Fan Hongjin patted the horse's leg on the horse's leg, and while telling himself to pay attention, he immediately said: "The minister lost his words for a while, please forgive your majesty." "He is a high-ranking cook, and he can call himself a minister.

"That's it, I won't punish you this time, but don't lose your word in the future." Yun Xi said this, and without waiting for him to thank him, he walked around the imperial dining room.

Although the Imperial Dining Room is a place for the royal family to cook, it is not only a kitchen, it is a complex of buildings that covers a large area, but Yunxi only cares about the kitchen, so he only wanders around the kitchens.

Strictly speaking, there was no yamen called the imperial dining room in the Ming Dynasty, but everyone referred to the place where the emperor cooked was called the imperial dining room, which was under the jurisdiction of the Shang Shan Jian and the Shang Food Bureau (female official yamen), and the emperor and the harem concubines were responsible for the meals of these two yamen under normal circumstances. Now the actual person in charge of the imperial dining room is Wang Guanglu, the prime minister of Shangshanjian (correct), who immediately trotted over and waited by his side when he heard the news of Yun Xi's arrival.

Yun Xi turned around and said to Wang Guanglu: "The health condition is fine, it is similar to the last time I came, you are doing well." ”

"The food in the imperial dining room enters the mouths of His Majesty, all the mothers, and the prince, how dare the servants ignore it. The servants had to patrol the kitchen every morning, and if they violated the rules, they would be fined a month's worth of silver rice at a time, beaten twice, and expelled from the palace three times and not allowed to cook for the nobles. ”

"Several fathers-in-law are also very concerned about the hygiene of the imperial dining room. Wang Xi's father-in-law, Father-in-law Haiminghai and Father-in-law Ma Chengma also often told the slaves not to be neglected, which also has the credit of the three fathers-in-law. Wang Guanglu said with a smile.

"Since you are in charge of this place, it is your credit, and you don't have to say that the king likes them." Yoon-hee resents this kind of behavior of attributing credit to the leader.

"Yes, yes, the slave knows, and he will correct it next time." Wang Guanglu agreed. But next time, if Yun Xi comes over again, he will still say the same. There is no credit for leadership.

Yun Xi didn't think about what he was thinking, praised a few more words, and continued to wander around casually. He heard the crow of chickens in front of him, and when he walked over to look, he saw two chickens in a cage, and these two chickens were standing in the cage in high spirits and clucking.

"Your Majesty, these are all chickens sent by Shanglin Yuan. Shanglinyuan sends chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep over every five days, and the servants will carefully look at whether there are sick livestock when they accept them, and someone will check them every day to record the situation of chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep. Wang Guanglu said as he took out a journal.

Yun Xi glanced at it casually, and was about to say, "What do I do with this", when he suddenly found that Indian numerals were used in it, and asked, "Now you all use Indian numerals for bookkeeping?" ”

"Emperor Qiqi, in March of the previous year, the servants saw several fathers-in-law of the celebrant using these Indian numbers to count, and felt that it was more convenient than Chinese characters to write, so the accounts of the imperial dining room were also changed to Yong Indian numbers. The minion originally only knew a few words, and he couldn't fiddle with the calculations, so he couldn't check the accounts at all, but there was a problem; But with this Indian number, it can also be checked. Because of the simplicity of this, as far as the minions know, the palace now almost always uses Indian numerals for bookkeeping. Wang Guanglu replied immediately.

Yunxi nodded. After asking a few more words, he turned and left the imperial dining room.

However, as soon as he walked out of the gate of the courtyard, he said to the little eunuch beside him: "You go to Li Bo and ask him to send someone to the household department, and the Zhaomo Aisu of the Zhaomo Office of the Xuanhu Department will enter the palace to meet him." ”

Yun Xi immediately returned to the Qianqing Palace, sat down in his place with the cabinet officials, and began to approve the answers.

The title of the face is written "Please allocate grain and grass folding", open it and see, it is sealed to the northeast of the British king Zhu Song entered, wrote that he led troops to pacify the barbarian tribe in the northeast, one of which has been attacked three times since the second year of Jianye, but has never been able to eliminate, this fourth attack finally can almost eliminate this tribe, but because the attack on this tribe consumes a lot, the grain and grass are insufficient, and the request for support for grain and grass.

"Failed three times in a row, this tribe is powerful enough." Yun Xi smiled: "But this time Uncle Twenty was finally able to pacify the ministry, which is not bad." ”

"As for this grain, it is too much, and his feudal country does not have much population in total, so he needs so much food? Dial half first, and the remaining half, and wait for Kaiyuan's Jinyi Guard to send the news back before making a calculation. ”

After answering the excerpt, Yun Xi thought again: 'Zhang Shu Jianye followed Zhu Song to the Northeast as the left minister in the first year, and it will be five years next year, do you want him to come back?' ’

After thinking for a moment, he said to himself: "Forget it, I will fight with Timur soon, I will also recruit the army of the British domain to fight, and let the twenty uncles personally lead the troops, and Zhang Shu will have to stay in the northeast for another year or two." ”

"It's really hard for him, Zhang Wen died of illness this year, because he was the prime minister in the British Domain, he couldn't return to Beijing to pay tribute to his biological father. When the war with Timur is over, I will reward him and let him rest in Beijing. ”

After thinking about this matter, Yun Xi put the letter aside and continued to answer the next one.

"Gezhiyuan asks for money?" Yun Xi looked at it carefully, and said a little unhappily, "Didn't I tell Qi Tai?" How is this still the case? ”

Because the old stargazing platform is a little old, and the location is not good, Gezhiyuan wants to build a new one in Zhongshan outside the city, and Yunxi has agreed to ask them to ask for funds for the household department.

But Yang Shiqi didn't expect that a few days later, the household department would call back the ticket and not give it a dial. Yang Shiqi personally went to the household department to discuss with Lang Zhong of the Shaanxi Division of the household department a few times, but he repeatedly shirked it, and Yang Shiqi had no choice but to give Yunxi another fold.

"You go to the household department and call Qi Tai!" Yun Xi said to Huang Lu in an unkind tone.

Huang Lu agreed, and was about to retreat, but Yunxi said again: "Call Yang Shiqi, Zhou Wei and Cao Zheng too!" ”

"Official, Lord Cao Zheng Cao is still mourning." Huang Lu reminded.

"I know. He has been mourning all this time, and he has not been on duty. Yun Xi said.

When Huang Lu heard this, he didn't dare to say anything, and trotted back.

After a while, the little eunuch walked in and said softly: "Official, Qi Shangshu and Ai Zhaomo, Yang Jianzheng, Director Zhou and Deputy Cao Jian are all here. ”

"Let Qi Tai wait in the side hall, and the other four people will call." Yun Xi commanded.

Tyrant immediately raised his head and glanced at Yun Xi. Qi Tai is a scholar, and several other people are only five or six grades, and there is even an eighth-grade petty official, who hangs Qi Tai, which can be said to be very dissatisfied with him.

Tyranny wants to advise. The decency of the second-grade staff still needs to be taken into account. But after thinking about it, I still didn't get up and persuade him. At this time, the emperor was angry, and most of his exhortations were useless. 'Wait for the afternoon or tomorrow when the emperor is out of breath. He thought.

Yun Xi didn't care what he was thinking, and after the four of them walked in to pay their respects, Yun Xi handed the fold in front of him to Yang Shiqi: "After a while, I will send a guard to the household department with you to take my fold to the household department, and let the household department sow money and food on the spot." If they dare to hesitate a little, I will dismiss their officials. ”

If he doesn't decisively stand up for Gezhiyuan this time, the next time the yamen will be even more presumptuous. Therefore, even if he will incur the impeachment of the speaker, he will not hesitate to be scolded by some civil officials in private, and he must let them know that he attaches great importance to Gezhiyuan.

"Your Majesty, this, the minister ......" Yang Shiqi seemed a little hesitant. He didn't want to get into such a stiff fight with Tobe.

"You are now the Seal Officer of Gezhiyuan!" Yun Xi said: "You have to support your own yamen!" You have never experienced these things in the past when you were by my side as a member of the Zhongshu Society. You must know that you can't do anything with a group of harmony outside, if you are soft, other yamen will be hard, this time you don't push back strongly, next time the household department will dare to default on the salaries of the officials of the Gezhi Yuan, is it possible that you still want to be a group of harmony when the time comes? ”

Yang Shiqi was reprimanded by Yun Xi's criticism, and hurriedly bent down and saluted: "The minister knows, it was the minister who thought about it in the past, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive me." ”

"Flatten. It's the first time you've been an official in a foreign court, and it's common for you to lose your face to such a thing, but you must not do it in the future. Yun Xi said again.

Yang Shiqi received the order, saluted again, and then straightened his waist.

Yun Xi asked how the current progress of the Gezhi Yuan was. "Your Majesty, there are now twenty-four officials transferred from Qin Tianjian in Gezhi Academy, and the ministers have screened them one by one, and one of them has been dismissed, and there are still twenty-three people left."

"In addition, a total of 18 people who are proficient in arithmetic and astronomy were recruited from the private sector, and all of them were awarded official positions."

"At present, the main study of the institute is to study why all the sun, moon and stars can circle the earth every day, compile a calendar, and why the sun, moon and stars are arranged in this way."

"In accordance with His Majesty's will, he also asked them to study arithmetic and how to calculate the 'volume' of an irregular object. Initial results are already available. ”

"Oh, what's the result?" Yun Xi asked curiously.

"A man recruited from the people who is proficient in arithmetic said that the volume of the object can be known by completely submerging it in a vessel full of water, catching all the water that comes out, and pouring it into a regular bucket or box." Yang Shiqi said.

"What if this object can't be submerged in water? Or is the object hollow and water seeping into it? ”

"The ministers don't know how to calculate it yet." Yang Shiqi said honestly.

"Go back and continue to study how to calculate volume." Yun Xi comforted again: "That person can think of immersing himself in water to calculate the volume, this question is not easy to answer. Go back and reward the man. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Yang Shiqi hurriedly agreed.