After Mrs. Ye quit the palace, Emperor Yongkang asked Luo Fuhai to send all the food made of sweet potatoes on the table to Qifeng Palace.

The sweet potatoes placed on the table in front of the queen were eating, with a smile between the eyebrows and eyes, introducing to the queen, and saying how much sweet potatoes were produced per mu.

"Do you know who makes these sweet potatoes? Do you know that this sweet potato crop is edible? ”

Ye Qingxin rolled her eyes in her heart, and asked knowingly, do you think it's fun to make fun of the two of them?

"I don't know."

Naturally, Ye Qingxin pretended to be curious, looked at the man and waited for him to give an answer. The yield per mu is thirty-five stones, this is really too exaggerated, could it be that this man is dreaming?

Emperor Yongkang didn't know that the queen in front of her was slandering and complaining silently about him, he always had a smile on his face, and moved his gaze from the queen to the prince: "Rui'er, you might have guessed? ”

Xia Chengrui thought for a while, and his immature voice rose: "I think in terms of the taste of these foods, it looks like my aunt made it, but my aunt is outside the palace, if she enters the palace, she will definitely be here ...... the queen mother."

Without waiting for Xia Chengrui to finish speaking, a flash of light flashed in Ye Qingxin's mind, she covered her mouth, almost exclaimed, looking at her actions, Emperor Yongkang smiled and asked, "The queen has thought of it?" ”

Nodding lightly, Ye Qingxin put down her hand and asked with a little temptation: "I found that sweet potatoes are edible crops, should I ...... Could it be the second sister of the concubine? ”

"That's right, it was indeed discovered by the queen's sister, and the food made of these sweet potatoes was also made by your second sister, and it was personally sent to the palace by the Taifu for me to taste, by the way, look at this."

Emperor Yongkang said with a smile, took out the sweet potato planting record and other written materials written by Ye Xia from his sleeve, and handed them to Ye Qingxin.

"Father, is it really my aunt who found out? Is the yield per mu of this sweet potato really thirty-five stones? ”

Xia Chengrui looked at Emperor Yongkang with great excitement.

"Whether the specific yield per mu can reach thirty-five stones, you have to go to your aunt Zhuangzi tomorrow to know, but this sweet potato as an edible crop is indeed discovered by your aunt, and these foods made with sweet potatoes are indeed made by your aunt's hand."

Emperor Yongkang said truthfully, and when he heard this, Xia Chengrui was very happy: "Aunt is so amazing!" ”

After reading Ye Xia's manuscript on sweet potato planting, how to make food, and seedling cultivation, Ye Qingxin couldn't calm down for a long time.

"I'll knight Rui'er and his aunt."

Emperor Yongkang smiled in his eyes and looked at the queen quietly.

As soon as she heard his words, Ye Qingxin instantly looked like Mrs. Ye before, and her eyes were full of astonishment: "The emperor wants to knight my second sister?" ”

Xia Chengrui was also a little incredulous.

"It's not that I want to be sealed, it's your second sister's discovery and compassion for the people of Great Xia, which deserves to be knighted."

The smile in Emperor Yongkang's eyes faded, and he said with a serious expression: "You also read the manuscript written by your second sister, she said very clearly on it, found sweet potatoes, and tried to eat them yourself,

and then tried to plant, she just wanted the people in the world to be less hungry, combined with the kang she found earlier to warm up in winter, and taught the skills of the fire kang for free, all of which showed her compassion and benevolence, and made such a great contribution before and after, I knighted her, and she deserved it! ”

After listening to what Emperor Yongkang said, Ye Qingxin's eyes were soft, and a shallow smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "The second sister was born smart, but in comparison, I, the eldest sister, am a little useless!" ”

"Who said that?"

Emperor Yongkang looked at his queen fixedly, looking at the childhood sweetheart in front of him, who grew up with him and was married to his side, with a beautiful appearance, dignified demeanor, and a woman with a pure and gentle character, his eyes were full of emotion, and he seemed to forget that there were other people around, word by word, and said very seriously:

"In my eyes, the queen is the best woman in the world!"

Hearing this, Ye Qingxin was stunned at first, and then her cheeks were covered with red glow, and she glanced at Emperor Yongkang: "What did the emperor say?" ”

Xia Chengrui was standing beside him, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he naturally knew that the queen and his mother were embarrassed, so he couldn't help but wave his hands and leave: "The son still has homework to do, so I won't bother my father and mother here." ”

As he spoke, he walked out of the hall, and at the same time took out all the palace people who were waiting in the palace. There was no one around, and Emperor Yongkang walked up to Ye Qingxin and held the woman's hand: "Xin'er, I'm glad that I can turn back in time, otherwise, I'm afraid I will have to spend my life in pain and remorse!" ”

As he spoke, he took his beloved woman into his arms, sniffed her hair, and muttered: "At that time, I really didn't know what I was thinking, so I impulsively sent one will after another, and now I think about it, I was probably so enchanted that I couldn't control myself, so I relied on those letters as evidence......"

"Don't say it, the emperor has passed, and the concubine didn't complain about you."

Snuggled in the arms of Emperor Yongkang, Ye Qingxin said.

Really resentful or unwilling, and now it makes sense to talk about this?

"Wrong is wrong, Xin'er, please believe me, like the foolish things before, I will never do it again."

Emperor Yongkang gave his assurances as emperor.

"The concubine believes in the emperor."

said this, but Ye Qingxin didn't take what Emperor Yongkang said seriously.

The king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die, the king of a country, holding the power of life and death, no matter how good he says it now, when he turns his face one day, who can take the emperor what? What she can do and do now is to sit firmly behind her position and protect all her relatives to live in peace.

Ye Qingxin has no ambitions, whether it is in the boudoir or becoming the queen, she has always insisted on being herself, never expecting anything that does not belong to her, let alone taking the initiative to calculate anything.

And Ye Qingxin can also see that her father and brother, like her, do what a courtier should do, devote themselves to the country and the people, and neither have the ambition to be powerful, but Rao is like this, and he still almost became a victim in the struggle for power.

It's ironic! But there is a previous unwarranted disaster, I believe that his father and brother will change their concept - keep their duties as courtiers while leaving a way back for themselves.

"Xin'er, do you really believe me? Not coping with me? ”

The slender fingers lightly picked up the queen's jaw, and Emperor Yongkang looked at Ye Qingxin with burning eyes.

"Hmm."

Ye Qingxin nodded: "How can a concubine perfunctory to the emperor?" As long as the emperor says it, the concubines will believe it! ”

If you can do it, I believe in it, but if you can't, it's a different story.

Outside the palace.

"Mother, I like to eat sesame sweet potato cakes!"

"Mother, I like to eat baked sweet potatoes!"

"Mother, I like to eat sweet potatoes!"

"Mother, I love to eat this sweet potato!"

At the end of a sweet potato feast, Song Fengyan sat on the chair with three leans back, rubbing his full belly, his eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and his face was full of happiness to express his favorite sweet potato food.

Similarly, Qin Zhao also ate a little bit, and said while rubbing his stomach, he was not lying, but he felt really delicious when he ate every sweet potato, and he liked to eat this kind of food from the bottom of his heart.

"You can't eat too much if it's delicious."

Ye Xia looked at the four little guys helplessly and dotingly: "Have you memorized everything my mother said?" ”

"Remember!"

The four responded in unison, and then Qin Zhao said: "Mother said, although sweet potatoes can be eaten as food and can fill their stomachs, they will suffer from indigestion if they eat too much." ”

"It can cause bloating, hiccups, and farting!"

Song Fengyan Xiao Zhengtai was behind Qin Zhaoyin, and added in a childish voice.

"It can also cause pantothenic acid and heartburn."

Song Feng ran Xiao Zhengtai and then added.

Song Ruining's little girl was not to be left behind, raised her little hand, and said with a cute face: "I also know that I also know that if you eat too many sweet potatoes, it is easy to become a fat doll!" ”

Ye Xia's smiling eyes were full of relief: "Just remember everything." However, in food, it is not only sweet potatoes that you can't eat too much, but other foods are the same, and you can't eat hard because you like to eat them, and you can eat yourself until you can support them, so it is easy to get sick. ”

"It's best to eat seven or eight minutes full."

This is what Song Fengran Xiao Zhengtai said.

"What Dye Er said is right, so you have to keep all the words of your mother in mind, when you use meals, you can't eat your little belly because of your own preferences, you can eat seven or eight minutes full at each meal."

Ye Xia smiled and emphasized, seeing that the four little guys listened carefully, obviously listening to what she said, she couldn't help but feel soft in her heart, she got up and patted her hands lightly: "Okay, don't sit anymore, line up and go to the courtyard to walk around the flower garden twice to eliminate food." ”

The four little ones responded positively, from small to large, from low to high, and walked out of the door one after the other.

"Master, tomorrow the whole house will really go to Zhuangzi to harvest sweet potatoes?"

Ruyu, Li Xiu'e and Geng Daniu cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks on the table neatly, and went to Ye Xia's side with eager eyes.

"Well, let's go, let you also see what sweet potatoes look like in the soil, and then look at the sweet potato harvest in those few acres of land."

Ye Xia said in a low voice: "The sweet potatoes planted this year have to be retained, and from July to November next year, some people will no longer have to worry about hunger, and when the imperial court promotes the planting of sweet potatoes throughout the summer, there will definitely be fewer and fewer hungry people." However, sweet potatoes are not food after all, and they are easily perishable if they are not stored properly. ”

"So how do you store it so that it doesn't rot? Also, How long can this sweet potato be stored? ”

Ruyu asked curiously.

"Fresh sweet potatoes last almost a month or two......"

Regarding the storage and seedling cultivation methods of sweet potatoes, Ye Xia wrote in the sweet potato planting records written to Emperor Yongkang, so that it was convenient for the imperial court to inform farmers when promoting, so as not to harvest sweet potatoes and rot due to improper storage.

"With sweet potatoes to eat, there should be fewer people who sell their children and daughters."

Ruyu muttered a little low in mood. She remembered that when she was very five or six years old, she was sold into the tooth shop, and then she was sold into the palace by the tooth shop to become a palace maid.

Having lived in the palace, she clearly knows that in the palace walls, there are palace people who disappear silently every day, saying that they are disappearing, but in fact they are dead, either seeing something that should not be seen, or hearing something that should not be heard, and being silenced.

Living in the palace, you really have long eyes, otherwise, you don't know how you died that day. Fortunately, the queen gave her to the current master as a maidservant, and recently, she and Ruyun have sighed in private, and it is the greatest blessing in their lives to be able to serve the current master for a lifetime.

They decided not to marry for the rest of their lives, so they served their masters and guarded them for the rest of their lives! Compared with the queen, today's masters are more easy-going and cordial to the truth, and they don't treat them as subordinates.

To put it bluntly, today's masters regard them as equal people, and they are not allowed to bow down at every turn to be slaves, they are not allowed to call themselves "slaves", they do not beat and scold, and they only need to do their part every day.

In general, they are living a very comfortable life now, they don't feel the slightest depression, and they don't have to tremble all the time, for fear of accidentally bumping into a noble lord and then being killed.

The next day, the village where Ye Xia planted sweet potatoes was very lively, but it was also heavily guarded by a royal forest army of two or three hundred people.

Emperor Yongkang was dressed in daily civilian clothes, standing on the ground with his hands behind his back, and on his left and right stood Ye Taifu and King Jing Xia Mohan and other important ministers of the court, watching the tenants in the field under the leadership of Ye Xia,

All of them were full of smiles, and they were cautious, and their hands kept digging sweet potatoes, looking at the sweet potatoes that were dug out as big as a bowl, watching the young and strong tenants frame the sweet potatoes and pick them to the open space to weigh them, looking at the piles of sweet potato mountains, including Emperor Yongkang, everyone standing on the ground was dumbfounded.

"Brother Huang, the yield per mu of this sweet potato looks far more than thirty-five stones."

The group came to Ye Xia's Zhuangzi, and Emperor Yongkang opened his mouth and Luo Fuhai took a few palace people to clean a few large sweet potatoes, cut them into pieces and put them on a plate, and held them in front of Xia Mohan and the important ministers of the court.

Pick up a piece and eat it with each person. The emperor spoke, even if there was one who resisted, he still pinched a piece of sweet potato and bit it in a proper manner, and found that it was crispy and sweet in his mouth, and everyone was surprised.

Surrounded Emperor Yongkang and Ye Taifu to ask this and that, as they knew, they were all so excited that they didn't want to, and some were too emotional, so they directly raised their sleeves to wipe their tears, shouting God bless Daxia. When you see piles of sweet potatoes dug up from an acre of land, Emperor Yongkang and a group of important ministers in the court, can you not be stunned?

It's one thing to know, it's another thing to see it with your own eyes, this is what you are talking about Yongkang Emperor and Ye Taifu, the two of them learned through the letter written by Ye Xia and the sweet potato planting manuscript that the yield per mu of sweet potatoes is as high as thirty-five stones.

In this regard, Emperor Yongkang was very skeptical, and Ye Taifu believed but didn't believe much, the yield per mu was thirty-five stone edible crops, it was not that he didn't want to believe it, it was simply impossible to believe it.

Because Mrs. Ye still knows something about farming, like a better land, the yield of grain per mu is more than three stones, it is already very remarkable, under normal circumstances, the yield per mu is between two stones and three stones, this time the yield per mu is thirty-five stones, is it a joke?

Not daydreaming? With a feeling of anxiety about Ye Xia's daughter, Ye Taifu accompanied Emperor Yongkang to the field of Ye Xia, the Zhuangzi. Why are you anxious?

Mrs. Ye is worried, afraid that her daughter will exaggerate the facts, commit the crime of bullying the king, and lead to death. However, worried about worry, Mrs. Ye believes that her daughter will not lie, especially the recent changes in her daughter,

Let Mrs. Ye feel that the second daughter's brain is sober, and she will not be untargeted, no, the old man came all the way to Ye Xia's Zhuangzi, and he couldn't help but feel uneasy. now

Seeing the mountains of sweet potatoes, Mrs. Ye finally put his heart into his stomach completely, his daughter did not exaggerate, the yield per mu of sweet potatoes, he looked at it casually, and he could see that there were more than thirty-five stones.

I felt happy and relieved for my daughter, and waited for the emperor to open the entrance and knight his good daughter.

"Lord Wang, Weichen sees that there are at least forty stones."

"Master Zhang, you estimate that it is less, I think there are at least forty-five stones."

"Thirty-eight stones, I think there are thirty-eight stones!"

"Your Majesty, how many do you think you can have?"

Mrs. Ye ignored the yield per mu estimated by the ministers of the congregation, and looked at Emperor Yongkang and asked.

"Thirty-five stones, how many there are, you have to weigh them to know."

Emperor Yongkang said so, and walked towards the "sweet potato mountain" piled up not far away.

Xia Mohan stood on the ground and did not move, his long body was jade, the hem of his robe and the black hair scattered on the back of his head danced lightly in the wind, and a pair of eyes fell on the slender figure in the field, and the corners of his lips were smiling, and he did not move away for a long time.

This is another different side of the woman he saw, earlier on the street, she gave him the feeling of being unrestrained and chic, informal, and then full of kindness, and later in his house, she gave him the feeling of elegance and indifference and a little alienation, today, her feeling to him can be said to have completely subverted his perception of the ladies cultivated by the big families.

Dressed in a long tunic of arrowroot, with his hair tied up in a man's style with a wooden hairpin and his robe pinned to his waist, he talked and laughed with the men and women of the tenants, instructed them to dig sweet potatoes, and joined in by themselves.

Not only that, but her own children and the righteous son she recognized, the prince of Changguo Gongfu, the four children were also dressed in kudzu cloth clothes, and they were busy picking up sweet potatoes one by one and putting them in bamboo baskets, but strangely, he didn't think there was anything wrong with women.

"King Jing......"

Emperor Yongkang's voice came, undoubtedly pulling back Xia Mohan's thoughts, he raised his feet and walked towards Emperor Yongkang, and listened to Emperor Yongkang ask: "What are you standing there looking at?" ”

Xia Mohan was stunned for a moment, and responded casually: "Let's see how long it will take to finish digging." ”

"I guess we'll have to wait a while."

Emperor Yongkang said, the sweet potato weighed by his fingers: "Just after half an acre of land, there are twenty-six stones in total." ”

Looking at the smile in Emperor Yongkang's eyes and the excitement that he couldn't hide, Xia Mohan waved his hands: "Congratulations to the emperor, it seems that the yield per mu of this sweet potato will be about fifty stones!" ”

As soon as the important ministers of the court who were around Emperor Yongkang heard Xia Mohan's words, they immediately congratulated Emperor Yongkang. Yongkang Dilong Yan Dayue, said with joy in a loud voice.

After the sweet potatoes of three acres of land were dug thoroughly, and each acre of land was weighed, the yield per mu of one acre was 48 stones, and the yield per mu of the other two acres was 52 and 55 stones respectively.

When the exact data came out, headed by Ye Taifu and Xia Mohan, King Jing, all the officials knelt on the ground, and said hello to Emperor Yongkang again, shouting God bless Daxia and shouting Long live the emperor.

When the tenants saw that the officials were kneeling on the ground, they followed and bowed to Emperor Yongkang, but the tenants knew in their hearts that they were not thanking the emperor, but their master, the master of their Zhuangzi.

It's their Mr. Ye. If Mr. Ye hadn't found this sweet potato seedling, if Mr. Ye hadn't eaten it himself, and it was certain that this sweet potato was non-toxic and edible in terms of leaves, stems, and fruits grown in the soil, would they, the poor people, have such good food to eat?

But they are not stupid, they know that in front of the emperor, they can't talk casually, so as not to cause trouble for the lord's family and their Mr. Ye. Emperor Yongkang is a true dragon Yan Dayue, and after the sweet potato production of three acres of land was counted, he rewarded Ye Xia as soon as possible.

An Renbo?!

The important ministers of the court were stunned!

How could the emperor give a woman's title?

And open your mouth to seal the earl, this ...... Are they sure they misheard? No, the emperor did indeed crown a woman earl, this is true...... The important ministers of the court couldn't return for a long time.

An Renbo?!

Mrs. Ye was stunned!

He heard it right, the emperor did what he said, not only knighted his daughter, but not a viscount, but directly made an earl...... Let him take it slowly, take it slowly, from today onwards, his second daughter, his Xia Xia will be An Renbo with a knighthood!

An Renbo?!

Xia Mohan was surprised and felt that it should be like this.

An Renbo?!

The tenants were stunned, and then they were overjoyed, their master's family, their Mr. Ye will be An Renbo from now on, and these tenants will be the tenants of An Renbo's mansion.

In terms of identity, this is undoubtedly a higher level than those tenants whose main family is an ordinary merchant, and their main family, their Mr. Ye, and now their uncle treat these tenants very well, not to mention giving them grain on credit for the winter, and saying that from next year, the harvest will only need to be paid to the main family forty percent.

That's right, it is to pay forty percent, leaving sixty percent for their own family to eat, however, each household has signed a secret agreement with the main family, once any household reveals the news, not only this household will be driven out of the Zhuangzi, but the harvest of other households will be implemented in the same regulations as many Zhuangzi, the main family will take seventy, and the tenant will keep three percent.

As long as they are not fools, none of them tenants do anything stupid, and they understand why the lord signed that agreement, this is to protect them, and at the same time to protect the lord's family.

After all, most of the land in the entire Great Xia is in the hands of the powerful and wealthy, and these powerful and wealthy households basically implement seventy-three points per mu of income to the tenants, and a small part is six or four, not five or five.

Nor is it of great benefit to their tenants, but their lord's house gives them forty-six points, and the lord's house takes forty percent, and they keep sixty percent.

Once the news spreads, those tenants who rent the land on other villagers' farms will definitely make trouble, and then the masters behind those tenants will attack their masters, if such a situation really occurs, then these tenants who take advantage of the master's family are simply ungrateful, pigs and dogs are not as good.

So everyone had a plan and decided to supervise each other, but if anyone spread the news of the Zhuangzi, they would directly find out and hand it over to the master's house to deal with, so that a mouse would not harm a pot of soup.

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