The moon is enjoying the palace and the sea is full of bright moons. At this time, the bright moon in the Yongchang imperial capital rose to the sky one hour earlier than Huazhou.

The emperor issued an order that in order to save expenses, no banquets will be held in the palace this year, and civil and military ministers reunited with their families at home. The order was disappointed by many officials. Some people wrote the chapters of the Mid-Autumn Festival sacred saints a few months ago, preparing to take them out for the Mid-Autumn Festival to win the emperor's praise. Now they have to place their hopes in the coming year.

There is no Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the palace, and family banquets are still needed. The banquet is set up in front of the stage of Shou'an Palace. Shou'an Palace is where Empress Dowager Renjing lives, and Empress Dowager Renjing is the empress of Emperor Xuan. After Emperor Xuan's death, he retired to Shou'an Palace and devoted himself to Buddhist affairs with Emperor Xuan's concubines, and came to listen to operas and raise flowers. Empress Dowager Renjing has two sons, even today's son and King Ning. Although Empress Dowager Renjing ignored civil affairs, the queen had to come to greet him every day in the harem.

Shou'an Palace is a group of palaces. In addition to the main hall, there are more than ten buildings such as Jingfu Hall, Yukang Hall, Huayuxuan, chrysanthemum worship hall, Miaoyin Hall, etc. There are more than 200 palace maids and eunuchs in the palace who serve the queen mother, the concubine and others. Miaoyin Hall next to Shou'an Palace is a place where the queen mother and others listen to operas and watch singing and dancing. There is a stage in the middle of the square, facing Miaoyin Hall, and there are partition doors on both sides of the east and west, which are connected to the playroom for artists to go and go.

Empress Dowager Renjing likes Zheng Opera very much, and she has to watch opera for 10 days in the palace for five days. Zheng Opera is due to the singing and playing of the Great Qi Dynasty a thousand years ago. It is accompanied by huqin, gongs and drums, decorated with scene arrangements, and expressing stories or situations through dialogue, rap, and actions. It is the mainstream of Zheng people's entertainment.

There was a banquet in front of Miaoyin Hall. Today's protagonists are Empress Dowager Ren Jing and several concubines, the emperor Shi Fangzhen, Empress Wang, Concubine Zhang, and Concubine Huang Shu sat on the left. The prince set a single seat behind the emperor, and other underage princesses and mothers sat on the same place. On the right is Ning Wang's family. Today's family banquet, the empress dowager asked the emperor to call his youngest son, and the family drank and enjoyed drinking, enjoying the moon and listening to music, and was happy. Recently, King Ning was repeatedly scolded by the emperor for the matter of Longwei, and the empress dowager wanted to take the opportunity to ease the conflict between his brothers.

On the stage is "Blessings of Heavenly Officials", which is the team of Cui, a family member of the Empress Dowager's mother, Dengzhou Hedong. The singing tone evokes the Queen Mother's memory. After singing, the Queen Mother kept calling "reward". Several small eunuchs carried a basket of copper coins and fell on the stage. The gods on the stage knelt down and kowtowed to the Queen Mother, making the Queen Mother laugh happily.

Shi Fang's eyebrows jumped a little. After he ascended the throne, he practiced frugality and had no money to repair the palaces. This year, he even saved the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. The Empress Dowager's annual annual discount of 60,000 taels of silver, and clothing, utensils, etc. are not included. The Cui family will pay 30,000 taels of silver every year, which is enough to spend 100,000 taels a year.

However, Empress Dowager Renjing developed a problem with big hands and thighs during Emperor Xuan. She rewarded silver for a Buddhist event, which was 10,000 taels, and the reward troupe also spent thousands of taels every month. Sometimes the flowers in the garden were not good-looking, and sometimes she felt that the decorations in the house were too old, and 100,000 taels of silver was not enough for her for half a year. The empress dowager had no money to use, but she invited the emperor to come and ask for it directly. Shi Fangzhen didn't dare to save her money, so she just gritted her teeth and met the queen mother's requirements from the inner treasury. Seeing the queen mother's joy at this moment, she estimated that she would have to give at least a thousand taels of silver tonight.

Liu Weiguo stood behind the emperor and waited for him. Seeing that the emperor was depressed, he was afraid that he would bring him out and stir up the family banquet, which made the empress dowager angry. So Liu Weiguo bowed down and asked, "Long live, the honey fruits presented in Huazhou are made of grapes, sour, sweet and refreshing. You have drunk a lot of wine to relieve the wine. Do you pour you a bowl?"

Shi Fangzhen woke up and nodded at Liu Weiguo, saying, "Pour it for everyone, eat whatever fruit you like."

The palace maid and eunuch held the pottery jar and poured honey fruits for everyone. Empress Dowager Ren Jing liked to eat pears. Looking at the fragrant pear meat in the bowl, she smiled and said, "Emperor, the honey fruits presented in Huazhou are very suitable for the Ai family's appetite. Several concubines also like them very much. You might as well send more to Shou'an Palace."

Jiang Anyi entered two thousand cans of honey fruit through the post road. After distributing it in the palace, Shi Fangzhen gave many important officials, and there were not many left. However, the empress dowager spoke, and Shi Fangzhen agreed with him, and smiled and said, "This honey fruit was made by Jiang Anyi, the governor of Huazhou. He copied the prescription to me. The method is very simple. Huazhou is long and the delivery is [31 Novel Network, updated quickly] The tribute is inconvenient. If the mother likes it, I will make the palace maid in the palace by myself according to the prescription."

Queen Mother Ren Jing said: "The emperor is the emperor and is rich all over the world. There is no need to be too restrained. How much honey fruit can be worth? Why do you have to do it yourself in the palace? If you continue the order, who dares to serve it sincerely?"

Ning Wang smiled and said, "Mother, this honey fruit is really refreshing. Huazhou has abundant fruits and fruits. In previous years, most of them are ripe and rotten. Even the remaining ones cannot be preserved for a few days. Huazhou fruits and fruits made of honey fruits not only preserve the original flavor, but also have a better flavor. It is really good. My son was rewarded by the emperor's brother and received it in his mansion. He was eaten all over in two days. I'm sorry to ask the emperor for another. I heard that it is sold in the east city. Guess how much does this can of honey fruit cost?"

Empress Dowager Ren Jing chewed it slowly in her mouth, and asked: "It is not cheap to transport fruits and vegetables in Huazhou to the capital. Ai's family remembers that a honey melon costs three taels of silver, and this can of honey fruit always costs about three kilograms, and at least five taels of silver."

King Ning smiled bitterly in his heart. His mother was really the one who spent money. She could buy five taels of silver at will. The old man was willing to buy it even if he sold it for eight taels. The empress dowager had a son of the emperor, but she was just the emperor's younger brother and did not have the blessing of spending money like water.

When Queen Wang heard that the honey fruit was made by Jiang Anyi, she thought in her mind that the perfume business brought her 300,000 taels of income every year, which made her do a lot of things in the palace. She originally thought that while Jiang Anyi was demoted to Fuluo County, she simply swallowed the perfume business in one bite. She had added this hen with golden eggs in the palace, wouldn’t it be even more responsive to the emperor? When the emperor was worried about money, she could help the emperor. However, Jiang Anyi’s implementation of “tax-to-one” in Fuluo County was very effective. The emperor praised her several times in front of her, so Queen Wang naturally would not do anything that would make the emperor unhappy.

Jiang Anyi is really good at making money. When she first arrived in Huazhou, she came up with a honey fruit business. Queen Wang wanted to snatch Jiang Anyi and set up a business for her. The cost of this honey fruit is only 200 cents and can be sold for three taels of silver. Isn’t it another hen that lays golden eggs? Queen Wang’s eyes lit up as she thought.

Shi Fangzhen accidentally saw the expression in Queen Wang's eyes. He knew that his wife was better than his husband. The queen who knew that she was thinking about her again, probably thinking about the dry stocks of honey fruit. On the other side, Wang Ning told Queen Mother Renjing three or two cans of honey fruit. The queen mother sighed regretfully: "This Huazhou Governor really doesn't know how to do business, and he sold the good things at a cheap price."

Ning Wang said to me, my mother, it’s cheaper to spend a few taels of silver. How many people in the world can compete with you. They lowered their heads depressedly and drank the juice in the bowl. It tasted really good. After the meal was over, I had to ask the emperor to copy the prescription back. I couldn’t afford it at home.

Shi Fangzhen raised his glass toast the empress dowager, and then said, "This Huazhou Governor Jiang Anyi is a capable minister. The perfume used in the palace is actually made by this person."

The Empress Dowager's eyes lit up and she smiled and said, "Oh, perfume is a good thing. The osmanthus is blooming in August. The emperor issued an order to ask him to give some osmanthus perfume. The emperor should know that the Ai family likes the fragrance of osmanthus the most."

Shi Fangzhen said to Queen Wang: "You should take the perfume to heart. When the osmanthus perfume arrives, it will be delivered to Shou'an Palace immediately."

Queen Wang smiled and said, "I will ask someone to go to the store tomorrow to tell them." But she thought to herself, she found a confidant to pass on the news about my honey fruit to Jiang Anyi. Jiang Anyi is a smart person and naturally knows what to do.

Shi Fangzhen said again: "After Jiang Anyi developed the prescription for honey fruit, he summoned the magistrates of the 53 counties in Huazhou to teach them the prescriptions and let them pass them on to the people of Huazhou."

"Are he stupid?" Empress Dowager Ren Jing opened her eyes wide in surprise and said, "Isn't this giving money to others? Why did the emperor choose such a confused person to be the governor?"

Shi Fangzhen was speechless and could not communicate with her mother. The Queen Mother waved her hand with no interest and said, "Governing the country is the matter of the emperor. The Ai family is old and just wants to enjoy her old age." After that, she focused her attention on the performance on the stage.

Prince Shi Chongwei sat under the emperor and laughed at him, "Master Jiang talked about his intentions in his letter to me. The emperor thought that Master Jiang gave me a selfless contribution to the recipe for honey fruits. The rich people in Huazhou would naturally buy fruits and make honey fruits when they see profitability. In this way, the people's fruits and fruits will not have to worry about sales, with little supply and high demand, and the price of these fruits and fruits can also rise. Honey fruits must be made manually, and the process of making honey fruits is simple, and the peasants and women in the village can be competent, and the farmers have more income. Moreover, Master Jiang said that each county should arrange for people in the sarcastic orphanage to give them priority to work, giving them five-liter wages per can, which not only allows them to benefit but also gives them more ability to make a living. After adults, they can support themselves. This is a good thing that can kill one stone."

Shi Fangzhen nodded with praise and said, "The emperor can understand Jiang Qing's good intentions, which means that he has achieved success in his studies and his knowledge has increased. I am very happy." Shi Chongwei is already fourteen years old, with a very good face. Looking at his son's heroic face, what he said is very suitable for his heart. Shi Fangzhen is very satisfied.

When Queen Wang heard that Jiang Anyi had given the honey fruit recipe for free, she knew that this was impossible to make money. Her son was praised, which was more important than the honey fruit business. She immediately smiled and said, "Long live, Wei'er often told me to take you as her teacher and let me talk more about your words and actions. Long live your knowledge of your rumor."

Shi Chongwei stood up and said, "The father worked hard to govern, set an example, and governing the country diligently and thriftfully is a model for the people in the world. The sons should learn from the father, reduce the cost of the Eastern Palace, and be frugal and self-reliant."
Chapter completed!