"Return to Xi Zhaorong, not yet." Fu Sheng answered truthfully.
Liao Qingqing nodded and said, "Okay, I understand, you can go back."
"Yes."
Fusheng is gone.
Liao Qingqing ordered Hexiang to bring the Great Wei domain records and maps. She sat at the table and looked at it carefully. Dongliao County is located in the northeast of the Great Wei Dynasty, with a vast territory.
Although the winter was severe, it always made Emperor Jingli feel at ease.
But this time is different. It is already spring, and Dongliao County is still affected by the snow disaster.
It can be seen that Dongliao County will be affected for half a year.
It is freezing to death now, and may starve to death after a while.
Emperor Jingli had to get funding for disaster relief.
Liao Qingqing couldn't help frowning, thinking of various ways in the Lisheng Pavilion. At night, Emperor Jingli came back tired.
"Your Majesty." Liao Qingqing stepped forward to greet him.
When Emperor Jingli saw Liao Qingqing, most of his troubles were lessened.
Liao Qingqing took the initiative to take Emperor Jingli's hand.
Emperor Jingli felt much more relaxed physically and mentally, and asked, "Have you eaten yet?"
"Not yet, the emperor didn't have a meal, did he?"
"Um."
"Let's eat together."
"it is good."
"Wait a minute." Liao Qingqing suddenly said again.
"What's wrong?" Emperor Jingli asked.
"Your Majesty, come with me."
Liao Qingqing took Emperor Jingli's hand and walked towards the small room of Lisheng Pavilion. As soon as he entered the room, he saw several large boxes placed in the room. When he opened it, it was either gold or silver, and some jewelry.
Emperor Jingli asked curiously, "What are you doing?"
Liao Qingqing said: "Your Majesty, I leave all this to you."
"What are you going to do to me?"
"Go for disaster relief, isn't it about the snow disaster in Dongliao?"
Liao Qingqing was very sincere, and Emperor Jingli was more and more moved. He had been emperor for several years, and he would encounter various natural and man-made disasters every year. , and directly used all their belongings for disaster relief.
"It's all taken for disaster relief, what do you spend?" Emperor Jingli asked.
"The concubines don't spend much in the first place, so I won't reward them in the future."
"Aren't you afraid that the palace maids and eunuchs will say that you are stingy?"
"Just say it, concubines and concubines would rather they say that concubines and concubines are stingy than to have any more casualties in Dongliao." Liao Qingqing seemed to be determined.
Emperor Jingli's heart felt warm, and he stretched out his hand to take Liao Qingqing into his arms and said: "Qingqing's heart, I and the people of Dongliao have understood, you don't need to worry about the snow disaster, I have already ordered people to open a warehouse for disaster relief, I believe in a few days. good news.”
"Then why is the emperor still frowning?" Liao Qingqing's slender fingers reached between Emperor Jingli's brows and caressed gently.
The action is gentle and warm.
Emperor Jingli slightly stretched his brows and said, "I am worried about the common people who are suffering from hunger and cold." He has always valued the lives of common people, and added, "I don't know about other places, but this year will be good."
"Since the emperor has opened a warehouse for disaster relief, they will soon be able to receive the emperor's gift. God sees the emperor's intentions and will also treat the people of Dawei kindly."
Emperor Jing Li listened to these words, and then lowered his head and kissed Liao Qingqing's forehead, feeling much more at ease.
But remember the matter of Dongliao County.
After all, life is at stake.
During dinner, Emperor Jingli did not use much.
After that, he sat in front of the desk and wrote the papers.
Liao Qingqing accompanied him for a while, and was really tired, so he went straight to sleep.
The next morning, the weather was fine and sunny,
There was good news from Dongliao County, saying that the snow had stopped, and some local officials were rich with porridge to help the people, and Dongliao County also opened warehouses for disaster relief, alleviating the urgent need.
Emperor Jingli felt a little more relaxed after hearing this.
But in the afternoon, I received another memorial, saying that there was another flood in the south.
It has just entered the spring, and there is a flood. Not to mention Emperor Jingli's worries, all the ministers are also worried, urgently discussing matters, Yuan Fu is running around, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Household each have policies, hurry up and send additional staff In addition to disaster relief, it also treats floods and prevents thieves from taking the opportunity to cause chaos.
For a while, the courtiers were very busy.
Emperor Jingli was busy day and night.
He didn't expect so many things to start this year. Before he ascended the throne, he had read a lot of history and summed up some laws. For example, snow disasters, droughts, and fishing disasters would not come alone. They were often accompanied by various diseases. The most common The worst is the cough and fever, and the worst is the plague.
Emperor Jingli was afraid of the plague.
He issued several imperial decrees in a row, reminding officials to pay attention to the protection of various diseases.
Even allocated a lot of money in medicine.
Perhaps it was Emperor Jingli's attention that moved God.
For the next few days, the sun was shining everywhere.
Sunshine is a good sign.
All things are going in the right direction.
Emperor Jingli breathed a sigh of relief.
Liao Qingqing was relieved.
At this time, the little eunuch from the Agriculture Department came to look for Liao Qingqing again.
Liao Qingqing asked, "What's the matter?"
The little eunuch said happily: "The director sent a servant to tell Xi Zhaorong that the potatoes will be harvested tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Liao Qingqing has been paying attention to the disasters in various places these days, and he forgot about the harvest of 1,000 mu of potatoes in Zhuzhou, so he said, "Have you seen the potatoes?"
"I've seen it."
"How's it going?"
"The director said it's better than being in the agricultural department."
Liao Qingqing smiled and said, "Okay, I originally wanted to go with you to collect potatoes, but I've been feeling inconvenient recently, so please speak to the director."
"Yes."
"By the way, does the emperor know?"
"The director handed me the document. The emperor has been busy recently, and I don't know if he has read it or not." The little eunuch said.
"Okay, I see, you can go back."
"Yes."
After the little eunuch left, Liao Qingqing called Lisheng Pavilion's nanny. Last year, she told Emperor Jingli more than once that she loved to grow vegetables, and she made many contributions.
Emperor Jingli not only rewarded her with money, but also rewarded her with 100 mu of land.
When she planted potatoes in Zhuzhou County last year, she also sent people to plant 100 acres of potatoes. Now it's time to harvest, so she ordered her to go out of the palace to find people to harvest potatoes. She estimated in Lisheng Pavilion that this year's potatoes were 's harvest.
It took her more than half a year to cultivate potatoes from umbrella flowers.
He also spent more than half a year with the Minister of Household and the Director of the Department of Agricultural Products to continue experimenting and cultivating potatoes. All the produced potatoes and a large number of umbrella flowers purchased from the northwest were sparsely planted in the land.
The total area is more than 1,100 acres.
Based on the yield of 1,000 catties per mu last time, the potato harvest this time is about 1.1 million catties.
1.1 million pounds? !
Five hundred and fifty tons? !
Is that too much
A few days later, the Minister of the Household was in the Qinzheng Hall to report the potato harvest to Emperor Jingli of the Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Jingli was shocked.
The courtiers did not believe it at all.
The Minister of the Household gave a generous speech explaining the growth process of potatoes and the advantages of harvesting, and explained in detail the contributions of Xi Zhaorong and Liao Qingqing.
The potatoes planted on 1,000 mu of land in Zhuzhou, in addition to the potato flowers transported from the northwest, are mostly potato stems cultivated by Xi Zhaorong, and all the courtiers present have eaten potatoes.
I've eaten it, it's delicious.
But the total output of 1000 mu of land reaches more than 1 million catties, which is impossible. One must know that 1000 mu of wheat, rice and millet can be harvested for 300000 catties, which is a bumper harvest.
It is clear that the Minister of Household is exaggerating the facts.
Why exaggerate
Naturally, it was for Xi Zhaorong.
The Minister of the Ministry of Commerce was a famous party of Xi Zhaorong, and firmly supported Xi Zhaorong as the empress of the dynasty.
This Xi Zhaorong was really unscrupulous in order to be the queen, and dared to touch the very foundation of the country.
Some courtiers could not read the Ministry of Household Books, and above the court, they began to take out planting examples from ancient times to the present, firmly stating that it is impossible for potatoes to have such a high yield, otherwise, there will be no famine in the future.
At the same time, he vigorously criticized the minister of household affairs, and insinuated Xi Zhaorong.
It's okay to criticize the minister of household, but not to map Xi Zhaorong, and Emperor Jingli immediately fell.
The hall was dead silent.
Hu Bu Shang Shu risked his death and said: "Your Majesty, everything I said is true, if you don't believe it, you can go to Zhuzhou and see, the potatoes there have not been shipped yet, if the minister tells a lie, the minister is willing to die. !"
"Go to Zhuzhou!" Emperor Jingli said in a loud voice.
The other courtiers wanted to stop Emperor Jingli, but when they saw Emperor Jingli's face full of anger, none of them dared to speak, so they immediately assembled guards and soldiers, prepared carriages and horses, and headed to the states.
However, because of the rush to leave the palace, the number of carriages was not enough, and there were many courtiers crowding a carriage, and they did not dare to say more.
Squeeze silently.
Who made their Sacred Heart unfathomable
Emperor Jingli rode alone in a carriage, and he was a little excited. He believed what the Minister of Hu Bu said, because he believed in his Qingqing.
Zhuzhou County is close to the capital, and there are official roads all the way, but within an hour, we arrived at the location of the thousand-mu test field in Zhuzhou County.
Emperor Jingli got off the carriage first.
The courtiers got off the carriage one by one, and they were stunned by the sight not far away before they could fix the black gauze hats on their heads.
Going to the endless field, one shadow after another, or bending over to work, or carrying a basket, or carrying a cloth bag, everyone has a happy smile on their face, and the source of the smile is the piles of mountains. potatoes.
The carriage could not enter the test field, so they got off the carriage on the official road and followed Emperor Jingli to the test field step by step, the more they walked, the more they could not believe their eyes.
This, this, the mountains are full of potatoes.
It's all the potatoes they like to eat.
When he looked up, he saw that the director of the Department of Agricultural Products was organizing everyone to collect potatoes, and the director of the Department of Agricultural Products saw Emperor Jingli at the same time. "
The people who were collecting potatoes had already paid attention to the people like Emperor Jingli. Although they were close to the imperial city, they had never seen the emperor. This time, the emperor and Xi Zhaorong brought potatoes out. They were delicious and hungry. He worshipped Emperor Jingli and Xi Zhaorong as gods.
At this moment, the director of the Department of Agriculture and Materials said that it was the emperor, and one by one, they quickly dropped their work and knelt down on the ground neatly: "See the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live."
The untrained voice was not neat, but Emperor Jingli was very excited when he heard it. He treated the people seriously, and naturally hoped that the people would pay attention. Hearing such a sincere voice, he was extremely happy, and he couldn't help thinking of his Qingqing, these are all given by his Qingqing.
However, now was not the time to think about Qingqing, he asked the director of the Department of Agricultural Products, "Why are you here?"
"Back to the emperor, Wei Chen was ordered by Xi Zhaorong to come and supervise."
"Xi Zhaorong?" When it comes to Liao Qingqing, Emperor Jingli is always very interested.
"Yes, Xi Zhaorong said that this is the first time that the people of Zhuzhou have collected potatoes. I was afraid that they would not understand something, so he ordered Wei Chen to come to supervise and observe whether there is any surprise in the growth of potatoes on a thousand mu of potatoes." The Secretary-General has reported the facts.
After hearing this, Emperor Jingli nodded and asked, "How much is the yield per mu?"
"More than 1,000 catties." The director of the Department of Agriculture said firmly.
An hour ago, the courtiers above the court heard "more than 1,000 catties", and there was no disdain and disbelief, but a complete shock.
Shocked!
They have lived for half their lives, and this is the first time they have seen a crop that can yield more than 1,000 catties per mu. How many people have been saved by this, this kind of discovery.
This is simply, simply, the work of all ages!
They were shocked and amazed at the same time. The master of this eternal work is Xi Zhaorong. They do not want Xi Zhaorong to be the queen, but the current queen is Xi Zhaorong.
Their eyes shifted from the potatoes to Emperor Jingli.
With a smile on the corner of Emperor Jingli's mouth, he said hello three times in a row, and then said loudly: "Rewards, there are many rewards, the minister of households, Zhu Huairen, will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold and a cup of nine silvers. Liu Zhongyi, the director of agriculture and animal husbandry, will be the director of agriculture and animal husbandry. Long, a thousand taels of silver, reward each household of a thousand households in Zhuzhou County with a hundred catties of potatoes, and reward Xi Zhaorong Liao Shi—"
When rewarding others, Emperor Jing Li came along, and when he arrived at Liao Qingqing's place, Emperor Jing Li suddenly froze, his eyes swept over the courtiers, like a child who succeeded, his eyes were full of pride.
Then his face condensed, and he said cautiously: "Xi Zhaorong Liao, born in a family of scholars, gentle and kind, with good morals, caring for the people, creating eternal achievements between fields and ridges, and contributing to the people together with me, This is the trip of the mother of the country, established, Liao Shi is the queen, and the world will be announced soon, and the Xian envoys will hear about it."
Has Xi Zhaorong become the queen
The Minister of the Ministry of Housing and the Director of the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry were the first to react, kneeling and kowtow sincerely: "Thank you for the grace of the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor, and the queen is a thousand years old."
The potato incident made Xi Zhaorong not as popular as Emperor Jingli in the people. Someone had long discussed in private that Xi Zhaorong should be the queen. Now Xi Zhaorong is really promoted to queen, and everyone seems to be willing to make it happen. , followed by kneeling and shouting.
Some of the courtiers who opposed the establishment of Liao Qingqing as the empress couldn't get up in the face of 2 million catties of potatoes, and couldn't find a reason to refute them, so they all knelt down and accepted it.
Seeing this, Emperor Jingli showed a complacent smile and turned his head to look in the direction of the palace. At this time, Liao Qingqing was sitting in the courtyard basking in the sun, with Lotus Xiang sitting next to him.
He Xiang is bowing his head to make small shoes.
One has already been made.
Liao Qingqing took it and said, "This is too small, it's not as big as my hand."
He Xiang said: "That's what children are like, their feet are very small."
"Really?" Liao Qingqing rarely touches children.
"Yeah, the slave has asked the maid, she can't be wrong."
"Okay, then go ahead and do it."
"Well, the slaves made small shoes, and also made clothes and socks for the little prince."
"Little prince, what if it's a princess?"
"The slaves will do it."
"Row."
He Xiang bowed his head.
Liao Qingqing was eating snacks and reading a book.
After a while, Fusheng came in with the imperial decree and a group of eunuchs and maids, and said sharply: "The imperial decree is here—"
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