Chapter 58 As a fine female matchmaker chooses to farm (7)

   It was him, these two meals were nothing more than a bowl of porridge with wild vegetables and a piece of red bean cake, nothing else could be eaten.

When he was training in the military camp, when the war in the north was tense, he also ate coarse grains and poured muddy raw water with the soldiers, but snail meat, which looked like worms to him, was absolutely not touched.

  As for the lychee sweet soup, he is not used to drinking it like an old man.

   I didn't expect her to like it.

  Yan Kejin raised her eyebrows.

  The changes are so great that it is hard not to make people suspicious.

   But...that's what's interesting, isn't it?

   "It won't take so long to thank you, right?"

  Yan Qi hurriedly said: "The princess gave a few more bags of sweet potatoes to the master's family, and asked them to plant them on the mountain as seeds. She said that this is not a picky place, and taught them several ways to eat sweet potatoes. There are also fodder beans..."

   To be honest, Yan Qi couldn't figure out why the feed that the livestock ate would be seen and remembered by the princess.

   "At the end, I also mentioned a crop called sugar cane. The subordinates have never seen it before, but the princess seems to know it. She drew a picture of sugar cane and asked the owner to pay attention to it, and said..."

"say what?"

   "If it is planted, let them send it to the Jinnan Palace. She will answer generously with food and cloth."

   "..."

  Yan Kejin was silent for a moment, and then ordered: "You send someone to look for this crop and see what it is for."

"yes!"

   "Go to remind me, it's time to start, if you don't leave, do you want to sleep in the wild tonight?"

"…yes!"

  …

  The carriage rolled forward, bumping from time to time.

  Xu Yin held onto her teacup and took a sip of tea, then lowered her head to write her farming plan.

  Walking around with charcoal pens, cursive writing in one hand is flamboyant.

  Nurse Feng hesitated to speak, but in the end she didn't ask anything.

  At this moment, she was more and more sure: the fourth girl might have been hiding her clumsiness in the past.

   Do you want to report back to Madam?

  But Nanban is too far away from Beijing, and it took two months for a one-way trip.

  Those who can send envoys, like her, have to follow the fourth girl to the palace, and once they enter the Nanman territory, they can't get out.

   Spend money to send letters to irrelevant people, and I'm afraid it's not safe. If the prince finds out, I can't justify it...

  Nurse Feng's heart was full of twists and turns, and she finally chose to pretend that she didn't know.

  Anyway, the madam sent her to keep an eye on the fourth girl, and only begged the fourth girl not to run back to Beijing, and the other wives did not give orders.

  So as long as the fourth girl doesn't run away, it's easy to say anything.

  Xu Yin didn't know the ups and downs in Mother Feng's heart, she was busy.

   After writing the preliminary plan, start picking up the tools available in the system mall.

  The beginning of spring has passed, and spring plowing is busy.

  The carriage came all the way, and she looked at the people and cattle in the field. The plow was particularly strenuous to pull, which greatly reduced the efficiency of plowing the land. It can be seen that the Quyuan plow has not yet come out.

   Qu Yuanli’s blueprint system is available in the mall, but it’s a bit expensive, requiring 1000 energy points.

  However, with the reward of 10,000 energy points as a base, Xu Yin did not hesitate to exchange a blueprint of the improved lightweight Quyuanli.

   "Ma'am, can we buy land here?"

   "Here? In Baiyue County? It's better to buy it in Baigui County." Feng Nanny thought for a while and added, "Perhaps, the prince has already set up Zhuangzi."

  Xu Yin doesn't have the idea that "man's things belong to men, and what's hers belongs to her". If King Jinnan was willing to donate his Zhuangzi for her own use, she would save money to buy the land.

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   "His village must have been farming. I want to buy a few acres of wasteland. You know I have never farmed land before. Although I have read a lot of idle books, they are all on paper. In order not to waste, let's start with the wasteland."

  Didn't she buy a lot of seeds along the way? As long as there were some in the system mall, they were all replaced with high-quality seeds produced by the system to see if they could breed high-yield and high-quality crops that could be planted in batches in Nanban.

  At this moment, she is extremely grateful to the peasant girl for her farming experience in that life, which is now a precious asset!

  …

  The sheriffs of the five counties of Nanban have arrived at the prefecture of Bagui County one after another at this moment, waiting to be summoned by King Jinnan.

  Among the five people, the ones who least welcome the arrival of King Jinnan are the county guards of hundreds of Yue and Minyue counties.

  One of them is Liu Cheng and the other is Wang Zhihai. They are cousins, relatives of a certain concubine in the emperor's harem.

  Earlier, the two families were poor common people, the so-called one person ascended to the heaven. After the cousin was selected into the harem by the emperor who was out of the palace to escape the summer heat, they followed suit and picked up a half-job.

  Nanman, whom others do not want to come, they both wished for.

   Here, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so don't be too convenient for making money.

  When the people are poor, they have to pay taxes, right?

  The two of them have enriched their private pockets by increasing taxes indiscriminately over the years, and built their respective mansions to be more magnificent than the palace compound.

  The emperor didn’t know, and thought that Nanman’s taxes were pitifully small, and it didn’t matter if they had any, so he pretended to give it to the deposed prince.

  Once this is designated as a fiefdom, only half of the tax on the land needs to be handed over to the treasury, and the remaining half must be left to the fief owner.

"Do you think that King Jinnan will send someone to check our account?" Liu Cheng walked impatiently, "After checking, wouldn't it be easy to find out what we did with the screwdriver? You and I still have good results." eat?"

  Wang Zhihai also suffered from a headache. After thinking for a long time, he couldn't come up with a solution. He couldn't help but look fierce: "It's better to simply..."

  He made a movement of raising the knife with his hand.

  Liu Cheng shook his head: "No! The following Yanzi team is all highly skilled in martial arts. It is difficult for ordinary Jianghu masters to do a few tricks against them. But top masters, you and I have no way out."

   "Then according to what my cousin said?"

   After thinking about it, Liu Cheng said: "It's better to smooth out the too obvious account first."

  It means to return the tax withheld this year first, as long as it can be deceived by King Jinnan, a temporary reduction in income is fine.

  But thinking about it, in the future, there may only be the low salary of the county guard forever, and there will be no extra money to earn as before, and I can't help being irritable, wishing that King Jinnan would die on the horse and never reach the fiefdom!

Suddenly, Liu Cheng thought of an idea: "Yes! Has he never accepted a concubine? The position of the main concubine is cheaper than the Prime Minister's mansion, and the two side concubines are still vacant? Find a chance and let you and my wife take the concubine with you." The girls in the mansion go to show their faces... Men, it's very rare to see a woman with excellent looks who doesn't feel itchy..."

  The two looked at each other and smiled triumphantly, as if they had already won.

  In the room next door, the sheriffs of the other three counties were not as bold as these two.

  They still vaguely looked forward to King Jinnan's arrival.

   "Our county is poor! There are bandits robbing us all the time." The governor of Qianzhong County sighed, "The bandits are rampant, and life is hard for the people!"

  The governor of Baipu County echoed: "Why not our county? I heard that King Jinnan has a clear distinction between love and hate, loves the people, and hates lawbreakers. I hope he can deter those fierce bandits, and the people can live a stable life."

  Besides the beautiful words, there is another unfinished meaning: the law and order in the jurisdiction is improved, and it will be more perfect to follow Queen Jinnan to gain some political achievements, and try to change to a richer county after the three-year period expires!

  The sheriff of Baigui County stroked his beard, smiled helplessly, and said nothing.

  He thinks differently from these two colleagues.

  He not only hoped that the arrival of King Jinnan would kill the greed of Liu Cheng and Wang Zhihai, but also worried that King Jinnan would join forces with those two.

  So what about loving the common people before? Now he is just a waste prince who has lost the emperor's heart, and was demoted by the emperor to such a barren place like Nanman, is there any possibility of going further?

   Such a gap, who can stand it?

  He reckoned that King Jinnan inevitably had no intention of revenge in his heart, but without the imperial edict, he could not get out of the fiefdom. Who else could take revenge except the people of Nanman?

  In short, the governors of the five counties have their own thoughts.

  (end of this chapter)