Daming heir

Chapter 323 Thirty stones of stinky farts
Lake Biwa can be regarded as a treasure land of geomantic omen.

With beautiful mountains and clear waters, it is located in the northeast corner of the imperial city.

In the current season, the sweet potato field on the soft sandy soil between Lake Biwa and Qianhu has been covered with purple-red branches and leaves that gradually turn from green to yellow.

The people around Shenlie Mountain who were hired by the supervisor of Shanglin Garden were already waiting beside the sweet potato fields with rakes and bamboo baskets.

The rake is in the shape of four teeth, the rake rod is inserted on the top of the two teeth in the middle, and the two teeth on the outer edge wrap the two teeth in the middle.

Typical farm tools in the Jiangnan area.

Zhu Yuanzhang pulled Yuan Sutai, the supervisor of Shanglinyuan, and the two monarchs and ministers talked and laughed all the way to the sweet potato field.

Seeing the emperor coming, the farmers waiting here already knelt on the ground in panic, shouting auspicious words of long live and peace to His Majesty.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hands with a smile: "Get up, we are here to work with you today. This piece of sweet potato has been served very well by you. Today is the harvest day. We also planed food in the crop field 20 years ago. Today is just to see how the harvest is doing."

As he spoke, Zhu Yuanzhang took a rake from the people next to him.

Putting the rake on his hand and bumping it twice to try to feel it, Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled: "It's been so many years since I haven't done farm work that it feels unfamiliar to me."

Several old farmers crowded around, smiling all over their faces: "Your Majesty is the emperor who governs the world, how can he do our jobs."

Yuan Sutai was on the sidelines, but he was sincerely happy. The emperor's attention to Nongsang was a great blessing to him and Shanglin Yuanjian.

Now the emperor not only attaches great importance to farming and mulberry, but also pays special attention to the planting of sweet potatoes. For this reason, this is the second time he has come here in person.As the supervisor of Shanglinyuan, even if he stayed in the mud all day, he would not complain anymore.

Yuan Sutai also took a rake: "Your Majesty, yesterday I took someone to pick up a pit of sweet potatoes, and they are growing very well, even more gratifying than the few sweet potatoes that the grandson brought over a few months ago."

Zhu Yuanzhang kicked the sweet potato field under his feet, and the sand outside collapsed, revealing the dark and fertile soil inside.

A smile appeared on the emperor's face: "You have done a good job, but as an official, you must do it yourself. If you take care of the sweet potatoes with all your heart, the yield must not be bad. Shanglinyuan has made a contribution this time."

When Zhu Yuanzhang said these words, Zhai Shan and others had already rushed over.

As soon as they heard that the emperor had not dug out the sweet potatoes, and started to judge the merits for Shanglinyuan, everyone couldn't help feeling a burst of emotion in their hearts.

Zhai Shan looked left and right, but immediately stepped forward, with a smile on his face: "Yuan Jianzheng has been in charge of the Shanglinyuan prison for many years, and I often hear that the prison is full of dust when he returns home. The wife of the family is so angry." , but every now and then I would complain, saying that Yuan Jian is also a third-rank official of Ming Dynasty, so it’s not as good as when he was studying and farming in his hometown.”

The Minister of the Ministry of Officials opened his mouth, and the surrounding officials echoed in unison.

These remarks seemed to be a grievance for Yuan Sutai, which was a bit teasing.But he was really praising Yuan Sutai and doing the thing of being carried by everyone in a sedan chair.

really.

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang glared at Zhai Shan, and then looked at Yuan Sutai, whose hands were covered with calluses, and his cheeks were dark and wrinkled, with a smile on his face: "You are a sincere person, and you work for Daming, we will not forget you Thanks to you. Let the palace discuss later, give your wife an imperial order, and we thank her for her understanding, don't scold our ministers anymore."

Zhai Shan and the others immediately smiled kindly and compassionately.

Yuan Sutai seemed a little caught off guard, with a blush on his dark old face, he lowered his head and cupped his hands: "I have little work, a lowly concubine, a family, no talent and no virtue, I don't know that the court and the society, I will be good at preaching when I go home today." pause."

After finishing speaking, Yuan Sutai looked up at Zhai Shan unnaturally.

Zhai Shan smiled and stood up: "Your Majesty, the officials have remembered Yuan Jianzheng's contribution. Today, His Majesty will bring his ministers to plan food in this sweet potato field. If you don't do it, it may take a long time. "

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at these courtiers, and said with a smile: "Go to work, each person will get a sweet potato field, if you can't finish it, don't leave today."

As soon as the emperor spoke, the officials who came today echoed him.

Don't care if you can really hold the rake in your hand and plan the sweet potato fields with a length of no less than [-] meters, and you won't waste your hands. Huo Huo looks like a sweet potato.

Yu Xin, a scholar of the Wenhua Palace, Minister of the Household Department, and Wang Jun, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, walked side by side, and looked at the emperor who was already happily directing Zhai Shan and others to distribute the sweet potato fields.

Wang Jun said in a low voice: "Brother Dunben, you are the official of the household department, in charge of the taxation of the world's fields, how much do you think the harvest of sweet potatoes can be today?"

Yu Xin took the rake handed over by a commoner in front of him, measured the weight in his hand, and said in a low voice: "Didn't you see Yuan Sutai's appearance today? He just said that he just opened a sweet potato hole yesterday. , it must be not bad, maybe it is the same as what Taisun said at the beginning..."

Sweet potatoes probably really are a high-yielding crop.

But Yu Xin was a little tangled and hesitant in his heart. High yield means that if it can be spread in Daming, the people will naturally be able to eat more in the future.

but……

After all, this world is made up of one person.

Some worries and irritability arose in Yu Xin's heart for no reason.

However, Wang Jun opened his mouth, a little unsure: "Is it really possible to produce twenty stones per mu? In this way, each commoner only needs to consume one or two mu of land, and they can have enough food for a year... "

After thinking about it, Wang Jun immediately shook his head again.

If this is the case, he should publish a memorial and do several projects in the Ming Dynasty like the Grand Canal dug by Emperor Sui Yang.

After finishing, Wang Jun silently looked at Yu Xin who had already started to walk into the sweet potato field.

Even if there is no yield of twenty shi per mu, as long as there are seven or eight shi, I can ask the Ministry of Households for more money and food to do things in two years.

Those people like Zhang Ergong won officials with their extraordinary achievements, and the Ministry of Industry has lost any face in the past two years.

I am the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and it is my duty to find this place for the Ministry of Industry.

What's more, I am still a person who has read sage books all his life.

When Zhu Yunxi accompanied the prince's father to the sweet potato field, he saw that the old man had already led a group of officials from the Ming Dynasty's ministries and officials, and was busy working in the sweet potato field with rakes in hand.

With just a glance, one can tell how many of these people are inactive, and how many of them were born in poverty, and in their early years they had to dig food in the fields to support their families.

The old man's movements were a little stiff, but he adapted to the farm work at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood on one side of the ridge, held the rake with both hands forward and backward, raised it in the air, and couldn't go up any more. That was useless work, and then fell naturally by gravity.The four-toothed rake pierced deeply from the bottom of the other side of the ridge, and then pushed forward with both hands supporting the rake, and the sweet potato ridge that had been cut off by Sun Gouer bulged.

Then shake it up vigorously, and the sand and soil will loosen.

Zhu Yunxi turned to his father and said, "Father, my son is going to help grandpa. You have trouble with your legs and feet, so you can rest here for a while."

With his hands in his sleeves, Zhu Biao looked at the magnificent picture of the monarchs and officials working in agriculture, with a smile on his face, nodded and walked aside.

After Zhu Yunxi made arrangements for the old man, he rolled up his sleeves and went to the old man.

Before the old man bent down to dig out the sweet potatoes mixed in the sand, Zhu Yunxi squatted down with one leg apart, grabbed the exposed sweet potato vines with both hands, and lifted them up.

His hands went up, but then they dropped a few inches heavily.

Then Zhu Yunxi hugged his hands and kept shaking, and a long string of sweet potatoes appeared in front of Zhu Yunxi.

"Hey! That's a lot!"

With a rake in one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang raised an arm to wipe off the sweat on his face, smiling ruddy.

Zhu Yunxi weighed it twice, then raised his head: "It's no less than ten catties."

After saying that, Zhu Yunxi stretched out his hand and broke off the sweet potatoes one by one from the main root, and threw them into the basket beside them.

After throwing a pitted sweet potato in, Zhu Yunxi stretched out his palm, and opened his five fingers vigorously, but he felt that it was sticky and resisted. When he spread his hand, he saw that the palms of his palms had changed from white to black, covered with mud. of dirt.

"Grandpa, why don't the grandsons dig sweet potatoes?"

Zhu Yuanzhang spat into the palm of his hand, and snorted: "We are not too old to lift a rake, let's dig a little longer, you boy can just chop sweet potatoes."

After finishing speaking, without giving Zhu Yunxi a chance to continue persuading, he moved his feet and started waving the rake again.

Zhu Yunxi was a little helpless, so he didn't stand up, and stretched out his hand to drag the basket to follow the old man's footsteps, taking the opportunity to open his eyes to look around.

At this time, all the officials in the sweet potato field let out bursts of exclamation from time to time.

Originally, everyone knew that the sweet potatoes were mostly high-yield. The last time I saw the ripe sweet potatoes in the Shanglin Garden, no one would think that these sweet potatoes were a loss-making business.

But today, when they personally wielded the rakes and dug out the sweet potatoes from the ground, they were surprised and shocked.

The heavy feeling of the sweet potato that I personally held in my hand cannot be faked.

Ren Hengtai shook his head dangerously, only to avoid the rake that Ru Xun swung down, and then glared at the Minister of the Ministry of War who was still sweating profusely: "You are a killer, you have never killed anyone in battle, So I want to kill this old man for meat!"

However, Ru Yu ignored Old Man Ren, let out a drink, and after doing it proficiently, she just picked up the whole bunch of sweet potatoes buried in the ground.

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and pick it up."

"Let's dig more, and the soldiers on the front line will no longer have to worry about food and grass!"

Ren Hengtai hummed and moved his butt, no matter how much he dug out the sweet potatoes, he threw them into the basket.

Then he looked at Zhai Shan who was leading someone to dig sweet potatoes not far away.

Ren Hengtai moved his mouth: "Have you seen the scene clearly today? Our new official is not a good person."

Ru Xun was digging sweet potatoes, and gave Ren Hengtai a white look: "You think he only knows how to write books?"

Clang.

Ru Yu dug out the sweet potato in front of her, and then threw the rake in her hand at Ren Hengtai: "You dig."

Ren Hengtai clapped his hands and stood up, twisted his waist twice, and said in a low voice: "It's just that the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry have come together, which is something we never thought of."

Ru Xun pushed the chattering Ren Hengtai, her waist sank, she lifted the basket, and landed in front of it with a bang: "Aren't you with us, old man?"

Ren Hengtai curled his lips: "The old man is an official from the Ministry of Rites, and you are an official from the Ministry of Military Affairs who deals with the Dudu's Mansion all day long. This sweet potato is only a hundred shi per mu, and it has nothing to do with us."

Ru Xun frowned: "Are you still digging or not? Don't dig and go."

After scolding, Ru Yu lowered her head and cleaned up the sweet potatoes that Ren Hengtai threw into the basket without any treatment, while muttering in a low voice: "If you have the ability, take care of your juniors, don't inquire about the affairs of the court if you have nothing to do. Don't worry about where the sweet potatoes will be planted next year."

Ren Hengtai froze for a moment, stopped teasing, silently grabbed the rake, lifted it up, and straightened his waist.

"Ouch..."

"The old man's waist..."

……

"I take a month's salary and bet that the yield per mu is higher than ten stones!"

"? Why don't you go to the Tai Hospital?"

"This idea was made in Taichang Temple, and I can hear it even in the procuratorate."

"Who doesn't know that it can be higher than ten stones? Now we need to confirm how many stones there are!"

"You, you, you... You... are rude! If the yield per mu exceeds fifteen shi, I will hold a banquet at home until the Chongyang Festival!"

"Then I will be impolite, and I will ask someone to move the bedding and put it in your residence."

"Release together!"

"..."

"The old man sees that you bastards want to have sex."

……

There were really too many officials digging sweet potatoes, but in just half an afternoon, the entire sweet potato field next to Lake Piwa in Shanglinyuan had already been searched.

Putting down the rake, the officials who gathered together gradually ran away in an indescribable direction.

And in front of everyone, on the flat ground next to the sweet potato field, baskets of sweet potatoes were brought here from the field and gathered together.

"Overweight!"

"All the sweet potatoes are weighed! No one is allowed to fall!"

Yuan Sutai, who was already covered in sweat and dirt, waved his big hands and directed the officials and people of Shanglin Yuanjian to weigh all the sweet potatoes. Several clerks were standing next to him, recording the data for the scales he was in charge of.

Zhu Yunxi helped the old man who was obviously overtired and sat on the side of the field, and took the tea from Sun Gou'er: "Grandpa, please drink your saliva first. It will take a while for Yuan Jianzheng to weigh, grandson first." Go and take people to arrange delicious food. Let’s have a sweet potato feast today, and you will be full!”

Zhu Yuanzhang's hands and feet were numb, but every pore on his face exuded joy, and he felt good-looking everywhere he looked.

Zhu Yunxi wiped the sweat off his forehead with a wave of his hand, got up and walked to the front, witnessing the weighing scene surrounded by hundreds of officials.

"One stone weighs three buckets!"

"Write it down, write it down!"

"How much here?"

"96 catties, eight taels and five dollars."

"remember!"

In front of each large scale, countless officials are surrounded.

Every time the weight is weighed, there is a burst of shock and gasp.

"How much can there be!"

Zhai Shan, the new Minister of the Ministry of Officials, hid his hands tightly in the sleeves he put down. Although his face still maintained the restraint and composure of a heavenly official, his heart was already extremely anxious.

Zhai Shan's eyes even glanced at Yuan Sutai from time to time, only thinking that this guy can only do things but not be a man.

At this time, it is time to get more large scales and people to weigh.

When the aroma of sweet potatoes began to waft from the sweet potato field, the weighing was still going on.

It's too much.

There were so many officials present that they had already made predictions in their minds, but they were still making adjustments to improve their predictions time after time.

"Zhai Shangshu, eat a roasted sweet potato first, and have a bowl of sweet potato porridge. There are tender fried sweet potato leaves here, you can also try it."

With a smile on his face, Zhu Yunxi personally brought the wooden case with several bowls to Zhai Shan.

Zhai Shan didn't dare to catch it right away, but immediately gave the officials around him a look and asked him to take over the wooden case.

As for Zhai Shan himself, he waved his big sleeves with both arms, clasped his hands, and bowed to the end: "Thank you, Your Highness, for the meal."

Zhu Yunxi smiled naturally, grabbed Zhai Shan's wrist and held him up: "Zhai Shangshu's new appointment to the Ministry of Officials, this is the first time Gu and Shangshu have met in their respective identities. Shangshu has made great contributions to repairing books, and now he is in charge of the Ministry of Officials. When you don't forget your original intention, you still need to rely on Shangshu above the court."

Zhai Shan was a little hesitant in his heart, silently raised his head and looked not far away, sitting on the ridge with the prince, holding a roasted sweet potato in one hand, and the emperor who was holding sweet potato porridge in the other, secretly heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that his food was delicious .

A subtle smile appeared on Zhai Shan's face: "Your Majesty trusts, the Crown Prince entrusts, and His Highness values, which is the blessing of your subjects. In this life, you should serve the Daming Society loyally, never forget your original intention, and live up to your kindness."

The smile on Zhu Yunxi's face became more intense.

Let go of his hand, but immediately patted the back of Zhai Shan's hand.

"Zhai Shangshu eat while it's hot, I won't delay you."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yunxi stopped talking to Zhai Shan, turned around and left silently.

Zhai Shan stood at the same spot, waving to the officials of the official department who wanted to bring the wooden case containing the sweet potato meal sent by the grandson to stop, but he frowned and watched silently. Taisun's back.

I don't understand very much.

There are so many people, and so many people who are familiar with him, but they chose to deliver meals to him.

But he didn't talk about Zhai Shan's speculation.

Right now, beside the whole sweet potato field, the officials who have been busy for a long time all look like they are gobbling up.

Eating sweet potatoes dug out by myself is really a different feeling for those of them who have already been well-clothed.

It is more fragrant.

"The scale is out!"

"The yield per mu has been weighed!"

"Thirty stone!"

"The yield per mu is a full thirty shi!"

"puff……"

"Puff puff puff..."

"Puff... puff... puff puff... hiss..."

Suddenly, there was a burst of surprise shouts from the weighing place.

Thirty stones per mu of sweet potatoes!
In an instant, all the officials on the entire sweet potato field stood up in unison.

Everyone's eyes widened, pupils dilated in shock.

Then, because of shock and nervousness, there were bursts of fart sounds.

It was probably because the Ming people hadn't developed resistance to sweet potatoes at this time, or it was because everyone ate too much this time because they worked hard for a long time.

For a moment, the entire sweet potato field was covered by the fart sound of thirty stones per mu and the chief officials of the Ming Dynasty.

The sound of farts is endless.

Everyone lost their minds.

(End of this chapter)