Lu Xiangsheng rode out of the city with excitement, followed the officer who delivered the decree to the outside of Changchun Garden, and after layers of strict inspection, he was directly led to the Qingxi Book House.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I heard someone talking in the study, one of them was Emperor Chongzhen, and his voice still sounded so cheerful.

Lu Xiangsheng was first happy in his heart: the emperor is not depressed! But he immediately became apprehensive again, anxious to show the emperor his interests, but did not know what kind of attitude the emperor would have towards him. Although the two of them once married Jin Lan back then, but now after all, there is a distinction between monarchs and ministers, there is a way that is unpredictable, and Lu Xiangsheng has just been dismissed, how dare he make a mistake?

And it was obvious that the emperor was talking to someone, and before he was summoned, Lu Xiangsheng could only wait in the courtyard, and only after the emperor had met with the people in front of him could he sign up for an audience.

Unexpectedly, a joyful voice immediately sounded in the study: "Is it Lu Xiang who has risen?" Please come in! ”

A female official came out of the study and respectfully led Lu Xiang inside. When I entered the study, I saw the young Emperor Chongzhen sitting on a strange seat, looking at him with a smile. At the head of the left sat a young man who did not know and was not an official; There is an identical seat on the right.

Finally seeing Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng choked up all of a sudden. He was just about to kneel three times and bow nine times, Zhu Youzhen hurriedly got up and came over, hugged him with his own hands, his eyes were also red, and he smiled reluctantly: "Mr. has been wronged!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng was indeed wronged in his heart, but Zhu Youzhen's words opened his heart knot. In order to avoid the loss of honor in front of the king, he tried his best to hold back the tears of emotion, but his throat choked, and he couldn't say a word.

Zhu Youzhen cordially invited Lu Xiangsheng to sit down, but after Lu Xiangsheng thanked him for his seat, he first carefully looked at this strange seat and didn't dare to sit down directly. Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen laughed and said, "Sir, please sit at ease." This thing is called a sofa in Europe, but it is not a foreign product, it is produced by the carpentry factory of Kyoshi. I think it's more appropriate to call it a 'soft chair', so why use a Gentile transliteration? ”

Sun Qiuke is a place where Sun hates the moon and the stars

Lu Xiangsheng sat down cautiously, and was really uncomfortable at first. Because it is not as hard as a wooden chair, it sinks down as soon as you sit down, Lu Xiangsheng thought that it was broken, and quickly stood up to find that it was elastic, and after the person got up, the chair surface also returned to normal.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen smiled and said: "Although the European 'sofa' is earlier than ours, our soft chair is now more advanced and equipped with springs. Mr. Don't Hide it, this is still from my suggestion! ”

After the Qiu Ke was reluctant to inspect the tricks

Lu Xiangsheng sat for a while, and sure enough, he felt much more comfortable than the wooden chair, so he relaxed. But soon he became worried again: the emperor pays so much attention to these things, he won't be as discouraged as Xizong, right?

Zhu Youzhen didn't care, and then said with a smile: "I came to introduce Mr. This surname is Chen Zilong, and among the characters, Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, is tall. He's a great talent! Zilong, this is the world-famous Lu Xiangsheng, and the thieves call him King Lu Yan. If he were the king of Yama, I would have to be the king of the Bodhisattva. ”

Chen Zilong hurriedly got up and saluted Lu Xiangsheng. Lu Xiangsheng saw that this person was no more than twenty years old, with dark skin and a thin body, how could he look like a scholar, but he looked like a farmer.

Whether in terms of age or official position, Lu Xiangsheng is Chen Zilong's elder, so it is natural to ask Chen Zilong what his official position is now. Unexpectedly, Chen Zilong bowed down and replied: "Master Hui Shangshu, the student is only a student now, and he has not yet been promoted." ”

Lu Xiangsheng was even more surprised, thinking that this person is not even a lifter, there are no less than hundreds of thousands of such scholars in the country, why is the emperor so favored him?

"Sit down, no one needs to be restrained here." Zhu Youzhen said, "Zilong, you still continue the topic just now." Listen to it, sir. ”

The ghost grandson of the ground science catches the cold ball

"Yes!" Chen Zilong said eloquently, "Just now, the grass people talked about farmland and water conservancy. From last winter to the present, they have visited many prefectures and counties in the Gyeonggi area, including many Huangzhuang, and found that there are almost no water conservancy facilities in the farmland, and they are all dependent on the sky for food. Everyone in the world knows that Jiangnan is the land of fish and rice, but they don't know that although Jiangnan has abundant rain and dense rivers, farmers also attach great importance to water conservancy in the fields. Therefore, the grass people think that there is no thin field in the world, only lazy people. ”

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but interject: "Your Majesty, it is not that there are no water conservancy facilities in the north, and the river drainage ditches in various places have to be repaired almost every year. When the minister was in the Daimyo's Mansion, the three larger rivers in the territory alone, the Wei River, the Zhanghe River, and the Maji River, had to use a lot of laborers every year to dredge the river and strengthen the embankment, which cost a lot of money. Fortunately, there have been no floods in the Daimyo Mansion in recent years, but the grain has not been much produced. ”

As soon as Lu Xiangsheng said this, Chen Zilong didn't dare to say it. Zhu Youzhen encouraged: "Zilong, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Today, no matter how big or small the monarch is, we only talk about reason. ”

Chen Zilong put down his burden at this time, got up and saluted Lu Xiangsheng first, and then continued: "Students and adults have some different opinions, so dare to try it. Water conservancy in the north is often more important than drought control. Of course, this is not unreasonable, because waterlogging often leads to no harvest, while drought can produce some harvests, and northern crops are more drought resistant. However, the students believe that the current situation is that there has been a severe drought in the north for many years, and it is necessary to prevent floods and fight drought at the same time.

"And for many years, the north has not been able to provide self-sufficiency in grain, and the imperial court has to rely on Caoyun, that is, the transportation of grain from the south to the north. However, there are great drawbacks to Caoyun, one is that the transportation capacity is limited, the time is too long, and the delay is not urgent; second, the high cost, resulting in high rice prices, increasing the burden on the court and the people; The third is excessive dependence on Cao Yun, once a catastrophe occurs in the south of the Yangtze River, there is no grain to transport, and the north is starving.

Therefore, the students thought that instead of relying on Cao Yun, it would be better to vigorously build farmland and water conservancy facilities in the north, so that the north could produce grain for self-sufficiency. Among the northern regions, the Gyeonggi region has the best conditions, because the Gyeonggi region has a large population and many rivers, but it is not much worse than Gangnam, and the demand for grain is also the largest. If it can be successful in Gyeonggi, it can be gradually promoted to Shandong, Henan, Gansu and Shaanxi. Everyone governs the water, that is, everyone governs the land, and after a few years, the army will store and the people will have abundant food. ”

As soon as he said this, Zhu Youzhen slapped his thigh excitedly and said, "If this is really the case, why are there many thieves?" Why do you have to deal with foreign criminals? ”

Lu Xiangsheng said suspiciously: "If the north can be self-sufficient in grain, of course it is good, but it is too difficult to do." Let's just say that this water conservancy construction is very staggering, and the cost of manpower and material resources is very amazing, and it cannot be immediately effective. Now that the imperial court has been using soldiers for many years, the military salary is still insufficient, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to cope with other major expenses. There are priorities,..."

"I'm going to dismiss Mr." Although Zhu Youzhen still had a smile on his face, his tone was extremely firm, "Increasing grain production is the first priority at the moment!" ”

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