Chapter 17: No one left(1/2)
It took nearly two months to go from Beijing to Xi'an.
The reason why he was so slow was that he was free, so Qin Hao simply took Dou Zhao around, saying that he was rushing around, but in fact, he had traveled all the way. It took two months to travel for a month.
The Qin Wang Mansion in Xi'an has been built long ago. In fact, it was expanded and repaired based on the former Qin Wang Mansion. Qin Hao was also given 100,000 acres of fertile land. It has to be said that the Zhu family treated his son who could not inherit the throne.
After settling down, Dou Zhao began to get lost, and the small flames of doing business emerged.
"Husband, how about leaving me with these 100,000 acres of fertile land?"
"What are your bad ideas?" Qin Hao asked with a smile.
Dou Zhao clapped seriously, and Miao Ansu came over with a basket.
Qin Hao was stunned when he saw the things in the basket: "Where did you get this?"
"Husband knows this thing?" Dou Zhao was also stunned.
Potato, he is so familiar with this thing, okay.
"If you don't know me, my wife will tell you what's strange about this thing."
Looking at Dou Zhao Xianbao's expression, Qin Hao decided to pretend not to know him in order to avoid sleeping in the study tonight.
"No, you clearly know the expression you just now."
As a result, Dou Zhao was not easy to cheat at all.
Qin Hao sighed helplessly: "Women are too smart, but they are not cute."
"snort."
Under Dou Zhao's gaze attack, Qin Hao had to write casually: "I heard a Hu merchant talk about this kind of crop, saying that it is drought-resistant and does not pick soil, and the yield per mu is amazing, but unexpectedly it is in the hands of my wife."
Dou Zhao nodded with satisfaction: "I also exchanged this item from a Hu merchant. Later, I planted a batch of it using the method he taught. It turned out that the yield per mu was amazing, and it was both vegetables and grain, and the taste was also delicious."
"If we plant this 100,000 mu of fertile land, we will definitely get a great harvest."
"And in the future, we will promote this product to the whole world, and perhaps the people in the world will no longer have to worry about not having enough food."
Qin Hao gave a thumbs up: "The heart of the lady, Bodhisattva, is admired by her husband."
Dou Zhaozhan smiled: "So, did you agree to hand over the 100,000 acres of fertile land to me for maintenance?"
"My wife has the world in mind, and she will naturally support you if she is husband."
"Stop talking nonsense, 100,000 acres of fertile land, I can't control myself, you have to send someone to help me."
Qin Hao smiled and said, "Don't worry, this person will arrive soon."
Three days later, Qin Hao held a banquet at the Qin Palace to entertain Ji Yong. As a test-testing flower at this meeting, Ji Yong could have become a Shuji Shi, but he took the initiative to apply to Zhu Jianshen to the local area. Later, he used his relationship to serve as the county magistrate of Xianning County under Xi'an.
"Ji Yong, it turns out that your husband said you were the one who came to help me." Dou Zhao was very surprised when he saw Ji Yong.
Ji Yongzhan smiled: "Instead of getting a degree in Hanlin Academy all day long, it is better to go to the lower house to do something for the people, which can be regarded as showing what they have learned."
"It's easy to release outside, but it's not easy to return to Beijing to serve." Dou Zhao couldn't help but feel sorry for Ji Yong when he heard this.
Qin Hao and Ji Yong looked at each other and smiled. Ji Yong was naturally not doing it casually when he was sent here.
According to the original plot, Ji Yong is an important part of Zhu Jianshen's pacification of King Qing's rebellion, so Qin Hao naturally had to take the lead in bringing him under his command.
The reason why Ji Yong was willing to take the team, the King of Qin, who had little chance of winning, was that he was attracted by Qin Hao's ability and ambition, and the other was that he adhered to the principle that the greater the risk, the greater the reward.
There is no need to think about the prince. Old Master Wu Ge is still there. It is impossible for him, a young man in his twenties to stand up.
As for King Qing, the same is true. With Queen Wan, the mother who is the favorite in the harem, behind her back, countless officials have been following him since the moment King Qing was born. It is not his turn to not have the credit for the sky.
On the contrary, Qin Hao seems to have the lowest chance of inheritance, which also means that there are few people who surrender to him. If he can inherit the throne in the future, he will naturally be inevitably promoted to a critical position.
"Did you hide something from me?" Dou Zhao looked at the two of them suspiciously.
Qin Hao shook his head: "My wife is so worried."
"The princess is overly worried."
Ji Yong's arrival made Dou Zhao decide that the first batch of potatoes would be planted in the fiefdom of Xianning County where he was located, but it was still subject to considerable resistance at the beginning.
Although it was a fief of the Qin King's Mansion, it was also rented to tenants to plant it. The rice for this season had been planted. Dou Zhao asked everyone to shovel the good rice and plant a thing that they had never seen before. The tenants naturally refused to do so.
In the end, Qin Hao had to come forward and said that the tenants could be exempted from the annual rent this year, and the tenants reluctantly agreed to plant.
Because of this matter, Qin Hao was also written by the censor, saying that he changed rice to "bean" and ignored the lives and death of the people.
Zhu Jianshen also specially sent a film editor to investigate.
Since the potatoes were not yet mature, Zhu Jianshen expressed doubts about Qin Hao's saying that "potatoes" could produce 30 stones per mu, but he also specifically reminded the filmmaker to pay special attention to the yield of "potatoes" so as not to make "fake auspicious" to fool him.
After two months of gradual planting, all the 100,000 acres of fertile land in the Qin King's Mansion were planted with potatoes by Dou Zhao.
The potatoes Dou Zhao exchanged for Hu Shang are unimproved and matured relatively late, which takes four months, so there is no effect at the moment, but it cannot reduce Dou Zhao's enthusiasm at all, and he spent a lot of time on the farmland.
Many tenants have doubted whether she is the real Princess of Qin. How could one day stare at the princess in the fields?
Dou Zhao didn't care about this, and often took out the snacks from the Qin Prince's Mansion to share with the tenants. After a while, he won the title of "Vertical Concubine".
During this period, Qin Hao was busy rectifying the garrison.
Shaanxi has a special geographical location, covering Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and some areas of Xinjiang. There are many ethnic minorities in these places, and they are brave and good at fighting, and riots will break out from time to time.
Therefore, there are three wards in Shaanxi to prevent riots.
Zhu Jianshen urged Qin Hao to join the vassal this time, and there were also reasons why the garrison system was difficult to return, which led to a decline in control over Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai.
Qin Hao's strategy is to fight and pull out the helpless borers that are useless except drinking blood and eating empty wages. As for those who still have some abilities, they will often give them a chance. Of course, those who are stubborn will eventually go down to meet the King of Hell.
For a time, many military generals and nobles ran to complain to Zhu Jianshen, and Zhu Jianshen pretended to behave and issued an imperial edict to reprimand him. What should Qin Hao do or what should he do?
"I know you have a relationship behind your back, but no matter how hard your backstage is, you are not as hard as this king. If you are not convinced, just try it out to see if it is my sword hard or your neck hard."
Seeing this, the generals could only cooperate with Qin Hao to rectify the garrison.
"Of course, I know your difficulties. The family's expenses are high and the court's salary is not enough. After you go back, you ask your wife to meet Princess Qin, and she will make arrangements."
"What a great man should think about is how to make achievements. Just leave those miserable things to women. What are you going to get involved with?"
The generals burst into laughter when they heard this, and the originally tense atmosphere instantly dissipated invisible.
However, that night, Qin Hao paid the price for this sentence and was rushed to the study and slept for the whole night by Dou Zhao.
"What does it mean to leave it to women to do? Why do you do business in a business way? Why do you look down on businessmen so much? Why did you marry me?"
In the study, Ji Yong said gloatingly: "Do you regret marrying this shrew?"
"It's so sweet to be willing to be respected and respectful to each other is a compliment, but in my opinion it's a derogatory term. Isn't it boring for the couple to live like that?" Qin Hao smiled.
Ji Yong was stunned: "What Your Highness thinks is indeed different from ordinary people."
"You and I are both very human, otherwise how could we come together to work together to make a big deal?"
"Ji Yong thanks Your Highness for his praise."
Two months later, the first batch of potatoes planted finally matured. Qin Hao and Dou Zhao both came to the scene. Ji Yong also brought the people from the yamen to record the records, and Jiyingwei also scattered in the crowd to secretly record the process of digging potatoes.
As the tenants dig carefully bit by bit, all the "potatoes" on the first acre of land were gathered into a pile, and the scene was very spectacular.
"Weigh!" Ji Yong ordered the tenants to carry shoulder poles and weigh baskets of potatoes.
"The yield per mu is 33 stones!"
Since the Chinese nation has learned to slash and fire, it has a deep emotion for the land. Among their simple values, the land is the most generous in the world. As long as you sprinkle planting, carefully care for it, weed and fertilize, it will give you rich rewards when it comes to the harvest season.
Seeing the amazing yield of "potatoes", everyone present couldn't help but cheer.
"Husband, I really have 33 stones of grain per mu, have you seen it?"
"I saw it, thank you for your hard work these days."
"Just as long as you know."
Dou Zhao raised his chin and looked proud.
In order to prevent Qin Hao from doing anything in advance, the secret spies of Jiyingwei waited until all the potatoes in the field were dug out and obtained the exact yield per mu, and then they used 800 miles to send back the secret report in a hurry.
Zhu Jianshen also doubted the secret report of the Film Recorder: "Is there really a grain yield of 33 stones per mu in this world?"
Zhu Jianshen asked, "How to eat these potatoes?"
"According to His Highness the King of Qin, potatoes are both food and vegetables. They can be steamed and eaten directly, or they can be cut into shreds and made into shredded potatoes."
Zhu Jianshen waved his hand: "Then let's cook it and serve it up. I will also try the grain that produces 33 stones per mu. Is it as delicious as Haoer said?"
I have never seen "potatoes" in the imperial kitchen, let alone making them. I don't know how to start. It was Wang Yuan who told them how to make them. Only then did these imperial kitchens pluck up their courage to move.
Soon, it was time to eat. Zhu Jianshen was not interested in other dishes and asked first: "Where is the shredded potatoes?"
"Your Majesty, here." Wang Yuan pointed to a porcelain plate on the table.
Zhu Jianshen picked up a chopstick and tasted it with a try-out attitude.
"Yeah, it's nice, it's crispy and refreshing."
Zhu Jianshen then passed all the cabinet ministers over and asked them to try the "spicy and sour potato shreds" one by one, which made the cabinet masters a little nervous, wondering if Zhu Jianshen planned to pack them all away.
It was not until they learned that they were eating "potatoes" that everyone understood what Zhu Jianshen meant to call them.
To be continued...