"Wang Zixin, your father has made you the supervisor of Sinong Temple, are you happy? From now on, I will call you Wang Jian Cheng. As soon as Li Zhi entered the door, he shouted excitedly at Wang Xiang, and when he saw that he was fiddling with a few large vats, he asked curiously, "What are you doing here?" ”

Wang Xiang also liked the well-behaved and lovely Li Zhi very much, smiled and asked, "Why did His Royal Highness King Jin come to Sinong Temple?" ”

"My father asked the prince's brother to supervise Xiangrui's matter, so I begged my father to let me come with me, I also want to come to see Xiangrui, and the Journey to the West you talked about at the last dinner hasn't finished yet."

Li Zhiyi's unfinished appearance made Wang Xiang laugh and said with a smile: "The latter sentence is the main reason." ”

Li Zhi smiled embarrassedly and said, "I'm going to your house for dinner today, but you can't drink, otherwise your father will punish you." ”

Li Chengqian, who was on the side, saw that Wang Xiang and Li Zhi chatted very casually, and there was no restraint in the face of the prince of ordinary courtiers, and Li Zhi seemed to like Wang Xiang very much, he knew that although his younger brother was only nine years old, he usually looked like a little adult, and he would only behave like a nine-year-old child in front of people close to him, Li Zhi knew Wang Xiang for a long time and was so close to him, which made Li Chengqian a little curious.

"You are the prince of the king, eunuch, and the prince?"

Hearing Li Chengqian's question, Wang Xiang didn't dare to slack off, and replied: "I am going to be a magistrate." ”

Li Chengqian pointed to the neat vat and asked, "What are you doing with these vats?" ”

Wang Xiang pretended not to see Li Zhi, who was squeezing his eyebrows at him, and replied, "This is for growing potatoes." ”

Li Chengqian was obviously a little surprised, frowned and asked, "Do potatoes need to be planted in large vats?" Doesn't it mean that this thing is very easy to survive and can be grown in barren land? ”

He came for the credit of potatoes this time, originally heard that the yield of potatoes per mu is amazing and easy to survive, so he had great hopes for it, but he didn't expect to come and see that it was so cumbersome, and he faintly felt that what Wang Xiang said before was untrue.

Wang Xiang knew that Li Chengqian had misunderstood, and explained: "Potatoes do not have high requirements for growth, but these potatoes are used for breeding, and in order to be able to harvest more potatoes as seeds, they still need to be carefully cared for, and there is no need to be so troublesome to promote them for mass planting in the future." ”

Li Zhi smiled and came over and asked curiously, "Then why do you have to use a big vat?" ”

"Actually, it doesn't matter if you use a big vat to grow potatoes."

As soon as Wang Xiang's words fell, Zhang Zhongzheng behind him suddenly became furious, it turned out that this prince Xin was really deliberately teasing me!

"Well...... Wang Xiang paused and smiled mysteriously, "Doesn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince want to see the miracle of a potato turning into a pot of potatoes?" ”

Li Chengqian's face changed when he heard this, and he seemed to be a little incredulous.

"You're saying that if you plant one potato in a jar, you can harvest a jar of potatoes?"

Even Zhang Zhongzheng forgot his anger for a while, sneered at Wang Xiang's words, and snorted lightly: "It's better for Wang Jiancheng not to say big things in front of His Royal Highness the Prince, lest it end badly in the future, and a potato will grow into a pot of potatoes?" I'm afraid that this potato is no longer auspicious, but a divine object. ”

Old man Zhang, you are enough, there is no end to me, Wang Xiang glanced at Zhang Zhongzheng coldly and said: "Lord Zhang has been pampered in Sinong Temple, and it is not surprising that he is a little lonely and unheard, but it seems that it is not too much to call it a divine object if the potato can make my Tang Dynasty have no famine from now on." ”

The contradiction between Zhang Zhongzheng and Wang Xiang Li Chengqian could see it at a glance, and seeing that Zhang Zhongzheng was still about to speak, Li Chengqian said coldly: "Wang Jiancheng is so confident in potatoes, and the whole of Sinong Temple will cooperate well, that is, my father asked me to supervise the potato matter, I only hope to see satisfactory results as soon as possible. ”

During this time, Li Chengqian's temper was not very good, Li Shimin praised Li Tai, the king of Wei, for his intelligence and cleverness in front of his ministers, and even authorized him to be "not an official". Because of his leg disease, Li Chengqian has always felt that Li Shimin and the ministers look at him a little differently recently, which makes him very annoyed, and Li Tai has been allowed to set up a literary museum to preside over the poetry society, Li Chengqian feels that his status as the crown prince has been threatened like never before.

The world's talents are used by the king, Li Chengqian feels that he is the prince and the future king of the Tang Dynasty, so the talented people in the world should be invested in his disciples, but the last poetry meeting Li Tai actually introduced all the four talents of Luoyang into his literature museum in one fell swoop, and the King of Wei and the literature museum became famous in Chang'an City, and even his limelight as the prince of the Tang Dynasty was covered. Fortunately, I heard that Wang Zixin, who was the first name of the poetry club, did not join King Wei's literature museum, so Li Chengqian had a good impression of Wang Xiang at that time.

In addition, the fact that Li Shimin asked him to come over to supervise potatoes this time is to mix up the credit, or a great credit, so that the Tang Dynasty will never have famine from now on, such a credit is not comparable to running a literature museum, and the potato is a thing dedicated by Wang Xiang, that is to say, this credit is actually brought to him by Wang Xiang.

Wang Xiang also felt Li Chengqian's kindness, although it was a little strange but he didn't dig deeper, he thought that it might be because of Li Zhi.

"Wang Jiancheng, my prince brother is so kind to you, shouldn't you invite us to eat hot pot?" Li Zhi shook his head proudly and said: "Brother Prince is in a bad mood these days, several adults have been scolded by him, you are lucky to have me to help you say good things, Brother Prince is also very interested in your hot pot." ”

Wang Xiang smiled, this little guy was greedy and wanted to pull him up as the eldest brother, but it seems that he really helped me say a lot of good things.

"I'll ask someone to go back and inform Aunt Lin to prepare more ingredients, but it won't be at night."

Li Zhi nodded obediently and said, "It's okay, Wang Jian Cheng is busy with auspicious things first, let's go out and eat something casually at noon." ”

With Li Chengqian's presence, it was much easier for Wang Xiang to get things done, and more than a dozen vats were filled with fertile soil according to his requirements, which were dug from Zhang Zhongzheng's Bairui Garden, and he still had some heartache when he dug them, and these fertile soils were used to grow real auspicious things.

Just after the severe cold, the grass has not yet recovered, Bairui Garden is bleak, only a few evergreen plants stand alone, Wang Xiang shook his head, there is not even a greenhouse, what is Bairui Garden, it is bare in winter.

However, he did find a few wilted plants that appeared to be cotton, and he was not sure until a few months later.

Let more than a dozen large tanks be arranged, Wang Xiang used a knife to cut the potatoes into small pieces, Li Chengqian was shocked, and hurriedly stopped him and asked him why.

Wang Xiang had no choice but to explain: "Potatoes are different from the seeds of other grains, and cutting and germinating can greatly improve the yield of potatoes. ”

"What is cutting and germination?" Li Chengqian must ask to understand, after he goes back, Li Shimin will definitely ask him about potatoes, if Li Shimin knows that Wang Xiang cut Xiangrui into pieces, he will definitely ask the reason.

"Your Highness, you can see that there are many small pits in this potato." Wang Xiang picked up a piece of potato and pointed to the small pit on it and said: "This is the bud hole, after planting the potato, the sprouts will come out of the bud hole, so cutting the potatoes into pieces, leaving one or two bud holes on each piece can greatly improve the yield of potatoes." ”

Li Chengqian asked with some concern: "Won't this damage Xiangrui?" ”

Wang Xiang smiled and said, "Your Highness, don't worry, you have seen that pruning branches and leaves on trees will damage trees. ”

Li Chengqian thought that the garden in the palace also needed to prune the branches and leaves of the trees every year, and there was really no problem, so he was relieved.

Wang Xiang is hands-on in the matter of potato cutting, and others don't know how to cut it to ensure the maximum germination rate of potatoes.

After cutting the potatoes, Wang Xiang asked people to plant the potatoes into the vat, three layers of soil and one layer of potato pieces, and more than a dozen potato pieces cut into potato pieces planted in more than a dozen vats, and it was indeed only one potato planted in a large vat.

Since the weather has not completely warmed up, Wang Xiang originally planned to get a simple greenhouse to help the potatoes sprout, but after finishing these things, it was already time to eat, so he had to wait until the afternoon to build a simple greenhouse.

The people of Sinong Temple have also been busy for a long time, they are all gray-haired old men, who have been doing so much work in Sinong Temple, and they are all so tired that they are panting at this time, but fortunately, Li Chengqian spoke.

"All the adults will take a rest after eating, and then prepare the greenhouse that Wang Jian Cheng said, and when the potatoes are harvested, there will definitely be a credit from the adults."

"Don't dare, don't dare."

They didn't dare to complain about the prince, but looking at Wang Xiang's eyes, they were not so friendly.

When they all dispersed to eat, Li Chengqian smiled pointedly: "Wang Jian Cheng doesn't seem to be very popular in Sinong Temple, and that Zhang Zhongzheng seems to have a deep hatred with you, why don't I ask my father to ask you to take up a post in my East Palace after the potato incident is over." ”

Li Chengqian's kindness is so obvious how Wang Xiang can't feel it, but he doesn't dare to accept this kindness at will, after all, Li Chengqian in history later rebelled and was deposed, and many people who followed him were implicated, Wang Xiang didn't want to wade into this troubled water.

After a few nonsense words, Wang Xiang said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the King of Jin are also hungry, why don't we go out and eat something first." ”

"Go to Baiwei Building!"

Baiweilou is the largest restaurant in Chang'an City, no wonder Li Zhi called out the name of Baiweilou in one bite, but Wang Xiang wanted to go to another place.

"Why don't we go to Degui Restaurant?"

Li Zhi wrinkled his nose and said, "Degui Restaurant? What a cheesy name, why does Wang Jiancheng want to go there? ”

Is it cheesy? All right...... Actually, I think so, why do you say that our restaurant has such a cheesy name. Wang Xiang shook his head and said secretly, if you want to blame, blame the name of the son of the king steward for being cheesy, because the shopkeeper of the restaurant is Wang Degui, the son of the king steward.

Butler Wang and Aunt Lin mentioned this matter when they went to Baiwei Lou to sell fungus before, but the restaurant business is average, so Wang Xiang has not cared, and when he went out today, Xiaoya reminded him that he could go to his own restaurant for lunch, and he just wanted to see what this Degui Restaurant was like.