Wanli 1592

Chapter 1085
It is true that Xiao Ruxun was born as a general.

After becoming the emperor, he did not forget to practice martial arts and keep fit, and now he takes time out to practice martial arts every day, which consumes a lot of energy and naturally eats a lot.

But no matter how big it is, it is impossible to eat rice made of 16 taels of silver in one day. Can the meat be eaten in hundreds of catties?Is that still human?
That is almost the rations of ordinary people for several years.

Xiao Ruxun, who was rumored to eat hundreds of taels of silver for a meal, felt that he was not a human being. According to what Zhu Yuanzhang did at that time, he should be stripped of his skin and cramped to light up sky lanterns.

However, he can't control it that much, so he sets an example to drive the world's atmosphere. Every month, he can personally attend the financial audit meeting to count a lot of surplus silver, which can be used to pay for the next month's expenses.

Over time, this kind of behavior can form a virtuous circle, saving a lot of money to subsidize the country.

Although the number of royal families will increase in the future, it seems inevitable that the number of palace people will increase, but it is saving after all.

Although Daqin has a lot of money at present, and the silver confiscated from the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River is far from being spent, each of the several national policies set by Xiao Ruxun requires a lot of money. Politics is one, the expansion of the cavalry is one, the Great Chidao plan is one, and education reform is the same.

There is never enough money to spend.

Therefore, the work of the audit department has been more and more recognized by Xiao Ruxun. By saving unnecessary expenses as much as possible, the country and the people will benefit, as well as Xiao Ruxun himself.

Xiao Ruxun repeatedly praised the work of the Audit Department, and rewarded the officials of the Audit Department with a lot of money and silk.

Only when they feel that they have no worries about food and clothing can they maximize their loyalty. The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, isn't he?
The meal at noon today was very rich, everything you should have, Xiao Ruxun took Zhenbang's hand, took him to the side room, and ate with him.

Xiao Ruxun likes white rice, and eats a lot. Every lunch, he eats three bowls of white rice and a lot of meat. He eats most of the table, and Zhenbang only eats a small half of it. eat them all.

He doesn't have those so-called rules, you can only eat three bites of any dish, and remove the rest, what is that?
If you need the eunuchs to help you eat, but you can't do it yourself, what is that?
If there is still leftovers after eating, what is it to eat without aiming at finishing it?
How many people in the world don't have enough to eat?

Those who can eat enough to eat are few, and only the people in the three southeastern provinces and northern Zhili can live on three meals a day, and most of them eat potatoes and corn.

Xiao Ruxun sent people out of the palace to teach how to grind corn into cornmeal to make corn buns and tortillas, as well as steaming, roasting and frying potatoes and other eating methods, and spread them all over the country as soon as possible, trying to let the common people have more ways to eat.

The people are so impoverished, how can he be willing to leave a grain of rice in the face of such a rich meal?
Li Sheng was on the sidelines, feeding the emperor, wiping the prince's mouth, and serving the most honorable father and son in the world with all his heart.

As a small middle-level and low-level internal servant cadre in the former Ming Palace, he participated in the work of delivering meals to the emperor and serving the emperor's meals. He has personally seen how the former Ming emperor and other nobles ate and what they ate. , and compared with the current Great Qin Emperor, how can it be compared?

He couldn't help but think of the sighs of some old people in the palace - no wonder Da Qin can win the world.

Xiao Ruxun ate the last piece of pork and the last grain of rice. Xiao Ruxun wiped his mouth in satisfaction.

He is not a picky eater, and there are very few things he doesn't like, but he can't accept fatty meat, so he ordered the purchaser to sell only lean pork, the kind that you can't see any fat, this kind of pork burns him One plate can be eaten in one meal.

Of course, sometimes when he gets hungry, he will also order Li Sheng to ask someone to buy some fat meat, put it in the pot to refine the oil, save the lard for cooking, and send the remaining oil residue to him, plus A small plate of salt, fragrant and crisp, very good snack.

The imperial cooks in the imperial dining room said that fat meat can be used in this way, which is really knowledgeable.

They didn't know why the emperor wanted to eat this food, but they ate a piece in private and found that it was indeed very delicious, fragrant and crispy.

Later, Xiao Ruxun ordered some ministers to give some lard dregs to eat as snacks. Wang Xijue and others ate some and thought it was really fragrant and crispy. When they tasted it, they ate a little, and they didn't eat too much.

But this little thing caught the eyes of many other officials, who thought it was another way for the emperor to express his concern for his courtiers, further confirming that Wang Li's paper cabinet could not be defeated now.

In the side room, Xiao Ruxun had a full meal and put down the bowls and chopsticks. Li Sheng immediately handed over a wet towel. Xiao Ruxun wiped his mouth. mouth, and then asked Li Sheng for a sweet melon to eat.

"Prince, wait a minute, you have to rest after dinner before you can eat melon."

Li Sheng persuaded Zhenbang with a bitter face, Xiao Ruxun turned his head to look at Zhenbang, his eyes shifted to his bowl, and his face darkened immediately.

"Zhenbang."

Xiao Ruxun sat down again: "Why don't you eat the rice in the bowl clean?"

When Zhenbang saw Xiao Ruxun's face darken, he immediately knew what was wrong with him. He quickly picked up the rice bowl and ate every grain of rice, and then put down the bowl, obediently sitting and not daring to stand up.

"Recite "Compassion for Farmers" once."

Xiao Ruxun said so.

Since Zhenbang learned to read and read poems, Xiao Ruxun personally taught Zhenbang this song "Compassion for Farmers".

"It's noon on the day of hoeing the weeds, and sweat drips down the soil. Who knows that the Chinese food on the plate is hard work."

Zhenbang recited it very skillfully.

"I'm very proficient in memorizing, why can't I remember? Who knows that every grain of rice is hard-earned, and every grain of white rice is hard-earned by the people. You can’t even get enough to eat, and you’re thinking about it every day for your father, just so that everyone in the world can have enough to eat, but you’re wasting food?”

Xiao Ruxun's tone was not serious, but Zhenbang was very scared. There was a time before when he didn't eat a clean meal, Xiao Ruxun scolded him and told him to eat clean, and then taught him the poem "Compassion for the Farmers".

Zhenbang is still young, so he doesn't understand very deeply.

So Xiao Ruxun had to use various educational methods to make him remember.

"Write "Compassion to the Nong" twenty times silently. The handwriting is not allowed to be scribbled. I forgive you once for my father. This is the second time. If there is another time, Zhenbang, you will be hungry! Li Sheng, stare at the prince. !"

Xiao Ruxun stared, stared at Zhenbang and lowered his head, not daring to speak, Li Sheng immediately received the order: "Old servant obeys the order."

After all, Xiao Ruxun got up and walked out of the side room, Zhenbang had no choice but to obediently follow Li Sheng to silently write "Compassion for Farmers".

Xiao Ruxun walked out of the side room and took a few steps to ease his mood. He saw at a glance that several important officials in another side room were still eating.

There are a lot of things to do today, so I left a few important officials for dinner, and I also rewarded the elders Wang and Li who stayed in the hall for lunch, as well as Ye Xianggao, the minister of the Ministry of Finance, and Han Zhuo, the new minister of the Ministry of War, with a plate of lard residue snacks, please They ate, and they also rewarded each of them with three slices of watermelons grown in the greenhouse to relieve their boredom. They treated the courtiers very preferentially.

The ministers didn't feel that the emperor's attitude towards them was not good. In fact, the emperor's attitude towards them was relatively good.

Although wave after wave of cleansing was frightening, the emperor had nothing to say about his courtiers when he didn't clean himself up and didn't kill himself. It was much better than some stingy emperors in the previous Ming Dynasty who didn't even give them a meal.

They didn't dare to ask for anything extravagantly.

At least when Xiao Ruxun was alive, they didn't dare to ask for anything extravagantly.

Xiao Ruxun stepped into the side room, Han Zhuo saw Xiao Ruxun with sharp eyes, immediately put down his job and stood up.

"See Your Majesty."

The other three immediately stood up and looked at Xiao Ruxun.

"See Your Majesty!"

Xiao Ruxun smiled and waved his hands. Seeing that Wang Xijue's mouth was bulging, it was obvious that there was something he hadn't finished eating, so he said, "Sit down and continue eating. It's important to eat. Don't be in a hurry, Mr. Wang Ge. This posture is to keep the food in your mouth Spit it out and learn from Duke Zhou?"

Xiao Ruxun also teased Wang Xijue, Wang Xijue blushed, and quickly speeded up his chewing, while the other three smiled, watching the emperor find a chair to sit down, they also sat down, picked up the bowls and chopsticks and continued to eat, Just a little cautious.

(End of this chapter)