"My lord, my lord, someone from the capital is here."
The magistrate of Luojiang County stood up and asked happily: "Where is it? Please come in quickly, is it an official document or an imperial decree?"
"It's an adult from the Ministry of Households, accompanied by officials from the Governor's Mansion of Mianzhou, who said they came to purchase and arrange new rice seeds..."
The county magistrate froze, "Huh?"
Qili Village planted a lot of new rice, among which the Zhou family was the most important. Zhou Lizhong was announced to the capital, and the county magistrate sent people to the village to say that the new rice should be kept and no one should be allowed to sell it.
During this period of time, he has been in contact with people in Qili Village, wanting to buy new rice as seeds, but because the price he asked was low, he didn't buy much.
He can prohibit Qili Village from selling new rice, but he can't forcefully buy it from them. If it was before, the villagers of Qili Village might be panicked and dare not not sell it.
But now they are not very afraid.
One is that the people in the village are not very short of money. Over the years, they have followed the Zhou family to grow ginger, yam, privet and other medicinal materials and made a lot of money;
The second is because they have Zhou Man as their backer.
Zhou Man's official position is much higher than that of the county magistrate, so they are not afraid of the county magistrate. If they are not allowed to sell food, then they will change it.
Exchange some new rice for relatives and friends, one catty for five or six catties, and then sell the exchanged rice.
If not, I can still leave it to Master Bai.
The county magistrate can't control Mr. Bai. I heard that Mr. Bai has selected new rice seeds to sell. The price is more than twice that of ordinary rice seeds, which is very profitable.
Officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs went to Qili Village together with the governor of Mianzhou to purchase new rice seeds.
The new rice from the Zhou family is bought at the normal price of the rice, and the other villagers' homes are negotiated with them.
However, with Master Bai here, the court would not treat the other party too badly if they wanted to purchase new rice seeds with Master Bai, and Master Bai would not take advantage of his in-laws too much, so the progress here is fairly smooth.
The rice seeds were sent to the warehouse in Mianzhou, and then began to calculate the rice seeds that need to be distributed in each county...
Although the county magistrate of Luojiang County was able to participate in this matter, he didn't have much say. When he returned to the county government, he regretted it to death.
"I should have agreed when Zhou Lizhong proposed planting new rice seeds."
The master and the county magistrate were also very regretful, "County magistrate, we can only look at the year. After all, the first batch of new rice seeds were planted in Qili Village, and the farmers there must have kept a lot of new rice seeds. Next year, we will plant new rice seeds in our county." The area planted must be higher than other counties, which is also a political achievement.”
The county magistrate could only comfort himself in this way.
In contrast, Qingzhou is going more smoothly.
Because the new rice seeds are basically sown in Beihai County, and most of them are official fields, Governor Guo personally came forward, and Bai Shan only left a batch of rice seeds for next year, and sold the rest to the Governor's Mansion at the market price.
The governor's office then distributed it to the counties.
After these things are done, Qingzhou has already entered winter, Zhou Man is wrapped in a cloak, and the little boy Bai Jingxing is dressed like a ball, sitting on the circled couch and playing with colorful wooden blocks, using wooden blocks to build everyone Things I can't understand.
Bai Ruoyu sat on the other side, and he kept stacking up. When the stack reached a certain height, and the wooden block fell down with a clatter, he was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at Bai Jingxing's.
Leaning forward, with a sweep of his little hand, the wooden blocks that Bai Jingxing built up were also swept away.
This was not the first time, so without pause, Bai Jingxing turned around and clenched his small fists to beat him.
Bai Ruoyu yelled loudly, the two children rolled into a pile, Bai Jingxing pressed Bai Ruoyu and beat her.
The servants quickly picked them up and separated them, Bai Ruoyu burst into tears.
Mingda at the side wiped his tears calmly and said to him, "Obviously you can't beat her every time, why do you always provoke her?"
Zhou Man also said to Bai Jingxing, "Don't do it, you are still young, you can't control your strength, it hurts to hit someone."
Bai Erlang came in with a plate of grapes, saw that his son was crying again, sat aside without any surprise, peeled a grape, picked out the seeds and stuffed it into his mouth, Bai Ruoyu stopped crying instantly.
Zhou Man was curious: "Where did you get the grapes at this time?"
"It was sent from the capital," Bai Erlang said, "It is said that it was sent as a tribute from the Western Regions, and it has been stored in ice. It was sent yesterday with the winter solstice ceremony."
Zhou Man: "Is it still far from the winter solstice?"
Bai Erlang nodded and said: "Yes, I think they just want to find an excuse to send us something, and they should send some more around the winter solstice."
He paused and looked at Zhou Man, "Your Majesty wrote to ask when we will return to Beijing."
Zhou Man looked back innocently, "Look what I'm doing? You can go back if you want."
Bai Erlang scratched his head and said, "I can be anywhere, but we are worried that it will be difficult to figure it out after we go back, and the child is still young, will it be too cold on the road?"
That means I don't want to go back.
Zhou Man looked back and forth between the two of them, and said carefully: "So you mean to let me?"
Bai Erlang nodded again and again, "You also write a letter to His Majesty, and send it back with our letter."
"Okay," Zhou Man said, "just so you can experience Qingzhou's annual ceremony."
Zhou Man went to write a letter to the emperor.
The emperor received these two letters, even with the expensive winter solstice gifts from his daughter and son-in-law, he was still so angry that his beard flew up.
"Mingda has gone out and doesn't want to come back. She was very good before. It must be Bai Er who taught her to ruin her."
The queen was much more fair, and said: "I don't think the son-in-law doesn't want to come back, but Mingda's idea. Her idea is much more righteous than the son-in-law."
The emperor curled his lips, muttered a few words and stopped talking, forget it, it's better to follow the daughter's wish than the son-in-law's wish
The princess of Dajin lives as recklessly as Mingda, but she is the only one.
It was also because of this wantonness that the emperor didn't think about giving Bai Er another official. If he became an official, then Mingda would not be so wanton.
However, even though Bai Er didn't hold a position, his name could still be seen in the notebooks sent from Beihai County, and basically he had a share of the achievements there.
The courtiers also knew that the current Beihai County salt field, wharf, official land, and even the salt transport department that had just been established in Beihai County all had a share of credit from Bai Cheng and Yin He.
Neither Bai Shan's excerpts nor Guo Cishi's excerpts concealed this point.
When they come back from Beihai County in the future, if they really want to be rewarded for their merits, they will also have a share, even if the two of them are not employed.
The 22nd year of Dazhen is destined to be a year full of glory in the annals of history. In this year, penicillin came out, two new rice varieties came out, the imperial government reformed the salt administration, the salt transportation department was established, and the Imperial Medical Administration was reformed. Pharmacy established;
Da Jin lost a capable advisor...
In the next few years, apart from their daily affairs, the imperial court and local yamen firmly implemented the national policy formulated this year.