The past few days have been calm, and there has been no movement from the Nine Thousand Years Group. Yang Fan has slowly let go of his worries. His military strength is still somewhat insufficient, and the only ones who have actually fought in the war are 800 veterans.
If we really have a battle with the Royal Horse Superintendent, we are still not completely sure. Besides, His Majesty still needs him to protect him, so using the imperial city as a battlefield is still very appalling.
Time is on the emperor's side, and the emperor is in no hurry to intensify conflicts.
On the third day after Yang Fan entered the imperial city, everything was completely under control, and the emperor launched the first attack on Wei Gong's group.
In the morning of the same day, the emperor announced that Wei Zhongxian would be removed from his post as Admiral of the Nine Gates and replaced by Wang Chengen.
Now the situation has turned around. Before, the emperor's safety was in the hands of Jiu Qiansui. It is now nine thousand years old and under the control of the emperor.
A nine-thousand-year-old man cannot object at all.
When Wang Chengen took office as a new official, he found trouble and replaced all the city gates in Qibei and Jiu outside the capital that belonged to the Nine Thousand Years Group on the same day. Replace them with noble sons and daughters.
After taking control of the city gate, Chongzhen immediately changed the heads of the two major granaries in the city, the shipping warehouse and Beixincang. Controlling the grain transported by water means controlling the food and salary of the garrison in the capital and the officials.
Since ancient times, soldiers have fought for whomever is paid.
This is an irrefutable truth.
The noose tightened further, and then Chongzhen stopped to see Wei Yi's reaction.
Nine thousand years old is silent, the eunuch is silent.
Yang Fan wondered in his heart, these people's power spread all over the world, and they didn't know how many officials were secretly connected with them. Are they really ready to sit back and wait to be killed?
The mistress is on duty today, and I don’t know why I’ve been having heart palpitations for the past two days. He is the little eunuch responsible for giving the emperor bath water.
When he was on duty today, he felt his nose felt hot. He touched it with his hand and saw that it was full of blood. His eyes widened in horror.
The people around were also frightened and shouted.
Soon the imperial doctor and Yang Fan arrived. The people from the Imperial Hospital checked for a long time, but could not find out what disease he had. Yang Fan was worried that it was an infectious disease and quarantined him directly.
That afternoon, another young eunuch fainted.
At night, this time a high-ranking eunuch suddenly saw darkness and fell to the ground.
After Yang Fan investigated, he found that these people had all eaten the food sent by the imperial kitchen.
Chongzhen was shocked. He really dared to poison the imperial meal, and the poison could not be found out. These things had been tested for poison before being given to the eunuchs.
From then on, the people in the Housan Palace only ate food made by Yang Fan's cooking class. Because there were too many people eating, the cooking class took turns cooking six meals 24 hours a day. Meals are served once every three hours, and we can barely provide enough food.
Many little eunuchs and maids with no rank can only queue up to get rice once a day, and then eat cold rice for the whole day.
However, these modern tastes, which were different from the palace meals, also left a deep impression on them.
Shuangxi was a young eunuch beside the queen. He came off duty in the middle of the night and was very hungry. He stretched his aching legs and walked to the square of Qianqing Palace, where the cooking team's cauldron was shining day and night.
When Wu Sanpi, the team leader, saw the little eunuch coming, he greeted with a smile: "Shuangxi little father-in-law, I just got off duty, sit down."
There are many long wooden tables and some long chairs here. They are very simple. Some eunuchs and maids are already sitting on them, waiting for the meal to be ready.
Even though Shuangxi was the eunuch beside the queen, he didn't mind being simple.
Although there was food in the Queen's Palace and there was no need to come over, he liked to come over to chat with Wu Sanpi and have some midnight snacks.
He likes these soldiers. They are simple and simple, and they respect people from the bottom of their hearts. They are not like those officials who flatter you with their mouths but actually look down on you, an eunuch.
"Boss Wu, what are you having for dinner today?" Shuangxi greeted with a smile. He learned to call Wu Sanpi the same name as the soldiers.
Wu Sanpi coughed on the soles of his shoes with a pipe pot, coughed a little, and said: "Tonight we have two meat and two vegetarian dishes, braised pork, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and the vegetarian dishes are roasted silver thread and mushrooms and rapeseed."
Wu Sanpi is a legendary figure. On the rocky beach battlefield, he hacked to death a slave leader with a kitchen knife.
He liked to smoke. At this time, tobacco had just been introduced to the Ming Dynasty for a few decades. Many people did not know this thing, but Yang Fan had already listed dry tobacco as military supplies.
Being a soldier is stressful and can easily lead to emotional loss and psychological problems.
Anything that relieves tension is useful.
The soldiers were given very little tobacco leaf powder, and Wu Sanpi, the team leader, received only three taels a month. But this has already made the soldiers very envious.
Shuangxi and the waiting eunuchs and maids were very happy when they heard that these were good dishes. The braised pork cooked by the soldiers was excellent. They were throwing spoonfuls of sugar into the pot, which made them feel distressed. Sugar is so expensive.
But the meat looks really good when cooked, it's bright red.
Tomato scrambled eggs are also super delicious. Tomatoes were introduced to the Ming Dynasty not a hundred years ago. They are used as fruits and flowers.
Unexpectedly, the soldiers invented stir-frying with chicken eggs. It was really amazing. The taste was sour and sweet. I heard that His Majesty required the cooking team to have one dish every day.
Stir-fried rapeseed is also called stir-fried green vegetables. It's nothing at first, but with the addition of shiitake mushrooms, it's extraordinary. It's a rare thing. I haven't heard that His Majesty rewards Mr. Ge with just a few coins every now and then.
But the most interesting thing is this fire-roasted silver dish. Everyone thought it was something extraordinary based on the name. In fact, it is just a plate of fried bean sprouts. It is just stir-fried by the cooking class on fire. It is crisper and more delicious.
Every time this dish comes out, everyone can't help but make fun of it.
"Everyone has been waiting for a long time. The food is ready," Wu Sanpi said loudly. "Excuse me, everyone is queuing up, everyone is queuing up, there is enough food for everyone."
The eunuchs and maids all knew the rules of the soldiers and had to queue up to receive any items. They all lined up on a first-come, first-served basis, showing humility to each other.
Picking up the stainless steel dinner plate from the table on one side, walking past the large bowl of food, each cook took a spoonful of the food in front of him.
In the end, you have enough rice. You can eat as much as you want, but don't waste it.
On the platform in front of the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the eunuchs and maids preparing meals in the distance, frowning in deep thought. In the past few days, more than a dozen people have fallen down due to various poisons, and four of them have died.
It was a slow medicine, and I didn’t find out until several days later.
It seems that it was not that Wei Eunuch did not have this ability at the beginning, but that he had fantasies about the emperor and thought that he might still want to cooperate with the emperor. Now that he has broken his skin, Wei Gong will naturally not make it easy for him. Fortunately, he invited Xinghe to practice, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.
At this time, there was sudden chaos behind me, and the sharp buzzing of an alarm reminded me. This was installed by Yang Fan in the Qianqing Palace. This was a modern product, and a lot of gold was spent on shipping for delivery.
As soon as there is poisonous and harmful gas, an alarm will sound. This is solar charged.
Several little eunuchs were frothing at the mouth, staggering out of the door and falling to the ground.
Chongzhen was suddenly frightened. Fortunately, he felt suffocated and came out just now.
Yang Fan also came, looked at the fallen eunuchs, gritted his back teeth and said, "Assemble a team to search and find the poisoner."
