All of the officials of the Ministry of Revenue looked at each other with dumbfounded expressions. Royal Prince Yang, you had been given an imperial edict, you can’t just stand aside and do nothing ah! If we can’t cultivate corn and potatoes, then when the emperor became angry, everyone would be implicated together ah!

The royal prince may be able to wash his hands of this affair, but they, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue, couldn’t! They went to find some experienced old farmers and cleared out a field at the imperial farms for experimentation. Altogether they decided on a couple methods to try out with the corn. Some of the seeds were directly planted into the ground, while others were left for breeding purposes. As for the potatoes, the old farmers thought that it somewhat resembled sweet potato and decided to use the sweet potato method to plant a block. The officials also planted another block of land with potatoes directly buried into the ground.

During this process, Royal Prince Yang only came by once to inspect the process and didn’t come over a second time. When the Ministry of Revenue finished writing a report to the prince on the various methods they used to plant the new crops, they couldn’t get in contact with him. The head steward of Imperial Prince Jing’s Estate had told them that the young royal prince was currently in the faraway Tanggu Town and was unable to receive...