The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was very particular about his diet. Every morning, a team of more than 40 chefs were busy preparing the Emperor's diet for the day.
Tang Mo is a person who likes food. When he was in Bunas, he studied many food recipes. Although his own cooking was not very good, after giving it to the chefs below, they became classic delicacies.
Until now, the saying that the world’s delicacies originated in the Tang Dynasty has been recognized by most people. Everyone knows that some delicious food recipes come from the Tang Empire.
This is also corroborated with the objective laws of things. The Tang Empire was the first country to allow its people to eat three meals a day, and its grain output is still the first in the world. Every year, the Tang Empire spent huge sums of money to import grain and meat, so the Tang Empire had more capital to study how to eat.
The Forbidden City may have the largest and most complete kitchen in the world. There is a special cold storage here to store food. Even an apprentice who cuts piles would definitely be considered a celebrity chef elsewhere.
As the emperor of the Tang Empire, the most powerful empire in the world, Tang Mo's daily recipes required repeated scrutiny.
Tang Mo even had to have his blood pressure taken every morning and was consulted by a private medical team. After that, the medical team would copy Tang Mo's physical data to the kitchen office, and then the professional diet design team would decide what Tang Mo's breakfast would be.
The medical team will ask about Tang Mo's mood, refer to Tang Mo's rest time the night before, whether he had sex, and check with Tang Mo's secretary about Tang Mo's mental state after reviewing the memorial.
Then, after referring to these conditions, Tang Mo personally selected what he wanted to eat, and after cross-exclusion, the lunch and dinner for His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Empire were determined.
Before Tang Mo traveled through time, he was very disgusted with the expensive so-called OMASAKE cuisine. Whether it was Chinese or Japanese, Tang Mo disliked all OMASAKE dishes.
He has always believed that diet is an extremely personal thing that has no quantitative standards at all. The more it is recognized as delicious, the less it can meet the ultimate personal needs.
The gimmick of OMASAKE is even more "nonsense". The chef formulates the content himself. How can consumers enjoy the ultimate service?
Therefore, before Tang Mo traveled through time, he felt that the real OMASAKE service should be for the chef to communicate clearly with the employer first, then purchase the best ingredients on the same day, and provide high-end services with exquisite cooking skills.
You said that if you made a reservation for OMASAKE, and then you went there at night and found a table of sweet and sour pork ribs and shredded sweet potatoes, and the orderer was from a family with diabetes... wouldn't this be so embarrassing? What if the person who ordered the meal is in a bad mood today and doesn't want to eat seafood, only to find out that the main course is lobster?
As the Tang Empire grew stronger and stronger, the team serving Tang Mo, the emperor, became more and more professional and refined. Tang Mo finally experienced true "imperial enjoyment" in this world.
He himself was finally forced to transform from an arms dealer who lived in the open and didn't pay much attention to enjoyment, into a real emperor who was extravagant and lustful.
What is an emperor? That's the details that you can't think of yourself. There are countless people who will pay attention to, pay attention to and standardize for you.
The red tape of the aristocracy was formed through specializations. Tang Mo found that without realizing it, he had developed many habits that he did not have in the past.
In fact, what the emperor eats may not necessarily be delicious, because after this thing develops to a certain level, it simply starts to move closer to the standard of "energy intake."
In order to ensure the absolute health of His Majesty the Emperor, there is a fixed standard for diet planning. The emperor's food must ensure balanced nutrition. After you eat fried food today, it is best to eat something light tomorrow.
Even depending on Tang Mo's mood and the intensity of the day's work, the meal plans are completely different: what to eat when participating in activities, what to eat when reviewing memorials in the office, what to eat as a supper before going to bed at night... There are strict rules. standard.
Moreover, many of the things the emperor ate were even cold, because after they were prepared, they had to be inspected by poison testers, and there were also dedicated dead men who tasted the poison.
Who should the emperor eat with at noon and evening? What matters should be done in advance. What to eat at a banquet for the prime minister, what to eat at a banquet for ministers, and what to eat at a banquet for generals are all different.
To give a simple example, the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty, Roger, was quite aloof in status. When His Majesty the Emperor stayed with the Prime Minister to eat with him, he preferred sweet dishes. Because Prime Minister Roger likes sweet food, this meal must naturally take care of the Prime Minister.
When banqueting ministers from various ministries, in addition to different tastes, a main dish must be symbolically changed into a cold dish. This represents the respect and love that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty has for the Prime Minister.
Unlike banquets for civil servants, which mainly focus on fish and seafood, when banquets for generals, meat should be the main meal. This is also the default rule. Even when cooking, it should be heavily oiled and grilled to highlight the strong and resolute character of the generals.
This is just the surface. For every banquet, the royal chefs in the Forbidden City must rack their brains to be as unique as possible.
According to the dietary standards of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, except for breakfast every day, lunch must have six dishes and one soup, and it is forbidden to repeat it within a week. Even if His Majesty the Emperor specifically requests to taste a certain dish multiple times, the dish will only appear twice in a week.
Dinner must also consist of six dishes and one soup. If you are dining with the imperial concubine, the same number of dishes should be added according to the imperial concubine’s dietary standards: the imperial concubine’s dinner standard in the Tang Dynasty is five dishes and one soup, so if the emperor eats with the imperial concubine, There are eleven dishes and two soups.
And if the emperor and the three concubines eat together, they will continue to accumulate more: if four people eat together, it will be twenty-one dishes and four soups... The princes are still young, so their meals are calculated separately.
If His Majesty the Emperor invites ministers to eat, they will also have to add food. Under normal circumstances, when ministers stay for dinner, they are served three dishes and one soup, and the prime minister is served four dishes and one soup.
Sometimes, if there is a reward, more dishes will be added, sometimes three dishes at most, to reward the diligence of the ministers or the bravery of the generals.
However, sometimes in order to show favor, the dishes will be reduced in an exception: the purpose is to allow the ministers and the emperor to share the same dishes to show their closeness to the emperor. Well, at this time, two people still eat six dishes and one soup. Only God knows whether they can be full.
Under normal circumstances, those who manage to dine with the emperor and make "special exceptions" probably don't care whether they can eat enough. They will only feel that the meal is extremely glorious.
Sound like a bit much? In fact, most of the dishes are wasted, but this is the rule, this is the standard.
Tang Mo actually felt it was a waste, but all this was the majesty of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, an air that he had to put on, and a luxury that matched his wealth.
If we calculate that everything His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty eats must be of the highest quality and kept as fresh as possible, then the price of this meal is probably enough for ordinary people to eat for a year.
But no one thought that Tang Mo was extravagant and wasteful, because his expenses for catering and clothing were all internal funds and he used his own money.
As the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Mo actually had another identity, that of being the richest man in the world! He is the actual owner of Datang Group, and the amount of money he makes every day is immeasurable.
There is no need to calculate the profits of the sub-groups and subsidiaries of Datang Group. Even the market value of these companies is rising every day to an extent that is unimaginable.
It can be said that Tang Mo is burning money now. He is burning his own banknotes one by one. After a busy day, it is very likely that his net worth is still growing.
When a person already has money to this extent, he must think about how to spend it. He must make his wealth flow so that he can maximize the consolidation of his wealth.
So Tang Mo had to support a medical team by himself, a team of chefs by himself, and he also had his own orchestra, as well as his own professional photography team, driver team, personal guard...
He loves to eat delicious food, so he can feed thousands of people who worry about eating for him. In this way, it can provide more than a thousand jobs and create more than a thousand high-income groups.
As rich as he is, extravagance and extravagance can only be regarded as normal expenses. Because he was so rich, Tang Mo even formulated strict taxes to restrict wealthy people like himself.
As an emperor, he still has to pay taxes according to regulations, and he pays the most fixed taxes. Seventy-five percent of his income is taxed, but he is still the richest man in the world.
This day is another ordinary morning, and the imperial kitchen in the Forbidden City of the Tang Empire has begun another busy day.
The chef in charge clapped his hands to signal all the chefs who were busy preparing ingredients to stop what they were doing, and began to read out His Majesty the Emperor's appetite requirements today: "Less salt! You can add sugar in moderation. His Majesty specifically named mandarin fish, pork ribs, kidney beans, and cabbage. . If you have any ideas, you can share them now and we will summarize them and submit them for screening."
"Do you want to keep the lion head that was finalized last night?" a chef asked curiously.
"There's starch. If you leave the lion's head on, you can't serve the squirrel mandarin fish," another chef warned.
Everyone was chattering and talking to each other, and they selected at least thirty dishes in one breath, then recorded them in a notebook and handed them to the chef.
Afterwards, the Imperial Dining Room needs to submit this menu and send it to the Emperor Tang Mo. Tang Mo will decide how many items he wants to eat and then return it to the Imperial Dining Room. The Imperial Dining Room will prepare the corresponding dishes according to the wishes of His Majesty the Emperor.
It’s another busy day, starting with preparing ingredients, then frying and frying, making all kinds of delicious food. The arrangement must be exquisite and the heat must be precise. Then there is the tasting...
Finally, bring it up to His Majesty the Emperor...
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