The days of settling down are not boring, now Chang'an is in ruins, Ye Zhao is going to implement a new deal, industry and commerce are not yet as vigorous as Shuzhong, and now the main energy of Guanzhong is still on farming, after the effect of manure promotion this year, even if the government does not need to persuade again, there will definitely be a large number of people spontaneously following up next year.

As for the things that the Shenji Battalion is studying now, most of them are in the direction of transportation, after the mouse car, there is a human-powered lever car, Ye Zhao remembers that this kind of thing has been seen on TV in his previous life, two people stand on the car board, and cooperate with the lever to let the car move, but it is used on the track, and under today's conditions, it is obviously impossible to lay the track, and the wooden car wheel has no shock absorber or anything, and it is easy to overturn if you go too fast.

In short, mechanics is now with the academy continues to have talents in this area to join the Shenji camp, the speed of innovation is obviously a lot faster, levers, pulleys, these things that can magnify the strength several times are constantly improving, although it is not sure whether it can be used to breed the steam age, but with continuous research, mechanics things have now begun to be recorded, according to the current development, in mechanics, will continue to advance, as for how far it can go, this is not Ye Zhao's concern, anyway, it is estimated that he will be in his lifetime, It can't reach the extreme, let alone give birth to a new scientific and technological civilization.

Most of the time every day, he took his two sons to plough in the Ye family's ten acres of fields, weeding, fertilizing, and sowing, watching Cai Yi wrinkle his nose and carefully sprinkle the manure into the farmland, Ye Zhao felt a little funny, every day when he returned to the house, the father and son were stinking, even with Cai Yan's indifferent attitude, he couldn't help but complain that Ye Zhao was too harsh on the children.

After all, Cai Yi is still young, and when Ye Zheng was as old as Cai Yi, Ye Zhao was leading the army on the expedition, and he would rarely come into contact with these at this age.

It's just complaining and complaining, but on the issue of education, Ye Zhao is more assertive and can't allow others to interfere, even if Cai Yong wants to teach Cai Yi, he has to do the farm work every day.

But the effect is not bad, after half a year, Ye Zheng and Cai Yi have a lot of body bones, plus there are special medical craftsmen to adjust the diet of the two, the meat and vegetables are balanced, Ye Zheng, who is only ten years old, has grown very quickly under sufficient nutrition and continuous exercise, less than eleven years old, but his body is already more than six feet tall, which is not much better than that of thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys.

Coupled with some body forging techniques that Ye Zhao taught since childhood, the whole person looks very strong.

"Husband, it's time to eat!" Liu Wei, Cai Yan, Ren Hongchang, and Xin'er each came to the outside of the city with a rice basket, and called out to Ye Zhao's father and son from a distance.

Dressed in coarse cloth clothes, she looks like a peasant woman, plus Ye Zhao's father and son are also coarse cloth shorts, if it weren't for the fact that there are Dian Wei and the personal guard camp on the side, it looks like an ordinary farmer at all, who would have thought that such a family would be the imperial captain of the dynasty who holds the power of Guanzhong and Yizhou?

When Ye Zheng and Cai Yi heard this, they looked at Ye Zhao with blank eyes.

"Eat!" Ye Zhao looked at the sun and nodded.

Cai Yi cheered, ran away, Ye Zheng was relatively regular, and put away the farm tools with Ye Zhao before coming out, and Uncle Liang also followed and brought a basin of water for the three of them.

"These jobs, let Dian Wei and them do it, Uncle Liang is old, what do you think?" Ye Zhao wiped his hands and glared at Dian Wei and said, "I don't have any eyesight at all." ”

"Lord, I ......" Dian Wei said speechlessly: "I want to too, Uncle Liang said that this is his business." ”

"Don't blame them, the old slave has served the son all his life, these soldiers want to protect the safety of the son, these things are still done by the old slave." Uncle Liang smiled at Ye Zhao and said.

"Let the soldiers take turns eating." Ye Zhao sat down and beckoned to Dian Wei, "You come here to eat." ”

"Whoa!" Dian Wei sat down with a smile on his face: "Eat and eat, or Mrs. Xin'er's meal is the best!" ”

"It's not good for the sister-in-law of the Liu family to hear this." Ye Zhao couldn't help laughing and scolded when he heard this: "Be careful to go back and kneel on the washboard!" ”

"She dares!" Dian Wei said with a glare.

"I hope that when I go home, I can still be so tough!" Ye Zhao couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

The sister-in-law of the Liu family, when she was in Suiyang, ran from Jiwu to Suiyang to complain, Dian Wei was also accepted at that time, and later settled in Suiyang, Ye Zhao was recruited into Luoyang after pacifying the yellow scarf, and the woman also went with her, and she couldn't understand Dian Wei's thoughts anymore, Ye Zhao made a matchmaker for the two when he was in Luoyang, Dian Wei was angry outside on weekdays, except for Ye Zhao, anyone who came dared to top, but when he returned home...... Ye Zheng got the gossip from Dian Man, Dian Wei's status in the family doesn't seem to be high, and she is a woman who can manage the family very well.

Looking at the teasing smiling faces of Ye Zhao's father and son, Dian Wei knew that his image of a wise and martial artist had been completely destroyed in the hands of his little rabbit cub, and it seemed necessary to find time to reason with this stinky boy, let him know who was the heaven in the family, don't think that you can do whatever you want with a stepmother.

"Eat!" Ye Zhao took a sip of soup and greeted everyone.

Running to deliver food to Ye Zhao was also Liu Wei and Cai Yan's proposal, since the men in the family chose farming, as a woman, they should do their duty as a woman instead of staying in the house all day long and doing nothing.

"Why haven't Zhao Ji and Xin'er eaten so little lately?" Ye Zhao suddenly put down his chopsticks, looked at Cai Yan and Xin'er suspiciously, and frowned: "Isn't it sick?" ”

"It's not that I'm sick, it's pregnant." Liu Wei pouted dissatisfiedly.

"Xin'er too?" Ye Zhao looked at Xin'er unexpectedly, but saw Xin'er shyly lowering her head, like a little girl who had done something wrong.

Xin'er is Ye Zhao's earliest woman, she has been by Ye Zhao's side since Suiyang, and now she is over thirty years old, but she has never been able to conceive, Ye Zhao has always thought that Xin'er can't get pregnant.

"Over the years, Xin'er has found a lot of famous doctors, I remember that several doctors in the hospital said that when Xin'er was born, the mother's fetus was cold, which had an impact on Xin'er, so she couldn't get pregnant, and Xin'er has been asking doctors to help her recuperate over the years." Liu Wei thought for a while.

When she was in Luoyang, after Liu Wei married Ye Zhao, Xin'er had privately begged Liu Wei for help, but as a woman, she couldn't have children, although Ye Zhao had always been very good to Xin'er, but there were always some regrets in her heart.

"Congratulations to the son, the Ye family is going to bare the lintel." When Uncle Liang heard this, he smiled and said to Ye Zhao, as a lifelong servant in the Ye family, the Ye family can spread its branches, which is the happiest thing for him.

"When you're pregnant, why do you still run out all day long?" Ye Zhao stood up, helped Cai Yan and Xin'er up, frowned, and said, "Let's go, go back to the house quickly, and cultivate well." ”

"Husband, if you don't get in the way, the doctor also said that you have to go out for a walk properly." Cai Yan shook his head with a smile and said.

Ye Jiatianding, that's a big deal, for the people of Chang'an, it's bigger than Concubine Tang's pregnancy, that day, Ye Zhao specially gave grace and let Ye Zheng and Cai Yi rest for a day without farming, but the academy still has to go, but even so it makes the two little guys happy.

When a woman is over thirty, even if she has no children, Ye Zhao's kindness to Xin'er and Ren Hongchang's two concubines is enough to make other people's families envious, but having a child, whether in the eyes of outsiders or herself, her status will be more stable.

Ye Zhao also specially invited a famous doctor to carefully diagnose Xin'er, and confirmed that Xin'er did have it, but because of the thin foundation, the doctor estimated that after giving birth to this peptide, Xin'er may be difficult to conceive, and therefore, both Ye Zhao and Xin'er attach great importance to this fetus.

A team of Nifan battalions was specially transferred to protect day and night, and soon after, under Ye Zhao's hard work, Liu Wei and Ren Hongchang also got pregnant as they wished, so Ye Zhao's life was much busier, in addition to teaching his two sons and handling official business, he would spend a lot of time with his wife and concubine, except that he could not have the same room, and his life was quite nourishing.

Not only Guanzhong, in this year, the whole world seems to have fallen into a strange calm, whether it is Yuan Shao or Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and Liu Yu in the north, Liu Biao and Lu Bu, they are all quite peaceful, and the only turmoil is only the land of Jiangdong.

Ye Zhao knew that this was the tranquility before the storm, the general trend of the world had begun to gradually become clear, and now was a very critical time, at this time, the silence of the princes was just accumulating strength, and when these accumulated powers broke out, when the time came, the whole world would probably usher in the most chaotic time.

Ye Zhao is also accumulating strength to prepare for the subjugation of Xiliang, but his means of subduing Xiliang are slightly different, in March of the fourth year of Jian'an, after Ye Zhao started spring ploughing in Guanzhong, he sent people to contact Han Sui and Ma Teng, mainly to make peace, hoping that the two sides can get along amicably, not to fight and kill, and at the same time hope to open the Silk Road and make money together.

Ye Zhao is now powerful, not to mention Shuzhong, just Guanzhong, there are 150,000 troops, all of which are about to catch up with the population of the two places, in the face of such a behemoth, neither Ma Teng nor Han Sui is willing to provoke, and now Ye Zhao has taken the initiative to live in peace, and the two are naturally happy.

As for trade, there was no reason for the two to refuse.

In June, the caravans of Guanzhong and Shuzhong began to travel to and from the countries of the Western Regions, and at the same time did business with the cities of Xiliang, including the Qiang people, without discrimination, as long as they were willing to trade with them, the caravans in Guanzhong would trade at a very fair price, and by the end of the year, there were more than 20 Qiang tribes that had reached trade with the caravans in Guanzhong.

And for this reason, there were several Qiang tribes that migrated directly to establish gathering places around the Han land.

This was originally a good thing, at least Ma Teng didn't see anything, but Han Sui, known as the Yellow River Jiuqu, didn't believe that Ye Zhao'an was kind from the beginning, and gradually, he saw some clues.