Coming out of the breeding area, standing on the slope of the hill and looking at the sparkling paddy fields at the bottom of the mountain, the water surface of the ploughed paddy fields is yellow, and the villagers who have finished breakfast have picked up the seedlings and poured them into the field, and the other villagers who came with them went down to the fields to line up and began to plant seedlings.

Xia Jing looked at the speed of the villagers under the mountain and said with a smile: "The first time they planted seedlings, the speed was good. It is said that farmers rely on the sky for food, and I think their hands-on ability is good, and even if they rely on this hands-on ability in the future, they will be able to eat with their mouths. ”

Zuo Jiuchuan looked at the many ploughed paddy fields under the mountain, and some villagers joined the team of rice planting, and nodded: "The speed is okay, practice can become a coincidence, and their speed should be faster in the afternoon." ”

Xia Jing has never really gone to the field, and according to her eyesight, the speed of the villagers is already good, but Zuo Jiuchuan knows more about farming, so his judgment should be more accurate.

"The speed can be improved better, this summer planting your task is very arduous, hundreds of acres of fields are waiting for you to cultivate, everyone will be very hard during this busy farming period, and then you can go to the surrounding villages to buy a batch of pigs back, add meals to the villagers to ensure nutrition, and pay attention to heatstroke prevention, heatstroke prevention medicinal materials can be prepared in advance to buy some back."

"If you look at the arrangement of these small things, you can rest assured, the small ones will not be tired of the villagers during the busy farming period."

The logistics are guaranteed, and Xia Jing is a little relieved.

Hundreds of hectares of fields are a lot of land, and it is impossible to be all in one place, and there are more than a dozen granges, but Xia Jing is the temporary head of Zuo Jiuchuan.

If the next summer planting and autumn harvest are over, and there are no major problems in each grange, then Xia Jing will officially appoint him as the head of the grange, in charge of all the granges under her and Xiao Wu's name.

Nowadays they have raised a lot of people, and food is especially important.

If food can be self-sufficient, then Xia Jing's army expansion plan will be much smoother next year.

Unable to be self-sufficient in food, they will always be constrained by others, especially the Tong family, a major grain producer in Lingnan.

This year's land reform policy has hurt the foundation of the Tong family, although the peace is still maintained on the surface, but secretly the Tong family does not know how much they hate the Qian Palace.

If there is not enough food, there will be no confidence and no sense of security.

Therefore, the most important thing for King Qian's palace to come to Lingnan is to open up the wasteland and grow grain.

After arranging the affairs of the Grange, Xia Jing took the maids and guards to rush back.

In the hot summer, even with an ice basin in the carriage, the wind blowing in the curtains and windows of the carriage still burns the skin.

Near the city gate, there were many people gathered on both sides of the road, and their clothes looked more like the family members of some people's families.

"What's going on? Why are so many families gathered at the city gate? Hongmei noticed the situation outside.

Not long after her words fell, Ye Fei rode over to report, "Princess, there are many families gathered at the gate of the city, and my subordinates inquired and found that they are all organized to go outside to suppress bandits, do you think we should stop it?" ”

Xia Jing lifted the curtain and looked at the situation outside, and asked with a smile: "Why should we stop it?" ”

Ye Fei was a little anxious, "If these families are also involved, then won't our great cause of suppressing bandits have to be stopped?" ”

The bandits' den is a lot of wealth, if the family is the first to get there, then what will the soldiers and horses in the hands of the various masters of their palace use as whetstones?

Xia Jing couldn't help but chuckle when she heard this, "Let them go, there are a lot of bandits in Lingnan, and it's not bad to let them do something, not to mention that the bandits in Lingnan have to rely on the regular soldiers and horses of the palace to exterminate them." ”

The bandits in Lingnan have been surrounded and suppressed by their own personal guard battalion and Xiao Wu's personal soldiers, and they must have been prepared, or the small group of bandits has completed the integration.

Now that someone is in the vanguard, why should she stop it?

Ye Fei was a little unwilling, "Just let them go?" ”

"Yes, let it be." Xia Jing lowered the curtains, "Let's go, go home!" ”

Ye Fei didn't understand why the princess let go of these families and let them share the pie, but the master spoke, and he couldn't disobey.

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Back at the palace, Xia Jing had just finished washing, and she listened to the maid report to Mr. Zhang to find her.

Xia Jing asked her to lead her husband into the study.

Entering the study, Mr. Zhang unexpectedly found the study of a woman of the princess, and the shelves were full of books.

Not long after coming to Lingnan, in addition to being busy with her livelihood, the princess has not seen her visit the bookstore, where did these books come from?

Xia Jing noticed his surprised eyes and smiled lightly: "Sir, are you curious about where these books come from?" ”

Mr. Zhang nodded, "I have some doubts in my heart." ”

"In fact, most of these books were collected by me from Yuzhou. At that time, everyone in Yuzhou City who had some connections knew that the emperor was being pursued by Beidi, and who would care about these worthless and cumbersome books when the world fled for their lives? ”

"So you sent someone to collect and transport it to Lingnan?" Mr. Zhang thought it was inconceivable that any short-sighted woman would not do the same on the way to escape.

Xia Jing once again impressed Mr. Zhang.

Xia Jing laughed: "Yes, it's all about passing the boring time on the road." ”

Mr. Zhang didn't believe this at all.

Xia Jing saw that Mr. Zhang's eyes were glowing green when she saw her collection of books like a wolf staring at meat, so she asked first, "Why did Mr. come here today?" ”

Mr. Zhang coughed lightly, and finally was willing to find a place to sit down, "Ahem, Weichen came here today for the sake of steel, and now that the palace has recruited tens of thousands of horses, the first conscription to Lingnan is over."

The prince has long had an idea, wanting tens of thousands of recruits to hone and hone their training, and scatter them to the mountains and rivers of Lingnan to suppress bandits, but the ordnance forged by the war workshop is not as good as the ordnance made of stainless steel. ”

Hearing this, Xia Jing could probably guess why he came, "So what?" ”

"So, this time Weichen came to talk to you about the price of this steel, for the sake of you and the prince's family, can you give a preferential price?"

Mr. Zhang is bitter, and the matter that the husband and wife can't talk about actually threw him a counselor.

The prince went to the princess's iron workshop today, and the workshop steward heard that they wanted the amount and directly offered the price, and the prince wanted to negotiate the price, but the steward refused.

The reason for the management is that the smelting of steel is difficult, the output is not high, and the cost is high, so the price is not negotiable.

When the prince saw that it was not appropriate to talk to the steward, he sent him to talk to the princess, which was not to embarrass him!

Xia Jing didn't answer his question immediately, but poured him a cup of jasmine tea, "Sir, taste this flower tea, see if you are used to drinking it." ”

Mr. Zhang smelled the fragrance of the flowers as early as when he entered the door, and at first he thought it was the princess who had smeared the perfume, but later found out that it was coming from the teapot.

In fact, he had long wanted to ask what kind of tea was this?

"Jasmine can also make tea?"

When Xia Jing heard this, she laughed, "As long as the flowers in the world are not poisonous, they can be made into flower tea." ”

Mr. Zhang took a sip, "Oh, this statement is novel, but Weichen is lonely and unheard." But what does this jasmine tea say? ”

"This tea is made by blending tea leaves and jasmine flowers, and making them by absorbing the fragrance of flowers with tea leaves, the tea soup is yellow and green, and it tastes mellow and fresh, especially suitable for the hot climate of Lingnan."

Mr. Zhang listened to her introduction and took another sip, "Rich and mellow, fragrant, very suitable for scholars' gatherings." ”

"Haha. It is very rare, and it is an honor for this tea to get a pertinent evaluation from Mr. Xia Jing smiled and said: "This flower is not said to be all over the mountains in Lingnan, but it still grows a lot." You said that if this flower is made into tea and mass-produced and sold to all parts of the Yu Dynasty, what do you think of the prospects? ”

Mr. Zhang tasted it carefully, with a long aftertaste, and was shocked by Xia Jing's words when he was caught off guard.

He digested it for a while before giving a thumbs up, "If the princess is a man, the position of Weichen's staff should have been given up to Xian a long time ago." ”

Xia Jing looked at him with a smile, "Mr. has won the award, I am just a housewife, in the eyes of the prince, as long as I preside over the middle feed, my husband and children will be a good wife and mother." And I don't even meet the standard of a good wife and mother, so I can't afford my husband's evaluation. ”

When Mr. Zhang heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched, he really couldn't reply to this, some of the prince's thoughts were not something that they could control.

Otherwise, the prince would not have spread the reputation of being a gentleman, and he would not have been whipped by the princess in the flowers on the way to escape.

Xia Jing didn't embarrass him, "The price of steel is not negotiable, you go back and tell the prince that although everyone is a family, one is lost and one is prosperous, but in business, I can't sell steel to him at a loss." ”

Mr. Zhang was silent for a while, and then persuaded: "The princess should know that if the situation is unpredictable today, if you have force in your hand, you will have the capital to live with peace of mind.

Although the prince is the king of a state, the prince started too late. Now the strength of the palace is not afraid in the eyes of any local power minister in the world, and they can come to pluck the prince's beard.

In such a difficult situation, you husband and wife should work together to bring the palace out of this quagmire. ”

Xia Jing listened to his words and sneered, "If the palace is to rely on me and the prince, the two old men and old ladies, sooner or later they will withdraw from the stage of history, it is better to quit early."

If the other rooms don't work hard, it's useless for you to force me. At least for now, I won't compromise, the price is not less, if the prince is poor, he can release tens of thousands of horses, Lingnan is full of treasures, will he be afraid of poor money? ”

Mr. Zhang tried his best to speak, and when he saw that Xia Jing's oil and salt did not enter, he was also very helpless, "The prince has already sent the team out, and I believe that there will be good news soon." ”

"That's it, if he really can't come up with the money now, he can pay a deposit, get the goods first, and the money can be settled in January."

Xia Jing originally wanted to leave no credit, but after thinking about it, she took a step back.

It's just this small step that has also found a market for the smelted steel.

Mr. Zhang already had a great psychological expectation, Xia Jing would not compromise, and would pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other.

But unexpectedly, Xia Jing finally took a step back and agreed to settle the knot in January.

For a moment, he was surprised and delighted in his heart.

However, for the sake of safety, I still asked one more question: "Can the princess change the first knot in January to the first knot in March?" ”

Xia Jing glanced at him and reminded: "Sir, it's best not to be an inch in your life, be careful that it backfires, and you won't get anything in the end." ”

Mr. Zhang, who was threatened, immediately closed his mouth, and he no longer dared to behave after receiving benefits.

Seeing off Mr. Zhang, Xia Jing asked Hongmei to set the meal.

"Mr. Zhang is really, it's almost lunch time, and I'm talking to you about something, after his delay, the meals in the kitchen are all hot."

Listening to the maid's complaints, Xia Jing smiled: "It's too hot this weather, and the food is cold when it's cold, it's okay." ”

Hongmei shook her head: "It's definitely not okay to eat cold rice and cold dishes, your stomach will not be able to stand it." ”

Xia Jing smiled and stopped talking, waiting for her to set the meal.

This is the benefit of living in ancient times, there are maids waiting for everything, and living and eating are taken care of, what a corruption!

Xia Jing lay flat, let the maids help wipe her hands and face, prepare the food, really make clothes to reach out, and open her mouth when she eats.

But this feeling didn't last long before it was drowned out by a voice.

"Mother, my son is here to dine with you."

Xia Jing glanced at Li Chengmu who entered the door, and said angrily: "It's not early at this time, why haven't you eaten yet, where have you gone?" ”

Li Chengmu naturally sat under Xia Jing, the closest position to the ice basin, and let Hongmei and Baimei help him wipe his face and hands, "My cousins and cousins are clamoring to go to the barracks to see the chief, and I have no choice but to take them to the barracks and let them experience the taste of the barracks, hehe!" ”

Wait for the summer to almost disappear.

He picked up the chopsticks and first picked up some dishes for Xia Jing that she liked to eat, and he ate them himself.

This made Xia Jing a little surprised, "They experience it once, how do you say it?" ”

"The other cousins said that the military camp was too hard and tiring, with only one exception, mother, guess who?"

"Who?" Xia Jing has no interest in playing guessing.

"Second cousin Xia He, you said that he is married, why don't you want to be with Wen Xiang Nephrite in your arms, and you want to stay with that group of stinky men in the barracks, I really don't know what he thinks?"

Li Chengmu chatted while eating, as if he had forgotten his upbringing since childhood, and he didn't say anything when he ate or sleeped.

He is now eating with Xia Jing, and he is slowly getting used to chatting about homely things.

This kind of warm daily life is something that the whole family of the palace can't feel when they eat.

Xia Jing took a sip of soup, put down the bowl, and said unhurriedly: "The situation of the Xia family does not allow him to waste his time, he works so hard to get ahead, probably to change the family background of the Xia family, the business background is a major event that affects the children's marriage, whether it is marriage, there are too many restrictions, and the range of choices is too narrow." ”

Of course, the original body was a complete accident, in fact, Xia Jing is also quite curious now why the original body married King Qian as a stepconcubine in the first place?

Li Chengmu nodded, in fact, he guessed that it was probably because of this reason.

He took the soup that Hongmei had served him, took a few sips, put down the bowl and remembered something again.

"Mother, do you know, it may be that I was too high-profile when I entered the city this time, and the families of the entire Fucheng City recruited the family to go out of the city to suppress the bandits."

Xia Jing heard the news, and her expression was indifferent, "Well, I found out when I entered the city today." ”

"I'm really afraid that they will confiscate the bandits' den, and in order to grab more treasures and come back, I plan to gather the team and set off tomorrow." Li Chengmu looked at Xia Jing, "Mother, my son won't come to say goodbye to you tomorrow, maybe he will leave before dawn." ”

Xia Jing took the teacup and touched his bowl lightly, "Okay, I wish my son a victorious start and a safe return!" ”

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