Lady forced to seek prince

Chapter 348 Squeeze

After the couple finished speaking, the room was silent for a moment.

Since Xu married Song Guangyan, she has never seen her master look like this. Even if she was framed and almost went to jail before, she still has a bit of elegance and character.

But now...

This is a mistake. I feel embarrassed in front of her, right?
Xu broke the silence and continued: "I see that Fengxia Village and our father are very familiar with the people in the government office. I came back... thinking that if the master can catch up, why not borrow their car to go there together."

Zhuangyuan Lang looked at his wife, pursed his lips, and looked a little embarrassed. After a while, he said, "Is there still time?"

After all, Song Guangyan was a scholar, so he couldn't do it if he was asked to chase the car with half a piece of wild vegetable cake, so after a quick meal, he let Wang Dada get into the car and set out on the road alone.

Mrs. Xu watched the mule cart leave at the head of the village. Thinking about what happened just now, she somehow wanted to laugh. When they arrived in Taozhou, everything was different from what they imagined, maybe it was the right time.

Although it was snowing heavily, fortunately Fengxia Village was not far from Taozhou City, so Wang Da quickly found the government office.

Song Guangyan was stopped when he reached the gate of the Yamen Office, so he stepped forward to explain his intentions, and handed the documents in his hand to the Yacha. Naturally, the Yacha did not dare to make a decision, so he wanted to go back to the second hall to report to Mr. Zhao. It happened that this scene was seen by Zhao Xuejing .

Zhao Xuejing stepped forward and said: "That is Mr. Song's eldest son, the number one scholar of our Daqi, with official status."

"You know him? That's good."

Yacha is not a snobbish person, he doesn't know Song Guangyan at all, unlike Zhao Xuejing and others who are frequent visitors of the Yamen Office, naturally there is no need to interrogate them when entering and leaving the Yamen Office.

But now with Zhao Xuejing's words, the Yacha let Song Guangyan in, after all, his father is still in the second hall.

Song Guangyan wanted to wait for Mr. Zhao to come out, and then hand in the official documents first before mentioning anything else, but when he walked outside the second hall, he heard a girl's voice from inside.

"Taozhou's terrain is interlaced with plains and low mountains, high in the south and low in the north, like a basin. It is dry and rainless on weekdays, so the harvest of crops is not good every year. If you want to improve, you have to make preparations early."

"First re-survey the land that can be cultivated in Taozhou, cultivate crops according to local conditions, and set aside those lands that can be diverted to canals and springs for irrigation."

"As for those fields that are difficult to irrigate, barley or beans must be planted. Only by counting everything can we know how many seeds to prepare and ensure orderly cultivation."

Listening to Song Guangyan, he felt that these words were all on the key points, and he forgot to continue walking for a while, and Zhao Xuejing who was next to him also stopped when he saw this.

Song Guangyan was lost in thought, as the girl said, spring plowing is not just talking about it, it must be adapted to local conditions and flexible at any time, otherwise planting wheat and rice in arid places will be a waste of manpower and material resources in the end.

In many places, land reclamation was used as an excuse. Officials distributed seeds and distributed land at will. At the end of the autumn harvest, only one-twelfth of the grain was harvested. The officials were afraid that the court would punish them. They blamed the people for being negligent and unwilling to contribute. Therefore, farmers were punished more often. Their own fertile land was deprived, or the tax was increased to make amends, so that the farmers became discolored when they heard of "opening up wasteland".

When he was in office, he also submitted a memorial requesting the imperial court to vigorously open up wasteland, but the end result was full of complaints.Song Guangyan sighed, he really couldn't do anything.

There are some unfamiliar words in the girl's words, what is "basin"?
In the room, Zhao Luoyang, Song Taiye, Zhao Xueli and others sat on one side, while Mr. Xie, Zhao Jingyun and the civil servants in the government office sat on the other side.

After Zhao Luoyang finished speaking, he looked at Mr. Song, in the eyes of others, it was like a student asking the teacher, how did he behave just now?

Grandpa Song also stretched out his hand to stroke his beard, as if responding.

Xie Chen couldn't help sighing in his heart, this gentleman is really powerful, but it's a pity that he doesn't want to talk too much on weekdays, and he only wants to teach this female disciple a lot of things.

Zhao Luoyang and Shi Jiu said: "The boss is done, now it's time to do serious business."

Shi Jiu responded, "The Zhuangyuan Lang has also arrived, but he hasn't entered the house for some reason."

Zhuangyuan Lang looks a bit old-fashioned, but he is really good. He didn't show up, but fortunately, his charm value came first.

Zhao Luoyang took a look at the 8 points of charm given by Zhuangyuanlang. Scholars really understand etiquette.

In fact, the real purpose of coming to the Yamen Office this time was to ask Mr. Xie for things. Spring plowing would cost too much. Even if he got some money from those who were loyal to the Feng family, it was only enough to make farm tools.

After the relocation order of the imperial court came down, some seeds were allocated to Taozhou. Unfortunately, the seeds were too single, only highland barley, wheat and beans, which obviously could not satisfy Taozhou's cultivation.

Zhao Jingyun looked at Xie Chen: "My lord, what do you think?"

Xie Chen nodded: "What the girl said makes sense."

When Zhao Jingyun heard this, he immediately clenched his little hands, with a troubled expression on his face: "I also feel that if we want to be effective, we must arrange it this way, but the government office has not prepared enough seeds."

Xie Chen's heart sank. Since he came to Taozhou, he has not been idle. The cases of Feng Antai and others have not yet been cleared up, and the matter of the stockade has not been clarified yet, but Zhao Jingyun has been sending new questions non-stop. Could it be a seed? Should he ask the court for it?

"My lord, besides food, there is also alfalfa." Zhao Luoyang reminded from the side.

Zhao Jingyun immediately said: "Yes, I forgot, I promised the village before that this year's spring plowing will also plant alfalfa. I heard about the alfalfa planting when I was in Beijing. I heard that some pastures have already started planting, which is good." Forage, we in Taozhou have never done anything for the stockade in all these years."

"I don't think that's right."

Zhao Xueli and others followed suit.

Zhao Jingyun's face darkened: "They are all citizens of Daqi, and they are also registered in the imperial court. They also have to pay taxes to the imperial court every year. This time when they moved to Taozhou, the village gave us work, but we all did some work for the village. What? If the girl from the Zhao family hadn't told me, I didn't know that the stockade doesn't have enough pasture every year, and they still have to risk their lives to get close to Xifan."

"If something goes wrong because of this in the future, what should I do?"

Zhao Jingyun's words aroused Xie Chen's guilt towards the stockade again. He wanted to do something for the stockade, and he also promised the princess that he would stay in Taozhou and investigate all the private affairs of the Feng family. Chu...

Xie Chen frowned.

Zhao Jingyun, Zhao Luoyang and the others didn't say anything anymore, they silently waited for Master Xie's next words in tacit understanding.

Zhao Jingyun is already familiar with this process, the imperial court finally sent an imperial envoy here, and now Taozhou has such a big incident, wouldn't it be stupid not to make a request at this time?
Don't underestimate Mr. Xie's errand, Mr. Xie's memorial will be of great use in the capital.

In short, Mr. Xie is like that... If you squeeze, there will always be something.

Xie Chen sighed: "Let me try." He was acquainted with the officials of the "Farm House", and he had accumulated a lot of favors in the court over the years, as well as those colleagues who shared his ambitions, so it was okay for him to ask them for help.

Zhao Luoyang took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Xie Chen: "My lord, these are the grain seeds that Taozhou needs right now. If there are newly bred seeds from the farm, they are suitable for Taozhou. Please help me too." Ask for some."

Xie Chen took the paper over and took a look, he couldn't help but gasp, the number of seeds was really quite a lot.

And... the girl from the Zhao family had already prepared the note, which meant that they had already thought about it, and he would definitely agree to help.

Even if you have this thought, you should cover it up. Is he not worth it?
(End of this chapter)