H2> last night's drizzle drifted slightly, the prosperity of Chang'an is slim, the first spring rain in March, completely announced the end of winter, the arrival of spring, but also to remind the farmers on the Central Plains, is the beginning of another year of hard work.

The breeze was blowing, and there was a little coolness, but Xue Laohan was stunned when he habitually wrapped the clothes on his body, the close-fitting woolen sweater could not be like his linen clothes, this woolen sweater was not easy to pull, and the warmth effect was a hundred times better than that of Mai.

Not far away, on the black soil, a team of officials was lining up, lying head to head in the vegetable field, pulling out the weeds next to the potatoes, which looked a little funny.

Xue Laohan's thoughts fell into memories again......

Emperor Xi à, the respect of the ninety-five, the ordinary boss's surname Mo said that he could talk to him, and it was a great fortune to even meet him, Xue Laohan built the canal for Emperor Yang of Sui for three years, and the biggest official he saw was only the eunuch of the palace general, as for Emperor Yang of Sui, he only saw the luxuriously decorated, repaired huge imperial flower boat, Emperor Yang of Sui couldn't even see a shadow.

And now, he can be regarded as a person who has seen the emperor, and if future generations talk about it, it will be an incomparably glorious thing.

"Old man, how expensive is it this year? What is the size of the family? "The voice of the emperor's majesty is very good, better than the bird cry in the mountains and forests, so that when Xu Laohan heard this voice, he was excited and almost shouted.

"Back to ...... Back to His Majesty, the old man's name is Xue Zhiqian, he is forty-nine years old this year, and he has a mother-in-law and two teenage dolls at home. For some reason, when Xue Laohan answered Li Er's question, his voice didn't tremble, and there was a faint sense of pride.

"Oh~" Li Er looked at the old man in front of him and asked familiarly, "How is the harvest in the field?" Can the family still live? ”

"If you go back to your majesty, last year's harvest was 236 stones, which is enough for your family to live." Xue Laohan wanted to lie, but when he saw Li Er's clear eyes, he finally told the truth. The emperor in front of him looked very young, at most in his thirties, which made Xue Laohan not so awkward to speak.

"Huh?" Li Er's eyebrows raised, "Why do you gain so little?" I remember that I had been planting potatoes on a large scale in Lantian County last year, didn't you grow them at home? ”

"Back to your majesty, where is the rare thing like potatoes that the old man can grow, plus the land in the old man's house is barren and there is a lot of rubble, so I haven't been able to get potato seeds, and last year the fields were planted with wheat." Xue Laohan said word by word.

Li Er's eyebrows condensed into a pimple, and he shouted to the white eyebrows on the side: "Call the county magistrate and the lord of Lantian County, and I want to ask them face to face, why don't you distribute potato seeds to this old man." ”

Confronting the emperor face-to-face This kind of thing is only a fool to do, so when Lantian County Ling Yunye was called for questioning, his first reaction was to kowtow to the sky and shout wronged, crying while shouting, crying made a listener sad, and the listener shed tears, and even Li Er couldn't hold it back.

"Your Majesty, it's not that the lower officials don't distribute potato seeds to Uncle Xue, but that this potato seed is not enough at all! After planting for one season, all the grain produced in the first season was planted as seeds, and only more than half of the families in the entire Lantian County could try to plant this novel crop. Therefore, Xiaguan absolutely has no private collection of good seeds, and the world can learn from it. "Lantian County Commander Yun Ye has always been the county commander with the best reputation among the four counties in Chang'an, so his explanation also made Li Er dissipate his anger.

Waving his sleeves, Li Er said very generously: "It seems that I am wrong to blame the Yunxian order, the Yunxian order is well governed, and it can be regarded as a great contribution to the timely development of the method. ”

It can be described as a great blessing for people not to be blamed, but to be rewarded, Lantian County Ling Yunye smiled a flower on his face, and hurriedly kowtowed a few times, shouting "Your Majesty Xià Shengming." Only then did he send Li Er away.

"Old man, I see that you are dressed well, presumably the family is already rich, I will set up the pro-farmland not far from you and this mountainous land, and I will often come here in the future to see how the potatoes are grown."

Hearing Li Er say that he was coming, Xue Laohan's face was bright as if he could see the fireworks, and he nodded a few times, and Xue Laohan watched the emperor leave at this time......

This year's spring ploughing in the Xu family is a bit special, going door to door, men, women and children are carrying hoes and leading ploughing cattle to the large plain in front of Nanshan, which seems to be a very grand ceremony.

This year's spring ploughing Xuyang did not come, but Liu Dongliang went to command a large number of farmers, working in the field, now Xujiazhuang is the most typical rich village in the Tang Dynasty, almost every household in the village has a cultivated cattle, some slightly richer people still have more than one ploughing cattle at home, but there are more ploughing cattle, there are many accidents, Nanshan County Ya often comes to Xujiazhuang and another ploughing cow fell to death on the road This kind of strange notice, and the person who reported to the official is the manager of Xujiazhuang every time, and the county order of Nanshan County is also a big head; What does the people in the Xu family like to eat, why do they like to eat beef? This is a crime against the law in Tang Law, and it is punishable by exile.

But there is no way, people say that he fell to his death, even if no one believes it, but for the sake of the face of the silver handed over, you have to believe it if you don't believe it.

Having said that, with enough ploughing cattle, coupled with Xu Yang's original let Li Er issue the world's Quyuan plough, the efficiency of spring ploughing is about six or seven times faster than in previous years, only one afternoon, the largest field in Xujiazhuang has been all plowed again, in the cheers of men, women and children, Liu Dongliang announced that this year's spring ploughing is officially over, and then, it is to distribute the improved potatoes planted this year.

Hundreds of farmers lined up in a long line, staring wistfully at the front of the line, where Liu Dongliang was organizing the distribution of potato seeds.

"My family has 30 acres of land, counting the eldest brother's 10 acres of Yongye land, there are a total of 40 acres of land." A strong man with bared front teeth said excitedly.

"I'll do the math for you, you have to plant thirty catties of potatoes per acre, and your family has a total of forty acres of land, which is one hundred and two catties, well, give it, this is your strip, go to the back and get the seeds." A mustachioed man in a tent shirt handed the strong man a note, and the big man rushed to the back of a tent that had been set up at zero hour.

After a while of getting into the tent, Dahan happily came out with a sack of potatoes, probably because the potatoes were too heavy, Dahan was a little out of breath when he walked, but this did not affect his pace, and he quickly moved a sack of potatoes to his field, carefully opened the bag, and began to plant potatoes, a rare plant......

"Come to the heavens~Call Dad, call Dad~" Xu Yang sat on a recliner, holding Xu Xingtang in his arms, teasing him from time to time.

"Quack, quack~" Xu Xingtang is more than six months old, and he can't speak, even the words are croaking, and he talks like a frog.

"Haha, heavenly thing, it's not quack, it's Dad." The family is small, if there is a treasure, this son naturally brings endless joy to Xu Yang.

"Quack." Xu Xingtang was held on Xu Yang's shoulder, and he was also amused.

"Oh, husband, how can you teach heavenly things to talk nonsense here." Liu Mengli snorted, hurriedly picked Xu Xingtang up from Xu Yang's arms, pointed at Xu Yang softly and said, "That's Daddy, not Baba." ”

The little celestial thing didn't seem to quite understand, blinking his big eyes, not understanding what to say.

"Heavenly things, come and ask your mother to listen to it~ Read it to your mother~Mother~" Liu Mengli also poured great love into this son, and there was a lot of love in her eyes.

"Mother's heart, mother's heart." The little celestial thing fluttered his little hands laboriously and spoke happily.

"Yes, yes~ the heavenly thing is really good, it will be called a mother." At this time, Liu Mengli had a happy smile on her face...... R1152