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Chapter 29 The Tibetan Ambassador

Although the Five Kings Banquet ended, with the spread of the people attending the banquet, more people heard the name of the Five Kings Banquet. The free form of the new banquet made many people talk about it, and those extremely delicious dishes are one of the focus of people's discussions, such as roast duck, hot pot and beggar chicken. There are already many restaurants in Chang'an City that launch copycat dishes, which are all made of the Five Kings Banquet. Of course, no matter the taste, the taste cannot be compared with the authentic ones.

There is nothing special about roasting lamb, but cumin was added when roasting, and Li Yan did not keep it secret at the banquet. So now the dignitaries and nobles in Chang'an City are looking for cumin everywhere. However, because cumin is rarely sold by merchants, the inventory in Chang'an City has been wiped out by Li Yan, so even if you have money, you can't buy it. The price has soared to the point of a pound of gold for one pound of cumin. This sky-high price immediately made the merchants' eyes irritated and they formed a caravan like crazy, and then rushed to the west, because only cumin is produced there, and now the speed is the comparison. The first batch of people who arrived in Chang'an were not cumin at all, but grains of gold!

Compared to the madness of cumin, the sales of Wuwang Zui is also very hot. The two largest restaurants under the name of Li Xiaogong and Li Daozong started to play the sales signs of Wuwang Zui on the second day after the Five Kings Banquet ended, which immediately attracted countless enthusiasts to rob. Even the door of one of the restaurants was squeezed down by these people. Fortunately, only a few people were slightly injured and no major accident occurred, otherwise they would have really changed from comedy to tragedy.

There is no restaurant under Li Xiaojie's name, but that doesn't matter. Countless restaurants are staring at the Five Kings Zui in his hands. In the end, Li Xiaojie gave the restaurant under his elder brother Li Daoyan. There is a restaurant under Li Ke's name, but later he couldn't resist the soft words of the Princess of Shu and chose the restaurant at Yang's mother's home to sell. Anyway, the five kings Zui came out of them were sold at the same price, and for them, it was the same for everyone.

Although there were four restaurants selling Wu Wang Zui at once, because the production in Li Yan Mansion was limited, the Wu Wang Zui in each restaurant was sold in limited quantities, and the price was even more expensive. However, it still could not resist the enthusiasm of people who love wine. Every morning, there were a large group of people waiting to buy wine in front of the restaurant.

Today is the opening day of the Wang Family Restaurant. Li Yan has promised Wang Zihao and his daughter to invite a group of friends to support him. Yesterday he had asked someone to make an appointment with Li Yong and others. Not only did he call on the former friends, but he also called Cheng Huailiang, Qin Huaiyu and others at the banquet of the Five Kings. Anyway, everyone is young, so it is always a good thing to gather together.

Li Yan has always been a lazy person who gets up late, so before he gets up, Li Yong brought all his former friends with all his friends, Li Xiaojie, Li Jingheng, Yan Bei and others. These people attended the Five Kings Banquet a few days ago, and Li Xiaojie wanted to greet guests. Li Yan mingled with Cheng Huailiang and other people all night. They used to be disagreeing with Cheng Huailiang and others, so except for the young Li Yong who followed Li Yan, everyone else found a corner to eat and drink.

Li Yan was dragged out of the bed by Li Yong. Wen'er and Hua'er hurriedly helped Li Yan change clothes and wash. When Li Yan packed up and entered the living room, Cheng Huailiang, Qin Huaiyu and others also came. The two gangs sat in the hall with clear latitude. Li Xiaojie, Li Jingheng and others were mainly royal relatives, with noble status but no real power. Cheng Huailiang, Qin Huaiyu, Li Jingye and others were all meritorious. Their grandfathers or fathers either held real power, had outstanding military achievements, or even occupied both. Cheng Huailiang and others generally had their own positions. Although their rank was not high, their power was not small.

These two gangs usually dislike each other, and fights often happen. Most of them are from the military generals and are all very skilled in martial arts, so Li Xiaojie and others are often beaten. Now Li Yan called both gangs together, and it was already considered to give Li Yan face if they didn't fight on the spot.

"Hey, brothers are here so early!" At this moment, Li Ke also came in from outside. His mansion was closest to Li Yan, but he was the last one. He probably liked to get up late, just like Li Yan, and he was worthy of being two brothers.

As soon as Li Ke and Li Yan came in, the two gangs came forward to say hello. The two brothers had a good relationship with the two gangs. They threaded needles in the middle to introduce them to everyone, which played a lubricant role, which greatly alleviated the tension between the two gangs.

Since the people have arrived, Li Yan and Li Ke took the lead and all got on the horse to the newly opened restaurant of the Wang family. Today, Li Yan was the host, not only contacting these friends, but also helping the Wang family's restaurant to make a big splash.

Although it is just a newly opened restaurant, it is already crowded. After all, this is the fifth restaurant in Chang'an City that is sold by Wuwangzui. In addition, the top Five Kings Banquet launched, people with well-informed people know the relationship between the Wang family and Li Yan, and know that the Five Kings Banquet here was circulated from Li Yan, so many people who were not able to attend the banquet rushed here to taste the real Five Kings Banquet.

"Your Highness, the largest room has been prepared for you, and the food and drinks have been prepared. Just wait for your highness to join the banquet with you all!" Wang Zihao saw Li Yan coming with thirty or forty people, and immediately came forward with a look of surprise and greeted him. He was the only one here today. Wang Xijun probably was a girl, so it was inconvenient to appear in such an occasion.

"Haha, Zihao's business is really hot, and even the people sitting outside the store are all people!" Li Yan smiled at the people sitting outside the restaurant. The restaurant was full, but the customers still couldn't sit down, so there were a lot of tables and chairs on the open space outside the store, and many people sat outside to order wine, food and drink.

"These are all thanks to His Highness's Five Kings Zui. It opened today, so the restaurant offers no limited supply of Five Kings Zui. Most of these people come for the name of Five Kings Zui." Wang Zihao also smiled. The most important thing that a restaurant can attract customers is of course fine wine and food. And his restaurant is just short of these two things, so it became so popular on the first day.

Li Yan greeted Wang Zihao for a few more words. Seeing that everyone behind him were waiting a little anxious, he hurriedly asked Wang Zihao to lead them upstairs. The restaurant is not small in size, even larger than the Junzi Building that Li Yan had been to. However, it is far from Junzi Building in decoration, but it is better than ordinary restaurants.

As soon as they went upstairs, Li Yong and his group of boys shouted loudly to serve the dishes quickly. These boys heard that Li Yan treats them, and they are the same dishes as the Five Kings Banquet. Many people rushed over without even having breakfast. They were just caught by the fragrance of the food downstairs, and now they are hungry and their eyes are green.

Li Yan didn't eat breakfast either. As soon as the food came up, everyone buried their heads and ate. After almost the meal, some people became more and more interested and began to brag, spank and beat the punches and fight with wine. Although there were not many people, the scene was extremely lively. The people who were originally divided into two factions slowly merged together. After all, the young people were active, and they started talking. You punch me and I punch you, and then laughed and drank a few glasses, and forgot all the grudges.

Just as I was having a happy drink, I suddenly heard someone quarrel outside the room. At first, Li Yan and others didn't care. After all, with so many guests, there were inevitably drunk people who were drunk and crazy.

"Ba~" Then a crisp slap came, and it was obvious that someone was beaten, and the quarrels actually walked towards their room.

Li Yan frowned. He stood up and wanted to go out to take a look when he saw the door of the room "boom" and someone kicked open. Then a group of strangely dressed men rushed in. There were probably dozens of people in this group, and the leader was a middle-aged man in his thirties. The others seemed to be his subordinates and guards.

"Bastard, I'm drinking here. You Tubo people dare to break in. I'm impatient to see you live!" Cheng Huailiang slapped the table in anger and cursed at these people.

When Li Yan heard that the other party turned out to be a Tubo, he was shocked. Although the Tang Dynasty was known as one of the most powerful dynasties in Chinese history, he also had his own external troubles. Not to mention other small countries such as Baekje, Goguryeo, and Nanshu, the biggest threat was the Turks on the northern grasslands and the Tubo in the southwest. Now the Tang Dynasty has been destroyed, and the Western Turks are still in civil strife, which is not a problem at all. However, the emerging power of Tubo is becoming stronger.

"Hmph! We are the Tubo ambassadors. You cowardly Tang people, you cowardly Tang people, leave quickly. We will take care of it today!" A warrior from the other side said disdainfully in stiff Chinese, with a very arrogant expression. Now Tubo has defeated Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, Bailan and Qiang around. The country is in full swing, and there is a kind of arrogance in the country, and even the Tang Dynasty does not take it seriously. These people are the Tubo ambassadors, and these people are even more domineering in the Tang Dynasty. The Honglu Temple, which is in charge of diplomacy, is afraid of causing disputes between the two countries. Turning a blind eye to the affairs of the Tubo people has further encouraged the arrogance of these Tubo people.

"Bastard, this is a banquet for guests from His Highness King Shu and His Highness King Liang. You and other small Tubo envoys did not kneel down when they saw that my Prince of Tang did not kneel down. Do you really think that my Tang Dynasty is easy to bully?" Qin Huaiyu was more steady. Although he was angry, his words were very organized.

The Tubo people opposite were also stunned. They did not expect that there were two princes here, looking at each other a little at a loss, and their eyes looked at the middle-aged man with long beards in the head.

"Haha, I didn't expect that it was the famous His Highness of the King of Shu and His Highness of Liang. Lu Dongzan, the Tubo minister, met with the two princes." The middle-aged man's eyes flashed a few times, and he still saluted. Although his subordinates were unwilling to look at him, they still bowed to Li Ke and Li Yan, but their expressions were very disrespectful.

"Hmph, I didn't expect that it was the Tubo Dalun who came here in person. No wonder he was so arrogant!" Li Ke had obviously heard of this Lu Dongzan and snorted coldly. Li Yan didn't know what kind of official Dalun was. He asked Yan Bei beside him softly before he realized that the so-called Dalun was the prime minister of Tubo. This surprised Li Yan very much. Seeing that this guy was not astonishingly dressed like an explosive household, he didn't expect his identity to be so amazing.

Li Ke's words made Tubo people who knew Chinese very angry. They blushed and their fists tightly squeezed their fists, and they said something with their hands. It seemed that they were not interested in Prince Li Ke. However, Lu Dongzan seemed very steady and scolded him in Tubo dialect, and then said to Li Ke again: "Your Highness misunderstood. Yesterday, the little minister just arrived in Chang'an. He heard that there was the best wine sold in the Tang Dynasty, so he wanted to taste it, but he didn't expect that the store would stop him and broke in with no choice."

This guy is worthy of being an important official in Tubo. He is ashamed of being bulletproof and pushes the blame on the restaurant. At this time, Wang Zihao also squeezed in from outside, but half of his face became swollen. It was obvious that he was the one who was beaten just now.

Li Yan was angry. Wang Zihao was his man, and beating him was equivalent to beating himself. He wanted to rush down and find the place, but he was held tightly by Yan Bei beside him and said in a low voice in Li Yan's ear: "Your Highness, don't be impulsive. I just heard them say in Tubo just now, it seems that this time they came to propose marriage again. It seems that their Zamp is already impatient and already has the idea of ​​using force. We must not anger them too much."

"Do you understand Tubo dialect?" Li Yan didn't expect that Yan Bei would speak Tubo dialect. Although he was so angry, he had not lost his mind. It was wrong for him to make trouble with Li Shimin for a businessman.

"My family business is somewhat related to Tubo, and I often have to deal with Tubo people, so I learned some Tubo dialect." Yan Bei said proudly.

At this moment, Lu Dongzan smiled again and said, "Haha, since today this is a banquet for the King of Shu and His Highness of Liang, then I will go to another place and say goodbye!" After saying that, he was about to leave as soon as he bowed his hand. Li Ke snorted coldly and didn't say anything. It seemed that he was also disgusted with these arrogant Tubo people.

Lu Dongzan turned around and was about to leave, when he heard a subordinate beside him say something loudly in Tubo dialect. The other Tubo people laughed loudly. Lu Dongzan thought that Li Yan and the others could not understand, so he didn't care. He smiled and glanced at Li Yan and the others, and then took a step to leave.

However, Li Yan found that Yan Bei's face was changing drastically, his little white face turned red, and his whole body was trembling slightly. He clenched his fists several times but let them go. He was obviously extremely angry.
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