After the trade fair concluded, Zhao Yao busied himself by going into the fields to inspect, because in a short time, it would be time to harvest the early rice. He needed to carefully examine the conditions of the early rice before the harvesting began.
The general condition of this year's early rice was quite good. This was because, under Zhao Yao's suggestion, the people of Swamp Prefecture started raising fish in the rice fields, resulting in remarkably well-grown rice this year. Naturally, the fish had grown plump as well.
Initially, when Zhao Yao proposed this idea, the people of Swamp Prefecture couldn't understand it and thought it was ridiculous. How could fish be raised in rice fields? The fish would eat the rice seedlings.
