If there's one time of year that's the best time of year to get, it's spring.

But for a monarch like Zhao Dan, who has countless heavy official duties all year round and works 365 days a year, any day's amusement time is very precious, especially on the premise of accompanying his family.

On this day, Zhao Dan brought many of his wives, as well as many sons and princesses of Zhao Kingdom, to the garden of Zhao Guo's palace city for a rare autumn outing.

It is more appropriate to say that it is a garden, but in fact it is more appropriate to say that it is a large plain, with small rivers, with shady trees, groves and bushes, and of course large flowers necessary for gardens, and even acres of grain that can be harvested.

Zhao Dan and the queen walked in the front, several children ran around the two like butterflies flying around the flowers, making cheerful calls, and the rest of the ladies followed a little behind a dozen paces, followed by a large number of palace guards and palace people who served the masters.

Zhao Dan touched the children's heads with a smile, and said to Han Wan, "Let's go, queen, and follow me to the field to have a look." So saying, he walked to the field beside him.

This is the experimental field opened up by Zhao Dan for the experiment of manure, and after the success of the experiment, it was not deserted, but stayed as an experience place for the princesses and sons of the Zhao royal family to experience agriculture and mulberry every year.

It is said to be an experience place, but after all, this is a royal family's place, so there are also several old temple people who came from a farming family to serve here.

Several old temple people originally sat in front of the house and chatted, but after seeing Zhao Dan, they hurriedly came up to salute.

Zhao Dan waved his hand, signaling that the other party didn't need to be polite, and then smiled: "How is this year's output?" ”

The old temple people were busy saying: "Back to the king, here has always been the use of Quyuan plough ox farming, and in accordance with the king's instructions to fertilize, last year for the middle of the ripe, the yield per mu is about three stones, this year for the middle and upper ripe, there should be three stones. ”

"Three stones?" Zhao Dan nodded slightly, quite satisfied with this harvest.

The place where Handan is located is Jizhou, which is located in the middle of the Kyushu in the world, and according to the "Yu Gong", it belongs to the "land of Zhongzhong", which is the so-called Zhongtian, which belongs to a very general land.

In such a field, the yield per mu of more than three stones is actually quite good.

After all, the land of Zhao is relatively poor, but now it is good, after taking Hedong and Hetao, Zhao swallowed all the land of Wei, and the land of Yuzhou in Wei is medium and upper-class, and at the same time, Zhao has Xuzhou (Lu State, Song State hometown and Chu State Huaibei Land) This upper and medium treasure land, as long as these two places are developed, then Zhao State will not have to worry about food problems for several generations in the future.

Zhao Dan chatted with the temple people for a while, and then went down to the field to check the crops with great interest, and left.

Naturally, the children had no interest in going to the dirty field to see the crops, and they didn't know where they were going for a long time, and the people behind didn't dare to step forward without orders, so they became a couple of Zhao Dan and Han Wan strolling in the fields.

In the distance, a team of horses galloped by, and Zhao Heng and Zhao Yan's excited shouts could be faintly heard, Zhao Dan raised his eyes and found that his second son was excitedly opening his bow and arrows, shooting towards a hare that was driven in front of him by the other knights.

And then shot into the air.

Zhao Yan was so annoyed that he couldn't help but shout: "Uncle, leave it!" ”

Zhao Heng, who was galloping beside Zhao Yan, smiled when he heard this, raised the longbow in his hand, and shot an arrow with a whoosh, hitting the rabbit's abdomen.

Zhao Yan screamed excitedly: "Uncle, wonderful! ”

Zhao Dan, who saw all this in his eyes, shook his head with a smile, and Han Wan on the side had some worry on his face: "King, Yan'er has just passed the age of ten, and now he is practicing riding and archery, isn't it ......?"

"It's not too late." Zhao Dan said with a smile: "When the widow was five years old, he was already helped to the horse by his father. ”

Han Wan kept her mouth shut and did not continue to dwell on this issue. As a wise woman, she knows when to give her opinion and when to keep her mouth shut.

Zhao Dan glanced at Han Wan and said with a smile: "The queen has something on her mind?" I guess it should be for King Han. ”

Han Wan's heart jumped slightly, and she hurriedly said: "The king misunderstood, Xiao Tong just thinks that Heng'er will be able to inherit the throne in the future, and I don't know if Yan'er can assist Heng'er like Pingyuan Jun assisted the previous king." ”

Zhao Dan smiled and said, "The queen doesn't have to worry about this, the widow has her own arrangements." As for South Korea, the queen is the queen of the widow, so the widow does not need to hide it. The ideal of the widow is to unify the entire Chinese world, so that there will be no more disputes between my Chinese people, so whether it is Korea or Wei, all other countries must be unified under the banner of Zhao and become the territory of Zhao! ”

Although Zhao Dan was smiling, Han Wan could naturally hear it from her husband's mouth, this was Zhao Dan's ultimate meaning, and there would be no changes.

Han Wan sighed softly and said, "The king misunderstood, Xiao Tong didn't want to intercede for Korea, Xiao Tong just hoped that one day when Korea returned to Zhao, the king would be able to leave some blood for the Han family." ”

Zhao Dan said with a smile: "The widow can tolerate a Wei Zeng, can't he still tolerate the Han family?" The queen was overwhelmed. ”

Han Wan saluted Zhao Dan and said, "In this way, Xiao Tong is here to thank the king for the Han family." ”

Zhao Dan glanced at Han Wan and suddenly said, "The queen has been aware of some movements in the harem recently?" ”

Han Wan paused for a moment and said, "The little boy is stupid, and he doesn't know what the king said. ”

Zhao Dan turned his head and glanced at a certain lady not far behind him, and said leisurely: "The queen should know that the widow is ready to increase the number of Longtai courtiers again. ”

Han Wan nodded and said, "Xiao Tong has indeed heard of it, could it be that the king means that there are also people in the palace involved in this matter?" ”

Zhao Dan smiled: "These days, there are more than one or two people who have spoken for Le Cheng and Ji Xin in front of the widows. ”

Han Wan was silent for a moment, she knew her husband's character, although she looked very easy-going, but Zhao Dan would never back down on some matters of principle.

The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, which is precisely one of the principles.

"Xiao Tong understands and will deal with this matter as soon as possible."

When they said this, the two of them had already entered the flowers, the autumn flowers were obviously much more sparse than in spring and summer, and countless flowers had already withered to the ground, as if to indicate that the few delicate flower-like women who were not far from Zhao Dan and Han Wan at this moment would also wither.

Zhao Dan looked at the bare flower branches in front of him, couldn't help but sigh, and said: "There is no need to kill, after all, it is also a person who leaves a bloodline for the widow, depreciate it, and kill a few minions." The country is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more people with ideas. But sometimes there are more people who have ideas, and it's not a good thing, because they always want to do everything possible to influence the widow and let the widow follow the path they have designed. ”

Han Wan's color changed slightly, and she said, "Who is so bold and trying to control the king in vain?" ”

"Who?" Zhao Dan shrugged his shoulders for the first time and said with a smile: "It's all the courtiers of the widow." ”

Han Wan was stunned, obviously not quite understanding what Zhao Dan meant by this.

Zhao Dan smiled and was about to say something, when suddenly the whole person stopped.

Han Wan also stopped with Zhao Dan's footsteps, and then looked along Zhao Dan's gaze and happened to see a flower bush in front of Zhao Dan.

A white flower is blooming in the middle of this flower.

Zhao Dan stared at this flower fixedly, and suddenly stretched out his hand and picked off one of the white flowers.

Gently pinch it with your hand, and it is soft and very comfortable.

Zhao Dan tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart, and said slowly: "When was this flower planted in the garden?" ”

Han Wan noticed Zhao Dan's abnormality, and said with some confusion: "Back to the king, this word was offered by General Li Mu when he was last year, and he said that he obtained it when he conquered the Hu clan on the grassland, is there anything wrong with this flower?" ”

The smile on Zhao Dan's face gradually became richer, and he suddenly couldn't help but laugh out loud when he looked at the extremely pleasing white flower bush in front of him.

It's cotton!

It's really hard to find a place to step through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!

This is a real winter weapon.

With cotton, coupled with the wool textile industry that Zhao Guo is now vigorously promoting, once these two items are fully formed, then the horror of winter will be greatly reduced.

This will have an immediate effect on both the reduction of the mortality rate of the Zhao people and the improvement of the combat capability of the Zhao army in winter.

"Mao Sui!"

"The minister is here!"

"Thou hast immediately ordered someone to protect this cotton, and then sent a few of the best peasant officials, and told them that as long as they can find the fastest way to increase the yield of this cotton, the widow will give them the third rank of knighthood!"

Mao Sui immediately took the order and left, while Zhao Dan stood there, looking at the cotton in front of him with joy.

I didn't expect to come across cotton, which is said to be introduced to the Central Plains after hundreds of years, is this a gift from God to Zhao Guo and himself?

After dark, Zhao Dan, who had had dinner, returned to the main hall of Longtai, obviously he did not plan to spend the night with the queen or any lady today.

Mao Sui quietly appeared from the darkness and whispered: "Back to the king, just now the eunuch order brought news that the queen punished five ladies, including Madame Zheng and Madame Yu, and hanged hundreds of palace people. ”

Zhao Dan rubbed his tired eyes, yawned big, and said, "The widow knows." The queen is the lord of the harem, and what she does is her business. ”

Mao Sui answered, and was about to retreat, but was stopped by Zhao Dan.

"Mao Sui, this harem is the widow's own place for himself, and the widow doesn't want this last bit of space to be coveted and peeped at by others. So from now on, if you find any bastard who wants to put your hand in, then you will cut off all the paws of their dogs for the widows, you see? ”

Mao Sui's body shook slightly, and then he lowered his head very respectfully and said, "Huh." ”

Looking at Mao Sui's departing figure, Zhao Dan couldn't help but sigh softly.

"Power is such a thing, it's really a ...... that can make people crazy."