The morning was very short, and it passed by in a flash. Seeing that it was time for lunch, Li Xuandu asked, "Are you hungry?"

Wu Xun rubbed his stomach: "There is a little bit, shall we go back and eat?"

Li Xuandu looked at Long Yan again: "Huohuo, what about you?"

Long Yan hummed.

"I heard from Duofu just now that this place is not far from the imperial dining room, let's go there directly," Li Xuandu smiled mysteriously, "I'll make delicious food for you."

Wu Qi was very happy: "Okay, okay."

The Imperial Dining Room is really close to here, and it didn't take long to get there.The steward of the imperial dining room saw Li Xuandu coming, and hurriedly knelt down to greet him.

"Is the servants' lunch ready?" Li Xuandu asked.

"If it's back to His Highness, it's ready, and it's about to be sent." The steward replied.

"Then send it away, I don't need to send away those who serve the king with virtue, and those who attack the king." Li Xuandu waved his hand, "Go out, you don't need to serve here."

Li Xuandu took the loops and was about to tie them, but Long Yan grabbed them in his hands. Long Yan helped him tie them carefully: "Thank you, thank you."

He looked around and had an idea in his mind.

Wu Xun squatted in front of the stove: "Brother Your Highness, let me help you light the fire."

"The firewood is dirty," Li Xuandu said, "You better stop burning it."

"It's okay, it's just for fun." Wu Yu smiled and began to add firewood to the stove.

Li Xuandu didn't intend to cook too complicated dishes, but four simple side dishes, including meat and vegetables, cold and hot.

Long Yan looked at him from the side, his long eyelashes covered all the emotions in his eyes.

Li Xuandu's hands and feet were nimble, and he put the dishes on the table one by one, and the last cold dish, and you're done!

"Come and eat!" Li Xuandu greeted them and went to wash his hands.

Wu Qi looked at the table, his eyes were full of joy: "It tastes delicious when you look at it."

Li Xuandu sat down after washing his hands: "Eat, eat."

He divided the bowls and chopsticks in front of Wu Qu and Long Yan, and Wu Qu took a big mouthful of food with the bowl in his hand, and before he could swallow the rice, he said, "It's delicious!"

"I still think there is an atmosphere when everyone sits around the table and eats." Li Xuandu also picked up his chopsticks and started eating. "It's lively, by the way, we can eat hot pot together in the future."

Wu Qi asked: "Is the hot pot delicious? I have never tried it."

"It's delicious. It can be made into spicy pot, spicy pot, tomato pot, fungus pot, etc.," Li Xuandu said, "and you can put all kinds of vegetables, meat, and fungi in it." , in short, there are only things you can't imagine, and there is nothing you can't put. After these things are cooked in the pot, they are dipped in special dipping sauces, which are spicy, rich and delicious."

Wu Qi swallowed: "It sounds delicious."

"Yeah, it's really delicious, and hot pot is easy to make," Li Xuandu smiled, "By the way, besides eating hot pot, we can also eat barbecue. Wash the meat and vegetables and skewer them on the skewers. Roasted on the ground, sprinkled with small seasonings, it tastes delicious."

Wu Qi was particularly cooperative: "I want to eat. Then when shall we eat, Brother Highness?"

"Wait for Yingshi's feet to recover. His feet are not healed, and it's not convenient for him to walk around." After Li Xuandu said this, he noticed Long Yan, and saw that he was staring at the food on the table without taking a bite.He subconsciously picked up a piece of food and put it in his bowl, "Eat, we have to go somewhere else when we're full."

The small mouth of the cub was stuffed full: "The dishes cooked by Your Highness are delicious, if you don't eat them for a while, they will be gone."

Long Yan picked up the chopsticks hesitantly, picked up the dish that Li Xuandu gave him, it was a piece of pork, sliced ​​thinly and thickly, the soup was still stained on it, it was steaming white, it must be very delicious.

He also looked at Wu Qu and Li Xuandu who were eating very happily, so he said that this dish is not poisonous, right?In the end, he was cruel and put the sliced ​​meat into his mouth.A strong smell of meat melted from the mouth, and it was even more delicious than imagined.

Wu Qi was very proud, and without knowing it, he must have thought that this table dish was made by him: "How is it? Isn't it delicious?"

Long Yan nodded: "Not bad."

"I really saw a few places suitable for growing vegetables this morning," Li Xuandu said. "Speaking of which, this is the first time I have walked around since I arrived in the harem. The harem is much bigger than I imagined."

"Yeah, even ten southwestern mansions are not as big as one harem." Wu Qi said, "I used to think that the palace was very big, and it was the largest building in our southwest, but after I came to the harem, I realized that it was so small. Poor, this is nothing but a big witch."

"It's good to have such a big place. I can find more places to plant and breed." Li Xuandu put down his chopsticks after finishing eating, "This will save a lot of money."

"But Brother Your Highness, what about the money?" Wu Qi frowned at this point.

Long Yan found out why there were still some things he didn't know: "What money?"

"The 24 Yamen gave me a lot of gold and silver treasures in order to bribe me. I plan to use these things to pay the servants the monthly money owed before. Of course, I can't pay them all, but only one year's payment is definitely enough," Li Xuandu I feel that Long Yan is a family when he enters the harem, so naturally he can't hide this matter, although he has some headaches, "But the money needs copper coins, I don't have it. I want to take those things out of the palace and sell them, but I don't know how to do it." Go sell it, should I tell His Majesty about it? But I dare not."

Long Yan held it gently with his fingers: "Why not?"

"I'm afraid Your Majesty will suspect me of accepting bribes. Although I said that I didn't accept these things because I was greedy, I'm afraid I won't be able to tell when the time comes." Li Xuandu said in a low voice, "And I still don't dare to see Your Majesty. Sometimes people can't speak their brains, and they are afraid that what they should not say will make His Majesty unhappy. His Majesty will click me again, anyway, he is a little scared."

Long Yan also finished eating, he also put down his chopsticks: "Why don't you find Eunuch Xi first, and ask him to find out what His Majesty has said."

Li Xuandu's eyes lit up: "This is a good idea. Eunuch Xi has been with His Majesty for many years, and he must be well aware of His Majesty's temper. If you ask him to sidestep His Majesty's intentions, you will save a lot of trouble."

Li Xuandu did not expect that the problem that had troubled him for a long time was solved in this way, he was very happy, there was a gleam of joy in the corners of his eyes and brows.He personally poured a cup of tea for Long Yan: "Come here, let's drink tea. If this is done, you will have made a great contribution."

Long Yan looked down at the teacup in front of him, thought for a moment, then picked it up and drank it.

When I came out of the imperial dining room, there happened to be two young eunuchs chatting, and one of the young eunuchs asked, "Why do we have so few pigeons?"

"Who knows, it's probably lost by flying."

"Then it's better to lock it up in the future, it's not in vain to lose it like this."

"you do not say."

Li Xuandu and Wu Que looked at each other and snickered endlessly.

After getting far away, Li Xuandu sighed: "I'm afraid we will have no pigeons to eat for a while."

Wu Xun said, "I'm tired of eating all the time."

Long Yan was more worried: "Tonight's pigeon..."

Li Xuandu gave him a reassurance: "Don't worry, the pigeons were caught yesterday, and they are all kept in Zhengyang Palace."

The three continued to walk forward, and a flat land appeared in front of them.

"You see, this place is suitable for breeding. The place is spacious and there are few buildings. Duofu said that the house has been unoccupied for a long time, and it is dilapidated and there is no need to repair it. Let's tear it down and build it into a pigsty. "Li Xuandu pointed there to show them, "and this place is located in the downwind of the harem, so don't worry about the smell."

"Then don't you raise chickens and ducklings?" Wu Qi asked, "They can still lay eggs, and they are so fluffy and cute."

"Chickens and ducks are cheaper, you can go out and buy them." Li Xuandu said, "If you want to raise this and that, I'm afraid there are not so many places. The harem still needs people to live in."

Wu Yu nodded: "That's right."

Several people walked forward while talking, there was a small lake not far away, Li Xuandu's eyes lit up immediately: "Yes, why didn't I think of that?"

Wu Qi didn't understand, so he asked, "What's the matter, Brother Your Highness?"

Li Xuandu hurriedly ran towards the lake. The lake was neither very big nor too small. He stood on the shore and asked, "Duofu, what kind of lake is this?"

Duofu looked at it: "I don't know about this."

"How many lakes like this are there in the palace?"

"About a dozen places, some bigger than this, some smaller than this."

Wu Qi stretched his neck to look: "Brother Your Highness, what's wrong here?"

"Look," Li Xuandu stood on a rock and pointed, "What did you see?"

Wu Qi widened his eyes to see: "It's just a lake."

"What about you? Huo Huo?" Li Xuandu looked at Long Yan again and asked.

"You want to raise fish in the lake." Long Yan said with certainty.

Li Xuandu patted Long Yan excitedly: "Yes, it is to raise fish in the lake. In this lake, it is not a problem to raise hundreds of fish. There are so many lakes in the palace, we can raise them all."

Duofu carefully reminded from the side: "Your Highness, the koi pond is full of koi of various colors, I'm afraid we can't raise other fish."

"That's okay, just raise it in a pond where it can be raised," Li Xuandu said more and more excitedly, "I didn't expect to be able to raise fish before, and we can also plant lotus and lotus flowers on the lake. When the flowers bloom, you can eat lotus seeds." , you can also eat lotus root."

"Brother Your Highness, if you can raise hundreds of fish in this lake alone, it will be enough for us to eat." Wu Qi didn't quite understand, "There are only a dozen of us, and we don't eat fish every day, so why bother?" Do you raise so many fish?"

"Aren't there still so many servants in the palace?" Li Xuandu said, "Anyway, we have resources, so we don't use them for nothing. We can let them eat. They must not eat well on weekdays, so we should improve their food. .Let's go, let's look elsewhere."

With the help of the time spent at the old woman's house, Li Xuandu already had a preliminary understanding of Daqing.The folk staple food is not much different from the modern age he lives in, the only difference is the problem of affordability.Only rich people can afford rice, and the rest eat coarse grains, and a large number of people can't even afford coarse grains, just rice bran.This is the case in the imperial city, let alone other places.

As for the food for the servants in the palace, although he hadn't asked about it, but thinking about it, it was not much better, basically don't even think about meaty food.

Li Xuandu turned around and found Duofu wiping his tears with his sleeve, he was taken aback: "Why are you crying?"

Duofu wiped away his tears again: "I have been in the palace for so many years, and I have never met a master like His Highness. Don't talk about caring about what the slaves eat and drink, they don't treat the slaves as human beings. Only Your Highness is sincere. For our sake, we re-established the rules, and now we are considering the food and drink of the servants."

Li Xuandu patted him on the shoulder. Even though he is in the book, he still thinks like a modern person. He can't change this hierarchical social environment. He can only do his best to make their lives easier. good.

After walking for almost two hours, Long Yan, who had not acted like a monster, suddenly said: "Go back."

"Are you tired? Go back first when you're tired," Li Xuandu said, "I want to see it again." According to Duoxi, I only visited a third of it today.

Long Yan said: "I want to eat pigeons, you said make pigeons for me to eat."

Li Xuandu slapped his head, "Okay, what you promised will be done, he actually wants to take another look, it's still early for dinner, and the pigeons are alive, you can eat them anytime.

Now, Li Xuandu has two things to do.One is to rectify the harem, and the other is to correct Longyan, both of which are equally important.

When returning to Zhengyang Palace, Li Xuandu saw a person in front of the palace gate from a long distance away, only when he got closer did he see clearly that it was Yang Huaixu.

"Huai Xu." Li Xuandu stepped up and down, "Why are you here?"

When Yang Huaixu saw the cloak on Li Xuandu's shoulders, his expression changed, and then he returned to normal immediately.

"I'm waiting for you." He coughed a few times when he said this.

"I said it's still cold now, don't stay outside all the time, you see you're coughing again."

Li Xuandu was about to pat Yang Huaixu when Long Yan walked over and bumped into him.

"Eat pigeons."

Li Xuandu: "..."

Wu Qi also came over: "Brother Huai Xu, I'll give you a pat."

"Let's go, let's go in." Li Xuandu glanced at Yang Huaixu again, very worried. He was already weak and ran outside to blow the air. What if he was frozen again? "How long have you been outside?" ?”

"Just came out." Yang Huai Xu said.

A young eunuch who was serving Yang Huaixu said: "The virtuous servant has been standing here for a long time, and he still doesn't listen to my slaves persuading him to go back."

"Hey!" Li Xuandu sighed heavily, "I told you what would you like."

A smile appeared on Yang Huaixu's pale face: "Your Highness, I'm fine."

Li Xuandu said: "Drink some ginger soup later, let's take precautions."

Yang Huaixu said: "No need, Your Highness has been tired all day, go back and rest, and cook ginger soup for me, too tired."

Li Xuandu: "..." I didn't say I would cook for you.

Long Yan said coldly at the side: "Your Highness."

"Let's go, let's go into the house." Li Xuandu said as he walked inside, "You guys go back to the room first, I'll be a pigeon."

Long Yan said: "I'll go with you."

Yang Huaixu said, "I'll go with you."

Two voices sounded simultaneously.

Li Xuandu said: "No one needs it, I will go by myself, I will be angry if you dare to come."

"You Huohuo," Yang Huaixu narrowed his eyes slightly as Li Xuandu walked further and further away, "Let's talk."

Long Yan looked at him disdainfully: "Talk to me? Are you worthy?"

Without giving Yang Huaixu a chance to say anything more, Long Yan strode back to the room.

Li Xuandu asked his servants to clean up the pigeons, and he did the rest. After putting in the seasoning and covering the pot, he asked his servants to light the fire and wait for the pigeons to be cooked.

The time for the pigeons to come out of the pot coincided with the time for dinner, Li Xuandu asked them to share and serve them to them.

Long Yan looked around: "Why do they all have them?"

Li Xuandu said: "Naturally, we must have all of them. No matter what we do in the harem, there must be one of them."

Chen Kaisui, who sat closest to Li Xuandu, asked, "Your Highness, how are you doing today?"

Li Xuandu briefly talked about today's discovery, and then said: "It's much better than I expected before. There are so many places in the palace where you can grow vegetables, which will save you a lot of money in the future. You can also raise pigs, Fish, what a treat."

Speaking of this, Li Xuandu had stars in his eyes.

Hua Chao came up with an idea: "Then we can also raise ducks and let the ducks swim in the river. It will also be a good sight when we go to the lake. The eggs laid by the ducks can be eaten, and the duck meat can also be eaten. And the ducks can be eaten in the river. Find something to eat by yourself in the lake, and you don’t need to spend too much food to feed it.”

Li Xuandu smiled: "Hua Chao has a good suggestion for this. When it comes to this, I think of salted duck eggs. After the salted duck eggs are cooked, take a small head and lightly tap on the table to gently smash the broken egg shells." Peel it off to reveal a small piece of white egg white inside, and then gently poke in the egg white with chopsticks, the yellow oil flows out along the chopsticks, and some even flowed onto the eggshell and onto your fingers , that's delicious."

Everyone looked at the delicious food in front of them, and suddenly they didn't want to eat it.

Wu Qu said: "Brother Your Highness, you've made me greedy."

Li Xuandu smiled and said: "Then ask the imperial dining room to cook some."

Duofu reminded in a low voice: "Your Highness, there seems to be no salted duck eggs in the imperial dining room." Salted duck eggs are too embarrassing for the royal family, who would eat this.

"It doesn't matter, I'll pickle it for you," Li Xuandu smiled, "But you have to wait, more than 20 days before you can eat it. If you can't wait, I will ask Shangshan Supervisor to buy some."

Wu Xun said: "I want to wait for His Highness's brother to marinate. If you want to eat, you must eat the best."

"Okay then, I'll pickle it for you after eating." Li Xuandu said.

After the meal, everyone gathered for evening tea and told each other about today's affairs by the way.

Li Xuandu listened for a while, and felt that there seemed to be some problems with the current measures, which was the one he said before that each person was in charge of one department.

Not everyone has the ability to manage. Some people can advise others and become an excellent strategist, but they cannot become an excellent leader.For example, Shang Lanqiu, he is suitable to be a general, but not a coach.

Just like teaching students according to their aptitude in learning, Li Xuandu felt that it was indeed fair to let them all manage a department, but it also produced a lot of disadvantages-people who were not suitable for this job were kicked out and put on this position.And those who are truly talented, their talents cannot be displayed.

Li Xuandu thought that the reform should be done as early as possible, so he talked about it, saying that the previous method should be changed.

As soon as he said this, Shang Lanqiu was the first to jump out: "That's really great, let me manage it, I really don't understand it."

Chen Kaisui asked: "Your Highness, what are you going to do?"

"I have a preliminary idea now, which is not perfect yet. I want to wait for everyone to offer advice. Let me talk about it first," Li Xuandu said, "Kai Sui is now responsible for helping me with the affairs of various departments. If he can't solve it, come to me again. Yingshi is helping me read the harem's account book now, and I plan to hand over the account book to him in the future. Now that the harem is going to be rectified, the crimes committed by those people before If you can do it, you have to investigate and judge, and I plan to hand over this matter to Huai Xu and Chang Xia."

Yang Huaixu was the son of the imperial censor, who was the highest procuratorial organ.Lin Changxia is the son of Dali Temple Minister, who is the highest judicial organ, and it is appropriate for the two of them to do this job.

"As for personnel transfers and the like, let Changzhi handle it." Gong Zhangzhi is the son of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and the Minister of the Ministry of Officials is in charge of official promotion, so it is quite appropriate to entrust this job to him.

As for the others, Li Xuandu has not yet decided what errands to arrange for them, Shang Lanqiu said: "Huai Xu, Chang Xia and I will investigate the case. They are all literati, and I can protect them if they are in danger. To catch someone or something, you have to have a good skill, right?"

Li Xuandu nodded: "Then Lan Qiu will go with them. By the way, Yin Zheng, do you know martial arts?" Yin Zheng is the younger brother of the leader of the imperial army. Li Xuandu vaguely heard that Yin Zheng's legs were not born with disabilities.So he should know martial arts, even if his legs are paralyzed, it doesn't matter, hasn't he acted on TV before, some martial arts masters can have martial arts that are not weak even if their legs are paralyzed.

Yin Zheng has always kept a distance from everyone. He is different from Yang Zhi's desolation. There is a gloomy aura around him, making it difficult for people to get close.

Under the expectant eyes of Li Xuandu and everyone else, Yin Zheng finally said: "Yes."

"That's just right," Li Xuandu was very happy, "You're joining Huai Xu and the others, so I don't worry if two people protect them. What if someone uses some trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain?" He can beat the sky and the ground, he doesn't know if the eunuchs in this book are like this, but it's good to keep a hand.

Yin Zheng seemed to be stunned for a moment: "I'm disabled." This was the first time he talked about his legs in the palace for so long. No one had mentioned it before, just because he was afraid that he would feel uncomfortable.

"Then can you still use martial arts?" Li Xuandu said, "I think some masters can use sword qi, so you can too. It's settled like this, you can practice everything, and if you don't practice for a day, it will be useless. And what's the matter if you can't move your legs? I saw a Jianghu man outside the palace before, he was good at using a fan as a weapon, it was very powerful, you can do it too."

Yin Zheng looked at Li Xuandu and said nothing.

Now only Hua Chao, Wu Qu, Nangong Yuexi, Shen Mushang, Yang Zhi and Long Yan are left.

Li Xuandu hasn't figured out what to do with these people.

Fortunately, Wu Yu spoke first, blinking her big wet eyes, with a rather pitiful expression: "Brother Your Highness, can I, can I do nothing? It's not that I don't do nothing, can I help everyone with chores? I can do nothing."

"Okay, then tell me what you want to do in the future." Wu Yu was the youngest and came from a foreign country. Everyone in the palace took good care of him.

"I'll be in charge of the sickness of the people in the palace," Shen Mushang said, he didn't meet Li Xuandu's eyes, his eyes were evasive, "The Tai Hospital is not the harem after all, the servants can't go there to see a doctor, it's better to be in the harem Set up a 'medical hall', where the sick servants go to see a doctor."

"That's a good idea," Li Xuandu patted his thigh, "We didn't think of this before, so we just wanted to let them cure diseases. It was Mu Shang who thought of this problem, so let's set up a medical center in the harem. As for location, I will study it in the next few days."

"Hua Chao, Yue Xi, Master, Huo Huo, what do you all want to do?" There were only a few of them left without arrangements.

Several people shook their heads, Li Xuandu thought for a while: "Let's do this first, you continue to manage the ministries assigned to you before, and then talk to me when you have other ideas. As for Huohuo, follow me first, I will take care of you." Let’s talk about it after you get to know each other for a few days.”

Familiarity is an excuse, he is afraid that Long Yan will cause trouble.

Everyone agreed with Li Xuandu's proposal, this would be more in line with everyone's situation, and the harem could be better rectified.

"By the way, I remembered one more thing." Li Xuandu frowned suddenly, "You come to my place twice a day, morning and evening, but aren't they too relaxed? Starting tomorrow, tell them to report to me in the morning. Don’t use it at night, I’m still upset when I see them all the time.”

Duofu asked: "Your Highness, when do you want them to come?"

"Six quarters of an hour earlier than the servants," Li Xuandu thought for a while, "After you come, ask them to run around the Zhengyang Palace three times, and I will leave this matter to you. After the run, we will gather in front of the palace." If anyone dares not to listen, you can ask him to tell me directly."

Duofu said: "The servants will obey Yi's orders."

"Well, let's send a few people to order this matter." Li Xuandu took a sip of tea, "Tell them to be punctual, and if you are late for a quarter of an hour, you will be fined twice. Don’t think about it. You tell them that this palace is also for their own good, and only by exercising diligently can you maintain your health and be better able to serve His Majesty.”

Wu Qi smiled: "Brother Your Highness, what if they can't run down? I think they are all fat-headed, and they must not be able to run. They can barely run for a day, but they can't run for two days. Then how do you want to punish them?" ah?"

"The mountain people have their own tricks." Li Xuandu smiled mysteriously, "Let's stop here today, I plan to talk to His Majesty now, sooner or later I have to talk, it's better to solve it as soon as possible." Even so, he is still cowardly.

"Wait a minute," Long Yan shouted, his eyes flashed sharply across Yang Huaixu's face, "His Royal Highness, I heard that Mr. Xian Shijun lived in Zhengyang Palace to recuperate his illness, but now his illness has recovered. Yes, he..."

Before Long Yan finished speaking, he heard Hua Chao and Wu Qu shouting in unison: "Huai Xu/Brother Huai Xu has fainted!"

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