I became a group pet after dressing as nine elder brothers

It was already afternoon when we arrived at Huangzhuang in the outskirts.

Concubine Yi accompanied the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, leading Bu Changzai, Concubine Zhang Jiashu and the princesses to the courtyard.

The courtyard of Huangzhuang is not that big, and it has been carefully tidied up from inside to outside three or four times in the past few days.The empress dowager and the empress dowager were placed in the west courtyard, and the four princesses lived with the two empress dowagers.

As for Concubine Yi occupying the East Courtyard, Bu Changzai and Concubine Zhang Jia unexpectedly got a wing room each.

Concubine Zhang Jiashu breathed a sigh of relief.

If she lived with Bu often, she still had to be on guard against what she would do if her morning sickness was discovered.

She quickly tidied things up.

As for the flamboyant and luxurious outfit, it will be worn later during the Emperor's Longevity Festival. If she wears it out now, Concubine Zhang Jiashu is worried that if the Emperor gets angry and sends her back to the Forbidden City, it will be called the gain outweighs the loss!

After the women's relatives tidied up the things, they also started ordering food.When the empress dowager, empress dowager, concubine Yi and the four princesses came out, Kangxi had already taken the prince and the elder brothers to sit down.Seeing Concubine Yi Yinzhen waving her little hand subconsciously, of course Concubine Yi immediately glared at her.

After everyone is seated.

It was only a cup of tea time, and everyone saw the servants in the palace carrying trays of hot dishes with strong aromas.

First, there are four cold dishes: a plate of steamed eggplant with soy sauce, a plate of cold tofu skin, a plate of hot and sour black fungus, and a plate of peanut and sesame mixed with cucumber.

Then came the hot dishes, from Longjing shrimp to spicy shredded chicken, from braised braised pork to tofu crucian carp soup, and then a braised lion head and sweet and sour pork ribs. pot.

The pot is always about one foot wide.

The broth is made from hen, duck, pigeon and elbow boiled for an hour, and dishes such as sea cucumber, fish maw, ham, meatballs and deep-fried tofu are served.

The aroma of hot dishes is overflowing.

However, the elder brothers filled their stomachs with dim sum along the way, and they all stared at each other, picking the dishes back and forth, and lost interest after eating three or two bites.

Seeing this, the Empress Dowager frowned slightly.

She didn't speak, but turned her eyes to Kangxi who was eating happily.

What crooked idea is this emperor playing on?

Only a few mouthfuls of a sumptuous table lunch were consumed in the end.After the meal, Kangxi took his sons around the yard, cleared up their food, and changed into simple regular clothes, the group walked towards the field behind.

The road from Zhuangzi to the field is not far.

The fields here are only a small section like the backyard of Yuqing Palace. When you look up, there is no end in sight. The number of fields is simply jaw-dropping. The elder brothers who think they have prepared for it are also dumbfounded at the moment. Time doesn't know where to start.

"Khan Ama, is there anyone else over there?"

"These people are farmers here, and now is the season to reclaim the land." Kangxi smiled and explained: "Let's go, our destination is still ahead."

Brothers agreed in unison.

As they walked, they looked around with great interest. Compared with the very simple cabbage planting, the various agricultural tools on the side of the field and the big yellow cattle wandering in the field made everyone's faces full of curiosity.

than here.

Yuqing Palace is like a child's toy.

Yinzhen looked around intently, and was suddenly attracted by a strange whooping sound next to her ear.He turned his head to look at Yin'er, who was grinning. He was like a crab, walking sideways with his legs outstretched, and his strange posture frequently attracted attention.

"Yin'e, what's wrong with you?"

Before Yin'e could answer, Yin Qi beside him laughed out loud: "Didn't I tell you everything, this time I can't ride a horse for a long time?"

Yinzhen: ...

He turned into peas in an instant, and he was arrested and brought to justice by Khan Ama not long after he played, but Yin'er, who had been struggling all the time, now seemed to be a disabled boy.

Weak, pitiful and helpless.

Yinzhen stretched out his hand and patted Yin'e's shoulder, and gave a thumbs up: "Yin'e, come on!" If you don't do it, what if I do it?

Yin'e felt wronged.

Looking at the ruthless brothers, he wished he could cry on the spot.

It took a full cup of tea to walk in.

Kangxi finally stopped in front of a field. Prince Yu Fuquan, Prince Gong Changning and several princes and courtiers had been waiting for a long time, and they all came up to greet him.

"Everyone get up." Kangxi looked around the courtiers of the clan with a smile, making sure that everyone was wearing ordinary clothes that were convenient for movement, and then nodded with a smile: "Don't procrastinate, let's start early."

Yinzhen saw a middle-aged man with a handsome appearance from afar and responded, and then saw Khan Ama take the clan prince and courtiers down the field, but left his sons aside.

The elder brothers stood by the field in a daze.

At this moment, I saw the middle-aged man turning around and walking towards the elder brothers. What made Yinzhen even more dumbfounded was that the elder brother and the eighth elder brother all straightened their backs, and their expressions were serious without looking sideways.

Yinzhen: ...? ? ?

He couldn't help tugging at Yinrong's arm curiously: "Brother...what's wrong with them?"

Glancing at Chen Tingjing who was walking over, a smile appeared in Yinreng's eyes.He looked down at Yinzhen and explained carefully: "This person is Chen Tingjing, the censor of the Zuodu and in charge of the money law of the household department. He is the most important minister in front of Khan Ama. Six Shangshu."

Six books?

Yinzhen looked at Chen Tingjing in awe, and asked in a low voice, "So big brother and the others especially admire Mr. Chen?"

"Haha." Yinfeng laughed.

He turned his head to look at the stern-faced Yinti and the others with a half-smile, lowered his voice and said, "Admiration, of course there is admiration, but the real reason is..."

"Hmm." Yinzhen pricked up her ears.

"Master Chen is the master in charge of the study room." Yinreng stroked Yinzhen's small brain, and said with pity: "It's a good thing that Yinzhen hasn't gone to the study room yet, otherwise I'm afraid there will be one more you. "

Yinzhen: ...

Yuan, is it because you are afraid of the master?He looked at Yinti, puzzled: "But I can't see that the elder brother is not afraid of nothing, but he is afraid of the master?"

"Of course no one will be afraid of ordinary masters."

Yinfeng replied with a smile: "But Chen Tingjing is not an ordinary master."

Chen Tingjing looked extremely refined and gentle.

After he walked up to his elder brothers to say hello, he smiled and led his elder brothers to another field, where several old farmers were already waiting.

"My brothers are still farming for the first time, let's learn from the old farmers first." Chen Tingjing said warmly.

Brothers were divided into groups of two or three.

Yinzhen and Yin'e were in a group. The old farmer who was in charge of teaching them bent down deeply, facing the ground, not daring to look up at the two precious princes. He kindly invited the two of them to the field and explained carefully. How to use each agricultural tool.

The land that has just passed through the cold winter and has not yet been plowed is still hard.After walking a few steps on it, Yinzhen felt his feet were knocking. When he looked up, all he could see was dark brown land. At the far end, many farmers in coarse clothes were working hard.

The old farmer explained the iron plow in front of him in detail.

Yinzhen's eyeballs rolled around, and he looked up and down curiously at the thin old farmer: the white-washed linen clothes, the thin body with ribs can be seen.

Kangxi's words a few days ago resurfaced in Yinzhen's mind again.

One of the reasons for the failure of hot pot restaurants is the price of meat, vegetables and vegetables. How can Khan Ama be sure that ordinary people cannot afford them?Yinzhen immediately understood when she looked at the old farmers in front of her.

Not to mention going to a hot pot restaurant for fun, doesn't it look like you can't even eat enough?A small question mark appeared in Yinzhen's heart, and he couldn't help asking: "Uncle, can the rice you plant fill your stomach?"

If they were going to do things in front of the princes and grandchildren, these old farmers would undoubtedly be selected, so... what about the rest?

The old farmer was taken aback.

He was at a loss and forgot the official's instructions for a while.The old farmer subconsciously raised his head and glanced at Yinzhen, then lowered his head suddenly as if he had been greatly frightened, and said tremblingly: "Little... the grass-roots family can still make ends meet."

"How much is the yield per mu?"

"The yield per mu...about two or three stones." The old farmer replied in a low voice.

"Two or three stones..." Yinzhen didn't understand the number.

He put down the tools in his hand and rushed to the opposite field.Yinzhen raised her small head and looked at Kangxi: "Khan Ama, how many catties of grain is two or three stones, can a family be full?"

"Three stones are equal to 450 catties, and two stones are equal to about three hundred catties of grain." Kangxi looked up at the old farmer in the distance, and explained to Yinzhen in detail: "A bowl of rice that Yinzhen eats is two or three taels Rice[Note 1], how many people do you think can fill their stomachs?"

Questions behind.

Kangxi asked the elder brother and the courtiers present, but unexpectedly, the first person to answer was Yinzhen: "A person needs to eat two meals a day, and Yinzhen alone has to eat five taels of rice. Left and right, adults have to eat more than Yinzhen, which is equivalent to seven or eight taels of rice, and you have to eat a catty in two days. An adult can eat three stones for 450 days? But the uncle has parents, wives and children. Eat more than a hundred days?"

Yinzhen made a calculation in his mind, and the answer came out immediately.

He looked at Kangxi with big chubby eyes: "Then wouldn't they be hungry if they don't have enough to eat?"

"Inside, the portion of grain given to the owner of the field will also be deducted." Kangxi rubbed Yinzhen's little head: "If the yield per mu is three stones, it is actually only two stones—but farmers can't just rely on one mu. Generally, it takes about [-] mu of land to plant, and it is still enough to barely eat enough."

"But..." Looking at those farmers, they didn't look like they could eat enough.

Found the confusion on Brother Nine's face.

Standing by the side, Gao Shiqi said gently: "Jiu elder brother, in fact, two or three stones per mu can only be obtained in good years. If the year is bad or some disaster occurs, then one stone per mu or even no grains will not be harvested." It's very possible."

"Yeah, the past two years have been good."

"That's right, at least I can feed my stomach and support my family."

Seeing the approving expressions of the people around her, Yinzhen was tongue-tied.He walked back to Yin'er in silence, his whole body seemed to be sluggish, and absent-mindedly imitated the appearance of an old farmer and began to plow the land.

A hard working afternoon passed.

When Kangxi announced the end, the elder brothers felt that they couldn't even lift their waists.

They bared their teeth and grimaced.

Everyone wished they could go to bed and lie down for the first time.

Liang Jiugong had already prepared.

I saw a group of palace people walking in with warm water in the footbath, massaging the feet of each brother, and then another group of palace people walked behind the brothers, kneading the neck and arms.

Under the massage and kneading by the palace people, Yinzhen's small face was wrinkled into a ball, and even let out a strange cry of uru wow.

Yin'e, who was also humming, was also frowning.

He looked at his little hands and cried out, "Ninth Brother! It's too difficult to plow the land! Look at the palms of my hands are blistered!"

Before Yinzhen moved over to take a look.

Two imperial physicians quickly stepped forward, picked out the blisters on Elder Brother Shi's hands with silver needles, and applied medicine.

This swift action is not the first time.

The few Yinti who started to practice martial arts were fine, and the rest of the brothers without exception had blisters on the soles of their feet or palms, and there were countless scratches on their ankles and knees.

Seeing this, Yinzhen felt even more depressed.

He pulled Yinfeng sullenly: "We have only plowed the land for a day. Then these old farmers work in the fields all year round, and the rice they grow in the end can't feed their stomachs..."

Before Yinrong could speak, Yinhu who was sitting opposite took the lead to agree: "Yes..."

He was hit today.

Yinhu often complained about himself and Er Niang, but after seeing these ordinary people outside, he had to feel lucky for himself: "It would be terrible if I became a commoner."

Everyone has a close heart.

Yinfeng asked abruptly: "You said...how can we get ahead if we are the children of farmers?"

This question is too far away.

As a result, the moment Yinfeng opened his mouth, there was silence in the room.

Yinyou took the lead and said after a while: "...I think it's better to be a soldier? You can always stand out as a soldier, right?"

"Being a soldier is not an easy thing."

Yinti's goal is to enter the military camp, and he said eloquently: "Ordinary ordinary people can only be soldiers in the green camp, and the sound of the moon is only a tael of silver-most people are just soldiers all their lives."

"Then...reading?" Yin Qi raised his hand.

"Reading is even more difficult." Yinzhi frowned: "Do you know how much this paper and ink cost? They may only be able to buy one book for a month, and they have to rely on the money saved by the whole family for two or three generations. Come to study! What's more, this farmer has to pay rent, and two or three generations of elder brothers can't save the money for studying."

"It's natural for renters to rent their land, but they have to give two to one-third of the income of two or three stones for a good harvest, and even a whole lot of debt in bad years." Yinfeng frowned, and shook his head heavily.

Farmers without land are always exploited.

They can't save money for their children to study for several lifetimes, and in the end they can only become slaves of landlords in a numb generation after generation.

How difficult it is to get out of this closed loop.

Yinzhen held her small face: "Is this why the sixty-seventy-year-old grandfather is still taking the imperial examination?"

Yinhu nodded.

He looked in the direction of the field with a complicated face: "If the success fails, it means that the money saved for several generations will be thrown into the puddle. It's too difficult."

"Don't think about it."

Yinzhen murmured: "It would be great if people all over the world could be fed. If they can eat enough, they can read, and if they can read, they can go out..."

"Isn't that why no one is farming?" Yinhu was slightly taken aback.

"As long as the yield of rice is higher and the method of cultivation becomes more convenient, wouldn't it be enough?" Yinzhen said with a stern face.

Yinhu's questioning voice stopped abruptly.

He looked at Yinzhen, and after a while he said, "But this will be very difficult, right?"

"Yes..." Yinzhen's eyes sparkled.

He stood up, crossed his waist and looked around at his brothers: "Is there anything that is not difficult at the beginning? If you don't try it, who knows if it will succeed?"

The system panel appeared in front of his eyes.

With the system as your backing, you can definitely succeed, right?

Looking at Yinzhen's firm eyes, the elder brothers fell silent.They looked at each other and then laughed one by one: "Then add me?"

"Add me too!"

"Try it and try it!"

"Really! How old are you, Yinzhen, you can talk so well—try it and see who is afraid of whom?"

There was constant laughter in the flower hall.

Kangxi, who originally wanted to comfort his sons, stood at the door with a gentle smile on his face.

He felt a little moisture in the corner of his eyes, and subconsciously shook his head: "Look at these kids."