"Said that if Mrs. is free, go back to the house to have a meal with the master, and the master has something to say to the lady."

When Tao'er said this, a bright light burst out of her eyes, and she said happily:

"Madam, according to the slave maid, the lord still has you in his heart, but because of His Majesty, the lord is not good at showing it.

This time the master took the initiative to find you, it is a great opportunity, if you can take this opportunity"

"Alright, don't say any more."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Yingyue.

Tao'er originally wanted to say, "If we can take this opportunity to get close to the master, then our master and servant will be turned over in Xiangguo Mansion."

Suddenly interrupted, the words were blocked in his throat, and his face was red.

Li Yingyue glanced at her and said coldly: "You have known me for a year, you should know my thoughts." ”

"But after all, you are still in Chang'an, you are under the fence, you don't want to get close to the master, you can't do anything!" Taoer said.

Li Yingyue knew that what she said was the truth, and after being silent for a few breaths, she said lightly: "I know in my heart, if you say something similar, don't talk about it in the future." ”

I didn't say it this time!

Peach pursed her lips and sneered in her heart.

"It's not easy for you to go out of the house once, I'll accompany you to visit Chang'an City today, and I'll send you back in the evening."

Li Yingyue put down the report in her hand, looked at Tao'er, and said in a gentle tone.

In the huge Chang'an, there is only such a peach, who can talk to her on weekdays.

Therefore, Li Yinyue's attitude towards Tao'er is also completely different from others.

When Tao'er heard this, she was slightly stunned, her eyes showed a look of emotion, and she said, "Madam, the slave knows that you are the best!" ”

After a pause, he said, "Why don't you go back to the house with the slave tonight, while the master still remembers you."

"If you say anything more, I'll send you home at once."

Li Yingyue glanced at her and said coldly.

When Tao'er heard this, she was instantly silent and didn't dare to say anything more.

Li invited the moon and the master and servant to communicate at the same time.

The Imperial Palace, the Palace of Nourishing the Heart.

Fang Xiu and the little empress were also communicating.

It's just that the exchange is about a deeper topic - food.

The autumn harvest is over.

The yamen of the prefecture capitals have already submitted their commissions, and after handing them over to the household department, after statistics, it has been roughly calculated that this year's harvest is still higher than last year's.

Except for Huizhou, which suffered from floods and failed grain harvests, the rest of the state capitals have also increased a lot.

"If the recitals of the state capitals are not faked, even if the war between the imperial court and the Zhou State is not over, the grain is still sufficient, this is a bumper harvest, a bumper harvest!"

Wu Mingkong sat on the dragon chair and looked at Qin Xingyan's recital, his delicate face full of joy.

"Your Majesty, don't be happy too early, sweet potatoes have been planted for two years, and the fertility of the fields has been consumed quite a lot, and when you want to have such a bumper harvest next year, I'm afraid it will be difficult."

At this time, Fang Xiu mercilessly poured a basin of cold water on her.

【Mood 1000】

An emotionless system prompt sounds.

Wu Mingkong looked at Fang Xiu, pouted, and said, "Every time I am happy, you have to pour cold water on me, and the next time you are happy, I will do the same, depending on how you feel." ”

When Fang Xiu heard this, he was slightly stunned, and then a picture involuntarily appeared in his mind.

He and the little empress hugged each other and slept together, and when he was in a good mood, Lin Wan'er suddenly held a basin of cold water and poured it from the top of his head.

It's sour, and it's hard to bear just thinking about it.

Fang Xiu shuddered violently, stopped thinking, looked at the little empress, and said sincerely: "It's the minister who didn't do well, next time, when Your Majesty's happy momentum has passed, the minister will pour cold water again." ”

“.”

The little empress glanced at him, too lazy to pay attention to him.

After a few pauses, he said, "Since you mentioned this problem in front of me, there must be a solution to it, tell me, what are you going to do?" ”

"Your Majesty really thinks highly of the minister, and the minister knows nothing about farming, how can he know how to make up for the fertility of the field"

Fang Xiu said with a serious face.

Wu Mingkong is too familiar with his face, whenever he wants to bargain, or sit on the ground to make a price, he will show the appearance of "the minister doesn't know, don't ask the minister".

In fact, he had already thought of a countermeasure, but he just held it in his heart and used it as a bargaining chip.

"Tell me, what bad thoughts are you holding back."

Wu Mingkong squinted at him, and he didn't have a good airway.

"What is a bad mind, how can Your Majesty say this!"

Fang Xiu slapped the table indignantly and said loudly.

If it had been placed in the past, Wu Mingkong might still feel flustered, thinking that he was really angry.

Now, she has long been used to it, and she said angrily: "What do you want me to do, to put it bluntly, around the bush, is it interesting?" ”

The little empress has grown up, and she is not as coaxing as before.

Fang Xiu sighed in his heart and said, "Whatever the minister wants Your Majesty to do, will Your Majesty do it?" ”

Wu Mingkong glanced at him and said in his heart: "Dog things, it's nothing more than a toss and a toss that changes the law."

"You say."

Wu Mingkong looked like he had seen through the red dust, and said lightly.

Fang Xiu was silent for a few seconds, then decided not to go around the bend anymore, and told the empress his true plans.

"The minister plans to go to Jinnan as the regent of Zhou after the New Year."

For some reason, as soon as she heard that Fang Xiu was going to leave Chang'an, the little empress's heart felt empty, and she hurriedly asked, "How long will it take?" ”

"About a month." Fang Xiudao.

Wu Mingkong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If it's only for a month, you can go." ”

When he blocked the Yan army before, it would be two or three months as soon as Fang Xiu left.

It's only been a month now, and it's still in Jinnan, which has fallen under the control of the imperial court, so there's nothing to worry about.

"Don't forget to bring me some local specialties when the time comes, the flowers you gave me last time were quite good, if so, pick a few more." The little empress said in a flat tone.

"Those flowers only bloom in summer, and when the minister comes back, it will probably be winter, I'm afraid I won't be able to bring them to Your Majesty." Fang Xiudao.

Wu Mingkong thought about it, and it seemed that this was indeed the case, so he didn't say more, and asked instead, "How many people are you going to take?" ”

Fang Xiu said: "One guard, about a thousand people, and the rest of the cooks, servants, and maids, together are about a hundred. ”

Zhou State has a white start.

A convoy of a thousand people was quite enough.

Wu Mingkong nodded reassuringly, and asked again: "In addition to the guards, cooks, servants, and maids, who else are you going to bring?" ”

Fang Xiu thought for a moment and said, "There should be no one else." ”

Wu Mingkong looked at him with a pair of good-looking eyes, and raised his eyebrows: "Don't you plan to take Li Yingyue with you?" ”

Fang Xiu's expression froze and fell silent.

Seeing this, Wu Mingkong gritted his teeth and said, "I know that if you take this matter and go around in circles with me, you must be tired!" And so it was! Say! You go to Jinnan and take Li Yingyue to do something! ”

Fang Xiu hurriedly explained: "It's just fulfilling the promise. ”

"What promises are being fulfilled?" Wu Mingkong asked.

Fang Xiu didn't hide it, and told Li Yingyue exactly what he had promised.

After Wu Mingkong heard this, he looked at him suspiciously and asked, "Is that really the case?" ”

Fang Xiu nodded heavily: "How dare the minister deceive Your Majesty!" ”

You've deceived me so much!

Wu Ming sneered on an empty stomach, and asked a few more questions about why he took Li Yingyue back to Jinnan, and Fang Xiu answered them one by one.

"The ministers went to Jinnan for the alliance between the imperial court and the Zhou State, the second was to show off in front of the officials and people of the Zhou State as the regent, and the third was to see the reaction of the Zhou State to the covenant with their own eyes.

In addition, there are some trivial things, which cannot be seen from the letters, and you have to come to Chang'an in person to know whether things are as the minister imagined.

As for bringing Li Yingyue with her, it was a pure coincidence, and the minister promised Li Yingyue that as long as she doubled the Lilan of Zhenbao Zhai, she would let her return to Jinnan.

Chen probably calculated, by the end of the year, Zhenbao Zhai's Lilan could just double, and when it was time to let her set off with Chen's convoy, Chen could also better control her and avoid accidents. ”

Wu Mingkong felt that what he said was quite sincere, and he didn't bother to ask again, but said: "Okay, I have allowed you to go to Jinnan with Li Yingyue, can you tell me now how to solve the problem of depletion of field fertility?" ”

In fact, there are solutions to this problem in the agricultural book, one is to reclaim the field, and the other is to fertilize the field.

There is no doubt that the latter is more suitable, and as for how to fertilize the fields, this is a profound science, which the minister does not understand, but the gentlemen and students of the Agricultural Academy, studying the classics, have achieved some results.

A few days ago, the director of the Agricultural Academy told the minister that they had developed some fertilizers according to the books, but it was still very difficult to produce them on a large scale.

One is the lack of silver, and the other is that the production of fertilizer requires extremely high temperatures and pressures, and they can't do this, so they have to rely on the engineering academy to develop corresponding means."

Fang Xiu said a lot in one breath.

The little empress listened a little flustered.

Can fertilizer still be produced on a large scale?

The extremely high temperatures are understandable.

What is the extremely high pressure?

What does this have to do with the College of Engineering?

"Therefore, it is impossible to solve this problem in a short period of time, but as long as the engineering college and the agricultural college continue to invest money, at least one year, at most ten years, the problem of insufficient soil fertility will be completely solved!"

Fang Xiu said the time of a stick of incense, and finally stopped.

On the dragon chair, the little empress's eyes were full of doubts, and there were many questions in her heart, but she didn't know where to start.

After holding it for a long time, he just said, "So you still want more silver?" ”

Fang Xiu nodded and said, "That's right. ”

“.”

The little empress was silent for a few breaths, and said, "If I remember correctly, those gentlemen and students of the Agricultural Academy are also scholars, and they know how to improve the fertility of the soil?" I always feel unreliable. ”

"Your Majesty arrived at the Agricultural Academy, and when I saw them, I knew that what they said was unreliable."

Fang Xiu said sincerely.

"I'm fine today, why don't I go to the Agricultural Academy and have a look?"

The little empress raised her eyebrows and said.

"Your Majesty is with you."

"Good!"

Between three words.

Fang Xiu and the little empress embarked on the road to the Agricultural Academy.

An hour later.

The two of them in casual clothes came to the Agricultural Academy.

Surrounded by farmland.

Several exquisite buildings stand there, looking a little nondescript.

Of the four new academies, only the agricultural academies were built in farmland, and the rest were built in bamboo forests.

Wu Mingkong glanced at the Agricultural Academy and walked over.

A moment later.

An errand officer stopped her.

"This is an agricultural academy, and it is forbidden to enter the academy."

Wu Mingkong was slightly stunned, and said in his heart, a place to study farming, and it is forbidden for others to enter?

It's as if someone would normally go in!

"You go and tell your dean, and say that Uncle Wochuan is here, and he will let us in."

Fang Xiu said lightly.

When the officer heard this, he hesitated for a moment, and said in a more respectful tone: "Two adults, the dean is not in the academy. ”

"Not in the academy, where?"

Wu Mingkong asked.

The messenger stretched out his hand and pointed not far away, and said, "It should be in that area." ”

Wu Mingkong looked in the direction of his finger.

Several farmers were working in the fields, and there was no dean in sight.

"There are only farmers there, where is the dean!"

Wu Mingkong said with some dissatisfaction.

She felt that the officer was fooling herself.

"Adults don't know, the farmers in the nearby fields are all the masters and students of the academy, and so are the farmers, and one of them is the dean."

The errand clerk was busy explaining.

Those farmers are all gentlemen and students?

When Wu Mingkong heard this, he was slightly stunned.

"Got it."

Fang Xiu waved his hand, grabbed the little empress's arm, and said, "Let's go, go and have a look." ”

Wu Mingkong was held by his arm, a little awkward, but he didn't break free and followed him down to the field.

When I got to the field, I didn't take a few steps, and I stepped on the mud and almost fell.

Fortunately, there was a way to repair her arm, so as to avoid falling to the ground.

"No wonder I suddenly hugged me, it turned out that I was afraid that I would fall."

Wu Mingkong turned his head to look at Fang Xiu's face, and a warm current welled up in his heart.

The two walked side by side and soon came to a farmer.

"You're from the Agricultural Academy?"

Wu Mingkong looked at the farmer and asked.

"I am."

The farmer put down the hoe in his hand, looked at Wu Mingkong, and nodded.

"Where's your dean?" Wu Mingkong asked again.

The farmer was silent for a few seconds, then replied, "I am, what's the matter with you?" ”

"You're the dean of the Agricultural Academy?"

Wu Mingkong looked at the farmer in front of him and was stunned again.

The person in front of her, looking not young, with a vicissitudes of life and dark skin, no different from the farmers she had seen before, how could he be the dean of the Agricultural Academy?

If she's not mistaken.

The deans of the four major academies, except for the Mingxiu Academy, the other three are all served by the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy!

"Who are you? What's the matter? ”

The farmer spoke, wiping his sweat and carefully examining the visitor in front of him.

Just a moment.

His eyes were in a trance.

Why does this person in front of him look so much like His Majesty?

The difference is that His Majesty is a woman, and the person in front of him is wearing men's clothes.

"You look familiar."

The farmer looked at Wu Mingkong and hesitated.

Wu Mingkong was silent for a few breaths and said, "If you are the dean of the Agricultural Academy, you should have seen me. More than once. ”

As soon as this remark came out.

The peasant immediately realized that he was not mistaken, and the person in front of him was His Majesty!

"Bachelor Chen Hanlin, Dean of the Agricultural Academy, Yuan Xincheng sees Your Majesty!"

The farmer knelt down busily, his voice trembling.