In a blink of an eye, it has come to July of the fourth year of Chunhua, and the first batch of corn planted by Zhao Weiji, which is about half an acre, has also entered the tasseling period.

Zhao Weiji, who was crazy at sea, returned to the Central Plains and lived a shameless life with his two wives for three days, and then devoted himself to corn planting.

According to the Indians, the growth cycle of corn is not long, so corn at this time is not too far from maturity.

Looking at the corn stalks that had been shaped in the field, as well as the leaves that were all open, Zhao Weiji was so happy in his heart. At this time, Tie Zheng came to the field.

"How's it going over there?" Seeing Tie Zheng's arrival, Zhao Weiji naturally knew that there was new news coming from Shudi.

"What else can I do, the official family has been defeated again, and the rebel army has already occupied Shuzhou."

"Then there are no new moves on the side of the imperial court?"

"No, that Zhang Shu stood up again to argue for Zhang Xi, saying that it was because the Sichuan Army's new kneading time was still shallow, and if you give more time, there will be a turning point."

"Well, I'd like to see what new twists come up. Don't talk about Shudi, I'll take you to see the tomatoes. After speaking, Zhao Weiji pulled Tie Zheng to the vine trellis carrying the tomatoes to see how the tomatoes planted with the corn were growing.

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"What is going on over there in the imperial court, will reinforcements be sent to reinforce it?" The person who asked his subordinates was Zhang Xi, the inspector of Xichuan Capital. Three months of anti-bandit warfare have made this man who has not yet reached the age of fifty more gray hair than black hair. Now he worries every day.

Now he knows the military strength of Shu best, and the defense of various places is already very difficult, let alone the dispatch of troops to suppress bandits. This group of rebels is very cunning, after raising troops from Qingcheng, they met at once, Qiongzhou, Shuzhou, and they were in the west of Chengdu and kept swaying north and south. So that the officers and soldiers can't guess where they are going next.

The officers and troops can only be deployed along the perimeter of Chengdu, so that they can only be passively defended, and how to talk about suppressing bandits.

"Lord Zhang Shu in the middle of the court said that there is no need to give us reinforcements, saying that what we lack now is just running-in, and he will buy time for us."

As soon as he heard the report of his subordinates, Zhang Xi was almost so angry that he vomited blood. Is this pivot going to help me or harm me, I haven't even run in with a fart now. If he really thinks about the Great Song Dynasty, he should suggest that the official family send troops to recruit the rebels.

Why did Zhang Shu come up with such a bad idea, it was because he wanted to hide Qi Yuanzhen's affairs. How could he not know what Qi Yuanzhen was like, but because he accepted a lot of bribes from Qi Yuanzhen, he praised him in front of Taizong.

This peasant uprising is indispensable to the factor of official coercion and rebellion, once it is quickly pacified, it is indispensable to turn over the matter of Qi Yuanzhen, so Zhang Shu hopes that this uprising can be dragged on for a longer time, and the losses caused will be greater, and then it will be pacified, so that the focus of the imperial court on this matter will fall on the resettlement of rebels and the reconstruction of Shu. For the killing of these corrupt officials, it is unlikely to take too much effort to find out the cause.

This is why Zhang Shu is still obstructing the rebellion of the imperial court by sending troops to quell the rebellion, because he knows that the central forbidden army can quickly quell the rebellion, and it is not so easy for the Xiang army stationed in Shu to quell the rebellion.

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More than a month has passed like this, and it has entered autumn in a blink of an eye, but the country of abundance is still in a state of war. The reinforcements of the imperial court still haven't arrived, the box army is still so weak, and the rebels are still arrogantly attacking and looting.

The peasants, who had already entered the rhythm of the autumn harvest, all lost their homes due to the baptism of war, and some of them joined the rebel army and began a career of rebellion. But many more have been forced to leave the country and become new displaced people.

"Lord Wang, now a large number of displaced people from Shu leave Shuzhong and flee to the outer mansion every day."

"Okay, it's time to gather all our inland river boats and go up the Yangtze River to pick up all the displaced people who are willing to come to Huating."

"Yes, lord." After Zhao Weiji's order, Jiang Yu hurriedly turned around and left.

At this time, Chai Yu brought two bowls of tea into the study.

"I've heard all of your conversations, and I don't object to you accepting all the displaced people, but will our food reserves be a problem with so many displaced people?"

After taking a sip of a bowl of tea in Chai Yu's hand, Zhao Weiji slowly explained: "There is no problem with grain reserves, although there was a drought in the Jianghuai region last year, but this year's harvest should be good. Although the number of displaced people is huge, at most there is no surplus food this year, but don't worry, corn planting has been successful. As long as it is popularized next year, it will definitely be able to withstand more displaced people. ”

Speaking of corn, Chai Yu also had to admire the novel food that her husband got back. This yellow granule is really delicious, and it doesn't take too much to achieve the effect of hunger, the key is that the yield is really high. Only half an acre of land has already produced 200 catties of corn, which makes Chai Yu really happy.

Zhao Weiji is also very happy about this, although it is not like the later generations of corn can yield six or seven hundred kilograms per mu, but in this era of rice yield per mu is only about three hundred catties. That's already quite a high yield.

In addition, corn can be stored for a long time after being dried and ground into cob noodles, so it is not impossible to use it as a non-staple food for rice noodles.

And most importantly, in fact, in this era, not all fields are growing rice or wheat, but more corn. Therefore, Zhao Weiji is still quite optimistic about the prospects of corn.

"Okay, you can just do it yourself. By the way, Ling'er, you tell me a few words, the gentleman of the academy has been saying that Ling'er is not obedient in class. ”

"Okay, I know, I'll go to Ling'er's side, and you can help Xiao Nian more, after all, she is heavy now."

Due to Zhao Weiji's unremitting cultivation after coming back, Li Nian finally became pregnant, and now his belly is four months old, and his body has begun to be blessed.

As for the academy that Chai Yu said, it was a new thing made by Zhao Weiji, who established a children's academy with a face of six to twelve years old, which was a bit like the primary school in later generations. Zhao Ling'er, who is already more than six years old, naturally entered this academy, and the dean of the academy is Mr. Liu Ao, a generation of great Confucian who enlightened Zhao Ling'er. Zhao Weiji specially invited him from Bailu Academy. The name of the academy is inscribed by Mr. Liu Ao, and it is called Yuying Academy.

Since Zhao Weiji also implements a free system in the "primary school", there are now more than 1,000 students in Yuying Academy. Not only from Huating County, but even students from other states and counties have entered the academy to study.

Zhao Weiji also met a future celebrity inside, that is, Liu Yong, who is now the same age as Zhao Ling'er, but he didn't expect him to enter the academy.

And he and Zhao Ling'er are also in the same class. The system of the academy is as follows: according to the foundation and age before entering the school, it is divided into three grades, which are represented by Heaven and Earth Xuan from high to low, and then each grade is divided into four classes, which are represented by A, B, C, D. Therefore, the second class of the third grade is Tianzi class B.

The reason why it is not divided into six grades and one level a year is that there are really not many things to give to students in this era, so the graduation of the academy is not an exact number of years, and the grades are just to distinguish children who are too different in age. And there is no saying that the academy cannot graduate, as long as everyone reaches the age of twelve, everyone must graduate. It is the class that really determines the learning progress, and the one with the highest foundation at the time of admission will enter Class A, the next class will enter Class B, and so on. If you start learning and make rapid progress, then jump forward, if you can't, jump backward.

In short, it is the most basic and the slowest of Ding class teaching. If all the students can reach the level of Class A, all four classes will be taught according to what Class A teaches.

Zhao Linger was enlightened very early, and inherited the smart brains of his parents, so he easily entered Class A. It's just Xuanzi Class A, and I happened to meet Liu Yong, who is also a prodigy.

And Zhao Linger is so smart, so she often listens to the teacher in class and basically understands everything, so the rest of the time begins to make all kinds of gags, which often makes the teacher angry. So the teacher had to come to Chai Yu to complain.

Chai Yu was complained by the teacher, so naturally he could only come to Zhao Weiji to complain, because now only Zhao Weiji said at home, Zhao Linger could listen to it.

"Ling'er." Zhao Weiji easily found Zhao Ling'er who was playing with his younger brother in the garden.

"What's the matter, Daddy?" Seeing that Zhao Weiji came to her, Zhao Linger also knew that she was going to suffer, because at this time, Zhao Weiji had a very penetrating smile on his face, and every time she saw this smile, Zhao Linger knew that something bad was about to happen.

"Listen to your husband, you made trouble in class?" The smile on Zhao Weiji's face became more and more "bright" at this moment.

As soon as she heard Zhao Weiji's question, Zhao Ling'er knew that it was over, so she could only come up with a killer weapon, and her big hand holding Zhao Weiji began to be coquettish.

"Daddy, you listened to your daughter, the articles that Mr. asked me to memorize in class, my daughter remembered them after reading them once, so I was really bored, so I accidentally offended Mr. Don't blame your daughter~~~~ It's not good~~~~~~"

"Stop! Don't stretch the tone, Daddy can't stand it. Are you saying that you can memorize the article that Mr. asked you to memorize once? ”

"Of course, I don't believe you test me."

So Zhao Weiji casually took an article they had studied, but she didn't expect this girl to memorize every word well.

So Zhao Weiji had no choice but to let Zhao Ling'er go.

But this also made Zhao Weiji have a new idea, since his daughter is so smart, can he teach her something else.