After April, the busy days of not touching the ground came to May, and Ma Changchang was a short sigh of relief.

Large areas of rice fields have grown a stubble of fresh grass seedlings.

The farmland where corn is planted has already been harvested, and the unified purchase is already in full swing.

This year's unified acquisition of millet is more than three times more than last year, and a staggering 30 million stones have been collected in one season! That's more than the previous two years combined!

After the people gradually realized that farming can also make a fortune, the enthusiasm for farming is also unprecedentedly high, and many uninhabited land has also been reclaimed by the people of each family, allowing the women and children of the family to plant.

In order to encourage the people in the territory to actively open up wasteland and participate in agricultural affairs such as enclosure and raising chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, Sinong Temple issued an encouragement order——

For those who are interested in supporting the breeders, the Department of Agriculture will provide poultry seedlings free of charge! Those who are not good at raising can go to the Department of Agriculture to participate in the daily routine of raising and educating people to learn how to raise them!

Those who reclaim the wasteland, all the grain produced in the wasteland belongs to the reclaimer!

After a year and a half of arduous reforms, unconsciously, Sinong Temple was finally barely on the right track-

The grain produced by the unified purchase can be stably supplied to the people to purchase and buy to ensure food and clothing, and the 400,000 troops who are fighting abroad can at least eat millet and eat it to their heart's content.

Even after the south of the Yellow River was returned to the Zhou State, the 113 counties of the 16 prefectures in the new territory could immediately carry out the relief order and deliver the relief money and grain in a timely manner.

Although rice is still expensive, under a series of rectifications, the purchase price of rice has been raised to 10 yuan per liter, and many farmlands where rice is planted have been changed to rice.

By the time the harvest arrives at the end of October, it is estimated that the rice harvest will not be lower than the millet harvest!

Now not only is there no shortage of food, but Ma Changchang has begun to worry about the surplus of grain production again.

In addition to vigorously encouraging the people to support them, he pinned his hopes on the Qi State to "fall" as soon as possible, so that the surplus grain could be consumed by the people.

Instead of really using it as feed for chickens and ducks, it makes Ma Changchang, who was born poor and makes a living from snacks and millet, still feel very distressed to watch.

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On the other hand, Zu Wenyuan, who was the young eunuch of Guozi Prison, did not do his job all day long, and during routine deliberations in the prison, Zu Wenyuan always disappeared mysteriously, and he could not be found anywhere.

At the beginning, the officials in the prison gradually had a great opinion of Zu Wenyuan, and handed over the matter to the inner hall every once in a while, impeaching this person for "occupying the pit and not", hoping that the inner hall could issue a derogatory order and remove Zu Wenyuan from his official position as a young eunuch.

However, every time Yang Qianxue saw such a thing, she could only put it aside for the time being.

It's just because Zu Wenyuan was personally appointed by Yuwen Shihong.

And he also has Yuwen Shihong's personal gold seal in his hand, which means that no one else has the right to impeach him unless Yuwen Shihong disposes of it.

Even the officials can't manage this living treasure.

And Zu Wenyuan has been away from Chang'an for more than half a year, and before he left, he also asked Yang Qianxue for a large sum of money, saying that he would go to the Yellow River section of Luoyang to study his thousand-mile boat.

In the matter, he is not like others, he writes everything he wants to do in detail, only writes a simple line of words very domineering-

To build a thousand-mile ship, it takes tens of millions of dollars.

At the end of the page, it is also very arrogantly stamped with Yuwen Shihong's private gold seal.

Yang Qianxue had no choice but to criticize.

……

On the north bank of the Yellow River in Luoyang, more than 1,000 carpenters and lumberjacks have cut down huge numbers of trees in the nearby mountain forests.

According to the drawings given by Zu Wenyuan, the carpenters cut and grind the wood to make boards or nails.

In addition, there are hundreds of laborers on the banks of the river, surrounding the copper kettle on the campfire, boiling tung oil seeds picked from the mountains to make tung oil.

Tung oil was brushed on the wooden board, and the wooden board successfully played a role in waterproofing and anti-decay.

But Zu Wenyuan was not satisfied with only using wooden planks as raw materials, he went to the foundry several times and asked the foundry to smelt huge iron or copper plates according to the drawings for him, but the officials of the foundry would only roll their eyes at him and ignore him.

Facts have proved that geniuses have no ability to manage, and when a laborer has to serve every month, he can remember that the money is not enough, and when the grain is eaten, he can remember to buy it.

Many trivial matters entangled him, so that even if he wanted to concentrate on building a thousand-mile ship, he only ended up in a messy situation, and over time, the south bank of the Yellow River was also a mess and chaos!

The money was burned, and there was no result.

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Tang Yong led his troops around and merged with the state, and when he finally returned to Luoyang, which had been lost for a long time, he could not help but see the messy scene that stretched for miles on the bank of the Yellow River.

I walked over and asked what the lazy and lazy laborers were doing, and the laborers only said—

The young eunuch of Guozijian built a thousand-mile ship here.

As soon as he heard this, Tang Yong's first reaction was to laugh out loud:

"What a thousand-mile ship, I'm afraid it's a fool's dream."

He also saw a large pile of huge slabs of iron or copper piled up on the banks of the river, and the laborers tried to put the huge slabs in the river, but they all sank unexpectedly.

Tang Yong was even more speechless and smiled bitterly, where did the fool come from, he actually wanted to build a boat made of iron on the Yellow River.

How is it possible to do it?

"Eh, this general, but you want to go back to Chang'an?" Zu Wenyuan's face was full of dust, looking like a Beijing official, more like a down-and-out beggar, although he was wearing a crimson official robe, but the official robe could also be worn by him, Tang Yong was shocked:

"This lord, if I hadn't seen this scarlet robe, I would have thought that you had just retired from the battlefield, and none of the soldiers on the battlefield had ever been as ...... as you."

"Oh, you don't care how I dress," Zu Wenyuan didn't even have the patience to lower his eyes to look at his image, so he only asked bluntly:

"Seeing that you are from the north, the north is the Qi country, you must have come back from the battlefield and are about to return to Beijing."

Tang Yong thought to himself, this person is smart, he doesn't need to ask to know, and before he could answer, Zu Wenyuan said to himself:

"Please ask this general to help me tell Her Royal Highness the Empress, I don't have enough money, and I need another 10 million dollars."

“？？？” Tang Yong's jaw dropped in astonishment:

"Ten million? You're really out of it! I also asked the queen to ask for it! Who do you think you are, the queen is what you can see? I ...... both."

Before Tang Yong's words were finished, Zu Wenyuan took out a golden strip from his chest pocket-

That's Yuwen Shihong's personal gold seal:

"Don't talk nonsense with me, if I ask you to bring words, you will bring words!"

"......" Tang Yong was really choked at this time, and he couldn't help but be annoyed, and glanced at the mess on the bank of the Yellow River, he sneered and asked:

"This lord, when it comes to shipbuilding, I also know a little, I am a former general of Qi State, and the shipbuilding level of Qi State is much stronger than that of Zhou State."

"You can't make it by doing something like this!"

"Bring the words, hum, go to see the queen yourself! I'm not going to talk to you like that! ”