The Legacy of the First Auxiliary House of the Tang Dynasty

East Palace, Dian Shan Bureau.

Fang Yiai listened to the report from the officials below, but her mind was still thinking about the aggressive rhetorical questioning of the previous crown prince.

He...is he really such a person with "big ambitions"? !

At this moment, Fang Yiai couldn't help but question her heart.

"Could it be that I'm really a pillar of talent?"

"—Fang Shanlang?"

"Ah?" Fang Yiai looked up and saw that Zhang Zhong, another Dian Shan Lang with equal status to him, was looking at him "gentlely", and he couldn't help getting goose bumps.

It was because the man's smile was too hypocritical.

Hmph, Fang Yiai doesn't like this.

He recalled what Zhang Zhong and the next two Dian Shancheng said just now, which meant to let him stay well, don't be a monster in the East Palace, and they will do the work of serving His Royal Highness, and he is here Share a share of credit and salary for filial piety.

Fang Yiai's "aspiring man"——his chest suddenly felt like a big stone, and he was underestimated by these words? !What he hated the most was that kind of eyes, Fang Yiai saw the eyes of Princess Gaoyang and the maid Shu'er looking at him, which made him very angry.

"I am proud that the Crown Prince is trustworthy, so naturally I will do my duty faithfully. I will be on duty tonight." Looking at them silently, Fang Yiai said in a deep voice.

The Dian Shan Bureau is different from the Dian Medical Bureau. In the evening, the prince can't go home until he has finished his dinner.

Fang Yi loves to have a bitter mouth, but when he thinks of having a meal, he can't help but look forward to it.

He is going to visit the dining kitchen of the East Palace, especially the cook who cooks the porridge in the morning, he must find a way to get the secret recipe.

With a small heart in her heart, Fang Yiai gave way to that Zhongqian, letting him go home to rest in the afternoon, and he will stay loyal and responsible as a new official today.

Zhang Zhong and the others silently looked at each other, and obeyed.

Fang Yiai first stared at the purchasing officials and looked at today’s fruits and vegetables, all of which are fresh, but there are only a few items, which cannot be compared with the diversity of food in later generations. This is the way it is in this era, and there are even a lot of frying and frying. There are very few cooking methods.

Confucius said, "Eat men and women, people's great desires exist." Fang Yiai thought he was also a glutton, and he entered the dining room of the Eastern Palace eagerly.

……

"This is--?"

"Hui Shanlang said, this is perch, and it should be made into carp." The cook replied, not contemptuously, wondering where these nobles knew what perch was.

Fang Yiai said "Oh", he had eaten it before, but the cook didn't do it well the first time he ate it, the fish fillet had a strong earthy smell, it was not as delicious as everyone imagined, it made him never want to try it again, Princess Gaoyang He also laughed at this and despised Fangfu's cooking skills.

However, carp is the sashimi of later generations, but perch is from the river, not salmon from the deep sea.The ingredients are delicious, and they are delicious when they are cooked, but there is a major sequelae that makes Fang Yiai frown.

There is a high probability of parasites in sashimi——

Thinking of the day when Li Chengqian's flesh and blood would be full of "worms", Fang Yiai couldn't bear it for a while, and directed: "Don't make fish carp, but sweet and sour perch instead."

"What is sweet and sour fish?"

Fang Yiai despised cooks, and shouted "Looking good", he is not only good as a teacher, but also cooks the spoon himself.

When the newly appointed Fang Shanlang saw the kitchen, his heart was full of excitement.Enthusiasm can't be stopped, and the kitchen staff are surprised that Fang Yiai, a dignified gentleman, can actually cook.

Everyone saw that he spoke in every possible way. First, he ordered people to marinate and clean the squid with salt. After the taste was absorbed, he burned hot oil, let people fry it and drained it, and then put some hot oil in the pan and added sweet and sour sauce. , Pour the reconciled water starch into a sauce, and finally pour it on the fried sea bass, and it's done all at once.

This is a very simple home-cooked dish, but it is very different from steamed dishes at this time.

The cook was originally looking at Shangguan's mischievous thoughts, but when the sea bass came out on the plate, he took a small piece and tasted it, and the taste was simply wonderful——

Really——he raised his head and his cloudy eyes glistened like fish bubbles, "Fang Shanlang, this recipe...can——can—"

Fang Yiai waved his hand, and said generously: "Haven't you already learned it all, and I don't live by it."

After all, looking at the fish with a beautiful soup, he felt itchy so he shared a bowl of rice with the kitchen staff and ate this plate of sweet and sour sea bass, completely forgetting that this was a dinner prepared for the prince.

After eating and drinking enough, the chef was still in a hurry, and according to Fang Yiai's method, he personally made a plate of sweet and sour sea bass, even blue and green. The temperature of the fried fish was better than Fang Yiai's control, and the color was golden, just right. benefit.

Fang Yiai also admired this, and the two murmured and discussed some other dishes.

So when Li Chengqian was having dinner, his favorite fish carp was not available, and a plate of fish with sweet and sour sauce was presented.

Li Chengqian frowned and took a bite, his expression relaxed. He sent someone to reward the cook, and asked someone to send some of the remaining sweet and sour fish to the eldest and second sons to taste.

"Returning to Your Highness, this fish is not due to slaves, it's all thanks to Fang Shanlang giving him everything - Fang Shanlang he...Fang Shanlang knows...Fang Shanlang understands..." The cook chattered for a while, saying After a bunch of dishes taught by Fang Shanlang, he finally concluded that Fang Shanlang was a natural chef, comparable to or even surpassing the achievements of Liu An, king of Huainan in Han Dynasty, who invented tofu.

Li Chengqian was stunned, then raised his eyebrows slightly, he didn't expect Fang Yiai to be so good at cooking, and then he thought that Taishi ordered Li Daochang to praise him, and even said that he was a born astrological astronomer.

……

On the second day, at lunch, the prince's dishes changed even more.

The so-called stir-fried mutton, scrambled eggs with vinegar okra, Dongpo pork and other dishes have been added. Most of them are meat, which is because of the insistence of the cook.

The prince likes meat. As we all know, as the chief chef of the East Palace, the chef must take the prince's preferences as his preferences.

Although Fang Yiai came up with the idea, he couldn't do everything by himself. He came to the East Palace to serve as Li Chengqian's cook, so he could only let it go.

When Li Chengqian was having dinner that day, he simply called Fang Yiai again.

Fang Yiai resentfully shared a meal with the prince, but the prince Zhan and Yu Zhining hurried over halfway.

Although Li Chengqian expelled Zhang Xuansu, held Yu Zhining's handle, and gave him the position of the superior prince Zhan Shi, but the old man Yu Zhining turned his head and directly dealt with the "dominant field" clansman in private. Huge, sent the half-dead clansmen to the government office, and wrote a letter to the emperor to plead guilty.

Li Shimin also lamented his "loyalty" and asked him to be in front of the prince Zhan Shi. With a heart of guilt, Yu Zhining was even more persistent in "being loyal and responsible" for the prince, which made Li Chengqian very helpless.

Yu Zhining is a good person, but a good person may not do good deeds, especially for Li Chengqian, Yu Zhining is a very annoying person.

But, he still has to use him.

Yu Zhining cannot be removed, at least not now.

In addition to his old-fashioned personality, at least he is devoted to the East Palace, and his old-fashionedness only supports the "inheritance system". Wei Wang Li Tai is now eyeing him. As a prince, Li Chengqian was trapped by his identity, and he was imprisoned in the East Palace. He walked a step and was surrounded by eight people, and when he stretched out his arm, someone would come and tell him that his "posture" was indecent...

This East Palace doesn't know how many people are his father's eyeliner, and how many belong to King Wei and other forces, but there are only a few people he can trust.

The tens of thousands of silver he spent by the prince of the Tang Dynasty had to go to the public account of the East Palace. Some people said that if he spent a little, it was extravagant. Li Chengqian smiled wryly, how could he do anything, let alone recruit any talents.

That is to say, some nobles and people like Yu Zhining who are optimistic about him surround him, but these people are more loyal to the imperial power. As long as the emperor says a word, the "inheritance system" is just a joke-the current emperor Li Shimin is also the emperor Taizu second son!

"The prince's meal is so extravagant, we can see how poor the people eat in a day, we can know..." Yu Zhining uttered nonsense, counting the food on the prince's table plate by plate.

Fang Yiai rolled his eyes, and Li Chengqian was expressionless, but Fang Yiai knew how hard he was holding the chopsticks with his fingers, and knew that he couldn't bear it any longer.

To be a prince is to be ruthless. He has long said that he wants to get rid of this old man. Why keep him in the East Palace? !

Fang Yi groaned angrily and threw away the chopsticks - he didn't eat.

No matter how delicious the food is, when the old man comes, it will be tasteless.

"Hey, Yu Zhanshi, it's time to be polite." Fang Yiai bowed.

It stands to reason that he is Dian Shanlang now, and the Shangguan is the prince Zhan Shi, so Fang Yi'ai still tried his best at superficial etiquette.

Yu Zhining snorted coldly, it was this dandy who brought His Royal Highness into harm's way.

"-Are these--these--are you, a villain, trying to persuade His Highness the Crown Prince?"

Fang Yiai grinned, and smiled: "What's the matter? But a few meat dishes...the crown prince didn't slaughter the cattle, so it didn't delay the farming, and eating some fish and mutton also promoted the 'small peasant economy'..."

"sophistry!"

"... Alas! Yu Zhanshi, look at how hard it is for the crown prince to eat, why do you bother to slander the present crown prince just to invite fame! Woo ... I feel sorry for the crown prince." Fang Yiai covered her face and pretended to cry.

Li Chengqian thought he was shameless after watching him, let alone Yu Zhining.

He "you" for a long time, and finally retorted: "Fang Yiai, you are referring to a deer as a horse. Meat eaters, dare to say 'hardship'?!"

"Isn't it difficult?" Fang Yiai looked serious, pointed to a plate of dishes on the table, and said, "This is the so-called waste you said, do you know what kind of meat it is made of?... This is pork."

In the Tang Dynasty, only the lowly untouchables ate pork. The pork was dry and dirty. In short, the nobles did not eat pigs.

Even Yu Zhining, who is "poor" and "clean", doesn't eat it.

Yu Zhining's eyes widened upon hearing this——

"You can try it." Fang Yiai asked someone to pass chopsticks to Prince Zhan Shi.

Yu Zhining didn't know what to think. He took a sip, and it was extremely delicious. The meat was neither fishy nor greasy.

But the meat is indeed both fat and thin, not beef or lamb, Yu Zhining can't deny that this delicious meat is pork, but isn't pork delicious?

Fang Yiai smiled triumphantly, "Your Majesty also sent these dishes to Ganlu Palace. I think His Majesty will enjoy eating them. It's better for Zhan Shi not to care about the little things of the prince. I heard that the style of writing in King Wei's place is very prosperous, and he has cultivated it again." For this book, James should do other useful things to show the prince's benevolence to the world."

Yu Zhining was taught a lesson by the junior, and the prince still looked at the boy with a smile and comfort, with a "moved" expression.

Yu Zhining was immediately discouraged, why didn't the prince understand his sincerity.

Li Chengqian saw Fang Yiai as annoyed, he just cared about the crown prince as a petty official, why couldn't help fighting against Yu Zhining when he met Yu Zhining.

He didn't want to appear too "wise and courageous".

In this way, wouldn't His Royal Highness be even more reluctant to give up such a genius as him!

……

That night, there was a reward from Ganlu Palace.

Li Shimin's food was delicious, and he shook his head helplessly after hearing Fang Yiai's remarks, but deliberately let people reveal to Wei Zheng that he had a lot of food in his meals, and when he saw Wei Zheng's admonition in the early morning of the next day, But the next court officials threw out Fang Yiai's "poor meat is cheap" rhetoric, which gave Wei Zheng a big embarrassment.

All the courtiers wept bitterly. Your Majesty is a famous emperor through the ages, and he would not give up a meal of beef, but he actually ate pork like a pariah.Woah!

Li Shimin above the Danchi looked down at the embarrassed Wei Zheng below, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

……

In the East Palace, the Dian Shan Bureau has completely changed its appearance. Another Dian Shan Lang, Zhang Zhong Xiumu, came back with a very unsightly expression.

On this day, Jin Wang Li Zhi wandered into the Tai Tai's womb, and specifically called for a taste of the new delicacies from the Eastern Palace.

Fang Yi'ai had mixed feelings about Li Zhi, and for a while she didn't think about seeing the future Emperor Gaozong.

After all, Li Zhi ordered his death in the future.

Fang Yiai was melancholy. When Li Chengqian was "threatening" before, he thought about whether to take refuge in His Royal Highness Jin Wang in advance. He is not like the prince's "Qi Yi" - if he wants to get along with him, or the director of Dazhan, Pengcheng Wanli, then He can only be hanged on the tree in the East Palace.

Hmph, His Highness the Crown Prince has miscalculated.

Fang Yiai smiled triumphantly.

His Royal Highness King Jin—no one burns cold stoves these days.

Squinting her eyes, Fang Yiai's heart suddenly relaxed, she grabbed a handful of roasted pine nuts and ate them, she was enjoying herself, and she was two catties heavier than usual at home.

But at this moment, someone rushed in, stumbled at the threshold, and cried, "Shan Lang Shan Lang! His Royal Highness King Jin has been poisoned!!"