It's a pity that Prime Minister Ji and the legendary princess lived more than a hundred years ago, and Chen Yun will never see these two legendary figures.
"I've heard of Taoyuan before, but I've never been here." Yan Rong held her sister's hand and looked around to admire the peach blossoms on the trees.
The peach orchard has been around for more than a hundred years, and the largest of these peach trees is almost two hundred years old, and they are very strong.
The peach tree is growing very luxuriantly, but now there are not so many young leaves growing, but more flowers blooming.
For more than a hundred years, this peach orchard has been well protected anyway. After all, there is nothing else but peach trees. Even in troubled times, no one would think of digging up all the trees in the peach orchard.
These peach trees are growing very well and the flowers are blooming beautifully.
"Sister-in-law Jiu, will all these peach trees bear fruit?" Yan Rong looked at Chen Yu and asked.
Yan Rong and Yan Ke still like their sister-in-law Chen Yu very much. Yun Jieyu only has a daughter, Yan Rong, and no son. Yang Chongyi does have a son, but he is only four years old now, so Yan Rong and Yan Ke do not have a mother.
The brother of a compatriot.
Their feelings towards the other royal brothers and sisters-in-law were very general, they were just too polite and not close to each other. Of course, they rarely saw the brother Yan Lizhou, and their relationship was certainly not good.
However, after more than half an hour of contact, they both felt quite good about Chen Xun, the ninth sister-in-law, and liked her quite a lot.
Yan Rong looked at Chen Yu very closely and asked, "Sister-in-law Jiu, I heard that the peaches in Taoyuan are very valuable and delicious when they mature."
Taoyuan was built jointly by Prime Minister Ji and Emperor Jiafeng in the previous dynasty. Later, the income was divided between them, and Prime Minister Ji was considered half of the royal family of the previous dynasty.
So it was changed to the Yong Dynasty, and Taoyuan also belonged to the royal family. It was a public property of the royal family and belonged to the emperor.
Every year when the peaches in the Taoyuan are ripe, someone will bring them to the palace for the emperor and empress, and the emperor will also give some to favored concubines.
The concubines of Yan Rong and Yan Ke were not very favored, especially Yun Jieyu. She only gave birth to one daughter after many years in the palace, which shows that she was indeed not very favored.
Therefore, the two of them have almost never eaten the peaches sent to the palace from the Taoyuan over the years. Even if they eat peaches, they are either grown in their own courtyard in the palace or grown in the palace.
The peaches in Taoyuan are blessed, so it is difficult to eat them.
After all, it was planted by the famous San Yuan and Prime Minister Ji of the previous dynasty. The combination of Emperor Jiafeng and Prime Minister Ji of the previous dynasty created a prosperous era, which has always been very desirable.
So the peaches in the peach garden also have a good meaning.
Yan Rong raised her head and looked at the tall peach trees and said, "Sister-in-law Jiu, do all the peach trees in the peach orchard bear fruit? Can such a large peach orchard bear a lot of fruit?"
Since there are so many peaches in Taoyuan, why has she almost never eaten any peaches from Taoyuan?
How come there aren’t enough peaches from nearly 40,000 acres of peach trees to eat?
Chen Yu glanced at a peach tree next to it, with its thick trunk and strutting branches. The peach blossoms blooming on the branches were full of fragrance.
"Look at this peach tree, it's a five-color peach tree." Chen Xun pointed to the peach tree and said to Yan Rong, "The five-color peach tree is a type of peach tree, and the green peach tree is an ornamental peach tree. It is almost difficult for them to bear fruit.
Fruit. Even if it can produce fruit, it cannot be eaten."
"There should be many peach blossom trees like this in this peach orchard, so not all peach trees in such a large peach orchard can bear fruit," Chen Yu said with a smile.
"Even if the peach orchard is large and there are many peach trees in it, if there are not many peach trees that bear fruit, there won't be many when the peach trees bear fruit."
What's more, in ancient times, crop yields were very small, so even if there were many peach trees in this peach orchard, they would not bear much fruit.
"Did you all forget it during class?" Yan Long heard what Yan Rong and his sister-in-law said, looked at his sister and said, "There are millions of peach trees in Taoyuan, of which 600,000 are peach blossom trees. Basically, they are all peach trees.
To watch.”
"The remaining 400,000 peach trees don't produce much fruit."
Yan Long thought of the information about the peach orchard that he had seen before. The 400,000 peach trees could not produce many fruits, and the peaches sent to the palace had to be very plump, beautiful, big, and sweet.
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So after picking and choosing, there were not many peaches that could be sent to the palace. Of course, they, the princesses who were not very favored, could not eat the peaches sent by Taoyuan every year.
Every year when the peaches in Taoyuan bear fruit, they are targeted by major aristocratic families and nobles. Everyone wants to be lucky and wants their children and grandchildren to be able to eat the peaches from Taoyuan, and then be as good as Prime Minister Ji of the previous dynasty.
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Even though Prime Minister Ji was the Prime Minister of the previous dynasty, he was still an idol in the Yong Dynasty. Countless people have not forgotten him and still praise his deeds after more than a hundred years.
Therefore, the peaches in Taoyuan are very popular, and it is really lively every year during the season.
"Ah? Out of a million peach trees, only 400,000 can bear fruit?" Yan Rong said regretfully after hearing her sister's words, "How great would it be if they were all peach trees that could bear fruit?"
"What do you do with trees that only bloom but don't bear fruit?" Yan Rong muttered.
"Sister Rong'er, we cannot let our father and masters hear these words." Yan Ke looked at his sister helplessly and said, "The peach blossom tree is also very valuable."
Yan Ke told his sister the significance of this peach orchard, the significance of the peach trees to the literati, etc., the grand scene when the peach blossoms bloom every year, etc.
Yan Rong listened and raised questions and rebuttals. The two sisters forgot about the existence of others as they talked.
Chen Yu looked at the two little princesses. The relationship between the two was really good, not that of plastic sisters.
"How are you? Are you in a good mood today when you go out for fun?" Chen Yu looked at Yan Long and asked.
Yan Long nodded and smiled, "Well, being able to enjoy such beautiful scenery, how can you feel bad?"
Xue Mingzhu just chatted with Yan Long for a while. When she heard that everyone was in a good mood, she smiled and said, "Are you tired from walking? Let's go to the pavilion over there to rest and have some snacks?"
"The peach blossom cakes and peach blossom cakes here in Taoyuan are very good. I heard that the peach blossom stuffed wine is also very delicious." Xue Mingzhu pointed to a pavilion in front of her.
Since Taoyuan was originally open to literati, many resting pavilions were prepared for them to rest or write and paint.
Taoyuan has really left behind a lot of written articles and famous paintings. Taoyuan is not just a place for gardening and flower viewing, it also has many exhibitions of calligraphy and paintings.
This is why Chen Yun suspected that Prime Minister Ji was a time traveler, because the places used to display paintings and calligraphy around Taoyuan really looked like museums or exhibition halls.