use a total of 3,550 yuan, because the Tang Dynasty circulation of copper coins is insufficient, so silk and copper coins are universal, a horse silk silk to the same money. In addition, Wu Daozi's paintings and Liu Gongquan's calligraphy can be worth thousands of dollars. The rest of the calculations are also about 2,000. Coupled with the two hundred and twenty yuan that he had saved before, his total property basically came out, about six thousand seven hundred and seventy yuan.
Such a sum of money, if it is for an ordinary family, it may be a huge amount of money, but for what Li Bao will do, it is not too much, from now until the four years after Xi Zong ascended the throne will be the last period of peace in Chang'an City, Li Bao decided to quickly accumulate his capital during this period of time, in order to cope with the upcoming late Tang Dynasty ends.
Li Bao put away the account books and asked Hu Sanbao to call all the palace people to the courtyard of the palace, and then Li Bao wanted to reward them, which was promised to the palace people in the palace a few days ago, and it must be honored, which is related to Li Bao's credit and control over the palace people.
There are a total of thirty-four people in all the palace people in the Jinluan Palace, Ling'er and Hu Sanbao are the waiters, and Zheng Ah Li is the cook, these three people have contributed a lot to making cakes. The rest of the palace people assisted meritorious, and each person received a reward consistently.
Everyone's bonus was hand-distributed by Li Bao, and Li Bao did not forget to communicate with them when he issued the bonus, saying some warm words such as whether he was warm and full of food. From the means of buying people's hearts learned from the online articles seen in later generations, Li Bao tried his hand at it, and he felt good. Every palace person in the palace respects Li Bao from the heart.
After the reward was distributed, Li Bao also specially announced that today's lunch meal will be filled with meat, and everyone can also drink some wine. Everyone was even more happy and expressed their loyalty to Li Bao, and Li Bao was also very excited. I am happy to see that I finally have some foundation in this dangerous court.
After pacifying everyone in the palace, Li Bao looked at the sky and it was not too early, and waved his hand to let the palace people disperse and do their jobs. Leaving Ling'er and the other three, "Now that I have just won the favor of the official family, I must strike while the iron is hot, I plan to continue to offer food to the official family during this time, so this matter will fall on Aunt Li." Over the years, I've made dozens of dishes. I think you've learned a lot too. Do you have any of these dishes to work out well? ”
"Lang Jun is talented, these dishes that the slave family has learned from Lang Jun over the years are all delicacies that I have never had in Datang, and the ingredients are easy to obtain and do not cost much. In particular, the dish of braised pork is fatty but not greasy, and the entrance is long. The slave family is the best, and there are more than a dozen others that are better. Immediately, Zheng Ah Li reported the dishes he was good at to Li Bao.
"So very good, from today onwards, you start to take the apprentice in the kitchen, first teach the dozens of dishes I have made first, and the dishes made by the apprentice will be used as the daily meals of the people in our palace, and if they don't do well, they will definitely be ridiculed by others, so that they can also increase their motivation to learn, and if they really don't do well, they will be thrown out." Can't let the palace people in our palace eat bad stomachs, understand?
There are also apprentices who want to bring a few more, so let's bring six first. These apprentices should teach with all their heart, I have a lot of use, Aunt Li, you teach one well, I will reward you with a hundred dollars. If you teach all six of you, I'll give you six hundred dollars. When Zheng Ah Li heard this, she almost fainted, six hundred times, she had never seen so much money in her life, so she hurriedly agreed.
Then Li Bao turned to Ling'er and said: "The palace people who originally arranged to work in the kitchen are given priority to be selected as Aunt Li's apprentices, and the palace people who do other errands in the palace are selected to send a few more to the kitchen." Li Bao arranged it, and Zheng Ah Li and Ling'er both nodded and agreed.
"Today, Aunt Li will first make four dishes of braised pork, kung pao chicken, fish-flavored shredded pork, and Buddha jumping over the wall, and I will go to the official's house to offer it in the evening, okay, Aunt Li will go back to the kitchen to prepare."
Li Bao arranged for everything, and wanted to go back to the study to rest for a while, but someone from the palace came to report, and the inner servant province came to report, Li Bao wondered why someone came again, but he couldn't turn him away, and told Hu Sanbao to go outside to greet him.
The person who came was Wu Qicheng, a eunuch who was in charge of the daily procurement of the Jinluan Palace, and Li Bao immediately greeted him with a smile when he saw it, and said in his mouth: "Rare guests, Wu Caimai has not been here for a long time." I really miss the demeanor of Lieutenant Envoy Wu. ”
"Lang Jun Wan'an, I heard that Lang Jun was a blockbuster in the Lin De Hall yesterday, and the deep official family was happy, and he came to visit rashly today, and he came to Lang Jun here to ask for a bowl of tea to drink, I don't know if Lang Jun welcomes it?"
"Where, Wu Zhong's envoy is willing to come to the Jinluan Palace, and there is only joy in his heart, how can he not welcome it. Please sit down and serve tea." The guests and hosts sat down, Li Bao and Wu Qicheng chatted casually, and after drinking tea and greetings. "What is Envoy Wu doing today?"
"There are two things to do here, one is that the supervisor of the Inner Servant Province, Ximen Envoy Jun, let the Governor come down to pass the word, and plan to pay homage to Lang Jun in three days, and Zhang Situ will be arranged to come to the palace at that time."
"Oh, can't the apprenticeship be carried out at Zhang Situ's mansion outside the palace?" Li Bao planned to take advantage of the time to worship the teacher and go to Chang'an City to see it. It's been ten years since I came to Datang, and I have been in the palace all day long, which is really boring.
"This lowly person can't be the master, unless there is an official decree. Otherwise, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will not arrange it. ”
"Oh, even so, don't be embarrassed Wu Cai bought it, Lieutenant Envoy Wu said that there are two things here, this second thing......"
Li Bao saw that this was going to be a secret meeting for his brothers, and immediately waved his hand to let Hu Sanbao and Ling'er and other palace people retreat first, "Envoy Wu has something to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it, now there are only you and me in the hall, and I will definitely not let outsiders know." ”
Wu Qicheng looked at Li Bao and was a little puzzled in his heart, is this Liulangjun really just a ten-year-old child, how can he act and speak so sophisticated? But now is not the time to pay attention to these thoughts. He cleared his throat and said: "The Southern Courtyard of Xuanhui Yuan made Wu Yuanjun a lowly father-in-law, and his father-in-law asked him to come down and give Lang Jun a word, and the people in the palace are complicated, I hope to be close to Lang Jun." ”
Then Wu Qicheng told Li Bao what happened in Xuanhui Courtyard last night, and said that when Wu Yipin persuaded Yang Gongqing, he deliberately added a heavy tone, for fear that Li Bao would not understand.
As soon as Li Bao heard it, he understood the problem that he couldn't figure out in the morning, and it turned out that someone was secretly helping. This Wu Yipin is not simple, he saw that I was playing Yang Gongqing last night, so he immediately sent someone to deliver a message of friendship to me.
It can be seen that the Xuanhui Yuan is not monolithic, and these big eunuchs are also fighting for power and profit, and they are not fighting. But he was very cunning, and did not come in person, and assigned a righteous son to pass the message. If I lose the favor of my father Li Yi in the future, this guy will definitely not mention anything close to me again. This Wu Yipin is a typical "wall grass". However, in my current situation, I can unite some allies, no matter what the purpose, I can help at this stage, and there is no reason not to accept it.
"Oh, I didn't expect Wu Envoy Jun to attach so much importance to Bao, and I was very happy in my heart, and I also asked Envoy Wu to treat me to express my gratitude to Wu Envoy. Now that it's noon, please stay and have lunch with Bao before leaving. ”
When Wu Qicheng heard it, he couldn't ask for it, the food in Li Bao's palace was delicious, and Li Bao had invited him to eat a few times when he begged him to get some private goods in the past, but he was a prince, he was not too persecutive, and he came to the door almost noon today.
Li Bao instructed Ling'er to pass the meal, because there were outsiders, Ling'er Hu Sanbao could not be served. So Li Bao accompanied Wu Qicheng to dinner. Li Bao is young, and he can't drink, Wu Qicheng is so polite, drinking wine and eating meat, so happy! At the banquet, Li Bao asked Wu Qicheng to help him get more ingredients and materials, and Wu Qicheng agreed.
Wu Qicheng was full of wine and food, and left satisfied, and before leaving, Li Bao sent two more boxes of pastries and asked him to bring Wu Yipin to express his gratitude.
Li Bao sent Wu Qicheng away and returned to the palace. Looking at the direction of Xianning Palace, since the rules in the palace cannot go outside the palace. If you want to get out of the palace, you can only find a way from your father Li Yi.
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