The peach blossoms thanked the sky full of fragrant flowers, and in the blink of an eye, the residual red was gone, and it became a green leaf.

A horse hurried towards the Song Mansion.

Wu Gui turned over and dismounted, and said to the porter Quanbo, "I want to see Jiulang." ”

Quan Bo went in to report, Song Jiu let Wu Gui in, and asked him suspiciously, "Why did you come back alone?" ”

"Something is not good."

"Say," Song Jiuxin immediately hung up. Yuping wanted to come back, he first asked the three Khitan merchants to cooperate, and then borrowed their hands to bring a large number of gifts. Father Yu is Song Jiu's second father-in-law after all, at least in Song Jiu's heart. Then ask Wu Gui to take a sea boat and some small boats to pick up Yuping.

Now that Wu Gui had returned early, Song Jiu was worried.

"It's not good."

"Calm down and speak slowly."

"Jiulang, let's pick up people, and the Yu family didn't slack off, but the father of the Jade Lady said something, what did the queen of the Qifan hear about the talent of the Jade Lady, and gave an order to let the Jade Lady take it to Khitan Zhongjing, accompany her, and teach the Khitan arithmetic accounting physicology. The father of the Jade Lady did not dare to disobey the order, so he could only let several Khitan Yellow Gates and officers and soldiers take the Jade Lady and the big and small Su away. ”

"What is he not protecting?" Pan Li'er said angrily.

"Looks like I was careless and kept Apple too long. Can't blame her father, that Xiao Yanyan ......" Song Jiu sighed, if something happened, he had to find a way, Song Jiu walked around and asked Wu Gui: "Has the boat come back now?" ”

"No, we made an excuse and parked in Dengzhou."

"You're doing a great job. I immediately drew four thousand gold and ten thousand taels of silver. You escort them secretly onto the ship, and then give the gold and silver to the Yu family. Let the Jade Lady's father use the money for activities. By the way, I wrote a letter to him, and Ping Ping is proficient in arithmetic and accounting, and she doesn't know anything about physical science. The Khitan wanted to learn arithmetic and accounting, and the academy had carved many books and related textbooks and published them in the world. The Empress Xiao of the Liao State detained the jade apple, which did not help the Liao State much. I wrote another letter to Yuping, asking the Yu family to ask his maternal father's Ma family to find a relationship to bring to Yuping, and the letter instructed Yuping to teach her what she knew, so as not to anger the Khitans. What she understands can be found in books. Then Jade Apple will be able to bring me back. ”

"yes."

Wu Gui took the order to go down.

It happened suddenly. But now it is still very easy to get the jade apple back, the two countries are on good terms, and the Khitan is also afraid of the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty. Whether it was helping the Northern Han to make the Song army fight badly, or Tian Qinzuo's 3,000 to 60,000, the Khitans were somewhat afraid. Therefore, in the past few years, the Khitan did not want to have many events, until a few years later. Besides, Yuping's identity is just a concubine, and Yu's father is not a big Khitan person.

However, the matter was most troubled by the imperial court.

Thinking of the imperial court, Song Jiu couldn't laugh or cry again.

Pan Li'er's face was still very worried: "Official, the concubine suddenly thought of a story. ”

"What's the story?"

"The white fox you talked about."

"You're thinking nonsense. That white fox was forced by you at the time, otherwise I wouldn't have said it, it's just a coincidence, I told so many stories of joys and sorrows. If they are verified by my family one by one, will they still survive? However, Song Jiu was somewhat worried, and asked Qingshu to bring a letter to the north. Just in case. The scope of the Khitan royal family's activities was the Four Seasons Bowl, east to Changchun Prefecture. North to Shangjing, the middle in Zhongjing. South to Youzhou, there was also a period of time in Youzhou. This is another opportunity, if those three merchants have the ability to bring Yuping back, Song Jiu is willing to give them a bounty of 100,000 yuan. This is a huge amount of money, not to mention in the Khitan, even in the capital, it is enough to make everyone's hearts move.

However, although two arrangements were made, this incident happened, and Song Jiu was still not very happy in his heart.

Soon after, news came back from the north.

The three families have reaped a lot of benefits in this matter, and they are not very happy about such a thing. What is the country in their hearts, and they themselves are Han people in Youzhou. Therefore, the merit will be attributed, and the matter will be inquired very clearly.

The reason is very simple, Yu's father was very happy when he saw his daughter, the tiger poison does not eat the child, it cannot be said that Yu's father is vicious with his intentions, and Yuping came to Xiao Yanyan's side, and the Yu family has no benefit. The father and daughter cried at the reunion. Later, Yuping taught several half-siblings arithmetic at Yu's house.

The heavy snow fell, and Yuping was homesick, but Yu's father missed his daughter, so he persuaded his daughter to find a good family in Khitan again. may not be as rich as Song Jiu, but in the Song family, she is always a concubine, not a wife.

Don't talk about the husband and wife relationship between Yuping and Song Jiu, Yuping still has a son and daughter. did not agree, and in turn lobbied his father to defect to the Song Dynasty. Neither father nor daughter persuaded anyone. Then we have to separate. When spring came, the father and daughter tacitly did not mention who defected to whom, and then waited for the Song family's ship to come.

However, I don't know what the reason for the Dao was that the news reached the ears of the queen of Liao, Xiao Yanyan secretly sent someone to inquire about Yuping's past, and learned that Ruoda Hezhou was once controlled by Yuping, and Yuping was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, arithmetic accounting, and maybe even knew about physical science, she was very surprised, so she sent someone to forcibly take Yuping to Zhongjing when Yuping was about to leave the Khitan.

Song Jiu thought about it for a long time, maybe Xiao Yanyan took a fancy to Yuping's management ability, compared to this ability, how strong Xiao Yanyan is, Song Jiu knows the way, that is the Empress Dowager Xiao that the Yang family generals repeatedly said, the famous Empress Dowager in Chinese history.

She is mostly interested in some of the techniques in the science of physical arts, such as gunpowder and steel.

But where will this jade apple?

So he asked them to bring the news to the Yu family, Yuping doesn't know how to learn physically, and it will be a simple thing, if the Khitan has a heart, he can also get relevant teaching materials, if he doesn't believe it, he can send a scout to inquire.

However, when this incident happened, Song Jiu was very unhappy in his heart, and Pan Li'er said worriedly at home: "Official, is it that my family is too full." ”

"You are talking nonsense again, what is my family full of, if you talk about money and silk, although I earn a lot of money, it has all been dispersed, how much money is left in my family, if you talk about official positions, I don't have any officials now, if this is also called full, do those prime ministers of the court still have to work?"

At this time, Song Jiu had not fully realized the benefits of rights.

The third son of the Zhu family and the fourth son of the Zhao family rushed to the capital from Dengzhou and cried. Song Jiu said to them, "Why are you crying? It only takes a little bit of trouble for Jade to come back. ”

It's really not good, you can smash Jade back with money.

The Great Food Messenger is here again, and if you get the benefits, there will be more and more "messengers" in the future. Jiangnan was still "grinding foreign workers", and Wang Ming fought with the Southern Tang army in Jiangzhou, beheading more than 2,000 people. Wu Yue's soldiers besieged Changzhou, and the general Jin Chengli arrested Shi Yu Wancheng and surrendered the city. The main reason is that Yu Wancheng is not as deep as the military and the people, and once the Zhaofu goes, this east gate will not be able to be defended sooner or later. Pan Mei took Dongguan of Jinling City again.

Zhao Kuangyin watched wheat and planted rice.

In the past, the emperor watched wheat and rice planting, all of which were carried out in Yujin Garden, one of the four royal gardens. This garden has two functions, one is for the emperor and important ministers to play and feast the place, the other is to plant crops, plant a large number of mulberry wheat rice, the emperor in order to show the importance of agriculture, often come to watch the mulberry and wheat rice, and even go down to work in person. In addition, there are two minor functions, that is, to keep some foreign tribute animals, or to occasionally review the army here.

However, this time Zhao Kuangyin took the minister to Henan.

Wheat is not planted much, only more than five acres of land.

Some ministers have come to see it, and many ministers have not, and they have seen the yellow ears of wheat growing in the wheat field, and they are all stunned.

Lu Duosun said, "Shuomai. ”

"But it can't be promoted, otherwise it's hard to imagine," Chu Zhaofu said regretfully.

But does it grow well? Song Jiu thought about the growth of wheat in this life, and then thought about the wheat in his previous life, and he didn't know if it grew well.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Song Jiu, send someone to harvest." ”

"Okay."

Zhao Kuangyin was slow for a while, so he asked the guards to go down to harvest, in order to get a certain yield, he told the guards to slow down, not to miss any wheat straw, and not to drop the wheat grains to the ground. Then he ordered the officials to measure it himself.

He did a good job of this, he was not afraid to report it, I came to see it in person, and I came to measure it in person, but Song Jiu didn't take it seriously, even if it was a thousand catties, it couldn't be promoted, even if it was four hundred catties, it didn't hurt, and the yield was definitely much higher than that in other wheat fields.

The wheat was cut and dried for two days before it could be threshed, Zhao Kuangyin sent personal guards to guard it, and even the students didn't let them touch it, and took the ministers back. On the third day, this time not only to calculate the yield, but also to observe the rice, not only in the Henan test field, but also in the Yujin Garden to carry rice.

Zhao Kuangyin also wants to know where the limit of grain yield is after the application of the best seeds, the most scientific planting methods, the best soil, and various artificial fertilizers.

There are a lot of people, for these few acres of wheat, more than 100 people will go into battle immediately, and the wheat will be beaten out after a while, just the sun is good, put it on the small grain field to dry, Zhao Kuangyin took the ministers to Shundian to eat. It started to dry in the afternoon, and it should take another two days to dry the wheat moisture, but Zhao Kuangyin couldn't wait, and it was impossible to wait for it for several days.

Soon the wheat was cleaned, and several officials weighed it with a scale, whether it was a ruler or a scale, they all used Song Jiu's standardized weights and measures instrument to measure. Also, Song Jiu doesn't attach too much importance to it, and there is no need to deceive. So the measurement was very accurate.

After weighing, the two officials of the three provinces calculated, one of them came from the study, not the academy, and was one of the first students of Song Jiu to go out first. One person took a big abacus and quickly calculated it, obviously not believing it, and looked at each other again before making calculations. After counting three times in a row, one of the officials said: "Lu Xianggong is right, Shuomai, Shuomai!" ”

Zhao Kuangyin shouted: "How much is the bottom." ”

This yield must make me know, what are you shouting, don't you report me quickly? (To be continued......)