Li Shimin moved the small bowl in front of Xi Yunfei, and the meaning was very obvious. I wanted this chopstick mutton.

Xi Yunfei was stunned at first, and looked at the silent Qin Qiong, Li Ji, and Cheng Yaojin. Only then did he realize that they did not take the opportunity to hold the meat for Li Shimin, but when did this old boy sit next to me?

Xi Yunfei's eyes twitched. This was the first time he had caught meat tonight. Whether to give it to him or not, this was a question. Moreover, looking at Li Shimin's appearance, he seemed quite amiable. He should not be a sly uncle.

"Ahem."

Qin Qiong covered her mouth and coughed, reminding Xi Yunfei, who was hesitating, to put the meat in Li Shimin's bowl immediately.

Xi Yunfei naturally knew what he meant, but he was so hungry that he looked up at Li Shimin. Seeing him looking at him with a bright smile, Xi Yunfei decisively returned a sunny and handsome smile: "Your Majesty wait, just add water, I'll try how the meat tastes for you!"

As he said that, under the stunned gaze of Qin Qiong and the other two, he put the meat into his mouth in one bite. Because the slices of meat were just out of the pot, the meat was still very hot, but Xi Yunfei couldn't care about so much. This bite of mutton was very happy to eat.

“·······”

Li Shimin was shocked by his actions. This was the first time in his life that he was rejected so directly. Does it taste good? Do you still have to try it? He had swallowed more than a dozen saliva when he smelled the fragrance. This kid deserves a beating.

But as the emperor, Li Shimin could not lose his temper with a teenage kid in any case. Especially Qin Qiong and the other two were there to watch. If he was petty, he would not make a joke for no reason, and would also damage the majesty of his saint.

Cheng Yaojin was laughing in his stomach at this time, but he didn't dare to laugh out loud, so he could only turn around and pretend to get the ingredients. He kept tears falling a few times, and he gritted his teeth and refused to let himself laugh out loud.

However, Qin Qiong and Li Ji looked at each other, and the latter hurriedly took a plate of newly cut mutton: "Your Majesty, don't be as knowledgeable as this kid. There are still many here. You can eat it by burning it. It's just right to eat it with eight or nine breaths."

Li Shimin nodded awkwardly, but he didn't expect to meet Xi Yunfei as a naughty person today. He was too shameless.

Xi Yunfei also knew that he was doing something wrong, so he looked back at Li Shimin and said, "If your Majesty likes it, I will send some of the basic ingredients to the palace. However, if you eat too much this thing, it will cause anger. I suggest you eat it when you are greedy."

Li Shimin was stunned when he heard this. He heard that Xi Yunfei wanted to give him the base of the hot pot to himself. He thought that the boy was quite tactful and nodded with satisfaction and said, "Then I'll give some. There are many people in the palace, so be careful if I give them less, I'll be anxious, hahaha."

Xi Yunfei smiled, but didn't care.

However, some people couldn't sit still. Cheng Yaojin, who had been laughing, was so anxious that he saw that Xi Yunfei agreed to be readily. He had almost treated Xi Yunfei as half of his son-in-law, so he naturally couldn't stand Xi Yunfei at a loss. He heard this and shook his head and said, "Your Majesty is not right. This base is seasoned with the best spices. If you give too much, this kid will not go bankrupt."

There are not many people in this world who dare to refute Li Shimin so directly, and Cheng Yaojin is one of them. Not only is Li Shimin not angry, he looks at Xi Yunfei with interest and said playfully: "This is what he said himself, I didn't force him."

Xi Yunfei looked at Li Shimin suspiciously. Seeing that Cheng Yaojin had been blinking at him, he was confused for a while, and then he remembered some information about the palace. No matter what, the other ones were just an imperial city, the population was no less than 30,000, and the daily food expenses were calculated based on one million. He was stupid and said that he wanted to send the hot pot base to Li Shimin.

Xi Yunfei's forehead was sweating coldly, and he had an idea and said, "I gave it to Your Majesty for food. Of course, you can't be stingy. Your Majesty eats two meals a day, 365 days a year. I'll give you seventy or eighty kilograms to eat for a year, not too much or too much."

Li Shimin was stunned.

Cheng Yaojin raised his lips and said, "That's right, this thing is so precious, Your Majesty must enjoy it alone. And it's not good to eat too much, so eating it every day is definitely not OK. If I ask me, ten pounds are enough."

Seeing Cheng Yaojin cooperated so much, Xi Yunfei hurriedly responded: "Yes, Uncle Cheng's words make sense. For the sake of His Majesty's health, I think it's too much to eat once every ten days. In fact, I'll give you a pound, just eat once a month, one or two at a time, and the taste is just right."

“·······”

Li Shimin's hand holding the mutton was trembling with anger, and looked at Cheng Yaojin and Xi Yunfei speechlessly, wondering whether this big and small guy was a long-lost biological father and son.

He shook his head speechlessly. Li Shimin was too lazy to pay attention to them and continued to fight the delicious food in front of him to the end.

"Huh? What kind of meat is this? It's crispy and delicious, delicious!"

When Li Shimin ate hot pot for the first time, he naturally had to taste all the ingredients. When he ate the tripe, he was instantly attracted to the powder.

Xi Yunfei also picked up a piece, rolled it in the garlic paste and put it directly into his mouth, took a few bites and swallowed it directly, and then replied: "This is called tripe, it is the small stomach of a beef. Isn't it delicious?"

Li Shimin nodded happily at first, then his face tightened and looked up at Cheng Yaojin.

Cheng Yaojin was stunned for a while before realizing that Li Shimin had just issued a new law, which was a harsh decree to accumulate grain to prohibit the people and merchants from killing cattle.

"Uh......" Cheng Yaojin didn't know how to explain the embarrassing situation in front of him.

Li Shimin also had a tripe mixed with his tripe and didn't know whether to eat it or not.

Qin Qiong and Li Ji looked at each other, both of whom were embarrassed.

Xi Yunfei took another bite of tripe and saw that they stopped. The atmosphere was very strange and realized the problem.

How many oxen were there in the Tang Dynasty? Xi Yunfei didn’t know, but he came from later generations. It was too easy for people in that era to eat beef. Why was a beef cow sentenced and severely sentenced? Xi Yunfei couldn’t understand why it was sentenced to be sentenced.

Turning his head and looking at Li Shimin with an awkward look, Xi Yunfei said, "Your Majesty, I have exchanged 500,000 cans of kimchi for a lot of cattle and horses from Tuyuhun. Do you know how many 500,000 cans of kimchi can be exchanged for in my Tang Dynasty?"

Li Shimin shook his head. The transaction price of cattle in the Tang Dynasty was actually not high, not even one-tenth of a horse. However, because killing cattle is a crime, few people raise cattle. Basically, the government invested money to raise it. Common people rented it with money. For example, Cheng Yaojin and his farmhouses were like this. The owner raises cattle and the merchants rented it. This also facilitated the court's unified supervision.

Xi Yunfei stretched out five fingers and said, "Fifty cans of kimchi can be exchanged for a cow. Fifty cans of kimchi are worth 2,500 cents in the Tang Dynasty, which is two jin and five hundred cents. This price is far from buying a cow."

Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "There is also a price difference between the two countries. The account is not what you calculated. Your kimchi is sold in Chang'an for fifty cents, but it was sold in Luoyang for 300 cents, which is ten times the price of the purchase. When they went to Tuyuhun, the last time they bid 50 cents for a can of kimchi, it was already ten times the market price. Those merchants who were transported to Tuyuhun would have to increase the price. And a cow could not be sold in Tuyuhun for the same money. Do you know this?"

Xi Yunfei smiled and nodded: "I still understand these, just like the fragrant pears from Qingzhou." Xi Yunfei picked up a pear from the fruit plate and said: "This thing is worthless in Qingzhou. When you go to Chang'an, you can't buy fresh ones for five cents."

Li Shimin nodded with relief. It was quite good for a country boy to have such knowledge, but Li Shimin still criticized: "It's not just these, such as fish catches on the beach, fruits and vegetables in the south, spices in the Western Regions, and spices in Chang'an, which are so expensive. So if you use fifty cans of kimchi to exchange for a cow, it's not necessarily very clever. If you really count it, you have repaid a lot of losses."

Xi Yunfei disagreed and tapped the table with his right index finger. The wholesale price of 30 cents per can of kimchi is only less than three cents. In fact, Xi Yunfei bought a cow for 150 cents. No one knew about this, because in the subconscious of Li Shimin, Qin Qiong and others, sugar and Xiangxin ingredients are both outrageously expensive, so the cost of making kimchi must be very high.

Seeing Xi Yunfei laughing but not speaking, Li Shimin raised his eyebrows: "Do you think I'm wrong?"

Xi Yunfei shook his head slightly: "I just thought, it would be great if I had endless beefs in Tang Dynasty..."
Chapter completed!