Chapter 141

Chengzu Wen Emperor:

"@Emperor Sizong Lie, you brat, what do you mean by that?"

"You've seen it?"

Emperor Sizong Lie:

"Seems like I have. Earlier, the Provincial Governor of Fujian-Zhejiang submitted a memorial to me with a picture tucked inside, saying it was brought to Great Ming by Westerners. At the time, Huang Taiji was knocking at the gates, so I didn't pay it any attention."

"Grandpa Ancestor, don't rush. I'll go pull the archives."

Seeing Zhu Youjian's words, the fury in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart finally dissipated a fraction.

But looking at Su Qiao before him.

Zhu Yuanzhang still could not help but roar,

"Jiang Huan! Jiang Huan!"

"Your servant is here!"

"Throw Su Qiao into the Imperial Prison for me! Surround him tight as can be, no one is allowed to say a single word to him!"

"Hearing his words, no one is allowed to answer either."

"You brat don't love to talk, do you?"

"I'll squeeze you to death if I have to!"

"Yes, sir!"

Killing intent surfaced on Zhu Yuanzhang. Jiang Huan had followed Zhu Yuanzhang for so many years.

He had never seen anyone make Zhu Yuanzhang this furious.

This time.

Su Qiao was as good as dead.

Looking at Su Qiao behind him.

Jiang Huan could not help but sigh.

He merely cupped his fist slightly, then said not another word.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a roasted corn cob and galloped back to the palace.

On the way back to the palace, Zhu Yuanzhang did not forget to order,

"Run every single merchant who set up a stall on Qianmen Street today through the sieve for me! We must find this merchant!"

"Yes, sir!"

At this moment in the chat group, every Zhu family member had also deeply memorized those few words!

Four thousand jin per mu!

What a terrifying yield!

Zhu Youjian went straight to the Libuya Sect, broke open the Ministry of Personnel's storeroom overnight, and pulled up every Memorial to the throne submitted by the Viceroy of Fujian-Zhejiang during that period.

In the end, Zhu Youjian found those few pictures in a long-forgotten, dust-covered corner.

"Found it. Sweet potato... potato... corn!"

"It matches, it all matches! These are the things!"

Emperor Sizong Lie:

"Grandpa Ancestor, don't be anxious. All these things existed in my Chongzhen reign, every single one!"

"They should have already started being planted in the Fujian-Zhejiang region. We ought to have the seeds!"

Looking at Zhu Youjian's message.

Zhu Yuanzhang in Qianqing Palace could not help but weep tears of old age.

"Heaven blesses Great Ming..."

At the other end, Zhu Youjian burst out of the Ministry of Personnel's archive storeroom, waving the drawings in his hand and asking,

"Chengen, have you ever seen these things?"

"Does our Great Ming still plant them now?!"

Wang Chengen examined the drawings before him. After a long silence, he said quietly,

"Your Majesty, I don't know about the others, but as for the potato."

"We have it in the imperial garden of the rear palace."

Zhu Yuanzhang in the chat group also fell silent.

So after all that fuss.

They were riding a donkey to find a donkey?!

Zhu Youjian's expression froze.

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly. He looked at Wang Chengen in disbelief and asked,

"It's right here in the palace?"

Wang Chengen smiled and said,

"Yes, Your Majesty. Let me think."

"It should have been a few years ago. The Viceroy of Fujian-Zhejiang presented two Western flower plants into the palace."

"The rear palace folks even mentioned it a few times. The stuff is easy to keep alive. Most of the flowers along the edges died, but these few plants needed no care at all, as if they were waiting for something."

"This servant understands today."

"They were waiting for Your Majesty to summon them!"

The moment Wang Chengen's words fell.

The chat group instantly fell into a deathly silence.

After a long silence.

Zhu Yuanzhang finally broke the chat group's quiet.

Emperor Taizu Gao:

"Judging by what you said, you little one were in the palace cuddling such a divine seed."

"Then, forced by the Tatars outside the pass, you sacrificed all our Zhu family members at Xingshan just to pull the Great Ming Jiangshan back?"

"The key point is that the Viceroy of Min and Zhejiang even submitted a Memorial to the throne to you, telling you that this thing is edible?"

"You deserved to hang yourself on Coal Mountain!"

"Fourth Brother, is this the good descendant you raised?"

Emperor Sizong Lie:

"No, Great-Grandfather, it's not what you think."

"Who could have expected this!"

"Your son truly mistook this thing for ordinary flowers and plants."

Emperor Taizu Gao:

"You bastards didn't read a single word of our Imperial Ancestral Instructions of the Great Ming?"

"Didn't we tell you to know the people's hardships and to investigate what the common folk eat now?!"

"Is this how you memorized our Ancestral Instructions?"

"The sea ban was about to suffocate the Great Ming to death, yet you clung to the Ancestral Instructions without letting go; for these truly useful instructions, you all acted as if you were blind?!"

"Zhu Qi, take the video call now; we are going to check if you have memorized the Imperial Ancestral Instructions of the Great Ming! Hurry!"

"I have observed that since ancient times, every nation... what is the next sentence? Say it immediately! Fourth Brother, keep an eye on him for us! If you can't recite it, whip him another hundred times!"

Zhu Qi in the chat group couldn't help but shiver.

How did this get dragged onto me again?!

"I have observed that since ancient times, every nation..." What is the next sentence? How would I know that!

105, Zhu Youjian really wanted to be a good Emperor!

Zhu Youjian dared not delay even the slightest bit.

Immediately, he led people and ran back into the palace.

From the Imperial Garden, he found those few stalks of "potatoes."

"Great-Grandfather, is this the thing?"

"Good heavens, this thing is truly huge!"

Through the dim candlelight.