The Reborn Wife is Farming

Chapter 151 Sejong's Failure

Mu Yangling turned around, walked to the man's side, and asked, "How much do you sell this corn?"

The man's eyes lit up, he quickly straightened his waist, and said happily: "Whatever you want, whatever price you want."

Mu Yangling looked at his mother, saw that she was tightly wrapped, and asked, "Have you taken your mother to see a doctor? What kind of disease is it?"

The man wilted, and murmured: "I've gone, the doctor from Renxintang took care of it, and said that my mother is old, and she was too tired when she was young, she broke her body and needs to buy a lot of warming and tonic medicine. When they saw that I had no money, they confiscated the consultation fee, but they refused to allow me to exchange corn for medicine.”

Mu Yangling sighed, touched his purse, and said, "Let me see your corn."

Hearing this, the man hurriedly untied his pocket for her to see. Mu Yangling held it in his hand and took a closer look. He found that the corn was well dried and could be used as seeds, so he threw it away and said, "I don't have enough money on me. , you have to go to a place with me, if you are lucky, I can buy all your corn."

In this Xingzhou mansion, the only thing Mu Yangling could ask for was Qi Haoran, so Mu Yangling took him to the gate of the barracks.

When Qi Haoran ran out, he saw two people squatting in front of the scooter. He glanced at the man curiously, and asked Mu Yangling, "Who is this? What do you want from me?"

"Big event," Mu Yangling patted his butt and got up, and asked, "Do you know what Emperor Sejong said about corn?"

Qi Haoran was at a loss, he didn't know.

Mu Yangling curled his lips, as expected he couldn't be counted on, so he looked at Fan Zijin who was slowly pacing out of the barracks.

Fan Zijin asked slowly, "What are you looking at me for?"

"Where there is Qi Haoran, there is you, and where there is you, there is an encyclopedia. Fan Zijin, please introduce the corn that Emperor Sejong said." Actually, Mu Yangling didn't know about this historical event, but she felt that Fan Zijin must have I know, without looking through the history books, I can only learn about it from Fan Zijin.

Sure enough, Fan Zijin just glanced at him, and began to explain: "Corn is something that Emperor Sejong sent a fleet to Nanyang to find it. Back then, Sejong once said in front of civil and military officials that corn can High yield, if the Central Plains get it, there will be no famine in the famine year. All officials believed it and agreed to send troops to the sea to search for corn. However, after the corn was found, Emperor Sejong had already passed away. Sowing corn, intensive cultivation, but the harvest is not good, but the loss is huge. In addition, the corn is not tasty, so it is gradually abandoned. Also, because the corn is well wrapped, everyone changes it to corn, but in fact it is true. A kind of irony of Emperor Sejong, corn is not rice with golden branches and jade leaves."

Fan Zijin sighed: "Actually, Emperor Sejong was a great man, and he rarely made mistakes, but he suffered repeated setbacks in agriculture. One year, Emperor Sejong had a banquet for all the officials. After he got drunk, he once said drunkly that in the future, wheat and rice would be able to produce as much as a thousand catties, but In fact, the efforts of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs have only increased the national yield per mu from 111 to 150. The south of the Yangtze River is better, and it is not difficult to produce two to three hundred catties of rice per mu. Two hundred catties is already the highest yield, and thousands of catties never appeared even in a dream. Because of this, the wisdom of Emperor Sejong I was somewhat discounted, but it is undeniable that it was Emperor Sejong who quelled the war and unified the world. The people can live and work in peace and contentment, and even set up a set of policies to benefit the people's recuperation, but it's a pity that Emperor Sejong passed away too early."

Fan Zijin didn't say the rest, but Mu Yangling already understood, because she had heard too many sighs in tea houses and restaurants.

Mu Yangling's focus now is on corn. She asked, "Then how do you grow it? Why are the harvests not as high as wheat?"

"I only know a little bit about farming. Coincidentally, there is no record of planting corn in the agricultural book I read." Fan Zijin paused and said: "Actually, it is because the corn was praised by Emperor Sejong, so After the failure, everyone is so unwilling to mention it, and now no one is planting corn, why do you ask this?"

Mu Yangling pulled the man's sack to show them, and said, "He planted this. It is said that most of their villages are planting this, just because their county master said that who can plant more and more? Whoever has good corn will be rewarded by the emperor, and this order has been passed down by word of mouth from their ancestors, and they have been planting it for decades, and they haven’t been out of the mountains much, and they don’t even know that the outside world has changed.”

Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin were stunned, their eyes widened and they asked, "Could it be that the county magistrate in charge of their county and the chief bookkeeper who went to collect taxes don't know?"

The man wiped away his tears and said: "When we planted corn in our village, we sent it to the magistrate. Planting corn, so no one has come to our village to collect taxes for so many years. Our village needs to climb three mountains to get out. The terrain is steep and there is everything in the village. Why, some people still say that our place is no longer Dazhou, but the Kingdom of Jin, isn’t that farting? Our household registration guides are all issued by Dazhou.”

Now Mu Yangling followed Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin, opened his mouth wide, and asked in unison, "Where is your home?"

The man said blankly, "It's in the mountains. Our village is called Sipan Village."

"No, what township, county, and state capital do you belong to? You should know this, right?" Qi Haoran asked anxiously.

The man looked at him blankly, not understanding what he was asking.

In the end, the old man on the cart lifted the quilt with difficulty, exhaled, and said, "We are from Qingshu Town, Baoshan County. My son has never been out of the mountains. The old people in the village don't mention it, and the children almost forget it." .”

The old man took a few breaths after saying a word, the man hurriedly stepped forward to support the old lady, looked at Mu Yangling eagerly and said, "Little girl, don't you want to buy my corn? Do you want to buy it or not? I want to take my mother to fetch medicine gone."

"Buy, of course we will," Qi Haoran jumped out and said, "I bought everything for how much it cost, but I bought your stuff, so you have to do me a favor."

Fan Zijin miraculously did not object.

Mu Yangling blinked his eyes, and immediately understood their plan. Baoshan County was occupied by Jin State four years ago, and now it is indeed within the rule of Jin State. The Sipan Village they are in may be because of their relationship with the world. Isolation and remoteness escaped a catastrophe. Since they belong to Baoshan County, they must have a way to Baoshan County, but he chose to come to Mingshui County for medical treatment. What does it mean?

Explain that Mingshui County has a road leading to Baoshan County that they don't know.

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