In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the Guanzhong Plain is golden. It's the season of the wind and the waves again.

"Boom~Boom~Brush~"

In a wheat field not far from Chang'an City, a young man with a scarf on his head and high trouser legs on his legs, although he was already sweating profusely and breathing heavily, he still skillfully tied dozens of wheat stalks with another wheat stalk, forming a standard bundle.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you have been working for more than an hour, the sun is very poisonous at this time, please take a break for a while, and come down to drink a bowl of iced sour plum soup."

"Huh~~~" Liu Chen got up and wiped his forehead with a hand full of grass clippings very casually: "It's okay!" Then take a break. Well, Aunt Zhang, Second Sister Li, Uncle Wang...... Stop for a moment and come over for a bowl of soup to relieve the heat. ”

With Liu Chen's shout, seven or eight farmers appeared one after another in the field, which had been shaking all the time, but there were no human figures in sight. They didn't have the panic of seeing His Majesty the Emperor for the first time, they gathered around with normal expressions, and followed Liu Chen into the pergola built next to the ridge.

"Ah~~" A large mouthful of sour plum soup chilled by ice water went down, Liu Chen groaned comfortably, and then put his two feet full of dirt casually towards the delicate soft collapse: "How is it, Uncle Wang, my wheat cutting speed is getting faster and faster, right?" ”

"Hehe, Shengming has no fault with Your Majesty. Yesterday, Your Majesty only harvested half a cent of wheat in an hour, but today in an hour and a half, he has already cut more than a cent. Sure enough, the capable can do anything. ”

"That's that, we all said, I didn't expect Your Majesty to be a good hand at farm work. Such a person, even if he is an ordinary offspring, is very popular with the big girls in our village. ”

"Presumptuous!" The aunts next to them had an attack of inherent attributes, and they were a little carried away. And the old man Wang who answered just now still remembered that the emperor in front of him was the emperor. Quickly stood up and scolded the stupid village woman.

was scolded by the old man of the neighbor like this, and this aunt surnamed Zhang suddenly woke up: This person in front of her is the emperor, and she actually wants to introduce a girlfriend to the emperor? !

"It's okay." Liu Chen waved his hand casually: "Aunt Zhang, don't cry." I've been working with you for days, do you think I'm the kind of person who can't joke? Come on, come on, drink the soup, and after a while, the soup will be hot again, and it won't taste good. ”

From May last year to May of this year. This all-out war between the Han and Jin countries has been going on for a year.

Because of the large number of strong and strong, they either joined the army or worked as a civilian to carry military rations. Therefore, Ji Han is now extremely short of labor in the country.

The spring ploughing time is a little better, thanks to the comprehensive promotion of the Quyuan plough and the abundance of animal power, both Yongliang and Yizhou women and old people have burst out of great strength, basically ensuring that the spring ploughing area has not shrunk significantly compared with the first year of Guiyuan.

But when it comes to the autumn harvest, the role of animal power is not very great. Whether it is wheat, rice, or potatoes, it all requires manpower to harvest one stubble at a time.

Therefore, from the beginning of May of this year, the areas where winter wheat was planted in Ji Han began to enter the harvest period one after another, and Emperor Liu Chen personally took the lead, and all government officials at all levels in Ji Han went down to the fields to help the people everywhere cut wheat.

"The son knocks on his father."

Just when the atmosphere was a little awkward, a young child's voice sounded, but it was Liu Chen's eldest son, eight-year-old Liu Cheng, holding a bunch of wheat that he had cut, accompanied by the eunuch, and staggered over.

"Yo! Ah Kuan is good today, he actually cut so much. ”

"Hey, hey." The child, who was praised by his father, quickly had a heartfelt smile on his face. But Shaoqing collapsed his face: "Erchen is a little more than yesterday, but compared to Sister A, it is still far behind." ”

"Hmph, Liu Akuan, what are you talking about? You're so much smaller than me, and you expect to be the same as me? As an ethereal voice sounded, a girl with a good figure and a face covered with dust and grass clippings still couldn't hide her delicate facial features. It is Liu Chen's eldest daughter, Guan Yi's eldest son Guan Fu's future wife, and Liu Wan'er, the eldest princess of Ji Han's new generation.

"Well, Wan'er, you're three years older than Ah Kuan." Stretched out his other hand and gently wiped her face for Liu Wan'er: "Why are you pouting?" What's upset? ”

"Father, Tannu (Guan Fu) is only thirteen years old, and he is actually going to the battlefield."

"Oh, what am I supposed to do? He is the son of Da Sima, so of course he wants to go to the battlefield at this time. ”

"But he's only thirteen years old! And this guy is a waste, for more than four years, he hasn't won once against Kamimiya Saburo. What role can such a small body play when it goes to the battlefield? ”

"Hahahaha~~ Wan'er, Beigong Saburo is talented, and it's normal to not be able to beat. In the past two years in Wuzhangyuan Academy, Tan Nu's physical skills have risen from the penultimate to the middle and lower levels. Considering that his classmates are generally much older than him, it is not easy to do this part. ”

"Hmph, most people still can't beat it. Oh, father, you are the emperor, the next holy decree is to ask Tannu not to go to the state, let him play with me in Chang'an. ”

"How can this be reasonable, the Jin State is stubborn, and it resists stubbornly in Bingzhou and Jizhou. The state had no choice but to conscript the army for the second time, and it has been clearly stipulated that all fourth-year students of Wuzhangyuan College will join the army. Tannu is a student at this level, so there can be no exceptions. If there are exceptions to everything, then what rules are there? ”

Seeing that his daughter directly twisted her head to the side and ignored herself, Liu Chen didn't have a good way, so she had to turn around and say to Aunt Zhang, who was already in shock: "Aunt Zhang, your son has gone to the army again, are you so willing?" ”

"Hey! Your Majesty, the third child of my family was knocked out by a stone in Tongguan last year, and went home to recuperate for a few months. Now that they're all like good people, why can't they join the army anymore? Not to mention anything else, in our pavilion, in the nearby pavilions, except for the only son in the family, all the men with good feet and good hands have gone to join the army. He is a good man in his twenties, and when he stays in the pavilion, he is not afraid of others poking his backbone? He doesn't want to be embarrassed, I still have a face! ”

The village woman surnamed Zhang said easily, but Liu Chen knew: The third child of the Zhang family was knocked unconscious for several days by the stones on the Tongguan city wall, and he often had a headache after waking up. It didn't take too long to come back to recuperate, and after catching up with Ji Han's second conscription, he signed up again: such a veteran who had experienced life and death was of course the favorite of conscription officers at all levels, and he was selected again very smoothly.

"Your Majesty, every ten years in the pavilion, there are gentlemen from the city to preach. The grass people also know that the imperial court is very difficult now, but as long as they get through it, everything will be fine! ”

"Hey, that's true, but I don't know how long it will take?"

"If it doesn't work in one year, it will be two years, and if it doesn't work in two years, it will be three years...... Your Majesty, the gentleman in the city made it very clear that only the people of our Han Dynasty have their own fields, only the people of our Han Dynasty will provide relief in various ways after the disaster, and only the people of our Han Dynasty will have all kinds of preferential treatment for their families after joining the army. The old woman lived for more than fifty years, and she used to be called Wei here, and later she was called Jin, but she didn't live comfortably in Dahan! In the past, I didn't say that His Majesty came to help us cut the wheat, except when collecting taxes, no matter how difficult it was, even a small official couldn't see it! Therefore, based on this alone, we must support Your Majesty to fight to the end! ”