My harem can't be this messy

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There are so many people inside, even if Miss Huang gets angry, it's not easy to do it to herself, isn't she?Inviting Miss Huang in, Li Zhi hurriedly asked someone to serve tea.

"Ninth brother, I heard that Huailiang went to work in Anxi because you mentioned it?"

"Ah, this matter, this matter was asked by the emperor, who was suitable, and I mentioned the son-in-law. I didn't expect the emperor and several ministers to finally order the son-in-law to go. In fact, the emperor decided to go Yes, it has nothing to do with this palace."

"Don't worry, Miss Huang is not angry. In fact, Miss Huang has long wanted to visit various places, and the son-in-law doesn't like staying in Chang'an very much. This time it's better, and I can stay away from Chang'an."

"Miss Huang really thinks so?"

"Sister Huang can still lie to you, Ninth Brother, do you remember the time when the son-in-law was punished? It was because the sister-in-law chased the son-in-law and ran to the northern border. At that time, she ran to the Great Wall."

"Sister Huang likes to travel so much, so that's the best. The Western Region is a good place, and it is a place that must be passed on the Silk Road. Once Huang Jie and the son-in-law go there, they can enjoy the beautiful scenery and delicious food there."

"Well, Miss Huang has already inquired. When we get there, we will definitely go around the Kongque River and Lop Nur with Huai Liang."

"Sister Huang, when you get there, you have to watch out for the son-in-law."

"How did you say that?"

"There are many beauties in the Western Regions. When the son-in-law arrives there, he will be promoted to the governor soon. Some people want to curry favor with him. Be careful that others will send a lot of beauties to the guardian."

"Don't worry, Huai Liang is not your temperament, he can't even walk when he sees a beauty."

Li Zhi smiled, not much to say, let's see, let the son-in-law go to Anxi, everyone is happy!

Li Zhi personally sent Princess Qinghe away from Wanchun Palace, and arrived at the gate of Wanchun Palace. Princess Qinghe stood there, watching Li Zhi carefully.

"Sister Huang, what's the matter, is there something on Ben Gong's face?"

"Ninth brother, I don't know when I will be back when I go to Anxi this time. There are not many people who miss Huangjie in Chang'an, but I always feel a little uncomfortable thinking that I will not see my father and you for a long time."

Princess Qinghe said, she stretched her arms, hugged Li Zhi, pressed her forehead on Li Zhi's shoulder, and couldn't help crying.

"Sister Huang is not sad. Although Anxi is far away, we can still see each other again. When the weather gets warmer, maybe I will go to see Sister Huang and her son-in-law."

"Well, you must come. You said it yourself. There are many beauties in the Western Regions."

Li Zhi didn't know what to say, look, this is his sister, her husband can only touch her, but she is trying to find more for her brother.

Women in this world are also strange. They hope that their husband will be single-minded, but they hope that their younger brother or son will be surrounded by wives and concubines.

Such a different treatment, how much suffering for the son-in-law!

After sending off Miss Qinghe, it's time for Li Zhi to take people to the New Year's Eve banquet.

On the way, Li Zhi saw palace people preparing fireworks, which were still scarce in Tang Dynasty.

Since the Qin Dynasty, gunpowder has appeared in China, but the technological tree of gunpowder in China and the West has never been on the same path.

Westerners have always been committed to using gunpowder for military purposes, while the East has always used this thing for firecrackers and firecrackers.

In the Song and Ming dynasties, it was true that gunpowder was pushed to military purposes for a long distance, but they were all slept by foreigners, and the technology tree of gunpowder's military purpose collapsed.

At this moment, Li Zhi sighed as he looked at the prepared fireworks.This thing is used for pyrotechnics. It is too talented to be used for military purposes. In the process of Datang's expansion of territory, how many soldiers of the Tang Dynasty can be saved.

Not to mention anything else, shells fired with gunpowder can destroy any city gate in this era. This function alone can save many soldiers from the Tang Dynasty from being killed in battle, and allow many families to welcome the return of their men.

How many mothers will never lose their sons, how many young women will never lose their husbands, how many children will never lose their fathers.

Li Zhi stood there and looked at it, feeling that Gunpowder's technology tree could no longer be turned into a crooked neck tree in Huaxia.

As for the disaster and pain that gunpowder brought to alien races, does it have anything to do with me?Those who are not of my race must have a different heart, this is what our ancestors have always taught.Li Zhi didn't care how many foreigners died.

Li Zhi walked towards the venue of the New Year's Eve banquet, where the tables had already been set up, and many people were already seated in the venue.

Li Zhi noticed that there was a special area for envoys at the New Year's Eve banquet.

At this time, at the end of the 16th year of Zhenguan, the heyday of the Tang Dynasty has been decided, and there are many envoys, foreign students and monks who come to the Tang Dynasty to worship, study in the Tang Dynasty.

This specially set envoy area is for Wai Guoren to feel the prosperity of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

At this time, many people were already sitting in the envoy area. When the prince passed by, those envoys stood up one after another and bowed to Li Zhi. Li Zhi waved his hand casually, and the envoys dared to sit down.

Most of these envoys are people from the surrounding countries, the far ones are from Persia and Rome, and the near ones are from Japan and the peninsula.In fact, most of them were small countries around the Tang Dynasty. Countries like Tubo and Turks had envoys stationed in Chang'an.

In fact, Li Zhi glanced at the envoy area when he passed by. He originally wanted to find some surprises, but there were not many women in the envoy area, and there were no surprises at all.

"By the way, I heard that there is a daughter country in the west, have you heard of it?"

The envoys shook their heads, and one of the men from the Western Regions came out and bowed to Li Zhi.

"His Royal Highness, the country of daughters is just a legend. If a country only has women, then the country is not far from extinction."

Li Zhi laughed and had already left here. There is a kingdom of daughters in the Tang Dynasty, and that is the harem of the Tang Dynasty.

This is the world of women, and they are selected from all over the country, and there are even women who pay tribute from abroad.

Chapter 521 Banquet

This daughter country exists and serves only one person, that is Emperor Tang.

At this time, Li Zhi had already walked to his position, which was on the left hand side of his father, queen and empress. This was the east side of the venue, the place where the sun rose, which symbolized his identity.In the future, I will be like the rising sun in the east.

Just as Li Zhi sat down, the queen mother had already walked over with her father's hand, and the officials stood up and bowed down to worship, and Li Zhi was no exception.

The sound of shouting long live was endless, Tang Huang waved his hand, and everyone took their seats.

Look, this is the majesty of the king of a country, and Li Zhi is very envious.

Sitting in that position, you can have whatever you want, whether it is wealth, women, land or others, you have everything you want.

"Your Highness, today's dishes are not bad."

"Yeah, Yan'er, come, try this. These are the cucumbers that were just delivered from Lishan Mountain. They were picked this morning and brought here quickly."

"Cucumbers grow in winter?"

Zheng Shuang sat there and asked, obviously in Xingyang, you can't eat green vegetables in winter.In this era, there may be plastic and glass, and naturally there will be no greenhouses.

"Lishan grows there, and there are many hot springs and geothermal heat. Irrigate with hot spring water, and you can eat vegetables in winter."

"You have to taste that Shuang'er!"

Li Zhi picked up a piece of cucumber with his chopsticks and fed it to Zheng Shuang. Several people around him also urged the prince to feed him. These pieces of cucumber were all snatched away.Is this everyone's lady or a female bandit!

It was her own concubine who was a well-behaved princess, who took a piece and put it into the mouth of the prince.

Of course, cucumbers are not the main course of tonight's New Year's Eve banquet. When the shiny and browned roast ducks were brought to the venue, the princes and princesses who had already eaten them made tsk clicks.

Apparently, the roast duck sent by Prince Jin's Mansion made them still remember the taste at this time, and they couldn't forget it.

When the roast duck was delivered to Li Zhi, Li Zhi took a knife and cut a few slices. There was a baked pancake next to it, filled with duck meat and shredded cucumber, and some sweet sauce. Only after such a roll, could the roast duck be eaten later. a feeling of.This sweet sauce was specially made by Li Zhi's chef in Prince Jin's Mansion. It can be said to be the finishing touch to eating roast duck.

Seeing the prince eating like this, several women around followed suit one after another, saying that it was delicious.The surrounding concubines, princes, princesses and ministers also followed suit at this time.

"Ah! I thought the noodles were for satisfying my hunger, but it turns out they are rolled with duck meat and cucumber."

After a while, the duck blood pork came up, some ministers couldn't close their mouths from ear to ear, and some young ladies no longer cared about their daughter's image, and usually smiled without showing their teeth, but now the big white teeth gnawed on the bones, and they gnawed loudly.The side of the small mouth of the cherry is already covered with grease, which is not like a lady of the big family.

"Your Majesty, what kind of meat is this that tastes so good?"

Some ministers were already so greedy that they couldn't bear to ask.There are also a lot of foodies in the Tang Dynasty. There is no way, the Huaxia of later generations is a real foodie country, isn't it just inherited from the ancestors from generation to generation.

"Prince, please explain to the ministers, princes and nobles."

Li Zhi quickly swallowed a piece of pork in his mouth and got up.

"Everyone, this is pork."

"pork!"

Immediately, there was a commotion in the banquet hall that night. Li Zhi saw with his own eyes that several ladies and gentlemen wanted to spit out the meat in their mouths, but in the end they were unwilling.

In Datang, pork is not the meat eaten by the upper classes, but mutton is.As for beef, in the feudal era, it was rare to eat beef. Like the rhetoric of a bottle of soju and two catties of beef in TV movies, it may be that in some eras, one would have to go to the prison to eat for a few days.

Why, cattle are the productivity of this era!It's not that you can't eat it at all, but it's hard to eat.

"Your Highness, are you kidding us that pork can be so delicious?"

"Everyone, how can I joke with you ministers! This is indeed pork. The sows selected for spring feeding are fresh and tender. They have not been raised for a full year, and they grew up eating more omnivores."

After Li Zhi finished speaking, he had already sat down, and there was still a lot of discussion here at the venue.

Pork was served for the first time at the Royal Banquet, and it was clear that the taste of pork had conquered many people's taste buds.

It is obviously not difficult for pork to become popular at the top of the Tang Dynasty in the future.

Li Zhi was eating a pork rib at this time, and this rib meat was the most delicious.

"Your Highness, what is this?"

"That's mutton, Mr. Tang has never eaten mutton, has he?"

"I eat it often, but I always feel that the taste is wrong. It tastes much better than the mutton that I usually eat in Fuchu."

"My lords, when this mutton is made, the mutton is specially removed, so the taste is different from before. If you want to learn it, you can ask the cooks at home to learn it at the Prince Jin's Mansion."

"Oh, I almost forgot, I'm going to live in the East Palace, so my lords will bring people to the East Palace, and I will let the cook of the East Palace teach me."

Li Zhi didn't expect that someone would look for him after the banquet said this, and after the banquet ended that night.

That person was accompanied by Yun Xi, so he probably felt too embarrassed to come to Li Zhi by himself.Girls are always low-faced, but they are all servants in the palace, so they don't have to be so low-faced.

After the two joined hands and left the arena, they were about to rush back to the Prince Jin's mansion. The two bowed to Li Zhi. Li Zhi had already greeted him and helped his elder sister Yunxi to get up.

Looking at the woman next to him, Li Zhi also helped him up, and saw that she and Yun Xi were standing together, like a pair of standard sisters.

"Yun Xi, who is she?"

"Your Highness, she is Shangshi in the palace, and she came here specially today to learn some cooking methods from His Highness."

"Food?"

"Your Highness, just like Yun Xi, the manager of Shangshi Bureau."

"This palace naturally knows, but Shangshi in this palace doesn't smell of fireworks at all."

As Li Zhi said, he pinched a lock of Shang Shi's long hair with his hand, and sniffed it at the tip of his nose.

"Only the fragrance of daughters, no fireworks, not at all like Shangshi who walks around the Shangshi Bureau all day long."

"Your Highness, Ding Yu knew that he wanted to see His Highness, so she came here after taking a bath, so there is no smoke on her body."

"Oh, that's right. Your name is Dingyu. Alright, when Ben Gong lives in the East Palace, you come to the East Palace to find Ben Gong."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Li Zhi got on the carriage, the wheels were rolling, and he was already heading towards the Prince Jin's Mansion.

Jinwang Mansion has been extremely busy these past few days, but the court hall has been exceptionally clean. The Liangyi Hall, where the morning court is held on weekdays, is rarely peaceful. During the Chinese New Year, the courtiers rested and had a family reunion. They stayed at home with their wives and concubines.

Li Zhi was sitting in the Lizheng Hall right now, busy as he was, but he would not let His Royal Highness move things.

At this time the crown prince was sitting here, and Shang Yi Yunxi had already led Shangshi Dingyu to the Lizheng Hall.

Far away, the two bowed, and Li Zhi raised his hand to let the maids of the Eastern Palace who were serving here retreat.

"His Royal Highness, can Dingyu come to the East Palace to learn cooking skills in his free time these few days?"

Chapter 522 Fireworks

"Of course you can. You are the food that serves the concubines and concubines in the harem of my father, the queen, and my sisters and younger brothers. The dishes you cook are delicious. My father, queen, and queen are very happy, and all the concubines are also happy to eat." , especially my brothers and sisters are the most aggressive. They eat well and feel better, so I will naturally feel happy."

Ding Yu looked at His Highness the Crown Prince, what he said, it seemed that it would be more beneficial for His Highness the Crown Prince to come to the East Palace to learn art by himself.

"Then Dingyu is going to the East Palace kitchen now."

"Slow down, Dingyu, I don't object to you learning something here, but you don't need to take a bath with incense every time you come here, and it's not like I can't smell the smoke."

"You are familiar with Yunxi, so you should be able to hear some of my preferences from her. You can come here casually on weekdays. Fireworks are the atmosphere of all families. Without fireworks, where can the lights of thousands of families come from? The world of fireworks."

"Yes, Ding Yu wrote down His Highness's instruction. Ding Yu thought that the smoke and fire on her body would affect His Highness."

"Well, just write it down."

Li Zhi gently pinched Dingyu's shoulder with his hand, patted it twice, and waved his hand.

Dingyu and Yunxi walked out of the main hall, and Dingyu looked at Yunxi.

"Sister Yunxi, His Highness is very unruly."

"Why are you out of order?"

"I am the food in the palace, but His Highness grabbed my shoulder with his hands."