Traveling across the heavens starting from the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 59 How to award a reward
Zhang Anan escorted a large water tank filled with soil from Li Huaian's residence to the palace. He followed Li Huaian's instructions along the way, carefully guarding the safety of the water tank on the carriage.

Even if you just go back to the Imperial City from Xinghuafang, the route is within Chang'an City. There is only two lanes between Xinghuafang and the Imperial City.

Until they entered the scope of Tai Chi Palace, they placed the water tank in the main hall of Tai Chi Palace.

Zhang Ananda finally felt relieved.

but.

This water tank still needs to be inspected before being presented to Li Shimin.

In the main hall of Tai Chi Palace.

Several eunuchs walked back and forth around the water tank, checking the water tank very carefully. They kept shaking the water tank to see if there was any mechanism in the water tank. If the mechanism could be triggered by shaking, they used silver needles and other instruments to test. Poison tool detects whether the water tank is poisonous.

If the eunuch beside Zhang Anan, a saint, had not ordered the water tank not to be smashed and the soil in the water tank not to be dug out, these eunuchs would probably have turned the entire water tank upside down before giving up.

In order to prevent the water tank from being even slightly dangerous to the saint's safety.

These eunuchs not only tested whether there were mechanisms and poisons in the water tank, but several eunuchs also sent people to lick the edges of the water tank and taste the soil in the water tank. One eunuch even took a piece of it that withered and decayed. Put the potato leaves in your mouth, chew them, and swallow the leaves into your stomach. The process is very decisive.

"This is what you brought here from Li Huaian's house. Is it just a water tank filled with soil?"

Li Shimin looked at the eunuchs who were checking around the water tank, and looked at Zhang Anan with doubts. He went to Li Huaian's house to send a message and brought back such a thing. This thing could change his eldest son. Princess?

Is he, the emperor, short of water tanks, or are there not enough water tanks in the palace?

Does it have to be the water tank in Li Huaian's house?

"Sage, that's what Li Langjun said. He said that the things in this water tank have never been seen in the Tang Dynasty. The single thing is enough to be exchanged with the saint to marry the eldest princess."

Zhang Anan pointed to the water tank in the main hall and thought of a secret letter in his arms. He quickly took out the secret letter from his arms and presented it to Li Shimin.

"Sage, here is a secret letter from Li Langjun. It says that if there is anything that the saint cannot understand, he can open the secret letter. After reading the secret letter, everything will be understood."

Li Shimin glanced at the secret letter from Li Huaian in Zhang Anan's hand. The traces on the surface clearly showed that it had been checked for safety, so he reached out and took the secret letter over.

"You are also an old man who follows me. You are a hero who has fought with me in the south and north, and gone to battle to kill the enemy. From now on, such inspections will be left to the people below. You should not do it yourself."

"Aren't you afraid that the people below are not careful?"

Zhang Ananda smiled and did not directly answer Li Shimin's concern.

"Ah."

Li Shimin didn't say much, because he also understood that it was useless to talk to Zhang Anan, an old slave. If he should do it himself in the future, he would still do it himself. This is where the trust relationship between master and servant lies.

Remove the fire paint from the fire paint secret letter in your hand and take out the secret letter inside.

Wait until finished.

Li Shimin stared intently at the water tank being inspected by the eunuchs in the main hall. Holding the secret message in his hand, he quickly came to the water tank, wanting to inspect the water tank himself.

"Sage, the inspection of this water tank has been completed. I am temporarily sure that there is no danger. However, I still beg the saint to let me open this water tank on my behalf."

The leading eunuch responsible for checking the safety of the water tank saw the saint approaching and nervously stepped forward to report back.

Li Shimin looked at the secret letter in his hand for sure and then at the water tank.

"Go find a hammer, smash this water tank directly, and take out the contents intact."

"Yes."

The leading eunuch thought that the saint had listened to the advice just now and relaxed a lot. He immediately ordered his eunuchs to fetch a hammer and bring it to Tai Chi Palace.

"Bangdang."

A hammer.

The entire water tank cracked.

The three eunuchs opened up the cracked water tank, revealing a relatively complete mound of soil in the shape of a water tank inside.

"Pull away the soil slowly, so as not to damage the things inside. Remember, it is best not to have any breaks."

Li Shimin saw the mound of soil in the water tank and quickly told the eunuchs to be careful not to hurt the potatoes inside. The eunuchs did not know what was in the mound, but he, the emperor, understood the importance of the potatoes in the mound to the Tang Dynasty. .

Especially for the people of Tang Dynasty.

When the eunuchs heard the saint's will, they were so frightened that they quickly slowed down their movements and began to use their hands to dig up the mound of soil bit by bit with extreme caution.

until
Two potato plants appeared in front of Li Shimin intact.

Li Shimin stepped forward and watched around the two potato plants that were still propped up on the mound. There was a bunch of potatoes under each plant, and there were as many as seven or eight potatoes in each bunch.

The size of each potato.

Li Shimin made fists and compared them. The smallest one was half the size of his fist.

Comparison is over.

Li Shimin looked at the appearance of potatoes drawn in Li Huaian's letter and the introduction about potato yield, and immediately became concerned about the weight of these two potatoes.

"Go get a scale and bring it over."

"Yes, the servant will go here."

Zhang Anan, who was on the side, also realized that these two potatoes were extraordinary. They were obviously a new food that had not appeared in the Tang Dynasty. He hurriedly asked someone to fetch the scales and give them to these two potatoes. Weigh out the new food.

"Has it been weighed?"

Li Shimin looked at the scales and asked Zhang Ananda.

"Back to the sage, the first plant has nine fruits in total. The first fruit weighs four liang and three qian, and the second fruit weighs five liang and one qian. The total weight of the nine fruits of the first plant is four kilograms and two liang and three qian."

"The second plant has eleven fruits in total. It weighs five kilograms and eleven halves in total."

Zhang Ananda stood in front of the scale and happily told the weights of the two potatoes, and finally understood the weight of these potatoes to the Tang Dynasty.

This made him kneel on the ground with a face full of joy as soon as he reported the weight of the two potato plants.

"Congratulations to the saint, for this auspiciousness, God bless the Tang Dynasty."

"Congratulations to the saint, for this auspiciousness, God bless the Tang Dynasty."

The eunuchs in the main hall also knelt on the ground and sent congratulations to Li Shimin.

"Hahaha"

Li Shimin was also very happy in his heart. With potatoes as food in his hand, the Tang Dynasty would no longer be hungry, and his achievements would far exceed those of Qin and Han Dynasties, and he would become an emperor through the ages.

Historically, he will no longer be held accountable for the mistakes he committed at the 'Xuanwu Gate'.

Li Shimin walked around the Tai Chi Palace, imagining the fame of future generations. The prosperous Tang Dynasty would be created in his hands, and all the people would no longer be hungry and have new and full food.

All people in the world will remember him as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

history
Thinking of so many beautiful things.

Li Shimin felt more and more that the name Tudou was particularly awkward.

"Such a good thing has to be called potatoes. It's called golden beans, silver beans, magic beans. Tang beans are no better than potatoes. It has to be called such an ugly potato."

"It doesn't matter, as long as this thing can bring countless people to life, it is also auspicious to call it potato. The word "Tu" also matches my Tang Dynasty, complementing each other. It seems that God helped the Tang Dynasty and arranged for people to send me this potato, which is auspicious." Li Shimin said to himself I felt better, and felt that I was destined to be there, and that I was only loved by God, so I was able to have this potato appear.

Li Huaian's operation made Li Shimin feel a little less guilty and a little more calm about the Xuanwu Sect.

He felt that by launching the 'Xuanwumen' mutiny, he was complying with God's will, and it was God's will that could not be violated.

Otherwise, why did this potato not appear earlier or later, but only appeared in the sixth year after he became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty? This must be because he has been recognized by God.

God believes that his merits outweigh his sins.

Li Shimin immediately felt that his head felt much lighter, and his previous headaches were much better.

In this regard.

Li Huaian certainly didn't expect that a deliberate preparation would allow him to play the role of God for Li Shimin, which would invisibly help Li Shimin get rid of some of his worries.

"Mr. Guanyin, I have a new food here. Do you want to try it?"

into the night.

Li Shimin brought two freshly roasted potatoes to Queen Changsun's Li Zheng Hall.

"What kind of food can make Erlang so happy? In the past, Erlang was not so happy about any new food in the palace, but today's food can make Erlang so happy. It is so novel for me."

Empress Changsun put down the nühong in her hand, stood up, came to Li Shimin, who couldn't help smiling, and glanced at the food box that Li Shimin was carrying personally.

Li Shimin put the food box on the table, opened it, and said mysteriously while taking out the two roasted potatoes inside.

"This is a kind of food that has not appeared in the Tang Dynasty. It is the auspiciousness of the Tang Dynasty. It is the first time in the Tang Dynasty that I and Guanyin are blessed to enjoy this kind of food."

Done.

Li Shimin's face froze when he thought of the origin of the potato, and he quickly changed his mind.

"Well, even if it's not the first time in Datang, I'm also the only one who has eaten it."

"That's it, then I want to have a good taste."

Empress Changsun looked at the two potatoes that Li Shimin took out. The brown skin looked ugly, but she didn't dislike it at all. She reached out and took a baked potato, held it in her hand, and looked around.

"What is the name of Erlang's food? How do you eat it?"

Li Shimin hurriedly demonstrated: "This thing is called a potato, and its name matches the native virtues of the Tang Dynasty. This is one of the ways to eat it. It is roasted and eaten. Guanyin just peels off the outer skin and eats the inside."

These two roasted potatoes were not roasted over the charcoal, but over a living room.

Li Huaian provided two methods of roasting potatoes in his letter. One is to throw them into the charcoal for roasting, and the other is to roast them over a fire.

The royal chef in the palace definitely didn't dare to bake it according to the first method, which would make the emperor's mouth taste bad when he ate it, so he chose the second method.

However, even though the chef in charge of roasting potatoes didn't know what potatoes were, he still brushed a layer of fat on the outside of the potatoes based on years of experience to enhance the roasting flavor.

As a result, Li Shimin's two potatoes looked extremely brown and fragrant.

Queen Changsun nodded and understood how to eat roasted potatoes. She stopped waiting and peeled off the skin of the roasted potatoes with her hands and took a bite of the potatoes.

"Well, Erlang, this is indeed delicious food. It tastes very soft. If there is some green salt, it will taste better."

Li Shimin's eyes lit up. He looked at the food box and saw that there was indeed a plate of green salt in the food box. It must have been put in specially by the imperial chef as a condiment.

"Guanyin maid, there is green salt."

Queen Changsun did not care about Qingyan's affairs. Instead, she looked at the potato she took a bite of and asked Li Shimin: "Erlang, don't care about Qingyan's affairs."

"I don't think Erlang would get into such a big fight over a piece of food, so he came to the Li Zheng Palace in person to share it with me. If I am not wrong, there must be something different in these potatoes."

Li Shimin was overjoyed. There is no better wife than a husband.

"Ms. Guanyin is right. As the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, I am rich all over the world. I will never be like this just because of one person."

"This potato is really too important to Datang and deserves to be treated like this."

talking.

Li Shimin took out Li Huaian's secret letter and handed it to Queen Changsun.

"What is written here is why I am like this."

After hearing this, Queen Changsun received the secret letter.

until finished.

Queen Changsun showed surprise and said: "Erlang, what is written in this letter is true. In this world, one acre of real estate can really produce five or six thousand kilograms of food. These potatoes are really easy to grow and eat, and there are so many kinds of potatoes." As for how to eat it, there are several ways to make potato flour."

"There is a kind of potato flour made that can be stored for many years without going bad."

Li Shimin thought for a while and said: "Come to think of it, according to what is written here, it is most likely yes. Even if there are some exaggerations in it, these potatoes can have a harvest of three to four thousand catties, two to three thousand catties in the Tang Dynasty, then It is also an extremely rare food, several times more abundant than grains. People in the Tang Dynasty only had to plant potatoes on one acre of land a year, and at least one family's food rations were met."

"At that time, the Tang Dynasty will no longer have to worry about famines, and the people will have enough food to satisfy their hunger."

Queen Changsun stood up and said Wanfu: "I congratulate the saint, the Tang Dynasty, and the people. I congratulate Erlang for getting such a good seed, and for being such a good and auspicious person."

Li Shimin was happy at first when he heard Guanyin's congratulations, but at the end he got a headache.

"Guanyin Maid, I am now very troubled about the reward for this person who has contributed auspicious potatoes."

"Erlang, this potato couldn't have been brought out by that person named Li Huaian."

"Yes, this is the potato that this guy named Li Huaian brought out."

All it takes is an expression.

Queen Changsun knew why Li Shimin was distressed.

"In this case, it would be nice if Erlang knighted him."

Li Shimin shook his head and explained the reason.

"The question is, the reason why Li Huaian gave me the potatoes was because he wanted to exchange something with me, not a title."

"If you just want a title, I won't be so troubled. The auspiciousness of offering potatoes to the Tang Dynasty can be given by me, not to mention a marquis or a prince."

"However, this guy's temperament probably means he won't want it. Otherwise, he would have taken out the potatoes when he first came to Chang'an City, and he wouldn't have covered the potatoes until now."

Empress Changsun asked puzzledly: "This man doesn't want a title, so what should he exchange for it with Erlang? Even so, with the achievements of this potato, it is not too much for Erlang to reward this man. Erlang can promise him, or he can give it to the world." People set a precedent and show it to everyone in the world."

Empress Changsun believed that for the merit of donating potatoes, anyone in the Tang Dynasty could be rewarded as long as they were not the emperor.

"This"

Li Shimin said quietly: "This guy wants to trade potatoes with me for the eldest princess."

The emperor and empress of the Tang Dynasty were like two ordinary people, sitting together, eating roasted potatoes with green salt in their hands.

It's like eating the best food in the world, savoring every bite carefully. It's like tasting the future life of the people of the Tang Dynasty, and it also has more expectations for the future of the people of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, the emperor and the empress were also discussing Li Huaian's affairs, whether they should agree to Li Huaian's request and marry the eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty.
After all, this is related to the happiness of his daughter.

For a while, the emperor and empress could not make a choice.

(End of this chapter)