I thought it was just the past and the present

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Looking at these children, Xiao Qi suddenly thought of teasing them, and asked with a straight face: "I told you not to let you use your family slaves, but did I tell you not to let you hire people?"

Everyone: "..."

Mu Zhen, who was huddled in the crowd, was stunned for a moment. He tried his best to keep himself out of the crowd, not to talk too much, but he really didn't think about it.The little emperor said so, is he ordering these children to let them spread their thinking, or is he idle and having nothing to do, teasing them?But no matter what the purpose is, the emperor should be harmless.

Not only Mu Zhen, many children think so.I can only cooperate with the emperor, salute and admit my mistake, and say: "I am stupid."

But there are also some people who have to stick their necks and argue the matter right and wrong. The son of the Li family, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, said: "Your Majesty, what you said originally was to let us give up porridge. The most important thing is to give up porridge, and we should take one point at a time." All the money should be put on the porridge. Spending money to hire people... If the money spent is less, it is no different from letting the slaves do nothing, just like the two sons of Cheng Anhou's family, they are deceiving your majesty and the king crime. If you spend too much, isn’t it putting the cart before the horse?”

He was the kid who led their group to buy coarse grains and suggested harvesting wild vegetables.

Xiao Qi previously thought that this Li Jing knew the sufferings of the world and knew how to adapt, so he was more useful among this group of little fellows, but now it seems...

"It's my fault." Xiao Qi stood up with a smile and cupped his hands, "I shouldn't have talked and laughed with you all, but I should be cautious in my words and deeds. I hereby admit my mistake to all my lovers. .”

"No, minister... Your Majesty's ability to accept advice with an open mind is the blessing of Great Xia." Li Jing's tensed face relaxed, and he stood up and bowed back to Xiao Qi.But in this way, "the emperor is at fault" is solidified.

Some children looked at Li Jing with success or failure, but some had weird expressions, and there were a few children in their class who deliberately sat facing out with embarrassing expressions.

——If his father talks to the little emperor like this, it's fine, but who are you?

"Okay, Li Aiqing, please sit down." Xiao Qi waved his hand and told Li Jing to sit down.For this kind of thing, in the future, Xiao Qi will at most send him to the Yushitai, and it is best to leave him in the Imperial Academy for the rest of his life to study.

He is different from the courtiers like Wei Zheng who persuaded the emperor. Wei Zheng really found out what the emperor was wrong. It is right to use him.This is actually no different from cults.No matter how capable this kind of person is, Xiao Qi will only keep a respectful distance.

"Let's stop joking, let's talk about business." Xiao Qi said, Li Jing, who was still excited just now, changed his expression—is it a joke to apologize to him?You Qi saw the other children looking over with sarcasm, his expression became even uglier.But the emperor was talking at the top, so he could only sit down below holding his breath, "You are cooking porridge outside, do you know how many people drink your porridge every day? How many of them are homeless people with nothing How many women are there? How many men are there? How many children are there, and how many old people are there? I don’t want an exact number, but can you give me a rough idea?”

"..." Wan, I can't say it at all!

After a while of silence, the people below started whispering.

"Is there only dozens of people every day?" "I think it's one or two hundred?" "No, there are thousands!" "Nonsense, I think it's tens of thousands!"

Xiao Qi took a sip of his tea and said: "Since you all are so curious about this matter, let's check it out."

Dear children: We are not curious at all, really.

Seeing them like this, Xiao Qi said in a warm voice: "Although I am rich in the world, I don't even know how the livelihood of the people in the capital under my feet is. Lovers can go home once every ten days to see what is going on outside, but I do not You can only live within this wall. If you want to know the affairs of the market, you can only read the scriptures. Even if you read the scriptures, you must be careful, otherwise if you are seen by the mother, you will be punished. If the mother tells the cabinet Guys, that's even worse."

Empress Sun: I am not!I don't!I can't even see you!

Court elders: We are not!we do not have!We are too busy with state affairs every day!

(Mr. Wu Ge: _(:з」∠)_The veteran has always wanted to sue his old age)

What Xiao Qi said was sincere, but it made many children think of the scene when they were at home, reading idle books or being playful, and being scolded by their parents. .

"Your lovers are my arms and eyes and ears, so let's check it out on my behalf. But this time it doesn't cost anything, so I won't give you any money." Wen Yougong brought up a simple map of the capital, with the above After dividing the blocks, "Each class claims an area, and I will give you two months. According to this form, each class chooses an area by drawing lots..."

What Xiao Qi presents now is also the means used by many traversers——population census!

"Your Majesty, can I go to Kaiyang Mansion to check the household registration book?" Zhao Ling, the eldest son of the Zhongqin family, stood up.

"This is possible, but what I want is not the registered population, but the actual population. If you just went to Kaiyang Mansion and copied the account number for me, then you are deceiving the emperor. Anyway, next year, I plan to recruit a group of companions to study. Gong, if you are willing to screen the number of attendants to within a hundred people before then, that would be a good thing."

"Don't dare, dare not!" It doesn't matter if the question raised is rejected by the emperor, but why is the little emperor's tone not right?Is this aimed at their loyalty to the public, or is it because of resentment against the dozen or so idiots who bullied the king before?

The rest of the attendants also quickly stood up and said in unison: "I dare not wait."

Dare or not, anyway, this matter will be arranged.

"By the way, I haven't given you the prize this time." Xiao Qi smiled and asked the servants to bring up the tray.

→_→The prizes this time are still like golden flowers, which are not useful for their appearance—the bright yellow silk ribbon, which is tied around the waist, except for the imperial use of the first emperor, there is nothing for it.

Speaking of which, Xiao Qi originally thought that if there were too many golden flowers, there would be no prize value, but these young masters are still very qualified, if they didn't get the golden flowers that month, they wouldn't put them on their heads.So Jinhua has always been the envy of teenagers and the object of admiration for girls.

This golden ribbon is different, everyone has it.

But it's only limited to a hundred or so of them, and it's conceivable that the next time they go home, these brats will probably walk through the streets wearing this silk sash.

The only one was that Li Jing who was choking with Xiao Qi, seeing others with the same silk ribbon as his, showed displeasure, after all, their group had the longest time to give away porridge, but they didn't dare to talk too much.

After arranging these, Xiao Qi left.

He tossed a lot of things, but he didn't do anything that really irritated the courtiers.Xiao Qi didn't touch any of these major events, such as the disputes between monarchs and ministers in the past dynasties, the disputes over great ceremonies, and the royal conquests.Although the reputation of several honorable courtiers was ruined...but it was because they were so stupid that they couldn't understand the situation and they really didn't know how to educate their offspring.And it's just a bad reputation, he didn't directly order to intervene in the appointment and dismissal of officials.

The current government affairs are completely managed by the cabinet, and the civil servants are suspicious of someone giving advice to the little emperor, and the little emperor has also shown a certain degree of aggression. No one wants to test the emperor's bottom line. The two sides are now in a very harmonious honeymoon period.The ministers are very happy to let their children play the game of monarch and minister with the little emperor, and the children are also getting along with each other in this way, and they have learned the way of getting along with each other in advance~

They tossed about the census, while Xiao Qi asked the eunuchs to clear a piece of land in the palace and renamed it Qingeng Garden, which was just to the east of Yuji Palace.It was a chrysanthemum garden in the previous dynasty, and the Double Ninth Festival was held in his grandfather's time, but it was abandoned later.A small number of surviving precious chrysanthemums were transplanted into pots, and the rest of the large number of chrysanthemums were flattened.

He also gave the craftsman a lot of drawings, such as animal-powered plows, processing harvesters, animal-powered seeders, and so on.

Xiao Qi is about to start marching into agriculture!He is also mentally prepared, it is impossible for all the officials to call Xiangrui and Shengming together next fall, but he is young, and it is enough to make some gains within four or five years, but he did not expect the blow to come so quickly...

He wanted to build a row of low houses on the edge of the Qingeng Garden as a greenhouse for raising seedlings, growing off-season vegetables, fermenting fertilizers and raising earthworms.

Xiao Qi asked the old eunuch who had planted land in the palace. The agriculture in the Xia Dynasty was also intensive farming. The common people had already learned to use human and animal manure to make soil fertilizer. Xiao Qi was not sure that the modern fertilizer method he brought back would be easy to use.But Xia Chao absolutely did not raise earthworms!Dried earthworms are not good for raising pigs, but they can also be fed to horses.

However, the floor heating that is said to be OK on the Internet when you walk through the smoke... After several tosses, the area that can be warmed up is still very small. People who build such a small house can't use it and want to work in it. ?

Fortunately, the honest cast iron stove blueprint he brought is very powerful _(:з」∠)_, but it costs iron, but coal is very cheap, and homemade briquette is very easy to use.

Fertilizers... just let them ferment slowly.

There are quite a few problems with earthworms, Xiao Qi felt that he must find a more specific and formal textbook after he went back, if he could go back...

Forty days have passed, and he is still in ancient times.

The Spring Festival is approaching, and the imperial court is about to seal it, and he is still in ancient times.

The census has not been completed yet, but the waiters have to be sent home for the New Year.Even those children who don't want to go home, including when they go out to give out porridge and do the census, never go in the house, they have to go back.

Xiao Qi asked his servants to deliver snacks to these children every day, because some of them were really in a bad situation, no matter whether they would be needed in the future, these children were under his wings now, Xiao Qi could not let them go out for a while After a trip, he died of illness.

Xiao Qi is not at the level of Han Xiandi now, and there is no such thing as Oboi among the courtiers, the eunuchs he sent out still have a certain deterrent force, really dare not even give him this bit of face, Xiao Qi... Xiao Qi just Go morning and cry!

By the beginning of spring, the six children of 120 have all returned intact, and the time of summer has officially entered the first year of Guangde.From this year name, we can see the courtiers' expectations for the emperor Xiao Qi-Guangshi Rende.

But the facts of his previous life have proved that, as a son-in-law without power, if he is really benevolent, only the upper class of this society will benefit, and the common people will not enjoy much.

"Your Majesty, it's time to go to court." The time for the first court meeting in the first year of Guangde is approaching.

Xiao Qi responded, did not sit on the imperial chariot, and walked directly from the Chengli Hall to the Fengtian Hall.The weather is still cold, and it is a cloud of white mist when you breathe out.

Year of Guangde... One day, I, I will be able to shout loudly, is this the era that belongs to me?

When sitting on the dragon chair, with the empress grandson on the back and the old minister in front of you, it is really...Alexander~

At the beginning of the new year's dynasty, all the ministers with powers arrived, but the grandson's mother's family still did not show up. This family was still closed to thank guests, and none of the ministers came to the palace for the New Year's banquet.The corners of Xiao Qi's mouth curled up slightly - the grandson's life must be a bit miserable this year, right?

Wen Yougong shouted: "If you have a book, you will play it, if you don't have a book, you will retreat!"

Mr. Wu Ge stood up first, it was nothing serious, just the outlook for the New Year, he said a bunch of really beautiful things, and a purely modern person sitting on the dragon chair would not be able to understand.After he finished speaking, all the ministers shouted long live again, and the Guangde court was fully operational.

"Zhen..." When all the officials stood up, Xiao Qi suddenly leaned forward and spoke.

Just as the teacher can basically see what the students below are doing, the height of the emperor can also see the ministers clearly.Xiao Qi saw that more than [-]% of the ministers raised their heads after his utterance, looked at him warily, and then hurriedly lowered their heads.

"I thought, the ritual of plowing first has been stopped for two years, right? The emperor stopped at that time because of illness, but I was strong. My dear friends, should I start the ritual of plowing first?" ?”

There are the most various sacrifices at the beginning of the year and the end of the year. At the end of last year, Xiao Qi had just finished offering sacrifices to his ancestors. Two days later, he would be busy with the Spring Festival. According to the rules, there must be a first plowing ceremony.But the ritual of plowing first requires the emperor to push the plow and plow one-third of an acre of land.With Xiao Qi's "age" of five and a half years old now, is he as tall as a plow?

Therefore, when the new emperor came to the throne, the courtiers should have given the new emperor a discount, saying to the new emperor, "Your Majesty, it is time for you to start farming first", but Xiao Qi did not receive the discount.

"Your Majesty, it's more important that you still have a dragon body." Wu Ge knew that it was the man behind the emperor who made another move. The emperor held the first plowing ceremony to tell the world that he attaches importance to agriculture. This is a kind of prestige Improvement, "Cultivating land is not an easy task. If your majesty bumps into it, it will not be beautiful."

Translation: You can't just think about good things, the first plowing ceremony has to be smooth all the way to get a good omen.If something happened to you, such as a big horse fell on the ground, and then lost half of a tooth, or even more unlucky enough to see blood, wouldn't that be an embarrassment to the world?

"Oh." Xiao Qi sighed, "Elder Ge's words are reasonable, I have only heard about farming, but never practiced it. But if you don't do the plowing ceremony first, you can always do the silkworm ceremony first."

When Empress Sun heard this, her eyes lit up. The emperor has no empress. It is a good thing that she, the empress dowager, led the concubine to do the silkworm ceremony first: "The emperor is right."

The ministers rejected the little emperor before, and then rejected the queen mother...it was a good thing in the first place, why should it turn into a bad thing?Also called yes.

Xiao Qi said again: "I am self-righteous today, but it is because I have never seen arable land. I want to build a diligent garden in the palace. If I don't farm the land myself, I can also look at it. At least I must know the details of the arable land. bitter."

"Your Majesty is holy." All the ministers knew about this, and they also knew that the emperor had gone through a lot of trouble. The craftsman and supervisor of the Ministry of Industry had assigned him work, and the Ministry of Households also knew that he had bought a lot of coal and iron.But... the emperor likes to farm, which is good, better than those who like to play and spend money.

However, after the ministers returned home, they all felt that things were not that simple!The "think tank behind the scenes" has always taken one step at a time and three steps at a time (no!), it is impossible for this matter to end like this.

When the ministers were thinking hard, Xiao Qi was hit again.

——The drawings of various agricultural tools he brought... have no practical value in this era!

For example, the animal-powered plow that this craftsman was the first to make, a modern plow weighing more than 400 catties, was produced by the craftsmen with a weight of more than 600 and nearly [-], which looked much clumsy.It's not that the craftsmen are careless, it's that the iron material is unqualified.Modern animal plows are all made of steel or alloy. If the specifications of modern animal plows are completely used, the fences made by craftsmen will break and deform in a short time.

The stupid and clumsy thing that was made in the end is still usable, and it is indeed much easier to use than the plows that the people of the Xia Dynasty use now that he collected.However, it is not easy for ordinary people nowadays to buy an iron pot. Let them buy a [-]-jin all-iron plow?Not to mention ordinary people, landlords with low net worth can't afford it.

Even those nobles who own large tracts of land may not be willing to buy this. They have a lot of manpower, so it is really not rare for this kind of manpower-saving tool.

Xiao Qi nodded calmly on the surface, praised the supervisor and craftsmen warmly, feeling helpless in his heart.

This is really science and technology is the primary productive force...

Originally, I wanted to put the smelting of steel at the end, but without advanced tools, it was completely difficult to develop from other angles first.

But his courtiers who are making small troubles now just turn a blind eye and close one eye. If he is an emperor who really does tricks and goes to business, the ministers will definitely hit their heads against the pillars.

_(:з」∠)_Xiao Qi is slightly numb, he really doesn’t have any B number in his heart...

"Well done." But Xiao Qi still wanted to praise the craftsman and the craftsmen, "Reward!"

The total of 200 taels of silver for everyone is not too much, but it is already considered a lot of money for everyone who is a craftsman as a supervisor. After all, a craftsman as a supervisor is also a Qingshui yamen.

"Maybe it can be improved? Can it be made affordable by the common people?"

Jianzheng was a little surprised. He thought the emperor was just a little curious. He didn't expect that he really wanted to do things for the people: "It is possible to improve, some parts can be replaced with wood, but... only a few parts can be changed. The minister is incompetent..."

"Manpower is exhausted, it's not your fault." Xiao Qi waved his hand, it was because he was greedy, he wanted to do it in one step, never thought that modern people are designed according to steel, all aspects are considered steel data, it is not like them at all It can be used in the [-]s, and the future of other animal power equipment is also worrying.

Although the structure is simple, a spring, a bolt, or even a small pick, the metal material is not in place, and the machine is also a substandard product.

"I'm afraid you haven't passed the Chinese New Year as a craftsman, right? It's really hard work. I understand your difficulties, so take your time."

The supervisor led the craftsmen to leave. Who knew that in addition to the 200 taels, there were servants at the gate of the palace who gave them two big fat pigs, more than a dozen bolts of cotton cloth, and more than 50 catties of cotton.Words are also rewarded by His Majesty.

When the money was rewarded, everyone was excited, but looking at these things, including the prison, the craftsman made the prison and really cried.

Even the Qingshui yamen in Beijing is divided into three, six, and nine grades. The Imperial Academy is Qingshui, but the world is also noble.A craftsman working as a prison is considered a coolie, and he is often taken away to do private work, often for nothing.But including the prison, they are all registered artisan households. Not only do they have to quit working, but their children and grandchildren have to work hard in the artisan prison. ...

When they first entered the palace, everyone was still a little scared. After all, there were rumors that the little emperor was a born tyrant and Jie Zhou was reincarnated.Now who dares to say that in front of them, they dare to fight with others!A group of people wrote grace at the gate of the palace, and happily returned with the last time.

They are happy, Xiao Qi is depressed.

Then he decided that he couldn't be depressed by himself! →_→So he distributed the fields to the boys who waited and read~

"Loves, you will be able to farm with me in the future, are you happy?"

Teenagers: "...QAQ is happy, the ministers are ecstatic!"

Xiao Qi continued to smile: "That's good, I like the monarch and his ministers to have fun together."

That afternoon Xiao Qi went to the field, even though he was walking beside the oxen, the ones leading the oxen and pulling the plow were all eunuchs.But the teenagers can only go down to the fields naturally, and...they have to farm with the eunuch~ After a while they have to farm completely by themselves~

The ground is still firm, but no one dares to demand equality with the emperor in this matter.

It's spring, and the queen mother presided over the silkworm ceremony.The fields in the palace were also full of beans. Even though the emperor did not hold the plowing ceremony, Xiao Qi studied the farm tools, treated the craftsmen well, and brought a group of children to plow the fields. The emperor also praised it.The emperor attaches so much importance to farming and mulberry, that is, he values ​​the common people. Although he is young, he must be a benevolent king.As for the eunuchs and maids who were killed before?He must have done something bad before he was killed!An emperor who likes farming will definitely not be a tyrant.

Xiao Qi: I really didn't mean to whitewash myself...

Ministers: High!It's really high!

Empress Sun: I'm not angry!Let's take it easy!

The census of the teenagers was also delayed for a while because of farming, and their answers were not handed in until Enke was about to open.