Chapter 15 Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Appreciation
In the eyes of everyone in the DPRK and China, the promise made by Qin Ming was nothing more than a wild speech.
Today, drought has resulted in no harvest in the western cities.
Many crops have died of drought, and it will be almost impossible to grow something to eat in the next year or so.
And Qin Ming actually said that he could solve this problem, which naturally attracted everyone's disdain.
Even the little princess also looked at Qin Ming worriedly, after all, if Qin Ming couldn't solve it, she wouldn't be qualified to be a colt.
The eldest princess glanced at Qin Ming at this moment and said, "In an arid land, water sources are scarce, and rice and other crops are almost impossible to live, I don't know what you can do!" ”
"Don't worry about this eldest princess, I have my own way!"
Qin Ming sneered, thinking to himself, can he tell you?
It's still early in the morning, and Qin Ming can slowly go back to cultivating potatoes and sweet potato seeds.
When the time comes, the results will be planted, and the emperor and ministers will take a look, and who will have something to say at that time?
The eldest princess was very dissatisfied with Qin Ming's attitude, and said, "To solve the problem, there must be a deadline!" ”
Qin Ming didn't think about it, so he said, "Three months!" ”
The general growth cycle of potatoes is more than two months, and sweet potatoes are about three months.
That's why Qin Ming said this, when the time comes, he has cultivated a large number of seeds, coupled with the terrible yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and he will be able to produce a lot of potatoes and sweet potatoes in half a year.
However, hearing Qin Ming say that the problem could be solved in three months, many people shook their heads and sighed.
The Emperor also exhaled, not giving much hope.
And at this point, the candidates for the eldest princess and the second princess have been decided.
And the third princess here, he chose Qin Ming.
But now, in everyone's opinion, Qin Ming can't solve the food problem, and he can't become a horse.
Therefore, the matter of the little princess's concubine candidate was postponed by the emperor.
Next came the banquet, and everyone had a great time.
Only the little princess and Qin Ming were unhappy, and the little princess was worried that Qin Ming would not be able to solve the problem.
And Qin Ming was unhappy eating because these things were too unpalatable.
The food in this world is really not very good, similar to the Tang Dynasty in ancient China.
The staple food is rice and bread, but there is no stir-frying, because iron is very rare in this world, and it is all copper pot clay pots, and almost no one uses iron pots to stir-fry.
So basically, the food is boiled and stewed, and the taste is really average.
The meat is basically mutton, there is very little pork, and no one dares to eat beef.
After all, the ox is the worker, and if the ox is eaten, who pulls the plow?
Ate something hastily, and then Qin Ming accompanied the little princess and left the palace.
In the past two days, wherever there is land in the courtyard of the Hou Mansion, all kinds of flowers and trees have been eradicated, and all the potatoes and sweet potatoes have been planted by the subordinates.
Sweet potatoes are planted on about half an acre of land, and potatoes are about half an acre of land.
There are so many potatoes in the Hou Mansion, but it's okay.
Qin Ming calculated, with a normal yield, half an acre of sweet potatoes can grow about 3,000 catties to 6,000 catties.
Half an acre of potatoes has a yield of about 1,000 catties to 2,000 catties.
Three months later, let the emperor and them come to see the potatoes and sweet potatoes all over the Hou Mansion.
At that time, these thousands of catties of sweet potatoes and potatoes will be planted as seeds in arid areas, and the yield will be at least 100,000 catties.
Some of them are left to eat, and some of them are planted, and so on, and the problem of eating is easily solved.
Thinking of this, Qin Ming showed a sneer.
These guys on Celestia's side want to kill themselves, is it possible?
Don't have any skills, dare to be a traverser?
In the next period of time, in addition to going to the little princess every day, Qin Ming paid attention to the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the yard.
The eldest princess also sent someone to monitor Qin Ming, and seeing that he was either going to the little princess or in his own house all day long, leisurely and leisurely didn't seem to have any action, the eldest princess was relieved.
How did she know that as time passed, Qin Ming's mansion and underground had begun to slowly grow very large quantities of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Because potato and sweet potato seeds are given by the system, they are very good seeds, so they grow quickly and are 100% alive.
So more than a month later, Qin Ming turned over the soil and came to the potatoes to start bearing fruit.
After two months, the potatoes began to grow, and the sweet potatoes also began to grow.
Qin Ming is very happy, if it goes on like this, how can the mass production of potatoes be more than two thousand catties? How much is sweet potato more than 6,000 catties?
Now, Qin Ming is waiting for more than a month for these potatoes and sweet potatoes to be completely mass-produced.
While waiting, Qin Ming also had a detailed understanding of a lot of information in this world.
Now he can be regarded as completely integrated into this world.
On this day, after Qin Ming saw the potatoes and sweet potatoes that were growing well in the house, he heard the old housekeeper say that someone was coming from the palace.
When I walked into the hall, I saw that it was a little eunuch.
"Gongzi Qin, our family is ordered, please go to the palace tonight to admire the moon."
"Moon-watching?" Qin Ming was puzzled.
The little eunuch said: "Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, and the royal family will gather together to admire the moon every year. Your Majesty asked our family to invite you to come and go together. ”
Qin Ming smiled, he is not a colt yet, but he is also qualified?
Thinking about it, it was the little princess who asked for it, Qin Ming shook his head helplessly.
After cleaning up, he followed the little eunuch to the palace.
When it arrived, the sky was just dark, and a full moon hung in the sky like a silver plate, and the silver light sprinkled the earth, shining on the reunion of thousands of families.
In the imperial garden of the imperial palace, at this moment, the emperor and queen, the three princesses and two concubines, as well as some royal relatives, are all sitting in the garden eating cakes and admiring the moon.
After Qin Ming came, the little princess immediately came over and hugged his arm.
When the queen and the emperor saw it, they were a little helpless, but it was hard to say anything.
Qin Ming scratched the little princess's nose, then walked up to the emperor and empress and said:
"The kid has seen Your Majesty, and I've seen the Queen Mother."
The emperor snorted and said, "Have you brought a cigarette?" ”
"Bring it!" Qin Ming hurriedly lit a cigarette for the emperor and smoked one himself, and then sat down next to the little princess under the unkind eyes of many people.
The imperial relatives present are a little repulsive to Qin Ming, after all, Qin Ming is not a colt now, and it is almost impossible to be a colt, why should he participate in the royal party?
Especially the concubines of the eldest princess and the second princess, they rejected Qin Ming even more.
So none of them gave him a good look.
Qin Ming didn't care, after sitting down, he chatted with the little princess, the two talked and laughed, compared to the eldest princess and the second princess and their concubines, Qin Ming and the little princess were more like a couple.
The two even fed each other something to eat, and many people couldn't stand it.
In the end, the emperor couldn't help but tremble, and said: "Today is a full moon, why don't you take advantage of such a beautiful day to compose a poem?" ”
Hearing this, many people nodded in agreement, and at the same time, the eldest princess looked at Qin Ming with envy and said:
"That day, I was in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and I heard that Qin Gongzi boasted that he was talented, why don't you publish a poem today?"
Qin Ming sneered, this person is very scheming, he wants to make himself ugly?
So he said: "No problem, compose poetry, it's a piece of cake!" ”