Consort De was not a great beauty, but her features were soft and she spoke gently, giving people a very comfortable feeling. Because of the "chicken incident" a few years ago, she was neglected by Emperor Kangxi for more than half a year. After that, she heard that her family had all died, and she aged more than ten years. Now she looks older than Consort Rong.

He Zhuo was the wife of a prince, and her allowance included bird's nest, but it was white bird's nest. When the palace had blood bird's nest, Consort Hui would always save a portion for He Zhuo.

Only Consort Hui and Consort Rong could do that. Consort Yi was lukewarm towards her because she didn't like either of her two wives. They had been married for many years and neither of them had children.

Needless to say, Consort De only received filial piety from the Fourth Prince's wife. There was never any news of her giving anything to the Fourth Prince's wife. It was truly pitiful to be Consort De's daughter-in-law.

Even when Li was a princess, she dared to challenge the Fourth Prince's wife. Not to mention that she is now a secondary princess, the Fourth Prince's wife sometimes has to give her some leeway in the mansion, all because of the Empress Dowager's favor towards Li.

At first, Yinzhen resisted, but he couldn't resist Li Shi. She was delicate and easy to push over, and he fell at her feet. In addition, Li Shi had given birth to many children, and although he said he was not biased, he always favored Li Shi.

Yinzhen is a rare romantic among the princes. He has been doting on Consort Li for seven or eight years, and it seems he intends to continue doing so.

It is said that the secondary consorts of princes are the biggest enemies of the primary consorts. Apart from the primary consort and the third consort, there is also the eighth consort. Basically, most primary consorts just live a decent life. As for being favored, that's nothing.

The Fourth Prince favored Consort Li, the Fifth Prince favored Consort Guarjia, the Seventh Prince favored Consort Nalan, and the Tenth Prince favored Princess Guoluo.

Most of the princes' wives lived a respectable life. The key was that as long as these men appeared in the main courtyard on the first and fifteenth of the month, and the back courtyard was nominally managed by the primary wife, it wouldn't be considered favoring a concubine over the wife.

The primary wife is usually the daughter of a high-ranking official of the third rank or above. Isn't this just insulting someone else's daughter?

He Zhuo sometimes thought that if she married one of these men, she probably wouldn't kill him with a single dose of medicine, but she would certainly poison him to prevent him from having any offspring.

If I can't have children, then no one should have any, since the title won't end up in my son's hands anyway.

That's settled then.

If Xiao Zhenbao were to marry into such a family, He Zhuo would probably break off all ties with them, regardless of what the consequences might be.

These jade stones made Khoja a fortune, earning him about 60,000 to 70,000 taels of silver, all of which were bought up by nobles in the capital.

Khoja had made preparations for Emperor Kangxi's 50th birthday celebrations long ago, having had sweet potatoes cultivated on his estate last year. Khoja inspected the fields and found that the yield was approximately 1,000 jin per mu.

Actually, sweet potatoes were introduced to China long ago, during the Ming Dynasty, but no one paid much attention to them. It wasn't until the Qianlong era that they were vigorously developed. Khoja obtained these seeds from that foreigner a couple of years ago. Khoja didn't really know how to cultivate them; he just took them to the farm and let the old farmers cultivate them.

"My lady, what is this made of?" Yinzhi asked, picking up a piece of candied sweet potato.

"This is a sweet potato. It existed as early as the Ming Dynasty. I'll tell you more about it after we've eaten."

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"Sir, this is a sweet potato. I heard from the old farmers on the estate that one mu of land can produce a thousand jin."

Yinzhi was so shocked that he stood up abruptly and grabbed Hezhuo's hand: "A thousand catties, really?"

"It's true. I got this fruit from that foreigner. He said the yield was good and that his country was growing it. I thought I'd give it a try, and I never expected it to actually work."

"I don't know the specifics very well. How about we go to my estate and ask the old farmers there?"

It's no wonder that Yinzhi was excited. Nowadays, a field that can produce 200 catties of grain per mu is considered top-grade. There are also fields that can produce 300 catties, but they are rare and only found in the south. If there were crops that could produce 1,000 catties of grain, wouldn't that allow many people to not go hungry and ensure that the army wouldn't run out of food supplies during battles?

Soon, they hitched up a car and went out.

He learned a lot from the old farmer, and was very excited to see a warehouse full of sweet potatoes.

Yinzhi chatted with his advisors in the front courtyard until late at night. He originally wanted to present it to his father, the Emperor, but then he thought that his wife was right. He decided to make sure that he planted more on a larger scale before presenting it, which would coincide with his father's 50th birthday next year.

Since learning this, Yinzhi has been full of energy. Even when Hongyu and the others were on leave, they were conscripted to go farming together.