The twenty-fourth chapter of the third volume of the emperor's prosperity wears a bull's nose

As soon as the morning sun rose, the place where the Agricultural College was located was busy, and before the sound of tinkling came, not far away, more than a dozen sturdy cattle were looking down to nibble on the grass on the ground, and from time to time they raised their heads to make a sound, and the cry of the surrounding stream flowed by, if it were not for the fact that the front of the wooden house was full of weeds, it was undoubtedly a perfect pastoral scenery.

In front of the stream, more than 20 men were talking in low voices, all of them dressed in coarse cloth and with calluses on their hands, who looked like people who had been doing farm work all year round, and each of them had a wooden plough in his hand.

"You say, is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince idle? What kind of agricultural college should be engaged in research and improvement of farming technology, planting in spring and harvesting in autumn every year, what else is there to study? A young man in his twenties whispered.

"Erdanzi, shut up, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is so noble, what you want to do is what you can discuss." An old farmer in his fifties scolded, although these people in front of him are all villagers, most of the people in the second dog also agree, but it is still a wise saying that trouble comes from the mouth.

Hearing the old peasant's reprimand, the discussion immediately lowered, and one by one bent down to wipe the plow, polishing the tip of the plough brighter and brighter, after all, the biggest official they could see was only a county magistrate before, and the prince was undoubtedly a person too far away from them, and it was far from what they could discuss.

Today is the first day when the Agricultural College ploughs and plows, and these farmers are all invited by Yun Dingxing from the neighborhood for ten cents a day, and the prince will come to watch it in person.

Yun Dingxing was dressed in an official uniform, and there was a lot of mud on his body. With a few people carefully inspecting the wooden house to be completed, for more than a month, his spirit has been in a state of excitement, jumping from the first order of white clothes to the seventh rank, and there is also an official position from the fourth rank in front of him has half of it on his head.

"Lord Yun, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come down." A small official hurried over to report to Yun Dingxing.

"Oh" Yun Dingxing hurriedly walked out of the wooden house, raised his eyes and saw that there were indeed more than ten horsemen on the road that had just been repaired in front of him who were kicking up a puff of smoke and dust coming to this side, and hurriedly left the business at hand. Stand respectfully on the side of the road.

Yang Yong slowed down and turned over and dismounted more than ten steps away from Yun Dingxing, and Yun Dingxing hurriedly greeted him: "Xiaguan has seen His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

"No courtesy." Yang Yong raised his hand, looked at the wasteland and wooden houses in front of him, and was happy in his heart, now the agricultural college has begun to take shape, and next year it will become a farmland, full of green crops. Looking at more than a dozen cattle and dozens of farmers in the distance, Yang Yong said with great interest: "Let them start." ”

"Yes." Yun Dingxing shouted forward: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come down, come and pay a respect." ”

When the peasants saw more than a dozen people coming on tall horses, they couldn't help but watch secretly, and when they heard that it was the prince, they all jumped to the ground, trembling under their feet, and did not move their steps in the middle of the sound.

Yun Dingxing was furious. Several small officials beside him walked up to the group of farmers menacingly, and the whip in their hands was about to be drawn: "Let you meet His Royal Highness the Prince, you are deaf." ”

Yang Yong shook his head and shouted to several small officials: "No need to visit, let them do their own thing." When he was a small clerk in his previous life, he couldn't help but beat drums in his heart when he saw the boss of the group, and naturally knew the fear of these farmers in their hearts.

"Yes." Yun Dingxing waved his hand, and several small officials hurriedly shouted: "Bring the cow over." Start plowing the land. ”

Hearing about the ploughing, the peasants finally regained their courage, and in pairs, they pulled the big oxen that were grazing not far away, and put a plow on them, one of them supported the plow, and the other led the oxen in front. Shouted loudly. A pointed ploughshare is inserted into the soil. Ditches were ploughed out.

Yang Yong was surprised: "Do you still need to work in groups of two on this cultivated land?" Yang Yong remembers that when he was a child in his previous life, whether it was dry land or paddy fields, his father drove cattle to plough the land alone.

Yun Dingxing smiled bitterly in his heart. The crown prince came from a prominent background, and he didn't even know that the cultivated land should be cultivated in pairs, so he hurriedly explained: "Back to Your Highness, the scalper is strong, and he must be led by one person in front to move forward." ”

Yang Yong shook his head: "No, this is too wasteful of manpower, as long as you hold the nose of the cow, you don't need people in front of you at all." After speaking, Yang Yong walked forward alone to watch.

"Morning glory?" Yun Dingxing was said to be confused, how could the people behind him be involved in the bull's nose? Seeing Yang Yong walking towards the front, he hurriedly turned his legs and followed behind.

Seeing the prince walking towards him, those farmers were nervous, and they all stopped, Yang Yong took a closer look, and smiled dumbly, it turned out that the ploughing ox at this time did not wear a cow's nose at all, but just put a halter like a horse, no wonder a person in front of him had to lead the ox to walk.

"Why don't you put a bull's nose on it?"

The farmers all looked at each other, not understanding what Yang Yong said? Yang Yong set up a small tree and walked away, chose a branch the thickness of a finger, cut it with the dagger he carried, cut it into a length slightly wider than the nose of the ox, and carved a small circle at the end of the branch for a rope.

Everyone looked at the prince in bewilderment, not knowing what the prince was going to do, Yang Yong cut off the zigzag branch and handed it to a farmer in his twenties: "Pass it through the nose of the cow." ”

The farmer took it in a daze, and was at a loss for words, and an old farmer quickly knelt down, muttering no, and the rest of the people reacted, threw away the plough, knelt on the ground, and begged one by one.

For these farmers, ploughing cattle is their lifeblood, and now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to use such a thick branch to pierce the nose of the ox, will not the ox be killed?

When Yang Yong was in the countryside in his previous life, he often saw how adults wore the cow's nose, basically took a barbaric method to pass directly through the cow's nose, and afterwards wiped a little wine disinfection at most, and even the wine was not needed, so he naturally knew that wearing the cow's nose was harmless to the cow, so he had to start with a few days of pain, and after the pain, he was completely fine, and the people behind him only threw a rope, and the cow did not dare to go west if he wanted the cow to go east, although it was an inconspicuous small wooden stick, but it could save twice the labor.

Seeing these farmers begging one by one, Yang Yong hurriedly explained: "Don't worry, this palace is not trying to harm your farming cattle, but just to let you use one less person when plowing the land in the future." ”

Yang Yong knew that he couldn't explain to them, so he had to walk to a cow, pull the reins, and say to several guards: "Hold this cow down." ”

Yang Shi and others heard Yang Yong's orders, did not dare to slack off, and held the ox down, Yang Yong raised the cow's head with one hand, and inserted one end of the tree into the cow's nose with one hand.

The scalper screamed at the moment when Yang Yong pierced its nose and roared, and almost broke free, but it was held down tightly by several guards, and still couldn't get rid of it, Yang Yong tied the end of the bloodstained branch with a rope and tied a dead knot, and said, "Okay." Motioning for the guard to let go of his hand

The ox was panting heavily, staring at Yang Yong with blood-red eyes, Yang Shi and the others were secretly frightened, but they didn't dare to let go, Yang Shi hurriedly said: "Your Highness, it's better to kill it." ”

A farmer kneeling on the ground couldn't hold back any longer, and jumped up from the ground, startling the guards around Yang Yong, thinking that he was going to attack the prince, so he quickly drew his weapon, but the farmer ignored Yang Yong, but hugged the ploughing ox and cried.

Several guards did not dare to put away their swords, if anyone threatened Yang Yong, whether it was a cow or a person, they would not hesitate to kill with their knives.

Yang Yong frowned: "Okay, put away the weapon." ”

The ox saw the owner hugging him, the red in his eyes gradually faded, and several tears also flowed in his big eye sockets, obviously the ox was not in pain, Yang Shi and others relieved to let go of the hand holding the ox, seeing that there was no danger, several guards also put away their weapons with a few sounds.

Seeing that the young man was crying sadly, Yang Yong patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, your cow won't die again, don't cry." It's just that Yang Yong's comfort didn't have any effect at all, and the young man still cried non-stop.

Yang Yong said helplessly: "Yunqing's family, you tell him that the government bought his ploughing cattle and gave him ten yuan." ”

"Yes." Yun Dingxing asked a small official to take out ten copper coins from the wooden house that had been built and put them in the hands of the crying young man: "No, take it, it's cheap for you." ”

This is the north, the ploughing cattle are not expensive, and the best ploughing cattle are only worth seven or eight yuan, but the young man threw the money Yun Dingxing gave him to the ground with a bang: "I don't want money, I want my Ah Huang, you pay back my Ah Huang." ”

Yang Yong estimated that Ah Huang was the name of the big yellow cow, and now the young man couldn't turn around for a while, so he had to coax: "If you cry again, the cow will die, now hurry up and take the cow back to wash the wound with white wine and save it." ”

"Really?" The young man was suspicious, stopped crying, and wanted to untie the rope that had been worn with the cow's nose, but Yang Yong hurriedly frightened: "Don't pull the branches together, otherwise there will be no help."

The young man was startled, and suddenly he didn't dare to move, ignoring Yang Yong and the others, and just led his own cattle to his home.

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