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Chapter 101 Tasting Sweet Potatoes, Grain Merchant Regrets

Chapter 101 Tasting Sweet Potatoes, Grain Merchant Regrets

The poisonous scorpion also quickly expressed his thanks.

Yin Luoxia waved her hand and said: "Come here, take him down to cleanse himself, and when the banquet is over, we will go to Fengming Hall together."

"As ordered."

An old eunuch quickly took the old man down,

This old man was originally trained as a poisonous scorpion, and purification will not affect him at all.

The banquet continued, and everyone showed their talents to Yin Luoxia.

A total of [-]% of the people won the affirmation of Yin Luoxia, and then they could become courtiers of the court.

"Let those who are talented stay, and the rest can go."

The old eunuch behind Yin Luoxia said loudly.

Some people on the high platform were happy and some were sad, and they left the high platform one after another.

Yin Luoxia saw that the time was almost up, so she said to everyone: "Everyone, it's lunch time now, and I'm ready to eat."

"Today's things must be something you have never seen before."

Before the words were finished, the maidservants lined up and brought up the dishes.

All are delicacies made of sweet potatoes.

There are roasted sweet potatoes, stewed sweet potatoes, sweet potato mochi, and more.

"You can do whatever you want."

After speaking, Yin Luoxia was the first to taste the sweet potato.

Everyone looked at the food in front of them, and then at Yin Luoxia who was tasting it, and they couldn't help but taste it.

"Why have I never seen such a strange food?"

"But it tastes okay."

"Do we only eat this? Why didn't we prepare rice?"

People downstairs were talking a lot.

But he dared not stand up and protest openly.

I was hungry after thinking about it for so long, so I tried to taste it.

These sweet potato delicacies are all made by the palace chefs, so they are naturally delicious.

"Everyone, how are you?"

Half an hour later, Yin Luoxia looked at everyone and asked expectantly.

Everyone nodded. Although they didn't have the usual staple food, these sweet potatoes tasted good. The key is that you won't be hungry after eating a little.

Yin Luoxia took out a large sweet potato and said, "Everyone, everyone eats sweet potatoes, and what I hold in my hand is intended to be promoted to the people of the world."

"It can alleviate this famine, what do you think?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I wonder how many sweet potatoes are produced?"

Zhao Wen arched his hands and asked.

If the yield of sweet potatoes was high, the people would no longer have to endure the hardship of famine.

Yin Luoxia answered the question: "Everyone, if there is no accident, the output of this sweet potato can reach sixty shi."

"Even in the surrounding places with poor soil, there are at least about forty stones, and the highest yield is about eighty stones."

"really?"

Many couldn't believe their ears.

I didn't expect sweet potatoes to have such a high yield.

The highest output of the entire Tianqi Dynasty was only about five or six stones, and the output of sweet potatoes was directly ten times that of these grains.

After leaving the Liu family, there were four remaining rewards. The host couldn't help but twitch his lips.

If sweet potatoes can really achieve such a high yield, it will definitely affect the price of food.

Now the price of grain is more than ten times higher than normal. In order to raise the price of grain even higher, they even spent three or four times more money to collect grain from all over the world.

If the price of food falls, they will lose everything.

"Even if His Majesty will return us one and three times the food, we will still lose money."

The owners of the four grain merchants said sadly.

Yin Luoxia dared to say in front of so many people that the yield of sweet potatoes would only be higher than this, not less.

If sweet potatoes grow, people will definitely choose sweet potatoes to fill their stomachs cheaply, and no one will buy food.

Therefore, it is inevitable that the price of food will plummet, and it is very likely that it will be tripled or even quadrupled.

With such a superb grain, these grain merchants will definitely lose all their money.

The grain that Yin Luoxia borrowed will be sold at [-]% of the normal price. When the grain is distributed to the people and the price of grain plummets, the grain purchased at a low price will be exchanged for them.

They couldn't help but calculate, Yin Luoxia could get hundreds of millions of taels just for the profit in the middle.

"Who gave His Majesty this idea?"

"It's so annoying."

The four grain owners couldn't help but clenched their fists. At first, they waited for Yin Luoxia to return the grain and make a fortune, but they didn't expect that they couldn't even keep their capital now.

"Everyone, it's getting late, everyone go away."

After Yin Luoxia finished speaking, she was ready to leave.

Some capable ministers have been recruited, and Sweet Potato has been introduced to them. Not only have all the things to be done today been completed, but there has also been an unexpected harvest.

Not only does the grain borrowed from the Liu family not have to be repaid, but their family also donated 200 million taels of silver to help the people. How can it not make people happy?

"I will send you to Your Majesty."

"I will respectfully send you off to the Emperor and the Empress."

Everyone quickly saluted Yin Luoxia and Bai Yu.

The two left one after the other.

The old man who had just cleansed himself was waiting outside.

Seeing Bai Yu's figure, he quickly went up to him with a smile and frowned, as if he was in pain.

"Meet the Empress."

The old man saluted Bai Yu.

Bai Yu nodded, he knew that the poisonous scorpion would not be affected at all, but he pretended not to know anything, and asked with concern: "Grandpa Xia, you are not feeling well, why don't you sit in a sedan chair?" Bar."

The poisonous scorpion claimed to be Xia Bin.

Maybe there really was a man named Xia Bin in the Tianqi Dynasty, but he was quietly killed by the poisonous scorpion, and he turned into a face like his in the future.

"Thank the empress for your concern, old man... this old slave is in good health and doesn't need any sedan chair."

Eunuch Xia grinned and said.

"In this case, you can follow."

Bai Yu opened the curtain of the sedan chair and sat on it.

An hour later, Yin Luoxia and Bai Yu returned to the palace.

"Bai Yu, I still have important matters to deal with, so you can go back to Fengming Palace by yourself."

"Xia Bin, I hope you will protect the safety of the empress. If anything happens to the empress, I will definitely make your life worse than death. Do you understand?"

Yin Luoxia raised the curtain and warned Xia Bin.

"As ordered, I will do my best to protect the safety of the emperor and empress."

Xia Bin quickly saluted Yin Luoxia, his attitude was very respectful, and he didn't seem to have any evil intentions at all.

And the old eunuch behind Yin Luoxia has been staring at him closely.

"Your Majesty, you must pay attention to your health."

Bai Yu nodded to Yin Luoxia and reminded her.

Afterwards, he returned to Fengming Hall by himself.

After returning to his palace, Bai Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

(End of this chapter)