The little eunuch Fu Xi beside the eldest princess was clever and clever, and replied: "How can the things that enter the master's mouth not be tested, when they brought it out in Tianxianglou, they used a silver needle to check it, and the slave tried to eat it again, and only dared to give it to the princess if nothing happened." ”

Tianxianglou is one of the best restaurants in Beijing, the guests who go there are either rich or expensive, which accident they can't afford to bear, their meals are delicious, clean and safe is the minimum guarantee.

Having said that, the queen still had to beat them, "What you want to put in your mouth must not be taken lightly, and it is better not to let her eat what is outside." ”

The things in the palace are personally checked by them, and who knows how they do the things outside.

The eldest princess held her stomach and leaned on the couch and hummed, the queen asked her to boil sour plum soup, let her stand up and walk, it was more difficult to restrain herself from sitting, but the eldest princess was unwilling, "I can't walk." ”

"Do you dare to eat like this next time? Don't be the first princess in history to be stripped to death, that's a lifetime of glory. ”

The golden boy Jing'er snickered on the side, it's really hard to say that the jade girl is like this.

It has been said that Laba is the New Year, and it is true that this day is fast, especially after the twenty-third, the taste of the New Year is getting heavier and heavier day by day. At the end of the year, the food euphen on Jing'er's fief was handed over, and the fief given to her by the emperor was Ganzhou, of course she had no right to manage this land, but there were 800 households on this land to give her rations, which was the so-called 800 households in the eup.

Jing'er didn't understand these very well, only heard the palace people say that the millet is 3,000 stones, the miscellaneous grain is 2,000 catties, and the silver is 428 taels and 5 dollars, and there are some local specialties given to her by the Ganzhou Zhizhou, and there are also two large boxes scattered and scattered, and then there is her own Yulu as the title of Weng Lord from the second grade, which is one hundred taels of silver per month, and there are more than one thousand taels a year. These are all real money things, no wonder these noble families in Beijing attach so much importance to the title of the family, and with the title, the family has no worries about food and clothing.

The queen taught her how to count her own food estate, "Although it is said that there are 800 households in the food estate, it is not that all the things that these 800 families have been cultivating all year round are handed over to you, so what do they eat?" They pay grain according to the taxes promulgated by the imperial court, how much tax a family has to pay a year, a place is a market, Ganzhou is the land of fish and rice, the production has always been good, the tax is also heavier, the local farmers have to pay four cents of tax, if you want to check, ask the household department to Ganzhou's tax book, you will know how much the local output is a year, how much tax is paid to the imperial court, and whether it is right to distribute it to you. As royal women, we can have no blockage in our eyes, but we can't ignore these economic questions and be deceived by our subordinates. ”

Jing'er nodded ignorantly, and said in her heart that those farmers have to pay four cents of tax, is it too heavy, give her so much rice and noodles, and she doesn't eat it, will it be moldy?

The queen knew that she was puzzled, and said to her: "You naturally can't eat all those rice noodles, you can sell them to the rice shop, exchange them for real money, and use them as your dowry money, or you can keep them and stock them up. ”

Jing'er asked: "I remember that the queen mother said that there are several large granaries in the country, which are used to release grain for the common people to relieve the disaster when preventing natural and man-made disasters, or I will hoard the grain there." ”

The queen smiled: "This is equivalent to confiscation, and you will lose a lot." ”

Jing'er thought for a while and said: "I am now a person who feeds the whole family and is not hungry, and there are few people in Beijing who have started to receive food like me, so it is better to donate these things before I become an adult, and in the future, when I get married and have children, I will save family property for my children." ”

The queen pinched her nose, "You think about it in the long run, but your father and I won't take advantage of you, it's naturally good for you to have this heart, but you have to remember that the gun shoots the first bird, and there are so many people in the court who lead the food, they all hold things in their hands and don't pull out a hair, so you generously donate to the court, how do you let those who don't want to pluck their hair feel?" In this way, you will become the target of public criticism, and the courtiers will feel that it is me and your father who are instigating you to set an example for them. ”

Jing'er was just kind and sympathetic to the people's livelihood, but she was a little uneasy when the queen said this, she had no intention of interfering in political affairs.

The queen said to her: "If you don't want to dispose of these rice noodles, sell them to me, and I will exchange them for cash for you, and the girl's family still needs to save more dowry." ”

Jing'er hurriedly waved her hand: "How can this be sold, my brother and I eat and live here, so we will pay the rations." ”

The queen smiled: "You are my adopted children, it is natural for parents to raise their children, where do you still need to pay rations, you can only accept your private money with peace of mind." ”

The eldest princess was playing with millet over there, inserting a pair of hands into the valley and stirring it around, making a situation of turning over the river and the sea, but accidentally stirred up the millet and sprinkled it on the ground.

The queen looked dazzling, thinking that Jing'er was worried about the people's livelihood and wanted to donate food, but the jade girl used food as a toy, she was four years old in the new year, and the golden boy brothers and sisters were already very sensible when they were four years old.

"Jade girl, pick up all these grains!"

The eldest princess looked up blankly, and saw that her mother was talking about her, so she began to pick it up, and she just took it for fun, picking it up one by one and putting it back, like a chicken pecking rice.

There wasn't much grain spilled, and she wanted to play after picking it up, but the queen called her over and said to her: "Don't go to play with that, that's what you eat on weekdays, don't you always like to eat, how can you be willing to waste food?" ”

The jade girl said: "It's not bad. "It's not the same as eating when you play.

The queen did not argue with her, but told her: "Don't play with rice, flour and grain, these are not your toys." ”

The Jade Girl replied in frustration, "Yes." ”

The queen continued to talk to the golden boy brothers and sisters, and talked to them about many livelihood issues, "Now our court is quite rich, you see that there are still some silver taels in your food estate, that is, some families are unwilling to pay grain, but pay cash instead, or some families still have the title of farmers, but in fact they start a business, the family is rich in money, but there is not much food, you have to spend money to buy food to eat, how can you still hand over food." ”

The golden boy remembered a question: "But everyone says that the merchants are at the end, but I see that the most bitter ones are the farmers, who do the most tiring work, but they still have to pay taxes, and the merchants are at the bottom, but they live a richer life." "As for the workers, although they are also tired, their income is not so high that they do not have to pay taxes.

The queen said: "It is precisely because of the hardships of the peasants that we have to improve their class status, you also know that the merchants have been rich, if they are still ranked first, wouldn't everyone go to business, then who will farm the land, what will we eat?" ”

Who doesn't know that to develop a commercially rich country, but the two lines of agriculture and commerce must maintain a balance, all dynasties have vigorously supported agriculture, suppressed commerce, and ranked businessmen at the bottom, there are still so many people who want to do business and make a fortune, in the final analysis, the most bitter is the farmers, but the hardest and most tiring work must be done, their upper class, the most important thing is to maintain a good balance at the bottom.

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