Fu Song

When Xiao Jing saw Zhao An, Zhao An was still in his experimental field, his clothes and face were splashed with a lot of mud and water.Seeing Xiao Jing approaching, Zhao An smiled and walked over from the furrows of the seedlings.

"Brother is not an outsider, so I don't come here for those clichéd things, just do whatever you want, brother won't blame me for being rude, right?" Zhao An took the handkerchief handed over by an old eunuch, and wiped it casually.

Xiao Jing bowed and saluted: "Officials, this really frustrates me."

Zhao An waved his hand and said: "Needless to say about the friendship between our two families, I invited you into the palace today not because you are the heir of King Daxia and I am an official of Song Dynasty, but because we are brothers. "

"It's still necessary to talk about the superiority and inferiority of the monarch and ministers." Xiao Jing said seriously.

"It's just something for outsiders to see. My family closes the door, so there are so many details!" Zhao An said with a smile: "Brother, to tell you the truth, if it weren't for the master who needs my identity to connect the people of the world together At the same time, I don't want to be the emperor and official who are making money, so I am so suffocated."

"The officials are not happy?"

"What's so fun about this?" Zhao An sighed, "For me, every ten-day court is simply suffering. Brother, you don't know that every minister can fight for a trivial matter, and his ears will blush. Chi, they rolled up their sleeves and clenched their fists to fight. Sometimes it seems that they are doing it for the righteousness of the country, but if you really have to look closely, there are deep self-interests behind it. Well, let me think about it, yes, that's what the master said , a master full of mouth, full of business!"

Seeing Zhao An imitating Xiao Cheng's appearance and talking, Xiao Jing couldn't help laughing, he really imitated it.

"They really can't beat my second uncle in fighting in the court. If the outcome of the fight determines the direction of the policy, then the second uncle must always be the winner."

"Master has always convinced people with virtue!" Zhao An said with a smile: "But I am impatient. For me, the big court every ten days is a waste of time. If I have time, I still prefer to stay in the fields." , Serve these little babies of mine!"

Seeing Zhao An squatting down and stroking those green seedlings in the field like a lover, Xiao Jing couldn't help feeling a little dazed.

He once dreamed of becoming an emperor.

But the real emperor in front of him regards this matter as a chore, as something he has no choice but to do.

"The officials have never thought about it, if you can become a real official, can you do more things for the people?" Xiao Jing suddenly asked boldly.

Zhao An laughed: "Brother, I have learned all kinds of knowledge from my master since I was a child, and governing the country is one of them. To tell you the truth, when I was just governor, the master held me in his arms to handle various government affairs , At that time, the Guizhou Road hadn’t even been established yet! So, I am no less knowledgeable than you, the son of the Great Xia Prince.”

"It's natural." Xiao Jing said enviously, "Second Uncle is truly unparalleled in terms of governance."

"But it is also these years of immersion that made me truly understand how difficult it is to really do all these things well!" Zhao An sighed: "When your every word and deed, every action Every movement is holding the lives of tens of millions of people, and when the fate of these people is sublimated or sinking with your one thought, the pressure is really unbearable for ordinary people. How many times have I seen the master die? Sleep, how many times have you sighed!"

Zhao An looked at Xiao Jing, and continued: "And as the only remaining descendant of the Zhao family, I feel even more different. My grandfather, huh, is the one who is now the king of Song in Tokyo with a shy face. Guy, and my uncle who died in the Five Kingdoms City, speaking of it, none of them have the ability to govern the world well, but the overlord insisted on the bow. Destroyed, wives separated? Is it my father who doesn’t have much image, and is it really that material? My master said that my grandfather is a qualified military commander, but he is completely unqualified in politics .Even if he really becomes the emperor, I'm afraid that the next Song Dynasty will be the result of a lot of militarism."

"My grandpa has always been brooding about this matter, saying that if His Royal Highness King Jing was in power, then Song might have recovered Youyan and defeated Liao Kingdom long ago."

"That's so simple! Even if my grandfather is in power, he is only a paper-paper maker. It is impossible to be like this. Our Song Dynasty has undergone fundamental changes. Brother, do you know that before the Liao people broke Tokyo, the entire Da Song There are 9000 million people in Song Dynasty! But because of my grandfather, uncle, and my grandfather’s unreliability, we only have 5000 million people left. Of course, this does not include the occupied land in the north, but according to As far as we know, many places in the north that used to be prosperous are now completely uninhabited."

"But haven't you been studying, Guanjia?"

"It was more than ten years of study that made me understand that my strengths are not in this. I, I like farming more!" Speaking of farming, Zhao An jumped up again: "Last year, I quietly asked Liu Fengkui to accompany me. I went out and walked around, you know? All the farmers I saw treated me with great respect. When they talked about me as an official, the joy and respect from the heart made me I am flattered. Because the Anmin No. 700 and Anmin No. 700 I bred have been fully spread in the south, and the yield of rice per mu has already reached 5000 catties, and the wheat I bred can also produce four hundred catties per mu. A hundred catties. According to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs last year, there are a total of [-] million hectares of land under cultivation in the south. To be honest, it is actually very difficult to feed [-] million people on [-] million hectares of land, so we must cultivate intensively. It is necessary to increase the yield per mu, and the seeds I have cultivated can increase the yield by [-] to [-] catties per mu, just for this, I will be famous in history!"

Speaking of this, Zhao An suddenly felt a little embarrassed, "I didn't say this, it was my master who said that, and Old Master Cen said that too, even that unlovable Si Junchao said that too."

"They are right. Food is the paramount necessity of the people. Whoever can solve the problem of food for the common people, the common people will naturally respect him from the bottom of their hearts!" Xiao Jing said sincerely.

"So!" Zhao An spread his hands: "My ancestors of the Zhao family have always wanted to do something that they couldn't do, but I have done it now. Then why should I give up what I am good at and reluctantly do things that I am not good at?" What about the things you are good at? Do you make a mess like my grandfather and uncle?"

Speaking of this, Zhao An smiled wryly, "Their reputation is really not very good in this world!"

"But this world will eventually belong to the Zhao family!"

"This world belongs to the people of the world!" Zhao An shook his head: "The people are the most important, the community is second, and the king is the least."

"The mind of an official family is hard to match in the world. Don't say that there are no old friends before, I'm afraid there will be no future ones!" Xiao Jing sighed: "But the official family, now you and the second uncle complement each other, but what about in the future? The second uncle can't do it all the time." Go on, I heard from my second uncle that as long as there are more people who oppose him than those who support him, he will step down without hesitation. Even if he has always been supported by the majority of people, he will at some point in the future stipulate that How long can the first assistant be able to work at most? If the second uncle really steps down like this, how can we ensure that the next person will also have such talent and loyalty?"

"Loyalty?" Zhao An said with a smile: "Loyalty is never expressed with words, it is the most reliable to be guaranteed with a system. Isn't the master working to establish such a system now! As for talent, brother, I The Song Dynasty held an imperial examination every three years. Although the scope of the current examination has been greatly expanded, less than 1000 people can pass the examination each year. And the number of people who take the examination every year is no less than one million, and there will be more in the future, because The master and Mr. Cen are desperately lowering the threshold for studying. The prices of things like pens, inks, papers and inkstones are falling again and again, and public schools are blooming everywhere, and more and more people are studying. These are selected from tens of millions of people. People come, and these people have to work step by step from the most basic level in my Song Dynasty, after decades of honing, do you think these people will be less talented?"

"A fierce general must be dispatched from Zuzhou, and a prime minister must be dispatched from a prefecture or county?" Xiao Jing asked.

"Exactly!" Zhao An clapped his hands. "So, there is no need to worry about their talents. Speaking of it, our royal family may produce trash, but the officials below, especially the chief executives who have reached the last step, have a very small chance of being trash. Just like Then Cui Ang, do you think he is a waste? He is a waste, so he won’t toss us Da Song to death!”

Xiao Jing felt that what this official who was several years younger than him really made sense.

"So, let these talented people manage the country. If they can't manage it well, then replace it with another person!" Zhao An said with a smile: "As for me, I will just concentrate on studying my food. Brother, what you see now is the Anmin No. [-] that I am working on today, and my ideal is to produce [-] catties per mu."

On this day, Xiao Jing was left in the palace by Zhao An, and followed Zhao An to see his experimental fields.

Some experimental fields are extravagant, with houses built outside, which are said to be used to keep the temperature in winter.

According to Zhao An's introduction, the imperial court invests hundreds of thousands of guan in the cultivation of these seeds every year, but the returns brought by these investments are now incalculable.

Da Song Chaotang, who has tasted the sweetness, is now investing in it, but he is not stingy. As long as the officials open their mouths, they will be satisfied.

Xiao Jingqiao thinks that maybe there are also the private thoughts of those officials. An official who ignores the court and spends all day thinking about cultivating good seeds is a real good official!

However, Xiao Jing still felt very ashamed in front of Zhao An.

Because Zhao An has indeed made achievements that have made everyone in the world thank him. If his Anmin No. [-] can really reach [-] catties per mu, he, Zhao An, will become a saint.

Xiao Jing is not ignorant of agriculture. His mother is still farming chickens and pigs in the Daxia Palace. The best land in Hetao under the control of the Western Army has an yield of less than [-] catties per mu. The land outside Xingqing Mansion has a complete irrigation and water conservancy system, which has always been the focus of the Western Army. The yield per mu has just passed [-] catties, which is completely different from that of Song Dynasty.

Not to mention, there are so many types of staple food and vegetables in Song Dynasty today, many Xiao Jing have never heard of them.According to Zhao An, many of the seeds here were found by the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty from outside. Now they are working hard to cultivate these crops in the local language, and they are basically close to success.In the future, with the improvement of generations, the harvest will be better and better.

Zhao An's dream is that people in the world will no longer suffer from hunger.

This made Xiao Jing ashamed.

Compared with Zhao An, I feel that I am a guy who can't handle chopsticks at all.

No wonder Second Uncle arranged such a meeting,
It's purely because the second uncle asked Zhao An to educate himself!
Power and status are like a passing cloud, and no matter how powerful a person is, he will die one day, but only the achievements that have truly benefited millions of people will be immortalized in the history books.

Zhao An has almost done it.

And I, until now, have done some things that people can remember?

After thinking about it, Xiao Jing suddenly realized that it didn't seem to be there.

After having a dinner with Zhao An in the palace, it is said that all the staple food and vegetables were grown by Zhao An himself, Xiao Jing returned to his second uncle's house with a look of uncertainty.

At this moment, in the post house, Tuoba Yangwei had just completed a day's visit accompanied by officials from the Ministry of Rites.

Today Tuoba Yangwei visited two places.

Yanziji Martial Arts Academy and Military Food Production Workshop.

Both places shocked Tuoba Yangwei.

The scale of the martial arts academy is too large.

And the mode of training generals of the Wuyuan also made Tuoba Yangwei feel fresh and new.

He even heard the case analysis of their battle with the Liao army in Xuanlei Village in all the classrooms.

The generals of the Western Army are still very few who can read and write, but the quality of the officers of the Song Army is making a qualitative leap.

It can be called a Confucian general in his own right, and he knows the difference very well.

Experience is a good thing, even experience alone is not enough.

Summarize, improve, practice, and change, these things are indispensable.

The Song Army is systematically training its generals in this direction.

The status of the army is also improving rapidly, which is inseparable from Xiao Cheng's continuous efforts.

In fact, in the current Jiangning New Song Dynasty, the strategy of using literature to control martial arts has not changed, but the division of labor between the two parties has become more clear. Their combat effectiveness is also improving rapidly.

The compulsory military system, the professional soldier system, the regiment training militia system and other military systems that ensure the military power of the Song Dynasty are dazzling.

He recorded everything he saw every day in detail, some of which he couldn't understand for a while, so he could only study them slowly after returning home.

Anyway, Xiao Erlang, no matter what he does, he will never do useless work.

The immediate, mid-term, and long-term, that guy has always taken care of both.