These days, Emperor Hongzhi has put all government affairs behind him, and at this time, he did not deal with government affairs in the Qianqing Palace as usual, but accompanied Empress Zhang in the Kunning Palace.

Just when he saw Xia Yuan, he asked: "Xia Qingjia, what kind of lying flat and rotten method you have come up with for me, all these days, I haven't seen a few people in the cabinet express their opinions, does this method work?" ”

The purpose is to force the three cabinet ministers to express their positions, and transfer the contradiction between the ministers and the emperor to them, and turn it into a contradiction between the ministers and the cabinet.

However, this method will hurt 1,000 enemies and 800 yourself.

For Emperor Hongzhi's hard work, it made him even more uncomfortable.

In the past, I was busy dealing with political affairs day and night, and suddenly I was idle, not only did I not feel comfortable idle, but my heart was empty, and I panicked inexplicably.

He doesn't know if the cabinet is in a hurry or not, anyway, he is in a hurry at this moment, no matter whether he can compromise in the end or not, this chaos is all my country.

"Your Majesty, this is not in a hurry, let the bullets fly for a while, the minister entered the palace this time to give you good news."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at him when he heard this, then at Zhu Houzhao, and finally his eyes fell on the big bag that Xia Yuan was holding in his hand, and there was still mud sticking to it.

"Annunciation?"

Zhu Houzhao said with a flying expression: "Father, do you remember the sweet potatoes that the master planted a few months ago?" Now that the sweet potatoes have been harvested, one acre of land will get thirty stones. ”

Emperor Hongzhi listened, his face froze, he thought that his hearing was wrong, and asked, "Thirty stones per acre of land?" ”

"Ang, thirty stones per acre of land."

Zhu Youzhu had a feeling that his IQ was pressed to the ground and rubbed repeatedly, and he couldn't help but collapse his face, "You make it clear, three stones or thirty stones?" ”

"It's Thirty"

Zhu Houzhao still wanted to insist, but Xia Yuan coughed, and immediately sold the prince, "Shengming is no more than Your Majesty, in fact, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not accurate, there are not thirty stones, to be exact, twenty-four stones." ”

“.”

Twenty-four stones, and there are still some of them.

Emperor Hongzhi's brows furrowed, but Empress Zhang next to her pursed her lips and smiled, "It's really interesting, according to the concubines, this is because they are looking at Your Majesty who is in an irritable mood these days, and they came to joke with you, wanting to make you happy." ”

"I can't be happy at all." Emperor Hongzhi looked at Zhu Houzhao with a straight face, and reprimanded: "Nonsense, you are a dignified prince of a country, look at what you look like now, you look at your own face, go, wash your face clean." ”

Zhu Houzhao's face was dark, and he still had Taoist mud marks, but he didn't plan to wash his face, but shouted: "It's true, it's really twenty-four stones, and Erchen also helped dig it in the ground, and dug it out and weighed it, a total of twenty-four stones, not bad at all." ”

Hearing that he personally went to the ground to help dig a piece, Zhu Youzhang's face softened a lot, no matter what, he still went to the field to do farm work, although he made himself a little buried and dirty, but after all, the dynasty is based on agriculture, and it is still worth encouraging.

It's just a yield of twenty-four stones, which is really hard to believe.

Xia Yuan saw that Emperor Hongzhi obviously didn't believe it, and he didn't explain anymore, and said directly: "Your Majesty, it's useless to talk more, why don't you call someone to check it, there are still a few acres of sweet potatoes that have not been harvested." When the time comes, I went to the sweet potato field in the eastern suburbs, collected an acre of land casually, and weighed it to know whether it was true or false. ”

Hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and when it came to this, it was very likely that this matter was true.

One mu of grain produces 24 stones, compared with ordinary wheat and rice with two or three stones per mu. It's a tenfold improvement, and just thinking about it is maddening.

It's just that this matter still needs to be investigated, thinking in his heart, he suppressed his pounding heartbeat, looked around, and finally looked at Xiao Jing and said: "Xiao Banban, you go to the eastern suburbs to see what is the yield per mu of their sweet potato?" I found out, and immediately came back to report to me. ”

"The slave obeys."

Xiao Jing responded respectfully, and then went out of Kunning Palace, secretly thinking in his heart, twenty-four stones per acre of land, this just thinking about it feels fantastical.

In case we don't have twenty-four stones after we go, how can we report it when we come back?

However, since Master Xia and the prince have said so, and they look like they are not afraid of being investigated, then this matter should be true.

If it's really true, that.

Thinking of this, Xiao Jing's heart also thumped, a few months ago, it was spread all over the palace, saying that Xia Zhan was crazy, he was busy planting sweet potatoes, and one acre of land could produce thousands of catties, and even the Empress Dowager, who chanted the scriptures and worshiped the Buddha all day long, and did not ask about the world, knew about it, and caught up with Emperor Hongzhi to say hello, and specially asked.

It was rumored to be like this in the palace, and the head outside the palace also knew about it, but now two or three months have passed, and the heat has stopped.

All the way out of the palace gate, Xiao Jing did not take a sedan chair, found a carriage, and went to the eastern suburbs along the repaired lapis lazuli road.

Now the streets of the whole capital have changed greatly, paved with lapis lazuli roads, flat and wide, walking up is not as bumpy as before, but there are more and more people riding in horse-drawn carriages.

The carriage traveled all the way, but after half an hour, it was already in the eastern suburbs, and Xiao Jing, who was wearing a python robe, got off the car, and immediately saw the sweet potato hill piled up on the ridge of the field.

For such a large hill, if there are more than 20 stones here, it is reasonable.

But are these really the yields harvested from an acre of land?

He looked around and saw a large green sweet potato field, one of which was a mess, obviously turned over, and the size was really an acre square.

Just, this is what is called a sweet potato?

Xiao Jing moved his gaze back, went to see the sweet potato hill again, and finally took a closer look, and the ones that looked unaesthetically pleasing were not like grains, but like fruits that were not good-looking.

He picked one up and looked at it, it was covered in dirt, could this thing be eaten? How to eat?

Suddenly, such a person appeared in the field, and he was still looking at the newly dug sweet potato, and he would have let others drink it a long time ago.

However, seeing that Xiao Jing was wearing a bright and gorgeous python robe, everyone knew that this was a great person.

No one scolded, but they all looked over and guessed in their hearts what this man was doing.

Xiao Jing retracted his gaze, raised his tone and shouted: "Our family is here to verify this sweet potato field by the emperor's will, which of you is in charge?" ”

"The villain is in charge."

"Go, find more people to dig up an acre of sweet potatoes for our family, and then weigh our family."

(End of chapter)