Chapter 481: Cultivation is better than farming
Tianjin Xiaozhan rice, with fresh and tender beef outside the mouth, plus fresh potatoes that have just been planted...... You don't need too much seasoning, as long as the heat is enough, pour the stewed meat and potatoes with a spoonful of rich soup and pour them over the rice...... Immediately the taste buds fell to their knees.
Zhu Houxi ate three bowls in a row, then leaned back on the chair, shyly swelling his belly, and pinched a piece of green radish in the sand nest in his hand, gnawing without a bite.
"Wang Yue, you really know how to enjoy it, I can't even eat a mouthful of hot food in the palace...... Look at the dozens of dishes they make for each meal, not to mention eating, even if it looks annoying, they just want to be disgusting! ”
Wang Yue smiled, and didn't say much, let you, the emperor, have a bad taste, and the people below will not be easy to serve. But Zhu Houxi is not as bad as he is, this guy has his own ghost ideas.
He doesn't like to eat the food in the imperial dining room, isn't there still Huang Jin!
Zhu Houxi asked Huang Jin to pay out of his own pocket and open a small stove for him.
Although it is a small stove, the worst dish also requires more than a dozen chickens to match...... Otherwise, how to satisfy the appetite of His Majesty the Emperor...... For this matter, Huang Jin cried with Wang Yue a lot, begging Wang Yue to show him the way to get money, otherwise he would be poor.
Of course, Wang Yue couldn't bear to let the little angel be wronged, so he called Lu Bing, a tool man, and asked him to be alone with Huang Jin for a day.
Even so, Huang Jin couldn't bear it, and finally simply pulled Cui Shilin in, and the three of them partnered to deal with it.
"Wang Yue, I still can't figure it out, Huang Jin's goods are crying poor with me, saying how much they have spent...... But I don't eat very well, at most it's a little better than the imperial dining room...... Do you think they are bullying? ”
Wang Yue chewed the radish and smiled lightly...... "As smart as Your Majesty, can't you figure it out?"
Zhu Houxi snorted and said disdainfully: "It's not to give face to those people in the inner court...... One of my palaces, tens of thousands of eunuchs and palace maids, eat, wear and flowers, how many moths have been fattened just by buying! They sold an egg to me as a chicken, made a handkerchief more expensive than a brocade, and they said it nicely, but to put it bluntly, they still sucked blood on me. If I knew, this potato roast beef would be so delicious, how would they live! ”
Wang Yue laughed and stretched out two thumbs. In terms of intelligence, there are really not many people who can compare to Zhu Houxi, this guy simply has a delicate heart, and he can see everything clearly!
"What if you see it clearly? Those people are all immortals! Not to mention anything else, just Wang Guifei, since giving birth to the dragon seed, there have been no less than ten stewards and eunuchs, running to her to flatter, Concubine Du was not yet born, someone went over and told them how to cultivate the prince and how to win the favor...... These things, none of them make me worry, to be honest, I have long wanted to avoid living in Xiyuan and not ask about the world. ”
Zhu Houxi struggled to sit up straight, "Wang Yue, if you say that I want to live in Xiyuan, I can't do nothing...... It turns out that I plan to cultivate, even if I can't become an immortal, but there is hope for longevity and physical fitness...... But after reading those books of yours, I pondered for a while, and found that the way of cultivation does not seem to be so feasible...... Why don't you think about me, what should I do? ”
Wang Yue looked at Zhu Houxi very seriously, "Your Majesty, if you are still the emperor honestly, don't make trouble for the big guys!" ”
"Phew!"
Zhu Houxi smacked Wang Yue fiercely, "I don't want to be an ornament!" That's right...... This potato is quite interesting, how about I plant some potatoes in the palace? ”
Wang Yue's eyes lit up, "Your Majesty, do you really have this heart?" ”
"Nonsense! You're telling a joke! By the way, you just said that potatoes are very magical things, it can't be that simple, can you tell us about it quickly? ”
His Majesty the Emperor has become studious, how dare Wang Yue slack off!
"Your Majesty, in fact, let's talk about beef first......
For traditional farming peoples, cattle are precious.
In some countries, strict laws are not allowed to be slaughtered at will.
Of course, there are more extreme ones, which make the ox a holy object and say that it is a mount of the gods, so as to restrain the people from eating the ox...... The effect of this method is actually very good, but after too many years, a magical situation will appear, such as a cow dung bath, cow urine cures...... If the ancestors who set this rule knew about it, they didn't know what they would think!
Of course, it is estimated that the ancestors will not recognize them, after all, the ghost knows how many people have invaded, and they are not a group of people for a long time.
Having said that, in addition to ploughing the fields, cattle are also a very important source of high-quality protein.
"In the past, although it was hard work, there was also a distinction between busy farming and idle farming...... The common people still have a long time to rest and recuperate, take the north as an example, the time for many days to recuperate in winter can be several months, and the damage to the body is still limited. But when you get to the factory, especially in the mine, it's even more terrible, if there is not enough meat and eggs to replenish, within three years, people will be wasted. ”
"I suggest that the people be allowed to eat cattle, not that these people who do heavy physical work can afford to eat beef. Instead, with the supply of beef, mutton, chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, and some fish, the relative price will be much cheaper, and the people's tables will be much richer. ”
Zhu Houxi listened carefully, but he didn't dare to fully agree.
"You said that no one has talked about these households...... They say that an acre of farmland produces far more grain than an acre of pasture raised livestock, and if the people raise livestock, they will consume countless fodder and eventually starve more people to death. ”
Wang Yue laughed, "What Your Majesty said is that the household department is not wrong, but what I want to talk about now is the second thing of potato roast beef, potatoes!" ”
"Potatoes?"
"That's right! This thing does not have high requirements for land, but the yield is considerable, like many mountains, slopes, planted potatoes, the yield will be better. In some cold places in the north, the harvest of growing grain is not large, but planting potatoes will have miraculous effects. This thing can be used as both a meal and a vegetable...... Isn't that a plan to build a road? Where do the laborers come from? They are tossing Annam, North Korea, and even the Japanese ...... But no matter what, these people are not eating or drinking, if they can rely on potatoes to temporarily fill their appetite, and by the way, supplement the rations of the poor people of the Ming Dynasty, it is definitely a merit in the present and a thousand years! ”
"Your Majesty, have you noticed? In just a few years, how much has the imperial court's household registration increased? At this rate...... Soon a new round of human-land contradictions will break out, we haven't even finished the first clearance, do we still have the courage to carry out the second clearance? ”
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After Zhu Houxi ate a meal of potato roast beef, he returned to the palace, and at first the big guy didn't move...... But it soon became clear that His Majesty the Emperor had changed as a person.
He threw aside the Taoist classics in the room, the secret art of cultivating the truth, what nine yin and nine yang, the Heavenly Emperor Sutra, and the Beginningless and Traceless Sutra were all thrown aside, without this talent, he couldn't even build a foundation, what else to cultivate!
It's better to cultivate than to farm!
Zhu Houyu dug out the farming books of the past dynasties and studied them day and night, so that's it, Zhu Houyu also went to the palace to rummage through them...... searched and searched, and actually let him turn out the plowman, hoe, and shovel used by Zhu Yuanzhang back then...... It is said that Zhu Di got it to Beijing in order to miss his father's hard work.
It's just that when he came to Zhu Laosi, he just meant that he would definitely not grow his own millet in the palace like Zhu Yuanzhang to eat.
But it doesn't matter, the farming genes of the old Zhu family have actually awakened in Zhu Houxi.
He specially ordered to make a separate vacant land in the Imperial Garden, and also told Huang Jin to turn it over carefully, and then get all the poop pulled by the rare and exotic beasts in the West Garden and sprinkle it in the soil.
Of course, there is the long-necked unicorn that Daddy Wang got back then...... Zhu Houxi also discovered that these bullshit beasts, except for eating too much and pulling too much, there is nothing to praise.
Just take it and forget about it.
Zhu Houxi tossed desperately in the palace, and finally alarmed the outer court, and the officials in the court and the central government also heard about it, but the version they got was a little different...... Wang Yue got the immortal grass from the overseas fairy island, and it must be planted with five-colored soil, and the poop of rare and exotic beasts must be applied, such as cranes, sika deer, and even unicorns!
It is supplemented by water from Yuquan Mountain...... After ninety-nine eighty-one days, you can grow a miracle medicine...... This medicine is also miraculous, it is actually in the shape of a golden pill, and there are seven orifices on it, which can absorb the aura of heaven and earth when you are born, and if you eat one, you can prolong your life for thirty years......
This version evolved, with thirty years of life becoming a hundred years, a hundred years becoming a thousand years, and then simply flying in place.
"Yuanfu, Your Majesty favors Fangshi, as courtiers, we can't be indifferent! I'm going to fight for this life and advise the Son of Heaven! ”
Facing the righteous and strict officials, Zhang Xuan blinked his eyes, and covered a bag of "elixir" with a cloth, "That...... I'll go with you to meet the Son of Heaven! ”