Farmer’s Blessed Girl

The emperor grabbed Mr. Zhuang's hand and looked at him with bright eyes and said, "Mr. Zhuang, the prince will entrust you to you in the future. That child is quick-tempered and big. What I fear most is that he will not listen to other people's advice in the future. ."

Mr. Zhuang was a little moved, and clenched the emperor's hand, "Your Majesty, it is the duty of the minister to persuade the prince."

"Sir, ah, that majesty," Wu Lang ran over sweating profusely. Seeing the emperor and Mr. Zhuang holding hands, the twenty or so people in the yard all turned to look at him. : "Well, when the rice is cooked, I just want to ask you what to eat, and I'll pick it up."

Mr. Zhuang regained his senses instantly, and immediately remembered that Zhou Man still had a crime, he hurriedly said: "Go catch two chickens, pick up a few more eggs, catch a few fish, there is no meat in the village, so let's prepare like this first, you guys. If the two of you can't do it, you can go to the village to find someone to help you."

After Mr. Zhuang gave the order, he turned his head and smiled with the emperor: "Your Majesty, the village is remote and basically self-sufficient, and there are a lot of fruits. Would you like to go and have a look? Just by the pond, a lot of melons and fruits have been planted. Now It's time to harvest."

Emperor: ... Mr. Zhuang is good at everything, but he is not as fair as Wei Zhi.

However, the emperor nodded and took the people to visit Zhou Man's orchard.

It is said that it is an orchard, but in fact there is no dividing line. It is just a few circles of fruit trees planted around the pond, and hemp is also planted on the outside.

The emperor glanced at it and asked, "Don't you grow mulberry?"

Wu Wulang shook his head and said, "Raising silkworms is too labor-intensive, and there are not enough people in the village, so I don't plant them."

The emperor stopped and counted the size of this work field, the average number of acres per household, he narrowed his eyes slightly, "It's even less than the Yongye field allocated by the imperial court, so can't we make up the manpower? "

Mr. Zhuang said: "Your Majesty, they have few acres of land, but they are intensively cultivated. It takes a lot of time for each acre of land, and the yield should be higher."

The emperor nodded slightly and did not ask any further questions.

There are peach trees, pear trees, apple trees, and pomegranates. It was time to eat pomegranates. As soon as they entered, they saw three pomegranate trees with a lot of fruit.

The tree is not very high, the emperor can pick some up with his hand. He reached out and picked one, lowered his head and kicked the soil under his feet, raised his eyebrows and said, "This soil..."

Mr. Zhuang waited for him to ask, and immediately said: "This piece of land is dry and thin. Before that, beans were grown, and it could be rented out in the first year. In the second year, the tenants in the village knew that Zhou Man was good-natured, so they all I don’t want to rent this land anymore.”

He smiled and said, "There will always be a few acres of low-quality fields under the name of each adult. This is also for fairness. These acres of land will not be wasted, and if they want to be cultivated but no one is doing it, Zhou Man will let the Zhou family. I dug a big pond of sugar here, which can be used for washing clothes for the villagers, and can also raise some fish and lotus roots."

"The mud dug up was piled around, and the soil was thicker, so Zhou Man asked people to plant fruit trees. In order to make the fruit trees grow well, they also raised chickens in it, and chicken manure could raise the soil, and so on for five or six years. , that's how it is now."

The emperor smiled and said, "I heard from the Crown Prince and Lord Wei earlier that Zhou Man's job field is well managed, much better than that of the Ministry of Household."

Mr. Zhuang was slightly relieved. Although it was not a big mistake to dig a pond by occupying the work field, but at this time when the merits were being discussed, Mr. Zhuang still did not want this matter to affect her.

The emperor threw a pomegranate to watch Friday Lang catch fish, watching, watching, he looked up at the sky.

Wei Zhi glanced at it and said, "It's too late, it's impossible to get back to the capital tonight."

Yin Li also said: "Your Majesty, it's too dangerous to travel at night, let's stay tonight."

Emperor: "...Didn't you say you can't spend the night outside?"

Wei Zhi and Yin Li: ...then also have to be safe. If you didn't have to count the rice by yourself and wander around the fields for so long, they must be halfway there now.

The emperor didn't need them to answer, he shook his head and said, "Let's go, let's go back and look at the paddy fields. I haven't finished reading the experimental fields around the other courtyard."

Back in the courtyard, Mr. Zhuang went to arrange the emperor's night residence.

When Zhou Dalang heard that the emperor was going to live here at night, he was startled, "The emperor wants to live in my house?"

Mr. Zhuang reassured him, "Don't be afraid, the emperor's daughter has also come to live in other courtyards. Now it's okay for a father to live in the courtyard where his daughter lived for one night."

When Zhou Dalang heard Mr. Zhuang's explanation, his nervousness was instantly relieved.

At this time, the emperor was walking around the field with Wei Zhi and Yin Li, and the guards followed from a distance.

"Since this rice seed can be sown in Mianzhou and Qingzhou at the same time, there won't be much problem in Jiannan Road and Hehedong Road," the emperor said. climate."

He let out a long breath and said, "Wei Qing, speaking from my heart, I am really happy. With this rice seed, most of the current crisis in the Central Plains and the imperial court can be solved."

Wei Zhi nodded in agreement.

"But there are still too many people in the Central Plains, and there is less land and less food. It's not a solution in the long run." The emperor sighed: "I wanted to ask Ji Zhuangxun to see if he wanted to move the land, but listening to him, he actually wanted to. Just go with the flow.”

Wei knew: "Didn't your majesty praise him?" They praised him so much, obviously agreeing with his point of view.

The emperor nodded slightly and said: "I naturally hope that the prince can be like me, and it is best to resolve the conflict between the people and the land in the Central Plains, but I also know that the prince is not me, if he does what I want to do now, it will be great. Jin is only afraid of danger."

"He's right," the emperor said. "For the crown prince, it is the best policy to let nature take its course and make subtle changes silently."

Wei Zhi also nodded, "This time because of the Salt Administration, Jiangnan is in turmoil. In fact, not only Jiangnan has suffered heavy losses, but the court has also suffered a lot."

Although no one was killed in the war, there were a lot of things that were lost. The value that disappeared because the transaction was not completed, and the tax that was greedily wiped out by them, these are all losses.

"If it weren't for His Majesty's prestige, I'm afraid that Jiangnan would really change." But whoever sits in this position is not today, without today's prestige and power, Jiangnan can't calm down like this.

The emperor turned his head and glanced at Wei Zhi, seeing that his face was tired and the sickness on his face had not disappeared until now, he couldn't help sighing.

Xiao Yuan had greeted him early on, but Wei Zhi's body couldn't last long.

So he had to leave some people for the prince.

The emperor has never considered Zhuang Xun. First, because he has no experience in expatriation, he can teach and educate people.

The second is because he is too old.

Although he looks good in spirit, but at such an age, who knows when he will be ill and gone?

But now, the emperor is thinking.

Zhuang Xun answered his questions very well to his thoughts. The most important thing was that he was not at all disgusted by listening to him say that he should let the prince stay successful and adapt to the current situation. Too much.

The emperor felt his beard and thought for a long time, and finally said: "I want to add Zhuang Xun as the young master of the prince."

See you tomorrow, good night