Fan Hongjin flattered the horse and patted the horse's leg. While telling himself to be careful, he immediately said: "I made a mistake for a moment, please forgive me." He is a good cook and can call himself a minister.
"That's all, I won't punish you this time, but you must never make a mistake again in the future." Yunxi said this, and before he could thank him, he wandered around the imperial dining room.
Although the imperial dining room was a place where the royal family cooked, it was not just a kitchen. It was a complex of buildings covering a large area. However, Yunxi only cared about the kitchen, so he only wandered around the various kitchens.
Strictly speaking, there was no yamen called the Imperial Shanfang in the Ming Dynasty. It was just that the place where the emperor cooked was referred to as the Imperial Shanfang. It was under the jurisdiction of the Shangshan Supervisor and the Shangshi Bureau (the female official yamen). The emperor and his concubines were under normal circumstances.
These two yamen are responsible for serving meals. Now the person actually in charge of the imperial dining room is Wang Guanglu, the prime minister of the Shangshan Supervisory Office. When he heard the news of Yunxi's arrival, he immediately ran over and waited beside him.
Yunxi turned around and said to Wang Guanglu: "The health condition is not bad, almost the same as when I came last time. You did a good job."
"How dare I ignore the food in the imperial kitchen that comes into the mouth of your majesty, ladies, and princes? I have to inspect the kitchen every morning. If there is any violation of the regulations, I will deduct a month of silver rice once and slap the board twice.
If you do it three times, you will be kicked out of the palace and will not be allowed to cook for nobles again."
"Several father-in-laws are also very concerned about the hygiene of the imperial dining room. Eunuch Wang Xi, Eunuch Hai Minghai and Eunuch Ma Cheng often tell the servants not to ignore it. This is also due to the contribution of these three father-in-laws." Wang Guanglu said with a smile.
"Since you are in charge of this place, it is your credit. You don't have to say anything about Wang Xi and the others." Yunxi was disgusted with this behavior of giving credit to the leader.
"Yes, yes, I know this, and I will correct it next time." Wang Guanglu agreed. However, if Yun Xi came over next time, he would still say the same thing. How can the credit go without the leader's share?
Yunxi didn't know what he was thinking, he praised a few more words, and continued to wander around casually. He heard the crow of chickens in front of him, walked over and took a look, and saw two chickens in a cage.
Two chickens were standing in the cage in high spirits and clucking.
"Your Majesty, these are chickens sent from Shanglin Garden. Shanglin Garden sends chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep every five days. When I accept them, I will carefully check whether there are any sick animals, and someone will check them every day.
The situation of the sheep is recorded." Wang Guanglu said as he took out a diary.
Yunxi glanced at it casually, and was about to say, "What are you doing with this?" when he suddenly realized that Indian numerals were used in it, and asked, "Do you all use Indian numerals for accounting now?"
"Your Majesty, in March of the year before last, I saw some of the father-in-laws in charge of rituals using Indian numerals for counting. I thought it was easier to write in Chinese characters, so I also changed the accounts of the imperial kitchen to use Indian numerals. Originally, this slave
I only know a few words, and I don't know how to do calculations. I can't check the accounts at all. There is a problem. But with these Indian figures, I can also check the accounts. Because it is very simple. As far as the slave knows, almost all the people in the palace are now
Use Indian numerals for accounting." Wang Guanglu replied immediately.
Yunxi nodded. After asking a few more questions, he turned and left the imperial dining room.
However, as soon as he walked out of the gate of the courtyard, he said to the young eunuch beside him: "Go to Li Bo and ask him to send someone to the Ministry of Household Affairs to announce that Ai Su, the caregiver of the Household Department's Nursing Office, has come to the palace to pay an audience."
Yunxi immediately returned to the Qianqing Palace, greeted the cabinet officials, sat down in his seat, and began to criticize the memorial.
The title of the one facing me read "Please allocate grain and grass." When I opened it, I saw that it was from Zhu Song, the British king who had been sent to the Northeast. He wrote that he led troops to pacify the barbarian tribes in the Northeast. One of the tribes had begun to fight since the second year of Jianye. There have been three attacks so far, but they have still not been able to eliminate them. This fourth attack has finally almost eliminated this tribe. However, because attacking this tribe consumes a lot of money and there is insufficient food and grass, I request for food and grass supplies.
"It has failed three times in a row. This tribe is quite powerful." Yunxi smiled and said, "But this time Uncle Twenty was finally able to pacify the tribe, which is not bad."
"As for this food, it is too much. His kingdom does not have a large population in total, so he needs so much food? Half of it will be allocated first, and the remaining half will be calculated after the Jin Yiwei from Kaiyuan returns the news. .”
After finishing answering the excerpts, Yunxi thought again: 'In the first year of Jianye's reign, Zhang Shu followed Zhu Song to the Northeast and became the left prime minister. It will be five years next year. Should he be allowed to come back?'
After thinking for a moment, he said to himself: "Forget it, we are about to fight Tamerlane. I have to recruit the British army to fight. I want Uncle Twenty to lead the troops in person. Zhang Shu has to stay in the Northeast for a while." One or two years.”
"It's really hard on him. Zhang Wen died of illness this year because he was prime minister in Yingfan and was unable to return to Beijing to pay homage to his biological father. When the war with Tamerlane is over, I will reward him and let him have a good rest in Beijing. "
After thinking about the matter, Yunxi put this memorial aside and continued to criticize the next memorial.
"Gezhiyuan requested to allocate money?" Yunxi looked at it carefully and said unhappily: "Didn't I tell Qi Tai? Why is it still like this?"
Because the old observatory was a bit old and the location was not good, Gezhiyuan wanted to build a new one at Zhongshan outside the city. Yunxi had already agreed and asked them to write to the Ministry of Household Affairs to ask for funds.
But Yang Shiqi didn't expect that after a few days, the Ministry of Household Affairs would call back and refuse to dial. Yang Shiqi went to the Ministry of Household Affairs in person to discuss it several times with the doctor from the Shaanxi Division of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but he kept evading it. Yang Shiqi had no choice but to give Yunxi another call. Zhezi.
"Go to the Ministry of Finance and call Qitai!" Yunxi said to Huang Lu in a bad tone.
Huang Lu agreed and was about to retreat, but Yunxi said again: "Call Yang Shiqi, Zhou Wei and Cao Zheng too!"
"Guan family, Mr. Cao Zheng Cao is still in mourning." Huang Lu reminded.
"I know. He has been in mourning during this period and has not been on duty." Yunxi said.
When Huang Lu heard this, he didn't dare to say anything more and trotted back.
After a while, the young eunuch came in and said softly: "The official family, Qi Shangshu and Ai Zhaomo, Yang Jianzheng, Principal Zhou and Deputy Jian Cao are all here."
"Let Qitai wait in the side hall, and the other four people will be called." Yunxi ordered.
Bao Zhao immediately raised his head and glanced at Yun Xi. Qi Tai was the minister, and the others were only fifth or sixth rank, and there was even a minor official of eighth rank. Qi Tai was left alone, and it could be said that he was very dissatisfied with him. .
Bao Zhao wanted to dissuade him. The dignity of a second-rank official still had to be taken into consideration. But after thinking about it, he still didn't get up and persuade him. At this time, the emperor was angry, so his remonstrance was probably useless. 'We can wait until the afternoon or tomorrow when the emperor's anger has subsided. .' he thought.
Yunxi didn't pay attention to what he was thinking. After the four people came in to visit, Yunxi handed the memorial in front of him to Yang Shiqi: "After a while, I will send a guard to take my memorial with you to the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Let the Ministry of Household Affairs sow money and food. If they dare to hesitate even a little, I will dismiss them from office."
If he doesn't decisively stand up for Gezhiyuan this time, the yamen will be even more impudent next time. Therefore, even if he will be impeached by the public officials, he will not hesitate to be scolded by some civil servants in private. He must let them know that he is responsible for Gezhiyuan.
The hospital’s attention.
"Your Majesty, this, minister..." On the contrary, Yang Shiqi seemed a little hesitant. He did not want to have such a quarrel with the Ministry of Revenue.
"You are now the chief seal officer of Gezhiyuan!" Yunxi said: "You have to support your own yamen! You have never experienced these things when you were by my side as a member of Zhongshushe. You have to know that you can't be harmonious in the outside world.
As for the matter, if you are soft, other yamen will be tough. If you don't push back forcefully this time, next time the Ministry of Revenue will even dare to default on the salaries of the officials of Gezhiyuan. Is it possible that you will still want to be amicable and unable to stand up?"
Yang Shiqi was reprimanded by Yun He, and he hurriedly bowed and saluted: "I know, I was wrong in the past. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
"Get a clean life. This is your first time serving as an official in a foreign court. It's normal for things like this to bring shame, but you must not do this in the future." Yunxi said again.
Yang Shiqi accepted the order and bowed again before straightening up.
Yunxi asked again about the current progress of Gezhiyuan. "Your Majesty, Gezhiyuan now has twenty-four officials transferred from Qin Tianjian. I have screened them one by one and eliminated those who are unlearned and unskilled."
One person, and there are twenty-three people left.”
"In addition, a total of eighteen people who were proficient in arithmetic, astronomy, etc. were recruited from the private sector and were awarded official positions."
"Currently, Gezhiyuan is mainly studying why all the sun, moon and stars can circle the earth every day, compiling a calendar, and why the sun, moon and stars are arranged in this way."
"In accordance with His Majesty's will, we also asked them to study arithmetic and study how to calculate the 'volume' of an irregular object. Now we have preliminary results."
"Oh, what's the result?" Yunxi asked curiously.
"A man who was proficient in arithmetic recruited from the people said that you can know the object by completely immersing it in a vessel filled with water, catching all the drained water, and pouring it into a regular barrel or square box.
volume." Yang Shiqi said.
"What if this object cannot be immersed in water? Or if this object is hollow and water will seep into it, what?"
"I still don't know how to calculate it," Yang Shiqi said honestly.
"Go back and continue to study how to calculate the volume." Yunxi comforted him: "That person can think of immersing in water to calculate the volume. It is already very good. This question is not easy to answer. You go back and reward that person."