When General Xie said this, it was obvious that he had resentment towards the court.
Zhou Jiaojiao sighed. She saw a check-in point had indeed appeared at the blacksmith's side. After signing in, she received the method for forging weapons. She smiled lightly and said, "With a general like General Xie who loves the people and soldiers, God will give us hope."
"Miss Zhou, please don't say that. This general only wants to defend the territory. With the cooperation of Your Highness, we will surely be able to defeat those traitors!" General Xie's eyes were full of anger.
Just at this moment.
The soldier outside came in and informed General Xie that an imperial edict had arrived from the capital.
"What is it?" General Xie casually took it and read it. His face darkened instantly, and his anger was still there. "The capital city is really a place full of filth. They even withheld our military pay and asked me to lead the troops back to support the capital. If I don't go back, I will be guilty of treason!"
"This general will become the minister who plotted rebellion!"
He threw the imperial edict away in a flash.
"General Xie, how dare you! You actually dared to destroy the imperial edict? Your crime is even greater!" A middle-aged man in official uniform ran over from a distance, his face flushed. He started to scold General Xie, but that was not all. He even laughed smugly, "Just wait, the emperor will chop off your head when he finds out about this."
General Xie glared angrily, wanting to slap him, "Villain!"
"Thank you, General. If you want to scold me now, I'll let you scold me." The official laughed sarcastically. "So what if I'm a villain? The emperor values me. Even if you are a general, you must treat me well!"
"I'll treat you shit."
General Xie was so angry that he drew his sword and slashed at him.
The official's originally smug expression froze in an instant, and he was so scared that he almost peed his pants. "Someone, help, stop him quickly, is he crazy?"
The scene was in chaos. General Xie killed the official with a sword and left immediately, obviously preparing to deal with the people coming from the capital.
Zhou Jiaojiao thought that the new emperor might be anxious and in a bad situation, so he sent an envoy who was so taciturn and forced General Xie to go back.
But obviously, the new emperor failed.
After discussing directly with the prince, General Xie wrote a letter back, which meant that his Xie family army had become independent and would only obey the prince's words. The prince was the orthodox one, and now that the new emperor had not come to the throne legitimately, he would not obey.
When the news came out, it was said that the new emperor smashed several sets of tea sets in the palace, and even brought all the family members of other princes into the palace, threatening the princes to surrender.
Instead of surrendering, several vassal kings attacked the capital city one after another.
The people along the way in the capital were suffering terribly.
At this time.
Youzhou and Yuzhou are harvesting rice.
In addition, the potatoes and sweet potatoes that Zhou Jiaojiao brought back and asked Chu's father and mother to help plant have also matured.
"General Xie, Your Highness, look, this is the yield of sweet potatoes, one thousand kilograms per acre." As soon as the prince and General Xie arrived, Zhou Jiaojiao took them to the farm she bought.
When the prince heard the yield per mu, he was stunned. "How much is the yield per mu?"
"A thousand jin." Zhou Jiaojiao said with a smile, "Actually, it's more than a thousand jin, to be exact, it's about 1,200 jin."
"So much! What kind of grain is this? The yield is so high." General Xie was also stunned.
"And there are vines on it. Can they be eaten?"
"It's edible, but it's too old for us to eat now. Even if humans don't eat it, we can feed it to cattle and horses as fodder." Zhou Jiaojiao felt that sweet potatoes were really a good thing. Didn't this help solve another problem?
“In fact, we planted too late this year, so the yield was affected.”
"This output is already very good, how can it be even higher?" the prince asked enthusiastically.
You know, this is a key issue that concerns whether the people in Youzhou and Yuzhou can have enough food and whether the army can have enough food and grass.
Although Champa rice has solved part of the problem, there is still not enough food.
"It can be higher. We'll ask the experienced farmers to plant it specifically next year."
"This year, I have another surprise for your Highness and General Xie. Here are the yellow seeds, called sweet potatoes or potatoes."
“It’s edible.”
She dug out the potatoes and handed them to the two of them. "The yield of potatoes per mu is also very good, about a thousand kilograms."
The two grain yields of 1,000 kilograms made General Xie and the prince extremely surprised.
"I have arranged for a chef to wait in the farm and use these two crops to make food. Your Highness and General Xie, would you like to go to the kitchen and take a look?" Zhou Jiaojiao invited them.
General Xie nodded repeatedly, "Go, I must go."
"Your Highness, shall we go together?"
The prince really wanted to see with his own eyes how these two kinds of grains were cooked into food, so how could he refuse? He then went to the kitchen on the farm.
When Mother Chu and Father Chu saw how calmly Zhou Jiaojiao could get along with the Crown Prince and General Xie, their originally nervous mood calmed down.
Soon we were in the kitchen.
Following Zhou Jiaojiao's instructions, the chef first made spicy and sour potato shreds, potato stew with meat, braised potatoes, mashed potatoes, dry-pot rabbit potato slices, potato pancakes, boiled potatoes... and so on.
Now it’s sweet potato’s turn. There are also roasted sweet potatoes, steamed sweet potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, fried sweet potato tips, fried sweet potato shreds, sweet potato porridge, and sweet potato braised with meat...
After the dishes are prepared, the chef puts each one on a small plate.
The Crown Prince and General Xie saw with their own eyes how the two foods were prepared in this way. Just by smelling the fragrance, they couldn't wait to try the flavor.
"Your Highness, thank you General, please."
Zhou Jiaojiao brought Chu's mother and father to entertain the two of them.
"good."
The prince and General Xie did not hesitate to pick up their chopsticks and began to try each dish. There was also a bowl of rice in front of them, which was cooked from Champa rice.
When General Xie took his first bite of the spicy and sour potato shreds, he was stunned. "This... tastes really good. What's this green thing?"
"It's chili peppers, which the soldiers brought back this time."
Zhou Jiaojiao originally didn't exchange for chili peppers, but unexpectedly the soldier brought some back, so she used them.
"Chili peppers can dispel cold, and their flavor is similar to that of dogwood, spicy but not so pungent."
"It's delicious. This sweet potato is delicious too..."
The prince commented sincerely that he ate everything, even if a dish only took him three chopsticks, but after finishing all the dishes, he was still half full.
"Xie General, do you feel full after eating these two foods?" The prince took a deep breath and asked tremblingly.
General Xie had already comfortably finished the dishes on the several plates in front of him. He patted his belly and said, "Your Highness, that's right. In the past, I needed to eat a lot of noodles to regain my strength. I don't dislike rice, mainly because it's not very filling and has no flavor. Steamed buns are still delicious. I need to eat at least ten large ones. Now, after eating a few dishes, I feel full. These two foods are really good."
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