Chapter 139: See Wei Li
During this period, any official who was sent to Lingnan as an official was equivalent to exile, especially high-ranking officials, and even the Qincha who held the festival was a chore that not many people were willing to do.
Therefore, Wei Shuhuan and Li Gongyan were not in a very good mood when they came to Lingnan, and as northerners, they shook the sea for a few days, and they were very seasick and dizzy.
It is not difficult to pollinate rice latte flowers, Sun Xiangfu only needs to ask Ah Shan to explain the reason for this to the Yimin who don't know much Chinese, so he doesn't need to worry too much, the neat rice fields have now become a scene in Lingnan, and all Lingnan people are looking forward to its bumper harvest.
If it is not necessary, Sun Xiangfu is unwilling for Xiao Hei and Xiao Ye to leave the frolicking paradise specially built for them on the peninsula, they have not been strictly trained, and they do not know some rules that humans will abide by, such as when they go to the edge of the rice field, if they are not careful, they will rub a layer of mud on their bodies, and Sun Xiangfu has gone to transplant rice elsewhere several times to replant.
These more than 50,000 acres of rice is Sun Xiangfu's experimental field, and it is an extremely rare lake and marsh experimental field, with special fertility, so he wants to grow a yield that will amaze future generations, and let his name leave a heavy mark in the history books.
From a distance, he saw two guys with long noses coming towards the rice field again, Sun Xiangfu quickly jumped out of the field stalks, and now the rice flowers are out, and if they are transplanted again, the color will definitely not be able to catch up with the rice planted in the same batch, and he thinks that these two guys should be locked up for a while.
"My lord, someone is looking for you, and they want to take Hei and Ono away."
Seeing Sun Xiangfu coming out of the rice field, Ah Yue hurriedly ran up and complained. Hearing this, a military leader in the back touched his nose with some embarrassment.
"Liu Shili, the captain of the Xiaguan Xuanjie, has seen Sun Xiamu, and His Majesty has sent two adults, Uncle Wei and Li Gongyan, to Xuanfu Lingnan, and now they have arrived in the city, and they have specially summoned the adults to meet them."
In fact, Sun Xiangfu is the first person sent to Lingnan by Li Shimin, as the front station, it is time for him to go and hand over the work with the main master, of course, there are also Wei Shuhuan and Li Gongyan who are more willing to believe in Sun Xiangfu's meaning, after all, Feng Ang is a Lingnan native, and the purpose of their trip is to investigate Feng An.
"Well, Captain Liu doesn't need to be polite, so I'll clean up and go into the city with you."
If you want to say why any military attache in the Tang Dynasty knows Sun Xiangfu, you are also because of the legend of the White Snake, although you have not appeared in Chang'an for several months, but no one in Chang'an City knows Sun Xiangfu!
After that, Sun Xiangfu hurriedly snatched the basket in Ah Yue's hand, peeled off a large mango, and tempted Xiao Hei and Xiao Ye with the yellow flesh to prevent them from playing in the rice field.
"Ah Yue, your task in the future is to train them not to go to the rice fields, and also to train them to walk according to the path of human walking, you know?"
"Well, Ah Yue will definitely tell them to be obedient." A smile appeared on Ah Yue's dark little face, and she heard that Sun Xiangfu did not mean to let Xiao Hei and Xiao Ye go.
Sun Xiangfu didn't know anything about taming beasts, so he could only hand over this task to Xiao Ah Yue, who stayed with them all day, hoping that after a few years, Ah Yue, who grew up with them, could easily command them to do some farm work!
took off a burlap peasant clothes, soaked in the bathtub again, and put on a light official Sun Xiangfu to have a bit of an official appearance, but Xu Xian, who had fine skin and tender meat half a year ago, has become the current black Xu Xian, which makes his face a little more masculine.
"Why didn't you wait for a few people to come on horseback?"
Out of this set of furniture made of agarwood, Sun Xiangfu remembered that Liu Shili and the others all came on foot, and said in some surprise.
"Hehe, on the orders of the two adults, just look around." Liu Shili smiled and gave him a meaningful look, and Sun Xiangfu instantly understood.
"If you want to see it, you can see it openly, Yue Gong is a downright person, without any dissent, don't be a villain in vain."
Sun Xiangfu said lightly, and asked Zhao Long to lead the horse, on this hot day, walking dozens of miles to the city will heat people to death.
"Hehe, I don't dare to disobey my orders! However, in our opinion, this Lingnan land is full of rice fields, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, but it is not like the wild and smoky land that everyone says. ”
"A few months ago, Lingnan was not like this, these rice were imported from Cochin, and the real situation in Lingnan, you should go to the concentration camp for patients to see."
Liu Shili and the others were also assigned a horse each, and after Zhao Long's escort formation dispersed, he and Sun Xiangfu Xijun bought three horses side by side, chatting as they walked.
"The cochin rice seed planted by Sun Xiamu can really yield eight stone grains per mu?"
"Just more, no less." Sun Xiangfu is very confident.
With his experience, it is not difficult to predict the yield of the rice field he planted, if it were not for the fact that one mu in this period was smaller than that of later generations, he dared to announce that the yield per mu of his field was at least ten stone valleys, because this field was so good, I don't know how many years of lake and marsh land was formed, with enough fertility, enough sunshine, and enough water, almost reaching the limit growth conditions of this rice, and then if you want to break through, you can only rely on hybrid rice seeds, of course, this is Sun Xiangfu's next research direction.
The yield of Bashi Valley is his minimum requirement for this kind of rice, during the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhancheng rice seed has a record of producing more than four stones of rice per mu, and Bashi Valley is only able to grind out more than five stone of rice, because in addition to the chaff and unnecessary water, a pound of grain will produce a little more than seven taels of rice, he is a graduate student of agriculture in later generations, if the results are only a little higher than an ordinary farmer in the Northern Song Dynasty, it will be too embarrassing.
Liu Shili knew that the identity of his secret guard was probably known to Sun Xiangfu, so he was no longer taboo, for many questions in Lingnan, as long as he didn't understand, he asked, these things do not involve Sun Xiangfu's core interests, Sun Xiangfu has to answer all questions, and soon, when Liu Shili knew about Sun Xiangfu, the horse team entered the city.
"Master Wei and Master Li are fine."
Looking at Wei Shuhuan and Li Gongyan, who were in a semi-comatose state with a white cloth wrapped around their heads on the bed, Sun Xiangfu asked Li Chunfeng.
"They all got off the boat, and they vomited a lot, this disease can not be solved by drugs, and they have to wait for themselves to recover." Li Chunfeng said helplessly.
For the northerners who rarely take a boat, taking a sea ship in this period is simply equivalent to a punishment, but not all ships are as stable as the Happiness, and the turbulence of the curved bottom boat and the flat-bottomed boat on the sea is particularly violent, that is, it is like turning people in a pot and stir-frying.
Moreover, the hot and humid climate of the south is also a torture for northerners, and the feeling of being out of the water is very bad, which will deepen their nausea and nausea symptoms when they are seasick.
"Take ginger slices and keep all the seasick people in their mouths."
Sun Xiangfu has seen many people who are seasick and seasick use this method in later generations, which seems to have some effect, in addition, he also smeared some of the flower water he got on the temples of the two of them, making them feel cooler.
Sure enough, half an hour later, the symptoms of the two were somewhat relieved, and seeing the two who were thin and about to lose their appearance, Sun Xiangfu asked the people in Feng An's mansion to take lychee candy and let them put it in their mouths to replenish the sugar, until the night, the two of them could be a little more normal, so they invited Sun Xiangfu to the room to talk.
"Hey, take a trip to Lingnan, and the old man's life is gone for most of it."
After a salute, Wei Shuhuan was the first to complain, and Li Gongyan on the side also felt the same way.
"The two adults have worked hard from afar, and it is normal for northerners to get seasick, and they can get well after resting for two days."
Sun Xiangfu smiled and comforted, and saw that Uncle Wei had retreated from the left and right guards, and only he, Li Gongyan and Sun Xiangfu were left in the room.
"Zhengming has been here for a few months, can you verify the situation?"
"Yue Gong has no objection, and he cooperated with the imperial court to complete the blow to those who have bad intentions, and his heart is clear, and he is also willing to send his son to Chang'an as an official. Sun Xiangfu replied to the two very formally.
"Well, there should be no doubt about this matter, Zhengming thinks, can the land of Lingnan be like the Central Plains, register the people and collect the poll tax on the fields?" Uncle Wei nodded and said again.
Li Tang's management of Lingnan has always been relatively relaxed, as long as he does not rebel and does not cause chaos in the Central Plains, all the previous administrative and military power is in the hands of Feng An, and since Feng Ang declared himself a minister to Li Tang, this is the first time that the imperial court has sent a minister to Lingnan with a festival.
Now, the general affairs have made Li Shimin realize the importance of Lingnan, and he sent two ministers to completely manage Lingnan.
"Registration may be possible, I am afraid that the collection of taxes will have to be suspended, in addition to the hundreds of miles around the state and state cities in Lingnan, most places are still villages ruled by tribal leaders, even if the Yue Gong has the identity of the big chief, it is not very detailed, the two adults still need to step by step, and it is better to discuss everything with the Yue Gong."
The reason why Sun Xiangfu can do everything smoothly in Lingnan is because he helped the people in Lingnan to cure potbelly disease, and everyone treats him as a benefactor, and Sun Xiangfu himself has no bureaucratic style and is very approachable.
Therefore, it is already difficult for the fangs and yiren, whose names are just replaced by a strange shout, to be able to register them. But if they suddenly put some court rules on them, I'm afraid they won't be able to enforce them at all.
First of all, the leader of the tribe will not agree to hand over the output of his tribe to the court in vain, after all, their life is also very difficult, and those fangs and Yi people are often blindly obedient to their own tribal leaders, just like when Feng Ang needs to gather strong men to do something, the people in his tribe basically don't ask the reason, let them do whatever they want.
And the leaders of these tribes rarely learn the culture of the Central Plains, and if you tell them about the feudal monarchs and ministers, they don't understand it at all, and it is almost impossible for them to obey the Han people unconditionally.
"Then this matter will be discussed in the long run, and there is another matter, Your Majesty and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty have doubts, but we need to personally verify that what Zhengming said in the secret recital, is the rice with a yield of eight stones per mu true?" Li Gongyan was obviously not as patient as Wei Shuxiang, and when Sun Xiangfu finished speaking, he answered and asked.