Chapter 42: Fine

After the fourth round of selection, Zhang Zhaohua and the other forty-four show girls were moved to live in the main hall, and the treatment was also improved by more than one grade. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

After that, in terms of eating, I had eaten very well, and now I have eaten more heartily and finely, because I invited the people from the Shang Food Bureau and the Shang Food Supervisor to cook in the restaurant, so the show girls eat the food in the palace, and because these show girls will be the female show talents in the palace at worst, so the food for them is all female officials, even a little higher than the concubine.

Just the cakes eaten, there are all kinds of Chengsha cakes, sugar cakes, milk skin cakes, crispy cakes, plum blossom cakes, treasure cakes, silver ingot cakes, Fangsheng cakes, chrysanthemum cakes, sunflower cakes, hibiscus cakes, ancient money cakes, gold brick cakes, rhino horn cakes so many types, as for the lunch menu, it is not the same every day, there are pepper vinegar shrimp, roast goose, roasted sheep's head and feet, goose meat and babes, salty drum mustard lamb belly plate, garlic vinegar white blood soup, five-flavor steamed chicken, yuan sauce lamb bones, bean chess noodles, pepper lamb, Garlic cheese is like this, the entire palace should be in accordance with the emperor's taste of the food list, so Zhang Zhaohua found that the emperor likes to eat Su's pastries, so the dim sum in the palace is almost all pulp skin puffy crisp, muffin cake kneading appearance, as for sesame oil baked cakes, sand stuffed small steamed buns and other northern dishes, appear on the table very few times- However, the emperor's taste is very heavy, how to say, the meal is inseparable from pepper, mustard, salted tempeh, vinegar and garlic such condiments, all say that the poor have a heavy taste, and the rich have a light taste, it seems that the emperor was really poor when he was a child, and this heavy salt, heavy oil and heavy seasoning diet has not changed until the rich world.

So Zhang Zhaohua eats well every day, sometimes three meals a day plus a snack, overnutrition, a circle of meat actually appeared slightly on the small belly, the so-called residence migration qi, nourishment and body migration, it seems that can stay until today's show girl, everyone is in appearance, compared with before entering the restaurant, there have been some changes.

This kind of life seems to be impeccable, and the show girls seem to like the changes in their bodies, for example, their teeth are whiter, because of the special white jade toothbrush and more than a dozen kinds of spices made of tooth powder, for example, the hair is darker and moister, because of the jasmine and osmanthus head oil, for example, the skin is fairer and delicate, and the complexion is more beautiful, because of the use of white sandalwood, honey monk, white lilac, The goose egg powder prepared by mixing the fine powder of baiji and motherwort ash with motherwort ash is specially used for them, and there are even flower petals used to soak hands and feet every day, and the hands and feet must be soaked in the petal water for about a quarter of an hour, during which the joints are also kneaded to make the knuckles soft, and for those beautiful girls who have given birth to calluses because of farm work, the aunt in charge even has to catch them and grind them off one by one with small chicks.

Now Zhang Zhaohua knows that the nobles are carefully raised, if you talk about the appearance, in fact, the group of show girls who brushed down before are not much different from them, but now it seems that they must not be the same, because those show girls who have been brushed down will return to the township, but they will marry into wives in a few years, and then they will be like all peasant women, with rickety bodies and withered faces.

In addition to the improvement of food and clothing, there are also some unique things in their daily classes, such as the preparation of spices.

Perfume is a high-level work, but also an artistic work, it is said that there is also talent, because there are too many types of incense, and there are some attributes of mutual restraint, and the commonly used incense cakes in the palace are made by a few ingenious concubines and beauties, and there are incense recipes that can be handed down from the Song Dynasty.

The incense used in ancient China, many of which are medicinal incense, the taste can not be compared with the perfume prepared by the West in the future, not as good as the perfume with a strong sense of layering, the incense burned in the palace is fine and dense, soft and soft, more than a dozen spices are mixed together, it is difficult to distinguish. So this is the technique of living, learning to please people is absolute, I heard that in the court of the Song Dynasty, the concubines played a game of smelling incense with the emperor, although the emperor of this dynasty did not, but it is said that there are several princes who have this kind of taste.

Sure enough, there is a target.

There are still a lot of things to learn, such as playing chess, Liubo, pitching pots, fish play, double land, kicking and the like are taught, this course is very popular with the show girls, and everyone learns well and quickly, but when Zhang Zhaohua understands why she wants to learn these things, she feels very sad.

One is to serve people, the princes are young, they all like these, they have learned to play, and in the future, the husband and wife can play together, which is a rare common language. The second reason is to entertain themselves, many nobles in the palace have long been unable to see the emperor, what to do, they are all passing the time like this, and now the nobles are more and more unable to see the saints, three or five make up a table, which is a pastime.

Of course, the most important lesson every day is in the evening, and it is Gongzheng Mama who comes to teach them personally, and what they learn is the "Ancestral Training" compiled in the sixth year of Hongwu and revised several times before and after, which is the emperor's personal compilation of the precepts for future generations.

There was so much stuff in it that they studied one chapter in two days, for a total of twenty-eight days.

When he saw the chapter of "Law", Zhang Zhaohua could really be said to be sweating and trembling, because it was about the power given by the emperor to the vassal king, which was really boundless. For example, if the vassal king commits a crime, "if there is a small or big mistake, he does not send someone to send a decree to ask about the crime, but only to call back to listen to the emperor's father's edict." "It means that if you have committed a crime, I just admonish you, if there is a "court official document to ask the guilty, it must be taken down by the future", and let the vassal king detain the court envoy!

He was not even allowed to impeach the vassal king, saying, "All the feudal officials, with the king's small mistakes, will be beheaded." ā€

That's all there is to it, what makes Zhang Zhaohua feel that he can't understand the emperor's brain circuit is this one - "When the new son of heaven in the imperial court is on the throne, the kings send envoys to congratulate them, guard the border domain, and do not go to court for three years...... If the court follows the rules of the ancestors and appoints ministers, there is no evil in it, and three years later, the princes still come to the court in turn. If there are no ministers in the court, and there is evil in it, the prince will train the troops and stand by, and the Son of Heaven will secretly edict the kings to lead the troops to seek peace. After the peace, the troops were collected in the camp, and the dynasty returned to the emperor. ā€

What does it mean, that is, when the new emperor ascends the throne, the other princes should observe this emperor for three years to see if he is a wise king, and if he comes to the court after three years, if there are no virtuous ministers and ministers in this court, but there are great treachers and evil bewitching the king, then the prince will gather troops and levy these traitorous ministers. After the pacification, the vassal king collected his troops and returned to the camp, met the Son of Heaven, and then returned to his feudal country.

Zhang Zhaohua really wanted to roll his eyes and scold, and kicked his head to the donkey.

How can you also make secret edicts, learn from the edicts of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty? Why do these vassal kings train their troops to crusade against traitorous ministers? Isn't this just a rebellion, and the righteous name is in the orthodox court, if you say that there are traitors, will the traitors admit it, but they will say that you are a rebellious minister and a thief?

The funniest thing is that in this scenario, the vassal king has eliminated the traitorous ministers, and then what happens - obediently let him disband the soldiers and go back to continue to be the vassal king of his drunken dreams?

Why is there such a strange ancestral teaching, is this too much belief that his sons are good people, this is too much belief that the country can be killed by traitors, military generals, eunuchs, and women, but he refuses to believe that it will die in the hands of the clan - so in history, those rebellions of the Seven Kingdoms and the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the emperor was blind and didn't see it?

No wonder not long after Zhu Yuanzhang died, the clan rebelled. People raised troops under the banner of getting rid of the traitors in the court, and now Zhu Yuanzhang is afraid that he will vomit blood in anger under Jiuquan.

There is a saying that "Emperor Ming Zhi, Emperor Taizu Gao also, Ming Zhi Yi Xiang, Zhang Jiangling also." She agreed with the latter sentence, Zhang Juzheng's achievements are indelible, but in the previous sentence, she never dared to agree.