Almighty Nongmen Phoenix

Chapter 88;

"If your majesty doesn't believe it, you can ask the imperial dining room to do it."

Emperor Hongwen nodded, and directly asked Li De to send the sweet potatoes to the imperial dining room.

"Please Eunuch Li, send this along. The method is very simple. After washing, boil it directly, and the bamboo chopsticks can be inserted into it and it will be cooked."

She also handed over those dirt lumps that were a little bigger than walnuts.

"What is this?"

"Return to Your Majesty, this is a potato, and it is also a crop discovered by the folk girl to be used as food."

"At present, there are also plantings on Minnv's farm. Last year's yield per mu was about [-] catties."

There was another gasping sound.

"Hurry up and send it to the imperial dining room, and do as Miss Lu said, I want to taste this god-given food for myself."

One mu yields two thousand and eight, and one mu yields three thousand.

It is absolutely worthy of the name of divine food.

The most lacking thing in Dongzhou is food, but whenever there is a disaster year, the disaster relief everywhere can make Emperor Hongwen worry that he can't eat well and can't sleep.

Now that there is this kind of divine food, if it is widely spread, will Dongzhou still be short of food?
This is a good thing that works in the present and benefits in the future.

Li De hastily used the hem of his robe to trot all the sweet potatoes and potatoes out of the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, there are two more things here, Minnen."

As she spoke, she took out another half-meter-long bamboo tube from the bundle, opened one end and poured out a roll of snow-white paper from it.

Immediately, a little eunuch stepped forward to take the things and respectfully delivered them to Emperor Hongwen.

"Hey, is this the paper you mentioned in your letter?"

"Yes, Your Majesty can make a comparison with the existing paper."

Hearing this, Emperor Hongwen quickly took out a sheet and spread it out, and compared it with the original special paper on the desk.

The paper presented by Lu Yaoyao has a smoother surface and is very delicate to the touch. Although it is thinner than the original paper, the quality is indeed better.

He picked up the pen and wrote, very satisfied.

"I never thought Miss Lu would have such ingenious craftsmanship. This paper is really good, but I don't know what material is used? How much is it worth?"

Paper is good paper, but if he wants to use this to replace the monopoly of gentry paper, the first thing he needs is not only the quality, but also the price.

If it is too expensive, it is naturally impossible to fully promote it, and the effect will be much smaller.

"The paper made by Minnv is called Xuan paper, and the material used is straw."

"straw!"

Emperor Hongwen and Wen Songtao exclaimed almost at the same time, subconsciously turning their gazes to the white rice paper.

Is this thing made of straw?What kind of ingenious skill is this?

"Yaoyao, the straw you are talking about is the one after the threshing of rural rice?"

"Yes, that's the one, so the girl doesn't know how much it's worth, since she hasn't bought it before."

These days, straw and the like are not of much use value. The folks either find a place to pile it up and use it to light fires in the kitchen, or make beds or something.

It can be seen almost everywhere in the countryside, but it is hard to say what the value is.

After confirming that it was the material in his mind, Emperor Hongwen couldn't find any words to describe the shock in his heart at this moment.

This is a miracle, something extraordinary people can do.

"Miss Lu is truly a godsend."

"Dongzhou is very fortunate to have such a god-send as Miss Lu."

Hearing this, Lu Yaoyao hurriedly bowed her body and said that she didn't dare to do it.

"Miss Lu said just now that there are two things, but I don't know what the other one is?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Yaoyao took out a wooden box from his bag and opened it.

Take out some clay-fired objects from it, like a seal.

"Your Majesty, please borrow some ink."

"allow."

Lu Yaoyao took the things and walked to the dragon table, sorted them out and arranged them, then stained them with ink, and asked Wen Songtao to take out a piece of rice paper and spread it out on the ground.

She covered the thing in her hand on the rice paper, lightly touched it, and then put it away.

A row of words appeared on the rice paper.

That's right, what she took out at this time was exactly living body printing.

"This is."

Wen Songtao's eyes lit up, Emperor Hongwen stood up excitedly, went to the front and picked up the rice paper on the ground, looked at the words on the rice paper, and then looked at the things in Lu Yaoyao's hands.

Immediately understood the usefulness of this thing.

"Such ingenious thinking, not bad."

"This is living body printing. The existing characters are carved and fired separately, and when necessary, they can be printed in the corresponding order according to the arrangement."

"This can save costs, and it can also make the writing more tidy, and the efficiency is much faster."

Both Emperor Hongwen and Wen Songtao nodded repeatedly.

The moment they saw this thing, they had already simulated such an operation in their minds.

At present, Dongzhou Book Printing still adopts full-page engraving.

It is time-consuming and labor-intensive to engrave a book without knowing how much. In order to save costs, manual copying is used later.

Although it is cheaper than full-page printing, but hand-copied, the handwriting is messy, there are often alterations, and there are many typos and omissions.

Compared with living printing, there is no comparison at all.

"Okay, Miss Lu presented four fetishes today, I am very happy."

"I want to reward you, so tell me what you want? I am satisfied."

As soon as these words came out, Wen Songtao was overjoyed and quickly opened his mouth to speak.

"Thank you Yaoyao, Your Majesty has already opened his golden mouth, so why do you want to say it out?"

Hearing this, Emperor Hongwen glared at him angrily.

But he didn't blame anything at all, he didn't want to touch the Lu family's mind, at this time Lu Yaoyao gave him four such powerful things.

It's just a trivial matter for him to push the boat and let the Lu family go.

That is to say, there will be a little trouble for Gao Yanming in the follow-up, but there are four things, he only needs to operate a little bit, and give the Lu family a balance of merit and demerit. I believe no one can say anything.

"Minister, thank Your Majesty for your grace."

"Before His Majesty confers the reward, the girl has something to say, please allow Your Majesty."

"Come on."

Emperor Hongwen turned back to Long'an and sat down.

"Minnv heard today that Prime Minister Gao said in court that my Lu family took care of Bei Chu Jianxi and was suspected of treason."

"I feel very wronged."

"My Lu family is just a small merchant in Jiangdong. Although I can earn some money every year, it is all thanks to your wise leadership, Your Majesty."

"What are we ordinary people trying to achieve? Isn't it just a peaceful world?"

"Since His Majesty ascended the throne, the Eastern Continent faction has been thriving. Haiyan and Heqing, my Lu family has no power or power. All business depends on this peaceful and prosperous age."

"If the world is uneven, how will merchants like my Lu family survive?"

Everyone in the imperial study room nodded secretly unconsciously.

"Therefore, regarding the treason reported by Master Gao, the daughters of the people dare not agree."

"As for the matter of taking care of the spies of Northern Chu, the Lu family is not prosperous, and the business is getting bigger, so it is inevitable that they will hire workers from outside."

"Small merchants, of course, can't do such a strict investigation like the court. It's really easy for someone with a heart to sneak in. After all, since this Northern Chu spies entered Dongzhou, he must have come prepared."

"How can the Lu family investigate clearly?"

Everyone nodded again, this is indeed the truth.

(End of this chapter)