Luckily, luck. With his order, dozens of horse-pushed harvesters started one after another, putting down the golden ears of wheat in front of them one by one and cutting them down, the efficiency was almost unsightly, if it was cut manually, even if people were exhausted to death, they could not be cut.

"Wow, the king is so powerful, the concubine is really eye-opening today, the concubine never knew that wheat could be harvested like this." Di Linazha, who was sitting on the left side of Zhu Ao, was simply taken aback, and cried out a little out of shape, then hurriedly covered her mouth with her hands and smiled secretly. While talking, she didn't forget to sneak a glance at Zhu Ao with a hint of admiration, she thought she knew her king very well, but as she followed him for more and more time, she realized that she didn't know much about him, this king really didn't know how many whimsical ideas were in his head, just take out one, and you can subvert her three views.

Although she has always been conceited and intelligent, she now has to admit that she is still much worse than her own king, and it is not wrong to lose to him.

Although Lan Youcheng was also surprised by the efficiency of this horse-drawn harvester, after all, she had been with Zhu Ao for a long time, and she was admitted to the house by Zhu Ao when the Su Fan was first established.

Not bad, not bad. The results of the first experiment are really good, and this harvesting weapon has been distributed to various farms, and it is expected that this year's grain production and return rate will increase significantly.

Zhu Ao was in a very good mood, and smiled at Qian Dajun: "Your work performance is quite good, and the widow has decided to set your Zhangye No. 1 Farm as this year's demonstration farm, so that people from other farms can come to learn." ”

Qian Dajun was simply overjoyed, although he was not promoted, but he was selected as a model farm among the many farms in this Su Domain, which was tantamount to a great honor, enough for him to brag for several years, and immediately bowed his head and said: "Thank you to the king, the villain is willing to repay the king's kindness." ”

"Get up." Zhu Ao was already a little impatient with their rhetoric, the widow asked you to be the person in charge of the farm to let you farm and collect food for the widow, and not let you go to the battlefield, how could you be ruined? As if the widow was so brutal, he said: "As long as you work well for the widow, the widow will not treat you badly, and you don't need to worry about it." ”

Qian Dajun was stunned, this sycophant is not good, it seems that he has not practiced his kung fu in this area yet, he must practice diligently in the future, it is best to find a master to ask for advice, slowly stood up, and arched his hand: "Yes, thank you king." ”

Zhu Ao took his wife to observe the first farm in Zhangye for a long time, and then took them to his hometown Zhangye to inspect the people's feelings, and then returned to Dunhuang with unfinished feelings.

In the past few days, all the big farms in Su have had a bumper harvest, and as soon as Lan Youcheng came back, she immediately threw herself into the intense work, and began to summarize and sort out the accounts of various farms in Su Guo with her bookkeeping team.

Zhu Ao was very pitiful and cherished, seeing that his beloved concubine was working so hard, he told her several times to arrange the work in his hands to his subordinates, but Lan Youcheng felt that the matter of money and food was very important, and it was the foundation of the entire Suzhou country, she really didn't feel at ease to rely on others completely, and she had to personally take care of this pass for the prince, so she insisted on refusing, and refused Zhu Ao's kindness several times, and Zhu Ao had no choice but to let it go.

After a few days of combing, Lan Youcheng finally straightened out the accounts of the money and grain collected this time, and at a family dinner, he happily smiled at Zhu Ao, Queen Sun Yunqi and several other concubines: "Your Majesty, Queen, our Suguo is another year of bumper harvest this time, and each farm has produced a total of 17 million stone of grain, an increase of 10% compared with last year." ”

"Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince." Several wives have said hello to Zhu Ao, so much grain plus the taxes collected from the hands of the people, that is definitely a considerable amount, even if you have to pay three million stone of grain to the imperial court, there are still a lot of them in your hands, plus the bumper harvest of the pasture, Su Guo can raise a lot of soldiers and horses this time, and do a lot of big things.

Covering an area of thousands of miles, with hundreds of thousands of armor, beauties like clouds, and mountains of grain, what can make a man happier than this, Zhu Ao couldn't stop laughing, put his arms around Concubine Xian and Concubine Duan respectively, and said: "Today is a big day, let's drink happily as a family." Come, call the widow's girl group up, and let them dance a good song for the widow to celebrate the soon-to-be-born prince. ”

At the mention of the prince, Queen Sun Yunqi and Concubine Dai Yuzhu unconsciously pursed their lips and smiled, and the remaining two concubines also secretly hoped in their hearts, thinking that they could conceive the king's flesh and blood as soon as possible.

The queen's two maids Tingwei and Yinhe began to get busy again, one went to the women's group called Zhu Ao, and the other was busy pouring wine for Zhu Ao, needless to say, this meal was very corrupt.

The matter of agriculture has come to an end for the time being, and now that the public compulsory school in Suzhou has also been opened for one year, it should be said that the vast majority of girls and girls aged 15 or 6 in Suzhou are literate, and they also have a certain ability in arithmetic and basic science.

According to Zhu Ao's plan, the next thing they have to do is to teach their parents and other family members to read and write, so as to ensure that all adults in the country are literate in the future, and lay a solid foundation for the great development of the country in the future.

In order to urge the people to actively read and write, Zhu Ao formulated a set of strict assessment measures, the specific content of which was that all adults over the age of 16 in Suguo, regardless of whether they were men or women, must be literate, otherwise they are not allowed to leave the village. If you go out of the village, when you go to the checkpoint, you must not only check the road guide, but also test your literacy ability, and the assessment method is to take out a few words for the local officials to let you recognize on the spot, or say a sentence for you to write down. If you can recognize or write, let you pass, if you can't recognize or write, whether you are a man or a woman, old or weak, press on the ground and beat, until you cry and shout to your mother and swear to study hard.

And these citizens of the country who have been taught a lesson will become the key objects of supervision and inspection of the officials of the state in the future, and they will come to your home to test you every year from time to time, and if you pass the exam, you will be hung directly on a tree and beaten, so as to ensure that you will be in the limelight in the village.

Of course, the specific content of the examination is strictly reviewed by the officials of Licao, and it is guaranteed that they are all commonly used words, and officials at all levels must ask questions within this range, and violators will be severely punished. This is also to prevent local officials from deliberately finding some rare characters to make things difficult for the newly literate citizens, so as to make a fool of it.

This plan has been implemented, it has caused a huge repercussions in the country, and the farmers who can only farm the land on weekdays are all shocked, it turns out that it is shocking enough for King Su to let their children go to school for free for a year, and now he actually requires them to be literate, otherwise they will not even be able to go out. The old Wang next door doesn't believe in evil, two days ago he took the risk to go out to catch up with the market, and when he came back, he was beaten and didn't even know his wife and the neighbor's Cuihua, and since then he has been bored at home all day long and studied hard, and there are fewer opportunities to meet Cuihua.

In order to prevent their parents from being beaten by the government, the children who had gone to school in the country taught them how to read and write those commonly used words whenever they had time, and the country began a literacy campaign for everyone, greatly reducing the illiteracy rate and significantly improving the quality of the people. At the very least, those ordinary people can write IOUs or other deeds by themselves, and they don't have to spend money to ask those talents to write them, which greatly saves the cost of doing business.

For King Su's ancient and golden move, not only the ministers of Su and the concubines of King Su praised one after another, but even Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunwen, who were far away in the imperial court, were also surprised. The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised was that he couldn't understand why King Su, who had always been pragmatic, spent so much money to teach those farmers to read this time, and what was the use of these people being literate? As long as you can honestly farm the land and pay for food, isn't it? Is it worth wasting huge national resources for them?

In the end, it was the people of the Ming Dynasty, although they were the smartest people in the Ming Dynasty, but they still couldn't surpass the limitations of this era, he thought that the strength of a country was the soldiers, horses, money and food, and the impact of literacy was really small. The Song Dynasty had the most literate people, didn't it take turns to be bullied?

This is no wonder that Zhu Yuanzhang is shallow, no matter how eloquent and strategic he is, he can't imagine how developed the industrial civilization will be in the future, and how much of a crushing advantage it can form over the traditional agricultural civilization.

And the reason why Zhu Yunwen is surprised is very nonsensical, because this is all the things that Zhu Ao has done, the only one who has an appetite for him, he has always advocated the rule of the world, and he will rely on the Wenchen to manage the country after succeeding to the throne in the future, but his fourteenth uncle is not a routine with him, not only raises the level of the military general higher than the Wenchen, but also reuses the eunuch to suppress the Wenchen, which makes Zhu Yunwen, who has been educated in Confucianism since childhood, very unacceptable, although the Suguo has been autonomous, Out of a dark heart, he still hoped that Zhu Ao would be a faint monarch and not work too hard, but out of his innate hostility to eunuchs, he still complained about Zhu Ao's approach.

Well, now this fourteenth uncle actually ordered to teach the residents of the whole country to read and write for free, which is quite the style of a gentleman of civil rule, which is very in line with his temper.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors and grandsons were in the palace to approve the folds, in order to exercise Zhu Yunwen's ability to govern, plus Zhu Yuanzhang was old, his old eyes were dizzy, and his energy was not as good as before, some of the folds had begun to be handed over to him for approval.

Zhu Yunwen was looking through a recital about sending an envoy to North Korea, when Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly threw a recital in front of him and said lightly: "Look at this recital, how to deal with it?" ”

"Yes, Grandpa." Zhu Yunwen very obediently took the fold from Zhu Yuanzhang's hand, unfolded it, and frowned slightly, this fold was on King Su, and first said a bunch of clichés, praising Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunwen, and finally very obediently said that he knew that the court was currently short of war horses, and he fought with the Uighurs this time, captured a lot of war horses, and was willing to contribute 5,000 horses to the court for national use.

It is naturally a good thing that someone is willing to serve the country, but if this person is a vassal king, Zhu Yunwen's heart will unconsciously rise a trace of vigilance, and his good friend Huang Zicheng will give him the story of the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of the Western Han Dynasty and the rebellion of the Eight Kingdoms of the Western Jin Dynasty every day, describing the vassal kings as useless, and he is thinking about his throne all day long, always reminding him to beware of the vassal king.

Therefore, Zhu Yunwen did not dare to rashly agree, and last time he contributed three million stone of grain to the imperial court, he was given the treatment of an independent state, and then the strength of the Su State swelled sharply, and the territory has expanded for two thousand miles, and he actually defeated the old power, the Uighurs, you know, that was the existence that even Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song, did not dare to provoke. It is an indisputable fact that Su Guo is sitting big.

Now that you are kindly contributing 5,000 war horses, what more do you want? At this time, you must be vigilant, don't be greedy and cheap, and suffer a big loss.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Yunwen's embarrassed look, he was old and sophisticated, he naturally knew what his good grandson was thinking, sighed slightly in his heart, and said with a straight face: "What's wrong?" Do you have to hesitate when someone gives you a gift? ”

Zhu Yunwen was stunned for a moment, then struck a spirit, and arched his hand at Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "Grandpa Huang said that he laughed, my grandson just thinks that it is not easy for Uncle Fourteen to have today's family business, and my grandson really doesn't want his things." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's face showed a long-lost smile, not to mention whether Zhu Yunwen was sincere or false, his words were enough to make Lao Zhu happy, Zhu Yuanzhang cared most about in his life in addition to the Ming Dynasty, the rest is his family, especially his children and grandchildren, he, like all fathers in this world, hope that their children and grandchildren can get along in harmony, keep their own industries, and jointly defend the Ming Dynasty, leaning on the dragon chair, squinting at Zhu Yunwen, and said kindly: "Your fourteenth uncle has made a fortune this time, Take out something and mean it, and the family doesn't have to be polite to him. ”

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang meant that he wanted this batch of war horses, Zhu Yunwen had no choice but to agree, as for what reward the imperial grandfather would give to this King Su, then he couldn't care about it, he just hoped that this old man would not be too partial to his son, and saluted Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "If your grandson knows, then approve the word 'quasi'." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly, leaned back in his chair, and said with a smug face: "I originally thought that your fourth uncle was the most capable, but I didn't expect that your fourteenth uncle was no worse than him at all, and in just three years, he expanded his territory for more than 2,000 miles, and defeated the Uighurs, a western power. ”

Parents have this mentality, their children have a future, and that makes them happier than their own talents.

Zhu Yunwen didn't speak, just lowered his head to himself. Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him and said earnestly: "Yun Wei, you remember, family members are always more reliable than outsiders, and there are a few people like Li Shimin who have no heart and liver, if you become an emperor in the future, you must have a good relationship with your uncles and let them help you guard the border stopper, so that you can sit back and relax." ”

Zhu Yunwen was still very worried in his heart, his uncles had too much power, and although the imperial court had imposed some restrictions on them in recent years, it still couldn't change the fact that they had huge influence in the local area. At his age, he would not hide himself, and all the worries on his face were written on his face.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw it in his eyes, how could he not know his little thoughts, he had already raised the issue of cutting the feudal domain with himself more than once, when would this kid be sensible? If you can be a saint according to what the book says, then everyone can make a saint, the real emperor's skills are never passed on, with full of love and said: "In two days, your fourth uncle will return to Beiping, let your fourteenth uncle come to the capital, he has only come back once in the past three years, the relationship between your uncle and nephew has been divided, and he should come back to see me and his mother." ”

Because Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that the vassal king would sit big and threaten the central government, he stipulated that the vassal king could only come to Beijing one by one, and he could not meet, Zhu Di, who came to the capital to meet before. In order to see if this eloquent vassal king had the intention of rebellion, Zhu Yuanzhang specially summoned Zhu Di to come for questioning, and deliberately stood behind him, wanting to make him feel uneasy.

Just to reassure Zhu Yuanzhang, he didn't take his three sons with him when he left, and left them all in the capital, which became the biggest concern when King Yan raised troops in the future.

Counting up, King Su has indeed not returned to Beijing for a long time, although Zhu Yunwen is very worried about the current King Su, but he has no way or courage to cut off the father-son relationship between him and Zhu Yuanzhang, but I don't know how many years have not seen, what has become of this originally inconspicuous King Su, I heard Geng Bingwen say that he is very remarkable, and he must deal with it carefully, arched his hand at Zhu Yuanzhang, and said: "Although Uncle Fourteen is far away in the northwest, his grandson has never felt a sense of life for him, and he has been in the northwest long enough, It's time to go back to Beijing to take a look, and according to Sun Er's intentions, send Cao Guogong to announce his return. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little tired, no matter how much ambition and enthusiasm he had, after all, he was already old, and his energy was definitely not as good as before, he squinted and said lightly: "Li Jinglong has worked with your fourteenth uncle, according to your wishes." In addition, I have prepared some rewards for your fourteenth uncle's mother, and you will take the time to send them over in person. ”

Then, standing up slowly, Zhu Yunwen knew that he was tired and wanted to rest, and immediately said respectfully: "Yes, grandson obeys." Then he quickly took two steps forward and helped Zhu Yuanzhang to rest.

Zhu Yuanzhang took such pains to let Zhu Yunwen have a good relationship with his uncles, so that they could guard the country for him, a weak man, but unfortunately Zhu Yunwen didn't understand it in the end.

If Zhu Yunwen handled the relationship with his uncles according to Zhu Yuanzhang's intentions, Zhu Di would have no chance.

At the same time, the Mahami Ministry of Warat was also holding a meeting, and the content of the meeting was whether to carry out a tribute exchange with Zhu Hao, and the two sides for and against expressed their opinions and quarreled.

Mahamu's number one general, Badu, supported trade with the Su State, relying on his military exploits and the status of the patriarch, shouted in the big tent: "Taiping and the two little guys of Bald Polo have begun to exchange money with the king of Su, and I heard that they have made a lot of profits from it." They resold the things they bought from Su Guo to us, and the price would be increased several times, and our cattle and sheep would all be replaced by them, and in the long run, the balance of power between us and them would change, which would be very unfavorable to us. ”

It was not the generals under Ma Hamu who opposed the tribute exchange with Zhu Ao, but his wife - Xiao Er Zhi Jin, who is twenty-four years old this year, is a very ambitious woman, thinking that his man can be the overlord of the grassland, she is good at being the wife of the overlord, and she has opposed trade with Su Guo from the beginning, and stood up and said to Ma Hamu: "Taishi, Zhu Ao harbors evil intentions, and must be guarded against. ”

Ma Hamu has always attached great importance to this wife from a golden family, although she has not given birth to a son and a half daughter to herself, but it still can't affect her status in Ma Hamu's heart, and said: "What does this mean by concubine? May I ask what is Zhu Ao's evil intentions? ”

Xiao'er only snorted coldly, looked at her husband with a proud expression, and said confidently: "The products of the Central Plains are far better than my desert, if you trade with them, some tribes in the desert will covet their benefits, and then become unclear with the Su country, if the two families have a dispute in the future, they will really say who they will help." "I have to say that this son is still very insightful, and he can see at a glance the huge hidden danger of trading with the Ming Dynasty. If they see the products of the Ming Dynasty, they will definitely be red-eyed, and now the Ming Dynasty is strong, and rushing to rob it can only hit the muzzle of the gun, at this time, if you want to continue to benefit from the Ming Dynasty, there is only one way, secretly pass the Ming, and be a traitor.

When Ma Hamu heard his wife's words, he also muttered in his heart, he knew very well what kind of virtue this group of people under him was, and he was loyal to himself, but he was afraid that there were more greedy for goods, if they saw Zhu Ao's thick and strong thighs, wouldn't they rush to hug them?

Batu saw that Mahamu was moved by his wife's words, and his heart was anxious, frankly speaking, he was very greedy for the property of the Ming Dynasty, he asked someone to inquire about the Taiping, and the two tribes of the Vulture Polo only made a lot of money by doing a few business with the Ming Dynasty, and the wealth increased sharply, and the number of women also increased rapidly. The Mongolian generals behaved rather rudely, and they didn't need to pay too much attention to etiquette, so they stood up and shouted at Mahamu: "This is wrong. We are all warriors loyal to the Taishi, how can we betray the Taishi because of a little possessions? Besides, we don't go to do business with the Ming Dynasty, and when those two tribes develop because of the tribute to the Ming Dynasty and are stronger than us, then this Warat is not the Taishi's final say. ”