Chapter 138

Chapter 138

Li Yuanyings letter stirred up a thousand waves with just one stone.

It didnt matter how good the painting was. Whats more important is that it featured a list of investors attached. This is equivalent to giving them airtime with the Emperor in advance. This can never happen if youre a proper but ordinary county magistrate but Li Yuanying is different because he is the Emperors favourite younger brother. Even if his spew nonsense, His Majesty will still read his letters.

It is indeed proven that he wrote nonsense because everyone in court had already heard rumors prior to his letter reaching. All that is left in it is about how Your Majesty is so awesome. Why do the people love you so much?. Flattery done naturally.

Everyone who came pass this matter is disgusted by how shameless Li Yuanying is. Words that would make an ordinary person blush in shame the boy wrote it all in his letters. And then he even send names and excepts from the people who spew flattery about how great the Emperor is. And then to make sure the letter shows authenticity, he kept the local dialects intact to show the simple and honest tone of the common peoples praise.

It is fine that Li Yuanying is shameless but the scary thing is that the Emperor loves it. This realization came to Zhangsun Wuji and some ministers. Not only was the Emperor loving it, his imagination went further.

The Emperor once accidentally told Zhangsun: I wonder if my brother had this idea when he mention he wanted to build a route to Mount Tai.

This really shocked him. Its alright to give Li Yuanying the benefit of doubt due to his young age and the possible assumption that he didnt know the value of money and so did not feel guilty spending other peoples money. But His Majesty is the King of a country, how can he take advantage of other? He can he ask his citizens to pay for the cost of building roads and bridges all the way to Mount Tai? How many County will need to fork out money? Not all counties are wealthy, how can you expect people to spend huge sum of money without blinking an eye?

Seeing the flaw in this matter, Zhangsun Wuji quickly decided to have a word with the Emperor. He cannot risk polluting the image of a wise king that came with much hard work over money.

Li Er didnt reply much but simply mention that he has his own thoughts about this matter.

Zhangsun Wuji seriously thinks that the Emperors thoughts were a bluff.

So he simply found a reason to look for Wei Zheng and conveniently told him about the Emperors scary thoughts.

Wei Zheng slowly replied: I have been sick since the beginning of the year.

Arent you already better?

Sometimes good, sometimes bad. It comes with old age, its easy to fall sick but hard to fully recover.

Zhangsun Wuji was seething in anger silently.

Ever since he had a new future grandson in law, the things Wei Zheng does pisses people off.

I also had a daughter that married into Royalty, you dont see me defending them blindly like this?!

The flesh is so red that people fall in love at the first sight. Red flesh, black seed and white and green skin! Not only is the color vibrant, it looks so sweet. Dont let them flow in vain, lets give it a try!

Even if they have never tasted it, everyone already likes it. If there is a chance in the future, they must try it!

The only person who wasnt envious was Li Yuanying. He was satisfied and named it fully red. He cut it into pieces and distributed it to his friends. The extras were given to the government officials standing around.

Little Red was also distributed out. To be fair, if there were no comparison, the melon seeds brought back by Dai Ting tasted great. It was juicy and good for relieving summer heat.

Yuanying instructed Dong Xiaoyi to get his planting team to hone their selective breeding skills with Little Red and to set the direction for future planting.

Dong Xiaoyi took his order seriously.

Yuanyings actions quickly spread throughout the county and the next day, several large watermelons were sent back to Changan. Although the journey was not a long one, Yuanying made sure to send the melons back with their vines intact to ensure freshness!

While the melons were on the way to the Emperor, Yuanying kept his promise and hosted a banquet at his restaurant to entertain the wealthy households who had invested in his palace renovation project.

Everyone had heard that the watermelons were delicious and were all looking forward to it. This is the only watermelon in the whole of Tang; or at least traveller from north and south have not heard of this watermelon. Plus Li Yuanying mentioned something about teaching them the planting technique, wouldnt that mean that Hu County is the only region to is able to master this unique business? !

The young prince entertained his guests with performances and great food. When everyone was moving their butts from being impatient, Yuanying clapped his hands. Bring in the watermelons

A small piece for everyone

The little black dots on the melon are the seeds. Be careful when eating them and spit the seeds out. Bring them home and try to plant them. (Yuanying)

Everyone was a little confused.

The little devil prince cant be so shameless as to send them away with such a small piece of melon, can he? Although admittedly this piece of melon looks delicious but they have donated a whole building! A whole building for this piece of melon?!

Seeing his guest all carrying a face that said: How dare you be so shameless; Yuanying smilingly added: Next summer, Ill teach everyone how to grow some.

Notes from the author:

Little Prince: Im just joking, why so serious!