When the Five Kings Banquet was spread all over the city, Li Min was not surprised at all, because he sent people to let out the news about the banquet. After all, building momentum was a bad thing in later generations, and Li Min was just borrowing it.

As soon as he used it, the effect was indeed good. Many people had already taken the initiative to come to his house to inquire about the news. However, Li Min avoided them because they were unable to attend the banquet. This was not entirely an excuse. He was really busy these days.

It's so annoying that the leisurely life I had a while ago will never be seen again.

One of the main purposes of this banquet is to make the newly brewed Wu Wang Zui famous, so this wine must be the main drink at the banquet, and the quantity must not be small. From the beginning, Li Min asked Huang Cheng and Lao Wu to make a few more

A still is set up, and the brewing workshop is constantly distilling wine. If the lees is not enough, it can be obtained from Li Xiaogong and others. If it is not enough, it can be directly steamed with the previously brewed wine. Anyway, the wine produced is almost the same.

When the number of guests invited by each government was calculated, Li Min was shocked. There were more than 200 people who were directly invited. Including the family members they brought, it was estimated that there were at least 700 or 800 people. Such a large scale

This banquet is definitely the first since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. It will definitely cause a sensation in the entire Chang'an City and become a grand event for a while. However, as the host, Li Min is a little worried.

Seven to eight hundred people are going to attend the banquet, which is not a small number. The main hall with the largest area in Li Min's Liang Prince's Mansion is used as the venue for the banquet, but even if the two auxiliary halls next to it are added, it is still not enough for these seven or eight hundred people.

If you have a banquet at the same time, you can’t have the banquet in the open air, right?

Just a matter of venue has already stumped Li Min and several palace stewards. Even Li Xiaojie, who helped, was at a loss. Li Min led them to plan the main hall and auxiliary hall for a long time, including the area of ​​the corridors.

They were all used, but it could only accommodate three to four hundred people at most, accounting for only half of the number of people attending the banquet.

"How about we build a temporary banquet venue again. It doesn't need to be too elaborate, as long as it can be used." Li Xiaojie thought for a long time and finally made a suggestion.

"Prince Qi, there are less than ten days before the banquet date. It is probably beyond human power to rebuild a banquet venue in such a short period of time!" The steward sent by Li Daozong's mansion said immediately.

"It's really too late in time. The entire city of Chang'an wants to find a place where nearly a thousand people can have a banquet at the same time. I'm afraid that only the Tai Chi Palace in the imperial palace can do it." Gao Zhong also said with emotion.

"How about this? Let's change the rules of the banquet. This is a private banquet anyway, so there is no need to talk about so many rules!" Li Min's eyes suddenly lit up and he thought of a feasible solution.

"Change the rules? How to change this?" Li Xiaojie and others were shocked by Li Min's words and didn't understand what Li Min meant.

"Hey, haven't you noticed that banquets now use a separate meal system. Just one or two people sitting at a long table is really a waste of space, so we might as well not use this kind of short and long table and just use it.

All the food is placed on one or several huge tables, and you can pick it up yourself when eating. This not only saves space and food, but also allows guests to move around and talk freely. I think this novel banquet method should be acceptable.

Bar?"

What Li Min thought of was the way of Western banquets in later generations. This kind of banquet is very free. You can make your own decisions about eating, drinking or talking, and are not restricted by where you sit. The most important thing is that except for the table where food and drinks are placed, there is no need to Other furniture saves a lot of space, which can just solve their current problem.

"Well, this method is feasible. It's not a banquet in the palace anyway. You don't need to abide by the rigid rules. It's better to be more free. Liu Lang is really a talent!" Li Xiaojie was the first to agree. After all, he is not old enough to accept new people. The ability of things is stronger.

Gao Zhong and other officials from the palace discussed it and found that there was really no other solution except this method. In the end, they had to do what Li Min wanted.

The problem of the venue was solved. In addition to Wu Wang Zui, the drinks at the banquet also included several other well-known wines, such as Datang's own wine, which was mainly prepared for the female relatives attending the banquet. In addition, Li Min had someone make it. Juice, this thing is simpler, just squeeze the fruit into juice, then add some honey to make it.

The food at the banquet is a major focus. In addition to the usual dishes at the banquet, Li Min also added roasted whole lamb, beggar's chicken and other dishes that have been successfully prepared some time ago. Unfortunately, the nobles of the Tang Dynasty did not like to eat pork, so they had to Otherwise, Li Min can serve a few new dishes, such as braised pork, roast suckling pig, rock sugar elbow and so on.

In addition, Li Min made several new dishes. He asked the cook Lao Wu to build a hanging oven for roast duck, and trial-produced the roast duck. After spending a lot of money, he finally made the roast duck for later generations. Of course, those experimental products also tasted good, and Li Xiaojie ate a lot of them. There was also the mutton-shabu that Li Min liked to eat in his previous life. The base soup was made from mutton bones and various seasonings. The tender mutton was added with Li Min's special dipping sauce makes people have endless aftertaste when eating it. Unfortunately, it lacks Li Min's favorite chili, which makes this dish lose its luster.

The ten days of preparation time was really a bit hasty for a banquet of this scale. Fortunately, with Li Min's ideas and the coordination and command of experienced stewards from each government, everything was finally ready on the day of the banquet. About the banquet Li Min has also been spreading the internal information to the outside world, especially the three new points of wine, food and the way of holding banquets. Very curious.

In the Chongwen Hall of the East Palace, a group of royal family members were booing around Li Yong.

"Jiu Yun, do you have any latest news about the Five Kings Banquet? Can you tell it for everyone to hear?" A little fat man with acne asked Li Yong. His words immediately attracted the approval of other students. Today is already the day It's the 9th, and tomorrow is the official opening day of the Five Kings Banquet. The students present are all invited directly or indirectly, so they are very curious about the Five Kings Banquet that has spread throughout Chang'an.

"Well! I went to Liulang's place specially this morning, and now I'm a little thirsty!" Li Yong enjoyed the feeling of being noticed very much, and deliberately said slowly. Although the people around him were very concerned about Li Yong's showy behavior. He was annoyed, but there was nothing he could do. Who made Li Yong and Liang Wang get closer? So someone immediately poured tea for him.

Li Yong picked up the tea cup with a smile and took a sip, and then said: "I couldn't find Liu Lang when I went there today, and several people in charge were not here, so there is no new news for the time being. What I know has been said a few days ago. Already."

"Shhh~" Seeing that Li Yong was still playing tricks like this without any new news, everyone booed in anger. Some of the more grumpy ones rolled up their sleeves and were ready to take action. The Chongwen Hall was filled with a bunch of dudes, fighting and fighting.

Trouble is also common.

"But~" Li Yong turned a blind eye to the surrounding situation, and managed to attract everyone's attention. Several people who were about to take action also stopped and looked at him, but at this time Li Yong picked up the tea cup again,

I drank a few sips, which made the people around me angry.

"Hey~" Seeing the people around him wanting to be angry but not daring to be angry, Li Yong felt very accomplished, but he also knew it was time to stop, otherwise he might become the public enemy of everyone.

Thinking of this, Li Yong put down his tea cup and said: "I couldn't find anyone at Liulang's place, so I thought I couldn't come in vain, so I went to the wine cellar in his house and took out a small jar of wine."

The five kings are drunk, let all brothers taste it first!" Li Yong said and waved, and his boy immediately came in with an unopened jar of wine and placed it in front of everyone.

"Look, this is the 'Five Kings Drunk' that's been rumored all over the city. How about it, brother enough?" Li Yong said with a proud face. In fact, he went to see Li Min this morning because he was too busy yesterday, so Li Yong

Zhen refused to get up no matter what, and couldn't stand Li Yong's harassment, so he gave him a jar of Five Kings Drunk and asked him to show it off.

"This...is this the Five Kings' Drunk?" The little fat man with acne looked greedy. The news about the Five Kings' Banquet has spread like crazy in Chang'an City, especially the Five Kings' Drunk that was spread personally by Li Xiaogong and others.

There is only one person in the world who praises this wine. Although no one except a few people involved has ever drunk it, it makes this wine even more mysterious.

"But this wine is too little. How can there be enough for so many of us?" Someone complained looking at the small wine jar. Judging from the capacity of the wine jar, it is estimated that it only has four or five kilograms of wine at most. They have so much to drink here.

There were dozens of people.

"Tch~, you have no idea!" Li Yong said with a look of disdain, "This Wu Wang Zui is not an ordinary wine, it is very strong. Do you think it is still the same plain water that you drank a few kilograms of before and nothing happened?

?" Ever since he got drunk from the Five Kings, all other wines in Li Yong's eyes have turned into plain water without the taste of alcohol.

"Why are you talking so much? Open it quickly and let us see it!" Some people couldn't wait any longer and urged Li Yong to open it quickly. When Li Yong patted the mud seal on the jar open, a strong aroma of wine immediately filled the air.

Come on.

"It smells so good! What a wine!" All the students from the Chongwen Hall were attracted by the aroma of wine. They kept sniffing and had greedy looks on their faces. There were not just one or two people in the room who were good drinkers.

If you weren't normally well-educated, you might have already gone to grab him at this time.

"Come on, come on! Everyone, line up and have a taste of the delicious food of Five Kings Drunk!" Li Yong was very excited and waved his hand and said. There are no wine glasses in the Chongwen Hall, but there are many tea cups. There are smart early ones.

He grabbed the tea cup in his hand, stretched it out as soon as Li Yong finished speaking, and asked him to pour it for him.

There wasn't much wine, and each person got less than one tael. Li Yong had told them beforehand to drink slowly. After all, the wine was too strong, and it would be difficult for most people to get used to it after the first sip. But some impatient ones didn't listen at all.

, and poured it all directly into his mouth like he had been drinking before, but his face turned red from the strong smell of alcohol.

"It's so strong! It's so fragrant!" After tasting the Five Kings' Drunkenness, many people looked intoxicated. Even those who didn't like drinking couldn't help but praise them. They, the royal clan members, had never drunk any good wine.

?But it was the first time to drink such a good wine. Although it was only a little or two, it gave them a smoky feeling. It was indeed a rare good wine in the world.

Faced with everyone's admiration, Li Yong was even more proud. He and Li Min were brothers and sisters. Although Li Min invented wine, in Li Yong's view, it was just like his own invention. To be able to get so much praise, Li Yong

I can't help but feel a little elated.

"Master is here!" Just when everyone had not woken up from the taste of the wine, they suddenly heard the shouts of the servants outside, which immediately frightened the group of students awake, followed by a flurry of chickens and dogs, cups, paper and pens

It was flying all over the sky. When the master came in, he saw a group of students who were studying hard. Unfortunately, the aroma of wine filling the room could not be concealed.

"Damn it, someone dares to drink in the school, why don't you call me here!" As soon as the Master came in, he was overtaken by the strong aroma of wine, and he was so angry that he slapped the table with his ruler.

The master was very angry, and the consequences were very serious. Few of the dandies present were loyal. They happened to ask Li Yong for a drink with a flattering look on his face, but now he confessed to him in the blink of an eye. As a result, Li Yong was fined twenty ring feet.

, outsiders were forced to copy the Analects of Confucius thirty times. Of course, others did not fare better, and everyone was punished to copy the Analects of Confucius five times.

Li Yong's experience was just a small episode before the start of the Five Kings' Banquet. No one except him would care. Everyone's eyes were attracted to the upcoming Five Kings' Banquet. Even Taizong Li Shimin was also at the court meeting in person.

I asked Li Daozong about this and said that he would definitely go there, and Li Shimin's arrival elevated the Five Kings Banquet to the level of a palace banquet.
Chapter completed!