Chapter 264: Pool Party
The news that the Li family in Lanxi had harvested fifty-two stones of wheat from ten acres of wheat soon spread throughout the Guanzhong Plain like the wind.
Even Emperor Li Zhi, who was far away in the depths of Chang'an Taiji Palace, heard the news.
"Ten acres of wheat harvested fifty-two stones?"
If someone else reported the news, then Li Zhi would definitely not believe this kind of nonsense, but this news was about Li Xiao.
That's no ordinary person.
People can grow corn, but the sky is auspicious.
Others can't grow wheat with a yield of five stones per mu, but he believes that Li Xiao can definitely grow it.
"How did he do it?" Li Zhi looked at the music and marveled.
"It's better to see than to hear, why don't Your Majesty go and see it for yourself?" Wu Shi said with a smile on his growing belly, "It just so happens that Hong'er always says that he wants to go out of the palace to play, so it's better to go to Lanxi, take a look at Li Xiao's wheat, and then go to see Tamase." ”
Chang'an is very hot, and it is not cool in Taiji Palace.
There are many palaces around the Tang Dynasty, which are the emperor's summer retreat, and those palaces are also used as fortresses on the periphery of the capital, becoming military castles and guarding the safety of the periphery of the imperial capital.
Each palace was stocked with a lot of food and weapons, and it could be used as a place for the emperor to go out for a relaxing vacation, and in case of tension, it could become a peripheral fortress for the defense of Gyeonggi.
For example, there are Jiucheng Palace, Qiyang Palace in Qizhou, and there are Xianyou Palace, Yishou Palace, Ganquan Palace, Taiping Palace, Bushou Palace, Xingde Palace, Changchun Palace and so on around Chang'an.
Each palace is strategically located on the outskirts of the capital.
However, there is no other palace in Lantian, which is far away. However, although there are no other palaces, there are many royal estates.
The Tang Emperor had many estates, also known as Guanzhuang, which were not subordinate to the various ministries of the imperial court, but directly belonged to the emperor's small treasury.
There are those who grow grain, there are also pigs, deer, horses, cattle, and many workshops, in short, these are the royal industries, the emperor's private property.
Most of the sources of official villages are confiscated from the family property of the guilty officials. Therefore, Guanzhuang is also all over the world, but especially Guanzhong is the most distributed.
The income of the official village was mainly used for the court, and it was also used by the emperor to reward his subordinates. Because this money does not have to go through the imperial court, the officials of the imperial court cannot control it, which is very convenient for the emperor.
"It's okay, there have been no major events in the DPRK and China recently, so I just went to Beijing to escape the summer and take a rest." Since the resignation of the stubborn veterans of the DPRK and China, such as the eldest grandson Wuji and Chu Suiliang, although there is still one Laiji, Laiji is much more honest.
Li Ji is usually not very much of a council, and the other prime ministers can understand the holy will very well, and Li Zhi has never been happy.
But staring at political affairs all day long, I get tired after a long time.
Chang'an, Cui Fu.
Cui Zhiyi was in a very bad mood, and Li Xiao actually refused the Cui family's support.
I don't know how much to lift, a little viscount, how proud I really think I am?
Picking up the pen, Cui Zhiyi wrote a letter to his brother, this is his third brother, Cui Zhiwen. Cui Zhiwen is also an official in the court, and his brothers are ministers in the same hall, but Cui Zhiwen is in the imperial history platform and serves as the imperial historian in the palace.
The rank of the palace servant is not high, but it is also a noble position, and he has the power to impeach and picket, which can be heard. Cui Zhiyi planned to let his brother find Li Xiao's ballast and impeach him.
If you dare to be so ignorant, then let him be notorious and demote him to Lingnan.
Do you think you can escape if you offend the Cui family and hide in Lantian to be a shrunken turtle?
Blue Creek.
Li Xiao hadn't taken this matter to heart since he drove away the evil servant of the Cui family that day. The mere Xuzhou Cui clan may be very good in the eyes of others, but in Li Xiao's eyes, it is just a reputation handed down from ancestors.
What era was the Tang Dynasty?
The Tang Dynasty is known as the last aristocratic era in Chinese history, and even the Guanlong group was broken in the Tang Dynasty, not to mention the scholars who were handed down from the Han and Wei dynasties.
He didn't even think about hiding from Cui Zhiyi, he just went home to harvest wheat and avoid the heat by the way, but unexpectedly, in the eyes of the Cui family, Li Xiao was afraid that the Cui family would hide in the countryside.
Ten acres of wheat fields have been harvested, and finally under the witness of a group of wheat customers and villagers, a total of 52 stone wheat has been harvested in ten acres of wheat fields, and the yield per mu has reached an astonishing high yield of five stone two.
In the shock of everyone, Steward Qian announced that the Li family would sell twenty stone wheat seeds.
The tenants of the Li family are preferred, and each household is limited to one bucket of wheat grain, but the grain can be returned after the autumn harvest, as long as six buckets.
Everyone scrambled to register, and then weighed and brought back the wheat seeds selected by the Li family.
The Li family sold a bucket of wheat seeds, and also came with two corn seeds, which made everyone even more overjoyed.
Li Xiao has a new neighbor.
Taishi and Sun Wuji, the eldest prince of Zhao Guo, just bought a field in Lanxi at a high price. Several acres of land, or a field connected together, the eldest grandson's family built a manor there in a short time.
It is very classy, much better than the Li family compound.
I heard that it was not easy for the eldest grandson's family to take this land, this land originally belonged to dozens of families, but the Zhao family took down the land by way of exchange. The good fertile land in the same state was exchanged for the field of Lantian, and it was two acres for one acre, and the eldest grandson's family also gave a relocation fee to the people who exchanged it.
Money can make ghosts grind, and the conditions of the eldest grandson's family are so good, how can everyone have trouble with money. Besides, people exchange better land for two acres for one acre.
Everyone was still afraid that there would be something greasy in this, so they invited Li Xiao to be a witness.
Li Xiao is not afraid of the eldest grandson's family making ghosts, his reputation is so big, it is impossible to pit his Li Xiao's villagers for hundreds of acres of land.
After the manor of the eldest grandson's family was built, the eldest grandson Wuji came to Lanxi.
It is said that the eldest grandson's wives and concubines and sons did not come, and they are still in Chang'an.
After the eldest grandson came, he ran to the Li family's compound with nothing to do, looking for Li Xiao to fish today, playing chess with Li Xiao tomorrow, and looking for Li Xiao to study corn and wheat the day after tomorrow.
Li Xiao was originally reluctant to be with this group of old cadres, after all, these people were the people that the emperor focused on.
But people insist on getting together with him, and Li Xiao can't be gone, after all, he is a neighbor, and he can't see anyone who looks down and looks up.
Sometimes Tamase will also come, and occasionally the color sky monk Li Ke will also come.
Li Xiao felt that his family had become a farmhouse, and this group of people ate and drank for nothing, and they didn't give money.
"Xiangrui, this big pool in your house is really good, you can ask people to come to my house and build one another day. On this hot day, it is really cool and refreshing to swim in the pool twice. ”
The eldest grandson Wuji, wearing a pair of four-legged shorts, climbed out of the Li family's pool, walked to the recliner under the pergola by the pool, and took the watermelon from the well water that had just opened from the well water and gnawed on it.