Yipin Tang

Chapter 18 Li Chengqian's Kindness
"Wang Zixin, are you happy that your father appointed you the supervisor of Sinong Temple? From now on, I will call you Wang Jiancheng." Li Zhi shouted excitedly at Wang Xiang as soon as he entered the door, seeing him playing with a few mouthfuls Gu asked curiously again: "What are you doing?"

Wang Xiang also liked the cute and cute Li Zhi very much, he smiled and asked, "Why did His Royal Highness King Jin come to Sinong Temple?"

"Father asked the prince's elder brother to supervise the auspicious matter, so I begged my father to let me come with me. I also want to see Xiangrui, and the Journey to the West you talked about during the last meal has not been finished yet."

Wang Xiang couldn't help laughing at Li Zhi's lingering expression, and said with a smile, "The latter sentence is the main reason."

Li Zhi smiled embarrassedly and said, "I'm going to eat at your house today, but I can't drink anymore, otherwise my father will punish you."

Li Chengqian on the side saw that Wang Xiang chatted with Li Zhi very casually, without the restraint of ordinary courtiers when facing the prince, and Li Zhi also seemed to like Wang Xiang very much. He knew that although his younger brother was only nine years old, he usually acted like a little adult. He looks like a nine-year-old child only in front of people close to him. Li Zhicai became so close to Wang Xiang not long after he knew him, which made Li Chengqian a little curious.

"You are Wang Jiancheng, Wang Zixin?"

Hearing Li Chengqian's question, Wang Xiang didn't dare to be negligent, and replied, "I'm being dismissed."

Li Chengqian pointed to the neatly arranged big vats and asked, "What are you doing with these big vats?"

Wang Xiang pretended not to see Li Zhi who was winking at him and replied, "This is for growing potatoes."

Li Chengqian was obviously a little surprised. He frowned and asked, "Do potatoes need to be planted in a large tank? Didn't it mean that they are very easy to survive and can be planted in barren land?"

He came here this time for the merits of the potatoes. He had heard that the yield of potatoes per hectare was astonishing and easy to survive, so he had great hopes for it, but he didn't expect it to be so cumbersome when he came to see it. He vaguely felt that what Wang Xiang said before was not true.

Knowing that Li Chengqian misunderstood, Wang Xiang explained: "Potatoes do not have high requirements for growth, but these potatoes are used for breeding. In order to harvest more potatoes as seeds, we still need to take good care of them. There is no need to do so when they are promoted and planted in large quantities in the future." Trouble."

Li Zhi leaned over with a smile and asked curiously: "Then why do you have to use a big tank?"

"Actually, it doesn't matter whether you use a large tank or not to grow potatoes."

As soon as Wang Xiang finished speaking, Zhang Zhongzheng behind him suddenly became furious. It turned out that Wang Zixin really teased me on purpose!

"But..." Wang Xiang paused with a mysterious smile and said, "Don't His Highness want to see the miracle of a potato turning into a crock of potatoes?"

Li Chengqian's expression changed when he heard the words, and he seemed a little unbelievable.

"You mean you can plant a potato in a tank and you can harvest a tank of potatoes?"

Even Zhang Zhongzheng forgot his anger for a moment, sneered at Wang Xiang's words, and hummed softly: "Wang Jiancheng had better not speak big words in front of His Highness the Crown Prince, lest it will end badly in the future, a potato grows into a pot of potatoes ? I’m afraid this potato is no longer auspicious but a fetish.”

Old man Zhang, enough is enough for you. You have targeted me endlessly. Wang Xiang cast a cold glance at Zhang Zhongzheng and said, "It's not surprising that Mr. Zhang has been pampered and ignorant in Si Nong Temple, but potatoes are a thing." It doesn't seem too much to call it a god if it can make my Tang Dynasty no longer famine."

Li Chengqian could see the contradiction between Zhang Zhongzheng and Wang Xiang at a glance. Seeing that Zhang Zhongzheng wanted to speak, Li Chengqian said coldly: "Wang Jiancheng is so confident in potatoes. The whole team of Sinong Temple should cooperate well. Father asked me to come." Supervising the Tudou matter, I only hope to see a satisfactory result as soon as possible, since the emperor has ordered Wang Jiancheng to take full charge of the Tudou matter, even if it is useful, the Crown Prince will also cooperate, and you must not obey it."

During this period of time, Li Chengqian's temper was not very good. Li Shimin praised Wei Wang Li Tai in front of his officials many times for being smart and quick-witted. dissatisfied.Because of his leg disease, Li Chengqian has always felt that Li Shimin and the ministers looked at him a little differently recently, which made him very annoyed. In addition, Li Tai was allowed to set up a literature museum to host the poetry meeting. Li Chengqian felt that his status as a prince was affected an unprecedented threat.

The talented people in the world are used by the king. Li Chengqian thinks that he is the prince and the future king of the Tang Dynasty, so talented people in the world should join him. However, in the last poetry meeting, Li Tai actually brought in all the four great talented people in Luoyang in one fell swoop. His Literature Museum, King Weihe Literature Museum became famous in Chang'an City, and even he, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, was overshadowed.Fortunately, I heard that Wang Zixin, who was the top name in the poetry meeting, did not join Wei Wang's literary museum, so Li Chengqian had a good impression of Wang Xiang at that time.

In addition, the fact that Li Shimin asked him to come over to supervise Tudou this time was for the sake of taking credit, which is still a great credit. The credit of making Datang no longer famine is not comparable to running a literature museum, but The potato was presented by Wang Xiang, which means that this credit was actually brought to him by Wang Xiang.

Wang Xiang also felt Li Chengqian's kindness. Although it was a little strange, he didn't go into it. He thought it might be because of Li Zhi.

"Wang Jiancheng, my prince brother is so kind to you, shouldn't you treat us to hot pot?" Li Zhi shook his head proudly and said, "The prince's brother is in a bad mood these days, and several adults have been punished by him. I have scolded you, you are lucky to have me speak well for you, and the prince brother is also very interested in your hot pot."

Wang Xiang smiled, this little guy was greedy and wanted to drag his eldest brother, but it seems that he really said a lot of good things for me.

"I'll let someone go back and tell Aunt Lin to prepare more ingredients, but it will be at night."

Li Zhi nodded obediently and said: "It's okay, Wang Jiancheng is busy with auspicious things first, we can go out to eat something casual at noon."

With Li Chengqian around, it was much easier for Wang Xiang to do things. In half an hour, more than a dozen large tanks were filled with fertile soil according to his requirements. They were dug from Zhang Zhongzheng's Bairui Garden. He still felt a little heartbroken when he saw this fertile soil, but it was used to grow real auspicious things.

Just after the severe cold, the grass has not yet recovered, Bairui Garden is bleak, only a few evergreen plants stand alone, Wang Xiang shook his head, there is not even a big shed, it is called Bairui Garden, and it will be bare in winter .

However, he found a few withered plants that were suspected to be cotton, and he was not sure. He would only know after a few months for the plants to recover.

Asked to line up more than a dozen large tanks, Wang Xiang cut the potatoes into small pieces with a knife. Li Chengqian was shocked and stopped him and asked him why.

Wang Xiang had no choice but to explain: "Potatoes are different from the seeds of other grains. Cutting them into pieces and accelerating germination can greatly increase the yield of potatoes."

"Why cut into pieces to accelerate germination?" Li Chengqian must ask clearly. After returning home, Li Shimin will definitely ask him about the potatoes. If Li Shimin knows that Wang Xiang cut Xiangrui into pieces, he will definitely ask why.

"Your Highness, you can see that there are many small pits on the potato." Wang Xiang picked up a piece of potato and pointed to the small pit on it and said, "This is the sprout hole. Cutting into cubes with one or two bud holes on top of each cube can greatly increase potato yields."

Li Chengqian asked with some concern: "Will this not damage auspiciousness?"

Wang Xiang smiled and said: "Your Highness, don't worry, you have seen that pruning the branches and leaves of trees will damage the trees."

Li Chengqian was relieved when he thought that the garden in the palace also needed to prune the branches and leaves of the trees every year, so there was no problem.

Wang Xiang did the cutting of potatoes himself. Others didn't know how to cut the potatoes to ensure the maximum germination rate of the potatoes.

After cutting the potatoes, Wang Xiang asked people to plant the potatoes in a large vat, with three layers of soil and one layer of potato cubes. A dozen of potato cubes were planted in more than a dozen large vats. After all, only one potato was planted in a large vat. .

As the weather has not yet warmed up completely, Wang Xiang originally planned to build a simple greenhouse to help the potatoes germinate, but after finishing these tasks, it was already meal time, so he had to wait until the afternoon to build the simple greenhouse.

The people of Sinong Temple also worked for a long time. They were all gray-haired old men who had done so much work in the pampered place of Sinon Temple. At this moment, they were all out of breath. Fortunately, Li Chengqian spoke.

"My lords, take a break after eating, and then prepare the greenhouse that Wang Jiancheng said. When the potatoes are harvested, you will definitely have a part of the credit."

"Don't dare, don't dare."

They didn't dare to complain to the prince, but the look in Wang Xiang's eyes was not so friendly.

When they all dispersed for dinner, Li Chengqian smiled pointedly and said, "Wang Jiancheng doesn't seem very popular in Si Nong Temple, and that Zhang Zhongzheng seems to have a deep hatred with you. Why don't I ask my father after the Tudou incident is over?" The emperor asks you to take up a post in my East Palace."

Li Chengqian's kindness was so obvious, Wang Xiang couldn't feel it, but he didn't dare to accept this kindness casually. After all, Li Chengqian in history was later rebelled and was abolished, and many people who followed him were implicated. Wang Xiang didn't want to go into this muddy water.

After a few words of nonsense, Wang Xiang said: "His Royal Highness Prince and King Jin are also hungry, why don't we go out to eat something first."

"Go to Baiweilou!"

Baiweilou is the largest restaurant in Chang'an City, no wonder Li Zhi called out the name of Baiweilou in one bite, but Wang Xiang wanted to go to another place.

"Why don't we go to Degui Restaurant?"

Li Zhi wrinkled his nose and said, "Degui Restaurant? What a tacky name, why does Wang Jiancheng want to go there?"

tacky?Well...Actually, I think so too, why do you think our restaurant has such a vulgar name.Wang Xiang shook his head and thought to himself, if you want to blame, you can blame Butler Wang's son's tacky name, because the shopkeeper of the restaurant is Wang Degui, the son of Steward Wang.

Butler Wang mentioned this when Wang Steward and Aunt Lin went to sell fungus at Baiweilou, but the business of the restaurant was not so good, so Wang Xiang never cared about it. When he went out today, Xiaoya reminded him that he could go to his own restaurant for lunch. That's when he wanted to see what this Degui restaurant was like.

(End of this chapter)