Chapter five hundred and seventy-third face-to-face opportunity to enter Beijing with the guards
"Kang da bang da..."
The wooden-colored wooden wheeled cart drove from Jiangzhou to the capital. The wooden wheels rubbed against the stone rails, making a continuous clanking sound.
Su Lu sat by the window and looked at the scenery outside the window. Farmland, countryside, rivers, and green trees were all lined up and running back.
The speed of the wooden wheel car is not very fast. Looking at the scenery outside the window, I don't feel bored at all. Instead, I feel a novel feeling.
Li Qing got up from the bed placed on the side of the carriage, glanced at Su Lu who was in a daze, and reached out to help Chang Ning stand up with difficulty.
"Why, are you still worried about the war in Jiangzhou?"
Sitting down opposite Su Lu, Li Qing said gently. His body was getting heavier and Li Qing had some difficulty moving now.
A farmland passed by outside the window. There were farmers cultivating in the fields, looking at the wooden wheel carts with their hoes, their dark faces full of surprise.
Su Lu smiled and shook his head: "There is nothing to worry about in the Jiangzhou battle. I will give you instructions in person. No matter how bad Zhao Wu is, there is still no problem in fighting Gaoyang."
"What I'm thinking about is that in this huge country of Han, although there are potatoes and sweet potatoes, successive wars have still caused considerable losses to the people. The farmer just now looked to be over sixty years old. He should have been able to live out his life, but he
Still working in the fields."
"What I can do is limited."
Li Qing looked at Changning next to him, wondering how to comfort Su Lu.
She was born into a royal family and had never experienced any suffering in the world. In her opinion, farmers worked as they should, so there was nothing to be anxious about. "My lord, in fact, their lives are much better now."
Chang Ning spoke from the side, his tone full of high spirits.
Su Lu was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Chang Ning and several female officials, a little confused.
Chang Ning ordered a petite female official and said, "Zixuan, you come from a peasant family. Tell me about your family's situation. How is your life now compared to those in the past?"
Zixuan, who was thin and small, crossed her arms and gave Su Lu a blessing.
"Your Majesty, the life of the farm family is much better now than before."
"Take the Nu family as an example. I remember that when I just remember, there was always not enough food at home. All year round, except for the Chinese New Year, we only had a meal of white flour dumplings. The rest of the time, we couldn't fill our stomachs at all."
"I have many younger brothers and sisters. I have been helping my parents work in the fields since I was ten years old. All year round, the harvest is not enough to pay the land rent to the landlord."
"When Your Majesty promotes potatoes and sweet potatoes, my family's life will get better. Not to mention anything else, the sweet potatoes, after paying the land rent, are enough for my family to feed for a year."
"We have saved a lot of wheat in spring and winter. Throughout the year, my family can eat white flour dumplings and white flour steamed buns whenever they want. Although we cannot eat them every day, it is better than before when we could only eat one meal throughout the year.
too much."
"Before I entered the palace, my family had already begun to have a surplus of food. In good times, I could buy new clothes for me and my brothers and sisters."
A female officer next to her also spoke:
"My family is the same. Although my family is a landowner, in those early years, my family was not very wealthy. After paying the government taxes every year, we could barely have some surplus food. After the prince and your majesty came to power, life got better."
Zixuan suddenly knelt down and saluted Su Lu:
"Zixuan thanks you, Your Majesty. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are popular all over the world, and countless people are alive. There was a severe drought in Shazhou that year. If not for these two things, my grandfather would have starved to death. Thank you, Your Majesty."
Su Lu became interested when he heard this: "Zixuan, are you from Shazhou? What is the situation in Shazhou now? Do you still need help from the court?"
Zixuan stood up and said, "Back to my lord, Shazhou is close to the desert. The land is already barren and droughts occur every year. However, the local government has begun to promote a drought-tolerant corn, which can be planted in both mountains and river valleys, and it has been alleviated a lot.
"
Su Lu nodded, not all local officials were ignorant, there were still some capable officials who could discover corn.
Su Lu turned to Li Qing and said:
"Corn is drought-tolerant and does not have high requirements on terrain. It can also be promoted domestically. This Shazhou official deserves a prize."
Li Qing said with a smile:
"Rewards have been given a long time ago, and the Agriculture Department has also launched the promotion of corn, focusing on several places near the desert, including several counties in Xuanfu."
"Our life has become much better after North Tule was brought under our jurisdiction."
Su Lu nodded and was about to speak when the sound of a wooden wheel car braking was heard in front of him. The terrain on both sides of the car was no longer farmland, but the land of the capital city.
Already arrived in Beijing.
When the car stopped, Li Qing stood up and stretched slightly.
"It's so fast. Yesterday, we were still having breakfast in Shangshan. Unexpectedly, we have already returned to the capital."
Zixuan and the other female officials got busy, opened the car door, and packed up the things around them.
Lu Zhan has also laid out mats in front of the carriage, and the guards are also busy.
Su Lu smiled and said:
"When the flying birds speed up in the future, if we want to go there, it will only take half a day to get there. We will have breakfast in the capital in the morning, lunch in Jiangzhou at noon, and then continue to have dinner in the capital."
Li Qing held Su Lu's arm and got out of the car, with a smile on his graceful face.
"Then I don't dare to think about it. It's already pretty good to have such a life."
Outside the carriage, Lu Zhan reported to Su Lu in a low voice:
"Your Majesty, Minister Zhou Ping and Minister Dong Cheng are waiting outside."
Su Lu raised his eyebrows: "How do they know that His Majesty and I are coming back today?"
Li Qing next to him said with a smile: "Although our whereabouts are kept secret, as the two bosses of the Ministry of War, they know the movements of the various military units best. I want to ask a few questions, these people driving wooden wheel carts.
The officers and soldiers still dare not tell us where we are."
Su Lu shook his head helplessly:
"Yes, but they both should also experience the speed of this wooden wheel vehicle, and all the ministers should also experience it."
When the group left the inn, Zhou Ping and Dong Cheng immediately greeted them.
"Your Majesty, I wonder how the war is going in Jiangzhou. Have you arrived in Jiangzhou yet?"
Li Qing shook his head: "You two, you are transporting this grain and grass baggage to Jiangzhou every day, but you still don't believe that this wooden wheel cart can reach Jiangzhou in one day and night?"
Su Lu waved his hand, stopped the two of them, and asked:
"Your Majesty and I have not been together these days. If there is anything worth talking about in the capital, please tell me."
"The General Staff Office has transferred two guards to the city."
Dong Cheng spoke with a gloomy expression on his face.
Su Lu frowned: "The General Staff Office has no power to mobilize troops. When will they be able to mobilize troops into the city? Do you want to rebel?"
Zhou Ping glanced at Dong Cheng and said in a deep voice:
"I don't know, the guards in these two places have never been with me or Lord Dong Cheng. I don't know why the General Staff Department mobilized them."
"absurd"
Su Lu almost couldn't help but give Zhou Ping a kick. The dignified Minister of the Ministry of War didn't know why the guards were mobilized, but he actually came to complain.
"Why, Zhou Ping can't even handle the transfer of the guards under your Ministry of War. Do you want me to wipe your ass?"
Li Qing patted Su Lu's arm and asked the two of them in a deep voice:
"What divisions do these two guards belong to?"
"The guards entered the city without orders, which is treason."