"Why didn't Your Majesty summon this Li Xiao to come and ask?" The eldest grandson Wuji keenly discovered the emperor's abnormality, he thought he had found a cat, and immediately attacked.

"What does it matter if you ask or not, anyway, hearing is false, seeing is believing. Even if Li Xiao is summoned, no matter how much he says, as long as the eldest grandson Xiangguo is unwilling to believe it, then you still won't believe it. Li Zhi sneered faintly, since the corn was taken out by Li Xiao, in fact, Li Zhi already believed it in his heart.

He is now more willing to take advantage of this matter to fight with his eldest grandson.

"How is seeing believing?" The eldest grandson refused to back down. Unlike the emperor who already believed in Li Xiao's corn, the eldest grandson still refuses to believe in this corn. And the more the emperor dodges, the more he has ghosts in him.

Under the door of the middle book, all the monarchs and ministers in the palace have their own thoughts at this time.

For corn, there are believers, unbelievers, and even more unbelievers. But for people like Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu, it doesn't matter whether the corn is real or not, what they see is that with this corn, the two factions in the center have officially started a war.

Now how to defeat the other party is important, as for the corn to save the country and the people, it is secondary.

Li Zhi pinched his chin, where he had a sparse beard, which was not yet formed compared to his father's beautiful beard. But his heart was as strong as his father's youth.

"I thought it would be better to give this Li Xiao an official position in Sinong Temple, assign him a piece of land in Beiyuan, let him be responsible for planting corn, and then the Yulin Army would send troops to protect the corn. After the summer, the corn is harvested, and it is clear how much will be harvested by then. After the corn is harvested, it is milled into flour and then stored and eaten, and everything is clear? ”

The eldest grandson Wuji was silent.

What the emperor said was indeed a way to verify it, but he didn't believe that this corn was real at all, so did the emperor really believe it?

Or is it that the emperor wants to do something, but even if the corn is planted now, according to what they say, it will be harvested in 100 days at the earliest, and it will be more than three months later.

For more than three months, what's the use of dragging it around.

If the corn is not grown, or if it does not yield that much, then everything is in vain.

At that time, it will be the emperor who has no face.

"What if after a hundred days, the corn will not grow, or will not be as drought-tolerant and productive as he says?"

Li Ji stood up again.

"I believe in Li Xiao, and I believe that corn is a gift from God to the auspicious rui of the Tang Dynasty. If you can't grow corn by then, or if you can't reach the yield of at least two or three stones per mu, then you will voluntarily resign from all official positions and return to your hometown. ”

"Good!"

Eldest Sun Wuji couldn't imagine that Li Ji would even dare to say such a thing, so what reason did he have not to agree.

"Wait, since it's a bet, then each has a bet. Excuse me, if Li Xiao grows this corn by then, the yield can also meet the requirements, then what does Sun Xiangguo plan to do when the time comes? ”

Li Ji countered the army of the eldest grandson Wuji.

The eldest grandson glanced at Li Ji suspiciously, not knowing why he was so confident to bet with himself, and he still gambled with his own future.

Obviously, Li Ji took out his official position to gamble, so his eldest grandson Wuji could only take out his official position to gamble, otherwise it would be unfair.

Is he betting that he doesn't dare to bet?

The eldest grandson Wuji sneered a few times, he expected that there was a ghost in this corn, so how could he not dare to bet.

But at this time, Chu Suiliang coughed a few times and stood up.

"Taishi and Taiwei, both of them are veterans who preside over the government, in front of His Majesty, how can they make a bet with the official weapons of the imperial court. I thought that what His Majesty said was very true, hearing was false, and seeing was believing, so he set aside a piece of land for Li Xiao and asked him to try to plant corn. ”

"However, it is not very convenient to plant in Beiyuan, after all, Beiyuan is the place where the Yulin Army is stationed, and there is also a royal flower garden, so it is better to draw a piece of land in the sand garden by the Weishui River to try planting."

As soon as Chu Suiliang's words came out, Li Ji and others immediately sighed that this person was old and spicy.

Where is the sand garden?

Shayuan is in Tongzhou in the east of Chang'an, close to Tongguan, and south of Weishui.

Where is Chu Suiliang's ruthlessness?

It is not a good place to be ruthless in this sand garden, it is said to rely on Weishui, but it is by no means a water town, this is a large piece of sand grassland between Nanluoshui and Weishui, eighty miles from east to west, and thirty miles from north to south.

As early as the Qin and Han dynasties of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was a sandy grassland, rich in shrub and grass vegetation, a wide variety of animals, and it was also a place where drought and flood frequently deteriorated.

Because of the frequent droughts and floods, even though it is close to Chang'an, it has always been a horse grazing place. Now Datang has also set up a sand garden supervision horse farm in Shayuan to raise military horses.

In such a place to raise horses, it was set aside to plant corn for Li Xiao, but you can know how ruthless Chu Suiliang is.

"Chu Xiang, Shayuan is a famous place with frequent droughts and floods, and no one has cultivated that kind of crop throughout the ages." Li Yifu pointed out.

Chu Suiliang said with a smile, "It is precisely because of the special situation of Shayuan that I proposed to plant corn in Shayuan." Didn't you say before that this corn is suitable for both the north and the south, and is extremely drought tolerant? On the other side of the sand garden, the sandy terrain is very prone to drought. Although there is also waterlogging, as long as you choose a place that is not waterlogged, in this way, it is a good test to see if the corn is really as magical as Li Xiao said, whether it really does not need fertile soil, and it is very drought-tolerant. ”

"If corn can be planted in Shayuan to yield two or three stones per mu, then I believe that corn can naturally yield high in other places, right?"

This seems to be a watertight statement.

But it's obviously full of malice.

Tongzhou Zhili also said that Shayuan is between Luowei in the south of the county, also known as Shahai, Shaze is said to be Shafu in the basin, east across Chaoyi, west to Weinan, south of Huazhou, 80 miles wide, two of the three. Its sand moves with the wind and cannot be cultivated.

It has a wide area, great changes, uneven everywhere, water, alkali, grass, and sand everywhere. The high place is called Shafu, the low place is called Shafu, the place with water is called Sand, the place with alkali is called Shalu, the place with grass is called Sand, the flat place is called Sandboard, the yellow sand is called Desert, and the big sand is called Shamoraine.

There are even deserts, so you can see what kind of ghost place this is.

As soon as Chu Suiliang made a move, he not only stopped the eldest grandson Wuji from betting with Li Ji, after all, gambling is risky. And let Li Xiao go to Shayuan to plant corn, which is obviously impossible to grow.

It's a place that is written in the books and cannot be cultivated.

Li Zhi also saw Chu Suiliang's intentions, and snorted dissatisfiedly, these elders are really despicable.

"It's better to pick three different places to try to plant corn, one in Lanxi, one in Beiyuan, and one in Shayuan. Three different places can also be used to test the yield of corn in different places. ”

"These three places were requisitioned to the Forestry Department of Sinong Temple, and a new corn supervisor was set up, and the full-time corn trial was responsible. He was awarded Li Xiao corn supervision. ”

The specifications of this newly established corn supervisor are the same as those of the palace supervisors under Sinong Temple, and the supervisors are from the sixth grade, the grade is not high but not low, and they are specifically responsible for a piece of business.

The emperor set up a new prison to minimize other disturbances. And set aside three places to plant corn, so as not to secretly make a stalk for an old yin person like Chu Suiliang, and as for agreeing to Shayuan to try to plant corn, it is also to be able to block the mouth of the old yin people, so as not to oppose them everywhere.

As long as the harvest in Beiyuan and Lanxi is good, even if the grains in Shayuan are not harvested, it can also prove the role of corn.

"There is one person in charge of the corn superintendent, from the sixth grade. There is one deputy supervisor, who is under the seventh grade. Cheng two, is on the eighth grade. In charge of planting corn, there is one person in the record, two in the house, four in the history, 30 in the pawn, four in the palm of the solid, and another 100 people in the corn plantation. ”

Li Zhi was very willing to spend money, and for the sake of corn, he deliberately set up a corn supervisor under Sinong Temple, and gave so many complete establishments at once.

The supervisors, deputy eunuchs, and ministers are all officials of the imperial court, and the records and the government are all internal officials, and they are all officially established.

Not to mention, a hundred gardeners have been specially allocated to work.

Sinong Temple is equivalent to the Ministry of Agriculture and the State Food and Materials Administration in later generations, and it is in charge of many things. A new prison was set up, which shows the importance of the emperor.

"Lanxi, Beiyuan, and Shayuan each set aside 100 acres of land and belonged to the corn supervisor."

Li Xiao was dressed in a white robe, and the flowers he was waiting for were almost grateful, but he didn't wait for the emperor's summons.

The wait was already at the meal, and the stomach was already growling, and then a little eunuch finally came to pass the word.

"The deliberations under the Zhongshu Gate have ended, Your Majesty has returned to the palace, and the new corn supervisor Li Xiao is specially ordered to have dinner in the hall."

After speaking, the little eunuch still looked at Li Xiao with envy.

Li Xiao didn't know why, he waited for a long time, just waiting for a working meal? What about the emperor, didn't he say that the emperor summoned him, and he waited for a long time, and the emperor released his own pigeons?

"Since Your Majesty won't summon me, then I'll just go home." Li Xiao is not unusual about what kind of after-dinner meal, isn't it just a working meal.

As a result, the eunuch said, "Li Jianzheng, the meal in the hall is a great honor, only the prime minister is qualified to eat, and the ministers of the six ministries, nine temples and five prisons are usually difficult to have the opportunity to get a meal, and Li Jianzheng should not miss it." ”

The dining hall is the working meal that the prime ministers eat in the hall after their deliberations, compared with the working meal in the general yamen, the food is very rich, eight dishes.

It is not uncommon to be the prime minister, but the key is that there is a tradition in the Tang Dynasty, that is, non-prime ministers are not qualified to eat this meal. If occasionally a minister is left by the emperor to have a meal with the emperor and the prime minister, it can be boasted of for a lifetime.

Li Xiao still didn't feel anything, mainly because he didn't know this tradition. He was more concerned about another question at this point, "What do you call me?" ”

"Li Jianzheng, don't you know that just now under the Zhongshu Gate, His Majesty has personally ordered the establishment of a new corn supervisor, and the first corn supervisor is Li Jianzheng. From the sixth grade, he is in charge of a prison, congratulations to Li Jianzheng, a white robe, a leap to serve the green robe, congratulations! The little eunuch smirked.

Li Xiao was a little stunned.

"Corn Supervisor, what the hell is this? Corn is in prison, is it possible that Lao Tzu will become a eunuch? ”

None of the official positions in the Tang Dynasty were officially called eunuchs, and even the eunuchs were not called eunuchs now. However, many institutions in the Tang Dynasty were called eunuchs, and the chief title of each eunuch was also called eunuch, commonly known as the chief eunuch, and there were also eunuchs. The deputy position is generally called the deputy supervisor, and there are also those called the young supervisor.

Inexplicably, he became a eunuch, and Li Xiao couldn't cry or laugh a little.

Corn eunuch, this is not good.