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Chapter 542
In many cases, some earth-shattering events that happened in the court have less relationship with the common people than everyone imagined.

Whether loyal officials were wrongfully killed, or treacherous officials were bloody liquidated, it is nothing more than talk when it comes to the common people.

Because, whether they are loyal ministers or traitorous ministers, they are not in the same class as the common people, or even in the same world.

So, the next day, Yunchu took the officials of Wannian County to the countryside to supervise such a major event as farming.

When he was about to leave the city gate, Yunchu saw gray-haired Li Keshi near the notice board next to the city gate.

I didn't see the whole picture of Li Keshi, because only one head was displayed in a wooden cage, and the body was unknown. There were two young men crying mournfully underneath, and the soldiers guarding the city gate were still considerate. A ladder was given to the two young men.

Whisper them how to steal heads after dark, and they'll pretend not to see.

This has nothing to do with Li Keshi's loyalty or traitor, it's just the dignity that people must have after death.

Tang people have always been magnanimous towards the dead. Even if they committed the crime of slaughtering the nine clans, even if they were beheaded, the only remaining relatives and friends stole the corpse that was supposed to be exposed for three days and buried it quietly, no one would ask questions .

This is the importance of filial piety. They naturally think that "hiding relatives and hiding each other" is human nature, and since it is nature, it cannot be erased.

Li Keshi's head did not reveal the power and influence of the Duke of Danyang. of bitterness.

Seeing Master Li's unlucky appearance, Yun Chu became more determined that he would never participate in the dispute between Li Zhi and Wu Mei, even if he was beaten to death. Maybe this guy asked for Master Li's death, but Well, when Shangguanyi dies, it will chill the hearts of many people who want to participate in the relationship between the emperor and the empress.

There should be no trees in the fields!
If the tree grows too large, it will affect a large area of ​​farmland. Even the shade of the tree will affect the growth of crops, not to mention that this thing will attract birds to eat the crops, and it will bring pests and affect the crops.

At this time, the endless farmland without any shelter except the house is the real good farmland.

The food in Wannian County is always not enough. Every year, it buys a lot of food from other counties in Guanzhong, and also buys a lot of food from the fertile land of Longyou.

It can be said that the largest commodity purchased by Wannian County is grain. This is also the first time that Chang'an City, with its large population, has not had a huge reform in allocating grain from places such as the southeast and Hebei.

In the past few years, if the emperor hadn't strongly supported Yunchu's grain reform plan, the little Yunchu would not have been able to withstand the oppression of the Ministry of Household Affairs, let alone buy grain spontaneously nearby.

In the process of transporting grain from Dong'an, Hebei, and Shandong to Chang'an, there are too many stakeholders.

The distance to transport the grain itself is long, and the price of grain has been increased layer by layer. As a result, the price of grain allocated by the Ministry of Households in Wannian County far exceeds the price they spontaneously buy nearby. For the price of one catty of grain coming over, four catties of grain can be purchased nearby.

Although Yunchu did not intentionally control the grain price in Chang'an in the past few years, which caused the grain price in Chang'an to increase by [-]%, but the income of the people in Guanzhong from growing grain has increased by a full [-]%.

Nowadays, there is no cotton to grow, and the big guys sum it up, the food growers are actually pretty good, but there is no government to escort them.

The good days of guaranteed harvest due to drought and flood have finally become a thing of the past with the cotton being cut off, but people seem to have little objection.

A real Guanzhong farmer will panic if there are no crops growing in the field.

Both Yunchu and Wenrou are busy in the farmland they manage. Planting cotton these years is not without other benefits. At least, it gives the over-planted land in the two counties a chance to cultivate. Among them, the saline-alkali land has been reduced by more than [-]% compared with before.

These are all changes brought about by planting cotton. It is because of the high profit of planting cotton that people spend money and manpower to improve saline-alkali land.

Now, the area of ​​farmland in Wannian County has doubled compared to when Yunchu first took over Wannian County.

The increase in agricultural land is a good thing, but it also shows from another aspect that the land potential of Wannian County has been exhausted.

Over the past ten thousand years, the two counties of Chang'an have invested more than [-] guan in high-quality seeds. The investment in water conservancy facilities is not counted as corvee investment, and the investment in money alone exceeds [-] guan.

If it is true, as the Doctor of Agriculture from Sinong Temple said, the increased grain production in the field will definitely be able to smooth out the two investments by next year's autumn harvest at the latest.

The data obtained by Dr. Sinongsi from the experimental fields, as well as the reasonable planting methods, were all used by Yunchu in the planting of autumn grain this time.

It's not that Yunchu doesn't believe in the old farmers in Guanzhong, but because they always follow the ancient planting methods, and they are still unwilling to change until today.

The way they grow crops is still the one that Shang Yang used sticks and knives to force him to adapt to.

Therefore, Yunchu also prepared sticks this time. Fortunately, the people of Tang Dynasty were not as stubborn as in the Western Qin Dynasty. They chose to trust their county lords. The one set was used in the cultivation of his own farmland.

The doctors of Sinong Temple now like to show some new farming things to Yunchu. They know that the young county magistrate likes new things, and they will give corresponding rewards because of the usefulness of new things.

Then, Yunchu saw Qu Yuanli!

"Xianzun, this is Jiang Dongli, don't look at the twists and turns of this thing, but it saves animal power.

You see, the first thing is to change the straight shaft and long shaft to curved shaft and short shaft. The direct advantage of this is that the curved shaft is placed on the front blade of the cow, which is convenient for the livestock to exert force.

A free-rotating plow disc is also installed on the shaft head, which not only makes the plow frame smaller and lighter, but also facilitates turning and turning. "

Although Yunchu was born as a farmer, to be honest, he has never farmed since he was a child. Although Quyuanli is very important in the history books, he did not expect this thing to appear in the Tang Dynasty.

And it appeared so directly.

"Why didn't you take it out earlier?" Yun Chu looked at Qu Yuanli in front of him and asked the doctor of agriculture weakly.

"Didn't the county lord already use the new plowshare from our Wannian County before? That thing is also good, and the county lord even reported it to Sinong Temple. The low-ranking people thought that the county lord didn't like this kind of Jiangdong plowshare."

Yunchu was speechless. The plowshare used in Wannian County before was the plowshare that Yunchu had already asked someone to improve. Its optimization is not as good as the Quyuanli in front of it.

Jiangdong plow has been used in Jiangdong for hundreds of years. It can be said that this thing has been optimized to the extreme by farmers in the process of using it. You can tell the good from the bad just by looking at it.

A good plow must first be light in weight, easy to use, and save manpower and animal power. None of these advantages are shown in the Quyuan plow. The most important point is that the plowshare used by Yunchu uses a Too much iron.

No matter what, as long as it's a good thing, it's never too late.

For ten thousand years, the number of livestock in the two counties of Chang'an was the largest in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, in the field, Yunchu saw oxen, donkeys, mules, draft horses, and even camels pulling plows to plow the land.

After Yunchu stayed in the countryside for ten days, all the autumn grain in Wannian County had already been planted.

At this time, the main summer grain wheat in Guanzhong has been harvested. Although Wannian County has not planted a single wheat this year, the warehouses in their county have the most new wheat.

Every year when Wannian County releases old grain from the warehouse, it is a carnival day for the people of Chang'an City.

This is the only chance for them to buy cheap grain from the market every year. The grain price during this period is only [-]% of the price of the grain in the Changping warehouse of the Tang Dynasty.

For Wannian County, it belongs to the original price and the original price, which greatly benefits the people. Wannian County itself swallowed the storage and transportation costs.

The large-scale release of old grain in Wannian County has played a role in lowering the price of grain to a certain extent. At this time of year, the high-priced grain transported by the Ministry of Households from far away through the canal is basically no one cares.

Yunchu basically can't go to the household department to do business now, once he goes, he will always be greeted with cynicism.

Now he only hopes that these oily guys can go to Luoyang as soon as possible. If they can't see them, they won't have any bad feelings.

Di Renjie and Wen Wen have not missed those corrupt officials in these years, but unfortunately, no matter how diligent they are, there are more and more corrupt officials in their eyes.

Early in the morning, when it was raining lightly, Yunchu wore a coir raincoat and went to the Wannian County Granary. Today is the opening day of the main granary.

There are 30 tans of grain that will be released at a one-time price. However, this time, the target of the grain release is not the common people, but merchants.

The cheap food purchased by the common people has been distributed according to the market as a whole. The common people bought it from the head of the village and the head of the square with their household registration.

The purpose of distributing cheap food to merchants is to benefit the migrant workers who work under the merchants.

All these grains are rations, not for the merchants to sell. The merchants are also very clear about this. Except for a few guys who are greedy for profit, few people use cheap grain to do other things, because , once discovered, will be fined by the government and ruined.

After finishing these things, the time has come to July unknowingly.

Yunchu always thought that Chang'an in July was not suitable for people to live in. In the scorching weather, people slept on the roof.

Also stripped naked, no matter what, it is very unsightly.

The houses that people in Chang'an live in are mostly adobe houses, the ones that lean on one side, also known as half-side houses.

Yu Xiurong, who had already got a big belly, wiped his sweat with a wet towel, and yelled at Yun Chu: "I should sleep on the roof too, the kind of stripped naked."

Yun Chu only had a pair of shorts all over his body, and he fanned Yu Xiurong vigorously, hoping that this woman who had become violent due to the heat would calm down.

There was an iceberg in the house where Naha and the others lived, and Yu Xiurong couldn't get close to the iceberg because of her pregnancy, so Yunchu had to share the fate with his wife.

"You can get naked in this room, too."

"No, I'm going to stand on the roof and get naked." Yu Xiurong, who was about to faint from the heat, had no idea what she was talking about at this time.

"Tomorrow, as soon as the gate of the city is opened tomorrow, I will send you to Bashang to escape the summer heat. The terrain is high, the wind is strong, and it is cool."

"No, you should send me to Chencang County, your hometown. I heard that it's cold there at night and you need to wear a padded jacket."

What he said was completely unreasonable. Yunchu himself didn't know where his hometown was. Chencang county was filled in casually in order to avoid future troubles when he was in the Western Regions.

"Why don't I ask someone to fetch some well water to clean your body?"

"Get out, I'm pregnant, dare to be hot and cold for a while?"

Yunchu knew that this method would not work, and Yu Xiurong followed the regimen for pregnant women more strictly than he did.

Anyone who has lived in Chang'an City knows that there is basically no wind in Chang'an City. The most desperate thing is that the hotter the weather, the less wind there is in the sky.

Even in the middle of the night, the heat in Chang'an City is not much different from that in the daytime. On the contrary, it will become more humid and hot because the earth absorbs heat during the day and releases heat at night. After a while, people's bodies will be sticky, which is very attractive to mosquitoes. .

As for fanning, it will not be able to dissipate heat, because once you stop fanning, your body will become a heat sink, scorching hot, scorching hot, and you can't wait to peel off the skin to cool off.

There was no other way, Yunchu had no choice but to use warm water over and over again to help Yu Xiurong cool down...

No matter who it is, taking ten baths a night can't stand it, whether it's Yu Xiurong who is being bathed, or Yun Chu who is in charge of bathing.

When the sky was about to dawn, the earth finally stopped radiating heat, coupled with such a slight breeze, Yu Xiurong, who was extremely sleepy, finally fell asleep.

Yun Chu lost his sleepiness, and sat at the door in his underpants, guarding the screen door, lest mosquitoes would come in and disturb Yu Xiurong's sleep.

Because it was the beginning of the month, the moon could not be seen, and the stars in the sky could not illuminate the earth. Yun Chu vigorously shook the cattail fan, fanning the wind while driving away mosquitoes.

At this moment, he actually saw someone climbing the wall of the inner house, and listening to the movement, it turned out that the person outside the high wall was Fei Jiu.

Yun Chu, who originally wanted to kick the guy who climbed the wall to death, immediately thought that there was only one person who was still climbing the wall of the inner house with the help of Fei Jiu at this time, and that was Cui Yao.

This woman obviously doesn't love Fat Jiu anymore, Cui Yao described it very clearly, and others can see it clearly.

However, Cui Yao desperately wanted to have one or several children.

This made Yunchu think that he had hired the wrong teacher of etiquette.

However, Cui Yao told Yunchu that the etiquette teacher's first consideration is the survival of human beings, that is to say, it is the vocation of the etiquette teacher to have children, and only when there are children can we talk about etiquette.

A woman who has never given birth to a child is definitely not a good moral nun. She wanted to have a child before, but it is a pity that she can't just find a man to have a child. This is not in line with her ethical concepts.

Otherwise, the child will be born with a bad name and bad words. Such a child will not be blessed by heaven and earth, and even if he will achieve something in the future, it will be deformed and incomplete.

She used to think that it was impossible for her to have her own children in her life, but in the end, she saw her former husband in Yun's.

Now, she can give birth to a child happily and aboveboard.

Every child born will be the darling of heaven and earth.

Watching Cui Yao skillfully put away the light bamboo ladder from the other side of the wall, and then put it on this side, stepped down the ladder skillfully, then put the ladder down and hid it behind the flower bed.

Clapping his hands, he entered the room where she lived.

Yun Chu covered his mouth and laughed, Yu Xiurong's hot body leaned on his shoulder and said, "Don't look, they are together every night."

Yun Chu looked at Yu Xiurong and said, "Didn't you fall asleep?"

Yu Xiurong shook his head and said, "I don't want you to worry, I pretended to be asleep."

As he spoke, he pointed to a bright spot in the sky and said, "Look, today is another bad day with no clouds in the sky. I'm afraid it will be even hotter at night. Let's pack up now and go to Bieye in Bashang to escape the summer heat. It's early, I can sleep a little longer."

When the sky just dawned, Yunchu carried the drowsy children into the carriage and prepared to leave Chang'an, the big furnace.

After leaving Fangshi, it was discovered that the Yun family was not the only one who had the same idea. Before the city gate was opened, Suzaku Street was crowded with cars.

The most important one was actually the emperor's Luanjia, followed by tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. After asking the deputy general of the Jinwu Guard who escorted him, he found out that the emperor left Chang'an City this time not to go to Qujiang, but to go straight to Jiucheng Palace.

"Didn't Your Majesty say that the Jiucheng Palace is not good for his passing years?"

Because of the armor, the lieutenant general Liu Jinding, who was sweating profusely in the early morning, said: "Chang'an cannot be lived, your majesty is not heat-resistant, if you continue to live, you may suffer from the heat.

You have cut down all the trees in Qujiang, there is no shelter, there is a lot of water, it is a good place to raise mosquitoes, if your majesty does not go to Jiucheng Palace, why not go to Qinling?

Marquis Yun, what do you think is wrong with Chang'an City this year? It can freeze people to death in winter and heat them to death in summer. Is it the wrong time? "

Yun Chu smiled and said, "That's the work of Si Tianjian."

"Don't mention Sitianjian, three old Taoists in Sitianjian were killed by the queen, who dares to talk nonsense now?"

Liu Jinding said in a low voice.

Yun Chu looked back, but he didn't see the chariots and horses of the civil and military officials, so he asked cautiously: "Why don't you see the many courtiers accompanying you?"

Liu Jinding looked at Yun Chu and said, "This time the officials did not accompany them, but they brought along some close officials from the Secretary Supervisor. This is the first time the Crown Prince supervises the country."

Hearing these words, Yunchu felt as if he had been struck by lightning. It took him a while to wake up. He bid farewell to Liu Jinding, took his family's motorcade, left Suzaku Avenue, and changed to Qixia Gate next to him. Jokes go the same way as cattle and sheep, and they don't want to follow the emperor to go Mingde.

For such an important matter as the crown prince supervising the country, the court didn't say it clearly. The emperor and the empress just left Chang'an casually and went straight to Jiucheng Palace, which is three hundred miles away. God knows what they want to do.

Li Hong did not inform Yunchu of this news, obviously not Li Hong's original intention, it should be the arrangement of the emperor and empress.

Not knowing what the emperor and empress wanted to do, Yunchu still felt that it was best not to see Li Hong during this time.

Li Yifu returned to Chang'an four days ago...

Because it is hot summer, fewer pigs, cattle and sheep are transported to the city through Qixia Gate, but the place is still smelly.

The Qixia Gate also opened earlier than the Mingde Gate, so when Yunchu's family's convoy had already set out on the main road, the emperor's car had not yet left the Mingde Gate.

Behind Yu Xiurong's carriage was the children's carriage. They hadn't woken up yet, but the old monkey, who always slept, woke up instead, sitting cross-legged behind the shaft, looking behind the carriage for some reason.

Yun Chu slowed down his horse, approached the old monkey and said, "It's Yin Erhu and the others, and Zhang Jia and the others are exploring the way ahead."

The old monkey said, "What did the Suleiman you caught say?"

Yun Chu smiled and said, "He is here to destroy your Buddhist kingdom."

The old monkey looked at Yunchu and said, "He's here to destroy Naha's Buddhist kingdom. Why, you're not worried at all?"

Yun Chu sat up straight and said, "The big cannibal wants to enter the territory of Zhaowu's nine surnames to preach, first of all he has to ask the Anxi Army of the Tang Dynasty whether he agrees or not."

The old monkey coughed and said, "Have you heard of the Sassanid Kingdom?"

Yun Chu nodded and said, "It's a big Persian country. It was annexed by the Great Food Kingdom during the Yonghui period. What's wrong?"

The old monkey said: "If you come to Qiyun Temple and see a Persian prince named Beluz, don't be surprised."

Yun Chu sneered and said, "Persian Sassanid has perished, this prince is not in the Sassanid Kingdom to resist the big cannibals and plot to restore the country, what is he doing in Chang'an?"

The old monkey said with a smile, "He came to Chang'an because he hoped that the Great Tang would lend him troops so that he could drive away the big cannibals and restore the former glory of the Sasanian kingdom."

Yun Chu said: "It's not that the Tang frontier army can't lend it to him. The question is, what kind of reward can he offer to impress the emperor and allow the soldiers and horses of the Anxi army to cross the plateau to help him fight against the big cannibals?"

The old monkey laughed and said, "Helping Sassan means guarding the frontiers of the Tang Dynasty."

Yunchu laughed and said, "It's not enough for you to know this reason. Not to mention that the Sassanid Kingdom is too far away from the Tang Dynasty, their kingdom has perished. If the Tang army can defeat the Great Cannibal, why didn't they establish a Persian kingdom there?" What about the Protectorate?"

The old monkey said: "Other Tang people can say that, but you can't, because that piece of land is very important to your sister."

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "That didn't make the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty travel thousands of miles to fight in a strange place. If they died there, their bones would not be able to return home, forget about it.

Helping you deal with the affairs of the Shi Kingdom is the limit of what I can do. With Chang'an as my back, I am invincible. If I go to the Western Regions, what I can do is very limited. You shouldn't have too high expectations of me. Require. "

The old monkey sighed, closed his eyes, and got into the carriage, looking very disappointed.

Yunchu didn't feel sorry for the old monkey at all. Ever since he found out that he was old, this old guy had put on a look of helplessness from time to time, forcing Yunchu to agree to many unreasonable demands from him.

More often, Naha is used as an example.

Yunchu believed that the old monkey said that Naha would become a queen of the Buddhist kingdom in the future, so she would definitely become a queen, but with Naha's current appearance, she was only suitable to be a puppet queen.

Especially under the instigation of the old monkey, even if Naha is a puppet queen, she will be happy.

Therefore, before the old monkey brought out the real thing, Yunchu would not try his best to help him. God knows if he would be making wedding dresses for others after helping him.

Judging from the territory that the old monkey said so far, Naha will almost have a country as big as the Central Plains. Yunchu doesn't remember such a Buddhist country ever appearing in history.

After almost two hours, the carriage arrived at Bashang.

Because of the high terrain, the wind here is very cool, and there are a lot of people here, and there are gurgling mountain streams. Yu Xiurong and the children who had been suffering in the carriage fell asleep immediately.

Even though the convoy had arrived at the other courtyard, they still couldn't scream, especially the two young ones.

The rooms in the other courtyard had been prepared long ago, and the bamboo mats had been wiped with cool stream water early on. The group of people didn't even think about eating, so they got into their respective rooms and fell asleep.

Yunchu was no exception, he didn't enter the house, he got a recliner chair and threw it under the persimmon tree, and fell asleep right away.

At this moment, no matter what the emperor and the empress mean by letting Li Hong supervise the country, and no matter what kind of ambition the old monkey said about Prince Beluz, it is not as important as getting a good night's sleep.

The old monkey stood alone in the quiet courtyard, looked at Yun Chu who was sleeping soundly while snoring, then left Yun's Villa with his hands behind his back, and went to Qiyun Temple.

Just as the old monkey walked out of the yard, Yunchu snorted and opened one eye, and glanced at the old monkey's back.

No matter how good the relationship is, even if they are like a family, the old monkey should not lure him step by step to the restoration of Prince Sassan.

At the beginning, it was only said that it was a dispute over the property of the Stone Kingdom. The wealth of the old monkey was Naha's wealth.

Now, there is another Prince Beluz, and from this, Yunchu can draw a conclusion.

Those people from Shiguo didn't come here to kill the old monkey at all, their target should be this damned Prince Beluz.

This time, if the old monkey didn't apologize, Yunchu decided to just deal with the matter as Shi Guolai.

According to the region, he didn't intend to extend his hand beyond Suiye City, because it was too far away.

Because Master Xuanzang is here in Qiyun Temple, everything here is full of Zen. Even the cicadas on the persimmon tree call more rhythmically than the cicadas in other places.

The persimmon tree was gently shaken by the breeze, and the leaves were whirling, completely covering the hot sun overhead.

Occasionally, the sound of monks chanting sutras came from the next door, which had a very hypnotic effect. Yun Chu turned over, let the cool wind blow his hot body, and murmured comfortably. Sleep here.

　See you tomorrow,
　
(End of this chapter)