No, I was just a concubine, how did I become the queen?

Chapter 536 Fat Year

What the Fourth Master thought more about was that since Cha Cha had such talent, he didn't want to erase her contribution.

He spoke again: "Write a memorial to me and bring it up at the imperial court next month."

Lin Mingyan is already very familiar with the matter of submitting memorials.

Ever since she suggested educating the orphan girl in the temporary palace, the Fourth Master would ask her to submit a memorial whenever she had any good ideas.

The Fourth Master was still malicious and started to let everyone argue in the court, but they couldn't come to any conclusion after arguing for a long time.

Then take out her memorial.

Wuhu~crush!

The feeling was that all the ministers looked at each other in bewilderment, frightened by the idea of a woman in the harem, and then the whole hall fell silent.

The Fourth Master was secretly delighted countless times, and he would secretly curl his lips while sitting on the dragon throne.

Lin Mingyan also became a familiar face in the court by submitting memorials.

At the beginning, some ministers submitted memorials to impeach the emperor, but they were just saying that the harem was not allowed to interfere in government affairs.

The Fourth Master endured it several times and ignored it, but they became more and more arrogant, and impeachments came like snowflakes.

Can he bear this?

As a troublemaker, he is also the master of hard work.

He asked Su Peisheng to find the memorial impeaching Lin Mingyan, and took Honghui to stay up late for several nights to review the memorial.

Starting from the font, tone, wording and the ability of the impeacher himself, he used red ink to scold everyone.

Then, at a big court meeting later, he had the pile of memorials thrown back to him in person.

They were even asked to read out the imperial edicts, which was extremely embarrassing!

"Which article in the Qing Dynasty law states that the Empress is forbidden from interfering in government affairs?" The Fourth Master said coldly, "The Empress's rank is above the first rank. Doesn't she even have the freedom to submit memorials?"

"If you think you can't submit memorials without attending court, then why don't you ask the Queen to attend court with you?"

After all, as the crown prince, prince, or beile, even if they do not have actual positions, they can still attend court.

Why can't a queen of such high rank come?!

How could the ministers dare to respond? If they continued to resist, the Queen would really stand in front of all of them!

In the end, everyone got used to it.

Some people even wondered if these ideas were thought up by the Fourth Master, who deliberately let the Queen propose them.

Even several civil officials headed by Zhang Tingyu began to admire Lin Mingyan.

In any case, at Lin Mingyan's suggestion, trade exchange was put on the agenda when the first snow fell.

Because the Mongols wanted help, they were required to drive over the cattle and sheep for exchange.

Exchange locations were set up in the capital and major cities, and the government registered its intentions in advance.

Those who want to exchange meat need to prepare the corresponding amount of food first, and start the exchange as soon as the Mongols arrive...

Widow Wang's family also had a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes this year. After the autumn harvest, not only did they pay off all the debts owed by her husband after he fell ill, but they also had a lot of food left.

Although I was frightened by a suspected traitor in the middle of the year, I was really worried for a long time.

But later the village chief secretly inquired for a long time and heard that the man behind the mountain was indeed a kind-hearted person and not a rebel.

I also received a letter from the Lin couple, saying that they had found their relatives and left overnight.

The people in Yuzhuang finally breathed a sigh of relief and put the matter behind them.

Widow Wang felt relieved, thinking that she had worked hard all year and she should buy some meat to eat and have a feast during the New Year.

But he felt the pain of habit again: "Although all the debts have been paid off, I didn't save much money this year. I do have a lot of sweet potatoes left, but I can't sell them at a good price."

"Not to mention that the price of meat from Yu the butcher has already risen to twenty-five cents per pound."

"It's not even the Chinese New Year yet, and it will be even more expensive around the time of the New Year. I really can't bear to part with it."

But the children had indeed suffered another year. Apart from eating meat when the Lin couple came, they had not even tasted oil since then.

My mouth really has no taste, and the smell of other people’s stewed meat makes my stomach growl.

Wang Xiaohua had just returned from the city and was washing her hands. Hearing her complaints, he said, "If pork is too expensive, why not try trading it for mutton?"

"You little girl, isn't mutton more expensive? It's something that nobles eat!" Widow Wang shook her head in fear.

Wang Xiaohua said, "I heard from the masters that sweet potatoes can be exchanged for mutton in the capital. It was the Queen Mother who proposed this."

"Everyone at Miao Ren Tang has a spot, and today they asked us if we're willing."

"If you're willing, go register tomorrow. Just prepare the sweet potatoes in advance."

Widow Wang hadn't expected such a good opportunity, so she nodded immediately and said, "How many sweet potatoes can I get for one pound of mutton?"

"Fifteen kilograms for one kilogram," Wang Xiaohua recalled.

Widow Wang clapped her hands and said, "Exchange! How many pounds can you exchange? I'll go get some sweet potatoes. We have plenty at home!"

If you sell raw sweet potatoes, you won’t get a penny. Fifteen pounds of sweet potatoes can only fetch fifteen cents at most, and if you can exchange them for a pound of mutton, you’ll make a lot of money.

Wang Xiaohua’s quota can be exchanged for ten kilograms of meat, so the meat for this year’s Chinese New Year will be fully prepared.

By the time Widow Wang exchanged the mutton back, everyone in the village knew the news and rushed to exchange it for meat.

However, they learned the news too late, and since there was no direct reservation of quotas like Miaorentang, there were not many places they could exchange for.

But no matter what, this year can be considered a prosperous year.

For any family that is well off, the aroma of meat will begin to waft through the house starting from the New Year.

When people have some free time to visit and chat, they talk about the good life we have now, and every three sentences they talk about is about the Queen Mother.

People often say "May the Queen bless us", and it has become a catchphrase for most people.

After Wei Wu came to Beijing from Hebei, he brought good news.

Lin Mingyan used the magic seed on sweet potatoes last year, and the new sweet potato seeds have been cultivated and matured.

"These sweet potatoes have no obvious meridians inside, making them even sweeter and softer," Wei Wu said excitedly. "More importantly, the yield per mu has reached 3,500 kilograms!"

In fact, during daily farming this year, Wei Wu had a vague feeling that the sweet potato yield seemed to be about to explode.

However, after careful selection of high-quality varieties, the yield of sweet potatoes has increased from the initial 800 kilograms per mu to about 1,200 to 1,300 kilograms per mu.

He thought that even if the seeds were better this year, the yield per mu would only be around 1,500 or 1,600.

Unexpectedly, he was shocked when he started digging.

After all, when you dig with a hoe, all you get are big, round sweet potatoes. One sweet potato vine can produce more than ten big fat ones.

After digging one acre of land, he would call people to start weighing it immediately.

When he calculated the final number, Wei Wu thought there was something wrong with his eyes.

Then he shook his head, even wondering if his brain was broken!

After patiently digging up all the land that could be used for the experiment and calculating the average yield per mu, he was paralyzed.