"Master, we have to hurry up and harvest in the next two days, otherwise it will rain heavily in two days and the wheat will be ruined." Yingyue's face was beaming with joy as she helped Helian Yu to put on her makeup. "Yingyue has an unwelcome request, please allow me, Master."
Helian Yu looked at her: "Tell me."
"Yingyue wants to go to the wheat field to help harvest the wheat."
The yearning in Yingyue's eyes has a golden sincerity, a fiery heat, and is full of vitality.
Helian Yu was exceptionally relaxed with her subordinates. Apart from being serious about serious matters, she gave them enough freedom in daily life.
Of course, Helian Yu gave them enough freedom without fostering their desire to bully their master.
Everyone knew that their master only looked easy to talk to, and seemed carefree and unconcerned about details. In fact, life and death were just a matter of her words.
What's more, there are many loyal people around the master. Anyone who has the intention to deceive the master or be disloyal will be killed by those loyal people as soon as he shows the slightest sign.
Helian Yu was lazy and a little sleepy: "Go ahead, and ask Fang Fang and the others if they are willing to go, and go with them."
"Understood." Yingyue was particularly enthusiastic and invited, "Master, are you going?"
Helian Yu propped up his chin, describing himself as lazy yet delicate: "Go, it's a good opportunity to see how many acres of land we can plant next year."
After noon that day, Helian Yu brought people from the county government to the fields.
After all, they just came to join in the fun and experience what it feels like to work.
The actual work of harvesting wheat depends on the highly skilled people.
Therefore, dozens of people in the county government were allocated one acre of land, and the remaining plots were taken care of by people who were responsible for guarding and raising wheat.
In the golden wheat field, tall and short figures shuttled back and forth, their movements were quick or gentle, and the sound of laughter and chattering accompanied them, which was not difficult to endure. - "Have you heard? The spring wheat yield of 100 dan per mu has been harvested! The yield per mu is a full 125 dan!"
"Of course I heard about it! I have already written a letter to tell my third uncle in my hometown about this news! He burst into tears! The old man has never left the city in his life, and he insisted that his son and grandson take him to Zhaoyang County for a visit!"
"God's blessing! God's blessing!"
"I also got another piece of news. Because of this, I have to move my children to Zhaoyang County!"
"What news? Could it be that there is a rice yield of 100 dan per mu?"
"No!" The man shook his head mysteriously, then clapped his hands and shouted, "You don't know! Children in Zhaoyang County can go to school for free! As long as we prepare clothes and food for the children, we don't have to worry about books and writing materials!"
"This..." the man muttered, "Is there such a thing in the world? A book costs at least one tael of silver. Can Zhaoyang County Academy provide books for every student?"
"I don't know about that." The man continued to talk, as if he was already a native of Zhaoyang County. "Princess Zhaoyang has issued an order that all children, regardless of gender, who are of appropriate age and whose parents are not injured or disabled, must go to school. If a family has a girl but does not send her to school, they will be fined 100 taels of silver."
"If we move to Zhaoyang County, won't the children be able to learn to read and have a bright future?"
The good stories about Zhaoyang County spread all over the country, but most people were just onlookers, and very few had the courage to travel through mountains and rivers to settle down in Zhaoyang County.
Zhaoyang County, the county seat.
"Master, as you expected, the price of houses in the county has more than doubled. In places with good locations, the price has even tripled or even quintupled, especially in the houses facing the street in the county government."
Yingyue held the price list in her hands and marveled at Helian Yu's divine ability.
"It's normal. The house prices in the county will continue to rise in the future." Helian Yu propped up his chin, "After rising to a certain range, it will fall back. But it won't fall too much."
She excitedly held the pill in her hands and ran all the way back to the main courtyard from where she was doing the experiment. She fell several times on the way and her body was covered in dust.
Xingchun didn't care. She held the pill in her hands as if it were a treasure, the pill that had taken her two months of hard work to make.
The grass-green pills are made up of a variety of Chinese herbs, animal corpses, feces, light poison, etc.
"Master! Master! I made it!"
The sound of Xingchun coming through the door really startled Helian Yu.
She thought that if she failed to awaken spring and bid farewell to winter, she would buy some pesticides. After all, she had to deal with the locust plague.
Unexpectedly, Xingchun was able to do it so quickly.
Helian Yu hurried to open the door and greeted Xingchun.
At the bottom of the stairs, Helian Yu greeted Xingchun: "Did you succeed?"
"Yes! Master! It worked!"
Xingchun's eyes were red as he carefully handed the pill in his palm to Helian Yu: "Master, I have tried it repeatedly. Burning ten of these pills can kill locusts in an acre of land."
Helian Yu took the pill, looked at it repeatedly, and put forward his own idea: "Can this thing be made into a medicine brick? Like a tea brick. If it is made into a medicine brick, the volume is large, the dosage is large, and the burning speed is slower. Will the effect be better? In terms of transportation, it should also be smoother."
Xingchun understood what Helianyu meant and nodded hurriedly: "Master is smart, Xingchun will change it right away!"
"You'll have to work hard these days." Helian Yu didn't stop Xingchun, "When we return to the capital, the emperor will reward you. Then let the historian record your name and give women face!"
Xingchun's heart was filled with unspeakable emotions, which were extremely complicated. Tears fell in strings. She wiped them away quickly: "Xingchun has never felt hardship."
When Xingchun turned around, her legs were trembling a little. She quickened her pace, leaving her sobs to the wind.
She had never thought that there would be a day when she could do something practical for the people and even be promised by her master to be recorded in history.
What Xingchun wanted to cry about the most was how honored she was to follow Helian Yu.
Yingyue and Caiyun can intuitively feel the idea of Xingchun.
They followed Helian Yu, thinking that serving the princess, having a respectable job in the palace, living peacefully until old age, or being released from the palace at the age of 25 and marrying into a good family would be the greatest blessing in their lives.
Unexpectedly, they were able to show up in public and do errands, even those related to the studies of children in a county. It seemed that they, like court officials, had a broad mind to take the world as their responsibility.
The two were infected by Xingchun and their eyes were red.
Helian Yu waited for Xingchun to make the medicine brick. She looked up at the blue sky and said, "Yingyue Caiyun, what do you think about naming this medicine brick Xingchun Brick? If we call it Xingchun, no one will brag and take credit for it."
Yingyue opened her mouth, hesitating to speak, and finally agreed: "Master, what you said is of course very good."
Caiyun thought for a moment and said, "Master, this medicine brick is produced in Zhaoyang County, so it seems reasonable to call it Zhaoyang Brick."
"Not so good." Helian Yu disagreed. "The word Zhaoyang is too broad. How can we tell the contribution of Xingchun at a glance? This kind of groundbreaking thing should be named after the founder, so that future generations will not forget the origin."