My father-in-law is Kangxi

Chapter 959 I Want to Eat Eggs

Shu Shu glanced at Concubine Yi, Concubine Yi paid great attention to maintenance.

She was born in the 17th year of Shunzhi, six years younger than Kangxi, and the same age as Concubine De. She is 41 this year. At first glance, she looks like she is 27 or [-] years old.

It's just that she loves to laugh, and there are slight fine lines around her eyes, so if you look closely, she looks like she is in her early thirties.

Mrs. Uncle was born in the eighth year of Shunzhi. She is exactly 50 years old this year, nine years older than Concubine Yi, and the same age as Concubine Rong.

There is no way to compare with Concubine Yi, but she looks much younger than Concubine Rong of the same age, and looks similar to Jue Luo Shi, she seems to be in her forties.

Shu Shu nodded and said, "It looks similar to my Ernie, but Ah Mou is six years older than my Ernie."

Concubine Yi nodded and said, "That's very young..."

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In the east room, there is a round table on the ground.

Kangxi sits on the seat, with the fifth elder brother and ninth elder brother on his left hand, and the thirteenth elder brother and fourteenth elder brother on his right.

When Kangxi moved his chopsticks, the others started to move too.

The fifth elder brother went directly to the lamb chops.

This dish was available in the morning, and it should have been changed at noon, but because the fifth elder brother came, I asked someone to bake another portion.

The fifth elder brother loves to eat meat, especially mutton.

The mutton is also sprinkled with chili powder, and the aroma is very overbearing.

As for the roasted pork belly, it is a piece of pure pork belly with the ridge removed, marinated and then roasted in the oven. The crispy pork belly is then cut into half-inch thick slices. One is barbecue sauce and one is barbecue powder.

The thirteenth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother are at the age when they love to eat meat, so they all eat roasted pork belly.

Kangxi tasted a few other meat dishes with chopsticks, and finally landed on the grilled lamb loin and grilled chicken wings.

The roasted lamb loin is crisp and tender, without any peculiar smell.

The chicken wings are boneless, and the chicken skin on the outside is burnt.

Kangxi's eyes were fixed on this plate of chicken wings, and there were ten chicken wings on this plate.

Concubine Yi's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are in the Westinghouse, if they had the same banquet, there would be ten of them.

Ten chickens in one meal is a bit of a waste.

Brother Nine saw that Kangxi had picked up an extra piece of chicken wing, and said: "Ama Khan likes to eat this? Then I will send the chicken over when I go back to Zhuangzi next time, and my son will send it to you."

Kangxi glanced at Brother Nine and said, "How many chickens are raised in your village, and how many chickens are you sending over at a time?"

It happened that Zhuangtou came over yesterday, Brother Jiu heard Shu Shu's question, remembered it clearly, and said: "Now there are more than 170 roosters, more than 260 hens, and more than 400 chicks have been hatched in the spring of this year." , when I was in the city, I delivered them every ten days, ten roosters and six hundred eggs..."

Kangxi calculated in his mind that there would be more than 800 chickens.

The fifth elder brother, the thirteenth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother were all stunned.

Brother Fourteen quickly swallowed all the pork belly in his mouth, looked at Brother Nine with surprise, and said, "Brother Nine, are you right? It's six hundred pieces, not sixty? Doesn't that mean Eighteen hundred eggs every month?"

Brother Jiu proudly said: "What's wrong with this, I gave away some more yesterday, and I gave away [-] directly. I know you guys like eggs, so I've already divided them up. Ten pieces, I will give you more when it is delivered next time, and the remaining two hundred will be placed directly in the garden dining room, one hundred will be sent to the north garden, and one hundred will be sent to the elder brother's dining room in the west garden. Another side will send fifty..."

As for the relationship between the third elder brother and the eighth elder brother, it is omitted, and there is no need to show brotherly respect, otherwise it will appear temperless and easy to bully.

Elder Fourteen was happy at first, but then felt aggrieved. He looked at Kangxi and said, "Ama, I heard that eggs are not expensive. When they are cheap, they are two or three pennies. There are no eggs in the division? In the entire palace, only the empresses above the imperial concubine and the divisions of you and the imperial grandmother have eggs!"

What is the daily schedule of the princes?
Others may not pay attention, but Kangxi remembers it.

The prince who is not married is the same as the princess, with eight catties of pork and 12 taels a day, five chickens and five ducks a month.

Among these pork, there are three catties of small pork under fifty catties, and five catties and 12 taels of large pork.

The small pork tastes tender, and the three catties of small pork are mostly used as the main course for the three meals a day of the prince and princess, but the big pork is not used much.

Definitely no eggs.

Kangxi frowned, feeling a little unhappy.

Long before the elder brother got married, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the time asked the prince Fujin and the prince side Fujin about their daily supplies.

Kangxi loved his son, so he directly added the subsidy for the married prince to the prince Fujin, and the subsidy was almost the same as that of the noble concubine.

Now that there are more princes Fujin, and all kinds of people have met, they are not so expensive.

Kangxi's heart is partial to the little elder brother again.

He said: "Remember this one. When you see Third Elder Brother later, you can ask him to write it down and increase it as you see fit."

In fact, the fourteenth elder brother missed it. It is not only the concubines and above who have eggs in the palace, but also the prince Fujin and the prince side Fujin.

As a rule, the prince Fujin had five eggs a day, which was one more than the four that the imperial concubine and concubine provided each day.

The prince's side Fujin is three, which is one less than the supply of imperial concubines and concubines.

Brother Fourteen immediately smiled when he heard this, and said, "That's great, from now on, Brother Fifteen and the others won't be greedy for eggs anymore, or else the poor, every time I come to Brother Nine for a tooth sacrifice, Ninth Sister-in-Law We have to think of new egg dishes for everyone in different ways.”

However, he was quick-witted and knew that in this way, the daily supply of eggs in the palace would double.

After all, the Queen Mother, the six concubines, and the Crown Princess are qualified to supply eggs in the palace now. The Queen Mother has 49 eggs a day, the six concubines each have four eggs, and the Crown Princess has five eggs. In this way, there are [-] eggs per day.

There is no set rule before the imperial court, so it is prepared according to ten, only 59 pieces per day.

But when the prince and princess increase this ratio, it will increase by dozens every day.

At that time, the concubine's supply may be lower than theirs, and it may increase, and there will be more than a dozen.

In this way, it is doubled.

If the supply is tight because of this reason, it would reflect the greediness and unfilial piety of their juniors.

The fourteenth elder brother looked at the ninth elder brother and said, "Ninth elder brother, ninth elder brother, if the imperial dining room is short of eggs, can I go to your farm to buy them? According to the current eating method, you and Jiu sister-in-law are definitely not the same. I love eggs, so it’s useless to save them!”

Brother Jiu smiled and said: "Of course, the price of eggs outside fluctuates throughout the year. In spring and autumn, when there are more eggs, two coins are a piece. When it is too cold and too hot, there are fewer eggs. When there were only three or four renminbi, the account books of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that the purchases were made at four renminbi throughout the year, didn’t I make money?”

The fourteenth elder brother was smart for a while, and said: "Then the purchaser is appointed to make money in the middle, and half of it can be made in the Spring and Autumn period. According to the supply in the palace, it will cost a hundred yuan a day, and a month. It’s just over 3000 Wen, a little four taels of silver..."

It doesn't look like much, but it's more than 40 taels a year.

And that's just eggs.

The fourteenth elder brother looked at Kangxi and said, "Ama Khan, don't those two censors of the Ministry of Internal Affairs like to impeach people? Let them take the purchase list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to compare prices outside. If there is something wrong, they will be next to each other." The impeachment, the emotional sons have not eaten eggs all these years, and the money for the eggs has not been saved, it has all gone into the pockets of these slaves!"

Kangxi didn't answer the words, but also calculated the proportion of greedy ink in his mind.

Even if it is not directly doubled, it will be [-] to [-]% more.

This egg is still not good for adding money indiscriminately, what about the others?
The daily supply of meat, vegetables, charcoal, and candles in the palace is 10 taels a year.

The renovation of palaces and palaces costs 30 to [-] taels per year.

More than 5 taels of silver were allocated to the three major weaving companies to purchase fabrics.

The combination of these three items accounted for the bulk of the expenditure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Although there are many officials in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are not many above the seventh rank, and the eighth and ninth rank are the main ones, so the annual salary expenditure is also 10,000 + taels.

These coat-coating slaves are greedy once when they receive money, and they are also greedy once when they are paid out. After a year, they count 10 taels.

Can feed another Forbidden City!

Kangxi said to the fourteenth elder brother: "You can tell the third elder brother about this, and ask the third elder brother to supervise this matter!"

The fifth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother were afraid that the ninth elder brother would feel uncomfortable, so they looked at the ninth elder brother's expression.

The ninth elder brother gave a thumbs up to the fourteenth elder brother, and praised: "You are too smart, fourteenth brother. You only need to go to the market to find out how much water is in the book. If this becomes a case, Those uncles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs have nowhere to start if they want to be greedy..."

The fourteenth elder brother smiled and said: "What's so difficult about this? Just think about it, and you will know that those guys in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are greedy. The annual salary of three or forty taels of silver is not enough for clothes all year round. How can there be spare money to buy them?" Bobo, but Jiusao's Baiweizhai, how good is the business? My younger brother was greedy before and wanted to eat hawthorn pot helmets. He sent the eunuchs to buy them. Every time there was a long queue, they were all out of the imperial city. Bought for coating..."

Brother Jiu said: "Not only are there shops in the bakery, but also in the restaurants and teahouses in the imperial city and Di'anmen, there are also this group of uncles. They look good and decent. In winter, there are few people wearing cotton jackets, the worst. They are also small fur clothes, moistened by the days..."

Fourteenth elder brother nodded and said: "I can tell, they are living a more comfortable life than meritorious people. There are also world-class officials, and they are only short of a title!"

Brother Jiu curled his lips and said: "The dog is relying on people's power, and it is they who are talking about. If you don't talk about others, you can talk about that kid Guidan. The year before last, he dared to confront Dong E's family without trouble. He was not only a descendant of the princess. My father-in-law is also a master of the first rank, but Gui Dan, a bastard who is used to being arrogant, doesn't take it seriously at all, and even set up a scheme to falsely accuse your sister-in-law of selling fake silver houses, do you think he is brave?"

The year before last, Elder Fourteen was still young and hadn't been out of the palace for a long time. He really hadn't heard of this, so he was very curious, and said: "Then the lawsuit won or lost..."

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