A great man of the Northern Song Dynasty

The future prince and future emperor dug in silence for a long time.

He took the lead and never complained. Even when his palms were full of blisters, he still didn't say a word.

Zhao Shu's eyes were moist and he said angrily: "Why hasn't the doctor come yet?"

"I'm coming."

Shen An, the logistics manager, is very efficient, and the doctor has already arrived.

After seeing the blood bubbles in Zhao Xu's palm, the doctor took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty... if it were someone else, I wouldn't be able to bear it."

Most people have experienced the pain of blood blisters, and that was just one, but Zhao Xu had many in his hand.

Zhao Shu felt distressed, and all those complaints disappeared, "Why don't you rest?"

Zhao Xu raised his head and smiled and said: "If I take a rest, the people will also want to take a rest. The Song Dynasty is a ship, you are the helmsman, and I am the one rowing the oars. If I stop to rest, they will follow, and the boat will stop." .”

There was a lot of truth in these words, which lifted Zhao Shu's spirits.

He is the helmsman, and all the people in the world are rowers. Once everyone is lazy and stops, the big ship of the Song Dynasty will stagnate.

yes! This is so well said.

"Go and rest, I'll come."

He walked over with a hoe and tried hard to hoe, but he used too much force and the hoe went crookedly into the soil. He wanted to pry up the soil, but his strength was a little weak, and he tried to exert force with a red face.

"Who is this guy? He's so stupid."

"Yeah, it looks like it's the first time I'm working."

"The official family...this is the official family."

One of them had seen Zhao Shu and suddenly shouted: "This is an official family."

Everyone turned their eyes and saw Brother Zhao Xu standing next to Zhao Shu, the prime ministers, and the guards outside...

Damn it!

The officials are actually here?

"I've met the officials."

Zhao Shu nodded, smiled, and then continued to exert force. After several attempts, I finally managed to pry up the soil, and my arms felt sore. He originally wanted to rest, but thinking that his son had been digging silently for a long time, he endured it and continued digging.

But Han Qi, Zeng Gongliang and others were numb.

"The king previously said that the army would come to help the people dig canals and wells, but there are forbidden troops nearby!"

"The Xiang army is fine, just pull them all out to work."

"The officials just said they were willing to work..."

The three of them looked at each other, and they all felt that the words seemed to imply agreement.

Zeng Gongliang said: "This matter is important, please ask."

So Han Qi walked over and asked: "Guan family, are you going to mobilize the army to dig canals and wells?"

Zhao Shu looked at Zhao Xu, "What do you think?"

The scene of me teaching my son was very heartwarming, and everyone felt that Guan Jia was indeed a loving father.

But Zhao Shu couldn't bear it any longer, so he hoeed a few times. He had never done heavy work before and wanted to take the opportunity to rest.

Zhao Xu stretched out his hand to treat the doctor's wound and said: "I thought the duty of the army was to protect the family and the country, but what does this family contain? I thought it included the people. When the people suffer from disasters, the army should come out to support them. A piece of sky.”

"Defend the family and the country..." Zhao Shu was satisfied, "Well said, go to the Privy Council and tell Fu Bi that the imperial army in Beijing will be mobilized to the maximum extent possible to help the people dig canals and wells. It needs to be fast."

"Officials are kind."

The people were overjoyed, with loud thanksgiving voices and sincere expressions.

"Let's all go back and start each other quickly." Zhao Shu nodded, and the people outside began to disperse.

Zhao Shu's heart moved and he asked: "Is Han Qing afraid of the risk of the army coming out?"

Han Qi nodded, "Yes, the army and the people are wrapped up together. If someone makes a noise, I am worried that something bad will happen."

Zhao Shu nodded, "Yes. But what is the use of such an army?"

Han Qi was startled, then realized it made sense, "If the army is like this, then it should be broken up and rebuilt."

"Teach them." Zhao Xu said: "Teach them loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. If one time is not enough, teach them a hundred times. If a hundred times is not enough, teach them a thousand times."

This is ideological education.

Zhao Shu nodded in approval, "Don't stop eating because of choking. That's not an army, but a rebel reserve."

"Yes." Han Qi, Zeng Gongliang and others went to discuss, while Zhao Shu continued to dig holes.

It didn't take long before he felt his palms feel warm, almost hot.

He opened his palms and watched a blister forming, feeling a little dumbfounded.

Coming out so soon?

Zhao Hao saw it and said, "Guan family, does it hurt?"

His own blisters were very painful, but he felt that adults' ones were different.

Zhao Shu shook his head and said: "It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt at all."

Looking back, his eyelids twitched a few times.

It really hurts!

"Officials, please come."

Zhao Xu had already applied medicine on his hand and felt pretty good.

"Just rest." Zhao Shu felt a little embarrassed, so he worked hard, but within a few minutes, the blisters hurt terribly.

"Hey! I'm getting old."

He had no choice but to put down his hoe and watch his two sons cooperate in carrying the burden.

"Official!"

Chen Zhongheng arrived in a hurry and said happily: "Guan family, those people know that you and the prince are helping the people dig canals. Many of them gave up praying for rain and started digging canals and wells."

"Oh! Okay!" Zhao Shu said with emotion: "This is to teach by words and deeds, to be the first to set an example... But I was wrong."

He originally thought that the emperor should take charge of the overall situation, and there was no need to do such showy things, not even the prince.

But now reality has slapped him, but he is very happy.

"This is the Song Dynasty!"

The Song Dynasty is in full swing!

He was really happy.

"The food is here."

The meal prepared by Shen An arrived and he personally escorted it.

"Official..."

Shen An really didn't expect that Zhao Shu would come in person, as well as Zaifu.

It's good that Zhao Shu came, but Zaifu has a headache.

Han Qi was covered in fat, Ouyang Xiu was dim-sighted, and Shen An felt that it was damaging to his image as an important minister of the country.

"Eat, eat." Zhao Shu put down his hoe and said to the people, "Come and eat."

Wang Dongdui said with a smile: "The official family and the villain family are well prepared."

"Where is it?" Zhao Shu was wanting to see the people's food.

Wang Dong's old wife was standing by the side holding a clay pot. Zhao Shu stretched out his hand and said, "Show me."

His old wife timidly put the pottery pot on the ground, and Zhao Shu leaned over and took a look...

"What's this?"

He saw a pile of green goo, and the smell was... hard to describe.

"What is this?" Zhao Shu raised his head and asked.

Wang Dong's old wife said dullly: "It's wild vegetables... and some things I grew at home that made it all muddy."

"Where's the food?" Zhao Shu scooped out a spoonful of paste and took a bite.

The taste... an indescribable taste hit him. Zhao Shu swallowed it with difficulty, only to feel that the taste was all in his mouth, which was extremely uncomfortable.

Shen An is very familiar with this smell, the smell of pig dumplings in later generations.

Wang Dong's old wife laughed dryly and said: "In the official family, both the officials and the children like the food I cook. As for the food... there is a drought now. I am afraid that I will not survive this year, so I am harvesting it."

Zhao Shu closed his eyes, nodded and said: "It tastes good. All the ministers will come to try it, including Erlang."

Han Qi was the first to taste it and said, "It tastes good."

Zeng Gongliang was the second one. He believed that Han Qi would not lie in this regard, so he ate very happily, and then...

"vomit!"

He vomited and then swallowed quickly.

It is difficult for people who are used to fine food to understand that kind of low-class food. Shen An had eaten it in the countryside in his previous life. He was not considered to be fine food, he was just an ordinary person, but the smell was still unbearable to him.

Zeng Gongliang made a fool of himself, Zhao Shu glanced at him, obviously dissatisfied with his vomiting.

"You're cheating people."

Zeng Gongliang's breathy voice came from behind, and Han Qi said calmly: "I don't even bother to lie to you."

Old Han is arrogant, but he still has some credibility.

Zeng Gongliang took a step forward and stood shoulder to shoulder with him, frowning and saying, "Then what else do you think tastes good?"

He felt that Han Qi was going crazy because of the heat.

Shen An also thought so. Han Qi looked at him and smiled: "I have eaten wild boar for several years and my stomach is mushy. The taste was hard to swallow at first, but then I gradually got used to it, and even liked it... I like it. That taste, there is nothing in this world that I can’t eat.”

I just like that one mouthful now!

Shen An was a little dizzy, the co-authorship was actually because of this!

He tried the taste, and it was so fishy that he couldn't stomach it. But Han Qi has been eating it for several years, and even developed feelings for it.

What a sin!

Ouyang Xiu ate it in one bite, covered his mouth directly, and then swallowed it forcefully.

Han Qi suddenly had a new idea, "The old woman said that her family liked the food she cooked. I was thinking about it! Could the people in her family be like me? They are used to eating this kind of taste and find it delicious... …”

"That makes sense."

For the first time, everyone agreed with Han Qi's opinion, which made him feel proud.

"The food cooked by my mother tastes terrible..."

"Don't tell me it tastes bad, my mother will be sad if you turn around. Just let her rest and she will be sad, ugh!"

"Well, let's wait for another year. Next year, we will find a reason to let mother take a break, and we will take turns cooking."

"good."

Two villagers in their forties walked by, their voices drifting over.

Han Qi's eyes were stunned.

Isn't it that I am used to this kind of smell?

Ouyang Xiu praised: "In order to make my mother happy, I tell her the food she cooked is delicious against her will. This is filial piety!"

"..."

Zeng Gongliang glanced at him and thought that Han Qi was sad, but you still mentioned this matter.

Zhao Hao over there took a bite and spit it out immediately.

"Eat." Zhao Shu pointed at the clay pot, frowned and said, "Don't vomit."

He is not an emperor who came out of a sweet jar. He has never lived a happy life for a few days since he was a child, so he attaches great importance to the education of his children.

Zhao Hao took another bite with a grimace, and then swallowed it. His whole body looked bad.

"This is the life of the people."

Zhao Shu took another bite, stood up and said, "Everyone is working hard. It's nice to experience the life of the common people today. When I look back, I won't say anything about why I don't eat minced meat."

So everyone from the prime minister to the guards went down.

"Sectional!"

Wang Hao watched for a long time and felt that the chaos was not organized at all, so he said angrily: "How can a swarm of bees work? Come up here, redistribute the manpower, and dig in sections."

Zhao Shu raised his head in the ditch and asked, "Is this Wang Yu, the son of Wang Anshi's family?"

"Yes." Chen Zhongheng was also in the ditch. He had never done such hard work before, and he was already sweating profusely.

Zhao Shu praised: "He is a promising man, good, listen to him."

So Wang Yu, a young man, began to direct this group of complex workers to work.

"Each of you should be optimistic about your position. When digging, you must listen to the instructions of the old farmer. Don't think that you are who you are. You will not be able to compare with others if you work for ten years."

After Wang Yu saw an official scolding an old farmer, he took the opportunity to get angry.

In his opinion, these guys should be left here to do farm work for half a year and then go back to ensure that nothing wrong with them is gone.

"The army is coming."

Troops appeared densely in the distance. Wang Dong stood on top of the ditch and stared blankly, "This...how many ditches can be dug? I'm afraid they can reach the palace."