Qing Chuan's cousin is reborn

Kangxi looked away, feeling a little uncomfortable, he wanted to say four taels of silver, and one cent for the imperial dining room was actually not much.

Yunrou easily saw through Kangxi's thoughts, she slapped the account book in front of Kangxi, "Does the emperor know how many vegetables and chickens this huge palace needs every day?"

According to the records in the account book, the concubines and concubines in the harem are not equal, and the lowest concubine has four dishes and one soup for each meal.The four-course meal includes one meat, one egg and two vegetarian dishes for breakfast, and two meat and two vegetarian dishes for lunch and dinner.In other words, a concubine would eat at least one chicken every day.

For example, Yunrou had 36 dishes per meal when she was a concubine, 64 dishes when she was promoted to concubine, and Tong Guifei, who was one level higher than her, had 72 dishes per meal.Not to mention that the emperor and the queen mother also had hundreds of dishes.

She roughly calculated that the daily consumption of concubines is around a hundred chickens and ducks.

One is four and a half taels of silver, and one hundred is 450 taels.

Taking a deep breath, she said, "Your Majesty, do you know how much the common people spend a year?" She stretched out her fingers and made a four-character gesture, "A family of four spends no more than two taels of silver a year. You do the math yourself. , How many families of four can you support with 450 taels?"

450 taels of silver a day, 500 taels a month, nearly 16 taels a year.There are only a dozen managers in the imperial dining room, and if they are divided equally among each person, they can earn ten thousand taels of silver a year.

This is just chicken and duck, and she hasn't counted the prices of eggs, pork, beef, mutton, and vegetables.If everything is counted, she estimated that it would not be a problem to pay 6 to [-] taels a year only for kickbacks.

This time Kangxi was silent, he suddenly found that one tael of silver seemed nothing, he rewarded more than one tael to his slaves casually, but the accumulation of small amount became more, after many years, this amount was very shocking.

No wonder the last time Liang Jiugong was asked to inspect the group of people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he found out a lot of money.A small butler is greedy for so much, what about the head of the imperial dining room?

Kangxi suddenly remembered that the palace decorations of Wupin in the Yonghe Palace were all exquisite, and the seemingly ordinary vase decorations were actually either antiques or from famous artists.

In the past, I only thought Wu Bin had a good eye, but now... I'm afraid Wu Ya's house is not clean.

"Liang Jiugong, how do you slave do things? You haven't seen such a simple truth, and you have to teach you, Master Yun. Huh?" It also made him lose face in front of Yunrou.

Liang Jiugong cried out in his heart that he was wronged. It's not that he didn't tell the emperor about this matter at the beginning, but the emperor himself said it. It's just a few taels of silver, and it's considered a welfare for them.It's all right now, if something goes wrong, it's his fault for being a slave.

He was wronged in his heart, but on his face he looked guilty, "It's all the fault of this old slave. This slave has failed the emperor's entrustment, and he deserves death."

The master and servant sang together, Yun Rou just wanted to roll her eyes.

Kangxi probably also felt embarrassed, he coughed lightly, "It's my negligence this time, then, Yun'er, what do you think the price should be for buying vegetables in the imperial dining room?"

Yun Rou rolled her eyes, "Your Majesty, you won't be going to court tomorrow, right? Why don't we go to the vegetable market together tomorrow morning?"

Kangxi was considered a hard-working emperor. Basically, there was a small court meeting every three days, and a big court meeting every ten days.At other times, even if you don't go to court, you still get up early to do political affairs.

The last small court meeting has just passed, and the big court meeting has not yet arrived. The emperor should not be so busy tomorrow.

She felt that no matter how much she said, it would be better to let the emperor see it with her own eyes.

Although things for the royal family would not be bought from the vegetable market, the price should not be so different.After the emperor had seen the things in the vegetable market, and then went back to look at the quotations of the imperial dining room, she believed that without her saying it, the emperor himself should feel sorry for the money.

"Success, tomorrow morning, I will go to the vegetable market with you, and take the prince to observe the people's sentiments." Compared with him, the prince is more generous and cares less about money.

He knew that not only the prince, but also every one of his sons and honorable ministers.

"It just so happens that the sweet potatoes in Huangzhuang are about to ripen. I think they should lose weight from the fat they eat on weekdays. I decided to take them to harvest in person and let them experience the hard work of the common people."

"Liang Jiugong, let me remember this matter. All clan relatives and nobles in Beijing who are over 15 years old and under [-] years old must go."

Potatoes and sweet potatoes Yunrou didn't get a lot at the beginning, and they only started to plant on a large scale last year. In fact, they only planted three or four acres of land on a large scale.

The three or four mu of land in spring last year more than tripled in autumn.The emperor's seedlings were cultivated by He Wensheng in her village, and the output should be similar.

In other words, there are at least [-] mu of sweet potatoes in Huangzhuang, plus the same amount of potatoes.

The emperor counted on those ministers who had never done farm work, and he didn't know how long it would take to collect them.

Harvesting sweet potatoes is not an easy task. Novices without experience can easily damage sweet potatoes, which is not conducive to preservation.The most important thing is that when chopping sweet potatoes, people have to squat on the ground and move forward slowly.

That taste?hehe

Maybe it was because the gloating on Yunrou's face was too obvious, Kangxi suddenly said: "You go with me, let's compete to see who gets more, how about it? I don't bully you, I can give you half an acre of land first."

Although he never handled sweet potatoes, he planted and harvested wheat and rice by himself every year. Yunrou's eyes aroused his masculine heart, and he thought he must let Yunrou take a look.

He has the ability to secure the state and military power to rule the country, and he does not lose the professional farming style when he hoes and farms.

"Then you have to be careful, Your Majesty. You forgot who discovered these sweet potatoes and potatoes first. The concubine can not only eat them. If the concubine accidentally wins at that time, in front of so many people, your face will be destroyed." ?" Yun Rou didn't speak, but only gave a half-smile expression.

"Okay, if you win, I promise you one thing, how about it?"

Yunrou's eyes lit up, "You said this, you can't go back on your word." The emperor's request, she had to think carefully about what to say at that time.

It will be some days before the sweet potato harvest, the most urgent thing is the matter of the Imperial Dining Room.

In the early morning of the second day, Yunrou got up early, found out the coarse cloth clothes she wore before going out, put on black cloth shoes, and put a woman's bun on her head, with only a slanted hair on it. Silver hairpin.

Seeing Yunrou like this, Kangxi was stunned. Apart from being too pretty, she was definitely a village woman.

Yunrou smiled proudly: "How is it?" Then she looked at the emperor again, she frowned, "You don't have any more torn clothes?"

The emperor also wears cotton clothes of ordinary people, but this cotton cloth is not coarse cloth, but high-quality cotton cloth.Coupled with his overall demeanor, unless he is blind, no one can see that this is a noble man.

If it is said that the emperor is overbearing, the prince who followed him would have to write a few words on his face, 'people are stupid, rich, come quickly'.

The prince was wearing the same clothes made of high-quality cotton cloth as the emperor, except that the prince was wearing a jade pendant around his waist and a finger puller in his hand, plus his expression with his nostrils upturned.This is not waiting to be slaughtered.

Kangxi didn't think there was anything wrong, he used to dress like this when he went out of the palace, and it was the best clothes he could find in the palace.

Yunrou was a little discouraged, "Forget it, otherwise, how about we buy separately later, with a limit of one tael of silver, and see who buys the most and the best quality."

Walking with them, she could foresee that she would never be able to negotiate a price.

After being denied one after another, Kangxi was also very angry, "Okay, let's compare."

The three of them went out of the palace in two carriages. On the way, Yun Rou took out rouge and water powder to put on makeup for herself. She darkened her skin and put a few freckles on her face. She changed from an aura-inspiring beauty immediately. Become an ordinary vegetable market woman.

Satisfied with taking back the things in her hand, she deliberately winked at the emperor, "Does the emperor think the concubine is beautiful?"

Kangxi wanted to control the corners of his mouth to say something against his will, but unfortunately the corners of his mouth were not under his control at all, and kept twitching non-stop.

Yunrou didn't have to wait for his answer, she could tell what she was like by the emperor's expression.

When the two got out of the carriage, Yinfeng who followed behind was stunned for a while, who was the woman in the carriage of Khan Ama, and where did Concubine Yun Shu go?

"Your Majesty, walking forward from here is the vegetable market. We agreed that the limit is one or two taels of silver. Some people will cheat. We might as well hand over all the money to Eunuch Liang. Eunuch Liang, please don't follow, just stay here Carriage. How?"

"Yes," Kangxi immediately asked Liang Jiugong to give him a tael of silver, but all he wanted were scattered silver coins, and even a hundred copper coins.

After collecting the money, he looked at Yunrou proudly.For today, he did his homework. Do you really think he would be foolish enough to swagger around here with a tael of silver?

Yun Rou also took loose silver and copper plates, and when she saw Kangxi's copper plates, she gave him a high regard without saying anything.This man is not confused yet.

The prince followed suit and was eager to take the silver. The three characters were separated at the entrance of the vegetable market. Everyone was arrogant and arrogant, and he was determined to compare the other two.

Yunrou still only had Chunyan by her side, and the two of them were not in a hurry to buy groceries but observed as they walked.Yun Rou said that she had never been to such a place before, and she knew it was thanks to He Wensheng.

It doesn't matter if you don't know how to buy vegetables, she has good eyesight, and after walking for a while, she followed a woman.That woman has a sharp tongue, and she can cut you more than half of the price for a penny.Moreover, she found that the woman had good eyesight, and the dishes she chose were all fresh and delicious, and the prices were just within the range of the vegetable farmers.

In this way, Yun Rou bought three fresh vegetables with her.

Then, she was discovered by a woman.Yun Rou was not embarrassed either, she said: "Ma'am, I'm really sorry, my family just moved here and I'm not very familiar with grocery shopping for the first time, so... Do you think this is good, I'll give you three pennies, and you let us continue Follow, how?"

Three pennies?

The woman's eyes lit up, and she said: "What are you talking about, big sister? I am destined to see you when I see you. I am going to buy some meat for the family later. Do you want some?" She was originally reluctant to buy meat Yes, she was happy to pay three pennies for nothing, so she didn't care about adding a few pennies to buy half a catty of meat.

Yunrou pretended to be hesitant, "I only have fifty cents and used some of the cauliflower just now. I don't know if the meat is expensive or not."

"It's not expensive. The butcher shop I often go to is freshly slaughtered pork. It only costs thirteen yuan a catty, which is cheaper than other places. You follow me, and I will ask him to add a piece of pork to you when the time comes." A pork bone."

There is no meat in the pork sticks, so you can only make soup when you buy them. The price is not expensive. My aunt often visits that butcher shop, and now she brings new customers there.

In this way, Yun Rou followed the lady and not only bought a lot of fresh vegetables, but also bought two catties of meat and a fish.