That attempt to show off wasn't very successful.
Li Chang'an misjudged the quantity and gave out 150,000 tons of rice in one go.
That is, 300 million jin of rice, or 3 million dan.
How big would all this rice look if it were all put together?
Within a radius of 500 meters, it's all rice, the kind you can't see the end of.
The highest point is about ten meters high.
It is about three stories high.
The area occupied by rice is the size of six or seven football fields.
In other words, there is a large open space in Chengxi Village that can barely hold this much rice.
Some of it has already flowed into the woods.
All the soldiers, upon seeing the rice, stood frozen in place, as if their minds had stopped.
Wang Zhongxian was the first to react. When he saw Li Chang'an crawl out of the pile of rice, he immediately knelt on the ground and shouted.
"King Zhongxian of the Great Ming Dynasty pays respects to the Immortal!"
"Meng Xian from Lingnan pays respects to the Immortal!"
"Cheng Hu of Dafeng Camp pays respects to the Immortal!"
"Meng Xingyun of the Meng family pays respects to the Immortal!"
"Greetings, Immortal..."
"Greetings, Immortal..."
"Greetings, Immortal..."
The sounds of kneeling and bowing soared into the sky.
The villagers of Chengxi Village also knelt on the ground, their legs shaking with excitement.
Xiong Er's mouth never closed.
That's a whopping amount of rice! Am I still half asleep?
He felt that the amount of rice was enough to completely fill up the large river west of Chengxi Village.
The image that flashed through his mind was of his son-in-law waving his hand and filling the river with rice.
Then, with a wave of his hand, the entire world, except for Chengxi Village, was filled with rice and eggs.
When we get hungry, we can just go to the village entrance, dig up a bowl of rice, and go home to cook it.
I don't have to do anything anymore. I just eat white rice and eggs every day. If I can't finish them, I save them for dinner.
Such a life might be even better than that of an emperor.
Guo Dajiao was convulsing with excitement, muttering to himself, "I bet right, I bet right, my Guo family is rich now."
Lin Youchu looked at her husband and felt that he stood in the crowd, looking high above everyone else, as if he were shining.
Dongdong excitedly hugged Su Xiao and shouted, "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, this is my brother-in-law!"
"hei——tui"
Li Chang'an spat out a mouthful of rice, jumped twice, and shook the rice grains off his body.
"Stop fucking kneeling, hurry up and save them, they're about to drown."
Upon hearing his words, everyone realized that there were still people in the pile of rice.
Fortunately, the soldiers were not standing in the middle of the open space, but on the edge, so they were not buried very deep.
They helped pull it out.
A few unlucky people were knocked unconscious by the impact of the rice.
"Let's light some firewood, and I'll treat you all to a hearty meal today."
Li Chang'an waved his hand, and golden light flashed again.
Hundreds of thousands of eggs appeared next to the pile of rice, along with a large number of jars filled with white lard.
"Rice with lard, boiled eggs with water, everyone eat your fill today."
The soldiers looked at the miracle before them and felt like they were dreaming.
So much grain, and eggs too.
There's no way we can finish all of this.
Even the landlords of the past wouldn't have had this much rice.
It's piled up almost to the sky, with lots of white lard and eggs.
My goodness, this immortal must be a god in charge of food in heaven.
Li Chang'an didn't care what others thought.
If he wanted, he could bury the entire Ming Dynasty with rice.
Fill up all the rivers and oceans in the world with eggs.
The phrase "unlimited resources" is a terrifying concept, even in modern times.
"Start the fire again and cook!"
Cheng Hu roared and told the cook to start the fire again and cook rice.
Meng Xian then ordered her subordinates to report to the Prince's residence, asking the Princess to send people over to transport the rice away.
Now she can't care whether Meng Sanguan lives or dies.
She now has only one thought: to get along well with Li Chang'an.
Others didn't know how much rice was here, but she estimated it using the method of Han Xin counting his troops.
There are approximately three million dan (a unit of weight).
To put that into perspective, the total annual tax revenue of the entire Lingnan region was only 400,000 dan (a unit of weight).
This is under the condition that the weather is favorable and the border is stable.
Normally, only 200,000 dan (a unit of weight) are produced annually.
And throughout the Ming Dynasty, there were fiefdoms like Lingnan.
There are only eleven.
Three million dan (a unit of weight), equivalent to ten years' worth of tax revenue in Lingnan, or one year's worth of tax revenue in the Ming Dynasty.
Li Chang'an simply waved his hand twice and produced so much grain, and it was all fine grain.
If he were allowed to do this a few more times, Lingnan might not need to collect taxes for at least a century.
At that time—
Meng Xian thought of the princess's announcement that there would be no taxes in Lingnan for a hundred years.
I reckon that the princess made the announcement in the morning, and by the afternoon someone had already draped the dragon robe over her.
As for Meng Sanguan?
I love it to death.
With so much grain, how long could it feed all the people of Lingnan?
How many troops could it support?
Even if Meng Sanguan dies, as long as the Prince's Mansion has Li Chang'an's assistance, Lingnan City can expand its army indefinitely.
When the time comes, with just one order from the Princess Consort, how could we possibly fail to avenge ourselves?
I'm afraid that by then, the Ming Dynasty, the Manchus, and the Liao people will all be nothing but trash.
Looking in the direction of Jiayang Pass, Meng Xian couldn't help but light three incense sticks in her heart for the King of Lingnan.
I can't control you anymore, brother-in-law. Goodbye and don't come back to me. I'll take good care of my sister.
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