1587, lunar month, Beijing City.

This year, although there are still some small fights on the border, at least the northeast is calm, and the Mongols attacked Liaodong and were also severely repaired. Looking at the head sent by Liaodong, Wanli planned to put Li Chengliang aside for the time being. The inner treasury also collected a lot of money, and it was full, and the share of the palace and the monthly money for the palace maids and eunuchs were also increased. It's that there seem to be more famines in various places recently, and the imperial historians are shouting for the inner treasury to provide money for relief, and the emperor said: The household department has collected so much money, and it will be gone so soon, is there someone who is greedy for ink? Do you want to carry out the punishment of Taizu peeling the skin and grass? The Imperial Historians immediately fell silent. If you want to celebrate the New Year, no one wants to be unhappy.

The common people celebrate the New Year, the emperor also has the New Year, the common people are very lively during the New Year, and the emperor's New Year is even more lively. In the nursery rhyme, it is sung: "Twenty-four, sweep the house." Twenty-five, paste the windows. Twenty-six, steamed steamed buns. It refers to cleaning the room on the 24th and 25th of the lunar month, and preparing food for the New Year on the 26th of the lunar month. The palace is one step ahead of the people, and the sacrificial stove is cleaned before the twenty-third day of the lunar month. The palace is beaming with joy and preparing for the New Year. It just so happened that Liaoning sent some local products over, and the emperor decided to treat everyone well before everyone began to prepare for the New Year, so he prepared for the fifteenth year of the year, and set up a family banquet in the Qianqing Palace, and the family got together.

In Ciqing Palace, the palace maid was combing and dressing up the Empress Dowager Chen. Although Wanli has such and such problems, he is indeed very filial to his two old ladies. "At the beginning, Shenzong was in the East Palace, and every morning he paid homage to the first hall, the emperor and his biological mother, and he would greet him afterwards, and then he would be happy when he heard it. Both the heirs and filial piety are inseparable. ”

Empress Dowager Chen was talking to the palace maid who was combing her hair, and the eunuch came to report: Empress Dowager Li is here.

Empress Dowager Li entered the Ciqing Palace and sat down to serve tea. The two queen mothers are both in Tongzhou Township, and their relationship has always been good. Empress Dowager Li looked at Empress Dowager Chen who was still combing her hair, and said with a smile: "Sister, this is just a family banquet with the emperor, a common meal, why should it be so grand?" Chen smiled: "My sister doesn't know, I (between sisters, I can't call myself mourning family and this palace.) It was so solemn for the sake of the emperor's face. ”

"Oh. What do you mean by that? "Today, the emperor has grown up, repaired the government internally, and restored his homeland externally, although the mountains are barbaric, he is also educated and tamed. Occasionally, there are uninhibited, and the flaws are not hidden. Although there is a family banquet today, there are also historians serving beside us, if you and I are careless, and are recorded by the historians, I don't know what troublesome people will blame. My sister also knows that those imperial histories, who are eloquent, can reverse black and white and confuse right and wrong. The emperor's face is important, don't be careless! ”

"Oops! It turned out to be my sister Meng Lang, the emperor's face is the most important, and I have to embellish it......"

In the Qianqing Palace, Wanli was taken aback at first when he saw the two old ladies so solemn. However, seeing that the old ladies were staring at the historian squatting by the door, their hearts were clear, and they were full of gratitude to the two old ladies for considering themselves well.

Today's family banquet turned out to be a stove outside the gate of the Qianqing Palace and cooked on the spot. What was busy there was a woman wearing a nine-grade official uniform. The two queen mothers looked at each other for a moment, and the Empress Dowager Li said cautiously: "Emperor, how can there be a woman wearing official clothes and cooking today?" It's against etiquette. ”

"The queen mother, the son (said that the emperor called himself a son in front of the old lady, and played a certain part of himself a hundred times. Be careful, there is no violation of etiquette. "Oh, what's the solution?"

"These people, although they are women, are indeed officials of the imperial court, and they are the Jiupin Persuasion Agricultural Order appointed by Liaoning, which is responsible for promoting new farming." "Oh, there's such a thing?!"

Wanli became excited as he spoke, and began to show off: "The year before last, Jianzhou was attached, and I begged me to give me many good seeds. Nowadays, these improved varieties have been cultivated and grown, and they are successively planted in various places in Liaoning. For this seed to be planted voluntarily, it is necessary for people to know what is good about it. The folk families are all women cooking, and the Jin family in Liaoning, after thinking about it, set up this woman's order to persuade farmers to teach the people how to eat. The son was also confused at first, and he also thought that Liaoning was going to offer beautiful women, so he made some jokes. Ha ha! ”

Several persuaders tied the sleeves of their robes with ribbons, leaking out their white and tender arms like green onions, and between the movements, like butterflies wearing flowers, and dark and rhythmic, like a dance, it was very beautiful. The emperor, Empress Wang and Concubine Zheng Guifei accompanied the two queen mothers, chatting while admiring. Before you know it, the dish is finished and served.

Since it was a woman who was cooking, and they had been searched in detail before, the inner supervisor asked them to serve the food directly to the emperor. Several persuaders took the food and walked in a hurry, the pace was unhurried, the tray was smooth and steady, and it was another scenery. Things are placed in front of the nobles, and the female persuading agricultural orders are neither humble nor arrogant, and her tone is soft, explaining them one by one.

"Enlighten all the nobles, this is ginseng chicken soup, which is stewed with ten years of fresh mountain ginseng and Tongzi chicken, plus astragalus, angelica, wolfberry, jujube, chestnut, glutinous rice and other dozens of medicinal materials. Not only is it not greasy, but it is also refreshing and delicious, and the meat aroma also has a rice fragrance and medicinal aroma. It can nourish, maintain health, nourish the skin, and remove dryness, especially suitable for all nobles. ”

"This is a corn paste, and the corn used is from the good seed given by the emperor the year before last. Millet noodles and soybean noodles are also added. Doctor Li tried it in Liaoning, and it is the most symptomatic of spleen and stomach qi deficiency, lack of qi and blood, thirst (diabetes), and physical weakness of the elderly. ”

"This is oden (it will definitely be our Chinese in the future, and it has nothing to do with the Oriental dwarfs.) The soup is miso seafood soup, and the boiled things are all mountain goods and seafood from Liaoning, including cuttlefish balls, mushroom meatballs, tofu skin rolls, tofu skin shrimp rolls, wild vegetable fish curd, fresh abalone, five-flavor takoyaki, cod and spinach balls, conpoy and sea cucumber buns, cod rolls, beef balls, kelp, etc., dipped in miso or chili sauce, and it is the most warm to eat in winter. ”

"This is Liaoning kimchi, which is filled with chili peppers from the good seeds given by the emperor the year before last, which is slightly spicy. There are cabbage and radish, which are rich in taste, sweet and sour, spicy, and are best eaten with rice. I have a little more meat this time, so I just want to eat some kimchi to eat. Xia Guan has seen it, Jin Da's family, if there is kimchi to eat, several Jin Daren are fighting there and rushing to eat. ”

"Lord Jin said that he has lived up to the emperor's grace, these new crops, and the others have grown, but this sweet potato is still not very successful." "Only one thing is not good? It's already very rare, you go back and tell Jinnuer Hachi that you don't have to blame yourself. Oh, by the way, someone recently donated an overseas species, which resembles a horse bell, and I gave it the name "potato", so you can also take it back to Liaoning for a trial. ”

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Listening to the novelty of Liaoning, making fun of the trivial matters of the Jin family, eating fresh food, and unconsciously locking the lamp, the queen mother of the two palaces returned happily.

Wanli really wanted to be fortunate to subdue the temptation of the Liaoning female persuasion order, but the unsightly historian said: Such foreign ministers must not stay in the palace for a long time, and they must leave the palace as soon as possible. completely dispelled Wanli's thoughts. It's hard to think of!

However, this Liaoning's female persuasion peasant order is the Shangshan palace maid of the previous dynasty * Xianjiang Huadao Palace, she is used to seeing the life and death of the inner palace, and now she is the court official of the Celestial Empire, and she also has her own restaurant industry, how can she want to enter the palace This cage. Moreover, the instructions given to them by the Liaoning side were not to let the emperor succeed, and to hang his appetite.

The historian recorded: In the fourteenth year, on the fifteenth day of the lunar month, a peasant official in Liaoning, a woman, entered the local products to eat, did not do * obscene * flattery, and was loyal to her duties. The emperor and the queen mother of the two palaces gathered very happily, and the emperor was filial.

The girls' work is done very well, and the inner palace of the imperial court all agree that Liaoning is a sincere countryman who likes farming, honest, will not cheat, and can manage himself without the court worrying. On the contrary, Liaodong has spent so much money and grain on the imperial court, should it be abolished, or let Liaoning take care of it. Of course, Jingshi didn't know that Liaoning had killed more than one million Chao Xian people, Mongols and East China Sea savages in a year.