Chapter 135: Beauty's Scheme Nie Shen'er (11)
Chapter 135: Beauty's Scheme Nie Shen'er (11)
Later, Lu Lu returned to Chang'an and reported the situation to Lu Zhi, but Lu Zhi did not completely dispel her suspicions, which led to Dou Yifang and others going to Dai State.
Nie Shen'er's crops were finally harvested, and the results astounded all the farmers.
In fact, the farmers had some doubts in their hearts when they were planting according to Shen'er's arrangements.
The people who come to help Shen'er plant crops are basically experienced farmers. The way Shen'er asks them to plant crops is different from their previous planting methods.
There are also methods of fertilizing the fields, which they have never seen before.
However, they later saw that the crops in the fields were growing very well, better than what they had planted before, so they also thought that these crops would be more than they had ever harvested before.
This time they harvested wheat, and the weight it weighed was three times what it had been before, which the common people, who had never seen anything like it before, regarded as a miracle.
One by one, they knelt on the ground to thank the queen in the palace. Fortunately, Shen'er was there at the time, and even if someone was sent to guide them,
They said that this was all the emperor's credit, that the emperor was God's son, and that this was what God told the emperor.
Shen Er's planting method on the emperor's land was also spread in Chang'an and the surrounding areas.
Shen'er also sent special personnel to the surrounding areas to teach everyone how to plant in the name of the emperor.
This made the emperor's reputation in all states and counties particularly good. Of course, Shen'er did not do the same for the vassal states. If they sent people to learn secretly, Shen'er would not care.
After all, she has taught it to so many people and it is impossible to ban it.
Queen Mother Lu Zhi also knew what Shen'er had done, so Shen'er received another large wave of rewards.
Moreover, Lu Zhi personally promoted Shen'er to the position of Zhaoyi, and the two little babies Liu Mao and Liu Xiu were directly crowned kings, bypassing their eldest brother.
Liu Mao was named King of Yu, and Liu Xiu was named King of Bing.
Shen'er felt that according to the names of his two sons and the system of the Western Han Dynasty, if they did not go any further in the future.
Then most likely Yuzhou and Bingzhou or one of the counties therein will become the son's fiefdom.
Shen'er doesn't have the time to take care of these things now. Even though her son has been made king, she still hasn't granted him any land.
Her main priority now is to develop agriculture. After all, she is going to be the queen mother, and the world will belong to one of her sons.
When Shen'er was alone with the children, he would secretly give each of them a physical fitness pill and an intelligence enlightenment pill.
The child mortality rate in this era was still too high, and the medical technology in this era was not as developed as that of later generations.
Shen'er is vigorously developing agriculture, improving the current farming methods and farm tools, and is now arranging people to study papermaking.
She wanted to convey many of her things, but the only writing tools available now were bamboo slips and silk, which were very expensive.
Therefore, research on paper is urgent.
Moreover, Shen'er only knew the general method. After she gave the instructions, she still needed skilled craftsmen to study it.
Shen'er is really short of manpower now, and there are too many areas in this society that need reform and improvement.
Not only that, some of her reforms will also shake the interests of some gentry and bring her a lot of resistance.
Therefore, some reforms cannot continue now and need to be implemented slowly and gradually.
Now not only Shen'er is busy, Liu Ying is also extremely busy.
Liu Ying had previously obtained some power from Lu Zhi and trained some personnel.
Later, Shen'er attributed all the credit for the bumper harvest of wheat and other crops to Liu Ying, although Liu Ying did not feel that he had done anything.
But under Shen'er's sweet words, Liu Ying felt that he was destined to be here, otherwise God would not have sent Shen'er to be by his side.
Even Shen'er fell in love with him, was willing to cook for him, and was willing to think hard about how to make the world more prosperous.
Shen Er also knew that these things could not be rushed. The most important issue for her now was manpower. It would be fine if she could buy slaves and let them farm.
If slaves are to do some sophisticated work or work that requires literacy, they are completely incapable of doing it.
Moreover, even though she had drained all the manpower under Liu Ying's command, there was still a huge gap and the progress could not be achieved at all to the level she wanted.
It is too late to train people now, so Shen'er turned her attention to Lu Zhi and decided to take advantage of her.
Who made her activate the "villain's favor" golden finger now? If she doesn't use it quickly, she will be sorry for the system and Yixiu who gave her this golden finger.
However, Shen'er did not go up directly to ask for things. She planned to go the doll route.
So, Shen'er would take her wet nurse and hold her children to the Empress Dowager's palace to pay her respects, whether she had time or not.
It only took a week for the Queen Mother to go from being uncomfortable at first to looking forward to the children coming.
Of course, during this period, they couldn't help but get a lot of good things from the Empress Dowager. These were all given to the children voluntarily by the Empress Dowager, which was also an unexpected surprise.
During this period, Shen'er's behavior caused great displeasure to one person, and that person was the Queen Mother.
That’s right, Liu Ying now has a new queen.
Not long after Liu Ying and Zhang Yan divorced, there was a constant stream of memorials in the court asking the emperor to re-establish a queen.
Later, Lu Zhi mediated with the court many times and finally decided that Wang Shuyi, the legitimate daughter of the Grand Marshal, would be the new queen.
The decision to appoint the queen this time was more of a political consideration, as Queen Wang had the support of officials from the Grand Marshal's faction in the court.
Perhaps it was the power of Empress Dowager Lu that moved Queen Wang, so as soon as she entered the palace, she began a vigorous campaign to seize power.
Empress Dowager Lu was a person of great power. Even though the emperor later had his own queen and concubines, the power of the harem was still in the hands of Lu Zhi.
Even to the emperor, the current Lu Zhi never completely gave up power, but only handed over a part of it to him.
On the one hand, Lu Zhi was worried about the emperor, but on the other hand, didn't she also value power?
After Shen'er became the emperor's concubine, she never thought of taking the management rights of Liu Ying's harem except for those in her own palace.
She focused her attention outside and on developing agriculture because she set her sights on the whole world.
However, as soon as Queen Wang entered the palace, she started to attack Lu Zhi. Lu Zhi was not as gentle to her as she was to Zhang Yan. She slapped Queen Wang down with two slaps.
Although Queen Wang suffered a great loss of face in the harem, Empress Lu still gave her a sweet treat later on, after all, Queen Wang's father was the Grand Marshal.
Lu Zhi gave the jurisdiction of the palace utensils to Queen Wang, but still let her own people occupy important positions.
Liu Ying, on the other hand, was extremely disgusted with Queen Wang because of the strength and ambition she showed from the very beginning.
What can I say about Liu Ying? Maybe it was because of his weak character, or maybe it was because of his male chauvinism, or maybe it was because of Lu Zhi.
He extremely disliked ambitious women. No matter how capable Shen'er was, she always acted like a little woman who needed him in front of Liu Ying.
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