[I'm sorry, I'm a little late, I'm a little late]

When my sister returned to the door, she brought her nominal nephew and niece. Now, Wang Yan has an excuse to ask for leave.

"From Kaifeng to Baima County, it only takes half a day to fast horses, and if you go now, you can see Yukun at night."

Wang Anshi thought for a while, nodded, and instructed: "You have to go back to the house first, and then go out of the city." ”

"Of course the child understands this!"

The situation was urgent and could not be delayed, so Wang Yan immediately resigned from his father and turned around to leave Zhongshu and go home.

The invention of his sister-in-law has to be learned from outsiders, and Wang Yan can't help but regret it in his heart. Knowing that Han Gang had a lot of inventions, he should have written to ask a few days ago, but now he has handed over the recitals of the opening of the estuary and the ice boat, and has managed to get the permission of the Son of Heaven, which has made him very embarrassed. In addition, I blamed Han Gang for not mentioning it when he chatted in the past, otherwise he wouldn't be in a hurry now.

In the case of heavy snow and road closure in winter, the vehicles that can still be transported on the road have not been taken out to ask for credit. I don't know if it's because I simply forgot, or because Han Gang had a backlog of credit, but he didn't get a reward, so his mind faded.

Land travel car, water line by boat, mud line sled, mountain line by bar, when Yu controls the water, all kinds of cars used when stepping through thousands of mountains and rivers, is determined by the terrain. The swamp is soft, the carriage and horses are easy to trap, and the snow is also average, so it is called a sled. The name Han Gang gave to his invention can be justified by looking at the text.

The carriage driving on the snow has practical experience in use, how can Wang Yan sit still. If the sleigh car can really come in handy in the Bianhe River, the ice boat designed by Hou Shuxian in front of him does not need to be taken out for adventure - that kind of thing, just a dead horse as a live horse doctor, just look at it and know that the road will not be too useful

'No! Wang Yan thought for a moment...... "It's very useful!" ’

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After more than half a year, Wang Yi returned home, as well as Han Gang's three concubines and a son and a daughter.

Looking at the mansion that should be very familiar, but for some reason it has become unfamiliar, Wang Yi's steps became slow. After getting married, it was the husband's family, and the years spent here as a girl are still fresh in my memory, but they seem to be decades away.

Han Yunniang, who was behind her, was a little timid when she entered the Prime Minister's Mansion like Su Xin. Keep your head down, follow the steps, and don't dare to be a little confused. They are Han Gang's concubines, and ordinary officials have nothing to fear. But when it was the turn of the high-ranking prime minister, the name that could only be heard in legends, was to feel a sense of emptiness.

However, Zhou Nan saw many high-ranking officials and nobles in the Teaching Department back then, and his expression was calm as usual. But among the three daughters, Zhou Nan didn't want to come to Tokyo City the least. Except for Han Gang, the memories left to her in Tokyo City are not much worth remembering.

The Prime Minister's Mansion was very large, and after passing through several doors in succession, I finally arrived in front of the flower hall in the backyard.

Wu was in a hurry to stand at the door of the hall, waiting with his two daughters-in-law, only hating that the house was too big for her to see her daughter for the first time. Finally, when the daughter in the scarlet cloak bypassed the wall, and without waiting for her to salute, she pulled her over and hugged her, screaming in her heart.

was held in her mother's arms, and Wang Yi couldn't help the tears in her eyes. It was only then that the feeling of the past came back to my heart. The mother and daughter hugged their heads and cried for a while, and then met Wang Yan's wife Xiao Shi and Wang's wife Pang Zi, Wang Yi then gave up and introduced Yun Niang and them to Wu and the two sisters-in-law.

The Wu family does not have a sense of hostility towards the concubine of his son-in-law, but it is impossible to get close. After saying a few words very lightly, he asked the subordinates to take them down to rest. However, Han Gang's pair of children inherited the appearance of their parents, and they looked very likable, and the Wu family hugged them for a while when they saw them, and they also thought that it would be better if they were their own grandsons and granddaughters.

Waiting for the two daughters-in-law to find an excuse to leave, Wu took hands and sat down with his daughter. asked how she was doing at her husband's house, how her aunt treated her, and whether she was used to the water and soil in Kansai. I heard that I was doing well in Longxi, and my in-laws were also very careful, so Wu's heart was slightly relieved.

It's just that the Wu family is still a little dissatisfied with Han Gang, the son-in-law who just got married, left his wife and children and ran out to be an official, "They men are like this, in order to be an official, they leave their families and leave their ...... behind" There was decades of resentment in his voice.

Wang Yi took Wu's hand and shook it, helping her husband to justify: "Didn't you bring your daughter here?" ”

"It's useless to just pick it up." Wu looked at her daughter lovingly, twenty-one or two, and she was as delicate as a girl. sighed lightly, "If you give birth to a son and a half daughter as soon as possible, your mother will be relieved." Look at those concubines, they are all lovely, and they all have children, although you have to keep the three obedience and four virtues, but don't be too humble, you should fight for it. ”

Wang Yi knew what the Wu family was talking about, and blushed: "Mother, these daughters know what they are talking about." ”

"You just say! If only it could be done. As Wu was talking, Wang Yan's voice sounded outside the courtyard, "Second sister has arrived!?" ”

"Big brother is back!" Wang Yi got up, blessed Wang Yan who was striding forward, looked at Wang Yan for a while after getting up, and blinked: "Big brother seems to have lost some weight again." ”

"It's business, it's inevitable that you'll be a little tired," Wang Yan hurriedly said to her sister, "Since you're back, I'll stay with my mother for two more days." Mother is talking about you every day. ”

Wang Yi's eyes turned red. Wang Yan said to the Wu family again: "Mother, the child has something to do now and needs to go out of the city in a hurry, and when the second brother comes back, you tell him that he will stay at home tomorrow." ”

"Why do you want to go out at this time?" Wu asked unhappily.

"Business matters! I'll be back tomorrow night. Daddy knows about this! Wang Yan didn't explain much. After changing his clothes, he left the house through the side door, mixed with a group of his own family, and left Tokyo City and went to Hakuba County.

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Han Gang now has more and more headaches, and the people's livelihood is difficult, so he can't help but worry about it - the hardships of being a pro-people official are here.

Food prices in Hakuba have started to rise. Although this price increase was expected, the magnitude was beyond expectations, and Han Gang asked people to inquire about it, and it was because of the rising food prices in the city of Tokyo.

Compared with the price of grain in the winter of previous years, the price of grain today is nearly twice as high, and it is even higher than the price in a normal year, and there is a possibility that it will continue to rise. When I went out of the city during the day, in the grain store by the city gate, the sign on the rice bag still said one hundred and five wen one bucket, and when I came back, it would be one hundred and twenty.

Before Xining, that is, in the last years of Renzong and the Yingzong Dynasty, the price of grain was usually 60 to 70 wen per bucket - this is calculated by the common coarse grain of ten buckets into the mill and eight buckets out - after arriving in Xining, the implementation of the new law did not make the people miserable as the old party said, but it did not reduce the price of grain much, and still maintained the level of 60 or 70 wen. This price has been maintained for nearly 20 years, and it is of course difficult for the people to accept such a sharp fluctuation.

It is impossible for this price not to affect the lives of the people. Originally, because of the drought, the people did not dare to spend money. But now that the price of grain is soaring, the money saved has to be invested in the purchase of grain. There are a total of 1,000 households in Baima Town and the county seat, and they belong to Fangkuo households in terms of household registration, and the grain is basically purchased from outside, which is not as self-sufficient as the peasants. Especially as the New Year is approaching, the rising grain prices will inevitably lead to the rise of all daily necessities.

Han Gang didn't have any tricks that could have an immediate effect on this, not only that it was difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. Hakuba Prefecture is too close to Tokyo City, and it is useless for him to suppress food prices here. Even if he Han Gang racked his brains and succeeded in lowering the price of grain, as long as a few grain merchants came to Tokyo City, or two rumors came out, the grain would rise back in a blink of an eye.

Because of the panic caused by the disaster, food prices are soaring throughout the Gyeonggi region, and Han Gang does not expect to become an isolated island under his rule, but that does not mean that he will not find a way to solve this problem.

'I'm going to write a letter to the capital.' Han Gang thought. has a father-in-law who is the prime minister, of course, it has to come in handy. Thinking about it, Wang Anshi also has a headache now. Compared with only paying attention to himself in Baima County, the prime minister who looks at the world has much more responsibility and concern.

Judging from the current momentum of soaring grain, it is natural to be certain that there are people manipulating behind it. The source is in the city of Tokyo, and if the grain can be lowered from the capital, Hakuba Prefecture will also fall.

If the disaster continues until the beginning of next spring, it will no longer matter if the price of grain is high or low, and those who can afford it do not need to be bought, and those who cannot afford it will still not be able to afford it. Moreover, the imperial court was bound to mobilize with all its might at that time, transfer grain from outside the country to suppress grain prices, and open warehouses to help the people. But at the moment, a series of strategies are impossible to implement, and it can help the people save a little is a little bit.

Sitting in the study, Han Gang pondered how to write a letter to Wang Anshi, and at the same time what could be done to help him suppress the price of food in Tokyo. While he was thinking about it, the butler knocked on the door and came in, and reported: "Zhengyan, the minister from Tokyo has sent a letter." It is said that the housewife and the three ladies, as well as the eldest man and the eldest lady, have all arrived in Tokyo. ”

"Oh!?" Han Gang was overjoyed when he heard this, the news finally came, he put down his pen and immediately said, "Let him come in!" ”

After a while, the butler led a man in, and then quietly retreated.

Han Gang casually looked at the person, but stood up in shock: "Yuan Ze, why are you here?!" ”

Wang Yan took off his cloak full of dust and sighed to Han Gang: "Yukun, you are so bitter to hide from your foolish brother!" ”

Han Gang was confused, Wang Yan ran over inexplicably, and inexplicably dropped such a sentence on the spot: "What the hell is going on?" He asked, puzzled.