Chapter 199 It's better to sleep
Many times, some earth-shattering events that happen in the court have nothing to do with the people as much as everyone thinks.
Whether it is a loyal minister who is wrongfully killed, or a female cadre who is bloodily liquidated, it is just a talking point to the people.
Because, whether it is a loyal minister or a female cadre, it is not the same class as the people, or even a person in the world.
Therefore, the next day, Yun Chu took the officials of Wannian County to the countryside to supervise such a major event as farming.
When he was about to leave the city gate, Yun Chu saw the white-haired Li Keshi near the notice sign next to the city gate.
I didn't see the whole picture of Li Keshi, because only one human head was displayed in a wooden cage, and the body didn't know where it was, two young men were crying mournfully underneath, and the soldiers guarding the city gate also gave a ladder to the two young men.
Whisper to them how to steal the head after dark, and they will pretend they can't see it.
This has nothing to do with whether Li Keshi is loyal or a woman, it is just the decency that people must have after death.
The Tang people have always been magnanimous towards the dead, even if they committed the great crime of killing the nine clans, even if they were beheaded, the only remaining relatives and friends stole the corpse that was supposed to be exposed for three days, and no one would ask if they buried it quietly.
This is the importance of filial piety, they naturally believe that "kissing and hiding" is human nature, since it is nature, it is indelible.
Li Keshi's head did not show the prestige of his Danyang County Duke, the unlucky appearance on his face after his death, the domineering spirit that had to be unashamed, and the arrogance of Zhang Fei's angry eyes after his death, just drooped his face and a bitter face.
Looking at Li Keshi's unlucky appearance, Yun Chu was even more determined that he would never participate in the dispute between Li Zhi and Wu Mei, and he would not be killed, Li Keshi's death may have been caused by this guy, but when Shangguan Yi died, it would chill many people who wanted to participate in the relationship between the emperor and the empress.
There shouldn't be trees in the fields!
If a tree grows too big, it will affect a large area of farmland, even the shade of the tree will affect the growth of crops, not to mention that this thing will also attract birds to steal the crops, and it will bring pests and affect the crops.
At this time, the farmland that stretches as far as the eye can see, except for the house, and there is no shelter, is the real good farmland.
The grain in Wannian County is always not enough to eat, and every year it has to buy a lot of grain from other counties in Guanzhong, and it will also buy a lot of grain from the rich land of Longyou.
It can be said that the largest purchase of goods from Wannian County is grain, which is also the first time that Chang'an City, which has a huge population, has not transferred grain from these places in southeast Hebei.
In the past few years, if it weren't for the emperor's strong support for Yun Chu's grain reform plan, the little Yun Chu would not have been able to bear the oppression of the household department, let alone be qualified to spontaneously purchase grain nearby.
There are too many stakeholders in the process of transporting grain from Dong'an, Hebei, and Shandong to Chang'an.
The distance of transporting grain itself, coupled with the fact that the price of grain has been increased layer by layer, has led to the fact that the price of grain allocated by the household department in Wannian County far exceeds the price of grain they spontaneously buy in the vicinity.
Although Yunchu did not deliberately control the grain prices in Chang'an in recent years, resulting in a three-percent increase in the price of grain in Chang'an, the income of the people in Guanzhong from growing grain has risen by fifty percent.
Nowadays, there is no cotton to grow, and the big guys sum it up, and the grain growers are actually not bad, but there is no government to escort them.
The good days of drought and flood to ensure the harvest finally became yesterday's yellow flower as the cotton was cut down, but people did not seem to have much opposition.
A real farmer in Guanzhong, if the fields are not crops, they panic.
Yun Chu, Wen Wen and Wen were busy in the farmland under their respective management, and planting cotton over the years was not without other benefits, at least the overplanted land in the two counties had the opportunity to cultivate, and the saline-alkali land was reduced by more than eighty percent compared with the past.
This is all the change brought about by planting cotton, because planting cotton is profitable
Rungao, people will spend money and manpower to improve saline-alkali land.
The farmland area of Wannian County has now increased by about double that of Wannian County when Yunchu first took over Wannian County.
The increase in agricultural land is a good thing, but it also shows from another aspect that the land potential of Wannian County has been exhausted.
In recent years, the two counties of Chang'an have invested more than 3,000 yuan in fine seeds, and the investment in water conservancy facilities is not counted as the investment in forced labor, but the financial investment alone has exceeded 5,000 yuan.
If it is really as the doctor of agriculture of Sinong Temple said, by the autumn harvest next year at the latest, the increase in grain output in the fields will definitely be able to wipe out these two inputs.
The data obtained by Dr. Sinong Temple from the experimental field and the reasonable planting methods were all applied to the autumn grain planting by Yunchu this time.
It's not that Yun Chu doesn't believe in the old farmers in Guanzhong, but because they always follow the ancient planting methods, and they are still unwilling to change to this day.
The way they followed to grow crops was still the one that Shang Ying was forced to adapt to with sticks and knives.
Therefore, Yun Chu also prepared a stick this time, fortunately, the people of the Tang Dynasty were not as stubborn as in the Western Qin period, and chose to believe in their county respect, and under the scolding of the chief of the Li Changfang, he clumsily used the set summarized by the doctor of agriculture in the cultivation of his own farmland.
The doctors of Sinong Temple now like to show Yun Chu some new things for farming, and they know that this young county magistrate likes new things, and will give corresponding rewards for the role that new things can play.
Then, Yun Chu saw the Quyuan plow!
"County Zun, this is the Jiangdong plow, don't look at the twists and turns of this thing, but it saves animal power."
"You see, first of all, the straight wheel and long wheel were changed to curved wheels and short wheels, and the direct advantage of this is that the curved wheels are placed on the front blades of the ox, so that the livestock can exert their strength."
"The plough tray that can rotate freely is also installed at the head of the wheel, which not only makes the plow frame smaller and lighter, but also easy to turn and turn, and the operation is flexible, and one person and one ox can plough the land, saving a lot of manpower and animal power for the county."
Although Yun Chu was born as a farmer, to be honest, he had never farmed since he was a child, although Qu Yuanli's position in the history books was very important, he didn't expect this thing to appear in the Tang Dynasty.
And it came out so directly.
"Why didn't you take it out sooner?" Yun Chu looked at the Quyuan plough in front of him and asked this doctor of agriculture weakly.
"Didn't the county lord already use the new plowshares of our Wannian County before? That thing is not bad, the county zun also reported to Sinong Temple, and the lowly people thought that the county zun didn't look down on this kind of Jiangdong plowshare."
Yun Chu was speechless, the plow used in Wannian County before was the plow that Yun Chu had already found someone to improve, although it was not bad, but the plow he made out of thin air, to be honest, was not as good as the zigzag plow in front of him in terms of the optimization of various formations.
Jiangdong plough has been used in Jiangdong for hundreds of years, and it can be said that this thing has been optimized to the extreme in the process of being used by farmers.
A good plough, first of all, requires light weight, easy to use, saving manpower and animal power, these advantages, a non-falling in the Quyuan plough body showed, the most important point is that the plow used at the beginning of the cloud used too much iron.
No matter what, as long as it's good, it's never too late.
The number of livestock in the two counties of Chang'an is the largest in the whole Tang Dynasty, so in the field, Yun Chu saw ploughing oxen, donkeys, mules, horses, and even camels pulling plows to plough the land.
Yun Chu stayed in the countryside for ten days, and all the autumn grain in Wannian County had been planted.
At this time, the main summer grain wheat in the land of Guanzhong has been harvested, although Wannian County has not planted a single wheat this year, but the warehouse in their county has the most new wheat.
Every year, when Wannian County puts old grain from the warehouse, it is the carnival day of the people of Chang'an City.
This is the only opportunity for them to buy affordable grain from the market every year, and the price of grain during this period is only 80% of the price of grain released by Datang Changping.
For Wannian County, genus
In the original price in the original price out, greatly beneficial to the people, Wannian County swallowed the cost of storage and transportation.
The large-scale release of old grain in Wannian County has played a role in lowering grain prices to a certain extent, and the high-priced grain transported by the household department from afar through the canal during this period of the year is basically ignored.
Yun Chu basically can't go to the household department to do things now, and once he goes, he will always be sneering and sneering.
Now he only hopes that these oily and slippery guys can get to Luoyang as soon as possible, and if they can't see it, they won't have any bad feelings.
Di Renjie and Wen Rou have not pitted those corrupt officials and corrupt officials in these years, but unfortunately no matter how diligent the two of them are, there are more and more corrupt officials in their eyes.
Early in the morning, there was a light rain in the sky, Yun Chu went to the granary of Wannian County in his coat, and today is the day when the main granary is opened.
There are 300,000 quintals of grain that will be released at a one-time parity, but this time the grain will not be released to the people, but to the merchants.
The affordable grain purchased by the people has been distributed as a whole according to the fang market, and the people have taken their household registration to the chief and the head of the fang to buy it.
The purpose of distributing affordable grain to merchants was to benefit those who worked under the merchants.
All of these grains are rations, not for the merchants to sell, and the merchants are also very clear about this, except for a small number of people who are hungry for profit, few people take cheap grain to do other things, because once they are discovered, they will be fined and bankrupt by the government.
After doing these things, the time has unconsciously come to July.
Yun Chu always thought that Chang'an in July was not suitable for people to live in, and people slept on the roofs in the hot and dry weather.
Those who are still stripped naked, regardless of it, are very unsightly.
Most of the houses inhabited by the people in Chang'an City are still adobe houses, and the kind with one side tilted is also called half side houses.
Yu Xiurong, who already had a big belly, yelled at Yun Chu while wiping his sweat with a wet towel, "I should also sleep on the roof, *** kind."
Yun Chu only had a pair of shorts all over his body, and he fanned Yu Xiurong vigorously, hoping that this woman who had become violent because of the heat would be quiet.
There are icebergs in the house where Naha and the others live, and Yu Xiurong can't get close to the iceberg because she is pregnant, so Yun Chu has to breathe and share the fate with his wife.
"You can also be in this room***"
"I don't, I'm going to stand on the roof***" Yu Xiurong, who was about to faint due to the heat, didn't know what she was saying at this time.
"Tomorrow, as soon as the city gate is opened, I will send you to Bashang to escape the heat, where the terrain is high, the wind is strong, and it is cool."
"No, you should send me to your hometown of Chencang County, I heard that it is cold at night there and you need to wear a padded jacket."
This is completely unreasonable, Yun Chu himself doesn't know where his hometown is, and the hometown of Chencang County was completely filled in casually when he was in the Western Regions in order to prevent future troubles.
"Why don't I have someone fetch some well water back and wipe your body?"
"Fuck off, I'm pregnant, dare to be hot and cold for a while?"
Yun Chu knew that this method would not work, Yu Xiurong abided by the health regimen of pregnant women, and insisted on it more rigorously than him.
Anyone who has lived in Chang'an City knows that Chang'an City is basically windless, and the most desperate thing is that the hotter the weather, the more windless there is in the sky.
Even in the middle of the night, the heat of Chang'an City is not much different from the daytime, but because the earth absorbs heat during the day and releases heat at night, it will become more humid and hot.
As for the fan, it can't play a role in heat dissipation, because once you stop fanning the fan, the human body will become a heat absorber, hot and hot, and you can't wait to peel off the skin and cool down.
There was no way, Yun Chu had to use warm water over and over again to help Yu Xiurong cool down......
No matter who it is, they can't stand taking a bath ten times a night, whether it's Yu Xiurong who is being bathed or Yun Chu who is in charge of bathing.
When the day was almost dawn, the earth finally stopped radiating heat, and with the slightest breeze, Yu Xiurong, who was extremely sleepy, finally fell asleep.
Yun Chu lost his sleepiness, and sat at the door with his pants on his pants guarding the screen door, so as not to let mosquitoes run in again and disturb Yu Xiu's sleep.
Because it was the beginning of the month, the moon was invisible, and the stars in the sky could not illuminate the earth.
At this time, he actually saw someone climbing the wall of the inner house, and it was Fei Jiu who was outside the high wall.
Yun Chu, who originally wanted to kick the guy who climbed the wall to death, immediately thought that at this time, there was only one person who was still climbing the wall of the inner house with the help of Fei Jiu, and that was Cui Yao.
This woman obviously doesn't like Fei Jiu anymore, which Cui Yao herself described very clearly, and others can see it clearly.
But Cui Yao desperately wants to have one, or several children.
This made Yun Chu think that he had hired the wrong etiquette teacher.
However, Cui Yao told Yun Chu that the first consideration of the etiquette teacher is the survival of mankind, that is to say, giving birth to children is the vocation of the etiquette teacher, and only when there are children can we talk about etiquette.
A woman who has never given birth to a child is definitely not a good etiquette grandmother, she wanted to have children before, but unfortunately she can't just find a man to give birth, which is not in line with the etiquette concept she upholds.
Otherwise, the child born will be unjustifiable, and such a child will not be blessed by heaven and earth, and even if he will achieve something in the future, he will be deformed and incomplete.
She used to think that she would never have her own children in her life, but she saw her former husband in the Yun family.
Now she can have a baby happily and brightly.
Each of the children born will be the darlings of heaven and earth.
Seeing Cui Yao skillfully put away the light bamboo ladder from the other end of the wall, and then put it on this side, he skillfully stepped down the ladder, and casually put the ladder down and hid it behind the flower bed.
Clapping his hands, he entered the room where she lived.
Yun Chu covered his mouth and snickered, Yu Xiu's hot body leaned on his shoulder and said, "Don't look at it, they are together every night."
Yun Chu looked at Yu Xiurong and said, "Aren't you asleep?"
Yu Xiurong shook his head and said, "I don't want you to worry, pretend to sleep."
As he spoke, he pointed to a glimmer of light in the sky and said, "Look, today is another cloudless bad day, I'm afraid it will be even hotter at night, let's pack up now, go to Bashang Beiye to escape the heat, go early, I can sleep a little longer."
When the sky was just dawning, Yun Chu picked up the children who were sleeping in a daze and put them in the carriage, preparing to leave the big furnace of Chang'an.
When I left Fang City, I found that the Yun family was not the only one who had the same idea, and before the city gate was opened, Suzaku Street was crowded with cars.
The most famous is actually the emperor's Luanjia, followed by tens of thousands of entourage soldiers and horses, asked the deputy general Jin Wuwei who accompanied the escort, only to know that the emperor left Chang'an City this time, not to Qujiang but to go straight to Jiucheng Palace.
"Didn't Your Majesty say that the Jiucheng Palace is not good for him to go again?"
Because he was wearing armor, he was sweating from the heat early in the morning, and Liu Jinding, a lieutenant who said, "Chang'an can't live, Your Majesty itself is not heat-resistant, and if you continue to live, you may have a problem with the heat."
"The trees in Qujiang have been cut down by you, there is no cover, there is a lot of water, it is a good place to raise mosquitoes, Your Majesty does not go to Jiucheng Palace, can you drill Qinling?"
"Yunhou, what did you say about Chang'an City this year, you can freeze people to death in winter, and you can heat people to death in summer, isn't it right?"
Yun Chu smiled and said, "That's Si Tianjian's job."
"Don't mention Si Tianjian, the old Tao in Si Tianjian was killed by the queen, who dares to talk nonsense now?"
Liu Jinding lowered his voice and said.
Yun Chu looked behind him, but he didn't see the carriages and horses of the civil and military officials, so he asked cautiously, "Why don't you see the many courtiers accompanying you?"
Liu Jinding looked at Yun Chu and said, "This time, the hundred officials did not accompany him, so he brought the secretary and supervisor
This is the first time that the prince has been in charge of the country."
When Yun Chu heard this, he felt like he had been struck by lightning, and after a while, he came to his senses, said goodbye to Liu Jining, took his family's convoy, left Suzaku Street, and took the Qixia Gate next to him.
The crown prince supervised such a major matter, and the court did not say it clearly, the emperor and empress left Chang'an so casually, and went straight to Jiucheng Palace, three hundred miles away, God knows what they wanted to do.
Li Hong did not inform Yun Chu of the news, it was obviously not Li Hong's original intention, it should be the emperor's arrangement with the empress.
I don't know what the emperor and the empress want to do, Yun Chu still thinks it's best not to see Li Hong during this time.
Li Yifu returned to Chang'an four days ago......
Because it was a hot summer, there were fewer pigs, cattle and sheep transported to the city through Qixiamen, but it was still stinky.
The Qixia Gate also opened earlier than the Mingde Gate, so when the Yun Chu family's convoy had already stepped onto the road, the emperor's car had not yet left the Mingde Gate.
Behind Yu Xiurong's carriage was the children's carriage, and they had not yet woken up at this time, but the old monkey, who always slept on weekdays, woke up and sat cross-legged behind the carriage, looking behind the carriage for some reason.
Yun Chu slowed down his horse and approached the old monkey and said, "It's Yin Erhu, Zhang Jia, they are exploring the way ahead."
The old monkey said, "What did that Suleiman you caught say?"
Yun Chu smiled and said, "People are here to destroy your Buddha Kingdom."
The old monkey looked at Yun Chu and said, "You're here to destroy Naha's Buddha Kingdom, why aren't you worried at all?"
Yun Chu sat up straight and said, "If the Great Cannibal wants to enter the territory of the Zhaowu Nine Surnames to preach, he must first ask the Tang Anxi Army if he agrees."
The old monkey coughed and said, "Have you heard of Sasani?"
Yun Chu nodded and said, "It's a big Persian country, and it was annexed by the Great Food Country during the Yonghui period, what's wrong?"
The old monkey said, "Don't be surprised if you go to Qiyun Temple and see a Persian prince named Beluz."
Yun Chu sneered and said, "The Persian Sassanid has perished, this prince is not in the Sassanid country to resist the great cannibals and plot to restore the country, what is he doing in Chang'an?"
The old monkey smiled and said, "He came to Chang'an in the hope that the Tang Dynasty could lend him troops, so that he could drive away the big cannibals and restore the former glory of the Sassanid Kingdom."
Yun Chu said, "It's not that the Tang Border Army can't be lent to him, the question is what kind of remuneration can he come up with to impress the emperor and allow the soldiers and horses of the Anxi Army to cross the plateau to help him fight the Great Cannibal?"
The old monkey smiled and said, "Helping Sassanid is guarding the Tang Frontier."
Yun Chu laughed and said, "You know that this reason is not enough, the Sassanid Kingdom is too far away from the Tang Dynasty, not to mention, their country has also perished, if the Tang army can defeat the Great Cannibals, why not establish a Persian capital there?"
The old monkey said, "Other Tang people can say this, but you can't say that, because that land is very important to your sister."
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "That didn't let the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty travel thousands of miles to fight in a strange place, if they die there, their bones will not be able to return to their hometown, forget about it."
Helping you deal with the affairs of Shiguo is the limit of what I can help, with my back to Chang'an, I am invincible, if I go to the Western Regions, what I can do is very limited, you shouldn't have too high demands on me."
The old monkey sighed, closed his eyes, and got into the carriage with a look of great disappointment.
Yun Chu didn't pity the old monkey at all, since this old guy found out that he was old, he put on a powerless appearance from time to time, forcing Yun Chu to agree to many unreasonable requests.
More often than not, I take out Naha to talk about things.
Yun Chu believes that the old monkey said that Naha will become a queen of the Buddha Kingdom in the future, and she will definitely become a queen, but Naha's current appearance is only suitable for being a puppet queen.
Especially under the influence of the old monkey, Naha will be happy even if she is a puppet queen.
Therefore, before the old monkey came up with the real thing, Yun Chu would not do his best to help him, and God knows if he would be making a wedding dress for others after helping.
Judging from the territory that the old monkey has said so far, Naha will almost have a country as big as the Central Plains, and Yun Chu doesn't remember that such a Buddha country appeared in history.
The carriage had been gone for almost two hours before it reached Bashang.
Because of the high terrain, the wind here is very cool, and there are many trees here, and the mountain streams and streams are murmuring, Yu Xiurong, who was originally struggling in the carriage, and the children immediately fell asleep.
Even though the convoy had arrived at the other courtyard, they still couldn't scream, especially the two small ones.
The rooms in the courtyard had already been prepared, and the bamboo mats had been wiped with cool stream water early, and the group didn't even have the heart to eat, so they went into their respective rooms and fell asleep.
Yun Chu was no exception, he didn't enter the house, got a recliner and threw it under the persimmon tree, and fell asleep.
At this moment, no matter what the emperor and empress mean by letting Li Hong supervise the country, and no matter what kind of ambition Prince Beluz has in the mouth of the old monkey, it is not as important as having a good night's sleep.
The old monkey stood alone in the quiet courtyard, looked at Yun Chu, who was sleeping sweetly with his snoring, and left the Yun family with his hands behind his back and went to Qiyun Temple.
Just as the old monkey walked out of the yard, Yun Chu opened one eye with a snoring and glanced at the old monkey's back.
No matter how good the relationship is, even if it is like a family, the old monkey should not lure him step by step towards the return of the Sassanid prince.
At the beginning, it was only said that it was a dispute over the wealth of Shiguo, and the wealth of the old monkey was the wealth of Naha, and it was only natural for him to help his sister as an elder brother.
Now there is another prince of Beluz, from which Yun Chu can draw a conclusion.
Those people from the Stone Kingdom didn't come to kill the old monkey at all, and the target should be this damn Prince Beluz.
This time, if the old monkey didn't apologize, Yun Chu decided to just deal with the matter to the point where Shi Guolai came.
Geographically, he wasn't going to stretch his hand over Shattered Leaf City, because it was too far away.
Because of Master Xuanzang here, everything here is full of Zen, even the cicadas on the persimmon tree are more rhythmic than the cicadas in other places.
The breeze gently shook the persimmon trees, and the leaves of the trees were whispering, obscuring the blazing sun overhead.
Occasionally, the sound of monks chanting next door came, which had a good hypnotic effect, Yun Chu turned over and let the cool breeze blow his hot body, and murmured comfortably, only feeling that the beauty of this world is nothing more than sleeping here.
See you tomorrow