Perhaps even many people in later generations will not know that Lanzhou, famous for its ramen, actually existed in this world as the capital of a country in history.
Although, the history of its capital building is a bit short and sloppy, and even the imperial palace has not had time to be completely completed.
"Is Xue Ju's palace still there?" Looking at Lanzhou City fading away behind him, Xiao Han asked with emotion to Chai Shao who rushed to the logistics camp.
Chai Shao followed the bullock cart on horseback, holding a cucumber in his hand and chewing it to his heart's content. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Yes! But I heard that it has become a temple now. Why, you still want to take Su Dingfang with you?"
One trip?”
"Uh, let's forget it."
Xiao Han smiled awkwardly. He didn't really have any grudge against the monk, so there was no need to come back with the name of a temple killer?
Besides, it's hard for Su Dingfang to be deceived now. Even if he wants to drag him to fight in the autumn wind, he probably won't go again.
"Hahaha..." Seeing Xiao Han's sullen look, Chai Shao couldn't help but point at him and laugh a few times. Then he bit off the remaining half of the cucumber, raised his chin to the east and said, "Don't mention Lanzhou.
Now, we’ll be arriving in Chang’an in a few days, how about it, do you have any plans?”
"What plans can I have? Let's go home and let my wife and children warm up on the bed!" Perhaps thinking of going home soon, Xiao Han couldn't help but smile.
I told Xue Pan at the beginning that I would be able to go back before spring at the latest, but I didn’t know it would be summer. I haven’t gone back yet, and I don’t know how my family is doing now. Will my precious daughter call me daddy?
"Ahem, I heard that the atmosphere in Chang'an is not very good recently, and some people have other intentions towards the general and you."
Chai Shao saw Xiao Han's happy smile and really didn't want to disturb him, but as a brother, he couldn't tell him about these unappetizing things and warned him in advance.
"those people?"
Xiao Han gradually woke up from his longing, and the smile on his face solidified little by little: "Those people have never been tolerant to us! I didn't expect them to applaud us this time! But that's fine! It just so happened.
I can’t find any reason to go home and stay for a long time…”
"What are you going to do?" Chai Shao felt his heart tremble when he heard Xiao Han's muttering, and hurriedly stared at him and asked.
Having known Xiao Han for so long, Chai Shao really knew the young man in front of him very well.
If Xiao Han was so angry at this moment that he wanted to kill the other party's whole family, Chai Shao would never be worried at all. He should eat, sleep, and do whatever he should do!
But as calm as he is now, he is not as calm as Xiao Han! This makes Chai Shao shiver from the bottom of his heart!
No one knows what the angry Xiao Han will do, not even the emperor!
"Don't worry, I won't do anything! Really!" Xiao Han saw Chai Shao's worried look, and the corners of his thin mouth gradually raised a curve, as if he was comforting Chai Shao, but also comforting himself.
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The sun in late May is already very hot.
In the wheat fields on both sides of the road, the upright wheat plants are filling rapidly and plumply under the catalysis of the sun.
Guanzhong people love to eat pasta!
Therefore, even if the yield of one acre of rice is twice that of the same area of wheat, people here are still happy to grow wheat and millet.
“This year’s harvest looks great!”
The army passed by the wheat field. A soldier picked off a wheat ear and skillfully pinched it with his hands. The green wheat grains fell into his palm. He blew gently and the chaff flew out.
There were only a few plump wheat grains left in the palm of my hand.
"How many grains of wheat are there?" asked a slightly calm voice behind the soldier.
"I counted, one, two, three... twenty-eight in total! This farming family must have put in a lot of effort! In the past, when my family farmed, twenty trees were considered good seedlings!" The soldier counted the seeds in his palms.
Mai Li, just as he answered with a grin, he suddenly realized something was wrong!
Because the brothers who were surrounding him were quickly moving away from him, and the ones with the best relationships among them even looked at him as if he was asking for blessings.
"Twenty-eight? That's a very good number!" Li Shiji, a black-faced man, walked out from behind the soldier, then reached out and patted his shoulder, asking sullenly: "Do you know what to do?"
The soldier turned his head stiffly and glanced at Li Shiji, and then the expression on his face became no different from that of his dead mother. After a long time, he cried and said: "General, I think the number eight is more auspicious, isn't it?"
"What, thirty-eight?" Li Shiji stared at him and asked slowly.
"No, no! Twenty-eight! Just twenty-eight!" The soldier was incomprehensible with grief and anger. He swallowed the wheat grains in his hand, then turned back three times and walked towards the end of the team.
The pardon order that the soldiers expected was not uttered from Li Shiji's mouth in the end, so soon, at the end of the line, there was the sound of boards falling and the groans of soldiers gritting their teeth.
When the army marches, it must not destroy the crops!
No one knows when this rule, which is not written into the regulations, began to appear, but it has been widely circulated in the military.
Here, even if he is as powerful as Cao Cao, he will be punished by cutting off his hair after his horse tramples the wheat field!
It is estimated that the soldier who was beaten at this time also wanted to use his hair to replace his stupidity and cause trouble, but he had no choice. He was a hero, he was just a bear, and he was still crying in tears after being beaten.
Twenty-eight blows with the board, not too many but not too many! And each blow is almost with the same force, which does not break the person, but also makes the person miserable!
Perhaps, if he could see the owner of this land at this time, the soldiers would tell him viciously: "Don't be so careful about planting next time. Just plant whatever you want. It's best not to even produce grains, but only to produce grains."
Just order the bran!
"You son of a bitch, you're so mean! Hiss...it hurts!"
After finishing all the blows, the soldier got up from the ground with a breath of cold air, then held his waist and limped towards the wheat field.
"Hey! What are you doing again?"
Behind him, several brothers in the army looked at his back and were shocked. They thought he had been hit on the head and shouted hurriedly.
"What are you calling for?!" When the beaten soldier heard the shouting, the man turned around angrily and cursed: "What are you calling for? Can't I go to the toilet? Ah... Plop!"
"Well……"
Watching helplessly, this guy tripped over a stone and fell heavily into the wheat field, making a big glyph in the neat wheat field. Everyone, including the military judge, closed their eyes.
I just picked one wheat plant, and it was beaten to pieces, and now it's overwhelming?
"At least, it will take several thousand wheat stalks. If we go by the calculation just now... more than 10,000 wheat stalks... ugh!"
In the end, the unlucky soldier was not given a 10,000-yuan pay, but was fined to stay here and help the owner harvest all the grain from these dozens of acres of land.
"The general said, doesn't he like food? Now you can like it all at once!"
The dark-faced military judge dropped these words and left with the large troops without looking back.
Behind him, there were only the soldiers who were crying without tears, and the old farmer who was inexplicably surprised.
Wheat harvest has always been one of the most important things in the entire Tang Dynasty!
Whenever you come to this season, no matter how prominent your status is or how much you boast of military exploits, you still have to take off your luxurious silk clothes, put on gray and fluffy coarse linen clothes, and start harvesting wheat in the wheat fields.
ear.
Don't laugh, it's true!
It’s so true that even the law has records of this law. It’s so true that even the emperor and queen would go to the fields and cut wheat seriously for a day to taste the hard work of the people!
So at this time, if you see a man cutting wheat near Chang'an, don't think that he is just a farmer, because this person may be the prime minister of the dynasty, or... the emperor of the entire Tang Dynasty!
In the neat wheat field, Xiao Lizi waved the sickle vigorously, and with each cut, a large open space was cleared in front of his eyes.
Beside him, Changsun, who had a green turban on his head, was wiping the sweat from his forehead while deftly tying up the wheat that Little Plum had cut with strips and stacking it behind him.
As for the wheat piled up behind him, it would soon be picked up by two boys who were only about eight or nine years old and stacked on a bullock cart at the edge of the field.
"Gan'er, are you tired Tai'er?" When the two boys were going back and forth between the oxcart and the wheat field again, the eldest grandson stopped what he was doing, straightened the hair on his forehead, and asked the two with a smile.
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"This..." The two boys looked at each other, then shook their heads in unison: "I'm not tired!"
"Haha, I've been working all morning, how can I not be tired? Come on, let's go to the field and have a rest first!" After looking at the two sons who refused to admit defeat, the eldest grandson stood up funny and took their hands.
Just go to the field.
"But the father hasn't come yet." The older child held the eldest grandson's hand, but looked at the little Li Zi who was still working hard, as if he was not willing to leave his father behind and ran to enjoy the cool air.
"Yes! If your father doesn't rest, we won't rest either!" The younger child had already walked a few steps to the edge of the field. When he heard his brother's words, he turned his glasses and stopped, with a round face.
He said with a firm look.
"Go quickly! I'll go after I finish cutting this piece!" In the wheat field, Xiao Lizi seemed to hear his son's words, and the sickle in his hand paused for a moment, but soon it returned to its original rhythm of one cut after another.
"Here!"
The two and a half-year-old children could disobey their eldest grandson, but they could not feel any disobedience towards their father. After hearing the words, they immediately bowed their heads and walked towards the field.
There were people beside the field, and there was more than one person.
Seeing the eldest grandson coming with the two princes, a group of palace eunuchs who had been waiting for a long time immediately brought over the herbal tea that had been prepared, and then fanned those who should be fanned, and served fruits to those who were busy.
It's a pleasure to call someone.
However, if you are careful, you will definitely find a strange thing: no matter how diligent and busy these people are, they will always walk on the hard ground outside the field and will never step on the field.
At the edge of the field, a large group of people in gorgeous clothes were waiting for three people dressed in coarse cloth to drink water and enjoy the coolness. This scene was somewhat strange, not to mention that these three people had just enjoyed themselves doing farm work in the field.
However, if you think about it carefully, you will probably feel relieved.
This is just like the leaders of later generations who go to the construction site to inspect. They put on a safety helmet, put on gloves, shovel two loads of soil, and move two bricks. It proves that after I come, I will rush to the air-conditioned room to drink tea!
As the king of a country, Xiao Lizi can take his equally noble wife and son and go to great lengths to experience the hardships of wheat harvest. This in itself is already many times better than some leaders of later generations!
Not long after the three of them arrived at the field, the little plums in the field had already cut down all the wheat in front of them.
When the last golden wheat plant fell to the ground and the vision suddenly became clear, Little Plum finally breathed a sigh of relief.
I straightened up, beat my sore waist, and looked at the wheat stalks lying on the ground behind me. A long-lost sense of accomplishment instantly filled my chest! How long had it been since I had experienced this feeling of winning a battle in person?
"Father! Come quickly! The Sushan I left for you!"
"Father, I'll save this for you too! It's more delicious than my brother's!"
Just when Xiao Lizi was still sighing in his heart, not far away, two children's voices reached his ears at the same time, causing the fatigue all over his body to recede quickly like a tide.
"Okay! Hahaha..."
Hearing the calls of his two sons, he dropped his sickle. Li Shimin walked to the edge of the field with a smile, and then rubbed the heads of the two of them vigorously with one hand, until the two of them screamed in pain and dodged to the side, and then they started again.
Once he burst into laughter and said, "You all performed well today. Tell me, what reward do you want?!"
"Me!" Li Chengqian was a few years older after all. While Li Tai was still covering his head and rubbing his head vigorously, he had already spoken first: "I want General Xiao Han, who has returned this time, to be my master!"
"No, it was me who first thought of letting him be my master!"
Hearing that his brother actually made the request before him, Li Tai was so anxious that he almost burst into tears. He didn't even bother to rub his head. He hurriedly stood in front of Li Chengqian and spoke to Li Shimin anxiously.
"Huh? Why did you think of letting him be your master?" Xiao Lizi was a little surprised by the request of his two sons. After taking a sip of tea, he asked them with a smile: "What do you want to learn from him? His reputation has never been very good.
OK!"
"That's other people's prejudice against General Xiao!" Li Chengqian glared at his younger brother and said before him again: "Father, haven't you always praised him so much?"
"Well! Uncle Changsun also often talks about General Xiao, saying that he is a genius who is rare in a century!" Li Tai was glared at by Li Chengqian, and lowered his head in fear, but he was unwilling to lose this opportunity, so he had to
He added a weak sentence after Li Chengqian.
"Oh? Like this?" After listening to Li Tai's words, Li Shimin had a strange look in his eyes, but he concealed it very well, even the eldest grandson beside him didn't notice it.
"You all want him to be your master? Then Father, you have to ask General Xiao if he wants to be your master. Maybe he is very busy and has no time to teach you! Okay, now you go and play
Just for a while! Let’s continue our work in the afternoon.”
