Logically speaking, when an official arrives at the inn after a long business trip, tired from traveling and traveling, he is exhausted and his bones are about to fall apart. At that time, he will definitely want to eat something hot and delicious, and then have a solid sleep. , regain your strength.
Of course, the court also considered officials in this way.
So as long as you catch up with the meal time, the meal will be hot and you will not be starved of food.
It's just that the food is hot, but the taste... is really hard to describe.
It's a good thing to find an inn with a good cook. You can have a more satisfying meal. You can eat a delicious Xilihulu meal and go to sleep when you're full. It's nice.
This is of course the best, but if you are unlucky and encounter a restaurant where the chef's skills are average, or even a bit poor, and the food in your mouth does not meet your psychological expectations, you will feel angry!
But if you don’t eat, you won’t have anything to eat. The inn is usually not too close to the city, and if you don’t eat, you will still be hungry. After thinking about it, you can only frown and fill your stomach, and forget about it.
Then I felt bad.
Of course, if you want to improve your life and eat well, no problem, the court won't stop you, but it's at your own expense.
The imperial court is in charge of food, housing, and food. Within this scope, it is absolutely free. Food, drink, and accommodation are provided with public funds at no cost to you.
But the court did not care about improvement.
If you want to improve, you can, as long as you arrive at your destination and complete your official duties within the specified time. How you want to improve during this period, as long as you spend your own money, that is your own business, and the court will not interfere.
Officials also have the right to spend freely.
The salaries given to officials in the Ming Dynasty were not generous, and they were definitely not as generous as the generous salaries given to officials by the Song Dynasty. However, they were a little better. The good thing was that the salaries paid to officials in the Ming Dynasty were basically money, and the money could be used directly. It’s not about trading in a lot of items.
In the past, in all dynasties, some rare items were used as salaries, either due to temporary financial difficulties, or because some collections were accumulated and could not be consumed, so they were used as official salaries and discounted.
Of course, it's nothing for senior bureaucrats, it's just the icing on the cake. They like these luxuries in the palace very much.
But for those petty officials who live on their salaries, it is very serious.
These luxury goods often cannot be eaten directly and cannot be used at home. They have to find a place to recycle these rare items and exchange them for money to buy food and daily necessities, which is a lot of extra steps.
Moreover, the channels for purchasing these luxury goods are limited. Generally, certain stores will purchase these luxury goods. Sometimes, some petty officials even face malicious price reductions and are unable to resist, so life is tight. Baba.
This was not the case in Su Yonglin's Ming Dynasty. The main body of salary was clear money, hard currency, which did not need to be exchanged for money. This was true for both high officials and small officials, who were treated equally.
In addition to money, the salary in the Ming Dynasty also included some benefits for daily necessities.
For example, practical daily necessities such as oil, rice, noodles, meat, tea and coal are also distributed quarterly and by grade, such as cloth, silk, candles, spices and other daily necessities, and the quality is good.
Generally speaking, the salary of the Ming Dynasty was very practical. As long as the officials and staff of the Ming Dynasty were provided with royal food, they would basically have no problems in their daily lives.
After reaching a certain level, you basically have no money for daily life, and the salary you receive is infinitely close to pure income. You can save it or spend it at will to improve your life.
So in general, officials and staff are satisfied with their current salaries and lives.
When I'm on a business trip, I really can't stand the inn. As long as I pass through the town, I can go out to eat by myself without wasting time, so I don't have any money to go out and improve my life.
However, most middle-level and grassroots officials are still unable to do such things as having to spend money to eat something that is free.
Most of them do not have the luxury of senior officials. Of course they still want to take advantage if they can, so they start to learn and explore.
At first, they would carry some pastries and other snacks with them to fill their stomachs, so as not to irritate others. Later, they began to learn how to cook delicious food on which official road and which post station, and met officials who were on a business trip. Just write it down.
This information is often recorded in a small notebook, and officials who travel frequently communicate with each other and help each other.
In this way, in just a few months, those officials who often traveled on business have basically figured out those inns with relatively high food quality in the current inn system of the Ming Dynasty.
With the inns clearly mapped out and their location distribution clear, they would calculate the exact route and time before going on a business trip, either hurrying on their way, or taking a leisurely stroll, picking out meals and arriving at those inns with good cooks.
In this way, after arriving at the inn, you can eat free meals cooked by those skilled cooks.
I can eat and drink for free, eat relatively comfortably, and have a good sleep, which makes me feel very satisfied.
Xin Qiji is a senior central official and does not travel much on business. This kind of business trip may not happen once a year. He has no rigid demand for this, so he does not know the magic weapon for those officials who often travel on business to eat and drink well.
So this time when he went south, he stepped on a lot of obstacles. He stayed at six inns along the way, and all three of them gave him food. He frowned and felt angry.
It was already a tiring journey, a bumpy journey, and I was not yet comfortable riding a horse. When I arrived at the inn, I wanted to eat something hot and delicious, but the meal was not as satisfactory as it was when it was served.
To be honest, Xin Qiji didn't feel at all that he was special or difficult to serve.
During the war years, he ate with everyone in the army's big pot of rice. The big pot was filled with rice and vegetables, and he squatted on the ground and ate it. He didn't feel anything bad, and the food was delicious.
It was common for him to have no time to eat during the march, so he had to eat some dry food, or he was hungry and had a full meal, and he never complained.
He even felt that the craftsmanship of the old firemen in the army was better than that of the cooks in restaurants outside.
Since joining the Liberation Army, he has left behind the luxurious life of his childhood and adolescence, as well as the exquisite diet and gorgeous dishes.
He has never been a person who cannot bear hardships.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, his life stabilized and his salary was very high, but he insisted on living a simple life. He did not build a house or buy land. His only hobby was buying books and reading.
Or if you have any insights about life and work, you will write these insights into poems.
Or just buy some ingredients on holidays and go out for a picnic with friends from the war period, drink and barbecue, chat, and reminisce about the hard life in the past.
In daily life, Xin Qiji basically followed Su Yonglin. He did not eat delicacies from mountains and seas, and did not pursue expensive ingredients. In addition to having a luxurious meal of fish and meat during the New Year and festivals, his daily meals were only meat and vegetables and soup.
So Xin Qiji doesn't feel that his taste buds are picky at all.
But the level of the cooks at the three inns even made him prepare to submit an application to the inn management department to let them control the standards of the inn's food.
I don't require you to be a delicacy, but you must at least be reasonable, right?
Either it's so salty that you almost spit it out after taking one bite, or the salt is just like using expensive spices, just a little bit, bland and tasteless.
Some of the cooks were so poor at cooking that they wasted such good ingredients.
Is this behavior considered a crime?
Where did all these cooks come from?
Isn’t it possible that the pig farm changed its occupation from making pig food to pigs?
Xin Qiji was so angry that he almost cursed.
It’s not incomprehensible that the station is financially tight, but is it really that difficult to find someone who can cook as a cook?
Xin Qiji was deeply dissatisfied with the cooks in these inns.
Fortunately, after arriving in Haizhou, the officials of Haizhou paid for Xin Qiji to eat some good food to help him cleanse himself from the dust. Xin Qiji also paid for some local specialties in Haizhou, and his mood was relieved. .
Now traveling south to the Southern Song Dynasty, I thought I would also experience the Southern Song Dynasty’s inn system and inn food, and continue to feel the “differences of the world”, but I never imagined that I would receive such treatment.
Xin Qiji felt that he would definitely gain weight when he ate.
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