Abandoned Prince Survival Guide

Hearing this, Xiang Yang turned to look at Xiao Yu instead of Pei Linzhi: "Your Majesty meant?"

Xiao Yu was also very surprised, because Pei Linzhi didn't mention this to him, he wanted Xiang Yang to go to the army?But he still followed Pei Linzhi's words: "Guan Shan is already a Zhonglang general, do you want to develop in the army?"

Xiang Yang lowered his eyes: "I'm not suitable for leading troops to fight."

Xiao Yu said: "You are all very talented, I think it would be too embarrassing for you to stay by my side as a bodyguard."

Xiang Yang shook his head: "I don't think so, it is my honor to be His Majesty's bodyguard."

Pei Linzhi said: "Since that's the case, let's pretend I didn't mention it."

Xiao Yu looked at Pei Linzhi, what kind of medicine he sold in the gourd, it was good, why did he let Xiangyang go to the army, didn't he always care about his own safety the most, so he kept Xiangyang by his side.

They did not continue this topic, but turned the topic to hybrid rice.Although it was almost dusk, many farmers were still busy harvesting rice in the fields, and the common people still used the most primitive way to thresh. Only Xiao Yu's hybrid rice field was threshing with a threshing machine.

This threshing machine was shipped from Yazhou, and it has not been popularized in Guangzhou, and even in Yazhou, it has not been popularized yet.

In the era of pure hand-made, it is not easy to popularize such large-scale machinery.Because the production process is complicated, it takes too much time, and the cost is relatively high, and ordinary people cannot afford it, although Xiao Yu has already kept the price very low.

When Xiao Yu came over, he saw a large group of people surrounding his field, including old people and children, all of whom came to observe the threshing machine.

Xiao Yu didn't reveal his identity, he just planned to take a look and leave.

But as soon as he arrived, Tian Cao Linhong came over.Lin Hong was supervising the work in the hybrid rice field, and saw a carriage approaching from a distance. When the people on the carriage got off, he was startled, and hurried over to greet him: "Your Majesty! Why didn't you notify us in advance when you came?"

Xiao Yu waved his hand: "Don't shout, I just came here to take a look."

Lin Hong couldn't hide his excitement and said: "Your Majesty's hybrid rice is going to have a bumper harvest."

"If there is a good harvest, it's a good thing. Do all the late rice in this area have to grow hybrid rice?" Xiao Yu asked.

Lin Hong said: "Yes, I let the tenant farmers not grow seedlings, and wait for the distribution of seeds to grow seedlings. Although it will be more than a month later, it will not affect the harvest."

Generally speaking, the late rice seedlings will be prepared in advance, and the late rice can be planted as soon as the early rice is harvested.However, due to the need to plant hybrid rice this season, we did not let everyone raise seedlings in advance.

Originally, the tenant farmers were a little worried that raising seedlings too late would affect the late rice harvest, but when they saw the arc-shaped ears of hybrid rice and the straight ears in their own fields, they gave up the idea of ​​raising seedlings in advance.

Some people even deliberately counted that a panicle of hybrid rice has more than a dozen grains of rice than that of domestic rice, and the number of seedlings of hybrid rice is several more than that of domestic rice.This yield is definitely much higher than that of our own. Who wouldn't want to grow high-yield rice?

Nowadays, hybrid rice not only has a high yield, but also has a different harvesting method. Once the thresher is stepped on, the wheels turn quickly, and a large bundle of rice is stuffed in, and it can be removed in the blink of an eye, saving time and effort.

This is really enviable. If they can also have such a treasure, let alone a family of more than ten acres of land, even dozens of acres will not be a problem, so will they still worry about not being able to fill their stomachs?

Lin Hong pointed to the threshing machine and said: "The threshing machine brought by Your Majesty from Yazhou is really amazing. With it, the harvesting speed will be much faster. I just don’t know if there are any threshing machines in Yazhou, and we want to buy a few.”

Xiao Yu looked at the mud on Lin Hong's feet, but he didn't expect that Tiancao was quite practical, so he said, "Yazhou is promoting it. I plan to recruit a group of blacksmiths from Guangzhou to learn how to make threshing machines. After learning, I will come back to Guangzhou." Make a threshing machine, and then promote it to the whole of Guangzhou and Jiaozhou."

Lin Hong said: "Your Majesty is wise. I didn't expect that there are such skilled craftsmen in Yazhou who can make such exquisite instruments."

Pei Linzhi on the side said: "In fact, it's all thanks to His Majesty, he was the one who came up with this threshing machine."

Lin Hong was shocked immediately, and hurriedly bowed: "Your Majesty is holy!"

Xiao Yu said: "In the future, you can be transferred to the Ministry of Industry. You will be in charge of all the agricultural equipment, and you will also be responsible for finding the blacksmith."

Lin Hong hurriedly saluted: "Your minister accepts the decree!"

Lin Hong is Tian Cao, who was originally in charge of farming and was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry. It was appropriate for him to lead the establishment of the Ministry of Industry, and Wang Juan would have an organization later.

Before dark, Xiao Yu returned to the city.He was in a very good mood, because he had foreseen the upcoming changes, and this change was brought about by himself, not to mention the sense of accomplishment.

However, his good mood didn't last until he went home. Not long after he entered the city, the carriage was blocked on the road. It seemed that something happened in front of him, which blocked the road, and people kept driving towards him.

Pei Linzhi frowned and said, "Ji Hai, go ask what happened."

"Yes, Master." Ji Hai stepped forward, pushed aside the crowd and walked inside.

After a while, Ji Hai squeezed out from the crowd. He said, "Your Majesty, Master, someone died. A woman committed suicide by jumping from the Deyi Building, and she took her two young daughters with her. They all fell to their deaths." Deyi Building It's a brothel.

Xiao Yu was extremely surprised: "Why did you commit suicide?" The mother committed suicide with her two children, it was really tragic.

Pei Linzhi asked: "Have you found out what the reason is?"

Ji Hai said, "It seems to be related to the Chen family."

"A member of the Chen family?" Xiao Yu frowned.

Ever since the Chen family was found out by opening the city gate without authorization, all members of the Chen family have been under surveillance, but the chief culprit, the Patriarch of the Chen family and his descendants, have disappeared and have not shown up. Those who came back are all side branches.

Xiao Yu ordered the Chen family's house to be confiscated, all the property was confiscated, and the side branches were also implicated.But Xiao Yu did not order to kill offspring of the Chen family, he did not respect the punishment of implicating the nine clans.

Ji Hai shook his head: "The dead woman is not from the Chen family, but the two girls are daughters of the Chen family."

Xiao Yu was confused: "Aren't they mother and daughter?"

Ji Hai said: "It's mother and daughter. That woman is not a concubine of the Chen family, but a pawn wife."

"What is a pawn wife?" Xiao Yu heard of it for the first time.

Lai Feng turned his head and explained: "It's renting other people's wives. Mrs. Chen's family couldn't give birth to a son, and she didn't want her husband to take a concubine, so she rented someone else's wife to give birth to a child."

Xiao Yu was shocked when he heard this, he can still do this!There are still people who are willing to rent their wives! "The wives under the pawn can only go back after giving birth to a son? What if they don't give birth?"

Lai Feng said: "A certain number of years will be set. If no son is born, the pawn relationship will still be terminated."

"What if it's a daughter?" Pei Linzhi asked.

"It's up to the Patriarch to give birth to a daughter. If he doesn't want to raise her, he can be brought back by his pawn wife." Lai Feng said.

Xiao Yu was silent. Would a man who would even rent out his wife be willing to help someone else raise their daughter?

Ji Hai said: "The Chen family was ransacked, and the pawned wife and daughter were taken away and sent back to the original husband's family. But the husband's family was unwilling to raise the daughter for the Chen family, so they sold the wife and child to Deyilou The woman committed suicide by jumping off the building with her child."

Hearing this, Xiao Yu gritted his teeth angrily. In this society that eats people and treats people as commodities, he said: "The Chen family is devoid of conscience! Order Sun Fei to investigate this matter quickly, and will file a case against the deceased's pawned wife." Everyone involved will be brought to justice!"

Pei Linzhi said to Ji Hai: "Ji Hai, go to Lord Sun and tell him that His Majesty was furious when he heard about this, and asked him to investigate the case thoroughly."

"Yes." Ji Hai said, turned and ran towards the government office.

After a lot of difficulty, the crowd gradually dispersed, and their carriage finally moved on again.

Xiao Yu gritted his teeth and said, "I think Guangzhou is going to be like Yazhou. Brothels and brothels are going to be banned, and the incident of pawning wives must be strictly prohibited from happening again."

Pei Linzhi said: "There are much more women in brothels in Guangzhou than in Yazhou. Your Majesty has no workshops in Guangzhou and cannot accommodate so many people. If you let these women be independent, what can they do for a living?"

Xiao Yu rubbed his forehead, this was always his concern, that's why he didn't get married for a long time, but today's tragedy happened in front of his eyes, he can no longer just ignore it, silence is the perpetrator's accomplice.

Xiang Yang said: "Your Majesty can still organize these women, play musical instruments, sing, dance, and even tell stories."

Xiao Yu waved his hand: "Not everyone has the talent in this field. At that time, we will set up a weaving workshop in Guangzhou to specialize in spinning and weaving. It just so happens that this year's cotton is coming out soon."

At night, Xiao Yu tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep.

Pei Linzhi said, "Xiao Yu is still angry about what happened during the day?"

Xiao Yu sighed: "I thought that if there was a problem, it would be fine to solve it, but soon there would be a new problem, and it would be endless. I feel that this emperor is really hard to be."

Pei Linzhi patted his head: "It's been hard work. Take your time, you've done a good job."

Xiao Yu thought of something: "By the way, why did you suddenly think of letting Xiang Yang go to the army today? You didn't discuss it with me in advance."

"You don't want him to go?"

"No, isn't he unwilling to go?"

"Of course he doesn't want to go."

"Huh? Why?"

Pei Linzhi said, "Think for yourself."

Xiao Yu: "..." How did he know!Asking this is tantamount to asking for nothing!

The next day at the court, Xiao Yu talked about his plan to ban brothels and brothels, which really aroused great repercussions.

Everyone spoke up one after another to express their views. Few of the former Guangzhou officials agreed with the banning of brothels, thinking that the involvement was too broad.

Xiao Yu didn't know that the so-called involvement was too extensive, but it actually hurt the interests of some aristocratic families. After all, they were the bosses behind many brothels.

On the contrary, the people who followed from Yazhou supported Xiao Yu's decision, because they saw the results of the ban. Without the brothel, it would not have any impact on the lives of the people, and people had more expectations, and they could see singing and dancing performances .

Of course, some people believe that the existence of brothels can give poor men a place to vent their desires and pressures, reduce crimes against women, and maintain social stability to a certain extent.

Xiao Yu thinks this is completely nonsense, co-authoring women is a tool to vent their desires?Then what do you need the government and the army to do!