The whole family of villains criticized her wildly, but the princess treated her with medical treatm

Mu Tingxue never liked to draw her bow too full when doing things. She still had a long career as an official and in power. She was not afraid of ten thousand, but afraid of the worst. She had to take every step carefully and steadily.

Potatoes are not just a business.

Through it, the Zhenbei Army can produce and sell food by itself, saving a lot of military pay; through it, it can stabilize the aristocratic family that has been cut twice by itself. You can't just cut the leeks, but provide some fertilizer piecemeal; through it, It can prevent the people from starving to death in the terrible famine of "big hunger every year and people eating each other".

Agriculture is also under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

In the most distant ancient times, the position of Minister of Household Affairs was called "Da Sinong"!

"Please give me a chance, Your Highness."

Zuo Pu Sheli Fan knew that the woman in front of him was his enemy, but he still smiled with a smile on his face, "The cultivation and promotion of this divine food is all thanks to His Highness's support and support. I have made money. It is a win-win for you and me."

There is no doubt that Li Gong is a philistine. When he sees potatoes, he is like a fly seeing blood.

For this benefit, he can put aside his past grudges and reach a temporary cooperation with the eldest princess, also known as a political one-night stand.

Mu Tingxue smiled and said, "Don't talk about foreign affairs when you are away from me. Money is just worldly things."

When Li Fan saw her loosening her words, he knew there was something going on: "In front of His Highness, the old ministers don't dare to take advantage of it. When you talk about the fiscal deficit, you call on the ministers to set an example and pay the land tax. It is naturally their duty to support the country. Turn it in every year. 260 years ago, Emperor Xie Gaozu conquered this Yunhuang country with the support of various noble families. Only by relying on the powerful defense of the noble families can long-term peace and stability be achieved. His Highness has discovered the potato. As for the divine food, we might as well let the aristocratic families plant and promote the seeds first. It will be available to the common people within a year at most and solve the crisis of people in our dynasty not having enough to eat all year round."

This was obviously a compliment, but secretly a threat.

It was a secret rivalry between the powerful families of the family, headed by Li Jia, and the Xie family's imperial power.

He was reminding the eldest princess Xie Qingyuan, I know what you want to do, you want to touch the cake of the family, but don’t forget, Xie Gaozu is just the emperor elected by the family, it’s not that he is so awesome, if Xie The descendants of the emperor cannot satisfy the interests of the family and cannot allow the descendants of the family to occupy more than 80.00% of the important civil and military positions in the court. In turn, they want to destroy us. Then we can only apologize. We can find another emperor who is pleasing to our eyes.

Mu Tingxue looked meaningfully at the middle-aged handsome uncle in front of her and smiled slyly: "The army in Zhenbei is stationed in the fields. It is necessary to keep potato seeds for ourselves. We will plant them all in the second half of the year and harvest the second crop at the end of the year. Don't worry, except for the army's own potatoes." In addition, the remaining potato seeds should be enough to plant 30 acres of land, and they will all be sold to your family. As for how to divide them-"

Li Gong was calm on the surface, but his violently dilated pupils showed how boiling he was inside at this moment.

What?Can you plant twice a year?The annual harvest has doubled again!

What?It is enough to cultivate 30 acres of land, and he can feed his entire family away from home.

"It's up to you how to divide them." Mu Tingxue showed a shy smile: "This princess is still junior, and she is considered a junior after all. Most of the heads of the aristocratic families are my distant uncles and relatives. You elders have discussed it. We know how to distribute it, just collect it from the Ministry of Household Affairs after the [-]th. The price is cheap, one tael of silver and ten kilograms of potato seeds."

This move is called hatred transfer.

The things are given to you, so fight over them dog by dog.

Do you want to unite to deal with this princess?

Impossible, there will be conflicts of interest among you!

The greater the "benefits" that potatoes can bring, the more powerful the aristocratic families in Yundu will be.Therefore, she deliberately said that she could plant two crops a year.

Hearing this, Li Fan's heart suddenly became extremely anxious - it's unreasonable that he should share these 30 acres of potato seeds with those old guys who are struggling for money. I don't even have enough to plant them myself. , I don’t want to give them a single potato sprout!

"How to divide this? There are more than 200 million acres of land away from home..."

"Lijia is the number one family in Yundu, and uncle, you are the head of the civil service, and can be considered a leader among many wealthy families." Mu Tingxue couldn't agree to him directly. She had to muddy the water, and the muddy it got. Okay, "You have the highest prestige among them, so it's not you who has the final say on how the points will be divided."

There was a hint of cruelty in Li Fan's eyes.

Yes, he does have the highest prestige, which is an advantage.

We can only rely on force to snatch potato seeds.This is the case in the field of interests. If you don't advance a foot, I will advance a foot. If you take a step back, I will stab you to death and push you into the abyss.

"Your Highness has thought carefully. I don't dare to claim to be a leader. I just have a small reputation. I will go back and discuss the distribution of potato seeds with them. I will strive to be fair and have a clear conscience."

Li Fan acted like a gentleman, bowing to her and thanking her.

The whole play is finished.

Li Fan was turning around to leave, but unexpectedly found that at some point, the regent had crossed his arms over his chest, leaning against the door of the household duty room, without saying a word, and staring at him sarcastically with his narrow, indifferent eyes.

Li Fan snorted coldly and walked away.

He was quite at odds with the regent.

If in front of the eldest princess, he could still perform a full set of dramas and still be able to make friends with her, but in front of Yan Yang, he really didn't bother to act and was extremely disgusted.

"Why did you come to me?"

When Mu Tingxue saw her fiancé approaching, she couldn't help but smile.It’s different from the fake smile he used to deal with his political opponents.

The Liubu Yamen is not located in the palace, but near Huangji Avenue, about two miles away from Huangji Gate. It is also quite far away from the Zhenbei Military Camp outside Yundu City.

"I'll come if I want to."

Yan Yang is very frank. Does he need a reason to come to visit his fiancée?

"You don't even make a sound when you come."

"you are busy."

"How much have you heard?"

"It starts with you planting potatoes with sky-high prices and tricking him."

The main focus is the information gap. Li Fan didn't know that planting one acre of land requires 12 kilograms of potato seeds.If the price given by Mu Tingxue is one tael for ten kilograms, the cost of planting an acre of potato fields would be at least [-] taels of silver.

Yan Yang felt that his wife was taking advantage of the situation again.

"Isn't this to help the Zhenbei Army raise more military expenses and achieve self-sufficiency as soon as possible?" Mu Tingxue said with happiness on her face, "I can kill them hard in the first season. After the harvest in the second season, There are potatoes everywhere, so we can’t sell them at a high price.”

"It is."

Yan Yang deeply agreed, "One stone of corn is worth two hundred yuan in the market; when the potatoes are harvested in the second season at the end of the year, one stone of potatoes will be worth up to three hundred yuan."

"I'm already very kind, okay. One tael of silver and ten pounds of potato seeds can still be earned by a noble family."

Mu Tingxue did some calculations, "According to the conservative yield of fifty taels per mu, one acre of potatoes can be sold for 15 taels of silver. After deducting the cost of 12 taels, taxes, and tenant wages, there are still two taels of silver earned, which is not as good as what they earn from growing corn." , you only get two or three shi from wheat, how much can you earn?”

Yan Yang said: "But if you grow potatoes on 30 acres of land, you can steal 360 million taels of silver from them!"

Mu Tingxue chuckled: "We make the big deal, and they get the small bit."