Chen Bai exhaled lightly and said, "What are you looking at me like this?" ”

But as soon as the words ended, the villagers suddenly cheered enthusiastically.

An old man stepped forward excitedly and said, "Village Chief Chen, are you really still with us?" ”

Chen Bai was stunned for a moment, nodded and said: "I think you must have heard the words of those officials just now, in the future, this Guiyu Third Village will be changed to Guiyu Nan Town, and I will naturally stay here." ”

"Great, great, Village Chief Chen, oh, no, Mayor Chen stays here, our lives will definitely be better." The old man said excitedly.

Being so loved by these villagers, Chen Bai was very moved in his heart, after so many years of dedication, he was finally recognized by these villagers, and he felt more happy than hearing the news of his promotion.

Chen Bai waved his hand at these enthusiastic villagers and said loudly: "Don't worry, as long as I, Chen Bai, am an official here one day, I will definitely lead you to a good life." ”

"Mayor Chen, we believe in you."

"That's right, as long as Mayor Chen is here, life will definitely get better and better in the future."

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Everyone talked about the joy in their hearts and their expectations for a better life in the future.

On this day, after being promoted, Chen Bai called the people in the village to buy a banquet out of his own pocket and invited the whole village to participate.

At this banquet, people drank very happily, and it was not until the moontop treetops that Chen Bai staggered back to his home with the support of his wife.

The next morning, when Chen Bai woke up from his sleep in a daze, he suddenly felt a splitting headache.

Shaking his head, he walked out of the room and saw that his wife had just returned with a basket full of grass.

When the woman saw that Chen Bai was awake, she put down the basket and said, "I'll go get you something to eat." ”

Chen Bai waved his hand and said, "No need, you go feed the livestock, I'll just eat some by myself." ”

The woman nodded, and walked towards the pen with the basket in her hand.

Chen Bai washed up, and after drinking porridge all night, he suddenly felt refreshed.

Then he suddenly rang out, and the pamphlets handed to him by the officials returned to the house and took out the pamphlet wrapped in red cloth from the box on the kang.

When I opened this booklet, I saw that it was written in printed font, and there were several square words on the planting plan of northern towns.

Chen Bai carefully read the contents of this booklet, and couldn't help but be amazed when he saw the wonders.

Putting down the pamphlet, Chen Bai muttered: "The ability of those courtiers is really not comparable to me, and it is a bit interesting to come up with such an idea and farm in the north." ”

Nowadays, the main source of income for the people in the north is to rely on local specialties and some unique animals in the jungle to survive, but Chen Bai knows that there will be fewer and fewer animals, and in the future, as the population increases, there will be a shortage of animals, so the people's lives will suddenly be no guarantee.

But if it's farming, it's different, although farming doesn't want to hunt like that, it doesn't open for half a month, and it opens for half a month, but this way of life is stable for a long time.

In the booklet, the imperial court has given several crops suitable for planting in the north, and after the experiments of those technical officials of the household department, these crops can also survive well in the north, but compared with the south where there are three crops a year, the climate in the north can only be planted for one season.

Although the production is not as high as in the south, in the winter in the north, the local people can rely on hunting to make a living, so as to maintain the number of wild animals in the area.

After Chen Bai figured out the key to it, according to the instructions in the booklet, he carefully took out a blank piece of paper from under the desk in the room, and drew a map of the area around Nanzhen.

The right place for cultivation is a crucial matter, the north does not have the same convenient irrigation facilities as the south, the rivers are scarce, and when the wind and rain are good, it is also a good place, and if there is a drought year, it is likely to lead to no harvest.

Therefore, when there are no perfect water conservancy facilities in the north, arable land can only be selected near rivers.

There is only a small river more than two meters wide near Nanzhen, although this small river is small, but the amount of water should be enough to meet the planting needs of the nearby people.

However, there is a problem with planting, except for human settlements and roads, the rest of the towns in the north are almost all those deciduous trees, and if you want to plant land, you have to cut down these trees.

These trees are all good building materials, if they are burned by fire, it will be too wasteful, after thinking about it, Chen Bai still decided to cut down to clear the planting area.

A few days later, when Chen Bai finished talking about the policy of the imperial court to the people, the people were very interested in this matter, except for those soldiers who retired from the army, most of these people, the farthest place they have been to in recent years is Guiyucheng, the way of life in the south, although they have heard of it, but after all, they have not seen it with their own eyes, farming is still a relatively strange thing to them.

"Mayor Chen, we don't know how to farm, even if we clear the woods, what will we do." Someone asked.

Chen Bai said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about this, the imperial court will naturally have a solution, Guiyucheng is sending agricultural officials from the south, and after these officials come, they will naturally teach you how to plant." ”

The people were relieved, and now that the court had thought of their difficulties, the last doubts in their hearts dissipated.

If this succeeds, it will be a good thing for everyone, after all, it is better to eat the food you grow with your own hands than to eat by luck.

After being promoted, Chen Bai can't just consider this one village now, and orders a few militiamen to go and inform the other villages under his rule, so that those village chiefs can rush here as soon as possible.

When the villages and towns in the north were preparing to open up arable land in a big way, Wang Lang finally left Dingbei City and returned to Yancheng with his team.

Along the way, Wang Lang did not disturb the towns along the way, and after more than a month, he finally returned to Yancheng.

Back in the palace, looking at the mountains of music sent by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Lang's brows furrowed into Sichuan characters.

After a while, he didn't bother to rest, so he rushed into his desk and buried himself in reviewing these pieces.

Most of the concertos Wang Lang hurriedly glanced at and threw them aside, and only a few of them were left alone by him.

One is the recital of Wu Gang, the chief of the navy, the other is the memoir of the Ministry of Works, and the other is the recital of the Ministry of Rites.

Wu Gang, the chief of the navy, wants to form a fleet for an ocean exploration, he believes that since the enemy can come across the sea from thousands of miles, then the human beings who are almost the same as the enemy's sea ships can naturally do this, after all, they have fought with the dinosaurs several times, but now they don't even know where the enemy's lair is, which is a bit too much of a failure, and the self-confident navy thinks that the Great Xia Navy is actually inferior to those defeated generals at this point, which makes them feel that this is a humiliation to themselves.

After Wang Lang read Wu Gang's request, he also felt in his heart that it was time to explore outward while taking advantage of the short period of peace, even if he couldn't reach the American continent, if he could find a few islands overseas, he could also prepare for human beings to set foot on the old continent in the future.

He picked up the brush, dipped it in red dye, and wrote a quasi-word under the movement.

Mu Feng's recital did bring an unexpected surprise to Wang Lang, the hand-held artillery has made initial progress, and the firing range has been greatly improved, although it is still far inferior to the bow and arrow, but it can already cause damage within a range of 50 meters, and the maximum range can reach a distance of more than 80 meters.

This result, so that Wang Lang is very satisfied, the length unit of the Xia Kingdom and the other world has a lot of errors, conservative estimates, the Ministry of Industry improved muskets, according to the length of the other world to convert, almost the maximum range can reach more than 90 meters.

Being able to reach this level of primitive firearms in a few years has been able to make Wang Lang very satisfied.

Wang Lang is going to go to the Ministry of Industry in a few days to have a look, if it is really as said in the Mufeng Chapter, then it is time to consider forming a musket unit, although this kind of musket does not meet the requirements of actual combat, but this thing is no problem at all for musketeers.

As long as the performance of muskets is further improved in the future, these trained musket diseases will immediately be able to change their equipment and become the killing machines of the Xia Kingdom.

Thinking of the scene of musket salvo and cannon roar, Wang Lang's blood boiled suddenly, although he could think of nearly twenty years ago, human beings who were still at the end of primitive society, and now they have reached the gunpowder age, this huge leap in civilization makes Wang Lang extremely proud, this is the super empire he created with his own hands.

This empire has taken a lot of detours less than the human beings in the other world, although he Wang Lang is not an all-knowing and all-powerful naturalist, a great scientist, but with the knowledge in his head, he has forcibly promoted the explosion of human science and technology, and improved the process of human civilization for thousands of years.

But Wang Lang knows that although his achievements are amazing, compared to Nikola Tesla, a star in another world, his achievements are too insignificant.

Wang Lang couldn't help but guess that the goods were probably also crossed from that corner, if there was no such goods, it is estimated that the civilization of the other world would have to go back for at least a hundred years, and in the era of people's wisdom and information explosion, what is the concept of a hundred years, but it is not comparable to Wang Lang's handicrafts with no technical content.

After admiring the cow man who might have the same experience as himself, Wang Lang picked up the recital of Lin Wuyun of the Ministry of Rites.

Lin Wuyun's recital is to ask about the scientific examination, the scientific examination has been stagnant for so many years, has made the school palaces around the country dissatisfied, those who think that they have learned the truth of governance, the "young talents" of science and technology, are looking forward to passing the imperial examination, showing their ambitions, especially those candidates who failed the list last time, after several years of preparation full of confidence.

Now it's July, and in three months it will be the winter solstice, the first ten years of the Taichu are coming to an end, and it is not possible to estimate it reliably this year, Wang Lang thought about it and decided to nail this time to be reliable in March of the eleventh year of Taichu.

For more than half a year, it not only gives candidates time to prepare, but also allows the Ministry of Rites to have enough time to prepare for this imperial examination.

Write down these things, and he doesn't plan to discuss these important things at the court meeting, so he picked up the pen and wrote replies to the three officials who played the music.

Knowing that Wang Lang had dealt with all these things, it was already dusk.

At this time, the guard reported: "Your Majesty, the eldest prince has returned, and now he is asking to see him outside the door." ”

"Oh, how did the river come back?"

He put down his pen and said to the guard, "Let him in!" ”

"Yes!" The guards bowed and retreated.

After Wang He came in, he respectfully knelt in front of Wang Lang and bowed to Wang Lang: "Son, please meet your father!" ”

Wang He did not use the bowing salute that the minister did when he visited him, but used the kneeling salute of the younger generation to the elders, which made Wang Lang's heart warm, and secretly said that Wang He had grown up.

"Get up in the river, let my father see how things have changed in the past few years." Wang Lang stroked his beard and smiled.

After Wang He got up, he stood straight aside, his face was tanned by years of military training, his body looked quite strong, and his light blue eyes were bright.

Wang Lang nodded and said, "When you grow taller and stronger, men should hone and hone more." ”

Wang He nodded and said, "If it wasn't for my father and emperor encouraging my sons to join the army, my sons would not have the strong bodies they have today. ”

"Why did you suddenly come back this time, did something happen in the army?" Wang Lang asked.

Wang He shook his head and said, "Father, don't worry, there is Uncle Heijiao in the army, and there will be no problems." ”

Speaking of this, Wang He said with a dark expression: "Not long ago, after the implementation of the disarmament policy, many comrades-in-arms have left the barracks, and those comrades-in-arms are extremely happy to learn that they can retire and reunite with their families. ”

Listening to Wang He's heartfelt narration, Wang Lang was very pleased, nodded and said, "You have grown up." ”

"Father, when you were educating the people, you said that filial piety comes first, this is what I should do, I haven't done filial piety by your side for so many years, and it is the fault of my sons at this time." After speaking, Wang He suddenly knelt down and kowtowed heavily to Wang Lang.

Wang Lang hurriedly got up, helped Wang He up, and said: Sure enough, it is my Wang Lang's good son, and I am very pleased to be my father. ”

"Does Father agree with you?" Wang He said excitedly.

But Wang Lang shook his head and said, "You can't leave the army for the time being. ”

Wang He was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Why is my father at this time? ”

"Remember what I used to say to you?" Wang Lang said slowly.