Qiming 1158

Chapter 647 Xin Qiji doesn't feel that his taste buds are very picky at all
Logically speaking, officials were on long-distance business trips, tired from boats and cars, bumped and bumped and finally arrived at the station. They were exhausted and their bones were about to fall apart. At that time, they would definitely want to eat something hot and delicious, and then take a solid sleep. , regain your vitality.

Of course, the court also considered this for officials.

So as long as you catch up with the meal time, the meal will definitely be hot, and it will definitely not leave you without food.

It's just, the food is hot, but the taste... It's really hard to describe.

It’s good to meet a post with good cooking skills. You can eat a more satisfying meal, snort a delicious meal, and go to bed when you are full. It’s beautiful.

This is of course the best, but if you are unlucky, you will encounter a post station with average cooking skills, or even a bit poor, and the food you eat in your mouth does not meet your psychological expectations, and you will be angry in your heart!

But if you don’t eat, you don’t have to eat. The post station is generally not too close to the city. If you don’t eat, you will be hungry. After thinking about it, you can only frown and fill your stomach, and deal with it.

Then feel bad.

Of course, if you want to improve your life and eat well, no problem, the court will not stop you, but that is your own expense.

The imperial court manages the food, manages the food, and it is absolutely free in this category. Public funds for food, drink and lodging do not require you to spend money.

But the court did not improve.

If you want to improve, you can, as long as you arrive at the destination within the specified time to complete your official duties, how you want to improve during this period, as long as you spend your own money, that is your own business, and the imperial court will not interfere.

Officials also have the right to spend freely.

The salaries given to officials in the Ming Dynasty were not very generous. In any case, they were certainly not as generous as the generous salaries given to officials by the Song Ting. However, it was also a good thing. It's not about discounting a lot of items.

In the past, in all dynasties, some rare items were used as salaries, or when there were some financial difficulties for a while, or some collections could not be consumed, they were used as official salaries and discounted.

Of course it's nothing but the icing on the cake for the senior bureaucrats, who love these court luxuries.

But for those petty officials who live on their salaries, it's very fatal.

These luxuries are often not directly edible, nor can they be used at home. They have to find a place to recycle these rare items and exchange them for money to buy food and daily necessities, which is a lot of steps.

Moreover, the channels for purchasing these luxury goods are limited. Generally, certain stores will purchase these luxury goods. Sometimes some small officials even face malicious price reductions, and they are unable to resist, so life is tight. Baba.

This was not the case in Su Yonglin's Ming Dynasty. The main body of salary was clear money, hard currency, and there was no need to exchange money to use it. This was the case for high officials and small officials, and they treated them equally.

In addition to money, the Ming Dynasty's salaries also had some daily necessities benefits.

For example, practical daily necessities such as oil, rice, noodles, meat, tea, coal, etc., are also distributed to daily necessities such as cloth, silk, candles, spices, etc., and the quality is good.

Generally speaking, the salary of the Ming Dynasty highlights one [practicality]. As long as the officials and officials of the Ming Dynasty eat the imperial food, basically there is no problem in their daily life.

After reaching a certain level, it basically means that you don’t need money in daily life, and the salary you get is infinitely close to net income, which can be stored or spent at will to improve your life.

So in general, officials and officials are still satisfied with their current salaries and life.

When I'm away on business, I really can't stand the post station. As long as I pass through the town, I can go out to eat without wasting time, and I won't have no money to go out to improve my life.

However, if there is something that is free and you have to pay for it, most middle-level and grass-roots officials are still unable to do it.

Most of them don't have as much space as senior officials, and of course they still want to take advantage, so they start to learn and explore.

At first, they would carry some cakes to fill their stomachs, so as not to encounter a situation that makes people angry. Later, they began to learn, and the cooks in which station on which official road was delicious, and the officials who were away on business encountered them. Just write it down.

These messages are often recorded in a small notebook, and officials who travel frequently communicate with each other and help each other.

In this way, in just a few months, those officials who often traveled abroad have basically figured out the stations with relatively high-quality food in the current station system of the Ming Dynasty.

The post station is clear, and the location distribution is also clear. Before they go on business, they will calculate the exact route and time, or rush on the road, or stroll in the courtyard, and choose the meal point to arrive at the post station with good cooks.

In this way, after arriving at the inn, you can eat free meals made by those skilled cooks.

I can eat and drink for free, and I can eat more comfortably. After a sleep, my heart is still very satisfied.

Xin Qiji is a senior central official. He doesn't usually go on business trips. He doesn't always come across business trips once a year. He has no rigid demand for this, and he doesn't know the magic weapon for those officials who travel frequently.

So this time, he stepped on a lot of thunder, and stayed in six stations along the way. All three stations gave him food and his brows were wrinkled, and his heart was full of fire.

Originally, I was tired by boat and car, and the road was bumpy, and I was not comfortable riding a horse. When I arrived at the station, I wanted to eat hot and delicious food, but the food was so unsatisfactory.

Speaking of conscience, Xin Qiji didn't feel that he had done anything special or that it was difficult to serve.

During the war, he came with everyone to eat the big pot of rice in the army. The big pot was filled with rice and vegetables, and he squatted on the ground and ate big mouths. He didn't think there was anything wrong, and the food was delicious.

He didn't have time to eat during the march, and he didn't complain about those who had eaten some dry food, or were hungry and full.

He even thought that the old fireheads in the army were better at craftsmanship than the cooks in the restaurants outside.

Since joining the Restoration Army, he has left behind him the good life of childhood and adolescence, as well as fine dining and flamboyant cuisine.

He's never been one to suffer.

After the founding of the country, his life stabilized. His salary was very high, but he insisted on a simple life. He did not build a house or buy land. His only hobby was to buy books and read.

Or if you have any insights on life and work, you will write these insights into poems.

Or buy some ingredients on the holiday and meet friends during the war to go out for a picnic party, drink barbecue and chat, and recall the hard life in the past.

In daily life, Xin Qiji is basically in line with Su Yonglin. He doesn't eat delicacies from mountains and seas, and he doesn't pursue expensive ingredients. Except for the extravagance of big fish and meat during the New Year's and festivals, the daily meals are all meat and soup.

So Xin Qiji doesn't feel that his taste buds are very picky at all.

But the level of the cooks in those three inns even made him prepare to submit an application to the inn management department to let them control the food standards of the inn.

I don't ask you to be delicious, but you have to at least make sense, right?

Either it is so salty that you almost spit it out after a bite, or the salt is just like using a precious spice, just a little bit, bland and tasteless.

The level of cooking of some of the chefs is simply a waste of such good ingredients.

Is this behavior a crime?

Where are these cooks from?

I'm afraid it's not because the pig farm made pig food for pigs and changed jobs?
Xin Qiji was so angry that he almost cursed.

It’s not incomprehensible that the inn’s budget is tight, but is it really that difficult to find someone who can cook to be a cook?
Xin Qiji was deeply dissatisfied with the cooks in these inns.

Fortunately, after arriving in Haizhou, the officials in Haizhou paid for Xin Qiji to eat some good food, and gave him some good food. Xin Qiji also paid for some local specialties in Haizhou, and his mood was relieved. .

Now going south to the Southern Song Dynasty, I thought I would also experience the post station system and food at the post station in the Southern Song Dynasty, and continue to feel the "variation of the world", but I never thought that I would get such treatment.

After eating Xin Qiji, he felt that he would definitely gain weight.

(End of this chapter)