Shenhao UP Lord

Chapter 230 The emperor also eats leftovers?
These are definitely sent out of feelings. Before coming to the Forbidden City, I was influenced by various mindless film and television dramas, as if the emperor only used to fall in love every day?

After turning around this area, everyone returned to the royal road on the central axis, and came to the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

"Brothers don't need to say anything else, brother Xu just asked one thing?"

"Do you know what low-key luxury is in the Hall of Supreme Harmony?"

"It's just the floor tiles under your feet!"

After talking about the close-up of the camera, he pointed to the seemingly ordinary floor tiles and exclaimed: "One tael of gold was the price of 1500 catties of polished rice in the early Ming Dynasty, and the salary of three county magistrates in the early Qing Dynasty was only the price of one floor tile here." Believe it or not?"

"The soil in the south of the Yangtze River is sticky but not loose, powdery but not sandy. After seven processes of digging, transporting, drying, pushing, pounding, grinding, and sieving, it is placed in the open air for a whole year to remove the soil."

"Immersed in the water in Gusu, it is clarified in a three-stage pool, sedimented, filtered, dried in the sun, trampled on, and beat six processes, and it is smelted into dense mud."

"Use a wooden board to make a mold, put the mud in, and the craftsman will step on it with bare feet until it is firmly stepped. Remove the excess mud and smooth it with a wooden stick. The other side of the brick should also be smoothed."

"Put it in a cool place and dry it in the shade for eight months, then burn it with chaff for a month to remove moisture; burn it for one month for a piece of firewood, one month for a tree, and forty days for pine branches."

"The craftsmen climbed up to the roof of the kiln every day, poured water into the hot kiln to cool down, and cooled it for four or five days until the day when it came out of the kiln. During the long process, if there was a little carelessness, the entire kiln bricks were wasted."

"It is only a semi-finished product out of the kiln. After being chopped and ground, soaked in tung oil, each person can only chop and grind three pieces a day. Burn bricks with the age, specification, place of origin, supervisory office, and craftsman's name, and go northward by the canal to Tongzhou."

"Finally, after strict inspection by the government one by one, there must be more than three alternatives for each brick, and all the unselected bricks will be destroyed!"

"Is gold more expensive than gold?"

Of course, these are all the lines compiled by professional tour guides, but the words from my own mouth do feel full of force. It seems that there can be more cultural themes of this kind in the future.

Then came to the side, the six coiled dragon gold pillars in the center of the Hall of Supreme Harmony surrounded a sacred space with golden light, and only three or four people could surround it.

"Such a thick pillar needs at least two layers of hemp on the outside of the wood, and six times of dusting, and then use the technique of leaching powder to paste gold decoration patterns. There is only one gold leaf factory in Jinling in the whole country, which still retains this technique."

"The purity of gold is 99.99. After many processes, it is made into small pieces of gold leaves, sandwiched in black gold paper fumigated with kerosene, and then hammered [-] times."

"It takes six to eight hours of manual beating to beat 1 gram of gold into a gold leaf of about 0.5 square meters, and the thickness is only 1.5 ten-thousandths of a millimeter."

"Please hit your knee on the public screen!"

"You think this is over?"

"NONONO!"

"After talking about the bricks under our feet and the pillars, let's look up and look at the tiles above our heads!"

"Have you heard of Liulichang?"

"That's right, it's the famous antique street."

"But it didn't just sell antiques in the past. It was a factory made of royal burnt glass."

"Glaze the formed tiles, put them into the kiln again, and burn them to a bright color, like glazed tiles. Different colors because the glaze contains different metal oxides. The red iron oxide glaze will be fired into yellow glazed tiles."

"The glaze of copper oxide is fired into emerald green. The principle of firing cobalt oxide into blue is the same as that of enamel."

"A vase made of enamel can easily exceed tens of millions at auction!"

Leaving the Hall of Supreme Harmony, everyone continued to stroll around, Ding Xu became more and more interested, and really realized why countless people compete for fame and wealth?

Money is nothing compared to power!
"This is where the emperor usually eats." When he came to the east of the palace, Ding Xu showed, "The place for eating is not fixed, and most of them are in the east and west rooms of the palace or in the office."

"It is important to eat on both sides of the meal, and all the people who serve the dishes go to the south gate in the middle, because the emperor must sit east and west to eat."

"The eunuch in the dining room is responsible for setting the dining table and laying out the table sheets. When the meal time comes, the guards will notify the imperial dining room to deliver the meals. This is called passing the meal."

"The eunuchs came in lined up with red lacquer boxes in their hands, quickly brought all kinds of dishes, meals, soups, etc. to the table, and placed them in the prescribed positions. The unrelated personnel retreated, leaving only the eunuchs serving meals."

"The emperor sat down surrounded by eunuchs and prepared to eat. Four eunuchs stood behind him with their hands down. The older eunuch who served the meal stood aside and was responsible for serving the emperor. The dining table is generally composed of three tables facing north and south. The middle one The table is for the emperor to eat, and is mainly placed with a few seasonal vegetables and fruits."

"There is another table next to it, in case the emperor rewards you. If you think a dish is particularly delicious, if you say it, this dish will be placed on the table. Later, it will be put into a food box equipped with boiling water for heating. Inside, they will be sent to the palace of the official or concubine who has been rewarded."

"Is there any express logistics in ancient times?"

"Sounds very enjoyable, doesn't it?" Ding Xu took a sip of water and continued: "Actually, you are overthinking it."

"The eunuch waiting for food first puts a poison test card on each dish to see if the color changes, so as to test whether the food is poisonous or spoiled. The poison test card is a small silver plate that is half an inch wide and three inches long. "

"After testing with the poison test plate, the eunuch must taste each dish personally, which is called a meal tasting. After verification, the emperor will signal the eunuch waiting to eat to put his favorite dishes into a bowl and start enjoying it."

"To put it bluntly, the emperor can only eat other people's leftovers!"

"The most perverted thing is that no matter how delicious the food is, the emperor can't eat three bites at a time. This is a family rule passed down from the ancestors, which says that no more than three spoonfuls of food is allowed!"

"Because what the emperor likes to eat and what he doesn't like to eat, absolutely must not let outsiders know!"

"Firstly, I am afraid that someone will make plans on the meal and poison the emperor; secondly, I don't want the emperor's hobbies to be used by others to form a bluff."

"Can you imagine four eunuchs standing behind you and staring at you every day?"

"Look at the dish with your eyes, and the eunuch quickly moves the dish closer to the emperor, and then scoops it into the cloth dish with a spoon. If the emperor eats it and says: This dish is good, or nods in approval, he will scoop it up again for the emperor. At the same time, move this dish back, and you cannot scoop it up for the third time."

"You ask what to do if you eat three bites in a row?"

"It's very simple, the chief eunuch immediately shouted: Withdraw!"

"I will definitely not see this dish again in the next ten and a half months!"

"The rule is to pass on the meal and not to encourage it. Anyway, the emperor's meal must be unpredictable. You must not grasp the rules easily."

Everyone listened with gusto, gossip is human nature, especially the emperor's gossip, so enjoyable.

"I think the emperor is actually quite bitter, right?" Gou Tuanzi complained: "What's the point of not being able to even eat what you like?"

"Yes, yes, I don't know why so many people like to be emperor?" Sakura said contemptuously, "It's great to be rich, eat whatever you want, buy whatever you want, and don't worry about it."

Shishi rolled her eyes, ambition, she knew what ambition was.

(End of this chapter)