The Peasant Girl’s Concubine’s Name Moves the World

Yan Qiu hurriedly said: "The concubine's dress is a newly cut autumn dress, it is very beautiful! In the morning, isn't the empress very satisfied? Don't worry, empress! It's beautiful now! Besides, it's time to eat. , don't make the emperor wait too long!"

Concubine Li hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes, you can't let the emperor wait too long! Quickly take the golden phoenix tail that the emperor rewarded! The emperor said that the golden trousers look good in this palace!"

"Yes!" The palace maid hurriedly took the golden step and put it on for Concubine Li. Concubine Li glanced at herself in the mirror and felt that the golden step didn't match today's clothes, so she took it off and changed it. On the other hand, after a few tossing around, I was satisfied, and then hurried to Zichen Palace.

Zichen Palace, the emperor is already impatient!

Just as he was about to get angry, Concubine Li came.

Concubine Li saluted happily: "My concubine sees the emperor!"

The emperor held back his temper: "Concubine Ai, please come and eat! Otherwise, the dishes will be cold!"

Concubine Li sighed in her heart, hurriedly responded, then walked to the emperor and sat down, sweetly said: "My concubine will serve the emperor."

The emperor said lightly: "No need, Concubine Ai, let's eat with me!"

The emperor also gave Li Guifei a piece of crystal chicken.

Concubine Li was flattered: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

The table is full of more than 20 dishes, and there are 4 main dishes.

The emperor's food is regulated by the ancestral system.

Although every day is different, the royal chef also racked his brains to put the dishes in different patterns, which looked extremely delicate!

But in fact, it is more about looking good, not eating.

What to say, for the sake of health preservation and to prevent the emperor's desire to eat a lot, those dishes are made with less salt, less oil and less sugar, which means that they have a little taste, and they seem to be tasteless.

The emperor has eaten for so many years, and has completely lost his appetite.

Fortunately, Princess Hui'an brought him some snacks when he entered the palace, and he can have some snacks later.

The emperor picked out a few that were pleasing to the eye and ate a few mouthfuls and then stopped eating.

He just kept serving dishes to Concubine Li: "Concubine Ai eat more! You take care of all the affairs in the palace, you've worked hard!"

Let the royal chef make the dishes so exquisite, even if it is not delicious, it will be difficult for her!

Concubine Li was very happy, but she didn't have much appetite, and these dishes were not foods that would increase appetite.

"Your Majesty, you don't have to give it to your concubine, you can eat it too!"

The emperor continued to add vegetables to her bowl: "I'm full, and a porridge and a meal are hard to come by, not to mention that these are delicacies from the mountains and seas, and food cannot be wasted. Concubine Ai eat more and finish it!"

Concubine Li: ""

finish it?

How can you eat so much?

It can't hold her stomach even if it bursts!

Seeing that she didn't move her chopsticks, the emperor raised his eyebrows: "Why doesn't Concubine Ai eat?"

Li Guifei could only lower her head and continue to eat.

Until half of the dishes on the table were eaten and half left, she looked at her heartbroken and couldn't eat anymore!

Only then looked at the emperor pitifully: "Your Majesty, the concubine is full, I really can't eat anymore!"

The emperor then said kindly: "If you can't eat it, don't eat it! But Concubine Ai, there are so many dishes to eat, don't you think it's a waste?"

"You can give a reward to the maids and eunuchs!" Li Guifei blurted out!

Of course!

The emperor looked at her lightly.

The palace maid and the eunuch should eat the leftovers of the master?

Are they beasts?

Concubine Li: ""

Why does the emperor look at her like this?

The emperor said indifferently: "I think the food of the master in the palace is too extravagant and wasteful. Ai Concubine, have you been in charge of the palace's internal affairs for so long and have not found out? Moreover, I have found that since you took charge of Fengyin, the expenses of the palace are every month. More than 100,000 taels! It's all wasted!

Look, I can't even finish this table of food for two people, but how many people in Nalan can't even get enough to eat?

In the future, the weight of all dishes in each palace will be reduced to a quarter! Don't waste it, and don't give your leftovers to court ladies and eunuchs! Whoever wastes a meal will pay for their own food in the future! "

Concubine Li Gui felt bitter in her heart: The food in this palace is ancestral, and it was like this when Empress Guo was in charge!

She just picked a better one and wanted to serve the emperor!

Why didn't the emperor say waste before, but now he feels waste?

But now she doesn't dare to say anything. She knows that the emperor cares about silver, so she can only respond: "It's the concubine who didn't think well, and I will definitely tell the palaces not to waste food in the future."

Seeing her good attitude, the emperor looked a little better, and he continued: "The Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet is coming soon, you should be careful about the food at the Palace Banquet, but don't be arrogant and wasteful! I don't want to see the Palace Banquet, as it used to be, The food on the table has hardly been touched!"

Concubine Li Gui felt bitter in her heart. Those ministers and wives wouldn't eat it, so she couldn't force them to eat, right?

When the queen was in charge of the harem in the past, why didn't the emperor be picky about these?

But she still responded with a smile: "What the emperor said! The dishes of this palace banquet, the concubine asked the royal chef to improve!"

The emperor nodded, and his face became more and more satisfied: "These delicacies from mountains and seas are indispensable. You can try to make them as delicate and small as possible, considering everyone's appetite!"

"Yes! Your Majesty is wise!"

"Also, there are too many people who come to the palace to attend the palace banquet every year. It's too messy and difficult to manage. You will send the order tomorrow. For each palace banquet in the future, each minister can only bring two family members to the palace to participate in the palace banquet."

Concubine Li's eyes widened: she came to issue this palace decree? Isn't this offending people?

Who doesn't want to bring the school-aged women in the palace into the palace and show their faces in front of people?

"Is there a problem?"

"No!" Concubine Li hurriedly said.

She knew that the emperor was thinking of a way to save some money.

After all, if the outer city is to be expanded, the treasury has more places to spend money. What does it matter to her to expand the outer city?

She has no place in the outer city again!

Why did the emperor have to do so many things when it was her turn to take charge of Fengyin!

Cutting down the meals of the masters in the palace, and not allowing the family members of ministers to enter the palace to participate in the palace banquet, which of these is not an offense?

Next, the emperor threw a heavy bomb: "The flowers for the Mid-autumn Palace Banquet, I see that the budget is too high, the court is using the money, I have found a flower farm, she said that one hundred thousand taels can be The flowers for the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet and the New Year's Eve Palace Banquet are all packed! Concubine Ai doesn't have to worry about this!"

Rumble, thunderbolt!

Li Guifei couldn't believe what she heard!

Forget what the emperor said before, after all, it did not harm her interests, but the flowers for the palace banquet were always supplied by her own family!

Concubine Li immediately said: "Your Majesty, the flowers for this palace banquet have always been from the royal flower garden, and I rashly used flowers from other flower gardens, and I don't know the quality of those flowers! Besides, the flowers of the two hundred thousand taels of palace banquets are used rashly. , Is this flower good? If the flower does not bloom well, wouldn't it be detrimental to the royal dignity if it is displayed?"

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