"Father, we will start harvesting rice today. Wait a minute, I will take you to see how the rice is growing." Li Yun said to the emperor.

"Okay, I want to see the rice. This is the key to solving the problem of people's hunger." The emperor said excitedly.

Li Yun took the emperor and others and asked the servants to take the thresher to the rice field.

The rice fields are on the left side of the house and the peanuts are on the right side of the house.

"Master Huang, look at these rice grains." When they arrived at the rice field, Li Yun pointed at the rice grains in the field and asked the emperor.

Looking at the golden rice fields, the emperor walked up to the edge of the field and saw the heavy ears of rice bending the rice stalks, a scene of a bumper harvest.

The emperor excitedly picked up the ears of corn. The grains were so full that he couldn't help but recite a poem.

"The sky is high and the clouds are light, the golden autumn moon is shining, the rice is fragrant and the harvest is abundant. Living in a prosperous era will bring good health and a strong nation, and prosperity and longevity."

"Excellent poem! Master Huang is truly knowledgeable and talented!" Dingbei Hou praised. The others nodded in agreement.

"No poem can be as good as the rice grown by the princess. With this rice, the people can have enough to eat and don't have to go hungry." The emperor looked at the yellow rice and was inspired.

"That's true. The princess is smart. Only with these rice grains can the people live and work in peace and contentment." said Marquis Dingbei.

He felt that the only thing his son did right was to recognize a hero and acknowledge the princess as his sister.

"Okay, I'm not as good as you say. You have to wait until I finish harvesting one acre and see how many kilograms there are before you praise me." Li Yun said.

"Yes, let's harvest quickly," said the emperor.

So the villagers started to cut the straw. Li Yun held the straw and demonstrated how to use the thresher.

Everyone watched as the rice grains that had originally grown on the stalks were placed in an iron box and stepped on hard with their feet, and the rice grains fell off instantly.

Listening to the rustling sound, the rice grains and stalks separated instantly and fell off. It was really amazing.

The Emperor and Marquis Dingbei wanted to try it out, so Li Yun taught them. They were both extremely smart and understood it immediately.

The two of them quickly got the hang of it. Li Yun no longer paid any attention to them and selected three tall male villagers to be responsible for threshing the rice, while the rest went to cut the rice.

Threshing rice is very physically demanding. Marquis Dingbei was still okay, but the emperor felt weak in the hands and feet after a while. He consumed a lot of energy and was exhausted.

The queen helped the emperor to the edge of the field to rest, and Li Yun asked a burly villager to take his place.

After an hour, an acre of rice was threshed. Changjiang took out a large scale and weighed the rice bags one by one.

One acre actually produces 1,425 kilograms, which should be around 1,300 kilograms after drying. This is considered a high yield.

Think about the rice grown by the villagers. The better ones are about 600 kilograms, and the worse ones are about 500 kilograms, which means the rice has more than doubled.

"Princess, one acre produces 1,425 kilograms of rice, which is really a high yield. I have never seen such a high yield of rice." Changjiang said to Li Yun excitedly.

"One thousand four hundred and twenty-five kilograms, excluding water, there are about one thousand three hundred kilograms, that's the amount." This amount is within Li Yun's budget. The soil here is too poor. Even if fertilizer is used, it is impossible to achieve the same results as in the previous life.

However, she is already very content with this amount.

"Wow, 1,425 kilograms, that's more than double what we harvested.

"Princess, can you sell me some grain seeds?" One villager was shocked by the figure and wanted to buy some grain seeds to plant at home so that he wouldn't have to worry about going hungry.

"Princess, I also want to buy some to plant. Is that okay?" another villager said.

Once someone started, everyone followed suit and started wanting to buy seeds to plant, and everyone was talking about it.

"Everyone, be quiet and listen to me.

I will give you a pound of rice seeds for free, but when you harvest, you must sell the rice to the court.

Except for keeping three pounds of grain seeds for himself, the rest must be sold to the court for two years. This is to allow more people to grow this kind of grain seeds.

Moreover, I will teach you how to grow a second crop of rice so that everyone will have food to eat.

Do you agree with this request?" Li Yun asked the villagers.

If she wanted all the people in the Jin Dynasty to grow this kind of grain, she couldn't grow so many grain seeds on her own land alone, and she had to rely on the villagers to grow them.

"Princess, thank you. You are our lucky star. We all agree." The villagers said excitedly.

The princess is helping them by giving them one pound of rice seeds for free, which is enough to plant one acre of land, resulting in one thousand four hundred and twenty-five pounds of rice.

If I sell it, I should be able to get a lot of silver.

The current price of grain seeds is one hundred wen per catty. If calculated at this price, it would be one hundred and forty-two taels and five hundred wen. With two crops a year, wouldn't they be able to earn two hundred and eighty-five taels a year, and five hundred and seventy taels in two years? They would then be landlords too.

"Since everyone agrees, I will distribute the seeds to everyone when you sign the contract with me.

Also, I plan to donate these grain seeds to the imperial court for free, and the imperial court will give them to the people for free to plant.

Considering that we are all from the same village and want to help everyone improve their lives, the court does not charge a very high price, only fifty coins per catty. If everyone agrees, you can go to the senior management to sign the contract tomorrow.

If you don't want to, that's fine. I can find someone else to grow the crops." Li Yun laid out the conditions and let the villagers decide for themselves.

Although it was less than half of their budget, many villagers were still willing to accept it, because it was a profit without any investment and was given away for free by the princess.

"Princess, we agree." Many villagers said.

"Those who agree can go find the senior manager to register tomorrow. Let's continue harvesting rice." Seeing that most people agreed, Li Yun told everyone to start working.

The villagers now had hope and worked harder to harvest rice.

In the capital, Shangguan Feiyun, along with the Minister of Rites and the Minister of Rites, went to the Huguo Temple with a large group of people to pray for the emperor early in the morning.

When they arrived at the Huguo Temple, the abbot took Shangguan Feiyun into a separate courtyard and placed him there, with two young novice monks serving him.

He took people from the Ministry of Rites and the Taichang Temple to prepare for tomorrow's sacrifice.

Shangguan Feiyun was tired after sitting in the carriage for half a day. After taking a shower and changing his clothes, he went to bed to rest.

In the imperial palace of the capital, Shangguan Feiyun had just left when the second prince asked someone to invite his grandfather into the palace to discuss the matter.

Yesterday, Shangguan Feiyun said that he would go to the Huguo Temple to pray for the emperor, and let the second prince, the third prince, and the fifth prince take care of the affairs of the palace.

The third and fifth princes returned to the palace and immediately asked their advisers to come and discuss countermeasures.

Their advisers discussed it for an hour and all felt that this was a trap, so they told their master not to act rashly but to wait and see what would happen.

Let the second prince act first. If his action is successful, they will take action later and reap a huge bargain.

If the second prince fails, they can seek refuge with Shangguan Feiyun.

The Prime Minister and the Second Prince both felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so they talked in secret for two hours and finally decided to take action tomorrow.

In the evening, Li Yun asked the villagers to go back and rest and continue harvesting rice tomorrow.

Today we harvested a total of six acres and threshed three acres of rice, which weighed a total of 4,150 kilograms.