Outside the window, the day is delayed,

Who will see the big dream?

This one had a good night's sleep! I finally got back to sleeping.

But after waking up, Wu Yan felt as if the world had changed again, not really changed, or felt different again.

The little ghost who served her as a girl, the big name Zhao Shounu, came in from the outside in a bouncing manner, carrying a large bag in his hand.

Wu Yan knew at a glance that it was all food, this girl was greedy, she rubbed everywhere all day long, and her mouth never stopped, but this time, there was too much rubbing, right?

Zhao Shounu is not very old, and she still uses red silk on her head to tie her hair, which is curled into a small tug on the top of her head.

"Yikes! Yan Sizhen woke up, and the maid just returned to Xiaohuo and said that you are about to wake up, sure enough! ”

"You little devil, you're going to eat everywhere again? There are so many rubbing, can you eat it all at once? ”

"It's not the maid's rubbing, these are all given to you by the maidens of the palace, and the maid is just helping you get it back."

Wu Yan was a little puzzled: "Sent?" Why do they send it? ”

"Isn't it the Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow, the ladies said that they would send it one day in advance, so as not to give gifts tomorrow and the people who received the gifts will still support the hall. It's just some cold cake dumplings or something, and it's just a scene for the festival. ”

Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival...... Wu Yan reacted at this time, no wonder it felt different.

"Even so, you can keep it all, you don't have to keep it for me."

Zhao Shounu was overjoyed when she heard this, and hurriedly said: "Oh, then thank you Sizhen first, hehe." ”

"There will be zongzi hair in the palace tomorrow, you have so much at once, aren't you afraid that it will be difficult to digest after eating? I can't put this thing down. ”

"It's okay, the maid has agreed with the sisters, and I will share it with them."

"What did Xiaohuo say when he came here?"

"Oh, it's nothing, it's just that there are several feasts tomorrow, and he is afraid that you will miss any letter and forget it, so he has come to instruct the servant. His Majesty wants to hold a banquet at the noon gate, and after that, he will go to the East Garden to watch the military attachés compete in hitting the ball and shooting the willows, and go to Wanshou Mountain, and watch the horse races of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the Dragon Boat Race in the West Garden...... Oops, it's so hilarious to think about. ”

Wu Yan is also the first time to spend the Dragon Boat Festival in the palace, and I heard her say a lot, which feels very funny. If only the racecourse in the capital had been built, business would have exploded.

"You can't see the excitement at the noon gate, at most you can take a look at the East Garden and the West Garden, Your Majesty has recently entered a few good horses, I don't know if I will take them out for a race tomorrow."

"If you can race, Your Majesty's horse will win!"

"Cut~ The little girl has too little knowledge, it depends on what breed of horse it is!"

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On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, in the morning,

Today is a regular dynasty, but it coincides with the festive season, so there is no discussion in the early dynasty, and it will be over after a short while. After the end of the Guanglu Temple, please play a banquet, the emperor played, and the hundred officials kowtowed again to thank him. After the ceremony, the emperor returned to the palace, and the hundred officials retreated to the noon gate to enjoy the feast. After the banquet is over, the ministers still need to face the north and bow three times, and leave the venue after the ceremony.

This kind of zongzi banquet is mostly a regular banquet specification, generally divided into the table and the middle table, in addition to the wine on the five rounds, four rounds, the soup on the three courses, the rest is not complicated, the dishes are four colors, a plate of cakes, a plate of zongzi, fruits, small steamed buns, it is gone.

The banquet was still interesting, a lot of entertainment programs were arranged, and poems were written between the monarchs and ministers from time to time. It is at this moment that the relationship between people seems to be relatively harmonious, putting aside factors such as politics, court, party strife, civil and military affairs, for the time being.

There are a lot of such palace banquets in the Ming Palace, and there are various names, such as the four of Wu Yan who were summoned yesterday and had a banquet, but Emperor Yongming saw that they all had dark circles under their eyes and were exhausted, so he changed the date and waited for the banquet to pass after the Dragon Boat Festival.

Banquets are not for the pleasure of kings and ministers, but a means to maintain the relationship between kings and ministers, and so is food. There are few seasonal precious ingredients in the north in the south, such as anchovies, which can be eaten in the capital in May, but the process of getting this anchovy is probably no less difficult than that of a concubine eating Lingnan lychees.

On this day, the emperor was relatively busy, and the front court and the harem had to run to the noon gate, where the monarchs and ministers were happy, and they had to rush to the banquet set up by the queen.

The emperor and queen will drive the long live mountain to plant willows, and then watch the horse run in the warrior camp of the imperial horse supervisor.

The quality of the queen's banquet is quite high, in addition to the festival food such as zongzi, realgar, calamus wine, etc., there are also anchovies, Wu Yan thought about this, so she rubbed into the table of the imperial concubine Wu.

The princes are also at the banquet on the queen's side, there are three adult princes around Emperor Yongming, and now the times have changed, and the prince has no domain to settle in, so he lives in the palace, and will open the mansion when he is old, but only under the nose of the emperor in the capital. The second child, Zhu Jiancan, has already opened a mansion, and the third child is still younger, so he still stays in the palace and lives in the Chufang Palace.

Zhu Jianqi, the third prince of Zhu, was born to the Wu family and is also Wu Yan's cousin, but his cousin and brother do not deal with it very much. Wu Yan was not afraid of him, every time he was 'bullied', he went to the emperor to complain and said, "Your Majesty, your son has bullied the minister again......". And Emperor Yongming likes to ignore it every time, at most he asks "Who won?" Then Wu Yan was embarrassed and said, "The third prince didn't win." ”

Zhu Jianwei was so angry with her every time that he yelled, there was no way, his strength did not allow him to win. When he was not old enough to grow up, Wu Yan's height was very tall among women, and he was not weak, so he had no advantage in terms of height alone.

Although the emperor has not officially established the crown prince, he basically acquiesces that the eldest prince Zhu Jianyang is the one who inherits the unification, and the staffing and prince education have already begun.

And last year, the queen mother's family was also set, and the girl of the Xie family was the princess, but she had not yet got married.

Wu Yan stayed here, just to see the emperor's new horse, because she had fooled the emperor before, saying that when the racetrack opened, put the good horses in the imperial horse prison into the field to race, and see if the horses in the palace could win or the thoroughbred horses outside? Then he bragged about the gambling horses in Nanjing.

Emperor Yongming was really 'fooled' in.

Speaking of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, in fact, it is the chief of the inner court of the palace, and the target is not only the Ministry of War, but also the financial power of the inner court, managing the Imperial Horse Grassland, Huangzhuang, and Huangdian, and the emperor of the capital racecourse is also handed over to the Imperial Horse Supervisor to manage.

In addition to the three grasslands in the inner city, the Imperial Horse Prison also has more than a dozen grasslands in Gyeonggi, which is about the same size as in the early Ming Dynasty, but this is the scale that returned to its original state after experiencing the scale of the peak period.

In the more than 70 years since the end of Chongzhen, in fact, the ownership of land in Gyeonggi has changed one after another, especially the fields of the Xun relatives. After the collapse of the Xun family in the past, most of its land was eroded by the latecomers, and even if there were still side branches of the family remaining, it was difficult to get the land back.

In fact, there were many such 'ownerless' fields in the Guangfu Dynasty, but they were later divided up. The imperial court has been cleaning up the 'problem' fields in this area for many years, and all that can be cleared is classified as official land, and it is not so easy to inherit complicated relationships, so progress has been very slow.

The racecourse in Beijing is not like Liuhe, the racecourse is relatively concentrated, and the land outside the Dongbianmen is only suitable for building a racecourse and surrounding supporting catering and entertainment projects, and the venue of the Horse Racing Association has not been able to be implemented. The grasslands in the inner city are obviously not suitable, so there are only Bashang, Jizhou, Miyun, Huairou, Yanqing and other places in the north, but that is too far. Xibianmen and Xishan are good, but there is no vacant land.

If you really can't do it, you can only consider the vicinity of Xiong'an, where in addition to the palace village is the imperial village, and the imperial horse supervisor also manages a large area of the imperial village. Moreover, Liu Bing, the chief eunuch of the Imperial Horse Prison, had a good relationship with Wu Yan, and he also promised to help find a suitable venue.

The land of Huangzhuang is generally tenant to ordinary farmers, according to 1 to 3 cents of silver per mu to collect grain silver, in fact, the gift of land will also collect the corresponding grain of silver, including the same as Wangfu Zhuangtian, it is not that Wang Tian does not pay taxes, but the Son of Heaven gives the vassal king is a endowment, not a field, the so-called" endowment does not give land'.

Wang Tian could not be circulated in the land trading market, nor was it managed by the palace itself, but handed over to the local yamen to operate, and then the local yamen transferred the income from the land to the royal government.

If the land revenue alone was not enough to meet the needs of the feudal lords, the easiest way to plunder the wealth was to use the preferential rights or the addition of additional taxes.

If the three incomes of grassland, Huangzhuang and Huangdian are calculated together, the annual collection of silver through the imperial horse supervisor is as high as more than 200,000 taels, which shows that its status in the court is comparable to that of the celebrant eunuch.

200,000 taels a year plus the annual income of the inner government, is it enough for the emperor's family to spend money?

In theory, it is sufficient, but in practice it may only be scratched. The royal income can not only look at the silver, but also many physical objects, covering food and clothing, such as clothing and clothing in the north and south of the Beijing weaving and dyeing bureau, and Nanjing Shenbo Hall is responsible, the ingredients and daily food in the palace are basically borne by Guanglu Temple, and the construction and repair are borne by the Ministry of Industry, which does not need to be spent by the palace finance.

Only the palace people's salaries are issued by the inner court, but those like Wu Yan who are not selected to enter the palace as female officials are not considered palace people. She herself entered the palace as a female household, and she belonged to the palace female household, and her household registration was hung in Jinyiwei, but she did not belong to the traditional female household, let alone the status of a military family.

In the past, if a woman from a military household was elected to the Inner Court, the military household would be changed to a female household and would enjoy certain privileges. However, this kind of female household must also undertake military service at the appropriate time, so the household registration of the woman who enters the palace will be hung under the brocade guard, and the salary will be issued by the household department.

Therefore, Wu Yan's real identity in the palace is 'four non-reliance'.

It is said that the banquet at the noon gate will soon come to an end, because there will be many programs in the future. After a full meal and wine, the civil officials and the others came to the East Garden to watch the military attaché game hit the ball and shoot the willows. This is a traditional project, and I think that the good grandson Xuanzong of the year was in this competition, so that his grandfather formed a group of dragons and faces.

And here in the harem, the banquet has just entered the high dynasty, and the royal horse supervisor warrior camp has already pulled the horses out, and there is a wide field outside the banquet, which is suitable for running horses.

At this time, Wu Yan finally saw Emperor Yongming's 'new favorite', so he didn't go to Dongyuan.

As soon as this horse appeared, there was an exclamation inside and outside the field, and Wu Yan couldn't help but admire, what a beautiful Orlov fast-paced horse!