The white porridge and pickled mustard is enough, why am I wearing a royal robe?

Chapter 179 I can’t afford this food, what? The Kitchen King becomes

All the ministers looked at the three young eunuchs standing in the middle with confusion.

They were holding dinner plates with some food on them.

The food looked very rich, but the dark stuff in it looked like some soup.

Some people began to wonder why the emperor brought some food.

Therefore, there is a severe drought in the land of Qin, so let them restrain themselves and not waste extravagant food?

Some officials began to wonder whether problems with their daily style had reached the ears of Emperor Chongzhen.

While he was thinking, Emperor Chongzhen, who was sitting on the dragon throne, spoke.

"Let me introduce you to the ministers."

The old eunuch bowed his body and responded, then stood in front of the three young eunuchs and bowed to the ministers.

Straightening his waist slightly, he walked to the eunuch in the middle. There were repeated items in the three meals. The repeated meals were placed on both sides. The most in the middle were the extra food from breakfast and lunch plus the basics. Repeated food.

The secret letter contained an introduction to how these foods were made, and the old eunuch had already memorized them by heart.

He first picked up an egg that was covered with brown cracks and had been opened by 30%.

"This thing is called a tea egg." The old eunuch raised the egg and turned it left and right so that the surrounding ministers could see it.

"Tea eggs?"

The surrounding ministers looked puzzled, wondering why the egg was named after tea.

"This thing is eggs, marinated with black tea, sugar, salt, and various spices to make juice."

Soon, the old eunuch introduced how the tea eggs were made to the ministers.

When the surrounding ministers heard this, they suddenly felt a thump in their hearts. The eggs were actually made in this way. They were marinated in black tea.

With the addition of salt and sugar, this egg must be worth so much.

It is unknown which colleague was caught eating in such a luxurious way by the emperor.

Taking it out now just gave Emperor Chongzhen a reason to beat them. After all, just a few days ago, Emperor Chongzhen asked the ministers to donate money and food, and they all cried out about poverty.

The old eunuch picked up the plate of something that looked as dark as Chinese medicinal soup.

"The name of this thing is Hu spicy soup, which is made from beef, pepper and dozens of herbs."

"Tsk, tsk."

The ministers sighed inwardly, this colleague lived really luxuriously and he really knew how to eat.

Some people are lustful and look for beauties all over the world. After finding beauties boring, they start to try other things. Some people are delicious and think of ways to eat them. As for why they are not greedy for money.

Which of these two things does not require money?

This colleague is obviously delicious. From these two things, it can be seen that no ordinary person can think of stewing beef with more than 30 kinds of herbs.

"This is preserved egg, green vegetables and lean meat porridge. The preserved eggs are made from duck eggs using a special method, and are paired with lean meat, vegetables and white rice."

"This is pig's trotter rice, this is pig's trotters and pig's knuckles, this is fish."

All of them made many ministers marvel that there is such a way to eat in the world.

It’s so delicious to eat.

"I wonder what you, ministers, think after hearing this." Emperor Chongzhen stared at his ministers and did not immediately say that this thing was transformed by the Kitchen King.

"Your Majesty, I think that these foods are complicated to make and the materials are expensive. They are really extravagant and wasteful, and they are extravagant and extravagant."

This matter has been determined. Emperor Chongzhen probably brought it up just to use this matter to beat them and quickly jump out and put aside the relationship.

Other ministers also agreed.

This made some people wonder, so many people were responding, why didn't anyone look nervous?

"It seems that you all know that these foods are extremely precious. Sir, if you are allowed to eat these three meals a day, how long can you last with your family's financial resources?"

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Cheng Jiming expressionlessly.

The latter was shocked as to why the conversation was being thrown at him. He looked around and saw that the people with him didn't seem to be eating in this way.

After thinking for a while, he quickly said seriously, "Within one month, the family's money and food will be exhausted, and within three months, the family's property will be sold."

Their salaries are not high, and they live in the capital. According to the definition of an honest official in Ming Dynasty law, their family's property can only last so long.

Emperor Chongzhen gave these ministers a meaningful look. It cannot be said that none of these people are good people. At least their families are quite wealthy.

But it’s not easy for him to expose it in person.

Moreover, now is not the time to discuss this matter.

"What if I told you that there are thousands of people in Qinzhong who eat these things for three meals a day."

Emperor Chongzhen's words sounded like thunder in the ears of the ministers.

"How is this possible?"

"Yeah, it's appalling."

They all whispered.

The land in Qinzhong has always been bitter and cold. Furthermore, given the complexity of making these foods and the preciousness of the materials, it would not be possible for thousands of people to eat these three meals a day in the prosperous land of Jiangnan.

Suddenly, someone realized that in the land of Qin, it was not because of the Stove King's incident recently that the emperor promoted an unprecedented Martial God Governor.

And the Kitchen King has a transformation technique that can transform countless grains.

At present, the food that the emperor brought out should be obtained from the Kitchen King.

The Kitchen King allowed thousands of people to eat such extremely luxurious food.

The ministers looked at each other and saw a touch of shock in each other's eyes. Although they did not know what the famine situation was like in the land of Qin, they knew that if someone could make those at the bottom eat these things every day. Something that will probably make all those people become the most loyal believers.

No wonder the Kitchen King was able to cause trouble for one side and became the biggest bandit in the land of Qin. Even the two governors of the three sides fell into disgrace on the Kitchen King. Even the five hundred people from the Shenji Camp were in vain, forcing the emperor to make an unusual promotion. He became the governor of five provinces.

The eyes of all the ministers flickered. Since the emperor said this, he must have got the exact news. The Kitchen King can indeed transform these things, and he can still feed thousands of people at a time.

"You must have guessed that in the land of Qinzhong, the Kitchen King, under the command of the Kitchen King, there are nearly 3,000 people every day, and they eat these things three meals a day."

Emperor Chongzhen's tone made it difficult to tell whether he was happy or angry.

He set his sights on Lai Zongdao and others.

Lai Zongdao understood, stood up and cupped his hands and said: "The Kitchen King has such a method, and it is a pity that the fallen grass will become a bandit and bring disaster to one party. If it can be used by the emperor, let alone others, three thousand people, if they are marching, the food and grass will be huge. Expenses, and the Kitchen King is alone." Emperor Chongzhen had already sent people to encircle the Stove King, and now he was bringing out the food transformed by the Stove King to talk about it, obviously not to make them speak out to suppress the bandits again.

It was for the sake of surrender, so Lai Zongdao said so directly.

Lai Zongdao's words made all the generals' eyes light up. If there was this person, they could even counterattack the Liao people.

With a mobile granary, they could go all the way north to Langjuxu Mountain.

I didn't expect that the Kitchen King could actually produce so much food.

They originally thought that the Kitchen King could only be transformed to provide food for dozens or hundreds of people.

Lai Zongdao's words also touched their hearts.

A smile appeared on the corner of Emperor Chongzhen's mouth. He came here this time to make these ministers mentally prepared and give them some advice.

"As a human being, you will have weaknesses, beauty, rights, or other things. The same is true for the Kitchen King."

"However, if I take advantage of the Kitchen King's weakness, the Kitchen King will die. If I don't take advantage of it, it will be difficult to recruit him under my command."

Emperor Chongzhen said slowly.

Zhou Yanru stood up. Since Emperor Chongzhen said this, he must have mastered some kind of weakness of the Kitchen King, and it is also a fatal weakness. If it is used, the Kitchen King will die. If it is not used, it will be difficult to force the Kitchen King to surrender. It's good.

"I think that if we don't send more troops and horses, the Kitchen King is of great importance. If we can capture the Kitchen King, no matter how big the effort is, it will be worth it. Killing the Kitchen King will be equivalent to solving half of the military expenditures against the Liao people. "

Zhou Yanru said.

Emperor Chongzhen's obvious meaning was, 'The governors of the five provinces I sent may not necessarily be able to take down the Stove King. Although I have a trump card, if I use the Stove King, I will die. I don't want the Stove King to die. '

Zhou Yanru's words caused the expressions of the surrounding ministers to change. "Your Majesty, we have already mobilized the power of five provinces to encircle and suppress the Kitchen King. If we send more troops, would it be too much?"

Emperor Chongzhen frowned slightly.

Lai Zongdao immediately stood up and said, "This is wrong. Right now, in the Ningyuan area, there are over 5,000 permanent troops stationed in order to deal with the Liao people."

"These people spend a large part of their military expenditures on food and grass."

"If we can capture the Kitchen King, we can save half of the food and grass." As he said, Lai Zongdao did some calculations, "No, maybe we can save all of it. Ordinary soldiers can only eat two meals a day. The Kitchen King has transformed One meal is enough for three people, thus solving the food problem of tens of thousands of people."

"What's the harm in taking down the Stove King and using the power of ten thousand people?"

Lai Zongdao's words are reasonable and well-founded.

The ministers who showed disapproval were left speechless.

Emperor Chongzhen was very satisfied. "Since there is no objection, the matter has been decided. More troops and horses will be sent to support the land in Qin."

Emperor Chongzhen really had no idea whether he could take down the Stove King with the power of the five provinces.

Although one of the biggest taboos of military strategists is to send additional troops and horses, there has never been any taboo among military strategists. Everything is based on hard power.

If we can successfully win the Kitchen King, everything will be worth it.

But thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen's face showed a hint of gloom. If he failed again this time, and if his series of measures were useless to the Kitchen King, then he would have no choice but to kill the Kitchen King.

After all, if talent is outside, it is not called talent, it is called disaster.

Only in one's own hands can one be called a talent.

It would be a pity just to kill the Stove King.

Emperor Chongzhen sighed and just hoped it would succeed.

"Zhengning County, two hundred miles further, is Ning County. I heard that the Zao King's troops have gone straight to Qingcheng. If they capture Qingcheng, they will soon besiege Qingyang. It seems that we can still There’s enough time.”

Geng Ruqi looked at the map and said, beside him stood the governor of Henan.

As for the other way, the soldiers and horses led by the governors of Sichuan and Hubei have arrived in Qingwu County, south of Ning County.

"Kitchen King, you are really powerful. It has only been so long and Heshui has already been defeated," Qiu Zhaolin, the governor of Henan, sighed with emotion.

Qiu Zhaolin, together with Zhu Zheng and Shuaiji, is known as the "Three Great Talents" of Linchuan, and together with Tang Xianzu, Zhu Hui, and Shuaiji, he is known as the "Four Greatest Talents in Linchuan in the Ming Dynasty". He has an upright nature and an upright official. Dedicated to official duties and achieved remarkable results.

During his tenure as an official, he also advocated changing customs, developing education, building cities, training rural soldiers, dredging post roads, reducing taxes, lightening people's burdens, creating charity warehouses, providing relief to the poor, and doing many good things for the local area.

He also had experience in dealing with rogue bandits. The White Lotus Sect in Shandong rebelled, Guling in Henan responded, and Qiu Zhaolin used tactics to repel them.

She Chongming, the Xuanfu envoy of Yongning, Sichuan, rebelled against him, and Anbangyan, the native of Shuixi, Guizhou, raised troops to respond to She Chongming.

They captured Zunyi and Bijie respectively, occupied Chongqing, and besieged Guiyang. The war spread to Sichuan, Hunan, and Guizhou provinces, shaking Yunnan.

Many officials abandoned the city and fled for their lives. Qiu Zhaolin was not afraid of danger and stepped forward. He shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, actively defended and participated in quelling the rebellion.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he has experienced hundreds of battles.

He is a talented person with both civil and military skills.

"Yes, I have been an official for many years, but I have never seen a rogue bandit that the emperor can send the governors of five provinces to encircle and suppress," Geng Ruqi also sighed.

It can be said that the Kitchen King is unprecedented, not only because he was surrounded and suppressed by five provinces.

And those means.

Perhaps only the mythical characters in legend can rival it.

"In this siege, we have more than 60,000 soldiers and horses surrounding us. Even if the Kitchen King has great abilities, it will be difficult to escape." Qiu Zhaolin didn't know much about the Kitchen King. He only knew that this man was surrounded and suppressed by five provinces.

Geng Ruqi had a strange look on his face, 60,000 people surrounded and suppressed the Stove King. Qiu Zhaolin didn't know what the Stove King was capable of, but did he know that with 60,000 people, he might not be able to succeed.

Qiu Zhaolin noticed Geng Ruqi's expression and asked in confusion, "Does Governor Geng think that the Kitchen King still has a chance to survive despite the encirclement and suppression by five provinces?"

"With 60,000 people, the Kitchen King only has more than 10,000 troops. With 60,000 troops, we are not just armies on paper. To deal with the Kitchen King's first-rate bandits, although he has magical means, he cannot make up for the disadvantage in numbers."

Qiu Zhaolin is still very confident in his own use of troops.

Although this battle has to be controlled by the governor, they still have to make their own decisions in local battles, as long as the general direction is good.

The combined strength of their two provinces is nearly 20,000.

There are already more people than the Kitchen King, and they are all elites. They are definitely not comparable to the temporarily recruited local braves or the refugees who are bandits.

Geng Ruqi didn't know how to explain it, so he could only say yes.

(End of this chapter)