The king asked the minister what to have for breakfast, and the minister said eggs. Why is the king so angry that the harem has started to raise chickens?

Daoguang was a very thrifty emperor in history. At that time, he ordered that no meat should be eaten in the palace except the emperor, queen mother and queen mother, and meat dishes could only be eaten on holidays. One day, Daoguang casually asked the minister what the unit price of eggs was. The minister didn't know, so he casually said 32 1 kg. After knowing that the minister ate eggs this morning, Daoguang accused the minister of living in luxury. At this time, the minister explained that these eggs were laid by his own chickens.

As we all know, the emperor's life is very luxurious, beyond our imagination. However, Daoguang is an exception in history. He leads a very frugal life. In fact, it can be seen from here that the emperor began to be frugal, which was the beginning of the decline of a dynasty. Although there was not much left in the national treasury at that time, it should be easy to maintain the expenses in the palace, but Daoguang was still very frugal, never wearing new clothes and never eating expensive ingredients.

Since the emperor is so frugal, ministers must follow the example of the emperor and not live too luxuriously, so ministers also live a very frugal life according to the requirements of Daoguang. Once, Daoguang and his ministers talked about the prices of the people and inadvertently asked about the unit price of eggs. Ministers don't know, the emperor asked to answer, just casually said a unit price. When Daoguang knew that they had eggs in the morning, he was very angry and accused them of living too luxuriously.

When the minister saw that the emperor was angry, he quickly explained that the eggs he ate in the morning were not bought, but laid by chickens raised at home, so Daoguang opened up a place to raise chickens in the harem.