[Red House] A beautiful girl welcomes the spring

Because it was Shi Xiangyun and Jia Baoyu who said this, even if Xue Baochai was full of unhappiness, she could only bear it.

However, she was relieved very quickly. Just after Jiamu asked Yan Biju to get up, and shortly after Yan Biju returned to Mrs. Xing, Jia Amnesty brought a group of people, and they were men, directly into Jiamu's honor. Qingtang.

Just as Jia's mother was about to reprimand, Jia Yan had already bowed down to the man in his 30s who was headed by a blue crane cloak:

"Long live my daughter-in-law."

"waived."

After the emperor asked Jia Yan to get up, he said to Jia Mu:

"Old lady, I came here today for the purpose of sweet potatoes, so I need to borrow Jiashan for a while. If there is any offense, please forgive Haihan."

How dare Mother Jia say no?She had already lay on the ground and kowtowed to the emperor a few times, just like Grandma Liu in front of her before.

No one in this world is more precious than the emperor's time, so the emperor quickly took Jia Yan away.Looking at Jia Yan who left behind Jia She with her head slightly lowered, Jia's mother was both happy and sad.

Happily, this granddaughter of mine is indeed favored by the emperor, and she will definitely have a bright future in the future.The sad thing is that it is not an easy matter for the emperor to wear a white dragon fish suit and visit the courtiers' home.

But does Mother Jia dare to inquire in private?

Of course she didn't dare.

This is a taboo thing.

Not to mention the many female relatives in the Rongqing Hall, just the emperor, who went directly to the Humble Garden after leaving the Rongqing Hall.

Several of the people around him were gray-bearded old men with extraordinary bearing, which was not comparable to that of an old dude like Jia She.Although Jia Yan didn't recognize her, her father, Jia She, was a man of success and had already told him quietly.

The emperor did not come alone.The people behind him are Qi Qian, Prime Minister of the Left, Liang Erming, Prime Minister of the Right, Gu Zhizhang, Minister of the Ministry of Households, and Shan Ruling, Minister of the Ministry of War.

Not to mention Jia Yan, even Jia Amnesty couldn't figure out what the emperor meant by bringing these four heavyweight ministers to their Rongguo Mansion.

If you don't understand it, you don't understand it, but Jia Amnesty still needs to be careful.

As for Jia Yan, she won't be like Jia She, thinking about a lot of detours.

What is there in the humble garden, isn't it just sweet potatoes and chickens and ducks raised in cages?

And the promotion of sweet potatoes is not going well, as early as when she gave Jia Yun the money, she knew it.The emperor will come, nine times out of ten, it's still for sweet potatoes.

This can be related to the stomachs of ordinary people.

The people in this land have always been known for their hard work and endurance. They will never rebel if they are forced to the brink of death, famines continue, and everyone will starve to death.

In other words, sweet potatoes are related to the governance of the current emperor, and the officials below are perfunctory, but the emperor will never take it lightly.

Unless the current emperor is a fool.

With calculations in mind, Jia Yan was naturally much calmer than Jia She, but she didn't know that their father and daughter's appearance had already fallen into the eyes of the emperor and the four prime ministers.

The founding emperor of this dynasty was a fan of the Han and Tang dynasties, so not only the court system has the style of the Tang and Song dynasties, but also the official system of the former dynasty also has a strong style of the Tang and Song dynasties. Most obviously, there are two prime ministers in this dynasty. The following The Liubu Shangshu is actually the deputy prime minister and one of the emperor's think tanks. The officials who are really responsible for handling the specific affairs of the Liubu are actually the left and right servants of the Liubu, and the duties of the Liubu Shangshu tend to provide advice to the emperor and introduce talents.

The Tai|Emperor Tai|Zu of this dynasty went early, and he only reigned for five years, and during these five years, most of them were wars. Therefore, he has done everything about the Privy Council, the military region system, and the staff, but regarding the people's livelihood, etc. , but it was done by Emperor Gaozu.

This is why sweet potatoes are so important and good things hidden in the vassal state have been missed by the court for so many years.

It was also because Emperor Tai | Zu went early that Jia Yan picked up this note of credit.

In fact, the prime ministers all know the difficulties encountered in the promotion of sweet potatoes.They all came from the officialdom, so they naturally know that some people have been slacking off on the promotion of sweet potatoes, but the most important thing is that everyone has doubts about the high yield of sweet potatoes.

Even Gu Zhizhang, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, admitted that he had doubts about the production of sweet potatoes.

The Humble Garden got the news a long time ago, and even cleared the venue one step earlier.Those girls and women had long been sent to wait in two nearby courtyards. Now the gardens are all the emperor's people, that is, a group of servants in goldfish suits with knives in their waists.

Looking at the lush green field of more than ten mu in front of him, the emperor asked, "Is this the sweet potato?"

Jia Yan hurriedly knelt down and said, "Return to Your Majesty, that's right."

"No harvest?"

"Yes. Not harvested yet."

"It's almost harvest time, isn't it?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Come here! Harvest an acre and show me."

There had been a waiter with a knife for a long time, and he found a hoe from the thatched house on the side, and chose a piece of land in front of the emperor and the prime ministers to start digging.

This clumsy garden has nearly [-] acres, and more than [-] acres of sweet potatoes have been planted.At the beginning, in order to facilitate management and finally confirm the yield of sweet potatoes, these fields were separated by mu, but now it saves the need to confirm.

These waiters with knives were sweating profusely, and the faces of the prime ministers changed from disapproval at the beginning to astonishment, and then from astonishment to astonishment. Looking at the sweet potato that looks like a hill in front of me.

Not only him, but the other five prime ministers were almost equally surprised, but some were more obvious, while others were more subtle.

Among them, Qi Qian, the prime minister of the left, glanced at Jia Yan with a smile, and then at the emperor, without saying a word.

In fact, they had already argued several times in Funing Palace about the sweet potato, but some people really couldn't believe it if they hadn't seen the production of sweet potato with their own eyes.

Qi Qian believes that after today's incident, the cabinet's national policy will definitely be adjusted.

Right Prime Minister Liang Erming frowned.

Even though Minister of the Ministry of War Shan Ruling ordered someone to find a large scale to measure the yield of this mu of sweet potatoes, he still frowned.

Shan Ruling is the minister of the Ministry of War, and the main task of the Ministry of War is to ensure the supplies of the soldiers.The high yield of sweet potatoes means that the stomachs of the soldiers are greatly reduced, which means that the possibility of the soldiers going to the battlefield hungry is greatly reduced.For the Ministry of War, this also means a reduction in logistical pressure.

Gu Zhizhang would let the sweet potato go, but Shan Ruling would not.

God knows how many lawsuits Shan Ruling will have to file with Gu Zhizhang for the annual military budget.As for the discord between the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households, it has a long history.

Seeing Shan Ruling jumping up and down, Gu Zhizhang snorted, and said, "Sweet potatoes are so high-yield, they must consume a lot of land fertility. If you have to plant and take a year off, the harvest is not much different from millet, right?"

The emperor immediately looked at Jia She, and Jia She quietly pushed Jia Yan.

Jia Yan bowed to Gu Zhizhang, and said, "Master Xiangguo is really familiar with it. Yes, the fertility of the land is indeed a problem. That's why I raised chickens and ducks here, and used chicken and duck feces to compost."

Gu Zhizhang said: "Chickens and ducks? Chickens and ducks also need food."

Jia Yan said, "Responding to your lord's words, so I used earthworms and maggots."

Earthworms and maggots?

Not to mention Gu Zhizhang, even the emperor and the other prime ministers were dumbfounded.

Next, Jia Yan asked a woman from the Humble Garden to come and explain to the prime ministers how they raised chickens and ducks in cages, including how they used reeds, rice and other things to compost and raise earthworms. Of course, There are also a lot of flies and maggots.

To be honest, seeing so many maggots crawling around, not to mention the prime ministers, even the emperor felt that he was about to suffer from trypophobia.

However, seeing those chickens poking their heads out of the special cages to peck at these worms, the emperor seemed to see the bright prospect of common people's families being able to eat chickens without spending money on raising them.

Until then, Prime Minister Zuo Qiqian finally spoke his first words after he came to the humble garden: "In the past, Emperor Hui of Jin once said, why not eat minced meat. Now it seems that the people will not be able to eat white rice soon. , but can eat chicken meat."

There was a touch of sarcasm in those words, and Jia Yan couldn't help but think of her past life.

In her previous life, a catty of high-quality rice cost at least seven or eight yuan a catty, and two chicken breasts cost only ten yuan, which can be eaten for two meals.Therefore, some people say that the two foreign fast food companies, Uncle Mai and Grandpa Ken, really make a lot of money.

Jia Yan didn't seem to understand the irony in these words, and still said with a smile on his face: "Master Xiangguo laughed. I thought so at the beginning, chickens and ducks eat grasshoppers, and too many grasshoppers are concentrated in If a place is fried, it will be locusts. Therefore, it would be nice to raise more chickens and ducks in this place. However, locust plagues do not happen every year. Therefore, people need to raise them on weekdays. That’s why I thought of earthworms and It’s just that these things have only been touched this year, and if they are really used, it will take at least two or three years.”

When the emperor heard this, he immediately glanced at Jia Yan.

As the emperor, and the emperor who has been in charge of the practice during the prince's time, he certainly knows how terrible the locust plague is for this country.

He has checked the local chronicles of various places, and it is basically a cycle of "three years of floods, three years of drought, and three years of locust plagues".Moreover, there were not one or two dynasties whose national strength was greatly damaged due to the large locust plague.

Calculating the time, it has not been two years since there was a locust plague in Gyeonggi-do.According to the past law, if the locust plague starts at the turn of spring and summer next year, then eight out of ten it will be a small locust plague. Locust plague!

Qin Tianjian also gave a similar answer.

This is also an important reason why the emperor came to Jia's house today.

He needs a lot of sweet potatoes as food reserves.

The emperor said: "Jiashan, I heard that you cultivated land in Taoshan and Dingxian County, and planted thousands of acres of sweet potatoes?"

Jia Yan hurriedly said: "Return to Your Majesty, the courtiers dare not take credit for this matter."

"Oh? No, you did it?"

Jia Yan replied: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. Although a courtier's daughter is favored for a long time, she dare not do things that violate the law. Parents do not buy private property. This is an iron law. How can a courtier do it?" For this matter, please ask my father, Long Live. The servant girl does not know."

The emperor looked at Jia Amnesty again.

Jia Amnesty stammered and said: "Long live, sir, the old minister saw that there were only two sons under the minister, one was really young, and the minister was incompetent, so he wanted to find a child in the clan." Let him and Chen's useless son support each other as a sidekick. After choosing and choosing, I chose Jia Yun's grandnephew named Jia Yun on the back porch. Unexpectedly, although this child is young, he is really capable. Chen, I can't His wife gave him 1000 taels of silver to set up some family business, but he didn't expect him to do such a big thing. Minister, long live, minister..."

Jia She was dumb.

He suddenly realized that he seemed to have spoken too well of Jia Yun.Fortunately, Jia Yun is likely to overwhelm Jia Lian.

Jia Amnesty broke out in a cold sweat abruptly.

When the emperor heard this, he was very interested and immediately summoned Jia Yun.Coincidentally, Jia Yun happened to be at home today, and when she saw Lin Zhixiao bringing an unknown person to invite her, she thought that Jia Amnesty had something to say, so she hurriedly stuffed the account book into her boots, and followed Lin Zhixiao to Rongguo Mansion.

It wasn't until he saw Jia Amnesty bowing to a man in Tsing Yi from a distance, looking cautious, that Jia Yun realized that something was wrong. When he knew that the man in Tsing Yi was the current emperor, he was dumbfounded.

Dazedly, under the guidance of the servant, she knelt down three times and kowtowed nine times to the emperor, and Jia Yun finally came to her senses:

Did he see the emperor?

He is also a person who has seen the world?

If it wasn't for Jia She's trembling look above, he would have cheered.

In fact, he himself was almost like a quail.

For a Dousheng like him, before today, where did he think that he would have the chance to face the saint?

That's something you can't even think about, okay?

Jia Yun once thought that if he was able to kowtow to the emperor from a distance before the age of 30, he had already borrowed the light of his second aunt and the blessing of his father who died young.

Therefore, it wasn't until Gu Zhizhang asked him for the second time that Jia Yun came to his senses, and hurriedly said: "If you go back to Long live, the grass people don't know how you got into the eyes of the old man. Not only did the wife give us 1000 taels of silver, but we didn't say anything. He also mentioned the lack of food in the imperial court. Second, the second aunt also told the words of the elder, saying that the world is short of food, sweet potatoes are high-yield, and there are few people who can plant them. Caomin had a little delusional idea in his heart, and used the money to hire people to open up wasteland. Caomin admitted , Caomin took advantage of the part of the national law that encourages land reclamation. However, Caomin did plant 1 mu of sweet potatoes..."

The emperor was taken aback: "1 mu?"

Jia Yun was also startled by the emperor, he said cautiously: "Long live back, yes, yes."

As he spoke, he bent down to touch his boots.

"presumptuous!"

"Long live beware!"

The waiter with the knife on his side immediately jumped up and pinned him to the ground.Two others had already rushed to take off his boots.

As for the prime ministers, they had already put the emperor behind them.

The emperor wondered: "What's inside?"

Jia Yun was almost stuck on the ground, and could only raise his head with difficulty. His voice changed: "Yes, it's the ledger! The ledger for land reclamation, the ledger for yellow rice on credit, and the number of sweet potatoes planted at the end."

When the emperor heard this, he immediately stretched out his hand.

The commander of the waiter with the knife immediately raised the account book above his head with both hands, and presented it to the emperor.

Quan Chang took over the account book and presented it to the emperor.

The emperor took it and quickly looked through it.

Jia Yun's handwriting is not good, but the accounts are clear, and the emperor has done practical work, so he naturally knows what is written here.

The more the emperor watched, the happier he became, and he repeatedly praised: "Good good good good good good good!"

1 mu of sweet potatoes, that is at least more than 1000 million catties, and there are grain reserves!

The emperor closed the account book and said loudly: "Jia Yun listens to the seal."

The servants immediately let go of Jia Yun.

Jia Yun knelt down obediently.

"Feng, Jia Yun is the chief secretary of Suiyuan County, Guan Juntun, and will go to Datong in the next spring to serve."

The county magistrate, this is an official position of the eighth rank, just one level lower than the county magistrate.

Even those fellow Jinshi who have been in the cold window for ten years may not get such a position within three years.

More importantly, Jia Yun was white before, otherwise, the emperor might have a higher title.

Jia Yun kowtowed to the emperor foolishly.

After he kowtowed, he realized: It seems that I am an official?

After the emperor granted Jia Yun the title, he promoted Jia Yan as the third-class county lord, and also bestowed ten bolts of colored satin and twenty pearls.

Jia Yan quickly declined, saying that it was Jia Amnesty's credit, and she dared not take it.

The emperor said indifferently: "If it was your father, then it wouldn't be just this little bit."