Zhang Shou emphasized the word "please" to Ah Liu, Zhu Ying knew Ah Liu's temper, and Princess Yongping had heard of it, so they naturally had some understanding, but the third prince did not have personal experience like the fourth prince, and he was confused. As for the Hong family, she is a delicate and clear person, and she has long heard that there is a very powerful young master around Zhang Shou, and she secretly gasped at this time.

Dare to love without Zhang Shou's words, that young man is not going to invite someone, but will go to tie Yang Zhan up directly?

Although she was full of questions, she was not easy to pick out, and the next three princes and Princess Yongping took a team and asked her a lot of questions, and at this time, Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying did not shy away from going to the window to watch the scenery and talk, she could only deal with it independently.

Fortunately, Hong has indeed read poetry and books since he was a child, and he has a lot of skills, and he has been trained to deal with people for many years for his father to clean up the mess, but he can also cope with it easily, however, when Princess Yongping suddenly asked a question, she still couldn't help but describe the big change. Because that question pierced her heart, and under the focused gaze of the third prince, she couldn't even avoid it.

"Hong Niangzi, I think you should be the same as me and my third brother, you have been taught by your parents since childhood, and Hong Shanchang's words and deeds are very old-fashioned, and this kind of thing should not be within the scope of his daily considerations. Therefore, under his influence and eyes, you should now be more like those filial virgins in the biography of the daughters, rather than such a person who disobeys his father. ”

Speaking of Yang Fengyin violation, Princess Yongping seemed to owe a little apologetic, but she still said bluntly: "I speak a little straighter, but this is not only me, but also my mother, but also the doubts in the hearts of my father and grandmother." A person cannot be created out of thin air, even a prodigy like Zhongyong will be obsessed with everyone after meeting a stupid and short-sighted elder. ”

Zhang Shouqing in front of the window heard this clearly, and couldn't help but smile. How did he feel that Princess Yongping's words didn't just seem to be said to the Hong family, but more like to him?

Sure enough, the next moment, he noticed Zhu Ying leaning into his ear and whispered, "That girl Yongping is deliberately talking about you, right?" You are what you are now, is it possible that there are no geniuses in the world? You yourself are smart, studious and motivated, and Aunt Wu thinks about you everywhere, even if an elder like her has never read, she is much better than the old Taoist of Hong Shanchang! ”

Zhu Ying's voice was very soft, and it was obvious that the eldest lady was not as self-centered as outsiders thought, and she didn't want the Hong family to hear her criticizing her father behind her back. However, Zhang Shou glanced at the Hong family, who had a calm face, but knew that Princess Yongping's straightforward question was forcing this talented girl from Jiangxi to tell the truth at this time.

Speaking of which, this girl's father is actually much more pitiful than his nominal background!

And Hong's eyelids were lowered for a long time, and he finally raised his head again, looking calm and fearless.

"Since the princess asked, the concubine did not dare to say anything, the mother was born in a scholarly family, poetry, books, etiquette and music are omniscient, married to her father at the age of sixteen, took care of housework, honored her in-laws, and then I was born. However, because I had a difficult birth, she was lucky enough to survive, but she was never able to have children again. 's father was not lustful in his life, and insisted on resigning the elders' request to take concubines and concubines to continue the heir, claiming that he could inherit it. ”

However, this was certainly considerate, but he did not take into account that my grandparents had taken a wave of resentment out of my mother, and that they had no time to defend her because they were so focused on learning. And my strong mother didn't want to complain about her in-laws in front of my father, so she pretended to be strong, and on the other hand, she treated me as a listener since I was a child, and raised me as a boy, and tried her best to teach me all kinds of things carefully. ”

"My mother got a manuscript from Emperor Taizu, the book was very broken, and the book seller at that time admitted that it was just a fabrication in the name of Taizu. The font on the book is very strange, and the content is absurd, it is actually imagined hundreds of years later. The other scenes of that time are bizarre and strange for the time being, but it is said that women can study, work, and even become officials, and that those talented women are not writing poems, but inventing miracle medicines, discovering miraculous substances, and discovering the truth hidden in the operation of heaven and earth, and my mother is amazed. ”

After Zhang Shou was stunned for the first time, he couldn't help but lightly cover his forehead.

It shouldn't have been something that someone wrote after they ascended the throne, maybe it was written shortly after they just crossed over, reminiscing about the era they had experienced, reminiscing about the conveniences they had but didn't know how to cherish, reminiscing about everyone in that era, and even the passers-by who had completely ignored them...... Because judging from the fact that people are still thinking about the New World after abdicating, it is estimated that they don't have the heart to write this.

This is normal, in the first three years he came, he also hoped to find a way to wear it back, because compared to the era when there were no wonders everywhere, although this Ming Dynasty is a little more enlightened than the Ming Dynasty in history, it still seems ignorant, closed, and backward...... He also wanted to write a book to record the memories of future generations, but the reason for giving up in the end was very simple.

He thinks it's better to record the science and engineering knowledge he remembers first, and then wait until he is really tired of the present, and then reminisce about that era that he will definitely not go back to.

Unlike him, Taizu left a diary of Taizu that was considered fake by the book seller, but when this book came into the hands of Hong's mother, it brought people a new understanding. Sure enough, the next moment, Zhang Shou confirmed his guess from Hong's words.

"There was a lot of whimsy, or nonsense, in that manuscript. Among them, there are not only the key to polishing lenses, but also the operation of the stars outside the sky, the composition of matter, and the convenience of life in 500 years...... At least when my mother taught me, I was dizzy to hear it, and I once made a grand vow to settle accounts with the person who deceived my mother with a fake book! ”

This time, even Zhu Ying couldn't help but laugh when she heard it. And Princess Yongping's always cold face was already with a smile that couldn't help laughing.

Instead, the third prince said thoughtfully: "It's normal for Mrs. Hong to have this thought, if I see it, I will also think that the book is fake, after all, compared with hundreds of years ago, there is no special change, how can the world become so strange in a few hundred years?" ”

He paused, but continued: "However, if the world is really so strange, then maybe there have been earth-shaking changes like those from the Xia, Shang and Zhou to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties. ”

"I heard my teacher tell me history, in the era of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the world was a tribal system, and it never expanded to the current territory. When Emperor Yu was the Son of Heaven, the Xia, Shang and Three Dynasties were all divided into princes, and the Son of Heaven was known as the king of the world, but in fact, the decree could not govern those vassal states. But whether it is the Son of Heaven or the princes, they all take this for granted, because it is impossible to rule all places without dividing the feuds. ”

"The territory of that era was different from now, for example, the current Shandong, for Zhou Tianzi, is actually quite far away, and the two lakes that we are now as a granary, that is, Jingchu back then, were once recognized as the wild land of southern Xinjiang."

And when it came to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Zhou Tianzi gradually declined, and the government decrees did not even come out of the capital, and the princes rose together, everyone thought that this kind of juxtaposition of the countries would last for a long time, but after the Warring States Seven Heroes, it was the Qin State that unified the world and established the county system. When Qin Shi Huang whipped the four seas and commanded the world, no one thought that Qiang Qin would collapse overnight, let alone that the early Han Dynasty would restore the old system of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties and divide the princes and kings. ”

"It wasn't until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty pushed the order to cut the feudal domain, and the county system was really deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and with the imperial examination instead of the inspection, the selection of talents entered the right path, even if the peasant family can also be motivated to work hard and eventually become an official, this world is what it is now. Except for the Meng Yuan, most of each dynasty was tinkering with the system of the previous dynasty, and there were no earth-shaking changes. ”

Zhang Shou, who was enjoying the scenery with Zhu Ying in front of the window, and was also watched by others, listened to the words of the third prince, and he couldn't help but feel a lot.

Unexpectedly, he gave a very simple and rude lecture on history in the Mid-Levels Hall, and the three princes not only listened to all of them, but also understood them like this. At such a young age as the third prince, it is still very rare to be able to understand the core meaning of his very concise words, and then express them again in his own sentences.

The Hong family also looked at the three princes who were talking eloquently, and they were also shocked in their hearts, only feeling that this little child really lived up to Chu Kuan's praise. Because he doesn't think it's nonsense because it's absurd, but he really thinks about whether the world will be different because of the changes of time for hundreds of years and thousands of years.

At least when she was so young as the third prince, she would not have thought of such a far-reaching thing at all.

At this moment, she heard Zhang Shou's voice from the side. When I looked at it again, I saw that Zhang Shou was already walking with a negative hand, with a gentle smile on his face.

"The three princes are right, from ancient times to the present, except for the real wise, in the minds of most literati and writers, it seems that there is only the difference between governing the world and the troubled times, the difference between the faint monarch and the Ming monarch, the difference between the virtuous minister and the traitorous minister, but you can't see the difference behind these appearances, the difference in the social environment, the difference in social population, or more essentially, the difference in social production capacity."

Zhang Shou added a word energy to the term productivity to make this noun more intuitive: "What is production capacity?" That is, people's ability to create wealth. It is probably the ability of farmers to farm and harvest grain, and the ability of craftsmen to make tools and various utensils. The ability of a scholar to write articles to educate the people is also regarded as productive capacity, because that is also creation, and what is created is spiritual wealth. ”

"If the people of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period or the Pre-Qin Period suddenly descended to the present, then he would definitely be greatly amazed by the abundance of food now. Because, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the pre-Qin period, ordinary people in the north ate rough wheat rice, or bean rice, corn porridge. ”

"And now, rice is also grown in the north, and the northerners eat pasta made of stone grinding noodles, and eat all kinds of soy products made of soybean grinding, and put themselves in the shoes of the ancients to think about it, don't they think that this is simply in a fairyland, can they eat such good food? And if the ancients had such an assumption about today's people, wouldn't it also be considered nonsense by the people of the time? ”

Zhang Shou saw that the third prince nodded again and again, and then showed a serious and thoughtful expression, and the Hong family, who was a little excited just now because he talked about his mother's old affairs, also fell into deep thought, and he continued.

"Why did the Warring States pre-Qin and Tang and Song dynasties eat differently? In the beginning, all the wheat was made with stone pestles to produce grain, which required a lot of manpower. Even soybeans are made into soy rice that is difficult to eat because they don't know how to process them. ”

"Is there no stone mill? At first, it was indeed not, and the Qin Dynasty even used the stone pestle and stone mortar rice as a heavy labor to punish the convict women. Later, after there was a stone mill, because the stone mill was too heavy and not everyone could afford it, they could eat fine noodles or tofu, and they were still big families. ”

"Ordinary people in the Qin period would never have imagined that there would be a water-powered mill in the future, let alone that in addition to wheat rice and bean rice, there would be noodles made of fine noodles and delicious foods such as tofu."

Because this is not in Jiuzhangtang, of course Zhang Shou will not call the third prince Zheng Rong in a grand manner, but his tone is still as relaxed as gossip.

"You can think about it, is it easier for the stomach to digest steamed buns and tofu, or is it easier to digest rough wheat rice or bean rice? Is it the strength of the farmers who can eat steamed buns, or the strength of the farmers who can only feed themselves with wheat rice and bean rice? ”

"Is it that only when we have the strength can we intensively cultivate, increase the yield per mu, and reclaim wasteland? And in the case of reclaiming wasteland, the tools used are even more important. ”

"The Book of Shang Jun" has a saying that in the land of Qin today, there are five thousands of miles away, and the valley soil cannot be disposed of two, and the number of fields is less than one million. The treasures of its vassals, valleys, famous mountains, and rivers are not fully used, and this person cannot be called soil. That is to say, less than 1,000 li of land is planted with crops, the area of farmland is less than one million mu, and wasteland abounds. It shows the level of reclamation at that time. ”

"When Qin Shi Huang really unified the world, he should have fully recuperated, but he was still reckless, tyrannical, except for Xianyang, the world gathered the world's treasures, so it was indeed magnificent and gorgeous, but everywhere else in the world, it was just a deserted city with earthen walls. However, the time for Qin to possess the world was too short, and the productivity was not substantially improved compared with the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, until the two Han Dynasty iron tools flourished......"

Zhang Shou compared the development and changes of the staple food, clothing, tools, etc. of the previous dynasties, and even the Song Dynasty, which was a weak Song Dynasty, he also divided the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, and counted its various advantages and disadvantages in agriculture and labor.

And Zhu Ying, who quietly followed, looked at Zhang Shou with a smile, only feeling that her trip to the countryside was too wise and discerning.

Those people in the market are really visionless, she didn't just look at Zhang Shou's face!

Next, Zhang Shou analyzed the various dynasties and generations from many factors such as mu yield, processing level, metal smelting level, weapon level, water conservancy construction quantity, etc. This is all the things he accumulated from arguing with people when he was a keyboard warrior on the Internet in the past, pure analysis, and not solving the problem.

And at this moment, Princess Yongping saw that Hong's eyes were shining, but instead of interrupting Zhang Shou's words, she listened attentively, and she couldn't help but have a sense of absurdity. Today, she and the third prince were ordered to take the Hong family's exam, right? Zhang Shou is just an accompaniment, right? So what's going on with him suddenly turning against the guest?