The scene was very quiet. The ministers looked at each other, thinking about how to stop it.

It would be better to steal my wife!

To be honest, Feng Han was a little surprised when these privileges were read out, but then she thought that Ruyue was worth it!

The smile on Shen Zhiheng's face froze. Qin Haowen definitely did this on purpose, especially the red robe and the sacrifice to heaven and earth. He simply put all his little thoughts out in the open. But unfortunately, he was afraid that he would never get what he wanted in this lifetime!

Qin Haowen looked at the extremely stiff smile on Shen Zhiheng's face and felt inexplicably happy.

Since Yu Ruyue cannot be his queen, he will give her everything a queen can have!

Give her what the queen cannot have!

Let her wear the red bridal gown I gave her and marry the one she loves most...

Just when those ministers thought that General Shen's wife would have the self-awareness to refuse these privileges.

As a result, Yu Ruyue kowtowed to express her gratitude!

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Long live Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty!"

The old ministers were immediately enraged. What on earth was wrong with this young woman? Did she even know the significance of those privileges? How could she have the audacity to accept such an imperial decree?

I wonder if it’s too late for them to stop it now?

However, if they really try to stop me, my life will be in danger.

After all, this is the first time the new emperor is hosting a banquet!

Yu Ruyue took the imperial edict and looked at the reward with a smile.

When he returned to Shen Zhiheng, he pulled his sleeve and pointed at the words "Donghai Pearl" with a smile, "Look! Now I not only have land, but also the East China Sea Pearl!"

"I've seen these beads before. Each one is round and plump, and quite large. If I sell them, they'll be worth a lot of money, right?"

"But when I read the storybooks before, they all said that the emperor would give a thousand taels of gold and a shop as a reward! Why don't I get any?"

Shen Zhiheng looked at Yu Ruyue who raised questions seriously and couldn't help but chuckle!

Yu Ruyue was puzzled. "No, why are you laughing? I just have a small question."

Shen Zhiheng shook his head. "Nothing. I just think my wife is so cute."

Yu Ruyue glared at him angrily and warned him softly, "Put away that smile on your face. Do you know how beautiful you are when you smile? I'm telling you! You can only smile in front of me at home. If you continue to make a man or woman so infatuated that they come to my house to cause trouble, I will punish you."

When Shen Zhiheng heard this, he really wanted to hug the person in his arms right now. She was so adorable.

How could there be such a lovely woman in this world?

Sure enough, all his suffering in the first 20 years was worth it...

Soon the emperor's reward moment passed.

Now it’s time for everyone to present their treasures.

At this moment, everyone was trying their best to please the new emperor.

A new emperor appoints new ministers. When this emperor was still the eldest prince, they had always been watching from the sidelines without providing any help.

After all, who would have thought that the son that the late emperor disliked the most would actually become the emperor.

Just as these people were offering their treasures, Jingyue quietly came behind Yu Dehou and Liang Shulan carrying a basket!

"Master, Madam, I have brought the things."

Yu Dehou nodded, and when most of the people had made their offerings, he and Liang Shulan carried the basket and knelt in the center of the hall.

However, the plain clothes they wore made them look out of place with everyone else in the hall.

Yu Ruyue didn't react much to the fact that her parents didn't wear the clothes she gave them. As long as her parents were comfortable, it was fine.

However, the ministers did not think so, especially Yu Ruyue's position as princess, which had already made many people unhappy.

"I, your majesty, and your wife, present to you high-yield rice and sweet potatoes! Eight dan of rice per mu, and 8 dan of sweet potatoes per mu! May the seas be peaceful and clear, and may no one go hungry!"

Liang Shulan took off the cloth covering the bamboo basket, and inside lay a few heavy ears of rice and sweet potatoes.

Qin Haowen and Feng Han had seen sweet potatoes before, and they also knew that the Yu family had a lot of high-yield grains and vegetables. Without these things, they would probably not survive when they fled to the mountains.

At that time, there was nothing on the mountain, not to mention weeds. Even the tree bark had been stripped away. People were so hungry that they had to eat dirt.

Fortunately, sweet potatoes are not very picky about the soil, have a short growing cycle, and are very easy to grow.

Even this morning, the two of them ate the sweet potatoes they sent into the palace, as well as two other kinds of food, potatoes and corn.

However, he didn't let them bring the potatoes and corn out in the open, but only gave them to him secretly. He then found some trustworthy people to secretly cultivate them, which was also a backup plan...

"Good! Very good!" Qin Haowen had just said the two words "good" when the officials below couldn't sit still. His Majesty was probably really being bewitched by the Yu family!

"Eight dan per mu?" The Minister of Revenue knocked his jade ring on the table. "I've been in charge of agriculture for twenty years. Even the most fertile paddy fields in Jiangnan yield only two and a half dan of top-grade polished japonica rice!" He stepped forward, picked up an ear of rice, counted the grains, and sneered, "Three hundred and twenty grains? I'm afraid they were glued together."

Liang Shulan suddenly took out a handful of rice ears tied with straw ropes, and the golden grains fell on the floor tiles with a crackling sound, shocking everyone around her so much that their eyes widened!

And those golden rice grains fell off the rice stalks because of the heavy blows, and it was obvious that they were not glued on!

Liang Shulan gathered the rice grains scattered on the ground with her hands, and then held them above her head with both hands.

"Your Majesty, could you please send someone to inspect this to see if it's actually rice or if it's glued together as this gentleman says?"

Qin Haowen immediately waved her hand, and the eunuch next to her hurried forward, took the rice grains in her hand, distributed them one by one, and gave a few more grains to the Minister of Agriculture and the Vice Minister of Agriculture for them to check carefully.

Many of you here have no idea what normal rice looks like, so even if you hold it in your hands, you don’t know what to do.

I was even a little confused. Why is this rice different from the rice I eat? The rice I eat is clearly white, but why is this one golden yellow on the outside?

Many women from prominent families were mumbling, "What is this rice? Why have I never seen it before? It looks so rough, can it really be eaten? How hungry do you have to be to eat something like this?"

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