Chapter 221 The cabinet system of being a national advisor in Da Qin
After the servants closed the door and declined visitors, Hao Shuai looked at the time.
have to!
Breakfast has become lunch!
Fortunately, the people in the kitchen are not stupid and know how to arrange meals according to time.
In the Qin Dynasty, ordinary people still had "two meals a day", while wealthy families gradually had "three meals a day". As for the top people like Hao Shuai, of course they wanted to eat as many meals as they wanted.
Just eat a few meals.
After Hao Shuai and Lu Su's two sisters sat down at the table, the servants brought out all the prepared dishes. The staple food was Hao Shuai's favorite rice, accompanied by fragrant braised pork and various stir-fried dishes.
These meals were all prepared in the kitchen under the guidance of Lu Pheasant, especially the stir-fry dishes, which were made using the iron pots provided by Hao Shuai.
There were no iron pots in the Qin Dynasty. Iron pots did not become popular until after the Song Dynasty, so frying, deep-frying, and stir-frying were not available. The main methods were roasting (baking with fire) and stone burning (placing grains on hot stones).
Roasted), steamed, boiled.
When princes and nobles eat meat, they need to use a tripod to cook the whole piece of meat, then insert a knife into the meat, take it out, put it on the chopping board "zu", cut it, and eat it with seasoning.
The origin of "fish", but it happens when eating, not in the kitchen.
At that time, there was also the practice of eating raw fish, sashimi was already available, and vegetables and meat were boiled together with water to make "羹" (a thick soup), or pickled into "菹 (zu pickles)".
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As a person who came from a foodie empire, he could be particular about everything, but Hao Shuai was never particular about food.
When I was in Peixian before, I had completely lost hope in Daqin's food culture. All three meals a day were cooked by the Lufu kitchen using ingredients and kitchen utensils provided by Hao Shuai.
As soon as he arrived at the Imperial Prefect's Mansion, Lu Pheasant, as the general manager, asked Hao Shuai for a set of kitchen utensils and instructed the chef to use them, so that he could make these barely edible meals.
"It seems that we need to find someone to bring Gao Yao." Thinking of the poor man who eventually became Zhao Gao in the plot, Hao Shuai decided to help Gao Yao and bring him to the Imperial Prefecture, which would allow him to enjoy the feudal life
In the decadent life of society, he can still continue his favorite career as a chef.
The most important thing is that Hao Shuai can eat all kinds of delicacies in modern society during his time in the Qin Dynasty!
If he didn't want Lu Su and Lu Pheasant to know that he could travel across the world, Hao Shuai really planned to go back to the Luding World and have a good meal before coming back.
After barely eating half full, Hao Shuai took his two daughters-in-law back to the house to take a nap.
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After taking a comfortable nap, Hao Shuai slowly walked down to the palace of the First Emperor, led by the young eunuch.
At this time, the First Emperor in the palace was not practicing, but reviewing memorials.
Looking at the mountains of wooden slips on the table, Hao Shuai had an intuitive understanding of the First Emperor's diligence.
It was mentioned before that the First Emperor reviewed one stone per day, which was 120 kilograms of memorials. In the Qin Dynasty, one kilogram was equivalent to half a kilogram today, which was as much as 60 kilograms when converted. Official documents at that time were generally written on wooden slips or bamboo slips, 60
A kilogram of documents can normally write more than 100,000 words.
This is not a novel that we usually read. We just flip through it and finish it. At that time, there were no punctuation marks to break sentences. So the workload of reading 60 pounds of memorials every day, coupled with the need to think and review, was an extremely hard administrative task.
affairs, but the First Emperor persisted every day.
"Master, you are here. After I finish handling these political affairs, I will ask you for advice on cultivation." The First Emperor looked up at Hao Shuai who came in, and then continued to look down at the memorial.
"Your Majesty, you are busy first, don't pay attention to me." Hao Shuai waved his hand, indicating that you are busy, I will just take a look.
Picking up a scroll of bamboo slips, he opened it and saw that there was a disaster in a certain county, and he wrote a memorial on how to deal with it. Later, the First Emperor densely commented on how to deal with it.
"Pfft~~" Seeing this, Hao Shuai couldn't help but laugh. The leader of an empire actually personally handled the disaster relief matters for a county. This situation is similar to modern society, where the elder personally directs the county how to develop the economy.
Same.
No wonder the First Emperor had to review memorials day and night!
With the workload of the First Emperor, he was simply a fighter among emperors!
According to this trend, it is estimated that even if the First Emperor did not die of heavy metal poisoning, he would die of overwork sooner or later!
"Why are the Imperial Masters laughing?" The First Emperor heard Hao Shuai's laughter and raised his head and asked.
"Does Your Majesty review memorials like this every day?" Hao Shuai asked rhetorically.
"This has always been the case since I took charge. Especially after I unified the six kingdoms, I have been reviewing day and night and dare not slack off!" The First Emperor was very proud of his diligence.
"Why doesn't Your Majesty let the Prime Minister and the others share some of the burden?"
"This~" the First Emperor muttered.
As soon as Hao Shuai saw the expression of the First Emperor, he knew that this was a struggle between imperial power and the power of the Prime Minister. The reason why the First Emperor did not delegate power was probably because he was afraid that the power of the Prime Minister would increase and become a big trouble.
"Is Your Majesty worried that the Prime Minister's power will increase and threaten the imperial power?" Hao Shuai pointed out bluntly.
Seeing the First Emperor nodding in agreement, Hao Shuai continued: "In fact, Your Majesty does not need to worry at all. A saint once said: 'Political power comes from the barrel of a gun.' As long as Your Majesty controls the entire Qin army, who can threaten it?"
Where is Your Majesty?"
"Political power comes from the barrel of a gun?" The First Emperor thought about this sentence carefully, and finally agreed: "It is indeed a wise saying!"
"Furthermore, Your Majesty can completely set up another cabinet on top of the three ministers and nine ministers, and select five or seven important ministers from the court to be selected as cabinet members. Memorials from all over the country are first submitted to the cabinet, and the cabinet is responsible for drafting handling opinions, which are then approved by Your Majesty.
Finally, it was issued and implemented." Hao Shuai proposed the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty more than a thousand years in advance.
The First Emperor's eyes lit up, and he was obviously tempted by this suggestion. After thinking for a while, he asked: "But won't this lead to the cabinet having greater power?"
"Your Majesty, first of all, we have to make it clear that this cabinet is not an official position or a power agency. It can be regarded as your Majesty's personal staff team. Secondly, the cabinet members are not lifelong. Your Majesty can change them every few years. In this way,
This can prevent the tail from getting too big to fall off," Hao Shuai explained.
In the Luding World, Hao Shuai can manage the country in this way. Otherwise, if he expected Hao Shuai, an unreliable emperor, the Luding World would have been in chaos long ago.
"This method is very good!" Emperor Shihuang agreed.
Next, the First Emperor seriously asked Hao Shuai for other details of the cabinet system. Hao Shuai told the First Emperor everything he knew. The two discussed it for more than an hour before finally deciding on the Da Qin version of the cabinet system.
After the First Emperor finished writing the imperial edict to implement the cabinet system, Hao Shuai had time to check the progress of the First Emperor's cultivation and found that he could already clearly feel the internal energy flowing in his body in just one day. It didn't take long to think about it.
You can become a third-rate master.
"Your Majesty's cultivation has entered the right path. From now on, you only need to practice on time every morning. If you cooperate with the elixir I am preparing to refine, the effect will be even better!" Hao Shuai was about to attack the First Emperor's treasure house.
"You can search the inner treasury for the materials needed by the Imperial Master to make elixirs, but I have also ordered the entire country to collect elixirs," said the First Emperor.
"Then I'll go to the inner treasury first!" Hao Shuai, who was waiting for these words, immediately resigned from the First Emperor and asked a young eunuch to lead the way to plunder the First Emperor's collection.