"Can you farm?"
At this time, veteran minister Ling Han walked up to Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen and pointed at him.
"I don't know how, you can?" Cao Zhen was fertilizing, and his face was sore from the stench, and he said angrily, "My ancestors have been digging in the soil, and I knew how to farm even when I was in my mother's womb.
? Before I could even lift a hoe, I was already sweating in the ground behind my father’s buttocks..."
Guo Ying looked up from the side and said, "That's not right, Fool Cao, didn't you follow your father to rob the road with a hoe?"
"It was a disaster year, so we went to rob the road after harvesting the crops!" Cao Zhen was furious, "Guo Laosi, are you deliberately burying me?"
Guo Ying smiled and said to Lan Yu, "Look, who said he is stupid? There is no need for me now, and I won't call you Fourth Brother!"
Lan Yu just laughed, shook her head and continued working.
"You can't fertilize like this!" Ling Han said, "Just water it once. How can you water it every day? You see there are so many weeds in the field ridges, it means that the fertilizer is too sufficient." He said, squatting down,
Pull out those weeds that have sprouted up. "If the weed wall becomes fatter, the grass will be more prosperous than the crops. Do you know this is putting the cart before the horse?"
Cao Zhen was stunned. He really didn't know what putting the cart before the horse meant.
But his stubbornness broke out and he pushed Ling Han away directly, "Go away! What do you, a plagued scholar, know? You have been pampered since you were young, and you will be an official when you grow up! You are talking about me. How can you do it without me to conquer the world?
Are you going to be an official? Let’s go and dream?”
As he spoke, he continued angrily, "Crops eat fertilizer just like people eat. People grow stronger when they eat more, and the same goes for crops!"
"You idiot!" Ling Han scolded.
"What's wrong with you idiots?" Cao Zhen glared at us, and then his expression turned out to be a bit aggrieved, "We idiots have known how to kill people all our lives. The king of hell frowned when he saw us, and we didn't get any blessings at all.
Leave."
"This sweet potato is said to be able to add more food to the world and make people richer. How great an achievement is this? My old man, Cao, has never done any good deeds in his life. If he can serve it before he dies, it can be considered that his life in this world has not been in vain.
To pass blessings on to future generations."
What he said was a bit sad, but Ling Han said disdainfully, "Huh, you also know that you don't do good things in your life!" Then he said, "I thought you, Mr. Cao, only knew how to collect money from home.
!”
Having said this, he looked to the side and leaned over, "Hey, Cao DaDang, what have you old buddies been muttering about lately? What are you planning to recruit sailors from all over the world?"
Cao Zhen ignored his words and continued to work with his head down.
Seeing this, Ling Han sneered and said, "Needless to say, I know it. I guess you are thinking about where to get some benefits? Mr. Cao Hou, you are already a prince, and you don't have enough food to eat...
....."
"I used to be afraid of hunger, so I just wanted to have food at home!"
Cao Zhen spoke slowly, "I'm afraid of poverty, so I just want to have money at home. With food, I don't have to go hungry. With money, I can look after my husband, and I can find a husband to teach my children and grandchildren to study. I will never allow the suffering I have suffered in this life.
My descendants will have to suffer this!" He said, sighing, "What the hell is a human life like that!"
Then, he slowly squatted down again and pulled out the weeds in the ground with his big hands.
"The sweet potatoes can yield dozens of dan per acre. They don't have to pick the land, they're not afraid of droughts or floods, they don't need to be carefully cared for, and they grow underground and they're not afraid of the damn birds coming to eat them!"
As he spoke, his voice gradually became lowered, "It would be great to have this thing a long time ago. My father, mother and sister..."
Ling Han listened and was speechless for a while, then gently patted Cao Zhen on the shoulder.
"We are all like this!" Cao Zhen continued, "Whether it's a gangster gangster or a gangster who kills a rich county magistrate, we all have no food in our stomachs and can't survive? It's not like you.
These scholars have enough food and cash at home!"
Just then, a dark-faced man came from a distance carrying herbal tea.
Cao Zhen pursed his lips, "Here, it's him!"
Ling Han was puzzled, "What happened to him?"
"He donated the seeds of Hongshu to a maritime merchant from Fujian named Xie Jinzhong!"
~~~
The days in Zhuangzi were the happiest moments in Xie Jinzhong's life.
Not only did he see the Emperor and the Supreme Emperor every now and then, but the founding officials of the Ming Dynasty were also polite to him.
"It's noon, please take a rest!"
He stood on the edge of the field, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw an old man with a gray beard coming over.
"Are you Xie Jinzhong, the Fujian maritime merchant who donated fine seeds?" Ling Han said with his hands behind his back and his head held high.
When Xie Jinzhong saw that the old man was quite impressive, he quickly said, "Exactly... you are?"
"Although you are a businessman, wandering on the sea and doing many illegal things. But you can cherish your homeland and donate fine seeds for your livelihood. Your loyalty is commendable. You should erect a monument and pass it down to be exiled for hundreds of generations!" Ling Han said, "I am the Grand Master of the Ming Dynasty, the Grand Master of Yuange, Tong
Political Envoy, Minister of Civil Affairs Ling Han!"
Suddenly, Xie Jinzhong was dumbfounded by this series of official comments.
"Are you still a white body now?" Ling Han looked at the other party, "No need to worry, since you have such great achievements. When the harvest day comes, I will report to the emperor that you will be promoted to a noble rank." After saying that, he paused and said, "You are a good person."
Scholar? Have you ever participated in the imperial examination?"
"I didn't pass the scholar examination back then!" Xie Jinzhong said.
Ling Han stroked his beard and said, "Aren't you even a scholar? How well have you studied..." Then he thought about it and said, "Aren't you qualified even if you were born with a Jinshi background?"
Xie Jinzhong said, "The Supreme Emperor has promised to give me an official position!"
Ling Han immediately concentrated and said, "What official position?"
"The old lady said, give me a marquis, and it will be hereditary!" Xie Jinzhong said with a smile.
"Hereditary?" Ling Han's hair suddenly became furious and his face looked grim.
At this moment, Cao Zhen stood up and was about to walk to the other side. He pushed Xie Jinzhong away roughly and said, "Get out of here, you're so damn blind, you're blocking the way!" He said, looking at Xie Jinzhong, "I'll give you an idea.
Kill the monkey, fry it and eat it, then go and have your mother's dream!"
Xie Jinzhong couldn't help but flushed, but he didn't dare to talk back and muttered, "Master Cao, it was the Emperor who promised to give me a Marquis!"
"Bah, do you have that mugwort in your ancestral grave?" Cao Zhen scolded on the spot, "Grandpa, I have kept my head in my waistband all my life, and I have to die a hundred times before I can earn the title of Marquis. Just break some fucking grain seeds, just
Do you want to be on an equal footing with me?"
"Hou? You are at most a fucking big monkey, or a female monkey who is living in the sun!"
After saying that, Cao Zhen walked away.
On the other side, Lan Yu and Guo Ying laughed so much that they almost fell down in the field.
"What do you mean by provoking idiot Cao?" Guo Ying said with a smile.
Xie Jinzhong's face turned red and he looked at Ling Han, "Old Shangshu, you always comment..."
"What's the point?" Ling Han asked.
"He...he scolded me!" Xie Jinzhong said.
Ling Han looked at Cao Zhen in the distance, "I can't afford to offend that guy!"
~~~
On Zhu Yunxi's side, the officials were still quarreling over whose hometown would be the first to promote it in the future.
"Silence!" Li Jinglong shouted, "Don't behave disrespectfully in front of the Lord!"
Everyone paused for a moment, then looked at Li Jinglong with dissatisfied eyes.
At this moment, a guard from a distance ran over and said, "Long live the Lord, the Emperor is here."
This chapter has been completed!