newbobooks Chapter 968 Otherwise you wouldn’t dare to do this?
Chapter 968 Otherwise you wouldn’t dare to do this?
"Your Majesty, I planted high-yield crops not for gaining anything, but because I want all the people in the world to have enough food. Since Your Majesty wants me to set conditions, then please order that from now on, the sale of these three high-yield crops will be entirely handed over to the Gongyang clan, and I will set the price. How about that?"
"I guarantee that the price of grain will only be lower than that of corn."
After Su Yueyao finished speaking, everyone in the village was stunned. What was Su Yueyao asking for?
If this grain crop is to be sold, it must be sold by the Gongyang family. Then the grain they grow in the future can only be supplied to the tribe members. It is lower than corn. How much profit space is there? Why did Master Su decide this? Do you like Gongyang Yucheng so much?
Suddenly, everyone's eyes on Gong Yang Ruoyu changed.
Although the Gongyang family has always been the largest grain merchant, this move by Master Su has ensured the future status of the Gongyang family.
The Queen fell into deep thought after hearing Su Yueyao's words. The look she gave her was intimidating, but Su Yueyao did not back down. She stood straight and waited quietly.
"I... agree."
As the queen agreed, gasps were heard one after another. A country's food queen was given up just like that.
"Yueyao, the next head of the Gongyang family will be your child, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't dare to do this, right?"
"Nothing can be hidden from Your Majesty's eyes. I have to ask for something for my future child, right?" Su Yueyao said with a smile.
"You already have Gongyang Yucheng's child?"
"Not really, it's just a matter of time."
"Heh." The Queen snorted coldly.
"Walk around with me."
"Okay, Your Majesty."
Su Yueyao followed behind the Queen.
“When will these sweet potatoes and potatoes be ripe?”
"Less than a month! They are just a little smaller now. Your Majesty can dig some away today and ask the imperial kitchen to prepare some food first."
"I will have dinner in the manor before leaving. There is no need to dig them anymore. Let them grow a little bigger."
Su Yueyao led His Majesty to walk back and forth in the sweet potato field, potato field, and corn field, and briefly explained their habits, how to plant them, and some methods to increase yields.
"Yueyao, go back and ask the Minister of Agriculture to come and study carefully with the tenants of this farm, record it in a book, and send it to each state."
"Okay, Your Majesty."
While the Queen was looking at the corn carefully, Su Yueyao turned her head and saw Gong Yang Ruoyu, Chen Jingshu, and Yang Qianxun who were surrounded in the distance. The corners of her mouth curled slightly. These officials must want the food!
If they want this food in the future, they will have to give in to land reform.
The queen broke off a corn and handed it out, but found that Su Yueyao did not reach out to take it. She turned her head to look at her and found that she was looking at a person who was surrounded by ministers not far away.
"Yueyao is planning to go over and save your husband!"
Su Yueyao came back to her senses, took the corn from the Queen and put it in the basket she was carrying.
"I don't need to rescue them, but today, the officials in the court all want these grains, and the land reform to be carried out will be particularly smooth."
"Oh, I knew you had another purpose in asking me and the ministers to come over to check on the grain. Does Yueyao's status as a tenant farmer have to be changed?"
"If they want to change, they will only be willing to reclaim wasteland and work hard to make their lives better if it is their own and related to their own interests."
"Your Majesty, look at the hillside over there. Those were all mined privately by tenant farmers. They were all wasteland before. Gongyang said that after they changed their nationality, the land they reclaimed became their own, and they only paid taxes collected by the court every year." Su Yueyao pointed to a hillside not far away.
"A wasteland?" The queen looked at the green appearance and didn't quite believe it.
"Your Majesty, don't believe it? Then let's go and take a look."
After Su Yueyao finished speaking, she waved her hand and asked the steward to call the ministers who were surrounding her husbands. This was what she wanted everyone to see today.
Everyone followed the Queen and Su Yueyao. When they reached the hillside, they found the tenant farmers working very hard with farm tools they had never seen before. The older ones were working hard to plow the soil, while the younger ones were weeding. Everyone of them was in full spirits, unlike the tenant farmers in their farm who looked lifeless.
A tenant farmer noticed them and immediately stopped what he was doing and knelt down in panic.
Zhuangzi's manager walked over and pulled someone over.
"Your Majesty, Madam, this is the village chief who was previously a tenant farmer. He will be in charge of all matters in the village from now on."
The dark and thin middle-aged man was so frightened when he heard the steward's address that he knelt down again.
"Please get up! His Majesty and we just want to know about your life. Just tell the truth." Su Yueyao said.
The middle-aged man stood up tremblingly, and said in a panic: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for allowing me to have good status. In the future, we will reclaim more land and grow food. After we cultivate the land that Gongyang's family gave us, we will be able to live well and never have to starve again."
"I would like to thank Your Majesty for his great grace and thank you Master Su." After saying this, the man knelt down again and kowtowed.
Immediately, all the tenant farmers present followed suit and kowtowed.
"Your Majesty has heard of your gratitude. Get up now!"
"I remember that there were very few people who opened up new land in the past. Now that you are willing to do so, it is a good thing." Su Yueyao said with a smile.
"In the past, we were tenant farmers. Even if we worked hard to open up wasteland, the land would eventually belong to the master. The harvests in recent years have been poor, and the master has left us very little food. We were lucky not to starve to death, and we didn't have the energy to open up wasteland."
"But now it's different. We only have to pay 30% tax every year for the land we cultivate. The rest is enough for us to live on. If there is any surplus, we can sell some to the owner. It's much better than before."
At this time, the Queen spoke up: "Are the tilling tools you use from Gongyang's family?"
"Yes, these farm tools were given to us by Gongyang's family, but there are not many. We take turns using them among each family."
At this time, Xun Shangshu from the Ministry of Works walked over, looked at the tools in their hands, and subconsciously asked them how to use them.
The Queen looked at the situation, raised her eyebrows and glanced at Su Yueyao with a smile.
Su Yueyao suddenly felt overwhelmed. Didn't she tell the Ministry of Industry about the farm tools? Didn't she tell the Minister of Agriculture? She seemed to have a hard time remembering...
"Your Majesty..."
"Master Su, it seems that Haoxuan is not favored by you! You didn't even think of instructing your subordinates to promote such a good farm tool." Minister Xun said in a rather aggrieved tone.
Su Yueyao: “…”
At this time, Su Yueyao saw the Great Minister of Agriculture hiding in the crowd and glanced at him. She...
The Minister of Agriculture came out immediately and said, "Your Majesty, Master Su sent me some drawings of farm tools a while ago. I was busy with farming at the time and forgot about them. Your Majesty, please forgive me."
When Su Yueyao heard what Da Si Nong said, she was relieved. It turned out that he had forgotten it! Then it had nothing to do with her.
The empress looked at him coldly and said to Minister Xun: "The Ministry of Industry should go back and make the farm tools, and let all prefectures and government offices fully popularize these farm tools."
"The minister obeys the order."