Guanzhong at the end of November is not too cold, compared to Sanqi, which is further north, and even Zhenhai, where Wang Ze is located, the winter in Chang'an City does not make people feel sad, and even the nobles in the city can also have melons and fruits planted next to the hot springs to eat.

Located on the bank of the Weishui River, you can also see that the leaves of the trees have not fallen, and there are large areas of pines and cypresses, bamboo bushes showing a bit of greenery in the garden of the palace city, and even a variety of exotic flowers and plants made by the palace maids with cloth to decorate the garden.

"Ding" "Ding" "Ding"

With a few ringing sounds, a five-year-old girl ran out happily, she was wrapped in a light and warm fox coat, the jade jue on her body clanged, and several palace maids followed closely behind her, afraid that the little girl would break her body.

Turning around the small courtyard, there was a small garden in front of it, a moon gate was reflected, a few clumps of bamboo emerald green leaves were rustled by the cold wind, and more than a dozen guards wearing swords were guarding the small door, but they did not stop the little girl from approaching.

"Uncle is inside?" The little girl turned to the young lieutenant who was taking the lead.

"County Lord, Your Majesty is inside!" The young lieutenant replied with a respectful salute.

Although this is only a five-year-old little girl in front of her, none of these guards from the Shi clan dare to despise it, although the little girl is not Yu Wenyong's daughter, but even her own princess is not as favored as her.

"Uncle, what are you doing here?"

When the little girl entered the garden and saw her uncle, she was immediately attracted by some things around her, the maturity of the little girl before was comparable to that of a ten-year-old child, but after all, she was only five years old, and she looked curiously at the things on the ground that were obviously farm tools.

"Haha, my little bean, come and hug my uncle!"

It turned out that the little girl's uncle was Yu Wenyong, and he was discussing some things with Yuwen Bao Hong and others just now, but after seeing the arrival of his favorite little niece, Yu Wenyong suddenly let go of everything and hugged his little niece with a smile.

Yuwen Bao Hong and the others on the side saw this scene, and they also nodded and smiled again and again, without the slightest displeasure disturbed by the little girl, because they all loved this little girl very much.

The little girl is the stepdaughter of Yuwenyong's sister Xiangyang Eldest Princess, that is, the queen Dou of Li Yuan, the founder of Li Tang, who was only four years old last year, asked Yuwenyong, Uncle, why did you marry Ashina's aunt?

At that time, Yu Wenyong didn't think too much, and just honestly said that he was trying to win over the Turks and fight against the Northern Qi together.

As a result, Dou, who was only four years old at the time, questioned, since his uncle was trying to win over Ashina's aunt who was married to the Turks, why did he never favor her and let Princess Ashina come to say more good things for the Northern Zhou?

The history books say that Dou's whispers and the emperor: the four sides are not quiet, the Turks are still strong, I hope that my uncle will suppress his feelings and soothe, and think of the common people, but with the help of the Turks, then Jiangnan and Kanto cannot be troubled! ’

At that time, Yuwen Yong was stunned when he heard it, and then changed his previous indifference to Ashina, and began to shout and greet Queen Ashina, and finally the Turks did not intervene in the process of the Northern Zhou Dynasty's attack on the Northern Qi, although there were reasons for the rapid movement of the Northern Zhou army, but there was also a positive role played by Princess Ashina.

Therefore, since then, Yuwen Yong has always attached great importance to his little niece who is both talented and beautiful, although Xiao Dou is only five years old, but Yu Wenyong still explained to the eldest princess of Xiangyang early that "this girl is so talented, you can't let people be allowed in vain, you should be a virtuous husband"!

It means that this girl is both talented and beautiful, don't marry casually just because she is a stepdaughter, you must find a talented and responsible husband for her, and treat her well.

The little girl was held in the arms of Yu Wenyong, the emperor's uncle, but she was also indifferent, she looked at the dozens of farm tools around her suspiciously, and said curiously: "Uncle, now that the generals are leading hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer the King of Sanqi, why is my uncle studying farm tools here?" ”

Although since ancient times, the saying of agriculture-oriented has been emphasized, but at this time, after all, there were hundreds of thousands of troops fighting outside in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, shouldn't this affect everyone's hearts even more? Although Dou was precocious, she was only a five-year-old child after all, so she seemed very puzzled.

Yuwen Baohong said with a smile: "The little county lord doesn't know, these farm tools are quietly transported from the land of Sanqi by our Great Zhou's fine work, if all the cultivated land of our Great Zhou uses these farm tools, then the country's grain production will increase by about 20%!" ”

Even if Xiao Dou'er is only five years old, she also knows what the concept of increasing the average grain output in the country by 20% is, she covered her little mouth in surprise, looking very cute. 52 Literature

Xiao Dou'er thought for a while, and asked suspiciously: "Since these farm tools are not complicated, why didn't my uncle promote them in the past?" Since the King of Sanqi can fully promote the use of these farm tools in the land of Three Qi, our fine work should have brought these farm tools out a long time ago? ”

"This?"

Yuwen Baohong heard the little girl's question, but he seemed a little hesitant, and even Yuwen Yong's face began to turn red, and finally Yuwen Baohong explained, "We have actually copied their farm tools in the past, but we found that most of the farm tools in the land of Sanqi are made of steel!" ”

Even Yu Wenyong sighed: "I have to admit that although Wang Yong, the king of Sanqi, is only a bandit, he really has a hand in the national economy and people's livelihood, and they can already take out a lot of steel to make farm tools, and I don't know how the army of the king of Sanqi is!" ”

In fact, the Northern Zhou Dynasty did not have steel to make agricultural tools, but after all, the Northern Zhou Dynasty did not have the huge steel production of Sanqi and Xia Kingdom, so their steel had to be made little by little according to the way of blacksmiths in the past, so all the limited steel was used to make weapons.

Although after conquering the Northern Qi Dynasty and obtaining a large number of blacksmiths from the prefectures and counties around Yecheng, especially from Xiangzhou, the steel production of the Northern Zhou Dynasty has also been greatly expanded, but because the Northern Zhou Dynasty has been preparing for war in recent years, the limited steel is also used to make weapons.

In this way, the agricultural tools made of raw wrought iron in the Northern Zhou Dynasty are still not as good as the agricultural tools produced in the Xia Kingdom, and the wear and tear is particularly severe, which is not as worry-free as the old-style production of agricultural tools in the past, so the first round of agricultural tools promotion in the Northern Zhou Dynasty failed.

"But no matter how powerful Wang Yong is, he has a total of more than two million people in his hands," Yuwen Baohong said with a smile, "Among these people, there are at most seven or eight hundred thousand young people, and he can only mobilize four or five hundred thousand troops when he is full, while our Great Zhou is five or six million young and strong, which is nearly ten times that of him, even if it is consumed, it will kill them, if we defeat him a few times, Wang Yong will definitely lose!" ”

Yu Wenyong nodded and said: "Yes, Wang Yong is a little worse after all, if we can give him another few decades, I'm afraid we really can't compare to him, but I think if we can subdue him and those under him, then the day when we unify the world will not be far away!" ”

"Doesn't my uncle know about the Xia Kingdom of the East China Sea? Even if the King of Sanqi is defeated, he can retreat to the Xia Kingdom at any time! Xiao Dou'er stiffened her little face seriously, and the cold air of early winter made her little face flush, which made Yuwen Yong and Yuwen Baohong, who were originally a little serious, laugh.

Yuwen Yong wiped Xiao Dou'er's little face lovingly, and then said with a smile: "Of course I know this, but for their uncle, I have already made arrangements, even if Xia Guo is strong, it is too late to meddle in the situation in the Central Plains, naturally someone will help me contain Xia Guo!" ”

Xiao Dou'er, who was only five years old, nodded thoughtfully, as if he understood something, while Yuwen Yong continued to discuss the previous matter with Yuwen Baohong, it turned out that they were actually discussing how to continue to implement economic reforms in the Northern Zhou Dynasty after defeating Wang Yong's forces.

And Sanqi under Wang Yong's rule is obviously an object for Yuwen Yong to emulate.

There is another very important factor that attracted Yu Wenyong to choose to attack Wang Yong, in recent years, Wang Yong has made some efforts to develop the land of Sanqi, which has become desolate, into a rich place.

Not only was a large amount of barren arable land reclaimed, grain production was greatly increased, and even because of Wang Ze's vigorous promotion of cotton, the cotton textile industry developed rapidly in all parts of Sanqi, making the people under Wang Yong's rule one of the happiest people.

Because the demand for cotton in Xia is extremely huge, and the land of Xia itself is too far north to grow cotton, this leads to almost all the cotton needed by Xia to be purchased from the land of Sanqi, coupled with the development of local cotton textiles, the people of Sanqi are very profitable.

After combining the experience of Xia Guozhu Sword City, Wang Yong reopened the Yidu Arsenal near Qingzhou, and also expanded the Changbaishan Iron Works and Changguang County Iron Works, and other Qingzhou silk weaving, sea salt production, sea fish fishing and processing and other industries are countless.

Although these industries are still somewhat deficient compared with the Xia Kingdom, which has developed rapidly, they are very eye-catching in the Central Plains, where the production technology has been left behind by the Xia Kingdom, and especially attracted the attention of the Northern Zhou monarchs and ministers.

In Yu Wenyong's view, silk and the like are actually nothing, what he covets the most is Sanqi's sea salt, steel technology, and new farming technologies, especially the large-scale combine seeders, harvesters, and cotton textile technologies in farming are the ones he can't wait to obtain.

As long as these advanced agricultural production equipment are obtained, the agriculture of the Northern Zhou Dynasty will be greatly improved, and the flat plains north of the great river occupied by the Northern Zhou Dynasty are especially suitable for this kind of large-scale agricultural production.

The Northern Zhou Dynasty is also a northern country, and a considerable part of the land is located in the bitter cold land of the northwest, so almost half of the people of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were concentrated in the Guanzhong Plain, which led to the relatively cold Hetao area, and the Hexi Corridor was not effectively developed.

After Yu Wenyong learned that Wang Yong had cotton planting methods and textile technology here, he was ready to get these hands on it, and if cotton and new farming methods were promoted in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yu Wenyong was confident that the national strength of the Northern Zhou Dynasty would increase by more than three percent.

"Your Majesty, an urgent report from General Chi Yuan, the front-line lieutenant of Puyang County!"

The lieutenant who was on duty outside the gate just now hurried over with a messenger, still waving a Yanling letter in his hand.