Chapter 605 What a big deal
Li You's dog nose smelled a familiar smell that had been missing for a long time, which was a unique and domineering fragrance.
"Cumin, it's cumin." Li You couldn't help but stand up.
As a foodie, I came to the Tang Dynasty, an era where beef and mutton were mainly composed of beef and mutton, and without the spice of cumin, the mutton smell was enough to make Li You feel so painful that he doubted his life.
At this time, two strong men came in with a roasted lamb.
Li You forgot his noble identity and couldn't help but walk towards them. Seeing the scorched particles, he reached out and pinched a few, put them in front of his nose and smelled them. He said ecstaticly: "Old Ha, it's this, it's this, it's such a gift."
Hamid couldn't help laughing when he saw Li You's appearance. He smiled and said, "At that time, you sent someone to follow me to find this, and today I finally found it for you."
When Li You mentioned this, he felt sad. Back then, one of Li You's close friends, Black Panther, went to Persia to find cumin, but ended up separated from Hamid's subordinates, and his life and death are still unknown.
Baihu also remembered Black Panther. The two brothers had a deep relationship. Seeing the prince's appearance, they felt uncomfortable.
When Hamid saw Li You coming to ecstasy, he suddenly became sad. He felt a little regretful and said to himself, "It's really a pot that doesn't open to pick up." He shut up and stopped talking.
Qualcomm, Mi Huai, Gasif and others didn't understand the causes and consequences, and they also became quiet when they saw their appearance.
The Persian chefs were frightened and were at a loss, thinking that they had made a mistake, and were silent.
Li You is a person with a broad mind. Although he is sad, he is unwilling to destroy the atmosphere. He took a deep breath, cheered up and smiled and said, "It's okay, let's continue eating."
The chefs placed the roasted whole lamb on several low tables.
Everyone saw the sheep's head tied with red ribbons, the sheep's mouth was carried green vegetables, and placed on the dining table. The color, fragrance and lifelike artistic shape made people salivate and couldn't wait to start work.
Li You looked at the fragrant mutton in front of him and his saliva couldn't help but flow down. At this moment, he had already realized his disobedient behavior just now, and resisted the urge to reach out to grab it, waiting for the chef to cut it.
A Persian chef looked at Hamid and waited for his order to start cutting the lamb.
Hamid nodded, and the Persian chef picked up the knife and cut it skillfully.
The chef cut a piece of meat on the face of the sheep with a knife, respectfully handed it to Li You, and then handed it to Li You. According to the rules, Li You should give the cut meat to the child first, but there were no children here. He cut the mutton in half and handed it to Hamid a portion.
Qualcomm, Baihu, Mihuai and others had long been attracted by the aroma of roasted mutton with cumin. Seeing that the prince and Hamid were eating, they hurriedly started eating.
"Well, it smells good, it's this." Li You praised while eating, and gave a thumbs up to gesture to the Persian chefs, saying in Persian: "The skills are good."
The Persian chefs were overjoyed to receive praise from the noble Tang Dynasty princes.
Hamid was an informed and tactful person, and he cooperated and said, "There is a reward."
The chefs were even more excited when they heard the reward from His Majesty the King and bowed to express their gratitude.
"Well."
Li You, Hamid and others were drinking while enjoying the food, but an inconsistent voice came from not far away.
It turned out that Qualcomm was eating too fast and was overwhelmed and couldn't help but burp.
Everyone couldn't help laughing.
At this time, the butler of the Governor's Office brought a cloth bag with gold wire embroidered and stood beside Hamid.
Hamid signaled him to hand the cloth bag to Li You.
Li You took the cloth bag and opened it. It was full of cumin seeds. He smiled and said, "Old Ha, this is the most expensive gift I have received this year."
Kabul, the Governor's Office.
After the reception banquet, Li You and others rested until three in three, and Garsif came over to invite Li You to see Hamid.
Abu Hassan, the governor of Persian Angot Province, is a Turkmenistan. He is 40 years old this year. He is small, with a red face, a rosacea nose, and has small eyes, but is shrewd. He introduced the current situation to Li You and others.
Khalid was the greatest general in the Arab war of unification and conquest. He fought bravely and cleverly, and was well-organized in both attacks, field battles, and retreats. His flanking detours and raids were even more effective, and he had extremely high attainments in strategy and tactics.
In 636, in the decisive battle with the Byzantine Empire army, the Battle of the Yamuk River, Khalid faced the 50,000 Byzantine Empire army with 25,000 people, used sandstorms to launch an attack, wiped out the Bai army, and killed the younger brother of the Byzantine Emperor Hiraluk, and completely conquered Syria.
Khalid is known as the "Sword of Allah", and his record is comparable to that of Caesar, Alexander and Hannibal.
The opponent Li You and Hamid are about to face is Adnan, the second general under Khalid, who made great contributions in the war against Syria and Egypt.
At this time, in the east, the Arab army attacked the Indian continent, fighting with Hamid, the father of the Persian Empire, and attacking Afghanistan. The Bingfeng pointed directly to the western border of the Tang Dynasty. Adnan was the commander of this army.
Not long ago, Adnan had just captured the Toro Kingdom and was appointed as the governor of Toro Province, the Great Food Empire. He had an army of 150,000 under his command and was integrating the Turkmen, Uzbek, Kazakhstan, Armenian, Tatar and other ethnic groups in Toro Province.
The Arabs had a complete set of experience in ruling the occupied areas. Every time they conquered a place, they immediately began to implement the teachings of the ***. In this era, the teachings of the *** were of great appeal to the middle and lower classes.
After they occupied the Toro Kingdom, they began to integrate with ***. Once the integration is completed, the Arabs can increase their troops by at least 100,000. At that time, Li You and Hamid will face the attack of no less than 250,000 Dashi Army.
It is expected that Adnan will launch an attack on Kabul in early April.
Now, the Dashi Army has strengthened its reconnaissance of the Kabul area, and the Arabs that Li You and others met will appear almost every day.
It was already early March, and Li You's army was still on the march. The first one to reach Kabul was only 10,000 Tang troops from the Western Regions Protectorate. The situation was very serious.
After listening to the situation introduced by Governor Abu Hassan, Mi Huai showed a look of fear on his face. Baihu and Qualcomm trusted Li You very much, but in the face of such a situation, they became a little worried.
Although Abu Hassan heard Hamid say that Li You is awesome, he was very worried when he saw that Li You is so young and does not have enough military power in his hands. He really couldn't think of how Li You could turn this situation around.
Hamid was confident in Li You, and he said, "Old Li, what do you think you will do, I will listen to you."
Li You smiled and said, "What a big deal."
Hamid, Baihu and Qualcomm were all familiar with Li You's words. At this moment, when he heard him say this, his heart suddenly relaxed. The three of them showed relaxed smiles on their faces.
Although Abu Hassan and Garsif didn't know Li You, they couldn't help but admire him when he was so calm when facing such a crisis.
Chapter completed!