LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 41 - 41 The First Offspring is Borni
Chapter 41: Chapter 41 The First Offspring is Borni
Translator: 549690339
Seeing the excited populace, Lu Chen revealed a slight smile; he believed that after seeing the yield of potatoes, they already had the idea of planting them in their minds.
After all, compared to potatoes, the yield of wheat was simply too low.
At this moment, Lu Chen called out to the surrounding people, “Quiet down, everyone!”
As the North Prince spoke, the crowd instantly fell silent.
Their eyes were fixed on Lu Chen as if they were hungry wolves eyeing their prey.
They were eager to know if the North Prince would distribute the seeds of this plant to the people.
Seeing the crowd quiet down, Lu Chen then spoke, “The grain you see here is called a potato; it can serve as a staple food. As for its yield, you’ve seen it yourselves.”
“The Prince has decided to distribute some potato seeds for the public to try planting, and those who do so will be exempt from agricultural taxes for two years.”
Hearing Lu Chen’s words, the people stirred with excitement once more.
They hadn’t expected that the North Prince would truly consider giving them this miraculous crop to cultivate, and even exempt them from two years of agricultural tax.
Then some of the people couldn’t help but kneel down, constantly bowing their heads to Lu Chen in gratitude.
Seeing the fervor of the populace, Lu Chen knew that promoting potatoes would probably not be a big problem. After a few years, if North City wasn’t stricken by any natural disasters or calamities, it was highly likely that there would be no severe food crisis like there was currently.
Just at that moment, when Lu Chen was about to say something, a system notification suddenly sounded.
[Congratulations to the Host for the birth of your first child, rewarded with 5,000 Brocade Guards, two Master Level Commanders, and a bonus reward of weapons forging technology.]
[The more offspring the Host has, the more valuable the rewards will be, including but not limited to various modern technologies, factories, and even industrial production lines.]
Hearing this unexpected system voice, Lu Chen was stunned; he hadn’t thought that shortly after leaving the Prince’s Mansion, he would already have a child.
But without a doubt, Mu Zixuan must have given birth.
At that moment, as he was preparing to hurry back to the Prince’s Mansion, a trusted aide from the mansion rode towards him excitedly, shouting, “Prince, Prince, the Princess Consort is about to give birth, Madam Chu requests you to return quickly!”
Hearing this, Lu Chen didn’t hesitate to say to Li Feng, “General Li, I’ll leave the rest to you; I need to go see the Princess Consort.”
Li Feng naturally understood the importance of the Prince Consort giving birth to an heir. With an heir, it meant that the North Prince Mansion’s lineage would continue. He immediately replied, “Prince, please rest assured on your return; 1 will instruct the soldiers to excavate the potatoes as quickly as possible.”
Lu Chen said no more and immediately boarded his carriage.
Meanwhile.
In a tavern in Yan County, North City.
The tavern owner stood at the counter, clicking away at an abacus.
Suddenly, his brain paused as a surge of information flooded his mind.
The tavern owner immediately looked shocked, turning his head in the direction of the North Prince Mansion in disbelief.
Muttering to himself, the tavern owner said, “Could it be him? No wonder, no wonder.”
“It looks like I’m going to be busy in the future.”
With that, the tavern owner set down the abacus and began to change clothes.
At almost the same time.
In the Capital City.
The owner of a liquor establishment that Prince Lu Shuyun frequently visited, and also the manager.
Just as he was about to personally welcome today’s distinguished guests, he froze in place, his expression one of disbelief.
He murmured to himself, “If it’s that Prince’s doing, I fear my task is imminent. It seems I must prepare in advance.”
On the way back to the Prince’s Mansion, Lu Chen opened the system to take a look at the rewards he had just received.
“System, where are these 5,000 Brocade Guards now? And what’s their strength like?”
Lu Chen hadn’t expected that one of the rewards for having an heir would be a group of people; he thought the system would have awarded him a batch of modern military hardware.
The system’s prompt sounded at that moment.
[The five thousand members of the Brocade Guard are now distributed across the various counties of the Great Xia Dynasty, with the lowest rank among them being Fifth Grade, while the heads of the four major institutions and the five Commanders of the Brocade Guard are all Ninth Grade. In addition, the subordinates obtained by the host through the system have a loyalty of one hundred percent and possess identities implanted from this world.]
Upon hearing the system’s prompt, Lu Chen curiously asked, “How do those people know that they are part of the Brocade Guard?”
[It is the power of the system; the host can think of it as the system having implanted a portion of special memories in them, keeping the whole Brocade Guard operational until their true master appears.]
At the sound of the system’s prompt, Lu Chen couldn’t help but marvel at the system’s power.
[All members of the Brocade Guard have received your personal information. Currently, there are three hundred Brocade Guards in North City, including a Commander, a Commander, Head of Punishment Department, Head of Investigation Department, and both Outer and Inner Commanders stationed in Yan County. They will arrive at the Prince’s Mansion as soon as possible to report intelligence to you.]
[Does the host need to recall Brocade Guards from outside North City?]
Seeing the system’s prompt, Lu Chen asked, “Can 1 communicate with them across the distance?”
[No, but the host has the authority to summon them once.]
Lu Chen understood the system’s meaning; if he wanted to recall all the Brocade Guards, then they would be able to receive a message from the system. This was a capability of the system.
But why would he want to recall all the Brocade Guards?
The function of the Brocade Guard is to monitor officials and gather intelligence. If he recalled them, what use would the Brocade Guard still have?
With this in mind, Lu Chen said, “No need, let them stay where they are.”
[The Brocade Guards outside North City have received the host’s order to stand by at their current locations.]
After returning to the Prince’s Mansion, Lu Chen hurried to Mu Zixuan’s birthing room.
At that moment, Mu Zixuan looked pale, covered in sweat, and extremely weak.
Seeing Lu Chen return, Mu Zixuan strained to rise from the bed, and Lu Chen quickly went to support her, saying, “My love, you should lie down and rest.”
Just then, the midwife came to Lu Chen with a child in her arms, “Congratulations, Prince, the Princess Consort has given birth to a Princely Heir for you.”
Hearing this, Lu Chen immediately glanced at the child in the midwife’s hands and nervously took him into his own arms.
The newborn was very small and rather ugly, but Lu Chen had no thoughts of disdain, for it was his own child.
At that moment, Chu Yuqin reminded him, “Chen’er, you haven’t named the child yet. Give him a name now.”
Lu Chen thought for a while and then said, “Let’s call him Lu Changfeng.”
“Changfeng” can be interpreted as a continual wind, symbolizing strength, vitality, and hope.
Lu Chen wished for his first child to grow proactively and one day accomplish great things.
After accompanying Mu Zixuan in the birthing room for a while, Lu Chen left to prepare for the arrival of the Commander of the Brocade Guard.
As soon as he stepped out of the birthing room, Chu Yuqin asked, “Chen’er, where have you just been?”
Mu Zixuan was about to give birth, yet Lu Chen was not at the Prince’s Mansion, which meant he must have been attending to something very important.
Lu Chen replied, “The potatoes are ripe; 1 just went to check on General Li and the others harvesting potatoes.”
At that, Chu Yuqin’s eyes lit up before she asked, “The same potatoes you gave us to eat before?”
Chu Yuqin and the other women of the inner court of the Prince’s Mansion had all seen potatoes and tasted them.
Chu Yuqin realized the importance of potatoes to North City after Lu Chen introduced them.
Lu Chen nodded at this time.
Chu Yuqin continued to ask, “How is the yield of those potatoes?”
Lu Chen replied, “Two thousand kilograms per acre.”
Upon hearing this answer, Chu Yuqin stood frozen in place. Although Lu Chen had mentioned before that the yield of potatoes would be substantial, she hadn’t expected it to be this high.
If potatoes could be widely adopted, the people of North City might never have to go hungry again, and the prestige of the North Prince would quickly rise.
Seeing Chu Yuqin astonished at the yield of the potatoes, Lu Chen said mysteriously, “Madam Chu, are you surprised? Wait, there’s something even more surprising coming for you.”
Before Lu Chen could finish, a trusted aide from the Prince’s Mansion rushed over and said, “Prince, Madam Chu, something terrible has happened.. A group of martial artists wearing strange clothes has arrived outside the Prince’s Mansion!”