This principle applies not only to courtiers and attendants, but also to His Majesty's Ninth Five-Year Plan. In the Han Dynasty alone, three emperors were poisoned by powerful ministers, the most famous of which was Emperor zu m: n, who had been in power for nine years. After he ascended the throne, Liang Ji, the younger brother of the Empress Dowager, was in charge of state affairs, so he could only be a puppet emperor. The consorts were despotic, and the little emperor was angry. In front of courtiers, he called Liang Ji "this domineering general". An angry word made Liang Ji nervous. Originally, he pushed the little emperor to the top because he was young and easy to control. But now it seems that the child is very smart. If he dares to do this now, he will not go to heaven when he is old, so he asked his cronies to poison Liu Zuan's soup cakes. In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, I sighed: "Those who are qualitative are also wise."
None of the emperors in the Ming Dynasty were poisoned, which was naturally closely related to the imperial catering system in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, was very alert. After he ascended the throne, he killed Liao Yongzhong, Li Shanchang and Xu Da. Hu's case alone killed 30,000 people, but one person not only didn't kill, but also reused it for 23 years. This person is Xu Xingzu of the Qing Dynasty in Guanglu Temple. Mao called him "all the cooking in the world is not inferior to the five flavors." It can be said that he is capable and kind. " Zhu, the son of Emperor Taizu of Jin Dynasty, punished the cook on his way back to the fief. He immediately educated his son in "Letter to the King of Jin": "I am brave and ambitious, and I have led a group of heroes to quell disasters. I have never tolerated it. Every mortal has committed a serious crime and I will let it happen. " However, people who eat sports meals can't let the younger ones out, and the older ones won't be discussed in detail. If they have not committed a crime, they will be forgiven. If they commit crimes, they will be abandoned. If sin is reused, it will be a disaster. It is also important to save your life. "Your father and I are both stupid, but I don't punish the chef. Why? Because if you offend the cook and use him again, you may die one day. You must listen to your father and never offend the chef.
Zhu Yuanzhang attached importance to food safety, and the diet was arranged by the queen. "Ye Jiansheng Wen" also recorded: "Taizu imperial meals must be promoted by the empress dowager to prevent leisure and seclusion. One day, the soup was slightly cold, and the emperor took the glass in a rage and threw it. The soup was dirty and messy, and the back ear was slightly injured. After the hot soup is re-entered, the color is self-sufficient. " Just because the soup made by the queen was a little cold, Mao dropped the cup and hurt the queen!
As for the emperor's diet, it is not what we saw in the Qing Palace drama, but is controlled by the chef. The management of court catering in Ming Dynasty was divided into two factions: the imperial court was divided into the "commercial catering supervisor" run by eunuchs and the "commercial catering bureau" run by female officials, and the outer court was divided into Guanglu Temple and Taichang Temple. For the emperor, the imperial palace's "good supervision" and "real bureau" are like intimate little cotton-padded jackets. Eunuchs know the emperor's preferences, and of course they can take the pulse and cook some dishes that the emperor likes, while Guanglu Temple and Taichang Temple in the outer court are like formal dresses for banquets, which are gorgeous but not intimate enough. Not only did they not provide the emperor with some rare and novel ingredients, but even the cooking methods were different from the emperor's preferences. However, this kind of formal dress is indispensable to the emperor. Taichang Temple is responsible for offering sacrifices and music, while Guanglu Temple is responsible for offering sacrifices, attending ceremonies, feasting, drinking glasses and meals, and requires them to organize festivals and feasts.
The twenty-four yamen in the Forbidden City is mainly related to the emperor's diet, that is, the business and wine vinegar noodle bureau. Among them, Shangshanjian specially set up a eunuch of Guanglu Temple to coordinate and supervise the food provided by Guanglu Temple. The wine vinegar noodle bureau is responsible for eating wine vinegar, grain sauce, noodles and beans in the palace. In addition to the twenty-four yamen, there is also a library for the inner government, which is also run by eunuchs. During the Jiajing period, the emperor's daily diet was no longer supplied by Guanglu Temple, but was replaced by the eunuchs around him. In the Apocalypse Dynasty, the three meals of the emperor were mainly arranged by four families in turn. It is recorded in the Minute of Proceedings: "At first, meals were delivered to Wang Tigan, Jin Song and Wei Jinzhong every month. In the second year of the apocalypse, Jinzhong was renamed Zhong Xian. Four years later, Wang Tigan, Wei Zhongxian and Li Yongzhen took turns to do it. In the leap month, each is 40 days, but there are four * * * provided by the guest parents. There are dozens of officials in charge of catering, cooking wine, vinegar sauce and other items, and there will be hundreds of cooks outside the bureau and the Forbidden City. As for the Qing Palace, each family has its own food. Four members of the Warm Palace are in charge of fruit wine, and two members of the Warm Palace are invited to eat. They have served nearly forty or fifty members, all of whom are dressed in red. He is also in charge of warehouses, soup bureaus, meat bureaus, vegetable bureaus, dim sum bureaus, dried vegetables bureaus, hand box bureaus, soup cooling bureaus, water food bureaus, food feeding bureaus, and firewood and food lifting, each with more than 100 officials. "