Chapter 2537

Bai Shan and the three of them did not participate in their topic. They stood aside and looked at the shops in this street.

Wei Yu shook her head. "It's too extravagant."

No wonder his father didn't speak very well about the emperor recently. He was worried that he was extravagant in Jian'an for a long time.

The officials in the court, like Wei Zhi, are worried about a lot, especially the Minister of household, so recently they have no less to cry for poverty. There is only one purpose.

Emperor, although it seems that the country is prosperous and the people are safe, in fact, the country still can't stand the toss. We are still very poor. You see, you have been emperor for more than 20 years, and the Treasury still has no money after spring.

Money is needed to support farming and mulberry, water conservancy projects, disaster relief in some places, the Ministry of war and the construction of imperial tombs. We have to save a little more to prevent accidents. In case we need to levy the West as the year before last, the treasury shall not allocate money to the military?

So, emperor, we are still poor. You can't think about building buildings, wantonly granting rewards, or entering some luxury tributes

Even some officials wrote that the dowry for the two princesses greatly exceeded the ritual system. Even if it was not paid by the Treasury, it was not allowed, so the extra part should be taken back

The emperor was humbly admonished, but he could not hear such a thing as taking back the excess dowry.

Now even the crown prince has an opinion. Privately, he said to Zhan Shifu, "these officials are also bullying soft and afraid of hard. In those years, the father and Emperor gave so many things to the third, so they didn't exceed the ritual system early? Why didn't you see them write? "

"Mingda and Changyu are princesses, so I caught them bullying. Hum, they can pick soft persimmons."

Guo Zhan couldn't help saying, "Your Highness is clearly determined to be good for the princess. Why talk about King Gong again? It's said that your majesty only thinks you don't love your brother. You can't say that again. "

The prince was silent.

Wei Yu is now in the imperial historian's Taichung. What he does is to speak official. However, because the matter involves Princess Changyu, and Wei Zhi selfishly told him that the past has passed and has been impeached, it is meaningless to pursue this matter, but it will annoy his majesty. It's better to look forward and only admonish His Majesty's current and future behavior so that he won't forget frugality.

But when he really saw the shop that the Emperor gave Princess Mingda, Wei Yu couldn't help saying, "it's really extravagant."

Bai Shan was curious and asked the steward and chief of the imperial villa, "where is the end of the shop?"

"That's outside the new city," said the chief with a smile. "It's the Royal Villa Your Majesty gave to the princess."

Bai Shan narrowed his eyes and leaned against the imperial villa of the new town.

He asked, "how far is it from the old city of Liyang?"

The manager of Huangzhuang was stunned and said, "it's not far away, but there's no way. You need to detour. It takes about an hour to take the bus."

Bai Shan asked, "what if it's from Huangzhuang?"

The governor of Huangzhuang smiled, "it's much closer. You can arrive in less than three quarters of an hour."

Bai Shan also smiled and nodded. Turning back, he found man Bao and said it.

So man Bao's eyes lit up and proposed to go back to Huangzhuang, pass through Liyang county to Wannian County, and return to the capital from dongchengmen.

Before they came out of Yongzhou from the capital, they needed to go to the south gate, take a detour, and then go north to Yongzhou.

The steward of Huangzhuang couldn't help whispering: "princess, most of the roads from Liyang county to Wannian county are small roads. There is no official road, which is spacious and flat. I'm afraid it's bumpy.

As soon as Mingda heard this, he became interested and immediately said, "let's go back from Wannian county and visit the farm by the way."

Man Bao nodded deeply and said to her, "my fief is on the other side. I also want to see my fief. Do you want to see my workshop?"

Now Chang Yu nodded. She wanted to have a look.

So after visiting the shops in the new town, they went directly to Huangzhuang.

Changyu rode on the horse. Mingda was not happy to see the horse, so he also rode on the horse. The spring breeze blew his face and was still very comfortable and happy.

At this time, it was the end of February. When the earth returned to spring, a lot of green grass sprouts appeared on the ground. Mingda and Changyu both plowed with the emperor and tried to grow the land. Therefore, they were not strangers to grain.

But now weeds and returning wheat seedlings are really like.

Mingda couldn't tell for a long time. He had to turn his head and quietly asked Bai Erlang, "is this piece of land wild grass?"

Bai Erlang only looked at it and shook his head, "no, it's wheat seedlings."

Mingda pointed to a tunnel opposite: "so this is also a wheat seedling?"

Bai Erlang was silent after glancing. "No, it's wild grass."

Mingda:

She frowned. "How can weeds grow better than wheat seedlings? And it's all land. Why don't you plant wheat seedlings here? "

Bai Erlang only glanced at the sidewalk and said, "it's close to the water over there. It should be reserved for planting rice in spring. It's far away from the water here, so he planted wheat."

The steward of Huangzhuang who followed him quickly came down with a cold sweat on his forehead, nodded repeatedly, trotted forward and said, "it's what the emperor's son-in-law said. Huangzhuang has been close to the water these years, keeping rice transplanting and planting rice in the spring, and planting wheat on the other side. After harvest, it depends on the situation, planting rice or beans."

As for why weeds grow better than wheat seedlings, Bai Erlang glanced at the steward and said, "it was cold last winter. There was a snow disaster in the Central Plains. There should be poor resistance to the disaster, and many wheat seedlings were frozen to death."

Man Bao nodded in surprise and complained with Mingda: "last year, three job fields in my family were hit by disasters, and the straw and wheat straw left before were scattered into the ground to keep warm, but even so, a lot of them froze to death. The harvest of this summer harvest is certainly not as good as that of next year. We have to reduce some rent. "

Mingda was stunned and asked, "do I want to reduce my tenant's rent?"

Man Bao said with a smile, "if you have this kindness, you can reduce it."

The steward in the back hurriedly said, "Your Highness, there are not many tenants in our imperial villa. Most of them are palace slaves working here."

That is, long-term workers, or those who do not have wages. They are responsible for farming in the imperial villa.

Man Bao glanced at the fields on both sides of the road and nodded slightly. Sure enough, it was the work of people without wages. If her father, he could make the weeds in the field taller than people, not just wheat seedlings.

After walking out of the imperial villa, man Baocai and Mingda said, "if you want to take good care of this villa, you can't let it go. Who is willing to work hard for you without interests?"

She said, "if a talented man wants to sell goods to the emperor's house, the emperor can afford the corresponding price. Otherwise, a talented man would rather seclude himself in the mountains than grovel to serve the king."

The metaphor was clearly understood. She nodded thoughtfully, "you're right. It's time to take care of it."

After leaving Huangzhuang, walking down the road is a fork intersection. One road leads to Yueyang County and the other to Wannian county. The border between the two counties is zhouman's fief.

Let's go and have a look.