Chunxiang answered, turned into the screen, and after a short time came out more than a dozen maids, all dressed plainly, and there was no decent jewelry, in a group of jeweled concubines, Mrs. Haoming's different eyes, began to get busy, they put the dishes and chopsticks one by one, the plates were neatly placed, and the jingling sound rang non-stop in Kunning Palace.

Some of the smart concubines, Mrs. Hao Ming seemed to see something, and a few carefully took off the jewelry from their heads, and even the maids next to them also took off the jewelry on their wrists, silently looking at the busy maids.

After about a cup of tea, the big table in front of Empress Zhang was full of dishes and chopsticks, and more than a dozen maids stood aside with their hands down, waiting for Empress Zhang's instructions.

Empress Zhang glanced at the surprised concubines, Mrs. Haoming, smiled and nodded at everyone, "All sisters and ladies are sitting, right?" ”

The crowd fell into their seats in order of their position in the air.

It was at this time that the first taste became stronger and stronger, and many Mrs. Haoming couldn't help it, retching gently, and many people even forcibly gritted their teeth to endure it.

Empress Zhang smiled indifferently and said to Chunxiang behind her: "Let's start!" ”

"Soup!" Haruka answered, turned around and shouted behind the screen.

More than a dozen palace ladies rushed out, each holding a porcelain bowl in their hands, the bowl was steaming, and with the palace maid's fish coming out, the sour and rotten smell just now immediately diffused in Kunning Palace.

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These concubines, Mrs. Haoming are mostly from big families, where have they smelled this smell, and they immediately reached out and pinched their noses and muttered.

"Mother-this-?" Zhang Guifei really couldn't stand the soup and asked, if she hadn't gritted her teeth and endured it, she was afraid that she would have vomited.

Other people also feel the same way, but because Empress Zhang's status is too lofty, those low-status Zhaorong and Mei Niang dare not say much.

At this time, Chunxiang also put a bowl of soup in front of Queen Zhang, Queen Zhang reached out and took the soup spoon, stirred it lightly in the soup bowl, and then scooped up a spoonful and put it next to her mouth and blew it gently, waiting for the hot air on the noodles to cool down, and inhaled it into her mouth.

Everyone opened their mouths and looked at Queen Zhang with an incredulous expression.

"How is it possible that the queen should drink such a foul-smelling soup?" But when everyone saw it, they couldn't believe it, but they had to believe it.

Empress Zhang smiled on her face, and while drinking the soup, she said, "This soup is called pearl jade white jade soup?" It was eaten by the emperor's grandfather back then, and the emperor's grandfather was able to eat it, why can't your sisters and wives eat it? Could it be that your sisters think that they are more noble than the imperial grandfather? “

This pearl jade white jade soup still has a history, when Zhu Yuanzhang was poor, never had a full stomach, at the age of seventeen he died of the plague because of his parents, homeless, forced to his hometown Huangjue Temple as a little monk, in order to have something to eat. However, soon there was a famine in his hometown, and the incense in the temple was cold, so he had to go out to make a fortune. During this period, he went through many vicissitudes of life, and often couldn't get a bite to eat all day. Once, he didn't get anything for three days, he was hungry and angry, fainted on the street, and then rescued an old woman passing by and took it home, put the only piece of tofu and a handful of spinach, red roots and green leaves together, poured a bowl of leftover porridge and boiled it, and fed it to Zhu Yuanzhang. After Zhu Yuanzhang ate, his spirits were greatly lifted and he asked the old woman what she had just eaten, and the old woman was bitter and happy, jokingly saying that it was called "pearl jade white jade soup".

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang defected to the Red Turban Army, became the emperor, and tasted all the delicacies in the world. Suddenly, one day he was sick and couldn't eat anything, so he remembered the "pearl jade white jade soup" he had eaten when he was begging in his hometown, and immediately ordered the imperial chef to make it for him. The imperial chef had no choice but to use pearls, jadeite and white jade together, boiled into soup and offered, Zhu Yuanjin tasted it, felt that it was not right at all, and killed the imperial chef in a fit of anger, and asked someone to find a chef from his hometown to do it. The chef was very smart, and he thought to himself: Since the emperor is not interested in the real "pearl jade and white jade soup", I might as well try my luck with a replica. Therefore, he used fish dragons instead of pearls, red bell peppers cut strips instead of Fei (Fei is red jade), spinach instead of emerald (emerald is green jade), tofu stuffing instead of white jade, and poured fish bone broth. After offering this dish, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that it tasted very good, the same as what the old woman gave him back then, so he ordered the chef to be rewarded. After the chef got the reward, he went home, and passed on this dish that Emperor Zhu liked to Fengyang's father, and since then this soup has also been handed down, but because the ingredients he made are too simple, and the taste of the soup is too unpleasant, so it is not liked by large families, but ordinary people eat more.

These concubines, Mrs. Haoming are all big families, where have they eaten these on weekdays, seeing that the queen has eaten it, and said such a thing, although she is disgusted in her heart, she can only eat it hard.

After a cup of tea, seeing that all the concubines had gritted their teeth and finished eating, Queen Zhang said: "Today's banquet is not well received, please forgive your sisters and wives?" “

"What, drinking a bowl of pearl jade and white jade soup is considered a banquet, this is incredible, right?" When everyone heard Empress Zhang say this, they were immediately surprised.

Especially those ladies of Haoming, although they are dressed and eaten at home on weekdays, they have never eaten the banquet of the palace after all, not to mention that in the queen's bedroom today, I thought that today's banquet would be very rich, but what I didn't expect was a bowl of pearl jade and white jade soup, and the hope was suddenly disappointed, so that those women couldn't help whispering anymore.

And some of the concubines in the harem, most of them heard about this Empress Zhang's methods, and when they saw her behaving like this today, they more or less saw that this was deliberately done by Empress Zhang to show them, although they knew what was going on, but no one was stupid enough to say it.

Empress Zhang drank the pearl jade white jade soup, glanced at everyone, saw everyone's surprised looks, and the same expression as she thought in her heart, sighed lightly with pride, and said: "I have been the emperor grandfather since the founding of the country, although there is an imperial grandfather, the first emperor has been the best in today's saints, my Ming national strength is still prosperous, but far from reaching such a luxurious point, a few years ago, the emperor went to the West, repaired treasure ships, sent troops to Mongolia, repaired the "Yongle Canon", moved the capital to Beijing, and suppressed the Tang Sai'er rebellion, Every major event requires a lot of money and manpower, and it is precisely because of this that the Holy Lord is troubled, and the palace has heard that the Holy Lord has recently issued several edicts to cancel the emperor's practice of requisitioning commodities such as timber and gold and silver, exempt the people affected by natural disasters from the fields, and provide them with free food and other relief items, but even so, there are still many poor people in the world who cannot afford to eat, and there are many children who starve to death because they can't eat. Eat the best food, how can you be worthy of the people of the world, how can you be the mother of the world, and be an example of the world? ”

（……………… Note: Many book friends say that I made a mistake here, and most of the queens in the TV series call themselves "mourners" instead of the main palace. For this so-called mistake, Xiaojing would like to say a few words, in the ancient Chinese court, the emperor had three thousand beauties in the harem, and among the many wives and concubines, the emperor's wife was called "Empress", and there was also this ancient book referred to as "Hou"; And the mother who honorifies the emperor is the empress dowager; The emperor's grandmother was revered as the empress dowager. The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager called themselves "mourners" to express their sorrow over the death of the emperor. And the queen calls herself "Bengong" like the concubine, and cannot be called "mourning family", otherwise it is a great disrespect to the emperor, cursing the emperor to death and being killed. When the concubine sees the queen, she wants to salute, just like when she sees the emperor. But why is the emperor's wife called "queen"?

"Later" originally meant monarch. In the "Book of Songs" uploaded: "The order of Shang, the order is not lost, in the grandson of Wuding." Zheng Xuan's notes said: "Later, Jun also." For example, Dayu's son Qi is called "Xia Hou's", and there is the legendary Hou Yi who shoots the sun.

Before the Zhou Dynasty, the wives of the Son of Heaven were called "concubines", and at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, they were called "Hou". For example, "The Book of Rites• Qu Lixia": "The concubine of the Son of Heaven is the queen." After Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, he changed the Son of Heaven to the emperor, and established a concubine system in which the emperor's wife was the queen. However, the more complete concubine system and hierarchical division were not actually implemented until the Han Dynasty. "Hanshu•Emperor Gao Ji II": "The queen is called the queen, and the crown prince is called the crown prince." There is also "Three Kingdoms • Wei Shu• Biography of the Queen's Concubine": "Tai ancestor founded the country, the first queen, and the fifth rank below: there are ladies, there are Zhaoyi, there are Jieyu, there are Ronghua, and there are beauties." ”

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In the oracle bone inscription, the "hou" person is a mouthful of characters at the bottom left, and a hand is raised at the top right, but it has been used since Jin Wen flipped the font like a mirror image and moved the hand to the upper left. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" uploaded: "Later, the successor Jun Ye, like the shape of a person, is given to the Quartet, and the one who gives the call is also the queen." Because in the ancient clans and tribes, the person who gave the order was generally the authority of the woman, so the word "hou" means the female elder with authority. In oracle bone inscriptions, the word "hou" is also often used to refer to the female head of the clan. Therefore, it is also extended to the meaning of the emperor's wife.

The queen's status in the harem is like that of the Son of Heaven, the lord of all concubines. For example, "Zhou Li• Heavenly Palace Neizai" said: "The queen is handsome and the people of the six palaces." ”

Therefore, it should not be wrong for Empress Zhang to call herself "Bengong". So some book friends don't worry too much, haha-? “