"Sugar!" Li Wei just came back from running, and saw Li Lingyue stretching out her chubby little hand, standing in front of him, stretching out her hand to beg for toffee.

He looked at the sun and asked, "Why don't you go to school?" ”

"Big brother, you lied to me, the Jitian Festival is not fun at all." Following Li Wei's homeland, the beginning was still good, the people on the street cheered, and after arriving at the altar of the homeland, the ministers put their positions and offered sacrifices, and it was a fresh environment, walking around curiously.

The next morning, I still felt good, and it was music and dance. Then I started plowing the field, you pushed a few times, I pushed a few times, and I got bored and wanted to go back. How can I go back at this time? Even if it's Wu Zetian and Li Zhi's baby bumps, it can't work.

Bi'er came over and coaxed her. It's okay to stay, let's talk about "Journey to the West", Bi'er was dumbfounded, stood for a long time, and held back two small stories, which were just folk rumors that I heard before I entered the palace when I was a child. After coaxing it, he made an evaluation after listening to it, pointed to Bi'er's head and said, "You really don't know how to tell stories." It's boring. ”

If it's boring, it's boring, no matter how you say it, it's not as exciting as "Journey to the West". The little girl made Li Weisheng raise his appetite. Not only did he not sleep in his own dormitory for Bi'er, but he also forced his subordinates to tell stories, which pitifully broke the heads of a group of eunuchs. Some eunuchs run out of the palace and spend money to buy rumors, as long as it is interesting, tell it to so-and-so, and so-and-so reward you with money. It's funny, but the community treats it as a good thing. Filial piety to parents, benevolence to the people, and love for younger brothers and sisters is the true embodiment of perfection.

Li Wei said: "I didn't tell you, it's the right thing, what's so funny, and when did I lie to you?" ”

"I just don't want to go to school." Although she is now beginning to develop dependence on Li Wei and has a tendency to be a tail, the original impression left by Li Hong on her is too bad, and Li Wei still has no authority to speak.

"Good, obedient, isn't that so, I'll tell you a story, and then how about you go to school?"

Li Lingyue raised her head, tilted her head, thought for a while, and said, "If it sounds good, I won't go to school if it doesn't sound good." ”

"Okay, listen up," tells a story about "The Little Match Girl", but changed it to a little girl who sells tongues.

"It's so pitiful."

"Yes, you are a princess, and there are so many great Confucians who give you lectures, but the children of poor families have no chance to study if they want to."

This is a fact, the Tang Dynasty still attached great importance to education, such as the Guozi Supervision School reached more than 1,000, the normal number of students was 3,44,500, and sometimes the number of people who raised the feast reached 89,000. In addition, schools have been established in various counties and counties. However, because of Wanghua, it was forbidden for the people to set up private schools, but Confucian students could study at home, especially some big families, all hired Confucians, or their own families had Confucianism, to educate their disciples.

Although this prohibition is not very good, the scale of education is much more prosperous than that of previous dynasties. But there are still very few poor people who can actually go to school. The cost of pen is high, the cost of paper is high, the cost of ink is high, and it is unaffordable to read. It is that some families can still get by, when children go to school, they use sticks to practice calligraphy on the sand, but they are reluctant to use real pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Dai Zhide, Zhang Wenjun, and Li Jingxuan came over and invited Li Wei to the banquet, just when they heard this paragraph, they glanced at each other and nodded appreciatively. Although it is a story, it is entertaining and educational, and has a positive meaning.

"Well, I'm going to school."

"This is my obedient good sister," Li Wei said, took Li Lingyue's hand, and walked towards the Hongwen Pavilion.

Li Jingxuan was about to shout, but was stopped by Dai Zhide with a gesture.

The three of them watched like this, watching the two voices and shadows, one tall and one short, gradually disappear into the morning light, and they were silent for a long time.

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The feast has begun!

In addition to the various officials who stayed in Chang'an, there were also respected seniors who were also invited to Xilao to drink. Of course, a bachelor like Wei Yuanzhong is still not qualified to be included in it.

There is also a guest, who was deliberately invited by Li Hong, Liang Jinzhu, a native of Chang'an, who is a businessman. Not long ago, 3,000 yuan was given to help the victims and the poor. The number of 3,000 is not large, but it can be turned into copper coins, a whole three million. A few years before the Tang Dynasty, when the year was good, the wind and rain were good, a bucket of rice was only sold for five yuan, and the various taxes were added up and converted into copper coins, which was only about 10 million yuan.

The guest sat down, and when this Liang Jinzhu was introduced, Li Wei gave a big gift.

Poor Liang Jinzhu is just a merchant, a farmer, a businessman, a businessman is the lowest class in this society, at most a little better than prostitutes, beggars, and slaves. The truth does not necessarily be the same thing, there is money and power, and huge money can also build a network of relationships. However, speaking of which, the status of businessmen is still very low, and even their children do not have the opportunity to enter the academic examination to become officials.

hurriedly said: "Prince, you are a servant of torture." ”

"Liang Jinzhu, I said a few days ago before I was in Dongshi that the country has been in a bad situation in the past few years, and there have been great disasters. The treasury is empty, and the people are in dire straits. At this time, we need everyone to work together to overcome this difficulty. Therefore, on that day, Lone deliberately praised the trick of the Qinglou. Your good deeds are so good that you deserve to be worshiped alone. ”

"Subjects, subjects," at this time, he probably drank a lot of porridge, and his tear ducts were particularly developed, and Liang Jinzhu lay on the ground and couldn't cry anymore.

Li Wei thought to himself, just thank you, don't be so moved.

Indeed, it is not easy for Liang Jinzhu to do this. After the dogmatic oppression of industry and commerce by the Eastern Han Dynasty, the story of Sanghong sheep in the Western Han Dynasty is no longer imaginable. Even if you donate all your family property, you don't want to find an official position or a knighthood. And the amount of 3,000 yuan is also very huge. You must know that Yipin Jingguan only has 700 stone meters of Lu rice. Of course, there are also Yongye fields, job fields, and sub-party fields, as well as subsidies such as monthly salaries, food, and miscellaneous money. The maximum amount of money will not exceed 1,000 yuan per month. In fact, some Beijing officials could not afford to buy a house because of the small subsidy, and they all lived in monasteries.

took out a handkerchief and wiped Liang Jinzhu's tears.

It's okay not to wipe it, but when I wipe this teardrop, it will be bigger, and it will be light to moderate rain, but now it has become a downpour.

Li Wei had no choice but to let him go, handed the handkerchief to Bi'er to deal with, turned his head to look at everyone and said, "Spring plowing is about to begin, and the drought may not get better." At this time, we should all be in the same boat, have things to do, and make a strong contribution, just like this Liang Jinzhu, then there is no hurdle in the world that cannot be overcome! ”

"Good!" Applause.

Li Wei nodded, and the official came up to sing Lao Yi. The palace maids and eunuchs in the East Palace, the tea and snacks that were served. In fact, including the big feast, everything has been frugal.

Everyone should be happy to sit down and talk, originally everything was thrifty, time was pressing, many systems were too late to operate, and the sacrificial ceremony was very disrespectful. But the appearance of a new plough obscured everything.

But after a while, strife arose.

After the Jida festival passed, a larger-scale big pheasant festival began.

The field sacrifice is just a sacrifice for spring ploughing, but at the moment the key is to ask for rain, even if it is like the heavy rain some time ago, it is not enough to come ten times or eight times. And you can't use the urgency of time as an excuse to rush it. Therefore, officials such as Langzhong of the Ministry of Rites and Yuanwailang listed them one by one, but the officials of the Ministry of Household did not agree.

Originally, the degree of use was insufficient, the drought was serious, Guanzhong was short of grain, Weishui was shallow, the grain in Jiangnan and other places could not be transferred in time, and the grain in Guanzhong was soaring, and in the past few years, the lowest price was five cents per bucket of rice, and a big bucket was still used. Now a bucket has risen to more than 50 yuan, but it is a small bucket. It is impossible for every businessman to be like Liang Jinzhu. Otherwise, since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the status of merchants would not have been degraded so low.

This made the imperial court more nervous. Dafeichuan and Tuyuhun were lost, and they had to send additional soldiers to Longyou to garrison and guard the safety of Guanzhong. The imperial court had tuntian in the frontier, and the garrison increased, and the self-sufficiency was insufficient, and it had to mobilize food.

These soldiers, it is their credit for winning the battle. If the battle is lost, it will immediately shirk its responsibility, and when the time comes, because of the lack of logistical supply, the household department will not be able to escape the responsibility if they want to.

The two sides of the government argued.

Li Wei frowned and asked Dai Zhide, "Why don't you set up a permanent position?" ”

Five cents per big bucket of rice is not necessarily a good thing, and the people's income is invisibly reduced. But in the famine year, it became more than 50 yuan, which is still a small bucket, and the gap is too big.

"Prince, the imperial court has set up a permanent position, and in the second year of Taizong Zhenguan, he issued an edict to all states and counties to set up righteous warehouses, and each mu was stored in two liters, and the people were given relief in the fierce year. In the thirteenth year, the states of Zhaoluo Xiangyou closed their positions as usual. When His Majesty arrived, he closed the position again in the east and west cities of Kyoto, and established the Standing Peace Bureau. ”

This is a very unpopular institution, so Dai Zhide patiently explained.

"Then why ......?"

"Your Highness, it's small. The goal of closing positions is to prepare for the murderous year, as in recent years, there are very few major murders. If there is a bumper harvest year after year, the new grain enters the regular liquidation and becomes the old grain. There will be attrition. Some officials spread these losses on the people's heads for the sake of merit evaluation, and even compete with the people for profit. Some officials used the grain in the regular liquidation to sell it privately for profit in the fierce year, and the loss in the good year was subsidized by the imperial court. The court was empty, but the people were not powerful. Therefore, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was often abolished and often closed positions. After arriving in this dynasty, although Taizong and His Majesty attached great importance to the fierce year, they were forced to have no choice but to set up a small scale of permanent liquidation. In the past few years, there have been many fierce years, and the grain in the regular liquidation can no longer solve the crisis. ”

I see, it was a vivid political lesson. It's not a matter of taking things for granted, it's one thing to think about it, it's another thing to operate.

He sighed and said, "In the end, the yield is still low." ”

"Your Highness, the yield is not low, the yield per mu in the Han Dynasty was only one stone, and the high yield was only one and a half stones. But in this dynasty, the yield per mu was between one and a half stones and two stones. Some of the high-yielding ones can come down in two seasons and receive five stones. ”

Speaking of which, he was proud.

But Li Wei took it as the wind in his ears, two stones, how many can there be, I really don't know, the current unit of measurement is different from that of later generations, the ruler is smaller than the ruler of later generations, and the jin is not as good as the later jin, but once weighed it, a bucket of rice is about a dozen catties, and a stone is about a hundred catties out of the nod. It is estimated that the farmers of later generations will scatter some seeds on the ground casually, and in just one season, they will harvest more than two stones, not to mention the high-yield fields with a yield of 1,000 kilograms per mu. In this era, nineteen stones per acre of land is estimated to scare cheap parents and parents.

There is a seed problem in the middle, but the hybridization technology is not as simple as kneading two grain pollen together, and the insects and the wind are not blowing the pollen around, nor are they blowing out a ten-stone field. And then there's fertilizer. Neither of these is realistic.

But there is a comparison, in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, China's population was 400 million, and now the population is less than 30 million, if you include the fugitives and Hu Fan, at most 30 million people. The Qing Dynasty also did not have chemical fertilizer and hybrid technology, why could it feed so many people?

Looks like we'll have to go back to the countryside that day. The right is to do something good for the people.

Since he thought of seeds, he thought of that Hu Shang again, and now many grains, fruits and vegetables in Chang'an in later generations cannot be seen. Since that Hu Shang can bring foreign girls, there must be many places to go, and if he gives some rewards, he may be able to bring some useful new seeds. At least now it is not as difficult as Zhang Qian of the Western Han Dynasty.

Thinking of this, he secretly hooked his hand at Bi'er, who was standing behind him, and the two walked out one after the other.

"Prince, what's the matter with calling the slave and maid out?"

"Do you remember the other day, we went to the East Market together?"

"A slave is unforgettable." A look of excitement flashed in Bi'er's eyes.

"Well, I listened to too many words of gratitude in the main hall just now. Don't be a lonely. It's another thing for me to call you here, do you remember that Hu merchant in that Li Ji Wine Shop? ”

"That's a poop." Bi'er took a sip. On that day, Hu Shang and a few other people sat at their table, talked a lot of filthy words, and all wanted to go to the Tang Dynasty to play with the Rakshasa girl of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

"A person has a good side and a bad side. They're all rough people, and they can't care about some aspects anymore. Gu called you over, just to let you inform Liu Qun and let her find this Hu Shang, and Gu had something to discuss with him. ”

"Prince, this is not good." The play performed in the hall just now is indeed for the sake of helping the people, but if you make an appointment with a businessman or a Hu businessman privately, if it spreads, the reputation will not be good.

"This matter can benefit our Datang. It doesn't matter if you tarnish your reputation, besides, Gu's reputation is too heavy now, so let's tarnish a little bit," Li Wei said.

Not only to see if you can get new crop seeds, but also to get some information about the big food from this Hu Shang's mouth. It is also a preparation for a possible run away in the future.

I don't want to run away again, I guess knowing his thoughts, there will be half of the people in the hall who can make him faint.

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