Yipin Qiao Nongfei

Chapter 101

Xingchang was startled, and Liang Yuan also raised his head, only to see a thin and dry man in his sixties standing at the door of the store, looking at him nervously and excitedly.

"Yes, I am Liang Yuan, old man..."

Before finishing speaking, the man suddenly knelt on the ground, kowtowed and cried bitterly: "The calligraphy and painting shop of the little old man was favored by Tang Ming, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, because he had a few calligraphy and paintings of the former dynasty. His bid was too low. , I refused to sell, so he charged me with a crime and sent me to prison. He also took away the shop, and I waited to die in prison. Unexpectedly, half a year later, my injustice came, and the Yamen told me that luckily it was Mr. Liang Ge presided over the Beijing Examination and found out that Tang Ming was so corrupt that he had no time to take care of him, so I was able to survive. After he was arrested a few days ago, the government returned the shop to me after verification..."

Tang Ming was one of the few corrupt officials killed today, the old man told it tearfully, a trace of relief gradually emerged on Liang Yuan's face, he nodded and was about to say something, when the old man wiped away his tears, got up and went back to the shop, After a while, a brand new big bowl came out: "Old Liangge, I... I have nothing to thank you, my little old man. This is my daughter-in-law's almond tea, the recipe passed down from my family. You... would you like me to drink it?" bowl and go."

"Hey, that's not okay..."

Xingchang stepped forward to stop him, but Liang Yuan raised his hand to stop him, and he said with a smile: "It happens that I'm thirsty, thank you, old man." After speaking, he took the big bowl and drank it down.

This almond tea is actually a kind of fried noodles, but it is not as thick as fried noodles, but it is fragrant. After Liang Yuan drank a bowl, he couldn't help feeling relieved and admiring. He asked Xingchang to buy two packs of almond tea and keep it home Hey, he was chatting with the old man here, when he saw a horse flying towards him from a distance, a moment later a eunuch in red got off his horse, saluted and said: "Lord Liang, the emperor ordered you to enter the palace immediately."

"Understood. I'll go over now, and you give me the horse."

After saying goodbye to the old man, Xingchang adjusted the saddle for him, complaining: "Master, you are too bold, you dare to drink the tea given by a stranger, in case there is poison in it..."

"Okay, master, I've been through the world, and my eyes can't tell if I'm really grateful or I'm acting on the occasion. I don't know how many times I have died."

After speaking, he turned the saddle and got on the horse, and muttered: "You want to use me and guard against me, and you don't even have time to catch your breath. You owe it to your old Shen family in your previous life, right?"

While muttering, it was like flying a horse. Anyway, everyone was watching the fun at Caishikou, and there was no one on this road, so don't delay riding on horseback.

After a while, when he came to the palace gate, someone came forward to wait for him to dismount, a middle-aged eunuch smiled and led him to the imperial study room, and after he announced loudly, he heard the emperor's voice: "Come in.

Liang Yuan walked in without waiting for the eunuchs to finish shouting. The emperor was looking at a memorial in his hand, with a rare look of joy on his face.

Liang Yuan was about to salute, when the emperor waved his hand: "Okay, for the sake of your return today, you can be spared."

Liang Yuan shook his head and smiled wryly: "Your majesty, do you know that I am going to be executed today? Look at your appearance, you don't know, you think I went to select talented people for the court. Anyway, I am a veteran for many years, you just No heartache?"

"It's just a few moths. It's my kindness to keep them until today." The emperor didn't care at all, and then squinted at him: "Why? That's your colleague for many years. Could it be that you still couldn't bear it when you were beheaded?"

"I only hate myself for being incompetent, but I left them until this time." Liang Yuan snorted coldly, thought for a while and smiled bitterly: "But you are still superior to me, the emperor. I am still heartbroken by the death of Lou, but you It seems to have been forgotten."

The emperor's face froze, and he suddenly said coldly: "At that time, the crowd was raging, Jiang Louyue had to die, and there was nothing I could do. Otherwise, how could things go so smoothly afterwards? Liang Yuan, it's been ten years, and you still think about this Can't let go of things?"

"I can't let go of it for the rest of my life." Liang Yuan sighed: "I can't compare to the emperor, you are the emperor, and you are decisive. I'm afraid you will have let go of it when the fire started, right?"

"Times have changed, why are you still entangled with these?" The emperor looked away: "Back then, he advocated banning the sea, punishing and killing Jiang Louyue's old ministers, the dead, the sick, the old, the old, the old, the exiled, what else do you want?"

"Yes. I can't do anything more."

Liang Yuan sighed, and then looked at the emperor sharply: "But your majesty, you can forget about A Lou, but you must not forget the ambitions of the three of us back then."

"Nonsense." The emperor slapped the memorial on the table: "Why do you think I am happy on this day? Well, take it and have a look. It was sent back by the mission you sent to Nanyang. It is fertile and the crops are very easy to mature, but the local people are so lazy, if we can send some people to move south and teach them to plow the wasteland, why worry that it can't become the granary of Daxia?"

"is it?"

Liang Yuan's eyes lit up. The emperor ordered the eunuch to take the memorial. He took it with both hands. For rice, the climate in Nanyang is warmer and hotter than it, and it may be possible to produce three crops of rice a year, which is really great.”

After finishing speaking, he shook his head with regret: "It's a pity that there are no good seeds now. Da Si Nong has devoted his whole life to cultivating rice and wheat seeds, and the yield has not increased much."

The emperor said leisurely: "Don't be too greedy. It's so easy to increase the grain output? It's so easy. For thousands of years, the world can't run out of grain. How can it be like now, when it is said that it is a peaceful and prosperous age, but the result is still unknown. People don't even have enough food and clothing, and even had to ban the sea in the end..."

Liang Yuan closed the memorial and said in a deep voice: "Since there are no good varieties in the local area, why not seek them out? I remember that A Lou told me that he once chatted with a missionary and said that there is a sweet potato overseas. It is delicious, and the harvest is guaranteed in drought and flood. He has eaten it before, but unfortunately the missionary does not know how to plant it. Over the years, I have ordered people to search everywhere. Occasionally, some missionaries know about sweet potatoes, but they have no seeds and do not know how to plant them. Now there is land in Nanyang, Your Majesty , why don't we do both? Search for good seeds, as long as the grain output is sufficient, we can free up more land to plant other crops, and by then, opening the sea will not be in the foreseeable future."

The emperor looked deeply at Liang Yuan, and sighed: "A promise is worth a lifetime. Liang Yuan, three points of your sincerity, bastard, except for your dead mother-in-law, the remaining two points, probably all given to Jiang Louyue. "

"This is nonsense." Liang Yuan sternly retorted: "How can I only get three points of sincerity? At least I have four points, three points for Hui Niang and A Lou, and one point for the emperor and the court."

Emperor: ... "Do I still have to thank you? Anyway, I still have a little sincerity, and I will share it with the court."

(End of this chapter)