In mid-July, the double-cropping rice that had been expanded to 14 prefectures around the capital was harvested again, and the court was jubilant, and the household departments from Shangshu to Xiaoyi were even more relieved.

During this time, it can be forced to be damaged by several places, the flood in Tanzhou, the drought in Qingzhou, and the border armies in Youzhou, Longzhou, and Bingzhou are all preparing for war, and what they lack is food.

The local government is almost a fold for a few days, and the most talked about is food, and if there is no food, the local people are likely to fool the civil unrest, and at that time, the matter will be big.

The court also knew that they were really difficult, and with just a little food every year, they could usually hold on for a while.

When it comes to disaster years, the local government that has nothing to rely on can only continue to reach out to the court.

Now, whether it is Yangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, which are already very mature, or Ningguofu, Luzhou, Sizhou and Huizhou, which have just tried, the output has increased significantly.

In particular, in Sizhou Prefecture, they began to renew the rice, which was planted only after harvesting wheat, and finally found that it was successful, which made the people on both sides of the Huai River happy.

I heard that the officials and people of Ezhou, Anqing, and Fuzhou provinces have been exchanging experiences with the people of the neighboring counties after learning about the planting of double-cropping rice in the neighboring prefectures, and they are all thinking about planting double-cropping rice in their own fields as soon as possible.

It is conceivable that as long as the planting area continues to expand next year, not to mention anything else, at least in the short term, Daxia will no longer have to worry about food panic.

This time, the double-cropping rice planted in 18 prefectures and hundreds of counties has directly increased the output by nearly 5 million catties, and it can be said that the increase in the output of so much grain has never been seen before Great Xia, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of troops at the border gates, even if tens of millions of people are added, they can be fed.

The Holy Lord has already issued an order to the household department, and the armaments and grain of the border army are given priority, and they must be transported before the end of the year, with the focus on Youzhou and Ningzhou.

There is also the disaster in Tanzhou and Qingzhou, where the people have run out of food and must be arranged immediately.

At present, there is a large amount of grain in Jingzhou that was originally to be transported to the capital, and the idea of the household department is that the household inspector will directly hand over this batch of grain to Tanzhou for disaster relief.

What the household department played was to hand over the grain directly to the Jingzhou Trading Department, and they would make the overall plan, and as for how to do it, the household department would not participate.

Several important ministers of the court immediately understood the meaning of the household department, and directly distributed it, and these state capitals and counties in the middle did not know how to divide it.

If it comes to the hands of the trading department, it is very simple, it is an opening, but this opening is not ordinary.

They will be effectively distributed in strict accordance with the materials in the later stage, whether it is the actual effect or the waste in the middle, it will be completely different.

At the same time as the saint approved the approval, he suddenly remembered that if it weren't for Yuan Rui's proposal, all the grain in the Central Plains would be turned into the jurisdiction of the government and let the household department make overall distribution, and now the grain in various places could not be effectively mobilized, which would be really a big trouble.

The recitals of the household department not only talked about double cropping rice, but also played the situation of potato cultivation in the dry land around the capital.

This time, the potatoes collected from the slopes around the capital exceeded 10 million catties, and they are only cooking at present, and they have been verified, and this thing is more suitable for the border army as an armament, and it can be kept for a long time.

The saint looked at the recital of the household department, his heart was full of confidence, with food, and then gathered the soldiers from all over the country, this time the battle of Chijin was a little bigger.

He also has to think about which generals are needed to accompany him in this northern expedition to Chijin. In fact, it is not difficult to see that from the heart, the saint still wants to have a personal expedition this time.

Just finished reading the recital in his hand, and the following recital attracted his attention, which turned out to be the resignation of Xu Weijin, the Duke of Wei! Just a few cursory glances, it touched his heart.

This is also a major matter that the county lord and Wei Guogong discussed for a long time before deciding, and outsiders have not heard of any rumors at all.

On the second day of the full moon wine, Wei Guogong, an old fox, quietly called his two sons and daughters to the study.

"Second brother, tell me, is it a coincidence, or is it running for the fame of the Duke of Wei, or there are other reasons."

"Dad, I'm not familiar with the affairs of the court, why do you ask me!" Xu Lao Er smiled bitterly.

"Second brother, this is home, if you use the mess outside to deal with us, that Miss Jiang ......"

"When I came perfunctory, I really don't know what these officials think, but I know one thing, there is no such coincidence, if you want to say that they are here to join in the fun, I don't believe it."

"Dad, I also feel what the second brother said, the full moon wine, the full moon ceremony, most of them are to send some family members to join in the fun, but you look at who is here, several palaces, so many princes' mansions, and so many courtiers, even the two ladies in the palace have come forward."

Although the county lord specially invited Concubine Jingniang, he didn't expect her to come in person.

"Don't talk about Xu Lian, Wang Jie, that old fox, for Yang Qi, it's reasonable, others have taken a fancy to that kid and know that they can help. But if you look at those few waiters, there are so many Langzhong, Hanlin and the like, what is the same year, colleagues, not all of them came up hard. ”

"Dad, do you say they are running for our Guogong Mansion or Yuan Rui."

"Eldest sister, is there a difference, now Yuan Rui and the Guogong Mansion are tied together, and they can't tell the difference."

Xu Lao Er couldn't help but say, in the eyes of outsiders, where will there be any difference, your full moon ceremony is all held in the Guogong Mansion.

"Second brother, what I'm saying is that others want to deal with Yuan Rui or want to pull the Guogong Mansion off the horse together."

"No, there is still something wrong here, Dad, our Xu family has been involved in these taboo things for decades, why do they still want to pull us together this time, I'm really not afraid that we will turn our faces."

Boss Xu thought about it for a long time, and at this time he should have thought of something, and he looked puzzled.

"In fact, on the other hand, what is their purpose, whether it is in the palace or the palace, it is the most basic etiquette to give gifts, but it is a little grander, but it also makes sense, the eldest sister is the county lord. There are also several duchess and duchess, all of whom are in a normal relationship with each other, let alone outsiders. The only thing that makes sense is that someone wants to lead this matter to another angle, want the saint to have other ideas, and want different voices to appear in the court, so as to gain benefits from the chaos. ”

"But, for the Holy One, do you really care about this?"

"What the boss means, this is something that some people are deliberately putting obstacles on our part, so that we can't sit still first, expose our flaws, find our mistakes in the middle, and then attack us."

"Brother, if this is the case, it means that the opponent is not only targeting Yuan Rui, but also pulling the Xu family together."

"Dad, then we have to prepare in advance, don't get up to time, something has happened."

"Okay, that's all for this, you go and rest, I'll talk about it."

Within a few days, Wei Guogong did not hesitate, nor did he say anything to the three children, and went straight to the recital.

Sheng Shang didn't expect that Wei Guogong's measures were so decisive and resolute that he didn't have time to make any arrangements in advance.

He knew what was going on in the county lord's house, and he didn't say anything to see if someone was in the middle. But without waiting for him to react, Wei Guogong actually found a way to deal with it in advance.

The reason for Wei Guogong's retirement is very clear, that is, his health has become worse and worse in the past two years, especially the serious injury two years ago has indeed made his body weaker and weaker.

Now a month is the first day of the new year, the big court will show below, the rest of the time is in the house, either bring grandchildren, or all kinds of dishes, almost do not go out of the house, even if a few old friends invite them, they rarely go.

Shengshang knew very well in his heart that Wei Guogong was not forcing the palace, he really wanted to retreat, once a son of heaven and a courtier, this sentence is true, there are always people gossiping when standing in the position.

Originally, he didn't want to let Wei Guogong retire so early, but in this situation, it is not necessarily a bad thing to let Wei Guogong take a step back, the Xu family must keep it no matter what, this is a sign of Great Xia.

Retreat, retreat, it's just nominal, as long as you can call to the palace at any time since you live, it's okay.

There is another reason, the saint also wants to use the retirement of Wei Guogong to tell some ministers in the court that they should not always occupy a seat and not work, so what should they do.

The current court still needs some newcomers to do something well, such as Yuan Rui, who is not contributing at this time, and when will he wait.

On July 26 of the first year of Taining, the court decreed that the Duke of Wei was old and frail and allowed to recuperate at home.

On July 28 of the first year of Taining, the court issued an order to allow the British public to recuperate at home and reward 10,000 acres of fertile land.

At the end of July of the first year of Taining, among the court, not only more than a dozen ordinary officials applied for resignation and returned to their hometowns for various reasons, but also many important ministers took the initiative to retire.

To put it simply, the saint didn't read what he wrote at all, so he threw it to him.

The current situation is not the time to change the first assistant, disasters continue to occur in various places, if it weren't for the harvest of new crops here in the capital,

After Yuan Rui received the letter from the capital, there was nothing particularly surprising, the current court really needs some other people to toss it, it is too rigid, too unenergetic, although it has a stable development environment, but it is too conservative.

What he didn't expect was that not long after, there was a will in the court, which was given to him directly!

On the fifth day of August in the first year of Taining, the court issued an edict that Yuan Rui had made a lot of contributions, and he had made meritorious contributions to the society, and was awarded the title of Immortal Jiashan Bo!

The will did not go down to Qiyang, but went directly to the Yuan Mansion, the county lord with his two daughters, Xiaohe and his son knelt at the door to meet the will, from now on, the gate of the Yuan Mansion will be eligible to hang the plaque of the Bofu.

Xiaohe and his son also came to the capital at the end of last month, first, it is true that they have been in the countryside for too long, and the Yuan Mansion in the capital is the real small home, and the other is that Scholar Meng and his wife are also going back to Beijing, this holiday is too long.