In fact, this county is located in the middle of the two branches of Zhongnan Mountain, which happens to be a fertile plain, and the whole county is flat in addition to the border mountains, and the land is very fertile, coupled with the influence of the mountains, so that the rain here is abundant, and it has always been a large grain-producing county around Chang'an. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It's a pity that this year has just started spring, a smallpox hit here, the entire county border has been blocked, no one is allowed to enter or leave, the people in the county are also in danger, and now it is the spring ploughing season, so the cultivation in the county must have been affected a lot.

"Get out of the way, this official is Langzhong of the Ministry of Agriculture, who is ordered to promote high-yield crops, who dares to stop it?" At a checkpoint on the border of Qingtian County, a gray-haired official was angrily reprimanding the soldiers who stopped him.

"Yang Gong, it's not that we stop you, but Your Majesty has a will, and no one is allowed to enter the territory of Qingtian County without Your Majesty's consent, so don't be embarrassed!" At this time, I saw that the guard of this checkpoint explained helplessly to the white-haired official in front of him.

This white-haired old official is Yang Nong, and the generals guarding the checkpoint already know him, because this old man ran here for three days and two ends, and asked to enter Qingtian County, saying that he wanted to inspect the farmland, but now smallpox is breaking out in Qingtian County, where do the generals who guard the checkpoint dare to let go, so every time he can only try to persuade him to go back, but this old man's temper is stubborn, and the result is that every time it makes the generals here very difficult.

"You have a will, the old man also has a will, and you don't have to worry about the safety of the old man, even if he catches smallpox after entering, the old man will not let His Majesty blame anyone!" Yang Nong is not such an easy person to convince, in fact, every time he came before, he had to spend the night before going back.

"Yang Gong, don't embarrass us!" The leader of the general said with a wry smile, he didn't dare to offend this Yang Langzhong, although his current official position is the Ministry of Agriculture Langzhong, the grade is a high-ranking official of the third grade, even His Majesty has to be polite to him, plus the old man is so old, he is also afraid that Yang Nong will have an accident here, and he will not be able to afford this responsibility at that time, so he doesn't even dare to say a heavy word.

"How can the old man have time to embarrass you, Qingtian County is the place where our Ministry of Agriculture promotes corn and sweet potatoes, nearly half of the land in the entire county is planted with corn and sweet potatoes, originally our Ministry of Agriculture should have sent officials to be stationed there, but now you put the county boundary, our officials from the Ministry of Agriculture can't go if they want to, and we don't know anything about the growth of crops, if these crops are destroyed, then it will be a waste of a year to promote high-yield crops!" Yang Nong said with a sad face at this time.

It is also the Ministry of Agriculture's bad luck, after the sweet potato and corn harvest in the first half of last year, the second half of the year was first promoted in Xinzhu County, and then began to be promoted in Qingtian County next to it this year.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the county order of Qingtian County is also very cooperative with this matter, because he saw the grain output of Xinzhu County last year, and found that the cultivated land in Xinzhu County is obviously less than them, and most of them are only in the middle field or even under the field, and the number of real fertile fields is not much, but the grain output of the entire Xinzhu County is several times higher than theirs, and most of the increase is the yield of sweet potatoes and corn, which also makes him very red-eyed, so after hearing that the Ministry of Agriculture intends to promote high-yield crops in Qingtian County, he also tried his best to cooperate, for fear of being snatched away by others who took this good opportunity.

"Food is important, but human life is also important, now that smallpox is so bad, Yang Gong, if you get sick when you go in, you won't be able to afford this responsibility!" The defender once again weakly refused.

"The old man doesn't need you to take this responsibility, and the horse has found a way to restrain smallpox, and now the smallpox in Qingtian County should have been controlled, as long as the old man and the others are careful, they won't get any smallpox, and we won't come out again after we go in, so even if we are infected with smallpox, it won't spread out!" In order to promote high-yield crops, the old man Yang Nong almost risked his life, so he didn't care about the danger at all.

Seeing the resolute appearance of the old man, the general guarding the checkpoint was also speechless for a while, and then he figured it out, he was simply too stupid, as a military general, he actually wanted to reason with a civil official, and he was a stubborn old man, this is not stupid, if he can really say that Yang Nong, then what else is he to do, just take off his armor and become a civil official, it must be more promising than now.

Thinking of this, the general guarding the pass finally had a feeling of epiphany, and then simply kept silent with a cold face, anyway, no matter what Yang Nong said, he just wouldn't let him go, and broke through? It's just a joke, Yang Nong and the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture behind him are all scholars, and ten of them can't beat one of them.

Seeing that the generals guarding the pass ignored him, Yang Nong was also angry and anxious, but there was no way, at this time, Yang Dui, who followed behind, finally stepped forward and persuaded: "Uncle, look like this, we will definitely not be able to enter, I think it is better to go to the horse first, and then let the horse arrange for us to plant cowpox, so that it will be safer to enter Qingtian County again!" ”

"You think I don't want to look for it, but the military camp where the horse is located belongs to a forbidden place, no one is allowed to approach, I sent someone to pass the news a few times but couldn't find anyone, and now we can't go back to Chang'an, not even to see Your Majesty, otherwise I wouldn't have run here every day to make trouble!" Yang Nong said angrily at this time.

After the smallpox outbreak, Chang'an was also under martial law, except for special people like Li Xiu, other people were strictly forbidden to enter and exit, even Yang Nong's officials, it just so happened that they were all in the Yamen of the Ministry of Agriculture outside the city at the time, so that they could not see Li Shimin, and they could not find Li Xiu, after all, Li Xiu's previous military camp was very important, all the cowpox powder was produced there, and no one was allowed to approach, in case any accidents happened.

"Now the situation is special, the horse is in danger of the world, it is indeed a little difficult to see him, but the responsibilities of our Ministry of Agriculture are also very important, and now the matter of planting cowpox has begun, I estimate that it will soon be the turn of our Ministry of Agriculture, so don't be too anxious, uncle." Yang Dui spoke again at this time.

"How can I not be in a hurry, after the New Year, I asked people to send corn seeds and sweet potato seedlings to Qingtian County, and smallpox broke out before they were planted, which is half of our output last year, if this batch of seeds and seedlings is lost, then we will be busy last year!" Yang Nong said with a sad face at this time, and after finishing speaking, he also looked at Qingtian County in the distance with worry.