Great Tang princess

Chapter 101 The Sown Seed

After a lot of effort, Li Zhi finally picked up his daughter.

Feeling her weight, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, it seems that I am really old...

But the melancholy in her heart didn't show on her face, she just looked at her daughter and smiled: "Chen'er don't need to be sad about this, the reincarnation of the world is just like that."

"Your Majesty..." Wu Zetian wanted to say something, but he stopped him by shaking his head.

Li Zhi carried her to the Hall of Renshou, Wu Zetian followed beside him, and couldn't help feeling a little melancholy in his heart.

"Although that is the case, I only realized it in recent years." Li Zhi said to his daughter with a smile, "At the beginning, I thought about taking elixir and wanting to live forever!"

"Looking back and thinking about it carefully, if there is really an elixir of life in this world, what is the meaning to me? I can only watch my wife die, my child die, and my grandchildren..."

Li Zhi had a relieved smile on his face: "At least from this point, I think I have surpassed the late emperor!"

Li Yuechen leaned his head on his shoulder and said in a low voice: "In my child's eyes, grandpa has already surpassed the late emperor!"

Wu Zetian next to him also smiled: "From my point of view, it's the same. The territory has surpassed before. Now that Chen'er has increased the grain production, besides researching so many novelties, there will be more money in the future..."

Hearing what his wife said, Li Zhi nodded, as if it was true.

Calculated in this way, whether it is the territory, the economy, or the food industry, it has indeed surpassed the Zhenguan Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Li Zhi smiled even wider: "That's right."

Thinking about it in this way, his ideal of surpassing the late emperor was realized here!
"Since that's the case, I feel that Your Majesty might as well change his title." Wu Zetian said suddenly, "How about the Emperor?"

"Yeah." Li Zhi nodded, "That's right, the emperor and the empress, speaking of it, can just avoid being called the first emperor and the first."

ha?WTF?

Li Yuechen who was being hugged by Li Zhi suddenly raised his head, not understanding why the topic suddenly came here?
These two middle-aged and second diseases in the elderly really think that one is one and the other is one!

Feeling that Li Zhi's arms were trembling a little, Li Yuechen took the initiative to get off of him.

Putting down his daughter, Li Zhi thought in his heart that he might not be able to hug her at all next year.

A trace of reluctance suddenly appeared in my heart, and I suddenly said: "Come on, Chen'er, come on your back!"

"Young slaves, don't mess around!" Wu Zetian advised, "How can you carry her behind your back?"

"Why can't my daughter carry it?" Li Zhi asked back, then squatted down, "Chen'er, come here!"

The strength on the back is naturally much stronger than that of the arms, and Li Yuechen is not hypocritical, lying directly on Li Zhi's back, letting him carry her on his back.

After carrying his daughter on his back, Li Zhi smiled, "It's okay, I can still carry her back without much effort.

The family of three returned to Renshou Hall while chatting.

Wu Zetian continued to criticize the memorial, Li Zhi played with his daughter for a while, and Li Yuechen left after lunch.

……

Although the heat of June is over, the weather in July is still hot.

Li Yuechen took Shangguan Wan'er and two older sisters to go swimming in the Kyushu Pool after nothing happened.

Princess Xuancheng seems to be more talented in this area and has already started to learn freestyle.

Princess Yiyang and Shangguan Wan'er are different. They don't seem to have much athletic talent, and their breaststroke skills are average.

Even the usual hobbies are basically playing chess and drawing, very quiet.

To be honest, Li Yuechen really likes their hobbies, but let's talk about it in the next life.

If you can travel back after dying here, maybe you can consider learning poetry and music.

After swimming with them for a while, feeling a little tired, Li Yuechen came to the Liuli Pavilion on the shore, intending to have a drink and rest.

Just in time to see Fulai trotting in all the way, he sat on the railing and waited for him to come, and squeezed out the water from his hair by the way.

When he came to Liuli Pavilion, Fulai bowed and saluted: "Your Highness, the matter at the Royal Manor outside the city has been resolved."

"Oh, together or apart?" Li Yuechen asked.

Some time ago, Li Zhi promised her to continue the food experiment in the Royal Farm, but he didn't know if these lands were all together.

"Together." Fulai replied, "In addition, manpower and fertilizers are also ready."

Li Yuechen nodded: "Okay, it's getting late today, let's go and have a look tomorrow. Let's go down."

"Here!"

After lunch the next day, Li Yuechen couldn't wait to get on the carriage and head to the Royal Farm outside the city.

This farm is not small, and it's not too close to Luoyang City. It took about half an hour to get there after leaving the city.

After getting off the car, I found that this place is just a village, and all the people who live here work for the royal family.

The village chief was an old man with gray hair, and he was waiting at the entrance of the village with the men, women and children of the village.

Seeing Li Yuechen coming, he quickly came over to salute: "I have seen Your Highness!"

"Excuse me." Li Yuechen came over and raised his hand, "Old man, are there any literate people in the village?"

"Returning to Your Highness, the village has been farmers for generations, and there are no literate people."

This answer couldn't help but made Li Yuechen sigh. Although he had expected it, it was really troublesome.

Although I expected this group of people to do experimental farming for me, I couldn't even read the words, and it was a bit troublesome to teach.

But there is no way, come on a little bit.

So he waved his hand to let everyone go back to the village, and announced to them in the courtyard: "I think you all know the purpose of my visit. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them!"

The village chief took a step forward, saluted and asked, "Dare to ask Your Highness, if the research on crops here fails, wouldn't it mean that there will be no harvest for a year?"

"Don't worry about this matter, can I still starve you? Even if you fail and have no harvest, I will guarantee that you will be fed and clothed!" Li Yuechen smiled, "Besides, if you have surplus food on weekdays, you can only Take them to sell in the city, during this period, I will naturally pay you wages! Don’t worry about survival.”

Hearing her words, both the village head and the village names all had happy expressions on their faces.

In the past, farming did not have surplus food every year, but now it is much better to pay wages than unstable farming.

Li Yuechen wasn't worried that they would take the opportunity to be lazy, they didn't have the guts at all.

Then he followed the village chief to look at the fertilizers that had been collected. Li Yuechen explained to them how to mix the fertilizers, and then said: "In addition to what I said, you can also try other fertilizers on the extra open space. method, if you can develop a new fertilizer formula, I will still give you a big reward!"

The village head and others nodded to express their understanding.

After talking about the fertilizer ratios that they know, let them try to do a controlled experiment with different planting densities under the same fertilizer to find the best planting method.

In addition to that, try different crops to see which one is the most suitable, etc...

Fortunately, although these people were illiterate, they were all experienced old farmers, and they could understand what she explained.

After explaining everything, the village head and others repeated several times, and after confirming that there was no problem, Li Yuechen was also relieved.

Thinking that since they are all here, they are not in a hurry to go back, so they plan to see for themselves in the village.

And the village head has arranged for people to start trying, to see if there is any mistake before His Highness leaves.

Unknowingly came to the courtyard of the village, Fulai flattered in a low voice: "Today, the servants have opened their eyes. I didn't expect that there is so much knowledge about farming."

But Li Yuechen shook his head: "That's how much... I'm just a drop in the bucket. If I understand all the knowledge here, I can scare many people to death this year."

"Yes yes yes..." Fulai thought she was being self-effacing and answered quite casually.

Li Yuechen didn't bother to explain anything about it, anyway, he couldn't understand the explanation, so he could only shake his head and let him make up his mind.

At this moment, Li Yuechen turned his head inadvertently, and saw the children in the village in the distance gathering together, looking enviously at the gorgeous clothes on his body.

Most of these children are as thin as hemp sticks, and their clothes are very old, and some places even have holes.

The only thing that is better is that it is not far from the tributary of Luoshui River, and I can go to the river to take a dip every day, and my body is relatively clean.

Seeing this scene, Li Yuechen felt a little pity. These children have no chance to stand up when they grow up. They can only nest in this small village for the rest of their lives, and then marry their peers in other villages, have a few children, and live their lives numbly. .

She thought about her previous thoughts again. After her master Li Chunfeng passed away, Li Yuechen thought about opening an orphanage or a compulsory school for children from poor families to study.

Now this idea comes to mind again, but the problem is... she doesn't have that much money now.

It costs money to open a school. It is easy to find a place, but the problem is to teach them to learn, and there must be paper and pen.

Paper in this era is not cheap, and it is a high-cost thing to really want to teach these children to read.

Just when I was feeling pity in my heart, I suddenly thought of something, raised my head and said, "Go find some charcoal sticks."

Fulai agreed, and waved his hand to let the guard next to him hurry to find him.

Li Yuechen came to the earth wall outside a thatched house, raised his hand and groped on the wall twice.

There are some cracks in the walls, which is inevitable, but overall, the quality is OK.

Although it is a bit brittle, it should be able to withstand the sliding of a charcoal pencil on it. After all, it is just to write a word. How much strength can I use?
After a while, the prison guard found some burnt charcoal sticks and came back. Li Yuechen took out one and wrote one, two, three... until ten on the wall.

Looking at the clear handwriting on the wall, Li Yuechen nodded with a smile, turned around and waved to the dozen or so children: "Come here!"

Several children were a bit timid and did not dare to come over, but a slightly older child took the lead and walked over, saluted and said: "Your Highness, forgive me, they are still young, and they are a little shy."

"No problem." Li Yuechen smiled and waved, "Come on, come here!"

Children are actually very good looking. In their view, good-looking people are very kind.

Seeing Li Yuechen's easy-going smile, they all moved to her side.

"Your Highness, this..." Fulai wanted to stop it, but she waved her hand to stop it.

Li Yuechen pointed to the ten words on the wall: "Read after me, one!"

The children froze in place, looking at each other, not knowing what this meant.

It was the older child who waved his hand to remind them, and was the first to open his mouth and read along: "One!"

Only then did the children speak at the same time: "One!"

Li Yuechen moved his finger back a little: "Two!"

This time the children behaved well, and they all followed suit: "Two!"

After teaching them to read the ten characters, Li Yuechen smiled: "These ten characters, each of you take charcoal strips and write them on the wall until you remember them! From now on, I will come here every five days Teach you ten words."

The child who took the lead asked, "I don't know what your Highness means? We are all farmers, and we are not qualified to learn words..."

"Wrong! It's not that I'm not qualified, it's that I have no capital!" Li Yuechen shook his head with a smile, "Because you can't afford paper and pens, and you can't afford to hire a teacher. I will teach you this today. If you learn something well one day, you can help me Once the Great Tang has made great achievements, he will be able to live a good life."

The child on the opposite side had doubts on his face: "But I can't fight the enemy, and I can't..."

"The so-called meritorious deeds do not necessarily have to go to battle to kill the enemy or become an extremely human minister." Li Yuechen shook his head, "If you can double the grain production one day, it will be a great contribution! No matter what kind of industry, as long as you are Anything that is good for Datang is a great achievement!"

Seeing the child opposite him, who was about the same age as him, nodded, Li Yuechen showed a smile: "As promised, I will come to check after five days, but you must remember these ten words carefully!"

"Yes!" The other party solemnly agreed.

"Do you have a name?"

"The villain's name is Boss Zhang!"

Hearing this name, Li Yuechen couldn't help grinning: "Good name!"

Looking up at the sky, it's not too early, and it's almost time to go.

However, as soon as she turned around, she saw many middle-aged men and women knelt down and kowtowed to her.

"What are you doing?" Li Yuechen ran two quick steps and came in front of them and asked.

A middle-aged woman raised her head with red eyes: "Minister Xie Your Highness for imparting knowledge! This great kindness will never be forgotten!"

The others also expressed their thanks one after another, saying various words of thanks.

Li Yuechen breathed a sigh of relief, and raised his hand: "Okay, excuse me! Fulai, go back to the palace!"

"Here!"

The carriage staggered away, and the parents of those children still saluted the carriage: "Respectfully, Your Highness!"

Hearing the voice behind, Li Yuechen couldn't help grinning.

Fulai couldn't help but wondered: "Why is your Highness doing this? Even if you teach them how to read, there are no books to read, it's useless."

Li Yuechen leaned on the carriage, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Then why not make a bet, how about just one money?"

"Okay, servant girl!" Fu Lai nodded.

Anyway, it's just a Kaiyuan Tongbao. If you win, it's a reward from His Royal Highness, and it doesn't matter if you lose.

Li Yuechen muttered to himself: "These are the seeds I sprinkled here. If you are lucky, maybe one of them will become a towering tree in the future..."

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