Datang first village

A bountiful harvest is always a great joy.

The people of Luoyang have already started to decorate with lanterns and festoons, and preparations for the celebration have been completed.At the south gate of Luoyang City, there are dense crowds of people whose heads cannot be seen at a glance.Those wearing uniform turbans are Luoyang government soldiers, and the messy ones are civilian husbands.

Li Yuanxing is not like a prince, but more like an idler in Chang'an City.

Biting a pipe, drinking herbal tea while standing under the awning, while listening to officials from Chang'an and local officials from Luoyang giving lectures to these people, this is a very necessary process, the standard of rewards, rules, by the way, to these people Cheer up, work hard and stuff like that.

Then there is the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven.

"Sacrificing to heaven is worse than offering sacrifices to His Highness King Qin!" Qu Tutong said suddenly from the side.

Li Yuanxing was taken aback by these words: "Old General, I dare not say that. And my father, brother, is in front!"

"It's not someone who said that, but the Holy One." Qu Tutong laughed.

Li Yuanxing couldn't guess under what circumstances Li Er said such words, but it still made him nervous.

Noticing Li Yuanxing's expression, Qu Tutong just smiled.

"His Royal Highness Qin Wang, I heard that the granary can't be filled." Qu Tutong whispered to Li Yuanxing from the side.

Li Yuanxing smiled and nodded: "Some people, he should die. He doesn't even have enough granaries. He is an official for nothing!" What was said on the occasion, even if it was a joke, would be recorded, and then recorded in the daily record of King Qin.

Killing the Shao Yin of Luoyang Mansion, what Qu Tutong heard was already a mythical legend.

He has nothing to believe in Qu Tu's correspondence.

This celestial food, this natural disaster will not kill people, and he can be saved, so there is nothing Qu Tutong can't believe.

"Your Highness, a certain has already issued a death order, whoever steals immortal food and prepares it for planting, will be beheaded if it is light!"

"Actually..." Li Yuanxing wanted to say that this kind of seed really doesn't matter anymore, and even Datang can plant it in the end.But after thinking about it, he changed his words and said: "The old general has worked hard, in fact, let them deal with these things."

Qu Tutong didn't answer the words, he pointed over there, and Li Yuanxing looked over there.

The government soldiers have already started to move, and there is a long queue of manpower carts and carts.Then the civilian husband followed suit.

In fact, in other places in Luoyang, the summer harvest has already begun, but a ceremony is needed here, which is why they put on such a big posture.

Lu Maofeng arranged for people to carry two soft sedan chairs.

"Old general please!"

"Your Highness, please!"

According to Confucianism, this kind of politeness of virtual etiquette is etiquette. Although Li Yuanxing has always advocated etiquette, etiquette is at heart.But he didn't dare to put on the surface that he no longer needed this kind of etiquette.

Continuously, under the blowing of the summer wind, the corn as high as a person is like rolling waves, and every green wave is fascinating.Li Yuanxing and Qu Tutong were on a high ground, watching all this from a distance.

A green wave disappeared, and tens of thousands of people worked together, and in a blink of an eye, thousands of acres were bulldozed.

One mu is equivalent to thousands of catties of corn stalks and hundreds of catties of corn.

Just after Li Yuanxing and Qu Tutong stood on the high ground, within a few minutes, a large pile of corn stalks several feet high was piled up. There was no mechanical crusher like Qinwangzhuang, only a guillotine , Even if it is a guillotine made of fine steel, it needs to be cut out one by one.

The corn, however, was peeled off by the women and tied up one by one, all of which were trained in advance.

The huge logs were propped up and turned into rows of shelves, and then there were strings of corn hanging on them. The first string was a hundred, which was neat and easy to count.

Each string has been weighed, and a special clerk is calculating it.

They are extremely fast, but they catch up with the speed of harvesting by a large number of government soldiers.

The pile of corn stalks was getting higher and higher, and the corn pile was almost ten feet tall. Someone was carrying a big betle, and one after another, he was pouring it onto the corn pile.

"Your Highness, that corn stalk is what His Highness calls green storage. These things are fed to sheep, and they are also meat. The pile is getting higher and higher, and I'm afraid it will surpass our feet before noon." Qu Tutong's tone Some trembling.

Li Yuanxing didn't care about Qu Tutong's tone, but said: "Only if there is no food to eat, is the beginning of a good life!"

Suddenly, Qu Tutong cried.

Li Yuanxing wanted to persuade him, but Qu Tutong waved his hand: "Your Highness, take a rest, take a rest!"

Qu Tutong leaned on the soft sedan chair, and with a smile on his face, he let out a long breath.

Li Yuanxing thought that after all, Qu Tutong's health was failing, so he shouldn't be allowed to follow him out this time.Let him sleep for a while, and if he can't do it after lunch, he will be sent back to Luoyang City.

Looking at Qu Tutong again, he seemed to be asleep, so Li Yuanxing ordered someone to cover him with a blanket.

"General Qu Tu!" Li Yuanxing walked a little farther, and after Qu Tushou followed, Li Yuanxing said: "This place in Luoyang, you and Qu Tu's family should stop contacting each other. This place will be a place of right and wrong. Your industry It doesn't matter whether you sell it or give it to Li Zhengbao, in Liaodong, this king will give you the same. Even more."

"Yes!" Qu Tushou replied.

Li Yuanxing pointed to the corn being harvested and said: "This king will prepare [-] catties of seeds for you to plant in Liaodong. Remember, don't destroy forests, and don't burn wasteland easily. To have a plan, what you need to know is that you burn A forest may be worth at least ten years of corn for you.”

"This...someone will ask someone who understands to fix it!"

"Smart, professional, let the professionals do it!"

Qu Tushou nodded, he is a military commander, he can kill people, he is not good at business or politics.However, he has status and family background, so there will be businessmen who are willing to follow Qu Tu's family, and there will be farmers who are willing, as long as the benefits are sufficient.

"This king has already issued an order to General Chai Shao to talk with the Mohe and Khitan tribes. This king will pass on their fairy food and ask them to send people to learn how to grow fairy food."

While Li Yuanxing was speaking, Lu Maofeng walked over quickly. From the sound of Lu Maofeng's footsteps, Li Yuanxing heard something unusual.

"What happened?" Li Yuanxing asked softly.

The expression on Lu Maofeng's face was obviously unnatural, and he said in a low voice: "Your Highness, I'd better go and have a look, Old General Qu Tu seems very weird!"

Li Yuanxing walked quickly, but the expression on Qu Tushou's face was not much anxious, but he still said at this moment: "Your Highness, my father said something before leaving the city, he said that he died in peace!"

Qu Tutong died, leaning on the soft chair, with a satisfied smile on his face, but he was not breathing.

"Huh..." Li Yuanxing let out a long breath, and pointed at Qu Tushou: "You shouldn't, you shouldn't tell me, let me... oh..." Li Yuanxing didn't know what to say. .

But Qu Tushou knelt down and kowtowed heavily: "Your Highness, a certain acting father, please thank His Highness for my Qu Tu family's kindness!"

"Get up, this king tells you, hurry up to prepare, and carry the coffin into Chang'an. Your father is the founder of the country and is entitled to enjoy the state ceremony. This king will leave a place for your father on the Zhenhun Pagoda. Go! "

Qu Tushou kowtowed again, and then someone carried the soft sedan back to Luoyang City.

Li Yuanxing didn't leave, but still stood on this high ground, touched his mouth and chin heavily with his hands: "Lu Maofeng, hurry up to Chang'an City!"

"Yes!" Lu Maofeng took a few steps back and said a few words to a personal guard, who rushed away immediately.

"Arrange to go back to Chang'an tomorrow morning. Tell Li Zhengbao that when the king is not in Luoyang, Xia Shou has any problems, and the king wants his head. Anyone who dares to make Xia Shou in Luoyang have problems, Li Zhengbao will kill that person If he doesn't dare to cut off his head, he will bring him to Chang'an!"

Lu Maofeng received the order, turned his head to defend himself and said, "Have you heard His Highness's order?"

"If you hear it, you will naturally pass it on verbatim." The guard responded,

Li Yuanxing lit a cigarette, and he didn't feel any sadness in his heart. People must die, it just depends on how and when they die.

In a sense, Qu Tutong died at this time, just as he said, he died in peace.

The autumn harvest will definitely not stop.

The mourning hall of Qu Tu's family was set up in just one hour, and everything was prepared long ago.

All the thoughtful people in Luoyang City went to offer incense and said some comforting words.

Happy and mourning! 72 years old, this is Bai Xi in the Tang Dynasty, Qu Tu's family is a family of generals, filial sons will not cry, but they implement a very strange rule, this is the family rule of their Qu Tu family.

"My father, do you owe me anything!" Qu Tushou asked everyone who came in to express their condolences.

The people who came in were a little puzzled at first, but when there were too many people, the people in front would whisper reminders to those who came in behind.

When someone replied: "No, old general Qu Tu is benevolent and righteous."

Then Qu Tushou would reply loudly: "My father can go down with peace of mind. If there is any debt, I will wait for my son to pay for my father's debt!"

It's a good one to be buried in the ground, and there is no debt for life and death.

Li Yuanxing, who was standing in front of the spirit tablet, did not salute, but just stood there silently.

Everyone came in, Qu Tushou would ask that sentence, only Li Yuanxing came in, he just saluted, but didn't ask.Li Yuanxing stood there silently, and he just stayed by the side, neither asking nor speaking.

Every guest also watched from a distance, and no one dared to talk too much, because there was the King Qin of the Tang Dynasty, the King Qin of the Tang Dynasty in plain clothes.

"Take the five-foot white silk!" Li Yuanxing said.At that moment, Qu Tu's family sent them over.

Li Yuanxing winked, Lu Maofeng and a personal guard pulled Bai Ling away.

Li Yuanxing wrote in a pen: "Maybe I asked Qu Tutong who was loyal to the Sui Dynasty and made great achievements in the Tang Dynasty. Why did he become more and more famous when he served the two countries?"Answer Yun, if you stand pure and sincere, and meet a wise master, you can serve hundreds of monarchs with one heart, rather than being limited to the two countries!Captured by Chou Sang, there is no escape in the face of difficulty; the crowd who breaks the benevolence, no one can get wealth in the face of wealth, a gentleman!Praise: Qu Tu observes the festival, seeks benevolence and obtains benevolence. (To be continued.)