Chapter 5 A City of Yellow Flowers

"Which department of Tianyuguo is in charge of farming?" I asked Mr. Xu.

"Tobe!"

"Let the household department organize manpower to give me these rape flowers as soon as possible...... I pulled it out for this palace, and now I can plant what I can plant quickly! "Although Gu Tianba is confused, the people in the city are innocent! If this summer is wasted, I don't know how many people will not be able to eat at the beginning of spring next year.

It's just a pity that this endless rape flower, to be honest, is really beautiful.

"Wait a minute!" I thought of something again and asked, "How far is the nearest city from the capital, and if there is food from there, is it feasible?" ”

"This ......," Mr. Xu was asked by me.

"Call the people of the household department to Hongu!" This is a major matter of people's livelihood, although I am not the real Gu Tianba, but since I have crossed over to her, I have the obligation to do what a prince should do on her behalf, even if I don't have that ability, but it is impossible for a person to be in the country, and it is still a matter of course.

Not long after, Tobe Shangshu and two Tobe attendants hurried from the city in a carriage, if it weren't for their drunken body, I would have thought that they were going to work honestly at this time, and as soon as I heard that I was going to see them, I would have come with them.

But with the smell of wine and confused eyes on their bodies, they didn't have to guess to know, first, they didn't expect the prince to summon them. Second, they did not expect the prince to summon them at this time and place.

In the past, I was too lazy to step on their corrupt officialdom, anyway, when I was Lin Muyu, I couldn't get in touch with officials of any level. I can only complain and coax with the majority of netizens on the Internet, regardless of whether it is true or false, as long as the poor officials who do not do things for the people are exposed, they will be scolded and smoked from the ancestral graves of others. Completely ignoring whether someone is taking it out of context and maliciously planting it or whether it is true.

But now it's different, I'm the prince! My words, attitudes, and examples will affect the fate of the entire country.

I suddenly felt a lot of pressure, but when I thought about it, I was a person who had experienced life and death once, so I calmed down, and regarded it as a prince is also a job, who can't work to eat, I will do this job well, and I can be regarded as worthy of the reward given to me by the people of Tianyu for good food and clothing.

Thinking about it like this, the pressure suddenly became a lot less.

As if I didn't notice the smell of alcohol on the three men, I told them to get up and sit down to talk.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, Ransom Weichen bluntly said that the city closest to my Tianyu Capital City, it takes two or three days to transport grain, and the road is not smooth. Even if this grain can be harvested, it may not be delivered to the capital. ”

Tobe Shangshu is a tall and thin uncle in his forties, although he has drunk wine, but this idea is very clear, he looked at the rape flowers in his eyes, and said: "But now at the beginning of summer, if you really pull these yellow flowers, plant some corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes or anything, it is still too late." ”

"What about peanuts and corn?" Since I was a child, I have been working in the fields, and I know that peanuts and corn should be planted before the wheat is harvested, and some studies say that the birthplace of peanuts is China, and corn is an agricultural product introduced in the early Ming and Qing dynasties.

"Peanuts? Your Highness is talking about falling peanuts! It's a little late at this time. This corn ......"

"Stick!" We all call it that, and in some places it is called: "bud rice, bud millet, baogu, jade bean......"

"Yes! I can plant! Lord Shangshu nodded again and again, it turns out that almost all the crops I know in this era are available, but because of the limitation of processing technology in production capacity, some agricultural products have been gradually abandoned.

"In this way, you can have people pull out half of these rape flowers, leave half of them, and plant whatever they can on the vacant land, don't be idle, if there ......are not enough people," I thought about it, "I will go to the military department to borrow troops, and the palace guards, as long as you can free up labor, the entire capital, including the main palace, is at your disposal." ”

"This ......" Lord Shangshu seemed to have a lot of concerns, and he was very incredulous.

I know, he doesn't know if I said this on a whim or if I really wanted to do it, after all, Gu Tianba had done everything except being a qualified prince before. The sudden change of sex is inevitably unbelievable.

"This day Yu country is the palace of the Tianyu country, the people of the day Yu country is the people of the palace, before the palace is young, did a lot of ridiculous things, made the people of the palace boring, now the palace has awakened, the people for the water, the king for the boat, the water can carry the boat, can also overturn the boat, if the palace is still like before, sooner or later one day, the people will rise up against the palace, when the water waves turn into stormy waves, you, me, all of us standing here, will be sunk to the bottom of the water, not a good death. Rather than that, why don't you and I put the people first? ”

The Household Department Shangshu and the two attendants all looked at me in disbelief, as if in their opinion, this kind of simple explanation of the great truth of governing the country and securing the people would never come out of the mouth of their Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

But in order to convince them that I asked them to pull these rape flowers on a whim, I won't let them pull them out today, and tomorrow I will regret asking them to replant them for me. Then he said, "Let all the people live and work in peace and contentment, and have no worries about food and clothing." No one will be idle to find themselves uncomfortable, when the time comes, the natural calm and calm, you and I can also sit in a high position, a worry-free life, maybe can be praised by the world, eternal beauty. ”

Does this count as knowing reason and moving with emotion? In fact, even I didn't expect that I would be able to say such a big truth.

I saw a flash of light in the eyes of Lord Shangshu, and he took two squires to salute me respectfully, and his voice trembled because of excitement: "It is rumored that the prince's palace is the destiny of heaven, and the old minister did not dare to agree before, but now he sees that His Royal Highness the prince has such a mind, and he has worked hard for my Tianyu people, and the old minister is really guilty." The old minister swore to His Highness and the sky today that he would wholeheartedly assist His Highness in the future, so that everyone in Tianyu could live and work in peace and contentment. Don't seek fame and suffering, just ask for a conscience! ”

"Good!" I also got excited, slapped the table and said: "It is worthy of my Tianyu good minister, when all my Tianyu people live and work in peace and contentment, the palace will prepare fine wine, and the monk Shangshu and the two servants will have a good drink." ”

"Good! From today on, if there is still one of my Tianyu people who has not eaten enough, and one person does not cover his body, my household Shangshu Yue Zhize will not drink a drop of wine! ”

"Good! When I am rich and prosperous, the people are strong, and the palace will brew wine by himself, and Lord Shangshu will not get drunk and will not return. "My grandfather's craft of winemaking is ancestral, and I have been with my grandfather for three or four years, even if I haven't learned all of this craft, I have learned seven or eight percent, and there is no problem in making wine.

Lord Shangshu was so excited by my bold words just now, that he didn't care whether I really knew how to make wine or whether I was talking about it, so he immediately took two squires back to the city to collect labor, and half an hour later, I saw a large number of rape flowers falling one after another.

"Manager Xu, go and remind Yue Shangshu that this rape flower is only half plucked, don't pluck it out for the palace!" Rapeseed oil is more fragrant and healthier than the animal fat that people eat now, and besides, the rape flowers have grown so big, if they are really ruined, I also think it is a pity.

"The old slave understood, so the old slave asked them to pull out the inside, and the ones on both sides of the road were returned to His Highness and General Chonghua to keep."

"Hongu doesn't mean that! Rapeseed is useful for staying in this palace. ”

"Yes, yes, yes! The old slave understood His Royal Highness's intentions, and kept these yellow flower seeds to be planted again in the next year, so that the entire Tianyu would be full of yellow flowers! ”

What kind of understanding ability does this old eunuch have! I didn't bother to explain to him, just leave the rapeseed I wanted, whatever he wanted.

After waiting for a whole day, until the sun put away its last rays, this Chonghua general appeared in my field of vision with his subordinate soldiers.

In the distance, I saw the man riding a tall horse with a scar on his face. Although he made me wait all day, I can't blame him entirely. Moreover, this time they are fighting against the enemy country's invasion and going out to protect the peace of the territory, so I have to show a warm welcome, no!

So, before the Scar General jumped off his horse to salute me, I rushed up with a lunge, took his arm and said, "The general has worked hard all the way, so let these false gifts be avoided!" ”

"Your Highness......" The Scar General looked at me blankly, then turned his head to look behind him.

Following his gaze, I saw a heroic general in silver armor and domineering side leaks slowly walking towards me. When he got closer, I saw that his handsome face was covered with a scar four or five centimeters long from his temples to his cheekbones.

It turned out that the Scar General just now was not Su Chonghua, but his deputy general, but it was too dark in the evening, and I only saw the Scar Deputy General walking in front, but I didn't see the Scar Boss behind.

I said, although Gu Tianba's taste is not very good, but the taste of appreciating beautiful men is very good, like the group of beautiful men I saw in the East Palace in the morning, not only the number is amazing, but the quality is also unambiguous! It's impossible to just look at the Scar General who is thicker than a black bear and whose skin is rougher than tree bark.

Seeing the real Su Chonghua, I can understand why Gu Tianba was so fascinated by him. This man looks a little similar to Xiao Qingyu, with the same affectionate veins but black and clear eyes as obsidian, the same straight nose bridge, and even the shape of his lips are surprisingly similar.

Xiao Qingyu has fair skin and temperament like jade, warm and elegant, like a fairy. And Su Chonghua's skin is a faint honey color, coupled with the obvious scar on his face, giving people the feeling that he is gentle and domineering, elegant and rough, and Xiao Qingyu's faint coldness and vague rebelliousness, Su Chonghua's pride and undisciplined are completely undisguised.

If Xiao Qingyu is a warm jade, then Su Chonghua is a dazzling pearl, one is introverted and the other is flamboyant, but they are all so good that people can't ignore them.