Li Heng was ordered to promote the planting of sweet potatoes in the North. As a noble prince in the eyes of the people, he personally planted the fields and ate and drank with the people in a very down-to-earth manner. Wherever he went, the people were full of praise for him.
Ye Shi, who traveled almost the entire Great Yi Dynasty, met Ye Shi brilliantly with the peasant King Jin who had been turning his back to the sky and facing the earth for more than half a year, composing harvest poems on the loess soil with his hands wholeheartedly.
The two hit it off and cooperated happily. One was responsible for taking the apprentice medical girl from Huichun Hall to vaccinate cowpox from house to house to prevent smallpox. The other was responsible for taking his own bodyguard and cooperating with the household registration officer in charge of the local government office to deliver disaster relief materials to ensure that every household
Every household can be vaccinated with cowpox, and each person has thirty kilograms of food rations to survive the disaster.
The smallpox crisis has just been lifted. Since June, the drought in Huainan has continued to develop. Although the land is not bare, it happens to be the time when the rice is filling, which directly leads to a reduction of more than half of the early rice production. Fortunately, the sweet potato cultivation promoted by Li Heng has achieved a bumper harvest.
The county transported a large amount of sweet potatoes to Huainan, which greatly eased the pressure on the court to provide disaster relief.
Holy Lord Longyan was very happy and personally summoned Li Heng and Ye Shi back to Beijing to receive the reward.
Li Heng, who was sunburnt and skinny after running around for more than half a year, and Ye Shi, who was overworked and looked like a malnourished native of Africa, both arrived in Shangjing in a low-key manner and incognito. They secretly observed the situation in each county.
The Holy Lord came out of the city to greet him personally to show his respect. The emperor's guard of honor marched all the way to Donghua Gate in a swaggering manner, attracting countless people to follow and watch.
Li Heng and Ye Shi were about the same figure. Since Li Heng didn't wear princely clothes, there wasn't much difference in their clothing styles. In addition, both of them were equally dark and shriveled. For a moment, the Holy Master couldn't tell who was who.
Coming here, I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
Tian Dazhong came to the rescue in a considerate manner and took the initiative to help Li Heng up, with a look of distress on his face: "How come His Highness, Prince Jin, is so thin?"
Li Heng lost his mother when he was young. Although he was raised by Queen Jiang, when he was four years old, Queen Jiang weighed again and again and sent him to Huben Mountain to practice martial arts in order to keep him away from the harem disputes. This is why King Jin trusted Zheng Qiyan so much.
The reason is that in Huben Mountain, if Zheng Qiyan had not protected him with all his strength, the King of Jin, whose name was Mu Ziheng, would never have been able to live so comfortably.
From the age of four to sixteen, Li Heng was named King of Jin and sent to a fief for more than ten years. It was during the time when he was named King that he met the Holy Lord once. Therefore, the father-son relationship between him and the Holy Lord was very weak.
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Li Heng had never had any expectations for the Holy Lord, and he was certainly not disappointed. Moreover, he was now gaining more and more wings, winning over officials from the previous dynasty, bribing concubines and eunuchs in the harem, expanding his sphere of influence, and establishing his reputation among the people.
Now that we are on track, we can't say that we are bound to win the throne of emperor, but we are still sure of being able to escape in one hit.
It doesn't matter what the Holy Lord's attitude is towards him now, because he knows very well that the person he trusts the most has been poisoning the Holy Lord for a long time without being noticed, and the Holy Lord only has three years left to live.
What do dying people care about?
Li Heng was a loving father and a filial son, and Ye Shi was in harmony with the Holy Lord. The group of people were very friendly and chatted happily as they walked slowly to the palace, leaving the people in the capital with a good impression that the emperor was wise and good at using people.
After receiving the reward, Ye Shi, as soon as he left the palace, kowtowed three times in the direction of Pingninghou Mansion, and then walked to the Huichun Hall in the capital.
Ye Shi always remembered what Jintong specially sent his personal maid to tell him: no matter whether the method of treating smallpox is effective or not, she must not be exposed. Then, he gave them so many effective and extremely low-cost treatments from the Ye family. Not to mention that Mr. Gongsun Wuji later taught the famous Pharmacist Li all the medical classics he wrote. In the eyes of the Ye family, it was Jintong who was able to control the smallpox virus this time. The hero who minimized the harm.
Jintong did not take the credit himself and gave all the credit to the Ye family. He could only express his unworthy gratitude to Jintong in this way.
However, after the incident spread, Ye Shi knelt down and kowtowed to the northeast. Everyone knew that Ye Shi was a kindhearted doctor and was saddened by the people who died before being able to treat him when the smallpox virus was rampant, so he knelt and kowtowed in the direction of Fayuan Temple. , in order to pray for the well-being of these people who died unexpectedly in the next life.
All of this did not affect Jintong at all, and she devoted all her energy to hoarding food in Niutouzhuang. She remembered that her original Jintong told her: Since the outbreak of smallpox in the Great Yi Dynasty, natural disasters have occurred one after another. A large number of people died, and many people also starved to death in the subsequent floods and droughts.
The cultivation of sweet potatoes has been taught by the King of Jin, and the facts have proven the yield per mu of sweet potatoes and their ability to adapt to the environment. Jintong ordered Zhao Laosan to plant sweet potatoes on all the two newly opened terraces in Niutouzhuang this year.
During the harvest, Jintong ordered Zhao Laosan to steam the sweet potatoes that were not in good condition and then dry them in the sun to make dried sweet potatoes that were durable for future use.
Jintong was so obsessed with hoarding food that even Zheng Qiyan was puzzled. The secret guards he sent were only responsible for protecting Jintong. Naturally, the secret guards did not dare to find out how Jintong's dowry was taken care of.
The children of Niutouzhuang watched closely with a sense of ownership. Niutouzhuang had another bumper harvest this year. The nearly two thousand acres of terraced land were all planted and carefully cultivated. The average yield of new sweet potatoes per mu could reach eight thousand kilograms. This Compared with the one vigorously promoted by the King of Jin, the yield per mu is one or two thousand catties higher.
Jintong ordered Zhao Laosan to make basically all the sweet potatoes into various types of dried sweet potatoes, vermicelli, etc. that can be stored for a long time. Several granaries in Niutouzhuang were filled to the brim. The child made a rough calculation and was shocked. The current grain storage in Niutouzhuang was enough to feed the 400,000-strong army for about one month when they were fighting in southern Xinjiang.
The child knew that Zheng Qiyan never instructed Jintong to store food, but why did Jintong hoard food so crazily? The child immediately dutifully reported the matter to Zheng Qiyan.
This matter is not trivial. Although Niutou Village has always used the excuse of brewing wine to purchase grains on a large scale, the external saying is that for one pound of wine, more than ten pounds of grains must be brewed successfully.
But Zheng Qiyan knew that "Wuliang Chunniang" is three kilograms of grain and one kilogram of wine, "Battlefield Autumn Soldiers" is five kilograms of grain and one kilogram of wine, "Taoyao" and "Red Beauty Zui" are all made from peaches. There was no need for grain at all, so what was Jintong’s purpose in hoarding grain so much? Zheng Qiyan felt that it was necessary to communicate with Jintong.