Sishui Commandery, Fengyi County, Zhongyangli, notice board.
The bustling crowd of people gathered here, staring at the white paper pasted on the wooden board.
"Mr. Li, please take a look at what is written on this notice issued by the government?"
"Isn't it going to be another tax increase?"
A thinly dressed middle-aged man sighed.
"Alas, if we collect more taxes, how will our family survive this winter?"
A hunchbacked old woman wiped away her tears tremblingly.
“…”
Tension, sadness, numbness...
Appearing on many pale and thin faces.
"Don't worry...I'll take a look right away."
The old man, who was dressed a little more decently, stroked his long white beard slowly.
"Lord Chu, the Minister of Internal Affairs, presented a plant called sweet potato. After cultivation, Xianyang City has recently had a bumper harvest, with yields reaching 10,000 kilograms per mu."
"Next spring, the government will distribute sweet potato seedlings and planting instructions to all counties."
As soon as the old man finished reading, the originally quiet crowd suddenly exploded.
"What? Ten thousand... ten thousand pounds?!"
"Ten thousand catties per mu! Hahaha, ten thousand catties per mu!"
"This...how is this possible? Could this be fake?"
"The government has issued a notice, it must be true!"
"Yes, yes. Didn't you hear that this year's sweet potato harvest is already abundant?"
“…”
The people couldn't believe it.
What does it mean to produce 10,000 jin per mu?
They don’t even dare to think about producing 1,000 kilograms per mu!
But this is a notice posted by the government itself, and it has the official seal on it.
The scene was chaotic for a while, with some people crying loudly, some shouting excitedly, and some fainting from excitement...
The old man who read the notice seemed to have just realized it, and immediately burst into tears, knelt down and kowtowed, shouting,
"God bless my Great Qin! God bless my Great Qin!"
"God bless the Great Qin!"
"God bless the Great Qin!"
“…”
Shouts filled with hope resounded throughout Zhongyangli and throughout Daqin.
Similar scenes were played out in other counties, towns, villages, and villages...
The seeds called sweet potatoes brought new life to the Qin Dynasty.
At this time, in the Fengyi County government office, a jailer heard the deafening shouts outside and couldn't help but feel surprised.
His colleagues laughed when they saw his puzzled expression.
"Xiao He, you've been busy handling cases these days, so you probably don't know about this big thing!"
"What's the big deal? What's causing the people to be so angry?"
Xiao He thought that the autumn harvest was approaching and the court had added other miscellaneous taxes.
"This is good news! I heard there's a magical thing in Xianyang City called the sweet potato, which can produce 10,000 kilograms per mu!"
"Hehe, you can't believe it, right? But this is true! Next year I'll ask my husband to plant more sweet potatoes..."
But Xiao He could no longer listen to what was said afterwards.
Crops that produce 10,000 kilograms per mu are unheard of and unseen, but the imperial court would not deceive the people.
Who on earth could have produced such a magical object?
How to get this opportunity?
By mid-May, several autumn rains had fallen one after another, and the weather was getting colder and colder.
Chu Yuening has been in the palace for half a month.
During the day, I just open my mouth to eat and stretch out my hand to get clothes, and at night I sleep with a handsome man in my arms. My life is very comfortable.
Of course, she is not idle these days.
Apart from taking A Zheng to do prenatal education for the baby at night, he studied movable type printing and ways to keep warm in cold seasons during the day.
As for the memorial...
Ahem, let’s let A Zheng review it.
After reading memorials for just a few days, she found it extremely boring and tedious, and it was almost no different from working an office.
In the future, she should do more inventions and creations to benefit the people.
As winter approaches, she has been thinking about many ways to keep out the cold these days.
Things like coal and cotton require either mining or farming, and there simply isn't enough time.
In the end, I found that the kang was simpler and more effective.
But Chu Yuening, being from the south, had only heard of things like kangs on the Internet in modern times.
Therefore, she could only spend a huge amount of money to go to the mall and spend 99 merit points to buy a kang (adobe version).
This is also a winter special offer, well... a little discount.
You will do business in the system.
Chu Yuening took the kang blueprint and walked quickly towards Zhangtai Palace excitedly.
The palace maids behind her were so sad that they could not even cry as they watched the queen walking so fast.
"A Zheng A Zheng! Look what good stuff I brought you~"
He heard the voice before he saw the person, and Ying Zheng, who was handling official business at the imperial desk, put down his brush.
He looked at the woman in white who came in rashly with helplessness and doting.
The woman had her hair combed into a bun and wore no fancy ornaments.
She only wore a white jade ring around her waist, but she looked like a lotus emerging from water.
Because she had just been running fast, her cheeks were slightly red, her cherry lips were slightly panting, and her figure was slim, but her lower abdomen was slightly bulging.
"Yuening, slow down. Why don't you put on more clothes?"
Ying Zheng pulled Chu Yuening in front of him and wrapped her slightly cold little hands with his dry, warm big hands.
"Isn't there A Zheng to keep me warm~"
"Hey, take a look at this first."
After Chu Yuening finished acting coquettishly, she handed the blueprint to Ying Zheng and explained it.
"This thing is called a fire kang. The kang bed is connected to the kang stove. When people light a fire to cook, the temperature of the bed will also rise."
"This way, we can save firewood and keep warm at the same time, so we won't be freezing in the winter."
Ying Zheng sat upright, carefully examining the structure of the kang on the blueprint. Although simple, it was extremely ingenious.
If every household had a kang, so many people would not have frozen to death this winter.
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