ps: For all the accusations that Wumei is Liu Lingfan, Wumei is firmly opposed! Liu Ling is an important person, but it means that she must be Cao Shi's harem, how can this woman be so easy to provoke. Today is 2 more than 10,000 words, and the second one will be sent at 18 o'clock in the evening, begging for subscriptions, asking for monthly passes!

When leaving Weiyang Palace, the sun hung crookedly in the western sky.

Before he knew it, he had stayed in the palace for two hours, and at this time he only felt the thunder rolling in his mouth and hungry.

Boarding the carriage to see that the sun was past noon, and he had to get something to eat before returning to Shaofu to continue handling government affairs, so he drove the carriage straight to the wine shop in Dongshi, no matter what, it was the right thing to fill his stomach first.

In the process of rebuilding Chang'an City, the east and west cities were also pushed down and rebuilt, all the flammable civil buildings were replaced with sturdy and durable masonry structures, the rammed earth platform in front of the original human market also became stone steps, merchants from all over the world gathered in front of the human market to see slaves, and the hawkers shouted to sell their own goods.

The three-storey restaurant in the east market has also been demolished and rebuilt, as a catering service restaurant can use a three-storey building, which can crown most of the buildings in Chang'an, the pattern of the new restaurant is roughly the same as before, the owner behind the investment slightly expanded a circle, the patio in the middle of the open space originally opened a big hole to the sky, and now it has become a patio with a roof, so that when the rainy season comes, the restaurant will not appear too damp.

Cao Shi didn't inquire about the background of the owner of the wine shop, but vaguely knew that the background of the wine shop was not simple. Many of the princes have a close relationship with the wine shop, and the service of the wine shop is outstanding in this era, not only investing heavily in the interior decoration. The women who came and went to serve were all thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls, with big palms, delicate faces, beautiful clothes, very moving, and even more rare, with bulging chests and quite a figure, this thought and means were by no means comparable to ordinary people.

According to his observations, the objects served in the wine shop were at least the wealthy merchants who came and went to Beijing, and it was not uncommon for Gao Jue and Baiguan to haunt from time to time when they went up, and Cao Shi met a few Shangqing colleagues here. Visually, except for Wei Juan and Zhi Budo, who didn't come much, Jiuqing had all appeared in this restaurant. Ordinary Guizhou civilians can't see a single figure at all, and there are probably certain identity restrictions in the wine shop.

"Pingyang Hou has worked hard, and he has only found time to eat until now."

"Pingyang Hou is in charge of Shaofu, I don't know how the racecourse in the south of the city is built? Can the grain be supported? There are 30,000 stone of grain stored here, and they are allowed to be supported by Shaofu. The price is negotiable, and I just want to have a good relationship with Shaofu......"

"Hey, I said brother! Listening to your accent, Huai came to Beijing, and I don't know that the rules of Shaofu are to usher in the matter of sending to a qiē without talking, not to mention that you have 30,000 stone of grain for free, even 300,000 stone do not want to enter the door of Shaofu, the noble family is the paper of the Son of Heaven, and you use your grain to do things? ”

Suddenly, a playful laugh came, and Cao Shi smiled slightly and greeted the merchants who were distributed left and right. Those few people excitedly returned the salute, as long as his carriage left the gate of Shaofu, he would meet similar merchants, and there were the most people who asked for inclusion and attachment. The second is the people who come to form good relationships under various banners, and they also know with their toes that the merchants will not do unprofitable things, and he will hold many royal properties in his hands, and he will inevitably be targeted by those rentiers.

Since Cao Shichuang started many new kitchen utensils, the method of preparing new dishes has gradually flowed into Chang'an. In just one year, they have raised a lot of food-loving gourmets, and they have summed up the fried and roasted, stir-fried, boiled, steamed, stewed, stir-fried, stir-fried, marinated, drunk, roasted, smoked. These 28 cooking methods, and claim that the 28 methods of Pingyang Houfu are authentic in the world, and the Shangshi Palace of Weiyang Changle and the two palaces specially sent people to Pingyang Houfu to learn cooking skills.

It is rumored that there is a nose and eyes, as if he saw it with his own eyes, if it weren't for Cao Shi, as a party concerned, he knew that this matter was nothing, and maybe he would really believe that there was this one if he changed his identity, as far as he knew, the imperial chef in the palace did not go to the Pingyang Hou Mansion to ask for cooking skills, but the imperial dishes in the palace are indeed constantly improving to the banquet of the Pingyang Hou Mansion, probably the prince Liu Che used a few meals in the Hou Mansion, so he returned to the palace and praised the exquisite and delicious dishes of the Hou Mansion, so that the group of imperial chefs with high eyes moved to change the genre.

The situation of this wine shop is similar, the wine and dishes in the store are completely modeled after the specifications of the Pingyang Hou Mansion, only he saw that there are 36 kinds of big dishes, 108 kinds of small dishes, 28 kinds of soups, and marinated dishes are not counted, and the richness of the dishes is almost up to the standard of thousands of years later, Cao Shi also has to admit that the wisdom of the ancients cannot be underestimated, but he is limited by his vision and cannot see farther.

The most surprising thing is that the dishes made by the wine shop have changed somewhat, and gradually groped out their own flavor, the most expensive dishes are all directly related to desserts, Cao Shi knows that there is no white sugar in this year, not even brown sugar, only the kind of virgin brown sugar, the Han region does not produce brown sugar, but from Magadha (India) thousands of miles away after several twists and turns, the name of brown sugar at this time is stone honey.

As its name suggests, the stone honey is as it is squeezed and exposed to the scorching sun of the second largest in South Asia, becoming viscous and hard until it is as hard as iron stone, and then packaged and transported to Chang'an, thousands of miles away, the price of stone honey in the two cities of Chang'an is comparable to gold, and the merchants have also summed up a method of identifying the quality, the lighter the color of the stone honey, the higher the price, and the worst condition of the black and red is equal to the same weight of gold.

As for the brown-red, red, orange-red and other different color differences of the price of stone honey will continue to rise, there are several shops in Chang'an City on the red and yellow stone honey as the treasure of the town store, Cao Shi went to see the guy's block, a piece of orange-red stone honey weighs more than 20 catties, there is no 3,000 gold do not want to buy it.

According to the rumors of the merchants, the best stone honey in the legend is light yellow, a beautiful color like a natural salt block, so that a piece of stone honey is a treasure that is not easy to gold even if it weighs only a few catties, if there is a large block of twenty catties is enough to make all the merchants fall into madness. I heard that there was once a great Ashoka in Magadha, who held countless gold, silver and jewels in his hands, the most precious of which were two pieces of pale yellow stone honey. And each piece weighed sixty pounds, and many merchants dreamed of going to Magadha to have a look.

It's a pity that Magadha is far away in the sky, and the merchants have no ability to pass through the river of greedy saliva, not to mention the mountains and the dense forests where the miasma is rampant, and don't care about those hateful Southwest Yi who are good at robbing caravans, and never tell you any truth about peaceful transactions.

From Chang'an, go south and cross the Qinling Mountains. To the south of Hanzhong County, there will be hordes of jackals, tigers and leopards, and experienced caravans and hunters should not be afraid. Jackals, tigers and leopards are afraid of the firelight and dare not approach, which is relatively easy to deal with.

There are even more terrible herds of elephants and rhinos, which go on a rampage and do not care about anything, and the ordinary bows and arrows of self-defense in the caravans cannot hurt them at all. Scaring them will also cause an unpredictable state of madness, which is a nightmare for all merchants.

Even in the Han Empire, the merchants were the main source of troops for the formidable Prisoner Legion, but they were still a little overwhelmed by the elephant herds and rhinoceros herds.

Under the Qin and Han Dynasty legal decree system, it was stipulated that the merchants were those who had city registration and practiced cheap business, and in the early Han Dynasty, the seven branches of the generals almost covered the city registration, and no matter how rich the merchants were, there was no one to restrain them except for the merchants, otherwise as long as they were in their hometowns, they had to live in Luzuo and live with the wanderers, and every time the court conscripted prisoners, they would put the merchants with the city registration and the murderers. Fugitives, drifters, and sons-in-law are counted together as labor prisoners.

This is the famous Legion of Prisoners. It can also be called the Re-education Through Labor Regiment.

This group of businessmen is not a group of businessmen who will make money thousands of years later, they ride horses and shoot arrows to kill wild wolves, drive boats across the water into Baiyue, and are not afraid to cross mountains and mountains and wade through rivers under the attraction of profits, as long as there are 300% profits to seduce them, they dare to risk their lives desperately.

The merchant formed a corps of prisoners, and the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. It can be seen that Zhang Han's army of prisoners wiped out Chen Sheng's rebel army, killed Xiang Liang and forced Xiang Yu to break the cauldron and sink the boat. If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Han's army of prisoners had no food and grass and sent Sima Xin to Guanzhong to ask for help, and was almost killed by Zhao Gao, the second and fifth boys, and the army collapsed without food, the great Western Chu overlord Xiang Yu would probably die in the battle of the giant deer, just like his uncle Xiang Liang died.

Even such a strong merchant could not kill through the southwest and rush to the Magadha Kingdom on the other side of the sun, which shows how difficult it is to trade with the Magadha Kingdom.

Cao Shi's dinner plate has a few exquisite dishes using authentic stone honey, a plate of sweet and sour pork ribs is priced at five hundred yuan, if it weren't for the fact that the early Han Dynasty went up to the nobility and down to the common people were not popular to eat pork at all, he really thought that he was eating the best pork cultivated through some special channels, the profit of this dish is not counted, the biggest cost is in the stone honey, as for the cost of pork, it is less than a few pennies.

"It's dark! I knew it was better to use honey. The corners of Cao Shi's mouth twitched, regretting that he had ordered a plate of sky-high dishes with curiosity for a while.

You must know that the copper money in the early Han Dynasty is very valuable, a cow is fat and strong according to age, the worst is worth 15oo money and the most expensive is 4ooo money, a sheep is the cheapest 1ooo money, the most expensive 3ooo money, people don't eat pork so pigs can't be sold at a high price, a pig is worth between 5o money and 1oo money, 5oo money can buy five adult fat pigs, and the dishes are enough for hundreds of people to eat at the same time.

A few other delicate side dishes are relatively cheap, and all of them add up to nearly fifty dollars.

If you order the food yourself, you have to finish it no matter how much you regret it.

After eating lunch with a painful face, the beautiful little maid refused when paying the bill: "The guest does not need to pay the bill, the owner ordered the guest to be exempted." ”

"Free order? I didn't expect this good thing to befall me. Cao Shi thought about it a little and understood that the owner must have something to ask for.

The little maid smiled and said, "The owner said that you are a guest of the wine shop, and in the future, all the guests who dine in the wine shop will be free of charge, no matter how many dishes you order, you will always be free of charge." ”

This hand can bluff Cao Shi not lightly, this wine shop is not his own self-operated store, what to talk about free orders and add a forever is a big trouble, the great favor is in front of him, even he is a little confused about the other party's intentions, his eyes rolled and smiled: "Could it be that this wine shop makes too much money, let me break the money for you?" That's not quite right, is it? I don't even know your host, so I'm a little afraid to take such a free order! ”

"In the whole world, except for the prince in the palace, only the prince is qualified to take it." A crisp and nice voice came from outside the door.

The voice sounded very familiar, I saw the door open and come a fourteen or fifteen-year-old woman in palace clothes, her bun showed that she was still in her current state and was not married, and the faint pink makeup on her face could not hide her natural beauty, like a gorgeous rose blooming at once, the mountain peaks on her chest were tall and showed a good figure, and her gorgeous clothes implied that her identity was extremely noble.

"You ......"

"I haven't seen the prince for a few days, can't you remember the concubine? Or the posture of the concubine Pu Liu cannot enter the eyes of the prince. The woman's eyes were filled with tears and her expression was sad.

The cold sweat on Cao Shi's head was about to break out, and she suddenly remembered that there was such a one-sided woman, but what does it mean to be here today? It seems that this woman is not good and not easy to get along with.

He is not stupid, at least he knows how to go to the Three Treasures Hall without anything, and he is not a traitor or a thief, although this woman is very beautiful, but the charm between her eyebrows and eyes is not like a good person, and she hurriedly said: "Don't talk nonsense, I only had a relationship with the owner when I was passing by in the car, and I didn't know the identity of the owner at that time." ”

"Hehe, the prince's reaction was so fast, the concubine guessed it with just a little hint."

The woman waved her hand to rebuke the little maid, pulled the futon and sat down next to Cao Shi, a strong fragrant wind blew over, Cao Shi is not a decent gentleman, but he is not a wronged head who was coaxed casually, this woman is not a good person, he didn't dare to get close to her, and hurriedly moved his ass to distance himself.

Cao Shi coughed lightly and said: "I don't know the owner, I have no relationship in the past, and I don't even know the owner's name, I really don't understand why the owner wants to exempt me?" If the owner's reasons are not sufficient, I will pay for the meal as usual, and whether to come back to the wine store in the future is still a between. ”

I solemnly warn you, don't play tricks with me, don't blame me for pulling down my face if I can't make any sense.

Even if you say a few truths, it's useless, I have to pay for this meal, and your tricks are useless to me.

The woman also understood, and said softly with a smile: "The prince wants to know the name of the concubine, so he said directly, the concubine's surname is Liu, and the word is a mausoleum, and her father is Liu An, the king of Huainan." ”

"What? You turned out to be Liu Ling, the princess of Huainan! ”

Cao Shi's eyes were about to bulge out, he jumped up as if he was burning his buttocks, and fled as if he threw down a handful of copper coins.

Liu Ling looked at the distant figure in astonishment, and suddenly laughed loudly: "Interesting! I've seen a lot of men who have met me with weak legs, and the first time I met a man who ran away when I met me, am I so hideous and terrible? Or are you afraid of my identity? It's so much fun! You have piqued my interest, and I will take you down at any cost! ”

Cao Shi ran fast, remembering that he had a little thought about this woman a few days ago, and now he regrets it and really wants to slap himself.

I didn't expect that the Dongsi Restaurant, which had come to eat several times, turned out to be one of the private properties of Liu An, the king of Huainan, the courage of the princes and kings is not ordinary, and it seems that there are really a few princes who don't know whether to live or die and hook up with the king of Huainan, this is doing death!

If he had known the identity of this woman, he would not have dared to give birth to the slightest idea of killing him.

"I want to live a long life, and I will not die!" Cao Shi decided to avoid this wine shop in Dongshi in the future, and he would never come here to eat if someone invited him. (To be continued)

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