The peach blossoms faded and the fragrant flowers in the sky, and in the blink of an eye the red leaves also left, turning into a pleasant green leaf.

A horse rushed towards the Song Mansion.

Wu Gui turned over and dismounted and said to the doorman Quanbo: "I want to see Jiulang."

Uncle Quan went in to report, and Song Jiu asked Wu Gui in and asked him suspiciously: "Why are you back alone?"

“Somewhat is bad.”

"Say," Song Jiuxin immediately hung up. When Yuping was about to come back, he asked the three Khitan merchants to cooperate first, and also borrowed their hands to bring a lot of gifts. During these years, Song Jiu would send gifts to pay New Year's greetings in advance. Yu's father was Song Jiu's second father-in-law, at least in Song Jiu's heart. Then he asked Wu Gui to take a sea boat and some small boats to pick up Yuping.

Now that Wu Gui is back early, Song Jiu is worried.

"Not good."

"Calm down and say it slowly."

"Jiulang, we went to pick up people, and the Yu family was not lazy either. But the father of Yu Niangzi said something, saying that after hearing about Yu Niangzi's talent, the queen of Qifan gave an order to take Yu Niangzi to Zhongjing of Khitan, accompany her, and teach the Khitan arithmetic accounting and material learning. Yu Niangzi's father did not dare to disobey the order, so he could only let the Khitan Huangmen and the officers and soldiers take Yu Niangzi and Su away."

"Why doesn't he protect him?" Pan Lian'er said angrily.

"It seems that I was careless and let Yuping stay for too long. You can't blame her father, that Xiao Yanyan..." Song Jiu sighed, and if something happened, he had to find a way. Song Jiu walked around and asked Wu Gui: "Have the ship returned now?"

"No, we found an excuse to be in Dengzhou."

"You did a good job. I immediately transferred 4,000 gold and 10,000 taels of silver. You escort them onto the boat secretly, and then give the gold and silver to the Yu family. Let the father of Yu's father use this money to do it. By the way, I wrote a letter to him. Yu Ping is proficient in arithmetic and accounting, but he doesn't understand the matter. The Khitan wants to learn arithmetic and accounting, and the academy has engraved many books and related textbooks to publish them in the world. If you have any intention, you can get it without much effort. The Queen Xiao of Liao Dynasty detained Yu Ping and did not help the Liao Dynasty. I wrote another letter to Yu Ping and asked the Yu family to ask his father's family to find connections to bring it to Yu Ping. The letter asked Yu Ping to teach what she understood, so as not to anger the Khitans. What she knew could be found in books. Then Yu Ping could bring it back to my court."

"yes."

Wu Gui took the order.

Things happened suddenly. But it is still easy to get Yu Ping back now. The two countries have a good relationship, and the Khitans are also afraid of the Song Dynasty's northern expedition. Whether it is helping the Northern Han Dynasty to make the Song army fight miserable, or Tian Qinzuo's 3,000 to 60,000, the Khitans are somewhat afraid. Therefore, the Khitans did not want to be too troublesome in the past few years, until a few years later. Besides, Yu Ping's identity was just a concubine, and Yu's father was not a big figure in the Khitan.

However, the matter was finally brought to the court.

Thinking of the imperial court, Song Jiu was amused and crying again.

Pan Lian'er's face was still very worried and said, "Official, I suddenly thought of a story."

"What story?"

"The white fox you mentioned."

"You are thinking about it. The white fox was forced by you at that time, otherwise I wouldn't say it. It's just a coincidence. I told so many stories of joys and sorrows. If it is verified in my family, can I survive?" However, Song Jiu was also worried and asked Qingshu to ask someone to bring a letter to the north. Just in case, the Khitan royal activities ranged from the four seasons to Changchun Prefecture in the east, the north to Shangjing, the middle to Zhongjing, the south to Youzhou, and the time in Youzhou. This is another opportunity. If the three merchants had the ability to bring Yuping back, Song Jiu was willing to give them a bounty of 100,000 yuan. This is a huge sum of gold. Not to mention in the Khitan, even in the capital, it would be enough to make everyone excited.

However, even though it made two arrangements and this happened, Song Jiu was still unhappy.

Not long after, news came back from the north.

The three families made great benefits in this matter, and they were not very happy to do such a thing. What is the family and country in their minds? Besides, they are Han people from Youzhou. Therefore, they have made great contributions and found out about this matter very clearly.

The cause is very simple. Yu's father was very happy when he saw his daughter. He didn't eat his son. He couldn't say that Yu's father was vicious. Besides, Yu Ping was not good at Xiao Yanyan's side. The father and daughter cried together. Later, Yu Ping taught a few half-brothers and sisters in the Yu family.

The heavy snow fell, and Yu Ping missed home, but Yu's father missed his daughter, so he advised his daughter to find a good family in the Khitan again. It might not be as rich as Song Jiu, but he was always a concubine in the Song family, not a wife.

Not to mention the relationship between Yuping and Song Jiu, Yuping has a son and daughter. Without consent, she lobbied her father to join the Song Dynasty. Neither father nor daughter convinced each other. So she had to separate. When spring came, the father and daughter tacitly did not mention who would go to whom, and then waited for the Song family's ship to come.

However, for some reason, the news reached the ears of the Queen of Liao. Xiao Yanyan secretly sent someone to inquire about Yuping's past and learned that Yuping was once the big Hezhou was under the control of the operation, and Yuping was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, arithmetic accounting, and might even understand the learning of matter. She was extremely surprised, so when Yuping was about to leave the Khitan, she sent someone to force Yuping to Zhongjing.

Song Jiu thought about it for a long time, but Xiao Yanyan might not have taken a fancy to Yuping's management ability. Compared with this ability, Xiao Yanyan was so powerful. Song Jiu knew that it was Empress Dowager Xiao, the generals of the Yang family repeatedly mentioned, and the famous Empress Dowager in Chinese history.

Most of her interest is some techniques in matter-based science, such as gunpowder and steel.

But where can this jade apple be?

So they asked them to bring the news to the Yu family. Yuping couldn't learn things and knew something simple. If the Khitan had the will, he could get relevant textbooks. If he didn't believe it, he could send a scout to inquire.

However, when this happened, Song Jiu was very displeased. Pan Lian'er said worriedly at home: "Official, is it too full of my family?"

"You are talking nonsense again. What's the full house? If you talk about money and silk, even though you earn a lot of money and all of them have been dispersed, how much money and silk are left in my family? If you talk about official positions, I don't have any official positions now. If this is also called full, will the prime ministers in the court still have to work?"

At this time, Song Jiu was not fully aware of the benefits of power.

The third son of the Zhu family and the fourth son of the Zhao family rushed to the capital from Dengzhou and cried. Song Jiu said to them: "Why are you crying? Yuping can come back, it's just a little trouble."

It really doesn't work. You can smash the jade apple back with money.

The envoys of the Great Food came again, and they would benefit from it. In the future, there would be more and more "envoys". Jiangnan was still "moist in the United States". Wang Ming fought with the Southern Tang army in Jiangzhou and beheaded more than 2,000 people. Wu Yue soldiers besieged Changzhou, and general Jin Chengli arrested the governor Yu Wancheng and surrendered to the city. The main reason was that Yu Wancheng was not as deeply loved by the military and civilians as Zhu Zhaofu. Once Zhu Zhaofu left, the east gate could not be defended sooner or later. Pan Mei took down the East Pass of Jinling City.

Zhao Kuangyin watched wheat and planted rice.

In the past, the emperor watched wheat and rice planting in Yujin Garden, one of the four major royal gardens. This garden has two functions: one is to provide amusement and banquets for the emperor and important officials, and the other is to plant crops. In order to show his importance to agriculture, the emperor often came to see mulberry and rice, and even went down to work in person. There were two small functions, that is, to raise some animals that paid tribute to the outside world, or occasionally inspected the army here.

However, the place where Zhao Kuangyin brought his ministers this time was Henan.

There are not many wheat seeds, only more than five acres of land.

Some ministers have seen it, and many have not seen it. They saw the yellow wheat ears growing in the wheat fields, and they were as dumb as wooden chickens.

Ludoson said, "Shuomai."

"But it cannot be promoted, otherwise it will be unimaginable," Chu Zhaofu said regretfully.

But does it grow well? Song Jiu thought about the growth of wheat in this life, and then thought about the wheat in the previous life, but he didn't know whether it grew well.

Zhao Kuangyin said, "Song Jiu, send someone to harvest."

"good."

After a while, Zhao Kuangyin thought it was slow, so he asked his guards to go down to harvest. In order to get the exact yield, he told his guards to be slower, and never miss any wheat straw, nor to drop the wheat grains to the ground. Then he ordered the officials to measure it himself.

He did this very well, and was not afraid of reporting. I came to see it myself and measured it myself, but Song Jiu didn't take it seriously. Even if it was a thousand pounds, it could not be promoted. Even if it was four hundred pounds, it would be harmless. It must be much higher than the yield in other wheat fields.

It took two days for the wheat to be cut and dried before it could be threshed. Zhao Kuangyin sent his personal guards to guard him, and even the students did not let them touch them, and then took the ministers back. He came back on the third day. This time, not only did he calculate the yield, but he also had to observe rice. He not only planted in this experimental field in Henan, but also carried rice in Yujin Garden.

Zhao Kuangyin also wanted to know where the limit of grain yield is after selecting the best seeds, the most scientific planting methods, the best soil, and various artificial fertilizers applied.

There are so many people. For these acres of wheat, there are a hundred people who will immediately start fighting and beat the wheat out in a while. The sun is just right, so it is placed on the small valley field to dry. Zhao Kuangyin took the ministers to Shun Restaurant for dinner. He started to dry in the afternoon, and it should have to be dried for another two days before the wheat moisture can be dried, but Zhao Kuangyin couldn't wait and could not wait for it for several days.

Soon the wheat was cleaned, and several officials used the scale to measure it. Whether it was the measurement ruler or the scale, they used standardized weight and scale instruments like Song Jiu to measure it. Also, Song Jiu did not attach so much importance to it, and there was no need to cheat. Therefore, the measurement was very accurate this time.

After saying that, two minor officials from the three provinces calculated, one of them came from the bookstore, not the academy, but one of the first students to go out of Song Jiu. One of them took a big abacus and quickly made it clear. Obviously he didn't believe it, so he looked at each other and then did the calculation. After calculating three times, one of the minor officials said, "Gong Gong Lu is right, Shuomai, Shuomai!"

Zhao Kuangyin shouted: "How much is it?"
Chapter completed!