The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft the water, Ryukyu is a treasure and blessed land, there are mountains and mountains and water, and there are countless ingredients here.

However, in the poor days of the Ryukyus, people did not even have enough to eat, let alone spare resources to cook these top ingredients, so the local food culture of the Ryukyus did not rise.

Just imagine, people can't even eat enough grains, even if they give him bird's nest, shark fin, abalone and lobster, although this thing is delicious and high protein, but after all, it is not starchy food, and it is not the best time to eat too much of this thing.

Not to mention that many ingredients need other ingredients to match, especially oil, which is a precious commodity, why stir-fried cooking has risen in China, in fact, the root is still in the wealth of ancient China.

In ancient times, the peoples who were able to use a large amount of oil were all areas with developed agriculture.

It's time for the Ryukyus to catch up, with thousands of merchants bringing the world's delicacies, goods from all over the world so that people can eat ingredients from all over the world, and most importantly, Xiao Lotian has kept the price of food in the Ryukyus at a low level through strong commercial and government intervention.

For example, in Southeast Asia, the price of grain in the Ryukyus has always been at a reasonable level by buying wasteland in the name of the government, and then hiring landless displaced people from the Qing Dynasty to grow crops, or signing futures trading contracts with those Nanyang Chinese families, and the Prime Minister's Office subsidized it with commercial taxes.

The stability of food prices, coupled with the increase in people's incomes, and of course, the pursuit of wealthy people from all over the world made the food industry of the Ryukyus popular, and the cuisines of Tiannan, Haibei and North collided and merged with each other on this island, countless old dishes were improved, countless new dishes were invented, and the name of the food place in the East China Sea has been known all over the world.

Don't look at Weng Tongyi and these officials are all big names in Sijiu City who have seen the world, but after they arrived in Ryukyu today, they also became Grandma Liu and entered the Grand View Garden, and they rushed to this table of food, and they didn't taste half of the food.

Wine is good wine, the flower carving trafficked from the south of the Yangtze River, the color of the wine has shown amber, the aroma is overflowing, not to mention the dishes, they are all relatively rare Fujian cuisine in the north, the adults who have been tired of the journey eat this is called a happy one, even the Lord Weng who has not had a good appetite has drunk several times more than once, and ate a few more mouthfuls of food.

During the banquet, the old man suddenly asked, "Doesn't Your Majesty have four guards, four eunuchs, and three hundred and eight banners to serve?"

Zaichun put down his chopsticks, "Actually, Ermao also came before, but he was afraid that his identity was sensitive, and some of our words were not happy, so the word Ah The crowd saluted the adults, and then went back...... As for the 300 old soldiers, I left them in the barracks and are training hard!"

Lord Weng put down his wine glass, "I'm going to thank Ermao when I turn around, but I didn't expect that the most critical time was that he blocked the knife for His Majesty...... The court owes him an explanation!"

Feng Fu has indeed been a little perverted recently, and it doesn't please to see anything, "The court doesn't owe them anything, and Ermao is just a fine work arranged by Xiao Letian...... Look at this hellish place, how rebellious it is that so many people on the dock actually see His Majesty not kneeling!"

"And just now, His Majesty personally went to reserve a seat, and they actually dared to say no! Who else is in charge, obviously knowing His Majesty's identity, but he actually hit a thousand with a hippie smile and it's over! Isn't there no etiquette in the whole Ryukyus?"

Zaichun glanced at Feng Fu, "This is Ryukyu, not our Qing Dynasty, the prime minister has already announced the decree, unless it is a big court meeting to worship heaven and earth and the Spring Festival every year, it is not allowed to bow down on weekdays...... Especially soldiers, as long as they wear military uniforms, they must never kneel, do not kneel to heaven and earth, and do not kneel to their parents......"

"Ahh......h

But no one expected that Jae Chun shook his head indifferently, "I think this is very good, there is not so much red tape, there is something to say, and it is straightforward! The so-called emperor's authority is not maintained by this kind of ceremony......"

"When I was in Japan, I wanted to meet the emperor in Kyoto, but because the Japanese ministers didn't know what etiquette to use to receive me, they never met me, so I was asked to kneel to him? That was impossible, but he came to kneel to me? He was reluctant, and in the end I just rode a horse and looked at the Japanese Imperial Palace from afar, and killed the two birds on the wall of his house to say hello!"

"The Japanese emperor is like this now, and their imperial ministers still observe the etiquette of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and they don't make a mistake, but what's the use? The power is still in the hands of the generals and the daimyos, and the emperor will always be an empty shell......

"You think I'm not an empty shell? That Forbidden City is really big enough, the walls are really high enough, I am trapped in it and I am a prisoner, you kneel and bow to me every day, but let me ask you...... Can my decree really leave the Forbidden City? Which of you will listen to me......

This is really not the words of an eleven or twelve-year-old child, and he did not wait for everyone to answer, and then followed up with a question, "You don't need to answer me, let alone use official words to perfunctory me...... Go and torture your own heart, is this Great Qing Kingdom really the emperor in charge now?"

People's faces were red and white for a while, and finally Feng Fu said awkwardly, "Of course...... As long as the emperor can govern himself......"

"Hahaha...... Then borrow Lord Feng's auspicious words! I hope that by that time, someone will be willing to hand over the power in his hand to me...... Okay, let's not talk about this topic, I'll answer your previous question now!"

"You said that Lotte doesn't have 15 million cash in hand, but I said not necessarily, Lotte and the amount of funds that the bank can use every day are definitely above this amount!"

"What? So much...... Isn't this a silver mountain!"

Fifteen million silver coins, what a mountain of silver is that, and there are masters of arithmetic in the envoy corps, and the total amount will probably come out as soon as it is estimated, "Your Majesty, don't lie to us...... Fifteen million silver coins are counted by foreigners, that's more than 400 tons!

"That's it, that's a silver mountain and a silver sea!"

Zai Chun looked at them and said incomprehensibly, "What's impossible about this? At the end of the Yongzheng Dynasty, the national inventory of silver exceeded 40 million taels, if this is calculated into Western tons, how much is it?"

"Besides, people are not stupid at Rakuten Bank, who would borrow money directly? They use bonds, military bills and checks!"

Note: Today's second shift, probably maybe there may be another shift in the evening!