The newspaper is a new thing, and it is difficult for Princess Pingyang to form a specific impression just by talking about it, so she has to wait for the real thing to be made, anyway, there are still technical problems to break through. At that time, as long as Her Royal Highness the princess saw the real thing, with her wisdom, Xue Lang only needed a little dialing, and she would be able to understand the benefits and tricks.

On the second day, the craftsmen were brought in, informed of the characteristics and technical requirements of the ink and wax paper, and handed over to the craftsmen to study, after which Xue Lang devoted himself to the work of preventing the locust plague in the coming year.

Xue Lang is responsible for the formulation of the general direction and detailed measures, and the specific implementation is that Fang Xuanling, Cheng Zhijie, and Wei Chigong are two generals, Xue Lang is not involved in details, but he is not busy, except for the first few days, most of the time is in the house, when Fang Xuanling has any problems, he will make people come to the door to ask for advice.

The court is secretly busy, and the various prefectures in Beijing seem to be calm, but in fact, the Zhuangzi stewards of the various prefectures have been frequently summoned into the capital recently. The locust plague is about food, food and clothing, and human life is at stake, so everyone can't help but pay no attention to it, but everyone knows the priority and knows the panic that may be caused if the matter leaks, and they all have issued strict orders. I know that I am secretive, and I don't know that I am ignorant, but I feel that there are fewer people walking around Beijing, and there are many fewer banquet invitations with various names in the past.

After more than a month of busy work, Du Yan's letter directly pushed Xue Lang to the forefront. It all started with the drought!

After Xue Lang reported that there might be a locust plague in the coming year, he said that there will be locusts after a long drought. Li Er took Du Yan as the imperial history of the inspection, inspected the Guanzhong and the Central Plains, inspected the drought situation, and secretly took people with him, as long as there was a drought, he asked people to dig up soil blocks to inspect and see the number of insect eggs contained in the soil, so as to predict whether locust plagues would occur in the coming year.

After going out for more than a month, Du Yan has not returned, but the 800-mile expedited sparse performance has caused people to be sent to Beijing. The drought has spread to a wide range, including the entire territory of Guanzhong, parts of Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, and Shandong, as well as northern Jiangsu. However, if it is serious, Guanzhong is the most. Du Yan said in the recital that except for the situation of selling children and daughters in Guanzhong, the rest of the areas are stable and the situation is quite stable.

The root of it is because Xue Langjin has contributed to the sweet potato. In the drought-stricken areas of Shanxi, Henan, Hebei and Shandong, there were few paddy fields and many dry lands, and the imperial court vigorously advocated the promotion of sweet potatoes and potatoes in the past few years. Especially in these places, after years of military disasters, the population is withering, the labor force is insufficient, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other crops with high yields, it is extremely easy to promote in these places, even if the family is full of female dependents, planting several acres of fields, the sweet potatoes and potatoes produced in a year are enough for a family to be satisfied.

And these places are adjacent to the reed pass, and the alien plough is from the reed pass began to flow out and promote, these neighboring places, the alien plow is very popular, greatly reducing the cost of labor, two by two, in the year of drought, there is no situation of selling children, and there is no starvation to death.

In northern Jiangsu, because of the promotion of Champa rice and the planting of sweet potatoes and potatoes, there is still surplus grain after the drought. Therefore, although the weather was dry, it did not become a disaster, and the common people were able to live a life, and they did not encounter the tragic image of drought at all.

On the contrary, in Guanzhong, the grain producing area over the years, the cultivation of sweet potatoes and potatoes is less, and the fields have a variety of grains.

On the Lizheng Palace, Li Er looked at the sparse music and was silent, and the ministers of the political hall had already seen Du Yan's sparse performance before, and when they saw that Xiao Li Shengren was silent, they were all silent, looking at their noses and noses.

Li Er stared at Shu Yue for a while before he spoke: "Xuan Xue Lang has entered the palace." ”

"Whoa."

The chamberlain galloped away. Li Er asked: "I remember that a few years ago, the imperial court has been vigorously advocating the promotion of sweet potatoes and potatoes, why has it been implemented elsewhere, but Guanzhong has not done it?" ”

Fang Xuanling said: "Your Majesty, the promotion of sweet potatoes and potatoes was originally the responsibility of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Nong. Pei Gong, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, died of illness, and the post of Shangshu was taken over by Wang Xian, the left attendant of the former Ministry of Civil Affairs. ”

"Pass him to court."

"Whoa."

Xue Lang came from outside the palace, and Wang Xian entered the palace from the inner city, so he naturally arrived earlier than Xue Lang. Wang Xian entered the hall, and as soon as he finished saluting, Li Er showed Du Yan's sparse performance to him, and after he finished reading, he asked: "The promotion of sweet potatoes and potatoes, I remember that the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Sinong are responsible for it, why hasn't Guanzhong done a good job?" ”

Wang Xian's mind was racing, and he said respectfully: "Back to Your Majesty, the promotion of sweet potatoes and potatoes was originally in charge of Xue Lang, who was the right attendant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs at that time, and the ministers did not intervene, so I don't know the details." ”

Li Er looked at him and didn't speak. The eldest grandson Wuji, Du Ruhui, etc., looked at him vaguely and didn't say anything. Li Er said again: "Since you have taken over the post of secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, don't you know anything about the affairs before taking over?" Xue Lang resigned, the person who handled it at the beginning, what about the documents left at that time? ”

Wang Xian looked embarrassed and muttered, "Paperwork...... The minister has just taken over, and he has not yet had time to read it, and as for the person who handles it, ......"

Wang Xian was speechless, did he dare to tell the sage that the people appointed by Xue Lang at that time were all idle or belittled by him under various names, and no one was in charge. Do you dare to tell the saint that since the death of the original Shangshu Pei Ju, after he took over temporarily, the most devoted thing he has done is to fight against dissidents!

Li Er's face sank like water, stared at Wang Xian, and scolded: "You have taken over the post of secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs for several months, why do you know nothing about the affairs of the Yanei?" I remember that after Youyang was appointed by his father as the right attendant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he had a complete grasp of the affairs of the Ya in less than a month, and all kinds of situations were known as soon as he asked! Youyang's previous officer was Sister Pingyang, and her entry into the Ministry of Civil Affairs was transferred, and she didn't know anything about the Ministry of Civil Affairs before. And you, who have been serving in the Ministry of Civil Affairs for several years, why are you not as good as Youyang January? A few years is not as good as a month, so it can be seen that you are not careful! ”

"Your Majesty is angry, and the minister will go back and immediately make up for his homework!"

Wang Xian was so frightened that he sweated like rain, and immediately knelt down to plead guilty. Li Er was about to continue to reproach him, and the palace people came to report: "Your Majesty, Xue Fuma has arrived!" ”

Wang Xian naturally heard it, and his body immediately stiffened. Li Er glanced at him coldly and said, "Xuan come in." ”

Xue Lang came in and saluted first: "Minister Xue Lang greets Your Majesty, Your Majesty is safe." ”

Li Er said: "Youyang is free of courtesy, flat body." ”

Xue Lang straightened up, and when he saw Wang Xian kneeling, he couldn't help but be stunned-

Pei Ju's funeral, he also went to attend. Pei Ju treated him very well, Pei Yunzhao had a lot of friendship with him, Pei Gong died, he should go.

is also a person from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Wang Xian is naturally there. At that time, Wang Xian was the acting secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and he was a candidate for the secretary with the right qualifications and voices in the ya, and when he met Xue Lang, he was almost looking at him with his nostrils, and his contempt was clear at a glance.

Now seeing Wang Xian kneeling, to tell the truth, Xue Lang was a little happy. Anyway, it is impossible for the two to be friends, and if the enemy is not happy, then what else is there to be happy in life!

Xue Lang was happy, Wang Xian naturally couldn't be happy, but this was in front of Xiao Li Sage and the ministers, Wang Xian couldn't do anything, he could only grit his teeth secretly, hoping that Xiao Li Sage could let him go.

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Relatives in the family died of illness, according to the etiquette of Dali, relatives have to accompany the vigil, 1st night vigil, stay up all night. I came back on the 2nd, and I wanted to say that I would sleep and get up to renew, but it turned out that I was old, and I slept from nine o'clock to twelve o'clock this morning。。。。。 Today's three more make up!