Lin Huo replied: "Your Majesty, the wild people in this vicinity have basically been captured, and now most of the army is searching farther away, and I am afraid that they will not be able to return in a short time." ”

Wang Lang touched his chin and thought for a while: "How many people are there in the army left in the Five Cities now. ”

"Now there are the most soldiers in Yancheng, about 300 people, followed by Linhe, Lin Jianya's general army is sitting in Linhe, he still has a few hundred people there, and the other three cities have about dozens of people each." Lin Huo replied respectfully.

Wang Lang frowned, these soldiers who stayed behind could not be easily dispatched, although the pterosaurs were very important, but if there was no army to guard them, there might be any accidents, after thinking for a long time, he sighed and said: "In this case, first send thirty people from Yancheng and Linhe, first escort the craftsmen and materials to that side, and when the rest of the army comes back, go there to replace them back." ”

"Yes!" Lin Huo said respectfully.

"The rest of the ministries, fully cooperate with this plan, and you also know what we may be facing." Wang Lang looked at everyone solemnly.

"I'll do as I was told!"

The various departments replied respectfully.

Wang Lang nodded and said, "How much grain is left in the treasury!" ”

Kong Er hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, now that my country has enough money and grain, the public land cultivated by the horned dragon has been harvested in both seasons, and most of the canals have been built, and the grain output this year has increased a lot compared with before, and now there are about nearly one million catties of grain in the treasury, in order to prevent the extra grain from spoiling, 100,000 catties of grain have been set aside for wine." ”

"Although the harvest is good during this period, the grain grown by the Chinese people still has to be purchased, and the grain price is maintained at the current level as much as possible." Wang Lang said slowly.

Although he did not understand economics, he also knew the truth that grain cheapness hurt the peasants, and when grain production increased by a large margin, the peasants could only compete to reduce the price in order to sell the grain in their hands. However, due to the lack of elasticity in grain demand, peasants can only sell the grain in their hands after they have drastically reduced grain prices, which means that grain prices often fall sharply when grain prices are harvested, and if the percentage of grain price decline exceeds the percentage increase in grain production, there will be a situation in which the output will increase without increasing income or even decreasing income.

Today's landed farmers in Xia also know that it is very unsafe to store a large amount of grain in their own homes, and if the grain cannot be properly preserved, they are very willing to mold and deteriorate, so it is better to sell it to the trading post and exchange it for copper coins.

Hearing this, Kong Yi said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, now that there is enough grain in the treasury, there is too much grain to buy. ”

Wang Lang smiled: "What, are you worried about having more food now?" ”

Kong Er smiled helplessly: "Your Majesty, there is too much food to eat, and it would be too wasteful if it went bad." ”

"In this way, from the next season, every household can grow other crops in addition to growing grain, and now dyes and hemp are grown by the state, and now this regulation can also be abolished, and in the future, every household can grow other crops on the premise of ensuring enough food, and when it is ripe, it will be purchased by the trading post." Wang Lang said slowly.

Kong Er nodded, thinking that this was a solution, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty Shengming!" ”

Wang Lang smiled and said, "The two departments of punishment and ritual will do it according to the current system for the time being, and the other three will start the construction of the harbor tomorrow." ”

"Yes!"

Everyone bowed in response.

After this meeting, Mu Feng hurried back to his home.

As an official of Great Xia, Mu Feng himself had a separate courtyard in the inner city, and now he also had a wife and a son who was less than two years old.

When Mu saw her husband coming back, she hurriedly walked out of the house and asked, "Have you finished discussing the matter with Your Majesty?" ”

Mu Feng nodded and said, "I'm going to go out tomorrow, and I'll leave it to you to take care of here, how is the child." ”

Mu Shi took the official uniform that Mu Feng took off, hung it aside carefully, and said, "The child has fallen asleep, how long are you going to go out this time?" ”

Mu Feng sighed and said, "This time the matter is very important, it is possible that this time it will be a year." ”

Hearing this, Mu Shi was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "How can it be so long." ”

"You don't care so much about a woman, go get me something to eat, I haven't eaten a grain of rice since morning, I'm dying of hunger." Mu Feng waved his hand impatiently.

Seeing that Mu Feng didn't want to talk more, Mu Shi sighed, walked to the stove and began to prepare lunch.

Lunch was simple, a bowl of sorghum rice, a plate of stew, and a few pickled cucumbers.

Mu Feng ate for a while, put down his chopsticks, and said to Mu Shi: "You go buy a jar of wine and come back, and you can accompany me to drink some in a while." ”

"How did you drink today, you said before that wine will affect your head." Mu said in surprise.

"I left home this time, and I don't know when I will have time to come back, I feel bored, and I can have a good time drinking some wine." Mu Feng said slowly.

Mu nodded, straightened his clothes, and hurried out of the room.

After a while, after Mu Shi came back, Mu Feng said, "Sit down and eat some together." ”

Seeing Mu Feng's preoccupied appearance, Mu didn't know what to say, so the two of them fell silent.

"Madam, you've worked hard for this time."

Mu Feng suddenly spoke, startling Mu Shi, and hurriedly said: "Why did you suddenly say such a thing, Your Majesty said that women only need to take care of the family, this is what I should do." ”

"Alas, Gong'er is more than a year old now, and when I come back, I guess I will call my father, and if I haven't come back by then, you can send him to the school palace." Mu Feng said slowly.

Hearing this, Mu put down his chopsticks and asked suspiciously, "Didn't you say that you only went for a year?" ”

"If it goes well, you should be able to come back in a year, but this time it's very troublesome, who knows how long it will take, let Gong'er go to the school palace to learn a lot of knowledge, if you want to be an official in Daxia in the future, there is no way out if you can't read." Mu Feng smiled bitterly.

"It's only a little bit of work, can you learn it?" Mu said worriedly.

"If you can't learn, you have to learn, do you think my position is easy to sit, now the officials of the various ministries are not desperately practicing literacy, although I am now appreciated by His Majesty, but the people below are always thinking about how to surpass me, our Mu family wants to make a difference in this Great Xia, we must walk in front of others, if this child is stupid and stupid, he can't learn anything, it is better to kill the matter directly, if he is greedy for fun in the school palace in the future, tell me, and see if I don't pull out a layer of skin from him when I come back." Mu Feng said with a straight face.