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Chapter 134 You can go to Jiangnan to store grain

"Amitabha, Eleven Lang, you did it right."

After being silent halfway, the monk Shanzhi suddenly spoke, which scared Ye Chang.

Ye Chang turned his face and the monk's serious and ugly face actually had a faint luster.

"What's wrong?" Ye Chang was a little puzzled. He rarely saw this rampant monk like this.

"Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. Although you and I were assassinated outside Chang'an City, we were all safe and sound. The assassin died and injured several people." The monk clasped his hands and said, "Since that's the case, our old grudges are not deep. It is also true that we save this mother and son today..."

The monk talked about cause and effect, which was normal, but he was very good at speaking, which made Ye Chang feel a little ridiculous. This rash monk drank, ate meat and killed animals and was almost completely infringed on all the rules and regulations except for the female sex. He talked about cause and effect, which was a tyrant.

Moreover, Ye Chang didn't care much about cause and effect.

What he cared about was his own strength, but in the end he was lacking in strength, insufficient status, and incomplete wealth.

"The world's general trend is vast and now the general trend has not been achieved, so he feels stretched everywhere." Ye Chang sighed in his heart. On the one hand, he was really cruel and unwilling to be honest with the wife of Yuan Zai. On the other hand, he was forced to face the times. Now, he does not have the ability to compete with Wang Zhongsi head-on.

If the conflict with Yuan Zai can be resolved, of course it is the best. If you cannot, the evidence on hand can also protect yourself and will not be threatened by Wang Zhongsi for the time being.

"However, that thing that produces pincers is the treasure you saw in your dream, Shiyilang?" asked again.

He was indeed surprised, how could Ye Chang even know how to have children? If it was really what he saw in his dream, wouldn’t the gods in the sky also have to have children?

This question is difficult to answer, but Ye Chang thought for a moment, remembered something, and said with a smile: "It turned out that I saw an immortal in my dream that the surname Han Guan Yuanzi was granted to Shaanxi by a fairy. That Guan Yuanzi had a dream with me."

The monk believed it and thought about when he would go to Guanlong. Then he asked if there was a Guanyuanzi, a surnamed Han, who had dreamed of immortality in Zuojin.

Shortly after Ye Chang returned to Wolong Valley, Yuan Zai came here again, but on this trip, one was to send the doctor, the Wenpo came back, and the other was to thank him. His expression had recovered from calmness at this time, and he was very close to Ye Chang, as if the two had never had any previous conflicts. The so-called "knowing people, but not the heart" was not what he really thought in his heart. Ye Chang could not judge what he could do, and he could only be more vigilant.

Time flies, a month passes in a flash, and in the blink of an eye, autumn has faded and winter is coming. Xiuwu produces chestnuts, and this is the season when chestnuts are on the market. Ye Chang's dishes are inevitably made with chestnut roast chicken. On the surface, he lived a very leisurely life, but in fact, he compiled books on natural mathematics one by one. Zhang Xiu always took a sneak peek at each one. After reading it, he scratched his ears and heads and urged him to update.

This guy was tied up by Ye Chang. He is not a teaching talent, but he can teach children simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. What makes Ye Chang most troublesome is to help him change his habits and use symbolic numbers and abacus. For Zhang Xiu, the former of these two things is not unusual - the so-called Arabic numerals are actually Indian numbers, while the uncle of other clans is a Tantric monk and is not too unfamiliar with Indian numbers. But at the beginning, he really felt that it was better to use calculating the calculating. It was not until Ye Chang wrote down the abacus formula in his memory and forced him to memorize it and read it for him to read the new textbook. He barely accepted it.

In addition, what Ye Chang did was to wander around every day.

After September, the weather was getting colder. Ye Chang was thinking about when the autumn crab could be eaten. He walked from Fu Busan to the village with his hands behind his back. When he arrived at the entrance of the village, he saw a man smiling at him with a salivating face.

Ye Lian, his nominal uncle.

Now Ye Lian has no status in the village. Although the Ye clan gave him a few acres of thin land to survive, his family was extremely dilapidated, and even his two concubines had been sold by him.

"Seleven Lang." Seeing Ye Chang's eyes swept over, Ye Lian greeted with a smile on his face, and even bowed to Ye Chang.

Because he was beaten by the Liu family, his legs were now a little lame. Ye Chang looked at him and said politely: "Uncle."

With just a greeting, Ye Chang continued to walk to the village again.

Ye Lian opened her mouth behind him, trying to call him, but when the words came to his mouth, he didn't know how to say it for a moment.

The matter of plotting against Ye Chang seemed to be still vivid in my mind. In just one year, things had reached this point. Ye Lian felt bitter all over his mouth, and stood at the entrance of the village without any action.

Ye Chang walked to the old house of Ye family with one shaking step and three shaking steps.

Compared with the Wolong Valley, which is under construction, the old house has not changed much. Last year, there was almost no movement outside the kang added.

"Uncle, uncle, where are you promised my slingshot?"

As soon as he saw the door, his nephew Cinu came over and shouted excitedly.

"Here, isn't this?" Ye Chang took out a slingshot and handed it to him.

Cinu immediately threw Ye Chang down and took Xiao Niang to find his target in the yard. He first hit the branches in the yard and then hit the birds. Of course, with his current eyes, it is still difficult to shoot the birds.

Ye Chang looked at her nephew with a smile, feeling that this joy had infected her.

In life, you can’t be intrigue all day long. Watching the younger generation grow up happily like this should be the mainstream of life.

Cinu hit several rounds of projectiles, but they never hit them. He ran back and handed over the slingshot to Ye Chang.

"Uncle, call me, call me"

This kind of beef tendon slingshot is still a bit powerful, and it is normal for the slave to give it a small power, so it is not fully pulled and it is not shot. Ye Chang held it in his hand and picked up a rounder projectile. He looked around and felt that there was no suitable target. He happened to see a pottery bowl placed by the wall of the courtyard serving as a flower bowl.

He pulled away the slingshot, glanced for a while, and fired.

With a "bang", the pottery bowl shattered, and the soil inside splashed out, and the flowers originally planted fell into the soil.

Ye Chang stuck out his tongue, and the slave and the little girl next to him also stuck out their tongues: "I've gotten into trouble."

After handing the slingshot to the slave, Ye Chang said suang: "You just said that it was the cat who broke the pottery bowl, do you remember?"

"Yes." Cinu and Xiaoniang also nodded seriously, and Xiaoniang also added: "The cat is not good."

However, a faint fragrance came, which made Ye Chang turn his head and see his sister-in-law standing in front of the moon gate in the backyard, looking angry and funny.

Seeing the three of them looking at me, Fang asked in a slight voice: "Who broke the pottery bowl where I raised flowers?"

"It's a cat." The little girl protected her uncle the most, so she rushed to answer: "It's not my uncle who used a slingshot, don't hit her uncle, mom."

"So stupid, you said it." Ci Zi was very anxious.

Ye Chang stroked his hand and sighed. The little girl stared at her round and watery eyes with a childish look: "I didn't say it, I didn't say it."

"You said just now..."

"I didn't say it, I really didn't say it, I really didn't say it was my uncle who shot it with a slingshot..." The little girl was anxious to defend herself, and later Yu Qian started crying.

Ye Chang picked her up and said with a smile: "Don't cry, don't cry, the little mother said nothing, and my mother didn't know that my uncle used a slingshot to smash the pottery bowl of her growing flowers. If you don't believe me, ask your mother."

Although the little girl was young, she also felt that this question seemed wrong, so she was so excited that she ignored Ye Chang. Seeing that she was crying sadly, Ye Chang immediately felt soft-hearted and said, "Brother is not good, we won't play with our brother... Go, I'll go and play by myself."

"Uncle is partial" Cinu gave a lip and ran away with a slingshot.

"Not only teach children to use slingshots to shoot things, but also teach them to lie, Shiyilang, you are getting worse and worse."

Taking the little girl from Ye Chang's arms, Fang's eyes were cold and staring at Ye Chang, and she was a bit majestic, and she was no longer the gentle little sister-in-law at the time.

Over the past year, the family's business has been prosperous. Although the house has not been renovated, the population has increased. Not only did the servants in the village have added two more houses, but also invited several households in the village to do odd jobs. More importantly, the merchants from Wolong Valley had to go through the hands of Fang's merchants who wanted to buy paper or books.

It can be said that Fang is the God of Wealth in the Ye family. He has money in his pocket and has confidence in his heart, and his words are different.

"Sister-in-law forgives the crime, forgives the crime." Although Ye Chang gave in to apologize, his expression on his face did not have much apology.

Even if he doesn't teach, will the child not be naughty or lie? Zeng Shen taught his son, but it has been passed down through the ages, but why haven't he heard of his son's virtues passed down?

It is obviously wrong to educate children and simply suppress them, and guidance is the right way.

"You, you are always determined to be distorted." Fang knew him very well, sighed, and did not expect him to change.

"What my sister-in-law said," Ye Chang didn't refute.

"You are so tired and lazy, don't let me do it in front of me. If you feel bored, just in the past few days, seven or eight wealthy families have come to propose marriages. How about I arrange a blind date?"

"Sister-in-law, please spare me." Ye Chang raised his hands and said.

"Don't be honest, I mean it." Fang also nagged very well: "Create the marriage first, and you can hold the wedding next year. If you have a big family, if you don't get married and have children earlier, who will bear it in the future?"

"There are slaves and little ladies. In the future, little ladies will be a little rich woman. If someone marrys little ladies, tsk..."

Listening to Ye Chang turning the topic to the innocent little girl, Fang Shi gave him a fierce look. She sighed: "As soon as you talk about serious matters, you don't have a good face. Tell me, what are you doing today? You can't just send a slingshot."

Although the old house still retained a small courtyard for Ye Chang, Ye Chang almost never came back to live. He usually stayed in Wolong Valley. Because of his widowhood, Fang usually would not go to Wolong Valley. Since Ye Chang came here, he must have something to discuss with her.

"I came to find my sister-in-law because I had something to discuss with my sister-in-law." Ye Chang frowned: "I can't make up my mind, so my sister-in-law helps me to take a look."

"You said that."

"I want to send someone to Jiangnan to buy a house and land."

"Jiangnan?" Fang asked in surprise.

For them, Jiangnan is a very far away, and it is far less prosperous than the Guanzhong Central Plains area.

Although Jiangnan has become popular after the Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasties, it is still far away from prosperity and civilization in the hearts of ordinary people.

"Well, the Central Plains has many people and few land. If you want to accumulate grain, you have to go to the Jiangnan area."

The Central Plains area has always been the essence of the Chinese Empire, but after the Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasties, Jiangnan also began to develop. Today, the grain in the Jianghuai area has become an important pillar of the empire's taxation, and Hangzhou in Jiangdong is becoming more and more prosperous.

However, although the Han people continued to open up wasteland and reclaim land in the west of Jiangnan, their potential was still not discovered.

"Storing grains...how much grain do you want to accumulate?" Fang asked.

"The more, the better, in case of emergency." Ye Chang hesitated for a moment. Of course, he couldn't say that the world would be in chaos in more than ten years. He had been in the Tang Dynasty for a long time and found that many contradictions in the Tang Dynasty were deeply rooted. Even if there was no Anshi Rebellion in more than ten years, there would be other turmoil. Therefore, he said, "Sister-in-law should know that Yuan Zai asked me to go."

"Now that the forceps have been reported, there will be a large number of women who have difficulty giving birth, and the population will grow faster. Most babies who will die of difficult delivery will grow up. In this way, the population will double in a decade or twenty years. If the increase in food cannot keep up, it will be a disaster."

The relationship between population growth and food growth is a very simple truth. Fang understood it as soon as he heard it. She was stunned and said, "How could this happen?"

Ye Chang also sighed.

"Shiyilang, although I don't agree with you when you go to help Na Yuanzai, this kind of forceps is really a blessing for life. It should be a great merit. Why is this happening?"

"Misfortune is where good fortune depends, and good fortune is where bad fortune lies."

As soon as Ye Chang said this, Fang was speechless.

During the Li Tang Dynasty, Lao Tzu was regarded as his ancestor. The "Tao Te Ching" was a subject in the imperial examination. Fang was familiar with the classics and history, so how could he not understand the meaning of this sentence?

"But, Shiyilang, you still have a bad idea." After pondering for a while, Fang said again.

"Oh, why do my sister-in-law think so?"

"You have no one to use now. Even if you go to Jiangnan, don't you have to go there yourself?" Fang asked.

Ye Chang nodded, this is certain, it is important, and he can rest assured if he doesn't go by himself.

"Now that the Central Plains go to Jiangnan, even if you pass through the canal waterway, it will take one to two months. It will take half a year to go back and forth. What's going on here will take half a year?"

This is a big problem. The canal is the most convenient, but the water transportation speed is slower. If you ride a fast horse lightly and use the developed post road of the Tang Dynasty, you will be faster to go to Jiangnan. But even so, it will be necessary to go back and forth for two or three months.

"You went to Chang'an two times before, and although you made arrangements, your family still delayed a lot. Even if your sister gave birth, you have not come back." Fang blamed Ye Chang slightly: "Last time, you said that you would probably go to Mengzhou for a while..."

"That's the spring of the next year. I'll go when the people sent by Princess Yuzhen come. Princess Yuzhen promised to lend me two manors in Mengzhou for three years. These two manors have tens of millions of fertile land." Ye Chang had to interrupt her complaint.
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