Chapter 6: Brother and Sister
When the three of them returned to the gate of Cining Palace, they happened to meet the emperor and Zhen and Wang Zhengyang.
Zhenhe Wang is also the eldest brother of Qiu Lin and Emperor Shan Jinyao.
The group returned to Cining Palace in a mighty way.
After a while, the five children also returned to Cining Palace.
Cining Palace was lively all of a sudden.
There is a special dining room in Cining Palace, which is specially used for family meals. Since Shan Jinyao ascended the throne, he discussed with the Queen Mother about the establishment, usually the queen and the children eat dinner here, and the emperor will come to eat when he is not busy, so that the Queen Mother can enjoy the joy of family. The Queen Mother liked this establishment very much, and all dynasties had never done so, and they all dined in their respective palaces. Of course, Qiu Lin and Zheng Yang will come back to Cining Palace for dinner.
Because the dinner is hot pot, there will be indecent eating during the meal, so all the palace maids and eunuchs are dismissed, and all of them are done by themselves. The Queen Mother was very unaccustomed to eating this hot pot for the first time, and she didn't know where to start.
You take it from me, I add it to you, everyone eats very happily, and the children eat all of them with round stomachs.
The Queen Mother was very happy to see that the big round table was full, probably because of her age, she just liked to be happy and noisy.
After dinner, the adults moved to the hall to sit down and chat, and the children played in the courtyard to digest their food.
The Queen Mother and the Emperor sat at the top, and the Empress, Qiu Lin and Zheng Yang sat on the chairs below. Everyone, you said a word, and finally talked about Zheng Yang who was about to go to the frontier to inspect.
Qiu Lin said to Zheng Yang: "Big brother, this year I have cultivated a batch of new vegetable varieties, and in the autumn you can try to plant a large area, I want to divide a part of the army in your north to try planting, to see how the cold tolerance is in winter, if the cold tolerance is good, then the types of vegetables that the army eats in winter can be increased in the future." There are also several kinds of vegetables that have been improved and their yields have increased a lot, and when the time comes, your army will also be replaced with this high-yield variety. ”
The armies of other countries rely on the state to support them, but Shan Li is different, since the multinational war Zheng Yang began to let the soldiers reclaim wasteland for planting crops, but also raise chickens, sheep and pigs, etc., at the beginning those who were soldiers did not understand, military salaries, food and herbs should be provided by the state, why do they have to do it themselves, but the military orders can only be ordered to execute, so after two years of implementation, everyone in the army admires this General Zheng Yang very much, and feels that he is too prescient.
Since the multinational war, all countries have ceased war and cultivated, the army is usually practicing exercises, their own people practice their own hands, and there is no battle to fight, most of the soldiers are young and strong, often have no place to vent their excess energy, pull them to farm and graze just to give them something to do, plus most of the soldiers are born as croppers, and they are very handy at picking up hoes and sickles. The result is that the more you plant, the more you like, the more you raise, the more you are good, the more you plant more, you can not finish eating and you will take it to the nearby towns to sell to the local people, because a lot of vegetables are not available in the local area, the people like to eat, and often take it to sell it will be robbed by the people crazy, which is another kind of income.
The army can basically achieve self-sufficiency in grain and grass, then the country can save a lot of military expenses, and the people do not have to pay taxes in this regard, of course the people are happy, and the people are happy to report the good news to their families who are soldiers in the army, and the soldiers are naturally happy, planting and breeding will be more energetic, and those retired soldiers can continue to bring back these good planting and breeding experience when they return to their hometowns, and the local people can also benefit, which forms a virtuous circle. Either side is happy.
Zheng Yang said happily: "Little sister, look at the arrangement!" What the people on your side want us to do, we will naturally fully cooperate. ”
Qiu Lin said: "Okay, we will tell you anything we need." ”
Turned his head and said to the emperor: "This time I went out and found a plant, a plant similar to sweet potato, the cane on the top is very lush, and the rhizome below is also very large, all of which are edible, but the taste is not very good, people don't like to eat this taste, but animals love to eat, the local people only think it is fed to pigs and sheep forage, I inquired about this plant yield is very high, and it is also very resistant to storage, I brought it back to try planting first, if it is really high-yielding, it can also be promoted in the future to be planted in a large area as feed, It should be more than double the yield of these types of forage today. ”
The emperor was very happy when he heard this: "That's great, if there is really such a high yield, then the development of animal husbandry can be well improved, and the common people don't have to worry about having no meat to eat." ”
Qiu Lin continued: "I was thinking about another question, if there is a bad harvest in any year, this plant should be able to be used as a staple food for the time being, with the characteristics of this plant that is not afraid of drought and is resistant to harvesting and storage. If I could find sweet potatoes again, the taste would be much better......" When I think of that sweet potato, I think of roasted sweet potatoes, I haven't eaten them in this other world for nearly 20 years, I miss the taste so much, and my saliva begins to flood when I think about it. It's a pity that I haven't found it after looking for so many years, isn't there a sweet potato plant in this other world? But she's already found potatoes and corn, so she probably hasn't found them yet.
The Emperor laughed and said, "I don't want this kind of bad taste thing you said to be a staple food, I hope it can only be used as feed forever." Judging from the current amount of grain reserves in the state, there should be no problem for the people of the whole country to eat for two years, and in addition to the grain reserves of the people themselves and the grain reserves in the hands of businessmen, it is more than enough to eat him for three or four years. ”
Qiu Lin stuck out her tongue at him when she heard this, and made a grimace, causing the other three to laugh too, and the atmosphere was very relaxed.
The queen mother and the queen don't care about the affairs of the court, although the three of them often don't understand the topics they are talking about, but they all know that the three of them are of the same heart, one is in charge of military affairs, the other is in charge of people's livelihood, and they are all towards the emperor and the country.
But what the Queen Mother and the Queen don't know is that the souls of the three of them are brother and sister, and they are the real family in this different world, but others don't know it. Of course, you can't let others know, otherwise you will be treated as demons and monsters by others.