I went to the city gate early in the morning, and there were already a lot of people at the gate, and everyone was waiting for the emperor here. The people waiting here are all officials from the Qingshui Yamen, and the personnel of the core department must have come out with Li Shimin. Li Dongsheng didn't have much contact with them, so he stood far behind.

It didn't take long for a hundred horsemen to come out of the city gates, keeping order. Everyone hurriedly stood up straight and greeted the emperor. The mighty procession and the guard of honor came out of the city gate, looking at the huge flow of people, Li Dongsheng said in his heart: It is estimated that this pomp and circumstance is enough for the people of Chang'an City to eat for a day.

After Li Shimin's Luan drove in front, Li Dongsheng and the others followed behind. The soil on the official road was trampled and flew into the sky, like a soil dragon rolling away. Li Dongsheng walked behind the team and was choked and coughed, and his official robe was full of loess, and the sweat on his forehead mixed with the soil, turning into yellow water and dripping down.

I walked while I was depressed, covered my mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and walked for more than an hour to arrive at the location of today's event. The wooden table is decorated with red cloth and looks festive. Li Shimin was waiting for the arrival of auspicious time under the platform, he was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, which was very conspicuous in the crowd, and next to him were all vermilion purple high-ranking officials and nobles, Li Dongsheng They were arranged in the outermost circle, standing with the officers and soldiers of the Hundred Cavalry Division and Zuo Wuwei.

After a while, someone came up and shouted, "The auspicious time has come, please take the stage!" The voice was very loud, Li Dongsheng took a closer look and it turned out to be Li Chunfeng, I didn't expect that he still had this hand, and he would also be a tenor in later generations.

Li Shimin took the stage and spoke, but he couldn't hear what he was talking about from a distance. Then there was another complicated etiquette, Li Dongsheng compared it with the process recorded in the etiquette book he had compiled while looking at it, and wondered whether he had made a mistake.

After a set of procedures, Li Shimin was also sweating profusely, changed into a set of cloth clothes, walked barefoot into the farmland, and pretended to lead the cow to walk around the field a few times. Then he went ashore to the cheers of the villagers. A group of sycophants cheered in unison, and Li Dongsheng also shouted a few times. At the end of the event, you will be free to return to the city.

After Li Shimin's guard of honor left, Li Dongsheng walked for a long time, and stood for a long time, tired, hungry and thirsty, so he found a big tree to sit and rest for a while. There were several people sitting around sparsely, and it was estimated that they couldn't walk like him.

Within a few minutes of sitting down, I felt a tap on the shoulder: "Haha, I look like you." If you don't look for us for so long when you go back to Chang'an, do you cross the river and tear down the bridge? ”

Turning his head to see that it was Li Chunfeng, he quickly stood up and saluted: "Daochang Li, it's not that I don't visit, it's really busy?" You said you went to my house, but I didn't see you. In other words, the gift is not enough, but my wine was delivered on time! ”

"Haha, kidding you." Li Chunfeng didn't care about the ashes on the ground, and sat down: "I heard that you have a son, so I thought I'd go and see it after I was busy in the past few days." It's a surprise to see you in this place today. ”

Li Dongsheng also sat down, took out a few pieces of dried meat from his arms, and gave Li Chunfeng a few: "I only got the news last night, and there have been a lot of things at home and work recently, so I don't have time to get together with you." By the way, what about Daochang Yuan? How about now? ”

"Master, he entered the palace to see the emperor, and then he went back to Shudi." Li Chunfeng chewed the dried meat and said, "I can't keep it, so I have to let him go." As he spoke, he poured some water from the gourd behind his back and handed it to Li Dongsheng.

The two of them ate and drank enough, and rested for a while before preparing to go to Chang'an. The two of them walked on the side of the road and saw that there were already villagers ploughing the fields with oxen in the fields, and it was a beautiful picture from a distance.

The two of them talked while walking, and they didn't feel that the road was too far. After walking for a while, my legs were a little sore, so I stood on the edge of the field to rest. An old man with a little kid next to him looked at others plowing the fields, his face was ugly.

When Li Chunfeng saw the old man, he asked, "Uncle, why don't you go to plough the fields, is your son doing it at home?" ”

The old man sighed: "Alas, where is the son doing it, he is a government soldier, not at home, now he is waiting for the government's ploughing cattle, last winter Guanzhong had little rain, and there was not much in spring, the land was hard, the government ploughed not much, everyone took turns to use it, other people's fields were not ploughed, I had to wait here." ”

"Can't you borrow more from the county government? It's not okay to delay the farming time! Li Chunfeng looked at the field: "Did you tell Li Zheng?" ”

Li Dongsheng really doesn't understand farming, but now that he has a son, he sees that other children are cute, so he makes a grimace to tease the little kid, and then takes out the dried meat to gluttonous people, and sees the children's saliva flowing down, so he laughs and gives things to others.

"It's also difficult for the government, there are so many cattle in the county, everyone draws lots to decide whose plough first, and I'm unlucky to wait until later." The old man squatted down as he spoke, holding his head with his hands: "Why is your luck so bad!" ”

Li Chunfeng knew that spring ploughing meant a year's worth of food for farmers, and it would be a big deal if it was delayed. And it's not a person who has such a problem, if it's really like this old man said, there are problems with taxes this year, this is not a trivial matter. Eating was a top priority in feudal times. He quickly asked, "How much land can a cow plough in a day now?" How much land do you have in this village? ”

The old man scratched his head: "In the past, a cow could plough five or six acres a day, but now it is at most half." ”

"How much land do you have in this village, and at this speed, you can't have enough for a month, right?" Li Chunfeng came from the grassroots level and is more familiar with the following things.

"So what? I had to wait! ”

As soon as the topic is opened, it can't be stopped. Li Dongsheng had nothing to do when he went back anyway, so he followed Li Chunfeng and the old man to the field to see, a few people walked in the field, Li Dongsheng felt that the ground was really hard, and there were no footprints when he walked up. Li Chunfeng also shook his head. Walking in front of a villager who was ploughing, the swarthy man was sweating profusely leading the oxen, and when he saw an official coming, he had to bow down before he came, but now he pretended not to see it, and wanted to drive the oxen around.

"Three dogs, this is the master of Chang'an, and you don't bow either." The old man shouted: "Come here, rest the cow, don't be tired, there are many people waiting in the back!" ”

There was no way, the middle-aged man came over to salute, where did Li Chunfeng ask them something. Li Dongsheng looked at the steaming ploughing cattle when he had nothing to do, it seemed that he was really tired, no wonder how many people relied on it to work, basically from morning to night.

I looked at it sympathetically, and then I looked back, and I thought there was something wrong.