In April, on the riverside in the east of Luoyang City, the willow trees on the embankment are mostly dense and thorny bunches of flowers. It is like a spring flower, dazzling bright yellow, gorgeous, clustered, like a yellow fire, extremely beautiful. It's only this spring that goes to summer, and it grows like crazy like this.

At that time, people loved to pick flowers, the harsh ears on its rattans, one by one, and then break some tender strips that did not bloom, peeled the skin and stuffed it directly into the mouth to chew, sweet and cool silk, it is a unique chic and elegant food.

More than 20 years ago, Wang Shichong still occupied Luoyang, and the peasant households outside the city who were ravaged to the point of being unable to sustain themselves would come here to fold some branches, fold some tender willow leaves, and if there were toons or gray cabbage, and add some sheep grass leaves from the south, they could be made into vegetable cakes that filled hunger.

This is not only the taste of literati and ladies, but also the sadness of ordinary people.

The emperor may be for fun, or maybe for the sake of experiencing sadness, in short, in April, he took his concubine here to enjoy the scenery, and from time to time he also went to fold a tender strip, then peeled it, and then stuffed it into his mouth.

"It's really sweet."

Smiling slightly, Li Shimin shook the boots on his feet, "This new leather boot made in the inner mansion is good." ”

"Your Majesty praises ......"

Kant was cautiously modest.

"I heard that Yuanxiang went to Yangzhou?"

"News came from the Yulin Army that King Jiang had indeed gone to Yangzhou."

"Hmm."

Li Shimin nodded, put his hands behind his back, and walked forward casually on the river embankment, "Yuanxiang is still a teenager. ”

Jiang Wang Li Yuanxiang is only seventeen years old now. However, his identity is a bit special, and because his identity is a bit special, Li Shimin decided to put this brother in Jiangnan.

Who called his maternal grandfather...... It's Yang Su.

"Your Majesty, King Jiang is in Yangzhou, except for when he first arrived, he visited Zheng Guogong, the rest ...... is mostly with Li Liangzhou's son. ”

"Isn't Li Fengjie in the capital? How did you get to Yangzhou? ”

"This ...... The official newspaper of Jianghuai came, saying that it was preparing a newspaper, and it was mostly circulated among the poor and the merchants. ”

"Li Fengjie is talented."

Li Shimin raised his head slightly, "If you have to reserve talents for the East Palace, Li Fengxian ...... I've used it for a long time. It is not limited to the Guozijian, the Ministry of Rites, and the Honglu Temple, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs has a department and a secretary...... It's all right. ”

Hearing Li Dong say this, Kant's heart "gadden", as if he had been grabbed suddenly, and then pinched hard.

To the East Palace Reserve, Kant is a believer. However, Kant believed that if the boss wanted to save talents for the current prince, he would say "Cheng Qian", which was Lao Tzu's care for his son.

Kant was a little frightened, but after so many years of experience, he was finally able to serve the emperor without being frightened, just like his predecessor Shi Dazhong.

"Let Yuanxiang hold the festival for the history of Suzhou, Boming, what do you think?"

Kant's words are clear, and the words are Boming, those who know the former are more, and those who know the latter are few. Just listening to the emperor's shouting closeness, Kant did not say the excuse of "eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics", he is the dog of the two saints of the emperor and empress, the authority of the inner government is not small, and he is in charge of the transmission of news between the emperor and the Yulin army, if it is just a waste of Mingzhe's life, the emperor will not keep him by his side.

After turning his mind, Kant said: "The nobles of the southerners hate the former Sui Yue Guogong, and His Royal Highness King Jiang inherits his bloodline, and he will resent the nobles." Only now, His Majesty 'encompasses the four seas', and the five surnames of Xuan He at that time were also applauding. If the nobles of the southerners are in turmoil, Your Majesty can turn his hands into clouds and his hands into rain......"

"I use my brother as bait and wait for good news."

When Kant heard this, he had no choice but to answer again.

It's just that Kant is also curious in his heart: Why do His Majesty and Zhang Liangfeng want to get rid of the Nanren clan?

As a eunuch, and he is a high-ranking head of the inner chamberlain, he can understand the emperor's idea of wanting the world to be clear, but he can't understand that Zhang De, who is from the south and his mentor is the southern family, also wants to fight with these people.

"What is this Xu family's idea? Do you think that with Liangfeng County as a backer, you can do whatever you want? ”

"It's not entirely like that, such as Yao's, Yu's, and Zhou's, all of them. It's just that he pushed Xu out, which is refreshing. The Xu family is not a high-ranking family, how can it be so rampant? ”

"He Xu De is an official in Mobei, doesn't he have the support of the capital of Anbei, so he thinks that he can be fearless in the southeast?"

"Don't worry about it, we haven't seen much loss."

On the edge of Taihu Lake in Suzhou, there are more and more boat ports, which naturally form a huge market. In the market, most of the complaints have been about the looting of cargo ships by "pirates", and even the attack of "water thieves" on Sannon.

The market is very sensitive, and the raw silk market, which was originally priced down, was quickly pulled up at the turn of spring and summer. However, the high-level shipment is led by the Xu family, and it is actually the Taihu Lake Family Group dominated by the Yu family and the Yao family.

This not only annoyed the big merchants in the Wuyue area, which is also not small, but also made the big merchants in the south and north of the Yangtze River feel unhappy, and these big merchants, after the fierce competition and elimination in the previous few years, the rest are either the elite of the elite themselves, or, directly the white gloves of the local real power bureaucrats.

"Envoy, that's pretty much it."

Zhang Qian reported to Lao Zhang about the recent news of Suzhou, Hangzhou and Huaiyang, with the birth of the "Seven Martial Seas of His Majesty", I don't know if Li Dong's "brain-dead halo" opened the "era of pirates", or whether Xu really thought that his face was made of gold, anyway, Xu is still not satisfied on the road of accumulating wealth rapidly.

Savagely and unrestrained "retreating rice and planting mulberry", and further extorting and intimidating Sannong by playing the role of a dynamic social group, and then playing the role of being inspired by the "era of pirates" and becoming a "pirate", it can be said that the appearance of eating is difficult to see, which makes Lao Zhang dumbfounded.

It is also because of this reality that although the "China Resources" itself is capable of undertaking its own protection work, at the request of its "peers", it has to respond to the call of "justice" and assume some responsibilities beyond its own obligations.

Now it is up to the emperor to approve the establishment of a navy, and then each person will be given a cloak with the word "justice" printed on it.

"They are willing to die, but Lao Tzu is still reluctant to bury them?"

Lao Zhang slapped the table, "The appearance of eating is so ugly, sooner or later it will force the Suzhou-Hangzhou Sannong to rebel, these famous families have their own family style, the old-fashioned 'laborers' cannot be immortal, and the 'laborers' deserve to die." I don't believe that if something big happens in this situation, it will be able to ask for the pity of the township party or the rescue of the imperial court. Born this year, could it be that the scholar doctor came to power? I look at the generals in the southeast and northwest, it seems that they don't look like Confucians! ”

The somewhat manic old Zhang made Zhang Qian stunned, as a staff member, but also as a fellow clan, he persuaded in a low voice: "Sect Leader, the matter is ...... Not really, right? ”

"What not! Look, these ...... These are a bunch of insects who think they are smart, and they think they are very calculating! What are they chastity? Is it Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty or Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty who is in power?! ”

Zhang De pounded his fist on the seat board, "I'm not sorry for these miscellaneous so-called families, these rat-eyed things are really pulling Lao Tzu's hind legs!" Such...... You go back, when the imperial court sends an envoy to Suzhou and Hangzhou, you let Jiangyin's family ...... Remember, you want your family and your confidants. Poke out all these things that I don't know what the so-called 'farming and reading heirlooms' do. Either hand it over to Suzhou Thorn History, or hand it over to the 'Li Jin Ambassador', in short, the wicked have their own wicked people to grind, delay Lao Tzu's affairs! ”

is different from Lao Zhang's almost manic mentality, but Li Dong summoned Ma Zhou to ask the right question, and the monarch and minister came to a very interesting conclusion on a very important number.

"I already understand what King Bin means."

Li Dong looked at the south thoughtfully, "At present, there are more Dingkou in the north than in the south, but after ten years of Zhenguan, the number of new Dingkou in the north and south is almost the same." Does King Bin think that the yield of acres in the south is now higher than that in the north? ”

"In addition to terraced fields and rice to increase the number of acres of fields, taking 'Yunmengze' as an example, the work of 'encircling polders and cultivating fields' and 'encircling lakes and cultivating fields' has been quite effective, and there are fertile land flour of Jianghan and Han, so on both sides of the Yangtze River, although the acres of fields are not as continuous as the Central Plains, they are also like the stars scattered, each forming a system."

After a pause, Ma Zhou continued, "Because the construction skills are getting stronger and the number of acres of land is increasing every year, the account books have long been invisible. Nowadays, Nanchang rice is trafficked to Wuhan, which is still profitable, which can be seen. ”