In the mulberry forest, a grand mulberry harvesting ceremony is underway. The empress Yuchi Chifan, who was traveling to Han Mian with the emperor, led the women from both inside and outside to pick mulberry trees in the mulberry forest, and encouraged the women to pick mulberry trees and raise silkworms to have enough food and clothing.

Men farm and women weave are a life tradition in the Central Plains since ancient times. It was spring when Emperor Yuwen, who visited the Han Mian area, personally drove oxen, plowed the fields and encouraged farming. Empress Yuchi Chifan picked mulberry and silkworms to persuade them to weave them.

She participates in the mulberry picking ceremony every year, so she is familiar with the entire process. She needs a lot of mulberry leaves to pick and raise silkworms, but the queen only picks a few mulberry leaves for the mulberry picking ceremony, which is just the meaning.

But even if it is just "meaning", the meaning is still obtained. The queen and several concubines turned into mulberry girls, busy in the mulberry forest, surrounded by a circle of guards, palace maids and foreign women. From a distance, they looked like a cluster of flowers.

On the outside, the officials involved in the mulberry picking ceremony were bored. Some looked around, some whispered. In a corner of the crowd, Yu Wenhua, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, stood alone, staring at the flowers in front of him, and watching one of them.

The man was the sister of Queen Yuchi, the concubine of the emperor, namely Concubine Yuchi. Like his sister, he had a beautiful appearance.

Yu Wenhua stared at Concubine Yuchi's back, not having any dirty thoughts, nor did he dare to have dirty thoughts. But when he saw this, he remembered his younger brother Yuwen Zhiji who had been dead for many years.

That was an old story twenty years ago. Yu Wen Zhiji had a conflict with his brother-in-law because of this woman, and finally died.

Yu Wenhe has always wanted to avenge his younger brother, but when that person became the emperor, Yu Wenhe's hatred disappeared, and there was only the terror of the wind and panic.

The emperor wanted to kill him, so he was as relaxed as killing an ant. Fortunately, in order to establish the style of a wise ruler, the emperor "took past grudges" against him.

Over the past few years, Yu Wenhua and his good officials have been a good official, but the magic medicine given by the "master" has not been cut off, so he has been safe and sound.

The magic medicine given by the "Master" is really wonderful, and the pleasure it brings to Yu Wen and is much better than the things in the room. Therefore, although Yu Wen and he has taken concubines in recent years, he is no longer very obsessed with women.

However, today he saw Concubine Yuchi from afar. He was first shocked by his appearance, and then he remembered his younger brother.

Revenge is impossible, and he has done his best. God's will is so unrestrained by human power, so Yu Wenhua is just sighing at this time.

However, Yu Wenji hated "Xiao Yuchi" for favor. The deposed queen of the late emperor should have lived in a cold palace or temple, but she actually lived a good life by being a concubine for her brother-in-law, which made Yu Wenji very unhappy.

Therefore, revenge is impossible, but curses are still possible.

Yu Wenhe secretly cursed in his heart, cursing that his sister Yuchi fell out of favor sooner or later. By then, the two remnants of the Yuchi family and their children will definitely not have a good end.

Thinking of this, Yu culture and ideas are much more evident.

He seemed to have seen the miserable scene of Sister Yuchi being sent to the cold palace and the prince being deposed. The emperor made Xinhuan the queen, and the queen kept sending people to torture Sister Yuchi. In the end, the two women were frozen to death on a cold night.

As he thought about it, Yu Wenhua suddenly remembered an order he received not long ago. The order was issued by the "master", asking him to secretly collect and sort out the agricultural situation in the Han Mian area, and "report" after the organization was sorted out.

Of course, Yu Wenji is unknown what the "master" wants to do, but he can guess a rough idea.

The Han Mian area was developed in a large number of wastelands turned into fertile fields, which was no different from gold emerging from the ground. Therefore, the civil and military officials of the court began to show their magical powers and try to get a share of the feast.

The emperor repeatedly stated that officials were not allowed to occupy the land of the people, but did not say anything and do nothing. After discussing with the officials of the Zhengshi Hall, he established rules to give all officials the opportunity to get a piece of the pie through legitimate channels and own land in the Han Mian area.

However, there are too many monks and less porridge, and no one thinks there is too much land, so many people try to "turn around" and "divided" more land in the Han Mian area.

Even if these lands have to be paid taxes after a certain period of time, everyone is desperate to fight for it. Yu Wenhua and his family are one of them. So he felt that the "master" must have thought about the land and wanted to operate it secretly and settle down a big family business.

What the "Master" thinks is exactly what Yu Wenhua and what he thinks. This time he came to Han Mian to inspect the site to see if he could find a better way, or find a suitable "partner" to make a fortune together.

As he thought about it, "Erlang died so miserably" and "Sister Yuchi must die well", he unknowingly threw it away.

When Yu Wen came to Han Mian, he saw the fields and the fields that were connected to the sky with his own eyes. He saw the vast fields that were once the wasteland, which turned into farmlands that could not be seen at first sight. Such an "exciting" scene made him and many of his colleagues' eyes turn green.

It was like a hungry hungry wolf, and he was ready to move when he saw a large group of fat sheep, but the fat sheep were surrounded by sheep pens and tigers guarding it, so he could not move casually.

If you want to eat sheep, you can "queule in line to get a lottery", but Yu Wenhua and others have been looking for flaws in the sheep pen so that they can get in from time to time to drag a few fat sheep out.

He has been thinking about the flaws all day long, but he found a problem: grain prices have been falling year by year, and now they have fallen to a terrifying price.

The wholesale price of each stone/huhu coarse rice (rice without shelling) in the Hanjin area is fifty cents.

Seven or eight years ago, such rice was sold for about 200 citrus per stone in the Han Mian area.

Of course, there was still war at that time, and the year was average, and the price of 200 cigarettes per stone was normal. In the past few decades, the price of rice fell by more than 100 cigarettes during the bumper years.

Considering that there are more and more farmland in the Han Mian area and the planting area of ​​Jiaozhou rice that is ripe a year is getting wider and wider, local grain output is increasing year by year, and it is inevitable that the price of rice will drop sharply.

But no one expected that in the past two years, rice prices could be so low in the Han Mian area.

After carefully studying the many information collected by Yu Wenhe, he vaguely felt that someone was deliberately suppressing the price of rice.

So who is this person?

Is it the emperor?

Yu Culture is not sure, because the high grain price hurts the people, the low grain price hurts the farmers, and the price of grain has dropped, which is good news for ordinary people, but it is bad news for farmers. If the situation is serious, it will lead to bankruptcy of a large number of farmers and the land under their names will be annexed.

Of course, the annexation of the land was aristocratic family and strong clans, and these big families would inevitably conceal the real amount of land after annexation of the land, which resulted in a large loss of taxes from the court.

This situation should not be what the emperor wants to see.

Yu Wenhe knew that it was a critical period for the dynasty to use foreign troops. The Turks in the northwest were to be solved, which required mobilization of a large number of troops to attack. His father Yuwen Shu is now the general manager of the marching army, fighting on the grassland.

There is also Goguryeo in the east to solve the problem. Sooner or later, the dynasty will have to use large-scale troops in Liaodong, which requires a lot of food. Once the grain is low in China, the situation where a large number of farmers go bankrupt will have a serious impact on grain output.

Yu Wenhe felt that the problem he could see was unreasonable and could not see it, so the emperor was unlikely to be the mastermind of the long-term decline in grain prices.

But if someone dares to deliberately cause a situation where "the grain is low and the farmers are hurt", this situation will still appear in the crucial Han area, and the emperor should not sit idly by.

However, now the food price is so low that the emperor inspected the field and found out, but he had no intention of solving the problem.

As he thought about it, Yu Wenhua became confused. He felt that the "master" must also want to figure out the various divisions.
Chapter completed!