His father only felt that the duty of the soldiers was to protect the family and defend the country, and if they reduced their expenditures, they could benefit the people, so why not? It's just that his father never expected that there would be one and two, and slowly, the military salary allocated by the imperial court was no longer enough to support the Yan family's army.

Yan Zenyi paused, and said, "Actually, I still have a way, if my uncle is willing to help me, I will definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort!" ”

"Oh?" Su Ruoshui seemed to be interested.

He was thinking about how to help Yan Jiajun solve this dilemma just now, just relying on the abduction of a thirteen-year-old girl must be a drop in the bucket.

But this little girl is full of whimsical ideas, and I don't know if what she wants to say now will be another bad idea.

So Su Ruoshui didn't agree, so he had to look at her for a while and said, "You talk about your method first, I will listen to it, and I can help if I can." ”

"There has been no war in the Great Zhou for more than ten years, and as long as the Prince of Wei is still in the Great Zhou, I believe that the frontier is also very stable. In this way, it is better to persuade my father to let those soldiers who voluntarily go back to their hometown to leave, I believe that many soldiers still have their own relatives, and they should all want to go back to see it. ”

"You can let them voluntarily choose whether to take a pen of money to cancel their military status, or just take a long vacation to return to their hometown, but the income in this long vacation will naturally be halved."

Yan Chanyi paused, took a sip of the tea in the tea bowl and continued, "The rest of you who are unwilling to leave can apply to the emperor for a few barren mountains near the outskirts of Beijing, and let those soldiers open up the wasteland and farm the land by themselves, so that they can not only be self-sufficient, but also exchange the rich grain for silver." ”

"Barren Mountain? Even if the barren mountains are cleared, they can only be used to grow fruit trees or something, so why can they be used to grow food? And if the soldiers don't get meaty, how will they go to the front line to fight in the future? Su Ruoshui felt very reasonable when he listened to the first half, but he took it for granted in the second half.

Are barren mountains so easy to clear? And to grow food in the mountains? In the end, she is just a ten-year-old girl, although she is smart, but she also lacks experience.

"I have a way to make the barren mountains grow food! You can even grow meat! Yan Zenyi said conclusively, looked around and asked, "Uncle Tang, do you have a pen and paper?" I'll draw it for you. ”

Although Su Ruoshui felt that it was unbelievable to grow meat, looking at the sparkle in her eyes, he inexplicably believed that she really had a way. So he didn't say anything, so he got up and went to the inner room to get a pen and paper, and handed it to Yan Zenyi's hand.

Feng Yue outside the door coughed softly at this time, but Yan Zenyi was engrossed in the drawings in his hand and didn't hear it at all.

"The reason why the barren mountains are barren is only because the composition of the land is not good, as long as you set fire to the mountains first, let the grass ashes turn into nutrients, and then take enough chicken manure to nourish them, within three months, the land will become very fertile."

Yan Zenyi did not stop in his hand, and his mouth was also eloquently explained, "The one I painted is called a terraced field, which reclaims the mountain into a staircase shape layer by layer, and then uses a water wheel to lead the water up, so that each layer of the field will be irrigated by water." “

"This kind of field is the best place to grow rice, and the fry can help the rice eat the mayflies in the water that harm the growth of the rice, and the fry will grow faster and better than ordinary fry."

Yan Zenyi was a farmer's daughter in her last life, and she had been plowing and harvesting for more than ten years for her family, and she also noticed that there were waterwheels and rice in this era.

In addition, in the library of Guozijian, I also saw a large map of the capital, and knew that there were several barren mountains on the outskirts of Beijing, and someone had planted fruit trees on that mountain, and the fruits that were taken were small and astringent, so they were disgusted and deserted there.

This idea was formed in my mind at that time, but I asked my father tentatively, and my father seemed to think that it was a very absurd thing to let the soldiers go to farm.

Su Ruoshui looked at the drawings in his hand, his eyes were slightly bright, and he seemed to be very excited, but he asked with some suspicion, "Where did you learn about this?" ”

Yan Zenyi paused, and wanted to say that he saw it in an ancient book. But I also remembered that Su Ruoshui had read a lot of books at the age of five, and he had more treasured ancient books than the ones in the palace library.

So I had to make a half-truth and half-truth, "Uncle Cousin knows that I couldn't speak or think for thirteen years? ”

Su Ruoshui was slightly stunned, frowning slightly, he had only heard that she used to be a famous idiot in the capital, and she had only recently begun to emerge.

I thought that the rumors were just false rumors, but I didn't know that she had lived like a walking corpse for thirteen years, no wonder I saw that cousin every New Year, I was always sad and depressed, and I never brought Yan Zen clothes to my grandfather's house.

"Actually, I'm not stupid, it's just that I have a wisp of soul and traveled with an old man who claims to be a fairy. These are all things he taught me, and he also taught me many other useful things, which you will learn slowly later. Yan Zenyi kept staring at Su Ruoshui when he said this.

She was actually very weak-hearted, although from Su Ruoshui's eyes when she saw the drawings of the terraces, she believed that Su Ruoshui really had no memory of her previous life.

But immortals or something, people like Su Ruoshui who only read the books of sages may not believe it all.

"So he taught you how to compose poetry?" Su Ruoshui really didn't believe in any soul gods or anything like that, but the drawings in his hand and the poems that came from her mouth really couldn't help but be unbelievable.

Coupled with the dreams that have been repeated recently, it has also made him have an inexplicable belief in these ghosts and gods.

"Hehe, if you see a lot, you will naturally write, my master said that it is better to read ten thousand books than to travel ten thousand miles." Yan Zenyi was a little weak-hearted, and directly called the made-up immortal as the master.

"It's better to travel thousands of miles than to read 10,000 books......," Su Ruoshui repeated in a low voice, as if she had been persuaded by her, and then asked, "So you want Ben Hou to help you convince your father and make him agree to let the soldiers open up the wasteland?" ”

Feng Yue outside the door coughed twice, and this time Yan Zenyi finally heard it.

But Yan Zenyi was really embarrassed to respond, so he had to pretend not to know and said to Su Ruoshui, "Yes, my father, I think that clearing the wasteland and farming should not be the work of the soldiers." Although he is not a scholar, he also has a clear height that does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice. ”

"Have you ever thought that in fact, your father listens to your mother's words the most." Su Ruoshui was a little hesitant, saying that the prince was a well-known favorite wife, but for the words of the people next to him, he always only listened to what he wanted to hear, and he was not sure that he could convince him.

"I know, but not necessarily. Even though my father dotes on his wife, the soldiers are also his bottom line. Everyone thinks that my father would never dare to deceive my mother about anything, but in fact, my father has been secretly subsidizing military funds for more than two years, and my mother only found out a few days ago. Yan Zenyi said helplessly.

In fact, of course, she thought about letting her mother persuade her upright father with affection and reason, but she was afraid that there would be a rift between the two because of this incident.

In her eyes, her father and mother are a fairy couple made in heaven, and it would be a great sin if the two quarreled because of this. She would rather starve her whole family together than see her father and mother like that.

"In this way, your brother also has a small branch of the Yan family army in his hands, and the two of us will go to him together tomorrow and persuade him to lead the army to secretly open up the wasteland first. Wait for your rice to sprout on the barren mountain, and then go together to convince your father. ”

Su Ruoshui thought about it, Lord Yan is a person who is too upright, maybe it is more secure to start from Yan Shizi.

"Waiting for germination?" Yan Zenyi was a little deflated when he heard this, but he also knew that what Su Ruoshui said was reasonable, and facts speak louder than words.

So she nodded seriously and said, "How about going to Liuxianglou for dinner together tomorrow?" ”

"Okay." Su Ruoshui responded seriously, and said, "I will also think about it carefully, maybe there will be a better and faster way." The scholar here tonight is actually just a candidate who intends to recruit but has not really accepted it, if you can take it all away, this candidate will not have a complaint. ”

Yan Zenyi only felt that the sun had come out of the west, and Su Ruoshui would explain it to himself seriously!

Yan Chanyi looked at Su Ruoshui suspiciously, and saw that he was just quietly looking at the cup of tea in his hand that had long been out of temperature, and then said, "Then I will thank my uncle first, it's not too early, I'll go back first." ”

Until she left the courtyard where Su Ruoshui lived, Su Ruoshui didn't look back.

He was also a little puzzled as to why he would explain it to her in such detail. Maybe it's because of tonight's conversation that he saw her trust in him.

She actually told herself why she was stupid for thirteen years, and the current poverty and embarrassment of the Yan Palace, all of which must have stemmed from her trust in herself, right?

As soon as he got into the carriage, Yan Zenyi couldn't wait to ask about the situation in Yun Xuanji's study.

As a result, there were seven poor students in the study, but only one was good at words, and the other six would also discuss academics with Xuanji Gongzi, but they were obviously not as good as that one.

However, Yun Xuanji felt that his gallery didn't really need to be good at words.

First, it is easy for people who are good at speech to habitually slip around and pat horses, and if they can really enter the court in the future, it may not be a blessing for the people. Second, the gallery originally took the cold route, and those who were good at words lowered the grade.

So Yun Xuanji privately chose three cold-looking and knowledgeable people and invited them to join his gallery.

As for the other three, there is one who is very top-notch in calligraphy and danqing, and the other is good at chanting poetry, and the rest of the one, under the backdrop of several people, it is a little too mediocre.

It's the one who can speak well, but he is a person who is good at music and rhythm, and he is proficient in everything about the guqin and flute, but because he doesn't have a musical instrument around, he can't recognize what he said is true, and it's still an exaggeration.

It's just that in order not to hurt the self-esteem of the readers, Yun Xuanji still promised to send invitations to all four of them, and also knocked a few words, the people who received the invitations were either rich or expensive or talented, and let them weigh whether they wanted to come on the opening day.