Xue Laohan is forty-nine years old this year, at this age, he is already an old man in the local Zhuangzi, but Xue Laohan does not feel old at all now, but has a feeling of being younger and younger. +

When Xue Laohan was young, his family was surrounded by four walls and was poor, and his ancestors had three generations of poor peasants, and their ancestors had lived in Lantian County in Chang'an for generations.

When Xue Laohan was in his twenties, he happened to catch up with the construction of the canal, was pulled into a strong man, soaked in the water to repair the canal for more than two years, and fell into the root of the disease.

From the ninth year of the Great Cause, Yang Xuangan raised troops against the Sui, and in the fourteenth year of the Great Cause, Li Yuan invaded Chang'an, and there were many soldiers in the country.

Xue Laohan was relatively timid, otherwise he would not have almost been soaked to death in the canal, so when the world rose up against Sui, he hid in his old home in Lantian County, waiting for the rebels to attack Chang'an, or Emperor Yang of Sui to eliminate the rebellion.

Fortunately, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was mediocre, and when the whole country raised troops, he also sent troops to Goryeo, and the century-old foundation of the Sui Dynasty was finally destroyed.

The Sui Dynasty fell, and it was the Li family who finally ascended the throne and became the king, and the head of the family, Li Yuan, took the name of the country as Tang, granted amnesty to the world, and issued a public decree.

Among the people at the bottom, it doesn't matter who is the emperor, as long as they can feed themselves and clothe themselves. That's the good emperor.

After Li Yuan ascended the throne. Sure enough, he was not as stupid as the Sui Dynasty. Instead, they adopted the policy of recuperating and recuperating and supporting the people with agriculture, and the Chinese people, who had been greatly injured, also eased their anger a little, and although food and cloth were still in short supply, the peasants and peasants could still get by.

Those years were the hardest and happiest years for Xue Laohan, and the emperor changed. The land in the surrounding counties of Chang'an began to be redivided, and Xue Laohan was divided into fifty acres of land, although the geology of the land is not very good, and there are many rubble and stones, but after all, it is larger than the land of ordinary farmers, and although it is hard, the grain produced is still more.

Fifty acres of land, Xue Laohan was planted with wheat, in Lantian County, one is eight years, eight years. It can be regarded as a smooth wind and rain, and there is no big natural disaster. I have to say that Li Yuan is also a king who follows the rules and has quite a lot of achievements.

But the yield of wheat is too low after all, fifty acres of land, Xue Laohan relied on it to marry a daughter-in-law, and gave birth to two sons, life is a little tight, the old house of the family was still repaired eight years ago, and now it leaks water every rainy weather, and wind leaks in winter, but Xue Laohan lacks no extra money to repair the house.

The days flew by, and in a flash, a major event happened in Chang'an City, several princes who had grown up finally couldn't help coveting the throne, and finally staged a big scene of brothers killing each other in Xuanwu Gate, Li Shimin became the final victor, and also forced Li Yuan to abdicate in one fell swoop, and he ascended the throne of the emperor.

To be honest, Xue Laohan didn't care at all after hearing these news, he didn't care if Prince Yin's henchmen had been cleared, and he didn't care about Li Shimin's slaughter of his eldest brother and sister-in-law's family, all he cared about was that the one-third of an acre of land at home could have more harvests.

The changes in the situation in the court did not affect Xue Laohan's family, but the weather did not rain for a long time, which made Xue Laohan's brows furrow day by day, and it was not a way to go on like this.

Li Er seems to be a bad star, he just ascended the throne, and that year there was a great drought, and it was rumored that he angered the heavens, so the heavens punished Tang.

Xue Laohan didn't know whose fault it was, but looking at the yellow and dwarf wheat growing in the field due to lack of water, Xue Laohan was anxious.

Fortunately, there was a heavy rain during the drought period, and the grain in the surrounding counties of Chang'an finally survived the spring.

At that time, Xue Laohan was very happy, and he also bought two pieces of pork in a rush to Chang'an, and brought them back to his own doll to try it, Xue Laohan still clearly remembered that Chang'an at that time began to have some slight changes, and some crystal clear crystal glass began to appear on the street, and specially fried tea began to be sold.

Since then, Chang'an seems to have ushered in a spring, it seems that there is a Mr. Guigu from overseas who came to Chang'an and paid tribute to His Majesty the immortal grass, and His Majesty gave him a fief in the foothills of the southern side of Chang'an.

Xue Laohan didn't know who that person was, and he didn't want to know, his heart wasn't so big, all he cared about was that his daughter-in-law and son could be fed and clothed.

Xue Laohan began to face the loess with his back to the sky, Chang'an, he never went again, but soon, Chang'an came with a shocking news, in early summer, there will be a large-scale locust plague in the surrounding counties of Chang'an, at that time, the grain in the ground will be eaten by locusts.

In Xue Laohan's head, the locust plague is a measure of punishment from the heavens, and only when the emperor of the world makes a great mistake, the heavens will send disaster to the people.

Just when Xue Laohan was at a loss, the village chief publicized an edict from the emperor in the village, that is, let the people raise more chickens and ducks in order to prevent and control the locust plague.

Consistent money, that is, a thousand dollars, this is a great thing in the eyes of Xue Laohan, he hurriedly went to the West Market to buy more than a dozen chickens, plus the chickens at home, just enough for twenty, then rushed to Xujiazhuang, found the account, and exchanged the consistent money with excitement.

Since then, Xue Laohan began to carefully raise these twenty poultry, and the family has also been greatly improved because of the consistent money, not only the ration money for the poultry, but also the two babies in the family have money to add new clothes.

Since I heard that raising chickens and ducks can be exchanged for money, Chang'an surrounding villages and counties have begun to raise chickens and ducks, for a time the price of Chang'an chickens and ducks has risen sharply, quite "Chang'an chickens are expensive" makes people laugh.

Xue Laohan has never seen such a thing, he has lived for more than 40 years, he is the first time to see the situation of chickens and ducks all over the mountains, and thanks to these chickens and ducks, the original huge locust plague was strangled when the locusts spread their wings, and the chickens and ducks all over the mountains pecked at the locusts everywhere, which also reduced the huge losses of the farmers who had been psychologically prepared.

As soon as the locust incident passed, the life of the family seemed to have become better, and the chickens and ducks raised at home were directly killed and eaten when they could not lay eggs, which also made the two dolls in the family feast.

When Xue Laohan went to Chang'an to catch the market, he not only heard that Datang's ocean-going fleet was fully loaded, but also heard that Chang'an was going to cancel the curfew.

However, these things are very far away from him, what he is concerned about is still his own life, and it has been more than half a year, and in half a year, the army of the Tang Dynasty has moved frequently, and a unit codenamed "Chengguan E Team" has fought bravely and unfavorably, defeating Goryeo and exterminating the Turks, creating a very good production environment for the Tang Dynasty, and the people around Chang'an no longer have to worry about foreigners entering Chang'an.

At the same time, the good news is not only this, one of the most ecstatic for Xue Laohan is that Chang'an posted an imperial list, announcing that the first batch of overseas high-yield crops will be planted in Lantian County, and the things planted are called potatoes, I heard that the yield per mu can exceed fifty stones, this kind of yield, Xue Laohan can't think of it, but since the DPRK and China have sent officials to implement it, it must be true.

Lantian County Ling Yunye took a group of Lantian people, planted dozens of acres of potatoes, looking forward to the summer harvest, sure enough, when it came to the potato harvest season, the eye-catching yield made Xue Laohan, who had dealt with the land all his life, swallow his saliva, if this thing can really be eaten, he believes that the people of Datang will never rebel again, a batch of harvest in summer, all as seeds, after Lantian, and in Nanshan, Chang'an County planted hundreds of acres, just wait until the third batch in spring, you can plant it nationwide...... (To be continued......)