The prince walks around the pillar
After reading the gossip, Xu Yanmiao was very satisfied. Then, he approached Lord Quan, who was obviously in a good mood, and tentatively mentioned the prince's request for salary, asking if it was possible not to inform the emperor. Lord
Quan, of course, refused.
Xu Yanmiao racked his brains, and after some pushing and pulling, he finally persuaded Lord Quan to help the prince hide it with reason and emotion.
[Great! ] Xu Yanmiao breathed a sigh of relief: [Finally succeeded in persuading Lord Quan! ]
Great.
Quan Yingzhang breathed a sigh of relief.
Finally, he was successfully persuaded by Xiao Bai Ze.
The prince personally escorted Xu Yanmiao out of the East Palace, and said in a low voice: "Thank you so much this time. I heard that you were looking for deer blood and deer meat to feed your cat. I have some here and I will send someone to deliver it to you later."
[Wuhu!]
Xu Yanmiao cheered in his heart, and bowed calmly: "Thank you, Your Highness. That's disrespectful."
——Guaizi fell ill a while ago, and Xu Yanmiao has always wanted to nourish it. But deer meat and deer blood are not easy to get even if you pay.
The prince said, "I have some chicken meat called turkey that Xie Luoshui brought back. I wonder if your dear cat is willing to eat it. I'll send someone to deliver it. There is already half a box of it."
"!!!"
Xu Yanmiao was stunned.
[I have never eaten turkey before!]
[My dear cat can't eat half a box of it! In order to avoid indigestion, I will do it reluctantly...]
Xu Yanmiao nodded slightly solemnly.
——He really paid too much for the health of his cat.
The prince couldn't help laughing and said, "Then I'll send it here. It's too late, and it's not convenient for me to leave the palace."
Xu Yanmiao bowed again: "I'll take my leave first."
After Xu Yanmiao left, the prince turned around and saw the emperor standing behind him.
"!!!"
The prince was frightened and quickly recalled what he had just said, as well as Xu Yanmiao's thoughts. After making sure that nothing had been revealed, he dragged people to the palace: "Dad, why are you here?"
After meeting, the old emperor's first words were: "Not bad, I finally know how to contact the officials of the East Palace and show them favor!"
The tone was so happy... The prince suddenly felt guilty.
But! The prince was not panicked: "Dad, it's just an ordinary banquet - I have frozen some ice cheese in the cellar, Dad, do you want to have some to cool off."
"It's only April, what's the point of cooling off." The old emperor looked at him with disdain, then lifted his legs and walked towards the East Palace, very upright in words and deeds.
The prince followed behind with a smile.
Then, from afar, a voice came: [The old emperor is here? Fortunately, the prince acted quickly. Otherwise, if the old emperor happened to see me and Lord Quan arguing, wouldn't it be exposed that it was the prince who was behind the guild hall to give the workers advice in the past two years?]
[However, the prince is really smart. He first opened the Pujiyuan and Yuyingtang to win the hearts of the people, and then prepared a strike reserve to prevent the workers from starving to death due to the strike, and to ensure logistics so as not to fight an unprepared battle - it was worth following his father in the rebellion!]
The old emperor stopped in his tracks.
The prince's heart almost jumped out of his throat: "Dad... that... I..."
His father slowly turned his head and smiled: "Prince, how are Dan'er, Shuo'er, Min'er, and Yao'er doing recently?"
- In order to distinguish the status of the grandson from them, the grandson's name was double-character, and the names of other imperial grandsons were single-character.
Speaking of his remaining four sons, the prince quickly replied: "They are all doing well in their studies, and the teacher has praised them many times. I have their recent homework in my study, and I will send someone to bring it to you now to have a look?"
The old emperor "tsk".
He originally wanted to find a reason to punish the prince and prevent Xu Yanmo from finding out something wrong. But the prince was prepared.
However, since we are talking about the emperor's grandson, the old emperor thought that the position of the great grandson had not been decided yet, so he asked carefully: "What are their personalities like?"
The prince's eyes rolled: "Dan'er is very kind, just like his mother."
The old emperor nodded: "He has the appearance of a benevolent monarch."
The prince: "A few days ago, a cow fell and died in his home. He couldn't bear to skin it and eat its meat, so he buried the cow properly." The
old emperor: "..."
Isn't this too kind in small matters? When he is an emperor, he won't become the so-called "benevolent monarch" praised by Confucianists?
The old emperor: "What about Shuo'er?"
The prince: "Shuo'er is very much like his aunt, very competitive... no, even more competitive than his aunt."
The old emperor smiled a little: "Competitive people must compete, and there will be progress only when there is competition in everything."
The prince: "If he thinks that he can't do something better than others, he would rather not do it."
The old emperor: "..."
The prince sighed pretentiously: "But there are many people who are more capable than him in all walks of life. If he is like this, I'm afraid he can only lie in bed and live a lazy life in the future."
The old emperor: "...Min'er?"
"Min'er has good hearing."
The old emperor sneered twice: "You continue."
He finally saw that this guy was afraid that the throne would continue to fall into his family, so he said this deliberately.
He wanted to see what he could say.
The prince said: "So he hates cockroaches and other insects. He can hear them flying to the bed curtains from a long distance away and sense cockroaches crawling under the box. He can't sleep if the servants don't clean up." The
prince said: "Alas, I am always worried that he will have trouble sleeping and get irritated with people and things."
The prince said: "And Key'er, Key'er is very quick and decisive in his actions. He will do what he wants to do immediately and never procrastinates."
"Let's go." The old emperor walked in front unhappily.
"Hey! Dad! Dad! Why don't you listen? There are other things to say later!"
"Get lost!"
According to the prince, none of his four sons can take on important responsibilities. Haha. The old emperor sneered. But if the court officials were judged according to his judgment, none of the court officials would be useful.
The prime minister not taking a bath can be said to be negligent in details, and the minister with kind eyes can be said to be soft-hearted and unable to restrain his subordinates.
Dark skin can be said to affect the country's destiny!
The prince's eyes rolled again and he began to play the emotional card: "Dad, we haven't played shrimp together for a long time!"
"Yes, that's true."
"Dad, do you remember when we couldn't even afford meat, you gritted your teeth, took the money you begged to buy a shrimp net, and took mother, me and my sister to the river to catch shrimps. You set the net, mother carried the fish basket for you, and my sister and I quickly picked the shrimps out of the net. In addition to shrimps, we also picked up a lot of small fish, small snails, and small loaches."
The prince looked nostalgic.
The old emperor glanced at him and said, "Yes, you got tired after picking for a while, so you told your sister that you wanted to compete. Your sister is very competitive and picked vigorously, while you were just lazing around in the back. Don't think I don't know."
The prince coughed and said, "No wonder you put most of the small fish in your sister's bowl. I thought you were partial."
The old emperor snorted and laughed, "In our family, except for your mother, whoever works more can eat more."
The father and son walked and talked slowly in the moonlight with smiles on their faces. The old man had gray hair and the young man had thick black hair.
Everything was so beautiful.
The prince applauded himself in his heart.
Very good! Successfully changed the topic!
Then, he heard his father smiling and ordering the Jinyiwei: "Check where the prince went today and what he said to Xu Shizhong."
"..."
The prince almost jumped up.
So you have been remembering this.
——It is not certain whether it can be found, but this is already a signal, which is convenient for the old emperor to find an excuse to pull out Xu Yanmiao's voice.
The prince: "Dad, I will get you ice cream!"
The old emperor: "No, just let the palace maid get it."
The prince: "I'm afraid the palace maid will poison it." People
knelt on the ground all around.
The prince: "I didn't say you. You go down first."
The old emperor: "It's okay. I didn't treat the snake bite before. The area was swollen and blue, but it was hard. What's there to worry about poisoning."
The prince: "Before, it was poverty, poverty can cure all diseases."
The old emperor: "Are you missing my rattan?"
The prince quickly shut up.
After a while: "Dad, do you want to..."
"I don't want to eat wowotou, I don't want to eat noodles, I don't want to eat garlic, I don't want to go to the toilet, your mother is not waiting for me, she went to bed early today."
"..."
The prince shut up in frustration.
When the Jinyiwei came to report the results of the "investigation", the prince's heart sank.
The old emperor could finally vent his anger.
The cup was thrown and the table was slapped.
"Gao, Xian!"
The prince quickly dragged his lame leg and rushed out.
The old emperor brandished his stick and said, "Stop right there! You're so arrogant! Gao Xian, you've grown wings! I'm worried about this matter, and I don't know how to deal with it. I don't want to mobilize too many troops, but if we don't send out soldiers and rely on the government alone to deal with it, we haven't been able to reconcile the conflicts between merchants, Bao Gong and workers for a year or two. It turns out that you're also causing trouble here!"
The old emperor said, "I'm going to break your other leg today, so that you won't limp every day!"
The prince walked around. Zhuzi ran and shouted: "How can this be called trouble? Those workers can hardly survive, Dad, do you know that?"
The old emperor stopped: "Can't survive?"
The prince also stopped: "Yes! A troweler needs to grind 70 feet of cloth every day, but the salary is only eleven copper coins! The current price of rice is one liter and one copper coin! In other words, if a family of three depends on this troweler to make money, the money they spend on buying rice alone will account for a quarter of their salary that day!"
The problem is that people can't just eat rice! Even if they can't afford to buy meat, they still have to spend money on pickles, oil, salt, firewood, and clothes. Eleven copper coins a day is too harsh.
But even so, Baotou still wants to deduct their hard-earned money.
The old emperor: "Did you win?"
The prince poked his head out from behind the pillar with a smile: "Of course! Now the wages of the millers are paid by the piece of cloth! For each piece of cloth, the salary is thirteen cents!"
- One piece of cloth is two feet and two inches wide.
The old emperor was determined: "Then they can go to the government, and the government will naturally ask for their wages, and they can also negotiate this price."
Prince: "Then why didn't you report to the government when you were forced to sell your land and sell yourself into slavery?"
The old emperor: "..."
Prince: "... Dad, I said I didn't say that on purpose, do you believe it?"
The two people's eyes just met.
The prince started to run around the pillar. The
old emperor chased after him and beat him.
"Ah--"
A scream broke out in the East Palace.
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Anyway, the incident of three or four thousand kicksmiths violently demanding their wages disappeared after the prince presented his swollen buttocks.
Without the government investigating and without the yamen runners questioning, the kicksmiths, who had been prepared for the struggle, were like a flock of magpies, elated and ecstatic.
However, the court is formulating relevant rules and regulations based on this, and if this matter happens again in the future, they will strictly follow the rules.
Xu Yanmiao paid attention to this matter and was sure that the kicksmiths would not be targeted by the government, so he continued to eat, drink, and gossip happily, and lived a happy life.
In the blink of an eye, it was time for the potatoes to sprout.
——And five days ago, the corn had been planted. It was not time to plant the sweet potatoes yet.
At a glance, hundreds of acres of land are planted with potatoes, with tender potato seedlings, lush branches and leaves, and the air is full of spring.
The native Ilala from the potato production area gestured and occasionally uttered a few local words. Xie Luoshui said quickly: "Your Majesty, Ilala means that the potatoes can be harvested in early July."
The old emperor nodded slightly, walked to the field, squatted down to look at the rows of fluffy potatoes. A happy look appeared on his face.
Although it was the first time to plant potatoes, he didn't know how they were growing now, but seeing the strong and lush appearance of the seedlings, he was happy from the bottom of his heart.
Xu Yanmo talked about the shortcomings of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn in his heart.
For example, potatoes are difficult to store. They are easy to freeze at the temperature of water freezing, but they are easy to sprout at a slightly higher temperature. Moreover, due to the high water content of potatoes, it is difficult to transport them over long distances, and they cannot be stored for a long time.
- Of course, the potato freeze-drying technology provided by Ilala can perfectly solve the problem of long-term storage. It's just a little troublesome.
- As for the potato blight, since there are hundreds of varieties of potatoes in America, Xie Luoshui brought back more than a dozen of them, and he can continue to sail there in the future, so he doesn't have to worry about not being able to find other disease-resistant alternative varieties.
Moreover, potatoes cannot be planted continuously, and need to be rotated with other crops.
However, potatoes can produce 572 kilograms per mu in poor fields, and they are particularly not picky about the land, and can be planted in sandy land. For the old emperor, it is enough to ignore other shortcomings.