Crossing the wasteland: Farming and peasant girls can't be provoked

Chapter 314 Harvest
Ding Guogong fell, and many ministers in the court were trembling.

When Xu Liangsheng returned home and told his wife about the fate of Duke Dingguo's mansion, he still had lingering fears.

Mrs. Xu frowned and said: "My lord, what the Lu family did is a crime worthy of death. It's just that the Lu family collapsed as soon as it said it would. The Lu family also committed suicide, and the empress disappeared. It’s very sad, they still took the opportunity to force the Holy One to change the queen, and they are so shameless. If the Holy Majesty doesn’t deal with them, what are you waiting for.”

Xu Liangsheng looked at no one else in the room and approached his wife and whispered: "This Lu Zhilan knows that she is going to enter the palace as a concubine, and there is a high possibility that she will become a queen, and she also wanted to enter the palace, but she still did such a scandal There must be something strange."

Mrs. Xu looked at her husband and said in a low voice, "Don't you suspect that someone plotted against the Lu family?"

Xu Liangsheng said: "I got a message that the Holy Majesty didn't want to accept the concubine at all, and the imperial decree to accept the concubine was issued by the Supreme Emperor. The Holy Majesty even had a quarrel with the Supreme Emperor about this matter.

The Supreme Emperor felt that the Empress had too much influence on the Holy Majesty, and wanted to use other women to distract the Empress from his favor.But the Holy Majesty does not want other women.The disappearance of the empress is also likely to be related to the imperial decree given by the Supreme Emperor to the concubine. "

Mrs. Xu felt something was wrong when she heard the words and said: "Master, do you think Lu Zhilan's matter will have the Holy Majesty's handwriting? Will our family Yinyin be in danger?"

The more Mrs. Xu thought about it, the more worried she became, she grabbed her husband and said, "My lord, we Yinyin don't want to enter the palace at all, but there's nothing we can do with the imperial decree in the palace. Now the Holy Majesty is getting stronger and stronger, and it is estimated that the Supreme Emperor will not be able to control the Holy Majesty at all. If the Holy Majesty I don't think if we Yinyin enter the palace, will it be bad for us Yinyin?"

Xu Liangsheng frowned and thought for a long time and said: "Tomorrow I will go to see the Holy Majesty, and say that our family Yinyin is not in good health, so I beg the Holy Majesty to spare our daughter from entering the palace. If the Majesty really does not want our daughter to enter the palace, he will definitely follow the trend My request is granted. Then we need not worry."

Mrs. Xu nodded and said: "That's the way. We didn't want our daughter to enter the palace. It would be great if the Holy Majesty would agree. It's just that my daughter's marriage may be affected. It's also more dangerous than entering the palace and being ignored or even dangerous." it is good."

Xu Liangsheng did not delay the next day and went to the emperor alone to express his request.

Xiao Yilin summoned Xu Liangsheng in the Zichen Palace, and was very happy to hear Xu Liangsheng's request. He felt that Xu Liangsheng was very knowledgeable about current affairs, so he agreed to his request.

In this way, he solved the two women who were about to enter the palace, and there were only two left.He'll figure out a way around both obstacles.

Xu Liangsheng came out of the Zichen Palace, recalling the tone of the Holy Majesty's words and the expression on his face, and knew that he had taken the right step.He felt that the Holy Majesty had no intention of letting the women from the Supreme Emperor's imperial decree enter the palace at all.He took the initiative to ask that his daughter not be able to enter the palace, which was in line with the Holy Majesty's mind, so it seemed that both his daughter and the Xu family were safe.

Jing Yi didn't know that Xiao Yilin was looking for her while stabilizing the government, and was still removing the obstacles between them bit by bit.Now that she is pregnant and has many things to deal with, she has no time to think about Xiao Yilin at all.

In the early spring, the food and other crops that she led her men to plant were harvested one after another.Whether it is rice, wheat or potatoes, it is a bumper harvest.The yield surprised everyone involved in farming.

Jing Yi also demonstrated to everyone how to eat potatoes. Everyone did not expect that potatoes not only have a high yield, but also can make all kinds of delicious food. This is the first time everyone has seen it.With this high-yield potato, everyone has nothing to worry about filling their stomachs.

After this batch of farmers harvested, they could be completely self-sufficient, and there was no need for Jing Yi to buy food from outside.

In the past few months, not only has the crop been harvested, but also the vegetables grown by each family can't be eaten up, and the chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle and sheep raised by each family are growing very well.Many people's hens have already started laying eggs, so there is no need to worry about eating eggs.

The salt drying field built by Song Yuancheng was very successful, and a lot of coarse salt has been dried.Those veterans who went to build the salt farm built houses there for a long time, and they just kept it secret.

When the veterans saw the salt produced by seawater for the first time, they were so excited that tears filled their eyes.

In ancient times, due to the limited knowledge of the ancients, they could only make salt by directly setting the iron pan on the stove and burning the fire to boil the salt water.

This kind of primitive salt cooking takes time, consumes fuel, and produces less, so the price of salt is expensive. Trading salt was a profitable industry in ancient times.

Moreover, all dynasties have brought the salt trade into the imperial court and prohibited private manufacture and sale of salt. Salt trading has been an important source of tax revenue for the courts of all dynasties.

Moreover, the source of salt production is generally controlled by the imperial court, and private individuals do not have raw materials even if they want to make salt.

Because Beiyan's salt production is very small, it needs to buy it from Jin State or Yi State, which also makes them pay a lot of money every year.Beiyan also once launched a war over salt.

So both ordinary people and officials know the importance of salt.These veterans know better.

It is ecstatic that salt can be dried out in the sea water now.After all, seawater is inexhaustible, and it is also very easy to dry salt in salt pans, which is simply a lucrative business.

There is also a workshop at the foot of the mountain at the sun-dried salt field. Under the guidance of Jing Yi, the coarse salt that has been sun-dried is re-dissolved, filtered, and crystallized to obtain relatively clean salt.

Now that Jing Yi is inconvenient, he has not yet found a reagent to remove soluble impurities in salt, so he can only do this first.Even so, such salt was good enough for the ancients.

Song Yuancheng was also very excited when he saw the white table salt after processing.As a former family member, he certainly knew what this meant.With this steady stream of salt, they will earn a lot of money, and it will be much easier to develop their power.

Jing Yi was very relieved to hand over the salt farm to Song Yuancheng, and she later sent Qiao Hong there.

Song Yuancheng has more important things to do in the future, and when Qiao Hong grows up, he will hand over the salt farm to Qiao Hong for management.

Jing Yi's pregnancy has reached the late stage, Qin and Liu's mother and daughter have made a lot of small clothes for Jing Yi's child, diapers and small quilts are also ready.

Jing Yi attaches great importance to this child, and she asks to use soft cotton cloth for diapers, clothes, quilts, etc. prepared for the child.

She was afraid that she would have no milk, so she asked people to raise cows and ewes. Even if she had no milk, she could let her child drink cow's milk or goat's milk.

During this time, Jing Yi taught Qu a lot of medical knowledge, which made Qu a lot of progress.Especially Jing Yi taught Qu Shi many things in terms of childbirth, maternal care, infant care, etc. Qu Shi was very grateful and cared about Jing Yi's baby.

(End of this chapter)