"Tell me, what do you want this time?" Emperor Wu was in a good mood and spoke casually to Qiao Xin.
"Can I ask for this reward myself?" Qiao Xin was stunned for a moment, then blurted out her true thoughts: "Didn't Erlang always say that if the ruler doesn't give, the minister won't take it?"
"Hahaha, is this what Minister Qiao told you? Well, that's a good rule. If the ruler doesn't give it to me, I won't take it! Today I really allow you to take it yourself." Emperor Wu looked at Qiao Yunqing in surprise, and his face was filled with delight.
Qiao Xin thought for a long time and didn't feel that he wanted anything else. If he asked Emperor Wu for rewards every time he accomplished something, he would have a lot of things to do in the future. Sooner or later, there would be a day when there would be no more rewards. Only then would the Qiao family be in real danger.
But right now she really wanted to ask something, "Well, our family is not as good as last year. Now we have no worries about food and clothing. We really don't want anything. But we are planning to hold an agricultural product exhibition in Beijing recently. I wonder if it can be held?"
"Agricultural products fair? What is that?" King Qi became interested when he heard it.
"Hehe, the fruits in our orchard will be ripe in a month. The population of Weizhou Prefecture is too small to consume them all, but there are many rich people in Beijing. We have to advertise before buying things. Good wine needs to be advertised in a remote alley. We are thinking about whether we can choose a day or two on the streets of Beijing to hold a parade and inform the people with drums and gongs."
"It's just an orchard. How many fruits can there be? Is it worth it for you to mobilize so many troops and come to me specifically?"
"A lot, Your Majesty, you don't know, have you ever tasted my strawberries? The big ones don't last long, they can only be kept for a day at most. People in Weizhou can buy them for three cents now. All the inferior and bad ones are fed to chickens and pigs, and now the chickens and ducks at home are too impatient to eat them."
Qiao Xin felt very sad when she talked about it. The strawberry seeds were also provided by the system. They were sown in the spring. After the temperature warmed up, they grew rapidly, which made Qiao Xin dumbfounded.
They couldn't catch up with the growth speed even if they divided and transplanted plants. The key point is that this thing actually bloomed and bore fruit in two or three months. Each one was super big. The system said it was a space-improved variety, and it was really true.
As a result, the residents of Laohu Town, who were amazed at the deliciousness of the strawberry at first and wanted to eat it every meal, now get a sour taste in their mouths when they hear the word "strawberry" and can't avoid it.
"You actually used such delicious fruit to feed the chickens, you are really..." Emperor Wu was also speechless. He thought of his reluctance when he just gave it to his minister, and his face was flushed.
Is his life worse than that of a chicken?
Qiao Xin looked helpless and said, "I can't do anything. The skin of this fruit is thin and it won't last long. There are too many of them and not many people eat them. What should I do if I don't throw them away?"
I would like to transport it to the capital, but it takes three days to travel by land. The road is full of potholes, and most of the things get damaged when they are transported in.
The cost is too high. Even if we sell it for 30 or 50 wen per pound, we will definitely lose a lot of money. It is better not to bother. Going by water is faster and more stable, but the post station for water transfer has not been built yet, so we can't get through."
When talking about what she is doing, Qiao Xin can't stop talking.
She told Emperor Wu that she still had hundreds of thousands of kilograms of peaches and plums. In order to prevent the land from being left barren, she also planted 100 mu of winter melons and more than 40 mu of cantaloupe. In August and September, plums, chestnuts, persimmons and other autumn fruits could be harvested.
The large abandoned orchard of Qingyang Academy was once infested with wild animals. After Qiao Xin took over, she spent a lot of effort to clean it up. Especially with the support of the system, it is now full of more vigorous vitality.
These fruit trees are blooming and bearing fruit. But isn't Qiao Xin worried now?
The official roads leading to other areas are bumpy and the waterways have not been opened yet. Fruits are not something that can be kept for a long time. They ripen and fall day by day. Who wouldn't feel sad when seeing them?
Some people can’t eat it, some people can’t sell it, the truth is so cruel!
Qiao Xin was now facing a situation where she had to go from one extreme to another. She didn't want to complain about anything, but she wanted to report to Emperor Wu about the difficulties she was facing and what she was going to do next.
In the following days, she was really busy, busy with harvesting, busy with selling goods, and busy with spending the money she earned on improving the infrastructure and people's livelihood in Shanglaohu Town.
Everyone could tell that Qiao Xin was building her ideal home step by step. It was not just a whim.
Emperor Wu knew that Qiao Xin was reclaiming wasteland in Laohu Town, but he never expected that he would make such a big fuss and create so many things.
From her tone, besides fruits and vegetables, there are many grains such as beans, but what are these sugarcane, beets and cotton?
"Sugar cane and sugar beets are the raw materials used by Xiling to produce rock honey."
"Shimi, are you saying you can produce Shimi?" Emperor Wu stood up suddenly.
He knew how expensive this thing was. Xiling made a lot of money in the four countries every year by selling white sugar! Unfortunately, no matter how many people asked, they still had no idea what this rock honey was made of.
Later, they found that it was extracted from a plant that looked like a sparse fruit. However, even if their people secretly brought this thing out and tried to grow it themselves, they all ended in failure.
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