Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Experimental Field (1)
When you get up in the morning, the weather in March is neither hot nor cold, and occasionally one or two clouds drift in the sky to block out the sun's rays, and the warm spring breeze blows on your face and makes people feel very comfortable.
Today is the day when Li Chengqian and Li Tai's grounding is lifted, Li Shimin seems to be really strict with his son as soon as he comes to power, saying that it is not less than a day a month, although Xiao Zheng sometimes enters the palace to give them lectures, but it also chokes these four little guys enough.
Took Jin'er and pulled the four babies to sit in the carriage and slowly went out of the city, found an open place, there happened to be a pear forest next to it, at this time just budding and spitting green, the bones of the pear blossoms are also budding to be released.
As soon as the blanket was laid, the family put the lamb slices and chicken wings that had been marinated in advance on bamboo skewers, set up a charcoal fire to put an iron plate on the table, sprinkled oil to put the mutton slices on the smoking iron plate, and the exclamation of several babies was accompanied by the sound of swishing and lala.
Jin'er had already begun to swallow saliva with a straight stomach, sprinkled cumin on the meat, and smeared it with sauce The four children, including Gong Yi Ruoyi, were already drooling. Anyway, there are enough things brought here, and those who see them have a share, including a string for each person, and the meat is in the mouth and then drink the cold sour plum soup, which is called a comfort.
Xiao Zheng drank a little wine and was very happy to watch the children eat and scream one by one.
"Master, was the 'Zhuxian Great Array' you mentioned last time broken by King Wu of Zhou?" Lou Shide asked with a half-pulled chicken leg in his mouth, and the other children were also waiting expectantly to talk about it. Let's talk about it, as soon as the story is told, Jin'er on the side is also fascinated by it.
After talking for half an hour, he drank a sour plum soup to moisten his throat and was about to continue, when he looked up and saw more than a dozen horses galloping along the official road, and after seeing the people clearly, he said to Jin'er and the others: "Okay, let's talk about it here today, the troublemakers are coming."
Li Shimin took Cheng Yanjin and Yu Chi Laohei into the woods, as soon as the three of them arrived, there was nothing else to do, and Jin'er took a few children to the side.
When he arrived and smelled the smell, Li Shimin was not polite, and the three of them sat down in front of the iron plate, and Li Shimin said: "Give me two strings of each, your Mr. Xiao's cooking skills are unparalleled in the world, I haven't eaten it for a long time."
"Old Cheng's double," Cheng said with gritted gold and bared his teeth.
"What to bake and what to eat, more! The main thing is that the wine should be good", Yu Chi Lao Hei is more direct.
These people almost shouted that there would be five more strings of big waists, and they would use me as the owner of the barbecue restaurant, and Xiao Zheng was speechless for a while.
When the three of them had eaten and drunk, Li Shimin took out a small silver tube from his arms very domineeringly, pulled out a tiger whisker, and said with his teeth: "I also came out to relax on the day of rest, and I happened to meet Shangqing here, this barbecue method is chic and tastes very good."
"Aya, you just came here smelling the smell of Master's meat, what kind of coincidence is that" Little Li Tai said unabashedly, Cheng Yanjin grinned behind Li Shimin's back and gave Li Tai a thumbs up.
"Let's go, follow me to the pear grove to play" Jin'er pulled a few little ones and walked into the distance.
"Damn, Lao Tzu is also angry during this time" Li Shimin ignored Li Tai's words and leaned against a tree and said.
It's very strange, now there is no external trouble for the time being, and everyone in the court is busy farming just after the beginning of spring, so what's the matter.
Only after listening to Cheng Biting Jin's words did I know that the new-style ploughs and cocoon carts had already been sent to the vicinity of Chang'an and Luoyang prefectures and counties before spring ploughing.
Originally, it was thought that state and county officials would directly use these agricultural tools for production, but this was not the case at all. There are some capable officials who directly use these agricultural tools, but the number is less than thirty percent, and more at least half of the officials put these things in the treasury and threw them away, until the agricultural time passed, these things did not move.
What's more, after receiving the plough and the cart, some officials who were sloppy and patting horses wore red and hung colors to invite Li Shimin to the county government.
"That's easy to do, use the plough and the cocoon to promote, and dismiss on the spot if you don't use or provide for it," Xiao Zheng said with a smile.
"If you really want to do that, what will you do after you are dismissed? I have also seen the officials recommended now, all of them are from some valve nobles, and few of them are usable."
"Then open the department and take the office," Xiao Zheng said without thinking about it.
"Do you think I don't want to, don't look at the Turks when they come, everyone comes together, but after the Turks leave, the court is a piece of scattered sand, and every government decree is issued, there are always some people who disobey the yang and the yin out of their own considerations, and it is all their own family forces", I understand, Li Shimin's scripture is not easy to read.
"I desperately wanted to be the emperor, but when I became the emperor, I found that I envied your life," Li Shimin said with rare emotion.
"A saint is born to be an emperor, otherwise you wouldn't be able to eat such a delicacy without you being an emperor's minister," Yu Chi Laohei's mouth was stuffed with mutton and said vaguely, what people say is better than patting on the back.
"That's too, don't talk about this, drink," Li Shimin said with a wave of his hand.
A few were chatting, but saw Jin'er with an old farmer in his fifties and a boy of five or six years old, before Xiao Zheng asked Jin'er, he opened his mouth and said to a few people: "This pear orchard and the farmland next to it belong to his family, the old man came to work, and he didn't dare to come over when he saw you here, and they stayed in the field for a long time."
"Grandpa, I want to eat meat" The kid was dressed in tatters with yellow muscles and thin muscles, and when he saw that there was delicious food, he was a five or six-year-old child who could endure it, so he raised his head and said to the old farmer.
"Old man, I'm sorry to disturb you, if you don't dislike it, come over and eat something," Li Shimin stood up and arched his hand to the old farmer and said.
"The little old man bothered the nobles, thank you, the villain brought his own food, and he will go back after finishing his work for a while, the little grandson is not sensible, please forgive a few nobles" The old man saw that these people were not ordinary people.
"The old man is polite" Li Shimin walked over and picked up the child, walked over, turned his head and said to Xiao Zheng: "What is more baking."
The old man saw that it was difficult but had no choice but to sit down very stiffly, and drank two small glasses of wine after a few skewers of meat, and the old man's conversation box was also opened. This piece of land is on the nearby Zhuangzi, because most of the people surnamed Sun are called Sunjiazhuang, this village belongs to Chang'an County, the population is not much and there are more than 200 households, but because it is close to the official road, life is also passable, this pear forest and the fields next to it are Sun Laohan's family, just came to work and met them.
As soon as Li Shimin asked him about the harvest, Sun Laohan sighed and pointed to the land east of the official road and said: "There is fertile land next to the river, and there is a lot of wasteland, if the harvest is not wrong, a few years ago, Xiao Lao'er's family had more than a dozen acres of land over there, but two years ago, the big family who came to Chang'an City gave Xiao Lao'er some money and bought it, and now the wasteland over there is not open for us."
"What if you don't buy your land?" Li Shimin asked.
"If you don't sell it, you can't do it, the year before last they came to someone to carry a knife and a stick, but no one beat people, but the old man in this village had to suffer this loss, and he had no choice but to open up the wasteland in the west, but there was no water to water and had to rely on the sky to harvest. Fortunately, with these 100 pear trees, it can also subsidize some families, and it is almost impossible to sustain it, but fortunately, last year when the new emperor ascended the throne, my son first went to Wugong Guan to transport military food for some food, and this year he went to Yushan County to do two months of work to maintain this family, this year is a little stronger than the year of the Great Cause", the old man sighed again after speaking.
After hearing this, Li Shimin's face suddenly became ugly, and he looked at the ground for a while, raised his head and said to Sun Laohan: "Old man, can you let the younger generations see what you ate when you were working."
Sun Laohan hesitated for a moment and brought a cloth bag over, opened the cloth bag and opened the four gray bran vegetable dumplings inside, Li Shimin took out one and didn't even think about stuffing it into his mouth and chewed it, Xiao Zheng also broke half of it and tasted it, feeling that this thing was made of wild vegetables and bean noodles, and it was bitter and a little sandy in his mouth.
After Li Shimin finished eating, he picked up another one and divided it into four pieces, handed it to a few children, and said, "Taste it, this is ordinary children's food."
Lou Shide and Li Chengqian have long been sensible, seeing that Li Shimin's face is wrong, he gritted his teeth and swallowed the cake, Xiao Changning also ate this when he was a child and didn't squeak. Xiao Li Tai only took a bite and spit it out and said, "It's hard to eat."
"Swallow it!" Li Shimin's red eyes rarely got angry with his favorite son.
Jin'er hurriedly pulled a few children to hide far away.
Xiao Zheng saw that the situation was not right, so he hurriedly took Sun Laohan and the two away, and gave all the meat to his little grandson when he left, which made Sun Laohan grateful again.
"Please ask the sage for permission, the minister will take action, use this village as an experimental field, at most one year, the minister will let this village no longer have food and clothing, and also teach that group of fools how to govern the village" Looking at Li Shimin, he was really a little anxious, and Yu Chi Laohei and Cheng Yanjin were also staring at each other, so Xiao Zheng had no choice but to make a move.
"I'm right."
"But I asked the saint to bring these children over."
"I should let them come over, so that the prince can also know how difficult it is for the people of my Tang Dynasty" Li Shimin looked at Li Tai in the distance and said hatefully.
Watching the three of them leave with the team all the way, turned around and called the four children, seeing that Xiao Li Tai was crying very aggrieved, Xiao Zheng wiped away his tears and said: "You Aya is heartbroken that the people are angry with you, and you must remember: a porridge and a meal are hard to come by, and half a thread and half a wisp are always difficult."
"Got it, Master," little Li Tai replied with a sob.
A very good meal was stirred up like this, there was no way to go back, on the way, I saw that a few children were not very angry, so they said in the car: "Come, I will continue to tell you about Jiang Ziya's great destruction of the immortal array."