Inside and outside the palace, prices fluctuate greatly

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The early qing dynasty time was from 5 a.m.

One day, Qianlong asked a minister with concern: "Do you go to work so early every day and eat breakfast?" The minister said that he had eaten; Qianlong asked curiously, "What do you eat for breakfast?" "The minister said that my family was not rich and would eat a few eggs at will.

Qianlong inhaled in surprise: "Oh my God, 10 two silver eggs, I don't dare to eat more, you are still crying poor!" The minister immediately knew that someone was tricking the ghost, but he did not dare to say much, so he had to perfunctory: "The eggs Bought by my family are all defective, cheap, and the quality is good to eat." ”

In the Guangxu period, the price of eggs in the palace was already 30 taels of silver, in fact, the market only sold 3 copper plates a piece; Guangxu loved to eat this bite, every year to eat tens of thousands of taels of silver, Guangxu and the teacher Weng Tonggong chatted up and said: "Eggs are delicious, it is too expensive, can the teacher eat it?" Weng Tonggong did not dare to speak bluntly, and Guangxu thought that eating eggs was high-end consumption until his death.

Daoguang was particularly frugal, and before he ascended the throne, he had eaten a bowl of noodle soup at a snack bar in Qianmen; he thought it was delicious. After ascending the throne, he found that the cost of eating was too large, so he instructed him not to pay attention to food and eat some home-cooked food, such as soup noodles. The next day, the ministry handed over a report proposing the establishment of a soup noodle management office, the selection of competent officials to take command, the construction of a new soup noodle kitchen, the increase of a number of establishments, requesting the allocation of 60,000 taels of preparatory fees, and then need 15,000 taels of guaranteed operating fees per year.

Dao Guang almost vomited blood at the sight: "Isn't there a soup noodle restaurant at the front door, let the eunuch buy it!" A few days later, the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported, "The noodle restaurant outside the front door has long been closed!" ”

XianFeng's study door was broken, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said to replace it with a new one, Xianfeng said to repair it; the door was repaired, the reimbursement document said silver 5,000 taels, Xianfeng was furious, ordered an investigation.

As a result, the investigation concluded that the officials who handled the specific affairs were new, unfamiliar with the business, and the first time they were nervous about handling affairs for the emperor, they mistakenly wrote 50 taels as 5000 taels. In the end, it didn't work.

During Cixi's reign, the Ministry of Internal Affairs purchased 100 suitcases, each of which was reimbursed 60 taels of silver. Some insiders quietly told Cixi that the market price of this kind of suitcase did not exceed 6 taels of silver.

Cixi said, well, give you half a month, you help me buy 100 cheap suitcases. This person rushed to the street with money, but all the luggage stores did not open their doors, it was easy to knock on one, the boss lowered his voice and said, yesterday the palace came to inform, the luggage shops will be closed for rectification for half a month, if there is a violator, evicted from the capital!

This person quickly sent someone to send a letter to Tianjin Daotai and asked him to buy 100 suitcases to send on his behalf. Half a month has passed, and there is no news from Tianjin, and even the messenger has not been found.

A few years later, he learned that someone had forced the 1,000 taels of silver to deliver the letter, so that he could roll as far as possible, otherwise his life would not be guaranteed!

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