In Guanglu Temple, the procurement of ingredients is generally assigned by officials to the cook.

And the cook took over this procurement errand, it must have been soft to get the money.

Therefore, it is rumored that as long as the former Ming Jingshi pays to honor the officials, he can enter the Guanglu Temple to cook and get money.

Whoever is more filial will be able to enter, and if he enters, he will definitely work hard to make money, and it does not matter how good the cooking skills are, so that more than 3,600 cooks are stunned to find delicious food that can cook, which shows the seriousness of corruption.

So the rice eaten by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was particularly unpalatable, and the people under him ate the same, which was even more unpalatable, so the unpalatable rice of Guanglu Temple was famous in the capital.

After Xiao Ruxun ascended the throne, he burned a batch of account books in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, including the account books of Guanglu Temple, which calmed the hearts of a group of people.

Xiao Ruxun was not embarrassed by the officials of Guanglu Temple, and arranged for the black bird to investigate, and when there was a problematic purge, he laid them off, took away his official status and fame, demoted him to a commoner, and went home to farm, leaving a very small number of people who had good discipline to stay and continue to do things.

The cooks inside were also investigated and killed, and the eldest group was driven away, leaving only more than 400 people, and then there was a need to recruit again.

Taking advantage of this, Xiao Ruxun cleaned the Guanglu Temple, replaced it with a group of newcomers who he had promoted from the bottom, controlled the mouth of this money-swallowing glutton, and then controlled the power of procurement, and arranged for someone to make a statistical table.

A special person counts the number of officials and people and livestock in the palace who need to eat, stipulates new treatment according to their respective ranks, eats and drinks every day, and purchases them at fixed points and quantitatively, so as to eliminate waste and save silver taels to the greatest extent.

There are strict regulations on what arrangements officials at each level, how much to eat, what banquets to cook, and how many portions, and the detailed regulations are to the point of outrageousness, so as not to give the people below a chance to mess around.

Especially the palace's own expenditures, there are many concubines in the former Ming Dynasty, each palace has people to live in, and it has its own small canteen, and the crown queen mother is the same, Xiao Ruxun is directly one-size-fits-all, regardless of whether there is no one in the harem now, it is directly stipulated that the royal dining room should be responsible for supplying the royal meals, and the palaces are not allowed to open small canteens without permission.

said so, but Xiao Ruxun's royal family has a total of five people.

But it can't be stipulated in this way, after all, a considerable part of these expenses are Xiao Ruxun's own expenses, after separating the internal and external diets, the cost of the imperial dining room is borne by Xiao Ruxun himself, and there are fewer people now, and there will be more people in the future.

Of course, if you want to be corrupt, there are many ways, so Xiao Ruxun directly ordered the Central Audit Department to also manage the palace expenditure.

Any expenditures inside and outside the palace must be approved by the Central Audit Department before they can be funded, and relevant evidence must be provided to prove that there is no corruption, and if problems are found, they will be immediately imprisoned.

As a result, following the prestige of the Central Investigation Department, the Central Audit Department has also become the most feared group of people in the palace.

The officials of the Central Investigation Department wore black official robes, which the court officials called "Black Yama", and the officials of the Central Audit Department also wore black official robes, known as "Black Impermanence".

After the expenditure and bookkeeping of the money are controlled by the people of the Central Audit Division, whoever goes out to purchase must go through the Audit Division.

The cook took the purchase application of Guanglu Temple and the Imperial Dining Room to apply for money from the officials of the Audit Department, and then took them out for purchase, and the Audit Department sent two officials to follow him out to monitor.

When the purchase comes back, it will be re-inspected by the people of the audit department to see if the purchase is correct and whether it is enough, and then register and enter the palace.

The opportunity to do hands and feet has been compressed to the extreme, but there are still people who want to do hands and feet, thinking that the present is the same as the previous dynasty.

The cook of Guanglu Temple tried to bribe the officials of the Audit Department, saying that the money he got would be divided equally, but he was taken down on the spot and handed over to the Black Yama Kings of the Investigation Department to deal with, and what he committed in the morning was beheaded by the executioners of the Investigation Department in the afternoon.

After being beheaded, the head was also taken to Guanglu Temple to show the public, warning them not to move their minds, and three people were stunned on the spot, and five were scared to pee.

After this incident, Xiao Ruxun attached great importance to it, and strengthened the requirements for the selection of cooks, although he ate the small stove in his own imperial dining room, but if the rice in Guanglu Temple was too unpalatable, he was ridiculed by his subjects, and his face was disgraced.

The people who eat in Guanglu Temple are not palace maids and attendants, but officials who are serious, such as officials of the Hanlin Academy and the cabinet, such as medical officials and instructors, etc., these are all officials, and if they don't eat well, they will gossip when they go out.

So Xiao Ruxun ordered the officials who allowed the meal to complain to the cook, and if he felt that the dish was too unpalatable, he complained to the officials of Guanglu Temple, which could be traced to the cook who made the dishes, and if he was complained twice, he could be examined how he got in, waiting for the crime.

Since then, the good times of the officials and cooks of Guanglu Temple are gone, but the people who eat have good luck.

The officials of the audit department also rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find information, and made a special statistics, calculating that the average monthly money spent on food in the palace during the Wanli period of the former Ming Dynasty was about 12,226 taels, and about 421 taels of silver were used for eating and drinking in the inner court every day.

The silver of the Ming Dynasty is worth much more than the silver of the Manchu Dynasty, and many ordinary people have never seen silver in their lives.

For civilians, it is generally normal to spend five taels of silver for a year.

The purchasing power of silver is extremely high, one tael of silver is enough to buy three hundred and seventy-seven catties of rice, and if you eat meat, one catty of pork is 0.02 taels, one catty of mutton is 0.015 taels, a big chicken is 0.05 taels, and a goose is 0.2 taels.

It is equivalent to one tael of silver to buy fifty catties of pork, sixty-six catties of mutton, twenty chickens, and five geese.

This silver alone can buy 21,000 catties of pork and more than 158,000 catties of rice.

This is only the consumption of the inner court, and the royal and palace maids of the inner court are eating the consumption above.

Not counting the food cooked in Guanglu Temple, the food made in Guanglu Temple is not qualified to be eaten by the palace people, they can only take Lu rice by themselves, make it outside the palace and then carry it to the palace to be hot and then eat it.

Guanglu Temple only cooks for people with status, such as the emperor and the royal family, such as some courtiers, people who work as errands in the palace, and every major festival, Guanglu Temple has to organize banquets, and the silver consumption of Guanglu Temple is not less than that of the inner court.

But since Jiajing, the nobles in the palace have not eaten in Guanglu Temple.

The food in Guanglu Temple is so unpalatable, everyone knows it, at first there was no way, even the emperor honestly ate the food of Guanglu Temple, not to mention other people?

But later, starting from Jiajing, the emperor himself took the lead in not eating the food of Guanglu Temple, so who would eat most of the people with status and status?

Each palace concubine has its own small kitchen, and nobles such as the queen mother, the crown prince and princess will not eat unpalatable big pot rice, and even the emperor later followed the eunuch system to eat, which is enough to prove that people with status do not eat in Guanglu Temple at all.

In the later period, there were only those young newcomers who had nothing to do with officials and old antiques who were not welcomed.

In this way, the food made by Guanglu Temple was no longer eaten by the Wanli period, and the sense of existence was extremely reduced, and it was gradually replaced by the inner court food system, and the internal officials began to control the royal diet, but there was not much decline in consumption.

The inner court and the outer court are counted together, and tens of thousands of taels of silver are spent like flowing water every month, but how much of them are spent to the real place, it is really hard to say, as far as the corruption of the court in the late Ming Dynasty is concerned, it is very good to have three percent of it is used in practice.

During the Wanli period, the emperor could use up sixteen taels of silver a day for eating and drinking, and then gradually increased, and when he arrived at Chongzhen, he had more than twenty taels of silver a day, and he was only the emperor, not counting other royal nobles, concubines and concubines.

If you really want to calculate it, at that time, the royal family will not spend less than five hundred taels of silver a day.

Daqin Dingding, set up a separate imperial dining room, deprived the royal family of food from the name of Guanglu Temple, completely did not play with Guanglu Temple, and then cleaned the personnel in the major palaces of the original Ming Dynasty.

Before the founding of the country, the palace maids were brushed by Shen Yiyi, and after the purge of the inner court, they were brushed again.

In this way, there were only more than 500 chamberlains and more than 500 palace maids left, and later a group of palace maids were recruited in the palace, and now there are more than 500 palace maids and more than 800 palace maids, adding up to more than 1,300 people, all of whom eat in the special canteen in the inner court system.

The number of the royal family is small, and they don't eat in Guanglu Temple, and the main people who go to Guanglu Temple to eat have become officials in the outer court and the inner court, as well as hundreds of officials from the Investigation Department and the Audit Department.

The sense of existence of Guanglu Temple has been greatly weakened, and the monthly expenses spent by the outer court on food have dropped by 80% compared with the same period in the 25th year of Wanli.

The same is true of the inner court, during the five months from April to August of the first year of Longwu, the average monthly expenditure of the inner court on food is only 2,000 taels.

The inner court of more than 2,000 people only paid more than 60 taels of silver a day, which was a full five-sixths reduction from the expenditure on food in the court in the same period of the 25th year of Wanli.