"Master Liu, please get up quickly. We already said that we will hit it off immediately. Why do you do such a great gift?"
Tang Ping pulled Liu Hong up and said, "Don't say anything about death. Although I need Mr. Liu's help with something, I don't think there is any danger."
"Pingguo Gong, please give me your instructions."
"You just have to find a way to find a few hairs from your king or a sick prince and give them to me."
"Hair?" Liu Hong looked at Tang Ping blankly.
"Yes, I just have the best hair. This shouldn't be difficult, right?"
Liu Hong thought for a while and said: "No one can get close to His Majesty now, but His Majesty will occasionally appear in the main hall during morning court time. Judging from his appearance, there are still maids to tidy up his clothes. I will go and think of a solution now."
He Although our Honglu Temple receives foreign guests, a small country like Nanzhao does not have an organization as large as the Tang Dynasty. We need to find out who is in charge It is not a difficult task for the palace maid.
As long as you find someone, you can just think of a solution.
"Wait a minute, Mr. Liu is helping me to do something. I have to do a few things." Tang Ping took out a box of gold ingots and put it in front of him: "You can take these first. Don't be polite when you want to spend money."
Now, because the Tang Dynasty began to use gold and silver currency, gold is also a hard currency.
Liu Hong thought about it and thought what Tang Ping said made sense. Finding someone to do something was nothing more than coercion and inducement.
Intimidation is too difficult, but inducement is easier.
With Tang Ping's financial support, it would be much easier.
Asking Tang Ping for news about him, he went out with the gold.
First, he returned to Honglu Temple. He remembered that a subordinate's sister was working in the palace, and when he asked about her, he found out who was serving the current king of Nanzhao.
Arriving in front of the palace gate, Liu Hong was stopped.
He showed his sign arrogantly and said: "I am Liu Hong, the young minister of Honglu Temple. Now Duke Ping of the Tang Dynasty wants to order some dishes in our imperial dining room. Who is going to inform me?"
Several guards looked at it, then one of them ran in, and the matter was reported to Zheng Luofeng.
After all, the guards in this palace are now controlled by Zheng Luofeng.
After hearing what the people below reported, Zheng Luofeng frowned.
But think about Tang Ping
Such a person must have been used to being pampered and pampered in Chang'an. When he came to a remote place like Nanzhao, it was probably only the imperial chef in the imperial dining room who could barely attract his attention.
So he nodded in agreement and said, "Let Liu Hong go. No matter what Duke Ping of the Tang Dynasty wants to eat, whatever is available will be cooked for him."
He absolutely did not want to see such a great god like Tang Ping come to Nanzhao.
Now he only thinks about how good you are and how everyone is doing. If Tang Ping, the Bodhisattva, is sent away as soon as possible, everything will be fine.
So there is no need to create any extraneous matters.
So Liu Hong was let in, and someone led him to the imperial dining room.
After entering, he casually pointed at a cook who looked like a Han Chinese: "You are a Han Chinese, right? Can you cook Chang'an cuisine? Lord Ping Said I want to eat Chang’an cuisine.”
The cook said honestly: "The master of the villain's master is exactly what Xiaoluo, the master of Pingguo, learned to cook. I can indeed cook Chang'an cuisine, but the cooking skills are definitely not as good as what Duke Pingguo ate in Chang'an."
"Aren't you talking nonsense?" Liu Hong glanced at him: "Ping Guo Gong didn't expect to be able to eat the same thing as Chang'an. As long as the taste is similar and passable, it will be fine. You make two soups first. Ping Guo Gong wants to Have some soup, I’ll wait here.”
The order from above was for them to cooperate with Liu Hong, so the cooks had no objection and all helped to cook.
After a while, the cook brought out two bowls of soup. Liu Hong looked at it and pursed his lips: "See for yourselves, see for yourselves. You have minced all the vegetables in this soup? How dare you serve this to Ping?" Sir, do you want to drink it? If I go to Chang'an and find any restaurant, it will be better than this one! Redo it!"
The cooks have nothing to do. Now Liu Hong is the biggest here. If he says it will be redone, he will redo it.
I was about to go back with the soup bowl, but Liu Hong stopped me again: "What are you doing carrying it away? Didn't you see that the guards who came with me were working so hard? Invite them to eat!"
The cooks blew their beards, placed the soup bowls heavily in front of the guards who brought Liu Hong in, and went in again.
The two guards did not expect that sending Liu Hong would be such a good thing. Even though Liu Hong had devalued the soup as worthless, this was the imperial dining room of Nanzhao after all, and it was already the highest level of Nanzhao's cooking skills.
When will guards like them who watch the gate have the opportunity to eat such a meal?
I checked with Liu Hong and found out
They thought it was really for them to drink, so the two of them were not polite. Each of them picked up a bowl, casually took a pair of chopsticks and started eating and drinking.
I drank two large bowls of soup in a matter of minutes.
I have to say that the skills of this imperial chef may be inferior to those in Chang'an, but the ingredients used are definitely of the highest quality. They all think this bowl of soup is the best bowl of soup they have ever tasted in their lives.
Then soon, two more bowls of soup were brought out. Liu Hong nodded this time: "It looks good."
Then he tasted it with a small spoon, frowned and said, "It's so salty. Are you afraid that Duke Ping has never eaten salt?"
After saying that, he gave two bowls of soup to the two guards and said to the cooks: "Go and make it again."
"Are you looking for trouble?" Liu Hong, a young man from Honglu Temple Troublesome.
A cook yelled out in anger. Liu Hong pretended to be startled and leaned back, just in time to bump into the hands of two guards who were drinking soup.
The soup in their hands poured all over their own heads and faces.
"Are you okay?" Liu Hong asked with concern, and then said to the two guards with some grievances: "You also know that it was Lord Buxie who said that we should arrange meals for Duke Ping. How can I be the one here?" Looking for trouble?"
Because Liu Hong was eating and drinking here, the two guards were of course on his side, and it was indeed Zheng Luofeng who gave such an order.
He wiped his face with a rag and pointed at the cooks and said, "Do you dare to disobey Master Bu Xie's order?"
Now Zheng Luofeng is basically in control inside and outside the palace. Although the several cooks were extremely dark-faced, they did not dare to refute. They could only snort and continue to get into the kitchen.
Liu Hong took out two silver ingots from his pocket and put them into the hands of the two guards respectively: "Although I didn't mean it just now, I still feel sorry for you two. This little money will be used as the cost of washing clothes."
The two of them felt that their hands were heavy, and they laughed when they looked at the silver ingot: "Master Liu, you are too polite. We all obey orders, but these cooks don't know what to do. Wait until our brothers change their clothes and come back. If they don't behave well, If you do, we will help you report it to Zheng Buxie."
Liu Hong looked at the two of them with a smile as they went to change clothes, then looked at the sky and said in his heart, hurry up, time is running out.
