As far as the eye can see, the fields are already golden, and this season is already the season for the wheat harvest. So it's time for farming, and there aren't as many fishing boats coming in and out of the beach as it used to be. The sea rarely saw the grand occasion of a thousand sails racing again, and Li Kuan rode a horse, followed by a carriage, and several guards in civilian clothes, strolling among the fields waiting for the harvest. Countless people are busy with the last irrigation of the wheat, and at this time, the last sufficient irrigation will make the wheat Keiko fuller.

The wheat planted in this era is not the kind of wheat that has been improved for thousands of years, and the wheat is swollen, but a variety of wheat that is very long and the wheat is very small, Li Kuan has already seen it, this kind of wheat is almost less than half of the yield compared with the kind in his memory. But it is this kind of wheat that has fed countless people in Guanzhong for thousands of years, and Cangzhou is no exception, although it is close to the sea, but the precipitation here is not very abundant, and it is also the main wheat planting area.

The carriage was slow, and the wheels rolled on the loess road, slightly bumpy, but it did not seem to sway, like a cradle gently pushed, that kind of slight comfort amplitude. This made the two ladies sitting in the carriage doze off unconsciously, and this time they came out to walk around to see what life was like for the people in their own territory. So this time, there were only three Li Kuan's master and servant, plus the necessary guards, and no one else had come to Cangzhou for more than half a year. I arrived here last year before the end of the winter, and after that, I was busy with all kinds of things. After more than half a year, he finally figured out a clue, and for the first time, Li Kuan felt admiration for Li Er in his heart. Just governing a small state and county has already made him busy, but Li Er can make the entire Tang Dynasty prosperous, which is really an admirable thing, if he is in Li Er's position, maybe it will make a mess of the country in less than three days.

In the past six months, Li Kuan has come into contact with the world of politicians, the ubiquitous compromise and exchange of interests, and the mutual deceit. The matter of stepping on the other party's corpse on the throne made him even more disgusted with the court, so during this time, he completely became the shopkeeper, and only made decisions on some major things and directions, and the rest made an organization similar to the cabinet of European countries, and got the representatives of all the forces in Cangzhou in one of them, and he was getting one or two of them as henchmen, so that he could not only live a leisurely life but also grasp the overall situation. At this point, Li Kuan didn't expect that what he was doing now was actually similar to what Li Er was doing. This is the emperor's mental technique, as long as you master these, then the entire court will be under control. In today's court, there are a group of Wenchen. There is a column of military generals, as well as the remaining peripheral members of the Third and Fifth Families, as well as the group of Confucian scholars who pretend to be clear. The forces of the Quartet are intertwined above the court. A complex network of relationships has been formed, and any two courtiers who can stand on top of the Golden Luan Palace. Behind him there is an interest group, and every action of these people represents the interests of the interest group behind them. As long as you have what they want, then you can exchange it as a bargaining chip, there is no real enemy between each other, only a contradiction caused by the conflict of interests between each other.

So even if you see Cheng Yanjin and the eldest grandson Wuji pinching each other in the morning, but in the evening, the two can hook up with each other. This is the interest, people like Cheng Yanjin are not exempt from vulgarity, because there are also a large number of people behind him, and there are countless people who rely on him to survive, if he ignores these things, then these people will leave him, and being isolated above the court means being suppressed, and then until there is no place to turn over and then being trampled on the ground and spitting twice.

Li Kuan also felt very tired during this time, so he put down those complicated government affairs and took the two maids here for a walk to relax. Walking in the fields, the people saw Li Kuan and his party wearing silk shirts on a tall horse, all of them unconsciously stopped and looked, not many people in Cangzhou know Li Kuan, mainly because Li Kuan rarely goes out, and here because of the relationship between the people, even if there are contradictions between each other, few people will go to the government to complain, all in the village, or the patriarch came forward to solve. In this way, all the people knew that a new Lord Thorn had arrived, but no one had seen it, except for those who had been overseers in the shipyard earlier, but no one dared to look at him after these people knew that the young man who often came to the shipyard was Lord Thorn, and even the memories of when they met each other before became blurred. These people even felt that this was a powerful force for His Royal Highness the King of Assassin Shi Chu to be born as a dragon son.

In the eyes of these people who have not read books, it is not surprising that the emperor has any powerful and strange powers, and it is natural that he can't remember his appearance as the emperor's son. Of course, Li Kuan didn't know these things, and he was now stopping a farmer who was carrying two large buckets of water and asked: "Dare to ask this old man, how is this year's harvest?" Li Kuan turned over and dismounted and stopped the old man on the side of the road.

"This little minister is talking to the old man?" The old man asked with a look of surprise. He never thought that a well-dressed and gorgeously dressed boy would stop him from asking such a polite question, and in his impression, these sons and brothers in silk shirts and riding tall horses disdained to talk to them peasants, and even galloped in the fields on horseback, trampling the ripe wheat was a common thing. So the old farmer was really shocked and couldn't help but ask.

"Is there anyone else here besides the old man?" Li Kuan smiled and said.

"Little Xianggong, this year is indeed a good year! We have a good thorn in Cangzhou, the old man has spent more than fifty years since he was born, and there is no year like this year, and no one in the family is hungry like this year! Thanks to the newcomer Lord Thorn, I didn't expect there to be so many good things in the sea, who used to eat those things, those sea vegetables we feed the pigs here are not pigs to eat, and those seafood and the like, it's not that no one thought of getting to eat before, but it's too dangerous to go to sea alone, and go to a few more people, the boat is a little smaller, so no one has been willing to go to the sea to beg for a living, this year the government helped us build a boat, a big boat, more than a dozen people go to sea, much safer, and more harvest. The old man didn't feel the weight of the water on his shoulders, and he talked endlessly.

"Oh! This assassin is so capable? Li Kuan didn't expect that he was still so popular among the people, which was really unexpected.

"Of course, Xiao Xianggong, don't you know, there is another reason why we people are reluctant to go to sea, that is, there are good things in the sea, but there is no way out after we get ashore, it is okay to eat by ourselves, but the taxes demanded by the imperial court are not to collect these things, only to recognize food. So we had no choice but to farm, but now that the shipyard has been built, countless people have settled here, and this seaside has become popular, and then there are merchants here, so that our seafood has a way out, we can exchange it for food, we can exchange it for the cloth we need, we need ironware. Who wouldn't want to have such a day! The old farmer continued, he was full of admiration for this magical His Royal Highness the King of Chu, Lord Assassin Shi.

"In that case, why are you still farming, old man? Wouldn't it be okay to go fishing in the sea and then buy grain and hand it over to the imperial court? It's such a hot day, but isn't it tiring with so much water? Li Kuan then asked, since this old man is willing to sue him, then learn more about it, and then go to another place for verification.

"Neither can this land be left barren? And farming is also to pay taxes to the imperial court, although you can buy grain to pay in, but who knows how much grain can be produced in your family's field this year? If you pay less, isn't it taking advantage of the imperial court? If you pay too much, we people don't think it's okay, so we still plant it, so that we can clearly understand whether it is not! The old farmer's answer made Li Kuan a little unsure of how to say it, in fact, these little people also care about their own interests, but they are so vague, and they show a spirit of integrity, who can clearly understand these four words? Who can really understand? Above the court, the more you are in a high position, the more you can't understand it as clearly as they are, because everyone is actually the same, who doesn't have shit under their butts? If you really want to understand it more clearly, then this court will not be able to function.

But Li Kuan couldn't say this, so he could only let the old farmer who was carrying the water leave first, and then beckoned left and right: "Who of you can know, who can understand, is this the people's philistine or simple?" Li Kuan felt a little confused, he originally wanted to see how the people lived, but he didn't expect to come up with a problem and trap himself. Just do it according to your own ideas, don't care about other people's opinions, as long as it is beneficial to the people of Datang, then do it!

Thinking about this, Li Kuan handed a fold that had been in his cuffs for several days to the guards beside him, asked him to send him back to Cangzhou City, and handed it to Chen Xuanzhang, who had been driving him, and did what he did. Then he himself rolled over and headed farther away. (To be continued......)