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Chapter 476 Harvest of Linggua
The first batch of Linggua was sent to Beijing and escorted directly into the palace by the two chief officials of the Sinong Department.

Emperor Zheng was overjoyed when he saw it.

It was already the end of May, and ice basins had already been used in the palace. After two carts of melons were brought into the palace, Emperor Zheng ordered them to be cut into pieces. The skin was thin and the flesh was thick, the pulp was sweet, and the seeds were few. Take a sip into your mouth and feel relaxed all over.

It's like being in a cool ice room.

"reward!"

Various rewards were given. The Lin family, who were the first to harvest melons, were rewarded with a hundred taels of silver and twenty bolts of satin. Si Nongsi was not left behind either.

A cart of silk was escorted by Liu Qi and several palace servants to the Sinong Division.

Zhao Guangyuan randomly selected two horses, and the rest were divided among the people below.

"The emperor cut it on the spot and was full of praise. He also rewarded the slave with a tooth. The slave was so satisfied..." Liu Qi didn't know what happened to him, but he was willing to walk in front of the King of Yue.

He found that he was walking more frequently in front of the King of Yue without realizing it.

"The emperor gave two pills to each of the empresses in the palace, and one and a half pills to the other empresses. No one was left behind. The East Palace, Prince Qi's Mansion, and the eldest princesses all also gave them. The other princes and princesses also gave three pills each. Two."

"This first batch of melons is not much. I'm afraid the two melons each family can get are not enough for everyone." Zhao Guangyuan said.

Liu Qi smiled and nodded, "No. It's only two carts of melons. It's a great favor for the emperor to take care of them and distribute them. I heard that in a few days, another batch will be sent to the palace. The ministers will wait a moment. There will be.”

Zhao Guangyuan nodded, "Yes. The Lin family's melons are the first batch to ripen. In a few days, the melons in the fields near the imperial mausoleum will gradually mature. Then I will have people leave a few more for Eunuch Liu."

"That's daring!"

Liu Qi was overjoyed, "I said there must be some benefits to this trip. No one else likes to run outside the palace on this hot day." He was the only one who accepted the job.

"Thank you Eunuch Liu for thinking of me."

Liu Qi felt comfortable listening to this. He used to work for the prince and the king of Qin, and revealed a lot of information to those two people, but no one took him as a person like the king of Yue.

He took a step closer and whispered: "I heard that many ministers went to the Prince of Chu's Mansion to ask for melons. I heard that this first batch of melons came from the home of the concubine of the King of Chu. Many people went to give gifts to Aunt Lin."

Zhao Guangyuan was stunned.

Liu Qi felt a little unworthy of the King of Yue, "Everyone knows that Linggua was grown under the auspices of the prince. The Lin family also has the care of the prince. If you want to curry favor with the prince, you should come to the prince."

All the benefits belong to the King of Chu.

Zhao Guangyuan silently stuffed Liu Qi's wallet, thanked him for his hard work, and thanked him for telling him the news.

Originally, he was still thinking about it, so he sent two carts of melons to the palace. The emperor would distribute them among themselves, and each family would probably not get much. It would be inappropriate to sell the cart he cut off in Huixian Tower.

But now I heard what Liu Qi said, what was appropriate or not, all the credit he and the Lin family had done became the King of Chu's, just because the King of Chu accepted the Lin family's granddaughter?
Then he would put the first melon crop in Huixian Tower and sell it, and he wouldn't have to worry about anyone.

After Liu Qi left, he immediately ordered someone to push the cart of melons to Huixian Tower.

Just when everyone went to the Prince of Chu's Mansion to curry favor with others and wanted to be the first in line to get Linggua, it turned out that Huixian Tower started selling melons.

The East Palace and Prince Qi's Mansion only gave three pills. The ministers were still looking for melons to quench their thirst, but Huixian Tower was openly sold?

At this time of year, various families in the capital are competing to hold various banquets. It would be a great honor for anyone to have watermelon at their banquet.

After all, everyone outside doesn't have it, but we have it at home, so we have the strength and background.

As a result, he went to Prince Chu's Mansion with gifts, and Huixian Tower was put up for sale?

Also selling Linggua, the first crop of Linggua!
Everyone sent their servants to buy them.

Although there will be a large amount of Linggua on the market in ten days and a half, by then, everyone will be able to eat melons at home, so what’s the point of them competing with each other?
In the end, they ran away, but they were all dumbfounded. It doesn’t matter how expensive it is. Which of the wealthy families in the capital is short of money?

Of course, expensive is indeed a small price, a melon is worth one tael of gold! If the family hadn't been short of money, I would have wanted to slap the King of Yue on the forehead with a melon rind.

They're all after money!

It's not that it's expensive, it's only sold to diners who consume in the store. And they must be diners who have spent a certain amount of money that day.

Huixianlou was so lucky that Huixianlou only got one cart of this first batch of melons. Of course, the one with the highest price got it.

Speechless.

How could the servants who were sent here to buy melons be the ones who could afford to spend money in Huixian Tower? They all ran back to the mansion to report.

As a result, before each family owner could think about it, all the melons in Huixian Tower were sold out. I heard that I kept two lists of reservations in advance.

In Prince Yue's palace, Lin Zhaoxia and Chang Zhi were counting their coins, and the mother and son were laughing so hard that they couldn't even see their teeth. Zhao Guangyuan looked at them from the side, the corner of his mouth curled up and he never lowered it.

"There are a hundred melons in a cart. No matter how much you count, you won't get any more silver." One hundred taels of gold, both mother and son counted several times. He looked like he had never seen the world.

Lin Zhaoxia ignored him, "You don't understand the joy of counting money."

Changzhi nodded matter-of-factly, "Counting money makes people happy."

Zhao Guangyuan smiled and shook his head. He looked at his son who was counting the money, and remembered what was written in the unofficial history about the man named Lu Changyu who finally excavated the imperial tomb, and the corners of his mouth dropped again.

He stood up and said, "Follow dad."

He was stunned and asked, "Where are you going?" He stood up in a daze.

"Don't you love counting money? Dad will take you to the warehouse to count it."

what?
The mother and son looked at each other blankly, wondering why he came suddenly. All you need to do is look at the account book to count the money in the warehouse. There are accountants to count it, so do you need your son to count it?

Her son doesn’t want to count money, he just enjoys making money as much as she does.

"Are you serious?" Lin Zhaoxia asked him.

Zhao Guangyuan nodded, "He is old now. It's time for him to know more about common affairs." Don't look like you are ignorant, or you will really be on the road to being reviled by your ancestors and future generations in the future.

Changzhi followed his father to the warehouse to count the money with a confused look on his face.

Lin Zhaoxia looked at them silently and said nothing. When it comes to her son's education, she usually doesn't get involved when Zhao Guangyuan makes decisions.

After counting the money earned from the first crop of melons, the second crop of melons soon came to Beijing.

The diners enjoyed the first crop of Linggua, but there were so many reservations that Zhao Guangyuan ordered several carts to be picked from his farm. They are both Ling Gua seedlings, but their taste is not as good as those from Huang Ling.

Therefore, Zhao Guangyuan also sent someone to explain to the diners, and charged 20% less silver.

In this way, bookings are increasing instead of decreasing.

It was not until the second and third crops of melons from the imperial mausoleum were sent to Beijing that the price of melons dropped. Finally, people in the capital could buy Linggua for twenty cents per catty.

Even so, the benefits are still gratifying. Zhao Lingcheng even rushed to Beijing to report to Emperor Zhizheng about the income from the imperial mausoleum.

The benefits of growing food are far less impressive than growing melons. Please continue planting on a large scale next year.

The benefits that Linggua brought to Huixian Tower continued, but Yan Jingzheng on the other side brought a piece of news to Zhao Guangyuan.