On April 22, the second year of Yanhe.

After several days of rainy weather, Chang'an finally cleared up.

Therefore, after dawn, the whole city immediately became lively.

The market is crowded and bustling.

Prince Liu Ju sat in the palace car, looking quietly at the market that had been away for several months through the gaps between the vehicles and ships.

"Home..." Wang Yi, the prince's family, knelt across from him, looked respectful and asked: "You are going back to Beijing this time for the wheat seeds of Xinfeng?"

Liu Ji nodded and said, "That's exactly!"

As the Great Han Crown Prince, the Hedu Protectorate, Liu Ju has been traveling between Luoyang and Guangling County in the past few months.

Now, Yuechi's lake enclosure project has reached its climax.

As the first project of the empire's internal affairs this year, the lake encirclement project mobilized tens of thousands of county soldiers and tunnel soldiers, and recruited tens of thousands of young and strong people.

From winter to summer, more than half of the project has been completed.

The effect is surprisingly good!

Just now, thousands of hectares of high-quality paddy fields have been obtained through the lake enclosure project.

Enough of all young and strong people participating in the project can get a chance to teach the field!

It will greatly alleviate and reduce the flood in Kuaiji.

For this reason, Liu Ju really felt for the first time what is the heart of the people? What is support?

So, the energetic Han Crown Prince decided to go a step further.

The project of guiding Huai to Bian started in advance!

Even the introduction of Luo to Bian at the same time!|

However……

When Liu Ju revealed his thoughts and thoughts to the scholars and officials in Henan and Xuzhou.

The landlords and nobles in Xuzhou naturally raised their limbs and firmly supported them.

He patted his chest and said that as long as the national policies and money and resources are in place, he should support his family even if he sells his liver and kidneys!

It was the literati, doctor, landlord and nobles in Henan who became pretentious.

They are not unsupported either.

It is in Henan, with mountains and factions chaotic.

After leaving Luoyang and heading south, many places only supported the introduction of Huai and Bian, and strongly opposed the introduction of Luo and Bian.

Liu Ju also inquired about it and learned the truth - many famous scholars, nobles and landlords in many places thought it was very good to bring Huai to Bian.

But the only things that are convenient for the people of Luoyang and Guanzhong are Luoyang.

But they asked them to contribute money and work and even unearth the land.

This made Liu Ju look at it so hard.

Although he has started to personally contact grassroots work and familiar with the affairs of prefectures and counties, he has known that there is no simple matter at the grassroots and local areas.

It is not something in the book at all, it can be explained clearly, and it cannot even be understood and thought thoroughly by one person or a few people.

People, landlords, gentry, officials, nobles and merchants.

All kinds of forces are intertwined and intertwined.

In the process of practice, Liu Ju, with his intuition and keenness as a ruler, discovered a fact that a book and his ministers would never talk to him—the people, nobles, officials, gentry, landlords, and merchants in this world seemed to be in a very subtle relationship.

Although he still cannot cover up these relationships, it is difficult for him to clarify the logic.

I feel a little confused and ignorant.

But reason and intuition still told him something subconsciously.

Let him understand some truths.

Just as now, he knew that he must maintain an attitude of superficial affinity with the landlords and powerful nobles in the world, but actually suppressing and restricting them.

The surface is friendly because he needs the support and support of these people to firmly hold the throne of the prince and the future throne of the emperor.

Suppression and restriction are the same.

If you do not suppress and restrict local landlords, nobles and powerful people, then the emperor of Chang'an will sooner or later become a decoration like the emperor of Zhou.

The government orders cannot leave the Weiyang Palace!

As a result, the affairs of Henan County gradually became clear and transparent in his eyes.

The local nobles and powerful landlords in Henan supported the introduction of Huai to Bian because they could get great benefits from it, but they only needed to spend some money, and the income far exceeded the loss, so they did not take risks!

They don’t like to bring Luo to Bian because although this project looks promising.

But once construction starts, they will inevitably be the ones who suffer and suffer.

However, Luoyang and Guanzhong can lie down and enjoy the benefits brought by it.

So, although they may also benefit from it.

But compared to others, it is obvious that they have lost a lot.

It is reasonable to oppose or drag your back and cause trouble.

This is a very subtle mentality. As far as Liu knows, not only the landlords, powerful nobles in Henan County have this mentality, but many people also have similar mentality! And if you don’t observe carefully, it is difficult to detect the people’s mentality!

In short, this incident once gave Liu Ju a headache and even had no choice.

Until early this month, the landlords, gentry and nobles of Henan all united overnight.

Even the people and the people petitioned on both sides of the road he passed.

Everyone has only one purpose - please the compassionate Prince, His Highness, to make the decision for the people, to win Xinfeng wheat seeds for the people of Henan!

As long as you can do it, everyone from above and below will say that when Your Highness has something to do, the ministers and others will go through fire and water, and will never refuse to let go, and first fill the ravines!

This really made Liu Ju stunned.

He once racked his brains and tried every means to solve problems that he could not solve.

The political achievements left by a minister who had left Chang'an and was thousands of miles away were easily resolved.

This made Liu Ju feel a little amused.

However, he set off immediately and rushed back to Chang'an to grab the wheat seeds from Xinfeng.

Wang Yi frowned slightly and asked, "How many wheat varieties can the unknown family hope to get?"

"It must be tens of thousands of stones..." Liu Ji said: "In addition to Henan, the royal families, relatives, and ministers in Henoi, Hedong, Handan, Hejian and other places also have some entrusted requests..."

When Wang Yi heard this, he showed a smile that was even worse than crying and said, "At home, I'm afraid that the current summer wheat seeds in the Xinfeng official warehouse are less than 50,000 stones!"

"Ah..." Liu Ju frowned and asked in confusion: "I heard that Xinfeng produces seven stones of summer wheat per mu this year, and the county has accumulated hundreds of thousands of stones of wheat harvest. How come it is gone?"

"You don't know anything at home..." Wang Yi bowed his head and said, "Since the harvest of wheat in Xinfeng, the emperor has given three edicts a day to the Zhang family of Nanling..."

"So, the world is raging..."

"Although His Highness the Grand Prince issued a timely order to prohibit the people from buying and selling wheat seeds privately, it is still common for the people to trade privately..."

"There are at least tens of thousands of stones of wheat seeds, which flow from the black market to Guanzhong and Hanoi and other places..."

This is also something that cannot be stopped!

Just like now, on the black market, the real Xinfeng wheat planting has reached the level of thousands of dollars!

The farmers who are equivalent to Xinfeng, the output of one acre of land per year exceeded that of the wealthy households in Hedong’s fertile land!

Therefore, even if Xinfeng County Yahe and Township Pavilion strictly control the outflow of wheat seeds, it still cannot stop the people who privately store wheat seeds from selling them privately.

Liu Ju frowned and said, "Even so, aren't there still hundreds of thousands of stones?"

"You don't know anything at home..."

"After the harvest of Xinfeng Xinmai, the emperor personally led all civil and military officials to sacrifice to the gods of Emperor Gao in Changling, and then sacrificed to Emperor Taizong, the late emperor and the gods of Taimiao in turn, and ordered the ancestors to know about this happy event, and sacrificed to Houtu and the Five Emperors Temple of the Weihe River... Next, Your Majesty will go to the Shou Palace to offer sacrifices to the gods..."

"All of these things were used to sacrifice thousands of stones of new wheat to worship the gods, and reward all officials, civil and military officials..."

"Your Majesty also granted the people of the fake fields in Shanglinyuan and the craftsmen of the Shaofu, and there are different wheat seeds... This is another wheat seed of thousands of stones..."

"The counties in Guanzhong have requested to attract Xinfeng wheat seeds... The emperor happily agreed to it... This is the wheat seeds of tens of thousands of stones..."

"Last year, the minister Zhang Zizhong signed debts with the merchants in Guanzhong. According to the original promise, the Xinfeng government allowed all merchants to exchange the bonds they held to buy the products produced in Xinfeng at the official price..."

"The merchants have exchanged their coupons, ranging from thousands of stones to more than a thousand stones..."

"In addition, before the family entered the capital, King Xu of Korea, King Xu of Changyi and others wrote letters to ask His Majesty to give him mercy and give him wheat seeds..."

"General Ershi Hou Haixi also sent someone back to the capital, asking His Majesty to give him the grace and grant the New Fung wheat seeds to the Juyan army and civilians..."

"The prefect of Shuofang, the prefect of Dingxiang, and the prefect of Jiuyuan, jointly named the descendants... How can Your Majesty hurt the hearts of the soldiers and civilians of the border?"

"Therefore, in addition to the reserved wheat seeds for this year, there are at most 50,000 stones of wheat seeds available for disposal..."
To be continued...