It's a cold night, and I'm down.

There were only three or five of Zinu's entourage left, including her, and everyone was wounded, and the familiar figure that Li Qinzai had seen before was now missing from the crowd, including the Wei Tuo who seemed to have no hostile intentions towards him.

Li Qinzai knows that those who are missing will always be missing.

"It's all over, I'll protect you in the future." Li Qinzai patted Zinu's back and said softly.

Zinu was still weeping bitterly in his arms, tears soaking his forehead, cold and penetrating.

Li Zhi was holding an iron basin on the side, and said in a trembling voice: "Inside, is the new grain seed?" ”

Li Qinzai patted Zinu's shoulder and said, "The Son of Heaven asks, you can talk about it." ”

Hearing that the person next to him was actually the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty, Zi Nu was startled, his crying stopped, he glanced at Li Zhi with complicated eyes, and then knelt on one knee and performed an interracial etiquette.

"Those who have died in the country, please meet His Majesty the Heavenly Khan of Tang Guo."

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, and then looked at her carefully, but at this moment, what he paid most attention to was not the origin of Zinu, but the iron basin in his hand.

"Is it a new grain in there?" Li Zhi asked again.

Zinu choked up and said, "Yes." ”

Li Zhi said cautiously: "Can you take it out of the soil, I will see what it looks like." ”

Li Qinzai said with a smile: "If the minister's expectations are not bad, it should be a new grain called 'sweet potato', sweet potatoes are not so expensive, Your Majesty wants to see it, carefully brush the soil surface." ”

Li Zhi's heart beat faster, and he personally brushed away the soil with both hands, digging all the way to the middle layer, and found a few small dark red fruits.

Li Zhi carefully examined their appearance and muttered, "They...... Is it a new grain species? Is it buried in the ground? ”

Li Qinzai also saw their appearance, and became more and more sure that they were actually sweet potatoes, and he couldn't help but feel excited.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Chinese civilization has taken a step forward because of it.

A few small fruits were lying quietly in the iron basin, and a few sprouts had sprouted on them, and Li Zhi held them with both hands and trembled slightly, as if he was holding the entire Jiangshan Sheji of the Tang Dynasty, and he didn't even dare to breathe for fear that an untimely air flow would hurt them.

Li Qinzai was not so cautious, reached out and took the small fruits, took them in the palm of his hand and looked at them carefully, and sniffed them closely.

Li Zhi looked at it with a nervous expression, as if his newborn child had fallen into his hands.

It wasn't until Li Qinzai used his fingernails to cut a small opening on the fruit, intending to see the color of the flesh inside, that Li Zhi was shocked: "Stop it!" ”

Li Qinzai was stunned, such a familiar title, where did he learn it?

Li Zhi snatched a few fruits and glared at him dissatisfiedly: "It's not light or heavy, there are only a few grains in the whole world, if you hurt the roots, you won't be able to solve the hatred by killing a thousand knives!" ”

"Your Majesty, it's not that fragile......" Li Qinzai explained with a wry smile.

"That's not going to work either! With a yield of 5,000 catties per mu, it is my treasure, the treasure of Datang! I can't wait to offer it in the Taimiao, worthy of generations of incense. ”

Lovingly caressing the sweet potato in his hand, Li Qinzai's eyes were as tender as water, as if he was gentle with an older mature woman's lover, and his expression was particularly terrifying.

"At the beginning of the day, does it really have such a high yield per mu? Are you sure? Li Zhi still asked apprehensively.

"The minister is sure, and only high, not low." Lee Chin-jae is sure to be authentic.

Li Zhi exhaled a long breath and said, "If this is the case, Jing Chu's contribution to Sheji...... I can't even estimate it, and the luck of thousands of generations is all given by Jingchu. ”

"Jing Chu, you have accumulated great merit, I ...... I don't know how to reward you," Li Zhi's eyes turned red for some reason, and his tone trembled a little.

"With this thing, I am worthy of the people of the Tang Dynasty, worthy of the country laid by the first emperor, since I ascended the throne, the courtiers and the world have compared me with the first emperor, in their mouths, I am not as good as the first emperor, saying that I am a mediocre and cowardly king, not a father, the first emperor entrusted the country to me, I really don't know the good and the bad......"

"Over the years, I have worked hard, never dared to slack off, never did a stupid thing, in order to block the mouths of the world, but in the more than ten years since I ascended the throne, the world's criticism is still endless, I often have nightmares, and it is difficult to sleep and eat."

patted Li Qinzai's shoulder heavily, and Li Zhi said movingly: "Fortunately with you, Jing Chu, fortunately with you." ”

"Those things you made for me, military god arm bows, horseshoes, gunpowder, three-eyed guns, civilian pulleys, hydraulic presses, etc., the king of the king went east to conquer Baekje, you easily destroyed the Japanese kingdom, let you send an envoy to the northwest, you took Tuyuhun to me......"

"Today, you have brought me a new grain with a yield of 5,000 catties per mu, and the people of Datang will no longer have to worry about hunger, and they will be able to spend it calmly in disaster years, and my Li Tang's country will last for at least hundreds of years."

The more Li Zhi spoke, the more excited he became: "If you don't say it, you don't think that if you count the merits of Jingchu, there are so many of them, and there are countless words...... Jing Chu, you are the auspicious rui given to me by God, fortunately with you, fortunately with you! ”

Li Qinzai said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty has praised it falsely, the minister is just doing his duty, many things are just done easily, and they are not as great as Your Majesty said." ”

Li Zhi shook his head: "Jing Chu Mo is humble, I am not a false praise, you do have the ability......"

"The merit of discovering new grain varieties is higher than the sky, how can you not reward it? I have decided to make you the ...... of the county."

Before he finished speaking, Li Qinzai's eyelids jumped, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, be slow, don't do it!" ”

"Why?"

"Your Majesty, the Marquis of Jinchen County, this is only more than a month, and he immediately became the Duke of Jinjun, don't say that the world is criticized, and the minister can't accept being pointed out by a thousand people, and please ask Your Majesty to take back your life."

Li Zhi said unhappily: "The credit is what you really made, if the courtiers oppose it, ask them to also make these merits for me, reward and punish me, why is it wrong for me?" ”

Li Qinzai smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, although the new grain seed has arrived, we haven't seen the actual harvest yet, why don't we plant it first, and wait for the actual harvest to come out after the autumn, how about Your Majesty reward it?" ”

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, and then said with a wry smile: "Yes, I am in a hurry, Jing Chu said that the yield per mu is 5,000 catties, I have no doubt, I thought that the 5,000 catties had been buried in the ground, haha." ”

"Okay, just plant it, and when the harvest comes out in the autumn, I will reward it. Jing Chu felt that it was appropriate to plant this new grain? ”

Li Qinzai pondered for a while, and said: "It's better to plant it in Ganjingzhuang, and the ministers will take care of it day and night, so as not to lose, of course, the news of the new grain can't be hidden, and we must also beware of thieves coveting it, and it is appropriate to strengthen vigilance around Ganjingzhuang." ”

Li Zhi nodded and said: "What Jing Chu said is reasonable, what he said is Yier, you find a good field in Zhuangzi and plant it, now it is spring, and it is the season, I will transfer 3,000 troops from Jinwuwei to garrison outside Zhuangzi, surround that fertile field, and discipline not a single bird to fly in." ”

(End of chapter)