Just as they were about to have dinner, the saint secretly came to the door, and the big family quickly got up to salute.

"Get up, get up, get up, I'm just going to come out and have a look today, it's not so particular." The saint waved his hand.

"You're ready to eat, why are you still serving all the pots!"

"Qiqi Shengshang, this is a hot pot made by Yuan Rui, and that girl in Zhuyun has a bad appetite."

"It's you kid again, there are a lot of tricks, I'll try it too!"

"Shengshang, this, this ,......" Yuan Rui was stunned for a moment, it was nothing else, he was afraid that the Shengshang would not be used to it.

"Why, I can't eat what you eat!" The saint smiled and sat down nonchalantly.

Wei Guogong waved his hand and let the family disperse first, leaving only his two sons and Yuan Rui.

"Boy, sit next to me and tell me how to eat!"

Yuan Rui hurriedly walked over, sat down next to the saint, and added various ingredients to the hot pot while preparing dipping sauce for the saint.

"Boy, I heard that you got a lot of good things back from Nanyang."

"Holy Lord, yes, it's all good things, you see there's it in this pot."

"That's all it takes, it seems that you kid has no interest!"

"Holy Lord, these things are terrible, let's just say that this potato flour, even if there is no food, as long as there is this, let alone half a year and a year, it's okay to eat it every day." Yuan Rui originally had this kind of character, and he was also familiar with the saint.

"This thing can be eaten as food?" It's strange for Sheng Shang to look at the black fans in the pot.

"Holy Lord, this thing can be boiled, roasted, or cooked, no matter how you eat it."

"Good, good, it tastes good, isn't it good?"

"Shengshang, this thing doesn't pick the ground, it can be planted in the garden, if it is a paddy field, the rice can be replanted once after harvesting."

"Don't compete with grain for land, this is good, if the people don't have food, they can stop it, what is the harvest, there are hundreds of catties." While eating, Shengshang asked Yuan Rui, this thing tastes good.

"Shengshang, if this potato is planted well, the yield per mu will almost reach more than 2,000 catties," Yuan Rui didn't dare to say more, if it is planted well, the yield per mu will exceed 3,000 catties.

"What! Two thousand pounds! "This is the second time that the saint has been shocked today, what can collect two thousand catties!

"Boy, are you kidding, two thousand catties of one acre of land, that, that ......"

"Shengshang, indeed, indeed, this year the capital has tried, the least is one thousand eight nine, the most is more than two thousand five, next year the capital and Yangzhou will definitely expand the planting." Yuan Rui thought about it and added.

"Shengshang, potatoes can be planted not only here in Jiangnan, but also in Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Longzhou."

"Boy, tell me the truth, can you plant as long as it's land? Will be planted? ”

"Shengshang, it is not difficult to grow potatoes, it is better than rice and wheat, even if it is dry and waterlogged, it is fine, at most it is a little less yield, the potatoes are smaller, and they still taste the same, not as big as rice and wheat."

Shengshang looked at Yuan Rui, and didn't say a word for a while, first the late season rice, and then the potatoes, according to Yuan Rui, the problem of hunger among the people in the Central Plains was really solved, and he understood Yuan Rui's words at once!

In the next few days, the saint talked a lot and thought a lot about it privately with several important ministers.

Idle Yuan Rui for half a year, Sheng Shang didn't expect this kid to be so tormented, originally he wanted Yuan Rui to be idle for a year and become a little calmer.

Then find an opportunity to let Yuan Rui help Wang Jie do a good job in household food, taxation, and commerce.

But now, don't care at all, people have already completed a big thing by themselves, what else can they say!

How to use Yuan Rui now makes the saint very embarrassed, this kid is very unmotivated, others hate to be officials, the bigger the better, what about him, the more idle the better.

To say that he is not an official, for money, or not, he has many projects that can make money, but he doesn't care at all.

If this kid stays in the capital, he can indeed do something, but he is only twenty years old, so should he stay in the capital for forty years!

According to this kid's personality, it is estimated that he will not need it for five years, he will be annoyed, and he will not know how to mix it up when he finds a chance!

For the sake of Yuan Rui, he specially discussed with Lord Huang, the secretary of the ministry, and appointed officials, and the ministry had its own rules.

Lord Huang gave his own suggestion, at present, the late season rice has matured here in Yangzhou and Beijing, and there is no problem in Gusu and Hangzhou.

But these places are not enough, and people are still needed to do it in Jingzhou and Tanzhou, and we must do this thing well. still

There is one point, that is, Yuan Rui's father was originally an official in Tanzhou, and his official reputation was not bad, so it was better to send him to Tanzhou as an official.

Not to mention, this proposal really moved the saint's heart, and it was really suitable to go to Tanzhou.

On the twenty-first day of the first month of Taining, the saint made two decrees, giving the son of the county lord of Ding'an as the county prince and the son of the county lord of Chiayi as the county lord (county lord).

The capital is full of envious chatters from civil and military officials, and the most talked about is that the child of the county lord of Chiayi has not yet been born, and the title is there, what a grace this is!

On the twenty-third day of the first month of Taining, the saint decreed that Yuan Rui was awarded the magistrate of Qiyang County, Tanzhou.

Yuan Rui received the order, and he was awkward for a long time, how could he let himself go to the local government to be an official, and now there are two pregnant women in the family, which is inhumane!

When he first received the holy decree, he wanted to go directly to the palace to ask for an explanation, even if it was around the capital!

The county lord can think about it, which father and brother in the family are not like this, as long as they are officials, whether they are civil or military, they must go to the locality, either as a herdsman or as a defender of the city. She was very simple, so she said to Yuan Rui, "The county prince is not sealed casually!" ”

Yuan Rui suddenly understood, and he gave the seal in advance, just because he was afraid that he would have ideas and gag his mouth!

Although Yuan Rui still couldn't figure it out, he knew that it was almost impossible to change anything, so he simply didn't want to, and a few days before the Spring Festival, he took a boat directly from the capital and returned to his hometown for the New Year!

The county lord did not stay with him and stayed in the Guogong Mansion to raise the baby, so there were only Meng scholars, Qi Feng and A Niu on the boat.

On the way, Scholar Meng told him some rules of officialdom and his experience in being an official seriously, and for Yuan Rui, Scholar Meng really felt that he was not suitable for officialdom, and his sensitivity was not as good as his own.

But now with such an arrangement, it is still secondary to not be able to make official achievements, the key is to come back safely, otherwise it is better not to go.

Scholar Meng also deliberately chatted with Qi Feng for a long time, and this time he went to Qiyang, and he really had to rely on Qi Feng, the landlord.

Qi Feng is very happy, Yuan Rui went to Tanzhou as an official, it is the best for him, Qi Feng's hometown is from Hengzhou, and the waterway from Qiyang is only a hundred miles. Besides, the Qi family is a big family in Tanzhou, and many trade routes in the state are open, and there are also relationships.

Scholar Meng gave the suggestion that Qi Feng had better serve as an inspector in the county, and this position was good because he was in charge of public security, theft and robbery in the entire county, which was very beneficial to the implementation of the county magistrate's decree in the county.

What he meant was that it was best to entrust someone to Hengzhou Mansion to take down the position of inspector before going to take office.

Yuan Rui doesn't understand these at all, and his eyes are even more dark about the officialdom in Tanzhou, and this matter can only be solved by going to the capital after the year to let the county lord find a way, anyway, the safety of his father-in-law, I believe she will have a way to solve it.

When Yuan Rui returned home smoothly and saw Xiaohe, who had been fully revealed, Yuan Rui directly left everything behind, what do you care about so much, let's have the happiest year first.