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Chapter 497 The Writer and the Emperor 7
The emperor said that he still has two years to live, but in fact, the sixth year of the apocalypse to the seventh year of the apocalypse is only two years.

Tianqi planted sweet potatoes and corn in the spring of the seventh year, and the harvest was good before August. If there is still no harvest by August, he may not even see a good harvest of sweet potatoes.

Realizing this, the emperor gritted his teeth with hatred, cursing heaven and earth in his mind, instead of swearing at Tianqi from Puxiang's standpoint.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, due to the explosion of the Wanggong factory in the capital, countless casualties in the capital, and the death of the prince, this year has been gloomy and miserable, and it has never been a good year.

As the Chinese New Year turns, everyone thinks that this year's bad luck should pass away, and they are full of hope for another year of good weather.During the new year's ancestor worship, the emperor stared at the portraits of the ancestors in the Taimiao in a daze, and said to himself: "If you want the country to continue, you must protect me."

Since he acquired Pu Xiang's memory, his awe of his ancestors has almost faded.

How could the ancestors and ancestors respond to him?If they could really bless them, they would not have watched their family and country fall and the emperor die for the country.

During the first half of the Seven Years of Apocalypse, the emperor only did three things: the first one was to learn the method of practicing Qi Daoyin with Jin Yiwei, so as to strengthen his body bones; the second one was to continue training soldiers in Xiyuan; the last one was to It is waiting for the sweet potatoes to grow.

He brought King Xin by his side, and explained to him the important points of sweet potatoes and corn, and every time he thought that if he died, he would just take advantage of this kid for nothing, his eyes would be strange.

Although Wang Xin was only fifteen or sixteen years old, he was married before the tragic disaster in June of the sixth year of Tianqi.The concubine is the Zhou family chosen by Empress Zhang and Concubine Liu together. Although Zhou's family background is low, she is extremely beautiful. When Empress Zhang saw it that day, she smiled and said: "This looks good, it is worthy of our fifth brother." Concubine Liu More attention is paid to her dignity and resilience.

Xin Wang's newlywed Yaner was at the time when they were like glue, but because of the death of the crown prince, both of them are ceremonial, although they read and talk together every day, they have different rooms, and they don't talk about it. The nephew kept his filial piety once.

Ever since the queen knew the emperor's secret, she was anxious about the royal inheritance in her heart, urging Princess Xin to get pregnant, but Princess Xin couldn't, so she hesitated to talk about the agreement between her husband and wife. Quan Xia also deeply feels Wu Nei, he is a junior after all, you don't want to delay the succession because of him."

The emperor and the king of Xin are two brothers, but now they don't have a child.

When the emperor heard about this later, he also said to King Xin: "The heirs of the Tian family are no better than others, don't let the momentary sadness delay the big event." He was suspicious of King Xin, but King Xin was loyal to him, and there was absolutely no discord. rare.

In June and July of the seventh year of Apocalypse, the first batch of sweet potatoes and corn in Huangzhuang were ripe and sent to the palace. The emperor looked at the situation in the palace, took the queen with him, and went to Xinwangfu.

That day, the emperor shocked everyone's jaws: the old man rolled up his sleeves and was tearing corn husks there.

If you want to change to other courtiers, you should kneel down and persuade the emperor not to do anything at this moment, but Xin Wang also rolled up his sleeves to follow the emperor's example. The two brothers tore more than a dozen corn cobs, and the emperor saw blood bubbling from Xin Wang's hands, and couldn't help being scared. Jump: "Why didn't you tell me you hurt your hand?"

The young man was raised with gold and jade, the heaviest in his hands is nothing more than a strong bow, and the most difficult thing is to carry a purple hair. His hands are like carved from white jade, no wonder they will break when scratched by the corn husk.

The emperor didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly asked someone to wrap his hands to stop the bleeding, but he didn't do anything himself. He asked someone to boil the corn and roast the sweet potato.

King Xin valued the most courtesy, but no kind of courtesy could compare to the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, and the filial piety of brothers. The elder brother of the emperor wanted to stand at the kitchen door with his sleeves rolled up and his hands crossed to talk, so he had to accompany him. He felt that the emperor's brother was getting more and more strange.

It didn't take long to slander, the aroma of the two foods came out, the emperor took a deep breath, and said with a smile: "Haha, it's done!"

King Xin has never eaten such a meal without regard to etiquette since he was a child, but the king has to die, let alone the king just keeps letting you eat?

The Queen and Concubine Xin could still find a seat in the room. Someone peeled the sweet potatoes and put them on a white porcelain plate with gold borders, and asked them to sip carefully with ivory and silver chopsticks.The emperor didn't pay so much attention, and squatted down to eat sweet potatoes with his robe lifted.

King Xin felt that Brother Huang must be broken.

As soon as the emperor raised his head, he beckoned: "Come on, squat down."

King Xin was reluctant, but the king's orders were hard to disobey, and he was caught in a dilemma for a while.Even though he was educated to hide his emotions and anger since he was a child, he still couldn't help showing some dissatisfaction.

The young man lowered his eyes, his puffy look was very funny, the emperor preferred to see him like this, deliberately wanted to bully him, and said with a smile: "I'll just squat, you stand so tall, is it reasonable?"

King Xin squatted in front of the emperor, and said earnestly: "I am not a courtier. When the emperor's brother does something wrong, the minister must persuade him, not let the emperor be willful."

The emperor was still not annoyed, "Then tell me, what did I do wrong? Don't talk about etiquette and rules, just say that I have done things like this, have I ever harmed a common people, have I ever hurt an innocent person?"

Xinwang was at a loss for words, and in terms of sophistry, he would never be able to beat the Internet writer Puxiang real person in his life.

The emperor won a complete victory, clapped his hands after eating the sweet potatoes, and planned to go back to the palace to reward the two eunuchs, but when he looked back and saw that King Xin was still there in a daze, he reminded him: "If you don't eat any more, it will be cold."

King Xin, who had always been dignified and respectful, was holding a black roasted sweet potato in his hand and respectfully sent the emperor back to the palace. He and Wang Chengen almost thought that there was something wrong with their eyes, so they rubbed them for a long time.

Concubine Xin saw that King Xin was still holding the sweet potato, and whispered: "I tasted it, it's so delicious, my lord, try it." She peeled the skin for King Xin and cleaned it up cleanly, which was better than the emperor after eating. It looks much better with a black ash around the mouth.

King Xin hesitantly took a bite of the sweet potato, it was sweet...

He has always respected and loved the emperor's elder brother, but his masters said that the emperor's elder brother was absurd, so he wanted to persuade the emperor's brother to follow the right path.Unexpectedly, the emperor's every move has a lot of rules recently. After all, King Xin is a young man, so he can't help but suspect that the emperor's brother is imitating King Zhuang of Chu's "three years of silence, and a blockbuster". My eldest brother is not a muddleheaded person!
The emperor did not expect that just one sweet potato would double King Xin's admiration for him. When he returned to the palace, he first rewarded two eunuchs who had made great contributions to growing sweet potatoes.

In fact, the output of sweet potatoes and corn at this time was far lower than that of Puxiang. Gein Puxiang’s crops at that time were mostly high-yielding varieties that had been carefully bred for many years. It was only a few years since the introduction of sweet potatoes in the Ming Dynasty. How could there be time for breeding?As long as there are more harvests than wheat, sorghum, and rice, many more lives can be saved.

The emperor couldn't wait any longer, and within a few days, he issued a secret decree to the governor of Shaanxi to promote the two crops locally.

Immediately after the arrival of August, the emperor was worried for a month and never stepped into Xiyuan.Unexpectedly, this was the case, the emperor still encountered an accident - a kiss fell from a palace, and almost injured the passing emperor. Fortunately, the emperor had practiced the channeling technique for several months, so he was light and healthy, and avoided the danger. open.

Originally, he only thought that this month was his fate, but the empress reminded him: "That palace was repaired last year, so it is impossible for the roof tiles to slip down. Long live, please be more careful."

The emperor reacted, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he ordered Wei Zhongxian to investigate.

Wei Zhongxian doesn't know anything else, except that he is very good at doing these things, and the harem is under the control of him and the Ke family. How can Nine Thousand Years not be angry if this kind of thing happened under his nose?
In a rage, Wei Zhongxian searched the Forbidden City one by one, and found out many traitors, pointing the finger at King Fu.

Only then did the emperor know that Fu Wang's family had already had internal support in the palace. They planned to drown the emperor in Xiyuan, but if the emperor didn't go to Xiyuan, they tried to pry the owl's kiss. They were just a little bit close to success.

The emperor and Fu Wang are immortal, but now they can't act rashly, so they suffocated, so they had to confide to the queen: "I don't have much power now, but if I can move the cabinet..."

The queen had no choice but to persuade: "Long live is only optimistic about the good side, the death calamity is over, even Daming's fate, it is not impossible to change."

The emperor was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed loudly: Yes, as long as he doesn't die, there is always a chance.

Not long after the emperor was happy, someone poured cold water on him: he sent someone to Shaanxi with a secret decree to promote sweet potatoes and corn. But if he didn't obey, he actually hung up the people sent by the emperor and ignored them at all.

The emperor wanted to do something secretly, and when the harvest was good, he would surprise the jaws of the cabinet ministers, so as to increase his prestige, but who knew that the governor of Shanxi and Shaanxi was so stubborn, so he had to summon the cabinet ministers to plant these two things on the Huangzhuang. Crops, how much to spend, how much to harvest, let the two eunuchs talk to the cabinet ministers.

The elders of the pavilion came from Qingliu, and there was a consensus that they looked down on these disabled eunuchs, so they refused to believe it at the time: "I don't want to believe it, but this number sounds weird. Your Majesty doesn't care about Nongsang. If you only think about the people's livelihood, you will inevitably act too hastily, and the villain can take advantage of it."

The ministers insisted that the eunuchs had cheated, and the emperor had no choice but to take them to the Huangzhuang to see the harvest.Seeing the sweet potatoes and corn piled up into hills with their own eyes, the courtiers were still skeptical, and the emperor took a step back: "There is drought in Guanzhong, and there is not much harvest for one mu of land, so I chose Chang'an County and ordered each family to plant one mu. See you in the coming year." Let's see if we can get these harvests. If we can't harvest so much, there is no loss of one mu of land."

The emperor was pitiful, and when it came to this, the cabinet ministers had no choice but to admit it out of his face, and issued a decree to the governor of Shanxi through the cabinet to order sweet potatoes to be planted in Chang'an County.

Only then did the emperor free up his hands, gearing up to clean up the clan—the clan of the Ming Dynasty had hundreds of thousands, no imperial examinations, no business, lying on top of the treasury to suck blood, fish and meat, it's time to change the rules.

(End of this chapter)