Locked: God is the matchmaker, neither you nor I can escape

Capital city, Taiyuan Palace.

"Your Majesty, I have something to report." After Mu Jiasong and the others had finished chattering, he took the opportunity to step forward and report.

The emperor raised his eyebrows slightly, his expression showing no emotion, and said in a single voice: "Lord Mu, please speak."

"Your Majesty, the high-yield grain grown in Dashan Village, Guyang County has been transported back to the capital. A total of 13 acres of land have been planted, and a total of 7 kilograms of sweet potatoes have been harvested. A total of kilograms of sweet potatoes have been transported back to the capital. The sweet potatoes are outside the palace. Please take a look, Your Majesty."

Hearing this, the emperor suddenly stood up from the dragon throne and glanced at the other ministers: "My dear ministers, come with me to take a look at this rare high-yield grain."

Without waiting for others to speak, the emperor walked straight out of the hall. Seeing this, other ministers followed the emperor. They were also very curious about what the over-produced sweet potatoes looked like.

There were 17 horse-drawn carriages in total, loaded with nearly kilograms of sweet potatoes, parked neatly outside the palace.

Mu Jiasong signaled to his men to open up all the sweet potatoes and pour them out for the emperor and the ministers to see. Ren Huaimin immediately directed everyone to start moving and lifting, pouring out all the sweet potatoes from the sacks.

Soon, small hills of sweet potatoes appeared in front of everyone.

"Oh my god! So much food?"

"I didn't know sweet potatoes looked like this. They're quite rare. No wonder they're weighed so much. I just don't know how they taste."

"I heard that only the emperor and Lord Mu have eaten it in the capital, so I think it will taste good."

The emperor vaguely heard the discussions behind his back, and immediately ordered Eunuch Fu to arrange for someone to take some to the imperial kitchen and ask the imperial chef to prepare it for the ministers to taste.

In fact, he also missed this taste.

After seeing it, the emperor led his ministers back to Taiyuan Hall to continue discussing matters. Now that they had the real thing in front of them, everyone was speechless.

"Our country is vast, with tens of millions of people. These sweet potatoes will be distributed as seeds to each place for further cultivation, so that the people in each area can have enough food.

Except for a small portion that was reserved for further cultivation by the Sinong Temple, the rest was distributed to remote prefecture-level cities to prevent the people from being unable to grow sweet potatoes in winter.

The subsequent planting matters will be followed up by the Sino-Agricultural Temple, and we must ensure that sweet potatoes are promoted to every prefecture and city, so that the people of Zhao State can eat sweet potatoes next year."

"Yes, I obey your order." Mu Jiasong stepped forward and said.

Regarding the matter of sweet potatoes, the emperor issued decrees one by one, rewarding the villagers of Dashan Village for providing so many sweet potato seeds. After the remaining batch of sweet potato seeds arrived in the capital, they would be rewarded to the entire Dashan Village.

It was almost time to leave court, and the imperial chef worked hard to finally steam the sweet potatoes, making sure each adult had two. Why two?

Because two seeds for each of the hundreds of officials was not a small number for the imperial chef, mainly because the emperor was in a hurry to get them, and the quantity was determined by Lord Mu. These were all seeds and they could not be eaten too much.

Eunuchs came in one after another carrying freshly baked sweet potatoes, breaking the historical rule of Zhao State that officials had been eating openly in the Taiyuan Hall.

It happened that everyone had just gone to court in the morning and was very hungry. After eating two sweet potatoes, they immediately felt full. The sweet and sticky sweet potatoes tasted no worse than pastries.

——Good stuff!

The elderly ministers had bad teeth and preferred this kind of soft and sticky food. However, there were only tens of thousands of pounds of this in the entire Zhao Kingdom, and they were seeds. They couldn't eat it even if they wanted to. They could only wait until next year when all the people had planted it and everyone had something to eat. Only then could they eat to their heart's content.

At this point, the entire court did its utmost to support the promotion of sweet potato cultivation.

Even if someone has some ulterior motives, they dare not do anything in public. If they are caught and treated as an example, it will not be worth it!

The Hua family was the first to receive the news of the big move to promote sweet potato cultivation in the capital.

Hua Feifan looked at the news sent back by his subordinates, his eyes fell on the big mountain village above, and he immediately got up and went back to find Chen Youyou.

"lady!"

Chen Youyou immediately stood up to greet him. The last time he was so excited was when he received news about Yi'er. Could it be that Yi'er had sent him a reply letter again?

Hua Feifan handed the note to Chen Youyou, and pointed to the Dashan Village on it and asked, "Madam, if I remember correctly, this Dashan Village is the Dashan Village where Yi'er currently lives, right?"

After reading it, Chen Youyou let out a long sigh: "If there is no other big mountain village in Guyang County, it would be that big mountain village."

"I don't know what kind of relationship this Li family has with Yi'er. I remember Yi'er's husband's family is also surnamed Li. I don't know if they are from the same family. If the two families have a good relationship, ma'am, do you think we should write a letter and ask our daughter to bring us some sweet potatoes to taste?"

Chen Youyou glanced at Hua Feifan in a reproachful manner and said with a smile, "Oh my, who on earth wanted to kill the brat who stole your daughter in the first place?

Now you need someone to give you something new, and you accept him as your son-in-law?"

Hua Feifan blushed and said stubbornly, "Who said I could easily accept him as my son-in-law? I wrote a letter and asked Murong to bring him back to me. Isn't he in that village too?"

In fact, the two of them knew in their hearts that no matter what they were thinking, as long as Yi'er set her eyes on that man, they would have to accept it even if they didn't want to. At worst, they would wait until Yi'er got tired of him and then they would take action to get rid of him.

At this time, the housekeeper hurried over and saluted, "Master, Madam, the eldest young master sent a cart of things back and said that he would have them delivered to the master and madam personally, but did he send them directly to the main courtyard?"

The couple looked at each other, and Hua Feifan said, "Have someone send it over."

After a while, two young men in plain clothes drove the carriage into the main courtyard. Hua Feifan recognized them as the secret guards beside Hua Murong. One of them stepped forward to salute and took out a letter from his bosom and presented it to him: "Master, this is the letter that the master ordered me to bring back. Please take a look."

Hua Feifan took the letter and opened it. Chen Youyou couldn't help but leaned out to take a look out of curiosity. Only then did she know what the stuff on the cart was and was quite shocked - this was the sweet potato that even the dignitaries in Beijing wanted to try but couldn't!

Their big son actually asked them to send back a whole carriage!

No, to be precise, it was the filial piety of their good daughter and son-in-law. The sweet potatoes were grown by them, and they were the same batch of sweet potatoes presented to the emperor!

It turns out that the "Li" family mentioned in the news brought by the subordinates is the "Li" son-in-law chosen by Yier!

"Hahahahahahaha..." Hua Feifan couldn't help but laughed out loud with his head raised. So what if he was the emperor? He could only taste the fresh sweet potatoes. He had a whole cart full of them!

She is truly worthy of being his most valued daughter, with a sharp eye, and the man she chooses is so outstanding.

What happened to the country bumpkin?

He could grow sweet potatoes that were now so popular that even people were scrambling to get them. From then on, the people of the entire Zhao Kingdom thanked him as the "Father of Sweet Potatoes"!