Yang Nong stood on the field facing the rising sun, looking at the lively scene in front of him, his eyes were also full of excitement, only to see that in the open space of this field, many craftsmen were busy under the command of some officials, and they were building a small house, and behind him, there were other officials who were busy measuring and recording in the corn field, which was also their daily homework. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

But at this moment, I saw Li Xiu walking briskly from the river, then looked at the busy construction site with a puzzled face, and then looked at the excited Yang Nong, and asked a little puzzled: "Yang Shangshu, what are you doing, do you want to build a house here?" ”

Hearing Li Xiu's words, Yang Nong, who was excited, found out about his arrival, and immediately came to Li Xiu with a big smile and said: "Li Xijiu, you are finally here, after I discussed with Wei Xima yesterday, I all thought that the promotion of corn and sweet potatoes could not be accomplished overnight, and we could not do without a unified organization, so after reporting to His Majesty, we decided to take over part of the authority of Sinong Temple and use it exclusively for the promotion of corn and sweet potatoes." ”

"Sinong Temple? Isn't that the agency responsible for storing and distributing rice? Li Xiu couldn't help but ask strangely when he heard this, although Sinong Temple has the word "agriculture", but it is mainly to manage grain storage, and has no authority over other aspects of agriculture, and there is also the distribution of Lu rice to officials, the power is very limited, sometimes because some officials will pick and choose the Lu rice distributed, so that the officials of Si Nong Temple have to explain with a smile, it can be said that it is a government agency that is not very popular.

"Yes, now the Sinong Temple is divided into two, and the warehouse department and the Ministry of Agriculture have been established, of which the warehouse department is the responsibility of the original Sinong Temple, and the Ministry of Agriculture will take over more agriculture-related things, of course, now the main thing is to promote corn and sweet potatoes, you see that those officials in the back have been included in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Sinong Temple." Yang Nong explained with a smile that after not seeing him for a few days, his body had fully recovered, and his face was much more ruddy, and he couldn't see that he was seriously ill at all.

"I see, then what is to be built here, is it possible that the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture are going to handle official business here?" Li Xiu pointed to the busy construction site in front of him at this time and asked, looking at the scale of this building, it seems that it is not small, and it does not look like it is used by residents, but it is very similar to ordinary officials.

"Yes, in the future, the official office of the Ministry of Agriculture will be located here, anyway, in the past few years, the main thing is to promote corn and sweet potatoes, and these two crops will be planted in the fiefdom of Princess Pingyang, so it is more convenient for us to be here." Yang Nong nodded and replied, Wei Zheng has already taken the position of Si Nong Siqing, and he is in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, although it is a bit of a mistake to serve as such a small part of the chief official as his Shangshu, but he is enjoying it.

However, Li Xiu shook his head a little helplessly when he heard this, he didn't expect that Wei Zheng and Yang Nong were really determined to move a government department outside Chang'an City, and it was across the river from his house, so it would be easier for Wei Zheng and Yang Nong to find him in the future.

It's a pity that Li Xiu couldn't say the above words, but Yang Nong was very enthusiastic to talk to him, and after chatting a few words of gossip, Li Xiu suddenly thought of something at this time, hesitated for a moment and finally spoke: "Yang Shangshu, with your identity, is it a little too condescending to be Wei Xima's deputy?" ”

"Haha~, there is nothing condescending or condescending, speaking of which the old man has lived so old, most of the others have already seen it, and the only thing that can't be put down is the word 'name', especially when the old man is so old, he may not be able to open his eyes one day, so I want to leave something to boast about for future generations." Yang Nong laughed out loud at this time, and when he said the end, he himself was a little emotional.

Li Xiu also fell silent after listening, the more he came into contact with Yang Nong and others, the more he could feel the importance that the ancients attached to personal reputation, especially among scholars, even if they paid a big price, they all wanted to leave something for themselves that could be passed on to future generations, such as articles, such as political achievements, and these would eventually be transformed into fame, which was something that could not be seen or touched.

Yang Nong's interest was very high, and after chatting with Li Xiu for a while, he took him to the corn field, and asked Li Xiu to help him introduce the growth of these corns.

In the next period of time, Yang Nong came to the official office of the Ministry of Agriculture almost every day to inspect, sometimes he couldn't go back at night, and he would go to Li Xiu's house for a night, which was better than Wei Zheng's old-fashioned guy, but the only bad thing about Yang Nong was that he liked to chat with Li Xiu, especially at night he would pull Li Xiu to chat until midnight, it was estimated that the old man had less sleep, but he didn't sleep Li Xiu but had to sleep, every time Li Xiu yawned for days, Yang Nong let him go back to rest.

The efficiency of the Tang Dynasty is really not covered, especially those craftsmen are all from the Ministry of Industry, not only are they skilled, but also have officials urging, so a month later, the official office of the Ministry of Agriculture has been built, and a road has been built to connect with the original official road, Wei Zheng and Yang Nong also immediately moved to work inside, although each room still has a smell of tide and lime, but no one cares, and even those resident officials have moved to the residential area behind.

The officials of the Tang Dynasty are still very generous, only worse than the Song Dynasty in later generations, so as soon as the official office of the Ministry of Agriculture was built, there were immediately smart businessmen who ran to the vicinity of the official office to do business, selling some daily necessities such as needles and threads, and even hawkers came to sell some cooked food, Hu cakes and the like, although the official office provided food, but the taste was not very good, which also led to the outside hawkers business was also good, and even a small market began to form outside the official office, which also attracted Li Zhuangzi and other nearby farmers to come to buy and sell. For a while, the market became more lively.

Li Xiu didn't expect that the establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture would bring such an unexpected joy, this kind of market he often encountered when he was a child, it is generally a fixed day in the village, there are everything sold in the market, and the surrounding ten miles and eight villages will come to catch the market, that kind of day is really nostalgic.

Li Xiu happened to be fine that day, and Qi Niang came to the market clamoringly, because there were a lot of trinkets and toys she liked in the market, Li Xiu had no choice but to agree to take her, but Qi Niang and Xiao Ya went out and ran to call Hate Er first, and after a while, not only Hate Er came, but even Ma Ye also came.

At that moment, Ma Ye and Li Xiu took Qi Niang and them to the bazaar, and the three girls chattered non-stop when they entered the bazaar, looking at this for a while, looking at that for a while, drilling around in the crowd like three little butterflies, while Li Xiu and Ma Ye were chatting while walking behind.

"This official office of the Ministry of Agriculture is really good, with a market, when farmers within a radius of ten miles want to buy something, they don't have to go to Chang'an City." Ma Ye said with a smile as he walked, although there are many villages in Princess Pingyang's territory, but for various reasons there is no market, and when I wanted to buy something in the past, I had to go all the way to Chang'an City, and life was very inconvenient.

"Yes, not only the surrounding farmers, but now my family needs some oil and salt and the like, which is really convenient." Li Xiu also said with some emotion at this time, but when it came to this, he thought of the convenient living conditions in the future, not to mention the big cities at that time, even small villages would have some small shops and even small supermarkets, and general daily necessities could be easily bought, but in the era of Datang, it was not so easy to buy things.

"By the way, there was a funny thing in the court yesterday, do you want to hear it?" Ma Ye suddenly thought of something at this time, and said to Li Xiu with a smile at the moment, looking at his appearance, it seemed that he really felt that this matter was very interesting.

"Oh? What's so funny? Li Xiu couldn't help but show an interested expression when he heard this.

"Haha~, you may not believe it, yesterday a guy actually wrote a book, saying that Empress Taimu has been dead for many years, and there has been no one in charge of the harem, so please re-establish Your Majesty, do you think it's funny?" When Ma Ye said the end, he couldn't help laughing, after all, this matter was so ridiculous.

"I'll go, is there something wrong with this guy's brain, he even dares to mention this kind of thing, doesn't he know how the dead word is written?" Li Xiu couldn't help but be shocked after hearing this.

Empress Taimu is the biological mother of Princess Pingyang and Li Shimin, and she is also Li Yuan's wife, and because of this, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin and others are all princes and have a higher priority of inheritance than other princes.

"Yes, after that guy raised this matter, not only His Majesty didn't expect it, but the ministers below didn't expect it, at that time, it was said that there was silence in the entire court, and even a needle could be heard, and then the prince and King Qin stood up together to oppose it, and then that unlucky guy was demoted to Yazhou as an official." Ma Ye laughed again at this time, it was rare for the always serious court to encounter such an interesting thing, and he also laughed for a long time before he gasped.

"Yazhou? It's really ruthless, but no matter who ascends the throne, this guy won't come back one day. Li Xiu couldn't help but show a sympathetic expression when he heard this, Yazhou was located on Hainan Island in the later generations, where in the era of the Tang Dynasty, it was still a barren land, and officials going there were even more terrible than death.

"A fool who is being used by others, he doesn't deserve sympathy at all, but behind him must be those favored Nizi in the harem who are playing ghosts, but it's a pity that these women don't know the situation, no matter how favored they are, they can't replace the position of Queen Taimu." Ma Ye couldn't help but shake his head when he said this.

Li Xiu also nodded secretly after hearing this, but at this moment, suddenly Ma Ye pointed to the market and said in surprise: "Why are your people there, and what are you kid going to do?" (To be continued.) )