"I-I confess too!"
"The abundant harvest is all thanks to Your Majesty! We should never have stolen the divine treasure from Shanglin Garden!"
As they spoke, they kept slapping themselves across the face.
An unnatural expression crept onto Zi Shou's face. What divine treasure was there in Shanglin Garden? Other than the Palace Market, there were only the Palace Fields...
But with the abundant harvest thrown into the mix, the answer was clear: the manure fertilizer in the Palace Fields.
Of all the things you could steal, you stole shit?
Zi Shou understood everything now. The abundant harvest really did have something to do with him. After stealing the manure fertilizer, these two farmers had probably treated it as a divine treasure. Commoners believed in such things more than anything, so it had eventually spread everywhere. With manure fertilizer, increased yields were perfectly normal.
How could the court ministers not even know about this? Had the Dark Phoenix Guard farming in Shanglin Garden concealed it too?
They actually deceived their superiors and kept their subordinates in the dark! If not for today, how much longer would I have been kept in the dark?
Suddenly, the corner of Zi Shou's mouth twitched. Wasn't it a good thing that his ministers were deceiving their superiors and concealing things from their subordinates?
It proves their incompetence and selfishness! That's what useless ministers do!
But what am I supposed to do about this now?
Zhang San and Li Si were bawling for their fathers and mothers at the tops of their lungs, almost as loudly as the chime-bell amplifier he carried. The farmers and commoners below had all heard them.
"The divine treasure actually came from His Majesty?!"
All the commoners found it hard to believe. They had thought a divine treasure had descended