In the Penglai Palace, the breath is mild.

Li Zhi, who was wearing only a blue single coat, sat behind the curtain, put aside the recital from the Luo Dao in his hand, and asked sideways, "What is the prince doing?" ”

Wang Fulai immediately bowed his hand and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the crown prince has been asking about agricultural matters recently. ”

Li Zhi smiled and said with satisfaction: "Follow the same trend, learn very quickly." ”

Wang Fulai bowed his head silently.

"Herald." Li Zhi's expression became fierce, Wang Fulai immediately gave up his hand, and Li Zhi said calmly: "Ling Prince Xian, Hai Ri, plough the land for my relatives." ”

Wang Fulai's face was solemn, and he arched his hand and said, "Oh! ”

……

Li Xian held the holy decree in his hand, looked at the ministers in the Mingde Hall with some blankness, and asked puzzledly: "My father has not cultivated for many years, why did he suddenly remember this matter today, and he still ordered Lonely?" ”

Yao Lingzhang stepped forward and arched his hand: "Your Highness, the gift of pro-ploughing, the major affairs of the country, have been there since the Shang and Zhou Dynasty. ”

Li Xian looked up and saw Yao Lingzhang telling everything.

"Etiquette, the Son of Heaven has a thousand acres of land, and the princes have a hundred acres. Every time before spring ploughing, the Son of Heaven and the princes will push or dial three times on the home field, which is called "home ceremony" to show the importance of farming. ”

After a slight pause, Yao Lingzhang continued: "For thousands of years, when the Son of Heaven ploughed the land, he also had to sacrifice to the gods related to agricultural production, that is, the Shennong clan. ”

Xue Yuanchao nodded, and then said: "In recent years, Your Majesty has been uneasy, so the gift of pro-cultivation has been abandoned, but there is still some uneasiness in my heart.

Now that His Royal Highness is close to farming, he should naturally replace His Majesty in plowing the fields and sacrificing to Shennong. ”

Li Xian raised his head and nodded thoughtfully, he could hear the meaning of Yao Lingzhang and Xue Yuanchao's words.

Ploughing for the emperor, arable land is secondary, and the key is to sacrifice Shennong for the emperor.

Three emperors and five emperors, the surname Li is the source of the Yellow Emperor.

Although the Li family in Longxi takes Laozi as their ancestor, they trace back to their origins and are descendants of the Yellow Emperor.

Therefore, on the third day of the first month of each year, the emperor wants to sacrifice to the sky in the southern suburbs, which is mainly to worship the God of Haotian, supplemented by the Yellow Emperor; In the northern suburbs, the sacrifice is mainly based on the thick soil, supplemented by Shennong.

Although the emperor has been in poor health over the years, the emperor has also personally experienced the sacrifice to the sky in the southern suburbs and the sacrifice to the ground in the northern suburbs.

Now Li Xian sacrifices Shennong instead of the emperor, second only to the heaven and earth instead of the emperor, and the symbolism is very great.

"Well, in that case, everything is ready to be prepared." After a slight pause, Li Xian said: "In addition to the ministers of the court, let Wugong County Order Dou Chi also come together." ”

"Whoa!" All the ministers bowed their hands in unison.

When Li Xian summoned the Wugong County Commander before, he found out that Dou Chi, the Wugong County Commander, was actually the brother of Dou Xiao, who joined the army in the former Yongwang Mansion.

Dou Chi served as the county magistrate of Meixian County in his early years, and now he is the county magistrate of Wugong.

Wugong County is Qi County, and Wugong County Order is the sixth product.

Coupled with this relationship, Li Xian is very close to Dou Chi.

Of course, Dou Chi is the core disciple of the younger generation of the Dou family, and he is very close to the blood of King Xiang.

At least it's much closer than Dou Xiao.

……

Li Xian, who was dressed in a black python robe, wore a nine-fold crown on his head, and ascended to the altar of Xiannong with a solemn face.

Under the gaze of the ministers and hundreds of officials, he sacrificed to the Shennong clan with a serious expression.

After the sacrificial ceremony was over, Li Xiancai rushed to the emperor's home field and began to personally "one acre and three points of land".

The emperor has thousands of acres of land, so it is naturally impossible for the emperor to cultivate it himself.

Now Li Xian has replaced the emperor to plough the land, and it is natural and impossible for Li Xian to plough thousands of acres.

What Li Xian personally cultivated was only three furrows in "one acre and three points of land".

"One acre and three points of land" is divided into 12 furrows, of which the middle three furrows are to be "cultivated" by the prince, and the remaining nine furrows are ploughed by the princes and ministers.

The prince held the plow in his right hand and the whip in his left hand, and with the assistance of the ministers and farmers, began to perform the ploughing ceremony.

The emperor ploughed the land in front, and there were special officials in the back who were in charge of sowing seeds.

Of course, it is the farmers who are basically unnoticed who really help, and they are the main force of farming.

The other princes and many princes and ministers are just going through the motions.

However, although it was a formality, Li Xian also seemed particularly interested.

Chen Yi, Shaoqing of Sinong Temple, and Dou Chi, the commander of Wugong County, were all called to their side to ask about related matters.

“…… I have a lot of horses in the Tang Dynasty, so there are horses galloping, and horses are ploughing and pulling. ”

After a slight pause, Dou Chi continued: "Wugong County is located on the side of Chang'an, and on average, every ten households can have a horse, and the spring ploughing is basically enough. ”

"Basically enough?" Li Xian's brows suddenly furrowed, he looked at Dou Chi and said: "What is the wrong word, the people are rich and poor, the neighborhoods and villages are rich and poor, how can there be more or less horses, how can we generalize in a partial way, to be honest, how many households can have a batch of horses?" ”

Dou Chi was silent for a moment, and then finally spoke: "Your Highness is wise, to be precise, in the homes of ordinary people, twenty households can have one horse. ”

"In other words, half of this colt is not in the hands of the people?" Li Xian asked in a word, and Dou Chi had to nod and said: "That's true, martial arts is close to Chang'an, and most of the land is in the hands of noble and wealthy families, and all its horses will be rented to many people every year, but the price is expensive." ”

"Ma, what about Tian?" Li Xian suddenly raised his head and asked coldly, "How much of this field is rented to the people?" ”

Dou Chi said with a bitter face: "About sixty percent." ”

"And forty percent, do they grow it themselves?" Li Xian was in hot pursuit.

"Some of them grow their own, and some of them are ......" Dou Chi walked by, and then said: "Wugong County only collects taxes, and when the autumn harvest comes, there are enough taxes to pay." ”

"Enough to pay taxes?" Li Xian sneered and said, "I'm afraid that the real nobles and wealthy families don't have to pay taxes." ”

Dou Chi was silent, what could he say, the national policy is like this, the law is like this, and the noble relatives and wealthy families already have the right to be outside the law.

Seeing that Dou Chi was silent, Li Xian didn't know what he was thinking, shook his head, Li Xian said: "Taxes, horses, don't care, as long as Wugong County this year, all the land that should be planted with grain must be planted with grain, and at the beginning of next year, my father will be enshrined, and I want to celebrate my father with this." ”

"Whoa!" Dou Chi immediately surrendered.

Li Xian glanced at him and said: "You don't have to be embarrassed about this matter, the counties under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou Mansion are like this time, all the land that should be planted with grain must be planted with grain, but there is a vacancy, no matter who and what field, Yongzhou Mansion will take it back." ”

"Whoa!" Dou Chi's expression suddenly became excited.

"Let's go, talk to all the ministers and ministers about this matter." Li Xian turned around and walked towards the high platform not far away.

Although Li Xian took the lead in cultivating the fields now, even the prime ministers did not dare to go to other places, but they were older after all, and most of the time they stood casually.

Li Xian walked to the high platform, and several prime ministers, monks, and temples quickly gathered.

……

"Father and Emperor Feng Zen, Lone plans to make every effort to promote all the places where food should be planted in Yongzhou." After a slight pause, Li Xian said with a cold face: "If anyone deliberately vacancy, Yongzhou Mansion will take back their fields, no matter who is meritorious." ”

If it is just the matter of Yongzhou Mansion, Lu Yuanfang and Su Liangsi can handle it, but when it involves many meritorious relatives in the court, you need to be cautious.

The prime ministers couldn't help but be stunned, they could understand Li Xian's desire to contribute to the emperor's confession, but since the opening of the Tang Dynasty, about the people's fields, in addition to granting land, most of them have used tax collection as a means to promote the people to have a variety of grains.

After all, for ordinary people, they can't wait to plant 10 percent of grain on every acre of land, but for meritorious families, people only need to pay taxes, and nothing else.

Now Li Xian is doing formalism for the emperor's canonization, and he has to punish the meritorious noble family of Kutian, which is somewhat remarkable.

At this time, Duan Baoxuan said faintly: "Yonghui Law: Those who abandon and destroy official and private utensils and destroy trees and crops are quasi-thieves. ”

"The sin of abandoning the land?" Pei Yan was the first to react, and after how many years he had been in the Criminal Department, Shangshu immediately understood Duan Baoxuan's thoughts.

Imperial Doctor Cui Mi stood up and arched his hand: "Your Highness, this crime is too far-fetched and harsh. ”

"What Doctor Yu Shi said is indeed reasonable, the imperial court does not care whether the land is abandoned or not planted, as long as it can pay enough taxes after the autumn, it is enough, but these people do not pay taxes, which means that he, the court has no way to restrain them." Su Liangsi walked out and looked at Cui Mi calmly, his eyes were cold.

"It's not necessarily that there is no way, right, Dou County Order." Di Renjie stood aside and spoke softly.

Dou Chi smiled reluctantly, at this time, there was no place for him to speak.

Cui Mi suddenly frowned.

Di Renjie's words are not bad, because local meritorious relatives will inevitably have places that violate the law, and no one will inevitably be unlucky if they really want to die in pickets.

Duan Baoxuan obviously wants to support Li Xian, and as a scholar of the Criminal Department and a former Dali Siqing, he really wants to intervene, and I am afraid that it will be a lot of trouble.

"Why fight." Liu Renliang finally spoke, and all the ministers turned around at the same time and looked at Liu Renliang with their hands.

Liu Renliang turned to look at Li Xian and arched his hand: "Your Highness's actions, in addition to congratulating Your Majesty on the Zen ceremony, I am afraid that there are also concerns that the floods in the summer and autumn of this year will hurt the agricultural grain, so I asked for as many kinds of grain as possible, so that in the event of a disaster, Chang'an Luoyang can also have enough food to survive the disaster year." ”

Li Xian raised his hand and said respectfully to Liu Renliang: "Lone is just worried. ”

"Your Highness thinks and thinks exactly what you think, and since this is the case, then you will be straightforward in your words and deeds, so that all parts of Yongzhou, Huazhou, Shaanzhou, and Luozhou will be fully prepared this spring and summer to prevent flooding, and those who are worried about slackness, regardless of the government or meritorious relatives, will be severely fined, confiscated land, and deprived of titles, and will not be forgiven."

"As Zuo Xiang said, the East Palace, Sinong Temple, and Yongzhou Mansion played together, and the cabinet department reviewed and went down." Li Xian let out a long sigh of relief.

"Whoa!" The ministers surrendered at the same time.

Li Xian's eyes fell on Dou Chi, and he said: "Wugong County is short of cultivated livestock, Donggong pays a sum of money to buy livestock and borrow it in Wugong County, and take it back after the autumn harvest, if there is a shortage, Wugong County will make up for it." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness the Prince." Dou Chi's face was suddenly full of joy, although Li Xian said that he wanted to take it back, it was just to avoid waste and private transfer, which was a good thing.

"Hmm!" Li Xian nodded, looked at He Yiqiu and said: "Wugong County is located in the upper reaches of the Wei River, and the matter of watering is also very important, and the water supervisor will send one person to assist. ”

"Whoa!" Why do you want to give it up?

Li Xian turned his head to look at Cui Mi and said, "Wugong County is complicated, and the Yushitai has sent people to supervise it. ”

"Whoa!" Cui Mi was suddenly bitter, and at the same time arched his hand: "Your Highness, the Imperial Shitai is understaffed. ”

"Let's transfer people." Li Xian looked sideways at Bi Jing, thought about it and said, "Lone remembers that Bi Jing has been a secretary for two years, right?" ”

"Yes!" Bi Jing gave up his hand in surprise.

"How is the Imperial History Observatory transferred to supervise the Imperial History, and I remember that his qualifications are enough, and he was a role model back then." Li Xian calmly suggested, but his eyes looked straight at Cui Mi.

"Yes!" The corners of Cui Mi's mouth twitched slightly, and her eyes were bitter.

Bi Jing was appointed as a poor man, and he was promoted by the queen of heaven, in fact, even if the prince did not say so, Cui Mi would give Bi Jing this face.

Not to mention that Bi Gou is a candidate recommended by Princess Taiping, he himself has already made up his mind, and he will only be transferred after a while.

It's just that now the prince suddenly intervened, which made him a little at a loss for a while.

Li Xian smiled lightly, and then looked at everyone with a solemn face and said: "This year's flood, although it is in the prediction of the Taishi Bureau, but up to now, the Taishi Bureau has not changed, all departments must be fully prepared for flood control, and the central government has also ordered all states and counties to act according to the order without delay." ”

"Whoa!" The ministers bowed their hands at the same time, their expressions solemn.

At this moment, with a "pop", a drop of water suddenly fell from the sky, smashed on the ground, and cracked in an instant.

The old peasants around them suddenly cheered with joy, but the ministers were already solemn.

This year, I'm afraid it's a stormy year!

(End of chapter)