Chapter 19: One Day of Flowering
Li Ming didn't talk nonsense, and immediately ordered someone to move out two pots of peach trees.
There is still a month left in the peach blossom season, and the peach tree at this time looks almost the same as a dead branch.
The people didn't understand what the prince was going to do.
Not to mention the people, even Wu Yong, who has been helping out before and after, is also confused.
I saw Li Ming take out a porcelain vase from his arms, open the lid, and pour it under one of the peach trees.
"Tomorrow this peach tree will bloom!"
Li Ming pointed to the peach tree he had watered and said firmly.
"Bragging!"
"I don't believe it!"
"It's only January, and the peach blossoms won't bloom until February or March!"
As soon as Li Ming's words fell, there were many opposing voices around him.
"If you don't believe me, then let's make a bet!"
Seeing that so many people don't believe it, Li Ming is also relieved, the more they don't believe it at this time, the more shocked they will be tomorrow.
"Dare to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince what he wants to bet on?"
Zhang Sheng, as a temporary representative of public opinion, had to stand up at this time.
"If this peach tree blooms tomorrow, I will win, then you will all listen to me, sign this note, and listen to me to arrange farming!"
"If it doesn't bloom tomorrow, then I lose, you can still sign the note, or twenty taxes and one, but there are no terms for increasing production!"
After listening to Li Ming's gambling contract, everyone was very happy, this is simply a sure win!
As long as this prince doesn't interfere with how they farm the land and rent twenty taxes and one yen, then there will really be a good life in the future!
"Good! Just bet on this! ”
"You're the prince, you have to talk about it!"
Without waiting for Zhang Sheng, the representative of public opinion, to speak, these people agreed to you and me.
"Okay, then let's disperse today, and you can come back tomorrow!"
After Li Ming finished speaking, he turned around and went back to the county office.
But these homeless people refused to leave, what if they did, and the prince secretly changed a pot of peach trees.
Although it is only a month in front of me, there are no peach blossoms blooming anywhere.
But it's about their livelihoods in the future, and it's always a good idea to be careful.
And they don't have much to do at this time anyway.
So the group of homeless people spontaneously gathered around the two peach trees.
Even the meals were taken in turns, and they resolutely refused to let the two peach trees out of sight.
In the county office, Wu Yong asked with a worried face: "Your Highness, can that peach tree really bloom?" ”
Li Ming took a sip of tea and replied slowly: "Nonsense, you can't bloom, then I'm not busy in vain?" ”
Wu Yong knew what the water in Li Ming's porcelain vase was, it was collected from a few moldy rice plants.
After Li Ming tinkered with these collected things for a few days, he put them in a bottle, and Wu Yong didn't understand what Li Ming was doing at all.
In fact, Li Ming's bottle is filled with gibberellin, although it is not pure, but it is better than a large amount, anyway, he only needs the peach tree to bloom, and he does not require a fruiting rate.
Although this crude gibberellin has limited practical value, it is best used to deter these displaced people.
Outside the county office, Zhang Sheng almost didn't sleep all night, and his two eyes kept staring at the watered peach tree.
But when dawn was approaching, Zhang Sheng finally couldn't hold it anymore, and fell asleep with his head tilted.
Until a noise woke him up!
"Behold, it is in full bloom!"
"yes, it's only been a month, how can it be?"
"And you look at the other pot, there is no movement at all!"
"The prince can't be Guanyin Bodhisattva, right? I heard that Guanyin Bodhisattva has a jade bottle with nectar that can live all things! ”
Zhang Sheng opened his eyes from the haze, and what caught his eye was a peach tree full of peach blossoms.
Zhang Sheng was shocked, obviously he didn't even have a flower bone yesterday, and this awakening changed the sky!
At this time, Li Ming also walked out of the county office.
As soon as these homeless people saw Li Ming, they fell to the ground one after another, "Guanyin Bodhisattva who saves suffering!" ”
Li Ming immediately cried and laughed when he heard this, and it seemed that he had shocked these homeless people too much.
So much so that they thought it was the reincarnation of a bodhisattva.
Unlike later generations, Guanyin at this time was still mostly male, and there was no function such as sending children.
"Get up! I'm not a god or Buddha, I said, I just know how to farm! ”
Everyone looked at each other, but no one refused to get up first, and in the end, Zhang Shengyi gritted his teeth and stood up first.
Li Ming looked at Zhang Sheng with great satisfaction, although the other party's knowledge may not be good, but if you really want to talk about knowledge, everyone in the world is not good in Li Ming's eyes.
He was satisfied with the light called "desire" in Zhang Sheng's eyes, and he longed to climb up and say, as long as he could do things for him.
"Come, come here!"
Zhang Sheng saw Li Ming pointing at him, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and trotted all the way to Li Ming.
"Since you are literate and can farm, then assist the county government clerks to let them sign and draw, and come in to find me after you finish, do a good job, I am optimistic about you!"
Teaching people to farm is a very troublesome thing, and many things Li Ming himself only knows theories, this Zhang Sheng has both farmed and read, so it is very suitable to be an agricultural technician.
Li Ming decided to teach him first, and then let him communicate with these displaced people.
Under Zhang Sheng's persuasion, these displaced people stood up one by one.
Then, under his guidance, each household signed a contract with the county government.
"Aunt Zhao, what kind of land does your family have?"
"My family took a piece of the top land, what about you?"
"We have a lot of mouths, so we have no choice but to choose three servings of inferior land, work harder, so we can eat enough!"
After the land was allocated, the peasants chatted and began to enjoy the future.
Of course, I can't help but praise Li Ming, the prince.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince really has the demeanor of a wise monarch, if only he could become the emperor sooner!"
"Don't die! You dare to say this kind of thing! ”
"What are you afraid of, I'm talking here, and the emperor Lao Tzu can also hear it in the capital?"
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention.
Soon, a person dressed as a homeless person in the crowd quietly broke away from the team and left the county seat of Guang'an.
Judging from the direction he left, he was going to Chang'an County next door.
Soon after, Li Qi, the third prince of Chang'an County next door, got the news.
"Let the peach tree bloom in one day? What does this Li Ming want to do? ”
Zhao Guang, a staff member next to Li Qi, immediately stepped forward and replied: "Your Royal Highness the Third Prince, according to your subordinates, the prince's move is nothing more than an attempt to sensationalize the public!" ”
"Sensationalism? How so? ”
"With the strength of Guang'an County, it is difficult to compete with Chang'an County, so the prince's move is to create auspiciousness to please His Majesty!"
Li Qi was very disdainful.
"What kind of auspicious peach blossom is an early-blooming peach blossom?"
Zhao Guang hurriedly explained: "It's really nothing if the flowers bloom early and bloom late, but if this is the prince's ability to make the flowers bloom early, I'm afraid it will be unfavorable to you, the third prince!" ”