More than half a month passed, and the five counties successively submitted their required numbers for lotus root seeds, right on the deadline set by Zhao Yan.
The numbers were written in black and white, but no matter how Zhao Yan looked at them, he was dissatisfied.
The quantity of lotus root seeds requested by the five counties amounted to only a third of what he had bought back, and even that had barely been scraped together.
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