Yan Qiu hurriedly said: "The dress of the concubine is a newly cut autumn dress, it is very beautiful!" In the morning, isn't Niangniang also very satisfied? Don't worry! It's beautiful now! Besides, it's time for dinner, don't let the emperor wait too long! ”

"Yes, yes, yes, you can't let the emperor wait too long! Hurry up and shake the phoenix tail golden step rewarded by the emperor! The emperor said that I wore it well! ”

"Yes!" The palace maid hurriedly put the golden step shake for Li Guifei, Li Guifei glanced at herself in the mirror, and felt that this golden step shake was not very compatible with today's clothes, and then took it off again, changed to another one, and tossed it a few times before she was satisfied, and then hurriedly went to Zichen Palace.

Zichen Palace, the emperor is already impatient to wait!

Just as she was about to get angry, Concubine Li came.

Concubine Li Guifei saluted happily: "The concubines see the emperor!" ”

The emperor pressed his temper: "Concubine Ai is exempt, come over for dinner!" Otherwise, the dishes will be cold! ”

Concubine Li sighed in her heart, hurriedly responded, and then walked to the emperor and sat down, and said sweetly: "The concubine will give the emperor vegetables." ”

The emperor said lightly: "No need, Concubine Ai will eat with me!" ”

The emperor also gave Concubine Li a piece of crystal chicken.

Concubine Li Guifei was flattered: "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

The table was filled with more than 20 dishes, as well as 4 main dishes.

The emperor's food is regulated by the ancestral system.

Although every day is different, the imperial chef also racks his brains to put the dishes in different ways, which looks very exquisite!

But in fact, it's more about looking good, and not eating!

What is said is for the sake of health preservation, and to prevent the emperor's appetite, those dishes are made with less salt, less oil and less sugar, that is, there is a little taste, and it seems to be tasteless.

The emperor has eaten it for so many years, and he can't raise his appetite at all.

Fortunately, the county lord of Hui'an came into the palace and brought him some snacks, and he would eat snacks later.

The emperor picked a few things that were pleasing to the eye, ate a few bites and then stopped eating.

He just kept picking up dishes for Concubine Li: "Eat more, concubine!" You have worked hard to take care of all the affairs in the palace! ”

Let the imperial chef make the dishes so exquisite, it's not delicious, and it's hard for her!

Li Guifei was originally very happy, but she didn't have a big appetite, and these dishes were not dishes that made people appetite a lot, so she quickly ate them.

"Your Majesty, you don't need to clip it to your concubines, you can eat it too!"

The emperor continued to put vegetables in her bowl: "I am already full, a porridge and a meal are not easy to come by, not to mention that these are delicacies from the mountains and seas, you can't waste food, concubine eat more, eat it all!." ”

Li Guifei: "......."

Finish eating it?

How can you eat so much?

I can't hold her stomach anymore!

Seeing that she didn't move her chopsticks, the emperor raised his eyebrows: "Why doesn't Concubine Ai eat?" ”

Li Guifei could only lower her head and continue to eat.

Until half of the dishes on the table were eaten, and half of them were left, she looked at it and felt worried, she really couldn't eat it!

looked at the emperor pitifully: "Your Majesty, the concubines are full, they really can't eat!" ”

Only then did the emperor say graciously: "If you can't eat it, don't eat it!" But Ai Concubine, there are still so many dishes that have not been eaten, don't you feel like a waste? ”

"You can give rewards to palace maids and eunuchs!" Li Guifei blurted out!

Stand to reason!

The emperor glanced at her lightly.

Should the palace maid and the eunuch eat the leftover food of the master?

Are they brutes?

Li Guifei: "......."

Why did the emperor look at her like this?

The emperor said lightly: "I think the food of the master in the palace is too extravagant and wasteful, concubine, have you been in charge of the palace's internal affairs for so long and haven't you found out?" Moreover, I found that since you took charge of the phoenix seal, the expenses in this palace have increased by more than 100,000 taels every month! It's all wasteful!

You see, I can't finish this table of food, but how many people in Nalan Country can't even eat enough?

In the future, the portion of each dish in each palace will be reduced to one-quarter! Don't waste it, and don't give it to the palace maids and eunuchs! Whoever wastes a meal, eats his own food in the future, and pays for his own money! ”

Concubine Li felt bitter in her heart: The food in this palace is all made by the ancestors, and this is what Queen Guo looked like when she was in charge!

She just picks the better one and wants to serve the emperor!

Why didn't the emperor talk about waste before, but now he feels wasteful?

But now she didn't dare to say anything, she knew that the emperor cared about the silver, so she could only respond: "It's the concubine who didn't think about it well, and she will definitely tell the palaces not to waste food in the future." ”

Seeing that she had a good attitude and looked better, the emperor continued: "The Mid-Autumn Festival palace banquet is coming, you should be careful about the food at the palace banquet, you can't be arrogant and wasteful!" I don't want to see the food on the table at the palace banquet, as it used to, barely touch! ”

Concubine Li Guifei felt bitter in her heart, those ministers and women didn't eat, and she couldn't force others to eat, right?

In the past, when the queen was in charge of the harem, why didn't the emperor pick on these?

But she still responded with a smile: "What the emperor said is true!" The dishes of this palace banquet, the concubine asked the imperial kitchen to improve! ”

The emperor nodded, and his face became more and more satisfied: "These delicacies and delicacies of the mountains and seas are indispensable, you can try to make them as delicate and small as possible, taking into account everyone's appetite!" ”

"Yes! The emperor is wise! ”

"Also, there are too many people who enter the palace every year to participate in the palace banquet, it is too chaotic, and it is difficult to manage. Tomorrow, you will send an order, and every time there is a palace banquet in the future, each minister can only bring two family members into the palace to participate in the palace banquet. ”

Concubine Li's eyes widened: She came to issue this palace decree? Isn't that offending?

Who doesn't want to bring the school-age women in the house into the palace and show their faces in front of people?

"Questions?"

"Nope!" Li Guifei said busily.

She knew that the emperor was thinking of a way to save some silver.

After all, if you want to expand the outer city, there are more places for the treasury to spend money, what does it matter to her to expand the outer city?

Why did the emperor have to do so much when it was her turn to be in charge of the phoenix seal!

Reducing the food of the masters in the palace and not allowing the minister's family to enter the palace to participate in the palace banquet, which one is not offensive?

Next, the emperor threw a bombshell out: "The flowers for the Mid-Autumn Palace banquet, Shu looks at the budget is too high, the imperial court is using silver, Shu has found a flower field, she said that 100,000 taels can cover the flowers for the Mid-Autumn Palace banquet and the Chinese New Year's Eve Palace banquet!" Concubine Ai doesn't have to worry about this! ”

Boom, thunderbolt on a sunny day!

Concubine Li couldn't believe what she had heard!

Forget what the emperor said before, after all, it didn't harm her interests, but the flowers for the palace banquet were supplied by her own mother's family!

Li Guifei immediately said: "Your Majesty, the flowers for this palace banquet have always been feasted by the royal flower garden, and I don't know what the quality of those flowers is if I rashly use flowers from other flower fields!" Besides, 100,000 flowers for two or two palace banquets, can this flower be good? If this flower does not bloom well, wouldn't it damage the royal dignity to put it out? ”