It stands to reason that this big tomorrow belongs to the Zhu family, and Emperor Chongzhen should not care about these money transactions with the household department or the imperial court. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

And he copied so many "big households" before, and now Emperor Chongzhen is not so short of silver to be honest.

But this account, if it is not cleared up with the cabinet and the household department as soon as possible, and the household department will be replaced in the future, or in the future, once the emperor is short of money again, at that time, I am afraid it will be even more unclear.

At the same time, it is also to show the courtiers who are not long-sighted how much silver the emperor has taken out from the inner pocket, don't look like the emperor is too selfish.

Emperor Chongzhen did not stop while thinking about these annoying questions, and soon passed under the Donglai Shun Restaurant outside Chaoyang Gate.

Among the ministers who have returned to Beijing with the emperor now, except for a few who know the inside story, most of them do not know that this extremely popular restaurant on the side of Chaoyangmenwai Avenue will actually be the royal property.

Because Emperor Chongzhen had ordered that the imperial car had not left the land of Gyeonggi, and hundreds of officials were not allowed to be sent there, so now there are a lot of cumbersome etiquette procedures left, and the emperor and his entourage entered Chaoyangmen and went directly towards the Forbidden City.

When they arrived outside the Forbidden City, the ministers who accompanied the driver should go home and do things, only the military attache of the imperial attendant and some of the people of Jinyiwei, Tiancewei and Dongchang followed the emperor directly from Donghua Gate into the Forbidden City.

The cabinet is in the Donghua Gate, and Sun Chengzong and Li Banghua, the two ministers of military aircraft, naturally went straight to the cabinet when they entered the Donghua Gate.

Emperor Chongzhen arrived outside the Huangji Gate, changed his shoulders, and returned to the Qianqing Palace.

This time the emperor went to Tongzhou, a total of three days and two nights away from the Forbidden City, during the period of the itinerary is extremely tight, if it is not for the emperor has been advocating the simplification, light car and simple obedience, the emperor left the Forbidden City to Tongzhou to participate in the first town of the Guards Army formation ceremony and military parade and other activities, not to mention three days, even thirty days, may not be able to go down the whole way.

Emperor Chongzhen returned to the Xinuan Pavilion where he lived daily in the Qianqing Palace, and just after washing and changing clothes under the service of the eunuchs, he lay down to rest, when he heard the chief eunuch Wang Chengen say outside the door: "Your Majesty, Empress Yi'an and Queen Mother heard that Your Majesty has returned to the palace and want to come over to meet Your Majesty!" ”

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen thought for a while and said, "I know, just say it's cold, don't come here, I will go to Kunning Palace in a while!" ”

Wang Chengen asked people to go to Kunning Palace to report to the queen, and he accompanied the waiter, helped the emperor put on a mink fur, went out of the Qianqing Palace through the back door, and went to Kunning Palace.

When the emperor left the Forbidden City, what he was most worried about was not the ministers, but the emperor's concubines in the harem, so after returning to the palace, it was also appropriate to meet them as soon as possible.

When I arrived at Kunning Palace, Empress Yi'an was also there, and several other concubines, including Concubine Lan Hai Lanzhu, were there.

When these people saw the emperor coming in, they hurriedly got up and saluted, and the emperor waved his hand, signaling that he would be exempted, and then said: "I have not been in the palace for the past few days, but I have let you worry about it." Today, we are all having dinner in Kunning Palace, let's talk together. ”

At this time, Queen Zhou said: "Since Your Majesty said so, and it is cold outside, why don't you eat mutton together tonight!" Let Concubine Lan talk about homesickness! Your Majesty, you said it was good! ”

Emperor Chongzhen applauded when he heard this, and the other concubines naturally didn't say anything, and Wang Chengen immediately sent someone to inform the imperial kitchen to prepare.

Nowadays, the imperial kitchen in the inner palace of the Ming Dynasty is not the same as the imperial dining room of the later Manchu emperor, usually only serving the emperor's diet, and the other palaces have their own small stoves.

As for the eunuchs and palace maids in the inner court, they all have their own functions, and they all provide money, grain, and rice on a monthly basis, and the palaces or prisons, divisions, and bureaus in charge of them go out on time to purchase meat and vegetables and provide food respectively.

Of course, this is what Emperor Chongzhen has changed to this like now, and he doesn't want to be fooled like the Manchu emperors of later generations, who were fooled by the eunuchs who were uniformly procured by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Nowadays, including the cabinet and military aircraft department in the palace, as well as Jinyi Guard, Tiance Guard, and Yulin Guard, except for the Imperial Attendant Military Attaché, they all solve their own food problems, and the palace is allocated money and food by the palace according to the head every month, and they purchase and produce it by themselves.

Due to the small number of military attachés in the imperial chamberlain, they are now all with the emperor, and the imperial kitchen provides food, which is also a measure of the emperor to buy people's hearts.

Since Emperor Chongzhen made this decision, except for the loss of power of Shangshan Supervisor, one of the twenty-four yamen of the inner court, everyone in the inner court was satisfied.

Now the palace distributes money and food according to the level on a monthly basis, and it is much better to eat what you want to eat than what you want to eat in the past.

And the eunuchs and palace maids who are good at cooking have quickly become sought-after goods, and those with average cooking skills have stepped up to learn new cooking methods, and they have also had the heart to work hard.

After the emperor's personal guidance, all kinds of barbecue skewers were born from the sauces prepared by the imperial chef and eunuch, who was originally the best at cooking, and soon became popular in the palace.

It was just a small change, and soon the originally gloomy and solemn Forbidden City became a little more full of vitality and vitality.

The most important point is that all the palaces in the Forbidden City, as well as the prisons, departments, bureaus, and departments of the inner court, have the authority to go out to purchase meat, fruits and vegetables, and eggs, and the Shangshan supervisor is only responsible for food safety and quarantine, which fundamentally puts an end to the absurdity of buying an egg for 3 taels of silver in the imperial dining room.

Emperor Chongzhen accompanied the concubine of the harem to the throne, and had a hot pot meal with a lively atmosphere, and when the intention was still unfinished, Wang Chengen came in quietly, walked to the emperor's side and bowed down and whispered: "Your Majesty, Chu Xianzhang is back!" I also brought back a few envoys from North Korea! ”

At first glance, Emperor Chongzhen stopped the chopsticks in his hand, turned his head to look at Wang Chengen, and heard Wang Chengen say again: "Chu Xianzhang is now outside the palace gate, and the envoy of North Korea was arranged by him in the post house outside the Guangqu Gate. ”

At this time, the concubines who were sitting around the table to eat knew that the emperor had something to do again, and quickly quieted down.

Seeing this, Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile: "You continue to eat, I am full, and I am going to be busy again!" ”

After saying this, the emperor stood up, and several concubines also hurriedly stood up, among which Empress Yi'an said: "The emperor should not be too tired, you still have to take care of the dragon body!" ”

Several concubines all agreed, and Empress Zhou followed the emperor to the outside of Kunning Palace, looking at the emperor with resentment.

Emperor Chongzhen knew what she meant, nodded at her and said, "Empress, go back to the palace first, I will deal with this matter, and I will come to you later!" ”

After Emperor Chongzhen said this, he turned around and followed Wang Chengen and the others to the Qianqing Palace, and said to Wang Chengen as he walked: "Send someone to see who is on duty in the cabinet and the military aircraft department, and send them together to see me!" ”

Chu Xianzhang left Jingshi and went to Dongjiang Town to supervise the war, and he went for half a year, and now he is finally back.

As for the North Korean envoys who came to Beijing with them, it was indeed time to come.