Chapter 379 Three stones or thirty stones?

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

Chapter 379 Three stones or thirty stones?

These days, Emperor Hongzhi has put all government affairs behind him. At this time, he is not handling government affairs in Qianqing Palace as usual. Instead, he is talking to Empress Zhang in Kunning Palace.

As soon as he saw Xia Yuan, he immediately asked: "Xia Qing's family, what kind of trick did you come up with for me? It's been these days, and I haven't seen a few people in the cabinet express their opinions. Does this trick work?" ?”

This method of laying it on the table is of course a destructive move given by Xia Yuan. It is a hopeless method. The purpose is to force the three cabinet ministers to express their stance and transfer the conflicts between the ministers and the emperor to them, turning them into a group of ministers. Conflict between the minister and the cabinet.

However, this method will injure the enemy a thousand times and damage yourself eight hundred.

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

In the past, I had many things to do and was busy dealing with political affairs day and night. When I was suddenly free, I not only lost the comfort of leisure, but also felt empty in my heart, and I felt panicky for no reason.

He didn't know whether the people in the cabinet were impatient or not. Anyway, he was impatient at the moment. No matter whether he could compromise in the end or not, this mess would be my country's.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, let the bullets fly for a while. I am entering the palace this time to bring good news to you."

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he looked at him, then at Zhu Houzhao, and finally his eyes fell on the big bag in Xia Yuan's hand, with mud still stuck to it.

"Announcement?"

Zhu Houzhao said with a cheerful expression: "Father, do you still remember the sweet potatoes my master planted a few months ago? Now we have a good harvest of sweet potatoes, and one acre of land yields thirty dan of grain."

Emperor Hongzhi's face suddenly froze when he heard this. He thought there was something wrong with his hearing and asked: "Thirty dan per acre of land?"

"Ang, thirty stones per acre."

Zhu Youtang felt as if his intelligence was being pushed to the ground and rubbed repeatedly. He couldn't help but grimace, "Can you tell me clearly, three stones or thirty stones?"

"It's thirty"

Zhu Houzhao still wanted to insist, but Xia Yuan coughed and sold the prince immediately, "There is no wiser person than your majesty. In fact, what the prince said is not accurate. There are not thirty stones, to be precise, it is twenty-four stones. "

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Twenty-four stones, there are still some scattered ones.

Emperor Hongzhi frowned, but Queen Zhang next to her pursed her lips and smiled, "It's really interesting, I think it's because they saw His Majesty being upset these days and came here to tell you a joke. They wanted to use it as a joke." I’m here to make you happy.”

"I am not happy at all." Emperor Hongzhi looked at Zhu Houzhao with a straight face and scolded: "You are talking nonsense. You are a dignified prince of a country. Look at what you look like now. Take a look at yourself." That face, go and wash your face clean for me."

Zhu Houzhao's face was pitch black with mud marks, but he didn't intend to wash his face. Instead, he shouted: "It's true, it's really twenty-four stones. My son and I also helped him in the ground." One piece was dug out and weighed, totaling twenty-four stones, exactly the same."

Hearing that he personally went to the ground to help dig, Zhu Youtang's expression softened a lot. In any case, he still went to the ground to do farm work. Although he made himself a little tired and dirty, the country still relied on agriculture. For this reason, it is still worth encouraging.

The yield per mu is only twenty-four stones, which is really unbelievable.

Seeing that Emperor Hongzhi obviously didn't believe it, Xia Yuan didn't give any more explanations and said directly: "Your Majesty, it's useless to talk more. Why don't you ask someone to verify it? There are still several acres of sweet potatoes that have not been harvested. When the time comes, we will go to Dongdong.

In the sweet potato fields in the suburbs, harvest an acre of land at random and weigh it to know whether it is true or false."

After hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi's heartbeat suddenly accelerated. Since the words were said to this extent, it is very likely that this matter is true.

The grain yield of twenty-four shi per acre is ten times higher than the ordinary wheat and rice yield of two or three shi per acre. Just thinking about it is enough to drive people crazy.

But this matter still needs to be investigated, thinking to himself, he suppressed his pounding heartbeat, looked around, finally looked at Xiao and said respectfully: "Xiao Banban, go to the eastern suburbs and see the yield of their sweet potatoes.

What happened? Once you find out, come back and report to me immediately."

"This slave obeys your order."

Xiao responded respectfully, and then left Kunning Palace, thinking secretly in her heart, one acre of land was worth twenty-four stones, which seemed impossible just to think about it.

What if we don’t have twenty-four stones after we go, how should we report it when we come back?

But since Master Xia and the Crown Prince have said so, and they look like they are not afraid of being investigated, then this matter must be true.

If it's really true, then.

Thinking of this, Xiao Jing's heart pounded. A few months ago, rumors spread throughout the palace that Xia Zhan was crazy and was so busy planting sweet potatoes that one acre of land could still produce

It weighed several thousand kilograms. Even the Empress Dowager, who spent her whole day reciting sutras and worshiping Buddhas without caring about worldly matters, knew about this matter. She caught up with Emperor Hongzhi to greet him and asked him specifically.

The news in the palace was like this, and the people outside the palace knew about it. However, after two or three months, the heat has subsided.

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

Nowadays, all the streets in the capital have been greatly changed. They are paved with lapis lazuli roads, which are flat and wide. The walk is not as bumpy as before, but there are more and more people riding horse-drawn carriages.

The carriage drove quickly, and after only half a while, it reached the eastern suburbs. Xiao Jing, who was wearing a python robe, got out of the carriage and immediately saw the hills of sweet potatoes piled on the ridge of the fields.

For such a big hill, it would be reasonable to say that there are more than twenty rocks here.

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

He looked around and saw a large area of ​​lush green sweet potato fields. One of the fields was in a mess, and it looked like it had been disturbed. It looked like it was an acre square.

But, is this the so-called sweet potato?

Xiao Jing turned his gaze back and looked at the sweet potato hill again. Finally, he got closer and saw that each one looked unsightly. It didn't feel like food, but rather like an ugly fruit.

He picked one up and looked at it. It was full of dirt. Can this thing be eaten? How to eat it?

Such a person suddenly appeared in the field, and he was looking at the newly dug sweet potatoes. If he wanted to let others go, he would have stopped drinking.

But when they saw Xiao Jing wearing a bright and gorgeous python robe, everyone knew that he was a very important person.

No one scolded him out loud, they just looked over and guessed in their minds what this person did.

Xiao Jing withdrew his gaze, raised his voice and shouted: "We are here to inspect this sweet potato field according to the emperor's order. Which one 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 them for our family."
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