Chapter 2: Embarrassing Wheat

Zhao Chen found that he began to hate Li Er's early dynasty a little, every day before dawn, it was the time to sleep in the day, but as a result, he had to get up because he had to go to the morning court.

Except for the day of rest, the morning dynasty basically has to be carried out every day, even if it is just to go through the motions, then you have to go.

In the winter days, he slept in the warm quilt, was pulled up by wheat, waited to wash his face and brush his teeth, and then, in Zhao Chen's low complaint, climbed into the carriage of the wooden mound, and went to the palace in a staggering manner, which became Zhao Chen's daily compulsory course.

In the Taiji Palace, it still looks like it, but Pei Lian, who is in charge of the discipline of the hundred officials, has already left the court, needless to say, this ending, Zhao Chen has long known.

Now, the position of the left servant is held by Xiao Yu, compared to Pei Lone, Zhao Chen does not have any good impression of Xiao Yu.

Two days ago, in the court, there was also a copy of Xiao Yu, the reason is that when Xiao Jian went to the Turks, Xiao Yu quietly gave Tang Jian a letter, asking Tang Jian to go to the Turkic side, and be sure to hand it over to his sister, that is, Empress Xiao.

Li Er had a big fire at that time, and almost dismissed Xiao Yu's position as a left servant, and in the end, he confirmed that the letter was indeed an ordinary letter, and many people stood up to intercede for Xiao Yu, so Li Er extinguished the fire.

Now, the taxes in various places have been collected, listening to Fang Xuanling being there, reporting to Li Er about the taxes, Zhao Chen listened boringly, and quietly moved the futon back when everyone was not paying attention to him.

Then, under the stunned gaze of the old Li Gang next to him, he took out the same things, all of which were some small snacks, and in a moment, there was a small pile in front of him.

He is in this position. It's very bad, there is a large empty area in the back, and I can't do it if I want to lean against the pillar for a while, so in order to pass the time, I have to come here. Let the wheat sew a small pocket with a whole bunch of snacks in it.

"This is yours, old man!" Zhao Chen handed a small cup to Lao Li Gang, which was filled with milk tea. Lao Li Gang is a good person, except for the occasional schadenfreude when he is deflated, he shows a gloating appearance, but he is unambiguous in terms of right and wrong.

"It's just out of the ordinary!" Old Li Gang's beard shook and shook, and he had a posture of picking up Zhao Chen and beating Zhao Chen, lowered his voice, and rebuked angrily.

"Don't pull it down!" Zhao Chen took back the milk tea handed out. put it in front of himself, and said angrily: "For the sake of you always sitting with me, I specially prepared it for you, since this is the case, then I will enjoy it myself!" ”

"Don't think!" As soon as Lao Li Gang heard Zhao Chen's words, he snatched the cup from Zhao Chen's hand, and without waiting for Zhao Chen to react, he walked in front of Zhao Chen again. He grabbed a handful of snacks and stuffed them into his pocket.

"That's beef jerky. Do you chew moving? Zhao Chen looked at Li Gang, who instantly turned into Lao Qin, speechlessly, and said with a frown.

"You know!" Lao Li Gang held the cup carefully in his hand, and said angrily: "Don't you allow the old man to bring it to his grandson?" ”

Lao Li Gang refused to take the lead in destroying the discipline of the court, everything was in his pocket, and Zhao Chen was eating there 'click'. Lao Li Gang had to move the futon to the front to cover Zhao Chen.

A look of eating people with a short mouth and a short hand!

Fang Xuanling was still there talking about this year's taxes, how much Henan Province paid, and how much Jiangnan Province paid. It's all mulberry hemp, and after talking about mulberry hemp, we talked about food.

"Why is there more wheat this year?" Li Er sat on the top of the main hall, listening to Fang Xuanling talking about the grain collected from all over the place, listening to it, he couldn't help frowning and asked.

"Back to Your Majesty!" When Fang Xuanling heard this, he paused slightly, looked at Li Er above, and said helplessly: "There are officials everywhere who are distressed, and this year's millet has not been completed, so the people will replace the millet with wheat!" ”

"Why? Did you send someone to ask? When Li Er heard Fang Xuanling's words, he asked with a slight frown.

"Weichen sent someone to ask, and they all said that it was frost in the later stage!" When Fang Xuanling heard this, his expression hesitated slightly, as if he had something to say, but after hesitating, he still looked at Li Er and said.

Fang Xuanling, as a household langzhong, sent someone to investigate this matter from the beginning, and the millet in one place was frosted, and it is impossible for all places to be frosted!

But the matter was so evil, that the person sent to inspect him came back and told him that there was indeed a frost in some places, and the millet and other things were a little green, so the local officials let the people take wheat instead.

However, there must be something greasy in this, Fang Xuanling didn't believe it when he was killed, all places were affected by frost, but there was no conclusive evidence, and he didn't dare to make a conclusion about this matter.

When Li Er heard Fang Xuanling's words, his face turned slightly ugly, and then he groaned a little, looked at the ministers below and said, "In this way, all Aiqing will eat this wheat rice this year!" ”

Zhao Chen, who was sitting behind Li Gang, listened to Fang Xuanling talking to Li Er there, and the more he listened, the more confused he felt.

How does this sound like it seems that it is wrong for the people to hand over wheat, but they should hand over these grains, which is right?

Li Er's voice fell, and some officials had already stood up and cried, which was clearly to let them eat wheat rice for a year! Where can I stand this, I can't eat half a year's wheat rice, let alone a year.

It is always like this in the court, if one person stands up, a large group of people will stand up and second.

However, this time it was not seconded, but a real cry, the wheat rice is unpalatable! Once in a while, it's fine, but if you eat a year's worth of barley rice, you can't stand it.

When the time comes, if you eat your body, will this court still come?

Li Er was very annoyed when he heard a large cry, and looked at the ministers below with a little cold eyes: "Then you can't let me eat alone, right?" ”

As soon as the ministers below heard Li Er's words, they immediately lowered their heads, and after a long time, they discussed with Li Er, half a year of millet and half a year of wheat, this is always okay!

The more Zhao Chen listened, the more confused he became, when did the hundred officials be so sympathetic to the people, and they didn't want such good wheat, they had to have the miscellaneous grains.

"Can the old man explain?" Zhao Chen was confused, so he had to look at Lao Li Gang with a puzzled look, blinked, and asked.

"If you don't learn, you can't do it!" Lao Li Gang talked to Zhao Chen about this virtue, and the first sentence must be criticism first, Zhao Chen is used to it, so he naturally doesn't care.

Then, Lao Li Gang explained, listening to Lao Li Gang's explanation, Zhao Chen immediately opened his mouth wide and was stunned.

I thought it was a hundred officials who suddenly changed their sex! Dare to love is still the same, selfish. I don't eat wheat because I don't have the ability to turn wheat into fine noodles.

Wheat is highly viscous, even if it has been crushed by a stone mill, it is not easy to remove the bran, and the process of removing the bran is very complicated, and it often takes a long time to sift out a little flour.

And, even with the flour sifted out like this, there's still a lot of bran in it!

Millet grains have low viscosity, are easy to crush and sieve into flour, and the bran is not as thick as wheat, so it is naturally more popular than wheat

In fact, to put it bluntly, there is no iron yarn for sieving surface in this era, and it is impossible to sieve out fine noodles, so it is obviously wheat with high nutritional value, but in turn it has become a miscellaneous grain!

And the wheat rice just now is to cook wheat and vegetables together to eat, Zhao Chen listened to Lao Li Gang's explanation, imagined the taste in his mind, and immediately shook his head vigorously.

Li Er's face was a little ugly, no one was willing, sharing more wheat, and he couldn't let the army consume it all!

"Chang'an Hou is an immortal disciple, but I don't know if there is anything I can do about it?" When the court was at an impasse, suddenly among the ministers, a guy saw Zhao Chen at a glance, frowned slightly, and suddenly said loudly.

As if a word woke up a person in a dream, as soon as these words came out, in the hall where I listened, there was a sudden sound of turning around, the sound of the robe rubbing together, and a pair of eyes turned to Zhao Chen.

Even Li Er in the main hall couldn't help but set his eyes on Zhao Chen, but from a long distance, Li Er's gaze still saw it at a glance, and Zhao Chen put a bunch of snacks in front of him, and immediately gritted his teeth angrily.

This guy deliberately, Zhao Chen was looked at by a group of people, and suddenly picked up a bunch of snacks in a hurry and stuffed them into Lao Li Gang's arms.

Then, ignoring Lao Li Gang's beard and glaring, he patted his buttocks and stood up from the futon, stood in the middle of the hall, and said with a smile: "Actually, I think this matter is quite simple!" ”

A group of people in the hall, who had just been sad and sad, heard Zhao Chen's words, their eyes lit up, and their eyes were a little hot when they looked at Zhao Chen.

It was the guy who had just spoken, and he also had a look of hope, he was actually just a casual remark just now, but he didn't expect Zhao Chen to really have a way to solve it.

"Chang'an Hou, let's hear it!" Li Er sat up straight on the top of the main hall, looking at Zhao Chen expectantly, and even forgot about Zhao Chen's stealing snacks in the court just now.

"Since everyone doesn't want to eat wheat rice!" Zhao Chen bowed slightly at Li Er, and then looked at the ministers with a smile and said, "Then why don't you exchange wheat for the people?" ”

"Actually, the people don't care if it's wheat rice or not!" Zhao Chen spoke, continued to look at the ministers and said: "As long as everyone raises the price comparison between high schools, I believe that the people will enthusiastically exchange millet for wheat!" ”

As soon as Zhao Chen's words came out, everyone in the hall couldn't help but be stunned, and said in their hearts, yes! The people don't care if they have wheat rice or not, as long as they can eat their stomachs!

They dislike wheat, but the people don't dislike it, so increase the price of wheat and millet, and believe that the people will come to exchange! (To be continued......)