Ye Qingxin's beautiful eyes were full of smiles, watching her son say word by word, and then, she moved her gaze to Ye Xia and changed the topic: "Mother was taken into the palace by me before,

Speaking of the drawings you showed your father and eldest brother a drawing called Kang, saying that the kang is a good thing, and saying that with this kang, those poor people who can't afford to wear thick clothes and thick quilts can survive the cold winter safely.

I was quite surprised after hearing it, but I didn't think about it, a few days later, the emperor not only gave his bedroom someone a fire kang, and gave me a plate in this Qifeng Palace, and after the fire kang can sleep normally, I slept on it for a night, and it felt really warm.

The emperor said that the kang should be popularized as much as possible throughout the country, especially in the northern region, so that the common people can spend the winter in peace, so that many people will not freeze to death when the winter is the coldest time.

By the way, the emperor was going to reward his father, but he was told by his father that the drawings of the fire kang were you came up with, and I thought that the emperor would reward you when he was free. ”

Looking at Ye Qingxin and her honorable appearance, Ye Xia smiled: "Where did I come up with it, I accidentally looked at it from an idle book, so I tried to let my subordinates try to make a few fire kangs,

They also asked them to teach the tenants on the Zhuangzi to put on the kang on the plate, and everyone said that it was warm after sleeping, saying that it was a good thing to spend the winter, so I drew the drawings and showed them to my father and brother.

Thinking about the limited ability of my family, if my father and brother can present this map to the emperor, and the emperor will start to operate it, it should be able to benefit the people of the north soon. But after all, the fire kang is indoors, once people go out, there is no suitable cold-proof clothing and shoes and socks to wear, it is still difficult to avoid the possibility of freezing to death. ”

"But what's the solution?"

Ye Qingxin's eyebrows were dyed with melancholy: "Animal fur is not an object that ordinary people can afford, this winter, there are a lot of poor people wearing single clothes, better ones, hands and feet are diligent in collecting catkins in the spring,

In autumn, collect reed flowers, use these to fill clothes to keep out the cold, and the other is straw, such as a kind of ura grass in the northeast, which can also be hammered into clothes, quilts and shoes to keep warm, but you don't have to think about it, you can imagine how effective those things are to keep out the cold. ”

For what Ye Qingxin said, how can Ye Xia not know?

But the current social development is like this, and then there is, without considering her unexpected existence, if you want the people to be well fed and clothed, and avoid the social form of starvation and freezing to death,

At least the process of the times has to be pushed to the end of the feudal dynasty, and even to the social system with the common people as the main body. Reason? Very simply, according to the normal historical trend, the Tang Dynasty was replaced by the Song Dynasty, and from the Song Dynasty to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, even in the early stage of the formation of a new social system, there were still local areas where people starved to death and froze to death.

Therefore, in the feudal and backward era of the Great Xia Dynasty, which is equivalent to the Great Song Dynasty, but the development of materials and other aspects is still somewhat different from that of the early Song Dynasty, it is necessary to solve the problem of the common people having enough food and wearing warm clothes as soon as possible.

Completely putting an end to such human tragedies as starvation and freezing to death is undoubtedly a fool's dream. clearly understands this, so what does Ye Xia want to do for this era, to be precise,

What to do for the ordinary people of this world and those "slaves" who have no dignity, whose lives are not in their own hands, and whose lives can be decided by the words of the powerful.

Sighing secretly, Ye Xia looked at Ye Qingxin with a straight face, and said, "Everything will be fine." ”

She can only say this at this time, even if her own ability is enough, even if she has a lot of materials in the space, a lot of grain seeds, melons, fruits, vegetables and other crop seeds, but she wants

Take these things out,

And be reasonable, not to cause trouble for yourself, you have to be cautious. So far, a small plot of sweet potatoes has been planted on the village she bought.

Including Hao Fu's family, the tenants in charge of planting sweet potato seedlings in Zhuangzi didn't know what she was going to plant, and she didn't elaborate on this, but simply mentioned it,

It was on the mountain behind Zhuangzi that I accidentally found that there were insect eyes on the seedlings of this plant, and the roots that were submerged in the soil produced a lot of fruits that I didn't know if I could eat them

Curious, I cut some and took them back to the Zhuangzi to plant, so as to see what the seedlings of this crop are and whether the fruits from the roots can be eaten.

Of course, an inconspicuous place on the mountainside was quietly done by her, well, it was to dig a pit that was neither deep nor shallow with a hoe, giving people the feeling that there were really some plants growing here.

If it weren't for the fact that the season for planting cotton had passed, Ye Xia would still want to plant some in a small area on the Zhuangzi, but she thought about it all and did the same preliminary work as she found the sweet potato seedlings - she found a piece of land in the mountains and dug the potholes in that field.

Give her the cotton seeds next year to find the source of picking, and she plans to put on Song Fengyan's three small cotton jackets, cotton pants, and cotton boots that were collected in the space in the Qing Dynasty.

To achieve the effect of drawing out cotton to keep warm from the cold. As for the pink eye in the back, she said that she was too lucky, otherwise, how could she find sweet potatoes that can be eaten as food on the back mountain of the Zhuangzi she bought, and cotton that can be worn on people's bodies after processing, heh!

She would only use it as a blow in her ears. Don't be selfish, sit upright, those who commit pink eye will only become clowns in the end, and people will laugh at them. "Yes, everything will get better slowly, but when it will get better, who knows?"

The sorrow between Ye Qingxin's eyebrows did not dissipate, and she said: "I have always asked the harem to be frugal, just so that I can use the thrifty money to buy some rice and grain every winter or in a disaster year.

A few more porridge shacks were set up in the disaster-stricken areas and outside the gates of the imperial city to ensure that the suffering people could have more or less enough food to eat, and would not starve to death as soon as there was a shortage of food. But I also know that what I do is just a drop in the bucket, and I can't solve the root cause of the problem, and I can't save too many people who are suffering in this world. ”

"After the mother, my son will study his schoolwork and civil affairs seriously, and when my son grows up, he will definitely be able to come up with effective ways to help the people of Daxia live a good life!"

Xia Chengrui was moved by what Ye Qingxin and Qingxia said, and moved by the love of his mother and half-mother, and not only moved, he was deeply touched, and secretly swore that no matter whether he could take charge of Daxia in the future, he would do his best to help the people be fed, clothed, and live a safe and smooth peaceful life.

"Aunt Queen, mother, I will also work hard to learn some schoolwork, learn a lot of skills, and help the prince's cousin to make the people live a good life together!"