Datang officials have been squatting on the ground for a long time.

There is no image, open your eyes wide, look away, hundreds of people squatting in a row, if you don't know the noble identity of this group of people in advance, you think that there is a group of stupid two fools.

In fact, this is not only the case with hundreds of officials, but also with Li Shimin, who has always paid attention to image.

Who would dare to believe that this soon-to-be emperor of the Tang Dynasty was actually squatting on the ground?

Squatting on the ground is just that, but the posture is still so strange, this posture is very common in the folk, generally when the common people have a stomachache into the field, and then the feet are forked, inhaling and holding the force, and then a landslide tsunami, the mouth let out a comfortable moan.

At this time, if you take another piece of soil in your hand, the image is pure home.

It just so happened that Li Shimin was holding a piece of soil in his hand, and he was about to throw it down to try it......

In front of me is a ditch, the width is at most one zhang, the water in the canal is murmuring, occasionally floating some grass, it is said that there is nothing to see in this scene, the Tang officials have not seen any battles, but everyone is squatting on the side of the canal, and they have been watching for half an hour attentively.

During this period, from time to time, some people followed the example of Li Shimin, took a piece of soil and tried to throw it down to see the movement, and then listened to the sound of a hula water, and watched with great admiration as the soil was broken by the water.

Because an old peasant couldn't help but come, he stood in the distance and mustered up the courage to shout, and said angrily: "Whoever dares to throw the soil down again, I will drown in the river, my life is cheap, you are nobles, I dare not exchange my life with you, but I die in front of you and make you unlucky...... You still throw it, you still throw that fat man......"

The official who was called the fat man withdrew his hand and put the dirt on the ground in makeup, but when the old farmer didn't pay attention, the fat man quickly picked up the dirt and threw it into the water, and suddenly the Tang officials stretched their necks together and stared intently into the ditch.

The old peasant trembled with anger, his eyes had become red and overflowing with tears, and he suddenly sat on the ground with a pop, and said with a cry: "Evil, it's really evil, why doesn't God open his eyes and kill ......"

It's a pity that the peasant is timid, even if he is angry, he still doesn't dare to scold the next words, he only dares to bury his head and cry not far away, but a little granddaughter next to him looks at him angrily.

Li Shimin glanced at it from a distance, and suddenly said with emotion: "Can make a loyal and honest farmer angry, and force him to muster up the courage to scold two words, it can be seen that this artifact in the ditch is more important than their lives in the hearts of the people." ”

"Doesn't it matter? It's a miracle. ”

Li Xiaogong next to him subconsciously spoke, and said sincerely: "With this thing, the people don't have to look at the sky anymore when farming." Even if there is a big drought, there will be a drought in the crops, which means that the drought will no longer lead to a reduction in food production, and what is food? Food is the life of the people. ”

Li Shimin nodded slowly, then shook his head again, and said with a solemn face: "Xiaogong has a wrong sentence, food is not only the life of the common people, even if we are royal, we will die without food." So I understand the old farmer very well, it's good that he didn't jump over and scold his mother. ”

As he spoke, he looked at the officials by the canal, especially the officials of the family factions, and said meaningfully: "I don't know if the people of the family don't care, after all, the big family is not short of food." ”

The group of family officials looked at each other, and suddenly said together: "Your Highness, don't be ridiculous, how can we not care about food?" If you really want to talk about it, the family has the most land in their hands, although we are known as the heirlooms of poetry and books, but no one can escape the fate of throwing food in the soil. We don't shy away from greed, and we care more about the harvest of the land than anyone else......"

After finishing speaking, these family officials looked at the people in Tiance Mansion and sneered: "I don't know if the other group of people don't care, after all, some people are good at hard robbery." Other people's ancestors have worked hard for generations to accumulate before they slowly become wealthy families, while some people have been poor for generations and want to grab the good things in other people's homes. Bandit people don't know the hardships of accumulation, so naturally they don't care about the harvest of the fields. ”

"Fuck, who are you talking about?"

Most of the officials of the Tiance Mansion faction were Wu Xun, and when they heard this, they opened their throats and scolded, and said in a vicious voice: "If you dare to point fingers at Sang and scold Huai, believe it or not, I will throw you into the ditch." Fill your stomach with water and plug your mouths. ”

The officials of the Maison sneered, not taking these threats to heart in the slightest.

Li Shimin's face was flat, and he didn't seem to care about the quarrel between the officials of the two factions, and it could even be said that he deliberately facilitated the quarrel.

Li Xiaogong's face was also flat, as if he didn't see the officials scolding and scolding, he suddenly stretched out his hand and dragged a person, who was scolded by the old farmer as a fat guy just now, and asked this person: "Brother Duan Lun, it has been half a year since you were transferred to the Ministry of Industry, looking at the entire court officials, you should be the person who comes into contact with Gewu most often, just now you squatted on the ground and watched for so long, among all of them, it belongs to the Huan who threw dirt and threw it, in the end, you can see whether there is a doorway, hurry up and tell the big guys." ”

The fat man is Duan Lun, and his identity is the same as Gu Tianya's relatives of the emperor, but Duan Lun is a concubine, which belongs to the situation of joining the Li family, and Gu Tianya is married to Zhaoning, strictly speaking, he is not a concubine.

However, Duan Lun, as a lieutenant of the horse, did not get into the situation of being angry, this fat man's family background is not small, his ancestor is a Xianbei royal family, and his father was the secretary of the Great Sui Army, and his status and power even surpassed that of Li Yuan at the beginning.

When the Tang Dynasty was not established, the fat man had already married the daughter of the Li family, and then the Li family raised troops in Jinyang.

So although he is now a lieutenant of the horse, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty rarely regard him as a person who is rich, even if it is the Li royal family, they also regard this product as the core figure of the royal interest group.

Looking at the entire court, no one will underestimate this fat man.

Because, he is the newly appointed secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

You must know that the Tang Dynasty followed the Sui Dynasty's system of three provinces and six ministries, and all the bigwigs added up to only nine people.

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saw that although Duan Lun was dragged up by Li Xiaogong, this fat man was really fat and a little outrageous, he was panting and wiping his sweat, and his eyes were still looking straight at the canal.

His pair of small mung bean eyes are clearly round on the outside and square on the inside, just like two copper coins, which are shining.

Li Xiaogong was extremely greasy, and couldn't help but snort coldly: "Rub your halazi, don't be like a turtle, the dignified Ministry of Works, have you never seen the world or what?" ”

"Have you seen it? If you've seen it, you won't ask me. ”

The fat man didn't urinate Li Xiaogong at all, and directly slapped Li Xiaogong with a split head and face.

But this fat man looked like this, but Li Xiaogong's eyes lit up, and he came up excitedly and said, "No, you really see the doorway of this thing?" ”

"A little bit of it, but I'm not sure."

The fat man hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand and pointed to a whirlpool in the ditch and said: "You see that iron wheel that keeps turning, just now we all smashed it with dirt, but the rotation of this thing has not decreased at all, and it has been providing a steady stream of power, and it is precisely because of the power it provides that it will drive those leaves to rotate continuously, from low to high, back and forth, through this continuous circulation, a steady stream of water is sent to high places, and then along a ditch, extending to the place that needs to be irrigated......"

Li Xiaogong obviously didn't understand, but it didn't prevent him from continuing to ask questions, and said: "What if the next ditch flows to the end, and some acres of land are higher than the ditch?" ”

"It's very simple, just get such a device and continue to carry water."

The fat man agreed absentmindedly, continued to stare into the ditch, and suddenly turned his head to look into the distance, looked at the ditch at the end of the field, and muttered: "It's amazing, borrowing the power of water to drive the water flow, so that under the continuous circulation, it can even lift the water up the mountain." ”

At this time, Li Shimin had already gotten up and looked at the ditches in the field, and after a long time, he exhaled deeply and said, "The dry field has become a paddy field." One acre of land can collect at least fifty catties of grain. ”

This is the real reason why all the officials squatted on the ground and watched for half an hour.

An acre of land is an extra 50 catties of grain, and 10 acres of land is 500 catties of grain, which is enough for an adult strong man to eat for a year, but the Tang Dynasty's acre system is more than 10 acres.

Since Gu Tianya came up with that action to compete for the family's land, the family in the world has returned two acres of land, and only these two acres of land have allowed the people to share enough to cultivate.

A family is given a field according to Ding, of which the male first has a Yongye field, only this one has as much as 30 acres, and then there is a mouth to divide the field, this part is as much as 70 acres, and the two acres of land add up, which is 100 acres of the uniform field system.

Then there are women, who have about forty acres of land, and children and the elderly, who also have forty acres of land.

In this way, a family of five has at least 3 to 400 acres of land, and if there are children in the family who have reached the age of 18, they will immediately receive an additional 70 acres of land, then the average of a family is not less than 500 acres per household. [Contained in the History of the Tang Dynasty]

If 500 acres of land can receive an extra 50 catties of grain per mu, how much is that? That's 25,000 pounds.

Equivalent to 250 stones.

And how much guaranteed food does a family in Datang need for a year?

The Ministry of Household Affairs has made specific statistics.

Half full of food, a family of 5 only needs 10 stone of food.

Two meals are full, and a family of 5 is about 15 stone of food.

If you eat both meals, or even add one meal to the farm, how much will it be? 25 stone grain is completely sufficient.

And now, everyone sees the hope that a family can harvest 250 stone of grain a year.

What is the concept of having enough for all?

What is the future of food for every family?

At that time, the people will no longer be hungry, and there is no need to worry about the taxes of the court, and there will be no problem with how many soldiers and horses to raise under the full treasury.

What does that mean?

It represents that Datang will have the unparalleled power to dominate the world.

Since the power is strong, do you hide at home and enjoy the blessings?

Hehe, the ancients were much more ruthless than the people of later generations.

I'm rich, I'm powerful, so I won't be smiling at outsiders.

The steppe Turks who couldn't be provoked before, now I want to beat you up, for the simple reason that your steppe is full of cattle, sheep and horses.

I am now powerful, and I should enjoy all this wealth.

The jewel blanket in the Western Regions is very exquisite, this thing must be brought to our Central Plains, even if you obediently send it to me to make offerings, I still don't feel satisfied.

Because, the upper offering can only get a part.

And what we want is...... All of them.

I am strong, I will not help outsiders for the sake of fame, on the contrary, I want to beat you, I want to rob you, whether you accept it or not, my first thought is to send troops and horses to fight.

This is the most simple way of interest of the ancients.

As long as the Tang Dynasty is strong, it will inevitably fight in all directions, which means that many officials will make meritorious contributions.

The knighthood of the prince is no longer a luxury.

Sealing a wife and a shadow is no longer a desire.

It's that everyone has a chance, but everyone has a possibility.

The premise of all this is that the common people can eat enough.

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…… The first update is to start farming for a while from today, and after the development and growth, the next step is to bully outsiders. In fact, I don't want to write about my own people's fights, and those who fight and hurt are all Central Plains.

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