The red cloth was lifted, and the first thing everyone saw was a pile of dirt.

Others still don't know, so Sikong Qi, the king of Changqing County, was the first to speak: "This is not a sweet potato?" ”

When Wen Zhen was offering sweet potato and corn seeds, he invited Yan Sui to be the palace for spring, and several important ministers tasted the taste of sweet potatoes and corn on the spot, so they made up their minds to plant. Ordinary officials don't know about this, but high-ranking officials and royalty still know about it.

There was a problem with the cultivation of sweet potatoes and corn, and Wen Zhen, who issued an edict and issued a military order, explained that the recent bloody storm was also related to this matter, and when he heard this, everyone was in an uproar.

Old lady Wen nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

The Emperor looked at the vat thoughtfully. The old lady Wen ignored anyone, and Zhang Xima and the two of them started to dig open the soil and take out bunches of sweet potatoes from it. After carrying it for a while, it stopped.

Everybody looks, well, quite a lot. About a dozen.

Sikong Qi sneered: "This auspicious rui, your granddaughter has already been offered once, at that time it was indeed a good sensationalism, please His Royal Highness King Yi to give birth, pull out dozens of catties in a jar, on the spot, Lord Wen issued a military order, to reach two thousand catties per mu." But now, looking at it, how can there be no magic hand from His Royal Highness King Yi, and this yield is far less than 2,000 catties per mu. ”

Everyone originally thought that there were a lot, but when they heard it now, they immediately felt that Master Wen was really bragging about it. That's a long way from 2,000 catties.

It's just that Sikong Qi's words are sinister, secretly rubbing and implying that King Yi and Wen Zhen colluded to cheat, and everyone didn't dare to accept it for a while.

The old lady raised her thick eyelids and glanced at Sikong Qi, who was stunned at this glance.

This old lady is obviously a blind old woman, and her eyes are terrifying.

Immediately, he heard the old lady Wen say slowly: "The king of the county is restless, the old body is resting, this is not done yet!" ”

Sikongqi: "......"

A virtue with her granddaughter!

Mrs. Wen continued to pull without hurry, and the sweet potatoes were more and more carried, and in a not too big tank, they were stringed like a trick, and it felt as if they could never finish digging.

The people's expressions gradually became amazed.

Legend has it that sweet potatoes are extremely yielding, but now it seems to be true.

Li Xiang and other important ministers have no expression, they have seen this scene at the beginning, about the unfavorable things about sweet potato and corn planting, in fact, it is not a big deal, the trial planting and promotion of a grain takes time, especially foreign crops, water quality, soil, wind and sun, each of which may have an impact on crops, this time it can't be planted, and it will be planted again.

As for poisoning, they have eaten it themselves and have not been poisoned. However, for this matter, some people from the Imperial Medical Department said that this sweet potato is not harmful to people who are strong and often eat meat, but for people who are hungry all year round and have a weak physique, it may damage their physique.

This is an unconfirmed rumor after all, even if a military order is established, so it makes Wen Zhen's career fail, in the eyes of the old ministers, it is not a big deal, it is not a good thing for young people to have too smooth sailing, and they can only become talented after more polishing.

It was several important ministers who watched coldly. And he was a little dissatisfied in his heart, feeling that Wen Zhen was really too weak-hearted, and he didn't understand this truth, so he didn't dare to return to Beijing, and he made the situation worse, which was really stupid.

In the palace, Mrs. Wen didn't say until all the sweet potatoes were raised and piled on the ground: "Your Majesty, you see, this three-foot square jar, only using ordinary sand, actually produces so many sweet potatoes, this thing is easy to grow and has a high yield, once it is popularized in the world, Dongtang will no longer have hungry people, this is not auspicious What is it?" ”

Li Xiang looked melancholy, his family starved to death when he was a child, and he was the only one who survived the last bit of food, so he was most concerned about the promotion of sweet potatoes and corn, and when he saw the yield again at this moment, he couldn't help but feel very sad.

Still Sikong Qi, looking at the sweet potatoes in the field, said angrily: "This is an evil thing that has been proven to be able to kill people, and you dare to take it out and lie to Xiangrui!" ”

"Really?" The old lady Wen looked at him and said lightly, "Then the king of the county should hurry back to the house and prepare for the future." ”

She turned around and said to the ministers: "Everyone, please hurry up, after all, the coffin shop has limited stock, and I am afraid that there will be no place to lie if I go late." ”

"Old lady Wen!" Li Xiang said in a deep voice, "Above the court, before Your Majesty drives, how can you talk nonsense!" ”

"The old woman didn't dare." Wen The old lady was not in a hurry to give a salute, "It's just that I have to mention why the old woman is angry outside the Zhengyang Gate." He said that this sweet potato was an evil thing and could poison people, and the old woman also ate it, and the old woman's son and daughter-in-law, and the maids and servants in the house all ate it, and no one ...... it."

"You have no basis for what you say, who knows if you have eaten or not!" Sikong Qi sneered.

Wen The old lady glanced at him again: "King of the county, the old woman has not finished her words this time." ”

Sikong Qi's face flushed again.

“…… All the adults have eaten it, and now it has been a while, and the old woman has listened, but she has not found anything wrong with any of them. ”

Everyone: "......"

Wait, what are you talking about?

Sikong Qi didn't speak this time, he was choked twice in a row, and he did it again, so as not to be suspected by His Majesty that his mind was impure.

Someone coughed in the middle of the night and asked, "Old lady Wen, dare to ask, you set up the stall outside?" The thing we eat is sweet potatoes? ”

It was Jiang Xin, who had always spoken little, who had always spoken little, and someone remembered in a trance that the first person to eat that thing seemed to be this one.

So that's sweet potatoes and corn? It's delicious.

People have only heard of these two crops, and today they see their true colors.

Wen The old lady had a pair of godless eyes and looked straight at Jiang Xin: "Lord Jiang, is it delicious?" ”

"Beautiful."

"Is there any discomfort?"

"Not really."

"Yellow is corn, how?"

"It's sweet and fragrant, and it has a special taste."

"Wait a minute." This time Sikong Qi couldn't help it, but he said wait a minute, but he waited for a while, and made sure that the old lady Wen didn't have any moths this time, and then continued, "Sweet potato and corn are Wen Zhen's first offering, that girl has always been weird, it is said that this is an important new crop cultivated by the royal family himself, even the first donor can't privately intercept and plant himself, this king won't tell you first." It's just that since Wen Zhen is proficient in these, why can she harvest the ones she planted in her own mansion, but not those she planted in the palace? Can't you say that the soil specially used by the palace to cultivate good seeds is not as good as that in your house? So do you have a special way to grow sweet potato corn? Has it been processed again? ”

When the ministers heard this, they all felt that Sikong Qi's brain had grown this time, and these questions were very painful.

The issue of private interception was quietly raised. But he let it go gently, and then the problem was easy to be led to the greasy place planted in the palace, but Sikong Qi bypassed this problem and turned to Wen Zhen to do something himself, which became Wen Zhen's selfishness, and even had major evil thoughts that were harmful to the country.

Although the plantation was set up before, the plantation could not use the greenhouses in large quantities, so the harvest season had not yet arrived, and the first batch of the palace greenhouses was planted.

"Instead of asking Wen Zhen if he has any other way to cook crops, why don't you first ask how the palace conservatory cooks this sweet potato corn?"

Sikong Qi showed a triumphant smile.

"Here in the palace conservatory, it is not the palace people who take care of these crops, but Jiang Xuan, the deputy superintendent of the agricultural department, who personally takes care of them."

Jiang Xuan was also present, and when he heard this, his eyebrows raised and showed anger, but the eyes of all the ministers drifted to Jiang Xin in the imperial history.

Many people present knew that Mrs. Wen and Jiang Zhongcheng had a marriage contract earlier, and they thought that they would be involved in a dazzling feud, and they had already broken off their righteousness, but looking at the old Jiang Xin's style, it was obvious that the old love was not over.

As a result, in the blink of an eye, Mrs. Wen's brick smashed into his nephew. I don't know if Jiang Xin had a seizure, or if Mrs. Wen picked up the bricks first?

Everyone looked at the gossip with interest, but Jiang Xin didn't move, and when she heard that the old lady didn't move, she didn't seem to hear the words that implied provocation, so she only said: "Your Majesty, the old woman asked to go to the palace conservatory to have a look." ”

"Exactly." The emperor got up and smiled at his ministers, "I have been sitting for half a day, and you have been standing for a long time, and you are all tired, so you will all go to loosen and loosen." ”

All the ministers followed, and they went to the conservatory, which was originally located at the junction of the inner and outer courts, and it was not far away.

Entering the greenhouse, the first batch of sweet potatoes in the greenhouse was barely harvested, but for verification, the second batch has been planted. At this moment, the seedlings have already emerged, densely covered with green, showing a crazy rising trend, and everyone has almost nowhere to put their feet when they go in, and some people even stumble as soon as they enter.

Several important ministers used to pay attention to these sweet potatoes, and they had seen this posture a few months ago, and they were very excited and happy at that time, thinking that the seedlings would grow so well and that they would definitely have a good harvest, and then after a blow, they saw such a look again, and their faces were not very good-looking.

The old lady Wen listened to Zhang Xima's description of the seedlings in the greenhouse, and asked Zhang Xima, who had been following her, to squat down and touch the soil and seedlings. ”

The wrinkles on the old lady's face did not loosen, and she only said lightly to Zhang Xima: "Count the plants." ”

Everyone looked at Zhang Xima, wondering why the legendary missing Donggong Xima suddenly got together with Wen Zhen's grandmother, and ignored the prince, and couldn't help but glance at the prince one by one.

The prince played a slightly stunned, embarrassed and self-pressing expression at the right time.

This person dared to appear, and dared to appear in this way, his heart also jumped for a while, and then he thought that this might be the reason why Zhang Xima appeared in such a blatant way.

The prince lifted his heart and stood more and more steadily.

Zhang Xima's expression was calm, and before the emperor could ask him questions, he did everything as usual, counted the plants, and told Mrs. Wen, who listened, and her face was relieved.

Then she turned to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, this sweet potato does not bear fruit for two reasons. ”

The Emperor gazed.

"Dirt is fine. The problem lies in the planting and maintenance. I don't know for what reason, the planting of plants is much more than originally set by Wen Zhen. As a result, the plants are too dense and difficult to bear fruit. ”

Jiang Xuan's face changed.

He was originally an official of Guanglu Temple, he liked farming, and was transferred to the agricultural superintendent, although he did not resist this appointment, but he was a little dismissive of his boss. In his opinion, a cook to master agricultural affairs is really incompatible, nothing else, how can he listen to such an important crop related to the livelihood of the world?

Especially when he heard about the military order with a yield of 2,000 catties per mu, he felt even more ridiculous, this is an impossible number to achieve.

Seeing the plan drawn up by Wen Zhen, to make the Si Agricultural Supervisor Plantation a place full of merchant atmosphere, and those vulgar businessmen were hooked, he felt uncomfortable, and felt that this female chef was really very unreliable, obviously a person chasing fame and fortune, and the Si Agricultural Supervisor had just been established, and he had to undertake the important task of producing 2,000 catties per mu, what if he messed up this woman?

At this moment, everyone's eyes came over, and Jiang Xuantie replied with a blue face: "Yes, before planting, the official asked some old farmers for their opinions, and they all felt that it was difficult to achieve a yield of 2,000 catties per mu, so they continued to increase soil fertility and added some plants. ”

He changed Wen Zhen's planting requirements without authorization and nearly doubled the number of plants, but he considered the soil fertility! Still fertilizing, there will be no problem!

The old lady pinched the soil in her hand and sniffed it.

"Master Jiang has added a lot of fat, let the old woman guess, fermented cooked beans and melon seeds? Hemp seeds? There are even ...... Human urine? ”

Jiang Xuan said calmly: "It's all the best fertilizer taught by the old farmers, what's wrong?" ”

"What's wrong? It's not Lord Jiang's elm head. A strange crop that doesn't listen to the good words of others, only raises it indiscriminately with the old experience of the past, and causes a big disaster without knowing it! Today, the old woman will beat you up on behalf of my poor granddaughter who was killed by you! ”

Smelling the old lady, she blasted over with a mallet.

I don't know why the blind old woman shot so accurately, snapped, Jiang Xuan's official hat fell off.

Everyone: "......"

I heard that this old lady has a very strong temperament, but she is usually dignified and solemn, but she categorically did not expect that it would be outrageous to splash.

Dare to beat the fourth-grade official in front of His Majesty!

This old lady is as cunning as her granddaughter, and it is forbidden to bring weapons when entering the palace, but she first set up a stall outside Zhengyang Gate, and then took a rolling pin from the stall in the name of needing support, and no one had anything to say.

Having said that, this old lady was dragged down by her mother's family back then, and she hurt her fiancé in one eye, but she dared to come to the door and gouged out her own eyes and paid for it.

Thinking about it this way, it's nothing to just beat off the official hat, but I didn't dig out Lord Jiang's eyes, and I wanted to go back the extra eye for the Jiang family.

Wen that the old lady was not blushing and panting, standing with a rolling pin, she had wanted to beat people for a long time!

The granddaughter is contributing to the country outside, and these people in Beijing have not stopped, and they have not made great achievements, and they have caused trouble for no reason, obviously for the country and the people, but they are randomly arranged by this villain every day, and they always want to trample her into the mud pit!

The granddaughter put forward a speculation in the letter about the problem with the sweet potato, if it was poisoned by the people in the palace, please let the old lady bear with it, and wait for her to return to Beijing to deal with it, if it is as she guessed, it is Jiang Xuan's self-righteousness, then you don't have to be polite, help her teach this bastard a lesson!

Hearing that the old lady thought about her granddaughter and said that there was an urgent matter, she would not be able to return to Tianjing for the time being, and it must be an important thing to think about, otherwise she would not come back if she would not face the attack, she was worried, looking at this Jiang Xuan, her nose is not a nose, and her eyes are not eyes.

Thanks to this, it's before driving!

Otherwise, the rolling pin is not the official hat!

What's the use of this stupid head!