The Young Prince Chapter 9 Travels
"Your Highness, if you don't go out of the city tonight, how about returning to the palace."
"Since I'm out of the palace, why do I want to go back, why don't you go to Mr.'s house tonight?" Liu Rong said with a smile.
"Since Your Highness has this Yaxing, I can't follow it, but, as I expected, someone will come to invite Your Highness tonight."
Sure enough, the two had just arrived at Jia Yi's mansion, and the guards outside came to report: "Your Highness, Princess Guantao wants to invite Her Royal Highness to the mansion and say thank you, Your Highness."
Liu Rong and the two looked at each other and smiled, Liu Rong said goodbye to Jia Yi, the carriage arrived, and arrived at the Tangyi Marquis's Mansion.
As soon as he got out of the carriage, he saw a person come up, salute and say, "The villain greets His Royal Highness, the princess has been waiting in the palace for a long time."
Liu Rong followed this person into the mansion, and when he arrived in the lobby, he saw a person dressed in a gorgeous costume, wearing heavy makeup, and dressing up with flowers.
Liu Rong had only seen Liu Rong's 'demeanor' in a few palace banquets before, of course, this princess of Guantao has always been dressed like this.
Liu Rong saluted and said, "My nephew has seen the imperial aunt,"
"How can Rong'er be so polite to your aunt, my aunt came to you today, but I want to thank Rong'er.
Sit down, come and bring the gold pulp from the cellar." The golden syrup is sugarcane wine, and because the wine is golden in color, it is called golden syrup.
"My aunt's life is really good, and I only saw this wine on my grandmother's birthday."
"Rong'er's wine is a gift from your imperial uncle King Liang, and it has been hidden in the wine cellar.
"I can't help it, I can't help it, how can my nephew bother the imperial aunt to treat me so kindly."
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After some hypocritical nonsense between the two, they finally got to the point.
"Thanks to Rong'er today, I learned that Chen Xu, that idiot, can do such a stupid thing, I have already taught him a lesson, and I want Xie Rong'er to tell me."
"What the imperial aunt said, the imperial aunt and I are a family, and we must take care of each other.
However, there is something wrong with my cousin doing this, the gentleman loves money, and he takes it in a proper way, and he hopes that his aunt will teach him well, and if this continues, if his grandfather knows about it, it will be a great disaster."
Although Liu Concubine is favored by her mother, she is very afraid of her father, Emperor Wen Liu Heng, a strict father, Emperor Wen has always been very strict with his relatives, thinking that back then, his uncle Bo Zhao, who made great contributions to Emperor Wen's accession to the throne, he could do it, and even Empress Dowager Bo's marriage did not work, not to mention this grandson.
That night, Liu Concubine arranged for Liu Rong to live in the mansion.
"This kid, at such a young age, is so sleek, it's not simple," Liu thought to herself.
After that, Liu Concubine summoned Chen Xu to the room and shouted, "You idiot, you want to succeed your father's title, and you can look down on such a small profit as the wine house."
It was even a trick for people to grab the handle, but fortunately it was your cousin this time, if it was someone else, this matter would not be so simple."
"Mother, the child doesn't dare, he doesn't dare, I hope the mother will forgive the sins."
"Listen, in the capital, the public is acting like this, this is not a dead end"!
"The mother is angry, and the child remembers it, and he must change his face." Chen Xu hurriedly knelt down and said.
In the early morning of the next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Liu Rong said goodbye to Liu Yan, went to Xuancheng Gate to meet Jia Yi, and left Chang'an.
After walking in a carriage for more than half a day, he came across a village, "This should still be the land of Gyeonggi," Liu Rong thought to himself.
On the carriage, he saw the peasants working in the fields on both sides of the road, "the emperor stopped," Liu Rong said, and the emperor immediately stopped the car.
Liu Rong and Jia Yi got off the carriage and walked all the way, and they also saw some red flowers all over the way, green trees all over the field, and the faint scenery of green mountains.
At this time, an old farmer walked by, and Liu Rong hurriedly ran over and said, "The elder stays", Liu Rong said.
The old farmer turned around and saw a young man in a fancy dress, "What's the matter with you?" The old farmer asked.
"I came from Chang'an, and this time I was entrusted by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to inspect the people's situation with Mr. There are some things that I want to ask the elderly, and I hope the elders will tell them. ”
Jia Yi was almost angry with Liu Rong, and before leaving, the prince also confessed, don't reveal his identity, just out of Chang'an City, he met someone and said that he was sent by the prince, although this place is very close to Chang'an, what if something happens.
As soon as the old man heard that he was sent by His Royal Highness the Prince, he immediately replied excitedly, "It turns out that the noble man was actually sent by His Royal Highness the Prince, and I will answer truthfully if there is anything." "Ordinary civilians still have great respect for the royal family of the Han Dynasty.
"Now is the time to cultivate, how about the land of the elderly?" , Liu Rong asked.
"I have more than 60 acres of land in my home today, of which about 20 acres are upper fields, and the others are middle fields and lower fields." Ueda refers to land that is fertile and does not need to be fallow and can be cultivated forever. As for the middle field, if you cultivate for two years, you must leave it for a year, and when you go to the field, you need to cultivate it for one year and rest for one year.
。 "What is the yield of the field?"
"One acre of land can produce more than three stones of corn. The old man replied that one stone in the Han Dynasty was equivalent to about sixty kilograms now.
"What is there after tax?" Liu Rong then asked, although there is no field tax now, there is still a poll tax.
"Although His Majesty the Son of Heaven has now exempted the land rent, my family has a large population, and after paying the tax, there is not much left, and the people in the family have to go into the mountains to cut firewood and sell it, so it is barely enough for the family to eat."
"Elder Xie informed", Liu Rong thanked the old man and left.
"It seems that the life of the people today is not very good, although there are a lot of fields, but due to low productivity, an acre of land can only produce less than 300 catties of grain, I remember that modern land seems to have a yield of 1,000 catties per acre", Liu Rong thought.
After traveling with Jia Yi for a few days, Liu Rong also had some new ideas, "At this time, I don't know if the Mo family is extinct, if the Mo family is found, can we make more advanced agricultural tools, will this increase the yield of the land."
"Your Highness, what are you thinking?" Jia Yi looked at Liu Rong in a daze. "Does Mr. know anything about the Mo family?"
"The Mo family? At the time of the Warring States Period, it was not visible, since the first emperor unified the six countries, it disappeared, and now it may be extinct, what is the desire to find the Mo family"?
"After a conversation with the old man, I wondered if there were some new agricultural tools, could we increase the harvest of the land? That's why I want to know if there are any inkers in this world."
"The world is so big, even if there are still ink people, where can you find it", Jia Yi sighed.
In this way, Liu Rong and Jia Yi planned to go back after traveling in several counties around Chang'an.
On this day, it suddenly rained heavily, lightning and thunder, and the road was impassable, so they had to stay in a nearby wine house, because of the heavy rain, many people came to this wine house to take shelter.
Just as the two of them were eating, two burly men walked into the wine house in the rain, and one of them was dressed in a black robe, and said, "The store has two lamb legs for the two of us, don't be too familiar with them, there should be flesh and blood."
As soon as these words came out, the shopkeeper said: "Two guest officers, finish ordering such meat?" ”
The man replied, "Needless to say, just do it."
Soon after, the shopkeeper brought two bloody and undercooked leg of mutton, and the two of them immediately gnawed on it.
Liu Rong was shocked when he saw this scene, how could he eat such meat.
After the meal, Jia Yi pulled Liu Rong into the room, closed the doors and windows, and said, "Your Highness can see, the person who eats bloody leg of mutton", "Is there anything strange about this?" ”。
"In my opinion, these two people must not be Han Chinese."
"Sir, how can this be?"
"Your Highness doesn't know, my Han people will cook it if they eat meat, and most of the people who eat flesh with blood are Huns."
Those two may have something strange. ”
"Sir, on the basis of this, it is not enough to conclude that these two are Huns. Since the gentleman has this suspicion, then I will send someone to spy on the two of them, and I will definitely know the details of these two people."