A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 152
The prince is in a good mood.

Give corridor food.

Chaoguang's auspiciousness filled the palace building, and the imperial kitchen in the corridor distributed cold food.

Eating lunch under the porch of the East Palace is not unpopular, but it is a great honor for the courtiers, and most people are not qualified for this.

Generally, the corridor food is undertaken by Guanglu Temple, and it is provided for the lunchtime work meals of the regular senators, which are usually only available later in the discussion. The standard is to provide one hundred plates of food and three sheep for the fifth rank and above and Yuanwailang, and there are leftovers It was only given to Zhongshu, the internal worship officials under the door, the supervisory censor, and the Taichang doctors.

In summer, cold pottery powder porridge is usually eaten, in winter, soup cakes are served, and seasonal fruits are also provided.

Huaiyu also participated in the Chang Dynasty before, and he was enshrined in Tongshi Sheren, so he was not eligible to eat gallery food, unless there was a lot of this boxed meal that day, he would give it to them.

There are many rules for dining in the hallway, just like playing in the palace. If the censor corrects you for misconduct and finds out that you will be fined one month's salary once, the food will not taste good.

However, today’s gallery food is given to triumphant generals, and no etiquette is required for the old men. The prince deliberately asked the censor to step down so that everyone can enjoy it to the fullest. Even the gallery food standard is better than usual, not only mutton and sheep Soups, even fish, steamed cakes, soup cakes, fruits, and grilled meats.

In fact, the porch of the Eastern Palace Hall is very spacious. There are desks and a futon for each person. During lunch in August, while eating, one can smell the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus in front of the hall, and even have a chance to see the maids of the Eastern Palace of the Tang Dynasty.

Not very pretty, some of them are not young, and their clothes are quite plain, not the colorful and colorful ones.

Huaiyu is now the junior inspector of military weapons, and is on the fifth rank. Although he is a inspector, he is not officially awarded, but his job is no different from that of a real award. It is only because Wu Huaiyu is too young, and his rank is also very low. Insufficient, so the word "censor" was added before the position he held. The nature of the appointment was an agency, and it even meant to be a trial.

His current shift is in the rank order of the junior supervisor.

For this reason, Li Shimin dismissed him as a non-member who was originally enshrined in the house. After all, he now has the qualifications for regular participation, so there is no need to be a non-member.

But for Wu Huaiyu, as long as Li Shimin has personally announced that in the future, although Wu Huaiyu will be from the seventh rank, but the shift will be the fifth rank of the military commander.

If Lumi is less, then there is less. Most of the income is from the job field of the clerk, the monthly salary and other income. As a procurator, he directly takes the official salary, not half salary, which is very good.

The cold pottery provided by Guanglu Temple is not as delicious as that made by the eldest sister, and the stewed mutton soup is almost tasteless, but the pears and pomegranates served are quite good.

This reminded him of the twenty-acre pear orchard that Qin Qiong gave him. He heard that the harvest had already begun, but he didn't even have time to go and have a look.

I heard that the official meals of the prime ministers are much better. After the court meeting, the prime ministers are given dine-in meals. The fifth-rank regular officials eat in the corridor, and the prime ministers eat in the hall.

Officials of the fourth and fifth ranks can only drink mutton soup, but the prime ministers can eat meat.

Having suffered from the court's disgrace and punishment last time, the food in Huaiyu's corridor is very honest today, even if the cold pottery is not as delicious as the elder sister's, it is not cool enough and a bit bitter, even the mutton soup is not fresh enough, he is old Sit there and eat honestly, and never make a lot of noise like those low-level military officers.

Crown Prince Li Shimin and Lord Yi Qin Qiong, this meeting also deliberately shared joys and sorrows with everyone in the corridor. The Wu family is also from a humble family background, so they cannot be like those martial arts who have never seen the world, let alone he is still a disciple of Xiaoyaozi. The demeanor of the current head of the Daolongmen sect.

Huaiyu ate up all of his share, not wasting anything, now that the current situation is turbulent, and the food price in Chang'an is so high, he, the young military inspector, can't make Yu Shi let alone the prince think he's wasting money.

Throughout the dynasties, regardless of wealth or difficulty, they have always practiced frugality. This is a beautiful virtue. Officials should pay special attention to it. Although Huaiyu does not need to wear a few patched clothes on purpose, it is important for food not to be wasted. basic.

It is said that the corridor food and dine-in food in the East Palace now have a censor who advises that it is too extravagant and wasteful. With so many officials, three sheep a day still feel like eating too much.

The censors can't wait for everyone to distribute two cold steamed cakes every day, and the officials will deal with it indiscriminately.

Also eat mutton, people's fat and people's cream.

Huaiyu didn't know if the censors only ate cold pancakes every day at home, but he knew that Wei Zheng, the most smelly and hardest advising doctor among the officials, was by no means a poor and frugal person, because Wei Zheng made private brews at home, Not only like to drink, but also to make and sell wine.

The two most famous wines in Chang'an City, one is Wei Zheng's home brew, and the other is Taile Shuling Jiaoge's home brew. There is a saying in Chang'an that a bucket of gold is not as good as a sip of Wei Gong.

In Menxia Province, there is a waiting king, Ji, the younger brother of the great Confucian Wang Tong. He was an official in Menxia Province, just for the supply of three liters of Jiaoge wine that day. He also asked to be downgraded to become Tai Lecheng, but the official department said that this was not in line with the rank, and how can there be an official who becomes smaller and smaller.

But Wang Ji preferred to go to the Taile Department because he could drink Jiao Ge's wine conveniently. His waiter Chen Shuda added three liters of wine to a bucket for him, so he would rather go to the Taile Department.

Wei Zheng's home brewing is as famous as Jiao Ge's home brewing. Food is so precious nowadays. The imperial court often bans wine making because of the food cost of wine making. Wei Zheng drinks at home every day and sells wine.

Although he used to be a Taoist priest and his family was poor, but now he is also a nobleman of five ranks. Like many scholars, he had long thought of marrying a woman of five surnames for his son. Wang Ji looked at Wei Zheng's family's good wine, and reluctantly agreed, but Mrs. Wang Ji asked for an additional 70 in compensation, which can be regarded as lowering the basic conditions for the family to marry his Wei family, and Wei Zheng actually agreed.

This fully shows that Wei Zheng is not what he appears to be.

When leaving the palace, Huaiyu went to receive the reward and saw Zhang Anan again.

"Congratulations, I've been promoted again." Zhang Anan smiled, Fan Xuanfu came to visit him two days ago, and specially gave him fragrant soap and fire salt.

Zhang Ananda liked the large box of fragrant soap with nine kinds of fragrances very much. Compared with bath beans, this kind of fragrant soap is more useful, especially this fragrance, as an eunuch, there will always be some embarrassing things to say, Especially when you are older, it is inevitable that you will often smell bad.

As a high-ranking eunuch, he has to serve the emperor frequently, and it is absolutely impossible to smell on his body. He has worked hard to conceal this smell, and now this fragrant soap is very good.

Eunuch Zhang likes Fan Xuanfu very much. When talking with Huaiyu, he can't help but talk about when he was still in Taiyuan, he was in Jinyang Palace. Fan Xuanfu was still a little girl and often followed his father to find him. This child He likes to play with himself the most, and Zhang Anan also likes this girl very much, telling her stories and combing her hair, she doesn't dislike herself at all.

As I grow older, I always like to reminisce about the past.

"She really likes you. Don't let this girl down. This girl has a hard life and a strong temper." Although the old man was smiling when he spoke, Huaiyu felt a strong murderous intent.

He remembered that Eunuch Zhang was still a master of swordsmanship, maybe even a sword master.

After all, if you want to practice magical skills, you must first leave the palace, let go of the source of troubles, and naturally you can concentrate on practicing martial arts.

"Please rest assured, Supervisor Zhang."

When Huaiyu left, he felt sweat profuse on his back, the old man was putting too much pressure on him.

He left with two silver bottles in his hands, this time it was a little different from the pair of golden lion and silver bottles last time, it was still a silver jug ​​with two big carvings on it.

There are still gold and silver coins in the bottle, but not as much as last time.

It's not easy to be a prince, you have to reward your subordinates every now and then.

Go out of the palace and go home.

He handed over a pair of silver vases to Run Niang for safekeeping, and immediately went to tell the good news that Wu Liu's father would be transferred to Beijing.

"That's good, it will save your father from being unsafe in Sanyuan."

My old lady is not afraid that Lao Wu will be tired from being an official again. He still has a salary when he is an official, and Lao Wu is still young, so he can reunite with his family when he comes to Chang'an.

While talking, the outer courtyard reported that many people had come to the door.

Huaiyu went out to have a look, and it turned out that they were the people he left in Longzhou. There were shopkeepers he hired in Longyou, slaves rewarded by the court, and Fan Xuanfu's people. They took a few more detours and succeeded. Take Huaiyu and their luggage back to Chang'an.

"We made some detours, but luckily the journey was safe and we didn't meet any Turkic people,"

The shopkeeper congratulated Xiang Huaiyu, "As soon as we entered Chang'an, we heard that Alang had made new achievements and was promoted again."

"It's nothing, just be safe, come in."

Seeing a large number of people, horses and goods squeezed into the outer courtyard, Huaiyu felt that the courtyard was a little small now, and it seemed that he had to buy another house.

Huaiyu went to Fan's mansion opposite.

Everyone in the Fan family now basically knows that this is the eldest sister's sweetheart, so they are very polite to him.

When Fan Xuanfu heard the news, he asked with concern, "Why did you go to war again, didn't you get hurt?"

"No, no fur was hurt at all."

Fan Xuanfu didn't care about other people's eyes at all, and pulled Huaiyu to check up and down carefully.

Huaiyu was promoted, and Xu Jingzong was the first to hear the news and came to congratulate him.

This guy has been flattering since he came here, and he is worthy of being one of the eighteen scholars of the Qin Palace. greasy.

What a shame, such a great talent, I can only come to flatter Wu Huaiyu.

"Speaking of which, the position of our military inspector should have been directly awarded to Erlang."

"Xu Xueshi, if you say that, Ji Guogong will be very upset when he hears it."

Xu Jingzong smiled awkwardly, flattering too much.

"This time, our Armed Forces Supervisor and Shenjifang also made meritorious service, and we will definitely be rewarded later."

"On the side of Qujiang, I still leave it to Scholar Xu to take care of it. It's so hard to watch. Now that the materials are not available, we have to collect them quickly. If there is not enough saltpeter, we have to find nitrate beaches, nitrate holes, or even dung piles on the dirt walls. It is made by scraping nitrate soil and boiling it.

His Highness also said that the firearms of our Shenjifang have great promise, and we must hurry up to produce them. "

Xu Jingzong nodded quickly.

Seeing Wu Huaiyu's promotion one after another, his heart was itchy. Yesterday he was happy that he didn't receive the escort mission, but today he regretted why he didn't follow Wu Huaiyu to the Qin Qiong camp, otherwise wouldn't he be able to gain military merit?
Now I can only make up for it more diligently.

Huaiyu sent Xu Jingzong away, he planned to give himself a temporary vacation, after returning to Chang'an, he didn't have time to rest and relax, especially he didn't have time to spend time with Fan Xianji, he was unfamiliar with her.

Dongshi Qianjin Hall has finally been renovated and is about to officially open.

Everything is complicated and lacks skills.

"I'm going to buy a house, or buy a piece of land to build one myself, and I can't even live here."

Fan Xuanfu said: "My family still has a few houses in Chang'an, use whichever one you like."

"How about that, why don't we use the [-] acres of land in Qujiang newly granted by His Highness to build a villa manor, and design the building ourselves?"

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Fan Xuanfu held Huaiyu's hand and refused to let go, regardless of the presence of others, only Wu Erlang was in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)