Chapter 497 497 The Writer and the Emperor 7

The emperor said that there were still two years of longevity, but in fact, from the sixth year of the Apocalypse to the seventh year of the Apocalypse, it was only two years to complete the full calculation, and it was only a little more than a year to pinch the head and remove the tail.

In the spring of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he planted sweet potatoes and corn, and the harvest was fine before August, but if there was still no harvest by August, he might not even see a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes.

Realizing this, the emperor gritted his teeth with hatred, cursed the heavens and cursed in his head, and scolded the apocalypse from the position of Puxiang.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, because of the explosion of the Beijing Wang Gong Factory, there were countless casualties in the capital, coupled with the death of the crown prince, this year was sad and miserable, and it was not good for many years.

In the New Year, everyone thinks that this year's bad luck should pass, and they are full of hope and hope for another year of good weather. In the New Year's worship of ancestors, the emperor was in a daze at the statues of the ancestors and ancestors in the Taimiao, and said in his heart: "If you want the country to continue, you must bless me." ”

Since he got that part of Puxiang's memory, his reverence for his ancestors has almost faded.

If they could really bless him, they would not have watched their family and country fall and the Son of Heaven die.

In the first half of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the emperor only did three things: the first thing was to learn the method of qi guidance with Jinyi Wei to train his body and bones to be stronger, the second was to continue to train troops in Xiyuan, and the last thing was to wait for the sweet potatoes to grow.

He took King Xin with him, and explained to him the importance of sweet potatoes and corn, and every time he thought that if he died, he would cheapen this boy for nothing, and his eyes were strange.

Don't look at King Xin, who is only fifteen or sixteen years old, he was married before the tragedy in June of the sixth year of the Apocalypse. The princess is the Zhou family jointly selected by Empress Zhang and Concubine Liu, although the Zhou family is from a low background, but the person is extremely beautiful, Queen Zhang smiled when she saw it that day: "This good appearance is worthy of our fifth brother." "Concubine Liu values her more as a dignified and resilient person.

King Xin's newlywed Yan'er was like glue, but because of the death of the prince, both of them were courteous, although they read and talked together every day, but they were not in the same room, and they did not say it outside, only in their hearts for their nephew who died young.

The queen knew the emperor's secret, and she was also anxious about the royal inheritance, urging the princess to be pregnant, but the princess couldn't, so she said the agreement between her two young couples, and the queen was relieved and sad: "With your heart, the prince is also inscribed in the spring, he is the younger generation, and you are not delaying the inheritance for him." ”

The emperor and the king of the letter are two brothers, but now they don't have any children.

When the emperor heard about this later, he also said to the king: "The heirs of the heavenly family are no more than others, and they are sad for a while and delay major events." "He was suspicious of the king of faith, but the king of faith was loyal to him, and there was absolutely no disgrace, and it was rare to say.

In June and July of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the first batch of sweet potatoes and corn on the Huangzhuang matured and were sent to the palace.

On that day, the emperor shocked everyone's jaws: his old man rolled up his sleeves and tore the corn husks there.

If you want to change to another courtier, this son should kneel down and persuade the emperor not to do it, but King Xin also rolled up his sleeves to learn from the emperor, and the two brothers tore more than a dozen corn cobs, and the emperor saw King Xin's hand gurgling and bleeding, and couldn't help but be startled: "Why don't you say that your hand is injured?"

The young man Jin Zun was raised noblely, the heaviest in his hands was a strong bow, the most difficult was to mention Zihao, and his hands seemed to be carved from white jade, no wonder the corn husk was broken when he scraped it.

The emperor couldn't cry or laugh, and hurriedly asked someone to stop the bleeding for King Xin, but he didn't do it himself, and asked someone to boil the corn, and asked someone to bake sweet potatoes.

The king of the letter is the most important gift, but what kind of etiquette can not compare to the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, the filial piety of the brothers, the emperor's eldest brother wants to stand at the door of the kitchen with his sleeves crossed and his hands to speak, he has to accompany him, and he feels that the imperial brother is really getting more and more strange.

Not long after the belly slander, the aroma of two foods came out, and the emperor took a deep breath and said with a smile: "Haha, it can be regarded as done!"

King Xin has never eaten such a meal that ignores etiquette since he was a child, but the king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die, not to mention that the king just keeps letting you eat?

The queen and the princess could still find a seat in the house, and someone peeled the sweet potatoes and put them on a white porcelain plate with gold edges, and asked them to pinch the ivory and silver chopsticks and sip them carefully. The emperor was not so particular, and squatted on the ground to nibble on sweet potatoes with his robe.

King Shin felt that the imperial brother must have broken down.

The emperor raised his head and beckoned: "Come, squat." ”

King Xin was reluctant, but the king's order was difficult to disobey, and he was in a dilemma for a while. Rao is that he has been educated since he was a child, and he can't help but show a little dissatisfaction.

The young man lowered his eyes, and his puffing appearance was very funny, the emperor preferred to see him like this, and deliberately wanted to bully him, and said with a smile: "I'm squatting, you stand so high, like words?"

King Xin squatted in front of the emperor and said seriously: "The minister is not a minister, when the imperial brother does something wrong, the minister must be advised, not by the imperial brother's willfulness." ”

The emperor was still not annoyed, "Then tell me, what did I do wrong? Don't talk about etiquette and rules, just say that I have done this, have I ever harmed a common people, have I ever hurt an innocent person?"

Believe in the king's words, on sophistry, he can't say the Internet writer Puxiang real person in his life.

The emperor won a great victory, clapped his hands after eating the sweet potato, and planned to go back to the palace to reward the two eunuchs, and when he looked back, he saw that King Xin was still there in a daze, and reminded him: "If you don't eat again, it will be cold." ”

King Xin, who has always been dignified and polite, held a black roasted sweet potato in his hand that day, and sent the emperor back to the palace.

Princess Xin saw that King Xin was still pinching the sweet potato, and whispered: "The concubine tasted it, it's strange and delicious, the prince tasted it." "Saying that, he peeled the skin for King Xin, and cleaned it up, which was much better than the black ash on the emperor's lips after eating.

King Shin hesitated to take a bite of the sweet potato, which was sweet......

He has always respected the emperor's eldest brother, but the masters all said that the emperor's brother was absurd, and he had the intention of persuading the emperor's brother to follow the right path. Who knows that the emperor's every move has been very disciplined recently, and King Xin is a teenager after all, and he can't help but suspect that the emperor's brother is learning from King Chuzhuang's "three years without a sound, and a blockbuster" - my eldest brother is not a confused person!

The emperor didn't expect that a sweet potato would double King Xin's admiration for him, he returned to the palace, first rewarded two eunuchs who had made meritorious contributions to planting sweet potatoes, and issued a decree to commend Chen Zhenlong's father and son, and awarded him the title of barony of the founding county.

In fact, at this time, the yield of sweet potatoes and corn was far inferior to that of Puxiang at that time, and most of the crops at that time were high-yield varieties that had been carefully bred for many years, and the Ming Dynasty only introduced sweet potatoes for a few years, so how could there be time for breeding? As long as there were more harvests than wheat, sorghum, and rice, many more lives could be saved.

The emperor could not wait any longer, and within a few days, he issued a secret decree to the governor of Shaanxi, ordering the promotion of two crops in the local area.

Then August came, and the emperor was worried for a month, and he never set foot in the West Garden. Who knew that this was the case, the emperor still encountered an accident - a kiss fell from a palace and almost injured the emperor who was passing by, but fortunately, the emperor practiced guidance for a few months, and he was light and healthy, so he avoided it.

He originally only thought that this month was his fate, but the queen reminded: "That palace was only repaired last year, and it is impossible for the roof tiles to slide down, so long live it is better to be careful." ”

The emperor reacted, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and ordered Wei Zhongxian to investigate.

Wei Zhongxian can't do anything else, but he has a very good set of doing these things, even if he comes to the harem and belongs to him and the Hakka family, if this kind of thing happens under his nose, how can the nine thousand years old not be angry?

Wei Zhongxian was furious, and he asked the Forbidden City to check the suspicious people one by one, and really found out a lot of traitors, and the spearhead was pointed at King Fu.

Only then did the emperor know that the original Fu Wang family had already had an internal response in the palace, and they originally planned to make the emperor fall into the water in Xiyuan, but the emperor did not go to Xiyuan, and they thought of prying the owl kiss, just a little bit, they were going to succeed.

The emperor and King Fu are endless, but now they can't act rashly, so they hold their breath, so they have to confide in the queen: "Now I don't have much power in my hands, but if I can make the cabinet ......"

The queen had no choice but to persuade: "Long live only the optimistic side, the death catastrophe has passed, even the number of the Ming Dynasty, it is not impossible to change." ”

The emperor was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: Yes, as long as he doesn't die, there is always a chance.

The emperor was not happy for long, and someone poured a basin of cold water on his head: he sent people to Shaanxi with a secret decree to promote sweet potatoes and corn.

The emperor wanted to do something secretly, and when he had a bumper harvest, he would shock the jaws of the ministers, so as to make his prestige soar, but who knew that the governor of Shanxi and Shaanxi was so stubborn, he had to summon the ministers and plant these two crops on the imperial village, how much it cost and how much it was harvested, so that the two eunuchs could talk to the ministers.

The elders of the pavilion came from a clear background, and there was a consensus, that is, they couldn't look down on these physically disabled eunuchs, so they refused to believe it at that time: "The non-ministers refuse to believe it, but this number sounds bizarre, Your Majesty is not a farmer, although he is dedicated to the livelihood of the people, it is inevitable that he will be in a hurry, and give the villain a chance to take advantage of it." ”

The ministers said that the eunuchs were cheating, and the emperor had no choice but to take them to the imperial village to see the harvest. Seeing the sweet potatoes and corn piled up into a hill, the ministers were still skeptical, or the emperor took a step back: "There is a drought in Guanzhong, and there is not much harvest from one acre of land, so I chose Chang'an County, and let each family plant one acre, and see if there can be these harvests in the coming year." They will not be able to harvest so much, and there will be no loss of an acre of land. ”

The emperor was pitiful, and when it came to this, the ministers had no choice but to pinch their noses and admit it for the sake of his face, and through the decree of His Excellency to the governor of Shanxi, he ordered the selection of land in Chang'an County to try to plant sweet potatoes.

Only then did the emperor free his hands and gear up to clean up the clan - hundreds of thousands of the Ming clan, not doing business, lying on the treasury to suck blood, fish and flesh, it is long overdue to change the rules.