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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, after visiting relatives and friends for the New Year, the people of Chang'an gathered at Zhuque Square. Yesterday, the place was closed for a day because the emperor and his family and the Chinese civil and military ministers of the court had to take the lead in visiting, and the marine creatures used as exhibitions had to be re-placed, and there were some other related things to be prepared, so it was not officially opened until today.

In order to ensure the order of this exhibition, Li Shimin specially sent a group of Qianniu Guards to maintain the scene with Jinwu Guards. Qianniu Guards, as the Emperor Guards, are famous in Chang'an. No matter how domineering people are, they will immediately become little good cats when they meet Qianniu Guards, who kill people without blinking.

Zhuque Plaza has been surrounded by wooden railings, with only four entrances and four exits open around it. If everyone wants to enter the square, they have to queue up at the entrance and then slowly enter the venue in turn. However, although Zhuque Plaza is large, it is nothing to do on the first day of the first day of the New Year, and it is the first day of the exhibition, so the people who come to visit are almost full, and soon there is no one in the square. Later people can only wait for the people in the square to come out before they can enter.

However, people entering the square cannot move at will. Everyone is following the route that was originally stipulated, and every dozen people will have a tour guide arranged by the organizer. They just need to follow the tour guide and visit all the marine creatures. At the same time, the tour guide will also give some simple explanations according to a booklet. Finally, they will come to the center of the square, next to the whale.

This whale is the focus of the entire exhibition, so it naturally enjoys special treatment. Not only is it located at the center of all exhibitions, but there are also special people to give detailed explanations. This "special person" refers to Zhou Yu and several followers he brought. They all came from Dengzhou and naturally have a better understanding of whales, especially Zhou Yu is in charge of whaling ships and has the experience of personally catching whaling, so it would be better to be a tour guide.

The few followers Zhou Yu brought were all servants from the Qi Palace in Dengzhou. He was a little nervous at first. After all, it was the first time they spoke under the gaze of so many people, so they were a little stuttering. However, after explaining a few times, they slowly relaxed and no longer talked according to the manuscript he had memorized. Instead, they also inserted some of their own experiences during the explanation, making the explanation more vivid and interesting, which attracted the visitors to be amazed.

Compared to several followers, Zhou Yu seemed at ease. After all, as a manager, speaking in front of others is a very common thing. Moreover, he is young and is at the time of the strongest desire for performance. In addition, there are many unmarried beautiful girls in the crowd, which makes him even more excited. It is said that saliva is flying everywhere, and it is even pointed out that this whale was caught under his wise leadership.

As soon as this statement was said, many girls naturally became more and more obsessed with her. Speaking of which, Zhou Yu is not ugly and has not been married. He is also the chief manager of the Qi Palace. These conditions are very attractive when combined with one person, especially the last one. There were even a few bold girls talking to Zhou Yu and asked the other party to enjoy the lanterns together on the Lantern Festival. This made Zhou Yu feel like he was injected with chicken blood. He wanted to find a Chang'an wife for his parents with confidence.

Li Yan on the top of the city looked at the grand occasion of the exhibition below and nodded with satisfaction. Reading was not the only way to broaden his horizons. The ancients also felt that reading thousands of books was not as good as traveling thousands of miles. It was definitely difficult to move people in the Central Plains to shift their gaze from the land to the ocean, but as long as they work hard to promote themselves a little bit, they will one day achieve their ideal state.

In fact, Li Yan was already doing some tricks at this exhibition. The marine creatures in these exhibitions were not just for viewing. When Li Yan asked Zhou Yu and others to explain, he specially introduced the economic value of each creature. For example, taking whales as an example, Zhou Yu and others introduced the economic value of the whale itself in detail. For example, whale skin is the best cortex, whale blubber can be boiled oil, meat can be made into expensive canned whales, whale baleen can be used as clothes, etc.

As for the economic value of other animals such as sharks, sea lions, Li Yan also gave people a lot of introductions, but Li Yan told people that the dangers these animals themselves can cause, such as whales capsizing, sharks eat humans, etc., Li Yan told people to tell them in one sentence, and did not say much, mainly because they were afraid of scaring the visitors' enthusiasm for the ocean back.

The response caused by this exhibition was far beyond Li Yan's imagination. Whether it was the court or the people, they almost spent the New Year in the discussion of the sound of the ocean. Moreover, this exhibition also had an unexpected surprise, that is, the sales of marine products on the market were great. Whether it was high-end shark fin, whale meat, or the lowest-end ordinary salted fish, all had a peak in sales, which made many merchants' mouths almost tilted.

This exhibition lasted until after the Lantern Festival. On the two days of the Lantern Festival, Zhuque Plaza was completely open. The craftsmen who made lamps in the palace made the entire square into an ocean headlight. All the exhibition items floated on the lamps, and it looked like they were swimming in the sea. It was extremely spectacular. When Li Yan saw this strange scene, he secretly hated himself for why he didn't have a camera, otherwise he would definitely win a photography award after taking pictures.

It is also worth mentioning that after the exhibition, Li Yan's treatment of these exhibitions also made many people laugh and cry. Because all the exhibitions were marinated with salt and spices, and in the cold winter weather, they were preserved very well, even the same as the seafood sold on the market, but the storage was more complete.

As a standard glutton, Li Yan made the right choice for a foodie. He ordered that after the exhibition, all the food could be eaten were made into food on site for everyone to taste. Those that could not be eaten, such as shells, corals, etc., would be given away in a lottery. As a result, another chance was set off. Countless Chang'an people flocked to Zhuque Plaza, most of them were to taste the original marine delicacies.

However, Li Yan didn't know that he accidentally created another record, which was the first time that was recorded in official history. In fact, although there was no exact statistics on the number of people at this dinner, it was estimated that it was far more than 10,000 people. For example, the whale transported by Li Yan was about 15 meters long and weighed at least about 70,000 tons. Remove the inedible parts of the internal organs, bones and other inedible parts, and the remaining ones were at least forty or fifty tons. Just want to finish eating this whale, it would probably have to eat at least 20,000 to 30,000 people at the same time, not to mention those huge sharks, sea lions and other animals.

Li Shimin also strongly supported Li Yan's decision to have fun with the people. There was a big banquet for ten thousand people outside, and a small banquet for ten hundred people in the palace. Li Shimin summoned some important civil and military ministers into the palace. Everyone tasted the seafood while discussing state affairs. In addition, Empress Sun also gathered the concubines and princesses in the harem together, and also held a family banquet. Of course, the banquets in the palace were naturally not comparable to the dinners for ten thousand people outside. The ingredients of the dishes at the banquet were the essence of various marine animals, such as whale tail meat, shark fin, cod liver, etc.

However, there was an unexpected episode at the banquet, that is, Tang Jian, the Minister of Revenue, who has always loved food, suddenly wanted to taste the deliciousness of shark liver. Originally, the head of the imperial chef in the palace had already received the instructions of Li Yan that the shark liver was not made into dishes, but was preparing to make cod liver oil for His Majesty. However, he, a little imperial chef, could not hold Tang Jian's repeated requests, and had no choice but to make shark liver into dishes and deliver them to Tang Jian's table.

As a result, the shark's wife, who was not surprised to be poisoned, vomited, had headaches and yawns on the spot, and almost put Tang Jian's old bone in it. In fact, the shark liver itself is not poisonous, but the liver contains a lot of vitamin A. It's nothing to eat less, but as long as you overdose, symptoms of vitamin A poisoning will definitely occur.

After hearing about this incident, Li Yan felt a little amused and confused. He remembered that he was poisoned to death by a puffer fish because of his greed in his previous life. If Tang Jian also took his old path, I wonder if he would have traveled to a certain dynasty as well?

The matter of the Ocean Exhibition finally came to an end, but its impact was far from over, and it was just impossible to see it in a short period of time. However, Li Yan, the organizer of the exhibition, did not feel any relief, because he was about to leave Chang'an and go to Liuqiu Island to deal with an urgent matter. At the same time, he hooked up some commercial allies in Chang'an to help him develop Liuqiu together, and also brought Li Ke, Li Yun and others with his eyes.

In fact, at the beginning, Li Yan went to Liuqiu to deal with that urgent matter, but the series of things that happened later forced him to bring more people. In addition, there were too many things in Chang'an, which made him unable to escape, which made this matter delay again and again. Lu Qing had already sent more than a dozen letters to urge him, and now he can't drag it down anyway.

However, before Li Yan left, there were still many things to deal with, such as the newspaper's development plan. He wanted to collude with Xu Shaozong, the doctor of the Information Supervision General Office, and told everything he knew about the direction of the newspaper's development, so as to try to prevent detours from happening in this news medium.

In addition, he also has to worry about the textile industry, but fortunately, Wang Zihao is a good helper, so he will still stay in Chang'an this time. He is also the president of the Textile Industry Association. With him holding the rudder of the textile industry, Li Yan is very relieved. In addition, there is also the weight and measure matter, which is also handed over to Wang Zihao to handle. After all, he has great prestige among businessmen, and his appeal is enough to promote this matter.

In addition to the above, the military academy, medical school, and Taoist academy were also within Li Yan's concern, so they had to find Li Jing, Sun Simiao, and Yuan Tiangang one by one and explain it to each of them.

After Li Yan finally finished everything and was about to leave Chang'an, two acquaintances suddenly found him. The three of them discussed in the study until midnight. Then Li Yan then sent them out of the mansion with a smirk. As a result, early the next morning, a news came from the Qi Mansion that Li Yan was sick again!
Chapter completed!