Chapter 345 I heard that I am the best (End)
As expected, Mu Yunchao sent his own people to harvest potatoes in order to measure the yield more accurately.
"What do you want?" Mu Yunchao looked at the abundant harvest in front of him and suddenly asked Zhou Shichu.
Zhou Shichu didn't bother to be polite with him and said directly: "I want fame, I want money, I want a status that won't be bullied by anyone in the future."
Mu Yunchao smiled when he heard this and said, "I didn't expect you to be so frank. I thought you would say you didn't want anything, but you just couldn't bear to see the people starve, so you donated these new grains."
Zhou Shichu rolled his eyes and said, "I'm not a saint. I don't have such great ideas. You think too highly of me. I'm just an ordinary person who is greedy for money and lust. I don't want to be inferior to others or oppressed by others, so I have to earn my own status and become a superior person."
Mu Yunchao still smiled and said, "I am just a poor general now. I can barely support my own soldiers. How can you think I can give you fame, wealth and status? Aren't you afraid that I will lose in the end and you will lose everything?"
Zhou Shichu said, "I'm not asking you to pay me now. I'm waiting for you to complete the unification plan before paying me. As for whether you will lose, General Mu, do you have so little confidence in yourself? Do you think you won't be able to fulfill these promises in the future?"
Zhou Shichu sighed and said, "Then I can only blame myself for my bad luck."
After hearing what she said, Mu Yunchao burst into laughter and said, "It seems that in order to prevent Madam Zhou from losing your investment, I have to win too!"
Zhou Shichu nodded: "I hope you won't turn your face and deny it when the time comes, or do something like that, erasing the contribution of an ordinary woman like me and taking it for yourself."
Mu Yunchao's face suddenly turned serious, and he said to Zhou Shichu solemnly: "Madam Zhou, please rest assured that I am not such a heartless person. Madam Zhou donated such an important new grain seed, how can I erase your contribution? How can I face the people of this world?"
"I hope you can remember what you said now when you become the founding emperor." Zhou Shichu said lightly. Her words just now were actually a test. Although Mu Yunchao was a good male protagonist, what if he wanted to use the new grain to create and mythify him as the "chosen son of heaven"? Then he might really be able to put the credit on himself and erase the existence of Zhou Shichu.
Fortunately, he didn't seem to have thought of this option, so Zhou Shichu just waited and saw.
With the promotion of the ruler Mu Yunchao, potato seeds and sweet potato seeds were quickly distributed to farmers and they began to plant the next season.
At the beginning, farmers were naturally full of doubts about the two new grain varieties and did not dare to plant them at all. However, the government promised that if the yield of the new grain varieties was lower than the yield of previous rice varieties, the government would compensate the farmers for their losses; if the yield of the new grain varieties was too high and the farmers could not finish eating them, the government also promised to buy back the new grain at cost price.
In this way, the farmers no longer had any worries and they obediently planted the new crops.
Zhou Shichu sent experienced farmers from his farm to teach the people how to plant new crops, how to apply fertilizer, when to weed and catch insects, and when to harvest...
Because this was not the farmers' job, Mu Yunchao also gave the farmers who became "agricultural instructors" a salary. This made the farmers more motivated, and they wished that such good things would happen to them every day.
Mu Yunchao was indeed a man who kept his promises. He could not give Zhou Shichu benefits and status for the time being, but he could still give her fame, so he publicized from the beginning that this was a new kind of grain discovered and cultivated by Zhou Shichu. As a result, Zhou Shichu's name quickly spread among the people, and her popularity soared. Even her food shop business became more popular than before.
Even though Zhou Shichu was in this world without any spiritual power, she could feel the merits in her soul rising rapidly, making her body feel as if immersed in warm water, so comfortable that her whole soul trembled.
As expected, Zhou Shichu earned a lot of money by cultivating new grain varieties and saving the people of the world. She was very satisfied. After this world, her companion space would surely be greatly expanded.
A few months later, the new grain had a good harvest, and Zhou Shichu was immediately deified by the people. A shrine was built for her and she was called the Mother of Grain.
When Zhou Shichu learned from his adopted sister that he was given this weird name, he was immediately furious: Grain Mother Goddess? What the hell is this? Is there any name worse than this?
Zhou Shichu regretted it. She shouldn't have had such a good reputation. She let Mu Yunchao spread the word that she was the one who contributed the new grain seeds, giving her such a title.
But it was no use regretting, it was too late, the people had already called the Mother of Grain famous.
Ever since Liu Yan learned that Zhou Shichu was the one who offered the new grain varieties, she could no longer suppress the uneasiness and anxiety in her heart. She remembered that there were clearly no new grain varieties in her previous life. If there were, it would have reached her ears. After Mu Yunchao became the founding emperor, he did not promote any new grain varieties, which showed that there were no new grain varieties in her previous life.
But now, there are new grain varieties with extremely high constant yields, which were donated by Zhou Shichu. Liu Yan knows the importance of the new grain varieties, because not only Zhou Shichu remembers next year's drought and famine, but she does too.
To this end, she even secretly bought back batches of food slowly, like an ant moving house, in preparation for helping her husband solve his problems when drought comes next year.
But unexpectedly, Zhou Shichu directly offered two new high-yield grain varieties, which was much more effective than her clumsy act of buying grain. This made Liu Yan feel very frustrated. Why was Zhou Shichu better than her in every way? It was the disaster relief, and it was also the preparation before the drought this time! Could it be that she also had some extraordinary experience?
When Liu Yan thought of this, she was shocked. It was obvious that Zhou Shichu's temperament was completely different from that of an ordinary woman. Not only did she not have the virtuousness, reserve, gentleness and kindness of a woman, but she was also willful and capricious, not caring about the opinions of the world at all. She was also fierce and sharp, making people afraid to bully her... Could such a person be an ordinary person?
At this moment, Liu Yan really wanted to ask Zhou Shichu directly who she was, but she knew she couldn't panic, so she tried her best to calm herself down.
After calming down, Liu Yan's mind became clearer. She no longer thought about questioning Zhou Shichu, but thought of another aspect. That is, Zhou Shichu had made such a great contribution and was called the Mother of Grain by the common people. How would her husband treat her in the future?
The first thought that came to Liu Yan's mind was that after Mu Yunchao conquered the world, he would take Zhou Shichu into his harem. After all, taking such a famous woman into his harem would have a great positive impact on Mu Yunchao's image, and the benefits would outweigh the disadvantages.
Liu Yan was suddenly stunned and panicked. Zhou Shichu must not become her love rival!
But what she didn't know was that Zhou Shichu didn't have such an idea at all. She didn't want to steal another woman's man.
(End of this chapter)
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