Li Longji lay on the soft and wide bed, holding the fleshy Yang Yuhuan in his arms, gently caressing Yang Yuhuan's pink arm with his palm, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, and looking at the fairytale-like snow scene outside the window comfortably. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lying in this warm and comfortable environment, hugging the delicate beauty, looking at the moving beauty, this feeling is not enjoyed by ordinary people, before the invention of the train, even Li Longji, as an emperor, could not enjoy this feeling, and now, he can enjoy it at any time.

This time, he toured Luoyang City for three days, ostensibly to inspect the work, to show the importance of the king of a country to Luoyang City, but the actual purpose, but to enjoy the beautiful scenery along the way, although there are many beautiful scenery in the palace, but the scale is too small, it is easy to get tired of seeing, and the beautiful scenery along the way, not only magnificent, but also endlessly changing, and in the constant movement, the carriage is very comfortable, so, this feeling of enjoying the beautiful scenery, naturally different ten million times.

If looking at the scenery in the palace is to see a beautiful landscape painting, then sitting in the train and looking at the scenery outside the window is to enjoy the entire country, which feels completely incomparable.

This also made Li Longji understand why Emperor Yang of Sui wanted to take a dragon boat to the south, because standing on the tall dragon boat and watching the scenery on both sides of the canal slowly retreat, he could have an indescribable sense of pleasure and feel that he was the master of the entire country.

"San Lang, it's better to go out of the palace to play than to stay in the palace, and you have to go out and walk around more in the future."

Yang Yuhuan also fell in love with traveling, especially the process of taking the train, which was her greatest enjoyment.

Li Longji smiled, pointed to the snow outside the window, and said softly: "Aman, it's snowing so hard outside, I really want to go down and build a snowman to play!" ”

"Since San Lang likes it, then order the train to stop, let's go down and build a snowman, and then go to Luoyang City after we finish building."

Yang Yuhuan said with a smile.

Li Longji smiled, waved his hand and said: "Aman, this train is not a carriage, you can stop it casually, if you stop rashly, the train behind it will collide and overturn, I have already arranged it, I want to stop temporarily at the railway station outside Weinan County, when the time comes, I want to go down to see the wheat planted there, Ah Man can take the palace maid and the eunuch to build a snowman in the snow to play, but only half an hour, half an hour later, the train will depart again." ”

"Weinan County, wheat? On such a cold day, the wheat is not frozen to death. ”

Yang Yuhuan asked suspiciously.

"This, I don't know very well, the last time I visited Luoyang City, I proposed to let Li Shilang study the crops that can grow in winter, so that Guanzhong can produce two seasons of grain in a year, as a result, Li Shilang recommended wheat, so I issued an order, transferred wheat seeds from the treasury, and instructed the counties to try to cultivate, this Weinan County is the most active, the number of acres of wheat planting is the largest, I passed by this time, of course I want to come here to see."

The biggest reason why Li Longji chose to inspect the growth of wheat in Weinan County was that he was passing by, and if the railway line did not pass through Weinan County, he would not have gone all the way to inspect it.

"San Lang, how far is Weinan County? Isn't it almost there. ”

Yang Yuhuan looked out the window, looking for a trace of wheat, but it was snowy outside, and all she could see was thick snow, and even if there was wheat, it must be covered with snow.

"Haha! See the hill outside? I remember that the last time I passed this mountain, I arrived in Weinan County, and I guess I will arrive soon. ”

Li Longji's memory is not bad, he remembers the places he passed by a few months ago clearly, and the last time he passed here, he was discussing the matter of the cultivator with Li An, so he was deeply impressed.

Soon, the train began to slow down slowly and eventually stopped.

Since it was arranged in advance, for this reason, all the officials of Weinan County waited at the railway station early, and when they saw the emperor's royal special train stop, they stood with their heads respectfully and waited for the emperor's admonition.

"San Lang, it's cold outside, put this fox fur on!"

The moment the car door opened, Yang Yuhuan felt a biting cold, and hurriedly draped the fox fur on Li Longji's body, this old man is all she relies on, if she is sick or dies, her happy life will be over.

Li Longji, who was gently draped in a fox fur, still felt an incomparable chill the moment he walked out of the car door, and tightened the fox fur on his body.

"Ministers, see Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live."

All the officials of Weinan County knelt in the snow and saluted Li Longji.

"It's cold, get up!"

Li Longji waved his hand, asked the courtiers to get up, and praised them for obeying the will of the imperial court and vigorously recommending the planting of wheat, and then, naturally, he proposed to inspect the growth of wheat.

In fact, in order to facilitate the emperor's inspection of wheat, the officials of Weinan County chose the area for experimental wheat cultivation next to the railway station and on both sides of the train track.

It's just that because of the heavy snow, Li Longji can't see it.

"Your Majesty, this snow is full of wheat, and Weichen will pick up the heavy snow."

The county magistrate of Weinan County personally bent down and took a few subordinates to peel off the snow covering the wheat and let the fragile wheat seedlings see the light of day again.

"Haha! Sure enough, it was wheat seedlings, and they all grew so big. ”

Li Longji personally pulled up a wheat seedling and observed it carefully, the wheat seedlings showed no traces of frostbite, obviously, Li An was right, wheat is not afraid of cold, let alone being frozen.

Of course, it's not the coldest time yet, and if the temperature continues to drop, will the wheat seedlings get frostbitten? This can only be proven through practice.

"Li Shilang, it seems that what you said is right, these wheat seedlings can really withstand the cold climate of winter, look at how well they grow."

Li Longji handed over the wheat seedlings to Li An's hands, and he was in a good mood.

"Your Majesty, thanks to this heavy snowfall, if there is no heavy snow cover, these wheat seedlings will at least frostbite some of the leaves, so that although they will not freeze to death, they will affect the next growth, and even more so the harvest next year."

Li An said seriously.

"Yes! Heavy snow mega year, I still know this truth, and next, it depends on how much can be harvested when spring plowing next year. ”

Li Longji also understands a truth: Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, and whether wheat planting is cost-effective or not can only be determined when spring ploughing is in the coming year.

In order to determine whether all the wheat seedlings were growing well, Li Longji inspected a number of places, and during the inspection, covered the exposed wheat seedlings with snow to prevent the wheat seedlings from being frostbitten by the cold air.

Subsequently, Li Longji listened to the work report of the county magistrate of Weinan County, and then asked Li An about the progress of the production of cultivators and pumping machines, when the harvesters would be available, and what the results of the harvesting would be.

It can be seen that Li Longji attaches great importance to agriculture and science and technology, after all, agriculture is the foundation of the country, and science and technology can increase agricultural output and reduce labor.

Just when Li Longji inspected the growth of wheat, Yang Yuhuan took more than a dozen palace maids and eunuchs to build snowmen near the train station, and there were many of them, in order to make these snowmen look more like people, Yang Yuhuan draped the clothes he didn't wear on them, and even pulled out the jewelry on the top of his head and inserted it on the top of the snowman's head.

"Aman, is the snowman you built yourself?"

Li Longji asked the ministers to get into the car first, and he led a few eunuchs alone to Yang Yuhuan, who was building a snowman.

"San Lang, look at it, it doesn't look like me."

"Like, like, it's time, it's time for us to go, this snowman is here! I hope to see it again when I come back. ”

Li Longji said with a smile.

After everyone got on the train, the train started again and ran in the direction of Luoyang City with a never-ending attitude.

Due to the delay of half an hour in Weinan County, the winter day time is relatively short, so it is destined not to rush to Luoyang City before the sun sets, however, the night ban system can not stop the emperor, which is not very important, and take the train at night, you can also experience a different feeling.

Sure enough, until the sun set, the train still did not arrive at Luoyang City, but it was not far from Luoyang City, that is, half an hour's journey.

Although the sun has set, the earth has been covered with snow, so only a small amount of light is needed to keep the outside world from being too dark.

The hazy scenery has a unique beauty, which is not weaker than the daytime scenery, at least Li Longji likes this feeling very much.

Half an hour after sunset, the train arrived at Luoyang Railway Station and stopped steadily.

The big and small officials of the eastern capital all came to greet them, and of course the city gate was also wide open, so how could the emperor still be banned at night?

After entering Luoyang City, Li Longji went directly to Shangyang Palace to rest, although the journey by train was not hard and not bumpy, but he saw too much scenery along the way, fatigue was inevitable, of course, he needed to rest for a day.

On the second day, Li Longji stayed in Shangyang Palace, accompanied Yang Yuhuan to build a snowman on the snow in the palace, and enjoyed the long-lost snow scene of Luoyang City.

After another day, Li Longji left Shangyang Palace and went to inspect outside Luoyang City, and the first stop of the inspection was the steam shipyard in the direction of Luokou.

As the highest technical talent in the development of steam ships, Li An must accompany him, and in addition, he is also responsible for explaining the relevant knowledge and role of steam ships to Li Longji.

"Your Majesty, these are the first batch of steamships, a total of twenty, and they will be completed in one month after another."

Li An pointed to the twenty steam ships in the dock and opened his mouth to introduce.

"It is still necessary to build more, Caoyun has a great demand for steam ships, and the output can be increased appropriately."

Li Longji felt that such a construction would only be more than 100 ships a year, which was too slow and far from meeting the needs of Caoyun.

"Your Majesty, Weichen also wants to build more steam ships, but there are too many things that need to be built and developed at the moment, there are more than 30,000 people in the R&D center, which are not enough, and there are not many talents who can draw shipyards, at present, it can only maintain the level of an annual output of 100 ships."

Li An said very helplessly.

Now, not only the machinery and equipment are backward, but also the manpower is also seriously insufficient, and it is too difficult to achieve large-scale industrial production, or in other words, it is simply impossible.

"Lack of manpower? Is it feasible for me to requisition the people in batches and let them be responsible for the rough work? ”

When Li Longji heard that there was a shortage of manpower, he immediately thought of requisitioning manpower.

Li An shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, by all means, after the spring ploughing in the coming year, the imperial court will also levy labor to lay railways, and now if it is because of shipbuilding, labor will be levied in batches, which will inevitably affect the laying of railways in the coming year, and will also increase the burden on the people, and the damage to national strength will also be relatively large." ”

"But didn't Li Shilang say that there was a shortage of manpower? I can't think of a better way than to requisition labor. ”

Li Longji said helplessly.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to think of a way, in the future, with the popularization of cultivators, pumps and harvesters, the people who farm the land will not need so much, in this way, there will inevitably be many people who have nothing to do, and these people who have nothing to do in order to survive will inevitably be enriched to the ranks of craftsmen, so that there will be no shortage of people for shipbuilding."

Ang Lee said softly.

"Well, what Li Shilang said is that the efficiency of the cultivator is dozens of times that of the ploughing cattle, and the efficiency of the pumping machine is far more than that of the waterwheel, presumably the efficiency of the harvester will not be low, so, once these machines are popularized, there is indeed no need for so many kinds of people, and the manpower will be greatly surplus, however, at present, the land of my Datang is distributed to every people, most of these people only have dozens of acres of land, I am afraid that they will not choose to use the cultivator, if they still farm according to the original method, Li Shilang's idea, Wouldn't it be impossible? ”

Li Longji opened his mouth to point out the loophole in Li An's thinking, that is, the common people with a small amount of land did not cooperate with the national strategy, and used primitive methods to stubbornly defend the dozens of acres of land in their hands, and the men cultivated and the women weaved, and there was no dispute with the world.

"Your Majesty, you can gradually let go of the annexation of land by the nobles, so that all the land will be owned by the big nobles, and mechanized production will be guaranteed, and a small part of the people who have lost their land will be servants to the nobles, and most of them will join the ranks of craftsmen, so that all problems will be solved."

Ang Lee said with a smile.

"What does Li Shilang mean is to liberalize the sale of land, so that everyone can buy and sell land freely? This will not cause unrest. ”

Li Longji asked cautiously.

Since ancient times, land has been the lifeblood of the common people, and the large-scale annexation of land by the aristocracy is likely to cause a large number of ordinary people to lose their ability to survive instantly, resulting in a huge peasant uprising.

"Your Majesty, land buying and selling is allowed, but it must be restricted, otherwise, it is very likely that the world will be in chaos."

Ang Lee replied seriously.

"How to restrict the sale and purchase of land?"

Li Longji continued to ask.