Master Jiang's eyes noticed Li Zhi on the side, and asked, "Who is this kid?" ”

Zhang Yang explained embarrassedly: "This is my daughter-in-law's younger brother. ”

Master Jiang nodded and said, "Since you are your daughter-in-law's younger brother, you should also be your own younger brother." ”

"My brother-in-law is very good to me." Li Zhi holds the skateboard in one hand.

Master Jiang squinted and smiled, stroked his beard and said, "Our children in Lishan are all good. ”

Li Zhi saluted again obediently and sensibly, "I also want to live in Lishan all the time." ”

When Master Jiang heard this, he smiled and said, "Home is still home, after all, you have to go home, you are still young and ignorant, and you will understand when you grow up." ”

Now Master Jiang is the person in charge here, and he arranges all the matters in the blacksmith's workshop.

Zhang Yang pulled a cart of iron into the blacksmith workshop and handed it over to them to arrange.

Master Jiang said again: "I think it's rare to see you and have a drink with you, but Lishan has a rule that you can't drink alcohol when you're working, it's a pity." ”

"I've been helping to cast some things for His Royal Highness King Wei recently, and I rarely have time."

Master Jiang couldn't help but nod, "Speaking of which, the affairs of His Royal Highness King Wei are also important. ”

Seeing that the child was here, he didn't say much, so Master Jiang walked into the blacksmith workshop by himself, each family has its own difficulties, maybe this kid himself has something unspeakable, so it is not good to ask him more about his family affairs.

Master Jiang thought so in his heart.

Leading Li Zhi all the way away, Zhang Yang walked in the field to watch the growth of crops, and Shangguan Yi was also picking seeds in the distance, as well as some unknown potted plants.

"Mr. Shangguan." Li Zhi stepped forward and saluted.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin." Shangguan Yi bowed and saluted.

"What is Mr. Shangguan doing?"

Shangguan Yi explained: "This year, the envoys of various countries came to the Tang Dynasty to congratulate, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites told those envoys that the current Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites was serving in the Taifu Temple, and was collecting crops from all over the country, so they brought their own local crops. ”

Li Zhi said: "Most of those envoys are to curry favor with the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites is in charge of diplomatic powers, if the Ministry of Rites gives more courtesy, presumably their situation will be much better." ”

"Yes, I think so."

Shangguan Yi nodded pertinently.

Zhang Yang simply took a bench and sat down, helped pick the crops, picked up a half-dead potted plant, and said curiously: "Huh? Is this an apple? ”

"What fruit?"

Since the Western Regions opened up Persia, the Hexi Corridor has gradually restored its prosperity, and more and more merchants have entered the Hexi Corridor, which has also brought a lot of goods to the Central Plains, such as pepper and other things, and now there are more and more Chang'an City.

Zhang Yang put down the potted plant, and looked at the seeds of other crops, after Zhang Qian's envoy to the Western Regions, many crops from the Western Regions entered Guanzhong.

And now to find something else, it's to go further afield.

"Where did this come from?" Zhang Yang picked up a flattened seed.

"I remember that this was sent by the Western Turks, saying that it was a kind of food, and it could be eaten by burning it in the fire."

Zhang Yang breathed shortly, "Where is this food, this is the seed of a pumpkin!" ”

"Pumpkin?"

"That's not right!" Zhang Yang pondered, "It is said that this thing should be farther away, how can this thing appear in the Western Turks?" ”

Shangguan Yi couldn't help but shake his head, "Xiaguan doesn't know." ”

Speaking of which, how could Shangguan Yi know where this seed came from, of course, growing pumpkins requires fertile land, and most of the places in the Western Regions can't grow them.

It is said that the current situation in the West, if it is said that with the expansion of the big cannibals, more and more resources have been opened, but this thing is at least separated from the Central Plains by a large plate.

However, after thinking about it again, Zhang Yang also figured out that in the process of the rise of the West, Rome expanded several times, and after the coastal trade in the Mediterranean began, the West also began to be active, from North Africa to the south along the Nile, it is not impossible.

And with the rise of the big food in the area of the two rivers, with the migration of people, exchanges between many places have also begun.

Until now, the Great Eclipse began to rise and march into the West.

However, the seeds of this crop are a good thing, and they need to be cultivated well.

A piece of cloth wrapped more than a dozen seeds, Zhang Yang smiled bitterly, "They actually use this thing as food." ”

No matter what the survival rate of this seed is now, if one of these ten seeds can be planted, it will be a great fortune.

Even if these seeds can't be planted, it's a big deal to level the whole of Europe.

Pumpkin is also called pumpkin, which is the name when it was originally planted in the Central Plains, and Shangguan Yi also has shallots to cultivate.

He flipped through the classics and explained: "The thing of shallots has been around since the Han Dynasty, but it has never been cultivated well, and I want to use black soil to grow it." ”

Beets, cowpeas, shallots, eggplants are all cultivated, and this pumpkin.

Shangguan Yi planned to plant grapes and courgettes in Guanzhong, and Zhang Yang picked some of the seeds and brought them to Lishan.

Some of the potted plants are so wilted that you can't tell what kind of crop they are.

Let Li Zhi hold a potted plant that is suspected to be an apple, and take some crop seeds to the mountain to cultivate.

Taifu Temple has to do what it should do, this is what the teacher taught.

After digging and supervising the accounts for Yan Liben's Taiye Pool, it had been a long time since he had heard about the trivial matters of the court.

This feeling is very good, Zhang Yang feels that his retirement life has come early.

Li Zhi looked at the potted plant in his hand curiously, "What is a brother-in-law apple?" ”

"Once upon a time there was a guy named Niu who was reading a book under a tree and was smashed by an apple."

"Really?" Li Zhi asked with a wink.

"Then he thought about gravity."

"This apple is so powerful, what if I get smashed?"

Tong Yan Wuji...... Zhang Yang didn't want to explain too much to him, as if in Li Zhi's cognition, this apple was a kind of enlightened divine fruit, and he could be enlightened if he was smashed.

Childhood fantasies are wonderful, or don't break them.

After returning to the mountain, Zhang Yang began to cultivate these crops, first making cultivation soil, using farmhouse manure and loose soil.

Li Yue watched her husband concentrate on handling the crops, she was in a good mood, and returned to the house to continue to make new clothes for the children born in the future.

Aunt Wang said in a low voice: "It's okay to make clothes when you were a baby, I don't know the boys and girls, Xiao Qingqing's old clothes are still there." ”

Li Yue nodded, "Auntie, my husband hasn't asked about the affairs of the court for a long time. ”

Thinking about it carefully, since His Majesty appointed the county marquis as the secretary of the Taifu Temple, he really didn't ask about the affairs of the court anymore.

In fact, the talent of the county marquis is outstanding, but His Majesty transferred him to Taifu Temple, and he can't figure it out.

Although Aunt Wang didn't understand, Li Yue smiled and didn't want to dwell on the reason, "A good family is like words, and the husband in front of me is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and he often quarrels with his father, and he often gets angry." ”

I have long heard that the county marquis often quarrels with His Majesty, this kind of thing is almost taken for granted, and His Majesty came to see the Emperor Taishang during the New Year, and he had a dispute with the county marquis.

If you don't think about this headache, it would be very difficult to think of Li Yue.

Half a month after the peaceful days, Zhang Yang looked at his seedbed, and the seeds on the cultivation soil still had no intention of germinating.

With a long sigh, maybe it really failed.

I thought that Datang was finally going to have pumpkins, and I was happy for many days.

Li Zhi said in a low voice: "Is my brother-in-law going to throw away these seeds?" ”

"Just leave it at that, I'll take a look."

If it does not sprout for half a month, it can be concluded that the cultivation has failed, but the shallots and beets are good, and even the apple tree has signs of new life.

In addition to these crops, Lishan is also full of life, and everything recovers in spring, and the surrounding weeds begin to grow wildly.

Only the seeds of the pumpkin have not moved.

The three hippos like to eat tender grass, so they don't want to leave their homes.

Xiao Wu sat on the horse's back with courage, and no matter how much she urged, the horse stood still.

After a while, Xiao Wu was very disappointed.

In the workshop, Zhang Yang used a lathe to polish iron nails, the blacksmith workshop in Lishan could make iron nails, and Master Jiang was more familiar with the use of nuts.

The principle is not complicated, and these experienced blacksmiths can understand it at a glance.

If you want to use the parts on the gun, you have to be fine and fine.

Zhang Yang used a flywheel to polish the edge of the iron nails, and after polishing with a flywheel, he used a vernier caliper to measure.

This kind of delicate work can only be done slowly step by step.

I heard a crisp sound, and the iron nail that was being sharpened broke.

There was silence in the workshop for a long time, until the flywheel stopped turning.

Li Zhi was still playing skateboarding at the door, but he heard an angry roar in the workshop.

"Holy God! It took half a day to polish such an iron nail and grind it for me! Do you know how tired I am this half day? My feet are going to be trampled on, and you just cut me off. ”

The roar frightened Li Zhi, and then looked into the workshop, but saw his brother-in-law pointing to the lathe and still scolding.

"But if the foundry technology of the Central Plains can go further, Lao Tzu can use this half day to be busy, and it is still in vain? You bastard saints who only know how to roll up in moral standards will cause me to do it all over again, and I will waste half a day! ”

Zhang Yang kicked the lathe heavily after scolding, took off his apron and walked out of the workshop quickly, washed his hands and face, took off his coat and washed in Huaqing Pool and changed into clean clothes.

After that, he lay at the door of the house expressionlessly, looking up at the sky with blank eyes.

Sometimes lamenting, sometimes grieving, and sometimes heartbreaking.

This looks like the younger brothers and sisters are very worried, they are worried that their brother-in-law is in a bad mood and does not repair toys and does not make good food, so what should be done.

Li Zhi walked quickly, "Brother-in-law, that pumpkin has sprouted." ”

Zhang Yang lay on the recliner, turned over, turned his back to him and whispered: "Don't comfort me, I don't have the heart to make toys for you now." ”

"Brother-in-law, the pumpkin has really sprouted."

"Child, you don't have to say that, I don't want to make good food today."

"It's really sprouting."

The kid was still pulling the corners of his clothes, Zhang Yang got up helplessly and walked to the seedbed.

When I looked closely, I saw three or two spots of green in the cultivation soil, and then blinked vigorously to make sure that I was not mistaken.

Maybe it was weeds, Zhang Yang squatted down and looked sideways at the little bit of green in the soil, if only there was a magnifying glass.

Touching his chin and thinking for a while, Zhang Yang dug up some cultivation soil slightly, and this time it was sure that the seeds had some roots.

"Hahaha!"

Suddenly laughed out loud, which still scared Li Zhi, and he looked worried, "Brother-in-law! Brother-in-law, you're not going crazy, are you? ”

Zhang Yang calmed down, "There will be gains and losses in everything, and it seems that what happened today is not all bad." ”

Li Zhi said in a low voice: "Seeds will definitely sprout in the soil, this is not a gain or loss, this is inevitable." ”

"When I say there are gains and losses, there are gains and losses." Zhang Yang was in a good mood, "I'll make you duck blood soup today." ”

"Good!"

The brother-in-law was in a better mood, and Li Zhi's mood was also better.

After the meal, the children were still playing by the Huaqing Pond, and after Zhang Yang calmed down after drinking tea, his thoughts were much clearer, perhaps he was wrong, the germination cycle of pumpkins was much longer than he expected.

Moreover, the seeds have lost water so badly that it is rare to have three of them alive today.

Sometimes I feel like God is always struggling with me, especially when it comes to manufacturing technology.

But now that I think about it, God is really helping Datang and making Datang strong.

The warm and suitable climate has made the grain harvest in the Central Plains several times, and the grain prices in the Central Plains have dropped to five cents a bucket.

This is all the credit of the thief.

The palace sent another stone of fine salt, Aunt Yang said: "Not long after this year's Qingming Festival, Your Majesty and the queen gave a lot of fine salt to the clan and the magnates, and each family did not give much, saying that we Lishan gave the most." ”

Li Yue looked at these fine salts and said with a smile: "There must be a lot of fine salt in my father's hands now." ”

Li Shimin got the salt lake in Tibet, and the emperor must have endless salt in his hands, and now the price of fine salt in Guanzhong is 60 yuan a bucket, and if it is coarse salt, it is 40 yuan a bucket.

These are the prices obtained in the recent records of Taifu Temple.

Many ordinary villagers do not use silver money to buy salt most of the time, which is too expensive, and ordinary people exchange salt for salt because it is too expensive.

When Zhang Yang looked through the records of Taifu Temple, he also saw that the price of salt in Wude for four years was one hundred yuan a bucket, and during the war, the situation was turbulent, and the price of salt would be even more expensive.

As the world calmed down, the price of salt naturally fell.

Whether the price of salt is cheap or not is related to grain, social situation, and even more to productivity.

In order to make Datang stronger and Datang's children stronger, salt is naturally as cheap as possible, and it is necessary to improve productivity.

His Majesty ordered the Wei Mansion to be changed to the Zhichong Mansion, and ordered that young and middle-aged people could only enter the army when they reached the age of 20, and the number of people entering the Zhichong Mansion would also decrease, which also showed Li Shimin's determination to rule the world.

In the next few days, Zhang Yang would go every day to see how the crops in the seedbed were growing, which made Li Yue a little dissatisfied, she raised her chin and said unhappily: "My husband cares about crops, and he doesn't care about children anymore." ”

"Daughter-in-law, you see this seedling has grown a little taller."

Just glancing at it, Li Yue turned his head and said, "Is there one?" ”

"Hmm."

"Hmph, it's still so small."

"We're going to have pumpkins at home."

Hearing this, Li Yue's expression was much better, "Well, is the pumpkin delicious?" ”