Lu Ning looked at the person beside him.

This is a beautiful young woman in her twenties, although she is dressed in a green cloth dress, but her temperament is gentle, she is not from a poor background at first glance, but she looks very afraid of herself, and she is afraid to stand next to her, and she doesn't dare to look at herself.

This is the Nine Grades of Palm Meal Miao in the Palace.

"Your lord, you haven't eaten yet, have you? How can the lord eat the steamed cakes in Chunhe Tower? You Wuniang pursed her lips and smiled.

Listening to the words of Xishang Palace, Miao hurriedly walked out, and after a while, hot steamed buns and steamed buns were brought from the kitchen, and there were a few delicate vegetables.

Lu Ning smiled, "Okay, these days, I'm really hungry for food in the palace!" ”

The food dishes in the food box brought by Miao are all practices that only exist in the Qi Palace.

Although today's steamed cakes are the prototype of steamed buns and even steamed buns, after Lu Ning's mouth, the chefs of the palace have perfected it, and the taste is different.

The fragrant buns, which are filled with pure meat, are much more delicious than the steamed cakes in Chunhelou.

Recently, he has been striking iron day and night, Lu Ning ate meat buns and took two bites, You Wuniang just sat on the side with a smile and looked at him as if he had changed his appearance.

With the maid by her side, Lu Ning couldn't reprimand her, after all, in the eyes of the maids, this was the incomparably noble Xigong Niangniang, and Lu Ning could only eat sullenly.

Seeing that the master father was eating heartily, Miao's heart breathed a sigh of relief, in front of His Royal Highness the King of Qi, she was really trembling, and her legs seemed to be soft all the time.

The lady of Xishang Palace is very frightening, but His Royal Highness the King of Qi is a panic that makes people kneel far away, as if their hearts are trembling.

Miao is a person from the Daimyo Mansion, a few years ago he married an old friend in Xingzhou in the north, and his husband was the governor of Xingzhou.

But I don't want to be in the summer, the Anguo army in Xingzhou made Li Jixun provoke the king of Qi, instigated the rebellion in Jizhou under the rule of the king of Qi, attracted the army of the king of Qi, Xingzhou city was broken in a few days, his husband saw that the matter was unknown, first he and his colleagues killed Sima who was loyal to Li Jixun and surrendered, and then because he did not get the glory and wealth he wanted, he was encouraged to make peace with the generals in the army secretly, and wanted to take refuge in the Han State, but he was defeated, and heard that his husband was criticized by His Royal Highness the King of Qi "the two ends of the first rat", and then the end can be imagined.

I still remember being in a women's prison and I was so frightened that I wanted to hang myself.

Fortunately, I later learned that the punishment of Qi was both harsh and had a lot of tolerance, at least, there was no habit of assigning the family of the criminal official to prostitution.

The female dependents of the important people in Xingzhou rebellion, who were eventually assigned to the female prisoners of the Sili Prison as slaves, were actually female workers such as textiles, and some were assigned to the peasants and palace guards everywhere as wives, and some were also assigned to the low-level officers of the forbidden army as wives, and some of them were also assigned to the low-level officers of the forbidden army as wives. However, among the soldiers, there are meritorious people of the second class or above, and there are already examples of appointing wives.

And Miao's was not sent to various textile farms to work as female workers, raise pigs in Tang'angfang, etc., but was selected as a palace maid by Mrs. Xishang Palace.

It is said that every time a large number of female slaves enter the prison, Mrs. Xishang Palace will look at it first and choose the best as the palace maid.

Miao has been studying female celebrity since she was a child, and she is good at cooking, and after entering the palace, Mrs. Xishang Palace personally summoned her because of her cooking skills.

However, she never expected that she would be brought by the lady of Xishang Palace to His Royal Highness King Qi.

And because she had to serve His Royal Highness King Qi with her, she was also unusually promoted to the female official in charge of the palace and the ninth grade.

She had never seen His Royal Highness King Qi before, and when she thought of this terrifying figure, her heart was full of fear.

In fact, now, she doesn't know what His Royal Highness King Qi looks like, and since His Royal Highness King Qi came in, she didn't dare to raise her eyes to see it.

Lu Ning was eating steamed buns, and also glanced at the Miao family on the side, looking at her, Lu Ning was thinking about some of the marriage matching systems he had engaged, which would be difficult for future generations to accept, but now, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it.

In fact, in this world, women can be regarded as a resource, and the phenomenon of thousands of female slaves in large households naturally has to be broken.

Although the palace maids of the Qi palace are also increasing, but from the perspective of governing the world, in fact, the king alone, in addition to those real tyrants, the rest is a mediocre monarch, even if he is greedy, the number is limited, do not make a certain class of collective greed to monopolize all kinds of resources, the common people in the world, can really benefit.

"Your mother's house, it's not far from here, isn't it?" Lu Ning asked suddenly.

Miao was stunned, his body trembled slightly, he knelt down hurriedly, and stammered in a trembling voice: "Yes, go back to the master's father's words, the maid's maid's mother's house is in Yongdingfang, from here, not far from here......"

Lu Ning was a little helpless, although she was a palace maid, but the rules of kneeling at every turn and even kneeling back to herself came from You Wuniang, and it was the rules in the palace, and it was getting bigger and bigger.

"Your family seems to have been an official in Weizhou for generations, your father and your two elder brothers are now in the Yin Yamen, and your eldest brother is now the secretary of the Commercial Tax Division." Lu Ning said and smiled, "This secretary is an extremely important section of my new law change policy. ”

Lu Ning is right, now there is a commercial tax institute in the center of Qi State, a commercial tax department in the state capital, and a commercial tax department in the county.

Historically, the names of the Commercial Taxation Institute and the Commercial Taxation Department appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, and now Lu Ning borrows the name, but the Commercial Taxation Institute and the following divisions and affairs are naturally not only as simple as collecting taxes in the Song Dynasty, but also responsible for managing the market, balancing prices and other responsibilities.

Just like the wooden building rented by Lu Ning, under the new policy, one-tenth of the rental income of the proprietor is also taxed, but in order to prevent the proprietor from imposing the lease fee on the tenant, the Commercial Tax Department has the right to set the price.

For the public and the commercial economy, the power of the Commercial Taxation Department is now on the heavy side, and sooner or later it will naturally be separated, but the new policy has just begun, and it is not in a hurry to make a rudimentary way, and the economic development of the citizens is mainly the Daimyo Mansion, the Zhending Mansion and the Shandong Mansion.

The Commercial Taxation Division, like the rest of the state capital divisions, has a director, a charge department, and an ordinary clerk called the clerk three-layer Xu officials, but the Daimyo, Zhending, and Shandong Sanfu Commercial Taxation Division, not only are they all one director, one deputy director, four charge divisions, and even an eight-grade supervisor, which is also a spectacle.

Of course, the commercial and tax departments of the state capitals are not under the rule of the Liucao Army, but the vertical and horizontal dual management law, which is not only under the jurisdiction of the governor of the state, but also under the jurisdiction of the Central Chamber of Commerce, and the final approval of personnel and other changes is under the authority of the Central Council of Commerce.

The authority is heavy, directly under the center, but the supervisor is also a clerk, so it is even more trembling, which is also a balancing act.

Of course, under Lu Ning's new policy, the future of Xu officials is extraordinarily bright, which is similar to some of Wang Anshi's ideas in the reform of civil education, Wang Anshi advocated that those who are about to take up public office should first take up the position of Xu officials, so that they can learn in advance the work they will have to guide and supervise in the future.

It's just that Lu Ning has done it more thoroughly, which is also the experience of later generations, from the perspective of later generations, Chinese officials can be said to be born as officials from the beginning of the officialdom, and they have risen step by step.

What is lacking is only the improvement of the supervision system, which Lu Ning is also experimenting with.