At eight o'clock that night, Steward Liu reported to Xiao Yao: The wheat of 50 acres of new wheat has been harvested, milled, and threshed and harvested.
Xiao Yao, who had been waiting in the office room, breathed a sigh of relief.
While asking Xiao Cui, who was accompanying her, to pour tea for Steward Liu, she asked anxiously, "How many catties did you beat in total?"
Nothing is missing, right?
Are the peasants dissatisfied with taking the wheat from Wuwangzhuang to them as rent?
Did you explain it to everyone?
Steward Liu hurriedly replied: "Don't worry, princess, according to the princess's orders, I sent fifteen people to supervise the whole process, and I myself have been watching in the courtyard, and not a single grain is missing."
The fifty acres of land have a total of 48,000 catties of grain, everyone is crazy with joy, they have never seen such a good harvest, and they all say in private that the princess's seeds must be given by the gods, and they should be left to be the seeds of the coming year.
Everyone can understand that there is no dissatisfaction.
Rest assured, princess. ” Xiao Yao was completely relieved now. happily said to Steward Liu: "Tell everyone that the wheat harvest is over, and I will reward everyone according to their merits."
Also, the manager of Wu Wang Grange said that the harvest of their grange is too low, since we have bought it, we must consider the interests of the tenants, and this year it will not be 30% of Wu Wang's original 30%, but 40% of the yield per mu will be given to the farmers.
Next year, new varieties will be planted, and then 30% will be given to them.
You've worked hard these days, hurry back and rest. ” Steward Liu even claimed that it was, and left with a warm heart, although he had long been accustomed to the princess's style of equal respect for people, he was no longer pretentious and thankful, but every time the princess thanked him and said that he was hard, he felt that he was tired and willing to work for such a master.
I don't know what virtue he has accumulated in his previous life, so that he is fortunate to meet such a master, and he can only repay the master by doing things more diligently.
Three days later, in the Jinluan Hall of the Wu Dynasty, Zhao Ruiyang, the Emperor of the Great Wu Yingwu, sat on the dragon chair, frowning and listening to the ministers report on the grain situation of this year's wheat harvest and the disaster situation in the south and southwest.
This year's wheat harvest in the north is good, and a batch of grain can be raised for emergency use, but the south and southwest have a large area and a large number of people have been affected, and these grains cannot solve the fundamental problem.
The ministers were talking about it with great vigor, but they couldn't come up with a good solution to the problem.
Suddenly, an inner palace eunuch came to the side hall, and quietly said a few words to the deacon and eunuch in front of the palace, only to see the deacon eunuch walk to the dragon book case and kneel down and say to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the queen mother and several noble concubines and concubines ask to be seen." ” Zhao Ruiyang said impatiently: "I am discussing state affairs in the court, what are the harem ladies doing?"
Isn't that adding to the chaos?
” The deacon and eunuch replied: "The queen said that they have something important to see Your Majesty. ” Zhao Ruiyang looked up at the ministers below, smiled wryly and said, "What important things can they do?"
Announce it. ” Under the leadership of the queen, several ladies walked into the main hall in turn.
The ministers showed surprise on their faces, and they saw a few ladies with swaying hairpin rings in the past, jewels, and heavy makeup, all of whom were dressed in simple and plain clothes today, and all of them had solemn faces.
After the queen mother took them to salute the emperor, she lightly opened her lips and said, "Your Majesty, the concubines and others have taken the liberty to come, and they will not take up a lot of Your Majesty's time."
After speaking, he nodded to the eunuch of the inner palace at the door of the side hall.
The eunuchs of the inner palace immediately led five palace maids holding square trays full of gold, silver and jewels in their hands and knelt down behind the five maidens.
The emperor and the ministers looked at them suspiciously, I don't know which one the queen and several ladies are singing?
I only heard the queen mother say: "Recently, the concubines and sisters, seeing Your Majesty's tea and dinner, do not think about it, and do not frown, knowing that it is for the disaster in the south, the concubines and other sisters are immoral and incompetent, and they know that the affairs of the court have their own Manchu Dynasty civil and military ministers will share their worries for Your Majesty."
However, since childhood, the concubines and others have heard that the people are His Majesty's people, and His Majesty also loves the people like sons on weekdays.
As a member of His Majesty's family, when he heard that His Majesty's people had been affected, it was natural that he should lend a hand and do his part.
The concubines and others discussed for a few days, and decided that each of them would donate some of their gold, silver and jewelry to the relief victims, firstly, to share a little worry for His Majesty, and secondly, to do their best to help the affected people.
However, the concubines want to explain that most of the things on the plates behind each of us were donated by the concubines and sisters themselves, and some were donated voluntarily by the palace maids after hearing about it.
The concubines waited for them to be sincere, and they accepted it.
These plates of things are estimated to be about 50,000 taels.
Please remember your Majesty's sincerity and sell these things as disaster relief funds.
The concubines and sisters are very pleased!
” Several concubines immediately chimed in: "What the queen sister said is what the concubines want to say, please accept a little bit of our sister's heart." ”