Not long after, Xiao Jie reined in his horse and stopped in front of them, and then got off his horse. He only saw the casual clothes on Xiao Ji and the others, and understood that they were visiting incognito, so he didn't kneel down to salute, but just lowered his voice to Xiao Ji. Said: "Father, why are you here?"

Xiao Ji looked at his son and said with a half-smile: "Everyone in Luoyang City has rumors that you, King Qi, are planting exotic flowers and plants from the West. I have nothing to do, so I will come out of the city to broaden my horizons."

Xiao Jie, as the lieutenant of Sili, is in charge of the entire Sili Prefecture in Luoyang. How could he not know that there are rumors about him everywhere in Luoyang City, saying that he doesn't care about the people, doesn't care about the people's livelihood, and takes up thousands of hectares of fertile land to plant What exotic flowers and plants from the West.

But he didn't bother to take care of it, because he couldn't take care of it even if he wanted to. Who didn't know that the Huaxia nation was a nation with a natural talent for farming, and what he hated the most was his behavior of wasting and ruining the land.

He didn't want to explain too much. Anyway, in the second half of the year, everyone will know that there is no such thing as a quiet time. It is he Xiao Jie who is carrying the burden. It is because of his humiliation that every common people in the world will have the opportunity Eat your fill.

However, seeing his father's appearance now, Xiao Jie knew that he was not angry, so he couldn't help laughing: "Your father was joking, how can I have any leisure and elegance to plant exotic flowers and plants, these are all from the West. It’s just a new crop that’s been introduced.”

Xiao Ji nodded slightly, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. Although Xiao Jie's behavior of planting hundreds of thousands of acres of new crops in one go was a bit aggressive, but anyway, as long as his son was not making ridiculous mischief, he could still give it to him. The civil and military officials and the people of the world confessed together.

But he still frowned, and couldn't help asking: "Since the new crops introduced from Fanbang should be planted with one or two hundred acres to see the harvest, and then decide whether to promote it on a large scale. Now you plant hundreds of thousands of acres in one go. If these new crops are not suitable for the soil and water, won’t you have no harvest by then?”

Xiao Jie laughed secretly in his heart. He planted potatoes, sweet potatoes and corns that he exchanged from the system mall with [-] destiny points.

However, it was hard for him to explain much, so he could only pretend to be sincere and fearful and said: "It's still the father who thinks well, and it's the son who doesn't think well."

Xiao Ji shook his head, and said helplessly: "You, everything is fine, but you are too reckless, you don't know everything, you should think twice before acting."

He looked at the lush new crops in front of him again, and said with a wry smile: "Forget it, you have planted them now, can you still ask you to replant wheat, I can only pray to God, I hope these new crops can grow in my Da Ningxi Have a good harvest. By the way, what are the names of these new crops you introduced from Fanbang?"

Xiao Jie smiled and said: "Father, do you still remember that when I returned to Beijing from Jiaozhou, I told my father that my son heard from a businessman who went to sea that there are three magical crops overseas, called corn, sweet potato and Potatoes have extremely high yields, corn can yield five shi per mu, while sweet potatoes and potatoes can yield [-] to [-] shi per mu.”

Xiao Ji smiled and said nothing, Lian Yi and Zhang Chu were also there at the time, they just thought it was the exaggeration of those businessmen, after all, as the saying goes, there is no business without profiteering, these businessmen have always been better at bragging than one, just think about it , Whether it is wheat or rice, the yield per mu is only half a stone to one stone. How can there be crops in the world that are ten times or even thirty times more than their grain crops.

However, Xiao Ji didn't want to discourage his son's enthusiasm, so he just smiled and said, "I don't require them to produce more than ten or twenty shi per mu, as long as they can produce two shi per mu, it will be a blessing for the people of Daning."

Xiao Jie didn't say anything more, anyway, when the harvest came, everything would be decided, so it would be useless to say more now.

However, he still pulled his younger brother Xiao Jue by his side, and took the initiative to ask for credit for him: "Father, in fact, all this is not all due to my son alone. As a captain of Sili, my son is busy with official business every day." , I don’t have time to take care of these fields at all, it’s the ninth brother who loves me as an elder brother, and came to help my son, and it’s also thanks to the ninth brother’s own efforts that these new crops are growing so gratifyingly.”

Hearing that his brother put all the credit on himself, Xiao Jue couldn't help but feel a sore nose again. He is obviously not a sentimental person, but he doesn't know why he is always so emotional today.

However, Xiao Jie didn't exaggerate. He originally wanted Xiao Jue to come here to show his face and get some credit, but he didn't expect that this hard-working Jiulang would really do everything by himself. Living and working together, there is no airs of a prince at all, but Xiao Jie is full of emotion.

Now that he was bumped into by his father, he, as the elder brother, must show his merits for his younger brother.

"Father Huang Mingjian, everything is due to Brother Seventh Emperor. The things done by my son are insignificant and not worth mentioning." The elder brother wanted to ask for credit for the younger brother, but the younger brother desperately wanted to push the credit back to the older brother.

Seeing this, Xiao Ji felt very relieved for a moment. Anyway, as the father of the two brothers, he naturally liked to see this scene of brothers respecting each other, and was even more happy that their brothers supported each other.

"Ju'er's contribution will naturally be rewarded." Xiao Ji smiled, looked at Xiao Jue with loving eyes, and asked softly, "As for Jue'er, you might as well tell me what reward you want."

Xiao Jue looked at Xiao Ji, hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Now that the new crops have not been harvested well, my minister has not yet made an inch of merit. I dare not ask my father for rewards. I want to wait until the new crops are harvested in the future." At the time of the harvest, I will ask my father for another favor."

Xiao Jie was a little surprised, he thought that this stupid younger brother would take advantage of the situation and ask his father to release his mother and concubine from the cold palace, and his father would probably agree without hesitation, but he did not expect that this younger brother would miss this great opportunity.

But it also shows that this younger brother is really a real person.

However, Xiao Ji took a deep look at Xiao Jue, and suddenly smiled faintly: "In this case, when the new crops are harvested, I will appoint you as the governor of Yangzhou from afar. Also, don't tire yourself too much, it's okay Go to Yuyang Palace to visit your mother and concubine more often."

Xiao Jue couldn't help being taken aback, Yuyang Palace was the palace where his mother and concubine used to live, but since his mother and concubine were thrown into the cold palace for offending Song Guifei, Yuyang Palace has been abandoned for a long time, but now his father wants him to go to Yuyang Palace. Yanggong...

But soon he realized that his father was going to release his own mother and concubine from the limbo.

For a moment, Xiao Jue's eyes turned red, he glanced at his father, then at his elder brother, and said in a sobbing voice, "Thank you, my lord."

Xiao Ji smiled lovingly and didn't say much, but Xiao Jie felt emotional in his heart, as expected, stupid people have stupid blessings.

While talking, it was getting late, and Xiao Ji and his party were about to leave for the palace, but after Xiao Ji got into the carriage, Xiao Jie secretly grabbed Lian Yi's clothes.

Lian Yi was a little puzzled, and hurriedly asked in a low voice: "I don't know if there is anything I can do to help His Highness."

Xiao Jie smiled mysteriously, and said in a low voice: "Eunuch Lian is in charge of the inner court, can you transfer a few father-in-laws from the respect room to me for two days."

Lian Yi couldn't help being stunned, the respect room is the place responsible for castrating eunuchs, and the people inside can only know this skill, he doesn't know why Xiao Jie borrowed these people for no reason.

But he didn't like to ask too much, he just nodded his head as a promise.

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