Also, I feel that Zhu Yuanzhang's kindness to cooks may have something to do with his early years as a beggar. When Zhu Yuanzhang was a beggar, he was definitely short of food. Therefore, when he became emperor, he might especially cherish what he ate, and naturally be kind to the people who cooked, that is, the cooks.
The ministers around Zhu Yuanzhang are illiterate. He attached great importance to those people because he felt that they posed little threat to his imperial power, but he didn't expect that his Ming Dynasty had become the most powerful dynasty in which eunuchs were in power.
For chefs, I think so. Generally, chefs are illiterate. They just cook in peace and have nothing to do with imperial power. So you can use it safely. Therefore, at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had a prince. Because the cook in the government had a contradiction with him, he punished the cook, and Zhu Yuanzhang was right. I feel that what Zhu Yuanzhang means is to make it unnecessary for the prince to haggle over every ounce with such a small person, which will lower his status and affect his social status.