One thousand four hundred taels, tsk.

The annual salary of a first-class official is only one hundred and ten taels.

The emperor's bowels were blue: "I shouldn't have moved the things out of the inner library." But it doesn't matter, there are still a lot of things in the inner library, and there are always three thousand or two thousand pieces, and I can afford to pay for them. ”

Gao Rang was worried, Your Majesty, you are so optimistic, Neiku doesn't know if you check it, you are shocked when you check it, you are still happy here.

The emperor saw Gao Rang's concern: "Is there something wrong with what I said?" ”

"The accounts from the inner library are just being submitted, does the emperor want to take a look?"

The emperor nodded.

Since the succession, how many concubines in the harem can barely be counted, and it is difficult to say how much gold and silver there is in the inner treasury, but the emperor is very optimistic, and the first emperor often told him that Chen Guoguo is rich and strong, and the inner treasury is abundant, and the country he has laid is enough for Min Jian to squander two lives.

The emperor decided to take a good look at the list of the inner treasury and see how rich Chen Guo was.

The list was not as long as he thought, which means that there may not be as many things in the inner library as he thought.

The list is written on the balance of the inner library:

Two thousand taels of gold

110,000 taels of silver

In addition, there are some utensils and porcelain ornaments.

For example, red coral trees, cornucophoria, jade ruyi, ivory beds....but the sum of the front and back is less than a thousand.

The emperor chuckled in his heart.

As far as he knew, Neku shouldn't be poor like this, didn't he say enough to squander two lives?

The first emperor was not a big spender, and he didn't have any hobbies of losers, and since he ascended the throne, he didn't waste the wine pond and meat forest, so where did the silver go?

Yes, his elder brother Min Qi has been stationed abroad for a long time with tens of thousands of soldiers, and from time to time, there is some friction with the border.

Hundreds of officials in the court, concubines in the harem, princes with titles, edicts, marquises, and county lords, everyone's fortune and monthly examples are also not a small amount.

If there is an earthquake in any state or county, or a hailstorm reduces the income, the rivers are overflowing, and tens of thousands of victims will also need the capital's disaster relief funds.

Although the inner library is large, it cannot stop the consumption is also large.

Every day there was an innumerable amount of silver coming out of the inner treasury, like flowing water.

Although the country was rich and the people were strong, and the taxes were also a lot, the first emperor fought several vicious battles with the foreign races on the border, and drove the foreign races north for hundreds of miles, so frightened that they lived in the cold and frozen border for 20 years and did not dare to come to attack.

In addition, the first emperor's harem is huge, there are many princes and counts outside the palace, the first emperor is benevolent, and the first emperor has good welfare treatment, and the annual allocation to the following is not less than 30,000 taels.

In the later period of the first emperor's dynasty, the western states and counties did not rain for several months, the wheat grains were not harvested in May and June, the peasants were miserable, in the autumn, there was still not a drop of rain falling, the autumn harvest was even more hopeless, the harvest in the fields was out of harvest, the peasant households had no grain, tens of thousands of people dragged their families out to beg for food, in order to stabilize the situation, the first emperor allocated 30 taels of silver and silver from the inner treasury for disaster relief, it was still not enough, and in the end, according to statistics, there were thousands of people who died of starvation.

Although the first emperor was prosperous, this prosperity was also piled up with silver.

If there is no silver, you cannot raise soldiers, and if there are no soldiers, the country will be unstable.

Without silver, Yulu can't be sent, who is willing to work for the emperor, and can't use love to generate electricity.

Without silver, once Chen Guo encounters an emergency, the lives of the common people will hang by a thread, the people will be uneasy, the court will not be able to live in peace, and the emperor will not be able to sit steadily.

The first emperor often said that the inner treasury was abundant, and it was true.

But the inner treasury is abundant, and there is a lot to spend.

To Min Jian, the inner library is not as good as before.

Yes, raise soldiers, raise officials, raise wives, and support the people, after the first emperor went, he gave amnesty to the world and exempted the world from taxes for one year.

Now the inner library is stretched.

It is estimated that the home of any big corrupt official must have more money than the inner treasury.

The inventory list in my hand is so thin, only a few pages.

The emperor held up these thin pages, and there was a deep uneasiness in his heart.

Two thousand taels of gold, one hundred thousand taels of silver, and tens of millions of people in Chen, this bit of silver is not enough to drink the northwest wind.

He even entered 1,400 taels with the concubines.

Loser.

The emperor closed the inventory list and fell into deep thought.

With such a small amount of money, if Chen Guo encounters any crisis, he can't even afford to fight.

The accounts at home can't be settled, and they can still sleep, but once they are settled, the emperor is so worried that he will turn over and over.

Du Zhiyan guarded the heavy money cabinet, and suddenly had the feeling of being a rich woman in the deep palace.

With the capital, you can continue to work.

I turned on the system at night and bought two cookbooks.

Chen is an ancient feudal country, although there is an imperial dining room in the palace, the meals in the imperial dining room are always limited, but the recipes in the system, bringing together the essence of China for five thousand years, all dynasties, as long as you eat the dishes that make people full of praise, this is included in the top, Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine, Cantonese cuisine everything, the record is still very detailed.

The people in the palace are rich.

In addition to fighting for the emperor, the people in the palace are about food and clothing.

Eating is a very important part.

The chef who cooks in Yongfu Hall has a good skill in frying and frying, while Du only says that he has a recipe.

Hit it off.

Du only said that he spent five taels of silver to stock up on a batch of vegetables.

When shepherd's cabbage, dandelions, marantou, wild bamboo shoots, wild ducks, pheasants, etc. were carried to the Yongfu Palace, many people watched.

Shepherd's cabbage is green, there are still water droplets hanging on it, it is difficult to find it in winter, although the taste is not as good as spring, but fortunately, the taste is rich, whether it is to make soup or to cook, the fragrant taste is unforgettable.

There are still yellow flowers hanging on the dandelions, which grow out of the greenhouse where flowers are raised on the other side of the flower house, and they are only more than a pound in total.

The meat of wild duck and pheasant is firm, and the stewed soup has a strong aroma, which is the most nourishing.

The people in the palace eat finely, and the rice for cooking must be divided into several kinds, not to mention the dishes, most of the dishes eaten are also carefully selected and tender dishes, such as shepherd's cabbage, dandelion, which is a little rough and a little rare.

Shi Jing is such a pampered noble girl has never seen this battle, she has not picked up the big fish and big meat chicken legs on the ground since she was a child, this basket of green and green things, she can't be named, listening to Du only said that they are all wild vegetables, Shi Jing thought that Du only said that he couldn't think of it: "I think that if you are short of silver, I have a lot of here to help you at any time, and you are not short of silver recently, how can you think of eating wild vegetables?" Wild vegetables are rough and hard to swallow, and they are all recorded in the books, and I can't eat these things anyway. ”

Du Zhiyan first asked the cook to make Dao Shepherd Vegetable Egg Dumplings according to the recipe, and then made Dao Dandelion Pigeon Red Date Soup, when the shepherd's cabbage egg dumplings were brought to Shi Jing, Shi Jing ate eighteen in a row: "Well, it's so fragrant." I didn't expect that there were such delicious things in the people, but I only knew about it today. ”

Du Zhiyan has already thought of a way in his heart.

When she went to Jingren Palace to ask for peace, she brought fresh shepherd's cabbage and dandelion pigeon and red date soup in a food box.

The queen is the model of the harem, and these things have to be tasted by the queen.

The queen's family background is huge, and she has been honored and noble since she was a child, not to mention eating these wild vegetables, and she has never seen them.

The shrimp and pork dumplings, roasted mutton, ginger duck, and ginseng stewed venison made in the small kitchen of Jingren Palace are all greasy and greasy, and the queen can't eat them.

Du Zhiyan opened the food box, and a fragrance came to his face.

"Hongu is not hungry." The queen held her head, with a sad face, she had too little activity in the palace every day, and she was hungry slowly.

"Queen, let's have a taste. It's all freshly made in the concubine's kitchen. Du Zhiyan handed over the silver chopsticks to the side.

The queen tasted a dumpling, tasted it carefully, and couldn't help but clip another one.

Ate four dumplings in one go.

Du Zhiyan had already brought the warm pigeon dandelion soup to it.

The queen drank a bowl and was still unsatisfied.

I had no appetite before, I couldn't swallow all the time, and my body was weak, and the food brought by Du Zhiyan opened the queen's taste buds, and the chopsticks that the queen ate couldn't stop.

The kitchen of Jingren Palace is afraid that the queen will not have enough nutrition, plus the queen has a lot of money, and the internal affairs office also sends a lot of things.

This is the first time the queen has eaten this kind of light and nutritious thing.

The concubines smelled the aroma and swallowed silently.

"No wonder people are Du Changzai, they all send food to the queen, there is nothing in the queen's Jingren Palace, is there still these two dumplings? It's really conspicuous. Meng Yuzhu snorted coldly.

"We can't learn these methods anyway." Tian Lingyue smiled silently.

"If you can't learn, don't talk." Shi Jing snorted coldly: "It's rare for the queen mother to have some appetite, and she has to listen to Tian promise to make noise here." ”

Tian Lingyue's face flushed.

The attitude of several other people towards Du Weiyan was much more relaxed.

After all, Du Zhiyan's carpentry work has won many people's hearts.

"Du Chang does a good job in woodwork, and his cooking skills are also good, and it is strange that people can get the emperor's eyes, which is all deserved."

"Yes, the dumplings that Du Chang is making, I can smell the fragrance, and the palace dining room is not the same taste."

The queen ate more than a dozen dumplings before stopping the chopsticks, and drank two bowls of pigeon soup, and couldn't help but burp.

Meng Yuzhu pursed her lips and half-covered her face with a handkerchief.

"Du Changzai, what kind of dumplings are you doing, why are they so tender?"

"Back to the queen, this is stuffed with shepherd's cabbage."

"What is shepherd's cabbage?"

The system screen lit up: "Shepherd's cabbage, the name of Chinese herbal medicine." It is a whole grass with roots of the cruciferous plant Capsule. It is harvested from March to May, washed and dried. The functional indications are: and spleen, water, hemostasis, and bright eyes. Treatment of dysentery, edema, gonorrhea, chyluria, vomiting blood, hematochezia, blood collapse, menorrhagia, red eyes. ”

Xiaodian is really professional.

But these queens certainly don't understand.

Du only said that the explanation was as easy to understand as possible.

"Shepherd's cabbage is a kind of wild vegetable, most of which grows in spring, and it is a common food for folks."

"The emperor likes folk things the most." Wei Zhaoning said: "I heard that the emperor's appetite is not very good these days, just send some wild food for the emperor to taste, maybe the emperor will have an appetite." Queen Mother, it's better to let Du Changzai go back and do these two things again and send them back. ”

"Is that good?" The queen thought to herself, there is no food in the Taihe Palace, Baba went to deliver food to the emperor, would the emperor think that she was plotting wrong, and the queen refused a little bit as an act of inviting favor.

"The queen mother is considerate of the emperor and has good intentions, so I'll go back and make another dumpling and soup."

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When the dumplings and soup were sent to Jingren Palace, the queen directly rewarded Du Zhiyan with five taels of silver: "You did a good job, these five taels of silver should be rewarded." ”

Du Zhiyan held the silver and blessed it: "The queen is polite." In the future, if you have any needs, just ask. ”

When the queen took Wei Zhaoning to deliver the food to the Taihe Palace, the emperor was looking at the full account books in a daze, and the accounts in the inner library were getting smaller and smaller, which made the emperor anxious.

The imperial dining room had already prepared a good meal, and the roast venison and stewed mutton were cold.

Gao Rang didn't dare to persuade more, just stood quietly outside the curtain and waited.

The emperor was a little surprised when he saw that the queen arrived with the food box: "I know that I can't finish the food in the palace, so I brought the food box to fill it?" ”

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The emperor's words choked the queen.

The queen was not good at words, looking at the soup and water on the table, which was barbecue and snacks, and said embarrassedly: "The imperial dining room is really rich, look at the plate of beef made of vegetarian gluten, it is the same as the real thing." ”

"That's real beef." The emperor sat down and rubbed his forehead.

Wei Zhaoning was still a little more upright, opened the food box with his hand, put the dumplings, and put another plate of vinegar, a plate of soy sauce, a pickled radish and a pickled cabbage.

The sour taste is strong, and the dumplings are fragrant.

The emperor's stomach gurgled unconsciously.

"This is specially made for the emperor, I don't know if it suits your taste, please give it a try." Wei Zhaoning was blessed.

"Yes, yes, yes." The queen laughed.

"What kind of stuffing? If it's minced meat, I don't want to eat it now. ”

"It's stuffed with shepherd's cabbage and eggs, I heard that the emperor doesn't like greasy recently, this shepherd's cabbage is a folk game that grows in the greenhouse, it is the most fragrant, the eggs are decorated, the dumplings made are not greasy at all, and then with two pickled cabbage, the most is the next meal, the emperor tastes it." "Yes, yes, yes." The queen laughed.

The queen was very pleased with her sister as a spokesman.

She has a stupid mouth, and she can't say some things in her heart.

Wei Zhaoning is still slightly better.

"The emperor has a meal, and the concubines have made a new song here, which is fresh and elegant, so I will present it here."

"Yes, yes, Zhaoning plays a song, the emperor loves to listen to you." The queen chimed in.

Wei Zhaoning put the guzheng outside the curtain, ten fingers retracted and loosened, her slender fingers were white and tender like bamboo shoots after the rain, the sound flowed out of the guzheng, it was really a fresh and elegant song, just like being in the jungle in spring, after the rain, the bamboo leaves were mottled, the green grass had no boot soles, the mountains and rocks grew moss, the long stream went down, ticking to the bottom of the waterfall, under the waterfall is a deep pool, the pool water is quiet, and people's hearts are quiet.

The queen couldn't help but nod her head and clap her head.

Looking at the queen's enjoyment, I really don't know what it feels like.

The emperor had no choice but to use a dumpling, and a fresh breath exploded in his mouth.

What a fairy taste this is, it simply can't be better.

The imperial dining room also made dumplings, or pork and mushrooms, or venison and celery, or tomatoes and eggs, or coriander and chicken, this shepherd's cabbage flavor is really unique, with some sauerkraut, the more you eat, the more hungry you are.

A plate of dumplings was eaten by the emperor.

Dandelion pigeon soup, the emperor also drank it cleanly.

The emperor was happy, so he praised the queen and Wei Guiren for their intentions, and the reward arrived the next day, rewarding the queen for sleeping for one night, and rewarding Wei Guiren with two hostas.