The chief palace steward was recording Long Fei's dietary habits. She did not want to make any mistakes and anger the new emperor.
Moreover, when the chief palace steward tallied the palace's daily expenses, she found they were far lower than during Fadis's time.
Today was October 31, Cosmic Year 126. The Skywing Empire had been established for three weeks.
The palace's expenses over those three weeks were not even as much as a single week's expenses during Fadis's reign.
Basically, the palace's current expenses were much lower than before. Curtains alone had been replaced every six months during Fadis's time, with the old ones sold secondhand. If it was the emperor's birthday or another banquet, new curtains would even be custom-made and hung for a few days.
Afterward, they would be taken down, and the custom-made curtains would either be sold secondhand or destroyed.
Long Fei had ordered that there be only three sets of curtains. One set was for banquets, while the other two were for regular rotation and washing.
Another thing the chief palace steward noticed was that the emperor had not touched any women these past few weeks. At first, she had arranged several beauties to prepare to attend him in bed.
In the end, the emperor directly drove those beauties out of his bedchamber. Long Fei even warned her not to arrange for women to enter his bedchamber.
During Fadis's time, he would select women at least four or five days a week. The current emperor, on the other hand, had not touched a woman for three weeks.
Only later did the chief palace steward learn that this emperor was not lustful and was devoted only to the Empress.
Moreover, in about another month, the Empress would enter the palace.
The chief palace steward began