Of course, the emperor knew in his heart that such things could only be considered isolated incidents.
According to past experience, it takes the right time, right place, and right people for such an event to happen.
The reason why the imperial court selected grain kings from various regions every year was to encourage everyone to find ways to increase production.
However, the emergence of a grain king does not mean that the local per-acre yield will be increased to this level in the future. This will still require a long period of effort.
However, Ye Laoer's yield per mu this time was so amazing that the emperor couldn't help but have a sweet dream.
But Ye Laoer's case seemed to have started a good start. In the following days, after the per-acre yields from other places were reported one after another, it felt like they were blooming everywhere.
The highest per-acre yield values in various places have actually increased to a certain extent.
Although it is not as prominent as the Ye family's, it is also encouraging good news.
For this reason, the emperor praised Prince Rui highly during his court session.
Prince Rui quickly said modestly, "It's mainly because of the good weather this year. The weather has been favorable everywhere, so the crops are growing well. I don't dare to take credit for it."
Having said that, the emperor was still very happy.
On the one hand, my younger brother finally found my daughter and is no longer indifferent to her affairs as before. He can finally help me share some of the burden.
On the one hand, he felt that since his brother found his daughter, all the bad things in the court had been resolved, and there had been good news about the autumn harvest.
The emperor always felt that all this seemed to be predetermined.
Just as the Queen said that day, God truly blesses the Great Qi.
After finishing discussing all the political matters, Wang Wei said loudly: "Dismissing the court——"
The ministers bowed and waited for the emperor to leave.
The Emperor waved to Prince Rui below and said, "Seventh Brother, don't leave yet.
"The Queen has invited Princess Rui and Qingtian to the palace as guests today. It's a good opportunity for you to come along and have lunch together. Then the three of us can go back together."
After hearing this, all the court officials became more certain of the status of Prince Rui's family in the emperor's mind, and they all knew what attitude they should adopt towards Prince Rui's family in the future.
After the court session, the emperor and Prince Rui came to the harem.
Immediately, a palace servant came forward and said, "Your Majesty, the Empress, Princess Rui, and Princess Qingtian are all in the Yuhua Pavilion in the Imperial Garden."
"Let's go and take a look!" The emperor also became interested after hearing this.
The palace maid immediately led the way.
When the emperor was still some distance away from the pavilion, he saw that there seemed to be a lot of things placed on the stone table inside the pavilion, which did not look like the usual tea sets and snacks.
"What are you doing?" the emperor asked as he walked quickly into the pavilion.
When the people in the pavilion saw the emperor and Prince Rui coming, they quickly stood up and saluted.
"Everyone please stand up. We are a family and there is no need for formalities."
As the emperor looked at the stone table, he found that there were pumpkins, corns, and even cabbages and radishes on the table.
"What is this?" The emperor was quite surprised. He reached out and picked up a corn, peeled off the husk, and found that the kernels inside were very plump. "This corn is growing well, and the pumpkin is also quite big. Where did it come from?"
The Empress knew that the Emperor was in a very good mood recently because of the bumper harvests in various places, so she smiled and said, "Your Majesty, why don't you take a guess?"
"Could it be something produced in Lao Qi's farm?"
The Queen smiled, stretched out her hand and pushed Qingtian forward, saying, "Your Majesty's guess is close. Why not let Qingtian tell you the whole story?"
"Uncle Huang, this was grown on my great-grandfather's farm."
Prince Rui hurriedly explained, "It's Mr. Cen who used to work in the imperial kitchen."
"Oh, I know him!" The emperor nodded and said, "Old Cen has always liked to study the things in the fields, but he likes growing vegetables more. Whenever he grows something good, he will specially send it to the palace for me to taste.
"I still remember that the vegetables and radishes he grew before were all more delicious than before.
“Several of these are very good, and I have instructed the Ministry of Agriculture to promote them to the people as soon as possible!
"Why, have you come up with something new?"
Qingtian said: “This is not the biggest one!
"My great-grandfather's farm had a great harvest this year. We grew a lot of really big pumpkins.
“The oldest one was taken away by Si Nong Si, saying he was going to participate in some kind of selection.
"They also took a basket of the best corn and several large turnips.
"Grandpa heard that I would be entering the palace today, so he asked me to bring some here for my uncle and aunt to try."
When the emperor heard this, he was overjoyed and said it was a good idea.
"Wang Wei, have someone take these to the imperial kitchen. We'll cook them for lunch today!"
The Queen had already informed the Imperial Kitchen the day before that she would host a banquet for Princess Rui and Qingtian today, and asked the Imperial Kitchen to prepare in advance.
The imperial kitchen had already prepared lunch that they liked and was suitable for children.
As a result, the emperor's sudden whim disrupted all their plans in an instant.
But there was no other way. Even if it was disrupted, we still had to obey the emperor's orders.
Although the food delivered were pumpkins, corns, sweet potatoes, cabbages and radishes, the imperial kitchen certainly could not prepare real farm meals by steaming pumpkins, boiling corns, and serving cabbages and radishes with pickles.
In order to make these ingredients into delicious and high-end dishes, the imperial kitchen has racked their brains.
So the last few dishes served were cabbage in soup, radish in abalone sauce, corn cheese, sweet potato in osmanthus honey sauce and glutinous rice pumpkin pancake.
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