For Zuo Cheng's words, Xiong Huai didn't fully believe it.

The possibility of Zuo Cheng's malicious slander is not impossible, after all, for Xu Xing, the nobles of the Chu State are deeply hated.

For this reason, when Xiong Huai sent an envoy to invite Xu Xing, he deliberately avoided the important ministers in the office, and then selected Zuo Cheng from among the doctors who was not from a big family.

Although Zuo Cheng's family is not weak, and he does not necessarily have a good impression of Xu Xing, but after all, he needs to rely on the King of Chu more, so Xiong Huai thought that even if Zuo Cheng did not like Xu Xing, he would complete the task and invite Xu Xing with kind words.

Unlike the people in the public office, if they went to ask Xu Xing, they were likely to speak ill of people when they arrived in Yongxian County, and directly expelled Xu Xing.

Then the task is not completed, come back and admit your mistake and ask for a sin, and then everything will be fine.

As for why the nobles hated Xu Xing, Xiong Huai knew very well in his heart that it was because it was related to the thoughts of the peasant family.

The emergence of farmhouses did not appear suddenly, but has a long history. Since ancient times, there have been agricultural officials in the world, who are specially used to manage agricultural affairs. The early peasant families were born from here, and they were basically born as officials.

If that's all there is to it, there's nothing wrong with that.

However, as time passed, the population grew larger and larger, and after the knowledge spread to the lower classes, the peasant family, like the other hundred schools, grew rapidly.

Especially after the Warring States period, the original well field system was dismantled, and the small-scale peasant economy gradually took shape, and the peasant family quickly prospered.

As a result, different voices have emerged within the peasant households, which are dedicated to the consideration of the country, and a voice has emerged that considers the peasants from the perspective of the peasants.

For this reason, the peasant family put forward the idea of conforming to the will of the people and adopting it in moderation, in an attempt to make the countries reduce the exploitation of the people.

Then this is useless, the tax revenue of various countries has slowly changed from the original eleven taxes to twelve, and then to fifty-two, and the Qin State, which has the heaviest taxes in various countries, has been close to half of the people's harvest.

Up to now, the peasants, who have suffered from exploitation for a long time, can't help but think of the past, the legendary ancient times, the ancient times when there was no suffering from war, the ancient times when the sages and the people worked together, and then everyone cooked and ate together.

For this reason, Xu Xing put forward the idea of plowing and eating together, advocating that the monarch and nobles and the people work together, and then everyone eats the same food, so that such a monarch is a good monarch, trying to restore the old appearance of relative equality between the monarch and the commoners in ancient times.

This statement was quickly echoed by the vast number of farmers, but that was all.

Xu Xing, who put forward this proposition, has become a flood beast in everyone's eyes.

With the attitude of the ministers towards Xu Xing, it is impossible to say that this is slandering him.

Although Zuo Cheng has the motive to slander Xu Xing, there is also the possibility that Xu Xing will do so.

Because Xu Xing attaches great importance to farming, he proposes not to take away the time, and acts based on agriculture, and does not want to hinder cultivation because of other things.

Although Xu Xing hopes that farming will not be hindered by other things, hope is too far from reality, or hope itself is a kind of dissatisfaction with reality.

In troubled times, wars were frequent, and there were almost no people who did not fight that year, and when they did, they needed to recruit soldiers, so that the peasants had no time to cultivate.

This is what affected the farmers to farm.

Therefore, Xiong Huai thought that Zuo Cheng was not completely slandering Xu Xing.

It is not impossible for Xu Xing to vent his dissatisfaction with him, the king of Chu, or to express his attitude to the king of Chu, or to make suggestions euphemistically to the king of Chu.

In other words, the meaning expressed by Xu Xing is related to how Xu Xing and Chu should get along next.

After thinking about it, Xiong Huai said expressionlessly: "The widow already knows about this matter. ”

Next.

Xiong Huai summoned Xu Xing

After the ceremony.

After the pleasantries.

Xiong Huai asked: "Xu Zi, the widow heard that Mr. has no distractions about farming, lest he delay his cultivation because of other things, don't you know that there is such a thing?" ”

Xu Xing heard the king of Chu ask about farming, and immediately responded: "Back to the king, that's exactly the case." The people are the foundation of the country, but the grain is the foundation of the people, and cultivation is the source of food, if one farmer is slack, then one person will starve, and ten farmers will be slack, then many people will starve, and if all the farmers in a country are slack off in farming, then the country will perish. ”

Therefore, the minister believes that cultivation is the foundation of any country, the guarantee of the survival of the country, and the strong cornerstone of the country. Although the minister was stupid and could not call on the sages to farm with the people, the minister could still stick to what he thought in his heart, and he was diligent in farming to serve the country. ”

"What Xu Zi said is reasonable, and the matter of cultivation is indeed a fundamental matter of a country." Xiong Huai nodded, listening to Xu Xing's words, he had a bottom in his heart.

In the end, the state of Chu is Xu Xing's mother country, and Xu Xing does not reject the state of Chu.

But whether Xu Xing is willing to serve the Chu State, Xiong Huai thought about it, and then, pretending to suddenly realize: "No wonder Mr. learned that the widow had issued an edict, and he refused to wait for half a day!" ”

Xu Xing was stunned.

The meaning of the King of Chu's words seems to be that he knows the events of the day.

Although the messenger also had problems with this, he ran to the field by himself, and there was nothing to say.

I just don't know how this doctor Zuo, who accompanied him all the way from Yongxian to Yingdu, reciprocated.

It seems that the nobles of Chu are still the same as always!

It's just...

Xu Xing thought that he had come to Yingdu this time to shoulder the expectations of many disciples of the sect, hoping to persuade the King of Chu to accept their proposition, which could not fail before it started.

Thinking about it, Xu Xing opened his mouth and said: "King, it is indeed the minister's fault to go to the fields to work in advance while the envoy has not arrived. ”

Xiong Huai was stunned when he heard this, this Xu Xing actually took the initiative to admit his mistake!

There's a play!

Xu Xing paused, and then said: "It's just that in the two years since the minister returned to the Chu State, he found that the Chu State had raised the price of wheat and rice, and also made a decision to use wheat to offset taxes, taking away the inedible wheat in the hands of the people, but leaving the high-quality corn for the people. Therefore, the minister privately thought that this was not only the king's benevolence to the people, but also the king's action of attaching importance to farming, calling on the people to take advantage of the winter to plant wheat so that they could harvest more grain in the coming year. ”

"If you harvest more than once a year, then you will harvest ten more times in ten years, and in the long run, even if the Chu State encounters misfortune and encounters famine, then the people have enough food in their hands, and they don't have to be displaced."

Xiong Huai heard Xu Xing mention Maimi, his body couldn't help leaning forward slightly, and said with a smile: "Mr. Fei's move is also related to Maimi's matter. ”

Xu Xing shook his head and said: "Back to the king, the matter of the ministers going to farm has nothing to do with wheat and rice, but it has to do with the king's emphasis on farming. ”

"Oh, why is that?" Xiong Huai asked

Xu Xing replied: "The ministers thought that since the king was always paying attention to the wheat that the people didn't pay attention to, let alone corn, the staple food of the people!" ”

"And the minister in Yongxian is still a little famous, has been concentrating on farming, if the minister heard that there is a king's edict, he will throw away the hoe, day and night on tiptoe, suffering from gains and losses looking forward to the arrival of the king's messenger..."

"In this way, the damage to the minister's cheap reputation is small, and the minister is afraid that it will damage the hope of the king to attach importance to farming, so that the people will mistakenly think that the king does not really attach importance to the cultivation of grain, otherwise, how can the cultivation of the people be delayed because of a mere edict!"

"Therefore, after thinking about it, instead of damaging the fame of the king and the minister, it is better to achieve the prestige of the king and the thin name of the minister at the same time."