Chu Da would come to Zhang's mansion every other month and bring some new news to Zhang Yuan.

Regarding the physical condition of the Empress Dowager Dou, no one can know better than the people who are less eunuchs in the palace.

Zhang Yuan can't remember the exact date of the incident, and he can only infer the direction of history from these news.

In May, the potatoes grow, because the field was planted with soybeans last year, and the fertility is sufficient, the potato seeds in Zhang Yuan's field have not lost much, and there is no need to hide crops and other things from others.

And repeatedly told that this thing has the same faint toxicity as taro, and it can't be eaten if it is blue.

If the key things are not explained clearly, it will not be good for Liu Che to cut off his head if he eats a bad stomach.

After more than a month, Liu Che had the will to come down.

Add the left chief of the knighthood, and the reward is 100 gold.

Without an official body, the title has risen to the head of the left in two years, which makes Zhang Yuan feel much more comfortable.

If nothing else, this time he is on an equal footing with Chu Da.

"Congratulations to Zuo Shuchang, getting His Majesty's love is just around the corner."

Seeing Chu Da bowing slightly to himself and giving a flat salute, Zhang Yuan was comfortable in his heart, Chu Da belonged to the kind of official and lowly man, compared to Zhang Yuan, who was not an official and won a high lord, a clear-eyed person can know who is more favored at a glance.

"Brother Chu laughed, if you hadn't been sheltering Zhang's Mansion on weekdays, I don't know how many people would come to look for trouble and ask for benefits."

Potatoes are already equivalent to the staple food for Zhang Yuan, and this is also clearly mentioned in the recital to Liu Che, planting potatoes in the famine years can prevent the people in a place from starving to death due to lack of food.

As a crop that can replace corn and wheat, and this food is cold-tolerant and drought-resistant, barren and thin, can be grown in bitter cold land, and belongs to the crops that save water, fertilizer, medicine and labor.

Zhang Yuan thought that Liu Che had knighted himself because he could benefit the people, but he was still too young.

"Since you call me Brother Chu, then I will call you Ah Yuan because I am older.

Ah Yuan, you don't know how happy Your Majesty was when he saw this potato.

said that if this was used as military rations, the army would definitely not worry about the problem of food anymore. ”

The emperor, who is full of thoughts about washing away his shame and expanding his territory, can associate it with military affairs no matter what he sees.

When he first saw the watermelon, even if Liu Che liked it in his heart, he only tasted it and controlled his desires very properly, no matter how delicious the food was, there was no way to shake his mind.

Chu Da also received some rewards this time, and he had more words than usual.

"Your Majesty has ordered the opening of 10,000 acres of fertile land in the Hugu Valley south of Juxian County, to plant potatoes, you may have to say sorry to Ah Yuan today, these potatoes in your field basically have to be used as seeds.

Your Majesty allows you to keep some, think about the tens of thousands of acres of fertile land planted with potatoes, and my Han will have the confidence to go on the expedition. ”

Hehe, Zhang Yuan only has these two words in his heart, not to mention that all the potatoes in his field are less than 1,000 mu, even if he can plant 10,000 mu of land, it is not enough for an army of 10,000 people.

Liu Che was just testing the reaction of Empress Dowager Dou and the ministers below, to see if there were any different opinions on his future policy towards the enemy.

In front of Chu Da, he said that he would take potatoes as military food and plant them vigorously, and he could see that Liu Che couldn't bear his desire to use the army.

"Brother Chu, for the country and the people, I, Zhang Yuan, am willing to dig up all the ground and send them to the Shanglin Yuanling Mansion in the past two days."

Potatoes don't need much fertility to be able to grow twice a year, which is why Liu Che can't wait.

"Ah Yuan, I have always been very relieved when you do things."

I don't know what kind of reward Liu Che gave Chu Da, which made him happy all afternoon, but people didn't take the initiative to mention it, and he didn't bother to ask.

The population of Zhangfu has reached 200 in recent years, and more than half of them are children, which has also added a lot of vitality to Zhangfu.

On sunny days, people in the family always like to sit in the shade with a piece of watermelon and feel the mountain breeze.

One by one, the children scooped and ate the watermelons in a semicircle with wooden spoons.

Xiaoqing was wearing a light veil, and he also took a spoon to scoop out the watermelon that had no seeds in the middle and put it on the plate next to Zhang Yuan.

In this way, Zhang Yuan can hold a bamboo stick, insert it and put it in his mouth, and lean on the bamboo chair not to be too comfortable.

There is often a pot of chilled soy milk on the side, although he will not be thirsty when eating watermelon, but Zhang Yuan still likes to crush the seedless watermelon pulp and pour some soy milk, stirring and drinking.

It's an unbeatable treat, and if you can have a bottle of rum and mix it in, the taste is wonderful. Beauty Nest

When the temperature is high, it is torture to work in the fields, but the women can weave the silk into silk.

The reason why Shu brocade is called brocade is that the Shu people have mastered the dyeing skills beyond other places, but unfortunately these women from Sunjia Village do not know how to dye, and can only weave silk silk into a solid color and then take it out and sell it, and the price gap is very large.

Zhang Yuan only knew the dye, but he didn't know how the dye came after the proportioning.

In the summer, Liu Che was unwilling to stay in the sweltering Chang'an City, and the Ganquan Palace in the north was the residence of the Empress Dowager Dou, so Liu Che could only go to the Dinghu Yanshou Palace on the edge of Lantian Mountain to escape the heat.

In order to maintain ventilation, the gate of Zhang's Mansion and the courtyard doors everywhere are open, and you can directly see Zhang Yuan sitting in front of the main building when you stand outside the gate of the mansion.

The old man and the adults who were originally playing with the children lost their voices in an instant, and the women who were weaving silk silk also stopped their work, and the entire Zhang Mansion was quiet in an instant, and only the sound of the wind and the screams outside the mansion could be heard.

Zhang Yuan, who sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere, opened his eyes and slowly raised his head, and then saw Liu Che standing outside the gate of the mansion under the giant umbrella.

Liu Che seemed to be in a very bad mood, and it could be seen from the fact that the Lang officials and attendants around him all lowered their heads, and no one dared to make a sound, including Wang Sui, who also lowered his head, but made a kneeling movement under the two palms.

Zhang Yuan was full of excitement, sighed secretly, ran to the bottom of the hall regardless of it, and knelt in front of Liu Che.

"Your Majesty came to the cold house, and the minister could not meet him from afar, which is really the sinful of the minister."

Liu Che glanced at Zhang Yuan, and the two nostrils and his chest cavity were linked together and let out a cold snort, which frightened Zhang Yuan into a cold summer day.

Wang Sui saw that Liu Che was walking inside, and hurriedly beckoned the surrounding entourage to follow, and then lifted Zhang Yuan, helped him up, and whispered to Zhang Yuan in a voice that others could not hear.

"Your Majesty is not happy today, but it's not because of you, so don't anger Your Majesty."

Zhang Yuan glanced at Wang Sui gratefully, and also walked towards Liu Che together.

But there was a grumbling in my heart.

Made, if you're in a bad mood, you're running to scare someone, and the good days won't be comfortable for a few days.

"Nanyang, Runan and Dongjun are all suffering from locust plagues, and your life here is quite leisurely."

As soon as Liu Che happened, Zhang Yuan understood the reason for his unhappiness, if he had known that there was a locust plague somewhere, Zhang Yuan had designated to make the people in the family complain.

When others are suffering, the quiet and peaceful scene of his own home will definitely make Liu Che feel uncomfortable.

"The minister really didn't know that there was a locust plague among the people, and there were 500 stones of grain stored at home, and the minister was willing to donate it to the disaster area."

The autumn harvest will be in two months, and the old grain in Zhang Yuan's house is basically running out, and there is not much grain planted on the 3,000 acres of land, so he can only take out 500 stones.

As soon as Liu Che heard that there were only 500 stones of grain stored, the expression on his face softened a lot, but he still asked people to go to the warehouse in Zhang's mansion to check.

"Every year of disaster, all the ministers below say that they have no food at home, and they all write that I have done something wrong, and God will punish my people.

Now under Liu Che's nose, Wang Sui didn't dare to give Zhang Yuan the slightest hint, everything could only be solved by Zhang Yuan himself.

"Your Majesty, I think that the reason why the natural disaster occurred was not because Your Majesty did something wrong, but because this year's winter was not very cold, and most of the eggs of the pests were preserved, and then the lack of rain in the spring created an opportunity for the growth of locusts, which caused them to multiply in large numbers and cause locust plagues."

It was obvious that Liu Che couldn't understand what Zhang Yuan said, but he saw a confused look on his face, and after a while, he returned to normal again, and asked Zhang Yuan.

"The Spring and Autumn Period of the Lü Family says that if the Son of Heaven executes a decree that can only be implemented in the spring, it will lead to a locust plague."

, Zhang Yuan roared in his heart, but his face remained normal.

What is written in "Lü's Spring and Autumn", where did he know, the ancients just had a problem, as long as it is an ancient thing, the ancient books are all right.

One by one, they advocate the three emperors and five emperors every day, which is the regression of history.

"The minister thinks that the book of "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" is only applicable to the previous dynasty, my Han Dynasty is far stronger than the Qin Dynasty, the people are richer, and the monarch is more virtuous.

Liu Che glanced at Zhang Yuan with satisfaction and said to Wang Sui.

"Wang Sui collected some insect eggs this autumn and cultivated them according to Zhang Yuan's words, but I want to see if it is the cause of the environment or if I really made a mistake and angered the heavens."

Liu Che doesn't care much about the truth of the facts, as long as he doesn't shake his own roots, he just does this to shut up the ministers of the court, so that such things don't happen again in the future, and they all jump out and say that they are not.

"The servant must do what Chief Zhang Zuo said."

Liu Che was very excited to get a different statement from Zhang Yuan, so he called the servants to pick watermelons in the melon field outside Zhang's mansion, and sat in the original position of Zhang Yuan.

made Zhang Yuan muttered in his stomach again.

A group of people ate and drank well in Zhang Yuan's place, and stayed until the sun went down and it was not so hot outside.