A hundred thousand taels were spent on food, but there was nothing left for convenience the next day.
At worst, he farts more for others to smell, and the emperor curses in his heart.
The dishes at the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet were already very extravagant. The emperor thought they were the best, but he didn’t expect that the Longevity Festival would frighten him to death even more!
The food budget for the Wanshou Festival dishes alone is as high as 200,000 taels! This doesn’t include the money for drinks and the money for palace decorations!
To decorate the palace, you need to purchase both palace lanterns and flowers. Two hundred thousand taels are indispensable!
There are still many places where money needs to be spent. Two to three million taels of silver can't be lost during a Longevity Festival.
It's just that Concubine Li is right. This state banquet on the Longevity Festival cannot get worse!
The Wanshou Festival is only held once every five years. The dishes at the Wanshou Festival five years ago were criticized by the seventh prince of Beiming Kingdom as being useless.
It is said that the royal family is the most noble being in the Zhong Ming Ding Food House, but the Nalan Kingdom royal family don’t even know how to eat!
This is really a slap in the face.
I must regain my face this time.
However, after the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, there was another Palace Banquet on New Year's Eve, and then there was the Wanshou Festival. After so many meals, the emperor said that he could not afford it.
The most important thing is to spend so much money to prepare so much precious food.
It's okay if the ministers haven't finished eating. The problem is that every year at the palace banquet, the ministers don't eat much, and an unknown amount of food is wasted.
This is a waste of his money and the people's hard-earned money!
So the emperor asked Nuan Nuan to come into the palace to discuss the menu.
He felt that Princess Hui'an's family was very knowledgeable about food.
I want to see if I can save some money for the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet.
Then on the Wanshou Festival, we organized a state banquet that was cheap, not rude, and made people feel that the guests and hosts were enjoying themselves.
Nuan Nuan took it and took a look at the menu. It was extremely exquisite. The food at the palace banquet was really becoming more and more full of wealth and splendor!
There are plenty of delicacies from mountains and seas, birds and animals! Forget about cordyceps, black truffles, and caviar, the 5,000-year-old ginseng was used to stew the soup at the state banquet of the Wanshou Festival! Is this stupid
It's no exaggeration to say that ginseng, which is over five thousand years old, is considered a national treasure. She estimates that there is only one such ginseng in the entire palace, which is used to save lives!
I actually thought about taking it out!
There are also six animals who have come up with a rich way to eat it, fried duck brains! Not a duck head, but a duck brain! How many ducks do you need to get a plate of duck brains? ! Then each table has a small plate of duck brains. How many ducks must be killed
Why not just get a sparrow brain!
When I think about warmth like this, I see that there are also gold-rimmed bird's tongue, cockscomb, goose head buns, pig's heart tip,... ... .. snout, cod bones, catfish roe, Hericium mushrooms, bear's paws, hash toads, and deer tails. , leopard fetus and so on.
It’s simply an eye-opener for warmth!
It is true that the Longevity Festival needs to show off the elegance of a great country, but if it is not so extravagant and wasteful, is this the ultimate show off of wealth? !
Nuan Nuan put down the food list, her expression was hard to describe. She really wanted to ask Concubine Li, did she prepare this menu to show off her wealth in front of the envoys from various countries
But it is definitely not as rich as Beiming Kingdom!
Dongling Country may not be able to compare with it. Dongling Country has a lot of salt. It is estimated that they have accumulated a lot of wealth by selling salt to various countries over the years.
She put down the menu in the emperor's room and asked impatiently: "What does Princess Hui'an think?"
Wen Nuan said directly: "Extravagant and wasteful! Inhumane!"
There was light in Nalan Jinnian's eyes. Just now he said the same eight words: "Extravagant and wasteful, extremely ridiculous!"
The little girl has a more venomous tongue than herself!
The inhumane nature of trench is put to good use!
The emperor sighed: "I also feel that it is extravagant and wasteful. It is true that we need to expand the city now, and there are too many places to spend money. The Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet can be simpler, but I calculated that I can't save much by going to the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet. At most 10,000 taels. The Wanshou Festival is a state banquet, and envoys from several countries are present. This cannot be embarrassing. The state banquet must be grand, after all, it is about the face of our Nalan country!
Princess Hui'an, you have also participated in the state banquet of Dongling Longevity Festival, and you also know that the dishes of this state banquet are extremely extravagant. But eating it this way makes me feel heartbroken! "
There is no shortage of money, and the emperor is willing to show it off, but this year is eventful and money has many uses.
The drought in the north and the floods in the south have only eased a while ago.
I don’t know if God will reward me next year or not!
If there is another natural disaster, we will be in trouble!
Wen Nuan thought for a while: "The emperor's words are wrong. We can save at least 50,000 taels for the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet! We need to spend hundreds of thousands taels there!"
The emperor's eyes widened and he lost his voice: "More than fifty thousand taels? How can you save it?"
"Your Majesty, don't you think that there are too many people in each palace who can attend the palace banquet? The Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet is a banquet for the emperor to entertain the civil and military officials of the court. This is considered a grace to all officials! The emperor wants to give grace to his ministers, and they can bring their family members, but this Is one or two family members enough
Besides, chaos can easily arise when there are many people. Why don't the emperor control the number of people attending the palace banquet? Can the ingredients prepared for such a palace banquet be reduced by more than half? "
The emperor's eyes lit up. Since Emperor Taizu, it has been stipulated that ministers except the children of concubines are not allowed to enter the palace to attend palace banquets. Children of legitimate children can be brought into the palace. This is indeed a grace!
Therefore, every government will bring girls of the right age, at least three people will come, and more people will come to each government, five or six.
He has seen seven or eight of the whole family come!
This is really killing him!
If he stipulates that each minister can only bring two family members into the palace, unless the master of the palace specially summons him, no more than two people can be allowed! That would reduce the number of people by more than half.
You can also save more than half of the preparation of these ingredients, so don't you save more than half of the money
"Princess Hui'an, please be careful!"
Tomorrow morning, he will stipulate this matter.
"What does Princess Hui'an think of the state banquet on the Wanshou Festival? There are still a few months until the Wanshou Festival, but according to this menu, it does need to be prepared."
After all, several of the dishes above are only available overseas. Otherwise, they can only be found in deep mountains, wild forests, or deep under the sea. They are even rare to find. He, the emperor, has never tasted them a few times.
Wanshou Festival is still in the middle of winter, so many dishes are hard to find.
So many dishes are very expensive!
"State banquets in all countries are large and luxurious, and I can't wait to use the most precious ingredients in the world to show the hospitality of this great country! Let everyone know that we are a country of etiquette! At the same time, it also shows the national strength of our country from the side, telling everyone Our national destiny is prosperous! Let no one dare to bully us easily."
"That's the truth!"
No head of state is willing to be rude to others at a state banquet.
Even poor people will try their best to greet the guests when they have guests at home!
This is the way of hospitality and the way of being human!
But between countries, there are more things to consider.
"Your Majesty, you never tire of fine food! The most important thing about food is delicious food. Guests will feel happy after eating delicious food! Right?"
"This is natural!" The emperor nodded.
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