The next morning, Cheng Chumo was woken up by Xiao Cui. "Young Master, you still have to attend the morning court session. Hurry up and wash up.”
"Xiao Cui, don't call me Young Master or Young Master in the future. I'll call me Hubby or Hubby. Don't you want to be my wife?”Cheng Chumo said with a smile.
"No Young Master, no…I haven't married yet.”Xiao Cui said shyly.
"Xiao Cui, I've wronged you. I have no choice but to marry the princess first before I can marry you.”Cheng Chumo touched Xiao Cui's face and said.
"Little Cui doesn't feel wronged. As long as Young Master has me in his heart, it doesn't matter whether Little Cui has a status or not.”Xiao Cui looked at Cheng Chumo seriously.
"Don't worry, Xiao Cui. Young Master will always like you.”Cheng Chumo hugged the little girl.
As it was winter, the sun had just risen when they went to court at dawn. Cheng Chumo walked on the Vermilion Bird Avenue in Chang 'an, looking at the civil and military officials coming and going, and hurried to the Imperial Palace. Cheng Chumo was extremely shocked by this inhumane behavior. Actually, he was very disgusted. He was too lazy to go to court. He hoped that this time, the Emperor would give him an empty post and he would not have to come to court in the future. Others wanted to make contributions, but they couldn't. Even if they wanted to be an official, they couldn't do it. He had an official position, but he didn't want to be one. He didn't want to go to court. After all, officials who could go to court were the center of power in the Great Tang. To use a common saying, they were people who could reach the heavens.
Everyone was waiting foolishly by the Vermilion Bird Gate. After a while, a eunuch's ear-piercing voice sounded. "The Sage is in court, and all the officials are here." Then, the Vermillion Bird Gate slowly opened, and all the officials entered according to their ranks. At the front were Zhangsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Chen Yaojin, Yuchi Jingde, and the others. These people were all dukes, high-ranking guards, and ministers in the court. All of them had high positions.
It took them the time for two incense sticks to burn to walk from the Vermilion Bird Gate to the Taiji Palace, which showed the vastness of Chang 'an Imperial City. Although the Tang Empire did not have much money at the beginning of the year and could not afford to build a large palace, the Chang 'an Royal Palace was left behind by the Sui Dynasty. The Sui Dynasty was quite rich.
Because Cheng Chumo was a fifth-grade mighty senior guard, this was still a virtual position. Originally, he didn't even need to go to court, but this time, Li Shimin asked him to go to court by name. Therefore, he followed behind and stood by the door of Taiji Palace.
"If there's anything, report. If there's nothing, withdraw." Chief Eunuch Li Dequan's voice rang out.
"Wei Zheng has something to report. Youzhou's harvest had been halved this year, and now there was a snowstorm. We urgently need the Imperial Court to provide disaster relief."
"Oh, the snow disaster in Youzhou. How much grain do you need? You can register it at the Ministry of Revenue and send it out directly.”Li Shimin said.
Wei Zheng was also stunned. When did the Emperor become so generous? How much more food did he need? He could directly report it to the Ministry of Revenue.
Li Shi Min stood up and said. "I'm sure everyone knows that at the beginning of spring, I sent Cheng Chumo to the southern seas to find high-yield rice seeds and plant them in Lingnan. The first season of rice was already ripe. Yesterday, Cheng Chumo had arrived in Chang 'an with the first batch of food. Chen Cheng Chumo, step forward and talk about the high-yield rice seeds.”
"Your Majesty, at the beginning of spring, Your Majesty asked me to go to the southern sea to look for high-yield rice seeds. I've already found them in Linyi. Furthermore, he had successfully planted it in Lingnan. The trial area was one million mu, and this year's autumn harvest was four million dans of grain. If all the high-yield rice in Linyi was planted south of the Yangtze River, there would be no more famine in the Tang Empire. Furthermore, I bought one million dan of grain in Linyi. Therefore, the amount of grain transported to Lorraine's warehouse this time was a total of five million dans.”
In fact, the few Public Houses had already known about this. Today, he had deliberately brought it out so that Li Shimin could repeat it as if it was a political achievement. Moreover, he would not say anything about the gold in India. After all, Li Shiming wanted to have his own private treasury. If he told them about the gold, Wei Zheng and some other officials would probably start to think about this batch of gold again. As for those aristocratic families, they would probably get jealous and ask the scholarly faction to stand up for them. They would say that they had invaded their own foreign countries and that it was not the path of the Saints.
"Alright, Cheng Chumo, you've made a great contribution this time. Tell me, I'll give you any reward you need.”Li Shi Min said heroically.
"This is what I should do. I don't dare to ask for a reward. I only want to spread high-yield rice seeds in the Jiangnan area as soon as possible so that no one in the Great Tang will starve to death.”Cheng Chumo said humbly.
"No, you have to be rewarded for your contributions. How about this, zhen will bestow Princess Gao Yang to you. I will appoint you as the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue. He wore purple clothes and goldfish bags, so that he could enter the palace without reporting.”Li Shi Min announced the reward that he had already thought of.
Cheng Chumo was stunned for a moment and thought, What's going on? Another princess wife. It seems that Li Shi Min thinks highly of me and gave me another daughter.
"This subject receives the decree to thank you." After saying that, he entered the queue again.
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