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managing the provision of vegetables and other such matters. Fifth, the Banquet Management Office, which manages the affairs of the seven banquets. Sixth, the Correspondence Office, which manages the sending and receiving of letters and documents. Seventh, the Price Assessment Office, which evaluates the rise and fall of commodity prices and manages divided purchasing and distribution. Each office dispatches one minister, three red-sashed attendants, and twenty other miscellaneous staff to manage one office. For their morning and evening provisions and errands, there are separate storehouse officials who handle these tasks.
The king daily provides guests with spring water from Zuisen in front of the palace. Every morning at dawn, they draw water and place it in green wooden containers amounting to over two shi, lock it with locks, and run ten li to deliver it to the residence. Nine red-sashed scholars take turns by day to escort the delivery.
Daily provisions consist of: five sheng of rice, four jin of noodles, four cups each of soy paste, soy sauce, vinegar, salt, and vegetable oil, three jin of tofu, one bottle of distilled liquor, three jin each of fish and meat, two jin of mutton, four jin of dried fish, two chickens, ten eggs, two sea crabs, two watermelons, ten jin of winter melon, one jin of vegetables, four candles, ten jin of charcoal, and four bundles of firewood.
On ceremonial days, gifts include: one each of live pig and sheep, two chickens, eggs, fish, sea snakes, sea crabs, rock fish, giant clams, noodles, flour, soy paste, vinegar, garlic, pepper, sugar cane, bananas (replaced with oranges in winter), baked cakes, fine preserved fish - one plate each, one jar of distilled liquor, one package of charcoal, and one bundle of candles. On the first and fifteenth of the lunar month, additional gifts of auspicious cakes, rice wine, silver wine, and yellow wine are added. Auspicious cakes are made from rice flour and shaped like thin pancakes. Rice wine is like white wine but somewhat lighter. Silver wine is distilled liquor. Yellow wine is brewed locally in the country - it is cooked wine, black in color and rich, with a slight oily taste.
For the garrison commander and captain, daily provisions are four sheng of rice, one cup each of soy sauce, vinegar, salt, vegetable oil, and rice paste, pork