Chapter 208 Rice comes to Beijing, the emperor inquires

Author: That sour candy

Chapter 208 Rice comes to Beijing, the emperor inquires

Everyone looked at Zhongshu Ling, who glanced at Tang Chaoying.

Tang Chaoying stretched out his left hand and clasped his fingers: "Thanks to God, the sun was shining brightly in those days. Harvesting started on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. The first few batches of threshed rice were well exposed to the sun for three or four days. They were harvested in the early morning of November.

It has been six days since the rice was shipped out. We took the Hangou River to the Huai River, then Ying River and Jishui River, and we should almost reach the capital."

"No risk?" Wu Zhongsu blurted out and slapped himself lightly again.

Everyone turned to look at Yan Shoulu.

"Why are you looking at me? You go ask General Qi." Yan Shoulu spread his hands with a smile.

Zhang Jiuyan was a little serious: "As long as the news is not leaked, General Qi should be able to escort him safely."

"The peripheral people here don't seem to know that there is General Qi in the military camp, but the people outside are not sure."

"There should be news tonight." Zhong Shuling said.

Chen Fan and the others ran around twice and then went to the field to look at the goats.

"The bellies of these two ewes are very big. How many months have they been pregnant?" Wang Sangluo asked.

"I'm not sure. I can't tell the month by looking at my belly." Her memory of raising pigs and sheep still lingers on many years ago. In recent years, pigs and sheep have not been allowed to be raised in rural areas, so she has forgotten those memories.

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Eight-year-old Wang Keyue gently touched the sheep's belly. After a while, she said: "This one is four months pregnant, and this one is three months pregnant."

A group of children looked at her with admiration and suspicion. Wang Keyue raised her head and said, "I have been feeling the belly of sheep every day for several years."

"You are only eight years old, how many years can you touch?"

"Even if you started touching her when you were five years old, you've been touching her for four years, right?" Wang Keyue was unconvinced.

"I often touch the belly of the sheep, how come I didn't know?" Hei Wa was not convinced either.

"You only touch them to see if they are full. It's fun to touch them. How can I pay so much attention to them?"

Heiwa couldn't argue with her, so he asked the question: "Is this sheep pregnant with a lamb? Its belly is not big at all."

Wang Keyue touched it for a while and said, "It's only been two months."

The children made a sound of "ugh--" and continued to watch the sheep eating grass.

Chen Fan looked at these children with great interest. Just like when she was a child, they also liked to watch goats grazing and chickens eating. With a group of children surrounding them, she wanted to draw this scene.

Beijing, Jishui Pier. More than twenty ships were lined up in a row. The soldiers escorting them had changed into uniform uniforms, and the soldiers from the patrol camp were also standing in formation on the pier. The people who came after hearing the news were watching curiously.

With.

General Longwei Qi Zhenqun stepped off the ship, and Captain Xu Zhangyun of the patrol camp saluted: "Thank you for your hard work, General Qi."

Qi Zhenqun returned the favor and said, "Thank you Captain Xu for coming to meet us. We will enter the city now."

Heavy bags were loaded onto the cars one by one. One thousand bags filled fifty cars. The people's eyes were wide open as they watched the long motorcade go away.

"What's in here?"

"Rice, right? Only rice can harvest so much in this season."

Some people are better informed: "I heard that someone over there in Gyeongju has grown high-yielding rice, and one acre of land costs five or six dan."

"So much? If everyone could harvest this much, there would be enough food to eat."

The people were talking excitedly, but they didn't notice that there were a few pairs of vicious eyes in the crowd, staring hatefully at the retreating motorcade.

In the granary in the west of the imperial city, the Minister of Household Affairs and the Minister were waiting respectfully. Standing in front of them was the second prince Wei Chaokang.

A team of Imperial Guardsmen stood ready. Every time a sack was moved, they would open it, pour it back into the sacks prepared by the Imperial Guardsmen, weigh it on the scale, record it, and transport it into the warehouse.

There were many people, so the move was fast. Yu Wenshan, the Minister of Revenue, put down the pen in his hand and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Your Highness, there is a slight surplus in each bag of rice. After re-packing, the weight is sufficient." Yu Shangshu reported solemnly.

The second prince nodded: "Thank you for your hard work. I will report your hard work to my father."

All the officials thanked him in unison.

The second prince left with his troops and a thousand kilograms of grain. Yu Shangshu breathed a long sigh of relief again, showed a smile, and looked at Su Shilang beside him: "It's really God's blessing, the emperor's grace is so great, this food trip is all safe and sound."

The pellets were shipped back intact.”

Su Shilang just smiled faintly: "That is to say, this trip came suddenly. Even if someone wanted to sabotage it, there was no time to make complete preparations. If there is a second trip, it will not be so smooth."

Yu Shangshu smiled and shook his head: "There will be a second trip. No matter how much grain is collected there, it will be distributed to the southern states and counties on the spot."

"These rice grains are really interesting. They are plump and shiny, and I feel happy just looking at them." Su Shilang sighed.

"I really want to grab a handful and take it back, but there are so many pairs of eyes staring at it." Yu Shangshu whispered.

"There will be more high-yield rice seeds next year." Su Shilang showed a beautiful vision, and Yu Shangshu smiled.

It was already dark when they entered the palace. The second prince and his party saw the emperor.

The rice presented to the emperor was packed in a delicate little bag. The emperor grabbed a handful and could not look away.

After a while, he crushed a few rice husks and saw the shiny rice grains inside. His eyes became more and more excited.

"It's indeed a good seed! Haha!" He laughed loudly. Everyone in the palace knelt down one after another to congratulate Da Xiang on the good weather and the good seed.

The second prince presented the record sheet of rice seeds, and General Qi also presented the memorial. The emperor smiled and said: "Qi Aiqing has worked hard, and I have wronged you. She is either running around, or hiding her identity in the camp."

General Qi leaned over and saluted: "I have done errands for the Holy Majesty, and I will not feel any grievance. Fortunately, I did not disgrace my order."

The emperor pointed to a pile of memorials on the table: "These are records about Shengping County. Zhongshu ordered them to report every day. Are there any other places where sweet potatoes have been found in Shengping County and Yuanfeng County?"

General Qi nodded decisively: "Yes. After people in many places saw the sweet potato, they discovered that there was such a crop in the fields near the village. They dug it out and took a look. It was exactly like that. In some remote places, there were large tracts.

It’s just that except for a few big ones, wild sweet potatoes are almost all small, and some are even as big as a finger, which is far less uniform and large than cultivated sweet potatoes.”

"What about corn?"

"They are found in many places, but not many. People don't know what they are. Some people don't care, some don't dare to eat them, and some just peel them off and feed them to chickens."

"Are you willing to poison a chicken to death?"

"Give it to someone else's chicken."

The second prince puffed up his cheeks, but still held back his laughter.

"How come no one noticed it before?"

"The corn leaves are very prickly. If you don't wear thicker clothes, your arms will be scratched. Before the corn ears grow up, the people will lose interest."

The emperor looked at the second prince: "What do you think?"
Chapter completed!