Chapter 69 The Liao Emperor Falls Down, Liu Laowu Eats His Fill

Liu Fu opened the points mall and browsed the wide variety of products inside.

Ensuring that people have enough to eat is not difficult at all.

The simplest ones are potato seeds and sweet potato seeds.

Potatoes can easily yield up to 1,000 jin per mu, not to mention sweet potatoes, which are extremely resistant to disease and drought. They can be grown even in sandy soil, with a yield of at least 2,000 jin per mu.

This is even with Liu Fu's estimate being too low.

If we could learn to make better use of the land and provide nutrients, especially if we could develop something as miraculous as chemical fertilizers in ancient times, increasing the yield by three thousand catties would be a piece of cake.

In today's world, people's main food is millet and sorghum. Millet yield is very low. In fertile land, the yield can reach more than 200 catties per mu, while in barren land, the yield is only about 120 to 150 catties.

Liu Fu glanced at the potato and sweet potato seeds in the points mall; one point could be exchanged for 10 jin of seeds.

With so many exotic beasts and six or seven thousand ferocious beasts constantly dropping points to provide the people with some seeds, there isn't much of a problem.

With the food problem solved, the clothing problem could be solved by raising silkworms and weaving silk.

Of course, all of this is predicated on the fact that the people must first have their own farmland.

This is the most important issue.

As Liu Fu pondered in the carriage, he was traveling with the entourage to the fiefdom.

Inside the palace, Liu Laowu received a letter left by Liu Fu.

"Father, I've saved a surprise for you. If you have nothing else to do, why don't you take a look at some of the granaries, treasuries, and armories of the Han Dynasty? You might find something unexpected."

When Liu Laowu saw the letter, he knew that Liu Fu must have left something for him.

He immediately led his men to a place called Taicang.

The officials guarding the Taicang granary were bewildered by the emperor's arrival. Why did His Majesty suddenly visit Taicang today?

"Your subject greets Your Majesty."

"stand up."

Liu Laowu hurried to the gate of Taicang and asked the official:

How much grain is currently stored in this Taicang granary?

Upon hearing the emperor inquire about his profession, the official immediately began to speak animatedly:

"Your Majesty, this granary was built twenty years ago by the Later Yan state. It is very sturdy. After Your Majesty destroyed the Yan state, it became one of the granaries of our Great Han. This granary can store a total of 800,000 shi of grain. However, all the grain in the granary has been distributed to disaster relief. The granary is now empty."

Towards the end, even the official in charge of the grain storage felt a little uneasy.

The facts were indeed as he said, but when His Majesty came to inquire, there was not a single grain of food in the granary. If the Emperor were to become angry, he would at least receive a severe scolding, and at worst, he might be beheaded. Wouldn't that be the end of him?

No wonder the granary officials were so apprehensive; after all, how many emperors throughout history had such a good temper as Liu Laowu?

At this moment, Liu Laowu, listening to the granary official's words, was thinking about the surprise in Liu Fu's letter, and immediately pointed to the granary gate, saying:

"Let's open Taicang and go in to see for ourselves."

"yes."

With a "whoosh" sound, the gate of Taicang was opened halfway.

Unexpectedly, a large amount of grain was poured out of the opened granary, splashing out like a flood.

Even though Liu Laowu was the emperor, wearing a dragon robe, and was the supreme ruler.

He didn't escape far and was buried alive by a large amount of rice.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has been assassinated!"

"The Emperor has been assassinated!"

The imperial guards were in a flurry of activity, and it took them a lot of effort to finally pull Liu Laowu out of the pile of rice.

They assumed that the emperor, having been inexplicably startled, would surely be furious!

Even the official in charge of the grain storage was trembling and kneeling on the ground, not daring to look at Liu Laowu again, for fear that Liu Laowu would utter a few words and kill him.

Unexpectedly, when Liu Laowu crawled out of the grain pile, he was not angry at all; on the contrary, he was overjoyed.

"Hahahaha, Lao Ba is a good kid, he's a genius! But this little brat actually dared to bury me alive!"

"But it's well buried, very well buried!"

When the people around saw the emperor gesturing wildly and acting as if he had taken stimulants, they all thought that the emperor had fallen seriously ill.

But only Liu Laowu knew that Liu Fu had done him a great favor this time!

This granary can hold 800,000 shi of grain. Regardless of how Liu Fu managed to move so much grain into the granary for himself, that's all.

Judging from the sight of grain flying out as soon as the granary door was opened halfway today, it's clear that this granary is already full.

And not only is it full, the entire Taicang granary is about to burst! There are probably more than 800,000 shi (a unit of dry measure) in this granary, definitely more than that number.

Sure enough, under Liu Laowu's orders, the people who came inspected the entire Taicang and found that the grain inside completely filled all the space!

Overjoyed, Liu Laowu laughed wildly and immediately headed to the next location, Taicang.

I went to three different cities in Taicang in succession, and all three cities were completely overwhelmed!

Upon arriving at the three national treasuries, one sees that the silver in each treasury is so bright and dazzling that it is impossible to look away.

"My goodness, there must be at least tens of millions of taels of silver in each of these national treasuries, right?"

Liu Laowu looked on incredulously, but when he picked up a few sheets of fine official silver and turned them over to check the banknotes at the bottom, he burst out laughing.

The entire document was uniformly inscribed with the words "Fifty taels of silver, official silver of the Great Liao Dynasty".

Liu Laowu went straight to a huge gold ingot, which was worth a thousand taels of gold, equivalent to ten thousand taels of silver.

These were the betrothal gifts used for the Liao emperor's son's wedding, all of which Liu Fu confiscated and brought to the Later Han dynasty.

At this moment, he ordered someone to turn the gold ingot over, and saw that the bottom also read – “Made by Emperor Yelü Haiqin of the Great Liao Dynasty, one thousand taels of gold for the Imperial Palace”.

"This kid, did he empty the Liao Kingdom's granary and national treasury? And bring it all to our Later Han?"

The more Liu Laowu thought about it, the more relieved he felt:

"No wonder this kid was so eager to go to Liao for a marriage alliance. So that's what was going on. Back then, there were rumors that the Eighth Prince was stealing things in Liao. We thought it was impossible. We watched the Eighth Prince grow up. Even if he had the intention to steal, Liao's granary and treasury are so well guarded. How could he possibly steal anything?"

"Hey, I can't believe this kid actually managed to steal it!!!"

"How strange!"

Liu Laowu muttered to himself, and at the same time roughly understood why the Liao Emperor had agreed to exempt him from the annual tribute and let Liu Fu return to the Later Han Dynasty.

That's right, it's just that a ruthless person like Liu Fu was born in the Later Han Dynasty, and he was his own son.

If he were a hostage from an enemy state and came to the Later Han Dynasty, Liu Laowu himself would have a terrible headache!

He finally understood why the Liao emperor had sent Liu Fu away like a plague god, and why he had made such a great sacrifice and given him so many generous terms.

If it were him, he would have to get rid of such a plague god no matter the cost!

"You little rascal, you've really grown some skills, haven't you?"

Liu Laowu was secretly overjoyed, and at the same time, he muttered a few words to himself.

At the same time, hundreds of miles away, Liu Fu suddenly sneezed several times...