lied to Kangxi

Chapter 433
"The cabinet entrusts the decree to Yuzhu and the Minister of the Prime Minister's Affairs of the Imperial Cuisine, hereby."

"Chen Yuzhu, take the order to thank you." After Yuzhu knelt down to receive the order, there was another extremely important part-time job.

On a large scale, the imperial dining room is divided into four places.

One is the "outer imperial dining room", which is outside Jingyunmen, also known as the "imperial tea dining room".

The meals of the princes and ministers staying in the palace, the officials of the South Study Room, the guards of the Upper Three Banners, the officials of the House of Internal Affairs, the eunuchs and the court ladies are all handled by the Outer Imperial Dining Room.

In layman's terms, this is the big stove dining room, where dozens of people's dishes can be fried in a big pot.Just eat enough, it is impossible for you to eat too comfortably.

The other is the "Qianqing Palace Imperial Dining Room", also known as the Inner Imperial Dining Room, which is dedicated to serving the emperor's meals.The total number of them has exceeded 500, and there is a continuous increase trend.

There is also a small imperial dining room dedicated to the empress dowager and the concubines of the palace, also known as the "mother's dining room".

The emperor's women who are above the concubine and the head of the first palace are eligible to be called "empresses". They all have their own small dining rooms.

Empresses generally call themselves "this palace", and are called "so-and-so palace empress" or "such-and-such master" by eunuchs and court ladies.

For example, little Concubine Tong, the eunuchs generally call her "Your Master" or "Your Master."

In some historical dramas, eunuchs actually call ordinary concubines "Master and Empress".

Mistress, this is a special title for the queen. If the eunuch dares to call it casually, he will definitely lose his head.

The last place is the dining room in the royal garden or the emperor's palace.

Yu Zhu, the head of the House of Internal Affairs, was originally in charge of the outer imperial dining room, and now, all the dining rooms are also under his jurisdiction.

From the first year of Kangxi to the present, Yuzhu is the first honorable relative to manage all four imperial dining rooms.

It can be seen from this that the emperor's trust in Yuzhu is self-evidently extremely heavy.

Zhang Tingyu has always had opinions on Yuzhu.It's just that his city mansion is extremely deep and has never been revealed.

The root of this view is mainly that Zhang Tingyu believes that Yuzhu's being the number one scholar is entirely due to the glory of Youxi Xiangrui.

Today's Yuzhu has a lot of part-time jobs.Among them, the most enviable one is the Prime Minister of the Dining Room.

The old emperor entrusted the safety of meals to Yu Zhu, what is there to say about this trust?
In the past, when Yuzhu was only walking in the South Study Room and commanding the infantry, some people dared to think about impeaching him with a memorial.

Now, even if I borrow another 500 courage from these people, I dare not.

The closer the jade pillar is to the emperor, the greater the damage will be.

Today's Yuzhu is in charge of the old emperor's two meals a day and two to three snacks.

This means that Yuzhu and the old emperor meet no less than four times a day.

How can this be a black case?
After the impeachment memorial is handed over, as long as Yuzhu can't be bitten to death, then wait for the bloody bad luck!

"Hengchen, thank you for your hard work." After Yuzhu put away the order, he asked Zhang Tingyu to sit down and drink tea.

Zhang Tingyu has always been cautious, but when Yu Zhu asked him to sit down, he dared not refuse.

"Thank you, Xiaozhongtang, for the seat." After repeated refusals, Zhang Tingyu slanted his body, with only half of his buttocks next to the chair, in a very respectful manner.

Yuzhu couldn't help but smile when Zhang Tingyu called him Xiaozhongtang. He had too many part-time jobs, and Zhang Tingyu was actually quite embarrassed.

Let's call it the Department Hall, the jade pillar has a noble.

Call it Juebu, Yuzhu is the Prince Shaobao again.

Let's call it Gongbao again, for Yuzhu today, it's not much respect.

Only Xiaozhongtang is a more appropriate honorific title.

This kind of flattery came from Zhang Tingyu's mouth. It is conceivable how powerful Yuzhu is?

Zhang Tingyu never accepted red envelopes, and Yuzhu didn't intend to give him any money.

Before leaving, Yuzhu ordered someone to pack two taels of Biluochun, and forced it to Zhang Tingyu.

Zhang Tingyu didn't have a bad habit of accepting gifts, so he really didn't want to accept them.

However, Yuzhu did it very cleverly.

It's just two or two Biluochun, no matter how expensive it is, how much is it worth?

If Zhang Tingyu refuses to accept even such a small amount of tea, is it because he wants to turn against his immediate boss?

When Yuzhu personally sent Zhang Tingyu out of the gate, Zhang Tingyu seemed to have just remembered, and reminded: "Xiaozhongtang, I still count on you to come and arrange dinner in the garden today."

Well, Yuzhu understood in seconds.

What Zhang Tingyu meant was that I will charge you two liang of tea leaves with a kind reminder. From now on, the two will be settled, and no one will owe anyone else.

The Zhang family in Tongcheng has always kept a low profile, so no one knows how much money the Zhang family has hidden.

However, Yuzhu has a clue in his heart.Zhang's family is in Tongcheng, with nearly [-] mu of fertile land, which is why Zhang Tingyu has always insisted on incorruptibility.

Objectively speaking, under the influence of Confucianism for many years, there are indeed some Han officials, even though their families are very poor, but they are unwilling to reach out for black money.

However, although these so-called honest ministers are not greedy, most of them are pure-hearted party members who can only play tricks.

After sending Zhang Tingyu away, Yuzhu went back to his room and hung out with Qian Yinglan for a while, then changed into his official uniform, boarded the car and went to Changchun Garden.

The dining room in Changchun Garden actually overlaps with the inner dining room in the Forbidden City.

The fourth-rank Shangshanzheng of the inner dining room, Deku, who was born in Shangsanqi Coating, has been by Kangxi's side.

Kangxi is in the palace, he is Shang Shanzheng of the inner dining room.When Kangxi arrived at Changchun Garden, he transformed again and became Shang Shanzheng of Changchun Garden.

There is no way, the old emperor has his own eating habits, Deku knows this well, and has always arranged it very well.

The jade pillar was still a few hundred feet away from the dining room's gate, so Deku trotted over with a smile all over his face, and greeted him with a slap in the face.

"Little Deku, please take care of the little Zhongtang." The dignified fourth-rank officer actually called himself a small one, which can be described as extremely humble.

In the past, Deku was very polite to Yuzhu, but most of them were perfunctory who didn't dare to offend, not as obedient as today.

There is no way, the county magistrate might as well take care of it now, who told Yu Zhu to be Deku's immediate boss now?
As the saying goes, when a new official takes office, there are three fires, and Deku is afraid that Yuzhu will make trouble.

With Yuzhu's great favor, even if he messed around, who would dare to put the shit bowl on the old man's head?
Do you want to lose your head?

However, once something goes wrong in the dining room, someone has to take the blame.

At that time, Deku could only act against his conscience and find some eunuchs or cooks who did not have strong backing to come out and take the blame.

Yuzhu came here today to start a fire first.

The so-called gentleman who is far away from the kitchen is so particular about the smell, but it has completely lost its effect here in Yuzhu.

In the large kitchen, those who chop vegetables, wash vegetables, cut meat, kill fish, do odd jobs, and monitor are almost overcrowded.

When Yuzhu walked to the door of the large kitchen, Deku hurriedly raised his voice and shouted loudly: "President Dining Room, Xiao Zhongtang is here!"

Good fellow, after this voice was uttered, the entire big kitchen came to a standstill, and all the chefs, who were of no rank or rank, put down the vegetables, meat and fish in their hands, knelt down on the spot, and saluted Yuzhu.

There's no way, the grassroots are not allowed to kneel when they see the official?
Yuzhu glanced at Deku calmly, his heart was like a mirror, this kid probably wanted to give him a bad impression on purpose.

The cunning of these tricky officials in the Ministry of Internal Affairs is that they strictly abide by the regulations and rules, and take advantage of the reason everywhere, so that you can't pick out the thorns.

The actual effect is that it has secretly tripped you up and caused unspeakable suffering.

Yuzhu knew in his heart that Shang Shanzheng's oil and water were really too big.

To put it mildly, assuming that Deku is not too greedy, he can earn at least 30 taels of silver every year.

The future here, the contribution of fishing, gray money or black money, is also the pure profit generated.

As an official, Yuzhu has always had a basic principle, how much black money you make has nothing to do with me.However, the errand assigned by Lao Tzu must be done properly.

After Deku showed how deceitful he is, he bent his waist even deeper, for fear of offending Yuzhu.

Well, it looks like an extremely difficult bad thing!
Of course Yuzhu knew about it, and Deku was obviously worried that he would take away the power to purchase supplies.

As we all know, the fattest job in the dining room is purchasing power.

Yuzhu said gently: "Get up, you are busy with your own affairs, I will discuss something with Deku."

"Hey." After the chefs got up, they all ran to wash their hands, which caused another chaos.

Yuzhu, that's a very mature old bureaucrat, so naturally he wouldn't get angry on the spot.

To put it bluntly, getting angry indiscriminately is a sign of incompetence and will only be looked down upon by others.

After leaving the big kitchen, Yuzhu told Deku alone: ​​"Prepare some candles, and a slightly darker dish..."

Yuzhu's meaning is actually very clear, that is, to keep the dishes from getting too cold.

The specific method is to use the small flame of the candle to slowly heat the water in the dish to ensure that the dishes on it are not completely cooled.

It's midsummer now, and it's impossible for the dishes to cool down so quickly.

However, Yuzhu's method is to take the new official's appointment and win the first place.

As long as Kangxi saw the dishes heated by candles, he would know that in the middle of winter, he no longer needed to eat cold dishes.

In the officialdom, how to use novel means to make a good start and quickly attract the attention of the big boss is actually an extremely profound knowledge.

However, Yuzhu is well aware of these serious and unscrupulous methods.

"This, this is not good?"

Yuzhu's actions were obviously beyond Deku's comprehension, and he instinctively wanted to refuse.

"My lord, I must remind you that this is an order, not a discussion." Yuzhu calmly settled down.

Deku also knew that if he fought Yuzhu on the spot, he could only suffer.

However, if something goes wrong during the operation, hey, who will suffer?

"Hey." After Deku figured it out, Zhaqian readily took the order.

Yuzhu clearly knew that Deku was too quick, but just pretended not to know, turned around, and walked away lightly.

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