The basic plan of such a major event, which affects the entire bureaucracy, is actually in its own hands just now?

I actually read such an important document just now?

Yang Xiu only felt in a trance.

"Changwen, is that really the new system that His Majesty wants to replace the probationary system just now? It's called the imperial examination? ”

"Well, it's true, Your Majesty handed it to me personally, I plan to see it for myself first, and then show it to the big guys in the cabinet, and then we will discuss it together."

Chen Qun nodded and said: "This internal examination of the Ministry of Officials is actually a drill for this new system, Your Majesty is preparing in advance, and we must also give some practical and effective opinions, and after the implementation of the new system, it will definitely be of great benefit to the current situation of the Han Dynasty." ”

"Then I'll take a closer look later."

Yang Xiu touched the slag on his chin, nodded and said: "This level of new system reform will definitely cause a lot of repercussions, I just saw the exam link, Your Majesty plans to take the exam in three sections?" This may be a bit too strict, but this time, it's just an exam. ”

"Your Majesty also has his own ideas, and there are not too many people in this exam, if there are too many people in the future, it is inevitable to screen candidates for the three exams."

Chen Qun smiled: "Okay, don't talk about it, go to dinner first, you can watch it slowly after eating, and then we will discuss and discuss, by the way, there is also that part of government affairs, you can help me deal with it, otherwise I won't want to go home tonight." ”

"It's easy to say, it's all trivial, I ......"

Yang Xiu was suddenly stunned and looked at Chen Qun: "I'll help you deal with it?" How can I help you deal with your affairs? ”

"Didn't you say yes? I've put that part on your desk as you promised. ”

Chen Qun smiled: "What's the matter, your Yang Dezu, who is full of words, also wants to do things that break his word and get fat?" I never thought that you, Yang Dezu, would be such a broken word and fat person, if this was known to other colleagues, then ......"

"Breaking your word and getting fat?"

Yang Xiu was suddenly furious: "Yang Dezu has no talent, but he also knows that he will never do anything that breaks his word and gets fat!" I will do what I promised! Leave those things to me! If you don't finish all these things, you're left to the table! ”

"That's good."

Chen Qun squinted his eyes and smiled and walked to the cafeteria, merged into the hungry army of dry rice, and began the journey of dry rice at noon.

The place where they want to cook is naturally the newly built Central Canteen of the Third Reich.

The layout of the central canteen of the Third Reich Palace is different from other places.

It was a particularly spacious and tall palace complex, with several different palaces, including a canteen for people to eat, a warehouse for storing various ingredients, and a place for the canteen staff to rest.

In addition to these buildings, there is also a large space that has been opened up as farmland for growing vegetables, and there is also a pond for raising fish, and the vegetables and fish are used as ingredients for the large canteen.

The facilities of the entire large cafeteria can also be said to be readily available, and it is very lively.

In this way, every day at the time of meals, hungry officials arrived here in groups of three or five, and entered from the main gate, first of all, there was a rather atmospheric main palace, and a plaque was hung on the main entrance of the palace, which read "The First Canteen".

There is a path on the left and right sides of the first canteen, a path on the left leads to the second canteen, a path on the right leads to the third canteen, and a path next to the second and third canteens, which converge to form a standard diamond-shaped structure at the end of the fourth canteen.

The canteen will open a skylight on the top floor for lighting, and when the sky is still good, there is no need to light the lights, and the canteen is also bright, and you can see the end at a glance.

If it is a rainy day, or at night, the canteen will be lit up for everyone to eat, and the light of the bright candle flame is not a small cost.

In addition to the road, the large space in the middle of the four canteens is planted with trees and flowers, which is full of greenery in spring and summer, and the occasional sound of insects and birds chirping, which is quite pleasing to the eye.

Between the trees and flowers, there are seven or eight shade and rain pavilions, with stone tables and stone benches, which can be used for eating, resting, and chatting with friends after meals.

There are also some people who like to be quiet, they will choose to bring the food they call and occupy a small pavilion with three or five friends as a private dining room, sit in the small pavilion and talk with friends, while eating and chatting, but it is also quiet and elegant.

However, because seats are limited and very popular, you often need to come early to grab a seat, otherwise you will have to wait for the next meal to try your luck.

It is quite fortunate for some small officials to be able to enjoy daily meals here, not only because they can eat and drink for free here, but more importantly, the predecessor of this central canteen is called West Garden.

The West Garden was a famous existence during the Second Empire, and few of the officials who currently serve in the Third Reich do not know what the predecessor of this central canteen was.

Even Chen Qun and Yang Xiu, who had not been in Luoyang much before, knew that this was once a place for the first emperor to relax and play, and it took a huge amount of money to build, and it was an emperor's private leisure and entertainment place.

Here has gathered the world's strange flowers and plants, rare beasts, gold and silver jewelry, exotic beauties, the world is big, any rare things can be found here, if you can't find it, it can only show that the thing is not rare enough.

There is even a swimming pool here, in the past, the emperor had fun here every day, drinking, eating meat, playing with the palace maids, if it was hot, he would take off his clothes and play in the swimming pool with the palace maids, the naked stripes were naked, there was no wisps, just like a fairy couple, the joy was boundless, it made people envy and fascinate when they thought about it.

Then the first emperor died.

After the death of the first emperor, it was vacant for a time.

During the Jian'an period, Liu Bei completely sealed the West Garden on the grounds of discouragement and extravagance of playthings, and it is said that the rare beasts, exotic flowers and plants, as well as gold, silver, pearls and jade were all sold by Liu Bei to the dignitaries in the capital.

Whoever likes it will come to buy, and the one with the highest price will get it, because the quality is extremely high, and the meaning is far-reaching, so many dignitaries and nobles are sought after, and privately ask Liu Bei to buy through the back door, Liu Bei relied on these things to sell a lot of money, and the money sold was used by Liu Bei to expand the army.

The people of the time had quite an opinion on this matter, thinking that Liu Bei did not respect the first emperor and the imperial family enough, but later the Empress Dowager Dong issued an edict allowing Liu Bei to do so, and the discussion gradually subsided.

Later, Liu Bei ascended the throne and became emperor because he felt that the West Garden was superior in architecture and covered a vast area, and it was a pity not to use it, so he restarted the West Garden and built the West Garden into a central canteen in the palace.

Any official or official who works in the palace can register in advance at the household department, receive a meal ticket, and come here to eat, three meals a day, plus one supper, free of charge.

Those who come to the palace temporarily to do business can also show their official credentials and service vouchers at the registration office at the entrance of the first canteen, and then receive a temporary meal ticket, and they can eat one meal for free.

The big guys also heard that not only the officials eat here, but also the harem nobles and the queen mother and others have their own small kitchens, so they don't eat here, and even the palace maids and eunuchs who serve in the palace have a separate canteen here, independent of the four major canteens, and often take turns to eat.

And after that, some people said that Emperor Liu Bei also ate here.

However, Liu Bei usually asked people to bring food to his study to eat alone, and did not go to the canteen to eat, because he was worried that everyone would be restrained and unpleasant after seeing him.

Should I say it or not, the emperor eats here, the big guys all believe it, not to mention that this canteen is rebuilt from the West Garden, and the price is quite high, just saying how generous the dishes in this canteen are, people think that the emperor eats here is also a matter of course.

These four sub-canteens in the central canteen are also exquisite.

Breakfast, they are all the same content, mainly play a role in the diversion of the crowd, the canteen provides porridge rice, side dishes, fried eggs, all kinds of fried rice, etc., which are more familiar to the big guys.

In addition, the breakfast cafeteria will also provide [steamed buns], [steamed buns], and [dumplings] that everyone has never eaten before, and it is said that it is also a noodle dish that originated in the army, and it was first promoted in the army and received unanimous praise from the army.

These foods have a fluffy and special taste, and they don't taste the same as the pasta that big guys are familiar with.

During the Second Empire, the pasta that everyone ate was called cake, and according to the different ways of eating, there were also different names, steamed and eaten were called steamed cakes, sliced and eaten in soup were called soup cakes, and sprinkled with sesame seeds and baked were called hu cakes.

But although these steamed buns, buns and dumplings are pasta, they are not called cakes, and the officials who got the names don't know, only that the masters in the canteen all shout like this.

The steamed bun has no filling, it is just a soft dough, and it feels good to eat it with side dishes.

Steamed buns and dumplings have fillings, vegetable fillings and meat fillings, the fillings are delicious, and there are also two kinds of steaming and frying, and the taste is very different when you eat them.

The steamed and eaten are fluffy, and the fried and eaten are crispy, each with its own merits.

Many people have never seen these foods at first, and they are shocked when they first eat them, and they can't eat them outside, only in the canteen, and those who like them get up early every day to eat them, or simply sleep in the palace in order to have a delicious and free breakfast in the morning.

By lunchtime, the four canteens had their own merits.

The first canteen is for steaming and cooking, the second canteen is for barbecue, the third canteen is for soups, and the fourth canteen is for stir-fried dishes.

Each canteen has more than 20 windows, and the four canteens add up to more than 100 windows, and there are different dishes at the windows.

Anyway, there are plenty of seats in the major cafeterias, so it's very convenient to sit down and eat at any time if you want to eat.

Some officials are also very smart, in order to eat more dishes, a group of people started a group battle, three or five friends went to different canteens to cook, choose what they like to eat, and then gather, sit together to eat.

It's as lively as attending a banquet.

Dinner is about the same, and the four canteens are all in the same situation, but compared to the large amount of food at noon, many people find that the dishes in the evening are mainly exquisite and rich, which is richer than noon, but not as large as noon in terms of quantity.

The master chef in the canteen is generous like his relatives when he cooks at noon, and what dishes are hula and put into the dishes, and the full ones can overflow, and the officials eat one by one with their mouths full of oil, and the cheeks are bulging and the hamsters have to fight, which is a great test for the capacity of the stomach bag and the strength of the masseter muscle.

But at night, the master's hands began to tremble, and the officials who were shaking the vegetables frowned, a spoonful of vegetables could shake off half a spoon for him, and even the staple food was picked and searched, so that the officials wanted to find the imperial doctor in the palace to prick a few needles for the masters to cure the problem of hand tremors.

But after all, this meal is free, the officials don't spend money to eat, this big canteen is equal to everyone's welfare, the emperor pays for it, the so-called short hands and short mouths, they are embarrassed to say anything.

In the past, during the Second Empire, they didn't have this kind of welfare, they had to spend money on anything they wanted, and they even had to bring their own food to eat, and they wanted to eat so many dishes for free?

At that time, it was more difficult to eat hot than anything else on a cold day, and on the first day of the first lunar month, I had to endure the cold wind and eat a summer cold drink, which made people stiffen from body to soul.

Now that it is easy to have such a good diet, they are afraid that the matter of complaining will be known by Emperor Liu Bei, and then Liu Bei is angry and begins to let them pay for food.

Good guys, there are all kinds of pasta and fried food that can't be eaten outside, and if you eat outside, it will cost a lot of money, and it is not the same concept as eating for free in the palace.

It is imperative to maintain this hard-won privileged benefit!

Compared with the various styles of three meals a day, the night snack canteen is relatively simple, because after all, not the majority of people working overtime, and not everyone wants to eat a night snack, so the night snack canteen is only open to the first canteen, and generally only noodles, wontons, and dumplings are provided.

These three types of noodles are also quite novel, and it is said that they were first popularized in the army and were welcomed by the soldiers in the army before they were introduced to the imperial court.

Noodles are similar to soup cakes that you eat every day, but the soup cakes are thin sheets of noodles, not long noodles.

Officials don't know exactly how this noodle is made, but the noodles are smooth and elastic in the mouth, and with a rich or light soup and a fried egg, it is very comfortable to eat, and that is enough.

After all, no one would thank the hen that laid the egg for tasting good.

However, the excellent taste of this novel noodle dish still attracted a considerable number of noodle lovers, making them the original noodle stars, and in order to eat a bowl of noodles, they did not hesitate to take the initiative to ask the officials to work overtime and stay behind, so as to eat a bowl of noodles in the night snack canteen.

According to incomplete statistics, the noodle stars who love noodles are the group that has worked the most overtime and stayed behind during this time.

Dumplings are the soup version of steamed dumplings and fried dumplings for breakfast, and they are also paired with rich or light soup, drinking soup and eating dumplings, which is popular with many people.

If he is a person with a bad stomach, then the master chef in the canteen will recommend him to eat wontons.

Unlike dumplings, wonton crusts are thinner, and the officials who eat them don't even know how the masters make such a thin dough.

But it's really delicious, and it's easy to digest, one bite at a time, one bite at a time, and it goes into the stomach after sucking, it's warm, and I don't feel uncomfortable at all.

All in all, the successful establishment of this large canteen has indeed greatly improved the work enthusiasm and overtime enthusiasm of the officials of the Luoyang court to a certain extent, and it can even be said that after the establishment of the large canteen, entering the palace to work suddenly became a very desirable thing for many small officials and officials.

(End of chapter)