Qiming 1158

Chapter 1573 Maybe you can only see it once in the entire history

Since we are leaving the era of imperial power, of course we must lead by example, and some special existences with the nature of imperial power should not be retained.

First of all, the imperial kitchen was abolished, and there was no need for this eye-catching institution dedicated to serving his family, so there was no need for specialization.

Then all the eunuchs and palace maids should be abolished.

The eunuchs and maids who stay in the palace to serve Su Yonglin's family are basically the old people who stayed in the Wanyanliang period. It has been more than ten years, and there are quite a few of them, but not too many. 500 people look like.

Wanyanliang lived an extravagant life. Back then, the number of eunuchs and palace maids was still very large. After Su Yonglin conquered the Central Capital, he thought about it, and then left them to continue working in the palace, but since then he will no longer recruit eunuchs and palace maids.

At that time, he just thought that one day he would not be the emperor, so he could dismiss all these eunuchs and palace maids, saving time and effort, and not having to spend any extra money to recruit new people.

Of course, Su Yonglin also considered where these palace maids and eunuchs would go after they were dismissed.

Some relatively young and capable people stayed and trained as the staff of the Palace Museum in the future, doing some maintenance and cleaning work. In this regard, they are very professional.

Arrangements have also been made for the rest who need to be dismissed.

Those who have family members contact their family members for them to see if they are willing to take them back, and if they are willing to take them back, take them back.

Those who have no family members and are over 50 years old, whether they are eunuchs or female officials, are directly sent to the Zhongdu Almshouse to live collectively, where they are cared for according to the standard of widowhood and loneliness, so that they can spend their old age in peace.

Those who are still relatively young under the age of 50 are sent to skill training classes to train some useful skills, and then arrange for the textile factory in Zhongdu to accept them and provide them with a job.

Those who already have professional skills are directly sent to the counterpart workshop to work, which does not delay their professional skills.

These people wait until they are 50 years old and then send them to the poorhouse to live in their old age. Anyway, they will not let their life be unsettled, and they will have enough food and drink to spend their old age peacefully.

After hearing the wind, Zhou Fu, the former personal eunuch who served Su Yonglin for six years, and Jiang Xiaorou, a female official who served Zhao Xirui for more than ten years, came to Su Yonglin and Zhao Xirui together, hoping to keep them for the sake of serving the couple for so long. Let them continue to serve.

Su Yonglin and Zhao Xirui thought about it, thinking that it would be more convenient for the old people to use them than the newcomers, so as to save the break-in period, so the two decided to hire Zhou Fu and Jiang Xiaorou as servants of the Su family and stay.

Then Su Yonglin felt that it would be the most convenient and quick choice to hire a few of the most capable people from the people he was used to and go to the new home to do errands.

He and Zhao Xirui are both busy with their jobs. It is necessary to do things like cooking, washing, cleaning, etc.

They carefully selected one eunuch and three female officials to stay, hired them in their personal capacity, signed employment contracts, and let them continue to serve in their new homes.

Others can be saved as well. The place for a family of four does not need to be extravagant and luxurious, as long as they can live comfortably and happily without spending too much money.

Because he still has some things he wants to do that need to spend a lot of money.

Su Yonglin's series of actions caused considerable repercussions in the Zhongdu court and the Renaissance Society system.

Especially the construction site of the new home that Su Yonglin had chosen for him, almost as soon as the construction started, a group of officials and Renaissance members came to visit the Holy Land.

There is no other reason. Everyone thinks that an emperor with real power and prestige comparable to a god voluntarily relinquishes his status as an emperor and a large part of his power can only be seen once in his life.

Maybe only once in the whole history, so they are very happy, very happy.

In order to get things done, this god-like emperor even stopped living in the palace. He expressed that he would give up the palace to administration and tourism, partly for administration and partly for the construction of the Palace Museum for the world to see. .

He bought a piece of land by himself, built a house by himself, lived by himself, spent the manuscript fees he earned by writing books by himself, and did not spend the money of the state, and took care of everything by himself, and did not want the state to work hard.

As a leader of a country, with great power in hand, everyone feels that they have nothing to say.

Originally, they revered Su Yonglin, but now they feel that pure reverence can no longer express the emotions in their hearts.

But they didn't know what to do. They could only come here to make a tour of the Holy Land, watch Su Yonglin's house being completed day by day, and look at the house with devout eyes like a believer, so as to express their emotions.

Su Yonglin didn't care about these things. From September 12 onwards in Hongwu, most of Su Yonglin's energy was spent on the representatives of the people who were preparing to hold meetings when they settled down.

The central representatives each have their own positions and procedures for entering the capital. They can arrange it themselves, which is simple and convenient.

Most of the people's representatives have never even gone out to the county they belong to in their entire lives, and they can't find the North if they leave their homes. Everything is so novel, and at the same time, they can't have enough financial resources to support the cost of traveling, so this money It has to come from the court.

Su Yonglin arranged for the revival organizations and the government in every county in the country to arrange the travel of the representatives of the people, plan the route, and then notify each station along the way, so that the station also has preparations, so as to avoid too many people coming and not enough people. food reserves.

Fortunately, the well-developed official road station system in Daming has provided a lot of help for a large number of people's representatives to go to the central capital. Except for representatives from some remote areas, it is not difficult for representatives from the central plains and Jiangnan regions to arrive in the central capital.

It is not difficult for the representatives of Guangdong and Guangxi to reach the Central Capital more quickly by water, which can save a lot of time.

The difficulty in remote inland areas is relatively high. It is difficult to travel all the way across the mountains. The time to travel is generally more than two months. Therefore, it is necessary to start in advance to catch up with the Hongwu 13th Congress, otherwise it will be late.

So in late September of Hongwu 12, representatives of the people began to rush to Zhongdu. By October of 12 Hongwu, representatives of the people in most parts of the country had already started to travel.

In mid-November of the 12th year of Hongwu, the first batch of 210 representatives from the Sichuan and Shu regions arrived in Zhongdu, and Su Yonglin personally received them at the Garrison Pavilion station south of Zhongdu.

The Garrison Pavilion Station prepared a lot of ingredients for the arrival of this group of representatives of the people, and also urgently dispatched [-] skilled chefs from major restaurants in Central Metropolis to rush to support, and prepared a very rich [Sichuan cuisine] for this group of representatives from Sichuan and Sichuan. ].

In this era, there is no shadow of the eight major cuisines, but the regional nature of food has gradually become a fact recognized by everyone. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, the major restaurants in Bianliang City had [South Restaurant] [North Restaurant] The difference between [Chuan Hotel].

At that time, the southern restaurant mainly referred to the food of Lingnan and the southeastern coastal areas, mainly fish, shrimp and crab, while the northern restaurant mainly focused on whole grains and poultry meat.

Back then, southerners liked salty, while northerners liked sweet. The reason for the difference in tastes between the north and the south in modern times is mainly due to the relocation of northerners to the south after the Jingkang Rebellion and the southern migration of the territory of the Song Dynasty. A large number of northerners will love it. The custom of eating sweets was brought to the south.

As for Chuan Hotel, it also has its own characteristics.

Although Chuan Restaurant also focuses on pasta and meat, there is a unique cooking method in the production method, which is called "燠". In the urn, the pickling method for eating.

In addition, the Sichuan restaurant also has a "spicy" flavor. Of course, it is not chili. Chili was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty without chili, ginger, garlic, leeks, and pepper were the main sources of spiciness, and were widely found in Sichuan cuisine. among.

In order to take care of the tastes of these representatives from Sichuan and Sichuan, the garrison pavilion invited chefs from the most famous Sichuan restaurant in the entire Central Capital to cook Sichuan dishes for them, which made these representatives very satisfied.

(End of this chapter)