The silver taels spent in the palace are not only these, not only food, but also other aspects.

It is rumored that the palace maids and concubines in the Ming Dynasty will spend 400,000 taels of fat powder every month, which is probably an imaginary number, but it is not easy to say how much worse, women love beauty, in order to attract the emperor's luck, this fat powder money, clothing money, jewelry money, if it is really spent, it is also quite scary.

So the same thing is happening with some other departments that need to be purchasing.

After being added an audit threshold by the Audit Division, many things have been exposed, and the exposure is clear and shocking.

Obviously, there are no people who need to be taken care of, but the expenses of the inner court are obviously abnormal, Xiao Ruxun immediately sent someone to investigate, and a large number of palace people who committed crimes were found out after checking.

They thought that today and the Ming Dynasty had the same oil and water to be greedy for, and after the initial panic, everything was business as usual.

As a result, at most, there were sixty people in the Inner Court Palace who were cut off within a month.

After that, after the Great Purge, the Inner Court, according to statistics, the expenditure on the clothes and expenses of the Inner Court from April to August of the first year of Longwu was 91 percent less than that recorded in the same period in the 25th year of Wanli.

Xiao Ruxun deeply felt that there were many vices in the Ming Palace, and there were so many internal and external collusions in the purchase of silver, and he hated this, on the one hand, he slightly increased the monthly money and living standards of the palace people, and on the other hand, he increased the restrictions on them.

The previous batch of old people in the Ming Palace who committed crimes were disposed of one after another.

Female officials who commit serious crimes are directly killed, those who commit minor crimes are driven out, and those who do not commit crimes set rules, move out of the palace when they are over twenty-three years old, give a sum of money to go home, and allow them to marry.

The eunuchs who committed the crime were sent to Zhu Yijun's mines to do hard labor in various mines that Xiao Ruxun received.

Then recruit innocent people to serve in the palace, and then send relevant personnel to educate from the beginning, and then assign them to each palace to serve and increase supervision.

Under Xiao Ruxun's wave of purge of the inner and outer courts, the consumption of various expenses inside and outside the palace was greatly reduced, and the old system of the Ming court was all renovated, and the least consumption was reduced by 70%, returning to the normal level.

Xiao Ruxun's own royal food and clothing are all used for internal funds, and he does not go through the accounts of the national treasury, which has reduced a lot of pressure on the current government finances, which are not abundant.

For this reason, Ye Xianggao, the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, personally went to the palace to thank Xiao Ruxun.

After the Great Purge, the level of cooking in Guanglu Temple has been significantly improved, and it has been highly praised by the officials who eat in it, and they feel that it is much more delicious.

At that time, Li Sheng sent more than 100 young eunuchs to various places to select suitable cooks for the emperor, and then selected 30 cooks to enter the imperial dining room for five years, and each person was given two taels of silver per month.

The Imperial Dining Room is usually only served to the Emperor, the Emperor himself, the Empress, the Crown Prince and the Eldest Princess, but there are exceptions.

If the emperor summons the ministers to the palace to discuss government affairs for a long time, it is normal to keep the ministers for dinner, and the emperor suddenly wants to add food and ask them to serve, they need to be ready at all times.

And Xiao Ruxun's expenditure on the imperial dining room is not high, and the menu recipes are all selected from the good dishes reported by these chefs themselves.

Normally, only ordinary food is allowed, and those meals made with precious ingredients are only allowed to be made during the New Year's holidays.

Rao is like this, a celebrity chef is a celebrity chef, and the dishes he makes are also delicious.

In the morning, Xiao Ruxun likes to eat some simple porridge and side dishes and steamed buns, or fried dumplings, boiled eggs or soy milk and milk, and even eats them with the whole family, and the cost is very low.

At noon, eat a little more hearty, roast chicken, roast goose, roast donkey meat, stir-fried mutton, as well as fresh fish and shrimp, plus some vegetables and rice.

Eat a little lighter at night, and you will also eat a little supplement.

The queen is now eating the fetal meal specially ordered by the imperial doctor, and the emperor also eats a health meal suitable for the elderly, the ingredients are not too expensive, Li Sheng specially ordered reliable people to procure, and the audit department is responsible for inspection and review.

Zhenbang followed Xiao Ruxun to eat, Yingying and Emperor Taishang ate together, with royal honor, the five of them together cost only five taels of silver a day, and they all felt that they ate very well.

Emperor Ming's consumption of sixteen taels of silver per person a day was too much in Xiao Ruxun's opinion, and this was not counting the food costs consumed by the concubines and concubines of the Ming Prince, Empress Dowager.

But it was not like that for others, now they knew that the cost of the palace had been greatly reduced, but the food was better than before, the taste was the same, and the variety was also, and they were very surprised to learn that the royal meal was only five taels of silver a day.

After a long time, the people in the palace said that the emperor was too frugal and ate so simply, and some old palace people who were still in the palace when they were old always recalled the scene when Emperor Wanli and even Emperor Longqing ate, and remembered the appearance of the harem concubines eating back then, and they all felt that it was no wonder that Daqin could win the world.

The royal family is so frugal, Guanglu Temple does not dare to be extravagant, the ministers know that the emperor has always liked to be frugal, whether it is true or false, they all restrain and control themselves.

However, Xiao Ruxun is still very interesting to the ministers who enter the palace to discuss government affairs, and after a long time, he will stay and reward the food for the imperial dining room, take care of his fullness, anyway, there is a daily surplus, and it is not a problem to eat with a few more people.

Wang Xijue and Li Tingji are people who can often enjoy such treatment, and the rest of the major departments can also enjoy it.

Where do the food ministers rewarded by Xiao Ruxun dare to be picky eaters?

They were going to swallow it with a thousand thanks, but when they ate it, they found that the taste was very delicious, obviously the dishes were not complicated, common ingredients, but they could be made very delicious.

After a long time, the cooks in the imperial dining room have figured out the preferences of several ministers who are often given food by the emperor, such as Wang Shoufu likes to eat donkey meat, Li Cifu likes to eat mutton, Ye Butang likes to eat fish, and Liu Butang likes to eat roast goose.

As a result, the ministers gradually felt that when they stayed, they ate more appetizing meals and felt the emperor's care.

They felt very honored, and occasionally when they went to the canteen of Guanglu Temple to eat, they did not forget to promote the delicious food they ate in the imperial dining room and pretend to be forced.

For example, Liu Huangshang told his colleagues that there was a cook in the emperor's imperial dining room who was good at making roast goose, and the roast goose was tender and delicious, and the aftertaste of the food was endless and hard to forget.

Some people also asked Wang Xijue how he felt about eating the imperial meal, and Wang Xijue said that he had never eaten such delicious donkey meat, and the emperor's grace was vast, and the old king had nothing to reciprocate, so he could only do his best for His Majesty to do things for Daqin.

As a result, invisibly, it became a very glorious thing to be rewarded by the emperor to eat the food in the imperial dining room.

Anyone who can eat it is something to be envied by everyone, and there are even people who speculate about the direction of the political situation and the emperor's senses for certain people from it, which is very interesting.

Xiao Ruxun thinks that the nutrients needed by the human body are nothing more than so much, meat, eggs, vegetable soup and rice, and there are so many things for the appetite, and having to eat some rare ingredients can only cause unnecessary extravagance and waste.

The emperor is the last person in the world who should not reveal his preferences.

This food list is also arranged taking into account that Zhenbang follows his own meals, eating meat, eating fish, eating shrimp and vegetables, to ensure a comprehensive balance of nutrition, it is enough, the luxury on weekdays is meat, and the luxury in winter is the vegetables grown in the conservatory in the palace and the fruits after meals, isn't it enough?

In this era when ordinary people spend a year with a family of four or five taels of silver, his royal family of five uses five taels of silver a day, isn't it enough to reflect the royal honor?