When the master and his two servants, covered in dust and dirt, stood in front of Ji Hongchang, it was almost midnight.

Ji Hongchang's face was darker than the bottom of a pot.

He questioned his daughter and the two maids separately, he questioned the two maids while his wife questioned his daughter.

After combining the three people's "confessions", Ji Hongchang felt very disappointed.

My daughter has been disliked by the Crown Prince, and her path to becoming the Crown Prince's concubine is blocked.

what to do?

After sending the three people to wash up, Ji Hongchang and his wife whispered to each other and discussed countermeasures...

Madam pondered: "Xi'er said that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would intercede for her and arrange a marriage for her?"

Ji Hongchang covered his chest and angrily shouted: "Evil creature! For any man, being rejected by his own woman is a loss of self-esteem, let alone he is His Majesty?"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince didn't promise anything at all. He just said he would report to His Majesty. Can that be considered a promise?"

"If His Majesty gets angry over this, my Ji family will be destroyed by this evil creature!"

The lady looked at the furious master and cautiously advised: "Maybe things are not that bad?"

Seeing that he didn't say anything, the lady's face fell: "So what should we do next?"

Ji Hongchang took two long breaths and said, "What else can we do? We originally agreed that we would be sent to the capital after the New Year to be selected as one."

"For now, we can only pack up and send them to the capital."

Madam's eyes lit up: "Can His Royal Highness the Crown Prince take her for a ride?"

Ji Hongchang glared and said, "Do you think I'm not dying fast enough?"

Despite the scolding, Ji Hongchang still asked with a licking face. As expected, he was decisively rejected by Fu Chenan.

Fu Chenan rode at full speed towards the capital.

He could have asked the secret guards to carry the little prince on his back, but Fu Chenan just couldn't say no to the soft and tender little prince.

Especially when the little prince looked at him eagerly, he always had a sense of responsibility that "rejection would mean hurt."

Never mind, I’ll just carry it on my back for my daughter’s sake.

After a dusty journey, Fu Chenan finally entered the capital of Tianwu carrying the little prince on his back.

The capital city was prosperous and crowded with people. Fu Chenan took the little prince out of the cloak, sat him in front of him, and rode his horse slowly forward.

This was the first time that the little prince saw the capital of Tianwu. He was so curious that his eyes widened. He felt that his eyes were not enough and everything was new to him.

The people in Tianwu capital don't seem to dress so luxuriously and complicatedly, and their clothes are also strange.

There are traditional slanted-collar robes and buttoned front-breasted cotton coats.

The cotton-padded jacket was sewn into diamond-shaped grids, bulging with two pockets on both sides, just right for putting your hands in to keep warm...

It looks pretty good.

All kinds of clothes, hats, and shoes are strangely blended together on the street.

He had never seen anything like it before. Even after everyone had walked past, he still turned his head to look.

Fu Chenan looked at him with amusement: "Why? Curious?"

The little prince nodded heavily: "Your Highness, why are their clothes so checkered?"

Fu Chenan explained with a smile: "Two layers of cloth sandwiched with cotton, sewn into grids, can fix the cotton in the small grids, so it is not easy to run into a large ball, so it is warmer to wear."

The little prince suddenly realized: This method is really practical...

But he also saw someone wearing a single-layer gown over his plaid cotton coat, which made the whole person look bulgy and not very pretty.

He became curious again: "Your Highness, those people are wearing such beautiful plaid cotton coats, why do they also wear gowns?"

Fu Chenan had to explain again: "They are afraid that the cotton-padded clothes will clump together if they are washed too many times and will not be warm anymore, so they wear a coat outside to protect the cotton-padded clothes from getting dirty and they can wash them less often..."

The little prince suddenly realized again: "They are so smart!"

He used to wear cotton-padded clothes made of the finest silk in the palace, and he just wore them on a daily basis, never knowing that the cotton-padded clothes would be ruined if washed if they got dirty.

Is this possible?

Fu Chenan discovered that the little prince was very curious. After he asked a question inadvertently, he seemed to have turned on a switch and kept asking questions all the way...

"Why are the patterns on the clothes of those people in front so patchy? Are the patterns embroidered on?"

"No, it's a military coat. It's very warm. The pattern is printed on it to help you hide in the forest..."

"Wow! This looks so special. Is it only sold in Tianwujing City?"

"It's not for sale in Tianwu Capital. The Crown Princess brought it back from the West."

"Your Highness, you are so kind. You actually made such nice clothes for the soldiers? Does everyone have one?"

"Um."

"The shoes that person was wearing also had that kind of pattern..."

"Those are military cotton shoes. They are waterproof underneath and very warm..."

"Wow! They are so happy. Are these also given to them by His Highness..."

Fu Chenan's self-esteem was strangely satisfied with the little prince's repeated "Wow".

Children don't lie, their admiration and envy are real.

Those "strange things" in his eyes were all brought by Fu Chenan and Xiao Yingchun from another time and space.

The emergence of these things brought prosperity to the Tianwu Dynasty and also changed the way of life of the people of Tianwu...

If there was no Space-Time Supermarket, if there was no Xiao Yingchun, I don’t know what would happen to me, my father and the Fu family army now...

Fu Chenan suddenly missed Xiao Yingchun very much. He wanted to share with her the little prince's surprise and the happy life of the people on the street.

He rode back to the palace, and after washing up, he first reported the progress of the matter to his father, settled the little prince next to the East Palace, and then went to find Xiao Yingchun.

On Xiao Yingchun's side, her uncle had already brought ten carts of sugarcane.

"It's already the end of the Chinese New Year, and there isn't much sugarcane left. Do you think this is enough?"

Xiao Yingchun nodded repeatedly: "Enough, enough."

If there is not enough this year, all the sugarcane grown can be saved as seeds in the winter and planted again.

Only then did the uncle feel relieved. He had all the sugarcane delivered to the warehouse and immediately went to do other things.

It's spring, and the Chinese herbal medicines on the hillside need to be fertilized, weeded, and soil loosened... He needs to find people to do the work again.

Xiao Yingchun closed the door of the warehouse, and sent all the sugarcane to Tianwu Dynasty with Fu Chenan. Fu Chenan immediately handed over the matter of sugarcane planting to Cui Chaoyong.

When the Minister of Revenue Cui Chaoyong learned that this was the sugarcane that could produce sugar, he was overjoyed.

"This thing is great! I'll arrange for someone to learn the planting techniques right away..."

The person in charge of farming took his people to study the video explanation. After watching it carefully, they were dumbfounded.

Sugarcane requires warm temperatures and abundant water resources. Most places in Tianwu Kingdom are not suitable for planting. The only place suitable for planting is Sanhe County.

Because Sanhe County is close to Nan'an, the climate is relatively warm.

After receiving the report from his subordinates, Cui Chaoyong was also scratching his head. He asked to see Fu Chenan and explained all the conditions for sugarcane planting.

"In the future, should Sanhe County plant more sugarcane and reduce the planting of fertile land?"

Fu Chenan had not thought about this question carefully before, and was stunned when he heard it.

Planting rice and wheat is the foundation of the people. Should we use the fertile farmland and paddy fields for growing rice and wheat to plant sugarcane?

Would the people be willing?

He turned around and went to discuss with Fu Zhonghai and Xiao Yingchun.

The family of three gathered together and expressed their opinions.

The people are definitely unwilling to do this: spring ploughing has begun, and the people must first ensure that they can have food to eat before they will consider planting other things.

They have never grown sugarcane before. If they grow it well, it will be fine. But if they don’t, they won’t make any money, and there will be no crops to grow in the fields. What will they eat?

Just trying to convince the people is a big challenge.

Of course, as an emperor, he could force the people to plant it.

But agricultural planting depends on the people's dedicated management. If the people plant sugarcane with resentment, can they grow sugarcane well? (End of this chapter)