"Little Chef Jingwen, your recent achievements are not small!" Li Shimin said.

Jingwen immediately said modestly: "It's all the emperor's leadership, I don't dare to take credit." ”

Jingwen knows that no matter what time it is, he must be humble in the face of the emperor. If you are not modest in the face of the emperor, when the time comes, either you let the emperor lose his head, or the emperor makes you lose his head, anyway, it is one of these two choices. Jingwen has thousands of years of historical experience, how can he not understand the problem here?

"Okay, I said I would reward you, then I will definitely reward you, you can rest assured, I am not the kind of person who breaks his word and gets fat. You recently made zuò instant noodles, which helped my Tang army eat good food, and this is a credit. In addition, you also made zuò out of turtle jelly, so that I can be healthy. This time, I even made ice cream and dates, which made the prince and princess very happy, so of course I want to reward you! Li Shimin said.

"Dare to ask the emperor, what are you willing to reward me?" Jingwen asked.

Li Shimin thought for a moment and asked, "Do you want to be an official?" ”

When Jingwen heard Li Shimin say this, his heart immediately jumped to his throat, because he thought he was going to be an official? Officials are a highly respected profession, both in ancient and modern times. If there is a person who can be an official, then I am afraid that the family will be very honored. And even Jingwen in later generations was very envious of the rights and status of officials, but where is he qualified to be an official! Now that you have come to the Tang Dynasty, you are actually qualified to be an official? Moreover, the status of officials in ancient times was even more noble, and they were more powerful than those of later generations!

"Look at you like this, you also want to be an official. Are you interested in being my eunuch? Li Shimin asked.

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Jingwen's smile froze on his face. Jingwen didn't expect that Li Shimin actually wanted to be a eunuch himself, which was very cheating. What is a eunuch? Eunuchs have another name called eunuchs, which in the eyes of ordinary people are castrated and then serve the emperor.

This kind of person is castrated, and he has no dignity at all, and this Ang Jingwen is absolutely unacceptable. Now Jingwen wants money and money, as long as he wants it, what beauty can't he get? Jingwen would not give up his man's lifelong happiness for a so-called "official position", so Jingwen knelt down very spinelessly and begged for mercy.

"Your Majesty! I'm a single heirloom for nine generations, and in my generation, the master raised me! I don't want to give our Jing family an end, so please ask the emperor to raise his noble hand and don't let me be a eunuch! Jingwen pleaded.

"What's wrong with you? It's so miserable, what if you don't know and think I'm abusing you? Could it be that I am a eunuch and so wronged? Also, when did I make you dead? You make it clear to me, if you don't make it clear, I will definitely not spare you! Li Shimin said unhappily.

Jingwen immediately said: "Your Majesty, didn't you let me enter the palace as a eunuch?" Aren't all eunuchs eunuchs? Therefore, the minister doesn't want to die, and the minister still has to pass on the Jing family, so he can't enter the palace to serve the emperor! ”

"Who said that eunuchs must be eunuchs?" Li Shimin asked.

"Isn't it? Aren't eunuchs all eunuchs? Jingwen asked rhetorically.

Li Shimin replied: "Aren't you also a eunuch now?" Do you see if you're a eunuch? ”

Jingwen immediately habitually touched his man's thing, and found that there was still zài, which means that he is still a man. Jingwen was also taken aback just now, obviously not knowing what this eunuch was.

"The eunuch, that is, the internal official who serves the king and his family, is not necessarily a eunuch!" Li Shimin said.

After Emperor Li Shimin's explanation, Jingwen knew that the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty were divided into two systems. The eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty were managed by the Inner Servant Province and the Imperial Palace. The Inner Chamberlain Province is mainly responsible for the inside of the palace, while the Imperial Palace Province is mainly responsible for the front palace and the outside of the palace. Because the Ministry of Internal Affairs is responsible for **, in order to prevent the hat on the emperor's head from changing color, it is natural to appoint eunuchs. And the palace province does not contact **, so the vast majority of them are not eunuchs. As for the use of eunuchs as eunuchs, it was actually only started in the Ming Dynasty.

Jingwen is currently an imperial chef, and strictly speaking he is also a eunuch, but he is not a eunuch. Therefore, Li Shimin's so-called eunuch is not to really castrate Jingwen, but only to promote him in the palace province. But Jingwen, a person who knew little about history, thought that the eunuchs were eunuchs, and was almost scared to death.

"Your Majesty, as long as you are not a eunuch, the minister is willing to do it!" Jingwen said immediately.

"You are now the staple food of the Provincial Shangshi Bureau in the palace, and this is a place that your master helped you get." Li Shimin said.

Jing Wen didn't expect that he still had an official position, and Jing Wen immediately asked: "Your Majesty, how many officials is this so-called 'staple food'?" ”

"This staple food is a third-class official position, which does not belong to any grade and does not belong to the stream."

Jingwen was speechless, he joined as an unpopular official, that is, a small official. originally thought that he could have a good official position, but he was just a guy who didn't enter the stream, which made Jingwen disappointed for a while.

"Okay, since I have rewarded you, then you will naturally be able to become a real official position. Now that the Shangshi Bureau is short of a food doctor, you can make up for it. Li Shimin said.

Jingwen asked: "Your Majesty, what is this food doctor responsible for?" ”

Li Shimin replied: "This food doctor is also responsible for some aspects of health diet therapy, and is mainly responsible for formulating therapeutic medicinal diets for me and the princess and princess. Since you can make this kind of medicinal diet, it means that it is still good, and I like to eat it very much. Just now, the queen and princess were also full of praise for your Ejiao dates, so you are qualified for the position of food doctor. ”

Jingwen was disappointed for a while, he was actually regarded as a nutritionist. However, this is also the emperor's nutritionist, but he is a high-level official. From today on, Jingwen is also an official and can enjoy many bureaucratic privileges, so that at least many privileges can be available.

Although there was a law in the Tang Dynasty that officials were not allowed to do business, but now Jingwen's commercial investment is invested with the emperor in the imperial dining room, and as long as the emperor does not pursue it, no one else can say anything.

"Hahahaha, I'm an official now, and I'm a high-grade official in Datang, so I can be developed! It's a pity, it's just that the official hat is a little smaller, and it's only a nine-grade official. Jingwen thought to himself.