Chapter 233 The Crown Princess gives birth prematurely

After following Yunshu in Fengyang Palace... and later in Yihe Palace, he personally tried out the curved plow, turning the soil, planting and weaving shell flowers.
Emperor Xuanwu started digging potatoes in the imperial study again.

Just as Yun Shu said, the number of potatoes grown in this small flowerpot was astonishingly large!

Maybe...

【The Sims selection system is at your service.

Please select the decision you would like to make next:

A. Agree with Yunshu's proposal and let her build a greenhouse in the imperial farm to try to grow potatoes;

B. Worried that building a greenhouse would be too expensive, he rejected Yunshu's proposal;

C. Agree with Yunshu's proposal, but refuse to let her build a greenhouse, hoping that she will try direct planting. 】

The light screen that popped up at the right time seemed to confirm his guess.

Emperor Xuanwu's eyes lit up, and he picked A first.

[You chose A. Three months later, you successfully harvested a batch of potatoes. Five years later, Tiansheng's food shortage problem basically disappeared.]

This potato can grow in just three months?

It seems that it is possible to have two harvests a year!
No wonder... No wonder with just this little bit of stuff now, it can actually solve Tiansheng’s food shortage problem in five years!

Emperor Xuanwu suppressed his excitement and quickly glanced at the second option.

He really didn't like the content inside.

He jumped directly to the third option.

[You chose C. Because there was no greenhouse, some potatoes froze to death, and only a few survived.
Yunshu realized that perhaps in the southern region, potatoes could be harvested twice a year without the need for greenhouses. 】

Good, good, it is indeed possible to harvest twice a year!

Although limited to the southern region,
But so what?
Tiansheng has many cities in the south!
Emperor Xuanwu threw away his shovel and looked eagerly at the "mud lumps" he had just dug out, as if he was looking at some priceless treasure:
"You can do whatever you want with the Imperial Farm. As long as you can get more potato seeds as soon as possible, I will support you in whatever you do!"

"Father is wise!"

Yun Shu smiled brightly:

"Then can I ask the Minister of Revenue for the money to build a greenhouse? Sir Yan, do you want it?"

Emperor Xuanwu: “?”

Money...

He recalled that some time ago, because of the ten million taels of silver, old man Yan Chaorong cried and complained to him every day, saying that the treasury was short of money.
How miserable it was for him to be the Minister of Revenue.

Emperor Xuanwu suddenly felt a little guilty.

It’s only been a few days since then. If we ask the Ministry of Revenue to pay again…

Emperor Xuanwu coughed lightly and nodded deeply:
"can."

Let Minister Yan cry, there is nothing we can do about it.

How important are potatoes!

How can we stop building the greenhouse and planting potatoes just because Minister Yan cried a few times?
Emperor Xuanwu waved his hand, telling Yunshu to go ahead and do it, but he was thinking about the crown prince in the East Palace.

The little boy's contributions are becoming greater and greater now. If I continue to reward him with jade ruyi or something like that, he would feel embarrassed!

It just so happens that the kid will be turning fourteen next month.

Since some things are bound to happen sooner or later, why not do it a little earlier?

The prince, as the older brother, had attacked Xiaowu so many times before.
A birthday gift, isn't that too much?

When the emperor really wants to do something, his execution must be quite amazing. So, when Yun Shu personally took potatoes out of the city to the imperial farm and planted potatoes with others, news suddenly came from the capital.

It was said that the Crown Princess had given birth prematurely for no apparent reason.

“It’s only been seven months!”

Under modern medicine, babies born seven months premature generally have no problems.
But it’s ancient times now!
With such medical conditions in ancient times, could the child survive?

Even though he fought with the prince, Yun Shu never thought of wishing bad things for the child.

If Emperor Xuanwu had not said long ago that if anything happened to the child, even the crown prince would be to blame.
Yun Shu almost suspected that it was because she had caused so much noise recently that the prince had lost his patience and tried to use the matter of his child's premature birth to get back into everyone's attention!

Could it be... the eldest prince?
But that doesn't seem to make sense.

The Crown Prince has been under house arrest for how long? If the First Prince really wants to take any action, it would be much more reasonable for him to target her rather than the Crown Prince!

Maybe the Crown Princess really just has bad luck.

Yun Shu shook his head and stopped thinking about it. He continued to instruct the people in the imperial farm to cut the sprouted potatoes into pieces and plant them in the ground.
She also told the people in Zhuangzi the method of making an ancient simple greenhouse that she had found on the Internet.

Let them make sure to build this greenhouse before the weather turns cold.

All matters have been explained and nothing has been missed.

Yun Shu then brought his men back to the capital.

After returning to the palace, he received news that the Crown Princess had given birth.
A monster was born.

"monster?"

Yun Shu was stunned.

If a close relative marries, there is a 50% chance that the child will have problems.

So the prince and the others were... tricked?

"Yes!"

Seeing Yunshu stunned, Tingxue thought she just didn't understand what "giving birth to a monster" meant.
He lowered his voice again and explained in a low voice with a somewhat panicked look:
"I heard that the child was stillborn and looked extremely horrible.
When the midwife took the baby out, she fainted after just one look!

It seems to be that... the child's eyes are very far apart, he has only one ear, and his mouth looks like a bunny. In short, it's very, very scary!"

"..."

From the description, it sounds like he has Down syndrome with a cleft lip and ear disability.

To put it bluntly, a child like this would be born stillborn...which is actually a blessing.

Yun Shu frowned, then suddenly realized something and raised his head abruptly:

"Shouldn't the East Palace keep this kind of thing a secret?

How come even you know about this? Who told you the news? "

"No one... everyone in the palace probably knows about it now!"

Knowing that his Highness might be worried that he might fall into someone's conspiracy,
Tingxue quickly explained:
"Today, the Crown Princess suddenly launched an attack, and the people from the Eastern Palace came to His Majesty for help.

At that time, His Majesty was discussing matters with the ministers, and it seemed that someone said on behalf of the prince that this was His Majesty's first legitimate grandson.
No one knew what happened afterwards, but His Majesty... took the ministers to the East Palace.

And then…”

Then the child was born and everyone knew about it. The Eastern Palace couldn’t keep it secret at all.

Yun Shu: “???”

The Crown Princess gave birth, and the Emperor brought a group of ministers to the Eastern Palace? ?
Is this reasonable?