On May 31 of the second year of Tianbao, that is, the day after Xiao Yao came back, early in the morning, the workers in the manor had breakfast and were busy under the command of Steward Liu, the pig farm had just killed a fat pig and sent it, and the people in the front yard kitchen were too busy to transfer Xiao Yao's backyard cooks to help, every summer harvest and autumn harvest season, Xiao Yao stipulated that all tenants who cut wheat, rice and harvest grain were eaten in the manor for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and tea and mung bean soup were also sent to the fields by the manor and supplied openly.
Their family members can help with the harvest, or help with boiling water and cooking.
Many women volunteered to help on the estate.
Xiao Yao, Xiao Cui, Sister-in-law Liu and others were busy preparing meals for the ten ministers and their entourage in the small kitchen in the backyard.
Xing'er was sent to the main road at the entrance of the village to lookout, and if she found someone coming, she would come back and report it as soon as possible.
Xiao Yao asked Steward Liu to take someone out to greet him.
Now everyone is busy, Xiao Yao did not send someone to wait to greet them.
Although she is a princess, after all, she invited the ministers to be guests, and the courtesy of hospitality is still there, not to mention that she is still an important minister of the court.
At about half past ten, Xing'er panted and ran back to say that people were coming, Xiao Yao asked Steward Liu to gather people to greet her, and saw that the kitchen was almost ready, leaving Aunt Liu alone in the kitchen, taking Xiaocui and Xing'er to her own office room in the front yard, wearing a veil and waiting to receive guests.
The ten ministers gave Xiao Yao a lot of face, and none of them came badly, all of which were selected by Xiao Yao for the emperor and Zhao Ruiyun to investigate privately, and Xiao Yao asked Qiusheng to personally send the invitation he had written to their mansion to invite.
Ten people visited Xiao Yao, and Xiao Yao asked a few palace maids from the palace to bring out the snacks that they had only made the night before, and tomato juice, apricot juice, watermelon juice, strawberry juice and mung bean soup that they had squeezed with ice cubes and rock sugar early in the morning, so that they could choose their own thirst to quench their thirst and cool down.
After a morning of the road, some of them got off the morning court, and they didn't even have time to eat breakfast to rush here, they were hungry and thirsty, looking at the brightly colored drinks, and everyone put down the shelves to eat and drink after a little excuse, and secretly praised the snacks and drinks in the princess's mansion are indeed extraordinary, very delicious and delicious.
After a short rest, Xiao Yao and Steward Liu took the group to the field outside the village.
The fields were full of wheat harvesters.
The ministers did not know what the princess had brought them to the field for, and they could not ask, so they could only look at each other and follow.
Xiao Yao considered that the ministers had not been exposed to the wind and sun, so he specially took them to a small forest, and everyone stood still under the shade of the tree, Xiao Yao said to them: "You are all highly respected people in the court, Xiao Yao invited you to come here to ask you about an important thing related to food."
I hope you will give me advice. ” Ministers, you look at me, I look at you, and finally Prime Minister Li Chen arched his hand and replied: "The princess is polite, the princess can only tell me if she has something, as long as I know, I will know everything and say everything." ” After Xiao Yao thanked the prime minister, he was no longer polite, pointed to a large wheat field in front of him and said to everyone: "Everyone, please see, what is the difference between my wheat field and what you have seen before?"
” After everyone opened their eyes and looked carefully, it was Prime Minister Li Chen who said: "It seems that the ears of wheat have grown a lot, and the wheat in the field is relatively dense." ” Xiao Yao wanted this sentence, and said with a smile: "Lao Xiangguo is meticulous and meticulous, and what he said is exactly.
I don't know how many catties do you think is the best harvest of one mu of wheat in our Great Wu Dynasty?
(In fact, at that time, it was about how many stones per mu were produced, and after Lan Yan finished speaking, he had to explain to everyone how many catties one stone was equal to, so it was too troublesome, so he said catties directly.)
One stone is equal to 100 catties here in blue smoke) Li Xiangguo opened his mouth and said, "Four hundred catties." ” "Then how many catties of wheat can be beaten in an acre of land in front of him?"
Xiao Yao still said with a smile Lao Xiangguo thought for a while and said, "It's about five or six hundred catties."
After speaking, he looked at the other ministers next to him, and saw that everyone nodded in agreement "Old Xiangguo, you can look away this time, any acre of wheat land in this princess, the yield is about 900 catties, I don't believe you can refer to a few pieces of land, let's measure now, harvest now, grind now, weigh now.
Let's see who knows for sure. ”