Chapter 87 It turned out to be two old foxes
Changsun Wuji knew about the lack of food in the court. He heard that many dukes came to offer food, so he hurried to offer food.
At the beginning, I was hesitant after all, the food at home was just that.
Since everyone has done this, it is not easy for me to stop doing it.
The eunuch stopped Changsun Wuji and said, "Duke Zhao, Your Majesty is not in the palace."
Changsun Wuji stood outside the Ganlu Hall. Where can His Majesty go if he is not here at this critical moment?
The eunuch said again: "If Duke Zhao has something to do, he can leave a word, and the old slave will tell His Majesty on his behalf."
Changsun Wuji said to the eunuch: "Then I will come back later."
Turning around and trying to leave, Changsun Wuji asked, "Where has Your Majesty been at this time?"
"I know too. Your Majesty didn't say that he went out with Fang Xiang."
Changsun Wuji nodded. Could it be that Your Majesty is looking for people from the five surnames?
The eunuch smiled and said, "Please go back with Duke Zhao."
Jingyang
Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling ate potatoes and stewed pork.
Li Zheng has a very good cooking skills. A bowl of beef stewed with potatoes has already given Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling three bowls of rice.
Li Junxian turned his head and refused to watch this scene. His Majesty actually ate pork so delicious.
Your Majesty is such a wise ruler. Even such a crude pork tastes delicious.
I was moved. His Majesty worked so hard to experience the sufferings of the people.
Fang Xuanling took a sip of soup and pointed at another pot of vegetables and said, "What is this dish?"
"This is pumpkin." Li Zheng also ate it lightly.
"Pumpkin? I haven't heard of it. It's also a new food?"
Li Zheng said: "This pumpkin can be eaten as food, but it is also a vegetable."
Fang Xuanling picked it up and took a bite and said, "It's really soft and glutinous, what's the yield?"
Li Zheng thought for a while and said, "It's hard to say about this pumpkin. Generally speaking, the yield per mu is 3,000 kilograms. If you use a bracket to build vines, you can save space to reach tens of thousands of kilograms per mu, which means 30 to 100 kilograms per mu."
The yield per mu is tens of thousands of kilograms?
Fang Xuanling slapped the table and said, "What you said is true?"
"Ahem cough cough..."
Hearing this, Li Shimin coughed violently.
It was obviously shocked by Li Zheng's words.
Li Tai carefully patted Li Shimin's back.
After a while, Li Shimin looked at Li Zheng and said, "I ask you, the yield per mu is 10,000 kilograms, but is it true?"
Li Tai brought a pumpkin from the kitchen and said, "Father is this pumpkin."
Looking at the pumpkin as big as a millstone, Li Shimin couldn't speak for a while.
“How did this come about?”
Seeing that the rice had almost finished eating, Li Zheng looked at the bowl of pork trotters stewed vegetables in the bowl and was eaten up.
But it's really edible. Li Tai is probably out of reach for this amount of food.
Li Zheng was thinking in his heart what was wrong with being the emperor now? What if he hadn't eaten meat?
Seeing that the few people didn't believe it, Li Zheng took them to the pumpkin field.
A bamboo shed is set up here, and the vines of the pumpkin are wrapped around the bamboo rack.
Li Shimin looked at the pumpkins as big as millstones and sighed: "I didn't expect such a big melon to grow on such a thin vine."
Haven't seen it before, Li Tai said proudly: "Father, although the pumpkin is big, it is easy to rot and needs good care."
Li Shimin nodded and was still observing these pumpkins.
Fang Xuanling sighed: "How long does this pumpkin last for a family?"
Li Zheng said helplessly: "It won't take long to eat the pumpkins, so you have to eat fresh ones before eating them. If they can't finish them, they will be distributed to other villages. Otherwise, they will have to feed the pigs if they rot."
"Feed the pig?" Fang Xuanling sighed and said, "It's a waste."
Li Zheng said: "What else can I do? People can't eat it if they are rotten, so they can only be used to feed pigs. They say that pigs are disgusted, and if the feed is mixed together, the pigs will not be happy to eat it."
Li Shimin recalled that the taste of this pumpkin is indeed very good.
After burping, Li Shimin said, "I'm particularly concerned about my fullness."
Fang Xuanling's expression became more and more excited. At first, Li Zheng said that he didn't believe it. Now it seems that this pumpkin really has a yield of tens of thousands of pounds per mu.
The main reason is that the pumpkins are too big.
Even breathing became cramped and the people were saved.
I know that the origin of these crops in Li Zheng was lies, but this doesn’t matter.
What’s important is that these grains are in Jingyang and in the Tang Dynasty.
This is the most important thing.
I was also surprised that I had never seen these foods before. Not to mention that I had never seen them before, even how they were planted was a problem.
Can Li Zheng grow it? Or did Li Zheng know from the very beginning that the origin of these crops have been planted?
Fang Xuanling waved away these suspicions and bowed to Li Zheng and said, "Jingyang County, please receive a gift from me."
Li Zheng hurriedly helped him up, "Don't do this, you are a big shot, I can't bear it."
Fang Xuanling still bowed and said, "You can bear this gift! You saved the people of the Tang Dynasty."
"It's past, it's past." Li Zheng said.
What a joke!
Who is Fang Xuanling?
In later comments, he is a person worthy of admiration and admiration.
Li Zheng helped him up and quickly returned the gift.
Li Shimin saw the fruit the size of a red fist-sized ridge on the ridge next to him and asked, "What is this?"
"This is tomatoes." Li Zheng picked a few and handed them.
"tomato?"
Li Zheng took a bite and said, "A fruit and vegetable."
Li Shimin took a bite and said, "Yeah! It's very refreshing."
Fang Xuanling also took a bite, and the juice splashed, and the skin bite into his mouth a little sour, but the juice was very rich.
“How is this fruit and vegetable yield?”
Li Zheng said: "This is an ordinary fruit, the yield is not very good. Anyway, let's play cards when you are idle."
"Play cards?"
Fang Xuanling and Li Shimin were both stunned.
“What is playing cards?”
Li Tai explained: "Father, playing cards is a game. Now the elderly in the village like to play."
"Is that so? Then I'll try it too?"
Let Li Tai take the cards made of bamboo boards from home.
Several people sat around the river and started playing cards.
The gameplay is not difficult to understand. I explained it several times and played several games.
Both Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling have understood the way to play.
Slippery...
Fang Xuanling bit off the tomato in one bite and beat a one-on-three.
Li Shimin: "One to five!"
Li Zheng was thinking about the cards in his hand. Li Er and Fang Xuanling had a good understanding.
After playing a few games this time, the two of them played perfectly and could still learn from one example and count cards.
So far, I have lost a huge sum of ten cents.
"It's your turn." Li Shimin picked up the tomato and took a bite.
Slippery...
Juice splashed.
Fang Xuanling said: "Hurry up, I have to deal with the government when I go back later."
Li Zheng plays cards: one-to-ten.
Fang Xuanling is also good at playing cards: "A pair of K."
Li Shimin: "A pair of A."
Li Zheng: “…”
Fang Xuanling: "One to two."
Li Shimin: "It's gone, no."
Chapter completed!