Chapter 69: 1000 liters grain per acre?

The officials kneeling on the ground swallowed hard.

Since they were called into the palace yesterday afternoon, they had been kneeling until now, not having three meals and not taking in a drop of water. At this moment, when they smelled the buns, their stomachs instantly and uncontrollably growled

Listening to Eunuch Cao’s words just now, this seems to be made by Niang Niang who was sent to the cold palace. He doesn’t know what kind of food she made, but it smells so good.

But they didn’t dare to raise their heads to look, they could only hang their heads and smell this sweet aroma floating in mid-air.

Ji Wu Jue quickly finished a steamed bun, with a nice texture, fresh flavor, which can be said to be a very good eating dish.

Just …

A trace of doubt flashed in his deep eyes, what ingredients were used to make these food?

He couldn’t figure it out even after thinking about it for quite a long time. 

One must know that rice, bean and corn simply couldn’t be made into food like this.

“Your Majesty, Niang Niang has also left you a note.” Cao Zhong Quan handed the note that was clipped to the basket’s carrying handle to Ji Wu Jue. 

Ji Wu Jue took the slip of paper and with a sweep of his eyes, his (CZQ) body suddenly shook. The expression on his face suddenly froze.

“Your Majesty, the Cold Palace has discovered grain wheat with a yield of ten dan (a traditional unit of volume, esp. for grain, equal to 100 sheng (市升), and equivalent to 100 litres or 176 pints) per acre!”

Ten dan per acre!

The bottom of Ji Wu Jue’s eyes curled up in the dark and gloomy reflection of waves in light!

Knowing that there weren’t many varieties of grain in Dong Lan Country, and the highest yield of rice per mu was only five dan, furthermore, not all places were suitable for growing rice.

Ten dan per acre is significant for the food-poor Dong Lan Kingdom!

“Send someone to send her here!”

Ji Wu Jue got up and stood, clasping his hands behind his backt; there was no room for half-jokes in this matter! He had to clearly confirm!

“Answering Your Majesty, Niang Niang has returned to the palace!”

“Send someone to summon her to come here immediately!”

“Aye!”

Not long after Lu Yunluo returned to the Cold Palace, she was called over by Ji Wu Jue again.

When she came to the Imperial Study room, she felt the suffocating and oppressive atmosphere from inside.

The ministers on the floor were kneeling all over the place.

Not far from the ground, there were also quite a few broken tea cups. 

Sweeping a glance over, he found that the minister was kneeling on the ground in front of him, the blood on his head was pasted onto his eyes, yet he was still kneeling there not daring to move even a muscle.

Lu Yunluo was secretly shocked, fearing that Ji Wu Jue would vent his anger with her, she immediately raised her smile and smiled lightly at Ji Wu Jue, “This concubine came to see Your Majesty.”

Ji Wu Jue sat above and sized up Lu Yunluo who just came in.

She wore a light yellow long dress today, the hair bun on her head was obviously not carefully tended to, just loosely pulled up, however, it was more revealing that she had a willful and free-spirited earthly temperament.

Ji Wu Jue who had been angry with these bastards who worked under him for a day, after seeing Lu Yunluo’s smiling face, the anger in his heart that hadn’t dispersed subsided for the most part.

The gloomy look on his face inexplicably eased, “Get up ba.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty!”

After getting up, Ji Wu Jue’s gaze tightly fell on Lu Yunluo’s body, “Is it true that Ai Fei’s note said that the grain yielding ten da per acre is true?”

Ji Wu Jue’s short sentence just fell, those ministers underneath who were still trembling just now suddenly shook.

1000 litres per mu (acre)?

Were they kneeling for so long that they even hallucinated what they heard?

Especially Wang Xingzhi, the Ministry of revenue,who was kneeling in front, after he heard ‘an acre yield ten stone grain’, his body obviously stiff, he was the Ministry of the household minister, in charge of the country’s grain, so he is more than anyone else to understand the importance of this matter!

If this news is true, it will be a good fortune for Dong Lan Kingdom ah!

At that moment, he lifted his spirit and pricked up his ears to listen to the dialogue between Ji Wu Jue and Lu Yunluo.