Man Bao also simply said: "Then it will be calculated according to two renminbi, a person must eat one or two catties of vegetables a day, and meat, even if it is eaten the next day, now a catty of meat, even pork, costs twelve renminbi A catty, chicken, beef and sheep are even more expensive, even if you only eat half a catty of meat the next day... "
"Where do you eat so much, two taels of meat is enough..." Liu Shangshu said: "And don't think I don't know, pork at twelve cents a catty is good meat, we can buy some not so good meat, pig head , some lean meats that are more expensive, and offal and so on, the cheap ones are five or six yuan, and the expensive ones are also available."
The emperor and other ministers were dumbfounded. Is this how the meat is sold outside
Wait, why do they know so well
Forget about Liu Shangshu, he is the Minister of the Ministry of Accounting anyway, and his subordinates will send price lists every day, but Zhou Man, you are not from the Ministry of Accounting, and you don’t need to go out to buy vegetables, so why are you so familiar
Naturally, Man Bao knew about it from her father. Now that he was free, he went to the vegetable market with his sixth brother or eldest brother and sister-in-law in the morning, and occasionally bought some money for the family, and most of the time it was for restaurants.
During this period of time, she often lives outside the palace for the convenience of taking care of the three patients in Huangzhuang. When she wakes up early in the morning, she sits and eats breakfast with her father, while listening to him talk about what has raised a penny today. It's a little cheaper...
After talking too much, Man Bao wrote it down.
The two of them came and went back and forth to bargain, and with Xiao Yuanzheng and Imperial Physician Lu helping from time to time, Liu Shangshu probably felt that one hundred taels was too little, so he reluctantly mentioned six hundred taels.
However, the money was not directly given to the Tai Hospital, or even directly to the Criminal Department, but said: "The menu will be listed at that time, and those who are willing to accept this one can order or take turns from these menus for three meals a day. At the end of the month, the Ministry of Punishment and other expenses will be reported to our household department."
Still unwilling to give money directly.
"There are other methods, such as reducing the distance of exile, and the number of years is calculated separately."
The Minister of the Ministry of Justice felt that this was too troublesome, so he said that it would be better to pay the money in one lump sum, so that the treasury would not be unable to get out the six hundred taels, right
Liu Shangshu was not afraid of the boiling water and said, "That's right, it's just that it's hard to get it out. Otherwise, if you can move it from other places, your Ministry of Punishment will apply for a lot of money for foreign cadres this year."
The Minister of the Ministry of Justice immediately stopped talking.
Wei knew: "Your Majesty, besides other things, you can exile some serious criminals to the border and directly change their military status. Their return to the civilian population may harm one side, but in the army, there are sergeants guarding them, so there should be no trouble. Create a career."
The emperor asked Old Master Tang, "What do Qing Tang think?"
Old Master Tang frowned and thought.
Some felons in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice are escorted to work in the mines. It is really miserable, even worse than exiles. After all, they have to be seen as slaves. Most of the felons cannot get out alive. The mine basically died within ten years.
In comparison, going to the army is much more tolerant. Although it is still fighting with one's life, it is possible to accumulate merits to atone for oneself.
Even if the accumulated achievements are not enough to offset the crime, life will be much better than in the mine.
In the end, he was going to fight with his life, so Mr. Tang no longer had any objections, and nodded.
So everyone tentatively decided on these several reward methods, and then took them to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for selection.
The emperor was very satisfied with the results of Zhou Man's experiment. Knowing that they were too busy these two days, he asked them to go back and rest.
Man Bao got two days off, which was made up for last ten days off. When she happily rode home with her medicine box, Xiao Yuanzheng's carriage came up from behind, and the curtain parted and said, "Zhou Physician, don't be too busy taking other jobs in the future, go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to find me, and we'll pick people together."
Man Bao nodded in response.
The carriage drove away ahead of her.
When she got home, she jumped off the horse and handed Chi Ji over to the servants, took off the medicine box and asked, "Are Bai Shan and the others at home?"
"Young Master and Ertang Young Master went out to the Zhuangyuan Building, and said that Miss Man can go to the Zhuangyuan Building to play with them if she gets bored when she comes back."
"Haven't you finished the exam for the Ministry of Officials?"
The Mingjing examination was held in Beijing in the first month, and after the results were released in February, the examination of the Ministry of Rites came immediately. It was very simple. It was the easiest way to go in and let the officials of the Ministry of Rites see that they had a straight face, a suitable height, and could pass without any problems with their speech. an exam.
Then there is the official selection examination for the Ministry of officials.
Bai Shan didn't plan to choose an official, so although he passed the Jinshi examination, he didn't even go to the Ministry of Rites' examination, but Chongwenguan and Guozijian still gave the students a holiday to let them move freely.
Yi Ziyang went to participate, but he didn't know how he did in the exam.
Man Bao thought for a while, and after taking the medicine box back to his room, he rode a horse and ran to Zhuangyuan Building to find them.
Yi Ziyang was giving them the examination questions of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and he had a good memory, so he wouldn't forget the questions after finishing it.
Moreover, the Zhuangyuan building is now full of people discussing the subject, even if he forgot for a while, he would remember it when he went out and walked around and heard them discussing it.
Bai Shan looked at the test questions and sighed, "It really isn't easy."
Yi Ziyang nodded, "Most of the questions are very basic. Most of the questions are about pushing officials, and there are also persuasive lessons about farming and mulberry. It's not difficult to do it, but it's not necessarily perfect if you want to write it. Look at this The two questions are about the title of the official document and the title and ending of the folded letter to His Majesty, to be honest, I was in a daze for a while, and I don't know if I wrote it right."
Feng Zongping said: "There is also an example of asking to write a case for the Ministry of Criminal Justice. This is even more difficult."
Yi Ziyang nodded, "However, I heard that the selection test for economics subjects is much simpler than that for Jinshi subjects. Mingshu subjects mainly take the ones from the Ministry of Households, and Mingfa subjects take the ones from the Ministry of Punishments. And some knowledge from other departments that they will use, but Jinshi is much more important than them, so I don’t know how many people will be stuck this time.”
Bai Shandao: "Probably not. There are few people in the Jinshi department. As long as the test scores are not bad, you should be able to pass."
Yi Ziyang nodded, "Fortunately, there are not many difficult questions, but they are too detailed."
When Man Bao arrived, they had almost finished their discussion. When they saw her come in, everyone got up and sat down after seeing the ceremony, and ordered another meal for her.
Man Bao asked Yi Ziyang, "How did you do in the exam?"
Yi Ziyang smiled and said, "So-so."
Man Bao smiled and said: "You still have merit in going to Xiazhou this time. If you rank higher in the official examination this time, it will be very advantageous when selecting officials."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, then they remembered this matter, those of them who had been to Xiazhou seemed to have received rewards from the imperial court, Zhou Man was better than them, and even received rewards from the palace.
Feng Zongping lifted his spirits and asked, "So His Majesty also knows about us?"
Man Bao nodded, "Of course I know, it seems that Kong Jijiu reported it."