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Chapter 732

At the end of October, the eldest prince was one hundred days old.

Jiang Yuebai arranged a hundred-day banquet for the eldest prince, setting up six tables. The emperor also came, and of course he sat at the main table with Jiang Yuebai.

Concubine Jinde took very good care of the eldest prince. He grew a lot fatter, had fair and tender skin, and had big eyes. He would dance and giggle when he saw people.

When he was picked up, he would pull his earrings, his mouth, his hair, and of course his father's beard, and he would not let go. He dared to touch the tiger's beard, and he was furious. In the end, it was Wei Huipin who took a rattle to attract his attention, and then he let go of his father's precious beard and turned to take the rattle.

With the birth of a child, the palace became much more lively and filled with laughter.

For the first time, Li Beichen took the initiative to hold Concubine Jinde's hand and sincerely thanked her, "Thank you for your hard work."

When he looked into Concubine Jinde's eyes, he realized that after raising a child, Concubine Jinde seemed to have changed a lot. Her face was still childish, her expression was still arrogant and innocent, but there was a little more tenderness between her eyebrows. When she looked at the little prince, her eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles.

Concubine Jinde called the eldest prince, "Ya Ya!"

The eldest prince, who was being held by Concubine Wei Hui, turned his head immediately upon hearing his name and gave Concubine Jinde a clear smile, with saliva dripping from his grinning mouth. As soon as Concubine Jinde stretched out her hand, the eldest prince also stretched out his hand towards her, and his innocent smile melted everyone's heart.

On this day, Li Beichen gave the eldest prince a formal name, Li Chengye, and recorded it in the imperial edict.

All the ministers and concubines said that this name was good and that it held high hopes for the emperor. Concubine Jinde was also very happy. Only Jiang Yuebai understood in his heart that this karma is also that karma.

Before we knew it, it was November and the weather was unusually cold.

Jiang Yuebai was already seven months pregnant at this time, and her belly was extremely heavy.

She instructed Susu to bring Platycodon grandiflorum and Poria cocos, and follow the people in charge of the Shanggong Bureau to visit each palace to inquire whether there was enough charcoal for heating. She also explained the safety issues of making fire to avoid fires and poisoning.

After a thorough inspection, they discovered that some eunuchs had withheld charcoal from concubines of lower rank, and that some had sold inferior charcoal as good charcoal at high prices. All the eunuchs in charge were punished, beaten with a stick, had the dirty silver recovered, and were expelled from the palace.

Then the ones that needed to be replenished were replenished, those that needed to be replaced were replaced, and those who needed to return the extra ones returned them. At the same time, Jiang Yuebai divided half of her share of charcoal and distributed it to the concubines below the rank of concubine. In this way, everyone could get some smokeless golden charcoal, and there would be charcoal for New Year's Eve.

Everyone was very happy. Jinde just exclaimed, "It turns out that the Queen's share is so much. How can we use it all?"

But he didn't dare to say more. After all, the late queen had never distributed all her share. She didn't take any out herself either, because she wanted to leave it for the eldest prince.

One night, it suddenly snowed heavily. Jiang Yuebai had lived in Jiangnan for 16 years and had never seen such heavy snow. The last time he saw heavy snow was in his previous life.

The snow was falling heavily, and the dark night was brightened by the snow, and it became as bright as day outside.

Jiang Yuebai opened the window excitedly, and the cold wind blew in the snowflakes, blowing on Li Beichen's face. He looked at Jiang Yuebai stupidly, who was as happy as a child, and was lost in thought.

"What a heavy snow!"

"Yes, it's snowing so heavily!" he murmured, his eyes especially gentle, "Do you think our child will come out tonight?"

"Probably not. I don't feel anything." Jiang Yuebai smiled happily, and she said loudly, "I haven't seen such heavy snow in many years."

"Me too." Li Beichen smiled and hugged Jiang Yuebai from behind.

The dark pavilions and towers in the distance took on outlines due to the heavy snow, and everything gradually began to feel vast and white.

He looked at the large snowflakes flying all over the sky, swirling and falling, and whispered in Jiang Yuebai's ear, "I am so lucky to be able to watch the snow with you."

Jiang Yuebai smiled and stretched out his hand to catch the snowflakes, and asked, "Where was your hometown in your previous life? Have you ever seen such heavy snow?"

Li Beichen exhaled, blowing out a cloud of white mist, "Me. It snows every year where I live, and the snow is as heavy as this."

Jiang Yuebai was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Your family is not in the imperial capital?"

Li Beichen shook his head, "No. My home is in a place with sea and snow."

Jiang Yuebai chuckled, "Why are you being so mysterious? China has a long coastline, and there are many places like this. I can't guess."

Li Beichen stretched out his hand and closed the window. "Okay. Don't catch a cold. It will be better to watch it tomorrow morning."

"Wait!" Jiang Yuebai held his hand and pointed at the snow outside in surprise, "Are those plum blossoms blooming?"

Li Beichen squinted and looked over. The snow-white branches seemed to have a little bit of red.

"It seems so. Do you want me to pick some for you?"

"No need. I'm just happy. Let Xiao Luozi and the others do it tomorrow."

After saying this, she closed the window contentedly and pulled Li Beichen into the house and lay down.

Jiang Yuebai groped in the dark and touched Li Beichen's heart-shaped jade pendant, causing Li Beichen to shiver with excitement, thinking that Jiang Yuebai was going to molest him tonight.

She just held the hole in the middle with her hand, put her finger on it, and played with it, just like he sometimes played with her hair.

His Adam's apple rolled up and down, and he took a deep breath, "Go to sleep."

“Why don’t you try putting this on it?”

Li Beichen growled in a resentful tone, "Please don't make such jokes in the middle of the night."

"I mean your finger." Jiang Yuebai put down the peace locket, straightened it, then turned around with a satisfied smirk on his face, "Go to sleep. Good night."

Li Beichen hugged her backhand, "Why are you so mean?"

Jiang Yuebai thought, it’s so hot.

Li Beichen thought, very powerful.

The next day, there was a vast expanse of snow outside, which was knee-deep. It showed how heavy it had snowed the night before.

Jiang Yuebai informed all the palaces that the roads were slippery due to the snow, so the greetings were cancelled this month. However, Li Beichen and all the civil and military officials still had to attend the morning court as usual at yin hour.

The snow on the road to Fengyi Palace was cleared by a group of eunuchs early in the morning, but it was soon covered with a thin layer again. I don't know if it was an order. Except for the road, the snow in other places was intact and as thick as a cream cake.

Li Beichen is now particularly afraid of cold, so he wears a thick fur hat when he goes out, and changes it back when he gets there.

Jiang Yuebai had never seen knee-deep snow before, and she wanted to lie on the snow and experience the feeling of a snow mattress. But her belly was as big as a basket, so she couldn't go out to play in the snow. She could only stand by the window and watch the eunuch Chunsheng make a snowman with platycodon and poria.

Lichun seemed to be able to read people's minds. "My Queen, look at me!" She lay down on the snow and was buried in it instantly. She came out immediately and brushed the snowflakes off her hair with a smile.

Jiang Yuebai reached out to catch the slowly falling snowflakes, and recalled the excitement she felt when she saw the first heavy snowfall in Beijing during her first year of college. It seemed like a long, long time had passed.

Dong Qing looked at Jiang Yuebai's belly and became worried. "My queen, are you tired of holding such a big belly? Will it be even bigger when the baby is born? I have never seen anyone pregnant with three children. My queen is really amazing."

"Let nature take its course." Jiang Yuebai gently touched her belly. She felt tired and was looking forward to the babies coming out soon, but at the same time she hoped they could stay in there for a few more days.

Jiang Xian was in the Qinzheng Palace, only fifteen minutes away on foot, and even faster by sedan chair. The midwives and wet nurses were ready and had already settled in the palace. Five wet nurses were prepared for the time being, so they would deal with it first.

Jiang Yuebai had already received the maternity and newborn gift packages. The system also provided a lot of antibiotics that were previously unavailable for purchase. The system also prepared ten sets of various vaccines for newborns.

No matter when we start, it should be in time.

This year is the Year of the Monkey. Jiang Yuebai likes this zodiac sign very much. She likes the Monkey more than the Rooster.

After watching the snow for a while, Jiang Yuebai half opened the window to prevent the snowflakes from drifting in, but still able to see the snow scene.

She sat down at the desk and read a book attentively, taking notes as she read.

Li Beichen has been reading books on agriculture and water conservancy recently. However, due to her many tasks and constant headaches, she can only read four or five pages a day, and her progress is very slow. She wants to read and extract the essence from the books and make them into key points, which will make it much easier to read.

The gift package for becoming a queen contains almost everything. Probably because the queen has too many things to care about. There are a lot of food and vegetables in it.

But the product description is too simple, with only one sentence, what kind of seeds it is, and what characteristics it has. It actually contains super hybrid rice and high-yield corn kernels. There is no description of the planting environment, breeding and fertilization, and pest and disease management. I guess it depends on people who understand agriculture to figure it out.

However, rulers need to understand the laws and characteristics of agricultural production, the natural conditions, socio-economic and cultural conditions, and crop types of different regions in order to formulate the most appropriate policies to ensure agricultural production and avoid social unrest and waste of resources caused by wrong decisions.

They would not make decisions based on their own ideas, planting mulberry trees one moment, then cutting them down to plant fruit trees the moment they were a year old. Or they would not believe the absurdity of local officials falsifying achievements and concealing disasters, believing in the 1,000-jin yield per mu. When the local areas were full of starving people, the central government still thought the situation was good.

When Jiang Yuebai handed these seeds and the notes compiled from agricultural books to Li Beichen, Li Beichen was completely impressed.

The content is focused, the language is concise, the key points are highlighted, and it is also illustrated with pictures and text. Special columns are set up for major grain-producing areas and disaster-prone areas to summarize and remind key points.

What kind of academic official is this? Does he want people to live?

Then Li Beichen forwarded the research report and the previous three-sentence summary memorial to the State Council, asking them to organize various departments to learn how to write memorials and reports.

Avoid nonsense and clichés, and summarize the content in the first three sentences, with the viewpoint first, the plan and measures second, and the supporting arguments at the end. The viewpoint should be clear, the plan should be instructive, the data should be substantial, and the information should be accurate.

When the ministers saw the model made by Jiang Yuebai, they were stunned.

I am so good at comparing myself to the top students. I don't think people will live like this.

After it was implemented, efficiency was indeed significantly improved. Not only Li Beichen benefited, but also the State Council, which had to deal with a large amount of original documents.

Li Beichen was even more excited about the various seeds, including super hybrid rice seeds, super corn, super potatoes, and super sweet potatoes.

He recalled the dream of Yuan Laohe enjoying the cool breeze, the super hybrid rice, "growing taller than sorghum, with ears as big as brooms, and grains as big as peanuts."

Mr. Yuan, your lifelong research efforts not only cover the entire globe, but also cover planets in different worlds. The super rice you research will also take root in this world, allowing ordinary people to afford food.

Zhao Yuhang had been investigating rice and wheat seeds in the two lakes area before, and he had not returned yet. Li Beichen thought that if he saw these seeds, he would jump for joy. Then he could take them to various places for trial planting, breeding, and cultivating new varieties.

Jiang Yuebai told Li Beichen the information he found on the Internet. Yuan Lao found wild male sterile rice plants in Hainan, which are Echinochloa crus-galli. Its characteristics are abnormal development of male organs, small and shriveled anthers, light in color and water-soaked, and do not crack and shed pollen.

This wild male sterile rice can only be successfully pollinated through hybridization, and cannot be self-pollinated. As long as an area is full of this wild male sterile rice, it can maintain this sterile shape. In order to form enough seeds, it takes many years of cultivation and domestication.

To find this wild rice, you need to search for it during the rice flowering season. But because Hainan is far away, we can start preparing for the search for wild rice next year now.

Jiang Yuebai handed the hybrid rice breeding information, which was organized into several pages, to Li Beichen, and asked him to find someone to conduct research.

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