After the Double Ninth Festival, the yin energy between heaven and earth gradually flourishes.

Wen Xun and Lao Qian began to discuss the matter of returning to their hometown. Lao Qian went to invite a few capable Taoist priests to preside over the ceremony, and invited twenty strong men to help. The county magistrate Li also sent twenty officials to escort him all the way. After selecting the auspicious day, all the way to Shaozhou.

According to the discussed route, Lao Qian and they planned to go to Shaozhou to start the spirit first, and then protect the spirit to Jiangxi, and it would take two or three months to go back and forth if they took the official road.

Qian Jin wants to participate in next year's Autumn Festival, and Bao'er is still young, so the family agreed that Wen and the brother and sister will wait at home, and then go to Jiangxi with Lao Qian to meet his grandfather.

After Lao Qian and his uncle set off, Qian Jin put his mind on Wen Shu. He found the papers that had been tested for the top three in the past years, and got up early every day to memorize them.

Chen Jiaoyu was full of praise for this.

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Two days before the winter solstice, it snowed heavily in Guanhai City.

Qian Jin wore a short jacket and stood under the porch of the dormitory, quietly watching the goose feathers and snow fall one after another. The sky gradually turned dark, but the whole world was slowly wrapped in a layer of white, and there was no meaning of stopping the snow at all.

Thinking that he hadn't been to Yang Yinghe for a while, he went to the street to get two pots of wine, cut four catties of raw beef, and asked the butcher to cut the slices. Chen Guo strictly forbids the slaughter of cultivated cattle, and today is also lucky, just happened to meet the butcher slaughtering a frozen ox.

When it was ready, Qian Jin came to the door of Yang Yinghe's house with wine and meat, and knocked lightly on the door a few times. After a few breaths, the door opened a crack, revealing half of Yang Yinghe's face.

"Master Yang...... Have you eaten? ”

"Not yet." Yang Yinghe hurriedly let Qian Jin into the house, then closed the door and said, "I haven't been here for a while." ”

"There's been something going on at home recently...... Qian Jin stomped on the snow on his feet as soon as he entered the door, and found that Yang Yinghe was also very cold in the house, so he asked, "Master Yang, why don't you even have a stove here?" ”

"The house is too small, and if there is a stove, in case of fire, I will not be able to keep these books."

"Master Yang, let's improve the food today." Qian Jin lifted the beef in his hand.

"I'll enjoy it."

The two cleaned up and came to the county school stove room.

It's cold today, and the stove is empty, so the cook is left alone for dinner. The cook heard that Qian Jin wanted to borrow the kitchen, and got him two cents, so he hurriedly finished his meal and went out.

Before being reborn, Qian Jin often cooked for his girlfriend. After arriving in Chen Guo, he found that the men here would be laughed at if they cooked, so he never had the opportunity to show his cooking skills, and today is the right time to relive it.

There were still some embers in the hearth. Qian Jin picked up the ashes, found another handful of dry straw to cover it, and blew it a few times with a blowtorch. In a few moments the dry straw was lit, and he carefully added some dry wood to make the fire prosperous.

When the pot was hot, Qian put a piece of lard in the pot, put a piece of butter that the butcher had given him, and fried it in it, and when the butter was almost fried, he sprinkled some ginger slices and pepper into it, and then poured a few ladles of water, just waiting for the water to boil.

Yang Yinghe put the hem of his clothes on his lap to help Qian Jinchai. Seeing that he was so skilled, Yang Yinghe Qi said: "Jin'er, see that you are so familiar with cooking, you used to cook often?" ”

"Almost......"

"Ling Tang is at home, it doesn't seem that you need to enter the stove room, right?"

"For a while, I cooked by myself......" Qian Jin recalled his girlfriend in his previous life, and he was a little sad.

At this time, the water in the pot was boiling, Qian Jin washed the beef slices and poured them all in, and covered the pot. After about a quarter of an hour, the whole stove room was filled with the smell of meat.

Qian Jin took out some unburned firewood from the stove and put it into the brazier, and piled some charcoal on one side, with an iron frame in the middle. When everything was ready, he put all the beef in the iron pot, sprinkled salt on the iron rack and continued to cook. A hot pot is done.

Yang Yinghe smelled the aroma and moved his index finger, so he took a large piece of meat and ate it, and said while chewing: "En...... Delicious...... Delicious. It's been a long time since I've eaten meat so fragrant. ”

"If you have chili peppers, you can eat them more freely."

"What is a chili pepper?"

"It is a very spicy vegetable, and it can be appetizing when eaten regularly, and it can also relieve dampness." Qian Jin explained.

It has been more than ten years since he was reborn, and Qian Jin found that Chen Guo actually did not have crops such as peppers, corn and sweet potatoes. He wondered if he would have a trip to the Americas in the future. According to records, these crops were introduced from the Americas by foreigners during the Ming Dynasty.

"Then I have to ......try it when I have a chance," Yang Yinghe said as he ate.

Qian Jin heated the two pots of wine on the edge of the brazier, and the two of them didn't use wine glasses, they drank directly from bottles, and gradually their bodies became hot.

"Master Yang, it seems that the winter has been getting colder and colder in the past few years." Qian Jin sighed.

"Definitely. I grew up in Guanhai City, and it used to snow. Somehow these years, it often snows in winter. Yang Yinghe said with a solemn face.

Hearing Yang Yinghe say this, Qian Jin remembered that the old people in the village had also complained about the weather. Guanhai City is located at the southern end of Chen Kingdom, and it is rare to see snow in previous years. But somehow, in the past ten years, almost half of the winter in Guanhai City has snowed, and there are often old people who can't survive the cold winter and go to another world.

Ever since he had seen the charts from Sward, Qian Jin believed that the space where Chen Guo was located was a parallel world. Since the Age of Exploration has begun here, muskets and cannons have appeared. If we extrapolate from the historical process of the previous life, there will be a very cold and turbulent period next, that is, the Xiaoice Age. Of course, a few years of climate anomalies are not enough, and it takes large-scale, long-term statistics to corroborate.

But even if the anomaly of the climate is confirmed, there is not much he can do now. At the moment, the main energy of the two is still in that pot of beef, and it won't take long to solve the problem of a pot of beef. Qian Jin found another handful of Chinese cabbage and put it in the soup, and the two of them each ate a bowl.

Yang Ying and Pingping's life is very hard, and it is often rare to eat meat once a month, but today he finally had a full meal, and even called out and hidden. After eating and drinking, he said to Qian Jin: "Jin'er, take the unfinished wine to my residence, there are still some snacks there." ”

Qian Jin glanced at Yang Yinghe suspiciously, and said in his heart What else is there in your room besides books. didn't ask at the moment, he hurriedly cleaned up the stove room, and followed Yang Yinghe to his dormitory.

Yang Yinghe lit an oil lamp, took out a pair of silk from a small wooden box inlaid with copper skin, and spread it on the table.

"It's ...... Map? Qian Jinqi said.

"That's right. This is the abbreviated version of "Da Chen Mixed One Picture". ”

"Master Yang, how can you have this? I guess this kind of map is only available in the military department, right? ”

"It's a long story...... My father used to be a squire in the military department, and this picture was abbreviated by my father according to the "Da Chen Mixed One Picture". ”

"It turns out that your father is also a member of the imperial court......"

"My father was framed by traitors, so he resigned and went into hiding, and finally ended up depressed. My father once said that officialdom is dangerous and not a place to stay for a long time, so I have been nesting in Guanhai City for so many years. ”

Qian Jin thought to himself that his grandfather was imprisoned for eight years because of the admonition, and his family was ruined; Yang Shi's father was framed and did not die well. It seems that this official is not so easy to be a person, and if he is not careful, his life will be at risk.

Yang Yinghe continued: "This map is based on the Nu River and the Leng River. The entire Chen country can be divided into two capitals and fourteen provinces, the two capitals are the guide to the north of Zhili, and the fourteen provinces are Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan. ”

After listening to Master Yang's words, Qian Jin felt weird. The administrative divisions of this map are basically similar to those of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but the two mother rivers are named Nujiang and Lengjiang. At first glance, these place names and river names seem to have been put together by life.

At this time, Qian Jin found that there were some footnotes marked with pictures or words on these maps, and when he looked carefully at the descriptions of the production of rice, wheat, cloth, salt, iron, etc., he asked: "Master Yang, why does this military map mark the production of various prefectures and counties?" ”

"You look very closely. Today, less than a third of these annotations are complete. Let's take our Guangdong as an example, although the area is not large, rice, tea, hemp, iron, and salt are all produced, and there are so many fish in the sea, so the common people live a rich life. But there are so many ordinary people in my Chen country, and they eat and use hundreds of millions of dollars every day, so they must be checked. As a teacher, I hope that you will be organic in the future, and mark every province, prefecture, and county with its products, and present them to the imperial court when the time comes, so as to benefit the 150 million people of Dachen. ”

"Master Yang has the world in his heart, and the students admire him."

"These are not marked by me, they are written down by your senior brother during his travels over the years."

"Oh? Master Yang, what kind of people are the senior brother and the second senior brother? ”

"Do you still remember what the teacher told you about the new Gewuxue? I'm ashamed to say that my new Gewuxue can only be said to be a general outline, and it can only be completed if it is extended. If you want to carry forward this discipline, it is not enough to rely on the strength of a few people, but to mobilize hundreds of millions of people in Chen State. Your elder brother is well aware of the truth, and his character is the geography of mountains and rivers; Although your second senior brother is also an official in the court, he has dabbled in various disciplines. ”

Hearing this, Qian Jin was already shocked. He looked at Yang Yinghe, and at this time, the dim light was reflected on his thin but resolute face, covering his whole person with a yellow halo. In Qian Jin's view, it was the brilliance of a wise man.

He wiped his slightly moist eyes and said, "Master Yang, your new Gewu is actually a mother science. The geography of mountains and rivers can be called geography in the future; Farmer farming is also a gee, which can be developed into agronomy in the future; After mining, you can engage in a course of mining. When your new Gewuxue is carried forward, all disciplines are thriving, why don't I Chen Guo worry? ”

"Jin'er won my heart. Now that the manuscript of the New Outline of Ge Wu is almost complete, it is no longer useful to sit at home, and next spring he plans to go north to preach. ”

Qian Jin raised the wine jug and touched Yang Yinghe, and said, "I wish the new Gewuxue to flourish." ”

The two of them drank the rest of the wine from the jug.