Across the Sky From the Stop of Time

  Chapter 224 The cabinet system of being a national teacher in Daqin

  After the servants closed the door tightly and refused visitors, Hao Shuai checked the time.

have to!

  Breakfast has become lunch!

   Fortunately, people in the kitchen are not stupid and know how to arrange meals according to time.

In the Qin Dynasty, ordinary people still had "two meals a day", but in wealthy families, "three meals a day" gradually appeared. As for the top people like Hao Shuai, of course they want to eat a few meals Just had a few meals.

  After Hao Shuai and the two sisters Lu Su sat at the table, the servants brought up all the prepared dishes. The staple food was Hao Shuai's favorite rice, served with fragrant braised pork and various stir-fries.

  These meals are all made in the kitchen under the guidance of Lu Zhi, especially those stir-fried dishes, which use the iron pot provided by Hao Shuai.

There were no iron pots in the Qin Dynasty, and iron pots did not become popular until after the Song Dynasty, so frying, deep-frying, and frying were not available, and they were mainly cooked with fire (baking with fire) and stone burnt (putting grains on hot stones) baked), steamed, boiled.

When the princes and nobles eat meat, they need to use a tripod to cook the whole piece of meat, and then use a small knife to insert the meat out, put it on the chopping board "Zu", cut it open, and eat it with seasoning. The origin of "fish meat", but it happens when eating, not in the back kitchen.

At that time, there was also the practice of eating raw. Sashimi was already available at this time, and vegetables and meat were boiled into "soup" (a kind of thick soup) or pickled into "菹 (zū pickles to eat. .

  As a person from the foodie empire, he can pay attention to everything, but Hao Shuai never pays attention to food.

  When I was in Pei County before, I had no hope for Daqin's food culture. Three meals a day were cooked by the kitchen of Lu Mansion with ingredients and kitchen utensils provided by Hao Shuai.

  Just arrived at the National Teacher's Mansion, Lu Zhi, as the manager, asked Hao Shuai for a set of kitchen utensils, and instructed the chef to use them, and only then did these barely enough meals be prepared.

"It seems that we need to find someone to bring Gao Yao." Thinking of the poor man who became Zhao Gao in the plot, Hao Shuai decided to help Gao Yao and bring him to the National Teacher's Mansion, which would allow him to enjoy the feudal world. The decadent life of society can still continue his favorite chef career.

  The most important thing is to allow Hao Shuai to eat all kinds of delicacies in the modern society during his time in the Qin Dynasty!

  If it wasn’t for the fact that Lu Su and Lu Zhi didn’t want to know that they could travel across the world, Hao Shuai really planned to go back to the Luding World to have a full meal before coming back.

   After barely eating half full, Hao Shuai took his two daughters-in-law back to the house for a nap.

  …

   After taking a comfortable nap, Hao Shuai leisurely walked down to the Emperor Shi Huang's bedroom under the guidance of the little eunuch.

  At this time, Emperor Shihuang in the bedroom was not practicing, but reviewing memorials.

  Looking at the pile of wooden slips on the table. Hao Shuai had an intuitive understanding of the diligence of the first emperor.

  It was mentioned before that Emperor Shihuang reviewed one stone every day, that is, 120 catties of memorials. One catty in Qin Dynasty was equivalent to half a catty now, and it was as much as 60 catties in conversion. At that time, official documents were generally written on wooden or bamboo slips, and a 60-jin document could normally write more than 100,000 characters.

This is not how we usually read novels, just flip through and finish reading. At that time, there were no punctuation marks to break sentences, so the workload of reading 60 catties of memorials every day, coupled with the need for thinking and reviewing, was an extremely hard work. affairs, but Shi Huang persevered every day.

   "National teacher, you are here. After I finish handling these political affairs, I will ask you about cultivation matters." The first emperor looked up at Hao Shuai who came in, and continued to look down at the memorial.

   "Your Majesty, you are busy first, and you don't need to pay attention to me." Hao Shuai waved his hand, indicating that you are busy and you are busy, so I will just take a look.

   Picking up a roll of bamboo slips at random, and opening it, it is a memorial of how to deal with a disaster in a certain county, and the method of how to deal with it was densely annotated by Emperor Shi Huang.

"Puff~~" Seeing this, Hao Shuai couldn't help laughing. The ruler of an empire actually handled the disaster relief of a county in person. This situation is similar to that in modern society, where the Great Elder personally directs the county to develop its economy. Same.

   No wonder Shi Huangdi had to review the memorials day and night!

   With regard to the workload of the first emperor, he is simply a fighter among emperors!

  According to this trend, it is estimated that even if Emperor Shihuang did not die of heavy metal poisoning, he would die of overwork sooner or later!

   "Why is the national teacher laughing?" The first emperor asked when he heard Hao Shuai's laughter.

   "Does Your Majesty review memorials like this every day?" Hao Shuai asked rhetorically.

   "It has always been like this since I came to power, especially after I unified the six kingdoms, I reviewed it day and night, and I dare not slack off!" The first emperor was very proud of his diligence.

   "Why doesn't Your Majesty let the prime minister share some of it?"

   "This~" Shi Huang pondered.

  Hao Shuai looked at the expression of the first emperor and knew that this was a struggle between imperial power and prime minister power. The reason why the first emperor did not delegate power should be that he was afraid that the prime minister's power would become bigger and become a big trouble.

   "Is Your Majesty worried that the power of the prime minister will become bigger and threaten the imperial power?" Hao Shuai pointed out bluntly.

Seeing Emperor Shi Huang nodded in agreement, Hao Shuai continued: "Actually, Your Majesty does not need to worry at all. A sage once said: 'Government grows out of the barrel of a gun'. As long as Your Majesty controls the entire Great Qin army, who can threaten it?" Where is Your Majesty?"

   "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun?" Shi Huangdi carefully pondered this sentence, and finally agreed: "It really is a wise saying!"

"Furthermore, His Majesty can set up a cabinet on top of the three princes and nine ministers, and select five or seven important officials from the court as members of the cabinet. Memorials from all over the country are first handed over to the cabinet. Finally, it will be issued for execution." Hao Shuai proposed the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty more than a thousand years in advance.

  Emperor Shi Huang's eyes lit up, and he was obviously moved by this suggestion. After thinking for a while, he asked, "But won't this lead to greater power in the cabinet?"

"Your Majesty, first of all, we need to make it clear that this cabinet is not an official position, not a power organization. It can be regarded as your majesty's personal staff team. Secondly, the cabinet members are not life-long. Your Majesty can change every few years. It can prevent the tail from getting too big." Hao Shuai explained.

  In the world of Luding, Hao Shuai managed the country in this way. Otherwise, if Hao Shuai was expected to be an unreliable emperor, the world of Luding would have been in chaos long ago.

   "This method is very good!" The First Emperor agreed.

  Next, the first emperor seriously asked Hao Shuai about other details of the cabinet system. Hao Shuai told the first emperor everything he knew, and the two discussed for more than an hour before finally finalizing the Daqin version of the cabinet system.

After the first emperor finished writing the imperial decree to implement the cabinet system, Hao Shuai had time to check the progress of the first emperor's cultivation, and found that he had only been in one day, and he could already clearly feel the internal force flowing in his body. It would not take long You can become a third-rate master.

   "Your Majesty's cultivation has entered the right track. From now on, you only need to practice on time every morning. It will work better with the elixir I am preparing to refine!" Hao Shuai is about to attack the treasure house of the first emperor.

   "Although the materials needed by the national teacher for alchemy can be searched in the inner treasury, I have already ordered the whole country to collect the elixir." Shi Huang said.

   "Then let's go to the inner treasury first!" Hao Shuai, who was waiting for this sentence, immediately resigned with the first emperor, and called a little **** to lead the way to collect the first emperor's collection.

  (end of this chapter)