The Rise of a Farm Girl

The leader of Tianyi Pavilion thought that if they didn't chase and kill the two men, the matter would be over.

That was his wishful thinking. Wang Jingru saw that there were no more assassins coming to her house these days, and she lived a peaceful life.

But Wang Laosan's life is not so peaceful. Since he is the Minister of Agriculture, he has to cultivate new varieties for the country and figure out how to increase production and income.

The emperor had summoned him once. He had been worried these days, and every day he and his subordinates at the imperial farm discussed how to increase production and income.

But Wang Laosan is just a farmer. He has no high level of education and doesn't know how to increase production and income.

When he was in the mountain village, he worked hard every day, leaving home early and returning late. He never thought that the crops could be increased in production and income. Isn't the same amount of food harvested every year?

Wang Jingru looked at her father, who was absent-minded during the meal.

Wang Jingru then asked Wang Laosan, "Dad, I noticed that you were absent-minded when you were eating. What's the matter? Tell us. We may be able to help you come up with a solution!"

Wang Laosan drank his tea, sighed and said, “The emperor summoned me a few days ago.”

Let me think of a way to breed new varieties, and then find a way to cultivate crops so that the yield can increase further.

Your father is just an old farmer with no education. How can I breed new varieties? If I can't do it, I will resign and go back to farming!

Wang Jingru was really speechless. If the emperor gave you an official position, you could do it if you wanted to, and not do it if you didn't want to. Is it so easy to resign?

If Dad wants to resign, you don't have to think about it. It's not easy to be an official appointed by the emperor, but it's not something you can just resign.

Wang Laosan was a rough man. He glared at him and said angrily, "What's the matter? How can the emperor be unreasonable?"

Yu Wenjiao rolled her eyes and said angrily, "When the emperor gave you an official position, you were still grinning like a fool! If you didn't want to, why didn't you object at that time? Now you don't want to be the official anymore, and you shrink back when you encounter a little difficulty."

If you don't know something, why don't you ask our daughter? Wang Laosan said with a silly smile, "It's not like I haven't been an official before, but I was suddenly appointed as an official. I was just thinking about things and forgot about it. Now I ask our daughter."

Wang Jingru said, Dad, I still have sweet potato seeds in my space. Wang Laosan was very excited and stood up all of a sudden. Is it the one you took out and cooked in a pot? Is this thing high-yielding? It tastes really good, sweet and sticky.

Wang Jingru nodded and said, "I have been growing rice, corn and wheat in my space. Sweet potatoes were also found in the warehouse, but I didn't grow that many. I always thought food was important."

I'll go into the space and give them the instructions, asking them to plant sweet potatoes after they finish planting what they have. After saying that, Wang Jingru entered the space and left the space after giving the instructions.

A few days later, Wang Jingru put a thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes in the warehouse, asked her father to find someone to transport them to the emperor, and then told her father about the planting method.

Now that winter is almost here, Wang Jingru asked her father to transport the sweet potatoes to the cellar of the imperial farm.

Wait until next spring to grow these sweet potato seedlings. At the same time, Wang Jingru also told her father that she got the seeds from the Desert Country.

In fact, there are sweet potatoes in the Desert Kingdom. The Desert Kingdom is all sand, which is suitable for growing sweet potatoes. However, the Desert Kingdom treasures sweet potato seeds very much because of their high yield.

Afraid that other countries would steal the sweet potatoes and bring them back for planting, Wang Laosan happily wrapped the sweet potatoes in a quilt and transported them to the imperial farm.

Wang Jingru took out another basket of sweet potatoes and handed it to Wang Laosan when he came back, saying, "Daddy, take this basket of sweet potatoes to the palace and let the imperial kitchen steam and roast them for the emperor."

Wang Laosan was confused. Why would he send a basket of sweet potatoes to the emperor?

Daddy, why can't you use your brain to play? You send sweet potatoes to the palace. When the emperor eats the sweet potatoes, won't he know that you have found new seeds?

After hearing this, Wang Laosan nodded repeatedly and said with a foolish smile, "My daughter is really smart. She has many ideas. You can never go wrong by listening to her."

Wang Laosan was happily carrying the basket and covering it with a small quilt for fear that the things would get frozen.

The weather is very cold now. It has been more than half a year since I came to the imperial city.

When Wang Laosan arrived at the palace, the eunuch beside the emperor came to greet him and asked, "Lord Sinong, how come you have time to come here today?"

Is there anything you need from the Emperor? The Emperor has been in a bad mood these days and is in a bad mood!

When Wang Laosan heard that the emperor was angry and in a bad mood, he decided not to go and get into trouble.

Wang Laosan said with a smile, I am not here to see the emperor. I took some good things and handed them to the eunuch. This thing is something I just found. It is very delicious and filling. You can ask the imperial kitchen to steam two for the emperor and bake two in the oven.

I will give it to the emperor later and he will be in a better mood. I have nothing else to do so I will go back first. After saying this, he left the palace in a hurry. He didn't want to go in front of the emperor and be scolded.

Wang Laosan returned home, still feeling frightened! Fortunately, he was not going to see the emperor, otherwise he would have been scolded.

Back at the palace, Eunuch Liu carried a basket of sweet potatoes to the imperial kitchen and told the chef to roast two and steam two for the emperor.

Soon it was noon, and while eating lunch, the emperor saw two plates with things bigger than potatoes. What were they?

Eunuch Liu said, "Your Majesty, please try it first. This is sweet potato." Eunuch Liu hurriedly took the roasted sweet potato, peeled it, and placed it in front of the emperor.

The emperor picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece. It was sweet and sticky. The emperor found it too difficult to use chopsticks, so he picked up the whole sweet potato with his hands and started to eat it.

After eating a sweet potato, the emperor was still not satisfied and asked Eunuch Liu what this thing was and why it was so delicious.

Eunuch Liu said, "This was sent by Lord Sinong, who said it was the seeds he had found. He asked me to take it to the imperial kitchen and cook it for you, so you can have a taste."

The emperor ate another half of the steamed sweet potato and was very pleased after finishing it. Now the emperor should reward his subjects, but definitely not with gold or silver. Otherwise, he could reward them with some cloth that was tribute from other countries in the national treasury.

The emperor could not give Wang Laosan any more official position. His official position was already high enough. Wang Laosan's level was limited. His official position was among the Nine Ministers. When he was given the position of Minister of Agriculture, all the civil and military officials in the court objected.

Originally, financial management was under the jurisdiction of Wang Laosan, and material allocation, monetary policy, official assessment, and economic planning all needed to be managed by Wang Laosan. However, the emperor did not assign all these matters to him. Instead, he handed them over to other officials.

As long as Wang Laosan was in charge of agriculture, Wang Laosan couldn't even manage agriculture well, if he hadn't lost his temper a few days ago and called Wang Laosan over to give him a scolding.

This Wang Laosan might still not make any progress, and the emperor was very proud of it. It seemed that the effect of this scolding was really good.

When he came to his senses, he hurriedly asked Eunuch Liu how many sweet potato seeds Wang Aiqing had obtained. Eunuch Liu hurriedly replied that your Majesty, this servant really didn't know.

Si Nong didn't say anything, and the emperor scolded him, "You are such a waste." The emperor thought about what to reward Wang, but he couldn't give him nothing, so he told Eunuch Liu to go to the warehouse to find some silk cloth.

After sending him to the Grand Minister of Agriculture's Mansion and calling Lord Wang into the palace, Eunuch Liu hurried off to do the job assigned by the Emperor.

Eunuch Liu thought to himself that the emperor was becoming more and more narrow-minded. He used to reward people with gold, silver and treasures, but now he only rewards people with cloth.

Eunuch Liu took the things to the Sinong Mansion, read out the emperor's oral order, and told Wang Laosan that the emperor summoned the prince to the palace.

Wang Laosan asked, "What does the emperor want to talk to me about?" What else could it be? The emperor was very happy today and ate the sweet potatoes you sent him.

Wang Laosan felt relieved when he heard this and handed a purse to Eunuch Liu.

Eunuch Liu must have worked hard on the journey, and the silver money is not much, so I invited him to have some tea. Eunuch Liu squeezed his purse and found that it was full of silver bills, so he accepted it with a smile, and even spoke in a much more friendly manner.

Wang Laosan quickly packed up and went to the palace with Eunuch Liu.

The emperor was very happy to see Wang Laosan coming. Wang Laosan knelt down and kowtowed to the emperor. The emperor personally helped Wang San up.

Someone come! Give Wang Aiqing a seat. Wang Lao San thanked him and sat on the chair with a nervous mood.

The emperor is sitting at the top, "My dear minister, please tell me where you got these sweet potato seeds from."

This is how many seeds were found. The emperor found one thousand kilograms of sweet potato seeds this time. You don’t know that sweet potatoes are extremely precious in the Great Mo Kingdom.

Jingru had spent a lot of effort to get this, as she was very good at farming.

So when I see sweet potatoes, I know how to plant them. Jingru also gave me a brief introduction to the planting methods. I heard this from the person who bought her sweet potatoes.

I have placed the sweet potatoes in the cellar of the imperial farm, so that they can be grown and planted next spring.

The emperor chatted with Wang Laosan for a while before letting him go back. Wang Laosan left the palace and wiped the nonexistent sweat from his forehead.

Wang Laosan got on his own carriage and thought to himself, "To be with the emperor is like being with a tiger!" If he were to go to the palace a few more times, he would lose half his life and live twenty years less.

Wang Laosan is just a rough man, he doesn't know how to say flattering words, he didn't know what he said wrong, and he made the emperor unhappy. Then the whole family will suffer.

Wang Laosan returned home and quickly drank some tea to calm himself down.

Yu Wenjiao asked, "What does the emperor want to see you about?" Wang Laosan said, "What can the emperor want to see me about?" My daughter took out the sweet potato seeds, and the emperor asked how many seeds she had got.

After chatting with the emperor for a while, I became very nervous. Yu Wenjiao rolled her eyes and said, "Look at how little you can do."

Are you so nervous to see the emperor once? I never saw you so nervous when you went to court every day! Wang Laosan said you don’t understand. There are so many ministers in the court every day, and the emperor doesn’t talk to me. He just stands there for a while and then leaves.

This is a meeting with the Emperor alone. What if I say something wrong and make the Emperor unhappy, and then he drags me out and beheads me?

Yuwen Jiao said, I see that you are very idle every day. Do you know that the official position of the Grand Minister of Agriculture is ranked among the Nine Ministers, below the Prime Minister, and has a lot of government affairs to deal with every day?

But I wonder why you are so idle? You go to the imperial farm every day and only care about agricultural production, land distribution, farmland water conservancy construction, etc.

Wang Laosan opened his eyes wide and said, "Isn't the Minister of Agriculture in charge of farming?" Yuwen Jiao shook her head and said, "No." Wang Laosan said in disbelief, "If he's not in charge of farming, then what should I be in charge of?"

Yu Wenjiao said that the emperor's appointment of you as the Grand Minister of Agriculture was a bit too high. The Grand Minister of Agriculture was responsible for finance, economy and other affairs.

For example, financial management, agricultural management, material distribution, monetary policy, official assessment, and economic planning.

All these are under your charge, and you are in charge of deploying the officials under you, but you only take care of agricultural matters every day, and I don’t see you taking care of other things!

Wang Laosan said, I have so many things to do every day, and I have to do them all by myself, I will be exhausted to death.

"And I don't know what you're talking about! You don't know me yet. I can barely read a single word," said Wang Laosan. "My officials are very busy every day. Some are in charge of financial management, some are in charge of material distribution, monetary policy, official assessment, economic planning, and they all have work to do."

I thought everyone was busy with their own tasks! It turns out that I should be the one to do all these tasks. Wu Wenjiao said, "It's not that you should do all the tasks, but you should assign them to everyone and then check them."

If you are qualified, you will be reported to the emperor. Now the emperor will make unified assignments. Which official? What job? The emperor may know that you don't have the ability. Who knows what the emperor is thinking, and suddenly gives you such a high official position.

Wang Laosan was very open-minded. He said, "I will go to the imperial farm every day and do these tasks. I will not go there in winter. I will just attend the morning court and stay in the mansion after coming back."

If it doesn't work out, I will tell the emperor that I will resign from this position. Yu Wenjiao said, let's wait and see!

After all, no one else knows how to grow sweet potatoes, so you have to finish growing them. If you want to resign, you have to resign. Otherwise, the emperor will not allow you to resign.

Wang Laosan thought about it and nodded, saying, let’s wait until we finish planting in the spring.

Half a month passed peacefully like this, and the King of War returned triumphantly, and General Yuwen also came back.

The emperor was very pleased and held a palace banquet. All officials of the fourth rank and above attended with their families to welcome the general and the king of war.

When the King of War came back, he went to the palace and met the Emperor. After he came out of the palace, he did not even go back to the palace, but went directly to

Sinong Mansion.

Wang Jingru also knew that Prince Zhan had returned, so she went to the streets and joined the common people on both sides of the street to welcome Prince Zhan and General Yuwen back in triumph.

Wang Jingru had just come back from outside and had just sat down, and hadn't even had a sip of tea when the War King came out of the palace. When the King saw Wang Jingru, he hugged her in his arms. He finally saw the person he missed day and night.

Wang Jingru broke free from the arms of King Zhan in disgust and said angrily, "Look, you have been traveling for days and you don’t even go back home to rest. Look, you haven’t even taken off your battle robe."

You have already returned to the imperial city, and I can't run away, so why are you so anxious? Although Wang Jingru said this and seemed to care about King Zhan very much, in fact, she disliked the smell of sweat on King Zhan.

Moreover, the War King was wearing armor and a robe, so when he hugged her, it hurt him. Wang Jingru's soul was modern, and she didn't have a love brain.

She had thought that she would be single for her whole life in ancient times. When she came to the imperial city, she fell in love with the War King. All aspects of the War King were in line with Wang Jingru's aesthetic point of view.

That's why she tried to date King Zhan, but the premise was that they would be together for life. If King Zhan dared to take a concubine, she would definitely part ways with him.

Moreover, Wang Jingru knew that men in ancient times were very cold-hearted. They believed that having three wives and four concubines was common. Wang Jingru did not dare to invest too much emotion in the relationship. Whoever fell in love first would be the loser.

Prince Zhan and Wang Jingru were flirting with each other for a while before Prince Zhan left and returned to the palace.

He returned to the palace and found the secret guards in the palace and asked them about the situation in the imperial city. He wanted to know whether anything major had happened from the time he left to the time he came back.

The secret guards said that there was one big thing, which was that Prince Xuanyuan Lei and Princess Jingru were assassinated by Tianyi Pavilion after they came back. Several waves of people came to assassinate the two.

Later I heard that when they passed by Xishui City, they offended the local Jiang Mansion. It was said that the Jiang Mansion was the richest businessman in Xishui City.

He is a bully in Xishui City because the eldest son of the Jiang family has fallen in love with Princess Jingru.

Being bewitched by the princess, the Jiang family spent a huge sum of money to hire someone from Tianyi Pavilion to kill the prince and Princess Jingru at all costs.

War King Wu Tianyang was very angry when he heard this. He slammed his hand hard on the table, and the table was broken by his punch.

King Zhan said angrily, if anyone dares to touch my fiancée or my people, Tianyi Pavilion will no longer exist.