[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

Du Ruo has always known that Ai Cao is very interested in things like plants, but she never thought that Zhang and Zhu Youtang could really let Ai Cao learn farming.The little girl was about ten years old, small and in vain, and followed her around the farm.Du Ruo was afraid that she would be sunburned and tired, so just looking at the sweat on her face, she panicked because of her heat.

But the little girl doesn't care about these things. The maid chases her to hold her an umbrella, and she still hates it. "Brother, brother, why do you use these rotten leaves to bury in the soil?" While doing what she likes, the little girl has completely become a hundred thousand whys, and she has completely lost the cold princess style she used to be.

"These things need nourishment to grow and eat. If there is no nourishment, we have to add nourishment to it." Even after so many years, Du Ruo still has nothing to do with creatures like children.He can't explain this kind of thing even if he is asked to explain it. Do you still have to talk about chemistry with such a little girl?There is no way, he can only speak in the most plain language, hoping that Ai Cao can understand.

"I still want to see Dilong, brother, take me there." In the era without chemical fertilizers, the solution to fertilizer was to use farmyard manure and dead leaves together with Dilong.What surprised Du Ruo the most was that wormwood was not afraid of all kinds of bugs.After knowing the function of the earth dragon, she actually offered to see these little bugs that other little girls were afraid of.This morning, she went to see the peach blossoms with her mother. On the way, she met a farmer who was keeping bees there. She was not afraid, and even fed these little insects sugar.

"Aren't you afraid of these little bugs?" Although Ai Cao has seen the not-so-good appearance of breeding earth dragons, Du Ruo still needs to make sure that she won't frighten the spoiled little princess.

Ai Cao looked at Du Ruo with an expression of looking at a fool, and felt that this brother was not only speechless, but also stupid, how could her elder brother fall in love with him. "Why are you afraid? Without them, there would be no food for us to eat." Du Ruo deeply felt that his IQ had been hit, and he began to wonder how Zhu Houzhao raised wormwood, and why he looked so pedantic at such a young age. .

Looking at the bright eyes of the wormwood, Du Ruo had no choice but to ask someone to take the wormwood to see the place where the earth dragon was bred.After sending away the wormwood, he turned around and arranged for some guards.For such a young girl, Du Ruo didn't dare to arrange these things in front of her.Although it was Huangzhuang, there were quite a few people who took risks and wanted to steal things out, and many soldiers were transferred to defend Huangzhuang.Those who were caught were immediately thrown into prison for interrogation. Du Ruoke didn't believe that ordinary thieves dared to come to Huangzhuang to steal things.

After everything was arranged, Du Ruo got up to look for the wormwood that Dilong had gone to.The weather this year is very good. There was just a spring rain a few days ago. The green grass beside the small stone road in Huangzhuang raised its petite body shyly, and the air was filled with a fresh smell.The place where the earth dragons were raised was on a small hill in Huangzhuang, where a cellar half the height of a person was dug, and a straw shed was set up to keep warm in winter. The thatched shed was only removed when the sun came out in the past few days.

Just at the foot of the mountain, Du Ruo saw the wormwood blue clothes from a distance.This little dress was sewn by Mrs. Zhang herself. With the cuffs closed and the short skirt, although it looks a little weird from the current angle, it is quite cute from Du Ruo's perspective.Du Ruo guessed that Zhu Houzhao must have participated, otherwise how could Mrs. Zhang have come up with such a style.

When we arrived at the destination, we saw many large pits for raising earth dragons.It has been corroded for a whole winter, and there is no fertilizer added to get these earth dragons out, and there is no strange smell in the air.On the contrary, because it has just rained, the air is full of the fragrance of the soil dug up by earthworms.Du Ruo saw that not only the wormwood was here, but also several familiar faces surrounded by familiar faces. It was Wang Jiyun who was named the Lord of Fengsui County.

There were so many strangers around, no matter how sensible and mature Ai Cao was, she was still a little shy, so she immediately ran from the side of the nanny to the side of Du Ruo to hold Du Ruo's hand.Now the people around Wang Jiyun were a little horrified.Ai Cao is already ten years old, although Du Ruo is her elder brother in name, but this behavior is too close.But the mothers in the palace didn't say anything, and everyone couldn't express the turmoil in their hearts.

But Du Ruo frowned when he saw Wang Jiyun and the others.Wang Jiyun has indeed helped Du Ruo a lot, but in Du Ruo's view, her success is not all due to her own credit.Her success is more based on the modern biological knowledge that Du Ruo provided her.Bean rotation for nitrogen fixation, cross-breeding, breeding earthworms for fertilizer production, etc. What she does more is to put these theoretical knowledge into practice.In exchange, Wang Jiyun is now a well-known agricultural expert, and was also named the Lord of Fengsui County.From this name, it can be seen that he and Zhu Houzhao recognized Wang Jiyun's work.

The past is the past.Since Wang Jiyun is Li Jianwei's wife now, it is inconvenient for her to intervene in some matters.After all, the Li family is not a pure-hearted owner.This time, Du Ruo never let Wang Jiyun intervene in the cultivation of new species, nor did he let Wang Jiyun know about it.That's why Du Ruo was so surprised when he saw Wang Jiyun here.

Wang Jiyun is already married, so naturally he has to keep a distance from Du Ruo.But her special status and her previous cooperative relationship with Du Ruo naturally made it unnecessary for her to avoid it. "It's been a long time, Grandpa, how have you been?" Wang Jiyun thought she was a princess of the first rank, so naturally she didn't need to greet Du Ruo, she just said hello to Du Ruo.

"It's not bad lately." Du Ruo had a certain understanding in her heart when she saw that the clothes and behavior of the nuns who followed Wang Jiyun were very different from what she usually saw.Thinking that it was already May and the snow and ice had melted, Li Jianwei should have escorted the envoys of North Korea and Japan from Liaodong to the capital again. "I don't know if the Princess has received the gift from me." After Wang Jiyun got married, he slowly withdrew from the management of Du Ruo's farm, because the previous research was done by a whole team, and all the materials were kept. Du Ruo was not afraid of her leaving. It fell short.

As early as when she got married, Du Ruo gave her 5 taels of silver as her reward for these years.Before Du Ruo left last year, he sent her a lot of land deeds, which meant a clean break with Wang Jiyun.When Du Ruo mentioned this matter today, it was just to remind Wang Jiyun that his cooperative relationship with her had ended when she received the item without any objection, so what does it mean to suddenly appear here today.

Wang Jiyun gritted his teeth after hearing his words, but after all, his identity was different, and he also smiled and said: "I received it, I like this gift from the Duke of the Kingdom very much. The county horse knows that I have cooperated with the Duke of the Kingdom very well." Happy, let me also thank the Duke of the State for giving me this opportunity to show my talent." The nun next to her didn't know what kind of riddle was being played between the two of them, thinking that it really meant the literal meaning.They also echoed again and again, Du Ruo couldn't help laughing.

No matter how Wang Jiyun misinterpreted his intention to gain a little initiative, it was meaningless to Du Ruo. When she didn't resist the proposal of marrying Li Jian, she had already lost the initiative.She has the skills and money, so she can start from scratch by herself.And without Du Ruo's semi-charitable nature, Wang Jiyun's seed business profits must be very gratifying.Now I'm here again to beg myself, but I just want to get the idea of ​​these new crops.

"Brother, Ai Cao is thirsty." Ai Cao has already been thirsty for more than half an hour. If she hadn't met this strange elder sister here, she would have gone back to drink water a long time ago.Now her brother is still nagging her, Ai Cao can't help it anymore, said Lala Duruo's hand.

Sure enough, my younger sister is my brother's little sweetheart. Knowing that I don't want to deal with Wang Jiyun, I take the initiative to find reasons for myself. Now Du Ruo thinks that raising children is not so difficult. "Then I have to say goodbye temporarily, I'm sorry." Du Ruo smiled apologetically at Wang Jiyun. "By the way, it's the season of sowing here recently. Everyone doesn't have much time to receive the princess. I'm afraid that I will neglect the princess. It's better for the princess to come less often." It's best not to come here even once.

"Duke..." Wang Jiyun didn't stop Du Ruo after all, and could only send off the wormwood with everyone in disappointment and embarrassment. Looking at the nanny sent by Li Jianwei to inquire about the news, he suddenly felt that his life couldn't be worse.

She began to regret marrying Li Jianwei.She has to endure sharing her husband with another woman, being framed as a wooden princess in the princess's mansion, and abandoning her career.She still wanted to continue to study farming and seeds, but Li Jianwei refused because Li's daughter-in-law should not hang out with farmers and farmers.Because she was not good at handling internal affairs, she had already been evacuated by Li Jianwei's people in the princess mansion, and now she actually brought these people who didn't know where they came from here to inquire about news.Listening to Du Ruo's words, Wang Jiyun felt that he could find a hole in the ground and bury himself.

Without seeing Wang Jiyun's ugly face, Du Ruo happily took the wormwood down the mountain.On the way, he saw a few lilacs that bloomed very early, and Du Ruo also broke some wormwood. "The flowers are beautiful, but you can't put them in your mouth. Let the mother put them away when you enter the house." Ever since the incident of the Liu family was exposed, the palace has undergone a major cleansing.All flowers and plants like oleander and clove are not allowed to appear in the palace.Wormwood This is the first time I have seen a flower like a lilac.

"It smells good, but why do you want to put it far away?" Wormwood took a deep breath, feeling that the pink-purple flowers were extremely beautiful.

This time, before Du Ruo could answer, the nuns who followed Ai Cao spoke. "This is a lilac flower. It is beautiful, but it is poisonous all over. It is the same as the oleander bush in Anguogong's mansion." There is a big oleander in Anguogong's mansion. Planted it, was rejected by Zhang.

Now the wormwood understood, carefully inhaled the fragrance of the cloves, and obediently gave the flowers to the nanny.Seeing that Mammy had no objection, Du Ruo asked the wormwood to hold the flowers, and said with a smile: "These flowers and plants are no longer planted in the palace because everyone in the palace doesn't know their functions. In fact, as long as you don't eat them by mistake, there is no problem. Since you like to hold it, as long as you don't let it enter your mouth." Ai Cao nodded obediently, and hugged the flower in her arms preciously.

Knowing that Ai Cao liked these flowers and plants very much, Du Ruo scratched her little nose, and she smiled embarrassedly.In the room here, the maids served the fragrant Mingqian new tea.Fearing that the wormwood would also be hungry, Du Ruo ordered the servants to bring the biscuits and cakes prepared in his carriage for snacks for the wormwood.

These biscuits are experimental products developed in the early stage, but they taste unexpectedly good. From Zhu Youtang and Zhang to the two children, they all like this kind of snacks.Zhu Houzhao forbade the two children to eat more sweets. There are not many opportunities to eat cakes with an open stomach like today, but the wormwood still only ate two pieces and put it down.Du Ruo thought that the cake was not tasty, but after tasting it, it was delicious and delicious, there was nothing wrong with it.

"Is your stomach uncomfortable?" There is no problem, Du Ruo can only guess whether it is because of the wormwood's stomach discomfort.

"Big brother said, you can't eat too much, or you'll grow into a fat girl." Ai Cao glanced at the cake and biscuits, which looked so tempting, but in the end she refused the temptation, and simply turned her head to look away.

"You, if your second brother is half as obedient as you, your father won't have to worry so much." As he got older, Zhu Houwei's appetite also increased.He was already a little fat man who was struggling even for Du Ruo to hold him. Du Ruo had a deep memory of how he sneaked into his mansion a few days ago and wiped out all the biscuits and jerky in the kitchen.

After taking a break for a while, Du Ruo took the wormwood to watch them plant corn seedlings in the wheat harvested soil.Humus, plant ash, and farmyard manure are squeezed into fist-sized soil balls and placed in a warm place for breeding. Now they have grown into strong seedlings.The land was opened up one after another in an extremely neat manner, and a large amount of fertilizer from earthworm retting was sprinkled in each small pit where corn balls were to be planted.Put the corn seedlings in, and the farmers behind use hoes to cultivate the soil.Because there was a sign of rain, everyone did not water and waited for another spring rain.

"When will I finish planting this way?" The child has never seen what real farming looks like. Seeing that everyone has been busy for a long time and only planted less than one-fifth of the corn seedlings, he began to worry about these farmers. .There are also some high soil ridges where corn is planted, which also aroused the interest of wormwood. "Why do you have to dig such a high ridge? Isn't it enough to just use cattle to level the ground?"

Wormwood is also helping to carefully pick up the corn balls and put them on the cart using the balls. A small tender white hand is covered with black fertile humus.The steward of the village who had been guarding by the side wiped the sweat from his brow with his sleeve and explained: "Princess probably has never seen it before. From digging the soil to planting these things, everyone has been busy here for twenty days. As for this The soil ridge is used to plant sweet potato vines, and the depression in the middle is more likely to retain rainwater from the sky."

After listening to the wormwood for a long time, Du Ruo was still at a loss. Du Ruo explained: "You have planted sweet potatoes before, right? You need to use the young shoots from sweet potatoes to cut them first. But there is not so much land here. Wait until the corn is harvested and the weather is cold. It will be too late to plant sweet potatoes, so we must first reserve a place for planting sweet potatoes, and plant them when the time comes, which will neither hinder the growth of corn nor hinder the planting of sweet potatoes." Now the wormwood understands a little, click nodded.

After eating a feast of fresh wild vegetables, they went to see the place where sweet potato vines are cultivated.It wasn't until the afternoon that the two of them set off for Beijing.During the period, Du Ruo knew why Wang Jiyun appeared here.She bribed Du Ruo's subordinates who managed the farm to come here. She just wanted to take a sneak peek, but she didn't expect to meet Princess Ai Cao who was here for the first time in such a remote place and was arrested on the spot.

Unexpectedly, there was something wrong with one of his subordinates, and Du Ruo was not generally uncomfortable.Wang Jiyun has nothing to do with him anymore, but his subordinates don't know, they think Wang Jiyun has a good relationship with him.They didn't dare to let Wang Jiyun's people go in alone, but if they let Wang Jiyun take a look, they also looked at it. Maybe because of the relationship between Wang Jiyun and Du Ruo, Du Ruo might not punish them.

After dealing with several people related to this matter, and once again strictly declaring that no outsiders are allowed to come here, Du Ruo finally resolved this matter.By the time we got back to the palace, it was already time for dinner.It was the first time for her daughter to go to such a far place for a day, Zhang's worried heart was almost broken, and she was afraid of touching and falling.

This time, the wormwood finally came back safely, without any accidents.Knowing that her daughter must have done a lot of things outside, Mrs. Zhang's meal is full of nourishing things.Carnivores like Zhu Houwei and Du Ruo naturally like it very much, but Zhu Youtang, who has always disliked greasy wormwood and can only look at it, is miserable.In the end, it was Zhu Houzhao who asked Weiyang Palace's small kitchen to fry two plates of wild vegetables that Du Ruo and the others had brought back, so that the wormwood was finally able to eat.

After dinner, there was still some time before the palace gates were locked, so Du Ruo and Zhu Houzhao went to Qianqing Palace to have a look.On the way, Zhu Houzhao heard about Wang Jiyun, and said with a smile: "Li Jianwei has indeed come to the capital, but as soon as he entered the city, the North Korean mission and the Japanese mission fought." What happened last year, but they formed a relationship between them. Big lump, now when we see North Koreans and Japanese on the street, everyone should stay away from them, for fear that they will affect us if they fight.

"I heard that there is not much harmony in the boudoir of the princess's mansion." Wang Jiyun is a person who can run away from home when he knows that he is pregnant, and he can do a lot of business in Du Ruo's farm.After seeing the splendor outside, she might be willing to be a puppet without her own thoughts amidst Li Jianwei's sweet talk.Jin Yiwei also focused on monitoring the Princess's Mansion, and Zhu Houzhao was very clear about every detail of the Princess's Mansion. "But Wang Jiyun is a smart person. At least she knows how to gain her own rights from Li Jianwei." Knowing that she was in a dangerous situation, Wang Jiyun consciously coaxed out her due initiative from Li Jianwei bit by bit.She has money herself, and believes that her embarrassing situation will be resolved soon.

Recently, Zhu Houzhao's work has been focused on preparing for Wei Jia's great voyage and Xu Jin's big business in the northwest, but the drafting of the imperial examination reform regulations has slowly slowed down.In particular, although Xu Jin's matter was not in a hurry, it really made Zhu Houzhao's brain very troubled.Du Ruo can't help him with this. To solve this problem is not only about dealing with the affairs of the Northwest, but also involves the reshuffle of the entire imperial power.Except for a few uncles whom Du Ruo has been friends with, his contacts are basically in the major merchants and the army, but he has no hand in the affairs of the court.

To suppress Xu Jin, Ma Wensheng's family behind him must be related, but now Zhu Houzhao relies on Ma Wensheng and others to maintain the balance between the civil service system and the military system.Moreover, once the Tatars moved to use troops in the northwest because of Xu Jin's incident, the court would have a little money, and many of the things that Zhu Houzhao had envisioned would not be able to be done.Especially when Tatar businessmen and nobles who were willing to be close to Ming were gradually drawn over by Ming, Zhu Houzhao did not want to destroy the current peaceful situation.This kind of situation that affects the whole body just makes Zhu Houzhao wonder what to do.

"One big thing after another, I got up earlier than a chicken and worked more than a cow. The emperor is really not an ordinary person can do it well." Zhu Houzhao opened a large piece of paper, on which was written the progress of the voyage plan. So many matters, only a few were ticked off.There are still many gaps waiting for Zhu Houzhao and the others to fill in.

"It doesn't matter. When the snacks grow up, I will take you to travel around the three mountains and five mountains. Every day, we only get up at three poles, and we can eat and sleep as long as we want." Du Ruo gently kissed Zhu Houzhao's pointed ears, Blow into his ear and say.

Zhu Houzhao pushed him away, "Stay away from me, my ears are too itchy. Come on, don't raise me anymore, you are raising a pig." Du Ruo hasn't heard Zhu Houzhao's Beijing style for a long time If it's over, I'm so happy all of a sudden.

Rolling his eyes at him a few times, Zhu Houzhao pointed to the blueprint above, took out a book and said, "There are about 700 people in total. Wei Jia is in charge of buying a hundred or so Arab slaves. He has just returned to Quanzhou. What is the boat?" Yes, he bought this trip as well, and it would be great if he could recruit a few sailors who have been to the American continent in Spain.” Arabs are more reliable in sailing and so on, and it’s not good to be all Han Chinese.Coupled with a few Europeans who have experience in ocean sailing, it is perfect.Together, the number of people is not large, and the ships are all Han Chinese navy, and they are not afraid of their rebellion.

"My biscuits, dried meat, and fresh water have all been proven feasible. As long as the time is set, they can be made immediately. As for other things, they are still making a list, and they should be available in a few days." Looking at Du Ruo with a somewhat unshaven beard Face, Zhu Houzhao felt that he and he trusted each other so wholeheartedly, and it would be great to do something together.Du Ruo looked at his messy beard while talking, and smiled helplessly: "There is no way, and there is no razor here. They shave me, and I am always afraid that they will cut my mouth."