Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

The girl was stared at by Ning Fan, and she was a little scared. She turned around and wanted to go back to the house, but heard Ning Fan say from behind: "Girl, don't be afraid, we are passing by here to ask for a drink of water."

Hearing Ning Fan's honest and handsome voice, the girl stopped her hurried steps. He turned around and looked at Ning Fan and others with a blushing face: "Look, you don't look like bad people. We are so poor here that we have nothing." , even if you are the robbers on the mountain trails, you will not take a fancy to places like ours."

This girl had never read a book, but her logic was clear and she had some abilities. Ning Fan didn't find her interesting. She smiled, waved her hand towards the girl and said, "Where are the adults in your family? Why aren't you back when it's almost noon? Are you the only one at home?"

Hearing Ning Fan's question, the girl couldn't help but show a sad look on her face, and smiled reluctantly at Ning Fan: "My mother went to wash clothes for the rich people in the town, and my father was working in the fields. I’m the only one cooking at home, and I have to deliver food to my dad later.”

As she spoke, the girl took out an earthen pot from the kitchen. There was some gruel and a few slices of green vegetables cooked in the earthen pot. Ning Fan couldn't help but feel sad when he saw such shabby food.

This is the life of ordinary people under the feet of the Emperor of Kyoto, let alone those invisible places. These ordinary people live in abject poverty!

In this era of frequent wars, it was good to have a piece of linen to cover your body. If you could drink gruel every day, these people would be satisfied without starving to death.

"Do you usually eat this? Can you be full?"

Ning Fan asked quickly.

The girl's eyes widened, and she said with a grin: "How could you only eat this on a regular basis? Are you a rich man in the city who doesn't know anything about the life of us countrymen?"

The little girl looked at Ning Fan with some confusion, and felt that Ning Fan was so stupid and ridiculous.

"Do you usually eat white rice? Do you only eat these foods once or twice once in a while?"

Ning Fan asked curiously.

When the girl heard what Ning Fan said, she couldn't help but have a speechless expression on her face. He pointed at the porridge in the earthenware jar and said, "It's busy farming time now and I have to work, so I eat some plain rice porridge to replenish my body." , usually our family only eats some vegetable leaves and rice bran at most. In his free time, my father will also go into the mountains to catch some game and sell it to the market, and then exchange it for some whole grains."

The girl's words left Ning Fan speechless for a long time. He took out a gold leaf from his arms and handed it over, but the girl rolled the dice and refused.

"Guests, please don't do this. My father will beat me when he comes back. We poor people also understand the principle of no reward for no merit."

The girl quickly waved her hand and refused.

Seeing that the girl was about to go out to deliver food, Ning Fan had a hard time following her, so he could only lead the two guards in uniform and hurried towards the campsite.

When he arrived at the campsite and saw that the chefs in the imperial dining room had prepared dozens of delicacies, Ning Fan suddenly felt that the food was a little hard to swallow.

In fact, Ning Fan has a way to solve the problem of food crisis, which is to send people to South America to search for sweet potatoes. As long as they can find sweet potatoes and sorghum, which are high-yielding crops, then the food crisis on the land of China will be solved. It will be completely solved and ordinary people can have enough food and clothing.

But now the entire economy is in dire straits, the economy has just begun to recover, and even the seven provinces in the south of the Yangtze River have just completed land reform. At this time, it is necessary to waste people and money to build some big ships from the Age of Discovery, which is inevitably a bit overwhelming.

And the most important thing is that even Ning Fan doesn't understand the technology of shipbuilding. He can only tell a general principle, but he can't tell the specific details now.

If you want to sail and trade by sea, you must have a big ship, because the situation at sea is ever-changing. If you don't have a strong ship, if you encounter wind and waves at sea, the lives of the people on the ship will be swallowed up by the sea in an instant.

Ning Fan ate this meal with great melancholy and heavy thoughts.

In Ning Fan's heart, he made up his mind. To improve agricultural technology immediately, he must immediately discover and find a group of agricultural experts to improve agriculture as soon as possible.

Ning Fan has always ignored one of the biggest problems, that is, if agriculture cannot improve and everyone's jobs cannot be provided, then the era of industrialization will be empty talk.

We all don’t have enough to eat or keep warm. How can we devote energy to developing the steel industry and how much energy can we use to dig coal?

After figuring this problem out, Ning Fan understood that the prerequisite for industrialization was that agriculture must first flourish.

"Your Majesty, I see why you are absent-minded. Did you get seduced by some beautiful woman when you went out?"

Xina has always been quick-tongued and has no scruples about joking in front of Ning Fan.

Ning Fan didn't say anything. Everyone should be happy when they go out to play. They can't affect everyone's interest in traveling just because they are in a bad mood, so Ning Fan seemed to smile. He shook his head and said, "You Why has there been no news about my father, old Sardin, lately? It’s been almost half a year since he left."

Ning Fan suddenly mentioned old Sardin, which also made the smile on Xina's face disappear. Sardin went to join a long-distance caravan this time. It was said that he had to cross a continent and reach a new place. This was a business trip. It seems to be a very risky thing for people. After all, if you arrive in a strange place and are not familiar with the customs and customs, you are relatively likely to encounter unknown situations.

What's more, Sading has been gone for several months, which really makes Xina, as her daughter, very worried.

"My father is the shrewdest and most experienced businessman. He should be able to deal with all emergencies. However, a long-term caravan trip often takes a year or even a year and a half to two years."

Although Xina was worried, she still said in a calm tone that this was a normal thing.

Ning Fan was not trying to arouse bad emotions in Xina's heart. He just thought of the sweet potatoes and corns in South America and missed him as his father-in-law. Sometimes Ning Fan was quite worried about Sardine. After all, the fifty-year-old It is indeed not easy for people to travel long distances to do business in this era.

In fact, in this era, the average life span of a person is less than forty years, but there are also people who live very long, and there are also people who live very short. Most of the aristocrats can live up to sixty or even seventy years, but ordinary people The lifespan of a person is not very optimistic. Generally, it is good to be able to reach forty years old.

It is naturally a very intuitive thing that ordinary people's lifespan is shortened due to year-round exposure to wind, food, sleeping, and malnutrition. However, the aristocratic class has long-lasting good food and clothing without excessive physical labor, so their lifespan is actually longer. It was also expected.

"I hope the old man can return smoothly and bring back some new exotic treasures."

Ning Fan said in a blessing tone.