"Cheng'en, where did this child Cixuan go?" asked Emperor Chongzhen.

The eunuch Wang Chengen next to him hurriedly bowed and replied: "Long live back, the crown prince seems to be growing vegetables in Cining Palace."

Growing vegetables? This child is becoming more and more strange. Why is it so easy to grow vegetables again? It is really strange to grow vegetables without doing their jobs. If it is a hobby, Zhu Cilang is not good at a young age. He takes a hoe to farm.

Cining Palace is Queen Yi'an's bedroom, what else does this child go there to do?

Who is Empress Yi'an? She is the elder brother of Emperor Chongzhen and the original Empress Zhang Yan of Emperor Tianqi Zhu Youxiao.

Empress Yi'an has a serious personality and a very queen-like demeanor. She is a woman who can treat the world with her mother. In the chaotic situation in the late Ming Dynasty, Zhang Yan was always sober and often gave righteous advice to Emperor Tianqi.

At that time, the eunuch party Wei Zhongxian controlled the government, and Empress Zhang Yan tried her best to persuade Emperor Tianqi, who was critically ill, to make King Xin the emperor.

Zhang Yan played an important role in the reason why Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne successfully.

Therefore, after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he respected the emperor's sister-in-law very much. He specially praised the emperor's sister-in-law Zhang Yan as "Empress Yi'an."

Queen Yi'an also likes Zhu Cixuan very much, so it is not surprising that Zhu Cixuan goes to her place. However, it is a bit incredible that he goes to grow vegetables.

Empress Zhou and Emperor Chongzhen looked at each other, and this child was not crazy.

Chongzhen knew that it was not. He could get 800,000 taels of silver in the form of silver, which could allow civil and military officials to donate silver to help pay. The child seemed to have received guidance from a famous teacher. Could it be that this person is Empress Yi'an?

Although Empress Zhou also aroused suspicion, Zhu Cixuan was not able to send someone to call him when she was with Empress Yi'an.

At this time, Zhu Cilang was sending people to pull out all the flowers and plants in the garden of Cining Palace.

"Parent Liu, do it carefully for me. Every piece of land has been leveled. If anyone is lazy, I will hit someone's butt."

Liu Laifu, the close eunuch next to Zhu Cixuan, was working in the garden with a group of eunuchs. They first pulled out the flowers and plants in the garden, and then leveled the ground. Because the prince said he wanted to farm.

"Your Highness, this beautiful garden has been planted. Empress Yian will not be angry, right?" Lai Fu felt a little guilty.

"If you want to plant, you will plant it. There is so much nonsense there! Zhu Cixuan threw a piece of mud at him, and Liu Laifu had to squat down and arched his body into the flowers and plants."

Of course, Zhu Cilang was not so tired. Since he came here, he found that the backpack he was carrying was still there.

In his backpack, some grain seeds he brought back from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to the villagers. These seeds came in handy at this time.

In the future, the people of the Ming Dynasty will all rely on these seeds to solve the problem of food and clothing.

As for why Zhu Cilang chose to come to Cining Palace, he really couldn't think of another place. First of all, the garden of Cining Palace was big enough to plant all the seeds he brought.

Furthermore, this is Queen Yi'an's bedroom, and others dare not disturb her casually. Queen Yi'an is so spoiled to herself.

At this time, Empress Yian came over with a few palace maids with a smile. When she saw Zhu Cilang pulling out all the flowers and plants in the garden, she not only wasn't angry, but she smiled and asked, "Cilang, why are you making trouble again? These days I heard that you are causing trouble everywhere. You don't know how to study your studies at a young age, and you just know how to play."

When Zhu Cilang turned around, he had to say that Empress Yian was really beautiful. In the first year of Tianqi, Zhang Yan, who was fifteen years old, passed the first beauty selected by the 5,000 beauties in the national primary election. In April of the same year, she was named the queen.

According to historical records, Zhang Yan is "slim and plump, with a face like Guanyin, her eyes like autumn waves, her mouth like red cherry blossoms, her nose like a hanging gallbladder, and her teeth are fine and clean". She is one of the five great queens of ancient China.

"Auntie, I want to farm. Well, that's right, it's farming. Auntie, my nephew takes over your back garden, you won't blame me."

Zhu Cixuan respects and loves Empress Yian who gave her family the supreme glory. Whenever she sees her, Zhu Cixuan always respects and calls her "Grand Aunt".

Queen Yian also liked this title very much. She walked up to Zhu Cixuan, smiled and held his hand: "Oh, Cixuan can actually farm. Then let me see, what are you planting?"

"You see, auntie, these are some seeds I bought from. These seeds were bought from an overseas merchant."

There are many seeds, including corn, potatoes, and some rice seeds. These are the seeds brought to the villagers by Zhu Cilang in his previous life. He is the only college student from a small mountain village in his hometown. The transportation in his hometown is inconvenient, and these seeds are all new varieties he got from teachers of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Although some crops native to the Americas, such as corn, peanuts, sweet potatoes, peppers and other crops, had been introduced to the Ming Dynasty, they were not promoted on a large scale.

Even knowledgeable people like Xu Guangqi did not realize its potential value. At that time, except for some provinces such as Yunnan, the scope of corn planting was limited to coastal areas, with relatively convenient transportation along rivers and other areas, and were mostly traditional agricultural production areas, which made corn resistant to drought and flood and suitable for mountain sand and gravel planting difficult to reflect.

When talking about the corn planting in rural Guangdong, scholar Qu Dajun pointed out that "Mark paste, one is jade paste, and is less likely to feed on Lingnan." In some areas, it is even used only as a horticultural crop and is "skilled among the gardens by the fields". At that time, corn planting was not regarded as a major crop and received due attention.

Also, their yield is not very high. For example, corn, acre of land is less than one-tenth of the current yield. The yield of corn seeds brought by Zhu Cilang is enough to be described in this era as shocking.

Queen Yian just smiled bitterly and shook her head. She thought Zhu Cilang planted these things purely for fun: "These seeds are a bit strange. If you want to plant them, then plant them. Cilang, I heard that you bought one million taels of silver from the father-in-law's mansion. Haha, I can't tell that you have such skills at a young age. It's not easy to get the silver from your grandfather."

Zhu Cilang was shocked. He only reported to the court of 800,000 taels. Why did the aunt know that he had made a huge fortune of one million taels? This made Zhu Cilang respect the aunt of Empress Yian.

Looking at Zhu Cilang who was guilty, Queen Yian smiled again: "Don't worry, I won't tell your father and your mother that you gave the Jinyiwei 200,000 taels of silver."
Chapter completed!