After the ceremony, Jiang Yunshan said to Yu Zizhen, "Your Highness, I have chosen Tingfeng Cottage, which is closest to the Second Courtyard, as my school. It is spacious enough and will be more convenient for me to come and go."
There are a lot of women in this yard, and Jiang Yunshan still wants to avoid suspicion if possible.
The most important thing is that he actually wanted to teach Yu Zizhen's servants as well.
Unlike the guards and attendants carefully trained by the King of Zhenbei, those young servants were actually illiterate.
Jiang Yunshan tentatively expressed his idea, and Yu Zizhen immediately agreed.
Although the servants' indentures and relatives were all in the Zhenbei Palace in the northern border, she would definitely be on guard against them, but she could still let them do some of the overt things.
She clenched her left fist and tapped the palm of her right hand. "You're very thoughtful. Let's do this. I'll also have those servants come to the Sanjinyuan on time to study and practice martial arts."
Having said this, she turned her head and glanced at Yaoguang who was secretly stuffing dried meat into her mouth. "Yaoguang, go find Master Bai and tell him that I want him to help teach my servants."
Yaoguang took the order and left. Jiang Yunshan then reported his general plan to Yu Zizhen.
He planned to start the class after breakfast and end it before lunch, leaving the students to do other things on their own.
As for Yaoguang and Yuheng, he planned to give them private lessons in the afternoon.
Yu Zizhen felt that his arrangement was very reasonable.
She immediately decided that from now on, she would let these children practice martial arts in the morning, read in the morning, review their homework and practice martial arts in the afternoon, and in the evening, let each of them learn a skill according to their personal wishes.
"By the way, Prince, if you trust me, I can continue to take care of the flowers and trees in the third courtyard."
Yu Zizhen raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Are you sure you want to continue working as a gardener?"
It would have been fine if he hadn't had the opportunity before, but now that she has given him a job that suits his status as a scholar, why should he take the initiative to continue to be responsible for taking care of those flowers and plants?
Jiang Yunshan smiled calmly and said, "I am indeed a scholar, but I am also a farmer through and through."
"If my father didn't have this skill of tending flowers and plants, I wouldn't have been able to repeatedly take the imperial examinations despite repeated failures. Later, when we fled to the capital, it was thanks to this skill that I was able to avoid eating for free in the palace."
"Most importantly, tending to flowers and plants makes my subordinates happy."
Yu Zizhen understood it immediately. This was the same reason why some people indulge in nature and escape from current affairs. If people who are unhappy with real life don't want to be depressed, they must always find something else to do and try to make themselves as happy as possible.
She nodded, "Then I'll have the mansion give you an additional monthly salary as a gardener, and you won't be left out during the holidays."
Jiang Yunshan waved his hands repeatedly, "Your Highness, there's no need for this. I want to do this for my own sake, not to get more money."
Seeing his face flush with anxiety, Yu Zizhen thought for a moment, "Then take whichever one you like home and take care of it. To be honest, I plan to open up some fields in these three courtyards to grow grain, vegetables, and various fruits."
Jiang Yunshan: ???!!!
"Prince?" Jiang Yunshan couldn't believe his ears. He stammered and advised Yu Zizhen, "Please think twice!"
Yu Zizhen smiled, "I've thought it over twice."
Jiang Yunshan's face was filled with pain. "Those are rare and precious flowers and trees."
"Then you can pick the less valuable ones. Or you can replant or reorganize them."
Among the precious flowers and trees planted in the palace, even the most inconspicuous one could be sold for thirty or fifty taels outside. It was only because Jiang Yunshan was stubborn and, out of consideration for gratitude and principles, refused to cheat in this matter. Otherwise, their family would not have come to the capital for so long and still lived a tight life.
"But, but there are no flowers or plants in the yard, only crops and fruits. Doesn't that make it a farmyard? Wouldn't people laugh at us if this got out?"
This is a royal palace with a different view at every step. How could it be turned into the kind of farmhouses that were commonplace when their family was in their hometown?
Yu Zizhen shrugged, "A farmyard is a farmyard, a joke is a joke. Anyway, as the eldest son of your family, I can only live in Lumingxuan. You can take care of the flowers, plants and trees in the yard where we live. As for the other uninhabited yards, you can move the flowers and plants out and turn them into experimental fields for me."
"Experimental field?"
"Yes, it's about trying to grow a variety of crops, observing and summarizing them at any time, hoping to improve the crops."
Jiang Yunshan became excited upon hearing this, "Are you planning to improve crops?" This is a great thing that will benefit the present and future generations!
Yu Zizhen nodded. "There are so many people out there who can't get enough to eat. I can't take care of everyone, but within my ability, I still want to do my part for those ordinary people struggling on the line between life and death."
Jiang Yunshan's eyes turned red uncontrollably when he heard this.
But he had another concern. He said, "Others will think we are deliberately trying to win people's hearts, and they will become even more suspicious of the prince."
Yu Zizhen smiled, "Don't worry, I won't be so foolish as to use our experimental results to buy people's hearts. As long as the benefits can reach the people, I don't mind using my brain a little more and making good use of this matter."
Jiang Yunshan bowed to the ground and said, "Your Majesty is kind and benevolent. I thank you on behalf of the people of the world."
He was deeply moved, but Mr. Jiang was speechless when he heard that Yu Zizhen wanted to turn some parts of the third courtyard into farmland.
Mr. Jiang said that he appreciated Yu Zizhen's kindness, but in today's world, kindness is really unnecessary...even redundant.
As for Yu Zizhen's so-called method of increasing grain production, Mr. Jiang was even less optimistic. After all, what did Yu Zizhen know about farming? She probably couldn't even tell the difference between leeks and wheat seedlings.
Yu Zizhen had no idea that she would soon become the object of whispers, ridicule and discussion among the majority of people in the palace. At this moment, she was discussing with Jiang Yunshan about transplanting the flowers, plants and trees from certain places to another place.
Jiang Yunshan suggested she choose the yard farthest from Lumingxuan. As for the reason, "fertilizer will stink."
Yu Zizhen agreed, but she also proposed another idea, "Perhaps we can try a new composting method to make some fertilizer that doesn't stink."
She knew that her identity was completely unconvincing, so she brought up Madam Zhang, who came from a farming family. "Madam Zhang comes from a farming family. When I have time, I will let her think about it too."
Madam Zhang: ??? No, she can’t!
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