"Baye, the locust plague came suddenly. They also thought they could take this opportunity to attack the fourth elder brother, so they got a little anxious, and went their own way without discussing it with Baye..."

In Babeile's mansion, Ah Ling was standing in the room with a disheveled face and explaining, while looking at Baye's indistinctly calm expression with a guilty conscience, he secretly gave a look for help to Elder Brother Ten who was next to him .The tenth elder brother Yinyou glanced at him reluctantly, cleared his throat, stood up slowly and walked over, tugging on his mynah's sleeve: "Mynah, uncle is also doing it for our own good, so he just decided to do it in a moment of impatience. Wrong thing - if you want to get angry, beat him up, don't hold your anger in your heart, it will make our brothers panic after seeing it..."

"This is not a matter of apologizing to me. If you want to drag the fourth brother, you can do it. Why bother to drag the fifth brother in? The fifth brother has never owed us brothers since he was a child. Now he doesn't know what to do, but he is still half a brother." Are you in love?"

Yinhu sighed with disappointment, stood up again, walked to the side of the silent brother Jiu, and suddenly leaned over to salute: "Jiu brother, I'm sorry for this matter today!" Brother. Later, I will personally go to Fifth Brother’s house to make amends, and I will also ask Ninth Brother to accompany Brother, so that I have the face to enter Fifth Brother’s house..."

"I've said it before, it's up to you how you want to torment the fourth brother. I don't care about you if you don't like him. But if you dare to move my brother's idea, I won't have any contact with you guys, and Don’t mention any sympathies with me——I always stay with you because we are in a similar order, no one is willing to take me to play at the top, and I feel bad at the bottom. But I just watched Old Thirteen is really right to scold you today, the ghost knows what twists and turns are in your belly!"

Yinzhen is just pure-minded, but he is also Yinqi's younger brother after all. He doesn't understand those shady schemes, but he can't clearly see the situation in the court today—besides, even if he can't see clearly, as long as he It's right to stare at the kid who is old thirteen.It can only be a situation that is completely unfavorable to the fifth brother if the old thirteen can be provoked to jump out and scold him.Although he still couldn't figure out what was going against his brother, but seeing today's old thirteen's unrelenting reaction, he knew that the starling's old problem must be repeated.

"Old Nine——Old Nine, this time you are an older brother, right? Mynah apologized to you."

As soon as Yinhu saw that today, he was afraid that it would be difficult to fool him like this again, so he hurriedly grabbed the younger brother's arm, gave a deep bow to the bottom, got up again and looked at him sincerely: "You think, today's Didn’t I know about it beforehand? If I knew, why would I ask those people to say that about Fifth Brother——I was also brought up by Fifth Brother when I was young. Could it be that my eighth brother is cold-blooded and ungrateful? Can’t my younger brother succeed? But the talkers have already left there, and the prince came up to add to the trouble. If I don’t recommend the fifth brother, who can I recommend to take over this stall? After Huang Ama said so much, didn’t she still call Kai in the end? Yinbu went to look for Fifth Brother to listen to his orders, what's the difference between this and Fifth Brother's hosting?"

He knew that the Ninth Brother had always been the most innocent and easy-to-deceive. After a series of painstaking questioning, he could lead his thinking to his own reasoning.Seeing the other party's expression finally gradually eased, Yinhu secretly heaved a sigh of relief, patted him on the shoulder with a wry smile, and sighed wearily: "To tell you the truth, Fifth Brother also gave me this time. It’s a terrible pitfall—I also know that the fifth brother recommended me to host the case of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to train me, but there are more than one family involved here? Now just dealing with this matter has given me a headache every night I can't sleep anymore, so I don't have the heart to plot against anyone..."

"How do you know that Fifth Brother recommended you?" This time, Brother Jiu was obviously not as easy to deceive as before, and stared at him suspiciously, but he still didn't break away from the hand holding his arm, "My brother If you want to recommend someone, the fourth brother, the seventh brother, the thirteen and the fourteenth, you won't be able to come up with you after going around..."

Rao Yi Yinhu's self-cultivation, couldn't help but be speechless by the overly straightforward dislike, took a deep breath and smiled bitterly: "Isn't that what the third brother said...Mr. "Miscellaneous Notes" was submitted, he was angered by Huang Ama, and he was punished to kneel outside the South Study Room. It was the fifth brother who went to fish him out. It was said that there was a quarrel inside for a while, but the fifth brother decided to go in as soon as he entered. It's up to me to do it—if you were me, what else would you think?"

"What do I think? Anyway, whatever my brother asks me to do must be for my own good, I just have to do it."

Brother Jiu responded disapprovingly, as if he had finally lost interest in being led around by him, and waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, okay, I'm not really angry with you, anyway, I believe you are not this time Let’s just go to Fifth Brother—you are very busy investigating the case, and I can’t help you. I will go to Fifth Brother to see if it’s necessary. Come back and play with you again."

Seeing that Yinzhen went out so swaggeringly, Yinhu didn't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or to have a more headache, so he had to spend a little more effort than usual to control his tone, and turned to Ah Ling who was at the side Slowly said: "Today's matter is not a big one, Huang Ama will reprimand you face to face, and you will probably not bring up the old score again - but next time you have to remember more, other people will move as soon as they move , you have to tell me before you want to touch Fifth Brother, otherwise you will just shoot yourself in the foot, you know?"

"Cha." Ah Ling'a breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly leaned over to answer, but hesitated to go outside.Yinhu had already seen that he had other things to do, rubbed his forehead and sighed wearily, sat down at the table and said softly: "There is no need to restrict our relationship, but there are other things, why not Just say it."

I don't know if Niu Yulu's family members are all like this. They obviously have no skills, but occupy an extremely noble status for nothing.This A Ling'a is the son of Ye Bilong, the younger brother of Empress Xiaozhaoren and Concubine Wen Xi, the uncle of the tenth elder brother, and the hereditary first-class duke—such a noble status, but a little bit of responsibility from the children of the aristocratic family nothing.In the 33rd year of Kangxi, Concubine Wen Xi died, and there was an 11-year-old elder brother who was left unattended. During the funeral, he fought with the eldest brother Faka for the position of the head of the family, and asked the furious Huang Ama to take it away. First-class official, and after so many years of hard work, he managed to get the position of a minister in charge of the bodyguard.

"Let's not hide it from Master Ba—actually, it's the case of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and I'm also somewhat involved..."

A Ling'a blushed, hesitated for a long time before speaking in a low voice, and then continued with determination: "Actually, this can't just be said to be my business, it is the second son of Master Tong Guowei, named Longkodo, who also He committed a rather serious case—it just so happened that An Bulu, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment at that time, was our family’s coat servant, so I said a few words for him, and in this way he was exonerated..."

Yinhu's heart suddenly moved slightly, and he frowned lightly and said: "Have you bought this 'White Duck'?"

"No, no, I didn't buy it, and what his son committed was not a serious crime that killed people." Aling'a shook his head quickly, and then said with a smile: "I just saw that this time the noise is so loud and powerful, I am afraid that it will repeat the previous ones. Old accounts, and then bring this matter up..."

"It may not be a bad thing to find out. If the Tong family owes you a favor, they can pay you back a bigger one."

Yinhu suddenly smiled lightly, and answered with confidence, his eyes flashed thoughtful——Tong Guowei, Longkodo, although the Tong family is not as big as Niu Gulu's family, it is Huang Ama's after all. From the mother's family, Tong Guogang and Tong Guowei, two shrewd and capable brothers, are likely to surpass the already declining Niu Gulu family in the future.If you can use this matter to connect with Tong's family, there are some things - but you don't have to be so stretched...

I was quickly thinking about how to use this incident to involve the Tong family, but suddenly a servant came running in outside, panting, threw himself on the ground and beat Qian'er: "Master, holy order, holy order!" I'm down, and I'm calling you to receive the order!"

The whole day was not going well, Yinhu subconsciously felt that the imperial decree coming at this time would not be a good thing, so she responded lightly and went out to receive the decree, but got an emperor Ama to come to Baoding Mansion to investigate the disaster in person, fourth elder brother, The nine elder brothers and the thirteen elder brothers accompanied him to hear the news that he was assisting the prince to supervise the country.Accepting the decree with an inexplicable expression, Yinhu finally couldn't help holding Liang Jiugong who came to deliver the decree, and stuffed a high-quality jade handle from his sleeve: "Elder-in-law, didn't you say that someone would release food for disaster relief?" That’s enough—how can I change to Huang Ama?”

"The disaster situation has changed. The whole territory of Zhili has been buried by locusts. I am afraid that it will be a once-in-a-century disaster. The Lord Long Live is worried about the situation below, so he ordered to go to the town in person."

Liang Jiugong put away the jade finger without any trace, and said something with a flat face.These words were originally told by the Long Live Lord to pass on to the Eighth Master, but this elder brother likes to use this method, and only believes in the news obtained by this method. He is happy to take it for nothing every time. Long live God won't blame him for accepting such little gadgets.

Yinhu accepted the imperial decree respectfully and put it away respectfully, frowned and turned back to the room thinking—the fourth elder brother is gone, so is the old thirteenth elder brother, the fifth elder brother is usually not written in the edict The above, or what he received were all orders from a single person, and he didn't want to join in the fun with their brothers.According to his fifth elder brother's temperament, this time he will definitely not stay in the capital restlessly. It doesn't matter where the old nine goes, and the remaining old ten just follows him wholeheartedly. An old fourteen...can you take advantage of this rare opportunity to see if you can win him over?

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The common people never pay attention to these intrigues in the court - at this time, dozens of fast horses have run all over the state capitals of Zhili, and the news that Tudou has been saved has spread throughout every government office.

Countless people are desperately digging the land that has become a mess with both hands, holding those potatoes that they once disapproved of tightly to their chests with their bloody hands, He kowtowed in the direction of the capital.Tears, blood and dust mixed into a messy reddish brown, but they didn't seem to notice it at all, they just bowed down hard and deeply again and again.

——Just a few months ago, they complained because they had to plant these inexplicable things for the sudden interest of an elder brother, and they were still distressed that the land that could have been used to grow crops was wasted, and they didn't even bother to give these Add water and fertilize the seedlings that do not even bear fruit.I just think that after all, taxes have been reduced because of this, and it’s just as if those lands have been vacated to offset taxes and food. Wasted on these inexplicable weeds.

Even just a few days ago, they were still secretly laughing at the elder brother of the county king who ran back to the capital and dared not come back when he saw the harvest was about to be harvested. , That's why I ran back in a desperate manner, so as not to be laughed at.

No one knew, just overnight, the overwhelming locusts took away the fruits of their hard work for a year-those weak insects that were usually just playthings in the hands of crop children somehow gathered together and brought them with them. The power of gods and ghosts that is powerless to resist.People can only watch helplessly that the crops that have been painstakingly tended to become nothing but stumps and leaves in the blink of an eye, the granary that was thought to be life-saving is lifted up by the locust swarm and swept away, and even the bark and grass roots have been destroyed. Crazy plundering clean.Pieces of fields were forcibly burned. The stubborn old farmers threw themselves into the fire and were burned alive together with the locusts and crops. Throwing them into the raging fire together, with red eyes, he personally led the yamen servants, and hunted and killed the inexhaustible locusts without sleep...

Just when the deep despair had almost completely crushed everyone's spirits, so many fast horses galloped out of the Governor's Mansion, and each horse was an excited servant, whipping his whip desperately all the way, all the way Roaring at the top of his voice-the potato was saved, the potato was saved.

The weak fire of hope spread from every yamen servant to every field, spread rapidly toward the distance, and finally gradually became a prairie fire.

The locust plague itself is not terrible. The lifespan of the locusts is very short, and they will die soon after the raging. People still have a whole autumn and winter to remove the eggs of the locusts, so as to prevent new locust plagues from coming again.The terrible thing about the locust plague lies in the irresistible destruction it brings, and the famine that has never been avoided—there will be starvation and death in the year of the catastrophe. Then the epidemic will spread, and the catastrophe and epidemic are the real source of people's panic.

However, within the territory of Zhili, nearly [-]% of the land, plus countless newly opened wastelands, were forced to plant potatoes by the thunderous means of the Ministry of Industry and the Zhili Governor's Mansion—even if they met In the disaster year, even though the people were unwilling and dissatisfied, they were not treated well, but this kind of crop with extremely tenacious vitality and high yield still reached a very high yield per mu before the best harvest season.With a production far exceeding that of rice and wheat, plus poultry and livestock that have not been impacted by locusts, it is enough to survive this disaster year without even needing to release too much food for disaster relief.

"Remember, you must pass on my words to the public. When storing potatoes, you need to dig a cellar. They can't be exposed to moisture or heat. They can be washed and dried in the shade, then buried in the sand, and then the sand is compacted. Be sure not to breathe. Once Potatoes are poisonous when they sprout, and they must not be eaten, but they don’t have to be discarded, they can be kept as seeds.”

When he was in the orphanage in his previous life, he often helped the old dean to store potatoes. Yin Qi specially asked Yu Chenglong to find a group of literate yamen servants, and patiently taught them how to store potatoes, and told them to spread the word as soon as possible. state capitals.In order to avoid the over-excited people who finally dug out the potatoes, but because of improper storage, they caused unnecessary losses.

"By the way—there is also this copy that was copied and distributed. Potatoes are not only vegetables, but can also be used as rations."

Remembering that he encountered the greatest resistance when he was promoting potatoes, Yin Qi pulled out a piece of paper from the table again and handed it to Tanlang to pass it on.Up to now, not many people believe that potatoes can be eaten as he said-he still doesn't believe it, what can't potatoes be eaten as a meal?Whether it is boiled or baked, even if it is made into potato flour, it can be mixed with white flour and eaten. When autumn comes, more cattle and sheep will be brought over, and they will be boiled together hot into a pot. This Zhili territory is trying to set up a production cooperative, let's eat a big pot of rice for the winter first...

All I know is a few nouns that don’t necessarily have the correct meanings, and the science and science in my previous life are talking about it in my heart, trying to pretend that I understand politics, and scribbling on the paper in a serious manner. idea.Just as he was engrossed in his thoughts, Yu Chenglong walked in quickly from the outside beamingly, and presented him with a few copies in his hand, and even spoke with an uncontrollable joy: "Fifth Master, the statistics of the state governments The numbers have all been reported, a good year—this is a serious good year!"

"Reported so soon? When I asked to count the situation in Touda, it took two full days to report it."

Yin Qi chuckled helplessly and shook his head, raised his hand to take those notebooks and flipped through them hastily. Just by looking at the flamboyant notes above, he knew that the writer of the notebooks was about to take off at that time, and couldn't help but twitched the corners of his lips , Shaking his head with a smile and putting it aside: "It's not considered a good year, and the yield of [-] shi per mu is still too little, not to mention that the report is so fast, and it's too late to wash and weigh it. It's probably a bit exaggerated... In fact, if this thing Take care of it carefully, five thousand catties are the base. It's just the first time planting, and everyone doesn't have a clue in their hearts, and they don't want to take care of it—oh, it doesn't count in your official land, my lord. There is no such thing as you who grow potatoes in the world, and you dig them out every night, I really don’t know..."

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