The emperor immediately grabbed Mr. Zhuang's hand, looked at him with bright eyes and said: "Mr. Zhuang, the prince will be entrusted to you in the future. The child has a short temper and a big temper. What I fear most is that he will not be able to listen to others' advice in the future.

."

Mr. Zhuang was a little moved and held the emperor's hand tightly, "Your Majesty, it is the duty of an minister to admonish the prince."

"Sir, ah, your Majesty," Wu Lang ran over sweating profusely. Seeing the emperor and Mr. Zhuang holding hands, all the twenty or so people in the yard turned to look at him. He was a little nervous for a moment and stammered.

: "Well, the rice is cooked, and I just want to ask you what vegetables you want to eat. I'll pick them."

Mr. Zhuang came back to his senses instantly and immediately remembered that Zhou Man had another crime. He hurriedly said: "Go catch two chickens, pick up a few eggs, and catch a few fish. There is no meat in the village, so prepare like this first. You guys

If the two of you can't do it, you can go to the village to find someone to help."

After Mr. Zhuang gave his instructions, he turned to the emperor and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the village is remote and basically self-sufficient and has a lot of fruits. Do you want to go and have a look? There are many fruits planted just beside the pond. Now

It’s harvest time.”

Emperor: ...Mr. Zhuang is good at everything, but he is not as good as Wei Zhi in terms of impartiality and service to the public.

However, the emperor still nodded and took the people to visit Zhou Man and his orchard.

It is said to be an orchard, but in fact there is no dividing line, just several circles of fruit trees planted around the pond, and hemp is planted on the outside.

The emperor took one look and asked, "Don't you plant mulberry trees?"

Wu Lang shook his head and said: "It takes too much effort to raise silkworms. There is a shortage of manpower in the village, so we don't plant them."

The emperor stopped and calculated the size of the farmland. The average number of acres per household was calculated. He narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "It is less than the Yongye farmland allocated by the imperial court. Is it impossible to find manpower?

"

Mr. Zhuang said: "Your Majesty, they have few acres of land, but they cultivate it intensively. Each acre of land takes a lot of time, and the harvest is higher."

The emperor nodded slightly and did not ask any more questions.

There are peach trees, pear trees, apple trees, and pomegranates here. It was the time to eat pomegranates. As soon as they entered, they saw three pomegranate trees with a lot of fruits on them.

The tree was not very tall, and the emperor could pick some by raising his hand. He reached out and picked one, lowered his head and kicked the soil under his feet, raised his eyebrows and said, "This soil..."

Mr. Zhuang was waiting for him to ask, and immediately said: "This is dry land, and the land is thin. It has been used to grow beans. In the first year, it could be rented out. In the second year, the tenants in the village knew that Zhou Man had a good temper, so they all

I don’t want to rent this piece of land anymore.”

He smiled and said: "Every adult's job field will always have a few acres of inferior land. This is also for the sake of fairness. These acres of land are not cultivated and wasted. If they need to be cultivated but no one is cultivating them, Zhou Man will let the Zhou family

A large pond of sugar has been dug here, which can be used by the villagers to wash clothes and raise some fish and lotus roots."

"The excavated mud was piled around, and the soil became thicker. Zhou Man asked people to plant fruit trees. In order to grow the fruit trees, he also asked people to raise chickens here. The chicken manure can nourish the soil. This took five or six years.

It’s what it is now.”

The emperor laughed and said, "I have heard from the prince and Mr. Wei that the Zhou Man farm is well managed, much better than the one run by the Ministry of Household Affairs."

Mr. Zhuang was slightly relieved. Although it was not a big mistake to occupy the farmland and dig a pond, Mr. Zhuang still did not want this matter to affect her at this time when merit was being discussed.

The emperor tossed a pomegranate to watch Wu Lang fishing. Watching, watching, he looked up at the sky.

Wei Zhi glanced at it and said, "It's already too late. It's impossible to rush back to the capital tonight."

Yin Li also said: "Your Majesty, it is too dangerous to travel at night. Let's stay here tonight."

Emperor: "...Didn't you say you can't spend the night outside?"

Wei Zhi and Yin Li: ... Safety must be the first priority. If you hadn't counted the rice yourself and wandered around the fields for so long, they would have been halfway there by now.

The emperor didn't need their answer. He shook his head and said, "Let's go back and look at the rice fields again. I haven't seen the experimental fields around the courtyard yet."

Returning to the other courtyard, Mr. Zhuang went to arrange the emperor's accommodation for the night.

Zhou Dalang was shocked when he heard that the emperor would stay here at night, "The emperor wants to stay at my house?"

Mr. Zhuang comforted him, "Don't be afraid. The emperor's daughter often comes to stay in other courtyards. Now it's okay for a father to stay one night in the courtyard where his daughter lived."

When Zhou Dalang heard Mr. Zhuang's explanation, his nervousness was instantly relieved.

At this time, the emperor was wandering on the field ridge with Wei Zhi and Yin Li, and the guards followed them from a distance.

"Since this rice seed can be sown in Mianzhou and Qingzhou at the same time, there won't be any big problems in Jiannan Road and Hedong Road," the emperor said: "It was cultivated here, and it should be able to adapt to the Central Plains area.

climate."

He took a long breath and said: "Wei Qing, to be honest, I am really happy in my heart. With this rice seed, the current crisis in the Central Plains and the imperial court can be solved by more than half."

Wei Zhi also nodded in agreement.

"But there are still too many people in the Central Plains, and there is little land and food. Keeping things like this in the long run is not the answer." The emperor sighed: "I originally wanted to ask Ji Zhuangxun if he wanted to touch the land, but listening to what he meant, he actually wanted to

Let nature take its course.”

Wei knew: "Didn't Your Majesty praise him?" They all praised him so much, obviously agreeing with his point of view.

The emperor nodded slightly and said: "I really hope that the prince can be like me, and it is best to resolve the conflict between the people and the land in the Central Plains. But I also know that the prince is not me. If he does what I want to do now, it will be very serious.

Jin is only afraid of danger."

"He is right," the emperor said: "For the prince, the best policy is to let nature take its course and make subtle changes silently."

Wei Zhi also nodded, "This time due to the salt policy, Jiangnan was in turmoil. In fact, not only Jiangnan suffered heavy losses, but the imperial court also suffered a lot."

Although no one was killed in the war, a lot of things were lost. The value that disappeared because the transaction was not completed, and the taxes that were wasted by them were all losses.

"If it weren't for His Majesty's great prestige, I'm afraid Jiangnan would really change." If the person sitting in this position was not Jin Jin, without Jin Jin's prestige and power, Jiangnan would not be able to calm down like this.

The emperor turned his head and glanced at Wei Zhi. Seeing that his face looked tired and the sick look on his face had not disappeared even now, he couldn't help but sigh.

Xiao Yuan had already greeted him, but Wei Zhi's body couldn't hold on much longer.

So he had to leave some people for the prince.

The emperor has never considered Zhuang Xun. First, because he has no experience in foreign affairs, teaching and educating people is okay, but other things are probably not good;

The second is because he is too old.

Although he seems to be in good spirits, at such an old age, who knows when he will get sick and die?

But now, the emperor is thinking about it.

Zhuang Xun's answers to his questions about politics were very in line with his thoughts. The most important thing was that he didn't feel disgusted at all when he told him to let the prince stay in power and adapt to the current situation. He was not at all disgusted when he heard others in the court telling the prince to restrain his will.

Too much.

The emperor stroked his beard and thought for a long time, and finally said: "I want to make Zhuang Xun the crown prince's young master."

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