There is one more person in the family who needs to get up early, and Su Lu is very pleased.

He asked Zhao Zhongjun and Wang Yan to jointly write an application with himself, saying that spring is coming, there are many things outside, the river is thawing, and the boatman has to go to work; The land is recovering, and the people want spring ploughing. The plan of the year lies in the spring, they want to know more about the people's livelihood and people's feelings, and they should take advantage of this good season to go out to study, as the saying goes, read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, and have their own hills and valleys in their chests!

Su Lu's application for a study tour was written vividly and interestingly, and Ouyang Xiu and others circulated it to each other after they got it, and they immediately recognized that this article was from Su Lu's hand.

As soon as Ouyang Xiu and the others discussed, they felt that this article alone was worth giving Su Lu and them a leave.

It's just that this matter still has to be agreed by other parents.

Ouyang Xiu took the article and showed it to Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen read Su Zhen's article, as if he also saw the harmonious spring when winter went to spring and everything recovered. He said, "It's all children, since they want to go out and have a look, just let them out." Write to Kuanfu and ask him to pick him up when he arrives. ”

Kuanfu was referring to Wen Yanbo, who resigned from his position and went to Henan Mansion to wait, and the seat of Henan Mansion was in Luoyang.

According to the route described by Su Lu, they will go by land and water, and it will be early spring when they go and late spring when they return, and they will definitely have to stay in Luoyang for a while in the middle.

Ouyang Xiu got Zhao Zhen's permission, so he replied to Su Zhen and the three of them, and asked Su Zhen to remember to visit Wen Yanbo after they arrived in Luoyang.

Zhao Zhongjun is a real child in the end, and when he heard that he could go out to study, he was overjoyed and overjoyed.

Zhao Zhongjun personally went to talk to Empress Cao about the study tour.

Earlier, Empress Cao had already learned about this from Zhao Zhen's mouth, and when she saw Zhao Zhongjun so elated, she also laughed, and ordered someone to pick a few guards who could fight to accompany her.

And so it was settled.

Su Lu smuggled her luggage from Zhang Yunrou's house one after another, and it didn't take long to stuff everything Zhang Yunrou wanted to bring into her bag.

After the beginning of spring, Su Lu deceived Zhang Yunrou from Zhang's house on the pretext of taking Zhang Yunrou out to buy books.

The group happily went out of the city and joined Zhao Zhongjiao and Wang Yan, who were waiting outside the city early.

After the beginning of spring, it's time to pay tribute, and many scholars hurriedly enter the city? It seemed that their group of people who walked out of the city early in the morning were a little abrupt.

Didn't Su Lu bring King Kong and Xiaocui? also brought Yun Niang with him, otherwise a group of old men wouldn't even be able to eat a hot meal on the road? It's scary to think about.

Zhang Yunrou is the same age as Su Lu? is in the stage of indistinguishable between male and female, looking like a young man with red lips and white teeth.

Is it the first time Zhao Zhongjun and Wang Yan have seen her? learned that she was the "Zhang Xiumao" that Ouyang Xiu and they often used to educate them, and they all gladly accepted this new friend.

It's just a little bit of a wonder what's wrong with him? It was so serious that he couldn't participate in the imperial examination.

But think about the Fan Baifu who vomited and diarrhea as soon as he went to the examination room? Zhao Zhongjun and the others didn't ask much thoughtfully, for fear of accidentally poking Zhang Yunrou's sore spot.

Several people rode on the prepared donkeys and set off in the direction of Luoyang.

It was the day when the canal was frozen at the beginning of spring, and the boatmen who had rested for a winter returned to camp? Pulling boats along the riverbank.

Su Lu and his party walked along the river? I stopped to watch a few waves of boatmen passing by shouting the trumpet, and instead of looking for a chance to chat with them, I bumped into an official with a frown.

Su Lu and Zhao Zhongjun glanced at each other, got off the donkey and stepped forward to say hello to each other.

The other party learned the identities of the three of them, and also reported to their home? He is the imperial historian Lu Jingchu, and is currently sentenced to the water supervisor of Bianjing.

At present, these things at hand are actually in charge of the three divisions? However, in recent years, the luck has been chaotic, and the imperial court has deliberately divided this piece to find someone to take care of it.

Su Lu curiously asked what the water supervisor did.

Lu Jingchu briefly explained to them the content of his current work.

Grain program corruption in recent years? The situation of the transportation is very bad, and the efficiency of transporting grain in various places is low.

Can't complete the grain delivery task? Is it the people who are suffering? A boat pawn with a way can be transferred to a relaxed place with a bribe of the officials? The boatman who has no way out may die of old age on the river and never return home for the rest of his life, so he has to be responsible for supervising the local transshipment envoys to increase the local shipbuilding and only improve the efficiency of grain transportation.

If this continues, there will be more and more fugitives, and these fleeing people will become displaced people, which will become a huge security risk.

Zhao Zhongjun was surprised to hear this.

"There are so many ways to transport grain."

Lu Jingchu saw that the few of them listened carefully, so he told them the number of boat soldiers to be recruited every year. Millions of households in Kaifeng, so many mouths have to eat, and the transportation of grain is not a small problem!

This Zhao Zhongjun really hasn't understood it well.

Unexpectedly, the grain output is coming, and it will consume so much manpower and material resources to transport it to Kaifeng!

Lu Jingchu sighed and said: "Kaifeng is the national capital, so many people's food, clothing, housing and transportation seem to be a trivial matter, but in fact, they can be provided by the power of the whole country. ”

Lu Jingchu still had to keep an eye on the matter of Cao Yun in person, and Su Lu and the others no longer bothered, and the group left Lu Jingchu and continued to move forward.

Zhao Zhongjun sighed with emotion: "If I don't come out for a walk, I can't know many things at all." ”

Su Lu and Zhao Zhongyun talked about the history of grain transportation: "We are okay, at least we can still transport it." At the beginning, the Tang Dynasty set the capital of Chang'an, and there was a grain shortage in the spring and summer, when the green and yellow were not connected, only green seedlings were left in the field, and the emperor was not in a rut, Tang Gaozong often took the civil and military officials and nearly 100,000 entourages to Luoyang to live temporarily for a few months, because Luoyang has a grand canal leading to the south of the Yangtze River, and grain can be transported directly from the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Wang Yan usually reads books from a regular time, but he has never read history books from such a tricky angle. He couldn't help but ask, "Really?" ”

Su Lu said: "That's natural, we can look for it after we get to Luoyang, maybe we can also find the remains of the granary of the Sui and Tang dynasties." If you can't figure out what article to give to your husband and them, you can use this as an issue. ”

Zhao Zhongjun said: "This idea is good, I'll write it down first." ”

As soon as he went out, he found a topic that he could write about, and Zhao Zhongjun's mood suddenly soared. He said: "When I get to Luoyang, I will go to check the local classics to see if Tang Gaozong will really go to Luoyang to eat." It wasn't easy! ”

Su Lu said: "That is also after the rule of Zhenguan, the population has increased dramatically, and Chang'an will not be able to eat." When wars frequent, they didn't have to worry about it. ”

When Zhao Zhongjun heard Su Lu say this, he felt that he was still a little troubled. Of course, the more people, the better, if there is no one under the rule, then you really can't do anything!

Zhao Zhongjun said: "We have a lot of people in the Great Song Dynasty! ”