Xue Lang's mind was racing, and he hurriedly bowed his head and saluted: "I have seen Your Highness."

Princess Pingyang said: "Youyang doesn't need to be polite. Come, I will introduce you to you, this is my Erlang, the king of Qin. Shimin, this is my arm, Xue Lang, Xue Youyang. ”

Sure enough, it's Li Shimin! His Majesty Taizong in the future, Li Erfeng, the first emperor of the ages!

Xue Lang bent down and clasped his fists and saluted: "Xue Lang has seen King Qin, King Wanfu." ”

Li Shimin stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Lord Xue doesn't need to be polite. After seeing the power of the bed crossbow sent by my sister, I looked forward to seeing Lord Xue's thin side, and now that I see it, it is better to meet if I am really famous. ”

Xue Lang hurriedly said modestly: "The king has won the award." Xue Lang is just a returned wanderer, fortunately rescued by Her Royal Highness the Princess, picked up his life, and saved himself from the wilderness of violent corpses. Her Royal Highness Princess Meng did not give up, and it was Xue Lang's luck that she took a fancy to Xue Lang's meager knowledge. ”

King Qin smiled and said, "Lord Xue is too weak. ”

Xue Lang was still about to be modest, and Princess Pingyang had already interrupted with a faint smile: "That's it, you two don't need to be polite, Youyang is busy outside for a day, sit down and rest for a while." ”

King Qin also smiled and said: "Look at me, I have been talking to Xue Zhubo, and I forgot to let Xue Zhubo sit down, sit quickly." ”

"Wow. Thank you, Your Highness, King Qin. ”

Xue Lang went to his seat and sat down. Her Royal Highness the princess said: "Some time ago, Youyang once said to me that in the battle of Lishui, Erlang and Liu Thief have won and lost, and the day of victory is not far away. The war is really as Youyang said, and now Erlang will return to the court, and he will come to see me. ”

Xue Lang understood in seconds, which meant that this was just a private meeting between people close to him, no wonder there were only these few people. Li Shimin said: "Although the war was won, it is a pity that the thief Liu Heimin was not caught, and let the thief Liu flee to the Turks, which is really a pity." ”

Xue Lang looked at Princess Pingyang, then at Li Shimin, pondered for a moment, hugged his fists and said: "Dare to ask King Qin, can you be sure that Liu Heimin really fled to the Turks?" ”

Li Shimin said: "I sent people to pursue that guy for hundreds of miles, and it is already certain that this thief fled to the Turks. ”

Xue Lang said: "If you really flee to the Turks, I am afraid that there will be war in the coming year." ”

Li Shimin hurriedly asked: "Why did Master Xue Bo say this?" ”

Princess Pingyang interjected: "Erlang, you don't know if you are leading the troops, when Youyang returned to China, he passed through the territory of the Turks, and looked at the situation of the Turks, but I was afraid that there would be a famine in the coming year. ”

Li Shimin looked at Xue Lang with a solemn expression: "Is this true?" ”

Xue Lang said: "Back to the king, Xue Lang is eighty percent sure of this judgment. ”

Li Shimin's thick black sword eyebrows immediately wrinkled, and said: "Liu Heimin has a lot of friendship with the Turkic tribes, at that time, I am afraid that the Turks will be led south, plus famine, I am afraid that there will be more Turks coming, and the pressure on the border army will increase greatly." Sister Ah is stationed at such a critical pass as Wei Ze Pass, can she ask the saint for help? ”

Princess Pingyang said: "Not yet." Just to ask the sage to go to the tuntian, and after the spring ploughing is over, he will step up the training. Erlang, you are Shang Shuling, and the Youzhou Salt Supervisor is under your jurisdiction, can you increase the supply of salt by 20% to my Wei Zeguan? ”

Li Shimin said happily: "Yes! After my brother goes back, he will send a handwritten letter, which is only two percent, and it is okay. It's just, sister, is two percent enough? ”

Princess Pingyang said: "My garrison is the main guard, and the most important thing to train is infantry, not cavalry, two percent is enough." ”

Li Shimin said happily: "That's good, my brother will do it for Sister Ah as soon as he goes back." ”

The sister and brother said in two or three sentences, obviously the relationship is really good.

Princess Pingyang turned her head and asked Xue Lang: "Youyang, how is the preparation for the construction of the farm?" ”

He did not shy away from asking this question, and it seemed that he trusted Li Shimin completely. Xue Lang said: "Back to Your Highness, because it is spring ploughing, it is difficult to recruit workers." Therefore, only the people of the camp can do it themselves in their spare time, and only build a pig house at present, and are rebuilding the reed swing, and when the reed swing is rebuilt, they will start to build a chicken coop and duck house, and when the time comes, the spring ploughing should have ended, and you can ask someone to open a short ditch. ”

Princess Pingyang said: "It seems that the progress is gratifying, how much progress is left?" ”

Xue Lang patted his head and said, "It's not easy to talk about the air, my subordinates have drawn the overall planning map, so let people get it." ”

"Hurry up."

Xue Lang asked Miss Twilight to send someone out to send a message to the waiting Changjian, and asked him to bring the plan hanging on the wall of the outer study.

When Duxue went out to spread the word, Li Shimin interjected: "Sister wants to build a Zhuangzi?" ”

Princess Pingyang did not shy away from him: "In order to deal with the situation of the Turks next year, Youyang taught me a method of military training, which can be used to train elite soldiers. However, this method is quite expensive, so Youyang suggested that I prepare a farm for the garrison, which is currently being urgently prepared. ”

Li Shimin was puzzled: "Farm? ”

Princess Pingyang said: "Exactly." Youyang's method of training soldiers, the physical consumption of soldiers is extremely high, and the food must be good, otherwise it may hurt the soldiers at all. Youyang's proposal to establish a farm specializing in growing vegetables and raising chickens, pigs, ducks, geese and fish can just make up for this concern. Youyang's farm is very ingeniously conceived, and with Youyang's style of doing things, Erlang can understand it when the planning map arrives. ”

"Plans?"

Li Shimin is very good at grasping the key points. Princess Pingyang said with a pleasant expression: "Young Yang Ji is good at the method of charts, some extremely complex things, often can be explained in a picture, which is both simple and clear, and can be summarized completely. ”

Li Shimin showed an interested look: "In this way, I have to take a look." ”

After a while, Changjian brought the picture, Duxue came in, Xue Lang stood up and took it, and spread it out on the ground, the largest one was a simple drawing of the entire farm after it was completed, and there were some small drawings, which were the style drawings of each building, such as what kind of pig house to build, what kind of duck house to build, and the style of the stone trough where earthworms were raised.

Xue Lang pointed to the picture and explained them one by one, which ones have been covered, which ones have not been covered, which ones need to be covered first, and which ones can be covered later.

Xue Lang said: "After the completion of the farm, it will be a comprehensive farm based on earthworm breeding and vegetable planting, such as fat pig production area, poultry egg production area, fishery production area, etc., the farmland is ready-made, and vegetables have been planted." The stone trough has also been completed, and I asked Wanfu to spread the word everywhere in the nearby villages, buying earthworms for two pennies and a catty. At present, children in nearby villages are digging earthworms, and they hope to buy enough earthworms soon. ”

The pig house is built slightly higher from the ground, and the stone trough for breeding earthworms is placed under the pig house, and the pig manure can be swept directly into the stone trough for earthworm breeding placed on the lower floor. Chicken coops, duck coops, goose coops, etc., are built at the water's edge, and the feces are discharged directly into the water and can be fed to fish.

Grown earthworms, leftover fish bones eaten by the garrison, leftover vegetables, etc., can be used and used as pig feed. It can raise a fat pig in up to half a year, which greatly shortens the time spent on fattening.

Xue Lang said: "When I asked people to purchase this livestock cub, they used stepped procurement, suckling pigs, young pigs, semi-finished pigs and sows used to breed suckling pigs, etc., all purchased some, which can be used for this year's training as soon as possible." Chickens, ducks, and geese are also purchased in a similar way, and at most half a month, they should be able to eat the eggs produced on the farm. ”