The world is heavy and late

Chapter 66 Finally
Five days later, Lu Jin finally returned to the capital.

He went to return the errand to His Majesty first. Lu Jin was slightly older than the emperor and rarely spoke.

The emperor was not in the mood to mention anything else, and suppressed his excitement and asked, "Is what you said in the letter true?"

Lu Jin said: "Yes, there was no locust plague in Anyang County, Xiangzhou, but their wheat species were different. The local people didn't notice it, but the county captain who went to the countryside saw it. The county captain reported it to Yang Cong without telling the county magistrate. I want to fight for merit, and I don’t want to be silenced instead.”

He added: "The wheat seeds in Anyang County were divided by the aristocratic family, and the locusts were also arranged by them."

"It was intended to be concealed, but I didn't expect Yang Cong to hide it from anyone. The magistrate Tang of Anyang County just found out about this, but he was placed under house arrest. When I arrived, the magistrate Tang had died suddenly."

"Therefore... there is no evidence."

The emperor was furious when he heard this, his eyes were bloodshot, his teeth were clenched tightly, it was too deceitful.

He swept the folders on the desk, and the folders on the desk immediately scattered and fell to the ground.

The emperor was so angry that his chest kept rising and falling.

The aristocratic family controls all the grains, what do they want to do?
Let him be an emperor to beg them?
After a while, the emperor exhaled deeply and said, "How many wheat seeds have been brought back? Which ones are they mainly from?"

Lu Jin said: "Weichen was followed by people when he went there, and he tried his best to bring back more than ten carts, about 120 shi."

"Mainly, it's the Cui family and the Yang family."

The emperor said: "Too little, not enough. Does this wheat seed have a high annual output?"

After thinking for a while, the emperor asked a little strangely: "The Wang family didn't interfere."

So what's the point of Concubine Shu's doing that?

Lu Jin lowered his head and said, "I heard that the Wang family made the fastest move, but they didn't ask for anything. They only took away someone."

The emperor said: "Man, who is it?"

Lu Jin said, "One, the farmer."

"Wei Chen has inquired about the source of this kind of seeds. He said that there is a man in Anyang County who is very good at farming, but he is not shrewd. A few years ago, he was deceived by a businessman and bought some inexplicable seeds. After he came back, he tossed a lot. After a few years, this new wheat seed will be planted."

After Lu Jin finished speaking, he paused and said:

"In fact, Master Xie knows more about the new wheat species than Weichen, who knows very little about people's livelihood."

The emperor knew that it was really difficult for a general who led troops to fight to manage the people's farming.

So he asked: "What is the output of the wheat seed in the second year?"

Lu Jin said: "Wei Chen heard from the people in Anyang County that the harvest in the future is almost the same as the first year's harvest, so it should not change much."

The emperor saw that Lu Jin was not very clear about this matter, so he confessed: "Keep an eye on your carts of wheat seeds, and try to plant them sometime."

After finishing speaking, he calmed down the anger that had just been stuck in his chest, and said to Lu Jin with gloomy eyes: "And I have invested so much, so I should see the benefits."

After speaking, Lu Jin was asked to step down, and Xie Huizhi was announced.

Xie Huizhi's disaster relief work has just ended, and he came back with Lu Jin.

Speaking of it, it was thanks to Xie Huizhi, those people did not dare to act because Xie's eldest son and Lu Jin were together, and they dared not act until the two separated near the capital, and there was a chance that His Majesty would send him to pick them up.

Otherwise, those wheat seeds would be hard to tell, and Lu Jin might still wander around in some unknown corner.

The emperor summoned Xie Huizhi to understand what is different about this wheat seed.

Nowadays, the wheat seeds are very short, and the wheat produced is also slender. The ears of this kind of wheat are much taller, and each ear is very full.

In other words, the actual number is not much, but the weight of new wheat seeds is two to three times heavier than that of other places.

After the emperor understood it, he said, "Then what happened to the man taken away by the Wang family?"

Xie Huizhi: "That man's surname is An, and his name is An Dalang. I heard that he is a simple and honest man. He planted this wheat seed first. As for the method of planting, the local people have different opinions."

Xie Huizhi explained the whole story clearly when he opened his mouth, and the emperor squinted his eyes and listened quietly to his report.

"It's just that his harvest was much higher than his own in the past few years, so people in the village exchanged some wheat seeds with him. Gradually, some people sold them to the county. Only then did such a high output appear in Anyang County."

The emperor said with condensed eyes: "So in the entire Anyang County, it takes half a year to find ten carts of wheat seeds?"

Xie Huizhi's expression didn't change, and he didn't answer the words. He didn't know whether the Xie family had participated, and he still stood at the bottom with a cold expression.

The emperor was extremely angry in his heart, but his face became more and more silent. He continued to ask: "Where did Wang take this person?"

Xie Huizhi bowed his head and replied, "I don't know."

The emperor snorted coldly and said, "The Wang family has always looked at the long-term."

The emperor thought that if this batch of wheat seeds could be successful, the grain production of the people would be greatly improved, and even the treasury would be much richer, so he suppressed these angers.

The most important thing now is not to liquidate, but to make this wheat seed available to the people all over the world.

So the emperor quietly went to Jing Zhaoyin's storehouse with Zhang Zhizhen Guo Gong and others that night. Zhang Zhi and the emperor were a little excited when they saw this batch of wheat seeds.

Zhang Zhi even said: "It is enough for the world to enjoy peace for more than ten years!"

The emperor said: "It's still too few. I'm going to let Xie Huizhi pull two carts to go to Xiazhou. For his great achievements this time, he will be promoted to be the governor of Xiazhou, and help the disaster along the way."

"The rest will be planted in the Huangzhuang, and will be distributed to the states in the next year."

Everyone thought it was very good. If the emperor hadn't looked at the seeds of these wheat seeds, they might have disappeared without leaving the capital.

In this way, since the aristocratic family has no evidence in the hands of His Majesty, the people of the whole world will have to point to the wheat seeds in the hands of the aristocratic family in the future.

So whether the world belongs to the emperor or the family.

Some people would advise the emperor that the people are more important than the emperor, but who would advise the aristocratic family?

But Zhang Zhi felt something was wrong when he heard it, he was not the emperor, the emperor had never toured the world, he had only fought against the first emperor, he was on the battlefield, but he knew very little about such things.

Then he said: "I think it's inappropriate to distribute more. If these things are to be circulated, they need to be bought and sold. If they are distributed for nothing, they may be eaten like other grains or sold at a low price."

Others also felt polite after hearing this, but Cao Xiu, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, immediately understood that if it was only distributed, this kind of good seed would not be able to spread throughout the country, but it could be bought and sold.

So he immediately seconded the proposal, but he thought it was just a sale, so what should the common people do?

The emperor thought it was really possible, so he said: "That's fine, then the next season's wheat seeds will be divided into threes, threes, and fours."

Thirty percent is reserved, thirty percent is traded, and forty percent is distributed.

Zhang Zhi didn't say anything when he heard it, but Cao Xiu thought of something again and said, "I don't know if the money from the wheat seed business will go to His Majesty's private treasury or the state treasury?"

Zhang Zhi regained his energy immediately after hearing this, and stared at the emperor with burning eyes. He simply didn't want to pay too much attention to this kind of behavior of staring at His Majesty.

The emperor said without guilt: "Of course it's a private treasury. I have people guarding it and it's on my estate. All manpower and material resources come from me, and the proceeds will naturally go to me."

Cao Xiu immediately said: "But the person His Majesty sent to watch over it is still paid by the treasury, and this wheat seed was brought back by Mr. Lu."

The emperor immediately looked at Lu Jin, but Lu Jin lowered his head, not daring to look up at anyone.

Lu Jin was also very generous. How could he, who led troops to fight, quarrel with Zhang Xiang and Cao Shangshu, so he just lowered his head and ignored everyone, anyway, he couldn't afford to offend anyone.

After the emperor saw it, he gave Lu Jin a hard look, and felt that he had something to do, so he threw himself away. Thinking of the empty private treasury, he closed his eyes cruelly and said: "The [-]% is always fine. Right. I want to take [-]%."

Cao Xiu and Zhang Zhi were a little unwilling, but they kept their mouths shut under the obviously angry eyes of the emperor.

I thought, forget it, anyway, the purpose is not here.

When the emperor saw that everyone silently agreed to his proposal, he actually regretted it a bit. He knew that he should have said something.

Sighing regretfully in his heart, he felt that the things that had been on his mind for a long time could be put aside for a while, and he was ready to go back to the palace.

But before leaving, he still said: "I will plant the seeds immediately, and I must catch up with this season of spring wheat. The sooner the better for this kind of thing."

After speaking, the emperor left without looking back.

He felt as if he hadn't been to the harem for a long time.

The emperor who breathed a sigh of relief thought of the beautiful family members in the harem again.

(End of this chapter)