The rain was not raining much, but it was also annoying, and the whole Lishan Mountain was in hazy rain, and it was difficult to see the condition of the top of the mountain from the bottom of the mountain.

On Lishan Mountain, the younger siblings were busy in the library after eating barbecue, and three huge charts were hung on wooden boards, which recorded the regions and grain harvests of the year, and the other two charts recorded the types of crops and seasons in various places.

Zhang Yang looked at the booklet he had just sorted out, "Is that all?" ”

Xu Hui looked up at the master's frowning appearance, and said, "It shouldn't have fallen." ”

For this reason, she also stood on tiptoe and glanced at the booklet.

Looking back and forth, Zhang Yang was puzzled: "Isn't there a record of the crops outside the gate?" ”

Xu Hui blinked and thought, "What Master said shouldn't be in the records of Taifu Temple. ”

"Huh?" Zhang Yang was surprised at first.

Xu Hui explained: "Taifu Temple records crops and grain harvests, but the crops outside the customs belong to the category of customs outside the border, and this kind of record should be in the Guozijian or Hongwenguan, or the current Foreign Affairs Yuan." ”

How else to say that Xu Hui was born in a scholarly family.

I almost forgot about this when I slapped my head, the various ministries of the DPRK and the Central Committee performed their own duties, and there were few opportunities for mutual communication, and the Taifu Temple, which was in charge of Nongsang, would not ask what the ministries of the DPRK and the Central Committee had done.

There are priorities, and most of the books in the province are just a glance, just like reading a newspaper, and just a glance.

Since Wu De's previous account of Guan Wai and Wai seemed very scattered, Zhang Yang sat down helplessly, "This errand is really difficult, things at the dinner table seem simple, but I, a Taifu Qing, have to start with the most basic collection of information." ”

Xu Hui replied: "Master, Taifu Temple has a master book and a supervisor, so you can let them find the relevant files. ”

The Taifu Temple is not fully organized, and there are only three people, Zhang Yang said worriedly: "Most of the people who rely on a master book and a supervisor to access the files of various ministries can't be asked, and the official rank is too low." ”

"Master doesn't have to worry too much, Taifu Siqing is actually a very idle errand, Master has been busy for several years for the sake of the Central Society, and has been worried for several years."

Thinking of the fact that the master often lost his temper at home inexplicably, she said: "The transfer of important ministers in the court to the idle position is because Your Majesty has the intention of letting Master relax and feel at ease, and there is no need to worry about these things in the future." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yang looked at her strangely, Xu Hui was a very smart child, and he had been reminded by the teacher before.

But Xu Hui can say it in one word.

She is indeed smarter than the other children.

After speaking, she went to sort out the file with Xiao Wu again.

Li Shimin wants to rein in power, and with his mind, he will never put the power of diplomacy in my hands alone.

The so-called transfer first gave a false title to a squire in Shangshu Province, and then concurrently served as the secretary of Taifu Temple.

This means to provide for one's own retirement, that is to say, if there is no change, if there is no need to sit in the position of Taifuqing for many, many years.

You can concentrate on studying the crops, and you don't have to get involved in other things in the court.

Zhang Yang couldn't help but smile bitterly and felt a little satisfied.

The wry smile was because Li Shimin finally emptied the power of the Foreign Affairs Yuan, so as to accept the hearts of Jingzong and others for his own use, and it was not easy to be calculated by the emperor, so he gave the situation with a few words of understatement.

I am satisfied that as long as I take care of the farming, I don't have to participate in the rest of the things.

Zhang Yang walked into his greenhouse, cabbage seeds are actually similar to rape, and the family saved a lot last year.

Take a portion of the seeds from the greenhouse and wrap them in a cloth into small packets.

Seeing that her daughter was learning to write under the supervision of her mother, whenever she wanted to be lazy, Li Yue always looked at her, and she pouted aggrievedly and continued to hold the pen and learn to write on paper.

Zhang Yang took one more look and went down the mountain with the seeds.

It is still the first month of the new year, and the village has begun to be busy for this year's farming, and the farming season has not yet arrived, but this year's continuous heavy snowfall, and the rain has continued in the past two days, so it is necessary to turn the fields over again and let the sun shine well.

After a whistle and a moment's wait, the three hippos came in a hurry.

Holding its reins, Zhang Yang said to Shangguan Yi, who was eating at home, "Brother Shangguan, can you go with me to see the surrounding villages and counties." ”

"It's fine."

He put down the dishes and chopsticks and immediately responded.

There are also horses in the village, except for those black and white horse dealers in Guanzhong, the horses of the powerful families cannot be raised, otherwise they will also be questioned.

The two horses raised in the village are usually used to haul goods.

The two of them left the village, and Zhang Yang let the horses walk slowly along the Weishui River towards the southeast.

Observe the conditions in the fields along the way.

Shangguan Yi rode the horse on the side, and the horse under him was a head shorter than the three hippos of the county marquis, and the horse at the foot of the Tianshan Mountain looked unusual, and it was a good war horse.

Zhang Yang asked in a low voice, "Are these fields all used to grow food?" ”

"It's all used to grow food, and it's the same in all townships and counties."

It has become the norm for the fields in Guanzhong to be reclaimed, and they cut down the forests, open pits into fields, and bulldoze the mountains and forests into fertile fields.

During the war, the walls were cleared, so the vegetation in Guanzhong was seriously damaged.

When passing by a village, Zhang Yang turned over and pulled the reins into the village, it was noon to eat, and you could see that every household was eating.

This is a small village on the border of Weinan, and the people are not very well dressed, they are all old cloth sewn and repaired, and some people even wear straw sandals in this cold season.

Zhang Yang asked curiously, "This big brother, what is your family eating today?" ”

This old man is about sixty years old, and he was puzzled for a while when he looked at the other party's clothes in the face of the person who came with the war horse.

It stands to reason that those who own such war horses should be powerful people, and look at the other party's simple dress.

Zhang Yang introduced himself: "I am Taifu Siqing, I came to ask the neighbors about the food, I live in Lishan. ”

The old man's gaze became more and more suspicious, "You people from Lishan don't usually come out. ”

Zhang Yang smiled awkwardly, "Really?" ”

As he spoke, a woman came out of the door behind the old man and brought a bowl of millet porridge.

Zhang Yang looked at the porridge in the bowl, the porridge was not too thin, and there were a few pieces of jerky on it.

"That's all you can eat at home, and if you're hungry, I'll eat this bowl for you."

As the old man spoke, he looked like a person, and then heard that it was the way from Lishan, so he naturally couldn't afford to offend.

Everyone in Weinan knows that Lishan is a very noble place, it is said that Tian Khan often goes, and Tian Khan's children and Tian Khan's father live in Lishan.

The people of the surrounding villages and counties did not dare to offend, let alone get close to Lishan.

It is said that even a hare near Lishan Mountain will be killed by an arrow.

In these rumors, Lishan has long been a forbidden place on the border of Weinan.

The old man handed over the bowl of porridge in his hand in a spirit of not offending, hoping that the other party would not embarrass their family.

"Does your family eat these?"

The old man replied: "If a certain family wants to work, they can naturally eat some meat, and salt is put in the porridge water, and the women and children in the family are just light porridge." ”

Under the leadership of this old man, Zhang Yang and Shangguanyi walked into this house.

This is a typical Guanzhong family, the family is not wealthy, and it is also very dilapidated.

The grain is placed in a clay jar.

The women of the family and the children bowed their heads and bowed their bodies, and they did not dare to look up in front of them, also because they saw the war horses outside the door.

They can't afford to offend people who have war horses.

Zhang Yang walked around the house and found some vinegar celery.

Look at the child's face again, the child is about ten years old, looking at the age of Li Zhi, his face looks dry and yellow.

This is because he has not eaten vegetables for a long time, Zhang Yang looked around again with his eyes, and handed the old man a cloth bag, "This is a vegetable seed, you plant it at this season, it can sprout in half a month, and it can grow in two months." ”

The old man took it respectfully with both hands.

Zhang Yang asked again: "Aren't your families going to raise some chickens and ducks?" ”

The old man replied respectfully: "The noble man doesn't know, these chickens and ducks all eat grain, where do you dare to raise them." ”

Zhang Yang went out and pulled the reins of the horse again, and went to several families before and after, and the situation was almost the same.

I found a family with some chickens and ducks.

Zhang Yang beckoned a child and asked curiously: "I don't see that the surrounding people have chickens and ducks, why do they raise them." ”

The boy looked back at the three or five chickens, and then at the strange man in front of him, who had not spoken.

Zhang Yang took out a copper coin, "If you tell me, I will give you this copper coin." ”

The boy looked at the copper coin and replied, "Because their family used to be tenants." ”

Zhang Yang asked again, "Even if you are a tenant, you can't just raise chickens and ducks." ”

"The adults said that their family had a friendship with the county."

That's right, raising chickens and ducks seems to be a thing that can't be mentioned.

Under the child's resentful gaze, Zhang Yang put the copper coin into his belt again, handed him two dried dates with his backhand, and then walked away......

Shangguanyi explained: "In order to make the reported grain tax abundant, the village and county naturally collected the grain as much as possible. ”

The grain harvest is a matter of political performance, and the more grain there is in the local county, the less grain the villagers have.

The beginning of the Tang Dynasty should not be like this.

The power of the Tian Khan is getting bigger and bigger, and the people's hearts are the most simple, but the lives of the villagers have not changed much.

Zhang Yang left this village and went to another village, and every time he visited a house, he handed them the seeds in his hand.

Another bag of seeds was sent, and Shangguan Yi finally couldn't help but ask: "Even if the county marquis gave them the seeds, they wouldn't plant them." ”

"I know that under the strict requirements of the township and county for food, the county will not let the extra arable land be used to grow vegetables."

The so-called upward and downward effect, under the situation of involution in various counties, vegetable planting and poultry breeding have always been under the high-pressure environment and cannot be developed.

Just like Shangguan Yi said, if the above ideas do not change, it will be difficult for the townships and counties below to change.

It was already evening when he returned to Lishan, and Zhang Yang was not in a good mood when he returned home.

Li Yue said curiously: "What did my husband do today?" It seems that the interest is not high. ”

She took out a piece of paper, and three words were written crookedly on it, this is her daughter's name, Zhang Qingqing.

The writing is very large, and the handwriting is not good-looking.

Zhang Yang looked back at her daughter, she was contentedly eating her aunt's roasted mutton, she had been thinking about roast meat for a long time.

The younger siblings are still roasting and eating, and the quiet Lishan is only the movement of the bear swimming in the pool.

It is said that the daughter is only more than two years old, and she will be three years old after this year.

It's amazing to be able to write your own name.

The daughter-in-law is very demanding of her daughter.

Zhang Yang drank tea and said, "My daughter is really talented. ”

"Where did she get her talent, she wrote it according to it, and I'm afraid it won't work for her to write alone, it's like drawing a picture and drawing it."

"Today, I went to see the nearby townships and counties of Lishan, and I got a glimpse of the bad phenomenon behind the grain harvest in the Central Plains, although I can't generalize, but I think it's time to change......

Listen to my husband talk about what he saw and heard during today's trip.

Li Yue said in a low voice: "Just like what my husband said, the situation in one place cannot be generalized, but when the township and county are so competing for credit, it is not uncommon for all localities to be in such a situation. ”

The people take food as the sky, food is the top priority, the people's livelihood belongs to the people's livelihood, and the grain belongs to the grain.

We should not stifle people's livelihood because we blindly diversify one acre and a half acre of land.

Overcorrection stifles crop diversification.

In the library pavilion, there are piles of dossiers are placed, looking at the huge charts, except for the two to three years of Zhenguan because of the drought in the Central Plains, the grain has plummeted, and the grain harvest has improved since the fifth year of Zhenguan.

Since the sixth year of Zhenguan, the Central Plains has begun to have abundant grain.

According to the purpose of diversifying the cultivation of crops, increasing the circulation of grain crops in the north and south and encouraging villagers to raise chickens and ducks in their own homes, Zhang Yang wrote a note.

At least in this prosperous era, it shouldn't be difficult for ordinary villagers to eat chicken and duck eggs.

This is the most basic nutritional requirement of people in addition to meat.

Zhang Yang wrote on the chapter, "For all the people in the Tang Dynasty to have more sumptuous dishes on the table, for the villagers and children everywhere can thrive, so that the elderly can no longer divide food for the young, so that the children can be healthier, so that the needs of growth and physical strength can be better supplemented, please Your Majesty give Taifu Temple the right to dispatch crops and relax the right to relax the restriction on acres of land, but there are measures to ask Zhongshu Province for approval......"

Then continue to write the reasons and what I have seen and heard in the follow-up of the recital, and a recital of more than 300 words has been written.

Zhang Yang read it again for himself, this is the first time he has written so many words in the past few years as an official.

Whether it is the Chinese scholar or the Ministry of Rites, this is also the most serious time to be an official.

In this position of Taifu Temple, I have to be certified, and there is a teacher who teaches and manages the dining table of the Tang people, how can this kind of thing be relaxed and underestimated.

Putting down the pen in his hand, Zhang Yang looked out the window, the night was dark.

Li Yue soaked his feet in hot water and quietly looked at the scroll in his hand.

"Daughter-in-law, I seem to be able to see what I look like in my old age."

Li Yue chuckled: "As long as the husband is not involved in the power struggle between the DPRK and China, this is also good, and he can take care of his daughter in his spare time." ”

Xiao Qingqing was sitting cross-legged on her little short legs, looking at the new puzzle piece in front of her with a solemn face, this was her next challenge.