[Red House] A beautiful girl welcomes the spring

It wasn't that the emperor couldn't control his expression, it was because there was already a plague of locusts last year, because Jia Amnesty prepared a lot of sweet potatoes, which resolved the crisis.When playing in the Golden Luan Hall, Jia She said that he had prepared millions of catties of sweet potatoes, but in fact what Jia She brought out in the end was more than 2000 million catties of sweet potatoes.

Jia Yun relied on his uncle who was the shopkeeper in other people's shops to pay back three rogues who used to give loan sharks. Even if they planted 1 mu of sweet potatoes in a year, Jia Amnesty has much more energy in his hands than Jia Yun. , It takes a long time to play with sweet potatoes, so naturally I can get so many Houang books.

If it weren't for the more than 2000 million catties of sweet potatoes, the emperor would not have granted Jia She the title of Marquis of Qingrong.It is also because of the more than 2000 million catties of sweet potatoes that the emperor placed many spies around Jia She, just because he was afraid that Jia She would have a different heart.

Last year in the Central Plains, specifically referring to the harvests in Yuzhou, Qilu and other places, not to mention the end, the imperial court had to spend a lot of money and food to help the victims, and this year there was another locust plague!

In addition, at the end of last year, the emperor ordered the concubines to build family-friendly villas.

The emperor can fully imagine how difficult this year will be!

If he is not careful, his throne may be overthrown!

Not only the emperor thought of this, but even King Yi thought of it.

King Yi said: "Sister-in-law, you can't talk nonsense about this."

Jia Yan turned slightly to the side, and signaled King Yi to pay attention to the outside with his eyes: "When I came in just now, I noticed that the prince was looking at the porcelain jar. Does the prince know what this porcelain jar is for?"

King Yi thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "I can't think of it."

Jia Yan said: "This is to test the amount of precipitation. I don't know if Qin Tianjian has done this for a long time, and I don't know if someone in the previous dynasty has done this. Anyway, my family didn't have it before. At the beginning of last year, I asked someone to put a high table in the yard, and put the porcelain pot on it, and checked and recorded the rain depth in the pot every day, and emptied it regularly. The rain inside. This is the statistical data for more than a year. Long live, you can see that compared with last year, the precipitation in the capital this year is more than [-]% less."

As he spoke, Jia Yan asked He Shangshi to take out a pile of scrolls.

King Yi was stupid at the time.

He suddenly realized that he didn't understand this little sister-in-law.If the concubines in the palace heard that there was a famine outside, they would immediately express their desire to cut expenses to relieve the court’s worries, but when it comes to this little sister-in-law, she knows that the country is about to face a catastrophe and is still extravagant here, so she is not afraid Is the emperor angry?

King Yi couldn't help but look at Jia Yan more.

The emperor didn't care that much, he quickly flipped through the drawings, especially the rainfall comparison map made by Jia Yan, and didn't speak for a long time.

After about a quarter of an hour, the emperor's cold voice sounded: "Concubine Shu means that there is a high possibility of locust plagues in Gyeonggi this year."

Jia Yan bowed again, and after the salute, he straightened his body and replied: "Long live, at present, there is too little data, only the data of last year and this year, it is difficult to know what is the critical rainfall of the locust plague, and whether it is still necessary Refer to other data. However, I remember that in March last year, the grasshoppers in the back garden began to scurry around. If it was March... last year, I had asked the Yan family to plant sweet potatoes in Lingnan , the rice over there can be ripened three times a year, and the output of sweet potatoes should be higher. This is the report on the planting situation of Lingnan sweet potatoes and the scheduled harvest season sent by the Yan family in January. Once in March, Gyeonggi appears If there is an omen of locust plague, the Yan family will ship sweet potatoes to Gyeonggi by sea boat."

Jia Yan has already made preparations. Anyway, the land in the south of the Lingnan is sparsely populated, and the Yan family is rich. It is easy to plant sweet potatoes along the banks of the Pearl River, and then take the Pearl River to the sea.If there is no famine in Gyeonggi this year, the big deal is that Jia Yan told the emperor about the clinical application of alcohol and maggot shells as sewing thread and surgery, and let the emperor popularize it in the army. In this way, sweet potatoes can be used to make spirits and become Munitions.

The Yan family and their Jia family will not lose money.

If there is a sign of a famine this year, then the Yan family and the Jia family can still reap a lot of benefits if the sweet potatoes are directly used to help the victims.

Ji Tong, who had been waiting on the sidelines, handed the document to Gao Shun, the emperor's confidant, who then presented it to the emperor.

The emperor looked at the documents and did not speak. As for King Yi, his eyes kept slipping towards Jia She and Jia Yan's father and daughter.

King Yi knew very well the reason behind the emperor's appointment of himself as the Xuanhui Mansion Order, and he also knew very well the relationship between Jia Yan and this appointment.

To be honest, after King Yi heard that Jia Yan blocked the development of the Yan family and the Jia family in Xuanhui Mansion, he was worried that she would make the tribe and the Yan family complain about it.He never thought that this girl had already made preparations!

Yes, the imperial merchants who supply the inner court are rich, but the real moneymakers are the big merchants who supply military supplies.

Because the emperor will reduce the expenses of the palace in the year of famine, but as long as the emperor is not a fatuous or mediocre emperor, the emperor will not reduce the expenses of the army.

Among other things, those savages on the grasslands are eyeing up, wanting to enter the Central Plains to plunder to survive the winter!If the main reason is famine and locust plagues, if the king reduces the supply of the army and the combat effectiveness of the army decreases, what is the difference with the enemy?

Also because of the importance of military supplies, the merchants who supply military supplies are more important in the royal family than the imperial merchants who supply the inner court.

Without seeing that report, King Yi didn't know how many sweet potatoes the Yan family had prepared, but King Yi felt that his imperial brother would definitely praise the Yan family.

After carefully reading the letters sent by the Yan family and those scrolls, the emperor slowly raised his eyes, stared at Jia Yan and said, "Concubine Shu, you can make the Yan family work for you, and I promise you again." What are they?"

Jia Yan worshiped again: "Long live, the Yan family wants the imperial court to help put down Qianxiang Kingdom and other overseas foreign countries that have been bullying and oppressing, bullying and slaughtering my Chinese businessmen who have the heart of disobedience. What the concubine wants, It was Long Live who subdued these vassal states and gave my son a fief."

Not to mention King Yi and Jia She, even the emperor was dumbfounded:

"Concubine Shu, what did you say?"

Jia Yan replied: "Long live, I don't know who Wan live wants to be the crown prince in the future. I only ask for one thing, that is, if Wan live thinks my son is not enough or too young to be the crown prince in the future, Then let them go overseas and run overseas vassal states for the imperial court."

The emperor was in a state of confusion.

Of course he knew that all his concubines wanted to have a son to be the queen mother, but, like Jia Yan, told him directly that her goal was those from overseas countries, but Jia Yan was the first and only one. one.

The emperor couldn't tell how he felt when he heard Jia Yan's answer.However, he knew that at this moment, he remembered this girl.

Even if this girl is only 13 years old,

Even if this girl has not officially entered the palace yet.

However, this girl has already left a lot in his heart!

King Yi looked at the emperor, then at Jia Yan, and finally couldn't hold back, and said, "Sister-in-law, you, are you going to start a war?"

Jia Yan replied: "My lord, do you know that in those vassal states, sweet potatoes are strictly exported, and they are killed as soon as they are found? Do you know that these sweet potatoes in the Central Plains are bought by my Chinese businessmen in exchange for their lives. Is it? Last time before Long Live, I have already said that the vassal states in the south have deceived the court for a long time, whether it is the fact that they cry in front of the court that the poor country uses ox carts to pull emeralds, jewels and jade, or that they are strict with sweet potatoes. Regardless of the fact that the nanny is banned from leaving the country, these guys have been disobedient for a long time, and it is not a matter of three or five years to turn into pirates and thieves to harass me in China's seas. All these, long live, just ask the sea merchants! And what I want is Let the people of the world, as long as they are in the places where the sun shines, be proud of speaking our language and writing. I hope that the kings of overseas countries will pay us tribute and obey us sincerely. Proud! As for those foreign kings who have different intentions, it is natural to kill chickens and monkeys to make an example of others!"

Jia She, who had been silent until now, finally opened his mouth, and said cautiously: "Long live Qi. In the past, there were many internal conflicts in Xixia, and it was only by being an enemy of the Song Dynasty that the Empress Dowager Liang managed to rule out dissidents and control the Xixia regime for decades. Long live, why can't we use the method of diverting disasters that the party members used in the past?"

Jia Yan is Jia She's daughter, and Jia She naturally wants to speak for her daughter.

More importantly, Jia Amnesty is not Jia Zheng. When Jia Zheng encounters such a thing, he will only scold Jia Yan and plead guilty to the emperor, saying that Jia Yan is talking nonsense.

As for Jia Amnesty, at least he knew that it was useless to scold Jia Yan at this time, it would be better to help Jia Yan as much as possible.

More importantly, although the current emperor has been on the throne for several years, the throne is not secure.There are many political enemies in the court, the central government and the opposition, and there are natural disasters again and again.

If there is no reason, I am afraid that someone will preach that the emperor has lost his virtue.

Anyway, the emperor has already promulgated the decree for concubines to visit relatives, so it is inevitable to be criticized.If the measures were not taken properly at this time, the emperor might be forced to issue an imperial edict.Instead of embarrassing the emperor, it is better to help the emperor pass this level safely.

The emperor took a deep look at Jia She and Jia Yan, who was kneeling below, and said indifferently: "Concubine Shu, I want to take this precipitation comparison table back."

Except for the copy of the original data, the rest of the emperor must be taken away.

"Besides, you are my concubine, and those female officials and servants are all serving you. You can decide on some matters by yourself, and you don't have to listen to them everywhere. Do you understand?"