Audiences who love to watch historical dramas must often see the scene of ministers deliberating on the court, when all power is concentrated on the emperor, and many ministers always look very diligent in government affairs in order to please the emperor. That needs to be done when deliberating in the courtroom!
At that time, the position of the ministers was also exquisite, paying attention to Wendong Wuxi, and the positions of the ministers were different according to the different official positions. This kind of discussion in the court agreed to change the name to "Early Dynasty" during the Ming Dynasty!
Presumably, some viewers also know that this so-called early dynasty and early dynasty is really very early! According to the records of the Ming Dynasty, in the ancient early dynasty, the ministers often had to get up in the middle of the night, cross most of the capital to the noon gate, wait outside the noon gate at three o'clock in the morning, and wait in line when the drums on the noon gate were sounded. When the palace door opened at about five o'clock, the hundred officials were about to fish in, and the whole team was in the square after the Jinshui Bridge.
So, do you have any questions? These ministers came to the court so early in the morning, so how should their breakfast be solved? If there are many things in this court, it is not easy to say how long it will be discussed! Then if the minister does not eat breakfast, it is not good to have an empty stomach!
Therefore, the early dynasty on the hungry stomach did not change until the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Emperor could not bear to be hungry for the ministers of the country and the people, so he issued an order to prepare breakfast in the palace every day, and also arranged a place for the ministers to eat breakfast, so that the ministers did not go hungry to open the morning dynasty. Such a system can be said to be very humane!
However, in the late Ming Dynasty, due to the emptiness of the national treasury, the imperial court gradually abolished this provision in order to reduce the expenditure of a single sum. So after the imperial court withdrew the special early, will the ministers still go hungry? The answer, of course, is no!
The system of the Qing Dynasty was a continuation of the Ming Dynasty, so the Qing Dynasty also did not have a system of providing breakfast for officials. Do you want to know how the officials of the Qing Dynasty ate in the early dynasties?
In fact, at that time, there was a place in the Forbidden City that was outsourced to others to buy breakfast, buns, wontons and so on. This breakfast spot was called "Four-In-One" in the Qing Dynasty, which is now the East Long House that specializes in selling souvenirs from the Forbidden City.
At that time, officials came to the early dynasty to eat at their own expense, but there was also a restriction. As we all know, the ancient people paid great attention to appearance, and the identity of the officials was there! If they go straight to sit down and eat, then you think about how many people are crowded together, which is a loss of official status! On the other hand, if you accidentally soil your clothes while eating, you will not be punished again. Therefore, ministers would generally send the next people around them, let them buy it, and then sit in the palanquin and eat it themselves.
In addition to the officials of the early dynasty, the palace ladies or eunuchs in the palace were tired of eating the "big pot rice" in the palace, and they would also go to the stalls to buy some food and change their appetite. Sometimes, even the concubines of the palaces, who eat too much of the mountain treasures and seafood made in the small kitchen of their palaces, will order their servants or slaves to come out here to buy some small dishes and go back to relieve their hunger. After all, there is still a difference between ordinary snacks and mountain treasures and seafood.
In fact, it seems that these well-dressed, seemingly majestic ministers are actually quite pitiful, eating breakfast is so troublesome, and they have to carry their heads to do things every day, afraid that they will offend the emperor with their words or things, and they will be cut off! It seems that the new life is rich and colorful today!