When purchasing ingredients in Guanglu Temple, officials usually assign the chefs to take charge.

And the chef took on this purchasing errand, so he must have gotten money.

Therefore, it was rumored that as long as you pay for money to respect officials in charge, you can go to Guanglu Temple to cook and get money.

Whoever respects more can go in. When you go in, you will definitely make money. You will use inferior products as good ones. It doesn’t matter how skilled you cook, so that more than 3,600 chefs can’t find delicious food that can be cooked, which shows the serious corruption.

Therefore, the rice eaten by the emperors of the Ming Dynasty was particularly unpalatable, and the ones below were the same, even more unpalatable. Therefore, the rice eaten by Guanglu Temple is famous in the capital.

After Xiao Ruxun ascended the throne, he burned a batch of account books in front of the civil and military officials of the court, including the account books of Guanglu Temple, soothe the hearts of a group of people.

Xiao Ruxun did not make things difficult for the officials of Guanglu Temple. He arranged for black poison to investigate. During the major purge with problems, they were cut off, seized their official positions and fame, demoted them to civilians, and went home to farm. The few remaining people with integrity stayed to continue doing their business.

The chefs inside were also investigated and killed. The bosses were driven away, leaving only more than 400 people, and they would be recruited if needed.

With this, Xiao Ruxun cleaned up Guanglu Temple and replaced a group of newcomers whom he promoted from the bottom. He controlled the mouth of this money-eating Taotie, and then controlled the purchasing power, and arranged a special person to make a statistical form.

A dedicated person will count the number of officials, people and livestock in the palace who need to eat, and stipulate new treatments according to their respective levels, and what to eat and drink every day, and purchase them at a fixed time and in a fixed-point, timely and quantitative manner to minimize waste and save silver.

There are strict regulations on what arrangements are made at each level, how much food is eaten, what dishes are cooked at banquets, and how much portions are. The detailed regulations are so extreme that they do not give the people below the crowd a chance to do whatever they want.

Especially the expenses of each palace were made. There were many concubines in the former Ming Dynasty, and there were people living in each palace and their own small canteens. The same was true for the prince and the queen mother. Xiao Ruxun directly satisfies everything. No matter there is no one in the harem now, he directly stipulates that all royal meals should be supplied with imperial kitchens, and each palace is not allowed to open small canteens without permission.

That's it, but Xiao Ruxun's royal family has only five people.

But it is not possible to make such a regulation. After all, a considerable part of these expenses is spent by Xiao Ruxun himself. After separating the internal and external diets, the cost of the imperial kitchen is borne by Xiao Ruxun himself. Now there are fewer people, and more people will be borne in the future.

Of course, if you want to embezzle, there are many ways, so Xiao Ruxun directly ordered the Central Audit Department to also take charge of the palace treasury expenditure.

Any expenses inside and outside the palace must be granted with the permission of the Central Audit Department. When you come back, you must provide relevant evidence to prove that there is no corruption. Once a problem is found, you will be immediately imprisoned.

Therefore, after the reputable reputation of the Central Investigation Department, the Central Audit Department also became the group of people that the people serving in the palace feared the most.

Officials of the Central Investigation Department wore black official robes, which the court officials called "Black King of Hell". Officials of the Central Audit Department also wore black official robes, which were called "Black Impermanence". Anyway, they were all seeking life, but the Investigation Department was even more ruthless and could kill people.

After the money expenditure and accounting are controlled by the people of the Central Audit Department, no matter who goes out to purchase, he must go through the audit department.

The chef took the procurement application from Guanglu Temple and the Imperial Kitchen to apply for money from the officials of the Audit Department, and then took it out for procurement. The Audit Department sent two officials to go out for surveillance.

After purchasing, you have to go through a re-inspection from the audit department to see if the purchase is correct or not, and then register and enter the palace.

The opportunity to do things has been compressed to the extreme, but some people still want to try to do things, thinking that today is the same as the previous dynasty.

The chef from Guanglu Temple was desperate and tried to bribe the officials of the Audit Department, saying that everyone would share the money they received. As a result, they were taken down and handed over to the Black Hell Kings of the Investigation Department for disposal. The incident that morning was committed by the execution personnel of the Investigation Department in the afternoon.

After being cut off, his head was taken to Guanglu Temple for public display, warning them not to have bad thoughts. Three people fainted on the spot and five were scared to death.

After this incident, Xiao Ruxun attached great importance to it and strengthened his requirements for the selection of the chef. Although he ate the small stove in his own imperial kitchen, if the food in Guanglu Temple was too unpalatable and was teased by his subjects, he would lose his face.

The people who eat at Guanglu Temple are not palace maids and eunuchs, but serious officials, such as officials from the Hanlin Academy and cabinet, medical officials and instructors, etc. These are all officials, and if you don’t eat well, you will gossip.

So Xiao Ruxun ordered the officials who were allowed to complain to the chef. He thought that the dish was too unpalatable, so he complained to the officials of Guanglu Temple. He could investigate the chef who cooked the food. After being complained twice, he could be examined how he came in and waited for punishment.

Since then, the wonderful time for the officials and chefs of Guanglu Temple has never returned, but the people who eat have a good taste.

The officials of the Audit Department also searched for information through boxes and cabinets and made special statistics. In the previous period of the Ming Dynasty, the average monthly money spent on food in the palace was as much as 12,226 taels, and about 421 taels of silver were spent on food and drink in the inner court every day.

The silver from the Ming Dynasty was much more valuable than the silver from the Qing Dynasty, and many ordinary people had never seen silver in their lives.

For civilians, it is generally normal for five taels of silver to spend a year.

The purchasing power of silver is extremely high. One tael of silver can buy 377 kilograms of rice. If you eat meat, 002 taels of pork, 0015 taels of mutton, 005 taels of big chicken, and 02 taels of big goose.

It is equivalent to buying fifty kilograms of pork for one tael of silver, sixty-six kilograms of mutton, twenty chickens, and five geese.

These silver can be bought for 21,000 kilograms of pork every day, and more than 158,000 kilograms of rice can be bought.

This is just the consumption of the inner court, the consumption of the royal family and the eunuchs of the inner court were eating.

Not counting the food made in Guanglu Temple, the food made in Guanglu Temple is not qualified to be eaten by the palace people. They can only take Lu rice to prepare it outside the palace and carry it to the palace to heat it before eating.

Guanglu Temple only cooks for people with status, such as the emperors and royal families, some ministers, people working in the palace, and on major festivals, Guanglu Temple has to hold banquets, and the Guanglu Temple consumes no less silver than the inner court.

However, since Jiajing, the nobles in the palace have stopped eating at Guanglu Temple.

Everyone knows that the food in Guanglu Temple is so unpalatable. At first, there was no way. Even the emperor kept eating the food in Guanglu Temple honestly, let alone others?

But later, starting from Jiajing, the emperor took the lead in not eating the food of Guanglu Temple. Who would eat most of the people with status and status?

The concubines in each palace had their own kitchens, and nobles like the Empress Dowager, Princess and the Princess would not eat bad food. Even the emperor later joined the eunuch system to have dinner, which was enough to prove that people with status did not eat in Guanglu Temple at all.

Later, the only ones who had dinner at Guanglu Temple were the little newcomers who had just become officials and the unpopular old antiques.

As a result, the food produced by Guanglu Temple was no longer eaten by the Wanli period, and its presence decreased greatly and was gradually replaced by the inner court's food system. The inner officials began to control the royal diet, but there was no decrease in consumption.

The inner court and the outer court are counted together. Tens of thousands of taels of silver are spent every month like flowing water, but it is hard to say how much of it is spent to be practical. Just like the later days of the imperial court, it would be great if 30% of it was used to be used in practice.

During the Wanli period, the emperor could use 16 taels of silver a day for food and drink, and later it gradually increased. By the time of Chongzhen, there were more than 20 taels of silver a day, and it was only the emperor, not counting other royal nobles, empress dowagers and concubines.

If I really count it, the royal family would probably spend less than five hundred taels of silver a day at that time.

The Qin Dynasty established a tripod and set up an imperial kitchen, which also deprived the royal family of food from the name of Guanglu Temple. They completely refused to play with Guanglu Temple. Then they cleaned up the personnel in the major palaces of Yuanming.

Before the founding of the country, the eunuchs and palace maids were swept by Shen Yiguan, and after the inner court, they were swept by another batch.

In this way, only more than 500 eunuchs and more than 500 palace maids were left. Later, a group of palace maids were recruited in the palace. Now there are more than 500 eunuchs and more than 800 palace maids, and together there are only more than 1,300 people, all of whom are eating in the special canteen in the inner court system.

The royal family had a small number and did not eat at Guanglu Temple. The main personnel who went to Guanglu Temple to have dinner became officials in the outer court and the inner court, as well as hundreds of officials in the newly added Investigation Department and Audit Department.

The presence of Guanglu Temple was greatly weakened, and the monthly expenses spent by the Foreign Court decreased by 80% compared with the same period in the 25th year of Wanli.

The same is true for the inner court. From April to August of the first year of Longwu, the inner court spent on meals on average only 2,000 taels per month.

The inner court with more than 2,000 people only costs more than 60 taels of silver every day, which is a decrease of five-sixths of food in the palace during the same period of the 25th year of Wanli...
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