Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 13 Rewards
"What do you mean everything is easy to say without major changes..." Li Tai murmured in his heart,

"Translated into adult language, no matter what happens, I will take care of you, or if something happens, I will not be alone!"

This is Li Shimin, and even his own father, so it shouldn't be the latter...

When Li Tai came here, he was open and frank, but when he left, he became anxious.

But Li Tai hadn't walked out of the Eastern Palace yet, and stretched out two green hands from behind, covering his eyes, and said in a childish yet mischievous voice:
"Guess who I am!"

"Changle, don't be naughty!" Li Tai patted his hands covering his eyes, and said with a little affection.

"Hmph!" Li Lizhi pouted, and said as if she was about to cry: "Brother Qingque stopped visiting Lizhi after he moved to Yuewang Mansion! Brother Chengqian also reads articles in the room every day, what's so good about them! "

"Okay, okay, it's my brother's fault!" Li Tai said, "It's really a little busy to deal with the locust plague recently."

"Really..." Li Lizhi looked at Li Tai suspiciously with her big eyes, as if she didn't quite believe Li Tai's words.

"Yes, yes, it must be!" Li Tai said, "I remember that Changle will be your birthday soon after the autumnal equinox. My brother has prepared a whole year to prepare birthday gifts for you, and I will give you a surprise at that time."

Hearing this, Li Lizhi smiled mischievously at Li Tai, stepped back bouncingly, and said,
"It's decided, if Lizhi is cheated, then Lizhi can only go to Aye crying very sad."

"Okay, okay, if your brother Qingque lied to you, Aye will definitely not spare me!" Li Tai stretched out his hands to express his surrender.

"Then I'll go to Brother Chengqian to ask for a gift. See you next time Brother Qingque."

Li Lizhi turned around resolutely, stopped her tears in an instant, and then walked towards Li Chengqian's palace with arrogance. It was obvious that Li Chengqian would be the next unlucky one.

Li Tai shook his head, looked at Li Lizhi's departure, and smiled dotingly.

Li Tai understood that Li Lizhi would marry the eldest grandson's family in a few years, usually at the age of thirteen or fourteen.

It can be said that unless the eldest grandson's family rebels, no one can stop this matter.

Because Changsun Wuji represented not only the nobles of Longxi, but also the nobles of meritorious service. This dual identity made Li Shimin naturally use the smallest price of marriage to appease the two forces.

Except for Chang Sun Chong who likes to hang out with Li Chengqian, this brother-in-law Li Tai who is almost predestined can really find no faults.

Seeing Lizhi, Li Taihuai thought that since he came to the East Palace, he would stop by his mother's place to say hello.

Although he is already a prince and has the qualifications to return to the palace freely, he usually returns to the palace at [-] o'clock on the first day of the new year to meet the eldest grandson empress.

For the rest of the time, I still live a tragic life of working and reading.

Seeing Empress Changsun, he let himself escape from Yan Qinli's clutches and heaved a sigh of relief.

"It's really rare today, why are you here!"

Empress Changsun was originally taking care of Li Zhi, who was not yet a month old, but she was also full of surprises and curiously when she saw Li Tai.

"It's almost the autumnal equinox. When it's autumn and the weather cools down, the locust plague will basically subside. At least this year, the locust plague is over. So I was called by Aye to the East Palace to call back, and I came to see my mother after the government affairs were over!"

Li Tai said in a low voice.

"You, Aye, what a thing it is to pull an eight-year-old like you to work!" Empress Changsun said angrily.

"Mother, don't be angry, Qingque is happy for this!" Li Tai looked at little Li Zhi, and even stretched out his finger to touch Li Zhi's face that had gradually spread out, but he immediately hit the eldest grandson empress.

"Don't mess around, the pheasant slave is still young, and he can't stand the turbidity!" Empress Changsun looked at Xiao Li Zhi with concern.

"With pheasant slaves, mother won't want green sparrows!" Li Tai pouted when he heard what Empress Changsun said, filling his mouth with my unhappiness.

"Let's be beaten! It hasn't even been a year since the mansion was established, and it has become so stubborn!" Empress Changsun said, "Discipline him well!"

"Don't, don't, mother, rest well, Qingque is not worth getting angry with, I'm leaving now, I'm leaving now!" Li Tai said.

"Come back!" Empress Changsun yelled at Li Tai.

"Oh?" Li Tai walked back obediently, and then stood quietly aside, waiting for Empress Changsun to deal with her.

Empress Changsun turned around, took out a jade box from the cabinet, and stuffed it into Li Tai's hands.

Li Tai took the box, feeling that the weight on the box was quite heavy, and couldn't help but look at Empress Changsun suspiciously.

But Empress Changsun said, "I heard from Shimin that you will be short of money recently. This is my usual little savings. You take it first. As long as you do business, if you don't have enough, go back to the palace and tell me."

"En! Mother." Li Tai nodded, and did not refuse to take it from Empress Changsun.

Empress Zhangsun was relieved when she saw Li Tai leave, because Li Tai was a prince and could not live in the palace for a long time, and Kong Yingda was annoyed by his performance in elementary school, so she asked him to leave early for fear that he would spoil the atmosphere. Mansion, to live outside.

Therefore, compared to Li Chengqian, Empress Changsun loves Li Tai more.

Thinking of this, Empress Changsun shook Xiao Li Zhi who was still sleeping soundly, and murmured,

"Pheasant slave, you may be similar to Qingque in the future. When you grow up a little, you will leave the palace."

At this time, Xiao Li Zhi was still sleeping soundly, and opened his mouth slightly, as if there were bubbles in his mouth.

And Li Tai took the jade box given by Empress Changsun back to the Yue Palace.

Li Tai opened the jade box, and it was filled with gold nuggets. If it was used to buy land, at the current price in Chang'an, it would be more than enough to buy two thousand mu, which is not a small amount for a family.

But after Li Tai took this thing, he stuffed it into the secret compartment, without any intention of touching the money.

For some reason, Li Tai was full of confidence in his ability to do this well, as if the difficulties in front of him were nothing.

Of course, Li Shimin's reward to Li Tai is to enable Li Tai to practice the agricultural school, and he is even willing to provide material help.

However, other people who fought against locusts this time also received rewards, and these rewards were also issued one after another in the following time.

For example, when Qin Zhong returned to the Department of Animal Husbandry, he was directly promoted to the Department of Animal Husbandry, starting from the seventh rank.

Don't underestimate the seventh-rank officials. Generally, the magistrates of small counties start from the seventh-rank officials. For ordinary people, this is the goal of striving for a lifetime.

Of course, there are still people who can easily meet this standard, but for people without background, it must basically be quite outstanding.

For example, Ma Zhou became the sixth-rank official of Yue Wangfu, and managed to handle the affairs of Judgment Cao, Hu Cao, and Cang Cao. He went from white clothes to sixth-rank in one go.

Yan Qinli hitched a ride and became a sixth-grade Yuewangfu literature. While studying, he was also in charge of schooling classics and serving articles.

Lu Anshou was still Sima, but he was rewarded with three hundred silks, which made Lu Anshou very happy.

In addition, the one with the highest reward was Yu Zhining. Although he didn't work and only handed in the beautiful article, he taught the King of Yue meritoriously.

However, it is a good thing for Li Tai that there is no new Yue Wang Changshi dispatched for the time being.

To be honest, after seeing the imperial decree sent to him, Ma Zhou was a little dazed, but finally expressed his thanks.

Seventh rank is considered a relatively high threshold among official officials, because the appointment must be reviewed by the court. Unless it is a special case, the appointment of seventh rank officials has been carefully considered.

Especially the seventh-rank officials of the Prince's Mansion, they all have to go through the emperor, and Li Shimin just wants to stay by Li Tai's side.

Ma Zhou knew that he might only be able to follow the line of King Yue, and even if he climbed to the position above King Changshi and entered the center through hard work in the future, he might not be able to remove the logo of the direct line of King Yue's mansion.

Ma Zhou took a deep breath, he didn't complain at all, he just quickly accepted all this, since he can only go this way, let's go one way to the dark.

For Ma Zhou, he only hopes to have a platform to display his talents. At least for now, only King Yue can give him this platform, and no one can guarantee whether the platform given to him by King Yue will become bigger and bigger!

Ma Zhou naturally moved to the Yue Palace and began to take over his duties in the Yue Palace.

After Li Tai came back and put the jade box away, he immediately called Ma Zhou over, because Li Tai felt that he was full of motivation and really wanted to have a big fight!
But after Li Tai called Ma Zhou over, Ma Zhou's shining eyes were more intense than Li Tai's!

Li Tai said: "Prince Bin, Aye put the duck farm and the coal mine under the name of King Yue's mansion, and allowed me to use the profit from these to build an agricultural school, and also set aside an additional [-] mu of fertile land for my use. , this time we can do a big job!"

"That's great!" Ma Zhou said excitedly when he heard Li Tai's words, "Having money means you have a foundation. Can you elaborate on your Majesty's plan for planning an agricultural college?"

"Okay! I chose the location of the school about where Gaoling is," Li Tai said. "This is the intersection of the Jinghe River and the Weihe River. The transportation is convenient. At the same time, it is not very far to the area where Zheng Baiqu is located. You can even use the canal Sailing."

"Isn't it in Chang'an City...the Agricultural Institute is close to the fields, which is normal!" Ma Zhou nodded.

Li Tai continued: "Although the locust plague has been suppressed, this winter is the most difficult. Many people are likely to die this winter night without seeing the arrival of spring.

So we have to recruit some people to work, pay them food, and find a way to make them alive! "

"Where do we have so much work? And what if we still have food!" Ma Zhou was a little stunned when he heard Li Tai's words.

"It's impossible to borrow food from Sinong Temple. Didn't Aye give me a thousand acres of land, and I'll mortgage them to Sinong Temple!" Li Tai waved his hand and said quite calmly.

"It's no wonder they dare to ask for it!" The corner of Ma Zhou's mouth twitched, but he didn't object to Li Tai's plan.

After all, if it's just food, Li Tai should be able to borrow it from Sinong Temple.

"Then let them reclaim the land as much as possible before winter comes, and plant winter wheat!" Li Tai said.

"Um...are we going to farm? Didn't we say we started a school?" Ma Zhou asked a little puzzled.

Li Tai said seriously: "I have never opened an agricultural school, what I want is to spread the knowledge of agriculture.

So whoever did the best in reclamation should be the agricultural teacher we want! "

"I didn't drink today!" Ma Zhou murmured, "Why do I have auditory hallucinations?"

"No way, I don't even have teachers and textbooks now, so I can only make do with it!" Li Tai said.

Ma Zhou said anxiously: "King Yue, don't mess around. Are you really planning to build a school? I sound like you're planning to build a city!"

"It's the city!" Li Tai stretched out his hand, as if he was describing the future of his school, and said excitedly:

"Our agricultural college has countless houses and golden fields that stretch as far as the eye can see.

All the students must have the spirit of youth, have the mission of making no one starve to death in the world, and have the dream of changing the world.

They will open up a field of their own and pass on the agricultural knowledge they have learned to farmers.

Otherwise, do I want to teach a group of nerds who only know how to recite agricultural books? "

"Is there really a world where people don't starve to death?" Listening to Li Tai's description, Ma Zhou unconsciously yearned for it.

"There will definitely be, even if not now, but there will definitely be in the future!" Li Tai said, "Now, we are going to take this first step!"

"King Yue has such an ideal, and I, King Ma Bin, are honored to be able to participate in it and do my best!" Ma Zhou sighed.

"It was I who met you, I am so lucky in this life!"

Li Tai said to Ma Zhou, "Because I have the first like-minded person!"

The two of them talked more and more speculatively on this night that was getting colder.

Soon a preliminary plan was made, and the two talked until late at night, before Ma Zhou reluctantly left with the manuscript.

While Li Tai returned to the room with a yawn, Bai He had already warmed up the bed, and when he saw Li Tai coming back, he got up and went back to sleep on the bed not far away.

"Bai He, are those white folds you collected enough to make a piece of clothing?" Li Tai asked Bai He.

"Enough, enough, I kept one piece, and you sent the rest to the chicken farm to make cotton beds!" Bai He said.

"Changle's birthday is coming, I will make a padded coat with white folds, and I will leave the handwork to you!" Li Tai said.

"Here..." Bai He hesitated and said, "The King of Yue finally accepted a batch, why don't you keep some for yourself?"

"Wait until next year!" Li Tai said, "Okay, go to bed early, it's getting late."

"En!" Bai He nodded, but didn't say anything more.

And Li Tai lay down in Bai He's warm and sweet blanket, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

There are still a lot of things waiting for me tomorrow, if it really comes to winter, it will be too late for everything!

(End of this chapter)