Zhuo Qihua

It's time to serve.Emperor Yong'an sat at the same table with the Empress Dowager, Zhuo Ji, King Qin, and King Qi, and the others sat at several tables.Emperor Yong'an first served a variety of potato dishes - hot and sour potato shreds, shredded potatoes, ground three delicacies, griddle potatoes, fried bacon with potato slices, and then tomato scrambled eggs, cold tomato, tomato tofu and cabbage soup.Of course there are those with big fish and big meat, but Emperor Yong'an was really surprised when this dish of potatoes was served.Although Zhuo Ji hadn't been in the capital before, the tomatoes had already been harvested. Emperor Yong'an had eaten them several times, and he especially liked cold tomatoes. It was sour and sweet to eat on a hot day.

And there is only one hot and sour potato shreds on the table of the ministers.After all the dishes were served, Emperor Yong'an said: "The potatoes can be harvested tomorrow, but I can't wait to eat them tomorrow. Today, you and I will taste the taste of these potatoes first. The red ones are peppers. Back to the pickled fish that I ate in Beigu, it would be more delicious if it was made with this chili pepper. Tell me, I will eat pickled fish tomorrow."

Zhang Xian: "Yes." He thought in his heart, to use this chili to make sauerkraut fish, he had to ask someone for a recipe.

Zhuo Ji did not stop Emperor Yong'an from eating such a hot dish.When everyone heard that the red "pepper" made pickled fish was better than cornel, several people who had eaten pickled fish immediately picked up their chopsticks.The first chopsticks of Emperor Yong'an are dry pot potatoes.His Majesty moved his chopsticks, and the others stopped being reserved and moved their chopsticks.

King Qin and King Qi both ate pickled fish.The two children's first chopsticks also went straight to the dish with chili.King Qin made hot and sour shredded potatoes, while King Qi made dry-pot potatoes.

"Wow! Delicious! These potatoes are so delicious! This chili is a bit spicy, but it's more spicy than cornel!"

Zhuo Ji raised his head and looked at Shi Yu with a smile.

Shi Yu: "Cui, may I bring back some peppers for the humble?"

Zhuo Ji: "When you go back, you can bring some special products from the farm. If you want to plant them, you can ask the two princes. This chili removes cold and dampness. When it is cold, you can eat a pot of hot and spicy food and sweat all over your body. It’s the most comfortable. In a humid place, eat some spicy peppers and sweat profusely, and you won’t get rheumatism easily.”

Shi Yu: "Humble, I must eat more today."

Zhuo Ji smiled and said: "The weather in the capital is dry, and eating too much can easily get angry. This cold tomato is the worst offender, everyone eat more."

Shi Yuzheng was worried about how to mention tomatoes to him, and he immediately followed what he said: "Too, the farm sells too few tomatoes outside, can the farm grow more, my family and I like to eat them."

Guan Minghui echoed: "All the young and old in the humble family like it, even if they just eat it directly, it's sour and sweet, it can be made into fruit."

"Exactly." The others nodded in agreement, "It's just that the quantity is too small."

Zhuo Ji: "Tomatoes are just a trial planting now, and the quantity is relatively small. In the future, the rare products produced by the farm will be given to the Fourth Court and various ministries of the court at the lowest price, and distributed as welfare. What do you think, Your Majesty?" Ju Zhuoji said it to Emperor Yong'an.

Emperor Yong'an didn't say what to do, but said: "Let's do it like this."

Nanrong Shizhu and Nanrong Shili immediately stood up: "I obey the order."

The others immediately stood up to thank you, especially the dean of the fourth courtyard.

The Queen Mother, the King of Qin, and the King of Qi stopped eating other dishes and specialized in potatoes.The queen mother was so spicy that she drank water while eating, Zhuo Ji had to say: "Queen mother, this is the first time you eat spicy food, eat less, and eat more when you get used to it."

The queen mother nodded: "It's delicious, but the tongue is hot."

And the plate of hot and sour potato shreds on the minister's table had long since bottomed out, and each of them was so hot that their lips turned red, and they secretly glanced at the plates of potato dishes on His Majesty's table.

Emperor Yong'an seemed to have heard the aspirations of his courtiers, and said, "Give them a share of these potato dishes."

All the ministers: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Shi Yu began to fart again: "Your Majesty, let alone whether this potato can be used as a staple food, I just fell in love with the taste, and I'm afraid I won't be able to live without it in the future!"

"Yes, yes, I can't do without you." Nian Qing, Guan Minghui and others followed suit.

Zhuo Ji smiled and said: "As a dish, potatoes can be prepared in many ways. As a staple food, they can be roasted and eaten directly."

Shi Yu immediately said: "When the harvest is harvested tomorrow, I will buy some and go home, roast them and taste them."

Others also nodded, they all bought it!

For a meal, there is no one who does not fall in love with potatoes.There was a lot of meat dishes left on the table.Back in the room, Emperor Yong'an directly ate a bright red tomato as a fruit, he liked the sweet and sour taste.Zhuo Ji changed his clothes and said, "If the harvest of an acre of potatoes is good tomorrow, then we can consider promoting it. Once it is promoted, the price of grain will come down, and the price of land will naturally follow. Panic."

Emperor Yong'an looked at Zhuo Ji, and Zhuo Ji said, "This is a great opportunity for His Majesty to expand the land in his hands. The more land in His Majesty's hands, the easier it is for some national policies to be issued. Peasants will no longer be harmed by gentry annexing land, they can Cultivate and support your family on His Majesty's land, and you can participate in the country's infrastructure construction to get paid to support your family. When the cost of food and clothing for the common people comes down, the life of the common people will get better and better, the country will be more stable, and Your Majesty will be able to free up more More energy to expand the territory, develop people's livelihood, and improve the national strength of the country."

Emperor Yong'an walked over and hugged Zhuo Ji: "A small potato hides such a big door."

Zhuo Ji: "The land is the sharp blade that the gentry holds on the peasants' necks. It is the confidence that the gentry can fight against the imperial power. To remove their sharp blade and destroy their confidence, the land will become less and less valuable."

Emperor Yong'an nodded solemnly.As for the construction of the imperial palace, even if Emperor Yong'an had enough money now, he could not easily order it.The site selection for the new palace, and the ownership of the land after the site selection, he is an emperor, but he is not a foolish king, and he cannot take whoever's land he wants.He is also well aware of the various situations of land annexation in places that he cannot see, but he has no better way to solve them.Potatoes, perhaps, can really become a sharp knife for him to solve the land problem, and stab into the hearts of those gentry.The reason why the gentry can have such confidence is also the reason why they have various connections with the officials of the DPRK and China.If the cake of the land is moved, it is not the cake of those officials.If you want the officials not to resist, you have to find a way to compensate them in other ways, and that is what you have to do when you go to sea.

Emperor Yong'an lowered his head, and lightly touched Ai Shi's lips with tomato-flavored lips: "Tonight there is roast suckling pig, and I will eat it with you in the room, and I will make up for your birthday by the way."

Zhuo Ji stretched out his hand: "Birthday gift."

"..."

"Your Majesty is not unprepared!"

Emperor Yong'an took a bite of the tomato: "Of course."

Zhuo Ji was suspicious.

Surrounded by other craftsmen, Song Zhixin, a first-class craftsman of the Academy of Sciences, held his breath, clenched the "pen" in his hand, and slid a knife steadily on a piece of transparent glass.A straight line appeared on the glass, Song Zhixin handed the "pen" to the person beside him, held both sides of the glass with both hands, and applied lightly.

"Crack!"

"It's done! We're done!"

The glass was easily split into two, and the onlookers jumped and jumped up and down with joy, and many of them were so excited that they burst into tears.

"It's done! We've made the glass knife! We've cut the diamond!"

Everyone hugged, cried and laughed.

Song Zhixin put down the glass, smiled for the first time in many months, and said hoarsely, "Send someone to report to the dean immediately, the glass knife, it's done."

Someone reminded: "The dean seems to have followed His Majesty to the Hope Farm in the suburbs of Beijing today."

Song Zhixin: "Then send someone to the farm to deliver a letter to the dean. The dean is in a hurry."

At this time someone knocked on the door, Song Zhixin said, "Come in."

Vice-principal Sha Liang opened the door and came in. Seeing the unconcealable excitement on the faces of the people in the room, he asked curiously, "What happened?"

Song Zhixin: "Vice President, our team's 'diamond' cutting and making of glass knives has been completed."

"It's done?!" Sha Liang was very excited when he heard it, but he didn't have time to ask more questions now, and said, "Old Song, Guo Zheng asked you to go over there now."

As the No.1 in the material group, Song Zhixin knew that Guo Zheng and his physics group had recently received a very important project, and all key members had gone to retreat.Guo Zheng is looking for him at this time, probably because their project needs the support of the material team.Song Zhixin didn't delay, and hurriedly followed Sha Liang. Before leaving, he asked his assistant to go to Hope Farm to report to the dean.

Song Zhixin arrived at the door of Laboratory No. [-]. After confirming Song Zhixin's identity, the guards outside the door let him go, but Sha Liang didn't go in.Although he is the deputy dean, he is not qualified to contact specific projects, especially this key project ordered by the dean himself, so he cannot enter.

As soon as Song Zhixin arrived, the bearded Guo Zheng took him to a small room in the laboratory and said, "Old Song, we have a big project that concerns the fate of the country, and now we need the support of your material team. First look at the project, and then select a trustworthy backbone to enter, and everyone must sign a non-disclosure agreement."

Song Zhixin immediately said cautiously: "Okay!"

Guo Zheng showed Song Zhixin the blueprint. Song Zhixin's eyes were shining with excitement, and his hands were shaking.He left Laboratory No. [-] in a hurry and went back to the materials team to pick people up.At the same time, the mathematics group of the Academy of Sciences also moved quickly.

Emperor Yong'an took a nap with Zhuo Ji for a while, and someone came to report that all the farming experts from the farm had arrived.Zhuo Ji is still asleep, he got up too early this morning, obviously didn't get enough sleep.Emperor Yong'an didn't wake him up either, and after asking Zhang Xian to change his clothes, Emperor Yong'an went to see those agricultural experts.

Some of these agricultural experts were drawn from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Academy of Sciences, but some of them were selected from the farmers.Some agricultural experts from the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Household Affairs have seen the Holy Majesty, and some are better.When the experts selected from the farmers heard that they were summoned by the Holy Majesty, their legs softened on the spot. They were not frightened, but excited.Where are they experts? They are mud legs who know how to farm!To be summoned by the Holy Spirit!

When Zhuo Ji woke up, Emperor Yong'an was not in the room. He was listening to Nan Rong Shizhu and Nan Rong Shili's report on the farm situation.Feng Xi was waiting on the sidelines, and vividly described the scene where His Majesty summoned the agricultural experts.

"They knelt in front of His Majesty, weeping bitterly one by one, shouting 'Long Live Your Majesty'. The slaves couldn't stop their noses from watching."

Zhuo Ji laughed, and Chang Jing joked: "Eunuch Feng, why can't you be moved by what you said?"

Feng Xi smiled and gave Chang Jing a gouged look, and said: "Let's not talk about ordinary farmers, even the experts from the household department and the research institute, there are a few who can see His Majesty's face. His Majesty has greatly praised them , How can they not cry bitterly. His Majesty also said that those experts from farmers who did a good job will be admitted to the research institute in the future. His Majesty also praised the two eldest sons, saying that they did a good job. "

Zhuo Ji nodded and said: "The two princes are indeed doing well. I watched King Xian Yi secretly wipe the corners of his eyes several times."

The few waiters in the house pursed their lips and smiled.

Feng Xi said: "Your Majesty, I said, if you want to see me, I will let those experts come to see you."

Zhuo Ji: "No need, it is enough for His Majesty to see them. Letting His Majesty see them is also to encourage them. But rewards should be rewarded. These people should also be rewarded according to their contributions. Now, I’ll have a good chat with them again. Chang Jing, bring me my diary, I haven’t written it since I came back from Guangnan.”

Feng Xi was surprised when he heard "diary" for the first time, but he wouldn't ask too much.Chang Jing brought the diary, Feng Xi's eyes were even more surprised, why is there a lock on this diary!

Xiaohui took out a key from her neck and opened the lock, Zhuo Ji said: "Xiaohui stay here, you go out and do some work. It's hot, Feng Xi, go and tell His Majesty, don't catch the heat, drink more Mung bean water."

Feng Xi: "This servant will let someone boil the mung beans."

"it is good."

Feng Xi glanced at the "diary" in a cloth bag on the table, and left.Chang Jing also had something to do, so he went out.Xiaohui waits on her master to write a diary.

When Zhuo Ji came back from Guangnan, he didn't bring a diary. When he returned to the palace, he was forced to rest by Emperor Yong'an. He also drew charts and translated the logbook, so he didn't have time to write.Coming to the farm now is actually a vacation to relax, so he thought of his diary again.

On the way away with Chang Jing, Feng Xi asked, "This 'diary' is..."

Chang Jing said: "I don't know too much about the little ones. After the master left the palace and went to Guangnan, he would write something in the notebook every day, saying that it was to record his daily mood. Write."

Feng Xi nodded: "Then let's serve His Majesty."

"Eunuch Feng, go slowly."

Feng Xi and Chang Jing parted ways on the first floor.

Feng Xi went to the meeting hall on the first floor, the door was still closed, and Zhang Xian waited inside.After waiting for about half an hour, the door opened, and the two elder sons came out.Feng Xi bowed and saluted, watched the two eldest sons leave, and entered the house.Seeing him, Emperor Yong'an, who had been talking for a long time, put down the empty tea bowl and asked, "Did Shunxi wake up?"

Feng Xi: "Going back to Your Majesty, I got up. I said that I want to write a diary, and I don't need my servants to serve me, so the servants will come back."

Zhang Xian, who had just finished pouring tea for Long Live, was obviously taken aback. Emperor Yong'an stopped with Chawan's hand: "Diary? What diary?"

Feng Xi was stunned, His Majesty didn't know?

Emperor Yong'an: "What is a diary?"

Feng Xi stammered and replied: "Chang Jing said that after Chu Chu went to Guangnan, he wrote it every night, saying it was to record his mood. Chang Jing said that no matter how late he was in Guangnan, he would write. "

Emperor Yong'an's complexion was a little gloomy, record his mood? !Zhuo Ji came back from Guangnan for more than a month, but he didn't even tell him that he had any diary!What mood does Zhuo Ji want to record behind his back!

"Go and call Chang Jing!"