Within the new imperial city, everything was complete. Some eunuchs and palace maids from the old imperial palace in Chang'an had also relocated.
In the imperial kitchen, Liu Dacheng, sweating profusely, was busy with pots and pans, while a group of palace maids bustled around him, at his beck and call.
Various seafood were no longer rare commodities. Ingredients like sea cucumber and large shrimp were loaded onto carriages in Dengzhou along with ice, and could arrive in just over ten hours.
At this moment, Liu Dacheng was proud!
After all, the opportunity to personally cook a meal for two emperors and the court's dukes was not something everyone could get.
He had even thought that if he retired after a few more years, he would open a restaurant in the new capital, named Sea Cucumber Fried Noodles.
Fried noodles that even the Emperor praised, the business was bound to be incredibly popular!
In just half an hour, steaming hot sea cucumber fried noodles were served to Li Shimin and the others.
Looking at the fried noodles before him, Li Shimin casually picked at them with his chopsticks, and three pieces of sea cucumber were revealed.
Li Shimin laughed, "Hahahaha, it seems Da Chengzi is still an honest man. This sea cucumber fried noodle dish actually has sea cucumber in it!"
"Come, come, everyone, let's all try Da Chengzi's craftsmanship!"
Fresh sea cucumber, genuine wheat flour, no artificial additives, eaten with large cloves of garlic, it was incredibly delicious.
Fang Er couldn't resist and immediately finished a large basin, only putting down his chopsticks with a lingering taste after belching.
Looking back, Cheng Yaojin and the others were also holding basins and eating heartily.
Liu Dacheng watched this scene, his mouth almost splitting to his ears. For a chef, such a sight was the greatest honor!
In the afternoon, everyone went to visit other palaces. With the Mingtang, the comprehensive administrative building, in the lead, the new imperial palace appeared much simpler than the old palace in Chang'an.
The remaining palaces, compared to their practicality, emphasized imperial grandeur more.
Massive pillars that required two people to embrace, carved with dragons and phoenixes. Sunlight shone on the gold paint, resembling living creatures…
"Holy crap! Who did this?!"
Looking at these pillars, Fang Er was stunned!
These were not dragons and phoenixes carved out…
They were clearly living black dragons and black phoenixes!
It was just that they had been dyed colors and were now coiled around those pillars…
Everyone else was also stunned, only Li Shimin coughed unnaturally.
"Cough, cough! Don't mind the details!"
Alright, there was no need to ask; it had to be this old fellow!
Fang Er was speechless.
These black dragons and black phoenixes, weren't they his property?
Using them without his consent could only be done by Xi Tong or Chai Yue.
What had Li Shimin been up to behind his back to persuade those two?
As if sensing his confusion, Li Shimin subtly pulled him away from the crowd, smiling awkwardly but politely.
"Uh, my esteemed son-in-law, please don't overthink it."
"I have specially reserved a large hall for the Fang family in this palace!"
Fang Er: ???
A palace in the imperial city, reserved for the Fang family?
Holy crap!
This old Li, he was really generous!
Although the system of the Great Tang had changed, the imperial palace remained the private domain of the royal family, just like before!
Within the palace, apart from the emperor's father and the emperor's sons, no man dared to sleep here alive for even a single night…
This guy, he had reserved a palace for him?
It was utterly absurd!
Well, since he didn't usually need to use the black dragons and black phoenixes, and they themselves didn't seem to mind, then so be it.
Cheng Yaojin and the others had seen black dragons, even ridden them.
But Liu Dacheng, Du Yiyang, Dai Li, and the other six ministries officials were seeing live black dragons for the first time, and their reactions were incredibly varied.
"My God! Look quickly, didn't that golden dragon on the pillar just wink at us?"
"More than that! I clearly saw its whiskers twitching just now!"
"You guys aren't focusing on the main point! I think I saw the dragon's lair… it's so big!"
"...........”
Hearing these strange remarks, Fang Er's mouth twitched.
Damn it!
These black dragons can understand human speech…
"Roar…"
As soon as this thought crossed his mind, the dragon girl pointed at by everyone immediately detached herself from the pillar and flew towards them.
Her gaze flashed with fear and unwillingness upon seeing Fang Er, but when she discovered that Fang Er had no intention of stopping her, she charged directly at the person who had just spoken.
No one had anticipated such a turn of events, including the fellow who claimed to have seen the dragon's lair!
"Slap!"
A sudden dragon tail directly sent that fellow flying dozens of meters away, landing with a splash into a roadside pond.
"Holy crap, this dragon is real, it can really fly…"
"Run, run quickly!"
"Help, I don't want to die…"
"Protect the Emperor, guard him quickly!"
".........."
In an instant, these officials were doing all sorts of things. Some only cared about their own escape, some simply lay on the ground feigning death, and the officials who could still think of the Emperor and his son in such a situation were less than a third.
Li's face instantly turned as dark as the bottom of a pot. He gave Li Chengqian a look, and then, the dignified third emperor of the Great Tang, publicly took out his small notebook and wrote down names one after another…