Official Wu wasn’t one of those people who only knew how to study. Prior to passing the court examinations, he had been with his family’s tenant farmers and personally helped his family manage their rice paddies. On the year he turned forty, he gave himself a goal. If he was unable to pass the exams again, then he would completely renounce his studies and spend the rest of his life experimenting with the rice paddy fields to get higher yields. After becoming a court official, he was also very interested in agricultural management and often traveled to farming villages, living and eating with these people, and becoming more experienced in the ways of farming. Because of that, the experimental paddies in Jinling had been put under his jurisdiction and he had also been promoted two levels. 

When he saw the methods that Xiaocao gave him, he was struck silly. He even struck the table in amazement when he reached the main point. Many things that had puzzled him in the past were now completely clear to him after he read the great imperial envoy’s writings on the topic. It was no wonder that the emperor had placed so much importance on a mere woman. She really was more knowledgeable and talented than others! The emperor truly was a wise and capable ruler! 

If Yu Xiaocao had known that Official Wu saw her in this way, she would have felt quite embarrassed. The things she had written down were all...