The Ming Dynasty Zhengdan banquet was the overall responsibility of the Ministry of Rites, and the execution of specific affairs was the responsibility of Guanglu Temple.

The relatively large banquets of the Ming Dynasty include the suburban celebration banquet, the Zhengdan and the longevity festival, and among them, the banquet after the Zhengdan Dynasty meeting has the largest number of participants.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the ceremony was set by the banquet to be served nine times, each wine had a different soundtrack, and it was also mixed with the dance of pacifying the world.

In addition, according to the different ranks, the dishes at the banquet are divided into four categories: upper table, upper middle table, middle table, and lower table.

Dishes on the table: tea food like raw flowers, five kinds of fruits, five kinds of fried food, phoenix chicken, double stick bones, big silver ingots and big oil cakes, five kinds of wine, four colors of vegetables, three kinds of soup, two large steamed buns in clusters, rice with horses, cattle and lamb gizzards, and five bells of wine.

Dishes on the middle table: tea food like raw flowers, five fruits, five kinds of wine, four colors of vegetables, three soups, two large steamed buns, horses, cattle and lamb gizzard rice, wine five bells.

Dishes on the middle table: five kinds of fruits, four kinds of wine, four colors of dishes, two kinds of soup, two steamed buns in clusters, rice with meat and meat with horses, pigs, beef and lambs, and three bells of wine.

Dishes on the table: General with the driver, press wine, fine powder soup, pepper vinegar meat and head and hooves, two steamed buns, pork rice, wine for a minute.

In addition, the service personnel at the banquet such as Jin Wuwei and the eunuchs and palace maids who performed this mission will also have separate meals after the banquet.

Judging from the dishes alone, Zhu Youzhen, who came from later generations, was very unimpressed by this, and he couldn't catch up with the ordinary people of later generations to entertain him.

One prayer and one blessing, nine times successively, looking at the ministers outside the hall was too uncomfortable, Zhu Youzhen accelerated the progress of the banquet, and soon served the last dish, soup.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was customary to send guests with some soup, and at the royal banquet, after the soup was served, it meant that the banquet was over.

The ministers outside the hall immediately breathed a sigh of relief, went out from home at five o'clock in the morning, waited outside the Chengtian Gate until eight o'clock, and then entered the Forbidden City to stand in front of the Imperial Palace.

After the ceremony, it was already more than ten o'clock when the emperor gave food, and this court meeting also added a link of cabinet edicts, and when the ministers gave the banquet, it was already early noon.

However, under Zhu Youzhen's deliberateness, the banquet ended quickly, and the ministers got up and bowed again, waiting for the emperor to send red envelopes, and then they could pat their butts and leave.

Basically, from the end of the hour to the middle of the afternoon, for three and a half hours, all of them stood outside, counting nine cold days, and they were also sinned.

However, since the new emperor ascended the throne, the original twice-monthly court meetings have been canceled, and most officials attend the court meetings only a handful of times a year, except for major festivals and sacrifices.

This is undoubtedly an invisible benefit for some low-level officials, in the past, these officials participated in the court meeting as a foil, there was no meaning at all, and the emperor could not pay attention to them if they were too far away.

Therefore, when the court meeting was canceled, except for a few officials who admitted to death, the vast majority of officials were in favor of this benevolent government.

Therefore, for the several large court meetings that are fixed every year and still need to be attended by low-level officials, the officials are still very happy to come to the palace to meet the emperor.

At this time, the banquet has been cleaned up, and the ministers stand solemnly, waiting for the final surprise link, but they don't know whether the new emperor will give silver or rice, flour and meat this time.

If you don't give a lot of rice, noodles and meat, you have to consider the decency of the scholars, and the officials can't resist a bag of noodles to go home, so half of the total number will not return more than five catties, and no matter how much it will not exceed ten catties.

Therefore, compared with the real thing, the officials felt that silver was more affordable, and it was easy to carry, so there was no need to insult the dignity of the doctor.

And if you give silver, no matter how small the amount is, you have to have a look of two or three taels, and the royal family has to be decent and decent, and the smallest silver ingot is two taels, and you can't put all the small silver ingots in half.

And according to the grapevine, there are more rumors that the royal family will give silver this time.

But everyone is not expected to be much, there have been many battles this year, there is still a famine in the north, and the emperor is estimated to not have much silver.

However, the result was beyond everyone's expectations, as the eunuchs distributed the exquisite purses to the hands of the officials, although no one was embarrassed to open them in person, but just in the heavy touch of the hands, the silver was more than ten taels.

The ministers immediately looked at each other, and because of the imperial history who supervised the etiquette around them, they could only make eye contact one by one, but the joy was already beyond words.

Among them, the officials of the Baoquan Division of the Ministry of Household Affairs deal with silver all day long, and they can know how many taels of various types of silver they have just by touching them.

After a while, rumors of a reward of at least twenty taels spread from the area where the household officials were standing.

As the news spread more and more, the orderly ministers just now also began to buzz at this time, seeing that the situation was a little difficult to control, the timely Shao music instantly covered up the rudeness of the ministers.

Compared with the outside of the palace, the important ministers and nobles in the main hall are quite calm, and it is not the first time that they have received rewards from the royal family, and there are many more rewards alone.

Although the customary rewards after the Zhengda court meeting this time were much more than before, and they also exceeded their expectations, the important ministers and meritorious officers were cunning and unfazed, and a mere fifty taels of silver could not cause a change in their demeanor.

Zhu You looked inside the hall and then at the outside of the hall, and immediately felt that the maximum reward of fifty taels was very correct, and the marginal diminishing utility in economics was really the truth.

Before, Zhu Youzhen even thought about whether it would be better to pay 20 taels, the effect would not be reduced and save money, but then he felt that the same hair could not reflect the level of the official rank, and the officialdom was the most respectful and humble, which might also cause dissatisfaction among high-ranking officials.

Judging from the expressions of the officials, this kind of reward, which reflects the grade even though the grade is not obvious, is still the most effective.

Zhu Youzhen was thinking in a daze, and suddenly the sound of blessings from the mountains outside came, which immediately pulled Zhu Youzhen's thoughts back.

After the reward is over, it is time to give thanks, but this time the mountain cry of gratitude is more shocking than ever.

'Since ancient times, wealth has touched people's hearts, and the ancients did not deceive me. ’

Zhu Youzhen's face was kind, waiting for the ministers to finish bowing.

According to the etiquette procedure, Zhu Youzhen then had to encourage the officials a few words, and then they could leave first.

"Erluer, the people's fat and the people's ointment, take it from the people, use it for the people, work diligently, I want to hear!"

After the ministers thanked him, Zhu Youzhen's words of encouragement were transmitted to the ears of every official through the Han generals.

Without any further delay, Zhu Youzhen got up and left.

The ministers bowed again, the ceremony was played, and the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting of the second year of Chongzhen ended successfully.