On the seventh day of wheat sowing, Shih Tzu began to be anxious. Whether these seeds can germinate or not, she is not very sure.

At the beginning, the 200,000 quintals of wheat returned to Wu by Yue Guo were all inactivated at high temperatures and would not germinate. The 50,000 quintals of wheat given to Wu by the Yue State were not processed. Yes, it can sprout.

Bo Yao received Fan Li's instructions to distribute the unprocessed 50,000 quintals of grain to Gusu City, and the processed grain was distributed to the countryside for the common people to make seeds.

If Bo Yao did not make a mistake in operation, then the wheat planted by Xi Shi would have sprouted, and then Wu Zixu would have no reason to provoke, and King Wu would not be able to hold Yue Guo responsible.

This is a complete plan to trap people, Wu Guo was trapped, and there is no reason to retaliate yet. The loss caused by this small plan to Wu Guo is immeasurable. More than a dozen catties of seeds should be lost per mu, and the yield per mu will be reduced by at least one-third because of the delay in sowing.

In addition to the fact that there were no dead people, the economic losses amounted to a large-scale war.

However, if Bo Yao made a mistake in operation and distributed the seeds that did not germinate to Gusu City, the seeds sown by Xi Shi would not germinate and sprout.

At that time, Wu Zixu was investigated, and King Wu had nothing to say. The credibility that the country had built up over the years collapsed. In the next step, King Wu suffered this dumb loss, ignored it, or Xingshi asked for the guilt, it was completely uncontrollable.

With the current strength of the Yue Kingdom, he is not afraid of a battle with the Wu State. Although Wu is very poor, the army is still very strong, and when it starts to fight, it is a win, and it is also a tragic victory, which is not in line with Fan Li's wishes.

He wanted a complete victory.

King Wu said, "Madam, will these wheat be the same as those planted by the common people, without germinating and not sprouting?" ”

Xi Shi didn't have a bottom in his heart, but he still said: "No, the king has already worshiped the god of grains, and God will bless it, there are no seedlings now, but the time has not come." Because it has been postponed for nearly a month, it has entered winter, and the yang energy has declined, and the emergence of seedlings must be slow. ”

King Wu was also worried in his heart, if these seeds did not sprout, then Wu Zixu would decide that Yue Guo was making trouble and harming Wu Guo in this matter, and he had always insisted that Yue Guo's friendship with Wu Guo was untenable, and he was slapped in the face.

King Wu already had a plan in his heart, if it was confirmed that this time it was the Yue State that set up a trap for the Wu State, then the Wu State would definitely send troops to destroy the Yue State again, and kill him without leaving a chicken dog.

Time passed slowly in anxious waiting.

On the tenth day, before King Wu and Xi Shi got up, the maid Meng Yuan gently knocked on the door of their dormitory. Shih Tzu said, "Who? Is there something wrong? ”

Meng Yuan said: "Slave Meng Yuan, report to Madame a good news, the wheat you planted has sprouted!" ”

That's great news!

Xi Shi patted the sleeping king of Wu and said, "The king wakes up, the wheat we planted has sprouted." ”

King Wu and Xi Shi hurriedly put on their clothes, and did not bother to freshen up, so they ran towards the small wheat field.

In the morning of early winter, the mountains and forests are drifting, and the fog of Gusutai is shrouded. In the downward light, in the wheat field, which was only the size of a bed, there was a wheat seedling showing the tip of a half-inch high.

The seedling was tender yellow, with a little green at the tip, and a mercury-like dew drop, which looked very delicate.

Shih Tzu laughed and said, "Oh, it's really good-looking." See, king, there's another one here. ”

Meng Yuan shouted, "Madam, there is another one here!" ”

King Wu laughed and said: "It's amazing, what we sowed is wheat, and this will actually grow wheat seedlings." ”

Xi Shi squatted down, looked carefully, and exclaimed in surprise: "King, please look carefully, close to the ground." The dense turns are full of young shoots. ”

King Wu also squatted down and looked carefully, and sure enough, on the surface of the soil, a layer of delicate yellow sprouts of wheat seedlings was breaking the ground.

Xi Shi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the hanging heart finally let go.

"We made it!" Xi Shi hugged King Wu's arm and cheered.

After another two or three days, the small wheat field was covered with wheat seedlings, and from a distance, it was a green silk cloth.

Two days later, the courtiers and civil servants who had been sent out to help the farmers grow wheat also returned to Gusu one after another. Bo Yao came to Gusutai to report work.

He said, "King, the matter of replanting wheat has almost been successfully completed, and the ministers have come to sell it. ”

King Wu said: "Tell me about the situation. ”

Bo Yao said: "This time everyone cooperated very well, only a few local tyrants were unwilling to cooperate, and the minister has already dealt with it." ”

King Wu said, "This time it should have been successful, right?" ”

"Absolutely successful," he said. The minister waited until the first wheat had already sown seedlings before returning to deliver the decree. ”

King Wu breathed a sigh of relief: "Dazai, you have done this decisively, vigorously and resolutely, grabbed back at least ten days of agricultural time, and lent seeds to large households, solving the problems of those poor farmers." Great credit. ”

"According to the minister's observations, the common people are very grateful to the imperial court for sending troops and officials to help them plant wheat. The king is showing kindness, and the people are all appreciative. Now the mood of the people has stabilized. Everything is in good condition. ”

When King Wu heard this, he was naturally very happy in his heart, and said, "Dazai has worked hard. Now there is nothing to do in the DPRK, so take a good rest for a few days. ”

As he was talking, Wu Zixu also came to Gusutai to give his decree. Seeing that the ceremony was over, King Wu said, "What is the situation on the Xiangguo side?" ”

Wu Zixu said: "King Qiyu, the army has completed the task of sowing seeds, and now it has returned to the barracks. No other surprises occurred. ”

King Wu said, "Has anyone taken advantage of this opportunity to escape?" ”

Wu Zixu said: "A few escapes have been captured and dealt with. The overall situation is stable. ”

King Wu said: "Very good, the army is scattered from gathering and then gathering from dispersion, this is a major event, and it is also a big training." Wu Jun experienced this incident and did not have any major incidents, which shows that Xiang Guo's training of the army in peacetime was very effective. There are merits and hardships in the country. ”

Wu Zixu said: "Lao Chen has been thinking about it these days. Why does the wheat in Yue Country not sprout? This must be Gou Jian's design pit us. We can't stop there. The old minister was willing to lead an army of 50,000 to Huiji to find Gou Jian to ask for an explanation. ”

King Wu said, "After you left, the widow was not idle. The widow is also thinking about this question, why will the wheat returned by Yue Guo not sprout? In order to verify this matter, the widow personally visited fifteen households, and they all received the wheat returned by the Yue Kingdom. The widow asked each family for a handful of such wheat, returned to Gusutai, and sowed it. Now the seedlings are emerging. Adults, please come with me. ”

When they went out, King Wu took the lead, and Wu Zixu and Bo Yao then came to the edge of the small wheat field and said, "This is the wheat sown by the widows." ”

Because of the large amount of wheat planted, the wheat seedlings were already covered with the ground, and they were green and growing well.

King Wu said: "The widow said very clearly, it must be the grain distributed by the imperial court, that is, what I sown is the wheat returned by the Yue Kingdom." Aren't all the seedlings emerging now? ”。

Wu Zixu was stunned, speechless for a long time, this is a terrifying incident, the same wheat seed, why did not produce a single seedling in the country before, but now King Wu planted it, but the seedlings are neat and grow well?

Wu Zixu said: "This is really a strange thing, but why is this happening? There has to be a reason, right? ”