Ye Zhao was accompanied by Sisi when he visited the Imperial Agricultural Library and Museum.

The modernization and standardization of Imperial agriculture took place almost simultaneously with that of the United States, and the work functions of the Imperial Department of Agriculture were not much different from those of the United States Department of Agriculture, with the main responsibility of collecting, classifying, and publishing statistical data and other useful agricultural information; introduction of valuable plant and animal species; answering farmers' inquiries about agriculture; trial production of agricultural tools; chemical analysis of soils, crops, fruits, vegetables and fertilizers; establishment of specialized botanical and entomological institutions; Establishment of agricultural libraries and museums, among others.

The difference is that the Empire's policy towards agriculture was so resolute and coherent that it was not as vacillating as the United States and Europe.

In fact, now that the world crop market is in a period of depression, and there is a discussion on agrarian capitalism and family farming in Europe and the United States, most European agricultural economists believe that agrarian capitalism will soon eliminate the small peasant economy based on family producers, and that employing large farms will improve the competitiveness of domestic agriculture.

Little did we know that, because of the high cost of supervising hired workers on the hired farms in basic agricultural cultivation and livestock rearing, in the following decades, the small agricultural producers of European cooperatives prevailed over the hired farms, leading to the demise of the vigorous capitalist agricultural factory model.

The Chinese are obedient and industrious, and whether it is a large farm under collective employment or a small family producer in the process of political axe help integration, they have shown a vitality that is completely inconsistent with the world agricultural pattern, but in fact, because of the population, it is difficult for China's agriculture to appear in a depression.

Ye Zhao and Zhu Sisi were suddenly attacked, and the Minister of Agriculture Sun Bozheng did not get the news, and in the three-story library, Hu Pingzhi, the director of the Agricultural Library who accompanied the emperor to participate in the shares, was sincerely afraid, fortunately, although there were occasional stammers in the commentary, there was no big Lou Zi in the end.

The three-storey "Erudite Hall" displays the latest agricultural works of the empire, and most of the people who come here to borrow books are agricultural students and scholars, and there are rows of bookshelves full of thousands of books.

While Ye Zhao was walking, he took out a copy of "Detailed Explanation of Chemical Fertilizers" from the bookshelf and looked through it.

Hu Pingzhi hurriedly said: "This is written by Mr. Sun Jinheng, Mr. Sun is not very old, but he was promoted to professor this year, and the articles he wrote are excellent." ”

Ye Zhao bowed slightly, Sun Jinheng, if I remember correctly, he was still a student he had brought with him.

glanced at Hu Pingzhi, this historical Mr. Hu is extremely capable, the reformist, Governor Hu in "Qiao's Courtyard" is what he said, if he hadn't watched this TV series, he really wouldn't have any impression of him.

After turning around, Ye Zhao finally went to the lounge to rest accompanied by Hu Pingzhi, and saw the female library clerk wearing a beige over-the-knee professional skirt to deliver tea, Ye Zhao was stunned, how could he have a feeling of dislocation of time and space.

Twenty years of enlightenment and change have led to significant changes, at least in big cities.

Of course, although the library is very warm, but in the cold winter, she changed into a professional skirt, which is clearly deliberate, who asked Zhu Sisi to wear a professional skirt to give a speech in the parliamentary house, the representative of the new era of female surnames, idols, and professional female surnames under the influence of new ideas, who does not worship her?

Tasting tea, Ye Zhao pondered: "The integration of small peasant families still needs to be strengthened, and the responsibilities of township-level institutions should be strengthened. ”

Taking advantage of the unparalleled prestige after the Sino-Russian War, Ye Zhao was ready to further break the backwater agricultural pattern in some areas, and the small peasant families in his mouth naturally referred to the middle peasants, rich peasants, and small landlords who owned land.

This integration will also break the clan pattern and further change the contrast between the influence of the village government and the influence of the clan.

These things, when the empire was first established, Ye Zhao was not easy to touch, but now, with the industrialization process of the empire, the spread of new ideas, and more importantly, the unprecedented prestige of the emperor, he is no longer afraid of any challenge.

Although this challenge may be more laborious and difficult than the conquest of Moscow.

Zhu Sisi didn't squeak, she liked her current husband, and every time the pervert thought about a problem seriously, it was fatal to her.

After coming out of the library, Ye Zhao and Zhu Sisi went to have lunch, and then returned to the Forbidden City, the Forbidden Palace was preparing for the Privy Council meeting before the New Year, and now the matchmaker accompanied Ye Katerina to the south to investigate, and Rong'er led the preparation of the Privy Council meeting of Zhang Luo of the Zongren Mansion, and Jin Feng assisted.

Ye Zhaoxin said that it is really worry-free to have many wives, and there are many capable wives, so they are even more worry-free, but they don't dare to say this, so as not to rebel against the wives.

In the afternoon, after watching a few excerpts in the Yangxin Palace, Ye Zhao suddenly became interested, called Zheng Aqiao, ordered the car to be prepared, and went to the Qinxue Academy.

The name of the Qinxue is so big, but in fact it is just a house in Guangpingku Hutong, the back lane of the former Shenjun Wangfu in Xicheng, and now the little prince Yaoxun temporarily moved in to adapt to it, and after the year, he and the second emperor brother will officially move in, which is very close to the school.

In fact, even in the forbidden palace, the princes and princesses could not be close to their mothers every time and moved out of the forbidden palace, but their mothers often came to visit.

Seeing his father come to pick him up, Yao Xun was very happy, whether it was the prince or the princess, they were all in awe and worship of their father.

The car went out of the inner city as soon as it smoked, and sat beside Ye Zhao in a proper manner, Yao Xun was a little young and old.

Ye Zhao saw that he didn't move the hot cocoa he handed over, and his heart suddenly soured, but no, although he didn't see these little guys rarely when he was in the capital, even now, a year has passed, it is the period of physical and mental development, even if he doesn't see each other for a few months, it is a lot of points, isn't it?

Ye Zhao pulled out the soft rubber stopper on the glass bottle, inserted it into the straw, handed it to Yao Xun, and said, "Drink, Dad specially brought it to you." ”

Yao Xun said in a childish voice: "Thank you, father." He took the drink and sucked it deliciously.

The car drove a long way in the southern suburbs of Beijing, and Ye Zhao ordered the asphalt road to get off, and after more than 20 minutes, the bumpy car on the loess road turned off.

Ye Zhao smiled bitterly, he wanted to take his baby son to the countryside for a walk, but it was good, the stability of the car engine was indispensable to the asphalt road.

I had no choice but to get out of the car, holding Yao Xun's little hand and strolling, Yao Xun was very excited, striding to follow his father, his little hand holding his father's hand more tightly, today, it is really his happiest son.

The fields on both sides are covered with snow, and the swarthy villages in the distance seem to be very close, but in fact they are a long way away.

The guards were busy checking the fuel tank and engine, and some of the guards were rushing back, according to the custom, the emperor went out of the city, and the guards answered in many ways, and at the intersection of the asphalt road and the loess road, there was a carriage.

"Is it cold?" As Ye Zhao spoke, he put down Yao Xun's little plush hat and said, "Come out with your father to suffer, right?" ”

Yao Xun shook his little head and said in a childish voice: "It's not cold!" Erchen is most afraid of the fire in summer, and the heat is dead! ”

Ye Zhao patted his little head encouragingly, and said: "Farmers, the year is also this time of the year, you don't have to come out to work, when the fire is in the summer, they have to sweat in the field, you can't make their children more and more undignified." ”

Yao Xun nodded as if he didn't understand.

In fact, the enlightenment education received by several princes and princesses is very royal style, so that they come out to school, just to let them get in touch with society, this is not the Internet era, living in the deep palace can know everything.

In the Qinxue Academy, of course, there will be professors hired by the royal family to educate the children of the royal family, and there will be some things written by Ye Zhao to teach them, and Ye Zhao's ear and face orders are indispensable in his spare time, and these natural educations do not need to be detailed.

Ye Zhao also once had an idea, that is, after graduating from college to be exact, whether they would enter the political world under a pseudonym, but later pondered, this move is actually not conducive to the changes they want to promote, and it is easy to produce the phenomenon of factionalism, but let's see when the time comes.

Standing in front of a pile of snow on the side of the road, looking at the vast world and the sky, Ye Zhao was silent.

After a while, the car was not repaired, the east side of the loess road, but slowly drove an ox cart, the driver was an old man, wrapped in a rotten cotton jacket that exposed the cotton shiny, and there was a six or seven year old girl in the car, when the ox cart passed by Ye Zhao and Yao Xun, she grinned at Yao Xun, I thought I had never seen such a brightly dressed little boy.

Zheng Aqiao said in a low voice: "Master, borrow an ox cart for use?" ”

Ye Zhao thought about it and bowed slightly.

Zheng Aqiao immediately hurried to catch up, rushed to the ox cart in a few steps, and said to the old man who drove the cart with a smile: "Uncle, our car is broken here, my master wants to borrow your ox cart for use, and someone in front of me will come to pick up my master, borrow your ox cart to catch up a few more steps, and please be accommodating, there will be a lot of thanks." ”

The old man who drove the car was extremely hearty, and said with a smile: "Okay, get in the car, I see that you are nobles, just thank you, I am also on the way, to pick up my nephew." He glanced at the iron cart a few times, and heard that this thing can run fast on the road, and everyone in the city likes to sit on it, but it is still not as good as our old ox cart, right?

Ye Zhao and the others got into the ox cart, and Yao Xun saw his peers with snot for the first time, so he took out a white handkerchief and handed it to the little girl, saying, "You have a runny nose." ”

The little girl was a little scared, and she didn't dare to take the handkerchief that was whiter than the face of the third grandmother in the village, and wiped it on her nose with the sleeve of her cotton jacket, and the snot was gone, and Yao Xun was stunned.

The old ox struggled to pull the iron wheel forward, but the speed was not as good as speed, Zheng Aqiao and another guard immediately jumped out of the car and followed the ox cart.

Ye Zhao handed the old man a cigarette roll and asked with a smile: "Uncle, how many people is in your village?" ”

The old man was busy taking it, and for the first time he saw the windproof gasoline lighter, the smoke inhaled into the nose, although it was slightly soft, but it tasted better than dry smoke, no wonder the people in the city liked to smoke cigarettes.

"Master, we call it Dayangfang, there are more than 100 households." The old man replied with a smile.

Ye Zhao asked, "There are a lot of cattle and horses, right?" ”

The old man grinned and showed his black teeth, and said, "There are always Wuchengren's families with livestock, master, are you in the cattle and horse business?" ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "No. "Obviously, the smooth operation of the railway, so that the western regions of Xinjiang Province not only supplied a large amount of meat to the Central Plains, but also made the livestock of the farmers unprecedentedly abundant, more than half of the families in a village have livestock, compared with the previous dynasty, this is a earth-shaking change, of course, the suburbs of Beijing, the corresponding will benefit more.

Ye Zhao nodded again at this time and said, "The little girl didn't bind her feet, okay." "The Central Plains political axe has issued a law to abolish foot binding, but this bad habit must be changed, but also to solve the problem ideologically, when the previous dynasty first entered the customs, it was also forbidden to bind feet, but in the end it had to be stopped.

The old man grinned dryly, I don't know what to say, the big lady in the village suddenly let go, and she has to go to the city to work, I heard that the woman with bound feet is not easy to marry now, and the poor family has no reason to bind her feet, right?

Yao Xun still sent the handkerchief over to help the little girl wipe the dirt under her nose, maybe he looked really uncomfortable.

Ye Zhao looked at Yao Xun, and said in his heart that this kid had better be smaller, if he was too capable, maybe his long-distance planning for the empire would encounter obstacles, and he always had to make him gradually understand that the emperor of the empire was the most successful emperor when he finally became a symbol of cohesion and the maintenance and promotion of the values of imperial civilization.

Probably out of Lixu, I saw a thin young man standing at the fork in the road, with a gray robe and a simple bamboo box.

When she saw the young man, the little girl shouted happily: "Uncle! Uncle! ”

The young man ran over with a smile, the little girl jumped into his arms from the ox cart, and he looked at Ye Zhao a few times, a little puzzled.

The old man said: "Get in the car, I'll send this master first." He said to Ye Zhao again: "Master, this is my nephew Sanyanzi, who works in the poster hall." ”

There are no customs such as milk names in the capital area, in fact, I just heard the old man's accent, and I also know that it is an immigrant.

Because of the Civil War, the lifting of the ban outside the border, the migration of the frontiers, and the development of industry, the population movement of the empire reached the highest peak in history, which also destroyed the clan relations in many regions to a certain extent.

The third gentleman Wen Wenxiu handed a business card to Ye Zhao, called Du Xiantang, and worked in a British newspaper. Ye Zhao reported his surname Wen.

Sitting on the ox cart, the three gentlemen were extremely talkative, and they were quite knowledgeable, obviously they were people who had seen the world, and they heard the uncle say that Ye Zhao and his party had broken down on the road, so they naturally thought that Ye Zhao was a businessman.

"Mr. Wen must know a lot of senior officials in the DPRK and China, right?" The three gentlemen asked with a smile.

Ye Zhao said: "I also know one or two. "Although imperial law is extremely strict in terms of bribery, how can business and politics not deal with each other, regardless of the system? It is not known how much collusion between officials and businessmen is, and at least businessmen and politicians should not be blatantly annihilated.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhao couldn't help but sigh and said, "The more powerful the imperial power, the easier it is to become an aristocratic society!" ”

The three men were stunned, stared at Ye Zhao for several times, and then said, "So the republic of America is the trend of the times." ”

Although his voice was slightly lower, Zheng Aqiao's ears were sharp, and he frowned sharply when he heard it, and looked at this young man like lightning.

Ye Zhao was also stunned in his heart, he had no taboos in what he said, but the so-called republic, of course, wants to overthrow the imperial rule, although all kinds of ideas in the empire are active, and newsprint also advocates freedom of speech, but even if European powers do not adopt the imperial system and call for the overthrow of the imperial power, how can there be a market in the Central Plains? Not to mention that the imperial royal family is rising, and the prestige is indescribable, far from the disastrous defeat in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War of the previous generation, the entry of the Eight-Nation Coalition Army into Yanjing, coupled with the suspicion of the lord and the country, and the people's distrust of the foreign royal family has reached a critical point, despite this, the revolutionary party's gain of power also has a huge accidental surname. Not to mention Yuan Shikai's restoration, there will be people like Yan Fu who jumped out to help, which can imagine the stubbornness of the national ideology.

Nowadays, if it is said that the country wants to overthrow its own forces, it may only be the Fairness Party and the remnants of the previous dynasty.

The question is, how many of them, talking about republicanism, understand the essence of freedom and equality? Tossing and turning, it is the people who suffer, and in the end, it may become some kind of deformed reading regime.

Ye Zhao lit a cigarette, nodded and said, "The American Republic? ”

The third gentleman smiled and said, "The words of the family, just say it, Mr. Wen doesn't have to take it seriously." Perhaps he also noticed the strangeness of Zheng Aqiao's sharp gaze.

Ye Zhao said: "Is the life of the people bad now? ”

The third gentleman shook his head and said: "It's good, it's good, but that's because the emperor is wise now, but when he gets older, who knows if he will do anything foolish?" Princes and grandchildren, what kind of virtue is it? It's not a saint for generations, right? The three men were also a little reckless, perhaps thinking that they had met a bosom friend, after all, he opened his mouth to criticize the imperial power too strong, and it was the first time he had encountered it.

However, no matter how you say it, the people who comment on the current ninety-five people, even if they gather in his small circle to overthrow the imperial system, can only say a few clichés about the unscrupulous and plagiarized scientific achievements to gain fame and reputation, and they have heard that Jinshang is really a great scientist, and in the end, they themselves find the abuse boring.

However, it is not contradictory to agree with the wisdom and ability of the present to overthrow the imperial system, which is also the truth expounded by some secret publications that his small circle can see, and it also strengthens their beliefs.

"Three boys! What nonsense are you talking about?! Daddy Du didn't understand what the two of them whispered at first, but now he understands, he dares to say that the emperor is not, and he also questions the prince and grandson, Daddy Du blushed, almost wanted to give the three men a whip, and scolded: "Your ancestors who ran errands for the British have forgotten?!" You paid to send you to school, what did you learn?! If you don't understand something, you get me off! Get out! ”

Ye Zhao rubbed his nose, but he didn't expect Daddy Du to react so much.

The third man muttered: "You don't know what to do with it......"

"Bang", the whip was drawn, and fortunately, the three men were not whipped in the cotton clothes, but they could only jump out of the car helplessly, and said: "Okay, I'll go back to the head office by myself, right?" He arched his hand to Ye Zhao and said, "Mr. Wen, see you later." ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, and when he saw him turn around, he handed the business card in his hand to Zheng Aqiao, who didn't say anything and put it away.

The old man was still angry, and he was not very polite to Ye Zhao, obviously thinking that Ye Zhao was not a serious person, but he promised to keep his promise, and muttered that he drove the ox cart on the road.

When Ye Zhao saw it, he could only smile bitterly.

(To be continued)