When Li Hong came out of the study, Crown Princess Pei Wanying was already waiting at the door. Li Hong smiled and took Pei Wanying's hand and said, "You don't have to be like this."
Pei Wanying smiled slightly, hugged Li Hong's hand with her other hand and said: "Yesterday, my mother came to the palace to say hello. She was worried that I was not doing well.
I told her that she was living a good life and that the prince was a very gentle person."
Li Hong took his hands out of Pei Wanying's hands and said, "Enjoy the power of your Crown Princess. This is what I promised you."
Pei Wanying smiled and said: "The Queen Mother is convening a gathering of the palace people in Shangyang Palace today. It is said that she is going to select some good-looking palace people and reward them to the meritorious officials of the Tang Dynasty. If your highness likes anyone, you can tell me in advance. Concubine
I will be arranged by His Highness."
Li Hong frowned slightly and said: "It's better for the population in the East Palace to be simpler. A variety of crops are cultivated here. It's not good for more people to come in."
Pei Wanying said: "Are you still thinking about Naha?"
Li Hong nodded and said, "It's not that you're bad, it's that girl who got in here first."
Pei Wanying said calmly: "Linaha returned to the Western Regions yesterday. I heard that the Marquis of Lantian prepared a thousand camels for Naha. I heard that it was a dowry.
I don’t know who Marquis Lantian married his sister to."
Li Hong smiled calmly and said: "Of course you married me."
"The groom is missing."
"There is no need to see the groom, the groom is in Naha's heart."
Pei Wanying bit her lip and said, "I also heard that the two eunuchs who were with Naha and were in charge of jade certificates and golden books were expelled by the Marquis of Lantian."
Li Hong seemed to have known the news for a long time. He looked at Pei Wanying calmly and said: "What many people dream of is worthless in the eyes of another group of people."
"If they don't like it, why are they still fighting with me?" Pei Wanying's voice became louder.
Li Hong smiled, raised his hand and touched Pei Wanying's green face and said: "She is not competing with you for the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, she just wants a young man named Li Hong.
Also, don’t go to the Western Regions to cause trouble for Naha. You also know that the guy named Li Hong is an extremely protective person."
After saying that, Li Hong waved his sleeves and left, leaving Pei Wanying, who was shaking all over and looking ashen-faced, in the corridor.
The rapeseed flowers outside the corridor are in full bloom. This is the second crop of rapeseed this year. Although the rapeseed packets on the rapeseed are still small, it can already look like a good harvest. If these rapeseeds can be harvested in September
It matured months ago, and Li Hong was ready to spread this thing in Luoyang.
Nowadays, there are many wealthy people in Luoyang City, and people's demand for oil has become much stronger. The income from growing rapeseed and pressing oil should be higher than growing wheat.
Li Hong has been pretending that he does not exist after his wedding. After all, the reputation of a prince who escaped from marriage is not very good. Even if he beats Li Xian, can he beat everyone who said bad things about him? What's more,
There are some people he still can't defeat.
The positioning of Luoyang Donggong is the same as that of Chang'an Donggong, which is a vegetable market. Since it is a vegetable market, anyone can enter the Donggong to grow vegetables.
Therefore, after Li Hong left the back house of the East Palace, he saw a huge crowd in front of him.
For the people of Luoyang, buying vegetables is a matter of course. Although the green peppers, beans, cabbage, onions, cabbages, and beets here are very famous, for them, being able to enter the gate of the East Palace guarded by Prince Liu is the most important thing.
the most important.
Since ancient times, the royal palace has been a forbidden area, and people are not allowed to come and go at will. But it is different now. In the Prince's East Palace, anyone can come and go at will as long as they carry a vegetable basket.
The scenery in the East Palace is naturally excellent, especially in the Baihua Tower where the prince went to please the enchantress Yun Na, where the flowers are in full bloom.
Everyone who has visited Baihua Tower is trying to activate their brains, thinking how beautiful the witch Yun Na is, who can confuse His Highness the most virtuous prince of the Tang Dynasty and make him escape from marriage.
The prince Li Hong of the Tang Dynasty was well-known for his wisdom before he escaped from marriage. This prince liked to read, was humble and kind-hearted. In order to put more food on the plates of the people of the Tang Dynasty, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money and served the people all over the world.
They searched for good seeds, and even turned their beautiful East Palace into vegetable fields...
Just when people thought that this virtuous prince would continue to be virtuous forever and finally sit in the highest position of the Tang Dynasty as a saint, people were shocked to find that the prince who they thought was a virtuous and virtuous prince actually ran away from his marriage.
This is the first time His Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty has made a big mistake...
Naturally, the prince was criticized verbally and writtenly in the court. It was rude to impeach the prince, and there were piles of insignificant memorials.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was even criticized by the censor who was frothing at the court, and criticized him for nothing.
Li Hong did not defend his behavior, but stood alone in the court and was criticized for three whole days.
It wasn't until Yun Na left and Li Hong rejoined his wedding ceremony with a smile throughout, that the voices criticizing the prince in the court gradually subsided.
However, there are also many people who secretly sympathize with His Highness the Crown Prince. Especially after learning that he and Yun Na were childhood sweethearts, they are full of sympathy for this unkind Crown Prince.
In contrast, Pei's daughter Pei Wanying appeared to be extremely strong, breaking up the love between the prince and his childhood sweetheart, and even inserting herself into it...
Of course, most of the people who think this way are young women. They romantically believe that if they appear more often in the East Palace, they might meet the infatuated prince, and then expel the Pei daughter from the East Palace.
Li Hong clasped his hands behind his back and, surrounded by guards, walked along the corridor and looked around. Everyone in the world knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince values agriculture and mulberry trees. Therefore, anyone who searches for new varieties and new vegetables will be sent to the East Palace.
Try your luck.
Therefore, in the corridor to the left of the East Palace Gate, there is a mile-long vegetable and grain market.
The eunuchs who manage the market in the East Palace sort out new things every day and leave them to the prince for inspection.
In the East Palace, the highest-ranking person is the doctor of agriculture. It is the daily official duties of these doctors of agriculture to search for and inspect new varieties and new vegetables every day.
"Your Highness, these are tung tree seeds, which are generally used to press tung oil. They are found in the Dabie Mountains in the Central Plains. The tung tree seeds your Highness saw are produced in the Dabie Mountains. However, the best tung oil is produced in Nanzhao.
Tung oil ranks first, Shuzhong ranks second, and Dabie Mountain comes second.
This thing has many uses and was not a rare item originally. However, in recent years, with the proliferation of workshops in Guanzhong and Chang'an, the demand for this thing has increased more than tenfold.
The lower official suggested that His Highness select some uninhabited mountainous areas in the Dabie Mountains to plant tung trees specifically. This does not require artificial labor. After being abandoned for ten years, His Highness obtained a stable supply of tung oil."
After Li Hong looked at the tung oil seeds carefully, he said: "Then I will send the prince sect to the governors of Shenzhou and Guangzhou, and order to assist the East Palace, and plant tung trees widely in the Dabie Mountains. I will look forward to the ten years you mentioned."
After that, tung oil was abundantly produced."
The doctor of agriculture accepted the prince's order with a smile. For a doctor of agriculture like him, there is no better job than actually being responsible for the practical affairs of a place.
Ever since Lou Shide achieved great success in farming in Longyou, he has been very interested in farming. Whenever he had a little money, he invested it in the production of materials.
So far, very few of his officials from the East Palace can stay with him. Basically, he has sent them all to various parts of the Tang Dynasty to cultivate various fields, herd cattle, or dig coal, smelt iron, mine copper, and pan for gold.
Just like Yunchu told him, being rich does not necessarily mean having money, only those who have material things are the real rich people.
Moreover, Lou Shide vowed to tell the prince that within ten years, the East Palace would be completely free of poverty and become extremely wealthy.
As for the little output of the fiefdom, to be honest, Lou Shide looked down upon it and suggested that the Crown Prince also focus on farming, grazing, and mining.
Because the income of His Royal Highness the Prince's fief is closely related to the lives of the local people. If the exploitation is too much, the people will complain. If he takes corvee lightly and pays little tax, it will make him and the royal family look bad, and it will make other people who don't want to take credit easy and pay little tax
The royal family had great hatred for him.
It is better to let the queen continue to help him manage the fiefdom as before, no matter good or bad, then no one will be able to blame him for holding his head high.
Li Hong's fiefdom is in Daizhou. Daizhou itself is not a wealthy place. This place is more important to prevent Turks.
Although today's Turks have been tortured by the Tang Dynasty's border troops, Daizhou's military attributes are still far higher than its economic attributes.
Therefore, there are many military households in Daizhou, which is why the prince Li Hong has been reluctant to take back the management rights of Daizhou from the queen.
However, Li Hong did not give in blindly. Among the six Zhechong Prefectures under Daizhou, three of the Zhechong Prefecture captains came from Li Hong's Prince Liu Li.
The most important school captain of Fanzhou Zhechong Prefecture was Liang Jianfang’s grandson Liang Ying.
All Li Hong's arrangements are for the situation ten years from now.
So far, he doesn't want to have any conflicts with his father and mother. He always feels that time is on his side.
After returning from the Donggong Market, Li Hong put several novel crops on the table. It's not clear what the uses of these things are yet. Li Hong wanted to send these things to Yun Chu and asked Yun Chu to see if there was anything important in them.
crops that can be promoted.
When he came back, the Crown Princess had already gone to Shangyang Palace to participate in the selection of palace servants organized by her mother. This was nothing new. Every year, many beautiful women came into Yeting Palace, some of them were the daughters of prisoners, and more of them came from various prefectures.
The beauty presented by the county.
Just when the prince was wondering where Naha had gone, the eunuch Chunping came to report that Duke Zhou, the prince's guests, and He Lanminzhi, who was close to Tibet, wanted to see him."
Li Hong frowned, thought about it, and decided not to see him, because his master once said that this person was unknown.
Since he is no longer an auspicious person, I don't want to see him anymore, and I can't help but stay away from him.
As for what he wanted to do with him, Li Hong wasn't even interested in hearing about it. A shameless person who was willing to kiss Tibet as a man, even if he had excellent suggestions, would taint his own ears.
After He Lan Minzhi, who had been waiting respectfully in the East Palace for a long time, learned that the prince had no time to see him, he said to the guards with a gloomy face: "Let's go to the mansion of Prince Lu Li Xian."
Xue Changfeng was eating noodles from a boss's rice bowl, and he was eating very happily.
Mrs. Qian put one foot on the stool and said fiercely: "Why didn't you avoid it just now?"
Xue Changfeng took a bite of a garlic clove and a big mouthful of noodles. After swallowing it, he chuckled and said: "When I was a savage among the savages, you were not willing to chase me, and you are even less willing to kill me now."
"You rebelled without any reason and deserve death."
"I have already told you that I was fishing on the beach, but I was blown far away by the wind and waves. I was among the people in distress and could not come back."
"Do you have such distrust in us and the Lord?"
Xue Changfeng said: "I used to trust you very much, but I didn't trust the so-called Lord. Now that I'm back, I find that the Lord can still be trusted.
Now, I accidentally met Helan Minzhi. Although my pretending to be a savage might have confused him for a while, I think he should have woken up by now.
It doesn’t matter that I was caught by him, but it would be bad if I ruined the master’s plan many years ago.”
"You are the smartest among us, what are you going to do?"
Xue Changfeng smiled and said: "I am the Savage King now, a Savage King who wants to participate in the emperor's conferment on Mount Tai, not Xue Changfeng."
"Didn't you say that He Lan Minzhi recognized you?"
Xue Changfeng waved his hand and said: "That's not important. What's important is that you should tell us your purpose of hiding in Luoyang, right?"
This chapter has been completed!