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In many cases, some earth-shattering events that happened in the court have less relationship with the common people than everyone imagined.

Whether it is a loyal minister who was wrongfully killed, or a female cadre minister who was bloody liquidated, it is nothing more than a talk when it comes to the common people.

Because, whether they are loyal ministers or female cadres, they are not in the same class as the common people, or even in the same world.

So, the next day Yunchu took the officials of Wannian County to the countryside to supervise such a big event as farming.

When he was about to leave the city gate, Yunchu saw gray-haired Li Keshi near the notice board next to the city gate.

I didn't see the whole picture of Li Keshi, because only one head was displayed in a wooden cage, and the body was unknown. There were two young men crying mournfully underneath, and the soldiers guarding the city gate were still considerate. A ladder was given to the two young men.

Whisper them how to steal heads after dark, and they'll pretend not to see.

This has nothing to do with Li Keshi being loyal or female, it's just the decency a person must have after death.

Tang people have always been magnanimous to the dead. Even if they committed a major crime of slaughtering nine clans, even if they were beheaded, the only remaining relatives and friends stole the corpse that was supposed to be exposed for three days and buried it quietly without being questioned.

This is the importance of filial piety. They naturally think that "relaxing relatives" is human nature, and since it is nature, it cannot be erased.

Li Keshi's head did not reveal the power and influence of the Duke of Danyang, and the unlucky look on his face after death, he did not have the arrogance of beard and hair, let alone the arrogance of Zhang Fei's angry eyes after his death. Bitter phase.

Seeing Master Li's unlucky appearance, Yun Chu became more determined that he would never participate in the dispute between Li Zhi and Wu Mei, even if he was beaten to death. Maybe this guy asked for Master Li's death, but Well, when Shangguanyi dies, it will chill the hearts of many people who want to participate in the relationship between the emperor and queen.

There should be no trees in the fields!
If the tree grows too large, it will affect a large area of ​​farmland. Even the shade of the tree will affect the growth of crops, not to mention that this thing will attract birds to eat the crops, and it will bring pests and affect the crops.

At this time, the endless farmland without any shelter except the house is the real good farmland.

The food in Wannian County is always not enough. Every year, it buys a lot of food from other counties in Guanzhong, and also buys a lot of food from the fertile land of Longyou.

It can be said that the largest commodity purchased by Wannian County is grain. This is also the first time in Chang'an City with a large population that there has been no major reform in allocating grain from places such as southeast and Hebei.

In the past few years, if the emperor hadn't strongly supported Yunchu's grain reform plan, the little Yunchu would not have been able to withstand the oppression of the Ministry of Household Affairs, let alone buy grain spontaneously nearby.

In the process of transporting grain from Dong'an, Hebei, and Shandong to Chang'an, there are too many stakeholders.

The distance to transport the grain itself is long, and the price of grain has been increased layer by layer. As a result, the price of grain allocated by the Ministry of Households in Wannian County far exceeds the price that they spontaneously buy nearby. For the price of one catty of grain, you can buy four catties of grain nearby. …

Although Yunchu did not intentionally control the grain price in Chang'an in the past few years, which caused the grain price in Chang'an to increase by [-]%, but the income of the people in Guanzhong from growing grain has increased by a full [-]%.

Nowadays, there is no cotton to grow, and the big guys sum it up, the food growers are actually pretty good, but there is no government to escort them.

The good days of guaranteed harvest due to drought and flood have finally become a thing of the past with the cotton being cut off, but people seem to have little objection.

A real Guanzhong farmer will panic if there are no crops growing in the field.

Both Yunchu and Wenrou are busy in the farmland they manage. Planting cotton these years is not without other benefits. At least it has given the over-planted land in the two counties a chance to cultivate, and the saline-alkali land has been reduced by more than [-]% compared with before.

These are all changes brought about by planting cotton, because planting cotton is profitable

Langao, people will spend money and manpower to improve saline-alkali land.

Now Wannian County's farmland area has doubled compared to when Yunchu first took over Wannian County.

The increase in agricultural land is a good thing, but it also shows from another aspect that the land potential of Wannian County has been exhausted.

In recent years, Wannian Chang'an County has invested more than [-] guan in high-quality seeds. The investment in water conservancy facilities is not counted as corvee investment, and the investment in money alone exceeds [-] guan.

If it is true, as the Doctor of Agriculture from Sinong Temple said, the increased grain production in the field will definitely be able to smooth out the two investments by next year's autumn harvest at the latest.

The data obtained by Dr. Sinongsi from the experimental fields and the reasonable planting methods were all used by Yunchu in the planting of autumn grain this time.

It's not that Yunchu doesn't believe in the old farmers in Guanzhong, but because they always follow the ancient planting methods, and they are still unwilling to change until today.

The way they grow crops is still the same way that Shang Yang used sticks and knives to force him to adapt.

Therefore, Yunchu also prepared sticks this time. Fortunately, the people in Datang were not as stubborn as in the Western Qin Dynasty. They chose to trust their county lords. One set is used in the cultivation of my own farmland.

The doctors of Sinong Temple now like to show some new farming things to Yunchu. They know that the young county magistrate likes new things, and they will give corresponding rewards for the usefulness of new things.

Then, Yunchu saw Qu Yuanli!

"Xianzun, this is Jiang Dongli. Don't look at the twists and turns of this thing, but it saves animal power."

"Look, first of all, the straight shaft and the long shaft are changed to curved shafts and short shafts. The direct benefit of this is that the curved shafts are placed on the front blades of the cattle, which is convenient for the animals to exert force."

"A free-rotating plow disc is also installed on the shaft head, which not only makes the plow frame smaller and lighter, but also facilitates turning and turning. The operation is flexible. One person and one ox can plow the land, saving a lot of manpower and animal power for the county lords."

Although Yunchu was born as a farmer, to be honest, he has never farmed since he was a child. Although Quyuanli is very important in the history books, he did not expect this thing to appear in the Tang Dynasty. …

And it appeared so directly.

"Why didn't you take it out earlier?" Yun Chu looked at Qu Yuanli in front of him, and asked the doctor of agriculture weakly.

"Didn't the county lord use the new plowshare from our Wannian County before? That thing is also good, and the county lord even reported it to Sinong Temple, and the low-ranking people thought that the county lord didn't like this kind of Jiangdong plowshare."

Yunchu was speechless. The plowshare used in Wannian County before was the plowshare that Yunchu had already asked someone to improve. It is not as good as the Quyuanli in front of me.

Jiangdong plow has been used in Jiangdong for hundreds of years. It can be said that this thing has been optimized to the extreme by farmers in the process of using it. You can tell the good from the bad just by looking at it.

A good plow must first be light in weight, easy to use, and save manpower and animal power. None of these advantages are shown in the Quyuan plow. The most important point is that the plow used by Yunchu is too heavy. much iron.

No matter what, as long as it's a good thing, it's never too late.

The number of livestock in the two counties of Wannian and Chang'an was the largest in the Tang Dynasty, so in the field, Yunchu saw oxen, donkeys, mules, draft horses, and even camels pulling plows to plow the land.

After Yunchu stayed in the countryside for ten days, all the autumn grain in Wannian County had already been planted.

At this time, the main summer grain wheat in Guanzhong has been harvested. Although Wannian County has not planted a single wheat this year, the warehouses in their county have the most new wheat.

Every year when Wannian County releases old grain from the warehouse, it is a carnival day for the people of Chang'an City.

This is the only chance for them to buy cheap grain from the market every year. The grain price during this period is only [-]% of the price of the grain in the Changping warehouse of the Tang Dynasty.

For Wannian County, the

Because the original price is in and the original price is out, which greatly benefits the people, Wannian County has swallowed the cost of storage and transportation by itself.

The large-scale release of old grain in Wannian County has played a role in lowering the price of grain to a certain extent. At this time of year, the high-priced grain transported by the Ministry of Households from far away through the canal is basically no one cares.

Yunchu basically can't go to the Ministry of Accounts to do business now, and once he goes there, he will always be greeted with cynicism.

Now he only hopes that these oily guys can go to Luoyang as soon as possible. If they can't see them, they won't have any bad feelings.

Di Renjie and Wen Wen have not stopped those corrupt officials in recent years. Unfortunately, no matter how diligent the two of them are, they see more and more corrupt officials in their eyes.

Early in the morning, when it was raining lightly, Yunchu wore a coir raincoat and went to the Wannian County Granary. Today is the opening day of the main granary.

There are 30 tans of grain that will be released at a one-time parity price, but this time the target of the grain release is not the common people, but merchants.

The cheap food purchased by the common people has been distributed according to the market as a whole. The common people bought it from the head of the village and the head of the square with their household registration.

The purpose of distributing cheap food to merchants is to benefit the migrant workers who work under the merchants.

All these grains are rations, and they are not sold by merchants. The merchants are also very clear about this. Except for a few guys who are greedy for profit, few people use cheap grain to do other things, because once If it is discovered, it will be fined by the government and ruined. …

After finishing these things, the time has come to July unknowingly.

Yunchu always thought that Chang'an in July was not suitable for people to live in. In the scorching weather, people slept on the roof.

Also stripped naked, no matter what, it is very unsightly.

The houses that people in Chang'an live in are mostly adobe houses, the ones that lean on one side, also known as half-side houses.

Yu Xiurong, who already had a big stomach, wiped off his sweat with a wet towel and yelled at Yun Chu, "I should sleep on the roof too, the kind of shit"

Yun Chu only had a pair of shorts all over his body, and he fanned Yu Xiurong vigorously, hoping that this woman who had become violent due to the heat would calm down.

There was an iceberg in the house where Naha and the others lived, and Yu Xiurong couldn't get close to the iceberg because of her pregnancy, so Yunchu had to share the fate with his wife.

"You can fuck in this room too"

"I don't, I'm going to stand on the roof and fuck." Yu Xiurong, who was about to faint from the heat, had no idea what she was talking about at this time.

"Tomorrow, as soon as the gate of the city is opened tomorrow, I will send you to Bashang to escape the summer heat, where the terrain is high, the wind is strong, and it is cool."

"No, you should send me to your hometown, Chencang County. I heard that it is cold at night and you need to wear a padded jacket."

What he said was completely unreasonable, Yunchu himself didn't know where his hometown was, and the hometown of Chencang County was filled in casually when he was in the Western Regions to avoid future troubles.

"Why don't I ask someone to fetch some well water to clean your body?"

"Get out, I'm pregnant, dare to be hot and cold for a while?"

Yunchu knew that this method would not work, and Yu Xiurong followed the regimen for pregnant women more strictly than he did.

Anyone who has lived in Chang'an City knows that there is basically no wind in Chang'an City. The most desperate thing is that the hotter the weather, the less wind there is in the sky.

Even in the middle of the night, the heat in Chang'an City is not much different from that in the daytime. On the contrary, because the earth absorbs heat during the day and releases heat at night, it will become more humid and hot. After a while, people's bodies will be sticky, which is very attractive to mosquitoes. .

As for fanning, it can't dissipate heat, because once you stop fanning, your body will become a heat sink, scorching hot, and you can't wait to peel off your skin to cool off.

There was no other way, Yunchu had no choice but to use warm water over and over again to help Yu Xiurong cool down...

No matter who it is, taking ten baths a night can't bear it, whether it's Yu Xiurong who is being bathed or Yun Chu who is in charge of bathing.

When the sky was about to dawn, the earth finally stopped radiating heat, coupled with such a slight breeze, Yu Xiurong, who was extremely sleepy, finally fell asleep.

Yun Chu lost his sleepiness, and sat at the door in his underpants, guarding the screen door, lest mosquitoes would come in and disturb Yu Xiurong's sleep.

Because it was the beginning of the month, the moon could not be seen, and the stars in the sky could not illuminate the earth. Yun Chu vigorously shook the cattail fan, fanning the wind while driving away mosquitoes.

At this moment, he actually saw someone climbing the wall of the inner house, and the one outside the high wall was Fei Jiu.

Yun Chu, who originally wanted to kick the guy who climbed the wall to death, immediately thought that at this time, there was only one person who was still climbing the wall of the inner house with the help of Fei Jiu, and that was Cui Yao. …

This woman obviously doesn't love Fat Jiu anymore, Cui Yao described it very clearly, and others can see it clearly.

But Cui Yao desperately wants to have one, or several children.

This made Yunchu think that he had hired the wrong teacher of etiquette.

However, Cui Yao told Yunchu that the etiquette teacher's first consideration is the survival of human beings, that is to say, it is the vocation of the etiquette teacher to have children, and only when there are children can we talk about etiquette.

A woman who has never given birth to a child is definitely not a good moral nun. She wanted to have a child before, but it is a pity that she can't just find a man to have a child. This is not in line with her ethical concepts.

Otherwise, the name of the child born will not be justified, such a child will not be blessed by heaven and earth, and even if he will achieve something in the future, it will be deformed and incomplete.

She used to think that it was impossible for her to have her own children in her life, but she saw her former husband in Yun's.

Now she can give birth to a child happily and aboveboard.

Every child born will be the darling of heaven and earth.

Watching Cui Yao skillfully put away the light bamboo ladder from the other side of the wall, and then put it on this side, stepped down the ladder skillfully, then put the ladder down and hid it behind the flower bed.

Clapping his hands, he entered the room where she lived.

Yun Chu covered his mouth and laughed, Yu Xiurong's hot body leaned on his shoulder and said, "Don't look, they are together every night."

Yun Chu looked at Yu Xiurong and said, "Didn't you fall asleep?"

Yu Xiurong shook his head and said, "I don't want to worry you, I just pretended to sleep."

He pointed to a ray of light in the sky and said, "Look, today is another bad day with no clouds in the sky. I'm afraid it will be hotter at night. Let's pack up now and go to Bashang's Bieye to escape the summer heat. It's too early , I can sleep a little longer"

When the sky just dawned, Yunchu carried the sleeping children into the carriage and prepared to leave Chang'an, the big furnace.

After leaving Fangshi, it was discovered that the Yun family was not the only one who had the same idea. Before the city gate was opened, Suzaku Street was crowded with cars.

The most important one was actually the emperor's Luanjia, followed by tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. After asking the deputy general of the Jinwu Guard who accompanied him, he found out that the emperor left Chang'an City this time, not for Qujiang, but for Jiucheng Palace.

"Didn't Your Majesty say that the Jiucheng Palace is not good for his passing years?"

Lieutenant General Liu Jinding, who was sweating profusely in the heat early in the morning because of wearing armor, said, "Chang'an cannot be lived. Your Majesty is not heat-resistant. If you continue to live, you may suffer from the heat."

"You have cut down all the trees in Qujiang. There is no shelter there, and there is plenty of water. It is a good place to raise mosquitoes. If your majesty doesn't go to Jiucheng Palace, why don't you go to the Qinling Mountains?"

"Yunhou, what's wrong with Chang'an City this year? It can freeze people to death in winter and heat them to death in summer. Isn't it the right time?"

Yun Chu smiled and said, "That's Si Tianjian's job."

"Don't mention Sitianjian, three old Taoists in Sitianjian were killed by the queen, who dares to talk nonsense now?"

Liu Jinding said in a low voice.

Yun Chu looked back, but didn't see the chariots and horses of civil and military officials, so he asked cautiously, "Why don't you see the many courtiers accompanying you?" …

Liu Jinding looked at Yun Chu and said, "This time, the officials did not accompany them, so they took the secretary and supervisor with them."

This is the first time for the prince to supervise the country."

Hearing these words, Yunchu felt as if he had been hit by a thunderbolt. It took him a while to wake up. He bid farewell to Liu Jinding, took his family's motorcade, and left Suzaku Avenue. Jokes go the same way as cattle and sheep, and they don't want to follow the emperor to go Mingde.

For such an important matter as the crown prince supervising the country, the court didn't say it clearly. The emperor and queen just left Chang'an so casually and went straight to Jiucheng Palace, which is three hundred miles away. God knows what they want to do.

Li Hong did not inform Yunchu of this news, obviously it was not Li Hong's original intention, it should be the emperor's arrangement with the empress.

Not knowing what the emperor and empress wanted to do, Yunchu still felt that it was best not to see Li Hong during this time.

Li Yifu returned to Chang'an four days ago...

Because it is hot summer, fewer pigs, cattle and sheep are transported to the city through Qixia Gate, but the place is still smelly.

The Qixia Gate also opened earlier than the Mingde Gate, so when Yunchu's family's convoy had already set out on the main road, the emperor's car had not yet left the Mingde Gate.

Behind Yu Xiurong's carriage was the children's carriage. They hadn't woken up yet, but the old monkey, who always slept, woke up instead, sitting cross-legged behind the shaft, looking behind the carriage for some reason.

After slowing down his horse and approaching the old monkey, Yunchu said, "It's Yin Erhu and the others, and Zhang Jia and the others are exploring the way ahead."

The old monkey said, "That Sulaiman you caught, what did you say?"

Yun Chu smiled and said, "He is here to destroy your Buddhist kingdom."

The old monkey looked at Yunchu and said, "It's here to destroy Naha's Buddhist kingdom, why aren't you worried at all?"

Yunchu sat up straight and said, "If the big cannibal wants to enter the territory of Zhaowu's nine surnames to preach, he must first ask the Anxi Army of the Tang Dynasty whether he agrees or not."

The old monkey coughed and said, "Have you heard of the Sassanid Kingdom?"

Yun Chu nodded and said, "It's a big Persian country. It was annexed by the Great Food Kingdom during the Yonghui period. What's wrong?"

The old monkey said, "If you come to Qiyun Temple and see a Persian prince named Beluz, don't be surprised."

Yun Chu sneered and said, "Persian Sassanid has perished, this prince is not in the Sassanid Kingdom to resist the big cannibals and plot to restore the country, what is he doing in Chang'an?"

The old monkey said with a smile, "He came to Chang'an just to hope that the Great Tang would lend him troops so that he could drive away the big cannibals and restore the former glory of the Sasanian kingdom."

Yun Chu said, "It's not that the frontier army of the Tang Dynasty can't lend it to him. The question is what kind of reward can he offer to impress the emperor and allow the soldiers and horses of the Anxi army to cross the plateau to help him fight against the big cannibals?"

The old monkey laughed and said, "Helping Sasan is to guard the frontier of the Tang Dynasty."

Yunchu laughed and said, "It's not enough for you to know this reason. Not to mention that the Sassanid Kingdom is too far away from the Tang Dynasty, their kingdom has perished. If the Tang army can defeat the Great Cannibal, why not build a Persian capital there?" Where's the guard house?"...

The old monkey said, "Other Tang people can say that, but you can't, because that piece of land is very important to your sister."

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "That didn't make the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty travel thousands of miles to fight in a strange place. If they died there, their bones would not be able to return home. Forget about it.

Helping you deal with the affairs of the Shi Kingdom is the limit of what I can do. With Chang'an as my back, I am invincible. If I go to the Western Regions, what I can do is very limited. You shouldn't have too high expectations of me. Require"

The old monkey sighed, closed his eyes, and got into the carriage, looking very disappointed.

Yunchu didn't feel sorry for the old monkey at all. Ever since he found out that he was old, this old guy had put on a look of helplessness from time to time, forcing Yunchu to agree to many unreasonable demands from him.

More often, Naha is used as an example.

Yunchu believed that the old monkey said that Naha would become a queen of the Buddhist kingdom in the future, so she would definitely become a queen, but with Naha's current appearance, she was only suitable to be a puppet queen.

Especially under the instigation of the old monkey, even if Naha is a puppet queen, she will be happy.

Therefore, before the old monkey brought out the real thing, Yunchu would not try his best to help him. God knows if he would be making wedding dresses for others after helping him.

Judging from the territory that the old monkey said so far, Naha will almost have a country as big as the Central Plains. Yunchu doesn't remember such a Buddhist country ever appearing in history.

After almost two hours, the carriage arrived at Bashang.

Because of the high terrain, the wind here is very cool. In addition, there are many trees here, and there are gurgling mountain streams. Yu Xiurong and the children, who were suffering in the carriage, fell asleep immediately.

Even though the convoy had arrived at the other courtyard, they still couldn't scream, especially the two young ones.

The rooms in the other courtyard had been prepared long ago, and the bamboo mats had been wiped with cool stream water early on. The group of people didn't even think about eating, so they got into their respective rooms and fell asleep.

Yunchu was no exception, he didn't enter the house, he got a recliner chair and threw it under the persimmon tree, and fell asleep right away.

At this moment, no matter what the emperor and the empress mean by letting Li Hong supervise the country, and no matter what kind of ambition the old monkey said about Prince Beluz, it is not as important as getting a good night's sleep.

The old monkey stood alone in the quiet courtyard, looked at Yun Chu who was sleeping soundly while snoring, then left Yun's Villa with his hands behind his back, and went to Qiyun Temple.

Just as the old monkey walked out of the yard, Yunchu snorted and opened one eye, and glanced at the old monkey's back.

No matter how good the relationship is, even if they are like a family, the old monkey should not lure him step by step to the restoration of Prince Sassan.

At the beginning, it was only said that it was a dispute over the property of the Stone Kingdom. The wealth of the old monkey was Naha's wealth.

Now there is another Prince Beluz, from which Yunchu can draw a conclusion.

Those people from Shiguo didn't come here to kill the old monkey at all, their target should be this damned Prince Beluz.

This time, if the old monkey didn't apologize, Yunchu decided to just deal with the matter as Shi Guolai.

According to the region, he didn't intend to extend his hand beyond Suiye City, because it was too far away.

Because Master Xuanzang is here in Qiyun Temple, everything here is full of Zen. Even the cicadas on the persimmon tree sing more rhythmically than the cicadas in other places.

The persimmon tree was gently shaken by the breeze, and the leaves were whirling, completely covering the hot sun overhead.

Occasionally, the sound of monks chanting from the next door came over, which had a very hypnotic effect. Yun Chu turned over and let the cool wind blow his hot body, and murmured comfortably. He only felt that there is no better thing in this world than being here. sleep.

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